Tucson Weekly 08/02/12

AUGUST 2-8, 2012 VOL. 29, NO. 24

OPINION OPINI Macy Gray has her last album covered. And her next one, too.

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

CURRENTS The Skinny 9

By Jim Nintzel

The Bright Stuff 9

By Jim Nintzel

A new nonprofit wants change at the county—and is willing to spend to see it happen Media Watch 10

By John Schuster

Deseg Extension 11

By Mari Herreras

TUSD’s deseg process is delayed for negotiations Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by Dan Gibson

Police Dispatch 12

By Anna Mirocha

Producing hit pieces because people speak out since 1984.

Precarious Life 13

By Tim Vanderpool

Sustained by effluent, the Santa Cruz River faces an uncertain future A Family Affair 14

By Hank Stephenson

A Dem hoping to replace her deceased husband in the state Senate faces an incumbent Sugar Ray’s Final Round? 16

By Jim Nintzel

Supervisor Ray Carroll faces Republican Sean Collins

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Humans Can Be Awesome When you’re in the hard-news biz, it can be easy to get frustrated with humanity.

After all, look at what we have to deal with. Flip through the front of this week’s issue, and you find coverage of a mass shooting, underwater mortgages, dishonest politicians and so on. There are days when I borrow my motto from my Tupperware lady, Dixie Longate: I hate people.

However, on this day, my tune is somewhat different.

My father passed away about two weeks ago, and ever since, people have flooded me with kindness. From the employee at the auto-parts store who went out of his way to help me recharge the air conditioner in my mom’s car, to the bartender who left a box of chocolates and a complimentary round for me on the day of my father’s memorial service, to my co-workers who pitched in to help cover for me in my absence (including colleagues who were on vacation), to countless others, people have been unbelievably kind. (Thanks to all of you, by the way.)

I don’t know what it is about the death of a parent that brings out the best in other people. Perhaps it’s the fact that it’s a universal experience—almost all of us have parents, and most of us will outlive them. Perhaps it’s just the fact that most people know how painful the experience of losing a parent can be, and that leads to softened hearts.

In any case, while the last couple of weeks have been no fun, it has been a wonderful, faith-reaffirming thing to see the positive, caring side of humanity in full force.

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TQ&A 22 Scott Peterson, musician

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Actress Kim Lowry returns to the stage after recovering from a traumatic brain injury What’s Your Story? 33

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By Adam Borowitz

A New Trend? 46

By Annie Holub

On her latest album, Macy Gray gives cover songs credibility

By Sherilyn Forrester

Participants have 10 minutes to share a part of their lives during monthly gatherings

VISUAL ARTS City Week listings 33

BOOKS It’s the Insulin 35

By Rita Connelly

Canyon Ranch’s medical director discusses how diets aren’t a one-size-fits-all proposition

CINEMA Satisfaction Guaranteed 36

By Colin Boyd

This indie flick with a timetravel theme is one of the most entertaining films of the year Film Times 37 Good Junk 38

By Bob Grimm

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The Watch is half-assed, but Stiller, Vaughn and Hill manage to create chuckles

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Club Listings 48 Nine Questions 51 Live 52 Rhythm & Views 54

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DANEHY OPINION

Another mass shooting leads to more B.S. from the media, politicians and the gun lobby

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while back, some guy walked into a packed movie theater in Colorado and shot a bunch of people.

If you measure time in news cycles, it was eons ago. As big, splashy stories go, it followed the typical arc: After the initial newsflash, there was the rush to be first with details and the identity of the shooter. Then there were the inevitable mistakes that come with the rush to be first. For several hours after that, there was the same footage over and over, with the same words spoken, only by different people, so that we knew that there was blanket coverage.

Then there was the analysis of the event, followed by analysis of the initial coverage, and then analysis of the preceding analyses. And mixed in was a bunch of stupid crap from the gun lobby.

It seems like so long ago, but on Friday, Aug. 3, it’ll be two weeks. It will fade, but will never completely go away. It also means that, for a time, Aurora will be the last name on the list of slaughter sites, that list that sickeningly and far too easily rolls off the tongue—Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson …

Being more of a word guy than a visual one, I tend to focus on that which is said during times like these, be it wise or vapid, emotional or brain-dead. Some of what I will remember from this awful time: There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea Party as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year. Now, we don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes. —Brian Ross of ABC News.

Yeah, that’s what we need, to allow the Tea Party people to paint themselves as victims of a media conspiracy. What’s really bad is that it wouldn’t have mattered if the shooter had identified himself as a Tea Party member. It’s not really some monolithic political party. It’s an odd assortment of people (or maybe an assortment of odd people) who are generally against everything and who talk and vote as though Attila the Hun were a squishy leftie.

The Tea Party has a rather high percentage of clods and haters, but I can’t imagine that even one person who is part of that movement is sympathetic in any way to the shooter.

At the same time, I’m sure that most Tea Party people are darned happy to live in a country where a deranged guy can buy a thousand rounds of ammo online (!) and can legally possess a weapon, the sole purpose of which is to kill lots and lots of human beings in a very short period of time.

It does make me wonder: With all those people in the theater, was there nobody that was carrying a gun that could have stopped this guy more quickly? —Texas Congressman

RANDOM SHOTS By Rand Carlson

Louie Gohmert.

Let’s see: You have a darkened theater with a movie playing, and every seat occupied. A guy walks in dressed in all black, throws a tear-gas device, and opens fire. With terrified people screaming and scrambling, tear gas billowing and assault-weapon bullets flying, what could possibly make this scenario worse?

Oh, I know! Crossfire.

We’ve reached a state of stasis on this issue, and we’re not going to move on it. —Democratic strategist Bob Shrum on Meet the Press.

Shrum said that the gun lobby’s hold is so complete that no one would even dare talk about legislation following the shooting. The typical National Rifle Association line is that gun-control talk is a knee-jerk reaction whenever something like this happens, but when are we supposed to talk about it? On a day when nobody gets shot in this country?

Good luck with that, seeing as how more than 80 people are killed by guns in the United States every day!

Shrum went on to say that the ban on assault rifles (originally signed by Bill Clinton and then allowed to expire by George W. Bush) led to the Republican takeover of Congress, and that no one has been willing to take on the gun lobby since. Here’s the best part: So powerful is the NRA’s grip that even people on Homeland Security’s terrorwatch list can still buy whatever weapons they want. That’s stunning.

I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s … belong on the battlefield of war and not on the streets of our cities. —President Barack Obama.

First off, Mr. President, you should ask around. Every gun owner I know wants more firepower, not less.

Then again, this is a president of the United States who, after the murder of a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and the attempted assassination of a member of Congress, got in front of a national audience and called for (wait for it) better background checks! Writer Aaron Sorkin, who uses his Newsroom TV drama as a personal bully pulpit, gave President Obama straight F’s across the board when it comes to gun control.

And now, after the second mass shooting in consecutive years, the president is again addressing background checks.

Whoa! You keep going down that road for another 8,000 or 9,000 miles, and eventually, somebody is going to accuse you of being a Democrat on this issue.

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SERRAGLIO OPINION

HOPE Inc. offers a lifeline to people who have just been released from jail HIGHTOWER

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INSIDER TIPS LEAD TO PROFIT FOR HEDGE FUNDS

hen John Bailey walked out of prison after serving 25 years for a robbery that cost a woman her life, he knew there was something he needed to do.

The court had found him guilty of first-degree murder, even though it also found that his weapon had discharged accidentally. That detail, and his obvious remorse, probably spared him the death penalty.

With the rest of his life still in front of him, John had some hope of redemption. But walking out of prison is a challenge for anybody, and for far too many, the exodus is temporary: Without aid, guidance or divine intervention, they wind up right back inside, or worse.

The high rollers who run Wall Street’s top hedge funds essentially gamble with other people’s money, betting billions of dollars on such stuff as whether XYZ Corporation’s third-quarter profits will be one point lower than forecast.

Doing this, they assert, is genius work, entitling them to be paid more than anyone There are a number of agencies and nonprofit organizaelse. Two years ago, for example, each of tions designed to prevent that, but just navigating the the top 10 hedge-fund dealers averaged morass of bureaucracy and paperwork can be overwhelm$175 million in pay—or about $84,000 an ing, especially for the large percentage of offenders who hour! struggle with substance abuse and mental illness, many of Sure enough, their bets on corporate perwhom are veterans. Fortunately for them, there is HOPE formance usually turn out to be winners.

Inc.—Helping Ourselves Pursue Enrichment.

How do they do that? Are they really HOPE is a “consumer-driven, consumer-run” organizaEinsteins—or is something else in play? tion, says Heather McGovern, its chief financial and operaSomething else. The New York Times tions officer. “Everyone here, from the receptionist to the reports that a handful of big hedge funds CEO, has been touched in some way by substance abuse or have been systematically receiving insider mental illness, and that usually means some contact with tips from corporate analysts working at the criminal-justice system.”

Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch Our faux-puritanical, punishment-obsessed society has a and other Wall Street stock brokerages. bad habit of qualifying such people as something less than These analysts, who are experts on the human, and the result is too often a vicious circle of recidiinner workings of particular corporations, vism and re-internment. About 42,000 people per year pass have quietly been sending periodic insider through the Pima County criminal-justice system, and jailupdates on corporate performance to a few bed space alone costs nearly $8 million annually. favored funds. The under-the-table updates “It’s a revolving door, and it costs money,” says Tucson reveal key information such as whether City Councilman Richard Fimbres, who chairs meetings of XYZ’s corporate profits are heading up or down, and whether management changes or other THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow corporate surprises are in the works.

The insights of these analysts are supposed to be released only on a set date to the public at large, so no one investor gets an advantage. But the internal documents of the big hedge funds show that they’re getting an early peek, allowing them to make their investment bets before ordinary investors know what’s going on. With these tips, the funds make a killing, while nonprivileged small investors often take a hit.

Like Las Vegas hustlers, highstrutting hedge fund whizzes aren’t brilliant or deserving—and they’re certainly not ethical.

They’re getting rich by gaming the system.

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the Pima County Re-Entry Coalition, where HOPE and other like-minded organizations and individuals network and collaborate. “But programs like this have made a dent.”

HOPE operates on the principle that it takes one to know one—and to communicate effectively. “We don’t ask them, ‘What’s wrong with you?’” says community volunteer coordinator Tammy Bushman. “We ask, ‘What happened to you?’ And we share what happened to us.” This type of communication, grounded in shared experience and true caring, builds trust and stops the revolving door.

HOPE goes inside the jail to make contact with inmates before they’re released, and follows them through the process to ensure that they show up for court appearances, adhere to probation rules, complete their community-service requirements, get the treatment or counseling they need, find work, stay clean and sober, and meet any number of other challenges on the outside.

The results are impressive. “We’ve had a success rate of about 95 percent,” says Tammy, who defines success as no re-entry of jail or failures to appear for court dates. “There are people who’ve racked up as many as 26 failures to appear, which is very costly to the system and usually results in them returning to jail.”

John Bailey will be the first to tell you that it works. “I needed some health care when I got out, with a bad hip and rheumatoid arthritis, but they kicked me off AHCCCS,” the Arizona version of Medicaid that’s suffered steep budget cuts in recent years. “My brother was in jail and told me about this group that came in and talked to them. He told me maybe they could help.”

When John checked it out, he realized there was much more to it than he could have imagined. “I just came looking for some health insurance, but I found my calling—to share and give back.” Like many others who’ve used HOPE’s services, John volunteers there, connecting with kindred souls.

Sitting in Tammy’s office and listening to Big John, as he’s known by his HOPE peers, I’m riveted. He’s an imposing and charismatic man, with a powerful voice enriched with the passion of an experience few can comprehend. He readily invokes the name of the woman he killed as his guiding spirit in a quest to prevent similar tragedies. “HOPE is my family. If I can reach just one young man and keep him from going down the path I went, that’s my vision.”

Says Tammy, “It’s never too late. I was 39 when I got out.”

I remember walking out of a federal prison after just six months down. I felt like a radioactive alien. I was afraid to drive my car or have sex with my partner, and after a particularly awkward interaction with a convenience-store clerk, she said, “Boy, your social skills have really eroded.” I can only imagine how Big John must’ve felt.

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Library Response: We’re Following Industry Standards, and We’re Circulating More Items Dear Mr. Greg Evans: I would like to respond to the concerns you expressed in your recent email and your guest-opinion piece in the Tucson Weekly (“The Pima County Public Library Must Stop Getting Rid of Our Books,� Guest Commentary, July 5).

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Deselection of materials is taken seriously, and is a long-standing practice. The guidelines we follow are the industry standard. As a result of this process, we are making room on the shelves for high-demand and popular books and materials in other formats. In 2006, customers checked out or renewed more than 6.2 million items from our library. In 2010, circulation increased to more than 7.5 million items. We are currently in the process of reviewing the deselection guidelines and will consider your suggestion to increase the acquisition of mid-tier authors’ works.

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If you’re underwater on your mortgage, there are programs out there that can help

BY NORAH BOOTH

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Over the last five years—while housing was showing no appreciation in the Tucson market—banks made refinancing nearly impossible for the majority of homeowners who were underwater, by raising the loan-qualification bar to heights unheard of in the Ponzi-like feeding frenzy before the crash.

However, the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), passed by Congress in 2009, offers possible relief to Tucson’s underwater homeowners.

To qualify for HARP, a homeowner must have purchased prior to May 31, 2009, through a Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac conventional loan. The owner must be current with payments, have acceptable credit and prove sufficient income to qualify for a new mortgage.

Once qualified, a homeowner receives a loan on outstanding mortgage principal at current historically low interest rates. Loans are processed quickly, with no out-of-pocket cost requirements. There is no cap on the program, which runs through December 2013, so all who qualify get a loan.

Tucson homeowners Lorin Labardee and Eileen Shores expect to realize a 34 percent reduction on their mortgage payments, according to their lender’s estimate. They describe qualifying for the mortgage as one of the easiest things they’ve done to improve their household bottom line. They say applying was quick, simple and mostly pain-free.

However, even after the new loan terms, HARP properties are often still underwater, resulting in a “sucks less� outcome for HARPees.

Homeowners in distress with a failure to pay on a mortgage, but who are not in foreclosure, may qualify for the Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP), which resets principal as well as interest to affordable levels.

What does all of this mean for Tucson? At the moment, not enough. Response to the program is good, but many homeowners who need help have not yet heard of HARP, do

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icture a typical Tucson neighborhood. “For sale� signs go up and eventually disappear. The couple that went underwater in that cute house is long gone to foreclosure. Their home, which sat marooned and neglected for more than a year, sells at a price considerably below property valuations for the rest of the street. The new owner, however, has a market-value mortgage at a low interest rate.

What is the incentive for the neighbors whose Tucson homes have nearly halved in value to continue paying on properties that may not rise to the level of their investment for another five to 15 years? What options do they have?

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not understand it, fear a government program, or do not have qualifying income. Mortgage lenders are not required to participate, much less notify clients. And HARP and HAMP, initially dysfunctional, have been upgraded only since March.

Some 16 million homes are estimated to be underwater across the nation, with tens of thousands in Tucson. These fleets of shadowy inventory help keep the economy depressed, because the market keeps expecting more cheap foreclosures.

Underwater properties are such a threat to economic recovery that California is considering a creative interpretation of eminent domain that would allow it to condemn mortgages as it would property, allowing them to reset both principal and interest rates to current market value.

Homedefendersleague.org is an organization made up of community groups and unions that has prevented home foreclosures in hard-luck cases through media attention.

Anyone can sign the organization’s online petition to President Obama demanding a reset of all underwater mortgages to market value. Proponents claim resetting these rates nationally puts the solution on the backs of bailed-out banks and would pump $700 billion directly into the economy.

Should you receive HARP or HAMP, your loan will likely be sold in the same derivatives marketplace that caused the problem in the first place. That has not changed, as Washington, D.C., does not prosecute the pirates or regulate the whales on Wall Street.

At the end of the story, a home is not just a house. If you are underwater, by all means, call a lender—call several— and ask about terms. Reducing your mortgage by any significant amount can make a huge difference for your economy and for Tucson’s economy.

Norah Booth is a freelance writer in Tucson. She will soon close on a HARP loan.

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The Bright Stuff ichael Farley is unhappy with Pima County’s leadership—and he plans to do something about it.

Farley has a reason to be upset with the county. He owns vacant land at the intersection of Kolb and Valencia roads and had been planning on developing a shopping center that could include a Walmart, Best Buy and other retailers.

But the county needs to improve the overburdened intersection—and county leaders recently decided that they would prefer to develop a “parkway-at-grade intersection,” which would eliminate the need for drivers to stop at the intersection by allowing Valencia Road to pass underneath Kolb Road. The new design would put auxiliary roads through the property on which Farley had hoped to build his power center.

With the new intersection design, Farley believes the county has broken its promises to him.

“I just got fed up with it,” Farley says. “Just plain-old fed up, so I decided to do something about it, and I’m going to see if I can change the business atmosphere in Pima County, and especially the Board of Supervisors, to make it more business-friendly.”

Farley has formed Arizonans for a Brighter Future, a 501(c)(6) nonprofit business league that can be active in political campaigning.

Nonprofits such as Arizonans for a Brighter Future have become a larger force in politics in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. The nonprofits can accept unlimited contributions from corporations andunions, and do not have to reveal the identities of their financial backers.

Similar groups—such as Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, 60 Plus and Americans for Prosperity—had been responsible for roughly 90 percent of the total dollars spent on the 2012 presidential race outside of the GOP primary, according to an April analysis by The Washington Post that showed the groups had spent $28.5 million.

The question of whether the groups should disclose their donors has been an issue both in Congress and the courts. The Federal Election Commission last week issued a new ruling requiring more disclosure under certain circumstances, but how that will affect both national and local races remains to be seen.

Farley told the Tucson Weekly that he has no intention of revealing the names of contributors to Arizonans for a Brighter Future.

Pima County elections have seen relatively little activity from such nonprofits, but Farley wants to have an impact as voters decide who will be sitting on the Pima County Board of Supervisors.

The Weekly reported on Arizonans for a

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Brighter Future two weeks ago (“Whose Bright Idea?,” July 19). At the time, Deb Weisel, of Tagline Media, who was handling the group’s website, said that the backers of the group wanted to “keep their identities under wraps” because of fears of political retribution. But documents from the Delaware Division of Corporations showed that Farley was the authorized agent for Arizonans for a Brighter Future—and after the Weekly contacted him, he agreed to an interview.

The Weekly’s reporting on Arizonans for a Brighter Future questioned the group’s claim that $345 million in transportation spending was “unaccounted for” in the county budget.

County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry says the money wasn’t unaccounted for; it went to pay for staff and other expenses related to running the county’s Department of Transportation.

Farley says that the county’s budget is so convoluted that it’s not apparent what the county has been doing with its Highway User Revenue Funds, which come from the state. However, he concedes that the dollars probably can be accounted for.

“Is the money unaccounted for?” Farley says.

“Nah, it’s probably in there.”

But Farley complains that the county is spending too much of its HURF funds on a “bloated bureaucracy” rather than on pothole repairs, which has resulted in a street system in desperate need of improvement.

Huckelberry says that Pima County is no different from other Arizona jurisdictions in its use of HURF funds to pay for staff.

“Contrary to his opinion, every transportation agency in the state—local, county or state— pays for their employees who operate in its transportation department with HURF revenues,” Huckelberry says. “The state of Arizona does it. All the counties do it. All the cities and towns do it.”

Arizonans for a Brighter Future appears to be shifting its focus to the county’s bond debt. A TV ad that went up on local stations KOLD Channel 13 and KGUN Channel 9 focuses on the possibility that the debt might drive the county into bankruptcy.

The initial ad buy was relatively small, according to receipts from the TV stations that show the group spent roughly $4,100 to air the spot over the next week.

But transportation issues are at the heart of Farley’s personal dispute with Pima County.

Farley has been working with the county to plan the future of the Valencia and Kolb intersection since 2008, according to a timeline prepared by county officials.

While the county did examine a plan to create a new alignment of Valencia Road to the

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BY JIM NINTZEL, jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com

Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry denies claims that hundreds of millions of dollars can’t be accounted for in the transportation budget. south, which would have benefitted Farley’s development plans, transportation officials last year began a different plan that would create a “parkway-at-grade intersection.”

Huckelberry maintains that the new plan for the intersection would cost $16 million (including the cost of design, acquisition of right of way, and administrative fees), while the alternative of realigning Valencia Road to the south that Farley prefers would cost $22 million. The county’s preferred option will also result in better traffic flow, according to county estimates.

Farley argues that the county has slanted the numbers in its direction.

He had recently reached out to the city of Tucson to see if it would entertain the idea of annexing his property so the county would no longer be involved, but he put those plans on hold because of his political activity with Arizonans for a Brighter Future.

Farley maintains that the issue of county leadership is larger than his own fight over the future of his property.

“I don’t think that’s really the issue here, unless you’re trying to figure out some way to make me look bad as a disgruntled guy,” Farley says. “I am one of hundreds of different developers in this community who have had a similar experience with Pima County. It takes an inordinate amount of time to get anything processed down there. They’re just not interested in having new businesses come to this community. They claim that they are. They claim that they’re developer-friendly. But they’re not.”

Tea Party Patriot Ally Miller, one of four Republicans running for retiring Pima County Supervisor Ann Day’s District 1 seat, remains on the warpath against the Tucson Weekly.

As you may know from reading last week’s Skinny column (“The Silent Treatment,” July 26), Miller declared that she would never again do an interview with your Skinny scribe, Jim Nintzel, after the Weekly published a story that suggested she didn’t know what she was talking about when she ALLY said that $345 million in transportation funding was “unaccounted for” over the last 10 years. (For details, see “Whose Bright Idea?,” July 19.)

Miller, a self-described budget expert, was basing her comments on a “Fact Sheet” distributed by a new nonprofit, Arizonans for a Brighter Future, which we’ve also been investigating.

We’ve got more about that particular group in the story to your left, but here’s the bad news for Miller: While the spokesman for that group, developer Michael Farley, says he believes there are plenty of questions to be asked about the county’s transportation priorities, even he admits the money isn’t “unaccounted for” in the county’s budget.

“It’s probably in there somewhere,” says Farley, who remains critical of the county’s transportation spending in general, as you can see in “The Bright Stuff.”

It can’t feel good for Miller to have that particular limb sawed out from underneath her, given how far she crawled out onto it.

One of Miller’s four opponents, former Republican National Committeeman and GOP state party chairman Mike Hellon, handed out copies of the Weekly’s original story on Miller and Arizonans for a Brighter Future at a debate that also included fellow District 1 candidates Stuart McDaniel, a conservative activist; and Vic Williams, a state lawmaker, on Thursday, July 26.

Toward the end of the debate, Miller denounced Hellon’s distribution of the article as “outrageous.”

VIC “That is a liberal rag,” Miller said.

“And if anyone gives any credibility to the information that is in that article, it was a hit piece by Jim Nintzel, and it (was) purely because I spoke out. And I think they don’t like me because I’m speaking out, and I’m standing up to what is going on at the county, so they’re attacking me. … And it’s very interesting to me that Mr. Hellon would distribute that to your chairs this evening and cite that as a viable source of news, because we all know what the Tucson Weekly is all about.”

Here’s the thing: If Miller is going to say that we’re not credible, it would help her case if she got her own facts right. In the process of denouncing us, Miller changed her story about what she told us during our one and only interview with her.

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KVOA Channel 4 weekend anchor Sean Mooney was the first person in the Tucson broadcast pipeline to cut his teeth with World Wrestling Entertainment (the World Wrestling Federation when he worked there). He was also the first to appear on the organization’s flagship program, Raw. Last week, he was asked to return as Raw celebrated its 1,000th episode.

“They’ve never had a rerun,” Mooney said of the USA Network’s Monday-night mainstay, which first aired in January 1993. “It’s been on every week. My claim to fame is, I was the first person ever seen on the show. I was on the street welcoming everybody. The whole shtick was (fellow commentator) Bobby Heenan trying to sneak in, and I keep running into him dressed up in these costumes, as a woman, as a Hasidic Jew. Fast-forward 999 episodes later, and they asked me to come back and appear on the show. Channel 4 was gracious enough to let me go.”

Mooney was one of a number of exWWE personalities to appear on last week’s three-hour broadcast from St. Louis. The show spent more time focusing on past accomplishments than current storylines, although Mooney’s brief appearance, as a backstage interviewer, helped propel one of the few current angles.

“You wait around forever, because it’s a three-hour show, and you really don’t have any idea what you’re doing until a writer runs up to you and hands you a piece of paper and says, ‘Here’s your cameo,’” Mooney said.

“Mine was doing a vintage-style backstage interview with Daniel Bryant (a wrestlerturned-jilted-groom earlier in the show). My entire face time was about 12 seconds.”

But in that brief window, Mooney was able to tap into some of the personality traits that stayed with him during his four-year stint with the organization. Part of a wrestler’s or character’s gimmick is to adopt a catch phrase or personality quirk that leaves a memorable impression. Beyond simple recognition, it’s also an opportunity to get the live audience involved when that performer makes an appearance. Think “Austin 3:16” or “opening a can of whoop-ass” for Stone Cold Steve Austin, or, “Do you smell what the Rock is cooking?” for wrestler-turnedactor-turned-part-time-wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Mooney was doing this stuff long before those guys were pulling down multimillion dollar deals.

“They got in the Sean Mooney ‘who.’

Bobby Heenan coined that after I left there,” Mooney said. “Whenever … they’d mention my name … he’d say ‘Sean Mooney, who?’

(Ringside announcer) Michael Cole did that.

They threw it to me, I said thanks, asked Daniel Bryant a question, and that was about it. I did get my vintage raised eyebrow as they cut out. They didn’t want you to say anything (after the wrestler cut his promo and left), so they go to you, and the guy with the camera keeps the shot, and so I’d raise an eyebrow as a sort of, ‘What was that?’

I don’t know if anybody caught that, but I

wanted to get that in there.”

But the best part of the 36-hour experience for Mooney was bringing his son along.

“The one stipulation was I wanted to bring my 12-year-old son, and they said sure,” Mooney said. “I anchored Sunday night (the 10 p.m. news on KVOA), got about four hours of sleep, and dragged my son out of bed to catch a flight to St. Louis. It was an awesome experience. They couldn’t have been more welcoming to me. It was great to see all the guys I had worked with back then. They were awesome to my son. Roddy Piper put a kilt on him and gave him a T-shirt. I thought he wanted to adopt him.”

Mooney preceded two other WWE broadcasters with Tucson ties, former KOLD Channel 13 TV sportscaster Todd Grisham, who has since jumped to ESPN; and ring announcer Justin Roberts. Although his return was brief, Mooney’s involvement with a cable-television institution certainly got him recognition.

“KVOA made me Twitter, and I had to start an account. Before I went, I had like 19 followers. Just this week, I have over 600,” Mooney said. “The reaction on the Internet—I was totally blown away. The comments were very positive and very nice. I really appreciate it.

“I have stayed in touch on and off (with the WWE) over the years and still know a lot of guys in the organization. I feel close to that organization. It’s always been great to me. It was an awesome experience, and very special that I got to take my son with me and see his reaction.”

KGUN NAMES WEEKEND SPORTS ANCHOR KGUN Channel 9 has hired Kayla Anderson as weekend sports anchor. Anderson has spent the last three years as the sports director for KECI TV in Missoula, Mont.

Prior to that, she worked TV sports beats in Spokane, Wash.; Montgomery, Ala.; and Bend, Ore. Anderson starts Aug. 20. She replaces Jake Knapp, who accepted a sports-reporting position in Phoenix.

LIBS MISSED THEIR TALK RADIO Media Watch got a few emails last week (that’s a lot by Media Watch standards) fretting about what the crap was going on at KWFM 1330 AM. For two days, the radio station veered from its progressive-talk format, and listeners who were expecting the likes of Ed Schultz and other Romneybashing liberal talkers were instead treated to a familiar voice from Tucson’s music-radio scene.

Operations Manager Alan Michaels sat behind the mic and played some tunes because one of KWFM’s satellite feeds went kaput. Said satellite is apparently the exclusive home of almost all of KWFM’s syndicated progressive-talk lineup. So without a satellite feed, Michaels improvised by doing what he’s done for three decades: play songs.

All was back to normal by midweek, and fans could once again hear about the evils of the 1 percenters and the awesomeness of all things President Obama.

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TUSD’s deseg process is delayed as a special master brings the parties together for more negotiations

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Deseg Extension

BY MARI HERRERAS, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com .com or most supporters of the Tucson Unified School District’s dismantled Mexican-American studies program, Friday, July 13, wasn’t a day to expect bad luck.

It was a day of hopeful anticipation that a courtappointed desegregation expert would begin a process to return the classes in time for the upcoming school year.

But those hopes were dashed when U.S. District Judge David C. Bury, on the advice of Willis Hawley, Bury’s appointed desegregation expert, issued an order that delayed the process and set a new schedule that goes into October.

When Hawley was appointed by Bury in January as the special master charged to develop a new desegregation plan for the school district, he was given a six-month deadline. A proposed plan, it was explained, would be unveiled July 13 that would kick off a series of communitywide forums before Bury adopted a final plan.

The 38-year-old desegregation case began when two families—the Fishers, representing African-American students, and the Mendozas, representing Mexican-American students—filed a lawsuit to force the district to change discriminatory practices and policies. Although a settlement was reached in 1978, legal maneuvering continued until Bury approved the deseg plan that TUSD adopted in 2009. On Aug. 10, 2011, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals remanded the case for further judicial oversight when plaintiffs contended that not much had changed since the deseg plan’s adoption. Bury was forced to appoint Hawley to bring the district into compliance.

Since his appointment, Hawley has met with plaintiff representatives and community members to discuss TUSD desegregation issues, as well as Mexican-American studies. According to district court documents, on July 12, Hawley wrote to Greer Barkley, Bury’s law clerk, asking that the July 13 deadline be changed and a new process begin that would include forcing all parties in the desegregation case to sit down and negotiate for two full days.

The parties working with Hawley include TUSD and the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as attorneys from the Mexican American Legal Defense Educational Fund, or MALDEF, representing the Mendoza plaintiffs, and the law office of Rubin Salter, representing the Fisher plaintiffs.

In Hawley’s July 12 letter, he wrote that on July 13, he would file a draft unitary status plan with Bury, but that the plan and all communications, documents and negotiations submitted to the court “shall be privileged and confidential and shall not be shared outside the Parties.”

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Sylvia Campoy: “Closing schools is never a good idea.”

On July 29, at a presentation on the history of TUSD’s desegregation issues, Sylvia Campoy made it clear before her presentation that she has seen a desegregation proposal submitted to the court and to the parties. But she said she is not allowed to comment on the proposal, share details of the plan or provide details on the status of negotiations.

Campoy, who has a long history in TUSD as an educator, a former governing board member and civil rights expert, represents the Mendoza plaintiffs legally represented by MALDEF in the ongoing desegregation case. Campoy confirmed that Bury’s order required two full-day meetings at Hawley’s request, but those meetings have yet to be scheduled.

Campoy also provided Bury’s timeline, which is public record in Hawley’s letter and Bury’s July 13 order. In Bury’s order, a Sept.

10 deadline is set for Hawley to provide all the deseg parties with a plan to begin negotiations.

The confidentiality provision that currently prevents Campoy and all parties from discussing Hawley’s plan and negotiations will be lifted on Sept. 21, and a public-comment period will begin. From that point, all parties have until Oct. 12 to file any unresolved objections with the court. All proposed changes to the plan must be filed with the court by Oct. 22.

Bury, in his order, has scheduled public hearings from Oct. 10 through Oct. 12, when the public comment period closes.

On May 10, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, author of the law that ended TUSD’s Mexican-American studies program, filed a complaint and motion arguing that Hawley’s new deseg plan should not include MexicanAmerican studies or restore the classes in TUSD, claiming that it would violate the law.

MALDEF successfully challenged Horne’s intervention, and in June, Bury barred the state from intervening. Horne asked the court to

reconsider, but on Monday, July 30, Bury filed an order denying Horne’s attempt.

But that doesn’t mean Horne won’t be allowed to share a formal opinion in Bury’s court. In Bury’s July 13 order, Horne is allowed to file an objection by Oct. 5 to any MexicanAmerican studies courses that may be included in the final plan. The state isn’t included in negotiations, but it can provide an opinion after the legal parties have negotiated the deseg plan.

Bury wrote in his July 30 order, “The Special Master remains available to meet with the state to discuss its concerns, which he is fully capable of representing to the parties as they proceed over the course of the next 60 days to identify areas of agreement and disagreement.”

TUSD is going through a process to address a $17 million deficit and is working with the U.S. Civil Rights Division to address four civilrights investigations.

During a series of special meetings held this summer before the TUSD governing board, components of a school master plan regarding the possible closure of more TUSD schools and construction of larger, more centralized schools were presented. In order to pay for construction of those larger schools, a 2013 bond proposal has been part of past discussions with the board.

At the July 24 meeting, part of a school master plan was presented to the board by TUSD planning program manager Bryant Nodine, who explained that “what we’re here for is to handle a short-term issue … the $17 million deficit.”

Besides school closures, Nodine said, TUSD has other options—chartering schools and consolidating schools—while addressing academic and diversity goals that are established in TUSD’s deseg plan. Special master Hawley, he said, will be involved in the process.

Community forums will begin in August and go into November, with a final plan developed in December. The public process includes focus groups with community leaders, principals, employee groups, standing committees, boundary committees and staff and parents of affected areas.

The first forums proposed are Aug. 20 at Sahuaro High School, Aug. 22 at Pueblo Magnet High School and Aug. 25 at Catalina Magnet High School.

When Campoy was asked for her opinion on the school district’s master plan at her desegregation presentation, she suggested the community look closely at the ethnic makeup of schools up for closure.

“Closing schools is never a good idea,” she said, because it divides communities and neighborhoods, and upsets kids.

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Miller now claims that she told us she was concerned because HURF dollars (or Highway User Revenue Funds, which come from state gasoline taxes, registration fees and other sources) were being used to pay off county road bonds.

But when we talked to her, she didn’t say anything of the sort. She leaned on the claim by Arizonans for a Brighter Future that $345 million couldn’t be “accounted for.”

We’ve got the tape of the conversation (as does Miller, who made her own recording), and we can’t find any reference to concerns about using HURF funds to pay off bonds. We’ll challenge Miller—who did not return an email seeking clarification on this point—to produce a moment in the interview where she said what she now claims to have said.

But here’s what makes Miller’s distortion of our reporting even stranger: While changing her story, Miller once again demonstrated that she doesn’t understand transportation funding.

In the debate, Miller declared that the county “is using (HURF) money for the bonds that we should be paying for with our secondary property-tax rate.

We should not be using HURF money to pay for bonds. And that’s what they’re doing, and they’re playing a shell game with the money, and they’re moving it around. … That is wrong, and it shouldn’t be happening, and it needs to stop. In the last five years— I’ve done an investigation here—$80 million has been raided.”

Miller is evidently unaware that county voters, when they passed a 1997 bond package, specifically supported using HURF funds to pay off the roads bonds.

You could have argued against that route in 1997—as the Tucson Weekly did, saying that the county should use a pay-as-you-go approach instead of borrowing against HURF revenues. And you can say that the road-bond money, once it started coming in, wasn’t spent that well, as the late Chris Limberis argued in these pages back in 2001.

But you can’t say the money is being “raided” if it’s being used for the purpose for which voters said it should be used. What Miller is proposing— namely, using property taxes to pay back revenue bonds—is the sort of illegal shell game that she spends so much time bemoaning.

Also: It’s not much of an “investigation” if Miller can’t figure out at some point that her basic premise is wrong.

As we watch Miller make these nutty pronouncements on the campaign trail, we’re left to wonder: Can’t radio host Joe Higgins get his candidate under control?

Maybe it’s better if he doesn’t.

We’re getting a good laugh out of Miller’s crusade, especially as she changes her story and continues to

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POLICE DISPATCH

BY ANNA MIROCHA mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

HE TOOK A CHANCE NORTH AVENIDA DEL ORO JULY 5, 12: 33 A.M.

A broken-up couple engaged in a heated custody battle over a dog, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report.

A woman reported that her ex-boyfriend had stolen her dog and possibly had a gun. A deputy located the man and a dog in a red Pontiac Grand Am driving down Oracle Road.

The man was clearly intoxicated, according to the report, and he immediately declared to a deputy that he was a convicted felon. A gun was seen in the car; however, it was later determined to be a pellet gun.

When asked why he had taken his exgirlfriend’s dog, the man said he’d been at her residence to visit their daughter, but his ex refused to let him see her, and threatened to call the police. When he tried to leave, he said, the dog ran up to his car, so he picked up the animal and drove away.

Deputies discovered that the dog, named Chance, was registered under the name of the man, who said he’d received the animal as payment for a tattoo.

However, he admitted giving the dog to his now-ex when they lived together. (In addition, the ex-girlfriend said she’d once given the man money to obtain the dog from the pound, so the dog was hers.)

Deputies were unable to determine who the dog’s “real owner” was.

The man tried to bargain with the deputies, saying he’d return the dog if they let him go free. However, they refused, so the man said he’d keep the dog, before later recanting and saying his ex could have the dog.

When deputies called the woman and asked her to pick the dog up, they discovered she was also intoxicated. She sent her mother to get the animal—at which point the man again changed his mind and decided to keep the dog.

The man was cited for drunk driving, and was released with the dog.

CRANKY WHEN CAUGHT WEST QUINLIN TRAIL JULY 2, 6:42 P.M.

A boy became violent when he was caught by an elder viewing pornography, a PCSD report stated.

Deputies went to a house, where the boy lived with his grandmother. He told them she’d seen him viewing pornography on the Internet and scolded him; he then “blew up.” He admitted he began to scream and head-butt the walls, and then went outside and started throwing rocks at a nearby vehicle. He said he also broke a table.

The boy was taken to a group home.

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henever the Olympics are held somewhere outside of Americanfriendly time zones, there are always going to be complaints about television coverage and spoilers. And this year, the London games (am I the only person calling the 30th Summer Olympics “the Triple-X Olympiad”?) are no exception, with some events delayed six hours or more after they happened.

It’s not hard to understand why NBC pulls this sort of stunt, especially during the week, when people aren’t home when Ryan Lochte is swimming or gymnastics is on, because it is a giant company that enjoys making money. But that doesn’t stop people from complaining about the delays. I use NBC News’ Breaking News app for my iPhone, which helpfully spoils every major plot line from the Olympics as they happen via a pop-up alert that I keep forgetting to turn off.

To its credit, NBC is sort of trying, streaming all of its coverage online, but the streams are reportedly unreliable and are only accessible to people who subscribe to cable or satellite packages. Oddly, as someone who dropped cable a while ago, I would have gladly paid around $50 to access these streams during the Olympics (what can I say; I’m a team handball fan) via an Xbox app or through a computer, commercials included—similar to what ESPN offers—but no such luck.

Tape delay won’t go away soon, but hopefully, by 2014, there will be a few more digital options to avoid it.

—Dan Gibson, Web Producer dgibson@tucsonweekly.com

COMMENT OF THE WEEK “… And I’m sure they all thought that Fabio deserved an Oscar for his acting.”

—TucsonWeekly.com commenter “Caps” doesn’t think too much of one Arizona State University professor’s analysis of the work of Stephenie Meyer (“ASU Is Such a Terrible University, They Think ‘Twilight’ Was Good,” The Range, July 27).

BEST OF WWW Guess what? Jimmy Boegle mentioned this in one of his Editor’s Notes, but to repeat: Since we realize how much you love The Range, our daily dispatch (which is really more like a hourly dispatch during the workday, but when you pick a slogan, it helps to stick with it), we’re expanding our blog empire to two, adding a music blog later this year. While we’re going to grab the best music writers in town to cover local acts, bands coming to town and other related stuff, we’re a little stumped on what to call the thing. If you have an idea (preferably something that references Tucson’s musical history), let us know at mailbag@tucsonweekly.com.

THE WEEK ON THE RANGE We updated you on former Gabrielle Giffords Chief of Staff Pia Carusone’s new gig at Homeland Security; shared some of the strange opinions of Republican candidate Patrick Gatti; wondered why a candidate for Pinal County supervisor thought he could vote on behalf of a dead person; kept up with Freedom Summer; noted that private prisons aren’t quite the money-saving device the Legislature would have us believe; suggested that Phoenix Tea Partier Wes Harris learn some relaxation techniques; and discussed the highlights of the week’s political events with Carolyn Cox, Pete Hershberger, Jeff Rogers and Jonathan Rothschild on Arizona Illustrated’s Political Roundtable, with your host, Jim Nintzel.

We let you know that Reilly Craft Pizza is open downtown; previewed Lulu’s Shake Shoppe, opening in October; mentioned a mead event at Borderlands Brewing; headed down to Main Gate to get some tea at the Scented Leaf; drank some (intentionally) sour beer; and made plans to check out Wilko’s new cocktail menu.

We listened to a new track from San Diego act Slightly Stoopid; read an interview with Tucson cuteness connoisseur Lisa Frank; poked fun at the Arizona Daily Star’s not-so-exclusive-print-exclusives; wondered if all the other books in the universe were taken when an Arizona State University professor decided to analyze the Twilight series; recommended the dark but compelling Isaiah Toothtaker album; squealed with joy over the idea of a sequel to Hedwig and the Angry Inch; suggested you go see the B-Side Players at the Rialto and Tycho at Plush; visited the Tucson Botanical Gardens; watched video of bears fishing for salmon; cried ourselves to sleep after watching a promo for Here Comes Honey Boo Boo; and tried to make sense of an Internet that demands more cat videos and marriage proposals.

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bungle the facts. Here’s what it reveals to us: Miller doesn’t know very much about how the county works; she is willing to gin up false allegations based on her misunderstanding; and she has very thin skin.

It’s not a very good temperament for someone in public office, but we imagine having her on the Pima County Board of Supervisors would result in some spectacular copy over the next four years. We don’t imagine it would be all that good for the constituents of District 1, but if they are foolish enough to vote for Miller, they’ll get the representation they deserve.

We do want to clarify something, though: Ally, we’re not writing “hit pieces” about you because you have the courage to speak up. We’re reporting that you keep saying things that aren’t true. And we’re doing it because it’s our job.

Hellon said it best in his response to Miller at the debate: “You can like the Weekly or not. You can like the Star or not. You can like The Wall Street Journal or not. But she was wrong. She said something occurred that didn’t occur, and they checked it and proved that she was simply wrong. … In this business, when you’re running for public office, you need to be accountable for what you say and what you promise and what you do. And if you’re not, somebody like Jim Nintzel is gonna call you on it.”

BY TIM VANDERPOOL, tvanderpool@tucsonweekly.com s rivers go, the Santa Cruz is a borderjumping nomad. Starting in Southern Arizona’s lush San Rafael Valley, it forges a 35-mile loop through Mexico before flowing back across the line near Nogales.

Its continued existence is likewise an international affair. Nearly 30 miles of the river in the Santa Cruz Valley south of Tucson are almost entirely dependent on effluent that comes from Nogales, Sonora. That sewage is treated at a huge plant in Nogales, Ariz., before being released into the waterway.

Not long ago, underground pumping had sucked the Santa Cruz dry. Today, effluent from metro Tucson helps keep parts of the river alive on the northwest side of town. But it is the reclaimed water from Nogales that has sparked the most remarkable recovery, creating a riparian area that teems with life—from endangered minnows to native birds—beneath a whispering canopy of cottonwood trees.

Still, as ongoing drought puts a strain on water supplies, rivers such as the Santa Cruz are certain to be at the center of debate over the use of effluent. According to the National Research Council, some 32 billion gallons of municipal wastewater are dumped directly into the ocean or estuaries each year. In Arizona alone, effluent now helps sustain at least a dozen waterways.

But its reach is shrinking, as treated sewage is put to other uses, such as agriculture or the cooling of industrial plants. A report by the Arizona Cooperative Extension shows that effluent sustained 351 miles of streams and rivers in 1987; by 2009, the number of miles had dropped to 91.

Impacts on the Santa Cruz in particular are tied to a new sewage treatment facility located 20 miles south of Nogales, Sonora. Just now coming online, the Los Alisos Wastewater Treatment Plant is expected to divert millions of gallons of sewage currently being treated under binational agreement at the International Wastewater Treatment Plant in Nogales, Ariz.

Instead of replenishing the Santa Cruz, that water will soon be pumped into a Mexican watershed.

An agreement dating from the 1980s authorizes the Arizona plant to treat up to 9.9 million gallons of Mexican sewage each day. But Mexico regularly exceeds that allotment by several million gallons, costing American taxpayers more to treat the excess. The Los Alisos plant is aimed—at least in part—at bringing imported Mexican wastewater closer to its allotted target.

Failure to do so is expensive. Figures provided by the U.S. government show that, from October 2010 to September 2011, Mexico paid $686,360 for treatment of its allotment, at a rate based on

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The Santa Cruz River today depends on treated wastewater from Mexico. ogist with the Sonoran Institute, which releases what it would cost to treat the waste to Mexican annual status reports on the Santa Cruz. standards. Any excess beyond the 9.9 million Among other things, the institute’s monitoris billed at actual treatment costs. As a result, ing also shows that the river’s northward reach during that same time period, Mexico sent an average of 11.84 million gallons to the plant each has diminished in recent years. “But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, in that it means there’s day; the total added cost for the extra treatment a greater infiltration of water” in the streambed, was $540,858. she says.

When the new Mexican plant is fully operaOne reason may be a reduction in the sotional, expectations are that those costs will be called “clogging layer,” created when water too substantially lowered. But conservationists fear high in nutrients and microorganisms clogs the that Mexico’s contribution to the Santa Cruz river-bottom sediment, turning it into little more River could plummet as well. than an aqueduct. That could be the culprit According to U.S. officials, however, initial behind a massive die-off of cottonwood trees effects will be minimal. “We are estimating a near the treatment plant in 2005, Zugmeyer says. reduction of 1.5 to 3 million gallons per day “Even though there was water in the river, trees in what’s coming across from Mexico,” says couldn’t get at it, because it wasn’t infiltrating Sally Spener, a foreign affairs officer with the International Boundary and Water Commission. enough.

“While the Santa Cruz doesn’t make it as far As an organ of the U.S. State Department, the IBWC oversees water and boundary issues along north, there is more water. It’s full—aquatic life can now survive in the river. The water quality is the U.S.-Mexico border. Its tasks including operstill not perfect, because it’s still treated wastewaating the sewer plant in Nogales, Ariz. ter. But it’s much improved from before.”

Could demand for effluent ever reach the How long that remains the case is up to point that Mexico eventually keeps all of its speculation. And despite government assurances, Nogales wastewater? “Only in theory,” Spener observers such as Zugmeyer say diversions to says. “From a legal standpoint, yes, they could. the new Mexican sewer plant will have a noticeBut we’re downhill (from Mexico), and from a able impact on the Santa Cruz. “There is a conpractical standpoint of keeping that water from cern. (Sonora) is permitted to send 9.9 million flowing north across the border, that’s just not gallons per day. So if they end up diverting all reasonable. For them to hold all that in Mexico, of that, and only 5.1 millions per day is coming they would have to create the infrastructure to from Nogales, Ariz., that’s a huge difference.” pump it back up into Mexico. It’s just not feaZugmeyer and others suggest that those sible.” changes point to the need for a larger discusIn the meantime, the Santa Cruz River putsion about the uses of effluent in an increasters along. An upgrade to the Nogales plant in ingly parched nation. “If we want to still have 2009 helped reduce the nitrogen levels in the free-flowing rivers,” she says, “especially in the water, and subsequently boosted oxygen levels, resulting in a surge of animal and plant life. “The Southwest, where so many of our rivers are effluent-dependent, we’re going to have to make native fish are starting to come back, and the riparian indicators have stayed pretty steady over some tough choices in the future, as water those three years,” says Claire Zugmeyer, an ecol- becomes even more in demand.”

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Speaking of the county races: A few groups have been handing out endorsements.

The aforementioned Mike Hellon, who is seeking to replace Ann Day on the Pima County Board of Supervisors, landed the endorsement of the Pima County Deputy Sheriff’s Association.

Stuart McDaniel, who is also in District 1 Republican primary, has the endorsement of the Tucson Association of Realtors.

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Scott’s show airs from 4 to 5 p.m., weekdays, on KVOI AM 1030.

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t a recent Clean Elections forum at Pima Community College’s west campus, Democrat Maria de la Luz Garcia choked up as she explained why she wants to represent the people of Tucson’s west and southwest sides.

Her late husband, former Democratic state Sen. Jorge Luis Garcia, died while holding the position of minority leader in 2010. She wants to carry on his legacy and continue his work in the Senate.

“It’s kind of emotional,” she said later. “Because he was a hard worker, and to see somebody in the seat who is not doing what I think needs to be done, to me is very heartbreaking.”

The somebody she refers to is Sen. Olivia Cajero Bedford, a Democrat who has served in the Legislature since 2003. Though the two are political opponents now, they were friends and mutual supporters just two years ago.

When the minority leader died, the Pima County Board of Supervisors had to pick a replacement to fill out the remaining two months of his term in office. The widowed Garcia decided to seek the nomination, and Cajero Bedford successfully lobbied the board on her behalf and told the other hopefuls to back off, out of respect.

Although she was already running in the next election to replace the term-limited minority leader, Cajero Bedford was sensitive to the situation. She comes from a political dynasty that started with her father, Bernardo Cajero, who also died while in serving in the Legislature and who was replaced by her mother, Carmen Cajero, who went on to serve for another 23 years.

Now, Cajero Bedford is facing a hard charge from Garcia for the Legislative District 3 Senate seat. She is accusing Cajero Bedford of neglecting the needs of the district and being more of a status-seeker than a leader.

Cajero Bedford says she’s earned the job through her years of hard work on behalf of her constituents. She’s a native Tucsonan raised on local politics who says she has the experience necessary to make a difference at the Senate.

In the past decade, she has held important posts in both the House and Senate, including a place on both chambers’ appropriations committees. She is quick to point out that she’s active and well-known in the community, and has outperformed her competitors in every election since 2002.

She says Democrats don’t have the numbers to make the sweeping changes they would like to see at the state Capitol, but that it doesn’t mean she’s not working hard.

“We nine Democrats (in the Senate) are like the firefighters who do the back-burn,” she said.

“We stopped a lot of bad things from happen-

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ing. We made sure people knew about the bad things that were happening. We got people activated to call their legislators.”

But Garcia, a manager at Raytheon, says putting out fires isn’t enough.

“What has she done for the people, besides just being there?” she asks. “What laws (has she passed)? I don’t think her record speaks.”

Both women are campaigning with equal funding through the Clean Elections system. At the Clean Elections forum on Tuesday, July 24, the two agreed on most issues, including that the state is heading in the wrong direction, the Legislature should spend more on education, and that jobs and the economy are priority No. 1.

But they disagreed on a few key issues, such as the proposal to make the state’s 1-cent sales tax increase permanent. At the debate, Cajero Bedford said she was tentatively against it, though she may change her mind. She said she’s opposed to the initiative, because the state should be spending that money on schools anyway, and she’s not convinced that the Legislature won’t be able to sweep

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the money and use it for another purpose.

Cajero Bedford says that while she understands Garcia’s desire to carry on her husband’s legacy, the decision for voters will come down to who has the knowledge and experience to represent the district well.

“My background in politics goes back a long way,” she said. “I’ve followed the issues over the years. I used to consult with my mother. She used to consult with me on different votes. I have a high regard for the process. And it’s not fun; it’s not easy. It’s really very tough.”

But Garcia says the decision for voters comes down to who will work harder and be able to accomplish more on behalf of the district, which is predominately Hispanic and Democratic. It includes parts of Tucson west of Campbell Avenue between roughly Prince Road and 22nd Street, and large swaths west of Interstate 10, including Tucson Foothills Estates and Drexel Heights.

“Experience isn’t everything,” Garcia said.

“You need to get new blood in so that they can get new ideas to the table.”

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ON A RECENT TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEAN COLLINS stood before the crowd at the Pima County Republican Club luncheon and lit into Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll.

Collins, who hopes to unseat Carroll in the Aug. 28 GOP primary in District 4, had a lengthy list of complaints about Pima County government in general—and Carroll in particular.

Among Collins’ gripes: Carroll had been registered as a Democrat in the 1990s before switching to the Republican Party. Carroll has led opposition to the proposed Rosemont Mine. He hasn’t done enough to create jobs.

He doesn’t work hard enough and ignores Republican voters, except during election season. He hasn’t fixed enough potholes and has supported putting water stations in the desert to help migrant border-crossers. He has supported the purchase of open space and has hamstrung developers with too many impact fees.

“The incumbent, my opponent, has been there for 15-plus years, and he’s too comfortable in his chair, folks,” said Collins, an Air Force veteran who owns a Dairy Queen in Vail.

As Collins ran through his indictment, Carroll was in the audience and appeared relaxed, with a smile regularly crossing his face. Carroll didn’t try to defend himself by addressing the crowd, although he’s scheduled to speak to the weekly gathering of conservative Republicans later this month. He left midtown’s El Parador restaurant shortly after Collins wrapped up his remarks.

Some members of the conservative lunch crowd were in Collins’ corner. Rebecca Spann,

who considered running against Carroll herself, complained that Carroll “votes like a Democrat. … He votes with them more times than he doesn’t.

“He’s such an intimidating person, Ray is,” Spann added. “I told him, ‘Ray, you need to move on. You need to go write your book or do something else. You’ve been here too long.’ And that was three years ago.”

But Carroll had the support of other members of the crowd. Dick Dale, a local doctor who unsuccessfully ran for the Arizona Legislature in 2004, said that he found Collins to be “a little negative.”

“I like Ray, because I’ve known him a long time,” Dale said. “You know, he puts so many miles on his truck every year. … I think he does talk to his constituents.”

I ASKED CARROLL IF HE’S A REAL CONSERVATIVE, AND HE plunked down two awards on his desk.

“I’ve got two chunks of glass that say I am conservative,” he boasted.

The first is the 2007 John W. Dawson Local Hero Award from the Arizona Federation of Taxpayers, which Carroll earned by blocking a county sales-tax increase. The second is the 2009 Gov. Howard Pyle Award from the Arizona Republican Party.

“That was from (former Arizona Republican Party chairman) Randy Pullen,” Carroll said.

“You think that Randy Pullen is going to recognize a nonconservative?”

The question of whether Carroll is a loyal Republican dogged him during his first run for

office, way back in 1998. At that time, Carroll had recently been appointed to the Board of Supervisors under contentious circumstances.

Nonetheless, Carroll prevailed in the three-way GOP primary—and has been fortunate enough to avoid a ballot-box challenge since beating a Libertarian in the 1998 general election.

“I’ve got the credentials of a fiscal conservative,” Carroll said. “I’ve led the district on other conservative issues. I’m pro-gun. I’m a devout Catholic who’s pro-life, from conception to natural death.”

Over his years in representing District 4, which stretches from the Tanque Verde and Rincon valleys to Green Valley, Carroll has repeatedly refused to provide the necessary vote to enact a sales tax in Pima County. He has consistently voted against Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry’s proposed budgets and has offered his own alternatives, which usually suggest using some of the county’s reserve funds to provide property-tax breaks.

He’s also been one of the county’s mostvisible politicians. He regularly participates in charity events, such as waiting tables for the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault’s Dine Out for Safety fundraisers. When Mount Lemmon suffered through 2003’s catastrophic Aspen Fire, Carroll was on the scene, coordinating different government agencies and helping residents recover from the devastation.

The Chicago native has a natural charm that has served him well through his political career. Carroll came to Tucson in 1984 to settle down with his wife, Ann, and raise his kids:

Maria, now 23, who lives in Dallas; Shane, 21, who has just graduated from the New Mexico Military Institute; and Carlos, 17, who is starting his senior year at Salpointe Catholic High School and already has a football scholarship to Southern Methodist University. (Last year, Carroll chartered a bus to take Green Valley residents to Nogales to see Carlos play with Salpointe.)

Before he got into politics, Carroll tried his hand in the nonprofit sector, working at Casa de los Niños; he then tackled commercial real estate. But when he landed the appointment to the Board of Supervisors in 1997 after the death of Supervisor John Even, Carroll felt like he’d found his calling.

“This is the one career choice that I’ve made that I’ve been totally satisfied with,” he said.

Carroll has been a loyal soldier for higherranking Republicans. He helped Jim Kolbe, the former Republican congressman, deflect a conservator challenger in 2004. He’s served on Sen. John McCain’s campaign committee and Sen. Jon Kyl’s finance committee. On the local level, he chaired Republican Tyler Vogt’s campaign against Democratic City Councilwoman Shirley Scott last year.

He has, sometimes, crossed party lines. He endorsed Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik in 2004 and backed a Democrat, Salette Latas, in a nonpartisan Oro Valley Town Council race.

But he’s also caused grief for the Democrats he serves with on the Pima County Board of Supervisors. Four years ago, when they were up for re-election, Carroll quietly aided primary CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Republican Sean Collins says that Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll “has been there for 15-plus years, and he’s too comfortable in his chair.”

Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll: “We’ll let the voters decide who is the better Republican fit for District 4.”

challengers to the incumbents and has worked to undermine them with their own constituencies, particularly on issues related to the county’s Elections Department.

This year, Carroll is enjoying plenty of support from the local business community.

Just last week, he was endorsed by both the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association

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and the Tucson Association of Realtors. And Carroll still has plenty of Republicans in his corner, ranging from National Committeeman Bruce Ash to auto-dealer Jim Click.

Linda Barber, who headed up Evan Mecham’s Southern Arizona gubernatorial office in the late ’80s and served as chairwoman of the Pima County Republican Party from 1988 to 1992, isn’t taking sides in the race, but she believes that Carroll has been a loyal Republican, and that Collins’ charges are “not always 100 percent true.”

“I have to say this about Ray Carroll,” Barber said. “He has always been supportive of this Republican Party, and whenever the party has a function, he’s there. … And I think Ray has really held the line on taxes. He’s been the last man standing against the county sales tax that they’ve pushed forward a few times.”

Barber disagrees with Carroll’s opposition to the Rosemont Mine, but “this might be the only topic that Ray Carroll and Chuck Huckelberry have agreed on in 15 years.”

IF THERE’S AN ISSUE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE DISTRICT 4 race, it’s that proposed Rosemont Mine, a project that would carve out tons of copper from the Santa Rita Mountains over an estimated 25 years.

Augusta Resources Corporation, the Canadian parent company of Rosemont Copper, owns the 530 acres where it would like to dig the pit, but is requesting that it be allowed to use around 3,000 acres of national forest land as a place to dump tailings waste.

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Augusta began the process of opening the mine in 2006, but has been entangled in bureaucratic red tape—much of it from Pima County—and is still working on getting the necessary permits to open.

Carroll, who has led the county’s opposition to Rosemont, cites a number of concerns, including the impact on the water supply for Green Valley residents, increased traffic loads on scenic Highway 83, and damage to other economic sectors around Tucson, including tourism and astronomy. He’s not sure the community should trust Rosemont Copper’s promises to clean up the site once they’ve finished mining the mountain.

“I’m very skeptical,” Carroll said. “Whether it’s their salaries or their promises to the community or bait-and-switch tactics, I don’t think they can be trusted.”

Collins is a big supporter of the mine, although he insists that he’s not a patsy for Rosemont Copper.

“I’m not the Rosemont candidate, although my opponent says I am,” Collins said. “I’m an environmentalist like everyone else is. I don’t want to cut down all the trees.”

But there’s no denying that the Rosemont Mine issue has been a major part of Collins’ campaign. One of his key campaign supporters is former state lawmaker Randy Graf, a hardright conservative who is now on Rosemont’s payroll.

Among the five individual supporters listed on his website are Rick Grinnell, another business advocate who does public-relations work for Rosemont, and state Sen. Al Melvin, a big

Rosemont proponent. Yet another supporter, attorney and former Pima County Republican Party Chairman John Munger, says he’s “very unhappy” with Carroll over his opposition to the mine. (Carroll says that Munger’s unhappiness must have arisen in the last two years, since Munger asked for—and received—Carroll’s help with an unsuccessful 2010 gubernatorial campaign.)

Collins said that Pima County needs the mine and the estimated 400 jobs that will come with it.

“It certainly is a jobs issue,” Collins said.

“Tucson is falling off an economic cliff.”

Carroll said he’s not anti-mining. He points to his support of an agreement that the county entered into with Oracle Ridge Mine, an underground mine near Mount Lemmon.

“It’s 240 jobs,” Carroll said. “And community feedback has all been positive, not just from Summerhaven, but the communities around there.”

Collins said Carroll’s support for one project and opposition to another “doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense to me.” But Carroll said the mine operators have very different impacts on the community.

“It’s obviously a different situation when you’re opening a new mine versus reopening an old mine,” Carroll said. “It’s an underground mine.”

THE ROSEMONT MINE IS A SYMBOLIC ISSUE IN THE CAMPAIGN. But running the county involves overseeing a host of departments—the local courts, a com-

plex health-care system, a vast transportation network, a sewer system, parks, libraries and more—as well deciding future development through zoning and other responsibilities.

Collins is particularly concerned about county spending.

“The money that is spent is absolutely ridiculous,” he said. “We will cut out the fat. There’s way too much fat.”

As an example of wasteful spending, Collins says the county has spent too much money on open space—even though those purchases of land for parks and conservation have been approved by voters through bond elections.

“We want to protect some of our natural resources, but in my opinion, this county is purchasing way too much of that at taxpayer expense,” Collins said. “There’s an awful lot that can be done with some of that property.”

If you drill down, however, Collins doesn’t know the county budget well enough to offer much in the way of cuts. Ask him if he’d reduce spending on parks, for example, and he tells you: “Taking care of parks is certainly important. We should take care of our priorities, and our priority is getting our county back on track.

I’m not sure of the exact dollar amount that we’re spending on our parks, but our parks are important, undoubtedly. But I think we need to reprioritize.”

And here’s Collins on library spending: “I think the county needs to reprioritize. It needs to start from scratch. We need to tear the budget apart and reprioritize completely and figure out where the money needs to be spent, in the most-positive, most-effective manner. (Library

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funding) certainly needs to be studied, as do all the other issues.”

And while he feels that the county has “way too many regulations,” he can’t name any that he’d get rid of. Instead, he wants to get together business owners to figure that out.

In short, while he has plenty of complaints about how the county is run, Collins doesn’t know too much about how he’d run it differently.

Collins is a newcomer to county politics. He moved to Tucson in 1999 while he was still in the Air Force, and in 2000, he was named the Southern Arizona Red Cross Military Hero of the Year. After he retired from the military in 2003, he went to work for Northrop Grumman, a defense contractor in Sierra Vista.

He and his wife, Tracy, also opened a Dairy Queen store in Vail. The shop went over budget, but thanks to a federal loan program for veterans through the Small Business Administration, Collins was able to get enough money to open the shop in 2007, according to an Arizona Daily Star article.

Going over budget on the Dairy Queen wasn’t Collins’ first financial trouble. On his website, Collins blames a 1997 bankruptcy on a former wife, whom he says misspent his money while he was serving overseas.

“The decision of having to file for bankruptcy in 1997 was one that I entered into with a heavy heart,” Collins wrote. “I have always attempted to live within my means as a responsible, honorable citizen and best example to my children. Unfortunately and shockingly, I abruptly learned that my ex-wife did not share

those same values.”

Collins is a member of the Greater Vail Area Chamber of Commerce and a Republican precinct committeeman. He served on the Vail Community Action Board, which helps guide collaboration between businesses, local government and schools in the unincorporated community, but his membership on the board was revoked earlier this year after he missed too many meetings, which he blamed on a back injury.

WHEN HE LOOKS BACK OVER HIS YEARS IN PUBLIC SERVICE, Carroll has a good feeling about his time on the Board of Supervisors.

“I like helping people,” he said. “That’s a big part of this job. You don’t make a lot of money.

I haven’t enriched myself.”

He said he’s surprised that he hasn’t faced a challenge before now.

“When I got into public service and politics, I thought I’d give it whirl,” he said. “I expected that I’d be challenged, time and time again, because I figured that’s the way that politics went. But I’ve been blessed to have a stretch here where I was unopposed, and I’ve been able to represent the people in my district, no matter what their party affiliation. But I like to succeed. I like to get things done.”

He said he’s looking forward to the verdict of District 4 voters on Aug. 28.

“I’m happy to have a challenger, no matter who, Republican or Democrat,” Carroll said.

“We’ll let the voters decide who is the better Republican fit for District 4.”

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“That was a challenge, emotionally, because I had seen the footage a million times … through editing, storyboarding … and it had sort of become an abstraction, to some extent,” Houser said. He said that while he “knew intellectually” that they A scene from Dead in the Desert. were covering the death of a real person, seeing the emotion on relatives’ faces made the impact of what they had done sink in.

Counts described the film as a “100 percent journalistic piece,” and said that he and Houser are not advocating for illegal immigration, but rather simply trying to inform the public about the hundreds of

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migrants who die in the desert every year.

The documentary was inspired by a journalism project Counts directed when he was at the UA called Another Side of the Border. Counts said “the complete lack of jobs” they found upon graduating was also a “huge factor in doing this film.”

“This was very much so we could continue to practice journalism,” Counts said. “It was a very long road we had to travel just to get this film made.”

The benefit concert for Dead in the Desert starts at 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 4, at Sky Bar, 536 N. Fourth Ave. Admission is $10. For more information about the documentary, visit the Dead in the Desert Facebook page. You can also watch a preview of the documentary at deadinthedesertmovie.com.

Hope Miller mailbag@tucsonweekly.com AUSTIN COUNTS

PICK OF THE WEEK

Illegal immigration is one of those topics that everyone seems to have a strong opinion about. And sometimes, we get so caught up in the politics of people illegally crossing the border that we don’t think about how many lives are lost in the desert every year.

Two University of Arizona journalism graduates are here to remind us of the human side of this hot-button issue.

Austin Counts and Devlin Houser (both of whom have been Tucson Weekly contributors) are hosting a benefit concert for their documentary, Dead in the Desert, at Sky Bar this Saturday, Aug. 4. Local tech guru Seth Webster also helped produce and edit the film.

Dead in the Desert documents how Pima County medical investigators attempted to identify and repatriate the bodies of two migrants found in June 2011—one in Arivaca, and the other on the Tohono O’odham Nation.

The film also shows how migrants prepare to cross the Arizona-Sonora border, offers a snapshot of a northern Mexican town that depends on migrants, and highlights a humanitarian-aid group that provides water stations for migrants crossing the desert.

Gabriel Sullivan, Carlos Arzate of American Android and DJ DirtyVerbs will perform at Sky Bar in support of the documentary.

Counts said Sullivan’s music is featured in the film, and that it’s “a nice touch to be able to have a local artist.” He said he wanted the music, as well as the film’s content, to be local, because Dead in the Desert is a “very local, organic film.”

Happy-hour drink specials will be offered until midnight. Money raised at the concert will cover promotional costs and film-festival entrance fees so that the issue of migrant deaths can reach a wider audience.

“I think that, as longtime Tucson residents, we have a deeper understanding of these issues and how they impact people,” Houser said. “Our goal is to educate the rest of the country and the rest of the world.”

He said that although politicos in Washington endlessly discuss immigration policy, “it’s pretty far removed. This is something that we live. This is reality.”

MUSIC Get Instruments; Meet Instructors Local Music-Teacher Festival Noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 4 Bookmans Entertainment Exchange 6230 E. Speedway Blvd.

748-9555; bookmans.com

The Bookmans on Speedway Boulevard is bringing in eight local music teachers for an event at which customers can get advice on music lessons and appropriate instruments for budding music students.

For the past six months, Bookmans has been building an inventory of musical instruments such as drums, congas, flutes and guitars.

“Bookmans really wanted to introduce new things to rejuvenate our store,” said Anthony Aldinger, the event liaison for the store. “We have instruments anywhere from a $20 guitar to a $4,000 guitar. … Ninety-nine percent of this stuff is from our customers.”

By bringing in people who teach a variety of instruments, Bookmans hopes to promote the fact that it is now selling instruments, and provide advice for those considering a purchase or music lessons.

“We want to give people the opportunity to come in and meet and greet, and get advice about music, while also highlighting these beautiful local teachers,” Aldinger said.

The teachers participating in the event have a wide variety of experience in teaching music and playing instruments, he said. They include a guitarist, a pianist, a flutist, drummers and a woman who specializes in teaching string instruments to youth.

“We want to make sure these teachers are readily available to their community,” Aldinger said. “We feel it’s important to make it easily accessible for anyone to come in and purchase instruments and find teachers to help them along the way.”

The event is free and for all ages.

—R.C.

Far left: The Western Institute for leadership Development.

JUDITH ANDERSON

Left: Daniel Buckley stands in front of El Casino Ballroom.

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FILM

OUTDOORS

New School!

Five Days of Birding

Charter School Grand Opening

A Tribute to El Casino Ballroom

5 to 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 3

The Heart and Soul of Tucson

Western Institute for Leadership Development 1300 S. Belvedere Ave.

2 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 5

Wednesday, Aug. 15, to Sunday, Aug. 19; register online now for events with slots remaining

615-2200; www.thewesterninstitute.org

www.danielbuckleyarts.com

In honor of the 65th anniversary of Tucson’s landmark ballroom, and to help raise money to finish its restoration, documentary filmmaker Daniel Buckley has created The Heart and Soul of Tucson—El Casino Ballroom.

It’s the fifth documentary in Buckley’s Cine Plaza at the Fox series, which he began in 2009 along with producers Ralph Gonzalez and Julie Gallego.

“The series features different historical aspects of Hispanic culture in Tucson, and mainly Mexican-American culture,” Buckley said. “… It really intrigued me that El Casino has served the total community for 65 years.”

The film also marks the 80th anniversary of the Latin American Social Club, the ballroom’s current owner.

El Casino, at 437 E. 26th St., opened in 1947. It was known for its dance floor, which could hold up to 1,200 people. Virtually every important act on the Mexican-American music scene has played there, from Pedro Infante to Lola Beltrán to Los Tigres del Norte. In the 1950s, when black artists could not play at many Tucson clubs, the ballroom also welcomed early rock ’n’ rollers such as Fats Domino and Little Richard.

In 1991, a storm blew off the ballroom roof, and it was closed for the nine years. Thanks to the efforts of donors and volunteers, half of the ballroom has been reopened.

Buckley has been working on his 60-minute documentary for the past year, collecting stories from people who have been going to El Casino since its early days.

“There are fantastic stories here, stories about how people went through times of racism, as well as the musical stories,” Buckley said. “… It’s been one of the most-joyful experiences in my career as a documentary filmmaker.”

Admission is a suggested donation of $3. —R.C.

Tucson Bird and Wildlife Festival

RiverPark Inn 350 S. Freeway Blvd.

629-0510; tucsonaudubon.org/festhome.html

For the second year, the Tucson Audubon Society is hosting the Tucson Bird and Wildlife Festival to educate the public about the wildlife of Southern Arizona.

The society is a nonprofit organization that aims to connect people to birds and the places they live. Members of the society partner with other organizations and companies in the area to help promote bird-watching. They offer workshops, lectures and other educational activities year-round.

Kara Kaczmarzyk, development and volunteer coordinator at the Tucson Audubon Society, said more than 500 people registered for last year’s festival, with participants from 17 states and four countries.

“In Tucson and the greater southeastern Arizona community, we have amazing natural resources,” Kaczmarzyk said.

“We’re in the top three for bird-watching in the entire country, with over 400 species. We’ve been hearing a lot of feedback and enthusiastic talk about people coming to see our birds and wildlife.”

This five-day festival includes halfand full-day field trips to places that offer the best opportunities to watch birds. Field trip destinations include Mount Lemmon, Catalina State Park, Willcox’s Twin Lakes and at least 10 other locations.

Evening events include speakers highlighting various species of birds, workshops on topics such as becoming a bird-watcher, and tips on how to identify birds in the area. On Friday, a free nature expo at the RiverPark Inn includes lectures, exhibitions and vendors. Live reptiles and birds will be on display.

There is a registration fee of $15 for the festival. The cost for field trips, workshops and lectures ranges from $8 to $85. —S.V.

JOHN HOFFMAN

The Western Institute for Leadership Development—a charter college-preparatory high school—will hold its first classes at its brand-new campus this month, and school officials are hosting an open house to explain the benefits of the school to prospective students and their parents.

The event includes a buffet and live entertainment, and guests will have the opportunity to meet the faculty and tour the 10-acre campus.

The school will open this year with ninth-grade and 10th-grade classes.

Officials hope to have 100 students enrolled in each grade.

The Western Institute was created to prepare high school students for college and to help them establish a voice in the community. To help accomplish its mission, the school has received a grant of $230,000 each year through 2014 from the Every Voice in Action Foundation, also known as EViA. EViA is an Arizona nonprofit organization that supports youth leadership in the community and has awarded several million dollars to schools and nonprofit organizations. Several of the board members of EViA are also founding members of the school.

“As the founding donors of the new school, we wanted to create a sustained culture over four years of high school to support youth leadership and academics,” said Judith Anderson, chief executive officer at the school. “We want to help them succeed on their own terms in today’s world, and to help them figure out how they’re going to use their talents in their future careers.”

Luis Perales, the community-engagement director, anticipates enrollment growing every year. The academic focus will be on humanities, math and science, in order to prepare the students for real-world jobs, he said.

Anderson and Perales also will be two of the school’s six teachers this year.

Admission is free. —R.C.

Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St.

Broadbilled Hummingbird

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Scott Peterson After performing covers off and on for 40 years, Scott Peterson, also known as Scotty P., is at a crossroads—he wants to make a new sound for himself.

Peterson has played in bars and restaurants all over Tucson and currently owns his own DJ company, ScottyPDJ. As he revamps his sound and style, Peterson pledges to show his audiences something they’ve never seen from him before. See him from 8 to 10 p.m., Friday, Aug. 3, at Dry River Company, and from 7 to 10 p.m., next Thursday, Aug. 9, at Frog and Firkin. For more information, visit facebook.com/scottypscottyp.

EVENTS THIS WEEK

Rachel Cabakoff, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

How did you get started performing?

I’ve been playing guitar ever since I was 16. I’ve always had an interest in music, and I love to perform. … I played in and out of college, and on and off for most of my life at clubs, bars and events—you name it.

What made you want to make this change?

There was a point in my life when I wasn’t performing, and I was in the white-collar world. I had my own PR firm. I was a stockbroker, and I also worked in real estate. I had a heart attack in 2005, and it really opened my eyes. I picked up the guitar and started playing again. Now, I have the need to do something different, to make a difference and (find) a better sound. I’ve been revisiting songs I wrote way back when, and I’m giving them a more-contemporary sound, and I’ve got a whole bunch of new gear to use during my performances.

What is your biggest challenge?

I am a total pro at being a cover guy, but when it comes to the original stuff, I’m a babe in arms. I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing in this original-music realm. What’s great is that with all of this new equipment, the music becomes so colorful and so interesting, and it enables me to sound like more than just a guy and a guitar. I’m doing what 22 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

I should’ve done years and years ago, and I’m taking music seriously now. It’s a weird challenge taking songs that you’ve written 25 years ago, and they still have that same sound, and trying to (make) those into more-contemporary songs. … You can tweak and tweak the music to make it sound completely different.

Building my own music is something I’ve never done, but I’m digging it.

How is your new music different?

Most of my new music is going to be my own songs.

My repertoire is really big right now, so I’ve started going through stuff … and I’ve whittled it down to just a couple of cover (songs) that I’m planning on remanufacturing with my new stuff. My new music will definitely have more of a contemporary sound. I’m adding loop and layering effects along with harmony parts to make the music sound more complex than it ever was before.

What are you most looking forward to as a result of this change?

I’m really looking forward to performing at other clubs.

I’ve never played a single note on Fourth Avenue, so I would love to play there.

I’m looking forward to testing myself throughout this whole process and proving to myself that I can do it.

Eventually, I would love to

have a stack of CDs for sale, and hopefully some music on iTunes.

What do you hope your audiences get out of your new performances?

I think a lot of people might be surprised to hear my own songs. Not a lot of people know me as a singer/ songwriter; they know me as a cover guy. … There’s a whole other kind of reward when people say, “I love your song.”

What artist would you compare your music to?

I don’t know if I could compare myself to anyone. I really admire John Lennon; I am a huge Beatles fan.

Lennon wasn’t just a songwriter; he was a philanthropist and a world-changer.

I really like Springsteen; vocally, I could be compared to him. I have heard that a lot before, but I think I am fairly Beatles-influenced.

When do you hope to perform your new music?

It’s all still in the process and in rehearsal right now. I hope to have a show within the next couple of weeks featuring my new style and my own songs. That performance will really show my audiences my new style and my changes. I will be posting updates about my upcoming shows on my Facebook page.

‘DEAD IN THE DESERT’ FUNDRAISER AND WRAP PARTY Sky Bar. 536 N. Fourth Ave. 622-4300. A party featuring music by Gabriel Sullivan raises funds to allow filmmakers Austin Counts and Devlin Houser to complete a documentary about the migrant experience, including deportation shelters, migrant towns and repatriation after death, from 6 to 9:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 4; $10. Visit deadinthedesertmovie.com for more info.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR MODELS FOR CHARITY EVENT Tres Boutique. 210 N. Fourth Ave. (310) 754-0621.

Models are cast for a fashion show at a Saturday, Aug. 25, charity event to benefit Hope Animal Shelter.

Casting is from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 4. Wear jeans and a tank top, and bring high heels. Email intuitiveevents@gmail.com for more information.

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SCHOOL SUPPLIES DONATION DRIVE Tucson Values Teachers hosts a school-supply drive through Monday, Aug. 13. Visit tucsonvaluesteachers.org for a list of 50 participating Walgreens locations.

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. Monthly meetings at 8:30 a.m., the first Saturday of every month, feature breakfast, guest speakers, networking, socializing, promotion opportunities and critiques by qualified experts; $13, $10 member. Visit southernazartsguild.org to verify meeting location and for more information.

WOMEN IMPACTING TUCSON Arizona Inn. 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. Jerry Peyton of Streetlight Tucson presents “Child-Sex Trafficking in Tucson”; and city of Tucson business advocate Maricela Solis provides an update from the mayor’s office at a luncheon from 11:20 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday, Aug. 6; $30, $25 with RSVP by Thursday, Aug. 2. Call 3233100, or visit arizonainn.com/wit 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, Aug. 3; free.

Guest panelists cardiologist Dr. Chuck Kazenberg, attorney Bill Risner, National Nurses United member Ann Dichov and activist Chet Gardiner discuss “A Look Ahead at American Health Care.” Audience members arrive by 6:15 p.m. to guarantee seating. Call 7222837, or e-mail humanharmony2005@aol.com for more information.

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

EVENTS THIS WEEK UPCOMING ASPCA CHALLENGE Humane Society of Southern Arizona. 3450 N. Kelvin Blvd. 321-3704. Having qualified for the ASPCA Rachael Ray $100,000 Challenge, the Humane Society of Southern Arizona competes with 49 other shelters across the country to reunite or find forever homes for 3,000 dogs and cats by Wednesday, Oct. 31. The drive kicks off from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday, Aug. 3, with free adoptions of adult cats and mixed-breed dogs weighing more than 25 pounds. Free pet portraits are available from 5 to 7 p.m.

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. 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.

GEOCACHING FOR BEGINNERS Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. John Smith gives an interactive presentation about geocaching, a worldwide scavenger hunt for families, from 9:30 to 11 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 4; free.

MARANA BAZAAR Staples. 3840 W. River Road. 297-6456.

Representatives of a wide range of businesses and nonprofits buy, collect, sell and trade a wide range of items from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 8; free for both vendors and visitors.

PET-FOOD DRIVE Businesses throughout Tucson provide collection points and incentives to donate pet food to the Humane Society of Southern Arizona, daily, through Monday, Sept. 3. A complete list of events, businesses, special offers and locations is available at hssa.org. Mostneeded items are canned (chopped or paté) or dry food for puppy, dog, cat or kitten; KMR Kitten Milk Replacer; Esbilac Milk Replacer; plain, unsalted peanut butter; treats for cats or dogs; and dog biscuits without dyes.

PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION GROUP Metropolitan Grill. 7892 N. Oracle Road. 531-1212.

Lively, friendly and civil discussions of philosophical questions old and new take place at 6 p.m., the first and third Monday of every month; free. Call 575-1743 for more information.

MODERATOR WORKSHOP Pima County Housing Center. 801 W. Congress St. 6242947. The League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson holds a training session for moderators from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 11. The workshop focuses on how to make an event run smoothly with attendees following the rules of civility; free. Light refreshments are served.

Reservations are requested by Monday, Aug. 6. Call 327-7652 or 326-3018 to register or for more info.

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 English and 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.

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 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; free. Candidates from all political parties are invited to speak. Call 878-0256 for more information and to arrange a time to speak.

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.

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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.

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.

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Sidewalk Sale August 11th and 12th 605 E. Wetmore We’ll be filling the sidewalk at our Wetmore store with gear, clothing and shoes at deals of 20 to 50% off!

DRINKING LIBERALLY The Shanty. 401 E. Ninth St. 623-2664. Liberal and progressive Democrats meet every Wednesday at 6 p.m.; free. The meeting often features special guests. Search for “Drinking Liberally Tucson� on Facebook.

ELDER CIRCLES: THE WISDOM JOURNEY Elders hear presentations and share stories each month on one of four topics intended to encourage pro-active aging: life review; life repair; legacy and mentoring; free.

Meetings are the first Monday of every month, at 10:30 a.m., at The Forum, 2500 N. Rosemont Blvd.; and the second Friday of every month, at 10 a.m., at St. Francis in the Foothills, 4625 E. River Road. Call 298-6542, or email deljonesaz@cox.net for more information.

EXTREME COUPONING SAAF. 375 S. Euclid Ave. 628-7223. Cents-off coupons are collected from the Sunday newspaper and Tuesday home mailings to help support the food programs of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation. Coupons need not be cut out. They may be delivered from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

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.

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.

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.

RECYCLING CENTERS Neighborhood drop-off centers are located at Himmel Park, Joaquin Murrieta Park, Mansfield Park, Morris K. Udall Park, Miller-Golf Links Library, Golf Links Sports Park, Kennedy Park, Booth-Fickett Magnet School, Jacobs Park, Tucson Convention Center, Ward 5 Council Office, Patrick K. Hardesty Midtown Multi-Service Center, Himmel Park and the Los Reales Landfill. Visit tucsonrecycles.org, or call 791-5000 for more info.

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.

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 info.

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TOASTMASTERS OF UNITY Risky Business Sunrise. 6866 E. Sunrise Drive. 5770021. Participants learn the art of public speaking, listening, thinking and leadership in a relaxed, informal and supportive atmosphere, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., every Saturday; free. Call 861-7039, 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 219-4332, or visit tucsonsocialsingles.org for locations and more info.

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.

BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK AD2-SDAY Barrio Brewing Company. 800 E. 16th St. 791-2739.

Young professionals in the fields of advertising, marketing and design gather for networking from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 7; $15, $10 member, $5 first-timer. RSVP is requested by Friday, Aug. 3, to 250-1741, or by registering at ad2tucson.com.

DROP-IN 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.

SPENDING RETIREMENT SAVINGS? Raskob/Kambourian Financial Advisors. 4100 N. First Ave. 690-1999. Learn how to meet retirement goals and have peace of mind while creating memories that are important to you, from 1 to 2 p.m., Friday, Aug. 3; free.

RSVP is requested by Thursday, Aug 2.

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.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CATALYST CAFÉ: WHERE TECH MEETS TUCSON Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Representatives of Pima County’s small businesses and nonprofits are invited to gather to discuss leadingedge technologies and innovative business practices from 3 to 4:30 p.m., the first of Friday every month; free.

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FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK ANSHEI ISRAEL’S SUMMER FILM SERIES Congregation Anshei Israel. 5550 E. Fifth St. 7455550. Free film nights include free popcorn and lemonade. Screenings are at 7 p.m., Sunday, and a discussion follows each film. Aug. 5: Nora’s Will. Aug. 12: A Serious Man. Call 745-5530, ext. 231, for more info.

CINEMA LA PLACITA Cinema La Placita. La Placita Village, Broadway Boulevard and Church Avenue. 326-5282. Classic movies are shown outdoors at 7:30 p.m., every Thursday, through Oct. 25; $3 includes popcorn. Aug. 2: Cat Ballou (1965). Aug. 9: Bright Eyes (1934). Visit cinemalaplacita.com for a schedule and parking info.

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.

LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Visit loftcinema.com for a complete list of upcoming films and to reserve tickets. Sunday, Aug. 5, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.: Bill W., a documentary about the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, with director Dan Carracino in person; $5 to $9. Also Sunday, Aug. 5: Everyone Prefers Marilyn! Some Like It Hot at noon, and The Misfits at 2:30 p.m.; $8, $6 member. Tuesday, Aug. 7, at 7:30 p.m.: The Island President; $5 to $9. Wednesday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m.: Oslo, August 31st; $5 to $9.

MUPPETS, MUSIC AND MAGIC: A MONTH-LONG CELEBRATION OF JIM HENSON’S LEGACY Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. The Loft partners with the Jim Henson Legacy and the Brooklyn Academy of Music to present highlights of the Muppets’ 50-plus-year history, rare footage from the vaults, a collection of Henson’s experimental short films, and three classic full-length features; $8 per film, $6 child 12 and younger or member, $40 series pass, $35 series pass member or child 12 and younger. Passes do not include admission to the feature films. Thursday, Aug. 2, at 7 p.m., Gonzo creator Dave Goelz presents Muppet History 101. Saturday, Aug. 4, at noon: Muppet Fairy Tales: The Frog Prince and The Elves and the Shoemaker. Thursday, Aug. 9, at 7 p.m.; and Saturday, Aug. 25, at noon: Muppet Music Moments. Visit loftcinema.com for a complete schedule and tickets.

TUCSON’S HEART AND SOUL: EL CASINO BALLROOM Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515.

Daniel Buckley’s documentary about the El Casino Ballroom and its role in the culture and traditions of Tucson’s Latino community premieres at 2 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 5; $3 suggested donation.

UPCOMING ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. In conjunction with the centennial exhibit 100 Years: 100 Ranchers, the museum screens Once Upon a Time in the West at 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 9; $8, $6 senior and veteran, $3 student with ID, free younger than 13, includes free admission to the exhibition. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org for more information.

GARDENING EVENTS THIS WEEK GARDENS OPEN FOR DOGS 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 food or treats to support Hope Animal Shelter for a $1 discount for your dog. Dog admission is free with three donations. Bring a leash, water and waste-disposal bags. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.

TUCSON AQUAPONICS PROJECT UA Controlled Environment Agriculture Center. 1951 E. Roger Road. 621-3246. An introduction to aquaponics takes place from 6:30 to 7 p.m.; networking follows until 7:30 p.m.; and a program and meeting follow until 9 p.m., the first Tuesday of every month; free.

VERMICULTURE DISPLAY Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Gardens volunteer David Jester talks about pillbugs, redworms, grubs and mealworms, and how they help return nutrients to the earth, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the first Sunday of every month; free with admission. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more info.

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HEALTH EVENTS THIS WEEK TMC SENIOR SERVICES Tucson Medical Center Senior Services, El Dorado Campus. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 324-1960. Classes and events are free, but advance registration is required; call 324-4345 to register. Thursday, Aug. 2, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.: Anne Morrison, Alzheimer’s Educational Series: Caring for a Parent or Relative. Tuesday, Aug. 7, from 9 to 10 a.m.: Dr. Michael Maximov, Straight Talk: Dealing With Chronic Pain.

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.

GAY/LESBIAN AA MEETINGS Water of Life MCC. 3269 N. Mountain Ave. 292-9151.

Groups for both men and women are Pink Triangle, which meets at noon, every day; Odds and Ends Group, which meets at 7 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; and Wednesday Night Candlelight, which meets at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday. A women-only Pink Triangle group meets at 7 p.m., every Friday. Visit aatucson.org for more information.

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HIV TESTING The Centers for Disease Control recommend HIV testing for all people ages 13 through 64. Visit napwa.org for more information on AIDS testing and its benefits.

Testing hours at SAAF, 375 S. Euclid Ave., are from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., every Monday and Wednesday; and 1 to 8 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. Walk-in testing is also available at COPE, 101 S. Stone Ave., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. All testing is confidential; results are available in about 15 minutes; and counseling is available. Call for an appointment and more info.

PCAP: AFFORDABLE MEDICAL SOLUTIONS FOR PIMA COUNTY RESIDENTS A representative from the Pima Community Access Program, a service that links uninsured Pima County residents with an affordable and comprehensive network of health-care providers, is available by appointment to enroll members of the community and give a free assessment. Call 309-2931, or email susa@mypcap.org for information or an appointment.

KIDS & FAMILIES EVENTS THIS WEEK 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. 628-5774.

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.

Aug. 4: phone/iPod case. Sept. 1: pincushion. Oct. 6: coaster/mug rug. Nov. 3: crazy-patch ornament.

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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 age 6 through 12, free younger child. A different program is presented each Saturday. Aug. 4: Nocturnal Desert Skies, Batty About Bats, Flute Circle, Photography Class. Aug. 11: Explosion of Desert Tastes, Desert Volcanic Activity, Desert Ecology and Food. Aug. 18: Astronomy and Music. Aug. 25: International Year of the Bat, Teacher Appreciation Night. Visit desertmuseum.org for more information.

THE ART OF SUMMER 2012 The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947. The final exhibition of student work from the Art of Summer program continues through Saturday, Aug. 25; free.

Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

BACK2SCHOOL BASH Hotel Tucson City Center. 475 N. Granada Ave. 6232000. Tucson Church International offers free backpacks filled with school supplies, free haircuts for school-age children, and free food, music and games from 2 to 6 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 5; free admission. Call 531-8383, or email smcpherson@tucsonchurch.org for more information.

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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.

HIGH SCHOOL GRAND OPENING AND COMMUNITY DINNER Western Institute for Leadership Development. 1300 S. Belvedere Ave. 615-2200. A community dinner and tours of a new 10-acre high school begin at 5 p.m., Friday, Aug. 3; free. Guests enjoy entertainment, meet the teachers, learn about the school’s project-based approach, and meet representatives of community organizations that showcase youth achievements and offer youth programs and opportunities. Visit thewesterninstitute.org for more information about the school and how to apply.

MINI-TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. Susan Lowell reads from her book The Great Grand Canyon Time Train at 2 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 5; free with admission. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday; $9, $8 senior or military, $6 age 4 to 17, $6 adults on Thursday, free younger child. Visit theminitimemachine.org for more info.

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THE MONTY TALE OF KING ARTHUR PYTHON ADVENTURE Valley of the Moon. 2544 E. Allen Road. 323-1331.

Killer rabbits, coconut horses and knights on the road to adventure are featured in a silly interpretation of the myth of King Arthur and the Holy Grail. Showtimes are 7 and 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Aug. 3 and 4; $3 suggested donation, free child age 13 or younger. Visit tucsonvalleyofthemoon.com for more information.

PFLAG EN ESPAÑOL A Spanish-language meeting for parents, families and friends of LGBT folks is held at 6 p.m., the first Monday every month, at Fortín de las Flores, 102 E. 32nd St. Call 624-1779 for more information.

PICTURE THIS: ART FOR FAMILIES Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333.

Families with kids ages 6 through 12 take a guided tour of a current exhibit at 1 p.m., the first Sunday of every month; free. An art project follows. Aug. 5: art inspired

by Native American arts and culture in Tucson Collects: Spirit of the West.

TUCSON’S RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELILNG EXHIBIT Pima County Juvenile Court. 2225 E. Ajo Way. 7402000. An exhibit of children’s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds continues through Thursday, Aug. 30; free. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

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. Aug. 4: “Quiz-Concert: How Musical Are You?” (May 26, 1968). Call 797-3959, or visit saaca.org for more information.

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GEOLOGY AND WILDLIFE FOR FAMILIES Carr House Visitor Information Center. Seven miles south of Sierra Vista off Highway 92; travel west on Carr Canyon Road for 2.4 miles. Sierra Vista. Educational activities take place at 1:30 p.m., every Sunday, through Sept. 2. Visit huachucamountains.org for more info.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 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.

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.

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 of 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.

SCIENCE SATURDAYS Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch, Pima County Public Library. 7800 N. Schisler Drive. 594-5200. An interactive science program takes place from 2 to 3 p.m., every Saturday; free.

SCRABBLE AND BANANAGRAMS CLUB Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Bring lunch and play Scrabble or Bananagrams from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., every Thursday; free. Call 7914010 for more information.

OUTDOORS EVENTS THIS WEEK MOUNT LEMMON WILDFLOWER HIKE Naturalist Meg Quinn leads an easy-to-moderate hike on a mountain trail to seek out summer wildflowers from 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, Aug. 8. Reservations are required; location provided with reservation. Call 6157855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more information.

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 or for more information.

SONORAN DESERT WEEDWACKERS Tucson Mountain Park. 2020 N. Kinney Road. 8776000. Volunteers age 12 and older help remove buffelgrass and fountain grass from 6 to 9 a.m., every second and fourth Wednesday; and every third Saturday; free.

Work may require hiking and working on steep slopes.

Meeting locations are in Tucson Mountain Park. Details are given with RSVP, which is required. Call 615-7855,

or email eeducation@pima.gov to RSVP or for more information.

UPCOMING CIENEGA CREEK NATURE WALK Cienega Creek Natural Preserve. 16000 E. Marsh Station Road. Vail. Ages 8 and older explore the cool, shaded trails on a nature walk from 7 to 8:30 a.m., Friday, Aug. 10; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS ART IN THE PARK Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455.

A guided tour of the 1937 adobe home on the grounds examines the changing art and cultural exhibits that feature work by local and Southwest artists. The tour takes place at 11 a.m., every Tuesday and Thursday. A onehour walking tour of the nature trails takes place at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The walks are free with admission: $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 age 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org.

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MOUNT LEMMON SKYCENTER SKYNIGHTS PROGRAM Mount Lemmon SkyCenter. 9800 Ski Run Road. 6268122. A peek through the largest public viewing telescope in the Southwest is just part of a five-hour tour of the universe; $48 Monday through Thursday, $60 Friday through Sunday, $30 student. Reservations are required.

Hours will be 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. for the month of August. Visit skycenter.arizona.edu for reservations.

Search Facebook for “Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter” for daily photo updates about current events in the universe.

RAMSEY CANYON PRESERVE WALKS Ramsey Canyon Preserve. 27 Ramsey Canyon Road.

Miracle Valley. (520) 378-2785. Nature Conservancy docents give guided walks through the habitats of more than 170 bird species and a wide range of wildlife at 9 a.m., every Monday, Thursday and Saturday; $5, $3 member or Cochise County resident, free younger than 16, admission is good for a week. Pets are not allowed.

TOHONO CHUL GUIDED BIRD AND NATURE WALKS Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455.

Birders at any level of expertise tour the nature trails and gardens of 49-acre Tohono Chul Park and learn to identify some of the 27 resident bird species at 8:30 a.m., every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. A one-hour walking tour of the nature trails takes place at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org.

SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK BRUNO GROENING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS University of Arizona Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. The community meets to discuss teachings of Bruno Groening from 3 to 4:30 p.m., selected Saturdays, in Room E of the cafeteria; freewill donation.

Dates are Aug. 4 and 25, Sept. 15, Oct. 6 and 27, Nov. 17, Dec. 8 and 29. Call 904-4801, or visit www.bruno-groening.org/english for more information.

INTRODUCTION TO SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY: CHANGE YOUR GARBAGE INTO GOLD Murphy-Wilmot Branch, Pima County Public Library.

530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. A workshop covers how karma and spirituality can help attract everything necessary for life, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 7; free. Call 250-3871 for more information.

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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.

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.

SINGING BIRD SANGHA Zen Desert Sangha. 3226 N. Martin Ave. 319-6260.

Meditation and teachings in the Buddhist tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh take place at 4:45 p.m., every Sunday; free. Call 299-1903 for more information.

STILLNESS MEDITATION GROUP Kiewit Auditorium, UA Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. Stillness meditation for patients, families, staff and the community takes place from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., every Monday; free. Call 694-4605 or 6944786 for more information.

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TIBETAN BUDDHIST PRACTICE HOUR Little Chapel of All Nations. 1052 N. Highland Ave. 623-1692. Meditation instruction and practice, chanting and a short dharma talk by Khenpo Drimed Dawa (Dean Pielstick) take place from 11 a.m. to noon, every Sunday; free. Call 622-8460, or visit dharmakirti.org.

WAKE UP TUCSON Hi Corbett Field. 3400 E. Camino Campestre. 3279467. Ajahn Sarayut of Wat Buddhametta leads a walk around Randolph Park to promote physical and mentalhealth awareness, from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m., every Tuesday and Saturday; free. Visit tucsonbuddhistcenter.org.

WISE WOMEN DRUMMING Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. Mature women meet to drum and sing from 1 to 3 p.m., the first and third Saturday every month; free.

Drums are available. Call 797-9323 for information.

EVENTS THIS WEEK AZ BLISTER WAKA KICKBALL Joaquin Murrieta Park. 1400 N. Silverbell Road. 7914752. The last regular game of the current season takes place at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 2; free spectator.

Playoff games are held at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 9 and 16; free. Visit kickball.com for more information.

UPCOMING USA BMX SOUTHWEST NATIONALS Tucson Convention Center. 260 S. Church Ave. 7914101. A thousand motocross-bike competitors of all ages perform tricks and jumps at 1 p.m., Friday, Aug. 10; and starting at 7:30 a.m., Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 11 and 12; free admission, $8 parking per day. A vendor area and kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fun zone are also featured. Visit usabmx.com 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 are available. Call for more info.

RAINBOW RIDERS CYCLING GROUP A group of LGBTA cyclists dedicated to the enjoyment of all types of bicycling meets every Sunday, and other occasions at the suggestion of members; free. Times vary. All levels of riders are welcome. E-mail nursewratchet@yahoo.com, or visit health.groups.yahoo. com/group/wingspan_fun2bhealthy/messages for info.

TUCSON FRONTRUNNERS LGBT people and family, friends and straight allies of all ability levels run or walk at their own pace. At 5:30 p.m., every Monday, they participate in Meet Me at Maynards, 311 E. Congress St. At 5:30 p.m., each Wednesday, they climb Tumamoc Hill, just west of the intersection of Silverbell Road and Anklam Road. At 7:30 a.m., every Saturday, their main walk takes place at Reid Park, beginning from the parking lot of Hi Corbett Field, 3400 E. Camino Campestre. An hour after the run, they meet for brunch.

Visit tucsonfrontrunners.org for more information.

TUCSON INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY Tucson International Raceway. 4300 E. Los Reales Road. 574-8515. Wing sprint, x-mod, super stock, factory stock, hornet and other class races start at 6:45 p.m., every Saturday; $12, free age 11 and younger, $10 military, senior and youth age 12 through 17, add $5 for the enclosed VIP tower. Kids activities and fullservice concessions also are featured. Visit tucsoninternationalraceway.com for tickets and racing schedules.

VOLLEYBALL Randolph Recreation Center. 200 S. Alvernon Way. 7914870. Play volleyball every Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. $1.50 adult; $1 youth or senior. Call for more info.

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PERFORMING ARTS Actress Kim Lowry returns to the stage after recovering from a traumatic brain injury

Grateful to Be Back

BY SHERILYN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com ometimes, life seems to offer up a heartening symmetry, or perhaps a mysteriously timed sense of balance.

Friday, Aug. 3, holds such symmetry for actress Kim Lowry, who returns to the stage after an absence of more than a decade. She is part of the cast of The Body in the Bath, a new adaptation by Tucsonan Joan O’Dwyer of mystery-writer Dorothy L. Sayers’ first book featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. The show is being produced by the Next Theatre at Beowulf Alley.

Aug. 3, 2000, was the day that Lowry and her hopes, talents and skills took a devastating plunge—quite literally. She and her partner were visiting Arches National Park in Utah.

While standing in the North Window Arch, Lowry was taking pictures of the unusual landscape from various angles. She wasn’t moving in any significant way, simply shifting to record another point of view.

Her recollection stops there. Witnesses report, however, that she tumbled 25 to 50 feet.

They say Lowry’s wrist was twisted at an abnormal angle; both of her ankles were swollen; her kneecap was exposed through ragged, dirty skin; and she had numerous scrapes and lacerations.

But what those witnesses could not see was the traumatic brain injury, a subdural hematoma—a massive bruise spreading beneath her skull. From what she has gathered from her medical records, her injury was considered “severe” on the scale of traumatic brain injuries, which ranges from “mild” to “catastrophic.”

Three days after her fall, she had surgery on her battered brain, and her family wanted her to go to rehab at Craig Hospital in Denver, which specializes in spinal cord injuries as well as TBIs. But the hospital was unable to admit her immediately. So her stepfather lobbied for a

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return to Tucson “where she could be with her own stuff, a place she was familiar with, with her own friends, her own life,” Lowry recalls.

She came home for a yearlong outpatient rehab at HealthSouth. For three weeks following her homecoming, her friends assembled a team that divvied up shifts to help care for her 24/7.

She had learned to breathe, swallow and walk again in Colorado. Here, she would take on more complicated tasks, like relearning language, which, she says, was the most difficult.

“My injury involved the temporal and frontal lobes, where language, emotion and memory work together, essentially to make a person who they are,” Lowry says. “There were moments I was a person who seemed to be me, although I didn’t know exactly what was supposed to be me, and there were huge gaps in who I thought others were.”

As she writes in her memoir, which helped complete her master’s degree in creative writing four years ago, “I would forget the names and often the identities, the bits of character essence” of friends, family and even her partner, whom she called “Advil woman” for a while.

For months, her response to questions that required a withdrawal from her memory bank was borrowed from a character on the 1960s TV show Hogan’s Heroes: “I know nothing. I see nothing.”

What does that mean for a person for whom language is so central? Lowry, a writer and actress, had earned a BFA in theater at the College of Santa Fe in 1983. Now it would be impossible to practice something that requires so much of what you no longer have—a command of language and memory.

“The injury took my voice away,” she says.

Temporarily, at least. As part of her rehab (and beyond), Lowry wrote a play, Work a

Kim Lowry (center) in The Body in the Bath.

Head, “my perspective of my TMI and my The Body in the Bath beginning a different, amazing life. … For Presented by the Next Theatre example, I was standing—it was during 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m., monsoon season—and there was so much rain Sunday, through Saturday, Aug. 18 and clouds and rainbows and all kinds of stuff, Beowulf Alley Theatre Company and I said, oh, I love this. I understood the 11 S. Sixth Ave. feeling of it. That was a magnificent piece of $8 to $18 happiness; I understood all the sensations of 882-0555; what was going on around me. And on top of www.beowulfalley.org that, I understood I hadn’t had that for a while.”

But she confesses there were definitely times when she was angry and frustrated. “But that’s “Then several months ago, I was asked to another thing—those are emotions you have to direct A Body in the Bath and recruited some figure out, and you go, oh, OK, I get it. You learn friends to read through the script with me … about so much in every moment. And I’m so and Kim was there.” Lowry read a couple of glad I got that.” parts, including the role of Bunter, Wimsey’s Work a Head was given a full production in valet. “I told her how I wished she could act 2003. But Lowry had to create for her character again. She shocked me by telling me she someone who had to carry a script, because she thought she could … and asked if she could couldn’t remember her lines. She resigned audition. … It turns out her magnificent brain herself to being unable to act again. has had no trouble with memorization . . . and Esther Almazan, who has known Lowry since her magnificent mind finds the spirit and their time at Santa Fe, recalls her despair at what essence of the character. … I honestly thought had happened to Lowry’s “brilliant mind” after this day would never come.” her accident. “It was like talking to a small child,” So has claiming this moment of symmetry Almazan said by email. “Then she surprised us been a bit nerve-racking for Lowry? “No, not all by bouncing back with Work a Head.” really.” She confesses learning lines takes more Almazan says that she and others have time than it used to. “But the intense amount of encouraged Lowry’s return to acting, but Lowry work it takes . . . gives me another chance to be was fearful of the memorization required. grateful for being able to work at all.”

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DANCE 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.

UPCOMING SUMMER DANCE EXPO Loews Ventana Canyon Resort. 7000 N. Resort Drive.

299-2020. Ballroom-dance professionals and students perform Latin, swing, country and ballroom styles from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 11; $5. Call 7479464 for reservations and more information.

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.

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MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK 17TH STREET MUSIC 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext.

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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. Friday, Aug. 3: Seal with Macy Gray; $24 to $85. Saturday, Aug. 4: Los Tigres Del Norte and Banda Recodo; $30 or $40. Sunday, Aug. 5: Pitbull; $45 to $150.

FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515.

Tuesday, Aug. 7, at 7:30 p.m.: Weird Al Yankovic; $44 and $56. Saturday, Aug. 11, at 7:30 p.m.: David Sanborn with Brian Culbertson; $23 to $68. Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 7:30 p.m.: Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra; $28 and $32. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for info.

GASLIGHT THEATRE FAMILY CONCERTS The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Shows take place at 7 p.m., Monday; $12 to $22. Aug. 6: David Fanning, vocal impressionist. Call or visit thegaslighttheatre.com for tickets and information.

LEISURE CLASS SUMMER MUSIC RECITAL Randolph Arts Center Auditorium. 200 S. Alvernon Way. 791-4873. Participants in Tucson Parks and Recreation’s summer adult and children’s performingarts programs sing and play show tunes and popular music from 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 5; free. Call 7914063, ext. 130, for more information.

MAIN GATE SQUARE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES Geronimo Plaza. 820 E. University Blvd. Free jazz concerts take place at 7 p.m., Friday. Aug. 3: Crystal Stark, vocals. Visit saaca.org for more information.

MUSIC TEACHER FESTIVAL Bookmans. 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-9555. Meet with local music teachers and get tips about lessons and how to buy an instrument, from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 4; free.

NATIONAL KARAOKE SINGING AND PERFORMANCE CONTEST F.O.E. Eagles No. 180 Lounge. 1530 N. Stone Ave. 624-2461. Winners of a summer-long karaoke singing and performance elimination competition meet in a final round at 6 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 5. Winners of that contest advance to the Talent Quest 2012 National Finals

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NEXT THEATRE COMPANY Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. The Body in the Bath, a Lord Peter Whimsy adaptation, opens Friday, Aug. 3, and continues through Saturday, Aug. 18. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m., Sunday; $8 to $20. Call or visit beowulfalley.org for tickets and more info.

NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE WORKSHOP AND SALE Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Flutist and internationally recognized flute-maker Odell Borg discusses the history and traditions of the Native American flute and gives demonstrations at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 4; free. Reservations are required, but must be made no earlier than one week in advance; call between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for directions or more information.

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Performances are at 8 p.m. Visit casinodelsol.com for tickets and more information. Thursday, Aug. 9: All American Rejects with Eve 6. Sunday, Aug. 12: Duran Duran; $32 to $150.

KXCI HOUSE ROCKIN’ BLUES REVIEW El Casino Ballroom. 437 E. 26th St. 623-1865. KXCI reprises the station’s popular live Blues Review shows of the 1980s at 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 10; $12, $8 KXCI member, $10 advance. Visit kxci.org for info.

ORO VALLEY CONCERT SERIES Oro Valley Marketplace. Oracle and Tangerine roads. Oro Valley. Steel-drum band Apocalypso performs at 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 9; free. Visit saaca.org for more info.

THEATER OPENING THIS WEEK COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. The Mystery Genius of Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu opens Friday, Aug. 3, and continues through Saturday, Aug.

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. Aug. 2: Happy Campers: The Great Outdoors. ASL 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.

CONTINUING LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. The modern thriller Mauritius continues through Saturday, Aug. 18. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 student, senior or military. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org.

SUMMER COMEDY SHOWCASE Laffs Comedy Caffé. 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. 3238669. Tucson comedians appear in groups of four every Thursday night; free. The audience rates each comedian, and at the end of the series, the comics with the top three ratings are awarded guest spots in a Laffs professional show. Email mark@ttowntv.com to apply and for more information.

THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Back to the Past, a time-traveling musical-comedy, 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 for reservations or more information.

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ADAM YEATER: ONE LAST DAY Bookmans. 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-9555. Tucson illustrator Adam Yeater signs his comic-book series and comic strips from 3 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 4. Visit onelastday.smackjeeves.com for more information.

What’s Your Story?

BY SHERIYLN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com ne of the most interesting things our desert burg offers its parched but passionate denizens is a chance to tell each other our stories. Not just friend telling friend what happened last night at the ballgame, or great-grandma Butz regaling her favorite grandkid with stories about the good old days.

There’s a different kind of tale-telling nurtured here by a group called Odyssey Storytelling. On the first Thursday of each month, six folks—not actors, not writers, not particularly anything except people willing to share a bit of themselves—gather with those who come to listen. For 10 minutes, each person takes the microphone and tells a personal story that relates to the theme of that month’s program, which for August is Happy Campers: The Great Outdoors. Nothing fancy, nothing written, nothing memorized—just a story yearning to be told by a person who wants to share it.

According to those who help make these moments happen (and who may have told a couple of stories themselves), something miraculous happens. Connections are made.

Not the virtual kind via Facebook or LinkedIn. Not in some mysterious ether termed “the cloud.” But right in the here and now, while folks occupy the same space, breathe the same air. The moment is made tangible in this quietly courageous way, and the result is a unique communion of strangers.

Adam Hostetter is assistant producer for the group, a volunteer position he has held for four years. He’s seen it all—or you’d think he had.

Yet each evening of collected stories is original.

“Some folks think they are too shy or not creative enough. But what we see is brand-new to us,” he says.

Hostetter, who has worked in the adultliteracy program at Pima Community College since 1996, has participated as a storyteller several times, and has also recruited some of his co-workers to contribute at an Odyssey evening. They have been “amazed” at their experience, he says.

Here’s how it works: The small volunteer staff discusses possible themes and maps out several months of storytelling evenings. You can sign up to get email announcements, and there’s also a website you can check out that contains information as well as videos of storytellers doing their thing from past shows.

Anyone can participate. Potential storytellers submit story proposals, and several folks are chosen to present their tales for a given evening. Selection is based on a variety of

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criteria—how well their story fits with the theme (or if it gives the theme a twist); a desire to balance light and more-serious tones; and an effort to present a variety of points of view to make it interesting for the evening’s listeners.

There’s a “curator” for each show, pulling things together and heading up the lone rehearsal a week before the event. Says Hostetter: “It’s really just an opportunity to sort of just meet each other and have a run-through and give and get some feedback, to get people more comfortable with what they can expect.

We discourage gimmicky things. And no notes.

We just want them to speak their truth.”

Some amazing things have come out of these Odyssey evenings, Hostetter says.

“One night, we had a guy tell a story about where he grew up. I can’t remember where it was, but it was somewhere on the other side of the world, and it turned out there was someone in the audience from the same place!

“And these stories change lives by introducing people to something they know nothing about.

One evening, a transgendered person shared a story, and for some listening who really had never even thought about the idea, their whole world view changed that night.”

Shannon Snapp moved here with husband Roscoe Mutz last November from Boston, where they had recently helped form a similar group for regular folks to tell stories to each other.

“They had story slams (in Boston), but we wanted something noncompetitive,” says Mutz, who was working as an attorney while Snapp finished her doctorate in family studies. “So we teamed with a church and had these informal nights where people could sign up to tell stories, about three minutes long, no rehearsal.

We actually raised some money for charities, because the church would match what folks who came paid for admission. But the chief purpose was to give people a chance to share themselves with others. It’s really powerful.”

Snapp curated last month’s show, The Customer Is Always Right. “It’s always so surprising. And moving. A guy told a story about how he had always had these kinds of customer-service jobs—like a waiter or bartender—where he could get by on his charm and personality. But then he got a job as an intake coordinator for the Salvation Army’s six-month rehab program. He had to change completely. He was even assaulted.

“When we get our stories from the media, it’s the tiniest sliver of a person’s truth. When a person tells their own story, they challenge their discomfort and open themselves up to their vulnerability. To tell your story, first you have to

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TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Participants make hanging decorations of trees and birds from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Aug. 4; $25, $20 member, includes all materials. No experience is required. Flights of Fancy, a garden-wide display of decorated bird houses of all shapes and sizes, continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. 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.

CONTINUING AGUA CALIENTE PARK RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Like Mother, Like Daughter, an exhibit of graphite drawings and oil paintings by Jennie Norris and Joyce Norris Blank, continues through Wednesday, Aug. 15. Hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

ART INSTITUTE OF TUCSON Art Institute of Tucson. 5099 E. Grant Road. 318-2700.

Eight X Ten, an exhibit of student photography, digital images, animation stills, fashion and interior-design illustrations, and other original art, all created to fit in an 8-by-10-inch frame, continues through Friday, Sept.

28. A reception takes place from 4:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 2 Hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday; free.

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, continues through Saturday, Aug. 11. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; free.

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 of every month; free. For more information, email art@ bicas.org.

Happy Campers: The Great Outdoors

Presented by Odyssey Storytelling 7 p.m., tonight, Thursday, Aug. 2 Fluxx Studio and Gallery 416 E. Ninth St.

BLUE RAVEN GALLERY AND GIFTS Many Hands Courtyard. 3054 N. First Ave. 419-7191.

Express Yourself ... Anything Goes!, paintings, 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. Visit blueravengalleryandgifts.com.

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reflect, and we don’t always do that.”

Hostetter says that the events of Jan. 8, 2011, have made such an impact that almost every show since has contained a story that references the shootings.

In June, the subject was Sliced and Diced: The Surgery Show. There were stories about scars, addictions and health care coming at the subject from all directions, Hostetter says. The storytellers included Dr. Randy Friese, a trauma surgeon at University Medical Center on Jan. 8.

“He spoke so eloquently and from the heart, about how excruciating it was to not to be able to save everyone. It was so touching and his honesty was so healing,” Hostetter says. “And not just for us. It was healing for him as well.

You could tell.”

DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY Davis Dominguez Gallery. 154 E. Sixth St. 629-9759.

The Works: Painting and Sculpture by All Davis Dominguez Artists and Small Things Reconsidered: Selections From the 20th Small Works Invitational continue 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.

DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road.

722-4412. Summer Shades, representing 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.

ETHERTON GALLERY Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. A Classic Collection: Photographs From the Estate of Julian T. Baker Jr. (1939-2011), a selection of works by 20th-century masters, continues through Friday, Aug. 31. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and by appointment; free. Visit ethertongallery.com for more information.

JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY Joseph Gross Gallery. 1031 N. Olive Road, No. 108.

626-4215. Above and Below, an exhibition of work by

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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; free. 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 exhibit of Wilberta Moulthropâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s horse paintings in acrylic and oil pastel continues through Friday, Aug. 31. 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.

MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101.

615-3001. Western Roundup, an exhibit of Western paintings by Diana Madaras, continues through Friday, Aug. 31. A Wild West Party takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 16. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Wednesday, and Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit madaras.com for more information.

MONTEREY COURT CAFĂ&#x2030; Monterey Court Studio Galleries. 505 W. Miracle Mile.

582-0514. An exhibit of Karen Bellamyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mixed-media works on paper continues through Thursday, Sept. 6; free. Hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday; 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday. Visit montereycourtaz.com for more info.

MURPHEY GALLERY Murphey Gallery. St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. An exhibit of works in graphite by Alan Jaffe, and works in pastels, acrylics and charcoal by Tom Bulow, continues through Thursday, Aug. 9. Hours are from 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; 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.

QUANTUM ART GALLERY Quantum Art Gallery. 505 W. Miracle Mile, No. 2. 9077644. Never Again, featuring the contemporary art of Mychal Trujillo and Micheline Johnoff, continues through Monday, Aug. 27. Hours are by appointment.

TINY TOOLE GALLERY Tiny Toole Gallery. 19 E. Toole Ave. 319-8477.

Sculpture, painting and contemporary bronze works are

TOHONO CHUL PARK GALLERY Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Pollinators: The Art of Interdependence, an exhibit focusing on bees, butterflies, birds, bats and other actors in spreading pollen, continues through Sunday, Aug. 12. Zoom In! A Photographic Exploration of Pollinators runs through Saturday, Sept. 1. An exhibit of contemporary ceramics continues through Sunday, Oct. 21. 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 INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. 5738100. 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 displayed through Saturday, Sept. 15, in the Upper Link Gallery. Blooms and Bugs, an exhibit of works by Tucson photographers, runs through Saturday, Sept. 22, in the Lower Link Gallery. 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.

LAST CHANCE 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, closes Saturday, Aug. 4. Hours are by appointment.

Visit industriastudios.org for more information.

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FINE ART GALLERY Jewish Community Center Fine Art Gallery. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000. Crossing About, a collection of 30 works by Christine Zabramny, closes Wednesday, Aug. 8. Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Thursday; and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday and Sunday.

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, closes Friday, Aug. 3; free.

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OUT OF TOWN SUBWAY GALLERY Subway Gallery. 30 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-9143.

An all-member show continues through Friday, Aug. 10.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday through Sunday; free. Visit subwaygallerybisbee.com for more info.

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 Anzaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1775 expedition from Tubac to establish San Francisco 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 information.

WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Charlie Mattingly: Scenic Hiking Photos of Tucson continues through Friday, Aug. 31. An artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reception takes place from 3:45 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 18. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; free. Visit wnpa.org for directions or 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 stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 age 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 museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection of Southwest American Indian basketry, which is the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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. 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 studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; entries in a Google doodle competition, continues through Friday, Aug. 31. Tucson Collects: Spirit of the West, an exhibit of Western art from private collections, and 100 Years: 100 Ranchers, a collection of photographs by Scott T. Baxter for the Arizona centennial, run through Sunday, Sept. 23. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday; noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday; $10, $8 senior, $5 college student with ID, free age 18 or younger, active military or veteran with ID, and TMA members; free the first Sunday of every month. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org for more info.

UA MUSEUM OF ART UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567.

Joshua Oliveraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 LeWittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 for more information.

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BY RITA CONNELLY, rconnelly@tucsonweekly.com ver wonder why you can’t lose weight, no matter how hard you try? Maybe it’s because you’re a hunter eating like a farmer, or vice versa.

Back in school, we learned how early humans were divided into two categories: hunter/gatherers (today, we’d call them foragers), and farmers. The hunter/gatherers relied on skill, cunning and the availability of game, fish and wild plants for sustenance. The farmers found a way to grow their own food. This, of course, added more stability to their lives, and they thrived. Eventually, people were living in high rises and buying their food at Safeway.

The rise of civilization has resulted in bigger waistlines, and an increase in diabetes and heart disease. Yet, according to Dr. Mark Liponis, the medical director at Canyon Ranch Health Resorts, we can still be divided into those same two groups that roamed the Earth thousands of years ago. Liponis has written a new book with that theory in mind, The Hunter/Farmer Diet Solution.

“This is my third book that I’ve written. The idea behind all the books, really, is educating people on how they can be healthier,” he said in a phone interview from the Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Mass.

Liponis has devoted a lifetime to helping people get and stay healthy through weight loss and lifestyle changes. He has been at Canyon Ranch for 18 years. Before that, he had a weight-loss practice in Butte, Mont. He has watched diets come and go. Early in his career, he followed the norm, prescribing lowfat diets to lose weight. But in spite of many successes, he wondered why many people seemingly couldn’t lose weight no matter what they did. This book is the result of that curiosity and study.

“What I found was their experiences were varied. Some were very successful; others struggled. Even trying all kinds of different diets, it was hard to make sense of what was happening,” he said.

Liponis takes readers through the “evolution of eating,” a concise anthropological course on how we once ate and how that has changed. We

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learn how people progressed from nomadic, foraging hunters into people living in the first “settlements,” where humans learned to grow their own food. This change made people stronger, babies bigger and waistlines wider. It was the start of civilization, and the idea of being either a hunter/gatherer or a farmer went the way of the wooly mammoth.

The book is an easy read with limited jargon. Liponis explains both hunter and farmer types in detail and gives readers a simple chart to determine which category in which they fit.

He includes recipes taken from the Canyon Ranch kitchens and applies them to both hunters and farmers.

As one may expect, the hunter diet is based on proteins; the farmer leans more toward a carb-rich diet. Hunters can go for hours without getting hungry; farmers need to eat more often. Hunters do best when they avoid grains, with beans, nuts and fruits as substitutes.

Farmers do best eating things like pastas, breads and rice, although vegetables, fruits and lean proteins (chicken, fish, eggs, etc.) are necessary as well.

Liponis isn’t alone in making these findings.

Several papers, most notably research at Stanford University called “A to Z: A Comparative Weight Loss Study,” found that there were wide discrepancies in how successful various people were on the same diet.

Amazingly, the differences come down to a basic finding. “The big difference was how they responded to the hormone insulin,” Liponis said.

“The hunter has a very sluggish response; the farmer has a very rapid and powerful response.

Hunters are what we call ‘insulin-resistant.’ The farmers are called ‘insulin-sensitive.’ That’s the reason why they need different diets.

“When we looked more closely, we realized that, yes, anyone can lose weight on any diet, but to do the best with your weight loss, you should be on the diet that matches your type.”

Dr. Liponis and the staff members at Canyon Ranch are using medical findings to create a user-friendly system that fits diets to the individual, rather than trying to fit individuals to the diet. It makes sense. Whether you’re a hunter or a gatherer, if you’re looking to shed some pounds and generally live a healthier lifestyle, this book may be worth checking out.

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3. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Seth Grahame-Smith, Grand Central ($7.99)

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5. Fifty Shades of Grey E.L. James, Vintage ($15.95)

6. The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern, Anchor ($15)

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EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA 100: ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR THE CENTENNIAL UA Library Special Collections. 1510 E. University Blvd.

621-6423. Inspired by the state’s centennial, a showcase of 100 books that define the cultural, historical, environmental and political landscape of Arizona, from the Spanish Colonial era to the present, continues through Friday, Dec. 14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; free.

BOOKWORMS Bookmans. 1930 E. Grant Road. 325-5767. This book club meets from 7 to 8 p.m., on the second Wednesday of every month; free.

FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB Flowing Wells Branch, Pima County 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; free. Call for the current title.

MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES BOOK 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 3 to 4 p.m. on selected Wednesdays; free. Aug 8: Manuel Munoz’ Zigzagger.

7. The Fault in Our Stars John Green, Dutton ($17.99)

8. A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3 George R.R. Martin, Bantam ($8.99)

9. Gold: A Novel Chris Cleave, Simon and Schuster ($27)

10. The Queen’s Vow C.W. Gortner, Ballantine ($26)

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LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK VOICES FOR PEACE IN A WAR-FILLED AGE St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. The University of Arizona Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies presents a series of lectures from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m., Sunday; free. Aug. 5: Patrick Meeks, “Quakers and War in the Early Modern Period.”

OUT OF TOWN EDWARD F. BEALE, FORGOTTEN AMERICAN HERO Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Bill Niehaus tells the story of a 19th-century colleague of military and political leaders who paved the way for westward expansion, at noon and 2 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 8; free.

Reservations are required, but must be made no earlier than one week in advance; call between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for directions or info.

UPCOMING JEAN BAXTER: STORIES OF EL PRESIDIO SAN AGUSTÍN Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. A docent discusses the history of the Tucson presidio, at noon and 2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 11. Reservations are required, but must be made no earlier than one week in advance; call between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for directions or more information.

TASTE OF THE DESERT Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Representatives of Tohono Chul Park discuss and illustrate the relationships between Sonoran Desert peoples and the wild and domesticated plants that have provided food, shelter, medicine and materials for their daily lives, from 3 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 11; free.

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CINEMA This indie flick with a time-travel theme is one of the most-entertaining films of the year

Satisfaction Guaranteed

TOP TEN Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending July 29, 2012

BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com here really was a classified ad soliciting a volunteer for a timetravel journey. It ran in a 1997 issue of Backwoods Home, a magazine espousing Libertarian principles and living off the grid.

“You’ll get paid after we get back,” the ad explained, before adding cryptically, “Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.”

Seriously, how could that not be the basis for a movie? But in the comedy Safety Not Guaranteed, the stroke of genius from writer Derek Connolly was only reading into the ad exactly that much. There is a bit of Internet history surrounding the ad and the person who wrote it, but this is not that story. Instead, the absurdity of the offer becomes a filter for everything we see.

The film is dripping with laconic sensibilities to balance out such a bizarre pitch and spends most of its time developing quirky, likable characters who are all conceivably one or two moves away from acting on a classified ad just like that. And they’re the kind of people who drop lines of dialogue like, “There’s no sense in nonsense. Not when the heat gets hot.”

Jeff (Jake M. Johnson) is an undisciplined magazine writer who takes the assignment of tracking down the mysterious time-traveler.

Because the ad uses a P.O. box, casting a net around Kenneth (the suddenly ubiquitous Mark Duplass) doesn’t take very long. Along for the ride are interns Darius (Aubrey Plaza) and Arnau (Karan Soni). And as is usually the case with interns, they wind up doing most of the work. Perhaps because she’s a pretty girl, Darius has luck getting through to Kenneth and finding out why—but never really how— he plans to go all the way back … to 1991.

The movie is less about becoming a timetraveler than it is about how to trap one in the wild, so Safety Not Guaranteed spins familiar but often very funny subplots around Kenneth and the trio from the magazine, biding our time for a fittingly odd payoff. Jeff reconnects with his high school sweetheart; Darius connects with Kenneth; Arnau connects with women for the very first time; and Kenneth remains largely disconnected from reality. He believes that the division of the government responsible for black helicopters is following his every move. Of course, he also thinks he can travel 20 years back in the past with a homemade time machine, so Kenneth might not be the most-reliable guy in the world.

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2. Lockout Sony

3. Get the Gringo 20th Century Fox

4. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Sony

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6. American Reunion Universal

7. The Deep Blue Sea Music Box

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Jennifer Coolidge in American Reunion.

Aubrey Plaza in Safety Not Guaranteed. year’s standard-bearers in addition to being one of the better, more-entertaining movies of 2012 to this point. It not only tells a story in a way too peculiar for a mainstream movie, but it also avoids a pretty common indie pitfall these days of looping in a widely recognizable name for no particular reason.

And while Mark Duplass may have been filling his résumé nicely over the past couple of years, he is not the star this film ultimately creates. Aubrey Plaza does good supporting work on Parks and Recreation. You may have also seen her in other places without knowing who she is. But this film is an instant transition to bigger things for her. Whether it’s because Darius is so well-written and sarcastic, or

Safety Not Guaranteed Rated R Starring Aubrey Plaza, Jake M. Johnson and Karan Soni Directed by Colin Trevorrow FilmDistrict, 86 minutes Now playing at Century El Con 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 902).

because she’s finally hit her stride, Plaza is kind of entrancing here. Her instincts are impeccable, her comedy effortless, and her look just dangerous and sexy enough to make you reveal all your secrets about manipulating the space-time continuum.

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The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 10, 11, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9:30, 11; Fri-Tue 10:20, 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Brave (PG) Thu 11:45, 2:10, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40; Fri-Tue 11:55, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 10:15, 11, 12:05, 12:45, 1:45, 2:30, 3:45, 4:30, 5:20, 6:10, 7:50, 8:20, 9:20, 10:15; Fri-Sun 10, 10:45, 12:30, 1:45, 4:15, 5:30, 6:15, 7:45, 9, 9:50; Mon-Tue 10, 10:45, 12:30, 1:45, 4:15, 5:30, 7:45, 9, 9:50; Wed 10, 10:45, 12:30, 1:45, 4:15, 5:30, 6:15, 7:45, 9, 9:50 The Dark Knight Rises: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 3, 7:15, 10:55; Fri-Wed 11:30, 3:15, 7:15, 10:50 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 10:10, 11:55, 12:45, 2:30, 3:15, 5, 7:30, 9:55 Hope Springs (PG-13) Wed 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 10:05, 11:35, 12:25, 1:55, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50; Fri-Wed 10:30, 1, 3:20, 5:40, 8, 10:25 Magic Mike (R) Thu 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25; Fri-Tue 11:05, 1:55, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Thu 4:20, 7:30; Fri-Sun 2:45; Mon-Wed 2:20 Moonrise Kingdom (PG13) ends Thu 1:40, 7:05 Step Up Revolution (PG13) Thu 10:30, 3:20, 8:10; Fri-Wed 2, 7:25 Step Up Revolution 3D (PG-13) Thu 12:55, 5:45, 10:35; Fri-Wed 11:25, 4:30, 10 Ted (R) Thu 10:05, 12:35, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40; Fri-Wed 10:05, 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Total Recall (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 10:15, 11:15, 1:15, 2:15, 4:10, 5:10, 7, 8, 9:45, 10:45 The Watch (R) Thu 10, 11, 12:25, 1:25, 2:50, 3:50, 5:15, 6:15, 7:40, 8:40, 10:05; Fri-Tue 11:45, 2:10, 4:45, 5:45, 7:10, 8:15, 9:35, 10:40; Wed 5:45, 8:15, 10:40

Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd.

800-326-3264, ext. 902.

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The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu-Tue 12:35, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50; Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50 Brave (PG) Thu 11:30, 2:05, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55; Fri-Tue 11:30, 2:05, 4:50, 7:20 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 11, 11:40, 12:10, 12:40, 1:20, 2, 2:40, 3:20, 3:50, 4:20, 4:55, 5:40, 6:20, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:20, 10, 10:40, 11:30; Fri-Tue 11, 11:40, 12:10, 1:20, 2, 2:40, 3:20, 3:50, 4:55, 6:20, 7, 7:40, 8:30, 9:20, 10, 10:30; Wed 11, 11:40, 12:10, 2:40, 3:20, 3:50, 6:20, 7, 7:40, 10, 10:30 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:20, 12:30, 1:45, 2:55, 4:10, 5:15, 6:40, 7:45, 9, 10:10 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 10:55, 12, 2:20, 3:35, 4:40, 7:10, 8:25, 9:30; Fri-Tue 12, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D (PG) ends Thu 1:15, 6, 10:45 Magic Mike (R) Thu 11:35, 2:25, 5, 7:40, 10:30; Fri-Mon 9:15 Moonrise Kingdom (PG13) Thu 11:50, 2:10, 4:35, 6:55, 9:25; Fri-Mon 11:50, 2:10, 4:35, 6:55; Tue 11:50, 2:10, 4:35 Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D (Not Rated) Tue 7:30 Safety Not Guaranteed (R) Thu 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10; FriMon 11:25, 6:50; Tue 11:25 Savages (R) Thu 1:40; Fri-Tue 10:25 Step Up Revolution (PG13) Thu 12:40; Fri-Wed 12:40, 5:45, 10:45 Step Up Revolution 3D (PG-13) Thu 3:10, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45; Fri-Wed 3:10, 8:15 Ted (R) Thu-Tue 12:05, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35 To Rome With Love (R) Thu-Wed 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 Total Recall (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11, 11:45, 12:45, 1:50, 2:40, 3:40, 4:40, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:20, 9:30, 10:20 The Watch (R) Thu 11:15, 12:25, 1:50, 3, 4:25, 5:35, 7, 8:10, 9:35, 10:45; Fri-Tue 11:15, 12:25, 1:55, 3, 4:25, 5:35, 7, 8:10, 9:40, 10:45; Wed 11:15, 1:55, 4:25, 7, 9:40

Century Gateway 12 770 N. Kolb Road.

800-326-3264, ext. 962.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R) Thu 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:25; FriSat 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10:15; Sun-Mon 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:40; Tue 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10:15;

Wed 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:40 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D (R) ends Thu 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8 Battleship (PG-13) Thu 12:30, 3:50, 7; Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:50, 7, 9:55; Sun-Mon 12:30, 3:50, 7; Tue 12:30, 3:50, 7, 9:55; Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:50; Fri-Sat 12:15, 3:30, 7:05, 9:50; Sun-Mon 12:15, 3:30, 7:05; Tue 12:15, 3:30, 7:05, 9:50; Wed 12:15, 3:30, 7:05 Dark Shadows (PG-13) Thu 12, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50; Fri-Sat 12, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; Sun-Mon 12, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50; Tue 12, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; Wed 12, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50 For Greater Glory (R) ends Thu 12:35, 3:40, 7:05 The Hunger Games (PG13) Thu 12:20, 3:25, 6:30; Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:25, 6:30, 9:45; SunMon 12:20, 3:25, 6:30; Tue 12:20, 3:25, 6:30, 9:45; Wed 12:20, 3:25, 6:30 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Fri-Sat 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10; Sun-Mon 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30; Tue 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10; Wed 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30 Men in Black 3 3D (PG13) Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:40, 6:10, 9; Sun-Mon 12:50, 3:40, 6:10; Tue 12:50, 3:40, 6:10, 9; Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:10 People Like Us (PG-13) Thu 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45; Fri-Sat 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; SunMon 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45; Tue 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; Wed 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:45, 5:05; Fri-Sat 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:40; Sun-Mon 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20; Tue 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:40; Wed 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20 Prometheus (R) Thu 12:45, 3:55, 7:30; FriSat 12:40, 3:55, 7:15, 10:10; Sun-Mon 12:40, 3:55, 7:15; Tue 12:40, 3:55, 7:15, 10:10; Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7:15 Rock of Ages (PG-13) ends Thu 7:20 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 12:55, 3, 4, 6, 7:10; Fri-Sat 12:10, 12:55, 3, 4, 6, 7:10, 9:05, 10:05; Sun-Mon 12:10, 12:55, 3, 4, 6, 7:10; Tue 12:10, 12:55, 3, 4, 6, 7:10, 9:05, 10:05; Wed 12:10, 12:55, 3, 4, 6, 7:10

Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd.

800-326-3264, ext. 903.

Call for Fri-Wed film times The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 2:50, 6:15, 9:35 The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (PG-13) Thu 1:10, 4:25, 7:50

Brave (PG) Thu 11:25, 2, 4:45, 7:25, 10 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 10, 10:35, 11:10, 11:45, 12:20, 12:55, 1:35, 2:10, 2:45, 3:20, 3:55, 4:30, 5:10, 5:45, 6:20, 6:55, 7:30, 8:05, 8:45, 9:20, 9:55, 10:30 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) Fri-Wed 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Hope Springs (PG-13) Wed 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 10:05, 11:40, 12:35, 2:05, 3:05, 4:40, 5:35, 7:10, 8, 9:40, 10:25 Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D (PG) Thu 10:50, 1:20, 3:50, 6:25, 8:50 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 10:25 Magic Mike (R) Thu 10:45, 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Savages (R) Thu 10, 1:05, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Step Up Revolution (PG13) Thu 10:55, 1:25, 4, 6:30, 9 Step Up Revolution 3D (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Ted (R) Thu 11, 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 9:25, 10:05 Total Recall (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.

The Watch (R) Thu 10:15, 11:35, 12:50, 2:15, 3:35, 4:55, 6:15, 7:35, 8:55, 10:15

Cinema La Placita

Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace

17 W. Congress St. 624-1515.

The Heart and Soul of Tucson—El Casino Ballroom (Not Rated) Sun 2

12155 N. Oracle Road.

800-326-3264, ext. 899.

Call for Fri-Wed film times The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 12:40, 3:55, 7:10, 10:20 Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.

Brave (PG) Thu 10:55, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 10:45, 12, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.

Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 The Intouchables (R) Thu 10:50, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Moonrise Kingdom (PG13) Thu 11:40, 2:15, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Step Up Revolution (PG13) Thu 11:35, 4:45, 9:55 Step Up Revolution 3D (PG-13) Thu 2:10, 7:20 Ted (R) Thu 11:25, 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 To Rome With Love (R) Thu 10:35, 1:25, 4:15, 6:55, 9:45 Total Recall (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 The Watch (R) Thu 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25

La Placita Village, Broadway Boulevard and Church Avenue.

326-5282.

Cat Ballou (Not Rated) Thu 7:30

Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road.

327-7067.

Call for Fri-Wed film times Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R) Thu 5:15, 7:35, 10 Bernie (PG-13) Thu 2:45, 5 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 10:40, 1:20, 4, 6:40 The Hunger Games (PG13) Thu 4:10, 9:20 Peace, Love and Misunderstanding (R) Thu 11:50, 2, 7:10 People Like Us (PG-13) Thu 12, 2:30, 7:20, 9:55 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Thu 12:40 Prometheus (R) Thu 11:10, 1:50, 6:50, 9:30 Rock of Ages (PG-13) Thu 9:25 Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (R) Thu 4:30 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45

Fox Tucson Theatre

Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 9:40, 10:30, 12:10, 12:55, 2:40, 3:25, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05; Fri-Sat 12:15, 1:40, 2:40, 5:10, 6:40, 7:40, 9:15, 10:15; Sun-Tue 12:15, 1:40, 2:40, 5:10, 6:40, 7:40, 9:05, 10:10 Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D (PG) Thu 11, 1:40, 4:10; Fri-Tue 11:15, 4:10 Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D (PG) ends Thu 9:55, 12:30, 3:10, 6:05, 9:05 Magic Mike (R) Thu 11:40, 2:20, 5:20, 8, 10:40; Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:15, 6:15, 9 The Savages (R) Thu 12:40, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20; Fri-Sat 12, 3:20, 6:30, 9:35; Sun-Tue 12, 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 Step Up Revolution (PG13) Thu 10:10, 12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 8:50; Fri-Tue 11:10, 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Step Up Revolution 3D (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; FriSun 10:15, 12:45, 3:30, 6:05, 8:40; Mon-Tue 12:45, 3:30, 6:05, 8:40 Ted (R) Thu 11:15, 2, 5, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40, 10:30; Fri-Sat 11:20, 2:10, 5:05, 7:50, 10:45; SunTue 11:20, 2:10, 5:05, 7:50, 10:20 Total Recall (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sat 10, 11, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11; Sun 10, 11, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10; Mon-Tue 11, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) Thu 12, 3, 6:20, 9:10; Fri-Sat 10:40, 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:50; Sun 10:40, 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:25; Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:25

Harkins Tucson The Loft Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. Cinema 806-4275.

Call for Wed film times The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 10:50, 12:20, 2:10, 3:40, 5:40, 6:30, 7:20, 9, 9:45, 10:35; Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:40, 7:15, 10:40; SunTue 12:20, 3:40, 7:15, 10:15 Brave (PG) Thu 10:05, 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20; Fri-Sat 10:20, 1:10, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30; Sun 10:20, 1:10, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20; Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 10, 10:45, 11:30, 12:15, 1, 1:45, 2:30, 3:15, 4, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10, 10:45; Fri-Sun 10:10, 10:45, 11:30, 12:10, 1:50, 2:30, 3:10, 3:45, 5:30, 6:10, 6:50, 7:30, 9:10, 9:45, 10:30; Mon-Tue 11:30, 12:10, 1:50, 2:30, 3:10, 3:45, 5:30, 6:10, 6:50, 7:30, 9:10, 9:45, 10:30 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) Fri-Sun 10:50, 11:50, 1:20, 2:20, 3:50, 4:50, 6:20, 7:20, 8:50, 9:50; MonTue 11:05, 11:50, 1:20, 2:20, 3:50, 4:50, 6:20, 7:20, 8:50, 9:50 Hotel for Dogs (PG) ThuFri 9:45 a.m.

3233 E. Speedway Blvd.

795-7777.

Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility Ator, the Fighting Eagle (PG) Mon 8 Bill W. (Not Rated) Fri 2, 6:30; Sat-Mon 2, 7:30; Tue-Wed 2, 7:45 A Cat in Paris (PG) Fri 12:15, 4:30; Sat 5:30; Sun-Mon 12:15, 5:30; Tue-Wed 12:15 Elena (Not Rated) Thu 5:15 First Friday Shorts (Not Rated) Fri 9 High Fidelity (R) FriWed 10

Hysteria (R) Thu 1; FriSat 2:45; Mon-Wed 2:45 The Island President (PG) Tue 7:30 Kumaré (Not Rated) Thu 3:15, 7:45; Fri-Wed 5 The Misfits (Not Rated) Sun 2:30 Muppet Fairytales (Not Rated) Sat 12 Muppet History 101 (Not Rated) Thu 7 Oslo, August 31st (Not Rated) Wed 7:30 The Pact (Not Rated) Thu 9:45 The Royal Tenenbaums (R) Thu 10 Some Like It Hot (Not Rated) Sun 12 Take This Waltz (R) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:30; Fri 12:15, 7; Sat 12:15, 7, 10; Sun 7, 10; Mon 12:15, 10; Tue-Wed 12:15, 5:15, 10

Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road.

292-2430.

Battleship (PG-13) Thu 6:50; Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:40 Bernie (PG-13) ends Thu 11:15, 1:40, 6:45 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Fri-Wed 10:40, 1:20, 6:45 The Cabin in the Woods (R) Thu 9:15; Fri-Wed 9:50 Chimpanzee (G) Thu 4:30; Fri-Wed 11, 3, 4:55 Dark Shadows (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 2, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55; Fri 2, 4:40, 7:20; Sat-Wed 11:20, 2, 4:40, 7:20 The Dictator (R) Thu 7:45, 9:45; Fri-Wed 9:35 Dolphin Tale (PG) Thu-Fri 11 a.m.

Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) Thu 10:50, 12:50, 2:50, 4:50; Fri-Wed 11:30 The Hunger Games (PG13) Thu 10:30, 1:30, 6:30, 9:30; Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:15; Fri-Wed 12:55 Prometheus (R) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Rock of Ages (PG-13) Thu-Wed 4 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 10:40, 1:25, 4:15, 7, 9:45; Fri-Wed 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 Think Like a Man (PG-13) ends Thu 9:40 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG-13) ends Thu 5:20

The Screening Room 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204.

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Tower Theatres at Arizona Pavilions 8031 N. Business Park Drive. 579-0500.

Call for Wed film times The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 10:10, 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; FriTue 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Brave (PG) Thu 11:20, 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9; FriTue 11:15, 1:45, 4:20, 6:40 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 9:50, 10:40, 11:30, 12:20, 1:20, 2:10, 3, 3:50, 4:50, 5:40, 6:30, 7:20, 8:20, 9:10, 10; Fri-Tue 11, 12:45, 2:30, 4:15, 6, 7:45, 9:30 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Tue 12, 2:15, 4:45, 7, 9:15 Hope Springs (PG-13) Wed 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 10:25, 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40; Fri-Tue 11:40, 2, 4:20, 6:55, 9:05 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 10:15, 2:25; Fri-Tue 11:35, 1:50 Magic Mike (R) Thu 12, 4:35, 7, 9:25; Fri-Tue 9 The Magic of Belle Isle (PG) ends Thu 11:15, 1:45 Savages (R) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:05; Fri-Tue 4:10, 7:05, 10 Step Up Revolution (PG13) ends Thu 10:10, 2:50, 5:10 Step Up Revolution 3D (PG-13) Thu 12:30, 7:30, 9:50; Fri-Tue 2:10, 9:10 Ted (R) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05; FriTue 12, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:55 Total Recall (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Tue 11:20, 12:40, 2, 3:20, 4:40, 6, 7:20, 8:40, 10 The Watch (R) Thu 10:30, 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15; FriTue 11:45, 2:05, 4:25, 7:10, 9:35 Winnie the Pooh (G) Thu 10 a.m.

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FILM CLIPS Reviews by Jacquie Allen, Colin Boyd and Bob Grimm.

NEWLY REVIEWED: BILL W.

This is the life story of William Wilson, better known as Bill W., the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Most people don’t know the history of the program’s founding, and they don’t know very much about the man behind it. The doc chronicles Wilson’s humble upbringing, education, marriage, descent into alcoholism and, eventually, his saving himself and forming the group that has changed the lives of so many. Using interviews with historians and current AA members, plus voice recordings, stock footage and re-enactments of Bill, the film is quite interesting in its reconstruction of the life of such an important, yet tortured, figure. However, when it tries to focus on Bill’s existence outside of his alcoholism and the program, the film flounders. It drags on for approximately 30 minutes longer than it should, and it would have been much better had the filmmakers taken less time to recap the later years of his life. Allen A CAT IN PARIS

Animated movies are absolutely dominated by Disney and DreamWorks. It wasn’t too many years ago that Jimmy Neutron and Treasure Planet got Oscar nominations. Lately, however, foreign films like Persepolis, The Illusionist and the works of Miyazaki (even though they’re distributed by Disney in the U.S.) have changed the landscape a little bit, bringing with them the idea that these movies can be deep and challenging while also being rewarding and profitable. A Cat in Paris, a Best Animated Feature nominee this past year, continues to move the bar higher. Wonderfully colorful, hand-drawn and bursting with childlike curiosity, A Cat in Paris is the journey of a young girl who follows her cat during his nightly escapades, accidentally stumbling onto some nefarious gangsters. At only 69 minutes, A Cat in Paris leaves you wanting more, and that’s both good and bad. But it’s great fun while it lasts. Boyd

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STEP UP REVOLUTION

¡Viva la Revolución! No. Not really. Step Up Revolution, the fourth film in the series that launched the career of Magic Mike himself, Channing Tatum, is kind of the dance-floor version of those Resident Evil movies: So little actually changes from chapter to chapter, and you can’t believe the franchise is still going, much less making money. This time around, a bunch of anonymous, good-looking dancers work it for the chance to win $100,000 if they reach 1 million hits on YouTube. (Really, all they’d need is a singing cat, but whatever.) It even borrows a hook from Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, the original movie that used dancing to stop money-grubbing land-developers.

You might expect the acting and the dialogue to be awful, and you have no idea how right you are, but that’s why these are movies about dancing and not acting and dialogue. Boyd

CONTINUING: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

One of the signature films of 2012 and one of the more creative American movies in a long while, Beasts of the Southern Wild introduces us to life in The Bathtub, a desolate island in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans. It introduces us to a Hurricane Katrina-like storm that will surely wipe out The Bathtub. And it introduces us to a classic father-child combination: Wink (Dwight Henry) and the precocious Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis). We see the fate of The Bathtub through Hushpuppy’s 6-year-old eyes, and it’s a fantastic bit of wonderment. Boyd THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

Director Christopher Nolan wraps up his Batman trilogy with a rousing, if occasionally clunky, conclusion. Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has retired Batman and is living an even more reclusive life when Gotham is besieged by the masked revolutionary Bane (Tom Hardy). Batman is eventually forced out of retirement, and meets his physical match in Bane while also facing off against a crafty cat burglar (Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, never referred to as Catwoman in the film but obviously playing that part). Hardy makes Bane a great physical adversary, but his performance is marred by a terrible voice dub that makes him sound cartoonish and out of place. Hathaway has a lot of fun in her role, as does Gary Oldman, returning as Commissioner Gordon. The movie has a lot of good action, and Bale has never been better as Batman. It’s not as good as the previous chapters in the trilogy, but it’s still very good and a fitting conclusion to a great story. Grimm

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BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com was excited for The Watch, a comedy starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill, simply because I love each of those guys. But I started to get a little worried when I saw the confusing ad campaign, which didn’t acknowledge the fact that The Watch is an alien-invasion movie.

Aliens finally made it into the ads after the Trayvon Martin case made neighborhood watches a bad subject. In fact, the film was originally called Neighborhood Watch, with Fox demanding the name change due to current events.

The other thing that had me excited about this is that it was co-written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the guys who wrote Pineapple Express, a film near and dear to my heart. I liked the idea of them tackling sci-fi comedy. I envisioned Ghostbusters with aliens and a lot of curse words.

The result is a total piece of junk that is, I must admit, sufficiently entertaining because of the actors involved. Stiller, Vaughn, Hill and British television star Richard Ayoade all get a decent share of laughs in a movie that doesn’t ever really find its groove.

Much of the blame for this film must fall on director Akiva Schaffer, whose previous effort was the Andy Samberg misfire Hot Rod. Schaffer does a good-enough job of drawing funny moments from his ensemble, but the alien-invasion element feels like an afterthought more than the driving force of the plot. It almost seems as if the filmmakers started out making an alien-invasion movie, got scared, and decided to focus on dick jokes.

Granted, the dick jokes are often funny. I laughed loud more than a few times. Vaughn is doing his fast-talking asshole shtick, and I enjoy him in this mode. His character’s dealings with his rebellious daughter are a nasty highlight.

Stiller, basically playing the straight man, still gets a few moments to shine. His Evan is a manager at Costco, where one of his employees turns up mysteriously dead. Evan’s speech to a hometown football crowd, an impassioned attempt to recruit people for a neighborhood watch, is a riot. I am a big fan of Stiller when he does the whole “really passionate but not quite sure how to say what he’s thinking” thing.

Hill goes against type, playing a character reminiscent of Rogen’s own psycho-cop wannabe in Observe and Report. This isn’t the funniest Hill has ever been, but he still contributes laughs. As for Ayoade, he truly

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Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller, Richard Ayoade and Vince Vaughn in The Watch.

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shines in the film’s odd orgy scene.

There’s also Will Forte as a jerk cop, and he gets the film’s funniest moment during the explosive finale. Billy Crudup takes a rare comedic turn as a creepy neighbor who likes Evan’s skin a little too much.

As for the aliens, they are pretty coollooking in their few minutes on screen. The film only had a $68 million budget, and that just doesn’t cut it these days when it comes to the special-effects movie. Perhaps if Fox had thrown a little more money at this thing (and with this cast, you would think they’d have a little more confidence in the project), they might have had something that felt a little more complete. As it stands, The Watch feels a little half-assed.

The film is already a certified bomb with the public and the critics. The Watch is one of those movies that I feel a little embarrassed to admit that I sort of liked. In one way, I see it as a colossal failure. In another way, I have to admit it made me chuckle a lot despite its shortcomings.

The Watch had the makings of a great movie, but winds up something significantly short of that. I’m giving it a pass because it made me laugh, but I’m thinking most folks will hate it with a passion. What can I say?

Sometimes a bad movie can be fun.

N O W S H O W I N G AT H O M E Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live (Blu-ray) EAGLE ROCK SHOW B SPECIAL FEATURES C+ BlU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 6 (OUT OF 10)

I have seen quite a few Peter Gabriel shows, but, alas, I missed this tour in support of his Us album, the long awaited follow-up to So. I was impoverished at the time and couldn’t afford the long trip to the nearest venue offering the show. I still remember the phone call from my little brother back East who let me know that I had missed something spectacular.

This Blu-ray release allows those of us who missed this particular chapter in Gabriel’s history to get a taste of the goings-on. His backup band included Paula Cole, who was yet to have her one big hit, “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” when she hit the road with Gabriel. She was required to sing parts performed on albums by the likes of Kate Bush and Sinead O’Connor, and she does a rather nice job of it.

I suppose some of the staging for this show, filmed in Italy back in 1993, would be considered primitive, but it still struck me as quite innovative seeing it now. I liked Gabriel’s struggle with a phone booth during “Come Talk to Me” and especially liked the paranoiac “Digging in the Dirt” delivered via a strange camera mounted on Gabriel’s head. This show’s version of “In Your Eyes” is a good one, but doesn’t hold up to the version sung with Youssou N’Dour during the So tour. As for the “restored” audio and video, it looks and sounds decent.

For those of you who have never seen a Peter Gabriel show, you have a chance coming up. He will be touring starting in September, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of So. You’ll have to do some driving though; as of press time, the closest tour stops are in

Southern California and Las Vegas.

SPECIAL FEATURES: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the show that includes a Gabriel interview.

You also get an extra song performance of “Red Rain” and a spectacular 2011 performance of “The Rhythm of the Heat” with The New Blood Orchestra.

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season One (Blu-ray) PARAMOUNT SHOW BSPECIAL FEATURES B BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 7 (OUT OF 10)

I was never a huge fan of this show, and I only liked a couple of the films with this cast. That said, Paramount has done a nice job of polishing this one up for Blu-ray, even redoing a lot of the special effects originally put together for standarddefinition television. They worked their asses off on this restoration, and it pays dividends.

The first episode of the show, where Picard (Patrick Stewart) meets Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and they face off against lame adversary Q (John de Lancie), reveals a show far away from finding its identity. A brief cameo by DeForest Kelley as an aged and suddenly very Southern Bones is cringeworthy.

But as we all know, things got better along the way, and this season did contain some winners.

Still, I could never accept Data (Brent Spiner), whom I always saw as a poor substitute for Spock. This cast had its moments, but it takes a back seat to the original Shatner-led group and even the current Chris Pine contingent.

SPECIAL FEATURES: There are some documentaries along with cast interviews, and a look at how they restored the show. Sadly for Trekkies, there are no commentaries.

The Last Days of Disco (Blu-ray) CRITERION MOVIE B+ SPECIAL FEATURES B BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 7.75 (OUT OF 10)

After this funny 1998 film, underrated director Whit Stillman virtually disappeared until he released the equally funny Damsels in Distress this year.

His droll and often hilarious voice was sorely missed.

It was with this film that Kate Beckinsale got her indie breakthrough role. (Her big budget opportunity would come three years later in the lousy Pearl Harbor.) She plays Charlotte alongside Chloe Sevigny’s Alice, two young women recently graduated, working shit jobs for a book publisher, and spending their nights at discos. Both actresses shine here, and let it be said that Beckinsale is eyeburning hot in this movie.

Like, really hot.

The film contains Stillman’s trademark barbed yet hilarious dialogue, poking fun at advertising executives, club-dwellers and yuppies.

Chris Eigeman is brilliantly funny as club employee Des. He’s so good it makes you wonder how he didn’t have a bigger career.

The film is supposedly set during the early ’80s, but it feels more like a ’90s picture due to hairstyles and attitudes. One could probably cite it as a period-film failure, but the lack of success in depicting the time period adds a bizarre weirdness to the film that sort of works.

I’m a fan of this film, as I am of Damsels in Distress and Stillman in general. His other films include the equally fun Metropolitan, which has also gotten a recent Criterion release.

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CHOW Both the sweet and savory varieties are outstanding at this Fourth Avenue eateryy

NOSHING AROUND

BY ADAM BOROWITZ noshing@tucsonweekly.com

Crepes Done Right

New Cocktails at Wilko Wilko, on the corner of Park Avenue and University Boulevard, has a new cocktail menu. The theme seems to be classic cocktails, like the mai tai or old fashioned, made with unique ingredients that add extra flavor and flair. The gin fizz, for instance, is crafted with orange-blossom honey, Amontillado sherry and celery bitters; the old fashioned comes with date molasses, cardamom and Spanish brandy. There are rum punches, pisco sours and other drinks as well, and if the $8 price tag seems too steep, stop in during happy hour from 3 to 7 p.m., every day, and get them for $2 less; www.wilkotucson.com.

BY JACQUELINE KUDER, jkuder@tucsonweekly.com kly.com s a former chef, I can cook most things that appear on restaurant menus. Crepes, however, have always presented a challenge.

Maybe my batter isn’t quite thin enough, or thick enough. Maybe my pan is too hot, or too cold. Maybe I cook them 30 seconds too long or not quite long enough. Making the perfect crepe is both an art and a science, so I’m thankful to have Café Marcel to fill that culinary void in my life.

The crepes are revelatory, at once light and filling, soft and yet crisp. Both the sweet and savory varieties are absolutely delicious.

The café is inside a tiny doorstep off Fourth Avenue just south of Seventh Street, in the same building as Che’s Lounge. The interior is quaint, simple, clean and bright. And the counter service is friendly and chatty.

There are about a dozen different crepes on the frequently changing menu—mostly sweet, but a few are stuffed with savory items.

For me, the savory crepes outshined the sweet crepes. The spinach, tomato, ham and brie crepe ($8.95) came with a side of herb cream sauce, and the combination was delightful.

The spinach and tomatoes were uncooked, which kept the crepe nice and light, even with the hefty helping of salty, melted brie and thin slices of ham. The herb cream sauce added the finishing touch, tying the cooked and raw ingredients together.

Now, that’s not to say that the sweet crepes aren’t delicious—they are. The apple, pear, honey and brie crepe ($7.95) walks the fine line between being sweet and savory, but the dusting of powdered sugar and whippedcream dollops pushed it just over the line into the territory of sweet. The only thing that wasn’t absolutely lovely about our first visit was my decaf latte ($2.50 single/$3.25 double).

Now, I don’t expect decaf to hold up the flavor of coffee like the caffeinated variety does, but sadly, I am forever relegated to decaf. But even for decaf, it was bitter. And it was served way too hot, scalding the milk and my tongue. It was so hot that it was still undrinkable even after I had finished my entire crepe. (The crepes, by the way, are gigantic.)

Our second visit to the café was every bit as good as the first, except for the rain, which made the interior seating area oppressively humid. I ordered one of the Swedish-style crepes on the menu ($5.95), in lingonberry— they’re also available in strawberry and raspberry. Swedish crepes are filled with fruit preserves rather than fresh fruit, and so are a bit thinner than the other dessert crepes on the

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New: The Scented Leaf A tea shop and restaurant has opened in the spot formerly occupied by Red Velvet Cupcakery at 943 E. University Blvd., No. 165.

The Scented Leaf Tea House + Lounge is run

by Adrienne and Shane Barela, who used to own and operate the nearby Scented Leaf Fine Tea and Fragrances. Fans of fine tea will find a huge selection of high-grade loose-leaf oolong, herbal and other teas sold by the cup and in bulk. The food selection is limited to soups, croissants and desserts for now, but a menu with sandwiches, baked pasta and other dishes will be available when the college crowd returns in August; 624-2930.

JOIE HORWITZ

Feel the Burn

The crepe with apple, pear, honey and brie from Café Marcel. menu. Ted ordered the strawberry, banana and Nutella crepe ($6.95), which came out stuffed to the brim and drizzled with chocolate sauce.

The lingonberry crepe was sweet without being overwhelming—it had a nice tartness to it, which helped balance out the whipped cream and powdered sugar. Ted’s crepe, on the other hand, was bite after bite of sweetness. The strawberries were super-ripe and very sweet, as were the banana slices. The Nutella spread was generously distributed in the crepe, and to top it off, there was not only powdered sugar and whipped cream, but also a heavy drizzle of chocolate sauce. It was heavenly, albeit extremely filling and very, very sweet.

The café was mostly empty on both of our visits, and the streetcar construction on Fourth Avenue is likely part of the reason. The crepes

Many have tried the Inferno Hot Wing Challenge at Brushfire BBQ (2745 N. Campbell Ave., and 7080 E. 22nd St.), but few have succeeded. It works like this: Challengers have 10 minutes to eat six hot wings bathed in dangerously spicy sauce, and then have to sit for 20 more minutes without taking a drink.

Those who complete it receive a special bib that allows them to jump to the head of the line at the restaurant whenever they wear it; brushfirebbq.com.

Café Marcel

Mead-Making

344 N. Fourth Ave.

Want to check out what’s going on in the world of local mead production? Join Jerry Morgan and the folks down at Borderlands Brewing Co. at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 4, for a demonstration on the ancient honey wine. The event is being held to coincide with the American Homebrewers Association’s Mead Day and is the first chance the public will have to get a glimpse at the incredible meads that Morgan makes. Borderlands Brewing Co. is located at 119 E. Toole Ave.

623-3700; cafemarcel.biz Open daily, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Pluses: Friendly service; amazing sweet and savory crepes Minuses: Coffee served too hot, making it too bitter

at Café Marcel are delectable; the service is friendly; and the ambiance is charming. So, until someone sends me their favorite crepe pan and a French grandmother’s secret recipe, I’ll be frequenting Café Marcel (and my other favorite Fourth Avenue businesses), especially during construction, to ensure that I’m not in danger of being crepe-less.

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feels familiar, the restaurant’s melding of tasty, nuanced Mexican food with a fast-casual format is quite unique.

Most of the dishes—from standards like tacos, sopa de tortilla and enchiladas to somewhat unusual fast-casual fare like the pescado ajillo (a garlic/mushroom mahimahi)—are sure to please. (4-6-06) $-$$

MIDDLE EASTERN ALIBABA PERSIAN AND MEDITERRANEAN RESTAURANT C 2545 E. Speedway Blvd., No. 125. 319-2559. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.8 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This humble strip-mall restaurant serves a variety of delicious kabobs, pita sandwiches, lamb shank, gyro and more.

Vegetarians have plenty of options. Catering services are available. $ FALAFEL KING C 1800 E. Fort Lowell Road, No. 168. 319-5554. Open

PRICE RANGES $ $8 or less $ $ $8-$15 $ $ $ $15-$25 $ $ $ $ $25 and up.

Prices are based on menu entrée selections, and exclude alcoholic beverages.

Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Café/No Alcohol.

AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Falafel King offers high-quality Lebanese fast food. The shawarma can sometimes be a tad dry, but the lamb kabobs are moist; the falafel is superb; and the baba ganoush—a pureed eggplant dip— is smokey, rich and irresistible. (2-7-08) $-$$ LUXOR CAFÉ C 3699 N. Campbell Ave. 325-3771. Open Sunday-

FORMS OF PAYMENT V Visa MC Mastercard AMEX American Express DIS Discover DC Diner’s Club checks local checks with guarantee card and ID only debit debit cards CatCard University of Arizona CatCard.

Wednesday 5 p.m.-1 a.m.; Thursday 5 p.m.-2 a.m.; Friday and Saturday 5 p.m.-4 a.m. Café/No Alcohol.

DIS, MC, V. A large and fascinating menu combined with excellent cooking makes this comfortably exotic, hospitable Middle Eastern joint a standout; fair prices make it a great value. The owner and chef are both from Egypt, which is reflected in the presence of homestyle vegetarian specialties like falafel, fool (spiced, mashed fava beans) and koshari (a homey mixture of rice, beans and pasta), plus a wide selection of chicken, beef, lamb and fish dishes. Don’t miss the superb baklava. (5-1707) $-$$

TYPE OF SERVICE

SHISH KEBAB HOUSE OF TUCSON

Counter Quick or fast-food service, usually includes take-out.

Diner Minimal table service.

Café Your server is most likely working solo.

Bistro Professional servers, with assistants bussing tables.

Full Cover Multiple servers, with the table likely well set.

Full Bar Separate bar space for drinks before and after dinner.

E 5855 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 118. 745-5308. Open

Monday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday noon-8 p.m. Café/Counter/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Try the motabal, a sinuous purée of eggplant grilled over an open flame, completely unlike any baba ganoush we’ve ever had. Together with a deftly light and lemony version of hummos and the cracked-wheat dish tabouli, it makes a refreshing meal.

The kafta is ground beef with a hint of ginger. Meals at Shish Kebab House are all available to go—and with seating for no more than 60, that seems like a good plan. $-$$

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SINBAD’S FINE MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE

C Central North to River Road, east to Alvernon Way, west to

C 810 E. University Ave. 623-4010. Open Monday-

Granada Avenue downtown, and south to 22nd Street.

NW Northwest North of River Road, west of Campbell Avenue.

NE Northeast North of River Road, east of Campbell

Avenue.

Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday 4-8 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. The atmosphere at this university-area restaurant is delightfully beautiful, and the food’s even better. Fresh, flavorful and often healthy—many selections are vegetarian—it’s no wonder Sinbad’s is a Tucson favorite. (5-8-03) $-$$

E East East of Alvernon Way, south of River Road.

S South South of 22nd Street.

W West West of Granada Avenue, south of River Road.

MEXICAN TERESA’S MOSAIC CAFÉ W 2456 N. Silverbell Road. 624-4512. Open MondaySaturday 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Diner/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. With regional Mexican cuisine, featuring the cooking of Oaxaca, Teresa’s Mosaic Café has become one of the nicer places in town to suck down margaritas and nibble on fresh tortillas. A lofty view of the Catalinas and the rich complexity of Oaxacan molés can be sampled with equal pleasure. $-$$ ZENDEJAS #13 C 1628 E. Sixth St. 867-8001. Open daily 10 a.m.-10

p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, VISA. Legendary UA placekicker Max Zendejas is back, and instead of serving up last-second field goals, he’s serving up inexpensive Mexican fare. Burros are central, as is cold beer and the casual, comfy atmosphere. The red chili burro is a winner for red meat-lovers; seafood fans will find a grilled tilapia burro. Gringos can munch on wings and burgers. The place is tiny, so if you want to get a table on game day, get there early. (9-9-10) $ ZIVAZ MEXICAN BISTRO E 4590 E. Broadway Blvd. 325-1234. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.9 p.m. Café/Counter. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks.

AMEX, DIS, MC, V. While the look and layout of Zivaz

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ZAYNA MEDITERRANEAN CAFE E 9105 E. Tanque Verde Road, No. 103. 749-4465.

Open daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Counter/BYO. MC, V. Also at 4122 E. Speedway Blvd. (881-4348). Zayna’s serves up some of the best beef gyro you’ll find anywhere. The meats served here are all moist and perfectly cooked, and the vegetarian offerings are delightful and flavorful. Consider a piece of baklava for dessert. (11-12-09) $-$$

PAN-ASIAN ASIAN BISTRO C 3122 N. Campbell Ave., No. 100. 881-7800. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Yes, you’ll find plenty of traditional Asian plates here, but this midtown “bistro” also offers an assortment of dishes from all over China, Thailand and other countries. While dining at the restaurant is a pleasant experience, Asian Bistro also delivers to a wide area of midtown. Beverages include fruity slushes, bubble teas and blended coffees. (5-29-08) $-$$ AZIAN C 15 N. Alvernon Way. 777-8311. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-midnight; Saturday 11:30 a.m.2:30 p.m. and 5-midnight; Sunday noon to 9:30 p.m.

Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. While Azian needs more-helpful sushi-roll menus, and the servers need to explain the do-it-yourself Korean barbecue a heck of a

lot better, the results sure are tasty. The all-you-can-eat options come with a buffet at both lunch and dinner, and bento boxes are offered at lunch time. (6-14-12) $-$$ THE BAMBOO CLUB E 5870 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 524. 514-9665. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. An upscale Pacific Rim palace of a place where generous portions of familiar food with exotic twists are grilled, woked, sizzled, steamed and noodled. (12-12-02) $$-$$$ CHOPSTIX ASIAN DINER S 3820 S. Palo Verde Road, Suite 101. 889-7849.

Open Monday-Thursday 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Counter/Diner/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This diner serves fresh, fast food done up Asian style. By day, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a buffet. And at night, it offers friendly table service with all types of Asian specialties.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nice place to enjoy a quick lunch or meet with friends. Enjoy the tasty wor wonton soup and crab puffs.

No sushi, though. (1-20-05) $-$$ DAOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAI PANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S E 446 N. Wilmot Road. 722-0055. Open daily 10 a.m.-8 p.m. CafĂŠ/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. A huge menu of delicious Chinese and Vietnamese cuisine makes Daoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth visiting. The restaurant may look like a fast-food joint, but the cuisine and the service prove that Daoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is anything but. Be sure to try the multifaceted Vietnamese crepe. (2-17-05) $-$$ HOT WOK ASIAN BISTRO E 7755 E. Golf Links Road, No. 101. 751-6374. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DIS, MC and V. At this small Asian fast-casual joint, the food is plentiful and fairly pricedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and it comes out of the kitchen hot and fast.

While most of the menu is Chinese-influenced, you can also find pho, pad Thai and wings. Hot Wok is not glamorous, but considering that most of the restaurants nearby are chains, this is a pleasant neighborhood spot.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look for smiles from the staffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but do look for a great deal. (3-1-12) $ OM MODERN ASIAN KITCHEN NW 1765 E. River Road. 299-7815. Open SundayWednesday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The menu at this sleek â&#x20AC;&#x153;modern kitchenâ&#x20AC;? reads like a culinary tour of Asia. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sure hand and a creative mind in the kitchen, assuring that flavors and textures come together in wonderful ways. A potato salad laced with luscious duck confit was splendid, and the sushi is as pretty as it is tasty. Bento boxes are served at lunch.

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becue and sushi (including the tempting all-you-can-eat option for $19.95). For an interactive, do-it-yourself treat, try preparing the Korean barbecue yourself at your table. Just consider yourself warned: Pork belly, though delicious, will catch on fire if you’re not paying attention. (12-1-11) $$-$$$ THAI CHINA BISTRO E 5121 E. Grant Road. 325-5185. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. MC, V. What a nice little find! As the name indicates, there is both Thai and Chinese food here. There’s also sushi, with a bit of Korean thrown in for good measure. The pad Thai is tangy and tender, and the squid salad is a winner— loaded not just with tender squid, but also fresh greens and other vegetables in a soy-based sauce. The service at this fast-casual place is friendly and upbeat. (4-1912) $-$$ WEI ASIAN CAFÉ E 9450 E. Golf Links Road. 722-1119. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday noon-9 p.m. Café/ Beer and Wine. MC, V. The far eastside’s restaurant scene is looking a bit better thanks to Wei. The café aspires to be truly pan-Asian, featuring a huge menu of dishes attributed to China, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. The food is reasonably priced and consistently decent to excellent. Give the sesame chicken a shot if you’re unsure what to try.

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PIZZA 1702 C 1702 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-1702. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This little university-area pizza joint has friendly service and pizza slices bigger than your head.

With an ever-changing 50-plus beers on tap, there’s something for everyone. If that’s not enough, generous salads and delicious wings will keep you coming back for more. (3-13-08) $$ BIANCHI’S W 1110 N. Silverbell Road. 882-8500. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11

BROOKLYN PIZZA COMPANY C 534 N. Fourth Ave. 622-6868. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2:30 a.m.; Sunday noon-10 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. There may be nothing gourmet or innovatively outrageous about Brooklyn Pizza, but if you like your pie with a crunchy, handtossed crust, a savory simmered tomato sauce, lots of gooey mozzarella cheese and the traditional toppings of your choice, you’ve come to the right place. Sandwiches also reflect attention to the “only best ingredients” philosophy. There’s nothing here that will disappoint. $ BZ’S PIZZA E 9431 E. 22nd St., No. 137. 546-1402. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. Eastsiders have a nifty little pizza joint that puts out some great gourmet pies. The crust is light and chewy; the sauce is smooth and rich; and if you can’t find a topping you like, you should just stay home. Nightly pasta specials, great salads and sandwiches are on the menu. The vibe is family-friendly, although BZ’s is also a great place to meet friends for a glass of wine and a couple of pizzas. (7-7-11) $-$$ EMPIRE PIZZA AND PUB C 137 E. Congress St. 882-7499. Open SundayWednesday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Counter/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Empire Pizza and Pub has injected a new kind of life into downtown Tucson, serving up big New York-style pizza by the slice (or whole), along with some salads and Italian sandwiches. The small patio offers views of the craziness on Congress Street, while the back bar area offers a couple of TVs featuring whatever game happens to be on. (2-3-11) $ GRANDMA TONY’S E 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 885-7117. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Diner/No Alcohol. MC, V. Also at 7878 E. Wrightstown Road (886-4461). Brought to you by the folks at the Gaslight Theatre, these are hand-tossed pies with a round edge and real mozzarella. The favorites are the ham and pineapple or the mushroom and sausage.

For the same lowish price, you can also order any combination of toppings. $-$$ GRIMALDI’S C 446 N. Campbell Ave., No. 100. 882-6100. Open daily 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. One of New York City’s highest-rated pizza joints is serving some of the best pizza in Tucson. You’ll pay more here for your coal brick-oven pie, but it’s worth it.

We recommend sitting in the bar area while you munch on your pizza or calzone, so you can watch the doughthrowing and pizza-baking show. All three sauces (red, white and pesto) are tasty; just be careful while selecting the often-pricey toppings. (9-25-08) $$-$$$ MAGPIES GOURMET PIZZA E 105 S. Houghton Road. 751-9949. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 4654 E. Speedway Blvd. (795-5977), 605 N. Fourth Ave. (628-1661) and 7315 N. Oracle Road (2972712). Only the Fourth Avenue location serves beer and wine. This local chain brags about serving the best pizza in town—and to a large extent, they back up that brag.

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a.m.-midnight or later. Counter/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Gourmet pizzas find dizzying combinations of fresh and unusual ingredients. Catering to signature creations or simply celebrating pizza, No Anchovies puts a new spin on the old pie. (8-2-01) $-$$ OREGANO’S E 4900 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-8955. Open daily 11

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Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Diner/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This Windy City-style pizzeria has made a big splash in the Old Pueblo with its tasty square-cut, thin-crust and oversized stuffed pizza. Mushroom mania (the Fungus Humongous) and hot-and-spicy chiles and sausage (the Great Chicago Fire) are just two of the specialty pizzas that await your pleasure, or you can mix and match ingredients to create something uniquely your own. Little touches like ripe, red, sliced roma tomatoes and a blend of four cheeses make Rocco’s pizza a hit in any form. $-$$

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Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. New York Pizza Department offers some of Tucson’s best thin-crust pies, both whole and by the slice. The ingredients make the pizzas so great—yes, that’s real ham, not lunchmeat, on your meat-lover pizza. Calzones, panini, stromboli, subs both hot and cold, Italian bombers, wings, salads and several entrées round out the sizable menu. (12-22-11) $-$$

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This Ohio-based franchise offers some of the better chain-joint pizza in Tucson. The chicken fresco pie— featuring moist grilled chicken, tangy red sauce and delicious bacon—left our mouths watering and wanting more. Some of the employees weren’t as knowledgeable as they could have been, but there’s no denying that Marco’s makes exceptionally tasty, moderately priced pizzas. (12-18-08) $$-$$$

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MUSIC On her latest album, Macy Gray gives cover songs credibility

Macy Gray

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BY ANNIE HOLUB, aholub@tucsonweekly.com e all know the music industry is a little crazy. Consider, for a moment, the industry’s relation to cover songs.

Time was, the industry was completely reliant on one artist writing a song, and then everyone and their cousin recording it. Where would shows like American Idol and The Voice be without the concept of the cover song? But when a recording artist, even a hugely successful one, asks to put out a cover album, record labels usually respond with a resounding NO. That’s the response Macy Gray kept hearing every time she proposed the idea of doing a cover album. “It’s something I’ve been wanting to do, but labels aren’t really a fan of cover albums,” she explained over the phone.

Usually, she continued, record labels don’t say yes for a number of reasons. “I think in today’s market, they aren’t the most successful—they don’t jump off the shelves, most of them,” she said. “There have been a couple of recent really successful cover albums, but I think the general idea is that it’s for much later in your career when you get older, like Tony Bennett or something, and then generally, they’re not expected to do quite as well as an original album.”

Which is strange, given the history of the music industry and the fact that a well-executed cover can be its own kind of art. How else can one explain the success of Glee?

So Gray kept persisting. “We finally got into a situation where they were down into it, so we did it,” she said. “That’s really what the timing was—it was the first time someone said yes.”

Macy Gray’s cover album, Covered, released on 429 Records this past March, offers case after case of how interesting cover songs can be when done thoughtfully.

“I just thought it would be cool to take these songs from completely different arenas—like, most of the songs on there are rock songs—so I thought it’d be cool to take these rock songs and turn them into proper soul songs,” Gray explained.

Gray’s version of Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” becomes quietly dramatic with strings, while her take on Karen O’s “Maps” speeds up and slows down playfully. For Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up,” Gray minimizes the instrumentation and adds an African beat. And on My Chemical Romance’s “Teenagers,” Gray rewrites the lyrics from the point of view of a mother of teens. (Gray has three teenage children.)

“I really love the whole album,” she said. “I really like ‘Nothing Else Matters,’ because it’s just so different from the original, and I like ‘Maps’ a lot, and I like ‘Bubbly’ a lot, because we turned it into a duet (with Idris Alba), and then

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Colbie Caillat said she liked it. That made me like it more when she said she liked it. It changes every day; I have different favorites along the way, but those are probably my consistents.”

Interspersed between the songs are brief comedy skits featuring Gray’s friends, like Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls, which show more of Gray’s personality and make the whole album more fun.

“That’s another thing I’ve been wanting to do, and I (couldn’t) do it,” Gray laughed. “Ever since I heard The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill … you know, she used the skits in the most clever way, so I’ve been trying to come up with something that cool, but I never do, and it always gets scratched, because they’re so terrible. But this was kind of an album where we were all just doing whatever we wanted to do, so we kept these. I don’t know if they’re not terrible, but we kept them.”

Gray has always been one to do whatever she wants to do. Her musical career has been largely guided by her own hands, and she has also been enjoying a steadily growing career as an actress. She has a role in the upcoming film The Paperboy alongside Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Zac Efron and Matthew McConaughey, as Anita, a housemaid who narrates the murder mystery. “It’s actually a really significant role. It takes place in the ’60s in the South, and it’s very dark,” she said.

And Gray’s reinvigoration of the cover doesn’t stop at Covered. She’s currently finishing up work on an album-length cover—a remake, of sorts, of Stevie Wonder’s 1972

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“I was talking to my producer, and we were talking about the Covered record, and he said, ‘You know … nobody ever covers albums.’ So we were going through these really famous albums that might be cool, and that’s just one of my favorite albums. I know that record inside and out, so it was just natural to do that one. And then it just happened that it was the 40th anniversary after we looked it up,” Gray explained. “… They remake movies and TV shows, so we thought it was just something we wanted to try. It’s coming out really good. I’m actually really proud of it. It has some of my favorite songs on it, and I love the way he writes, and he did it pretty early in his career, and it’s just amazing for someone who was as young as he was at the time.”

If the concept of a cover album seems like too much of a gamble for record labels, then the idea of a whole remake of an album must seem terrifying. But if Covered is any indication, Gray’s take on Stevie Wonder will be nothing short of brilliant—and she just may start a whole new trend.

It’s been four years since the last Potluck Audio Conference (PotLuckCon), which has bounced back and forth between New Orleans and Tucson since its inception (as Tape Op Conference, or TapeOpCon) in 2002. This weekend brings a new installment of the event to Tucson.

From a press release: “The Potluck Audio Conference is a two-day retreat of recording and production professionals from all over the country.

Its main mission is to bring together the independent recording community to share knowledge and build consensus about how today’s music is recorded and delivered.”

The conference began with a friendship: When Tape Op Magazine founder and recording producer-engineer Larry Crane, owner of Jackpot!

Recording Studio, was invited to curate a panel at the now-defunct North by Northwest music conference in Portland, Ore., in 2000, he invited producer Craig Schumacher, who owns Tucson’s Wavelab Studio, to be on it. Schumacher stayed with Crane while in Portland, and the pair became fast friends. The next year, Crane was invited to curate another panel, on the topic of recording albums on a budget, this time at Austin’s South by Southwest; again, he invited Schumacher to participate.

In a 2006 interview with the Tucson Weekly, Schumacher explained the roots of their own audio conference: “I reasoned that the people who were going to be in our audience were probably musicians who didn’t have a lot of money to make records, and were coming to this to get those answers. ‘How do you make records on a budget?’ The two of us are running studios where we make records in a very short amount of time on a regular basis, and the panel is full of all these big industry guys who never make records on a budget! They have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on records! … And the audience members wanted the information that we wanted to give, but it was totally lost on a panel where everyone has a voice, and no one should really dominate. But it’s like, when you have a guy on this panel who’s working with Elton John, I don’t think he has a lot to say to some indie rocker who just traveled in a van for three days to get to Austin to play some little showcase.”

Added Crane, “You’ve got someone talking about spending two weeks with U2 mastering their record, and it’s like, ‘I did four albums in the time it took you to master that record.’”

“So after the panel, we went back to our hotel room,” recalled Schumacher, “and we’re drinking a few beers and just reflecting on how goofy the whole thing was, and we realized, gee, you know, there just isn’t really a forum for what we wanted to do. And I said, ‘Larry, Tape Op needs to have a conference.’”

A lot has happened since then. Crane and Tape Op are no longer part of the conference; Schumacher has scaled back the conference from its heyday and redubbed it PotLuckCon;

SOUNDBITES CONTINUED Schumacher struggled through a bout with cancer. (He’s been cancer-free for a year, and his doctors say that if he can go another year without the disease reappearing, he should be in the clear.) But he’s feeling healthy enough these days to revive the conference (he credits “the generosity of this group that re-inspired me to do it again”) and is bringing it back to Tucson: Potluck Audio Conference will take place at the Hilton Tucson El Conquistador from Thursday, Aug. 2, through Saturday, Aug. 4.

Thursday is reserved for registration and a pre-party at the resort, and the conference wraps up on Saturday evening with a “postconference pool hang.”

But during the day on Friday and Saturday, the event is loaded with panels with such titles as, “Are We There Yet? Has Digital Finally Become Good Enough to Replace With Analog?” and, “The Art and Science of Mixing.” The panels bring together some bigname pros, too, especially for those who follow this sort of stuff and/or read the credits on albums; among this year’s participants are Mitch Easter, Dusty Wakeman, Mark Rubel, Joel Hamilton, Don Zientara and Tim Lee. The hotel will also be loaded with all sorts of audio and recording exhibitors displaying their wares and discussing their products.

On Friday, Aug. 3, conference attendees will hop on buses that will bring them to Fourth Avenue for a music showcase at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St., featuring performances by surfgarage-R&B combo The Modeens, instrumental rockers The Weisstronauts, twisted Americana act Tierra del Fuego and golden-throated Phoenix songstress Lonna Kelley. The show starts at 9 p.m., and admission is $5.

And now, the best part for locals who’d like to attend the conference, but don’t have the scratch to pony up for registration ($105 for onsite full registration; $60 for onsite singleday registration; $35 for onsite student singleday registration): Schumacher is offering what he calls ambassadorships to the conference.

He’ll find a way for you to donate a bit of time to help the conference run smoothly (picking up a conference bigwig at the airport, registering attendees, setting up exhibits, etc.), and you’ll gain entry to the conference. Pretty sweet, huh?

Here’s the deal: You need to contact Schumacher at potluckcon@gmail.com with your name, e-mail address, phone number and availability, and a conference organizer will contact you to set up your activity. (If no chores are immediately needed, you may not be asked to do anything more than attend the conference and socialize.)

All the info you could possibly want is available at potluckconference.com. The Hilton Tucson El Conquistador is located at 10000 N. Oracle Road. (There’s a link to its website at the PotLuckCon site.) Plush’s website, with additional information, is plushtucson.com, and its number is 798-1298.

SHORT TAKES Another benefit of the Potluck Audio Conference returning to the Old Pueblo is that it’s bringing the members of Seashell Radio who have moved out of Tucson back to town with it. They’ll capitalize on that fact by performing a show tonight, Thursday, Aug. 2, at Plush, 340 E. Sixth Ave. The band begins playing at 9:30 p.m., and admission is free.

For more info, check out plushtucson.com, or call 798-1298.

Tito Lopez

TOP TEN Zia Records’ top sales for the week ending July 29, 2012 1. Gaslight Anthem Handwritten (Mercury)

2. Slipknot Antennas to Hell (Roadrunner)

3. Passion Pit Gossamer (Columbia)

4. Nas Life Is Good (Def Jam) Two weekends ago, as the bars on Fourth Avenue were letting out at closing time, Tyler Dunn stumbled upon something pretty fucked up: A large group of thugs was attacking and beating two women. Dunn’s instincts kicked into gear, and he jumped into the fray in order to put a stop to it. He was rewarded for his efforts with a broken jaw that has, so far, required three surgeries.

Starting at 9 p.m., next, Thursday, Aug. 9, A Benefit and Roast for Tyler Dunn will be held at Surly Wench Pub, 424 N. Fourth Ave., to raise money to help pay for Dunn’s medical bills. Musician-cum-comedian Jericho Davidson will host the roast to Dunn, and there will be live performances by the Electric Blankets, Big Meridox and Church Key. Admission is a suggested donation of $5, but feel free to contribute more if you can. For further details, call the club at 882-0009, or visit surlywenchpub.com.

5. Frank Ocean channel ORANGE (Def Jam)

6. Baroness Yellow and Green (Relapse)

7. Hellyeah Band of Brothers (Eleven Seven)

8. Casa de Mi Padre (DVD) Lionsgate

9. Aesop Rock Skelethon (Rhymesayers)

10. Serj Tankian Harakiri (Reprise)

ON THE BANDWAGON There are loads more worthwhile shows headed our way this week. Here are some of them: “Weird Al” Yankovic at the Fox Tucson Theatre on Tuesday, Aug. 7; Pitbull and DJ Havana Brown at AVA at Casino del Sol on Sunday, Aug. 5; Coheed and Cambria at the Rialto Theatre on Tuesday, Aug. 7; Los Tigres del Norte and Banda el Recodo at AVA at Casino del Sol on Saturday, Aug. 4; Big K.R.I.T. and Tito Lopez at the Rialto Theatre on Friday, Aug. 3; Soulfly, Angelic to Ashes, Genocaust and Sink the Titanic at The Rock on Saturday, Aug. 4; Drive Tour with College, Anorak and Electric Youth at Club Congress on Tuesday, Aug. 7; Jel and DJ Abilities at Plush on Saturday, Aug. 4; Finding Solace EP-release with Secret Tunnel Storyline, Complex Houses and others at The Rock on Friday, Aug. 3; Rebels Riot Tour with The Chop Tops, Danny B. Harvey, The Strikers and Radio Threat at Whiskey Tango tonight, Thursday, Aug. 2; North, Territory and Anakim at Club Congress on Friday, Aug. 3; the Familiar Strange at Sky Bar next Thursday, Aug. 9; Delta Nove and The Railbirdz at The Hut on Friday, Aug. 3; Pete Fine and Beyond Words at Club Congress on Saturday, Aug. 4; Country Saturdays with Hank Topless at Café Passe on Saturday, Aug. 4; Tesoro at Skybox Restaurant and Bar on Saturday, Aug. 4; Black Cherry Burlesque at Surly Wench Pub on Friday, Aug. 3.

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CLUB LIST Here is a list of venues that offer live music, dancing, DJ music, karaoke or comedy in the Tucson area. We recommend that you call and confirm all events.

ARIZONA INN 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541.

ARMITAGE WINE LOUNGE AND CAFÉ 2905 E. Skyline Drive, No. 168. 682-9740.

THE AULD DUBLINER 800 E. University Blvd. 206-0323.

AZUL RESTAURANT LOUNGE Westin La Paloma, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. 742-6000.

THE BAMBOO CLUB 5870 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 524.

514-9665.

THE BASHFUL BANDIT 3686 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-8996.

BEAU BRUMMEL CLUB 1148 N. Main Ave. 622-9673.

BEDROXX 4385 W. Ina Road.

744-7655.

BEST WESTERN ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871.

BLUEFIN SEAFOOD BISTRO 7053 N. Oracle Road.

531-8500.

BOONDOCKS LOUNGE 3306 N. First Ave. 690-0991.

BORDERLANDS BREWING COMPANY 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773.

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.

CAFÉ PASSÉ 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411.

CAFÉ ROKA 35 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-5153.

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.

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) 398-8000.

COW PONY BAR AND GRILL 6510 E. Tanque Verde Road.

721-2781.

CUSHING STREET RESTAURANT AND BAR 198 W. Cushing St. 622-7984.

DAKOTA CAFE AND CATERING CO. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road.

298-7188.

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.

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DON’S BAYOU CAJUN COOKIN’ 8991 E. Tanque Verde Road.

749-4410.

DRIFTWOOD RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE 2001 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4317.

DRY RIVER COMPANY 800 N. Kolb Road. 298-5555.

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.

HILTON EL CONQUISTADOR RESORT 10000 N. Oracle Road.

Oro Valley. 544-5000.

THE HOG PIT SMOKEHOUSE BAR AND GRILL 6910 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4302.

THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200.

IBT’S 616 N. Fourth Ave. 882-3053.

IGUANA CAFE 210 E. Congress St. 882-5140.

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.

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.

MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFE 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429.

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.

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.

THE POUND 127-2 E. Navajo Road.

PURGATORY 1310 S. Alvernon Way. 795-1996.

PUTNEY’S 6090 N. Oracle Road. 575-1767.

RPM NIGHTCLUB 445 W. Wetmore Road. 869-6098.

RA SUSHI BAR RESTAURANT 2905 E. Skyline Drive.

615-3970.

RAGING SAGE COFFEE ROASTERS 2458 N. Campbell Ave. 320-5203.

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.

RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000.

RIC’S CAFE/RESTAURANT 5605 E. River Road. 577-7272.

RILEY’S IRISH TAVERN 5140 N. La Cholla Blvd. 408-0507.

RIVER’S EDGE LOUNGE 4635 N. Flowing Wells Road.

887-9027.

RJ’S REPLAYS SPORTS PUB AND GRUB 5769 E. Speedway Blvd. 495-5136.

THE ROCK 136 N. Park Ave. 629-9211.

ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871.

RUSTY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILLE 2075 W. Grant Road.

623-3363.

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.

SIR VEZA’S 220 W. Wetmore Road. 888-8226.

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.

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.

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 AUG 2 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch Boondocks Lounge Ed DeLucia Trio 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, Boned Out, Secret Highway 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 Don’t Call It a Comeback and guests Irish Pub Gary Alan Durrenberger Las Cazuelitas Live music McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Susan Artemis Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Cafe Eleanor Winston Trio O’Malley’s Live music On a Roll Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Plush Seashell Radio RPM Nightclub 80’s and Gentlemen Sheraton Hotel and Suites Prime Example Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Union Public House George Howard and Larry Loud Whiskey Tango Rebels Riot Tour, The Chop Tops, Danny B. Harvey, The Strikers, Radio Threat 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 Mike Lopez 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 Sir Veza’s DJ Riviera Surly Wench Pub Jump Jive Thursday with DJ Ribz Unicorn Sports Lounge Y Not Entertainment V Fine Thai Foundation Thursdays: DJs spin music, art show, wine tasting Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz

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TRIVIA/PUB QUIZ Bumsted’s Geeks Who Drink The Canyon’s Crown Restaurant and Pub Geeks Who Drink Salty Dawg II Team trivia If you would like your band, club or solo act to be listed, send all pertinent times, dates, prices and places to: Club Listings, Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726. Fax listings to 792-2096. Or e-mail us at clubs@tucsonweekly.com.

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FRI AUG 3 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bamboo Club Live music The Bashful Bandit Live Music Bedroxx DJ Du and the Cooper Meza Band Bluefin Seafood Bistro George Howard and Mark Noethen Borderlands Brewing Company Catfish and Weezie Café Passé Tom Walbank Café Roka Nancy Weaver’s Jazz Quartet The Canyon’s Crown Restaurant and Pub Live music Cascade Lounge Doug Martin Chicago Bar The AmoSphere Club Congress North, Territory, Anakim La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar The Greg Morton Band, Of the Painted Choir Cow Palace Live music Dakota Cafe and Catering Co. John Ronstadt Delectables Restaurant and Catering Live music Dry River Company Scotty P Eclipse at College Place Live music Eddies Cocktails Dust Devils El Mezón del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Live music Flying V Bar and Grill Solo guitarist 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, Stefan George The Hideout Sol Down Hilton El Conquistador Resort George Howard and Larry Loud The Hut Delta Nove, The Railbirdz Irish Pub Johnnie and the Rumblers Las Cazuelitas Mariachis Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands

The Loop Taste of Chicago Mr. Boogie Woogie Maverick Flipside McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky, Patio: Still Cruisin’ Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Cafe Titan Valley Warheads Mr. An’s Teppan Steak and Sushi Los Cubanos Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Collin Shook Trio Old Father Inn Live music Oracle Inn Wild Ride Band O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Plush Lonna Kelley, Tierra del Fuego, The Weisstronauts, The Modeens Redline Sports Grill East2West Rialto Theatre Big K.R.I.T., Casey Veggies, Big Sant Ric’s Cafe/Restaurant Live music The Rock Finding Solace EP release, Secret Tunnel Storyline, Complex Houses, Finding Clarity Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon Andy Hersey Shot in the Dark Café Mark Bockel The Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar 80’s and Gentlemen Stadium Grill Live music Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Surly Wench Pub Black Cherry Burlesque Tanque Verde Swap Meet Live music Whiskey Tango Live music Wild Bill’s Steakhouse and Saloon Beau Renfro and Clear Country Woody’s Susan Artemis

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NINE QUESTIONS Dennis J. Fesenmyer Dennis J. Fesenmyer is the owner, art director and designer at Fezlab, a graphicdesign firm with clients including Walt Disney, 9 Queens, the Reid Park Zoo and the Girl Scouts. His upcoming projects include doing branding for the new Tap and Bottle, a redesign of Hotel Congress’ website, and a few top-secret gigs. He and his wife, Cindy, recently welcomed their 1-month-old son, Felix. When spare time is found, it’s spent fixing up his 1959 midcentury modern home and enjoying hoppy beverages.

Kristine Peashock, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

What was the first concert you attended?

My first parents-free, big-boy concert was Jane’s Addiction at Tucson Gardens, January 1989.

What are you listening to these days?

The Budos Band I-III; Baroness, Yellow and Green; Weedeater, Jason … the Dragon; Les Baxter, The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter; Harvey Milk, Harvey Milk; Burial, Untrue; Horacee Arnold, Tales of the Exonerated Flea; Earth, Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II. What was the first album you owned?

Kiss’ Love Gun on 8-track. I mistakenly thought it had “Calling Dr. Love” on it, which I was known to sing at the wee age of 6. I had a lot of teenage baby sitters in the ’70s.

What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone seem to love, but you just don’t get?

Yarling, indie folk and whatever Jason Mraz, Maroon 5 and John Mayer are.

What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live?

The Stooges, Aug. 17, 1970.

Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure?

Freestyle, most pop/R&B/hip-hop from the late ’80s, and every goth band in Mick Mercer’s book.

What song would you like to have played at your funeral?

“The Hearse Song.”

What band or artist changed your life, and how?

Kiss, a super-early gateway band for a kid who was into monsters, theatrics, sex, art and heavy music. Big, dumb and loud can always get my head bobbin’. Later on, punk rock picked up the reins of influence.

Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time?

The Velvet Underground and Nico.

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OOOOO, YUS, â&#x20AC;Ś MUSIC VIDEO? CLUB CONGRESS Friday, July 27 In the spirit of Muppet Month at the Loft Cinema, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve asked my good friends Statler and Waldorf to help write this review.

(A local electronic trio sets up and proceeds to play 45 minutes worth of lullaby-esque, melodic and sometimes pounding electro with R&Binfused vocals.)

Waldorf: So whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this â&#x20AC;Ś music video? And why do they call themselves a vague question?

Statler: Beats me. The only question I have is: How many times did they listen to Kid A in college?

W: Hahaha, enough to learn how to program a Moog!

S: They seem like three nice young gentlemen, and their light show was something else.

W: I wish it was something else; I almost had a seizure!

S: Harhahar! What about the witty banter between songs? That wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t half bad.

W: It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t half badâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was all bad! Hahaha!

(A seemingly nervous man from Phoenix sets up a keyboard and a laptop on a small table.)

S: Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next? Yus? W: Yus what, yus a minute or yus around the corner?

S: I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yus, like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, yus better get yus to playing live in front of an audience and not your bedroom!â&#x20AC;?

W: Hahaha! And why so quiet? Speak up; my pacemaker was louder!

S: Haha. With all these kids standing in front of their laptops, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make the big time by putting a microphone to your heart! Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a youngster just starting out; give him a few years, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be headlining that Pitchfork music festival.

W: He sounds like the Talking Heads playing in a train tunnel!

S: When is that train due? Harharhar!

(Up next is a young man who sets up a Mac Pro on a table. A screen is pulled down from behind; a black-and-white movie, which appears to be a student film, plays for the duration of the set.)

W: oOoOO! S: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the matter, did I step on your toe?

W: No, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his name! This is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Witch Houseâ&#x20AC;?!

S: Which house?

W: No, this is Top 40 music slowed down all spookylike. The kids call it Witch House.

S: I wish I had a broom to fly out of here!

Hahahaha! Wait, did his computer just crash?(It really did.)

W: I guess it did. Well, showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over folks!

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After a barrage of fireworks and crashing drums, Brian King introduces Japandroids’ second album, Celebration Rock: “Long lit up tonight and still drinking, don’t we have anything to live for?” Not so celebratory.

Since their 2009 debut album, Post-Nothing, Japandroids have played with the heart of Bruce Springsteen and the body of Hüsker Dü, creating some of the mostpotent indie/punk music in recent memory. They’ve positioned themselves in the role of the last of the rock ’n’ roll true believers—but things get blurry here.

At first, they reassure that, of course, they have something for which to live. But then they ally themselves with the dark, super-religious Los Angeles post-punk of the early 1980s (examples: the Dream Syndicate play on words of “The Nights of Wine and Roses,” and the Gun Club cover “For the Love of Ivy”), which is the antithesis of Japandroids’ all-for-one, onefor-all M.O. Which means that for all their Gun Clubinspired “evil” talk, Celebration Rock is a decidedly non-ironic title.

As for the songs, they’re pretty impressive, with a few gems littering the bunch: the aforementioned lead track “The Nights of Wine and Roses,” the anthemically romantic “Fire’s Highway” and the romantically anthemic “Continuous Thunder.”

All of this adds up to the beginning of a reconciliation between Japandroids’ noble, if naïve, roots, and a darker and more-complex worldview.

Not many acts are currently finding the common ground within the separated spiritual and physical histories of rock ’n’ roll, which represents a kind of release. Celebration Rock, indeed.

Joshua Levine

There’s plenty to fear about a things-are-not-as-they-seem future. But there’s also, in Metric’s fifth album, Synthetica, a guide to stripping away the layers of disorientation and disillusionment to find defiant authenticity at the core of life. Consider it the sort of thrilling dancerock record for those who can carve out their own resistance and find comfort—or even thrive—in some dystopian near-future.

Thematically, the album extends the ideas of Metric’s 2009 Fantasies (and follows closely alongside Radiohead’s OK Computer), but here, singer-songwriter Emily Haines is more concerned with the constructs of personal identity—and what remains hidden versus what’s presented.

“Artificial Nocturne” functions as the album’s introductory prologue. In the opening lines, Haines sings, “I’m just as fucked up as they say / I can’t fake the daytime / I found an entrance to escape into the dark.” The song lines up the questions that shape the rest of the album: perception versus reality, barriers versus escape, self-reliance versus the lure of an easy solution.

“I can think for myself / I’ve got something no pill could ever kill,” sings Haines on the pulsating title track, a breakneck, punky resistance anthem. “Hey, I’m not synthetica / I’ll keep the life that I’ve got.”

Synthetica is such a meticulously well-crafted and vivid album that it’s easy to imagine it playing out in cinema, as a sci-fi epic with Haines in the role of assertive, rebellious, adventurous heroine.

“The future is mine,” she sings on closer “Nothing but Time.” Yes, indeed—and the present, too.

Eric Swedlund

Those who call themselves Guided by Voices completists are either the most slavishly devoted or the most singularly myopic music fans in the world. To others, Guided by Voices’ prolific oeuvre is a testament to their remarkable imperfection. Now, after years of retirement, the reunited GBV “classic” lineup (19931996) has, in typical fashion, cranked out its second new album of ragged and exultant music in 2012.

However, Class Clown Spots a UFO does not feel like warmed-up leftovers. From the soaring peaks of opener “He Rises! Our Union Bellboy,” to the marching pop of “Class Clown Spots a UFO,” to the skuzzy blasts of closer “No Transmission,” this is the meatier, more-raucous reunion album.

It’s also more desultory.

The ringing strut of “Blue Babbleships Bay” grows tiresome; the aimless oddity of “Fighter Pilot” is maddening; the clangorous “Worm With Seven Broken Hearts” grates; the glam “Lost in Spaces” edits itself short of greatness.

Still, there are plenty of moments that remind listeners of the ample charms, joys and strengths of GBV. “Chain to the Moon” is infinitely sad and lovely at just one minute; “Keep It in Motion” brilliantly balances propulsive jangles and melancholy electronics; “Starfire” nicely weds the pastoral and the cosmic; “They and Them” is exhilaratingly unhinged; “Billy Wire” is a fun, chunky anthem; “Tyson’s High School” makes a strong case for the band’s dirty psychedelic side.

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Some people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want a pot paper trail leading to them, and pot-dealers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep records.

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First, it costs a lot of money to get a medicalmarijuana card. Evaluations cost at least $100, and the card itself costs another $150. Add to that the cost of meds, and some people are priced out of the market, especially when they weigh in the ease of getting meds without an MMJ card. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to pay a pot-dealer $150 before you can stop by for a hook-up. Plus, the cost of meds from a collective is generally higher than from said pot-dealer, and you might have to drive across town for it. Yes, there is an

had applicants, meaning that up to 10 dispensan a perfect world, we would all be ries could open in the Old Pueblo. That canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t freely exchanging marijuana for happen soon enough, in my eyes, but it might money like we trade our fine legal tender for bread or bananas or apples or Trek be a while.

First, the state will issue the registration cerMadone bicycles. But we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. tificates on Aug. 7. After that, potential operaThe Man here in the great state of Arizona tors will have about a year to get ready for has made sure of that, putting a crimp in our collective style and gumming up the medical- inspection. Inspectors will look under tables marijuana system with all kinds of regulations and inside filing cabinets and through nooks and rules and Do Thises and Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Do Thats. and crannies, and if the operators have played Those rules and regulations are grinding along their cards right, they will get approval to operate. ever so At least slowly in one Tucson Phoenix location this week, was built to where state the inspecofficials are tion stangearing up dardsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; to let a Green Halo handful of Caregiver dispensaCollective, ries swing near Prince open doors Road and to let the Interstate masses 10. A raid (OK, not July 10 left quite the GHCC in masses; shambles more on (see â&#x20AC;&#x153;Under that later) GRAND OPENING Arrest,â&#x20AC;? July pick and 19), but choose operator freely Ken Sobel among the is confident buds. the raid will not derail his dispensary plans.

The state got almost 490 applications for The numbers: Arizona edged closer to 30,000 MMJ dispensaries. Almost all of themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;about medical-marijuana patients by the end of June, 460â&#x20AC;&#x201D;were approved, and a lottery will determine which applicants get permission to open. when there were 29,495 patients statewide, according to the latest monthly report from the All 10 dispensary districts in or near Tucson

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The astrological omens suggest that you now have a lot in common with the legendary Most Interesting Man in the World— adventurous, unpredictable, interesting, lucky and one-of-a-kind. To create your horoscope, I have therefore borrowed a few selected details from his ad campaign’s descriptions of him. Here we go: In the coming weeks, you will be the life of parties you don’t even attend. Astronauts will be able to see your charisma from outer space. Up to one-third of your body weight will be gravitas. Your cell phone will always have good reception, even in a subway 100 feet underground. Panhandlers will give you money. You could challenge your reflection to a staring contest—and win. You’ll be able to keep one eye on the past while looking into the future. When you sneeze, God will say, “God bless you.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim said the dreams we have at night are “the result of inner pressures which have found no relief, of problems which beset a person to which he knows no solution and to which the dream finds none.” That sounds bleak, doesn’t it? If it’s true, why even bother to remember our dreams? Well, because we are often not consciously aware of the feelings they reveal to us. By portraying our buried psychic material in story form, dreams give us insight into what we’ve been missing. So even though they may not provide a solution, they educate us. Take heed, Taurus! Your upcoming dreams will provide useful information you can use to fix one of your longstanding dilemmas.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When French composer Georges Auric scored the soundtrack for Jean Cocteau’s movie Blood of a Poet, he produced “love music for love scenes, game music for game scenes, and funeral music for funeral scenes.”

But Cocteau himself had a different idea about how to use Auric’s work. For the love scenes, he decided to use the funeral music; for the game scenes, the love music; and for the funeral scenes, the game music. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Gemini, I recommend that you experiment with that style of mixing and matching. Have fun!

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Piglet was so excited at the idea of being useful that he forgot to be frightened any more,” wrote A.A. Milne in his kids’ story Winniethe-Pooh. That’s my prescription for how to evade the worrisome fantasies that are nipping at you, Cancerian. If no one has invited you to do an engaging and important labor of love, invite yourself. You need to be needed—even more than usual. P.S. Here’s what Rumi advises: “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ve been making pretty good progress in the School of Life. By my estimates, you’re now the equivalent of a sophomore. You’ve mastered enough lessons so that you can no longer be considered a freshman, and yet you’ve got a lot more to learn. Are you familiar with the etymology of the word “sophomore”? It comes from two Greek words meaning “wise” and “fool.” That’ll be a healthy way to think about yourself in the coming weeks. Be smart enough to know what you don’t know. Cultivate the voracious curiosity necessary to lead you to the next rich teachings.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A few years ago, a Malaysian man named Lim Boon Hwa arranged to have himself “cooked.”

For 30 minutes, he sat on a board covering a pan full of simmering dumplings and corn. The fact that no harm came to him was proof, he said, that Taoist devotees like him are protected by their religion’s deities. I advise you not to try a stunt like that, Virgo—including metaphorical versions. This is no time to stew in your own juices. Or boil in your tormented fantasies.

Or broil in your nagging doubts. Or be grilled in your self-accusations. You need to be free from the parts of your mind that try to cook you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): On a spring day in 1973, an engineer named Martin Cooper debuted the world’s first cell phone. He placed a call as he walked along a New York City street. The phone weighed 2 1/2 pounds and resembled a brick. Later, he joked that no one would be able to talk very long on his invention, since it took a lot of strength to hold it against one’s ear. Think of how far that amazing device has come since then, Libra. Now imagine some important aspect

of your own life that is in a rather primitive state at this moment, but could one day be as natural and fully developed as cell phones have become. Are you willing to work hard to make that happen? Now’s a good time to intensify your commitment.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming week, you will lose some clout and self-command if you’re too hungry for power. Likewise, if you act too brazenly intelligent, you may alienate potential helpers who are not as mentally wellendowed as you. One other warning, Scorpio: Don’t be so fiercely reasonable that you miss the emotional richness that’s available. In saying these things, I don’t mean to sound as if I’m advising you to dumb yourself down and downplay your strengths. Not at all. Rather, I’m trying to let you know that the best way to get what you really need is to tailor your selfexpression to the unique circumstances in which you find yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For a while, French writer Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was very poor. He lived in a place that had no heat and almost no

furniture. To enhance his environment, he resorted to the use of fantasy. On one of his bare walls, he wrote the words, “rosewood paneling with ornamental cabinet.”

On another, he wrote, “Gobelin tapestry with Venetian mirror.” Over the empty fireplace, he declared, “Picture by Raphael.”

That’s the level of imaginative power I encourage you to summon in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. So much of what you’ll need will come from that simple magic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s an excellent time to overthrow false gods, topple small-minded authorities and expose fraudulent claims. Anyone and anything in your environment that do not fully deserve the power they claim should get the brunt of your exuberant skepticism. When you’re done cleaning up those messes, turn your attention to your own inner realms. There might be some good work to be done there. Can you think of any hypocrisy that needs fixing?

Any excessive self-importance that could use some tamping down? Any pretending that would benefit from a counter dose of authenticity?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In old China, people used to cool themselves by sipping hot drinks. After taking a bath, they buffed the excess water from their skin by using a wet towel. When greeting a friend, they shook their own hand instead of the friend’s. To erect a new house, they built the roof first. You’re currently in a phase of your astrological cycle when this kind of behavior makes sense. In fact, I suspect you’re most likely to have a successful week if you’re ready to reverse your usual way of doing things on a regular basis.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m really tired of you not getting all of the appreciation, acknowledgment and rewards you deserve. Is there even a small possibility that you might be harboring some resistance to that good stuff? Could you be giving off a vibe that subtly influences people to withhold the full blessings they might otherwise confer upon you? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to work on correcting this problem.

Do everything you can to make it easy for people to offer you their love and gifts.

¡ASK A MEXICAN!

BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net can.net Dear Mexican: I’m a Mexican-American high school student, and just as patriotic as the Joneses who live next to me. In my neighborhood, a gabacho got mad when someone hung a Mexican flag, and ended up cutting it down.

I think this whole idea of putting one’s flag up and taking another’s down seems pretty pointless to me. In my neighborhood (which happens to be predominantly white), people complain about everything—seriously, every damn thing, from calling the police to move my dad’s 1989 beat-up Ford to spreading hate mail about who has the crappiest house.

I guess my main question is: Why do gabaMexicans. They don’t shoot very straight. But if chos complain so damn much?! they come at you with a knife, beware.” HA! He obviously didn’t remember Rafael Cancel No Soy Llorón Miranda while wiretapping MLK.) I would expand the quote you mention to Dear I’m Not a Crybaby: Are you kidding me? include reporters. Recently, gentle readers, the Gabachos were born complaining. From telling Mexican’s hometown of Anaheim has made it the Indians to give up their land to telling into the national media—not because of Mexico to give up their land to crying about Disneyland or the Anaheim Angels, but because illegal immigration and cars on the lawn, com- of police shootings that left two Latinos dead plaining is as crucial to the gabacho experience and caused four nights of protests, one of which as fiesta is to the Mexican one. included the ugly spectacle of Anaheim police I wouldn’t pay too much attention to all the shooting pepper balls and bean bags into a whining, though: While the squeaky rueda gets crowd of terrified children and parents. The the grease, the wheel eventually falls off—and media is suddenly obsessed over the “two” the greaser remains.

Anaheims—white and Latino, as if “they” just sprung out of nowhere.

I saw this quote the other day and thought it This is something that happens ALL THE might be right up your alley: “The only Anglos TIME with Mexicans. The media never give a that take an interest in us are the sociologists shit about us until we go crazy—amnesty rallies, and the police.” Do you know who uttered these protests against police, cerveza gone wild, and words? Maybe it was just an inside joke among the like. That’s why it’s crucial, Mexis, for us to the teens in East L.A. during the 1970s. Do you become our own media. Start your blogs; get on know the phrase in Spanish, too? I’m thinking it Twitter and Facebook; take photos and videos; could be more poetic in Spanish. and document what we’re really about (and always make sure to pick up the Tucson Weekly Princeton Pocho and click on the online version of the Mexican a trillion times so we stay in business). That’s what Dear Wab: The closest quote I could find that this columna has always been about—but the matches the one you offer comes from Mexican can’t do it alone.

Columbia University professor Rodolfo O. de la My apologies for the soapbox session, Garza, in his 1976 paper “Mexican Americans cabrones. Back to your regularly scheduled chiin the United States: The Evolution of a chis jokes next week! Now make like a Mexican, Relationship”: “Like sociologists and educators, and raise DESMADRE. police have traditionally viewed Mexican Americans as inferior and crime-prone. (The Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican. profe also includes this classic from J. Edgar net; be his fan on Facebook; follow him on Twitter Hoover: “You never have to bother about a @gustavoarellano; or ask him a video question at president being shot by Puerto Ricans or youtube.com/askamexicano!

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I have a question regarding pornography usage and browser histories. As a matter of courtesy to my wife (and anyone else who may use our devices), I always clear the browser history on whatever device (computer/iPad) I may have used to view pornography. I have always assumed that she doesn’t want to see “Teen Anal Adventures” or “Lifestyles of the Deep and Fisted” when she logs on to the browser history.

However, the other day, she noticed a blank browser history and berated me for “keeping secrets” from her regarding my masturbatory viewings. I thought I was following proper etiquette by erasing the browser history. Now I am not so sure. Your thoughts?

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But if your wife hates porn and smut-shames you for watching porn, WHACK, then keep clearing your browser history. She’s not angry that you’re keeping secrets. She’s angry that you’re watching porn, and she’s trying to create a loselose scenario for you. Watch porn, and don’t clear your browser history? Get in trouble for watching porn. Watch porn, and clear your browser history?

Get in trouble for watching porn. The only way you can avoid getting in trouble? Stop watching porn.

And we both know that ain’t gonna happen, right?

So keep clearing your browser history, WHACK, which is the courteous thing to do. And ignore the wife when she tries to make you feel guilty about watching porn, because that kind of inconsiderate, controlling, smut-shaming behavior shouldn’t be tolerated. (My response presumes that your porn consumption is moderate, WHACK, and that you’re not neglecting the wife’s needs for emotional and sexual intimacy in favor of alone time with your laptop. If your habits are immoderate, and/or you’re neglecting her, then your wife has every right to be furious—at you, WHACK, not porn.)

I’m gay, and so is my insanely attractive boyfriend.

We have been dating for a year now. His attractiveness isn’t a problem … until it is. You see, he enjoys getting compliments, and he gets them frequently from other gay guys. I love my boyfriend, and I am happy when he’s happy, but the frequency with which guys make passes at him has started to make me uncomfortable. I told him this, and he tells me he isn’t going to tell them to stop, because he doesn’t see what the problem is, and that it would seem standoffish to say anything negative about these passes. He tells me that it’s not like he’s making passes back, and most of the time, he insists I’m misinterpreting an innocent interaction. These guys are actively flirting with my boyfriend, and he takes it as a compliment! Am I being appropriately protective, or am I being a jealous douche?

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If your friends—yours and/or his—are making passes at your boyfriend, SAP, then you have a right to be angry. Good gay etiquette dictates that friends either refrain from making passes at insanely attractive guys who have boyfriends, or that they make passes at the insanely attractive guy and his boyfriend. If your friends are making the passes at your boyfriend only, or they’re making passes at him and/or you when they know your relationship is exclusive, then you and your boyfriend need to let your disrespectful and/or clueless friends know that they’re being huge assholes.

But there’s not much you can do about strangers making passes at your boyfriend, SAP, particularly if your boyfriend enjoys the attention—and it sure sounds like he does.

You’ve got a hot boyfriend, SAP, and that has its

perks. But it has drawbacks, too. Putting up with other people innocently hitting on your boyfriend—innocently, because they don’t know your boyfriend is partnered, SAP, and because your boyfriend isn’t exactly exuding a fuck off vibe—is the price you’ll have to pay to be with this insanely attractive guy. Willing yourself to take these passes and your boyfriend’s clear enjoyment of them in stride, SAP, is a wiser course than allowing something that’s outside of your control to become an ongoing source of conflict in your relationship.

I’m staying with friends of friends in their guest suite, and discovered a “funnel gag” sitting on the floor next to the bed. (I took a picture and did a Google Images search!) My best guess is that it fell there after its last “use,” as it was on the side of the bed nearest the wall, and it could have been overlooked during “cleanup.” Do I say something? What’s the “etiquette” in a situation like this? What do people use these things for?!?

Guest Asks Graciously People don’t use them to “water” stubborn plants, GAG. And the proper etiquette in a situation like this is to ignore the mislaid sex toy. Leave the gag where you found it, and say nothing about it to your hosts, your mutual friend, or any syndicated sex-advice columnists. Whether your hosts stumble over the gag after your visit, or realize it’s missing and slip into their guest suite to retrieve it during your visit, GAG, your discretion will allow your hosts to tell themselves that you didn’t discover it.

I’m a senior in college and a lesbian, and I have a question about strap-on etiquette. My previous girlfriend and I bought one together, and I really enjoyed being on the receiving end of it. When we broke up, she took it, since she felt like she had “bonded” with it. My current GF and I have been thinking of getting one, but I’m not sure how I feel about another joint purchase. I like her a lot, but I don’t know if our relationship will last after I graduate next spring, and the prospect of having to get a new toy every time I break up with someone isn’t appealing.

Would it be reasonable, as a generally receptive partner, to buy a strap-on that I can bond with and ask future partners to use it? Is it selfish to be thinking of the eventual end of a relationship when shopping for toys?

Seeking Toy-Related Advice Pronto A strap-on isn’t a funnel gag, STRAP. By which I mean to say …

Even if a strap-on is a joint purchase, and even if it was purchased for the pleasure of the person “on the receiving end,” it’s not uncommon for the wearer of a particular strap-on—the person on the giving end—to come to regard the strap-on as an extension of her body and bond with it. Such was the case with your ex. And even if your ex had allowed you to keep that strap-on, STRAP, odds are good that your new girlfriend would also have seen that old strap-on as an extension of your ex’s body and insisted on it being replaced.

My advice: Go halfsies on a new strap-on—on the harness and the dildo—and one or two other sex toys of comparable value and utility. If the relationship ends, your new ex-girlfriend keeps the strap-on, and you keep the funnel gag.

PROGRAMMING NOTE “Chick-fil-A” is an obvious synonym for “pegging.”

I mean, obviously, right? I shall now use Chickfil-A in a sentence: “Her boyfriend’s kinda homophobic, but I hear he loves Chick-fil-A.” Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage, and follow me @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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Urinal Technology (1) Two Brazilian firms collaborated to test a whimsical device that could perhaps lessen splashing on men’s room floors: a urinal containing a fretboard that makes musical sounds as liquid hits it (if the stream is strong enough).

According to a May report in the Brazilian edition of Billboard magazine, versions were set up in several São Paulo bars to see if men’s aims improved. (Flushing produces an online address from which a sound recording of the user’s “music” can be retrieved.) (2) In a project that has already gone live in 200 Michigan bars and restaurants, the state’s Office of Highway Safety Planning has installed “talking” urinal cakes featuring a female announcer urging inebriated patrons to call a taxi.

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• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly Morbidity and Mortality newsletter reported in June that, officially, 11 newborn Jewish males in New York City between the years 2000 and 2011 were diagnosed with herpes simplex virus that had been passed on by a circumcision technique in which the “mohel” (circumciser) contains bleeding by sucking blood directly from the wound.

• Prominent filmmakers Daniel Junge (an Academy Award winner) and Bryan Storkel have been raising money for their documentary Fight Church, featuring devout Christian mixed martial artists viciously pummeling each other—but only after the brawlers begin the match with a prayer and commitment to serve Jesus Christ. Among those featured is pastor Paul Burress of Rochester, N.Y., who says he “loves to fight” and sees no problem with MMA’s barbaric nature. “These (techniques of fighting savagely) are the gifts and the skills God has given me.”

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• The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling in June in which Marshall Hollins was sentenced to eight years in prison for taking cell-phone photographs of a 17-yearold girl with whom he was having sex. That sex was voluntary and, since Illinois’ age of consent is 16, legal. However, the court ruled that it is still illegal in Illinois to take sexual pictures of a child, and that particular law defines underage as younger than 18. (Hollins had claimed, unsuccessfully, that he surely ought to be able to take pictures of a legal event.)

Least Competent Criminals (1) On June 8, sheriff’s deputies near Tampa, Fla., charged Robert Suggs, 36, and David Hall, 28, with taking a front-end loader and a dump truck from a construction site and using them to steal an ATM from a Bank of America drivethru. The theft took place at 5 a.m., and deputies arrested the pair that afternoon when they were found near the bank, still trying to get the ATM open. (2) On the same day, in Albuquerque, N.M., Thomas Molina, 38, was arrested in the act of fleeing a burglary at Central New Mexico Community College. As he tried to climb out a window, his getaway was hampered by having gotten his foot caught in the blinds.

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