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Expensive Care 9 By Tim Vanderpool
Older, sicker animals are running up the bills at local shelters Media Watch 10 By John Schuster
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Cold case: Despite announced suspects, no arrests have been made in the death of Robert Peña Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by Dan Gibson
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Not sure how to adjust to all of this health-care tyranny.
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Five good reasons why all Americans should care about Florida’s voter purge Four for One 15 By Jim Nintzel
Meet the Republicans who hope to replace Pima County Supervisor Ann Day
End of an Era Ever since issue No. 1 of the Tucson Weekly way back on Feb. 22, 1984, Matt Groening’s comic “Life in Hell” has been a part of the paper. Through changes in printers, editors, owners and economic cycles, it’s been one constant in our pages. However, that run is coming to an end after next week’s issue: Groening—of The Simpsons and Futurama fame— has decided to end the strip after all these years. This week, we’re in week No. 3 of a four-week farewell, as we run some classic editions of the strip. In an interview with Rolling Stone a couple of weeks ago, Groening, presumably tongue-in-cheek, remarked, “It’s pretty obvious that I ran out of jokes a couple of decades ago—but that doesn’t stop any cartoonist!” Frankly, that statement contains a painful amount of truth: “Life in Hell” has been nowhere near as biting and funny in recent years as it was in its 1980s-1990s heyday. But the strip still had its moments, and because it had been a part of the Weekly since our beginning, I felt the strip had earned its spot for as long as Groening wanted to keep it going. (However, a confession: The Weekly run of “Life in Hell” almost didn’t make it through the Great Recession. When times were toughest, and I had to cut my syndication budget, I almost cancelled it and “Troubletown.” However, Groening’s folks agreed to a rate decrease, and the Rialto Theatre stepped in to save the day by briefly sponsoring “Life in Hell” and “Troubletown.” Lloyd Dangle, the artist behind “Troubletown,” ended that comic last year.) On July 19, Keith Knight’s “(th)ink” will take the spot vacated by “Life in Hell.” As far as I know, that will be the first-ever edition of the Weekly without “Life in Hell” in its pages. It’ll truly be the end of an era. JIMMY BOEGLE, Editor jboegle@tucsonweekly.com COVER DESIGN BY ANDREW ARTHUR
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ext Wednesday, July 11, out at Casino del Sol’s Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheater, the most successful American band of all time that isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will take the stage. Chicago, which still features some of the core members after more than 40 uninterrupted years of recording and touring, has sold tens of millions of albums. Along with the Beach Boys and Metallica, it’s among the top three album-selling American bands of all time. (Various websites differ as to which is actually No. 1. Chicago has 22 gold, 18 platinum and eight multi-platinum albums, including five that went to No. 1. The band also has 21 Top 10 singles.)
Those of you who are fortunate enough to have been around when Chicago first hit the scene (and doubly fortunate to still be upright) will recall that they were out there. Their first two albums (both double albums), Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago, had blues and jazz and protest music, rock and classical, and always the horns. They were must-have albums in everybody’s collections and remain classics to this day. The music was creative, exhilarating and, yes, sometimes somewhat pretentious; indeed, it was quite perfect for the time. When Chicago Transit Authority was released in April 1969, it became a staple of the new, free-form (and avantgarde) FM radio. Songs like “Beginnings” and a Latinflavored version of Stevie Winwood’s “I’m a Man” were much too long for regular rock radio, but they caught on big on FM. By the time the second album, Chicago (also known as Chicago II), came out, the band had shortened its name (under legal threat from the actual Chicago Transit Authority), and Chicago was a monster success and among the hippest of the hip. Chicago III was a mess, and the live album at Carnegie Hall certainly won’t make anybody forget the Allman Brothers’ live album At Fillmore East, or James Brown’s Live at the Apollo, but the band regained its footing with its fifth album and its signature single, “Saturday in the Park.” There’s this part of the song on which Robert Lamm seems to be singing in Italian. A bunch of my friends went to my mom (who spoke Italian) to ask what the lyrics were, but she broke their hearts when she said that it was gibberish. (In later live shows, Lamm would sing, “Eh Cumpari, ci vo sunari,” which roughly translates to, “Hey, buddy, what’s that sound?”) By the mid-1970s, the band’s political edge had been ground down by the changing times, and Chicago was pro-
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ducing absolutely perfect pop tunes. Chicago’s sixth and seventh albums included “Just You N’ Me,” “Wishing You Were Here” (with background vocals by the Beach Boys) and one of my all-time favorites, “Happy Man.” I’ll be the first to admit that I became increasingly disillusioned as the band turned to safe and sappy ballads. Maybe the loss of guitar-player Terry Kath from an accidental selfinflicted gunshot wound was too much for the other guys to handle, or maybe they found safe and sappy ballads to be easy money. All I know is that the last new song of theirs that I listened to on a repeated basis was “Street Player,” the driving horn intro of which is the sampled basis of Pitbull’s “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho).” Despite (and a little bit because of) all that, it is my unflinching contention that Chicago belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You can’t hold where they end up against an act that once burned brightly. The king of Rock and Roll ended up a bloated lounge singer. Jerry Lee Lewis married his cousin. Chicago deserves the honor, especially when you consider some of the acts that are already in the Hall of Fame. Sure, Robert Lamm slurred a few words on “Saturday in the Park,” but Tom Waits fashioned an entire career out of unintelligible lyrics. Even if Chicago is only considered for their first two great albums, that’s still 1 1/2 more great albums than Guns N’ Roses ever produced. (Former Guns frontman Axl Rose sent the Hall of Fame a rambling, drugged-out letter declining the honor. Rose is currently best known for falling off stages at the rate of about one per week, and for his notalent, half-his-age girlfriend, Lana Del Rey.) For cryin’ out loud, Lynyrd Skynyrd (which had maybe two good songs) and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (who had only one) are in the Hall of Fame. The Sex Pistols, who had no good songs and were famous for about a week and a half (and only for being able to maintain a fake-ass, screw-you attitude), got the nod a couple of years back. Darlene Love, whose professional apex was playing Danny Glover’s wife in the Lethal Weapon movies, got in last year. The selection process is apparently a tad arcane, and there is an air of faux gravitas about the whole thing, as the snobs who get to do the selecting say, “We only take acts that we feel were important … like Fleetwood Mac.” Yuck! The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame appears to be a rather large tent with the occasional low clearance. How is there not room for Chicago?
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An open letter to Ron Barber regarding his first day on the job HIGHTOWER
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onsider the following as an open letter to newly elected U.S. Rep. Ron Barber. Congratulations on your hard-fought victory, Ron. The many Arizonans who made the grassroots push that carried you over the top should be proud of a job well done. We owe you a debt of gratitude for standing against Jesse Kelly, a radical theocrat whose poisonous ideas presented a grave threat to our democracy. You’d think people would be happy, but I’ve heard from an alarming number of your supporters that they are literally pulling up your yard signs, peeling your bumper stickers from their cars and asking for their money back.
As a Montana newspaper editorial succinctly put it: “The greatest living issue confronting us today is whether the corporations shall control the people, or the people shall control the corporations.” That was written in 1906, as Montanans were rising up against out-of-state mining corporations known as the “copper kings.” Those corporate powers were exploiting After convincing a majority of the electorate that Jesse Montana’s workforce, extracting its public Kelly was too extreme for your swing district, you spent resources and routinely extending bribes to your first official day in Congress doing your best imprescontrol its government. In 1912, however, sion of Jesse Kelly. the people passed the Corrupt Practices Apparently, it was a baptism by hellfire. Within minutes Act, a citizens’ initiative that outlawed of being sworn in, you were caught up in a legislative condirect corporate expenditures in elections flict that disingenuously pitted border security against the for state office. environment. Unfortunately, you somehow decided it was a The law broke the copper kings’ legislagood idea to waive 16 major environmental laws within 100 tive chokehold, and a century later, it was miles of U.S. borders, ostensibly to enhance border security. still working to put people power over For decades, these laws have protected our air, water, wildmoney politics. Even today, the average cost life and the beautiful places that make Arizona special. They of state senate races in Montana stands at govern how our national parks and wildlife refuges are manonly $17,000—allowing candidates to aged, and provide ways to ensure that the public interest is spend more time talking to everyday folks, thoughtfully considered in bureaucratic decision-making. and that produces one of America’s highest Right out of the gate, you threw all of that in the crapper. rates of voter turnout. Even more offensive than your vote was your public How positive—a model of democracy in statement justifying it. You said that border security is the action! Well, it was, until an out-of-state No. 1 priority of the people who live along the border, and corporate front group rode in like copper that this bill would enhance border security. kings to sue the state. With a pack of highBoth elements of that statement are patently false. In poll dollar lawyers and a bundle of corporate funding, the group wailed that Montana’s anti-corTHIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow ruption law discriminates against poor corporations, denying them their First Amendment “right” to have the biggest voice in government that money can buy. And now, the five corporate hacks controlling the Supreme Court have ratified the ridiculous argument of the front group, imperiously shoving Montana’s law into the ditch, and re-imposing the rule of special-interest money over the people’s will. To stop this court’s coup against our democracy, we the people must pass a constitutional amendment overturning these decisions. To help, go to www.united4thepeople.org.
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after poll, Americans have indicated by overwhelming majorities that they are not interested in trading away environmental protections for border security. In fact, just a few months ago, a Colorado College poll found that 73 percent of Arizonans rejected the very bill you voted for, while only 22 percent supported it. Moreover, Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol officials have testified to Congress that the bill was unnecessary and unwanted. They said that environmental laws do not hinder border enforcement at all, and that collaboration with land managers actually improves security while protecting the environment. Yet you voted to blow that collaboration out of the water. I have no idea which Creature From the Beltway Lagoon convinced you that there would be some political benefit in casting such a foolish vote a mere two weeks after an environmental fundraiser that netted thousands of dollars and dozens of volunteers for your campaign, but, clearly, whoever did the convincing was wrong and should be ignored henceforth. (A quick piece of advice: Next time, schedule a bit more time between the fundraiser and the betrayal. It really was bad form, but I’m sure your D.C. handlers will educate you on the finer points of manipulating your base.) The worst part is that all of this was absolutely unnecessary. Pew Research recently reported that net migration from Mexico has fallen to zero. Regardless of endless caterwauling by the racist Tea Party types and paranoid rednecks you seem to be courting, the Mexican invasion is over. The Mexicans won, but then they realized how completely chingado our country really is and started heading back to Mexico, in droves. I fully understand that pandering to the lowest elements of our society is the way business is conducted in D.C., and that the national Democratic Party playbook is rife with strategies that involve acting like Republicans. But I must say, with all due disrespect, those schemers on the Hill do not have the slightest fucking clue what your district is really like. People in the border region care about the same things as other Americans—the economy, health care, educating their kids and, yes, a healthy environment—and they deserve the same protections under the law that all other Americans enjoy. We didn’t elect you to go to D.C. and become just another craven, conniving politician. What we had in mind was more of a “Mr. Barber Goes to Washington” scenario— you know, nice guy doesn’t finish last, but instead carries some common sense and civility into the belly of the beast. I fear now that the beast will chew you up and spit you out. We don’t need you to feed our nation’s ignorance and hysteria with bullshit pronouncements on border security. We need leadership and a strong voice to educate your colleagues that it is not necessary to destroy our borderlands in order to save them.
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Social Promotion Leads to Immaturity I read Mark Stegeman’s Guest Commentary (June 14) with great interest. The Tucson Institute sent an open letter to then Gov. Fife Symington about the same issue 19 years ago. We wrote: “Customarily, students are passed to the next grade even if they have done nothing at the previous grade. … This attitude creates irresponsible, immature people who will never do any valuable work, who feel antipathy toward a work environment, who will never tolerate any criticism, must constantly be praised, will always blame others for their failures, and are hostile to intellectual pursuits or achievements. Symington did not even bother to reply. Miklos N. Szilagyi, president, Tucson Institute
This policy is apparent in the library’s “weeding guidelines” (yes, that’s what they call it) for discarding adult and teen fiction. According to these guidelines, a novel should be kept in the collection for a maximum of five years, and short-story collections “of famous American and European writers” should only be kept “as long as there are school assignments or general interest in your community.” Indeed, even classics are subject to removal if there isn’t enough popular demand. Such a discard policy may make for great PCPL book sales (we can all buy recent, quality titles by well-known authors for a dollar or two), but it hardly helps our library build a decent collection. Why our library should pursue such a self-destructive policy is a mystery to me. It would seem to go against the spirit and letter of the library’s mission statement, which says our library should be “a destination and place of discovery that provides abundant print materials.” Indeed, it is difficult to conceive of how our library having fewer books in such subject areas as Chinese trade, solar-panel technology and commercial graphic arts can benefit us economically, any more than having fewer books on how to deal with a diagnosis of cancer can benefit us in regard to our health. And it hardly helps our claim to be a center of culture when our library’s collection is similarly weak in the areas of literature and the arts. However, when the National Writers Union, of which I
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he Pima County Public Library deserves much praise for the access to meeting rooms and Internet terminals that it offers the public, not to mention the many literary and educational events that it hosts. Sadly, however, it is not so deserving of praise in regard to its book collection—that mainstay of a library. According to a 2009 survey by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, our library ranks 28th, next to last, in the number of printed materials per resident among the 29 public-library systems that serve populations comparable to that of Pima County. This ranking is especially troubling because our library spends a considerable amount of money to buy books. In fact, in the same survey, our library ranked 16th in the amount of money spent on printed materials per resident. How is it that a library that’s in the middle of the pack when it comes to purchasing books manages to be next to last when it comes to the size of its collection? The answer is simple: It has an aggressive policy of discarding its books.
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David Mendez did a superb job of chronicling Access Tucson’s challenges since the 2006 Cox-supported legislation that severely limited community television (“Fewer Voices,” Currents, June 21). What he forgot to mention is that Access Tucson is moving to the preferred spot of Channel 20 on the Cox system (while remaining at Channel 74 on Comcast).
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am a member, brought this matter before the Library Board last year (the Library Board, whose members are appointed by the county Board of Supervisors, is supposed to advise the library director), the current policy was enthusiastically reaffirmed. But the reasons we were offered, both by the board and then-library director Nancy Ledeboer, don’t make any sense to us. One reason offered was that the PCPL lacked shelf space to retain more books. If this were the case, why are many of the existing shelves in our libraries half-empty? And why did the library recently replace all of its six-shelf units on the second and third floors of the main branch with three-shelf units? It was also suggested to us that e-books might solve the problem. But e-books, far from being a panacea, may well prove, because of licensing restrictions, to be more difficult and expensive for a library to maintain than paper books. Pima County deserves a better public library than one that ranks next to last in the number of books per resident. This is especially true when the taxpayers have already paid for books that, if they were kept instead of discarded, would allow our library to have a book collection more representative of the culturally rich and diverse city that Tucson is. Greg Evans, a writer and translator, is on the steering committee of the Tucson unit of the National Writers Union (Local 1981 of the United Auto Workers).
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cost me $2,000 to have their teeth done,” she says. The cats also have ongoing oral problems, including chronic ulcers, that will cost even more to fix. While many generous Tucson veterinarians offer discounted services to animal-rescue groups (though others do not), Scherl says such breaks are typically 20 percent off the total cost—not enough to keep shelters such as hers from teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Some professional groups, such as the American Bar Association, insist that members offer some volunteer or low-cost services as a civic duty—but the American Veterinary Medical Association apparently does not. Contacted by the Tucson Weekly, AVMA spokesman Michael San Filippo said that charitable work requires “a delicate balance” for AVMA members, “many of whom are small-business people with overhead and staffs and costs.” San Filippo promised to check on any existing AVMA charitable-work guidelines, and call us right back. That was the last we’ve heard from him. Some experts call the AVMA’s stance unfortunate, citing the high cost of veterinary care in tough economic times as a key reason that people abandon older and ailing animals. “This trend has definitely added to the intake at shelters around the country,” says Cory Smith, senior director of the Pets for Life program at the Humane Society of the United States in Washington, D.C. “We started seeing a lot more older animals when foreclosure rates began to rise. You know there has to be a very valid financial reason for families to give up an animal that they’ve cared for and bonded with for so long.” While adoption rates are slowly increasing, an estimated 6 million to 8 million animals are still abandoned at shelters each year. Of those, roughly 4 million are euthanized. While no-kill shelters such as HOPE care for animals with challenging health problems, others make the heart-rending call to put them down. “There are so many organizations struggling with where you draw that line,” Smith says. Where the vets draw the line is another matter. “There are certainly a number of veterinarians out there who do everything they can to (help) people and their pets,” she says. “But due to the economy, even veterinary practices are struggling. And if they don’t have a business model that’s conducive to providing those reduced-cost community services, they can’t do it, or they don’t know how.” In response, Smith’s organization is encouraging more charitable work through its Humane
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n any other world, Rudy would be king, albeit a king of small and shaggy lineage. After all, he has his own cushy bed, fine food and water, and a beefy air-conditioning unit pumping cold air overhead. But in this world, Rudy is just another shelter dog, although a very lucky one, indeed. Lying in a cage at midtown’s HOPE Animal Shelter, the terrier mix is a senior citizen in the realm of dogs, with failing eyesight and questionable hearing. He’s also afflicted with Cushing’s disease. Caused by hormone overproduction in the adrenal glands, it can cause hair loss and a pot belly. Fortunately, Cushing’s is easy and cheap to treat. Like many HOPE residents, Rudy arrived here after his owner died, and no relatives would take him. So bringing him up to snuff fell to shelter head Susan Scherl, who quickly scheduled him for plenty of tests and medications. Today, some $600 later, he’s a cream puff. Scherl says she never turns away animals like Rudy, who she says would certainly be euthanized at the Pima Animal Care Center or the Humane Society of Southern Arizona. But her compassion comes with a hefty price tag—and it’s growing as HOPE sees more older and sicker animals, including those Scherl regularly retrieves from PACC. Her vet bills can easily top $4,000 a month. Scherl says the economy, and the subsequent inability of folks to afford veterinary care, is causing more and more “special needs” pets to be abandoned. For shelters like hers, this means a steady struggle and constant fundraising just to keep up. While PACC isn’t necessarily seeing a spike in old and sick animals, “We’ve had more old dogs with minor issues that we’ve been able to put up for rescue and get out of here,” says spokeswoman Jayne Cundy. “Which is a great thing, because we’re kind of soft on the older ones.” Many of them wind up at HOPE and other shelters. But it isn’t just aging animals that boost vet bills for these nonprofits. Over recent weeks, for instance, 33 kittens have been left at HOPE’s front door. By the time they’re ready for adoption, each will have cost the shelter roughly $300. “But they’re not old enough yet to be adopted,” Scherl says, “so they’ll have to go to foster care. I’ll have to pay for food for them, and for spay, neuter and vaccines. Since most of them were sick, they were also put on antibiotics and eyedrops.” That’s just the beginning. We’re sitting in Scherl’s office, where she points out two older cats lounging in a cage behind us. “Sunny, who’s lying on the bottom, and Samantha—they just
Meet Rudy at HOPE Animal Shelter. Society Veterinary Medical Association. The HSVMA supports issues ranging from trapneuter-release programs for feral cats to providing affordable veterinary care for low-income folks. Its Rural Area Veterinary Services Program operates low-cost field clinics, and the association encourages innovative approaches such those used by one Richmond, Va., veterinarian, who offers steep discounts for cashstrapped clients willing to volunteer at shelters. At the same time, Smith says, animal-welfare groups themselves are beginning to offer sliding-fee veterinary services, “because that’s a need that I don’t think is being met by the veterinary community.” Another increasingly common strategy to reduce pet-abandonment rates is the establishment of care networks, where folks agree to take animals on a temporary basis when the owners face financial or personal hardships, or military deployments. But back at HOPE, where each month heralds a fresh, daunting pile of bills, animals like Rudy are lucky to be alive. Now he’s tucked in his cage for an afternoon nap as Scherl contemplates fundraising letters and more wrangling with vets. While she’d never forsake pets with problems, she says, that doesn’t mean these aren’t white-knuckle times. “As I’m getting lower and lower on money, I’m seeing more and more of these special-needs animals.” Then Rudy stretches out and yawns deeply. The hard times are temporarily forgotten.
For the second time in his first two weeks in office, newly elected Congressman Ron Barber cast a vote that has upset members of the local Democratic Party. On the day he was sworn in to finish the term of Democrat Gabrielle Giffords, Barber crossed party lines to support a GOP-backed bill that would allow the Department of Homeland Security to waive environmental laws near the border. That triggered some grumbling among Democrats (even though the bill isn’t likely to pass the Senate in its current form, and wouldn’t be signed by President Barack Obama even if it did pass). But those grumbles grew louder after Barber voted in favor of allowing Congress to go to court to get records the White House has declared privileged (and therefore secret) in the matter of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ botched Fast and Furious investigation. Fast and Furious has been held up by Republicans as a screwed-up operation that allowed somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,000 guns to end up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Congressman Darrell Issa has been spearheading a congressional investigation into Fast and Furious since one of the weapons involved in the investigation was recovered from the site of the shootout between Border Patrol agents and a “rip crew” of border bandits that left U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry dead in December 2010. But the general narrative of the ATF investigation as a free-for-all that was merrily shipping guns to Mexican drug lords was complicated last week by the publication of a Fortune magazine investigation that revealed ATF agents wanted to stop the straw purchasers who were buying guns and then flipping them to the criminals who were taking them south of the border, but prosecutors prevented them from taking action, because lax gun laws made it too difficult to prove a case against them. There’s been GOP pushback against the Fortune story, and The Skinny is awaiting an upcoming Inspector General report that might shed more light on what happened behind the scenes before making any final judgments. But we’ll note that while mistakes were made by the people behind the Fast and Furious investigation, the guns that ended up in Mexico in that operation was a mere drop in the “river of iron” that flows across the border. Back to Barber’s votes on the Fast and Furious congressional investigation: While many of his Democratic colleagues walked out without voting on the criminal-contempt-of-Congress charges, Barber stuck around to vote against them. He tells The Skinny that such an “overreaching” charge was “an outrageous proposition that I couldn’t support at all.”
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modern media landscape. “I would like to continue doing news work, whether it’s on the radio or in another form: print writing, freelance work, maybe some Web stuff, possibly marketing or public relations,” said Rappaport, 48, who started working at KUAT while still a student. (He left for a couple of years before rejoining the organization in April 1990.) “At this point, I’m trying to figure out what I want to do, because I’ve been doing the same thing for so long,” he said.
CLEAR CHANNEL NAMES CLUNE LOCAL DIRECTOR OF SALES In the world of relocating employees that is Clear Channel, Ryan Clune has been named the new director of sales for what now goes by the long-winded name of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Tucson. Clune comes from Denver, where he was the local sales manager for Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Denver. He also has sales experience with Denver radio stations KEZW and KALC. “I am thrilled to be promoted to director of sales and join the strong team and great group of stations at Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Tucson,” Clune said in a press release almost certainly written by someone else, because nobody would say “Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Tucson” in actual conversation. Clune’s move is the latest in what has been something of a Colorado exodus for the company. Glynn Alan, Clear Channel Tucson’s regional marketing manager, transferred here from Colorado Springs. His new duties include oversight of Clear Channel’s seven radio stations in Tucson, as well as stations in Las Vegas and El Paso. Chris Pickett, a former operations manager who stayed just more than a year in the Old Pueblo, also came from Colorado Springs. He’s now a program director for multiple stations in Las Vegas. His replacement, Chris Kelly, worked as an operations manager for Clear Channel in Fort Collins, Colo. Clune’s Tucson job starts July 15.
GUTHRIE GETS ‘TODAY’ PROMOTION The forced departure of Ann Curry from NBC’s Today show opened a door for Savannah Guthrie, a graduate of Tucson’s Amphi High School and the UA who cut her reporting teeth at KVOA Channel 4. Guthrie starts her Today co-anchor duties July 9 alongside Matt Lauer, Al Roker and Natalie Morales. Guthrie, who was the speaker at the UA’s May 2011 commencement, joined Today last June as co-host of the program’s third hour. Prior to that, she had been the White House correspondent for NBC News since 2008. Guthrie has moved into a high-profile, highpressure—and high-paying—position as NBC attempts to regain its ratings dominance. Today has been the top-rated network morning show for years, but ABC competitor Good Morning America has cut into that market-share stranglehold of late. That’s not good news for a network that routinely gets hammered in primetime and has been embarrassed on the news front by incidents such as the edited 911 tape involving George Zimmerman, who awaits trial in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
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FWIW: The U.S. Justice Department, which Holder heads up, has already said that it won’t be prosecuting the attorney general. Then there’s the second vote, which has been called a vote to consider Holder to be in “civil contempt” of Congress. Barber voted yes on that one, but he says the legislation has been “mischaracterized,” because nowhere in the resolution does it mention anything about civil contempt. Instead, it authorizes Issa to go to federal court to determine whether the White House has to turn over certain records related to Fast and Furious. “To me, that’s an essential thing that we have to get done,” Barber says. “No matter what the issue is, I don’t think it’s appropriate for Congress or the administration—no matter which administration it is—to hold back important information that will allow us to reach a fact-based conclusion about a matter as serious as Fast and Furious. Fast and Furious was a terrible idea, as were its predecessors. … Putting guns in the hands of cartel members and criminals is not what the ATF or any other federal agency ought to be doing, but having happened, it needs to be fully understood at what level it was authorized and who actually signed off, and we owe it to the parents of Brian Terry … to give them answers that they’ve been waiting for, for 19 months.” Barber adds that he voted for another bill that would have required Issa to take testimony from other witnesses that Democrats wanted to call in front of the House Oversight Committee involving similar investigations during the Bush administration, but the measure failed. Whatever Barber’s reasoning may be, the vote has a vocal contingent of Democrats grumbling about Barber’s willingness to go along with the Republican agenda. State Rep. Matt Heinz, who is challenging Barber in the Aug. 28 Democratic primary, says that he was “dismayed” by Barber’s vote with the Republicans. “To address the problem, we must strengthen the laws to provide lawenforcement agencies with the tools to stop gun-traffickers,” Heinz says. “This is a partisan witch hunt which does not solve the problem for Southern Arizonans.”
BY BRIAN J. PEDERSEN, bpedersen@tucsonweekly.com rene Zamora’s family has gone through more than its share of tragedy over the past nine years. But the most recent tragedy has yet to come with any sort of closure, leaving numerous brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews and cousins with a wound that cannot seem to heal. “We’ve gone through a lot,” said Zamora. “It’s been very hard on all of us.” Zamora’s mother and father died in 2003 and 2008, respectively, both from strokes. And in 2005, she lost brother Daniel Peña to a heart attack. The latest death, however, was the most shocking. Zamora got a call early in the morning of April 21, 2010, from Tucson police telling her that her brother, Robert Peña, had been found badly beaten outside of the Circle K at Valencia Road and Sixth Avenue. Peña, 53, soon fell into a coma and was moved to hospice, where he died a little more than two weeks later. Police went public not long after his death to say they had identified two people they believed were connected to the death—likely the result of a robbery that went too far—but no arrests were ever made. “They thought it was a robbery, but they can’t prove it,” Zamora said. “He wasn’t with friends when it happened. He didn’t have a wallet on him. It was probably trashed.” Zamora said her brother was probably at that Circle K because it was one of the places he frequented during his many stints of homelessness. Living on the streets had been an off-again, mostly on-again life choice for Robert Peña, a decision Zamora said was directly tied to their mother’s death. “He just couldn’t deal with the death of our parents,” Zamora said. “Especially our mother; she meant the world to him. After my mother died, it took a lot out of him.” Zamora said her brother was always welcome in her home and the homes of other family members who still lived in Tucson, most of whom were concentrated on the southside. He’d take them up on the hospitality on occasion, but usually chose to stay to himself. Taking handouts wasn’t his preference, she said. “He was not a person to just take money,” Zamora said. “He’d panhandle sometimes, but usually, he asked for work. He’d find odd jobs to do, (like) mechanic work. He’d do landscaping. He’d volunteer at the senior center … during the holidays. He was always helping others out.” Zamora wonders if Robert Peña’s reputation for generosity might have led to his death. She said it was known by many that her brother had
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Irene Zamora holds a picture of her brother Robert Peña at her Tucson home. a food-stamp debit card that somehow had a large balance on it, and that he often would buy food for others in need. She recalls that he once bought an elderly woman a turkey at Thanksgiving. “Someone could have been taking advantage of him,” Zamora said. Detectives have told Zamora they think there might have been a witness to the beating, though no one has come forward. The possibility of a witness gained credence a few weeks ago when, while visiting Robert Peña’s grave, Zamora said she found an old hat of his resting on the gravestone. “They think it had blood on it,” Zamora said. “They’re going to check it in the lab.”
Tucson police did not respond to the Tucson Weekly’s request for a case update. Though Robert Peña was still battling his desire to be on the streets when he died, Zamora believes that she and her siblings—she has three sisters—would eventually have been able to convince him to come home and get his life together. “I think things could have been a lot different,” she said. “He had degrees in welding and mechanics. He was an artist. He could have done a lot with his life, but he just went the wrong way.” Anyone with information related to Robert Peña’s death is encouraged to call 88-CRIME or 911.
JESSE’S OFF TO D.C. He might not have wanted to be a politician, but it appears that Republican Jesse Kelly, the Tea Party champion who has now lost two congressional campaigns here in Southern Arizona, is going to Washington, D.C. We’re told by multiple sources that Kelly has landed a job with JESSE
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A man who objected to a group of horseriders threatened to sic his dogs on them, and then sprayed them with a water hose, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Deputies received a call from family members who had been riding horses in their rural neighborhood. As the riders passed a house, dogs there started “going crazy,” the report said, and the dogs’ owner told the riders that “if they didn’t get off his property, he was going to get his dogs to move them off.” Although the riders were traveling in an easement, the man claimed they were too close to his property. A passionate argument then broke out, and the man sprayed them with water, according to the report. Deputies spoke with a woman who said the man had used racial slurs; she also said he called them “motherfuckers” and the woman “a fucking bitch.” She said much of the hose-spraying was directed at her grandmother, who had just been released from a hospital. The man told deputies he had been watering his plants when he saw the riders “antagonizing” his dogs. He denied spraying them, and told deputies that water may have dripped from trees he had sprayed. According to the man, a male rider became irate when asked to leave the area and threatened to “kick his ass.” In a previous incident, the man said, the same rider (apparently a close neighbor) had made chicken noises at him. Deputies told both the man and the riders to call law enforcement if similar incidents occurred.
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A man who had been threatening his exgirlfriend via text messages sent one that said he would allow her to have sex with him if she gave him a popular video-game machine, a PCSD report stated. Deputies spoke to a woman who said she had recently broken up with her boyfriend. Since then, she said, he had been harassing her, mostly through text messages such as, “Imma fucking break all your windows you fucking bitch and send my sister to beat your ass. I’m tired of being nice.” After many texts, the man changed his tone, texting her several times that he’d allow her to have sex with him if she’d give him an Xbox. (He apparently had left one at her house.) “Let’s mess around, I’m even with it, you down,” one text said. Deputies arrested the man because of the threats of physical violence.
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RIP, QR Codes? ue to the rapidly changing nature of information technology, it shouldn’t surprise anyone when a heavily lauded innovation winds up as a relative flop—and after the hype over QR codes, with claims that we’d spend hours each day scanning them to get information delivered to us on our phones, I’m actually sort of happy to watch the obituaries for them pile up. Bloomberg News looked at the rapid demise of the QR code this week, and after all of that coverage of the technology, it’s estimated that only 5 percent of Americans scan one any given week—and that’s partially because most of these codes take us to destinations we don’t really like. There are millions of corporate websites out there, and I am interested in very few of them. One Tumblr site tells you everything you need to know about the codes. It’s called “Pictures of People Scanning QR Codes,” and guess what? There are no pictures. It’s not that QR Codes are bad, and in the end, they have some validity—as fancy bar codes used for limited purposes. Fandango uses them on tickets that are displayed on your phone for a theater employee to scan, and that’s probably the best use of the technology—to speed up a process. They just won’t likely be in the corners of advertisements much longer.
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THE WEEK ON THE RANGE We waited (and waited) for Bill O’Reilly’s on-air apology regarding the Affordable Care Act; collected reactions to the Supreme Court’s health-care decision; wondered what Daniel Patterson was thinking (which is part of an ongoing and endless series, apparently); let you know that Russell Pearce was on television saying stupid things (again); and discussed the highlights of the week’s political events with Trent Humphries and Jeff Rogers on Arizona Illustrated’s Political Roundtable, with your host, Jim Nintzel. We wondered about the re-opening of local downtown mainstay Dizzy G’s; made plans to drink some riesling; congratulated Tucson Iron Chef winner Ryan Clark; refused to dress up to get a free burger at Carl’s Jr.; and wondered if local produce is reason enough to shop at Walmart. We listened to an Olympics-themed Pet Shop Boys song; gave you the chance to win tickets to see either Seal or Joe Cocker (with Huey Lewis!) at AVA at Casino del Sol; introduced a new party thrown by Kitty Katt McKinley at Auld Dubliner on Sunday nights; tried to enjoy the new Avett Brothers song; shared a video collecting reactions to the streetcar construction; wondered where the time went while we were transfixed by roller-skating dance videos; hid under the desk, frightened by a Rock-Paper-Scissors-playing robot; introduced a new weekly feature from the staff of TucsonInStyle.com; previewed the annual Labor Day weekend HoCo Fest; played with some virtual LEGOs; challenged Frank Antenori to a bet (with no response, so far); wondered why we’ve been slighted by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion; and congratulated the 2012 NCAA baseball champions, the Arizona Wildcats.
“Looks like a lot of wannabe NYC club FREAKS!” —TucsonWeekly.com commenter “Jeff Bilkanich” won’t likely be checking out Kitty Katt McKinley’s shuffleboard-themed Sunday-night parties at Auld Dubliner anytime soon (“Here’s Something to Do on Sunday Nights,” The Range, June 29).
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Citizens United, the political operation that produces right-wing documentaries and, through its Political Victory Fund, supports GOP candidates. (Kelly himself was endorsed and given a cool $10,000 by Citizens United during the recent special election; the group also spent $100,000 airing an ad on his behalf.) We’ll see if Kelly can do for Republicans nationwide what he did for them here in Southern Arizona.
BY BILLY MANES AND ERIN SULLIVAN, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com lorida Gov. Rick Scott and Secretary of State Ken Detzner have been pushing to scrub that state’s voter rolls of alleged “noncitizens” who don’t have the right to vote. Their strategy is bizarrely flawed, has swept legally registered voters up in its net, and has been declared a violation of federal voting laws by the U.S. Department of Justice. Yet it continues. However, there aren’t very many outraged citizens demanding a stop to this effort to pluck people off the voter rolls. A handful of progressive citizens groups—the usual suspects—are trying to drum up interest, outrage and support. Where is everybody else on this? “Well, that’s a good question,” says Howard Simon, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida. “I don’t know. I’m equally frustrated by that. Where is the outrage, to use what is now a trite phrase? I don’t know. I’m sorry to say that Americans are too willing to wake up in the morning … and express their outrage to themselves over a cup of coffee and the morning paper.” It’s not like nobody cares about the situation: The federal government unsuccessfully sued the state because the voter purge seemingly violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the state is suing the federal government so it can get more information to more efficiently purge the voter rolls; and the ACLU and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law are suing the state. But the civil-rights organizations and government interests shouldn’t be the only ones to care. You should care. Everyone should care—even people who do not live in the state of Florida. And here’s why: The state’s voter purge is not just a slimy strategy to win an election. It’s an attempt to degrade our voting system, undermine our elections and suppress people’s ability to vote—particularly people who are minorities, many of whom are undecided voters or vote for more-liberal candidates. The voter purge is an assault on our freedom and our self-determination—and it’s spreading. A Tea Party-backed effort begun by an organization called True the Vote is suing states to force them to enact purges of their own. The organization’s mission, according to its website, is to “promote ideas that actively protect the rights of legitimate voters, regardless of their political party affiliation.” Underlying the organization’s rhetoric is the unstated conclusion that our government is corrupt not because money taints our legislatures and Congress: True the Vote’s angle is that our biggest, mostpressing problem is that some people who are registered to vote are either dead or illegally reg-
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istered. The organization has partnered with Judicial Watch on its “election integrity” project, and the two organizations have multiple states— Mississippi, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, Alabama and California—in their crosshairs. So get mad, people. You should care. Here are five good reasons why we should be raising the roof over this brazen act of voter suppression. 1. Because it’s happened before: Those even mildly taken aback by the blind chutzpa currently being exhibited by Gov. Scott and his purge-worthy defiance needn’t look back too far in the Florida annals for another example of suppression via the voter rolls. On Nov. 7, 2000—the day that brought us the term “hanging chad”—Florida’s less-obvious electoral fumble came in the form of tens of thousands of eligible Florida voters either getting turned away at their polling places, or being forbidden to register altogether. In a twisted bit of conservative housecleaning logic, the state had already ordered a scrub of the voter rolls prior to Gov. Jeb Bush’s 1998 gubernatorial election; in order to do so, the state paid Database Technologies Inc. (the only bidder) $2.3 million to get the job done; 8,000 of the names ordered to be removed were provided by Texas state officials working under Jeb’s brother, Gov. George W. Bush. Fast forward two years later, and Jeb Bush’s since-maligned Secretary of State Katherine Harris ordered the names of 82,389 ex-felons— who had relocated to Florida from states where voting rights are restored upon completion of their prison sentences—deleted from the voter roles. In other words, Florida broke the law. Subsequent studies found the accuracy rate of the database to be far below DBT’s estimate of 85 percent (a Leon County assessment came up with a 5 percent accuracy rate), but even if DBT was correct, that would still mean that 15 percent of a population that votes 93 percent Democratic was not allowed to vote. Don’t think that matters much? George W. Bush won Florida by a margin of just 543 votes. 2. Because voting is a right, not a privilege: Our federal Constitution guarantees that citizens over the age of 18 cannot be deprived of a vote based on race, age or gender. The right to vote is a hard-earned one, even though most of us didn’t really have to fight all that hard in our lifetimes to get it. Up until 1965, when the Voting Rights Act was finally passed, many states implemented processes and obstacles that made it harder for people—mostly minorities— to cast a vote. We should have put that shit behind us more than 40 years ago, yet politicians
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Remember how W. was first elected after a voter purge? Well, something similar is happening again. in Florida (and Texas and everywhere, basically) are continually looking for new ways to get around that law. One of the earliest documents drawn up that led to the founding of our nation—the Declaration of Independence—compiled a list of grievances against King George III, not the least of which was the failure of the king to respect the colonists’ rights to have a say in how they were governed. 3. Because it’s illegal: Critics of the Florida’s scrub-happy maneuvering have cited two very important laws meant to curtail intentional voter suppression: the 1965 Voting Rights Act and 1993’s National Voter Registration Act. The former forbids states from enacting laws that prohibit voter participation based on race, forcing areas in the South (which had historically been responsible in large part for poll taxes and Jim Crow laws) to get clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice before making any changes to voting laws. The latter, the NVRA, prevents states from adjusting their voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election, among numerous other pro-voter caveats. When a legion of voting and civil-rights groups banded together to sue the state on the matter of its mass purge—citing, among various racial implications, the fact that there is a federal election within the next 90 days (that being the Aug. 13 primary)—the response from the DOJ was swift and clear: The purge likely does violate the aforementioned laws, and should probably be stopped. 4. Because it’s racist: Don’t believe anyone who tells you that it’s not. Even if the process itself is blind—even if the voter purge is being implemented purely on data and not on the color of voters’ skin—the statistics are not. Latinos make up more than 58 percent of those contained in the flawed voter-purge list being used to scrub the rolls. It’s no secret that the Hispanic vote has yet to be fully claimed by any continued on next page
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A footnote to our cover story this week on the campaigns for the District 1 seat on the Pima County Board of Supervisors: Fundraising reports, which came in earlier this week, show that the GOP candidates have not been raising a lot of money. We’re sure that with the presidential race and the special congressional election that voters decided last month, a lot of donors are feeling tapped out by the time local candidates ask for a check. Also, the reports just cover activity between Jan. 1 and May 31. But check out these numbers: Mike Hellon had only raised about $20,000 from 91 contributors and had loaned his campaign nearly $25,000 of his own money. State Rep. Vic Williams had only raised about $2,100 from nine contributors and loaned his campaign $125,000. Stuart McDaniel had raised about $14,000 from 30 contributors and loaned his campaign $300, and Ally Miller had raised just less than $13,000 from 99 contributors and had loaned her campaign more than $7,000 (about $2,800 of which has been repaid). Democrat Nancy Young Wright, who will face the winner of the Aug. 28 GOP primary, had outdone all of them by raising more than $31,000 from 335 contributors, and she hadn’t loaned her campaign a nickel. That had Wright’s campaign boasting that she had more contributors than all of the GOP campaigns put together. Wright’s finance chair, Brian Clymer, said the finance reports “show a wide range of voters throughout District 1 support Nancy Young Wright’s vision for our community. … She will be a worthy successor to Ann Day.” 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. JULY 5 – 11, 2012 TuCsON WEEKLY 13
Disenfranchising continued from Page 13 party—Hispanic voters, pollsters point out, are often swing voters, less likely to vote along party lines. Which means they are unpredictable. Which means it’s better to just keep them from getting to the polls in the first place, rather than taking a chance that they vote and fail to vote for the “right” candidate. Pair this anti-Latino scrubbing effort with Gov. Scott’s earlier chipping away at efforts that mobilize the black vote, and … well, the ACLU’s Simon doesn’t mince words: “There is a racial aspect to this and all the other voting-suppression measures that were adopted by the Legislature and championed by the governor and now being defended by the governor,” he says. “Cutting in half the number of early-voting days and specifically banning voting on the Sunday before the Tuesday election, for instance. Please, somebody explain to me how that addresses voter fraud, rather than simply make it more difficult for working people to vote? And to make it more difficult for the Souls to the Polls program, which so many African-American churches were engaged in? That’s what it was designed to do, and fraud is being used as an excuse to make it more difficult to vote, more difficult to register to vote, and more difficult to have your vote counted.” 5. Because the corporations are winning: The injury currently being added to the insult of Gov. Scott’s wild-eyed suppression tactics comes in the form of increased political clout among billionaire CEOs and the regulation-fearing corporations they represent. Part of the ramp-up in
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influence comes by way of the 2010 Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that concluded that corporations are people, too, and, as such, have the right to give back-scratching billions to whatever political campaigns might tickle their fancy. But even with that ruling, the rise of the super-PAC—a far-less-transparent means of funding candidates and issues—has attracted the lion’s share of shadowy corporate money. What that means is that voters in general need to avoid an influx of lies parading across their television screens in order to make their own informed choices. But, as is the nature of advertising, it also indirectly means that general impressions and brand recognition are being nefariously directed by corporate interests. You buy your candidates like you buy your soda these days. It’s no surprise that many of these corporate interests have likewise been trying to suppress voter registration at the state level via one-stop lobbying organizations such as the American Legislative Executive Council, a backroom factory for derailing progressive policies. The only way to counter the wholesale purchase of the electoral process is to have a strong, informed and varied pool of representation on the voter rolls. This, dear reader, is exactly what these conservatives do not want. They don’t want you. This piece originally appeared in the Orlando Weekly.
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After 12 years of representing Pima County’s northwest side, Republican county Supervisor Ann Day is stepping down. The race to replace her has brought out four Republican candidates: state lawmaker Vic Williams, longtime GOP insider Mike Hellon, Tea Party activist Ally Miller and conservative Stuart McDaniel. continued on next page
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FOUR FOR ONE continued from Page 15 All four have different but overlapping constituencies they can tap, making this anyone’s race in a district that includes the Catalina foothills, Oro Valley, parts of Marana and neighboring unincorporated areas such as Catalina and Casas Adobes. The candidates are fighting for the hearts and minds of about 50,000 Republicans in District 1 (along with the independents in the district who care enough to request a primary ballot; there are about 43,500 independents). The biggest GOP race in the Aug. 28 primary is for the U.S. Senate nomination, which pits U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake against businessman Wil Cardon. But it remains to be seen how many of those voters will get engaged in the county supervisor race. The winner of the Republican countysupervisor primary will face Democrat Nancy Young Wright, a former state lawmaker and Amphitheater school-board member. The GOP nominee will have a big advantage in the November race. Republicans make up roughly 41 percent of district voters, while Democrats make up just 30 percent. However, the remaining 29 percent are independents who can decide an election—and as the community saw in the recent Congressional District 8 election, voters in the area may be willing to cross over and support a centrist Democratic candidate against an extremely conservative Republican. Young Wright has appeal to Pima County voters. In a head-to-head matchup against Williams in 2010 for a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives, Wright outpolled him by a few hundred votes in the Pima County precincts of a legislative district that covered a lot of District 1. (Wright lost the race because Williams beat her in the GOP precincts of Pinal County.) On many county issues, the candidates more or less agree. They all support the Rosemont mine and think the county should stop trying to block it from opening (which puts them at odds with Day, who has joined with the Democrats on the board to oppose the proposed open-pit mine in the Santa Rita Mountains). They all complain that the county’s roads have been neglected, and that the county, in general, spends too much. They say that the county hamstrings businesses with too many regulations, yet none of them cite specific regulations they want to do away with. None of them target specific county programs, other than the public-relations crew that Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry has assembled. They don’t talk about cutting parks or libraries. None of them are talking about repealing the county’s Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, which mapped out the county in an effort to preserve sensitive environmental areas. But at the same time, none of them support purchasing more open space for preservation. With relatively few policy differences, the race will mostly come down to creating an impression in the minds of primary voters—most of whom are just coming off a special congressional election and who are now being distracted by the presidential race. With issues as big as Supreme Court rulings on immigration and health care, it will be tough to get voters to focus on fights over sewer plants and zoning regulations. 16 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
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If there’s an heir to Day’s style in the race, it’s Mike Hellon. A longtime fixture in the Republican Party, Hellon has the support of two of Day’s key staffers, Patrick Cavanaugh and Valerie Samoy. Hellon says that if he wins office in November, he’ll retain both of them to run the office’s constituent service and other outreach. However, Hellon also promises to bring “a slightly different approach to certain issues, because I do have some ideas about some things I’d like see done differently.” Hellon made his last run for public office in 2006, when he tried to win a congressional seat after Republican Jim Kolbe retired. Hellon came in third in the GOP primary, behind hard-right conservative Randy Graf and a former lawmaker, Steve Huffman. Hellon had been doing plenty in politics before that. The only veteran in the race (he won a Bronze Star during his mid-’60s stint in the U.S. Air Force), Hellon has been chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, a Republican national committeeman and co-chair of John McCain’s presidential run in Arizona. He learned county regulations by serving on the county Board of Adjustment for District 1 and the county’s Merit System Commission, which hears appeals from county employees who believe they’ve been wrongly dismissed. He’s also worked in the background for the state’s courts system on oversight and training committees for the judiciary. Just last week, Hellon was given a distinguished service award from Rebecca White Berch, the chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. In his race for supervisor, Hellon has the support of dozens of longtime Republicans who run the spectrum from developers to business leaders to conservative activists, including legendary land speculator Don Diamond, attorney and former gubernatorial candidate John Munger, former District 1 supervisor Mike Boyd, former Arizona Board of Regents member Fred Boice, former Pima County Republican Party chairwoman Linda Barber, Tucson Tea Party co-founder Robert Mayer and others. Hellon says he got into the race “because I have time and can make a difference.” He worries that the other candidates don’t understand the importance of constituent service for the residents of District 1, and he boasts that he’s already gotten something done. As Hellon launched his campaign, he met with neighborhood associations in the Catalina
foothills to form the Save Our Streets coalition to agitate for more spending on residential road maintenance. “By the time I got down there, Chuck Huckelberry had found $10 million for streets and roads,” Hellon says. Hellon is blunt on a variety of issues facing the county. For example, Hellon thinks Pima County “ought to get the hell out of the way” of Rosemont mine efforts.
Hellon has the deep résumé, but Vic Williams has the advantage of incumbency of a sort: Williams already represents much of the area as a state lawmaker, so voters recognize his name. Williams says he’s seeking a seat on the Board of Supervisors because he has a “passion for northwest Pima County” and would like to see the prosperity in the area “translated to the rest of the county.” Williams came to Pima County in 2003 after selling a warehouse business in California. Williams invested some of his money in local real estate and set about building a career in politics, beginning with a GOP social club. He won election to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2008 and re-election in 2010. Williams arrived at the Legislature just as the state budget was collapsing. Over the last four years, he has supported deep cuts to state spending in many departments. He says the Legislature faced “tough choices.” Williams was one of the few lawmakers to support a tax increase to help balance the state budget, standing alongside Gov. Jan Brewer
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in her call for a temporary, one-cent sales-tax increase. But he also has supported deep cuts to the state budget, including the elimination of the KidsCare program that provided health insurance for children; cutting back on health insurance for low-income adults; and reducing funding for universities, state parks and regulatory agencies such as the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Water Resources. As part of those budget-balancing moves, Williams voted for budgets that swept transportation funds from the counties—which meant that Pima County has lost out on $34 million in road dollars since 2007. Hellon says the Legislature balanced the budget “on the back of Pima County taxpayers.” “They call it sweeps,” Hellon says. “I call it stealing.” Hellon says the funding sweeps haven’t just been in the transportation arena. He says they’ve also taken away money from the courts and the universities. “They’ve crammed down costs that the state has traditionally picked up,” Hellon says. “It’s not just a matter of sweeping funds. It’s a matter of pushing costs down on cities and counties. And last year, Pima County had to cough up a $6 million check. That’s how the state balanced its budget.” Williams downplays the importance of the money that the county lost to the state, saying that it was minor compared to the county’s needs. “I believe that Pima County normally receives about $43 million from HURF (the Highway User Revenue Fund),” Williams says. “Last year, it received $35 million. So if anyone is trying to make the correlation … that a couple of years of HURF sweeps of $7 million are in direct correlation to the standards of the roads, that person is not dealing in reality.” Williams defends those fund sweeps, because lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have traditionally dipped into them when state budgets are tight. Also, last year, he spoke up against them. He says he thinks that lawmakers ought to find a way to block themselves from taking money in the future. “Yeah, there were HURF funds that I took,” Williams says. “Ultimately, what I think needs to be done on the HURF is a constitutional amendment (mandating) that the state Legislature does not have the authority to take continued on Page 18
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these funds.” While he’s generally critical of current county management, Williams says he hasn’t studied the budget enough to make any conclusions about whether the county should have cut the budget more than it has in recent years. “I wouldn’t want to make that dissertation right now,” Williams says. “Looking at a budget versus sitting on the dais are two entirely different things. I’ve learned that as a legislator.”
While he has served in the Legislature for four years, Williams has not won the endorsement of his fellow Legislative District 26 GOP lawmakers. Both state Sen. Al Melvin and state Rep. Terri Proud have endorsed Ally Miller, who is carrying the Tea Party banner in the race.
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Unhappy with the direction of the Tucson Tea Party, Miller organized her own group, the Pima County Tea Party Patriots. Her first political effort, a 2009 recall attempt of Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson, fizzled quickly. But Miller stuck to politics, building her organization and joining with Tucsonans who wanted to see an investigation into Rio Nuevo. She was a big supporter of the newly constituted Rio Nuevo board, which had been criticized for spending more money on attorneys than on downtown redevelopment. Miller was disappointed when Senate President Steve Pierce removed chairwoman Jodi Bain and Rick Grinnell from the board. “We had finally gotten forensic audits,” Miller says. “Jodi Bain, I thought, was really leading the board forward.” A Vermont transplant who came to Arizona
to attend the UA more than three decades ago, Miller has come to love the desert. But she sees a lot of trouble in Pima County government that she’d like to have the chance to examine. “I was concerned about my taxes, and I started attending those meetings, and what I saw was a rubber stamp for whatever Mr. Huckelberry put forth,” Miller says. “I didn’t see members of the board being proactive and putting anything on the agenda. Mr. Huckelberry was controlling those meetings.” Miller wants a review of every county department to find waste, fraud and abuse. She’s skeptical about the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan—“I believe it’s more about control than being an environmentalist”—and says the county has “more than enough open space.” If she could, she’d do away with impact fees on development, because she says it discourages homebuilding and commercial development. Miller promises to dig into the budget to get a better idea of how money is being shifted about. And, like the other candidates, she says that county regulations need to be reduced to encourage more business, although she doesn’t offer specific regulations she’d like to do away with. Miller doesn’t have Williams’ name recognition or Hellon’s deep roots in local politics, but she does have a gender advantage: She’s the only woman in a race with three men. If none of the candidates are able to break through to voters, she may be able to win some support based just on that. Miller is the choice of Joe Higgins, a local talk-show host and businessman who nearly
unseated Day four years ago. He lost a GOP primary by just 5 percentage points. Higgins says he likes Miller because of her educational background and her experience working at Honeywell and Intel. “This next election is about job-creation and economic opportunities,” Higgins says. “We’ve got to start putting people in office who can have a dialogue with either current companies or relocating companies as to what we’re in for, and how we go about getting jobs.”
Rounding out the pack of candidates is Stuart McDaniel, a former mortgage broker who now works as a consultant to real-estate and development companies that do business with local governments. McDaniel says he got into the race because he believes that the county “can do better.” “I got fed up,” McDaniel says. “We have an opportunity to have Tucson and Pima County leading the recovery in Arizona, but the antibusiness attitude we’ve had here for a long time is hindering growth.” His message is similar to those of the other candidates. He’d roll back regulations, and he’d privatize the county’s health-care programs for the indigent “as much as possible.” He also wants to see “across-the-board” spending cuts. “I’m a free-market guy,” McDaniel says. McDaniel has been involved in local politics since his days as an undergraduate Young Republican on the UA campus. He’s worked on campaigns for former Pima County Supervisor Mike Boyd and former state lawmaker Steve Huffman; his most recent foray into politics was
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as deputy director of Republican congressional candidate Jesse Kelly’s failed 2010 campaign against Gabrielle Giffords. In this race, McDaniel has landed endorsements from U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, who represents parts of Maricopa County; Oro Valley Councilman Lou Waters; real-estate broker Vicki Cox Golder; and restaurateur KC An. McDaniel worked for First Magnus, the massive Tucson-based mortgage lender that collapsed in 2007. “It was a great ride up, and a tough ride back down, that’s for sure,” McDaniel says. It had a personal impact on him: After his income plummeted, McDaniel lost his house and much of his net worth. “We had to short-sell our dream home,” says McDaniel. In recent days, McDaniel has turned his fire
directly on Williams, calling him a “big-government Republican,” based on a rating by the Arizona branch of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative lobbying group. Like Hellon, he’s been critical of Williams’ votes to take money from Pima County to balance the state’s budget. “How will Vic protect Pima County taxpayers from future legislative raids when he repeatedly voted for them himself?” McDaniel asked in a fundraising email. “Can you trust him to look out for us? I have the credibility to fight the Legislature when they try to divert our tax dollars. Vic doesn’t—he voted with them.” McDaniel’s connection to the Kelly campaign gives him access to a network of motivated primary voters. “I’m looking forward to being the conservative voice of reason on the board,” McDaniel says.
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Want to learn more about the universe we live in? People can paint a planet, make a comet, hunt for meteorites, peer through telescopes and do other fun things while learning at Science Downtown’s Family Day on Saturday, July 7. The University of Arizona’s Astronomy Club, the UA’s Women in Science and Engineering program, the Girl Scouts and the Physics Factory are among the groups that will offer activities at the event. This is Science Downtown’s first Family Day, but Rob Zellem, a Science Downtown co-director, said that he hopes it becomes a regular thing. The current exhibit at Science Downtown, at Congress Street and Fifth Avenue in the Rialto Building, is Mars and Beyond, where visitors can learn about our solar system and the next steps in space exploration. The exhibit is open only by appointment during the streetcar construction, so Family Day offers a unique opportunity to see it. Although outer space has been the focus, Zellem said that the faculty members of Science Downtown are trying to bring in more local partners from various fields to “showcase why Tucson is such a cool science city.” Women in Science and Engineering will have a solar oven, a solar fountain and UV-bead bracelets that change color depending on the amount of sunlight they receive. The UA Astronomy Club will have solar telescopes available. All of the gadgets are intended to demonstrate how useful and important that big, burning ball in the sky is. But if you’re sick of thinking about the sun because it’s blistering hot outside, don’t fret: There are many other things to see and do. Zellem, a planetary-sci“There will be a lot of cool, ences graduate student at hands-on activities,” Zellem the UA, said that Science said. “And a bunch of interacDowntown will be run by tive games. There’s something the UA’s College of Science for everyone.” until at least next summer. For example, Science He said that graduate stuDowntown recently installed dents make for “a really a robotic arm unit that illusgood source of volunteers” trates how challenging it can at the center, and that he and be to operate a machine on colleague Meghan Cassidy Mars. You can also make (the other co-director) will paper airplanes provided by “be spearheading that effort.” the Pima Air and Space “Science Downtown can Museum, create a pet rock show the public the latest while learning about Tucson’s breakthrough research in geology, and discover the many different fields directly mysteries of the ocean with from the Tucsonans doing the Fin Foundation, whose it,” Zellem said. “Tucson is a exhibit will include shark science town, and the jaws. University of Arizona plays Guided tours are another a very large role in that.” facet of Family Day. They’re Family Day at Science intended to “give a more perScience Downtown guests look at a life-size mockup of the Phoenix Downtown runs from 10 sonal touch” to the event, Lander, used in a mission to study the north pole on Mars. a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Zellem said. Attendees can July 7, at 300 E. Congress St. Admission is $9 for adults; $5 for also hear presentations about living in Antarctica and hunting for children ages 5 to 17 (younger kids are admitted for free); and $7 meteorites; enter raffles; and chow down on food. for college students with ID, seniors and military personnel with While (cliché alert!) there’s fun for the whole family at Science ID. For more information, including where to park, call the box Downtown, Zellem said that kids are the focus of the day. office at 622-8595, or visit sciencedowntown.org. You can also “It’s really important to get kids interested in science at a young “like” the Science Downtown Facebook page to learn about age,” Zellem said. “Kids are very inquisitive and want to know how upcoming events and get daily science fun facts. things work. If you can explain things in a fun way, it makes it more Hope Miller interesting. And, hopefully, you can get them interested to pursue a mailbag@tucsonweekly.com career in science.”
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ART Creativity Unbound Picture the Words Opening reception: 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, July 7 On display 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, through Saturday, Aug. 25 WomanKraft 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976; womankraft.org
Join local artists at WomanKraft for the opening reception of Picture the Words, an exhibit in which participating artists were required to submit pieces in unique mediums incorporating text and images. WomanKraft started in 1974 as a nonprofit organization with a mission to help empower under-represented artists in the community. The center includes a gallery for upcoming artists to exhibit their work, and a school offering a variety of affordable classes for people of all ages. Grace Rhyne is a member of WomanKraft and one of the 15 artists featured in the show. She also teaches a handmade paper workshop at WomanKraft along with her sister. “What is most interesting about our gallery is our mission to promote underrepresented artists and women, and encourage new artists to join, anywhere from beginning artists to award-winning artists who have been around for many years,” Rhyne said. In her piece “I Am Powered by the Sun,” Rhyne fills a shadow box with natural materials found in the desert along with glass-seed beads and moving images of cacti illuminated with pink and purple to represent the evening sunset. “I really enjoy making art, and love using recycled materials, and I am a firm believer that you must do what you love,” Rhyne said. The theme allows artists to be creative and produce different pieces in a wide range of mediums. “What I like most about this particular exhibit is the combination of text with images, because it can be used in so many ways. There are no boundaries, and it can be open to interpretation,” Rhyne said. The exhibit is free, although donations are encouraged. Artwork will be available for purchase. —R.C.
Left: A screening of Hot Rod, accompanied by a vintage car show, takes place at 10 a.m., Sunday, July 8, at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. $6, $5 members of the Loft and the Tucson Street Rod Association. Call 795-7777, or visit loftcinema.com for more information.
Sabra Faulk
MUSIC
ART
SPORTS/OUTDOORS
An Afternoon of Faulk Music
Five Decades of Painting
Early Bird Gets the Exercise
Sabra Faulk in Concert
Jane Buckman: When Sight Speaks
Run With the Roosters
Noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, July 7
Opening Reception: 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, July 7
5 a.m., Sunday, July 8
17th Street Market 830 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 7147; www.sabrafaulk.com
Sabra Faulk, a Tucson singer/songwriter and bass player/guitarist, will grace the stage at the 17th Street Market’s Music Shop with a solo acoustic show featuring two sets of original music. Faulk has performed in various venues around Tucson, and has dedicated her life to her craft. Growing up in a musical family, she started attending band rehearsals with her parents at age 5 and picked up the guitar when she was 8. Her songs cover a variety of styles, including folk, country and rock. “Sabra is a very talented local performer. I’ve watched her blossom and really come into her own,” said Frank Sanzo, manager of 17th Street’s Music Shop. “She’s got a great voice and a great way with her lyrics that get to the heart.” Notable local musicians Faulk has played with include Heather Hardy and the late, great Sam Taylor. Faulk’s music draws fans from all walks of life. She hopes to get a decent turnout at a venue she’s played at several times in the past few years. “It’s just good music written from the heart and performed from the heart,” Faulk said. “It’s a passion, and it’s a spiritual experience for me every time I perform or play. It’s like a religion for me. “It’s everything I am. It’s who I am. I don’t have skills except for playing music. That’s what I’m really good at. It isn’t just a job. … It’s an art. I’m compelled to do it from a higher power.” The 17th Street Music Shop is inside the 17th Street Market. The show is free. —S.V.
On display 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, through Saturday, July 28 Contreras Gallery 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557; contrerashousefineart.com
After 50 years of painting and 29 years of teaching art at Green Fields Country Day School, Jane Buckman will be featured in her first-ever solo exhibition, thanks to the Contreras Gallery. “It was an easy path to take becoming an artist, because it’s my person. It’s not what I do; it’s who I am,” said Buckman, who started painting when she was 10. When Sight Speaks will feature 24 oil paintings and pastels. Most of Buckman’s pieces incorporate her influences and inspirations from nature, specifically from around Tucson. “I find it difficult to describe in words the sensations I get when I look at nature,” Buckman said. “For artists, it’s not just a product as much as it is about living a life that is clearly seen and deeply felt.” In a series of paintings titled “Finding My Way,” Buckman uses oils to express each of the five senses. She painted contrasting light and dark colors along with rough and smooth textures. “My hope is to evoke sensations,” Buckman said. She has taught art in all 12 grades at Green Fields and said she gets a lot of inspiration from her students. “Watching my students, I see they are extremely imaginative, and they have a sense of freedom to explore and discover,” Buckman said. Buckman is looking forward to her students and members of the community seeing a different side of her—as an artist rather than an art teacher. “I’ve been an artist all along,” Buckman said. “I usually keep it separate from my teaching position, so this is really the first time I am sharing what I do with the people who know me as a teacher.” Admission is free. —R.C.
Old Tucson Studios 201 S. Kinney Road 797-7867; www.everyoneruns.net
The early bird catches more than the hth annual worm this Sunday at the eighth e-mile run Run With the Roosters, a five-mile o catches a and walk: The early bird also e the event break from the heat, because starts at 5 a.m. e fourth This year’s event marks the rs will race time that runners and walkers along scenic Kinney Road, with the event starting and ending at Old Tucson ed to traffic Studios. Kinney will be closed during the race. The event is sponsored byy Everyone h promotes Runs, Everyone Walks, which ticipants of contests that encourage participants teve all skill levels. Coordinator Steve Landau said he’s expecting more than n. 400 people at this year’s run. “The concept is to put on community alks of life,” events for people from all walks come at Landau said. “They feel welcome these events. They aren’t all competitive, and it has that feeling that everyone feels like they belong,” he said. After the race, participantss can help st, themselves to a free breakfast, smoothies, a Slip ’n Slide forr cooling off, and massages. Winners in each age categoryy will receive a rooster trophy, and overall winners will receive prizes. Past prizes have included new running shoes and a GPS device. icThe cost is $40, and participants can register at the Everyone Runs, Everyone Walks website. Late registra-m., tion is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., et, Saturday, July 7, at Fleet Feet, 7310 E. Tanque Verde Road.. The hirt that registration fee includes a shirt participants will receive afterr the ll be event, and part of the fee will donated to various charities around town. —S.V.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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UPCOMING
Juanita Molina
CAFÉ PASSÉ Café Passé. 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. Artist Wil Taylor exhibits paintings and prints, and singer-songwriter Hans Hutchison releases his newest CD at a party from 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, July 14; free.
Juanita Molina is the new director of the Border Action Network, and she continues to work as the director of Humane Borders. The dual roles signal an operational agreement between the two organizations rather than a merger. BAN continues to advocate for undocumented immigrants, while Humane Borders focuses on providing water at stations throughout the desert. In last week’s SB 1070 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated most of the law, but kept intact the part that requires lawenforcement officers to check the immigration status of anyone stopped, detained or arrested if they suspect the person is in the country illegally. For more information, visit borderaction.org or humaneborders.org.
PARANORMAL AND GHOST-HUNTING WEEKEND Copper Queen Hotel. 11 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-2216. Lectures on paranormal investigations and procedures, a ghost-hunt of the hotel and a spiritcommunication session highlight a weekend exploring the Victorian Era and its spiritualist movement, Friday through Sunday, July 13 through 15; $584 to $629 includes lodging for two. Participants must be at least age 18. Call (520) 432-2216 for reservations; visit oldbisbeeghosttour.com for more information.
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How do you feel about the recent SB 1070 ruling? It’s disappointing that they stuck so closely to constitutional law and did not hear points that argued human rights. Obviously, the members were conflicted. What happens next? The reality was people knew this was going to be problematic. Human rights will now come into play, and the courts are going to delve more deeply into racial profiling on citizens here in the United States. Our focus is working with the community that has an immediate fear of racial profiling. There’s always been racial profiling, but what’s different now? Law-enforcement agencies have no idea how they are going to implement this law. And then there are issues of community trust: A person here walking to get a quart of milk may witness violence. That person (if a minority) … is not going to be as inclined to come forward. This has come up in the past, and BAN has interceded with the TPD. We will continue dialogue and (have) discussion with the TPD. I think this is an incredibly difficult thing to implement. There is a traffic stop, and the officer has to figure out if this person is 22 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
here without documentation when there is no centralized database. How is he supposed to determine that?
response to what the undocumented community faces.
How has BAN been preparing for the ruling? For all of us, this is a longterm struggle, just like the civil-rights movement. I personally did not expect this to be the end point of any situation. … The extreme right is working to criminalize this population. But the reality is, in Arizona, we are so much more diverse than that, and not all views of all Arizonans reflect this. We’ve paid the price for this. … The image of our state internationally and nationally is compromised by these views. … We’re going to continue to do what we’ve always done, which is educate and advocate for the community in Arizona.
A few weeks ago, your water trucks were vandalized. How did that get resolved? We got the trucks fixed. The thing to know about Humane Borders is that it is such an amazing and exceptional place. Within a week, we were up and running. We didn’t have all the liability insurance that could cover the costs, so we had to pay all repairs outof-pocket. But in a week, we had the money. We live hand to mouth. But that’s the thing about border issues—there’s no infrastructure support. If you look at other movements, like domestic violence and sexual assault, there is a certain infrastructure from the government. Humanitarian aid is from the goodness of people’s hearts.
How does this new agreement between BAN and Humane Borders work? We have an operational agreement to share resources, but it is different than a flat-out merger of the agencies. I think it really enhances our work. For some reason, within our own movement, there is a lot of division between humanitarianaid and human-rights groups, but I don’t know why. I do know that we cannot treat human suffering as a commodity. … Both agencies are a community
How can folks help? Come volunteer with us. (Undocumented) families are often cut off from the rest of society. One of the most impactful moments I had at Humane Borders was when a group of teachers and students from Mexico helped us with water runs. One student started to cry: “We thought all Americans hated us.” That is the perception. We also need to be allies as citizens and voters for the undocumented community of Southern Arizona and make our voice heard.
CAFÉ INQUIRY DuVal Auditorium, UA Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. The intersection of religion and culture is discussed from 8 to 9:15 a.m., the second Sunday of every month; free. Call 297-9919 for more information. DEMOCRATS OF ORO VALLEY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 229-5300. Wenona Benally Baldenegro, a candidate to represent Arizona Congressional District 1, presents her platform at 7 p.m., Monday, July 9; free. Call 7423774, or visit demsov.org for more information. DIVORCE RECOVERY 1 Trained facilitators lead nonsectarian support groups 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 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. 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. HERMITAGE CAT SHELTER MEET-AND-GREET Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Meet representatives of Arizona’s first no-kill, cage-free adoption center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, July 7; free. ‘MAGIC: THE GATHERING’ FREE TOURNAMENT Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. A two-pack standard Magic: The Gathering tournament takes place at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, July 5; free. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m.; the first 20 registrants will play. Each participant receives two free packs. Prizes include one to three additional packs and $10 to $25 in gift certificates. 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. SOCRATES SATURDAY FORUM Ward 6 City Council Office. 3202 E. First St. 7914601. All are welcome to join a philosophical discussion at 9 a.m., the first and third Saturday of every month; free. Email lanamorgan1@yahoo.com for more info. SOUTHERN ARIZONA ARTS GUILD Miguel’s. 5900 N. Oracle Road. 887-3777. Local artists are invited to participate in meetings at 8:30 a.m., the first and third Saturday of every month; $13, $10 member. Meetings on the third Saturday include a casual critique session. Visit southernazartsguild.org to verify meeting location and for more information. WHITE TRASH HO’ DOWN Know Where II. 1308 W. Glenn St. 623-3999. Guests help fill a swimming pool with food for the Tucson Community Food Bank and participate in a raffle with all proceeds donated to the Food Bank, from 3 to 8 p.m., Saturday, July 7; free. Call 791-4010 for more information. Visit “Know Where II” on Facebook for more information.
WOMEN IMPACTING TUCSON Manning House. 450 W. Paseo Redondo. 770-0714. A guest presenter and a status update from the mayor’s office are featured at a luncheon from 11:20 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday, July 9; $25. Reservations are requested by Thursday, July 5. Call 770-0714, or email wit@ manninghouse.com for reservations or more information. WORLD HARMONY: CAN IT HAPPEN? Access Tucson. 124 E. Broadway Blvd. 624-9833. A live taping of World Harmony: Can It Happen? takes place from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 6; free. The guest panelist is Dr. David A. Ruben, psychiatrist and author of Men Have a Lot to Learn. Audience members arrive by 5:45 p.m. to guarantee seating. Call 7222837, or e-mail humanharmony2005@aol.com for info.
UPCOMING CAT INDEPENDENCE DAY WINE-TASTING CataVinos. 3063 N. Alvernon Way. 323-3063. A silent auction, snacks, a raffle and cat-themed gifts are featured, and donations of canned cat food and cat litter are welcome, from 4 to 6 p.m., Sunday, July 15; $20 to sample six wines. Call 870-1904, or email sjmillerAZ@ gmail.com for more information. DOG DAYS OF SUMMER Bookmans. 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-9555. Meet-and-greets with animals and knowledgeable representatives of rescue organizations take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; free. Friday, July 13: Hermitage Cat Shelter, hermitagecatshelter.org. Saturday, July 14: Southern Arizona Beagle Rescue, soazbeaglerescue. com. Saturday, July 21: Southern Arizona Golden Retriever Rescue, southern-az-golden-retriever-rescue. org. Saturday, July 28: The Humane Society of Southern Arizona, hssaz.org; Arizona Greyhound Rescue, azgreyhoundrescue.org. Also from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m, on the 28th, customers bring their dogs to be photographed with impersonators of the Blues Brothers; free. FREE PET CARICATURES Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Artists offer caricatures of pets from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, July 14; free. Treats are given to visiting dogs. I DO IN TUCSON BRIDAL SHOW Heritage Highlands Clubhouse. 4949 W. Heritage Club Blvd. Marana. 579-9574. Gowns, cakes, flowers, DJ services, invitations, photographers, videographers, reception sites, wedding planners and more are represented from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, July 15; free. Visit idointucson.com for more information. PAPER. PAPER. PAPER. Murphy-Wilmot Branch, Pima County Public Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. An interactive class about getting control of paperwork takes place from 11 a.m. to noon, Saturday, July 14; free. SAGUARO EASTSIDE DEMOCRATS AND LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 10 New Spirit Lutheran Church. 8701 E. Old Spanish Trail. 296-2461. The three Democratic candidates for two seats in the Arizona House of Representatives from Legislative District 10 and the candidate for the Arizona Senate participate in a reception and forum starting at 6:30 p.m., Monday, July 16; free. Call 850-6755. VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT FOR BOOKS ON WHEELS Volunteers help select books for homebound Tucsonans and deliver the books by bicycle. Complete the application at library.pima.gov, and submit it at one of the following training sessions: Saturday, July 14, at 9 a.m., at the Wilmot Library, 530 N. Wilmot Road; Tuesday, July 24, at 6 p.m., at the Himmel Library, 1035 N. Treat Ave.; Wednesday, Aug. 1, at 6 p.m., at the Wilmot Library; and Monday, Aug. 20, at 6:30 p.m., at the Himmel Library. Call 594-5245, or email tara. foxx-lupo@pima.gov for more information.
ANNOUNCEMENTS 24-HOUR CRISIS LINE: 624-0348, (800) 553-9387 Wingspan. 430 E. Seventh St. 624-1779. Report a violent or discriminatory action against you or someone you know by calling the 24-hour bilingual crisis line at 6240348 or (800) 553-9387. If it’s an emergency, please first call 911. All services are available in Spanish. BEAGLE RESCUE Several beagle-adoption events and play dates are scheduled throughout the month. Visit soazbeaglerescue.com for the schedule and to learn more about Southern Arizona Beagle Rescue. BEARS OF THE OLD PUEBLO Bears of the Old Pueblo provides social activities for gay and bi bearish men and their admirers. Check the website to verify dates, times and programs, but newcomers are welcome at all regular activities, including
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; $6 to $20. Call 207-9354 for more information. BRIDGE CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 229-5300. Adults play bridge from 1 to 4 p.m., every Wednesday. Call for more information. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: TUCSON CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL Community groups, businesses, religious groups, neighborhood associations and ad hoc groups of five or more volunteers are needed to adopt parks, streets, washes and other public areas on an ongoing basis. Call 7913109, or visit tucsoncleanandbeautiful.org for info. CHESS CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. All serious chess players are invited from 1 to 5 p.m., every Friday. Call for more information. THE COFFEE PARTY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Friendly discussions of current events take place from 1 to 3 p.m., every Tuesday. Call 878-0256. COMMON SENSE FORUM Martha Cooper Branch, Pima County Public Library. 1377 N. Catalina Ave. 594-5315. The forum meets at 2 p.m., every first Saturday, for a discussion based on social structures that Miklos Szilagy described in his self-published book, How to Save Our Country; free. Call 275-5259 for more information. COMMUNITY DRUM CIRCLE Himmel Park. 1000 N. Tucson Blvd. 791-3276. A drum circle meets from 3:30 to 6 p.m., every Sunday; free. Call 743-4901 for more information. CONQUISTADORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB Jewish Community Center. 3800 E. River Road. 2993000. Anyone who wants to conquer fears of public speaking may practice in a supportive environment at 7 p.m., every Wednesday. Email davidmegaw@comcast.net for more information. DESERT CRONES Fellowship Square Villa III. 210 N. Maguire Ave. 8865537. Women older than 50 meet from 1 to 3 p.m., every Thursday except holidays, to enjoy companionship and creativity. Programs include guest speakers, writing workshops and drumming circles. Call 409-3357, or email hobbitmagick@hotmail.com for more information. DIVORCE RECOVERY DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP First Church United Methodist. 915 E. Fourth St. 6226481. An open support group for anyone ending a relationship takes place from 1 to 2 p.m., every Tuesday; free. 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. FOUNTAIN FLYERS TOASTMASTERS Coco’s Bakery Restaurant. 7250 N. Oracle Road. 7422840. Participants learn and enhance speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment, from 6:30 to 7:45 a.m., Tuesday; free. Call 861-1160 for more information. GAM-ANON MEETING University of Arizona Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. A 12-step support group for families and friends of compulsive gamblers meets in dining room No. 2500D at 7 p.m., every Monday; free. Call 570-7879 for more information. ITALIAN CONVERSATION Beyond Bread. 3026 N. Campbell Ave. 322-9965. All skill levels practice from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., every Tuesday; free. Call 624-9145 for more information.
JIGSAW PUZZLE EXCHANGE Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Exchange your jigsaw puzzle for a different one at the Jigsaw Puzzle Exchange display. Parking is free on Saturday, Sunday, evenings or for less than an hour. 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. MAHJONG Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 229-5300. Play Mahjong from 1 to 3:30 p.m., each Saturday; free. Call for more information. OUT AND PROUD AD PARTICIPATION UA students, staff, faculty and alumni are invited to include their names in a two-page ad in the Arizona Daily Wildcat on Thursday, Oct. 11, as part of National Coming-Out Week; free. The ad carries a positive message about the talent and contributions of out-and-proud individuals in the community. Details of the ad, and a short form to fill out, are available via the Facebook page, “Join the OUT and PROUD Ad.” PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE 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: from 10 a.m. to noon, the second Tuesday of every month at Sahuarita Branch Library, 725 W. Via Rancho Sahuarita; from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the second and fourth Tuesday of every month, at Oro Valley Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive; from 10 a.m. to noon, the second and fourth Wednesday, at Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center, 1660 W. Ruthrauff Road; from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the second and last Wednesday, at Quincie Douglas Senior Center, 1575 E. 36th St.; and from 10 a.m. to noon, the third and fourth Wednesday, at Freedom Park Recreation Center, 5000 E. 29th St. For more information, visit pcoa.org. THE ROADRUNNERS TOASTMASTERS Atria Bell Court Garden. 6653 E. Carondelet Drive. 8863600. The Roadrunners Toastmasters meet weekly from 6:30 to 8 a.m., Wednesday, to mutually support public speaking and leadership skills. Call 261-4560, or visit roadrunnerstoastmasters.com for more information. SCRABBLE CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Play Scrabble from 1 to 5 p.m., each Monday. SINGLES 50+ LUNCH GROUP Thunder Canyon Brewery. 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 7972652. A group meets for conversation and no-host lunch at noon, Sunday. Call 797-9873 for more information. TOASTMASTERS OF UNITY Risky Business Sunrise. 6866 E. Sunrise Drive. 5770021. Participants learn to overcome their fear of public speaking and learn skills for self-confidence, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., every Saturday; free. Call 326-0691, or visit toastmastersofunity.com for more information. TUCSON SINGLETARIANS A social club for singles age 50 and older meets from 5 to 7 p.m., each Wednesday on the westside, and Thursday on the eastside, at locations that change each month. Free; no-host food and beverages. Call 3269174, or visit tucsonsingletarians.tripod.com for more information about the club’s many other activities. TUCSON SOCIAL SINGLES Tucson Social Singles meet from 5 to 7 p.m., every Friday, at a different location; free. Call 219-9985, or visit tucsonsocialsingles.org for locations and more information. URBAN YARNS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Knitters and crocheters gather informally from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., each Friday, to work on their own projects, review the library’s fiber-themed books and find inspiration for new projects; free. No instruction is provided. Call 791-4010 for more information. XEROCRAFT: A PLACE TO CREATE Xerocraft. 1301 S. Sixth Ave. 906-0352. Tools and space for creative individuals to materialize their visions are available from 7 to 10 p.m., every Thursday; and from noon to 4 p.m., every Saturday; free. Visit xerocraft.org for more information. YARNIVORES: A CROCHET AND KNITTING MEET-UP GROUP Murphy-Wilmot Branch, Pima County Public Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. A brown-bag dinner and socializing devoted to the yarn arts take place from 6 to 7 p.m., every Thursday; free. Bring dinner and a project.
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a meeting and potluck from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the second Saturday of every month, at the Ward 6 Council Office, 3202 E. First St.; coffee from 7 to 9 p.m., every Wednesday, at Crave Coffee Bar, 4530 E. Broadway Blvd.; happy hour from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., every Friday, at Venture-N, 1239 N. Sixth Ave.; “bear-tinis” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., every Friday, at The Shelter, 4155 E. Grant Road; and dinner from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., every third Thursday, at a location announced in the online calendar and on Facebook. In addition, annual pool parties and potlucks are held on Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day weekends. Many other activities are scheduled throughout the year. Call 8290117, or email bop@botop.com for more information. Visit botop.com, or follow “Bears of the Old Pueblo” on Facebook for a complete calendar of events.
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BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS IN A MONTH Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. 465 W. St. Mary’s Road. 792-2250. Jernone Davis teaches a marketing and planning course from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, from July 10 through 31; $225, $125 member. The module includes lectures and hands-on applications. Registration is requested. Call or visit tucsonchamber.org to register or for more information. INDIVIDUAL JOB-COUNSELING AND COMPUTER HELP Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A computer instructor is available to answer questions and offer help with resume-writing, online jobsearching, 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. NAWBO SPIRIT AWARDS LUNCHEON Manning House. 450 W. Paseo Redondo. 770-0714. The National Association of Women Business Owners Tucson chapter meets for discussion, orientation, lunch and an awards program from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 10; $25 to $45. Guests are encouraged to dress for the 1950s. Reservations are requested by Thursday, July 5. Call 326-2926, or visit www.nawbotucson.org for reservations and more info. 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 PLANNING A SECURE FINANCIAL FUTURE Raskob/Kambourian Financial Advisors. 4100 N. First Ave. 690-1999. Learn steps to take now for a secure retirement, from 1 to 2 p.m., Friday, July 13; free. Reservations are required by Thursday, July 12. Call for reservations and more information.
FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK 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. July 5: Rain Man (1988). July 12: The Man in the White Suit (1951). July 19: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). July 26: Sons of Cuba (2009). Visit cinemalaplacita.com for a schedule and parking information. FIRST FRIDAY SHORTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Max Cannon hosts a contest among filmmakers to win prizes or be gonged at the discretion of the audience, starting at 9 p.m., the first Friday of every month; $6, $5 Loft member. The maximum film length is 15 minutes; aspiring auteurs sign in with a DVD or Blu-ray that can be played on a regular player. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Two Alfred Hitchcock films are featured in July; $5 to $7. Rear Window is screened at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 7; and 2 p.m., Sunday, July 8. Vertigo screens at 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 13, and Sunday, July 15. Visit foxtucsontheatre.org for more information. IN THE LIGHT OF REVERENCE Himmel Branch, Pima County Public Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. In the Light of Reverence, depicting the struggles of the Black Hills Lakota, the Arizona Hopi and the California Wintu to protect their sacred sites, is screened from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, July 9; free.
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. Thursday, July 5, at 7 p.m. StraitJacket, with Joan Crawford; $5 to $9. Sunday, July 8, at 10 a.m.: Hot Rod, accompanied by a vintage car show; $6, $5 members of the Loft and the Tucson Street Rod Association. Wednesday, July 11, at 7:30 p.m.: Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?, a documentary suggesting that government regulation of business is essential to democracy; $5 to $9. SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES St. Francis in the Foothills. 4625 E. River Road. 2999063. Mountain Patrol, a documentary about efforts to stop the illegal poaching of Tibetan antelope, is screened following a 5:30 p.m. potluck supper on Sunday, July 8; free.
UPCOMING INDEPENDENT FILM ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company. 865 E. University Blvd. 624-4177. A meeting and mixer among filmmakers begins at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 17; free. Complimentary appetizers are served, and parking is free in the Tyndall Avenue Garage. Email ifasaz@gmail.com for 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. Thursday, July 12, at 7 p.m.: Dead Ringer with Bette Davis; $5 to $9. Saturday, July 14, at 7 p.m.: Hide Away with director Chris Eyre in person; $10, $8 member or student. Sunday, July 15, at 7 p.m.: Duck Soup; $5 suggested donation. Wednesday, July 18, at 7:30 p.m.: Shut Up and Play the Hits, a documentary about LCD Soundsystem; $8, $6 member.
ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR FILMS The Tucson Film and Music Festival seeks features, short films and music videos to be considered for
screening at the festival, which runs from Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 11 through 14. The festival especially welcomes entries that emphasize music-related content, documentaries and narratives, and films and filmmakers with a connection to Arizona and the Southwest. Submit entries via tucsonfilmandmusicfestival.com or withoutabox.com/ login/5791. Entry fees range from $25 to $55.
GARDENING EVENTS THIS WEEK GARDENS OPEN FOR DOGS, COOL NIGHTS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Dogs are admitted from 7 to 8:30 a.m., every Tuesday, through Aug. 28; $7 adult, $3 ages 4 to 12 and dogs, $2 members’ dogs, free member or child 3 and younger. Bring a leash, water and waste-disposal bags. The gardens are open in the evening, from 5 to 8 p.m., Friday, July 27 and Aug. 24; $8, free member. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. TUCSON AFRICAN VIOLET SOCIETY The East Side Night Meeting of the Tucson African Violet Society gathers from 7 to 9 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades, 201 N. Jessica Ave. The East Side Day Meeting takes place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., the second Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades. The Northwest Day Meeting takes place from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the second Thursday of every month, at The Inn at the Fountains at La Cholla, 2001 W. Rudasill Road.
UPCOMING 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., Monday, July 16; free. Materials are free to the first 12 to register. Call 594-5225 to register. PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS FRUIT CLASSES Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Highway 60. Superior. (520) 689-2811. Learn how to harvest prickly pear
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ANNOUNCEMENTS COMMUNITY GARDEN Volunteers are sought to help grow vegetables and herbs for Eon’s youth meals and other LGBT programs in a large bed in the UA Community Garden at Highland Avenue and Mabel Street; free. Call 626-1996 or 6263431 for more information. GARDENING CLASSES AT THE LIBRARY Master Gardeners from the Pima County Cooperative Extension Service conduct free classes the first Saturday of every month, at 10:30 a.m., Mission Branch, 3770 S. Mission Road; and every Wednesday at 1 p.m., at the Murphy-Wilmot Branch, 530 N. Wilmot Road. Visit ag.arizona.edu for more information. PLANT LOW-COST TREES FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY Customers of Tucson Electric Power Company qualify for native shade trees to plant within 15 feet of their homes on the west, south or east side. Trees are $8 including delivery. Call 791-3109, or visit tucsonaz.gov/tcb/tft.
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KIDS & FAMILIES EVENTS THIS WEEK ADVANCED YOUTH NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE Arizona State School for the Deaf and Blind. 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. 770-3468. Middle school and high
school students are prepared and certified as youth nonviolence trainers in a five-day workshop from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, July 9 through 13; $20. Students may register on their own or be nominated by schools and other organizations serving youth in Tucson and Pima County. Call 991-6781, or email nvlp@cultureofpeacealliance.org to register and for more information. ALL TOGETHER THEATRE Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland continues through Sunday, Aug. 12. Showtime is 1 p.m., every Sunday; $5 to $8. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for reservations and more information. ARIZONA HISTORY MUSEUM Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 6285774. Inspired by the centennial exhibit 100 Years, 100 Quilts, kids make quilting projects at 11 a.m. on the first Saturday of every month, through Nov. 3; $5, $4 senior or ages 12 through 18, free younger child, includes all supplies and admission to the museum. July 7: picture frame. Aug. 4: phone/iPod case. Sept. 1: pincushion. Oct. 6: coaster/mug rug. Nov. 3: crazypatch ornament. ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. The museum features its nocturnal plants and wildlife after sundown on Saturdays through Aug. 25, with special programming beginning at 6 p.m., and special rates after 4 p.m.; $7, $3 ages 6 through 12, free younger child. A different program is presented each Saturday. July 7: Musical Summer Night. July 14: Insect Insanity. July 21: Astronomy and Physics Night. July 28: Musical Summer Night. Visit desertmuseum. org for 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. DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG Valley of the Moon. 2544 E. Allen Road. 323-1331. Families enjoy a night of music and fantastical melodrama with Dr. Horrible, Captain Hammer and the Once-More-With-Feeling players at 8 p.m., Saturday, July 7; $5, free age 7 and younger. Admission includes snacks and opportunities to explore the paths, statues
EVENTS THIS WEEK ALZHEIMER’S EDUCATION SERIES TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. A different topic related to Alzheimer’s disease is presented from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., the first Thursday of every month. July 5: Jesse Pergrin presents “Demystifying Alzheimer’s.” STROKE SUPPORT-GROUP MEETINGS University of Arizona Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. Stroke survivors and caregivers learn more about strokes, share positive solutions and support each other from 10 to 11 a.m., the second Monday of every month, in the cafeteria, dining room C; free.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT GROUPS All meetings are free; call for reservations. Family members and others caring for people with dementia gather for discussion, education and support from 1:30 to 3 p.m., the first and third Tuesday of every month, at the Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive, 2295300. An Alzheimer’s Association Support Group meets at 4:30 p.m., the second Monday of every month, at Santa Catalina Villas retirement community, 7500 N. Calle Sin Envidia, 730-3132. An Alzheimer’s caregiver support group and concurrent activity group for those with the disease meet from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., the second and fourth Tuesday every month, at TMC’s El Dorado Campus, 1400 N. Wilmot Road, 324-1960. A second Alzheimer’s caregiver group meets there from 10:30 to noon, the first and third Thursday. CURVES LAUGHTER YOGHA CLUB Curves. 2816 N. Campbell Ave. 326-1251. Men, women and children laugh for well-being from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., every Sunday; freewill donation. Call Gita at
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live DJ, unlimited Kosmic Bowling, karaoke and dance contests, and food and drink specials from 8:30 p.m. to midnight, every Wednesday, through Aug. 1; $7. Call for reservations. 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 library’s magazine. Call 750-9667, ext. 231, for more info. YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS Oro Valley Town Hall Council Chambers. 11000 N. La Cañada Drive. A high school panel’s selections of favorite
episodes of Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts, first televised on CBS in 1957, are screened at 10 a.m., Saturday. July 7: “What Is Sonata Form?” (Nov. 6, 1964). Aug. 4: “Quiz-Concert: How Musical Are You?” (May 26, 1968). Call 797-3959, or visit saaca.org. 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.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS CRAFT-APALOOZA Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Kids enjoy crafts from 1 to 2 p.m., every first and third Saturday; adult crafts are featured from 1 to 2 p.m., every second and fourth Saturday; free. Supplies are provided. Visit bookmans.com for each week’s featured craft.
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THE CREATIVE SPACE Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Materials and activities are available in the lobby to encourage families to create museum-inspired artwork; free with admission. 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. $8, $6 senior and veteran, $3 student with ID, free younger than 13, free the first Sunday every month, free to all members of the military and their families through Monday, Sept. 3. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org for more information. FREE GUITAR LESSONS 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 7147. Free beginner guitar lessons are offered every Friday from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. for ages 6 to 12, and from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. for age 13 and older. Visit seventeenthstreetmarket.com for more information. READ TO A DOG Murphy-Wilmot Branch, Pima County Public Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. Kids ages 2 to 12 improve their reading skills by reading to a therapy dog from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., every Wednesday; free.
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OUTDOORS EVENTS THIS WEEK PLANT WALK Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. Botany expert Meg Quinn discusses historic plantings, including palms, citrus, oleanders and olives, and such native vegetation as cattails, mesquite, willow and cottonwood trees, from 8 to 9 a.m., Saturday, July 7; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov. SABINO CANYON STAR PARTY Sabino Canyon. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 7498700. The UA Astronomy Club operates several telescopes at the Sabino Canyon Visitor Center from 5:30 to about 9:30 p.m., the first Saturday of every month, weather permitting; free. The organization also typically has scale models to illustrate relative sizes in the universe. Email towner@email.arizona.edu to confirm. 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.
SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM Friends Meeting House. 931 N. Fifth Ave. 884-1776. A reading and discussion group for anyone interested in Buddhism meets from 6 to 7:30 p.m., every other Tuesday, from July 10 through Sept. 4; $45 includes the accompanying text. Scholarships are available. Call 696-9273, or email nbtucson@gmail.com. for reservations or more information.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS BHAGAVAD GITA STUDY Govinda’s Natural Foods Buffet and Boutique. 711 E. Blacklidge Drive. 792-0630. Shared reading and indepth study of the ancient Indian text takes place from 6:30 to 8 p.m., every Wednesday; free. A free light meal follows. Visit govindasoftucson.com for more info. BUDDHIST MEDITATION AND PRACTICAL TEACHINGS A discussion about Buddhist meditation and philosophy takes place at 10 a.m., Sunday, and 7 p.m., Thursday, at Kadampa Meditation Center, 1701 E. Miles St. A lesson also is given at 7 p.m., Tuesday, at A Rich Experience, 7435 N. Oracle Road, No. 101; and 7 p.m., Friday, at Sunrise Chapel, 8421 E. Wrightstown Road; freewill donation. Call 441-1617, or visit meditationintucson.org for more information. EVOLVE TUCSON St. Francis in the Foothills Church. 4625 E. River Road. 299-9063. A discussion about how to create a healthy, sustainable, peaceful and prosperous community in Tucson takes place from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., every Sunday; freewill donation. IONS TUCSON MONTHLY PRESENTATION Unity of Tucson. 3617 N. Camino Blanco. 577-3300. IONS meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m., on the first Friday of every month, to hear a presentation about alternative healing methods and consciousness research. Call 2998285, or visit ionstucson.org for more information. LGBTQ BUDDHIST MEDITATION AND PRACTICE Three Jewels. 314 E. Sixth St. 303-6648. Two 20-minute silent-sitting meditations, readings from Buddhist spiritual texts and discussion take place from 10 to 11:45 a.m., every Sunday; free-will donation. Bring a pillow or cushion. Call 884-4691 or 306-4691 for info. MEDITATION AND YOGA Yoga Connection. 3929 E. Pima St. 323-1222. Group meditation takes place from 7 to 8 p.m., every Monday; freewill donation. Meditation techniques alternate weekly among Mantra, Krya, Yoga Nidra and others. Yoga practice takes place from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., every Tuesday; 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., every Wednesday; and 8 to 8:30 a.m., every Thursday; freewill donation.
RUN WITH THE ROOSTERS Old Tucson Studios. 201 S. Kinney Road. 883-0100. A 5-mile run and walk begins on a closed-to-traffic loop at 5 a.m., Sunday, July 8; $40. Participants get a free Mexican breakfast, massages and pre-race stretches; finishers get a tech shirt; and awards are given for best times for adults, children, walkers and runners. Visit everyoneruns.net for more information.
ANNOUNCEMENTS POOL TOURNAMENTS Pockets Pool and Pub. 1062 S. Wilmot Road. 5719421. Nine-ball tournaments take place according to handicap at 5 p.m., Sunday, and 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, for 9 and under; and at 7:30 p.m., Monday, for 8 and under. Tournaments for handicaps 9 and under take place at noon, every Saturday: 14.1 straight pool the first Saturday; nine-ball the second and fourth Saturday; 10-ball the third Saturday; and eight-ball the fifth Saturday; $10, optional $5 side pot. Unrated players arrive 30 minutes early to get a rating. Chess and backgammon also available. Call for more information. TUCSON ULTIMATE Lincoln Park. 4325 S. Pantano 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. Play is from 7 to 10 p.m., Wednesday. On Aug. 1, the league moves to a location TBA. Visit tucsonultimate.com/league.
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PERFORMING ARTS ‘Back to the Past’ could use some tweaking, but it’s still enjoyable-enough Gaslight Theatre fare
Time for Silliness BY SHERILYN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com he Gaslight Theatre is dependable for a number of things: certified silliness, great energy from talented performers, fun parodies, music we know and love, family-friendly entertainment and a lot of bang for the buck. Yes, the shows are formulaic and predictable—you don’t go to the Gaslight in search of thought-provoking, soul-enriching theater—and that’s just fine. They do what they do very well. This summer, the group has launched a brand-new show: Back to the Past: It’s About Time. The Gaslight folks have built a sizable repertoire of shows over the years, and they at times rerun one with perhaps a bit of tweaking. However, Back to the Past is strutting its stuff for the first time, and its newness shows just a bit. Gaslight’s play is, of course, inspired by (or a riff on or a rip-off of—take your pick) the classic 1985 movie Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Lloyd plays Dr. Emmett Brown, a mad scientist-type high school teacher who thinks he has devised a way to travel through time. Fox is Brown’s student, Marty McFly, who is videotaping his teacher’s experiment when Libyan assassins, from whom the mad scientist has stolen the plutonium needed to power the time machine, show up and shoot Brown—and come after the kid. Marty hops into the time machine to escape, revs it up and—whoosh—winds up in 1955. There, he meets the teenage versions of his parents, who seem unable to make the connection that will lead to Marty’s existence. So he intervenes, ensuring that they kiss at the school dance, which, Marty knows, is what starts them on their path to romance. Then he and Brown have to find a way to get Marty back to the future.
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Gaslight writer/director Peter Van Slyke’s version largely follows the movie’s storyline, but is simpler and more compact. It is also stripped of some of the movie’s more—um—complicated aspects. There are no Libyan assassins; there are merely huffy school officials wanting to keep the inventor’s hands off the dangerous “bazillium” he needs to power his machine. And Van Slyke has eliminated one of the movie’s quirkier undertones. In the movie, when Marty goes back in time, his mother-to-be develops a crush on him. He knows this is very creepy, although she is, of course, unaware. Van Slyke has erased this bit of weird drama, and substitutes a crush on the young man (called Mickey here) by his 1987 girlfriend’s mother (both played by Tarreyn Van Slyke). But it’s a passing bit of weirdness given little focus. Jake Chapman plays Mickey McFry with great gusto, and his terrific energy and vocal skills—along with those of the rest of the cast—satisfactorily propel the story, which is pretty thin. In the Gaslight version, Mickey’s dad, Verne—played by the wonderful Mike Yarema—is the school janitor, a decent but insecure guy who has not amounted to much and is bullied by Buzz (Todd Thompson), who hasn’t amounted to much, either (and has the worst comb-over in the history of hair). After fortifying the DeLorean with bazillium, Mickey crashes into 1957 and has to orchestrate the union of his would-be dad with his would-be mom (Sarah Vanek), who is being wooed by Buzz. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that things turn out well for all the McFrys. The script takes a while to gather momentum. Maybe it’s because there’s a bit of initial confusion about exactly who the bad guys are, and precisely what’s at stake. That’s usually established within moments of the curtain ris-
Jake Chapman, Joe Hubbard and Tarreyn Van Slyke in Back to the Past. ing on the Gaslight stage: There’s an obvious Back to the Past good versus evil, and the battle is for the counPresented by the Gaslight Theatre try or the world or the universe. It’s just not the 7 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; 6 and same when we figure out that the conflict is 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 3 and 7 merely a matter of existence for Mickey McFry, p.m., Sunday, through Sunday, Aug. 26 and the bad guys are an ineffectual school 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. principal and a dumb bully. $17.95; $15.95 students, seniors and Another bit of disappointment comes with military; $7.95 children 12 and younger how the role of the wacky inventor—here Runs two hours and 10 minutes, with one intermission called Professor Bunsen—is handled. In Van Slyke’s version of the story, the character 886-9428; www.thegaslighttheatre.com doesn’t have quite the import that Dr. Brown does, which is understandable enough, but as performed by Joe Hubbard, the doc—who still crew excels. And Tom Benson’s set design and has plenty of opportunities to shine—is not a scene-painting are wonderful. very interesting character. About the mostAs is the custom with the Gaslight producexciting trait we see is his propensity for tions, a themed musical variety show is preexclaiming, “Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat!” Lame. sented after the play. This time, it features Maybe these concerns can be addressed as songs and artists of the 1980s, and let’s just say the show matures. But, really, the story is a it was a decade of music made for parody. vehicle for the performers to exercise their Although there are a few missteps, we can’t comedic craft and to break into song and help but be entertained by the talent and enerdance every few minutes, and this they do with gy of the Gaslight group. Take your kids; take great spirit and solid skills. Under Linda your parents; take your grandparents. This is Ackermann’s terrific musical direction, the good fun for everyone.
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EVENTS THIS WEEK CONTRA DANCING First United Methodist Church. 915 E. Fourth St. 6226481. Live music, callers and an alcohol- and smokefree environment are provided for contra-dancing at 7 p.m., the first, third and fourth Saturday each month; $8. An introductory lesson takes place at 6:30 p.m.; dancing begins at 7 p.m. Call 325-1902, or visit tftm. org for more information. 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.
ANNOUNCEMENTS FREE TANGO LESSONS AND DANCE Casa Vicente Restaurante Español. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. A free class for beginners (no partner necessary) takes place from 7 to 8 p.m., each Wednesday; and tango-dancing continues from 8 to 10 p.m.; free. Call 245-6158 for information. 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. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE LESSONS Vineyard Church Hall. 625 N. Second Ave. 791-9971. Learn the social dancing of Scotland in a fun and informal environment from 7:15 to 9:15 p.m., every Thursday; free. The location changes in August. Call 319-8468 or 203-7987 for more information. T-SQUARES DANCE CLUB Cornerstone Fellowship Social Hall. 2909 N. Geronimo Ave. 622-4626. A primarily straight modern squaredance club that welcomes lesbians, gays and allies to dance in the position of their choice meets from 4 to 6 p.m., every Sunday; and from 6 to 8 p.m., every Tuesday; free. All dancers are welcome. Call 886-0716, or visit azgaydance.org for more information.
MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK 17TH STREET MUSIC 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 7147. Singer-songwriter Sabra Faulk performs from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, July 7. Visit seventeenthstreetmarket.com for more information. ARIZONA YOUTH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Foothills Mall. 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 742-7191. Broadway-musical favorites from 1948 to the present are performed at 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 10; free. AVA: ANSELMO VALENCIA TORI AMPHITHEATER AVA: Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheater. Casino del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. Performances are at 8 p.m. Visit casinodelsol.com for tickets and more information. Wednesday, July 11: Chicago, Doobie Brothers; $32 to $150. Sunday, July 15: Joe Cocker, Huey Lewis and the News; $40 to $125. Friday, July 20: Skid Row, Warrant and LA Guns; $10 and $25. Tuesday, July 31: Earth, Wind and Fire; $24 to $75. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Wednesday, July 11, at 7:30 p.m.: Willie Nelson and Family; $49 to $138. Wednesday, July 18, at 7:30
p.m.: Pat Benatar and Neil Geraldo; $50 and $60. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for more information. 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, through July 29; $7. One male and one female are chosen each week to compete in a final round at 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 information. 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. Thursday, July 5, and Saturday, July 7: Songs of the Silver Screen with Amanda McBroom. Friday, July 6, and Sunday, July 8: Puttin’ on the Ritz with Steve Ross. 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. July 8: Desert Mountain Brass. July 15: Mary Paul and Larry Alexander, Singing the Joys of Summer. Call or visit stphilipstucson.org for more information. TUCSON JAZZ SOCIETY Loews Ventana Canyon Resort. 7000 N. Resort Drive. 299-2020. Brass and Ivory, a duo featuring Jeff Lorber on keyboard and Gabriel Mark Hasselbach on trumpet, performs at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 7; $35, $25 member, $20 military and student with ID, $140 VIP table seats for two with two-drink minimum, $100 VIP table member. Call (800) 234-5117 for VIP reservations; visit tucsonjazz.org for more information.
OUT OF TOWN DESERTVIEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER DesertView Performing Arts Center. 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. Robert Shaw and the Kaci Bays present Classic Country Jukebox, a program of country music hits, at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 11; $30, $25 advance. Visit tickets.saddlebrooketwo. com for a complete schedule of events, tickets and more information.
UPCOMING MÚSICA SIN FRONTERAS Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 2331 E. Adams St. 327-6857. A benefit concert features a choral ensemble with members from both Arizona and Mexico at 7 p.m., Saturday, July 14; $10 donation. Repertoire includes classical and popular works from both sides of the border. Proceeds benefit the cultural exchange programs of the Bi-National Arts Institute. Call 628-8119 for more information. ORO VALLEY CONCERT SERIES Oro Valley Marketplace. Oracle and Tangerine roads. Oro Valley. Butch Diggs and Friends perform smooth jazz at 6 p.m., Thursday, July 12; free. Visit saaca.org for more information.
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. REVEILLE MEN’S CHORUS Rincon Congregational Church. 122 N. Craycroft Road. 745-6237. The chorus rehearses from 7 to 10 p.m., every Monday, and performs at community events throughout the year in addition to its own major concerts in May and December. Auditions take place year-round during rehearsals or by appointment. Call 304-1758, or email director@reveillechorus.org for an appointment. Visit reveillemenschorus.org for more information. SHAPE-NOTE SINGING Sonora Cohousing Common House. 501 E. Roger Road. 404-1988. Shape-note singing from The Sacred Harp takes place from 2 to 5 p.m., the first and third Saturday of every month; free. Copies of The Sacred Harp are available for loan or purchase. Call 743-1268, or visit tucsonfasola.org for more information.
THEATER OPENING THIS WEEK COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. The Golden Age of Radio, a series of radio-script readings in a range of genres, debuts on Sunday, July 8, and continues on the second Sunday of every month. Showtime is 12:30 p.m.; $12, $10 student or senior. Call or visit thecomedyplayhouse.com for tickets or more info. MUSICAL MAYHEM Colors Food and Spirits. 5305 E. Speedway Blvd. 323-1840. A multi-talented troupe describing itself as “under-rehearsed and over-dramatic” creates sketch comedy around Broadway hits, at 7 p.m., the second and fourth Saturday of every month; $10. Visit musicalmayhemtucson.weebly.com, or search for Musical-Mayhem Tucson on Facebook for more info. NEXT THEATRE COMPANY Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. The autobiographical Exorcism: A One-Act Play by Eugene O’Neill opens Friday, July 6, and continues through Saturday, July 14. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m., Sunday; $8 to $15. Call or visit beowulfalley.org for tickets. ODYSSEY STORYTELLING Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Six storytellers share tales from their lives based on a monthly theme at 7 p.m., the first Thursday of every month; $7. July 5: The Customer Is Always Right. Aug. 2: Happy Campers: The Great Outdoors. ALS interpretation is provided. Beverages are available for sale. Anyone can ask to tell their story; the six are chosen in advance. Call 730-4112, or visit storyartsgroup.org to sign up or get more information. RED BARN THEATRE Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest opens Friday, July 6, and continues through Sunday, July 22. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $13, $11 senior, student or military, $10 every Friday. Call or visit theredbarntheater.com.
TUCSON REPERTORY ORCHESTRA St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church. 3809 E. Third St. 325-1001. A new Tucson orchestra, conducted by Toru Tagawa, makes its debut at 2 p.m., Saturday, July 14; free. The inaugural program comprises Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, Op. 20, Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 and Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. Visit tucsonrepertoryorchestra.org for more information.
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Z MANSION Z Mansion. 288 N. Church Ave. 623-4889. Doors open at 6 p.m. for dinner patrons; the show begins at 7:30 p.m.; $23, $45 includes dinner. Friday, July 13: Classic Country Jukebox with Robert Shaw and the Lonely Street Band. Call (888) 718-4253, or visit lonelystreet. showclix.com for tickets and more information.
GASLIGHT THEATRE FAMILY CONCERTS The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Unless otherwise indicated, shows take place at 7 p.m., Monday; $12 to $22. July 9: A Mariachi Extravaganza. July 16: Big Band Express. July 23: Dana Daniels and His Psychic Parrot Luigi. July 30: The Legends of Country Music. Call or visit thegaslighttheatre.com for tickets and more information.
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LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. The classic comedy Harvey continues through Saturday, July 14. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 student, senior or military. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org.
BLUEGRASS MUSIC JAM SESSIONS The Desert Bluegrass Association hosts free public jam sessions monthly. The first Sunday, 3 to 5 p.m.: Udall 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
COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. Her Husband’s Wife continues through Sunday, July 15. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18. Call or visit thecomedyplayhouse. com for tickets or more info.
THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Back to the Past, a time-traveling musicalcomedy, continues 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.
UPCOMING CALL FOR ACTORS Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. Auditions for South Pacific take place from 7 to 9 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, July 17 and 18; free. Bring sheet music; an accompanist is provided. The show runs all four weekends in September. Call 733-0733. SLOW CLAP IMPROV COMEDY Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. Suggestions from the audience are incorporated into short discussions and anecdotes that lead to longer improvised comedy scenes at 10 p.m., Saturday, July 14; $5 suggested donation.
ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR ACTORS Randolph Arts Center Auditorium. 200 S. Alvernon Way. 791-4873. El Rio Theatre Project holds auditions for The Taming of the Shrew at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, July 10 and 11; free. Actors bring a twominute classic monologue or are prepared to cold-read selections from the script. The production runs for 11 performances the last two weeks of September and the first weekend in October at the Himmel Park Outdoor Amphitheater. The production is part of the annual Shakespeare in the Park series. CALL FOR SCRIPTS The Tucson Alliance of Dramatic Artists seeks original, never-produced scripts for staged readings leading to development and possible production. The scripts must be of social, human, political or historical relevance. Chosen scripts may be eligible for cash prizes. Call (310) 367-5640, or email thedrektor@gmail.com to submit scripts or get more information. 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. NOT BURNT OUT JUST UNSCREWED A comedy troupe performs family-friendly improv for freewill donations at 7:30 p.m., the first Friday of every month, at Revolutionary Grounds Coffee House, 616 N. Fourth Ave.; the third Friday of every month, at Rock N Java, 7555 Twin Peaks Road, Marana; and the fourth Saturday of every month at Colors, 5305 E. Speedway Blvd. Call 861-2986, or visit unscrewedcomedy.com.
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VISUAL ARTS Arizona’s old-time ranching families star in a centennial-themed photography exhibit at the TMA
Preserving a Tradition BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com n an overcast day in 2011, in the flatlands west of the Chiricahuas, a little girl climbed into a paddock. Ashley Riggs may have been small and young, but it was up to her to paint the mark of her family’s Crossed J Ranch onto the back of a calf. Her face intent, her fair hair flying in the wind, Ashley took a brush and traced the family J onto the animal’s rough hide. Scott T. Baxter recorded the moment in black and white, and the photograph of a little girl preserving a tradition is among 100 of his images now at the Tucson Museum of Art. Marking Arizona’s centennial of statehood, his traveling exhibition, 100 Years 100 Ranchers, celebrates families who have been ranching in the state for at least a century. The Riggs family, we learn, has been on the land since 1879. Phoenix photog Baxter spent 10 years off and on traveling Arizona to photograph oldtime ranching families who still lead what the exhibition text calls a “fading way of life.” Baxter nevertheless delights in creating pictures that demonstrate its continuity. He pictures mothers with daughters, grandfathers with grandsons, uncles with nephews, implying photographically that a new generation is ready to follow the old. Katie Meyer Cline of the Flying UW Ranch near Winkelman grins broadly at the camera in a 2006 photo; in her arms is her wiggly baby, Sarah, whose smile is almost as wide as her mother’s. (The Clines are among many women and girls making a welcome appearance in the show.) Demonstrating their loyalty to the life, they pose in front of a splintery wooden barn studded with horseshoes, deer antlers and a cow skull. And Katie herself is duded out cowgirl-style, with a checked shirt, jeans and a 10-gallon hat. If the future of ranching rested on this radiant pair, it could hardly be in doubt. Wayne Klump of Cochise County is another happy rancher. In a lovely 2004 portrait, he sports a gray handlebar moustache, white cowboy hat, jeans and work boots. He’s pretzeled his lanky frame into a metal chair, and sits in the shade beneath the sheltering branches of a tree. Behind him, the sun-washed Dos Cabezas Mountains slant upward toward the sky. Content with his land and his place in it, he smiles. But he’s not the only Klump who loves the ranch the family has worked since 1904. It was here, in this beautiful spot, that his daughter chose to be married. The landscape is as much of a character in this exhibition as any of its gangly cowboys awkwardly posing for the camera, with hands in their pockets and aw-shucks looks on their
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faces. The wide sweeps of land, the mountains jutting up on the horizon and the skies veering from sun to storm would make any city slicker want to hop on a horse and ride the range. Who wouldn’t trade places with Marilyn Michelbach Coy, a rancher standing among sun-dappled aspens near Northern Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks? Baxter made a conscious choice to use oldfashioned black-and-white film, the better to evoke his subjects’ historical nature. (Among the storied Arizona families he photographs are the Udalls and Ronstadts.) Some images are monumental in size, as big as 4 by 5 feet, and most are beautifully composed and sharply detailed, with strong lines and lights skillfully alternating with darks. He moves easily from the extreme close-up portrait—don’t miss the extraordinary wrinkled face of Connie Brown, an apparently ancient rancher in Gila County—to lonesome sky pictures with small figures dwarfed by the vast landscape, like the one of Jim Riggs, also of the Crossed J. A small, solitary figure in a grassy plain, he leans all of his body into the task of shutting a stubborn gate. In fact, some of the best photos are of cowboys and cowgirls at work. At the Sierra Bonita Ranch near Willcox, Baxter caught Jesse Hooker Davis during the spring roundup. A cigarette clenched between his teeth and a branding iron clutched in his hand, Davis is at the center of a trio of men wrestling a calf down. The other two cowboys are down and dirty in the dust, and Davis towers over them, looming large above the low horizon in the distance, his hat thrust high up against the sky. Oddly enough, for a self-consciously historical show, there’s a static quality to the images, with few hints of change over time. I can’t remember any pickups or ATVs, the range riders of choice for today’s cowboys. No telephone wires mar the pristine landscape; nor do satellite dishes or trailers. There’s no discussion of the environmental impact of grazing on a fragile, arid land. And only a few images hint at the troubles of this sometimes-contested terrain. A melancholy 2011 photo of the remaining Krentz men on their Cochise County ranch is a reminder of the murder of Rob Krentz in 2010. His shooting, in a corridor frequented by undocumented migrants and drug-smugglers, is still unsolved. In a 2011 picture from Santa Cruz County, one of the most beautiful in the show, Henry Amado poses with his son, Greg, and grandson, Matt, at Hacienda Amado. Framed by the branches of a gorgeous sycamore, the picture is
“Ashley Riggs, 2011,” by Scott T. Baxter. meant to spell continuity. The middle generation has gone modern—Greg wears a baseball cap and jeans. But the grandson, sitting on a horse, wears the classic cowboy hat and chaps. He’s reverted to the past, emulating his grandfather. A note from Baxter reveals that the Amados have been ranching this land since about 1851, when it was abundantly peopled by Mexican ranchers. A few years later, the Gadsden Purchase of 1853-1854 converted Southern Arizona into U.S. territory. Though the Amados evidently held on to their ranch, many families of Mexican heritage were not so lucky; they lost title to their lands and were displaced. As the museum’s show upstairs (Tucson Collects: Spirit of the West) reminds us, American Indians also once occupied this terrain. Cochise County, location of many of the ranches Baxter photographed, was once the homeland of the Chiricahua Apaches. Defeated in 1886, they were torn from their beloved mountains and canyons and sent into exile. Ashley Riggs, the young painter of calves, is far removed from this troublesome history of the place she inhabits. And she’s an heir appar-
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ent to the ranching way of life. In a photo taken on herding day, her father, Thomas, stands meditatively off to one side, his back to cows and kids. But Ashley and her sister, Karis, throw themselves wholeheartedly into the job at hand. A black cloud looms over the mountain ahead and casts a chill over the land. But the girls, swathed in winter jackets, are determined to keep the animals going. They trot behind the herd, energetically urging the cattle on, back to the ranch and home.
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OPENING THIS WEEK ATLAS FINE ART SERVICES Atlas Fine Art Services. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 622-2139. Ken Hill: Progressions, an exhibit inspired by geometric abstraction and op art, opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, July 7, and continues through Saturday, Aug. 4. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 7 pm., Friday and Saturday; free. CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557. When Sight Speaks, an exhibit by Green Fields Country Day School art teacher Jane Buckman, opens with a reception from 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, July 7, and continues through Saturday, July 28. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY Davis Dominguez Gallery. 154 E. Sixth St. 6299759. The Works: Painting and Sculpture by All Davis Dominguez Artists and Small Things Reconsidered: Selections From the 20th Small Works Invitational open Thursday, July 5, and run through Saturday, Sept. 15. 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 information. MURPHEY GALLERY Murphey Gallery. St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. An exhibit of graphite works by Alan Jaffe, and works in pastels, acrylics and charcoal by Tom Bulow opens with a reception at 2 p.m., Sunday, July 8, and continues through Thursday, Aug. 9. Hours are from 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. WOMANKRAFT ART CENTER WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Picture the Words, an exhibit that combines words and images in a wide variety of media, opens with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, July 7, and continues through Saturday, Aug. 25. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; free.
CONTINUING AGUA CALIENTE PARK RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. This exhibit of art and writing expressing local children’s understanding of watersheds and the natural world continues through Wednesday, July 18. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov 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. BICAS ART ANNEX BICAS Art Annex. 44 W. Sixth St., No. 1D. (503) 2015011. An exhibit of bicycle-themed art, jewelry and art incorporating recycled bicycle parts, up-cycled accessories, photographs, limited-edition prints and functional objects is featured from 6 to 9 p.m., the first Saturday, every month; free. For more information, email art@ bicas.org. BLUE RAVEN GALLERY AND GIFTS Many Hands Courtyard. 3054 N. First Ave. 419-7191. Express Yourself ... Anything Goes!, an exhibit of paint-
ings, photographs, ceramics, gourds, mixed-media works and more by local artists, 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. For more info, visit blueravengalleryandgifts.com. CONRAD WILDE GALLERY Conrad Wilde Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., Suite 195. 622-8997. Addition/Subtraction, an exhibition of eight artists’ multimedia work, paintings 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. DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Summer Shades, an exhibit of works by several local artists, continues through Sunday, Sept. 9. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sunday. Visit desertartisansgallery.com for more information. JOEL D. VALDEZ MAIN LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. An exhibit of diverse works submitted by staff from the 27 Pima County Library branches continues through Tuesday, July 31. 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 7914010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov. 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 for more information. KIRK-BEAR CANYON BRANCH, PIMA COUNTY LIBRARY Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch, Pima County Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. An eclectic exhibit of oil and watercolor paintings and three-dimensional work by Pamela D. Howe continues through Tuesday, July 31. An artist’s reception takes place from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, July 14. 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. LONG GALLERY, ACADEMY VILLAGE Academy Village. 13701 E. Langtry Lane. 647-7777. Sparking the Imagination: Abstract Impressions by Marti White continues through Friday, Aug. 24, in the community center. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. 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. An exhibit of paintings and photography by Valerie Galloway continues through Sunday, July 29. An artist’s recepton takes place from 5 to 8 p.m., Thursday, July 19, as part of the gardens’ 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. Twilight Third Thursday admission is $9, $5 member, $4 child, $3 child member, free child younger than 4. For more information, call or visit tucsonbotanical.org. 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. RAICES TALLER 222 ART GALLERY AND WORKSHOP Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335. ¡Chubasco!, an exhibit of works featuring monsoon and water themes, continues through Saturday, July 21. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday, and by appointment; free. A closing reception featuring poetry readings takes place at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 21. Call or visit raicestaller222.webs.com for more information. RONALD ZACK, PLC RONALD Zack, PLC. 177 N. Church Ave., No. 1015. 664-3420. Artistic Reflections: Truth and Beauty in Creation, an exhibit of oil paintings and graphite drawings by TurningBear Mason, continues through Friday, Aug. 3.; free. Hours are by appointment.
SOUTHERN ARIZONA WATERCOLOR GUILD GALLERY Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Gallery. 5605 E. River Road, Suite 131. An exhibit of art by almost two dozen artists who work in water-based media continues through Monday, July 30. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. TEMPLE GALLERY Temple Gallery. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. Desert Dreams, an invitational exhibit organized by VSA Arizona, a state organization concerned with arts and disability, continues through Friday, July 27. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. TINY TOOLE GALLERY Tiny Toole Gallery. 19 E. Toole Ave. 319-8477. Sculpture, painting and contemporary bronze works are displayed from 8 p.m. to midnight, the first Saturday of every month; free. TOHONO CHUL PARK GALLERY Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Mesquite, an exhibit of photography and art representing mesquite trees in a range of media, continues 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. Zoom In! A Photographic Exploration of Pollinators runs through Saturday, Sept. 1. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., daily, 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 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. TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. 573-8100. Flight, Sight and Watermelons, an exhibit of watercolor paintings on paper by Catharine Kim Woodin, continues through Saturday, Sept. 8, in the Main Gallery. Arizona Summer Skies, an exhibit of laser prints on aluminum by Lynn Rae Lowe, is on display in the Upper Link Gallery through Saturday, Sept. 15. Blooms and Bugs, an exhibit of works by Tucson photographers, runs through Saturday, Sept. 22. TIA galleries are open 24 hours, daily; free. Visit flytucsonairport.com for more information. 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. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1:30 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. The Members and Friends Photography Show continues through Sunday, Sept. 2. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and Sunday.
OUT OF TOWN ART AWAKENINGS Art Awakenings-Old Bisbee Gallery. 50 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-3765. An exhibit of paintings from his Teapot series and newer mixed-media work by Ken Boe opens Thursday, July 5, and continues through Sunday, July 29. A reception takes place from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, July 14. Regular 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 kenboe.com for more information. TRIANGLE L RANCH Triangle L Ranch. 2805 Triangle L Ranch Road. Oracle. 623-6732. Big Desert Sculpture Show continues through Sunday, Sept. 16. 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. TUBAC PRESIDIO STATE HISTORIC PARK Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. An exhibit of art that tells the story of Juan Bautista de Anza’s 1775 expedition from Tubac to establish San Francisco opens Thursday, July 5, and
continues through Friday, Aug. 31. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $4, $2 age 7 to 13, free younger child. Call or visit TubacPresidioPark.com for more info.
UPCOMING INDUSTRIA STUDIOS Industria Studios. 1441 E. 17th St. 235-0797. Miscommunication and the Human Condition, a juried exhibition of works in a range of media by Tucson artists, opens with a reception from 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, July 14, and continues through Saturday, Aug. 4. Hours are by appointment. Visit industriastudios.org for more information.
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. 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. CALL FOR ART PRESENTERS Galleries, studios, arts merchandisers and presenters in the downtown Tucson area are sought to extend their open hours on the first Saturday of every month for First Saturday Art Walks. Visit firstsaturdayartwalks.com, or email postmaster@firstsaturdayartwalks.com for more information. CALL FOR ARTISTS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Artists are sought for individual monthlong exhibits in the Porter Hall Gallery. Work should be two-dimensional with desert themes. Email low-res digital images or a website link, an artist’s statement and a resume, and put “Porter Hall Gallery” in the subject line to communications@tucsonbotanical.org. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Aug. 31; selected artists are notified by Sunday, Sept. 30. Call 326-9686, ext. 35, for more information. CALL FOR ARTISTS Tucson Pima Arts Council. 100 N. Stone Ave., No. 303. 624-0595. Exhibit proposals are sought for the entrance lobby and adjoining TPAC conference room in the Pioneer Building. Exhibits last approximately 12 weeks and include a hosted reception. The deadline for submissions is noon, Wednesday, July 25. Call 6240595, ext. 16, or visit tucsonpimaartscouncil.org for the submission form and guidelines. 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 Campus Christian Center Art Gallery. 715 N. Park Ave. 623-7575. Artwork suitable for wall display is sought for a series of eight-week exhibits from Wednesday, Aug. 15, through Monday, May 13, 2013. Artists submit a description of the work to be submitted, a resume and samples in the form of photos, slides or a website. The deadline is Tuesday, July 10. Submissions are accepted by email to juniper@email.arizona.edu, or may be mailed to the attention of the Fine Arts Committee. GALLERY ROW ARTWALK Fine art, live music and wine-tastings are featured 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 for more information. 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 for more information. OPEN STUDIO TOUR APPLICATIONS The Tucson Pima Arts Council invites artists to participate in the Fall Open Studio Tour on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 10 and 11. TPAC must receive all registration materials by 4 p.m., Monday, Aug. 20. Call 6240595, ext. 16, or visit tucsonpimaartscouncil.org for registration materials and more information.
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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. 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. MOCA MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Subcontracted Installation, work that artists-in-residence Hunter Jonakin and Jordan Vinyard created collaboratively with museum visitors throughout the month of June, continues through Sunday, Sept. 16. A performance-art panel with Arizona Between Nosotros takes place at 6 p.m., Saturday, July 21; $5, free member. Works by previous participants in the MOCA artist-residency program are featured in Air Show, which runs through Sunday, Sept. 16. 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, runs 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, continue through Sunday, Sept. 23. Summer 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. Joshua Olivera’s Palimpsest: An Image of What Once Was continues through Sunday, Sept. 2. 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 for a work schedule. 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.
UPCOMING FRONTIER PRINTING PRESS DEMONSTRATION Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Printer and teacher James Pagels demonstrates the 1858 Washington Press used to print Arizona’s first newspaper, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, July 14; $5, $2 age 7 to 13, free younger child, includes admission.
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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. THE AMERIND FOUNDATION AND MUSEUM The Amerind Foundation and Museum. 2100 N. Amerind Road, Exit 318 off Interstate 10. Dragoon. (520) 586-3666. A museum of Native American archaeology, art, history and culture. Interwoven Tradition, an exhibit of textiles that changes continually, is exhibited through Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013. Potters of Mata Ortiz: Inspired by the Past ... Creating Traditions for the Future and A Pottery Competition continue indefinitely. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday
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through Sunday; $8, $7 senior, $5 age 12 to 18 and college student, free younger child. Visit amerind.org for more information. 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. 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. CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. Focusing on preservation, access and education, the center actively collects, preserves and makes available materials to foster the understanding and appreciation of photography and its history. Featuring archives, collections, education programs, exhibitions and publications, the museum holds the archives of more than 50 great 20th-century photographers, including Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Edward Weston and Garry Winograd. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, except Christmas and New Year’s Day; free. Visit creativephotography.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. FORT LOWELL MUSEUM Fort Lowell Museum. 2900 N. Craycroft Road. 8853832. The museum features exhibits about military life on the Arizona frontier. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday; $3, $2 senior or age 12 to 18, free younger child or member, 2-for-1 admission the first Saturday every month. Visit arizonahistoricalsociety.org. 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. 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. MINI-TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. The museum displays an array of antique and contemporary miniatures, featuring more than 275 miniature houses and room-boxes by notable artisans. 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, March through December. Visit theminitimemachine.org 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. TITAN MISSILE MUSEUM Titan Missile Museum. 1580 W. Duval Mine Road. Sahuarita. 625-7736. The only one of 54 missile silos preserved as a National Historic Landmark, at seven stories underground. Tour includes the launch-control center and missile silo. Displays include an actual Titan II ICBM. Visitors can experience a simulated launch. Open daily from 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., except Thanksgiving and Christmas; $9.50, $8.50 senior or military, $6 ages 7 to 12, free younger child. Visit titanmissilemuseum. org for more information. TUCSON GAY MUSEUM A website tracks the history of how the gay community has responded to the political and social environment of Southern Arizona, and welcomes contributions of stories and artifacts. Visit tucsongaymuseum.org. UA MINERAL MUSEUM UA Mineral Museum. 1601 E. University Blvd. 6214524. The museum is the longest continuously curated mineral museum west of the Mississippi and is recognized as one of the top collections in the country. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; $7.50, $5 age 4 to 15, free younger child. Visit uamineralmuseum.org for more information. UA SCIENCE: FLANDRAU UA Science: Flandrau. 1601 E. University Blvd. 6217827. The museum features a planetarium theater that shows live sky shows and galaxy tours, hands-on exhibits, science demonstrations and viewing through a 16-inch telescope, the largest public telescope in Southern Arizona. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday; 6 to 9 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, except Sunday, Dec. 25 and Jan. 1; $7.50, $5 age 4 to 15, free younger child, $2 Arizona college student with ID, $2 discount to CatCard holders. Visit flandrau.org for more info.
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EVENTS THIS WEEK 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. CLUES UNLIMITED BOOK CLUB Clues Unlimited. 3146 E. Fort Lowell Road. 326-8533. A discussion of A Trace of Smoke takes place at 2 p.m., Sunday, July 8; free. The book was the first in Rebecca Cantrell’s series featuring a journalist in 1930s Germany. FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB Flowing Wells Branch, Tucson-Pima Public Library. 1730 W. Wetmore Road. 594-5225. A book club meets for coffee and conversation at 10 a.m., the first Saturday of every month. Call for the current title. JOHN V. BEZY: ARTISTRY AND HISTORY OF MATA ORTIZ Bookmans. 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-9555. John V. Bezy discusses and signs the book he co-wrote with Stuart D. Scott about the pottery-making village of Mata Ortiz, from 1:30 to 3 p.m., Tuesday, July 10; free. Master artist Oralia Lopez demonstrates Mata Ortiz pottery designs, and pottery made by many artists featured in the book is for sale. MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES BOOK-DISCUSSION CLUB Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Books used in the recently terminated TUSD Mexican-American studies program are discussed from 6 to 8 p.m. on selected Wednesdays; free. July 11: Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street. STEVE HAMILTON: DIE A STRANGER Clues Unlimited. 3146 E. Fort Lowell Road. 326-8533. Crime-writer Steve Hamilton discusses and signs the new mystery he wrote with Alex McKnight, at 6 p.m., Wednesday, July 11; free.
OUT OF TOWN FRIENDS OF THE PATAGONIA LIBRARY BOOK SALE Patagonia Public Library. 342 Duquesne Ave. Patagonia. Gently used books are for sale from 9 to 11 a.m., and 1 to 4 p.m., Thursday, July 5. Call 394-2010, or search for “Friends of Patagonia Library” on Facebook.
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. OUR BODIES, OUR BELIEFS Temple Emanu-El. 225 N. Country Club Road. 3274501. A four-part series covers complex modern issues as discussed in rabbinic legal literature, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday; $36, $30 member for the series. Call 327-4501 to register. July 5: “Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Law,” Rabbi Jason Holtz. July 12: “Judaism and Mental Health: From Legal Fools and Messianic Madness to the Jewish Science,” Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon. UA HUMANITIES SUMMER SEMINARS UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. University professors explore the works of Dante and the evolution of vaudeville, in four-week classes through Tuesday, July 31, in the Dorothy Rubel Room; $85 to $100. Regents professor and former vaudevillian David Soren teaches the evolution of American vaudeville, from 9 to 11 a.m., Monday, July 9 through 30. Fabian Alfie discusses Dante’s ideas about transcending human nature, from 9 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, July 10 through 31. Call 626-7845, or visit hsp.arizona.edu to register.
UPCOMING RON D. MEAD: GRAMMAR AND WRITING Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. The author of A Concise Book for Those Who Hate Grammar discusses how to identify and overcome common grammar and writing errors, ways to improve spelling, and how to remember grammar rules, from 1 to 2 p.m., Thursday, July 12; free.
The revised ‘Arizona: A History’ tells the definitive story of our state
Our Endless Folly BY JON SHUMAKER, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com here’s an adage that those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Well, we sure as hell don’t read history in this state, and we’ll be studying even less in the future now that we’ve gutted our education system. But before it’s too late, read Thomas E. Sheridan’s newly revised (and by turns utterly riveting, sometimes horrifying and completely satisfying) Arizona: A History. You’ll learn that the real back story of our state is one of savagery, gore, chicanery and criminality in the extreme. In the end, there are no heroes to this tale. This narrative about Arizona’s dark and bloody ground begins with a killing. A giant elephant-like creature called a mammoth is taken down 10,000 years ago near Naco, just this side of the future border. This slaughter represents the work of new animals on the landscape: humans outfitted with spears and stone tools. We know little of them. Archaeologists dug up the whole mess in the early ’50s. It is telling that the first evidence of really ancient humans in Arizona involved the death of something big. It would be a few millennia before the dudes who nailed the mammoth found themselves to be the hunted ones. The Spanish showed up in the 16th century bearing deadly gifts: guns, germs and steel. What would someday become Arizona would never be the same. A few centuries later, the white guys showed up, and that’s when things really got ugly. Sheridan is Arizona’s pre-eminent historian, and no one grasps the complexities and nuances of Arizona’s big picture better than he does. Growing up in Phoenix, he hungered for the Mazatzals, which later became his querencia, the place he returns to again and again to reconnect with the heart of our wild and woolly ground. His love for this place sprang from those early days and that craggy mountain range that represented for him the mystery and grandeur of the West. As he notes in his introduction, Arizona may only be a set of arbitrary lines on a map, but the Mazatzals were real. Sheridan is a research anthropologist/profes-
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sor of anthropology at the University of Arizona’s Southwest Center and School of Anthropology. He has written a small shelf ’s worth of brilliant books and monographs that fill major gaps in our knowledge of this place we live. Since 1971, he has prowled the back country of northwest Mexico and the American Southwest, conducting ethnographic and ethno-historical research, trying to answer the question: Who are we? His specialty, and the approach taken in this book, is viewing the world through the lens of “political ecology.” He describes this as “the ongoing political interplay between global political and economic forces and local, cultural, demographic and ecological factors.” For example, in Arizona, water is life, but curiously, it flows uphill to money. If you had to pull out a single major lesson from this book, aside from the fact that we’ve spent a very long time killing and bilking each other, it might be this: Without the federal government, there literally would be no Arizona. (Damn, now the Tea Partiers are gonna come burn down my house.) Sheridan has updated the well-received first edition of his book with discussions of contemporary issues like the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, SB 1070, the destruction of TUSD’s Mexican-American studies program, and the Safeway tragedy. It turns out that everything happening around us right now has solid roots in our past. Knowing our history provides us with the proper context to understand who we are today and where we might be going. The book ends with a gift—an enlightening 46-page bibliographic essay. Should you decide to actually read all of the sources Sheridan lists here (something I recommend), you would emerge with the equivalent of a graduate degree in Arizona history. It’s something our politicians should seriously consider doing. If you read only one book in honor of Arizona’s centennial, make it this one. Years from now, when we ask ourselves, “My God! What have we done?” I hope Tom Sheridan will be there with another revised and updated version of this fine, thoughtful and important book so he can continue bearing witness to our endless folly.
TOP TEN Mostly Books’ best-sellers for the week ending June 29, 2012 1. Fifty Shades of Grey E.L. James, Vintage ($15.95)
2. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro, Knopf ($35)
3. The Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery Craig Johnson, Penguin ($15)
4. Cold Wind C.J. Box, Berkley ($9.99)
5. Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare, Margaret K. McElderry ($10.99)
6. State of Wonder: A Novel Ann Patchett, Harper ($15.99)
7. The Leopard Jo Nesbo, Vintage ($14.95)
8. The Language of Flowers: A Novel Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine ($15)
9. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Seth Grahame-Smith, Grand Central ($7.99)
10. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed, Knopf ($20.76, sale) Cheryl Strayed
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CINEMA Good performances aside, ‘Spider-Man’ is a paint-by-numbers rehashing of a film just 10 years old
Not That Amazing
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending July 1, 2012
BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com n 1954, congressional subcommittees convened to discuss the growing alarm over juvenile delinquency in the U.S. There were special hearings devoted to comic books—three days of testimony about the content in more-graphic comics and the impact the industry as a whole might have on teenagers. From that, comic-book publishers adopted something called the Comics Code Authority to self-police potentially objectionable content. That seems like such an antiquated notion, and it’s true that many of the code’s mandates were ignored over time, but the comics industry didn’t completely abandon the CCA until last year. If the CCA were still around, however, Marvel wouldn’t have needed to worry about offending anyone with The Amazing SpiderMan. It’s formulaic to the point of being detrimental—as if reintroducing the character requires reintroducing the idea of superhero movies—and it never, ever, takes a step you don’t expect. While The Avengers toyfully plays with an audience that knows it’s all CGI bullshit and merchandising, and Christopher Nolan’s Batman needs a full-time analyst, this Spider-Man just paints by the numbers and hopes you’re OK with that. The most-famous quote from the first Spider-Man adaptation, now just a 10-yearold rust heap in Stan Lee’s yard, was Uncle Ben’s iconic line, “With great power comes great responsibility.” It’s not only everything a great movie quote embodies—short and to the point, instantly memorable, universal—it also set the table for the action through the rest of the series. But by the third movie, which featured Spidey dancing in a club and wearing guyliner, director Sam Raimi was ignoring the responsibility of making these films fun and interesting, and they no longer seemed to be leading anywhere fruitful. The quote lives on in spirit in The Amazing Spider-Man—which is certainly the quickest “reimagining” of a mammoth blockbuster in history—but those exact words don’t leave the lips of the recast Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen). That’s true of pretty much all of the important things in this new Spider-Man epic: It’s never really its own film in any way, always retracing the steps of a film almost nobody has forgotten. There’s a lot of internal listchecking; you may catch yourself thinking, “Oh, this is the montage where he figures out how to use his powers,” or, “This must be the guy who kills Uncle Ben later.” Perhaps beginning anew—when the story
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TOP TEN 1. 21 Jump Street Sony
2. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Warner Bros.
3. Safe House Universal
4. The Artist Weinstein
5. Wrath of the Titans Warner Bros.
6. Wanderlust Universal
7. Mirror Mirror Relativity
8. Project X Warner Bros. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in The Amazing Spider-Man was done so well just a decade ago—was the The Amazing Spider-Man wrong decision. After all, nobody said SpiderRated PG-13 Man should stop after that debut performance, Starring Andrew Garfield, so the problem wasn’t with establishing the hisEmma Stone and Rhys Ifans tory. But that’s where we find ourselves, meeting Directed by Marc Webb geeky outcast Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) Columbia, 136 minutes and wanting to fast-forward to the good stuff. Because of that and the lack of action in the first Now playing at AMC Loews Foothills 15 (888262-4386), Century El Con 20 (800-326-3264, half-hour, the pacing of this film leaves a lot to ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800-326-3264, be desired. ext. 903), Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace (800-326-3264, ext. 899), Harkins The Amazing Spider-Man does have some Spectrum 18 (806-4275) and Tower great elements, but they orbit each other without Tucson Theaters at Arizona Pavilions (579-0500). ever truly being in sync. To begin with, Andrew Garfield is incredibly solid. His performance is captain (Denis Leary). There’s only one villain, more put upon when he discovers his new taland that’s nice, but Rhys Ifans doesn’t shatter ents than Tobey Maguire’s wide-eyed portrayal. any preconceptions as the Lizard. It’s not a The girl is different, but she’s still practically the great performance, but the past decade has same: Gwen Stacy replaces Mary Jane Watson, and Emma Stone is a marked improvement over shown us that—mutant or not—the best comic-book villains are still very human in form. walking raincloud Kirsten Dunst. The effects might be used better here than they Director Marc Webb was a surprise choice. were 10 years ago, although they’re still just a When his hiring was announced, he had just guy swinging on webs between buildings. scored with (500) Days of Summer, one of the Comic-book universes are ever expanding real treats of 2009, but not exactly superhero and offer a lot of alternate timelines and histofare. But the parts of The Amazing Spider-Man ries for their characters. It’s one of the reasons a that feel the most genuine are the chemistrybuilders between Garfield and Stone, which owe reboot of Spider-Man is, on its own, not a lousy idea. But starting at the beginning again is cermore to (500) Days than the Sam Raimi trilogy. tainly questionable, and playing it so safe doesn’t There are fewer characters on the whole, and help this installment very much. Hopefully the that’s a plus. Comic-book movies tend to think unavoidable sequels will take Garfield’s intensity more is more, but Webb keeps the action pretty and instincts to new and different places—or centralized around Peter and Gwen, his aunt this entire process will be futile. and uncle, and her father, a New York police
9. John Carter Disney
10. Act of Valor Relativity
Bérénice Bejo in The Artist.
FILM TIMES Film times reflect the most current listings available as of Tuesday evening, with screenings beginning on Friday for most opening titles. As schedules at individual theaters frequently change post-press, we recommend calling ahead to avoid any inconvenience.
AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R) Thu 10; Fri-Wed 10, 12:30 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D (R) ends Thu 12:30 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu-Wed 9:45, 11:45, 12:45, 3:15, 3:45, 5:45, 6:15, 6:45, 9:15, 9:45 The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (PG-13) Thu-Wed 2:45, 8:45 The Amazing Spider-Man: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) Thu-Wed 10:30, 1:35, 4:40, 7:45, 10:50 Brave (PG) Thu-Wed 10, 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:15 Katy Perry: Part of Me (PG) Thu-Wed 11:55, 5, 10 Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D (PG) Thu-Wed 2:30, 7:30 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) ThuWed 11:10, 4:10, 9:20 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted 3D (PG) Thu-Wed 1:35, 6:45 Magic Mike (R) Thu-Wed 11:35, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:25 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Thu 10:05, 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:35; FriWed 10:05, 4:15, 10:35 People Like Us (PG-13) Thu-Wed 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Prometheus (R) Thu-Wed 11:15, 2:15, 5:15, 8:05, 10:55 Savages (R) Fri-Wed 10:15, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 10:50, 1:50, 4:50, 7:55, 10:55; Fri-Wed 1:10, 7:20 Ted (R) Thu-Wed 10:15, 11:50, 12:45, 2:20, 3:15, 4:55, 5:55, 7:30, 8:30, 10, 11 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) Thu-Wed 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45
Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 902. Call for additional film times Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R) Thu 12, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:40 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 10:40, 11, 12:40, 1:50, 2:10, 3:50, 5, 5:20, 7, 8:10, 8:30, 10:10, 11:30; Fri-Mon 11, 12:40, 2:10, 3:50, 5:20, 7, 8:30, 10:10,
11:30 The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (PG-13) Thu-Mon 11:40, 12:15, 1:20, 2:50, 3:25, 4:30, 6, 6:35, 7:40, 9:10, 9:45, 10:45 Brave (PG) Thu-Mon 10:45, 11:30, 2:05, 4:15, 4:40, 7:20, 10 Brave 3D (PG) Thu-Mon 1:30 A Clockwork Orange (R) Wed 2, 7 Les Contes d’Hoffmann Met Summer Encore (Not Rated) Wed 1, 6:30 The Intouchables (R) ThuMon 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 10:05 Katy Perry: Part of Me (PG) Thu-Wed 11:40 Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D (PG) Thu-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Fri-Mon 11:30, 2, 4:30 Magic Mike (R) Thu-Mon 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Thu-Mon 12:15, 6:45 Moonrise Kingdom (PG13) Thu-Mon 11:45, 2:10, 4:35, 6:55, 9:20 People Like Us (PG-13) Thu-Mon 3:55, 9:55 Prometheus (R) Thu 11, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:30; Fri-Mon 7:35, 10:30 Savages (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Mon 10:40, 12:10, 1:40, 3:20, 4:45, 6:25, 7:45, 9:40, 10:45 Ted (R) Thu-Mon 11, 12, 12:50, 1:40, 2:40, 3:30, 4:20, 5:20, 6:15, 7, 8, 9, 9:45, 10:40 To Rome With Love (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Mon 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) Thu-Mon 11:35, 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 Your Sister’s Sister (R) Thu-Mon 7:55, 10:15
Century Gateway 12 770 N. Kolb Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 962. 21 Jump Street (R) ThuWed 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Battleship (PG-13) FriWed 12:30, 3:50, 7, 10:05 The Cabin in the Woods (R) Thu-Wed 12:40, 3:15, 5:30, 8, 10:15 Chimpanzee (G) Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 6:55 Dark Shadows (PG-13) Thu-Wed 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 The Dictator (R) Thu 12:55, 3:30, 5:40, 7:55, 10:05; Fri-Wed 12:50, 2:55, 5:25, 7:35, 9:40 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) Thu-Wed 12:20, 2:30, 4:55 House at the End of the Street (PG-13) Fri-Wed 7:15, 9:50 The Hunger Games (PG13) Thu 12:05, 12:45, 3:20, 4, 6:30, 7:30, 9:40; Fri-Wed 12:05, 12:45, 3:20, 4, 6:30, 7:30, 9:45 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) ends Thu 9:30 The Lucky One (PG-13) Thu-Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10
Mirror Mirror (PG) ThuWed 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Thu 11:55, 2:15, 4:40, 7; Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 The Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D (PG) Thu 1, 3:10, 5:25, 7:35, 9:55; Fri-Wed 9 Think Like a Man (PG-13) ends Thu 7:05, 9:50 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG-13) ends Thu 7:15, 10 Wrath of the Titans (PG13) ends Thu 12, 2:25, 4:45
Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Call for additional film times Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R) Thu 11:40, 2:25, 5, 7:45, 10:30 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 10, 11:20, 1:20, 2:40, 4:40, 6, 8, 9:20 The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (PG-13) Thu 10:40, 12, 12:40, 2, 3:20, 4, 5:20, 6:40, 7:20, 8:40, 10, 10:35; Mon 9, 12:20, 3:40, 7, 10:20 Brave (PG) Thu 10:05, 12:35, 1:55, 3:15, 5:50, 7:10, 8:25 Brave 3D (PG) Thu 11:15, 4:30, 9:45 A Clockwork Orange (R) Wed 2, 7 Les Contes d’Hoffmann Met Summer Encore (Not Rated) Wed 6:30 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (PG) Wed 10 a.m. Katy Perry: Part of Me (PG) Thu 10 Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25; FriSat 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Sun-Mon 9:30, 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Tue 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Wed 9:30, 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted 3D (PG) Thu 11:30, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:05 Magic Mike (R) Thu 11:35, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Thu 12:20, 3:35, 7, 10:15 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 9:25 Moonrise Kingdom (PG13) Thu 11:10, 1:40, 4:10, 6:50 People Like Us (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Prometheus (R) Thu 7:30, 10:30 Savages (R) Fri 12:01 a.m. Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 10:30, 1:30, 4:25 Ted (R) Thu 10:10, 11:05, 11:55, 12:55, 1:50, 2:45, 3:40, 4:35, 5:30, 6:25, 7:25, 8:15, 9:10, 10:10 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) Thu 11, 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20
Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace 12155 N. Oracle Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 899. Call for additional film times The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 11:35, 3:20, 6:05, 9:55 The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (PG-13) Thu 10:30, 12:40, 1:45, 2:50, 3:55, 5, 7:10, 8:15, 9:20, 10:25; Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:55, 7:10, 10:25 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 4:35 Brave (PG) Thu 10:55, 1:35, 4:10, 7, 9:40 A Clockwork Orange (R) Wed 2, 7 Les Contes d’Hoffmann Met Summer Encore (Not Rated) Wed 6:30 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (PG) Wed 10 Katy Perry: Part of Me (PG) Thu 12 Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 10; Fri 12, 5:05, 10; Sat-Sun 12:05, 5:05, 7:35, 10 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 2:05, 7:35 Magic Mike (R) Thu 10:50, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Moonrise Kingdom (PG13) Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 People Like Us (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Rock of Ages (PG-13) Thu 10:35, 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Romeo and Juliet: Royal Ballet (Not Rated) Sun 12; Tue 7 Savages (R) Fri 12:01 a.m. Ted (R) Thu 11:30, 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20 To Rome With Love (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.
Cinema La Placita La Placita Village, Broadway Boulevard and Church Avenue. 326-5282. Rain Man (R) Thu 7:30
Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. Call for Wed film times The Adventures of Tintin (PG) Mon-Wed 10 a.m. Battleship (PG-13) Thu 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50; Fri-Tue 10:40, 1:30, 6:45, 9:35 Bernie (PG-13) Thu 10:20, 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40; Fri-Tue 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35 Chernobyl Diaries (R) Thu 10; Fri-Tue 9:55 Chimpanzee (G) Fri-Tue 12:05, 2, 3:55, 5:50, 7:45 Dark Shadows (PG-13) Thu-Tue 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (PG) ThuFri 10 a.m.
KATY PERRY: PART OF ME The Screening Fear of a Black Republican (Not Rated) Thu 7 The Hunger Games (PG13) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer (PG) Mon-Wed 10 a.m. The Kid With a Bike (PG13) Thu 5:25 Monsieur Lazhar (PG-13) Thu 4:50; Fri-Tue 4:20 Mr. Popper’s Penguins (PG) Thu-Fri 10 a.m. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Thu 11:10, 1:15, 3:20, 7:30; Fri-Tue 10:50, 12:55 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (PG-13) Thu 12 Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (R) Fri-Tue 10:20, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10 Think Like a Man (PG-13) Thu 2:20, 9:45; Fri-Tue 9:45
Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Rear Window (PG) Sat 7:30; Sun 2
Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 806-4275. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R) Thu 1:45, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45; Fri 12, 2:40, 5:30, 8, 10:50; Sat-Sun 9:30, 12, 2:40, 5:30, 8, 10:50; Mon-Wed 12, 2:40, 5:30, 8, 10:50 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D (R) ends Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:05, 8:15, 10:45 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 9:15, 10:45, 12:30, 2, 3:45, 5:15, 7, 8:30, 10:15, 11:45; Fri-Wed 9, 9:50, 12:20, 1:10, 2, 3:40, 4:30, 7, 7:50, 8:40, 10:20, 11:10 The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (PG-13) Thu 10, 11:45, 1:15, 3, 4:30, 6:15, 7:45, 9:30, 11; FriWed 10:40, 11:30, 2:50, 5:20, 6:10, 9:30 Brave (PG) Thu 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 10:10; Fri-Wed 11:10, 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Brave 3D (PG) Thu 10:30, 1:10, 3:50, 6:20, 9:10; Fri-Wed 10:10, 1, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40
Katy Perry: Part of Me (PG) Thu 10:10; Fri-Wed 10:50 Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D (PG) Thu 1, 4:10, 6:45, 9:40; Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 10:20, 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15; Fri 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9; Sat-Wed 10:15, 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9 Magic Mike (R) Thu 9:50, 11, 12:50, 1:50, 3:40, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20; Fri-Wed 10, 11, 12:50, 1:50, 3:45, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:15 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) ends Thu 2:40, 9 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) ends Thu 12, 6:10 Mr. Popper’s Penguins (PG) Thu-Fri 9:45 a.m. People Like Us (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 2:15, 5, 7:50, 10:40; Fri-Wed 11:20, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30 Prometheus (R) Fri-Wed 3:20, 9:55 Puss in Boots (PG) MonWed 9:45 a.m. The Savages (R) Fri-Wed 9:20, 11:45, 12:40, 3, 4, 6:20, 7:20, 9:45, 10:40 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 9:50; Fri-Wed 12:10, 6:45 Ted (R) Thu 10:40, 11:40, 1:30, 2:30, 4:20, 5:20, 7:10, 8:10, 10, 11:10; Fri 11:40, 1:30, 2:30, 4:20, 5:15, 7:10, 8:10, 10, 11; Sat-Wed 10:45, 11:40, 1:30, 2:30, 4:20, 5:15, 7:10, 8:10, 10, 11 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) Thu 10:50, 1:40, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30; FriWed 10:20, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10
The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility Beyond the Black Rainbow (R) Thu 10; SatSun 10 Delicacy (PG-13) Thu 12, 5 Eye of the Tiger (R) Mon 8 First Friday Shorts (Not Rated) Fri 9 First Position (Not Rated) Thu 12
God Bless America (R) Thu 4:45, 10 Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? (Not Rated) Wed 7:30 Hot Rod (Not Rated) Sun 10 a.m. Hysteria (R) Fri 2:15, 6:45; Sat 2:15, 7; Sun 10:30, 2:15, 7; Mon-Wed 2:15, 7 Last Call at the Oasis (PG-13) Thu 2:15, 7:30 Peace, Love and Misunderstanding (R) Thu 2:45; Fri-Wed 12, 4:30 Sleepless Night (Not Rated) Fri-Sun 3, 7:30; Mon 3, 10; Tue 3, 7:30, 10; Wed 3, 10 Strait-Jacket (Not Rated) Thu 7 Turn Me On, Dammit! (Not Rated) Fri-Wed 1, 5:30 Wet Hot American Summer (R) Fri-Sun 10
Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. 21 Jump Street (R) Thu 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Fri-Wed 7:20, 9:55 Battleship (PG-13) ThuWed 10:30, 1:15, 4:10, 7, 9:50 The Cabin in the Woods (R) Thu 3:20, 8, 10:15; Fri-Wed 4:30, 9:20 The Dictator (R) Fri-Wed 1, 3, 7:30, 9:35 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:05, 4:15; Fri-Wed 10:40, 2:55, 5:05 The Five-Year Engagement (R) ends Thu 9:50 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Thu 1:05; FriWed 12:40 The Lucky One (PG-13) Thu 7:10, 9:35; Fri-Wed 7:15, 9:40 Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu 11:40, 2:20, 7:20, 9:45; Fri-Wed 11:30, 2, 6:50 Mr. Popper’s Penguins (PG) Mon-Wed 11 a.m. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Thu 11, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40; Fri-Wed 11, 1:05, 3:10, 5:15 The Smurfs (PG) Thu-Fri 11 a.m. The Three Stooges (PG) Thu 5:40; Fri-Wed 10:50 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG-13) Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Wrath of the Titans (PG13) Thu 4:55; Fri-Wed 5:10
Room 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Call for films and times
Tower Theatres at Arizona Pavilions 8031 N. Business Park Drive. 579-0500. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) MonWed 10 a.m. The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu-Wed 10:45, 12:45, 1:45, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45 The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (PG-13) Thu-Wed 11:45, 5:45, 8:45 Brave (PG) Thu-Wed 10:15, 11:25, 12:35, 2, 4:20, 6:40, 9 Hop (PG) Mon-Wed 10 a.m. Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer (PG) Thu-Fri 10 a.m. Katy Perry: Part of Me (PG) Thu-Wed 11:35, 5:20, 7:40 Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D (PG) Thu-Wed 3, 10 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 10:05, 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 6:50, 9:05; Fri 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 6:50, 9:05; Sat-Wed 10:05, 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 6:50, 9:05 Magic Mike (R) Thu-Wed 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 1:55, 7:05; Fri-Wed 4:55, 7:20 People Like Us (PG-13) Thu-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Prometheus (R) Thu 4:10, 7, 9:55; Fri-Wed 11:20, 2:10, 9:45 Puss in Boots (PG) ThuFri 10 a.m. Rock of Ages (PG-13) ends Thu 4:15, 9:30 Savages (R) Fri-Wed 10:30, 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) ends Thu 10:35, 1:20 Ted (R) Thu-Wed 10:10, 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) Thu-Wed 11:10, 1:40, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50
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FILM CLIPS Reviews by Jacquie Allen, Colin Boyd and Bob Grimm.
NEWLY REVIEWED: FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN
Filmmaker Kevin J. Williams has hit on a very important sociopolitical issue: Why are there so few African-American Republicans, particularly in urban areas? He supports his argument for why most of the black population leaned further left over the course of the 20th century, yet Fear of a Black Republican feels incredibly outdated beyond the premise. For example, he searches for black GOP faithful at George Bush’s second inauguration and discusses his thesis with the 2008 Republican nominees. There’s no post-Obama focus, or even a mention of firebrand Tea Party Republican Allen West. Williams’ question is in the right place, and he gets a lot of interview access for a homemade film, but it needs to be updated to reflect a more-current political landscape. Boyd SAVAGES
For the first time in years, Oliver Stone has made a film worth watching—maybe because it doesn’t feel like he made it. Savages explores two sides of the War on Drugs from an unusual perch: Instead of dealing with the victims or the policies at work (or not at work), it’s dealer versus dealer to see who can outsmart and outmuscle the other. Salma Hayek is the ball-busting queenpin from Mexico trying to horn in on profitable upstarts Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson in Southern California. There’s a tug-of-war over Blake Lively—why not?—but the real stars are supporting players Benicio del Toro and John Travolta. They rather unconsciously steal every scene they’re in, and they might steal the drugs and money, too. A bit loose around the edges, Savages is still the best Oliver Stone movie since JFK. Boyd SLEEPLESS NIGHT
A gripping little jolt of a movie, the French import Sleepless Night works almost completely in the realm of action-movie clichés—and makes it stick. It’s not the first film this year to arrive on American shores that finds success by almost literally stringing
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together trailer-worthy action scenes; that’s also one of the secrets of success for the mesmerizing martial-arts flick The Raid: Redemption. (Not surprisingly, U.S. remakes are in store for both.) Sleepless Night focuses on a cop (Tomer Sisley) who must deliver drugs he stole from two couriers back to their original source, a local kingpin who has kidnapped his son as collateral. When action movies keep it simple, the possibilities are endless, or at least the possibilities are Die Hard. In this case, it’s an energetic run through a French nightclub that may never surprise you, but it also never lets up. Boyd TURN ME ON, DAMMIT!
The 1980s were particularly rife with movies about sex and the teenage boy. Porky’s, Zapped, My Tutor, Mischief—they were everywhere. Now Norway introduces us to a worthy female counterpart, Turn Me On, Dammit! It treads the same ground, only better, employing frank sexual themes and a healthy dose of razor-sharp comedy. We meet Alma (Helene Bergsholm), all of 15 years old, masturbating on the kitchen floor while calling a phone-sex line. She’s perpetually horny. She fantasizes about everybody, especially Artur (Matias Myren), with whom she has a clumsy real sexual encounter that leads to all of the usual inescapable teenage rumors. Running less than 80 minutes long, Turn Me On, Dammit! gets plenty of mileage out of a deeply acerbic sense of humor, and Bergsholm is terrific as a kind of Nordic cross between Taylor Swift and Juno. Boyd TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION
Madea’s Witness Protection wasn’t nearly as painful as I thought it was going to be—but the movie is still terrible. Eugene Levy co-stars as George, an investment banker who is set up to be the fall guy in a Ponzi scheme. Through an absolutely horrible twist of fate, he and his family are forced to stay with Madea (Tyler Perry), the aunt of the main prosecutor (also Tyler Perry). This doesn’t stop me from hoping that the Perry-starring Alex Cross is such a big hit that we never have to see Madea again—but looking at the box-office numbers for this film, I’m sadly certain that won’t be the case. Allen
CONTINUING: 21 JUMP STREET
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum team up as an unlikely comic duo in this twisted reboot of the famous late’80s TV show that launched the career of Johnny Depp. The two play former high school enemies who develop a friendship after they become cops. After getting into trouble, they are put into the newly reactivated 21 Jump Street program (with an angry, hilarious Ice Cube as their captain), and must go undercover as high school students to infiltrate a drug ring. The two are very funny, and Tatum displays a surprising amount of comedic talent. This will stand as one of the year’s funniest—and nastiest—comedies. It also contains some memorable cameos. Grimm ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER
Abraham Lincoln killing vampires … how could they go wrong? Director Timur Bekmambetov has most certainly found a way, turning in a boring, redundant and humorless film. Benjamin Walker is given little to do as Lincoln; he walks around looking glum and occasionally swings an ax at unconvincing-looking vampires. The movie posits that the Confederacy was full of vampires during the Civil War, yet it has absolutely no fun with this idea. I was hoping for something that I could file alongside Evil Dead 2—a film with good, sick fun and a dash of camp humor. Instead, the movie is tedious and bland. One of the year’s biggest cinematic letdowns. 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 BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW
While visually awesome, Beyond the Black Rainbow is possibly one of the most-boring science-fiction
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CINEMA ‘Ted’ is an amusing, raunchy and surprisingly sweet movie
Grin and Bear It BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com eter Brady look-alike Seth MacFarlane makes a fine feature directorial debut with Ted, the story of a man, his teddy bear, and that bear’s propensity for smoking weed, banging hookers and uttering profanities. MacFarlane lends his voice to Ted, a standard-looking teddy bear blessed with the ability to speak and screw after his owner, John (played as an adult by Mark Wahlberg), wishes Ted could talk and be his best friend. Most adults tend to put their playthings in the closet or give them to Goodwill come adulthood, but John and Ted become pot buddies and lifelong slackers, much to the chagrin of John’s girlfriend, Lori (Mila Kunis). One of the great things about the film is that Ted’s existence—after the initial and very funny shock expressed by John’s parents—is accepted around the world as no big deal. After a brief brush with stardom, his fame fades, and he’s treated like any other guy, with nobody stopping on the street and screaming, “Holy shit! A talking bear!” Because he’s a bad influence on John (John keeps skipping work to share bong hits with the bear), Ted is forced to go into the real world by himself and get an apartment and a job. MacFarlane gives this element of the movie a consistent, absurdist feel that really works. Wahlberg plays the straight man in goofy comedies with the best of them. Anybody who saw him with Will Ferrell in The Other Guys knows that Wahlberg has masterful comic timing, and MacFarlane puts it to great use. MacFarlane has created something memorable—and very funny—with Ted. The bear is a wondrous special effect—a fact which will probably be taken for granted. He’s an example of a flawless computer-generated character that integrates seamlessly into the action. If the Oscars were held today, I would submit Ted in the special-effects competition. I’ve never been a big watcher of MacFarlane’s Family Guy. I don’t have anything against it; I think Stewie is funny, and the Star Wars stuff is awesome. It’s just one of those shows I never seem to have time to watch. Still, I’ve recognized MacFarlane’s talents in the past, and believed going into Ted that I had a good chance of laughing. What I didn’t expect is the film’s sweetness. MacFarlane takes the human elements of the story seriously, and they wind up being quite charming. It has to be recognized as a major directorial feat when a first-timer creates an animated teddy bear that is more well-rounded than most human characters in movies today.
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Ted, voiced by Seth MacFarlane, in Ted.
Ted Rated R Starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, and featuring the voice of Seth MacFarlane Directed by Seth MacFarlane Universal, 106 minutes Now playing at AMC Loews Foothills 15 (888262-4386), Century El Con 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 903), Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace (800-326-3264, ext. 899), Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 (806-4275) and Tower Theaters at Arizona Pavilions (579-0500).
For those of you simply looking for good, raunchy, R-rated comedy, Ted has got the goods. There’s a scene with a roomful of hookers that will certainly go down as one of the year’s most memorable (and most joyously disgusting), and the things Ted says during a job interview would curl a clergyman’s toes. A subplot involving a deranged Giovanni Ribisi (Is there any other kind?) and his sicko kid stalking Ted gets some great laughs, especially when Ribisi busts out some dance moves while watching TV. Given its huge box-office success, I suspect this isn’t the last we’ll hear of Ted. The little bastard has “franchise” written all over him. I just did a search to see if there are any Ted teddy bears ready to purchase. Nope … somebody has dropped the ball on that one. There should be a talking Ted bear ready for me to buy at Spencer’s this instant!
N O W S H O W I N G AT H O M E Born on the Fourth of July (Blu-ray) UNIVERSAL MOVIE ASPECIAL FEATURES C+ BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 7.75 (OUT OF 10)
When I was in college, I filmed a comedy sketch in which I got drunk and began taunting people because Tom Cruise didn’t win the Oscar for this movie. My faux-drunk character, upon hearing of the Cruise loss, whined, “They ignored him for Cocktail; they ignored him for Top Gun; and they ignored him for Legend, too.” Twenty-two-plus years later, I still say Cruise got shafted. The Best Actor Oscar went to Daniel Day-Lewis for My Left Foot. That was a stellar performance, but what Cruise pulled off in Oliver Stone’s second Vietnam War film was epic. Cruise plays Ron Kovic, paralyzed in the line of duty during his second tour in Vietnam. Kovic went on to become one of the more outspoken and effective anti-war protesters in the ’70s. Physically, Cruise is convincing as an 18-year-old high school student eager to enlist in the Marines and serve his country. Cruise was in his mid-to-late 20s when he made the film, but he looks like a teenager when Kovic lies on the matt crying after a wrestling loss. We then see a more-mature Kovic fighting the war, a strong-willed soldier prone to mistakes who is ultimately cut down by two bullets. Stone then shows the apparent horrors of veterans’ hospitals as Kovic fights to recover from his wounds. He learns he will never walk again, and Cruise plays these scenes with an emotional depth that was not apparent in his prior film efforts. OK, maybe they were in Cocktail. He was pretty damn heavy in Cocktail. I think Cruise’s Oscar chances were hurt by the terrible makeup in this movie. This film has some of cinema’s worst-ever wigs and facial hair. Cruise wears an assortment of
hairpieces and hairy-lip adornments that hurt the presentation. He acts through the hair and all of its adhesives with major force, but the look is distracting at times. Stone got the director’s Oscar for this, his second. That’s an award that should’ve gone to Spike Lee that year for Do the Right Thing, for which he wasn’t even nominated. (He did score a screenplay nod.) Yes, this is sort of off the subject, but I like to gripe about this slight whenever I get the chance. SPECIAL FEATURES: The Oliver Stone commentary is a must-listen; he talks about much more than simply making the movie. You also get a couple of Universal anniversary featurettes.
Gray’s Anatomy (Blu-ray) CRITERION MOVIE D+ SPECIAL FEATURES BBLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 3 (OUT OF 10)
While watching Spalding Gray do his monologue for director Steven Soderbergh, I just didn’t get it. Soderbergh filmed Gray in a staged monologue, not in front of a live audience. Gray had performed this same monologue as a live show a few times, but Soderbergh tried to do some kind of clever restaging—and it’s drab. The monologue covers Gray’s struggles with a rare eye disorder and his search for the proper treatment. He rambles on and on about surgeries, diets and psychics, with none of it entertaining or absorbing in any way. SPECIAL FEATURES: The supplements are better than the film. Interviews with Soderbergh and Renée Shafransky, who helped Gray on his monologues, offer interesting insights into the late actor’s life. There’s also actual footage of Gray’s macula surgery and another entire monologue from Gray, A Personal History of the American Theatre.
Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here (Blu-ray) EAGLE VISION SHOW ASPECIAL FEATURES BBLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 8 (OUT OF 10)
Pink Floyd faced the task of following up on a really big deal when they came out with a new album after the mega-successful Dark Side of the Moon. Rather than do more of the same, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright came out with something sounding different than everything they had done before. They also chose 1975 as the year to reminisce about their former leader, Syd Barrett, and mourn his loss. Barrett was still alive, but his mates had lost him to the haze of a few too many acid doses. A bloated, unrecognizable Barrett would reportedly stop by the studios and hang out while the album was being mastered. The album contains tributes to Barrett, a fact that the band members discuss in newly filmed interviews for this documentary. (The late Richard Wright is shown in archival interviews.) Waters and Gilmour discuss the creation of “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” a tribute to Barrett that they created together. While the band members are filmed in separate locations, it’s still a cool thing to see them taking part in a project together, and paying each other the occasional compliment. They even bust out their guitars for some solo performances of Wish You Were Here tracks. For Floyd fans, this is golden. SPECIAL FEATURES: Extra interview footage, along with more footage of Waters and Gilmour playing tunes.
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movies ever made. Elena (Eva Allan) is being held captive in some weird, futuristic medical facility, where she seems to be the only patient. She is mentally tortured by the sadistic Dr. Barry Nyle (Michael Rogers). After being taunted by her nurse, Elena displays the reason for her imprisonment: She exhibits dangerous telekinetic abilities. Even though she is under heavy sedation, she is able to escape and is tracked by Nyle, who wants his “experiment” back in his control. This is one of the first modern films I’ve seen that is able to successfully re-create the appearance of a ’70s or ’80s sci-fi film. It looks great, and for this, I applaud the filmmakers. Unfortunately, the amazing visuals are not enough to help the flat script. Allen BRAVE
Pixar, it appears, is resting on its laurels. An amazing run featuring some of the finest animation ever produced—Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up and Toy Story 3, only interrupted by the average Cars—has started to slow down. First was the even blander Cars sequel, and now Pixar unfurls Brave, which lacks most of the traditions that had set Pixar apart. The story of a rebellious princess is not very aptly told; the animation is nothing special; the songs are awful; and there aren’t many memorable things about the subplots or supporting characters. This could be anybody’s animated movie. Brave is OK, and it definitely provides a powerful message for young girls (an audience often overlooked by animation), but just because its heart is in the right place doesn’t make Brave anything to write home about. Boyd MAGIC MIKE
More Boogie Nights than Showgirls, Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike showcases the dark side of the high life, in this case, the nonstop party of a male strip club in Tampa, Fla. Taken (one assumes somewhat liberally) from star Channing Tatum’s own background as an exotic dancer, Magic Mike has a few stripping sequences, but Soderbergh always manages to make each dance less about strippers getting tips and more about the emotional content of the film in that moment. It’s a tricky way to go about showing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey in thongs, but by and large, the sequences in the club act in the service of a film that is a lot darker below the surface than its opening moments suggest. Tatum has found his mark; McConaughey is solid in what may or may not be self-parody; and Soderbergh again demonstrates his skill when he’s deeply invested in a project. Boyd 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
the legendary fairy tale is good, but Mirror Mirror winds up feeling half-baked, perhaps because of the script, and perhaps because of the occasionally drifting direction from Tarsem Singh. They cast it like they knew what they were doing—Julia Roberts as the evil queen, handsome Armie Hammer as the dashing prince, seven terrific dwarves, and an unmistakable find in Lily Collins as Snow White— but the film never knows what tone it should set. It’s not a complete embarrassment, but that may actually be worse: You can see the potential this film has—and squanders—as a fractured fairy tale. Boyd PEOPLE LIKE US
People Like Us is one of those “inspired by true events” movies, which makes you wonder how you missed the story of the famous record producer who died and left $150,000 to a daughter his family didn’t know he had. It’s a nice setup for a movie, though, and this is a very earnest film—mostly in a good way. But when the dramatic family tension ratchets up, you kind of wish Chris Pine (Star Trek) and Elizabeth Banks (Zack and Miri Make a Porno) weren’t in the lead roles. They’re fine while the characters establish a relationship, but they’re just not cut out for the heavy stuff. J.J. Abrams acolyte Alex Kurtzman has chosen good warm-up material for his debut, and he attracted a nice cast—Michelle Pfeiffer and Olivia Wilde join Pine and Banks—but it lacks the oomph it needs to be truly memorable. Boyd PROMETHEUS
In this prequel to Alien, director Ridley Scott explores new angles in his monster universe via eyepopping 3-D visuals and intense storytelling. After scientists discover cave-drawings that appear to show superior alien intelligence inviting us for a visit, an exploratory space mission travels to a distant galaxy in search of our origins. What they find involves tentacles, slime, self-administered gnarly operations and general despair. Noomi Rapace takes over as the female heroine, with Charlize Theron along for the ride as a mysterious mission commander. Best of all is Michael Fassbender as David, a strange android who models himself after Peter O’Toole. Scott proves that he is still a master of the sci-fi genre, which he hadn’t visited since his 1982 Blade Runner. (He’s reportedly working on a sequel to that classic as well.) The ending paves the way for another possible chapter—a chapter I sincerely hope Scott is involved in. 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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CHOW The seafood is fresh at Mariscos Mi Mazatlan— but kitchen errors and service lapses let us down
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Coming Soon: Smashburger It’s called a Smashburger because fresh meat is formed into spheres and smashed flat while being cooked in butter. This apparently makes for super-tasty burgers, and has gained the Colorado-based restaurant chain Smashburger quite a following. At first glimpse, this might appear to be just another burger joint, but look at the menu at smashburger.com, and you’ll see details that put it a cut above the competition: Angus beef, truffle mayonnaise, build-yourown-burger options, tons of add-ons and midrange prices put it somewhere between fast food and boutique burger shop. Tucson’s first Smashburger is going in at 4821 E. Grant Road and is expected to open in mid-December.
om BY JIMMY BOEGLE, jboegle@tucsonweekly.com he oysters were fresh, smooth—and unappetizingly served at room temperature. That, in a nutshell (or perhaps a lukewarm oyster shell), describes our experiences at Mariscos Mi Mazatlan, a restaurant on 22nd Street that opened a few months ago. There is a lot to like at Mariscos Mi Mazatlan. The seafood and other ingredients seem fresh; the place has a rustic, beach café charm; and the folks there serve up a killer michelada especial ($6, with spicy tomato juice and shrimp; trust me, it’s fantastic). But hiccups in execution—especially during our dinner visit—messed things up to the point that I can’t recommend the place. Our first visit was for a weekend lunch. Mariscos Mi Mazatlan was doing a decent business, which was nice to see. The restaurant has all of the Mexican-seafood standards one would expect, including soups, shrimp dishes, seafood cocktails and, of course, quite a bit of fish. We decided to share the medium campechana regular cocktail to start (with octopus, shrimp and oyster, $11.99). For my main course, I ordered the shrimp in garlic sauce ($11.99), and Garrett got the smoked marlin quesadillas ($7.99). We watched soccer on one of the perfectly placed TVs and enjoyed the tasty, if watery, salsa with chips as we waited for our food. The décor at Mariscos Mi Mazatlan largely comes straight from the Pacifico and Corona reps—flags, signs and even inflatable flipflops are everywhere, along with fishingthemed knickknacks like nets and whatnot. Blue walls and blue wooden seating dominate the look in the main room; there’s also seating closer to the semi-open kitchen/prep area, where a cute desert mural occupies one wall. The cocktail came quickly, and the verdict was mixed. I gave it a thumbs-up because the seafood was fresh and enjoyable; Garrett gave it a thumbs-down because the liquid wasn’t all that flavorful. We agreed that more seasoning would have made it better. As for the mains: Garrett’s quesadillas were more like tacos—the amount of cheese was low, and he picked them up and ate them as one would eat a taco—but he enjoyed them, thanks to the moist, flavorful marlin. Unfortunately, my shrimp was decidedly mediocre. The eight slightly overcooked shrimp swam in a butter-garlic sauce that was oily more than anything else. The salads that came with both of our dishes were unspectacular. Despite my so-so shrimp, the smoked marlin tacos quesadillas and the cocktail had me 38 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
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The campechana regular seafood cocktail at Mariscos Mi Mazatlan. looking forward to our dinner visit. On a recent weekday evening, we stopped in for dinner, starting with those aforementioned oysters ($6.99 for six) and the shrimp-meatball soup (medium for $8.99). Garrett decided to try the tampiquena (grilled steak, $10.99) as his entrée, while I ordered one of my favorite dishes (when done right): the whole grilled snapper, Veracruz style ($13.99). Things started going downhill with the aforementioned room-temperature oysters on the half-shell. They were served on a bed of ice, but they had obviously been sitting somewhere that was not refrigerated before they were placed on that ice. Because I am a trouper, I sprayed the oysters with lime, dabbed on a bit of hot sauce, and choked them down. They’d have been splendid had they arrived properly chilled. Next, there was a ridiculously lengthy delay between the arrival of the oysters and our soup. When the soup finally came, our server apologized for the delay and said she’d brought us a large-size soup instead of a medium. We started dishing up … and then came our main courses, about one minute later. We took quick samples of the soup and asked the server to package the rest to take home. I enjoyed the soup for lunch the next day; the tomatoey broth with carrots and celery was hearty and just spicy enough. The shrimp meatballs, actually, were the soup’s weak link; while they were decent, they had a rubbery mouth feel and didn’t add a whole lot of flavor. Speaking of not adding a whole lot of flavor: That could be said for the Veracruz sauce on my red snapper. There was a decided lack of seasoning in the tomato sauce, and the onion, peppers and green olives didn’t contribute much to the fish itself. The body of the fish was cooked nicely, though the head—where there are some tasty tidbits—was not sauced at all, and was therefore dry and tragically inedible.
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Minuses: Room-temp oysters; terrible service lapses
Garrett’s steak was seasoned well, although it was a bit tough; it came medium-well, and if he’d been asked how he wanted it, he’d have requested a proper medium rare. Both of our dishes came with rice and more of that unremarkable salad; Garrett’s tampiquena also came with some fine refried beans and a cheese enchilada. After finishing our main courses, we were ready to go, but instead, we found ourselves dealing with one of my biggest restaurant peeves: a missing-in-action server. Actually, our server wasn’t missing; I could see her just fine. However, instead of offering us our check, filling our empty water glasses or clearing our plates, she was peering into the kitchen, waiting on food for other tables. A dish would come, and she’d take it to a table, drop it off, and head back to the kitchen area to do more staring (without ever looking in our direction). This went on for at least 15 minutes before I literally waved her down. She apologized, brought the check, and then did the same deliver-andignore-and-stare routine for another 10 minutes before I literally called out, “Hey!” so she would come to get my credit card. Mariscos Mi Mazatlan has some potential, thanks to the use of fresh seafood and the spot’s ample charms—but as it stands now, that potential is being squandered by poor service and kitchen errors.
Ari Shapiro, owner of Xoom Juice and downtown bistro and café Sparkroot, is opening a new restaurant at Broadway Boulevard and Eastbourne Avenue, near Country Club Road. Falora Pizza and Espresso will serve highquality coffee, pizza, hand-crafted beer, wine and other things. “Falora will serve breakfast specializing in fresh-baked bread, and lunch specializing in fresh salads and artisan pizza pies, serving them on into the evenings,” the press release says. Vito’s Pizza Kitchen, which closed a while back at 2921 E. Fort Lowell Road, has merged with Shlomo and Vito’s New York Delicatessen at 2870 E. Skyline Drive. A press release says the restaurant will hold a reopening in August. It looks like Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink, which is going in at the former Reilly Funeral Home at 102 E. Pennington St., is getting ready to open. It’s been under construction for more than a year—which we hear has yielded stunning results in the redesign of the interior—and the owner started hiring staff last week, signaling that the opening can’t be far off.
The Return of Dizzy G’s Longtime downtown breakfast-joint Dizzy G’s, at 75 E. Pennington St., is open again. We’ll be back next week with more.
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AMERICANA JAX KITCHEN NW 7286 N. Oracle Road. 219-1235. Open TuesdayFriday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Saturday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Sunday 5-9 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Jax Kitchen’s menu offers a fine, playful balance of great stuff. Fresh, quality ingredients are present in such a way that you’ll remember each and every bite. The mussels and frites shine, and anything from the garden will please. Throw in pleasant service, moderate prices and a cool vibe, and you have a Tucson favorite. (12-4-08) $$-$$$ JERRY BOB’S E 5028 E. Broadway Blvd. 326-0301. Open daily
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What more do you need to time travel to a kinder, gentler, less cholesterol-conscious era? $ JETHRO’S LITTLE CAFE E 8585 E. Broadway Blvd. 886-1091. Open daily 6 a.m.-2 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. MC, V. If you’re looking for good eats and lots of them, this may just be your ideal place. The food is made fresh from scratch, and the portions will blow you away. Breakfasts include everything from biscuits and gravy to Belgian waffles. At lunch, both salad-lovers and fried-food fanatics will be happy. Service is down-home, just as one would expect. (9-10-09) $ KON TIKI E 4625 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-7193. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-1 a.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.- 2 a.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-midnight. Food served Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. This tiki lounge has been around since 1963, largely due to the famous cold, fruity and lethal drinks. Appetizers are a consistent hit, while lunch and dinner entrées are hit or miss. Don’t miss out on the happy-hour appetizer and drink specials. (7-2-09) $$-$$$ LINDY’S ON FOURTH C 431 N. Fourth Ave. 207-2384. Open Monday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sunday noon-5 p.m. Diner/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. Jonesing for a burger? Want it hot and juicy—and maybe a little kinky? Then hop on down to Lindy’s, where you’ll find the most creative burger menu in the city. There are house-specialty burgers like the AZ Hooligan, with six half-pound patties topped with lots of cheese and Lindy’s sauce. Those with normal appetites can enjoy juicy burgers with toppings ranging from the traditional to the offbeat (peanut butter, anyone?). Vegetarians can choose from two veggie patties that can be topped in any way. (4-17-08) $-$$
THE LOOP TASTE OF CHICAGO NW 10180 N. Oracle Road. 878-0222. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight; Sunday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Cover. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC and V. The Loop Taste of Chicago delivers a true taste of the Windy City. Delicious deepdish and thin-crust pizza is just the beginning. A large menu is sure to please even the pickiest eater … and don’t miss out on dessert. (11-26-09) $$ MAYNARDS MARKET AND KITCHEN C 400 N. Toole Ave. 545-0577. Open Sunday-Thursday
7 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Fresh, flavorful dishes in a kitsch-free train atmosphere make this a leading downtown dining destination. There’s also seating for deli food in the adjacent convenience market, but the main dining room and dignified bar are the real draws. (7-16-09) $$-$$$$ MAYS COUNTER CHICKEN AND WAFFLES C 2945 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-2421. Open Monday-
Friday 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Mays Counter offers Southern-style eats in a spot that could be described as collegiate sports-bar chic. The fried chicken is juicy, fresh and about 1,000 times better than the stuff you’ll get at a chain joint. The service is friendly; the prices are reasonable; and the waffle skins starter is one of the tastiest appetizers around. (12-23-10) $-$$$ THE MELTING POT NW 7395 N. La Cholla Blvd., No. 109 (Foothills Mall).
575-6358. Open Sunday-Thursday 4:30-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 4:30-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Fondue is in style again at The Melting Pot, a national chain. An upscale atmosphere and an expansive wine list combine with the cheese fondues, salads and cook-it-yourself meats and seafoods for a delicious, if high-priced, dinner. Save room for the delightful chocolate fondue for dessert. (1-29-04) $$$-$$$$ MONKEY BURGER
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2545 E. Broadway Blvd. • Beyond Bread 3026 N. Campbell Ave. • Mario’s Pizza 3157 N. First Ave. • Ghini’s French Caffe 1803 E Prince Rd. • Yoshimatsu/Sushimatsu 2660 N. Campbell Rd. • Falafel King 1800 E. Ft. Lowell Rd. • Guilin Chinese Restaurant 3250 E. Speedway Blvd. • Ali Baba 2545 E. Speedway Blvd. • Choice Greens 2829 E. Speedway Blvd. • Greek Taverna on Swan (formerly Fat Greek 2) 3225 N. Swan Rd. • Mama’s Hawaiian BBQ 850 E. Speedway Blvd. • Pastiche 3025 N Campbell Ave. Ste 121. • Takamatsu 5532 E Speedway Blvd. • Vero Amore 3305 N. Swan Rd. • Sir Veza’s Taco Garage 4699 E Speedway Blvd. • Chad’s Steakhouse 3001 N Swan Rd. • Monterey Court Café 505 W. Miracle Mile
• Brushfire BBQ 2745 N Campbell Ave. • Frankie’s South Philly Cheesesteaks 2574 N Campbell Ave. • Rocco’s Little Chicago 2707 E. Broadway Blvd. • Risky Business 250 S. Craycroft Rd. • Sausage Deli 2334 N. 1st Ave. • Sher-E-Punjab 853 E. Grant Rd. • Fresco Pizzeria & Pastaria 3011 E. Speedway Blvd. • Tucson Racquet & Fitness Club 4001 N. Country Club Rd.
Downtown • HUB Restaurant &
Creamery 266 E. Congress St. • Playground 278 E. Congress St. • Enoteca Pizzeria & Wine Bar 58 W. Congress St. • Mother Hubbard’s Café 14 W Grant Rd. • La Cocina 201 N. Court Ave. • Lindy’s on 4th 431 N. 4th Ave. • Café 54 54 E. Pennington St. • Cushing Street Bar 198 W. Cushing St.
• El Charro 311 N Court Ave. • V Modern Thai 9 E Congress St. • Brooklyn Pizza Company 534 N 4th Ave. • Sky Bar 534 N 4th Ave. • Arizona Bagel & Deli 117 N. Church Ave. • Caruso’s Italian Restaurant 434 N. 4th Ave.
North • El Charro 6910 E. Sunrise • Acacia 3001 E Skyline Dr. • Fini’s Landing 5689 N Swan Rd. • Golden Dragon 4704 E. Sunrise Dr.
Northwest • The Parish Gastropub 6453 N. Oracle Rd. • Beyond Bread 421 W. Ina Rd. • Genghis Grill 4386 N. Oracle Rd. • Golden Dragon 6433 N. Oracle Rd. • Noble Hops 1335 W. Lambert Lane • Saigon Restaurant 7332 N. Oracle Rd.
• Vero Amore 12130 N. Dove Mountain Blvd. #104 • Sir Veza’s Taco Garage 220 W. Wetmore • El Charro 7725 N. Oracle Rd. • Shogun Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar 5036 N Oracle Rd.
West • Daisy Mae’s Steakhouse 2735 W. Anklam Rd.
Northeast • Risky Business 6866 E. Sunrise Dr. • Risky Business 8848 E. Tanque Verde Rd.
East • Nimbus American Bistro & Brewery 6464 E. Tanque Verde Rd. • Beyond Bread 6260 E. Speedway Blvd. • Diablos Sports Bar & Grill 2545 S. Craycroft Rd. • Renee’s Organic Oven 7065 E. Tanque Verde Rd. • My Big Fat Greek Restaurant 7131 E. Broadway Blvd. • Joe’s Pancake House 2532 S. Kolb Rd.
• Golden Dragon 6166 E. Speedway Blvd. • Venice Pizzeria 7848 E. Wrightstown Rd. • El Charro 6310 E Broadway Blvd. • Brushfire BBQ 7080 E 22nd St. • Canyon’s Crown Restaurant & Pub 6958 E Tanque Verde Rd. • New Delhi Palace 6751 E Broadway Blvd. • Jerry Bobs 7066 E Golf Links • Molina’s Midway Restaurant 1138 N Belvedere Ave. • Casa Molina 6225 E Speedway Blvd. • Thai China Bistro 5121 E Grant Rd.
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South • Don Pedro’s Peruvian Bistro 3386 S. Sixth Ave. Suite #120 • El Charro 15920 S. Rancho Sahuarita
Bisbee • Screaming Banshee Pizza 200 Tombstone Canyon Dr.
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MOTHER HUBBARD’S CAFE C 14 W. Grant Road. 623-7976. Open daily 6 a.m.-2 p.m. Summer hours: Open Monday and WednesdaySaturday 6 a.m.-1 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Diner/ No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. This old-school Tucson greasy spoon is still serving inexpensive and tasty breakfasts and lunches—now with a few new twists, including a series of dishes centered on chiles. The tasty corned beef on the reuben is brined in-house, and the corn bread waffle is a treat you should not miss. (6-30-11) $ MULLIGAN’S SPORTS GRILL E 9403 E. Golf Links Road. 733-5661. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Café/ Full Cover. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This eastside sports bar is doing some pretty good stuff in its kitchen. The steak sandwich is delicious, and the burgers feature big slabs o’ Angus beef. The patio is lovely (if you don’t mind the view of Golf Links Road), and the Irish/golf-themed décor is very, very green. (11-10-11) $$ NATIVE NEW YORKER NW 8225 N. Courtney Page Way, No. 115. 744-7200.
Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-midnight; Friday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.midnight. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. With wings, pizza, hoagies, spaghetti, calzones, stromboli, hot dogs and burgers, Native New Yorker seemingly has it all. This chain sits right in the heart of all that’s happening in Marana, yet it stands out from the other chain joints nearby. It’s a great place to meet friends, watch a game or bring the family. The wings come in flavors from the traditional buffalo-style to strawberry to asiagoparmesan. (10-2-08) $-$$ NOBLE HOPS GASTROPUB NW 1335 W. Lambert Lane. 797-4677. Open Sunday-
Thursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Noble Hops Gastropub is bringing beer to Oro Valley with class. A plethora of gourmet entrées, presented without pretention, will entice your palate, and the selection of more than 100 beers will keep you coming back to try something new. The view from the patio is spectacular, and the chic, modern décor makes Noble Hops a perfect place for a cozy romantic evening, or a fun spot to meet up with friends. (9-1-11) $$-$$$ OMAR’S HIGHWAY CHEF S Triple T Truck Stop, 5451 E. Benson Highway. 574-
0961. Open 24 hours. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Local diners contemplating where to eat seldom consider a truck stop, but in the case of Omar’s Highway Chef, it’s worth making an exception. Clean and neat, this café specializes in typical blue-plate specials as well as a respectable array of Mexican dishes. All is made on the premises, with exceptional soups and pies. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served around the clock, and the portions are generous. Omar’s breaks the typical truck-stop mold. $-$$ PASTICHE MODERN EATERY C 3025 N. Campbell Ave. 325-3333. Open Tuesday-
Friday 11:30 a.m.-midnight; Saturday and Sunday 4:30 p.m.-midnight. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. If you are looking for a lovely, spacious dining room, quirky art and an experimental and adventuresome menu, try Pastiche. (10-5-00) $-$$ PAT’S DRIVE-IN C 1202 W. Niagra St. 624-0891. Open Sunday-
TUCSON MCGRAW’S ORIGINAL CANTINA E 4110 S. Houghton Road. 885-3088. Open TuesdaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday and Monday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. It’s not fancy or the least bit nouvelle, but if you’ve got a hankering for red meat and ice-cold beer, you could do worse than this nifty cantina set on a hill overlooking the Santa Rita Mountains. The Tuesday-night steak special (a 10-ounce sirloin, ranch beans, white roll and salad) could brighten up your weekday outlook considerably. (6-8-00) $$ UNION PUBLIC HOUSE C 4340 N. Campbell Ave., No. 103. 329-8575. Open daily 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Union Public House offers a fun, hip atmosphere, with lots of TVs turned to sports and patio views of lovely St. Philip’s Plaza. Some of the food is brilliant, particularly the pub chips (with pork belly!) and the oh-so-good pot pie. (4-12-12) $$-$$$$ WILBUR’S GRILL E 4855 E. Broadway Blvd. 745-6500 ext. 5043. Open daily 10:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Some of the best restaurants are located in hotels—and ignored by locals. Wilbur’s fits this description perfectly, and locals are missing out. Fantastic service, great happy-hour deals and delicious food make this a great place to grab a beer after work and watch whatever game happens to be on. (10-2-03) $$-$$$
WILDFLOWER NW 7037 N. Oracle Road. 219-4230. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Inventive and bright contemporary cuisine served in an elegant and stylish setting. Wildflower showcases excellent service, state-of-the-art martinis and outrageous desserts. An extremely popular dining spot that deserves its reputation. (7-27-00) $$-$$$ ZINBURGER NW 1865 E. River Road. 299-7799. Open Sunday-
Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 6390 E. Grant Road (298-2020). Is Tucson ready for an upscale burger joint? The existence of Zinburger provides the answer to that question: a resounding yes! The burgers are perfectly prepared, and the sides are satisfying, provided you like stuff that’s been fried. After you enjoy the Kobe burger, the truffle fries and the date-and-honey shake, you won’t be able to look at burgers, fries and shakes in the same way ever again. (5-15-08) $$-$$$
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SOUTHWEST DESERT DOGS E 5214 E. Pima St. 982-3504. Open Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. This tiny place is one of Tucson’s better hot dog joints, offering wieners with fixings in the styles of Chicago, Coney Island, New York, “Texas BBQ” and, of course, Sonora. The bratwurst is delicious, and the odd charm of the place—with three indoor tables and a patio just off of busy Pima Street—is undeniable. (5-19-11) $
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It Comes Together
By Stephen Seigel, musiced@tucsonweekly.com
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BY CARL HANNI, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com ucson’s resident icon of musical unpredictability, Howe Gelb, is back in a big way with a new CD and an expanded version of his shape-shifting, severaldecades-running band, Giant Sand. Now dubbed Giant Giant Sand, and sporting no less than 12 players spread over two continents, Gelb and Giant Giant Sand have produced what might be the best record of his three-decades-long career—and it’s a rock opera, no less. Released June 12 on Fire Records, Tucson: A Country Rock Opera features 19 songs, 17 of them written by Gelb and/or fellow band members, and two cover songs. There’s not a moment that isn’t infused with beautiful or beautifully jagged melodies, and supple grooves and exquisite playing. There are finely placed Latin/border touches in the arrangements and commanding vocals by four different lead singers. The expanded version of Giant Giant Sand includes some of Tucson’s top younger musical talent and personalities: Gabriel Sullivan, Brian Lopez and Jon Villa. These guys are all band leaders and master collaborators in their own right, with more overlapping projects going on than it’s possible to keep track of. Giant Giant Sand also includes the striking vocalist Lonna Kelley from Phoenix; ace pedalsteel-guitar player and solo artist Maggie Björklund; and a pair of Danish string players, Iris Jakobsen and Asger Christensen. This is in addition to the stable Giant Sand lineup of the last few years: Gelb, Danish expatriate bass player Thøger Lund, and three more who still call Denmark home: drummer Peter Dombernowsky; guitar, lap-steel and mandolin player Anders Pedersen; and keyboard player Nikolaj Heyman. The story of how Giant Giant Sand came together, and how Tucson: A Country Rock Opera came to be, is a convoluted tale, only a fraction of which can be told here. But the expanded band first came together when Gelb and Giant Sand were booked to play at the Wasserfest in Berlin last July. Urged by the local promoter to bring more players, Gelb brought Lopez, Sullivan and Villa. Lopez, in turn, suggested the Danish string players—who are from the same town in Denmark as the rest of band. And one of them was also born in Tucson. With no rehearsal, the band played for three hours, with various combinations of musicians. The key moment came during a version of the Peruvian cumbia number “Caranito,” as the band was transitioning from Lopez and Sullivan’s opening set into the full band. Gelb describes it as “instantaneous combustion—the whole stage explodes, and we were all caught
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up in it. The crowd was caught up in it.” At that moment, Giant Giant Sand was born. The final pieces of the band were added in October, when Lonna Kelley and Maggie Björklund were added to the next Giant Giant Sand show, at the Heartland Festival in Vevey, Switzerland, for which Gelb was curating the music. The majority of Tucson: A Country Rock Opera was recorded between Christmas and New Year’s in Tucson, with all of the local players and Dombernowsky, but minus the string players, Heyman and Pedersen. The rest of the Danish crew recorded their parts in one afternoon session in Denmark in January, playing live with no additional overdubbing. Producer and musician John Parish (PJ Harvey, Eels, etc.) was supposed to mix the entire record, but became ill the morning it was to happen. The finished record is a combination of rough mixes from Wavelab Studio in Tucson, some Danish mixes, a few tracks from a Parish standin in the United Kingdom, and one from Switzerland. None of this is even remotely obvious when listening to the album. It has an incredible richness and consistency of sound that in no way indicates it was pieced together. Gelb and his crew sound inspired and deeply immersed in the material, and Gelb’s resonant, well-weathered voice just keeps getting better with age. Loping, twangy country rockers like “Forever and a Day,” “Lost Love,” “Undiscovered Country,” “Thing Like That” and “We Don’t Play Tonight,” and the bluesy desert shuffle “Slag Heap,” sit next to quiet, acoustic numbers like “Wind Blown Waltz,” “Mostly Wrong,” “Hard Morning in a Soft Blur” and “New River.” Lopez takes the lead for the lovely “Love Comes Over You,” as does Sullivan on “The Sun Belongs to You.” Kelley almost steals the show with her jazz-noir number “Ready or Not”;
duets with Gelb on “Not the End of the World”; and sings with Gelb, Lopez and Sullivan on The Band number “Out of the Blue.” The hushed, deep-cosmos number “Recovery Mission,” with backup vocals from Gelb’s daughter Talula and some school friends, is quietly stunning; they seem to have created a whole new world out of the ether. And the rock opera? Well, it didn’t start out that way. This is not a Tommy, or The Wall, with a narrative line and obvious characters. It is, instead, according to Gelb a “pasticcio,” or pastiche, “an opera assembled with songs not written for it.” This is an opera that was conceived while sequencing the album. Gelb says that when he realized there were four lead singers, “that might be able to constitute an opera, because you need other characters to sing. So, here’s where the trick comes into play, the art that you wouldn’t think was the art: If we put this like this, and then put this like this, and then look at the story line, this is what’s happening. It’s positioning, juxtapositioning.” The story, in three parts, is sketched out in considerable detail in Gelb’s liner notes. It’s essentially a journey by a ne’er-do-well who leaves his home in Tucson, ends up incarcerated on the border and goes through a series of transformations before he finds his way back to Tucson. The story is anything but linear, but what has Gelb ever done than can be considered linear? And why call it Tucson? “It was set in Tucson because I live in Tucson. I’ve been here 40 years. Why set it anywhere else?” Gelb is clearly taken with this combination of musicians and how it all came together. “When nature is kind enough, it comes together. If you listen to nature, if you listen to the accidents in play, if you read the coincidences as signposts … you don’t need to figure out why it happened; just go this way, and you’ll be fine.”
I first met Jeff Klein in October 2006, when he was in town for a show as a member of the Twilight Singers, the band fronted by once-andcurrent Afghan Whigs leader Greg Dulli and featuring Mark Lanegan. I had interviewed Dulli in advance of their show at Club Congress, and happened to be at Congress the night before the show, where I found Dulli and his bandmates having a drink in the lobby. After chatting with Dulli for a bit, I began talking to the friendly guy sitting next to him, Klein. Within a matter of minutes, the conversation turned to where we grew up, where we’ve lived since then, and our experiences in between. Klein had been living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan for a while, with his famous actress girlfriend, in an apartment so notorious for its debauchery that I had actually read about it online somewhere, not realizing it was Klein’s place. After his relationship came to an end, and Klein realized he couldn’t sustain that sort of lifestyle (“There are only so many times you can wake up at 11 a.m. and come downstairs to find [famous late-night TV talk-show host] and [famous child actor] doing lines off your livingroom table,” he told me), he eventually settled in Austin, Texas. When I told him I grew up in Springfield, Ill., he said, “One of my best friends in Austin is from Springfield.” “Well, Springfield’s not that big, so try me,” I said—and it turned out his friend in Austin was one of my best friends from high school. We called our mutual friend on the spot and spent the rest of the night drinking and talking about relationships, our experiences growing up Jewish—you name it. A new friendship was born. In addition to serving as a member of the Twilight Singers, Klein was also the opening act for the show the following night (he had released a trio of highly regarded solo albums), and, unfortunately, I got there too late to catch his set. Not long after that, Klein formed the band My Jerusalem. Still largely unfamiliar with his solo work and that of My Jeru, I made it a point to meet our mutual friend at the band’s showcase at SXSW in Austin, in either 2010 or 2011. As anyone who is friends with musicians knows, it can be uncomfortable knowing someone before you see them perform. If they suck, are you honest? Do you just smile and nod and say, “Great show, man”? As it turns out, I needn’t have worried. Even if I hadn’t known the band’s frontman, My Jerusalem’s powerhouse set before a packed house would have ended up as one of the best shows I saw all week in Austin. Since then, I’ve repeatedly spun the band’s 2010 debut album, Gone for Good (One Little Indian), as well as a couple of EPs, to the point of addiction. My Jerusalem’s music contains instantly familiar (though surprisingly
SOUNDBITES CONTINUED nonderivative) melodies, elements of fervent gospel, and a fire-and-brimstone urgency. Klein’s obviously been influenced by his time performing with Dulli, but his songs are far from sound-alikes. There’s a certain uplifting grandiosity to them, but they never stray into the overblown. And Klein has put together a band of ringers to perform them, including Cully Symington of Bishop Allen, and Ashley Dzerigian of Great Northern. Though My Jerusalem is far from a household name (yet), they’ve become critics’ darlings, earning praise from the BBC and NPR, as well as being named one of Daytrotter’s Best of 2011. Earlier this year, they recorded their second full-length with Spoon’s Jim Eno; a selfdescribed “post-modern gothic soul album,” Preachers will be released in October. As for their show here this week, well, I can’t recommend it highly enough. How’s ’bout we show my friend a grand Tucson welcome, eh? Trust me; you won’t regret it. My Jerusalem make their Tucson debut on Tuesday, July 10, at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St. HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS open the show at 9:30 p.m., and admission is $8. For more info, head to plushtucson.com, or call 798-1298.
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4. Sex Prisoner Sex Prisoner 7” (To Live a Lie) details are available at plushtucson.com or by calling 798-1298.
5. Project X Straight Edge Revenge 7” (Bridge Nine)
ONE-MAN ROCKABILLY BAND After a couple of decades of fronting the trio Al Foul and the Shakes, Al Foul went solo for the release of his 2005 album, The One, The Only (Rock-N-Roll Purgatory)—and in his case, solo means simultaneously singing and playing guitar and drums (“bass drum and stomparine”—the latter being a tambourine triggered by foot stomps). In other words, he’s become a one-man band. This week, Foul, the undisputed king of Tucson rockabilly, releases his second solo album. Keep the Motor Running (self-released), recorded at Loveland Studio, strips Foul’s brand of rockabilly down to its essence; aside from lead guitar from Naim Amor on a trio of tunes, Foul is responsible for everything you hear on the album. The Mammoth resident has never succumbed to rockabilly fads—you won’t find any traces of psychobilly, punkabilly or any other mutation of the genre in his music. No, Foul has always been a traditionalist in the mold of Charlie Feathers or Johnny Burnette—though the lyrics can occasionally remind you that you’re living in the 21st century. Still, for the most part, he sticks with tried-and-true themes such as being on the wrong side of the law, troubled love, and trying to make your way home after sordid adventures. The title track plays a neat trick with tempo, gradually and deceptively speeding up as the song proceeds until it reaches a fever pitch by song’s end. “The D.A.W.N.” is an oddly sweet tune about waking up in your clothes after failing to make it home because you’re too stoned. “Baby Clothes and Dishes for Sale” is about a character tossed in jail for failing to pay child support and the yard sale he holds upon his release. And on “Memphis,” Foul gives a shout-out to his home in Mammoth and his real-life “ball and chain,” Maggie. (Thank goodness she’s got a sense of humor.) The album runs through 10 songs in a half-hour, and there’s not a clunker among them. Al Foul celebrates the release of Keep the Motor Running at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St., on Saturday, July 7. Tom Walbank and the Ambassadors and Hank Topless start the show off at 9:30 p.m. Admission is $5. Further
SHORT TAKES Johnnie and the Rumblers are a local trio of dudes who have decided to pursue their passion for playing music at 60-something. This week, they’re releasing their debut album, Dos Equis, with a CD-release show on Friday, July 6, at the Irish Pub, 9155 E. Tanque Verde Road. Based on song snippets they sent along, the band’s music ranges from blues-rock (among others, there are covers of “Mustang Sally,” “Chain of Fools” and ZZ Top’s “Gimme All Your Lovin’” included), to ’70s hard rock à la Alice Cooper. The show gets started at 7 p.m., and admission is free. Call 749-2299 for more info. Café Passe, 415 N Fourth Ave., continues its weekly Country Sundays series this week with a performance by Phoenix’s Kevin Daly, who performs country, psychobilly and garage rock with his groups Grave Danger and Chicken and Waffles. He’ll be performing a solo set at Passe on Sunday, July 8, along with the venerable country singer-songwriter Hank Topless. Music begins at 7 p.m., and admission is free. Call 624-4411 for details. Co-ed Austin duo Technicolor Hearts headline an RR Nites show at La Cocina, 201 N. Court Ave., on Friday, July 6. The band members describe their music as featuring “elements of dreamy psych pop woven in with arts and crafts rock, orchestral and synth layering, raw folk and storybook rhyme.” Acorn Bcorn gets the night rolling around 10 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are welcome. For more information, check out lacocinatucson.com, or call 622-0351.
6. Make a Zine! When Words and Graphics Collide (book) Joe Biel (Microcosm)
7. The Bags All Bagged Up: The Collected Works 1977-1980 (Artifix)
8. Blood Spasm Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (self-released)
4TH AVE CONSTRUCTION SPECIAL
9. Charles Manson Trees (Magic Bullet)
10. Besmirchers If Loving You Is Wrong … (Puke in the Sink)
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MON: TEAM TRIVIA @ 7pm: Compete for Gift Cards to Brooklyn Pizza Co! Game Night, Free Pool Open - Close Happy Hour TUES: Family evening w/$8.88 Cheese Pizzas Free Pool from 8pm - Close Live Jazz, Drink Specials! WED: Open Mic 6pm - Close. THURS: $2 Full Sail Drafts. $3 Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey Live Music - No Cover! FRI: Fire Dancers 7:30pm & 8:30pm O/W/L/S presents HOT ERA. DANCE. DRINK. FUN. $2 Well Vodka from 11pm-1am SAT: Live Music - No Cover! SUN: Open to Close Happy Hour!
ON THE BANDWAGON Chicago and the Doobie Brothers at AVA at Casino del Sol on Wednesday, July 11; Ultramaroon, Spray Paint, JJCnV and Hibris at The District Tavern on Sunday, July 8; Fatal Funnel CD-release with Broken Romeo, Funky Bonz and others at The Rock on Friday, July 6; comedians Rob Delaney, Pauly Casillas and Jericho Davidson at Club Congress on Friday, July 6; the Last Call Brawlers, The Hopheads and Bob Spasm Unplugged at the Surly Wench Pub on Saturday, July 7. There’s lots more happening this week, so be sure to check out our listings section. JULY 5 – 11, 2012 TuCsON WEEKLY 45
The Big Stuff Band/Musician of the Year
Up-and-Coming Artist(s) of the Year
Broken Romeo (R) Lenguas Largas (C) Brian Lopez (C) Ryanhood (R) LeeAnne Savage (R) Silver Thread Trio (C)
Boreas (C, R) Dream Sick (C) Saint Maybe (C) This Group of People (C) Young Hunter (C)
Best New Release (since May 2011) Lenguas Largas, Lenguas Largas (C) Brian Lopez, Ultra (C) Ryanhood, After Night Came Sun (R) LeeAnne Savage, To the Nines (R) Gabriel Sullivan and Taraf de Tucson, None of This Is Mine (C) Tesoro, Live at Hotel Congress (R) Various Artists, Luz de Vida (C)
Bluegrass Cadillac Mountain (C, R) The Dusty Buskers (C, R) Greg Morton Band (C, R) Run Boy Run (C) Country/Western Cochise County All Stars (C) Al Perry (C) LeeAnne Savage (R) Hank Topless (C) Cover Band 80’s and Gentlemen (R) Atom Heart Mother (C) Top Dead Center (R) Vintage Sugar (R) Whole Lotta Zep (C) The Zsa Zsas (C) DJ Bonus (C) Carl Hanni (C) Herm (C) Kidd Kutz (R) Matt McCoy (C, R) Electronic Altrice (C, R) CrimeKillz (C) Leather Clutch (R) ... music video? (C, R) Zackey Force Funk (C) Folk Namoli Brennet (C) Dylan Charles (C) Amber Norgaard (R) Ryanhood (R) Silver Thread Trio (C, R) The Tangelos (R) Funk/Soul 8 Minutes to Burn (R) The AmoSphere (C, R) Kate Becker and the Zodiacs (C) Funky Bonz (C, R) Kiss and the Tells (C) Hip Hop Big Meridox (C) Shaun Harris (C, R) The Project (R) Isaiah Toothtaker (C) Jazz The Black Jackalope Ensemble (C) Matt Mitchell/Hot Club of Tucson (C) Collin Shook Trio (C, R) Jazz Telephone (C, R) The Tryst (R) 46 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
Tucson Area Music
Latin Jazz/Salsa Combo Westside (C) Salvador Duran (C) Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta (C, R) Reno del Mar (R) A Son y Sol (C) Tesoro (R) Mariachi Aztlan de Pueblo High School (C, R) Luz de Luna (C, R) Tesoro de Tucson (C) Metal Anakim (C) The Gallery (C) Stands With Fists (R) Young Hunter (C) Punk Acorn Bcorn (C) Church Key (C) Deceptively Innocent (R) Lariats (R) Lenguas Largas (C) Ultramaroon (C) Reggae/Ska Neon Prophet (C, R) Planet Jam (C, R) Skitn (C, R) Rock Broken Romeo (R) HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS (C) Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout (C) Seashell Radio (C) The Whiskey Knuckles (R) Roots Rock/Rockabilly The El Camino Royales (C, R) Al Foul (C, R) Last Call Brawlers (C) Tejano The Festival Band (R) Los Gallegos (C) Hollywood Knights (C, R) Relente (R) Suerte (R) World Batucaxé (C, R) Key Ingredients of African Soul (C) Spirit Familia (C) Gabriel Sullivan and Taraf de Tucson (C) Vox Urbana (C)
PRESENTED BY:
(C) = Critics’ Choice finalist (R) = Readers’ Choice finalist
Musicians Awards Female Vocalist Katherine Byrnes (Sweet Ghosts, Michael P.’s Big Band) (C) Keli Carpenter (The Tryst) (C, R) Sabra Faulk (C) Amy Rude (C) LeeAnne Savage (R) Silver Thread Trio (C) Male Vocalist Carlos Arzate (American Android) (C) Cameron Hood (Ryanhood) (R) Paul Jenkins (… music video?) (C) Brian Lopez (C, R) James Turpin (Broken Romeo) (R) Songwriter Keli Carpenter (The Tryst) (R) Cameron Hood (Ryanhood) (R) Isaac Reyes (Lenguas Largas) (C) Amy Rude (C) LeeAnne Savage (R) Hank Topless (C) Guitarist Bryan Dean (R) Doug Floyd (Funky Bonz, The Jits, Amber Norgaard, Bad Tourist) (R) Connor Gallaher (Catfish and Weezie, Andrew Collberg, Marianne Dissard) (C) Ryan Green (Ryanhood) (C, R) Clay Koweek (Taraf de Tucson, Donky Tonk
Awards
2012 Finalists
VOTING ENDS AT NOON ON WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1
Performance Awards
Blues Bad News Blues Band (R) Bryan Dean Trio (C, R) Tom Walbank (C, R)
TAMM ES
Music, Andrew Collberg, Otherly Love, Will Elliott) (C) Mike Sydloski (Cheepness, Atom Heart Mother) (C) Bassist Garth Bryson (Church Key, Garboski) (C) Taylor Bungard (The Tryst, This Group of People) (R) Brian Green (The Impossibles, Leila Lopez, Courtney Robbins) (C) Mark Lee (Funky Bonz, Bad Tourist) (R) Troy Martin (The Tangelos, LeeAnne Savage) (R) Chris Pierce (Faster Than Light, The Black Jackalope Ensemble) (C) Drummer Ray Clamons (8 Minutes to Burn, Top Dead Center) (R) Dick Solomon (Ultramaroon, Lenguas Largas, Shark Pants) (C) Carlos Solorzano (Come Thirsty) (R) Winston Watson (Saint Maybe, Greyhound Soul) (C) Keyboardist John Gatty (Top Dead Center) (R) Ralph Martinez (Relente) (R) Collin Shook (Collin Shook Trio, The Black Jackalope Ensemble) (C, R) Cassie Van Gelder (Seashell Radio) (C)
Horn Player Jeff Grubic (Jazz Telephone, Amor/Grubic) (C) Rick Hernandez (Festival Band) (R) Aldy Montufar (The Tryst) (C, R) Ruben Moreno (Mariachi Luz de Luna) (C) Jacob Valenzuela (Calexico) (C) Jon Villa (The Jons, Taraf de Tucson, Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta, Giant Giant Sand) (C, R) String Player Vicki Brown (Brian Lopez, Amy Rude) (C, R) Mona Chambers (Brian Lopez) (C, R) Beth Daunis (Reno del Mar) (C, R) Heather Hardy (C, R) Multi-Instrumentalist Chris Black (Chamberlab, Taraf de Tucson, The Awkward Moments) (C) AmoChip Dabney (The AmoSphere, Gentle Thunder) (R) Gary Mackender (The Carnivaleros) (C) Sergio Mendoza (Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta) (C) Michael P. Nordberg (Michael P.’s Big Band, The El Camino Royales) (R) The Rosano Brothers (C) (Rosano Bros. Virtual Quartet, etc.) Ben Schneider (Otherly Love, Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout, Golden Boots) (C)
TAMMIES Rules and Explanations presented in a handy Q&A format How does this whole voting thing work? Head on over to TucsonWeekly.com, and click on the ballot. Once there, fill out the ballot to the best of your ability, and submit it! It’s that simple. However, be sure to include BOTH a working phone number AND an e-mail address; otherwise, your vote will not be counted. (E-mail addresses and phone numbers will NOT be sold or used for any purpose other than verifying ballots.) What if my number’s unlisted, and/or I don’t want to include it on the ballot? Well, then your ballot will be deleted. Sorry. That’s the way it is. No exceptions! Can I cut out this sample ballot and send it in? Nope; only ballots submitted online at TucsonWeekly.com will be counted. When’s the voting deadline? Votes will be accepted, barring any technological issues and/or dangling-chad problems, through noon, Wednesday, Aug. 1. How many times can I vote? Once, and only once. No ballot-box-stuffing, either; we’ll be watching cookies and IP addresses and all sorts of other stuff, so don’t even try it. At least that’s what the tech guys tell us. What’s the difference between the Readers’ Choice and the Critics’ Choice finalists? The Readers’ Choice finalists were picked by our splendid readers who voted online in April and May. Our Critics’ Choice
finalists were picked by a talented group of local journalists, club-bookers and other music experts; they sent their votes to our crack music editor, and he counted ’em up. If there’s a “C” next to the name on the sample ballot, that means that group/ musician was one of the top vote-getters among the critics; if there’s an “R,” that means that group/musician was one of the top vote-getters among the readers. If there’s both a “C” and an “R,” well, duh, that means that group/musician was at or near the top of the lists with both our critics and readers! Why do some categories have as few as three finalists, while others have as many as seven? It all depends on how many votes we received, and how close the vote tallies were. We didn’t want to eliminate any worthy finalists if the vote difference was small; likewise, we didn’t want to pad the numbers of finalists when there were clear-cut results. When will the winners be announced? At the TAMMIES concert and ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 5. Anything else we readers/voters should know? Sure; let’s go over the important stuff again. Only one ballot per person, please. Ballots without both an e-mail address AND a phone number will NOT be counted. Ballot-box stuffing will not be tolerated. Any ballots submitted as part of a suspected ballot-box-stuffing effort will be thrown out at the discretion of the editor. If you have questions, call 295-4221 or e-mail mailbag@tucsonweekly.com. Campaigning is just fine; attempts to unfairly sway the results of the voting are not.
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. 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. BOONDOCKS LOUNGE 3306 N. First Ave. 690-0991. BORDERLANDS BREWING COMPANY 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773. THE BOXING GYM 1080 N. Contzen Ave. 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. 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. DESERT DIAMOND CASINO SPORTS BAR Interstate 19 and Pima Mine Road. 393-2700. 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. ENOTECA PIZZERIA WINE BAR 58 W. Congress St. 623-0744. 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. GENTLE BEN’S BREWING COMPANY 865 E. University Blvd. 624-4177. GOLD Westward Look Resort, 245 E. Ina Road. 917-2930, ext. 474. 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. 8823053. IGUANA CAFE 210 E. Congress St. 882-5140. IRISH PUB 9155 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-2299. JASPER NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANT AND BAR 6370 N. Campbell Ave., No. 160. 577-0326. JAVELINA CANTINA 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200, ext. 5373. JEFF’S PUB 112 S. Camino Seco Road. 886-1001.
KNOW WHERE II 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. 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. NORTH 2995 E. Skyline Drive. 299-1600. O’MALLEY’S 247 N. Fourth Ave. 623-8600. THE OFFICE BAR 6333 S. Sixth Ave. 746-9803. OLD FATHER INN 4080 W. Ina Road. Marana. 744-1200. OLD PUEBLO GRILLE 60 N. Alvernon Way. 326-6000. OLD TUBAC INN RESTAURANT AND SALOON 7 Plaza Road. Tubac. (520) 398-3161. ON A ROLL 63 E. Congress St. 622-7655. ORACLE INN 305 E. American Ave. Oracle. 896-3333. 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. 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. PURGATORY 1310 S. Alvernon Way. 795-1996. 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. REVOLUTIONARY GROUNDS 606 N. Fourth Ave. 620-1770.
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. 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. SKRAPPY’S 191 E. Toole Ave. 358-4287. 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. TUCSON RACQUET AND FITNESS CLUB 4001 N. Country Club Road. 795-6960. 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. WISDOM’S CAFÉ 1931 E. Frontage Road. Tumacacori. 398-2397. WOODEN NICKEL 1908 S. Country Club Road. 323-8830. WOODY’S 3710 N. Oracle Road. 292-6702. WORLD FAMOUS GOLDEN NUGGET 2617 N. First Ave. 622-9202. ZEN ROCK 121 E. Congress St. 624-9100.
THU JUL 5 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch Boondocks Lounge Titan Valley Warheads Café Passé Jeff Grubic and Naim Amor Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Live classical guitar 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 Aaron Gilmartin The Hut Texas Trash, The Roilers Las Cazuelitas Live music McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Susan Artemis Mint Cocktails Open mic with DJ Deacon O’Malley’s Live music On a Roll Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Garth Brooks tribute Plush Courtney Robbins RPM Nightclub 80’s and Gentlemen Sheraton Hotel and Suites Prime Example Sky Bar Collin Shook Trio, Catfish and Weezie Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Union Public House George Howard and Larry Loud Whiskey Tango Live music Wild Bill’s Steakhouse and Saloon Wild Oats
KARAOKE/OPEN MIC The Bamboo Club Karaoke with DJ Tony G Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y-Not Karaoke Buffalo Wild Wings Y-Not Karaoke The Depot Sports Bar Karaoke with DJ Brandon El Charro Café Sahuarita Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star karaoke Famous Sam’s Valencia Hilda’s Sports Bar The Hog Pit Smokehouse Bar and Grill Steve Morningwood acoustic open-mic night Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Open mic with DJ Odious and Relic Know Where II 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
DANCE/DJ 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. Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge Salsa night 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
COMEDY Laffs Comedy Caffé Open mic
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Don Pedro’s Peruvian Bistro (PERU) 3386 S. 6th Avenue ■ 209-1740
Yamato Japanese Restaurant (JAPANESE) 857 E. Grant Road ■ 624-3377
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Little Mexico Restaurant and Steakhouse (MEXICAN) 698 W. Irvington Road ■ 573-2924 2851 W. Valencia Road ■ 578-8852
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COMEDY Club Congress Rob Delaney, Pauly Casillas, Jericho Davidson Laffs Comedy Caffé Lamont Ferguson, Trenton Davis Revolutionary Grounds Not Burnt Out Just Unscrewed
SAT JUL 7 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bashful Bandit Live music Boondocks Lounge Tony and the Torpedoes Café Passé Elephant Head Trio Cascade Lounge George Howard Chicago Bar Neon Prophet Club Congress Bikini Island party: Inspector Gadje, The Furys, Rip Dee La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Copper and Congress 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 Live music Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Angel Norteno 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 Enoteca Pizzeria Wine Bar Phil Borzillo Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Live music Flying V Bar and Grill Solo guitarist 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, Tesoro The Hideout Los Bandidos The Hut 8 Minutes to Burn, Bennu Irish Pub First Love Las Cazuelitas Mariachis Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Lookout Bar and Grille at Westward Look Resort Live acoustic McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky 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 The Office Bar Reggae Night: 12 Tribes Sound, Jahmar International Old Pueblo Grille Live music Old Tubac Inn Restaurant and Saloon Haywire Oracle Inn Greg Spivey Band O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Noches Nortenas La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Plush Hank Topless, Tom Walbank and the Ambassadors, Al Foul Ric’s Cafe/Restaurant Live music River’s Edge Lounge Live Wire The Rock Miss CJ presents Arizona in July: It’s a Hardcore Thing: Bow in Astoria, The Greater We Stand, The Endless Obsession, A Clockwork Orange, Scream of Era, Cities of Refuge, Quickening, Epoch Empire
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NINE QUESTIONS Kevin William Lee Kevin William Lee is a bartender, musician and standup comedian. Originally from Scranton, Pa. (a fact which is featured prominently in his comedy), Lee has been living in Tucson for about seven years. As a musician, Lee has played drums for such bands as the Swim, Four Five Six and Birds of India. As a comedian, Lee worked his way up from open-mic nights to opening for big acts like Kevin “Dot Com” Brown and Doug Stanhope. He founded the Wednesday Night Comedy night at Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar, a weekly event that just had its first anniversary. Lee performs regularly on Wednesdays at Mr. Head’s and Thursdays at Laffs Comedy Caffé. Eric Swedlund, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com
What was the first concert you attended? The original Roots Crew and Kool Keith at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia. (Ah, the mid-’90s!) What are you listening to these days? Everything by Hot Snakes, Fugazi, Okay Paddy, and Q and Not U. What was the first album you owned? Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall. It’s timeless. What artist, genre, or musical trend does everyone seem to love but you just don’t get? Rockabilly and solo acoustic acts.
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Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure? I have a huge soft spot for ’90s R&B and old Irish drinking songs.
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What song would you like to have played at your funeral? “Guiding Light” by Television.
Arizona Inn Dennis Reed Armitage Wine Lounge and Café Ryanhood The Auld Dubliner Irish jam session Azul Restaurant Lounge Live piano musuic The Bashful Bandit Sunday Jam with the Deacon Boondocks Lounge Kevin Pakulis and Amy Langley Chicago Bar Reggae Sundays La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Catfish and Weezie Driftwood Restaurant and Lounge Live music Eddies Cocktails Dust Devils La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente 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 Hut Bikini bike wash, Torn Hammer Las Cazuelitas Live music Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Titan Valley Warheads Lotus Garden Restaurant Melody Louise McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse David Prouty Old Pueblo Grille Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Plush Coins of Catalina
What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live? MC5 and Nirvana. Kurt would be in his 40s now, and probably a little better at guitar.
What band or artist changed your life, and how? A New York City-based band called the All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors. They showed me that rock could be fun, and should be. Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time? It’s a toss-up between The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society and the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds.
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JONATHAN RICHMAN WITH TOMMY LARKINS LA COCINA Wednesday, June 27 You would think that being old enough to order from the senior citizens’ menu would slow you down some. Thankfully, nobody told Jonathan Richman that. The bard of Boston, with Tucson’s own venerable drummer Tommy Larkins, regaled the audience packing the courtyard of La Cocina for 90 minutes straight. La Cocina cleared out the tables and chairs, a wise move. The audience was a shining example of Richman’s fan base: young and old, hipster and hippie, and everything in between. Bounding onstage with his trusty six-string acoustic guitar, Richman—with puppy-dog eyes and a forlorn stare—announced it was time for a sound check. With a few snippets of “No One Was Like Vermeer,” we were off to a boundless start. Up next was my personal Richman favorite: a slow and brooding “Let Her Go Into the Darkness,” beautifully punctuated by the sound of a train in the distance. Peppering the set were songs sung in Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew—often from one line to the next. There were many moments when his enthusiasm overtook him so much that he stepped away from the mic and, still singing, stepped off the stage to shuffle, shimmy and shake. His best dance moves came while performing, naturally, “I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar.” Larkins performed a tasteful drum solo on this track, which Richman accentuated with a cowbell and a set of reindeer bells as he led the crowd in a sing-along. Jonathan Richman may not be an angst-ridden young rocker anymore, but there are stripped-down reminders of that era. He sang with almost a hint of snarl on “Keith Richards,” a tasty homage to the Rolling Stones guitar hero; commenting on Richards’ “velveteen jackets and dirty jeans,” you could see a glimmer of the young Roadrunner in his Modern Lovers prime. A nice surprise was the choogling instrumental “Egyptian Reggae,” the lone track Richman played from the Modern Lovers era. On numerous occasions, the constantly smiling Richman let us know that we were all “invited to the party,” and for an hour and a half, that’s exactly what La Cocina was—a backyard party led by a legendary troubadour. Casey Dewey mailbag@tucsonweekly.com
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Throughout his 35-year recording career, jazz keyboardist Jeff Lorber has consistently defied those who would lazily slap him with the “smooth jazz” label. With and without his group, the Jeff Lorber Fusion, he has played electric, groove-based jazz infused with elements of funk, R&B, pop, Latin and rock music. This is the second album by the latest iteration of JLF— which Lorber reconvened in 2010—and it combines seven fresh compositions with four tunes culled from the band’s early catalog: “Wizard Island,” “City,” “The Underground” and “The Samba.” The melodies on Galaxy are catchy and accessible, the arrangements taut and tasteful, but there is also creative tension in the tracks. It helps to have seasoned veterans, such as saxophonist Eric Marienthal, trumpeter Randy Brecker, bassist Jimmy Haslip, drummers Vinnie Colaiuta and Dave Weckl, and no less than four guitarists. Lorber takes occasional solos, burning up the Fender Rhodes on the deeply funky “Big Brother” and, especially, the explosive Tower of Powerleaning “Montserrat,” but he leaves ample room for guitar and horn solos. The entire crew shows off monster chops. Perhaps the best example is “Horace,” a tribute to the great pianist Horace Silver, a pioneer for incorporating funk and Caribbean styles in jazz. The track is proof Lorber has not lost a step. Or his edge. Gene Armstrong
With Willie Nelson taking on so many collaborators, Heroes is inevitably scattered—and cynics might say it’s merely a vehicle to boost his son Lukas’ career—but it strikes gold again and again. Opener “A Horse Called Music” is a beautiful duet with Merle Haggard, classic country at its best, with a soft harmonica riding alongside those two grizzled outlaw crooners. “Roll Me Up” (“And Smoke Me When I Die”) is a barrel of fun, letting Nelson swap vocals with similarly weedinclined guests Snoop Dogg, Kris Kristofferson and Jamey Johnson. Lukas Nelson is clearly his father’s son, with a honeyed rasp passed down through DNA. Lukas contributes three songs—ranging from good to the great “Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her”— and nails the duets. The surprise gems are the Pearl Jam and Coldplay covers. “Just Breathe” features finger-picked guitars, harmonica, pedal steel and beautifully blended harmony from both Nelsons. “The Scientist” is Willie (79 years wise) giving a passionately weary rendition that adds depth of feeling to that familiar melody. I’ve heard bits and pieces of Nelson’s albums since 1998’s Teatro—excursions into blues, reggae, gospel, jazz, standards and a long string of duets—but Heroes is the first album in that span to arrive with execution that exceeds the gimmicks. It’s a jumble, but Willie delivers at least a handful of songs that will make whatever best-of collection comes along next. Eric Swedlund
The name King Tuff functions as shorthand for the music itself: It’s an air of nobility clad in well-worn denim. In other words, it’s rock ’n’ roll performed as though it’s the only thing in the world that matters. Kyle Thomas is the titular King Tuff, a Vermont longhair whose past musical projects have spanned stoner metal and rowdy folk. His first album for Sub Pop is a 40-minute romp of catchy guitar rock that skirts ’60s retro, garage revival and bursts of power pop. Though it’s the calmest track on King Tuff, starting with just an acoustic guitar, “Baby Just Break” holds the key themes. It’s about freeing yourself from dead ends, busting loose and not giving a shit. Thomas plays the role of friendly sage, with the tempting advice to just do the wrong things. Though a bit of regret for all that trouble-making shows up on “Bad Thing”—“When I play my Stratocaster, I feel like an innocent kid / But when I’m looking in the mirror, I remember all the bad things I did”—Thomas still makes it all sound fun. Other standouts are the sneering “Alone and Stoned,” the skewed boogie-blues of “Stranger” and the hand-claps and sing-along chorus of “Hit and Run.” King Tuff knows how to make loud music from hooks, adrenaline, beer, joyous abandon and high levels of sunglass-slacker-cool. Enjoy it with the same. Eric Swedlund
Jeff Lorber and trumpeter Gabriel Mark Hasselbach will play at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 7, at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive. $35 general; $25 Tucson Jazz Society members and military; $20 students; 903-1265; tucsonjazz.org.
Willie Nelson and Family perform at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 11, at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St. $49 to $138; 547-3040.
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MEDICAL MJ NORML keeps pushing for the full legalization of marijuana
Beyond Medical BY J.M. SMITH, jsmith@tucsonweekly.com ot so long ago, it wasn’t cool to want pot legal. Back in the ’70s, when the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, emerged, if you backed legalization, you were pretty much viewed as a loser, a hippie dropout, some kind of craazzzzy tambourine player who donned scarves, ate LSD and danced in parks. Most of America didn’t take the fringe group seriously. But by the time Tucson’s NORML chapter president, Jon Gettel, got involved in the early 2000s, things had changed. Aided by medical marijuana’s legitimacy, NORML had grown into a much-more-respected backer of marijuana legal reform. Now NORML is a federal nonprofit that reaches coast to coast to push for legal access to marijuana—for whatever use you chose. NORML isn’t just trying to appease stoners. “It’s a threetiered program: medical marijuana, recreational marijuana and industrial hemp,” Gettel said of the 42-year-old organization. Though NORML was born of a desire to smoke it up for fun, Gettel got involved because of medical marijuana. He had smoked in high school and college, but never regularly. Whether it was legal never concerned him, until a 1998 car crash left him in the hospital for three months—followed by three months of intensely painful physical therapy. He found
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that marijuana helped with the pain and eased the depression sparked by the accident. Suddenly, Gettel saw the need for legal access beyond the simple freedom to get high. Any chance to give pot a good name is OK by him, and NORML has three table displays that cover the bases: hemp (for business conventions, etc.), recreational use (often at concerts or music festivals) and MMJ (for health fairs). He’s fine with the idea of riding the MMJ wave to legalization for recreational use. “As people see the value of marijuana as a medicine, they’re more likely to support legalization of marijuana in general,” he said. As a nonprofit, NORML can’t advocate for candidates or specific ballot propositions. Ironically, that means the group couldn’t support the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act. But once the measure was on the ballot, the local chapter ramped up its effort to educate the public about the law. A lot of the group’s energy went into making sure voters had accurate information. NORML gets a lot more phone calls since the AMMA passed—everything from patients calling for information about navigating the certification process to potential business owners seeking advice. Gettel would like to see the nonprofit restriction lifted from dispensaries to free up commerce, but in his perfect world, there would be a lot of local con-
trol and local businesses involved. “I don’t want to see Walgreens selling it,” he said. He has also met with Tucson City Council members, unsuccessfully so far, to urge them to pass a resolution making marijuana arrests a low priority for city police. In the end, Gettel thinks we are well down the slippery slope toward the legalization dream. I agree. A generation of political leaders who grew up with pot is about to take the reins of the Greatest Nation on Earth. We’ve been creeping into Congress in dribs and drabs for the past
20 years or so, and in the next 20, we will be in charge. I’d like to think that when that happens, pot will be legal. As Gettel and I spoke outside of Epic Café on a hot summer afternoon, a passer-by stopped to interject that he thought we should just dump the ruse of medical marijuana and go straight for legalization. Gettel and I simply nodded patiently as he spoke at length. “Yeah, but it’s going to take time,” Gettel told the man. Yes … just a little more time.
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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): Members of the Nevada Republican Party have concocted a bizarre version of family values. A large majority of them are opposed to gay marriage, yet they are in favor of legal brothels. Their wacky approach to morality is as weird as that of the family-values crowd in Texas, which thinks it’s wrong to teach adolescents about birth control, even though this has led to a high rate of teen pregnancies. My question is: Why do we let people with screwed-up priorities claim to be the prime caretakers of “family values”? In accordance with the astrological omens, I urge you to reject the conventional wisdom as you clarify what that term means to you. It’s an excellent time to deepen and strengthen your moral foundation. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There’s a term for people who have the ardor of a nymphomaniac in their efforts to gather useful information: infomaniac. That’s exactly what I think you should be in the coming week. You need data and evidence, and you need them in abundance. What you don’t know would definitely hurt you, so make sure you find out everything you need to know. Be as thorough as a spy, as relentless as a muckraking journalist, and as curious as a child. P.S. See if you can set aside as many of your strong opinions and emotional biases as possible. Otherwise, they might distort your quest for the raw truth. Your word of power is empirical. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Of all the signs of the zodiac, you’re the best at discovering short cuts. No one is more talented than you at the art of avoiding boredom. And you could teach a master course in how to weasel out of strenuous work without looking like a weasel. None of those virtues will come in handy during the coming week, however. The way I see it, you should concentrate very hard on not skipping any steps. You should follow the rules, stick to the plan and dedicate yourself to the basics. Finish what you start, please! (Sorry about this grind-it-out advice. I’m just reporting what the planetary omens are telling me.) CANCER (June 21-July 22): The epic breadth of your imagination is legendary. Is there anyone else who can wander around the world without ever once leaving your
home? Is there anyone else who can reincarnate twice in the span of a few weeks without having to go through the hassle of actually dying? And yet now and then, there do come times when your fantasies should be set aside so that you may soak up the teachings that flow your way when you physically venture outside of your comfort zone. Now is such a moment, my fellow Cancerian. Please don’t take a merely virtual break in the action. Get yourself away from it all, even if it’s only to the marvelous diversion or magic sanctuary on the other side of town. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In Norse mythology, Fenrir was a big, bad wolf that the gods were eager to keep tied up. In the beginning, they tried to do it with metal chains, but the beast broke free. Then they commissioned the dwarves to weave a shackle out of six impossible things: a bear’s sinews, a bird’s spit, a fish’s breath, a mountain’s root, a woman’s beard and the sound a cat’s paws made as it walked. This magic fetter was no thicker than a silk ribbon, but it worked very well. Fenrir couldn’t escape from it. I invite you to take inspiration from this story, Leo. As you deal with your current dilemma, don’t try to fight strength with strength. Instead, use art, craft, subtlety and even trickery. I doubt you’ll need to gather as many as six impossible things. Three will probably be enough. Two might even work fine.
maximum advantage of your potential, you will be wise to put yourself in spacious situations that encourage you to expand. For an extra boost, surround yourself with broad-minded, uninhibited people who have worked hard to heal their wounds.
yourself you would concentrate on. The temptation may be high to send out sprays of arrows at several different targets. But I hope that instead, you stick to one target and take careful aim with your best shots.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Over the years, you’ve explored some pretty exotic, even strange ideas about what characterizes a good time. In the coming days, I’m guessing you will add to your colorful tradition with some rather unprecedented variations on the definition of “pleasure” and “happiness.” I don’t mean to imply that this is a problem. Not at all. To paraphrase the Wiccan credo, as long as it harms no one (including yourself), anything goes.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’ve been meditating on a certain need that you have been neglecting, Capricorn—a need that has been chronically underestimated, belittled or ignored, by both you and others. I am hoping that this achy longing will soon be receiving some of your smart attention and tender care. One good way to get the process started is simply to acknowledge its validity and importance. Doing so will reveal a secret that will help you attend to your special need with just the right touch.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There come times in your life when you have a sacred duty to be open to interesting tangents and creative diversions—times when it makes sense to wander around aimlessly with wonder in your eyes and be alert for unexpected clues that grab your attention. But this is not one of those times, in my opinion. Rather, you really need to stay focused on what you promised
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Due to the pressure-packed influences currently coming to bear on your destiny, you have Official Cosmic Permission to fling three dishes against the wall. (But no more than three.) If you so choose, you also have clearance to hurl rocks in the direction of heaven, throw darts at photos of your nemeses and cram a coconut-cream pie into your own face. Please understand,
however, that taking actions like these should be just the initial phase of your master plan for the week. In the next phase, you should capitalize on all of the energy you’ve made available for yourself through purgative acts like the ones I mentioned. Capitalize how? For starters, you could dream and scheme about how you will liberate yourself from things that make you angry and frustrated. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Check to see if you’re having any of the following symptoms: 1. sudden eruptions of gratitude; 2. a declining fascination with conflict; 3. seemingly irrational urges that lead you to interesting discoveries; 4. yearnings to peer more deeply into the eyes of people you care about; 5. a mounting inability to tolerate boring influences that resist transformation; 6. an increasing knack for recognizing and receiving the love that’s available to you. If you’re experiencing at least three of the six symptoms, you are certifiably in close alignment with the cosmic flow, and should keep doing what you’ve been doing. If none of these symptoms have been sweeping through you, get yourself adjusted.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This is a time when your personal actions will have more power than usual to affect the world around you. The ripples you set in motion could ultimately touch people you don’t even know and transform situations you’re not part of. That’s a lot of responsibility! I suggest, therefore, that you be on your best behavior. Not necessarily your mildest, most-polite behavior, mind you. Rather, be brave, impeccable, full of integrity and a little wild. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Goldfish that are confined in small aquariums stay small. Those that spend their lives in ponds get much bigger. What can we conclude from these facts? The size and growth rate of goldfish are directly related to their environment. I’d like to suggest that a similar principle will apply to you Librans in the next 10 months. If you want to take
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¡ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net net Dear Mexican: Suppose the United States government and the American public were as progressive and conscious of our country’s true selfinterests as are, for example, those in many European countries. Suppose this had been true in the decades immediately following World War II, when northern and western Europe subsidized the development of Southern European nations, such as Spain, Portugal and Greece. If the U.S. had sponsored and funded infrastructural, educational, social and economic development in Mexico during the 1950s to the 1980s the way the more-prosperous countries of Europe helped the less-prosperous nations of their region to prepare them for membership in the future European Union, would not Mexico today be a much more prosperous, healthy, sustainable and pleasant place to live than it is, with less immigration into the U.S.—and immigration therefore a much less contentious issue? Would this not be even more true if the more than $1 trillion the U.S. has burned through, to no great effect, in Iraq and Afghanistan had been spent and invested in our neighbor to the south, with whom we share an enormous land border, and many of whose population are also members of the U.S. population? Need a Mexican Marshall Plan Dear Gabacho: You’re ignoring the billions of dollars El Norte has sent down Mexico way in the form of governmental aid and immigrant remittances over the past 60 years, and neglect to mention that the subsidies the more-prosperous European countries gave to their lessfortunate, non-Warsaw Pact neighbors provided only temporary relief—look at all the bailouts being proposed for Spain, Greece, Italy and their ilk nowadays. Also, the relationship between those European countries is vastly different from the relationship between Mexico and the United States—the latter is more like the neo-colonial model of Great Britain and India, or France and Algeria. All the hallmarks are there: mass migration from the former colony (or defeated nation, in Mexico’s case), and the classic hatred of the Other in the receiving country while wholeheartedly accepting their cheap labor and devouring their cuisine while morphing it into all sorts of pendejadas—like tater-tots tacos!
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I’m a gabacha who teaches in a juvenile hall. In my classroom, I often have rival gang members, so I enforce strict rules of behavior so that things don’t get out of hand. These rules also send a message to the kids that they’re capable of positive behavior, and they let everyone feel safe. These rules include a ban on name-calling and cussing, and it goes for both English and Spanish. I’m not completely fluent in Spanish, but I know enough (from your book!) to recognize the bad words. I also know that sometimes these words are said in jest, but to avoid misunderstandings and keep things safe, I don’t allow anyone to jokingly call anyone names in Spanish or English. I was wondering if you could provide me with a word or phrase I could use with the Spanishspeakers that their abuelitas would use to tell them to clean up their language. I also know, and talk to my students about this, that sometimes on the streets, you must talk a certain way to survive, but in my classroom, they must talk in a way that serves as practice for job and college interviews. Just because they are currently incarcerated does not mean they do not have real futures, and I want to do my best to help prepare them. Gracias. Creencia del Mejor en Mis Estudiantes Dear Believer in the Best of Your Students: “No digas malas palabras” (“Don’t say any bad words”) is good, but better is “¡Ten vergüenza!” (“Have shame!”). Better? Combine the both. Best? “¡Cállate el hocico!” (“Shut your mouth,” but more accurately “Shut your snout.”) It’s technically rude to say in Mexican Spanish—and that’s why parents and grandparents say it to their young ones, the linguistic version of a chancla. Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican. net; be his fan on Facebook; follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellano; or ask him a video question at youtube.com/askamexicano!
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The next time you find yourself in an argument with a proponent of “intelligent design,” SCROTE, lay this one on ’em … There’s this muscle called the cremaster that attaches a man’s balls to his abdominal muscles. When a man is cold, the cremaster contracts, lifting his balls toward his body so those little darlings stay nice and warm; when he’s hot, the cremaster relaxes, dropping his balls away from his body, keeping the little darlings cool. Putting this in language the average “intelligent design” proponent can understand: Your cremaster is Goldilocks, and your nuts are a delicious-looking bowl of sperm-cell porridge. Cremasterlocks doesn’t like sperm-cell porridge that’s too hot. Cremasterlocks doesn’t like sperm-cell porridge that’s too cold. Cremasterlocks likes sperm-cell porridge that’s just right. And here’s the cruel twist, SCROTE, the absolutely irrefutable proof that humans evolved over the eons through a completely random and directionless process of spontaneous mutation and natural selection: Our cremaster muscles don’t just contract when we’re cold; they also contract when we’re aroused. So the better it feels to have your balls sucked, the more turned on you get. The more turned on you get, the more your cremaster contracts. And the more your cremaster contracts, the more it hurts to have your balls sucked! You can call a system like that a lot of things—crazy painful, deeply ironic— but it can’t be called “intelligently designed.” (In defense of the cremaster muscle: It’s pulling your balls up toward your body so they don’t get hurt during intercourse—so they don’t get smacked around too much—but if humans are smart enough to create a car that knows when its door is open, then an intelligent designer would be smart enough to create balls that know when they’re being sucked, right?) So the problem here, SCROTE, isn’t ball pain; it’s muscle strain. And there is something you can do about that. “This guy should get himself a set of short ball-stretchers,” said Stephen “Ox” Lane of www. oxballs.com, an online sex shop that specializes in toys for men. “We have a good selection of ball-stretchers, most made of silicone so they are nice and soft. He should get in the tub, soak in warm water, and let his sack relax and sag, then gently put one ring on. Then he can play with his balls for a while, stroking them and his dick, and if everything is feeling good, add another ring.” At least for now, though, Lane doesn’t recommend that you leave the ball-stretchers on when you come. “His balls will pull up as he’s getting ready to shoot, and that may cause pain,” said Lane. “For the time being, he should use his ball stretchers as a warm-up. Over time, his balls will get used to the feeling, and his sack will stretch.” And not just your sack, SCROTE, but your cremaster, too. And a slightly looser, more-elastic cremaster will mean less-painful ball-sucking. Good luck! Here is my question for you, Mr. Savage: My girlfriend and I are sexually active, and I can get an erection in the beginning, a fully hard erection,
but a few minutes into intercourse, I start to lose my erection. Intercourse feels amazing; it’s just that after a while, I start to lose my erection. I can get my erection back if I allow my girlfriend to use her hand on it for a while. And then when I penetrate her again, I lose my erection again. I heard you on TV talk about how a guy shouldn’t grip himself too hard when he beats off. I grab it pretty hard, I have to admit, and when my girlfriend uses her hand, I ask her to grab it really hard, too. So I am writing to ask if you think the reason I can’t keep an erection during intercourse has something to do with how hard I have her use her hand, and how hard I use my hand. Having A Real Dilemma Here is my answer for you, Mr. HARD: The way you grip your dick when you beat off? And the way you allow your girlfriend to grip your dick? No more gripping your dick like that, HARD. From now on, whenever you masturbate, you’re going to jerk it with a light touch and few drops of lube. And if you can’t come using that lighter touch and a few drops of lube, then you don’t come. At least for now. Basically, HARD, you gotta cut your dick off. Um, let me rephrase that: You gotta stop serving up the kind of stimulation your dick has come to expect—the death grip—because the only way your dick will ever come to appreciate the subtler and damper sensations that vaginas provide, HARD, is if you give your dick no choice. Give your dick what it’s used to, HARD, and your dick will be forever dependent on it. Drive your dick (and yourself) to desperation, and your dick will find new ways to get off. Your dick will adapt. You can help your dick adapt faster by stirring some other forms of physical and mental stimulation into the mix. Talk dirty (your biggest sex organ is between your ears); do some nipple play (I’m talking about your nipples); and explore different scenarios that turn you on (Girlfriend calls the shots? Do it outside?), all the while experimenting with different positions that might provide you with a slightly snugger fit (girl on top, doggy style, etc.). Good luck! I’m an 18-year-old male about to head off to college in the fall. I’m not the best-looking guy—skinny, pale, some acne—and I’m afraid that I’m going to be one of those college freshmen who aren’t getting laid. What can I do to help make my potential college sex life better? I’m a smoothtalking guy in some ways, Mr. Dan, but it doesn’t work a majority of the time, and I don’t understand why. College-Bound Boy First, CBB, “it” doesn’t work for a majority of the people a majority of the time. It doesn’t matter how smooth a guy’s talk is, how tight his abs are, or how fat his wallet is; most of the people he meets won’t wanna sleep with him. I’m not going to lie to you: Smooth talk, tight abs and a fat wallet improve a guy’s odds considerably. But for reasons that run the gamut from religion to logistics to simple miscommunication, most people won’t want to fuck a given person, however smooth, tight, fat, etc. The trick is to keep working it—to keep looking around—until you find someone who does want to fuck you. And there will be plenty of skinny, pale and spotty girls at your school, as well as girls who can see past those things. Your odds will be better if you can look past ’em, too. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage, and follow me on Twitter @fakedansavage. JULY 5 – 11, 2012 TuCsON WEEKLY 57
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