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OPINION Tom Danehy 4 Randy Serraglio 6 Y la Orkesta’s debut album is finally ready for fans.
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Jim Hightower 6 Mailbag 8
CURRENTS The Skinny 9 By Jim Nintzel
Broadway or Bust 9 By Tim Vanderpool
Suspicions abound regarding the widening of a main thoroughfare Media Watch 10 By John Schuster
Choice Politics 11 By Jim Nintzel
A Senate candidate’s comment on “legitimate rape” puts the abortion debate in the spotlight Police Dispatch 12 By Anna Mirocha
Closer to Home 13 By Brian J. Pedersen
Wondering how this box of ballots ended up in our office.
The northwest side gets a newer, nicer juvenilecorrections center Rock City 15 By Brian Smith
On the eve of the Tucson Area Music Awards, a jaundiced Tucson musician writes in from Detroit
Been Missing Tucson Various personal and work obligations kept me outside of Tucson almost as much as I was in Tucson through July and August. Therefore, I am very happy to be spending virtually the entire month of September in town. Here are a few things I’m looking forward to doing now that I will be home for a while (barring anything unforeseen): • Enjoying downtown. Thanks to a mix of old (Hotel Congress, the Rialto Theatre) and new (Playground, Scott and Co., etc.), downtown has become my favorite part of town. (This was not always the case, folks.) I know for sure I’ll be spending some major time there in September— including the night of the TAMMIES show, at the Rialto on Sept. 5. • Enjoying good Mexican food. It’s a cliché to fawn over Tucson’s Mexican food, I know, but I am fawning anyway. I’ll be eating plenty of carne seca cheese crisps from El Charro Café, chile verde from Taco Giro, and Sonoran hot dogs from the van/cart in the Food City parking lot at 22nd Street and Country Club Road. • Enjoying Reid Park. The weather is (maybe … hopefully) starting to cool down, and I plan on spending plenty of time walking and jogging through the beautiful urban oasis that is Reid Park. After all, I need to work off the calories from those cheese crisps, chile verde plates and Sonoran dogs. • Enjoying working with the folks at Weekly World Central. I will be spending plenty of time with my coworkers—including the awesome new interns who have started over the last two weeks. It’s a busy time of year— and I am excited about it. Ah, Tucson. It’s good to be home. JIMMY BOEGLE, Editor jboegle@tucsonweekly.com COVER DESIGN BY ANDREW ARTHUR; PHOTO BY CYBELLE CODISH
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City Week 20 Our picks for the week
Identity Crisis 43
TQ&A 22 Marjie Hrabe, Pima County Interfaith Council
Bella D’Auria can’t figure out whether it’s a fine-dining restaurant, a sports bar or a nightclub
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Battle Between Writers 32
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Great performances save LTW’s Collected Stories from its chatty script
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By Adam Borowitz
Mambo Time! 51 By Eric Swedlund
At long last, Y la Orkesta’s debut album is finally here Soundbites 51 By Stephen Seigel
Tucson’s Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures celebrates its third birthday
Club Listings 54
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Meg Files’ domestic-violence novel examines the push and pull of a bad marriage
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As a horror film, this haunted-house story fails in every major way Film Times 39 Bike Bungle 40 By Bob Grimm
Despite fun performances by two fine actors, Premium Rush is totally pointless Now Showing at Home 41
Timid Adventurers 63 By J.M. Smith
Yet again, county and state officials are using fear-mongering to block dispensaries
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DANEHY OPINION
Tom has some thoughts on KNST, the ‘Star’ and the term ‘undocumented citizens’
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ith the new year upon us, there are a few media items I feel I must get past so that I can celebrate. Like many guys, I mark the start of the new year on the first weekend of college football. After that, it doesn’t matter if it’s still 100 degrees or if the monsoon humidity makes us all look like oarsmen in Ben-Hur. It’s football season! And after that, it’s basketball season! My 9 1/2-month year goes until the end of the NBA playoffs, and then I slip into a timeless limbo, like General Zod and those two other knuckleheads (Ursa and Non). Anyway, with apologies to John Schuster, who does a bang-up job on Media Watch elsewhere in this publication, I have some media complaints.
• On KOLD Channel 13 the other night, Sonu Wasu was doing a piece on young people who were brought to this country illegally by their parents, and who are now applying to stay in the United States thanks to a change in immigration-policy focus by the Obama administration. She, like many journalists, uses the shorthand term DREAMers to refer to this diverse group, which is wrong in more ways than one. First off, the DREAM Act has not been passed and probably won’t be anytime soon. (Then there is the insane idea that going to college is the equivalent of serving one’s adopted country in the military.) Plus, there are probably a whole lot of people in that group who don’t want to go to college or go into the military. The use of the term DREAMers is understandable, if not entirely accurate. But as the report continued, Wasu referred to the people in her report as “undocumented citizens.” When she said it the first time, I did a double-take and thought maybe I had heard it wrong. But then she said it again. What the hell is an “undocumented citizen?!” Is that like a skinny fat guy? Look, I’m 100 percent in favor of what the Obama administration is doing in this case. These people were brought here as children, and for many, it is the only country they’ve ever known. However, the fact remains that the reason the administration had to make this move is because, under the current law of the land, these people are not citizens of the United States. (For future reference, a citizen is defined as “a legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized.”) I understand the significance of semantics in public discourse. I remember when we were having the national abortion debate (the first time). People in favor of abortion
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rights didn’t want to refer to themselves as “pro-abortion,” because “abortion” is such a charged term, so they came up with pro-choice. And the anti-abortion people didn’t want to be anti- something, so they came up with pro-life. There was a debate on TV, and the person who was on the pro-abortion side was obviously so concerned about using the term that she referred to people on the other side as “anti-pro-choice.” That’s the verbal equivalent of running around one’s backhand in tennis, leaving the entire court open to an easy return volley. If Wasu’s ridiculous use of “undocumented citizen” has somebody like me wanting to tear out the few remaining hairs from my head, what must it do to people on the other side of the political divide? These people already believe that there is a liberal media bias. There is no need to pour gasoline on that fire. • Did the people at the Arizona Daily Star do a focus group and come to the conclusion that its readers suddenly got dumber? Or are they under the thrall of a mad graphic designer? Those few hundred of us who still get the print version of the Star have probably noticed that the paper’s editors have, quite annoyingly, begun to boldface the names of people in the articles, as though we are unable to grasp the notion that these are people about whom the articles are being written. It looks stupid; make it stop. I’m not one of those who gloat over the fate of the Star. I’ve been reading it for decades. Call me crazy, but I think that a vibrant daily newspaper is vital to a strong democracy. I realize that the Star, like many papers around the country, has been pummeled by the forces of changing technology. Plus, the paper’s parent company has administered a whole bunch of self-inflicted wounds. But I don’t want it to go away. Neither do I want it to continue to try to chase me away. Along with the aforementioned (boldface) fourth-grade-level approach to its readers, there are the full-page ads that stick out beyond the normal width of the paper. Guess who doesn’t look at those? I understand that advertising is essential to a newspaper’s success. Just don’t beat me over the head with it. • Does it surprise anybody that KNST AM 790/FM 97.1, the radio station with the eminently unlikable lineup of Garret Lewis, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, is adding the Dallas Cowboys to its lineup? What makes it really bad is that the Cowboys are so lousy that you can’t even hate them anymore. They just suck; it’s like picking on the handicapped.
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SERRAGLIO OPINION
Leagues like the Tucson Roller Derby give women confidence, self-esteem and countless other benefits HIGHTOWER
BY RANDY SERRAGLIO, rserraglio@tucsonweekly.com
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WHERE’S THE ETHICAL BALANCE REGARDING THE SCALES OF JUSTICE?
ou may have noticed that nearly two-thirds of the gold medals won by the 2012 U.S. Olympic team were earned by women. You also may have noticed the inspiring camaraderie and cohesion they displayed in overcoming adversity, especially in the epic triumphs of the soccer and gymnastic teams. But you probably didn’t notice, just a few weeks before, the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the federal provision that mandated gender equality in school athletics and made the vast majority of those medals possible—promoting character, confidence and many other intangibles that go way beyond championship hardware.
Is it really “fair and balanced”? I don’t mean the ridiculous Fox News TV channel, whose right-wing ranters mock their own PR slogan—but, rather, a network that actually matters in our society: America’s legal system. To check the balance of the scales of justice, look at how the system treats the very Incredibly, by the time you read this—barring a meteorich … and the poor. As we’ve seen, Wall rological act of God—the Republican Party convention will Street barons have grossly fattened themhave settled on a platform that seeks to decimate Title IX selves by running frauds and scams that funding and turn back the gender clock about, oh, 40 years. wreaked trillions of dollars in damages on Sadly, the revolution is not yet won. (Far from it, judgworking families, homeowners and taxpaying from the vast array of medieval white men running for ers—yet not a single one of them has been office.) But fear not! From the shadows of gender represindicted or even seriously pursued by the sion, into the bright lights of social subversion, emerges a law. More recently, corporate profiteers such superhero for the modern era: Rollergirl! as GlaxoSmithKline have paid billions of Right here in the Baked Apple, fighting under the bandollars in fines for serious criminal acts, but ners of Tucson Roller Derby and the Women’s Flat Track the executive criminals who pulled these Derby Association, hundreds of players and supporters capers have skated free without ever being have organized to get exactly what Title IX promised: an charged. opportunity to compete athletically, to grow personally and Now, meet Gina Ray, who is neither a to form nurturing bonds that may have been impossible to CEO nor a serious offender, but a hard-hit, forge in any other way. low-income American. She’s one of hun“For almost all of us, it wasn’t just that ‘roller derby looked dreds who are being jailed, not by the fun, and I wanted to play sports,’” says BAM Bina, a promipolice, but by a growing network of corponent organizer of the local league. “It’s almost always somerate fee-chasers empowered by state legisthing more. For me, I was going through a breakup, and I latures to fine and imprison poor people had just lost my sister. Roller derby gives us kind of a family.” who’ve committed minor infractions. Ms. Ray, an unemployed 31-year-old in rural Alabama, got THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow caught up in this privatized probation system over a speeding ticket. Her problem mushroomed, and she was unable to pay, so the corporatized legal system locked her up and hit her with company fees for each of the 40 days she was behind bars. Her original $179 ticket has now surpassed $3,000. She was not told that she has a right to a courtappointed lawyer, nor was she offered any alternatives to more fines and jail. “We hear a lot of, ‘I can’t pay the fee,’” says one of the private prosecutors, adding chillingly, “It is not our job to figure that out.” For more information, contact the Southern Center for Human Rights at www.schr.org.
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It’s a consistent theme throughout the more than 1,000 flat-track derby leagues that have sprung up around the world in the past 10 years, as evidenced in the film Derby, Baby!, which screened recently at the Loft Cinema. Tens of thousands of women now participate in something they created and control: Modern roller derby is owned, organized, funded and governed by the women who play it. That’s exactly the sort of empowerment that Title IX engenders. During Derby, Baby!, as the narrator ran through a long list of benefits that women derive from athletic participation—greater self-esteem, stronger relationships, higher earning potential, reduced incidence of depression and mental illness, myriad physical benefits, and on and on—I glanced sideways and discovered that my partner was in tears. Afterward, she explained flatly, “I don’t think I ever would have made it through high school without sports. I probably would have killed myself.” Some rollergirls played sports in school, but many had never been on a team of any kind until derby. Some must learn to skate (and fall) (and get up) before learning the game. But whatever their athletic ability, in the process of becoming derby veterans, they gain experience in marketing, management, communications, fundraising, design and engineering—all of the things that are wrapped up in holding a league together and producing the events. And what an event! Let’s see, what do I like most about roller derby? The cheap beer? The motor-mouthed announcers? The big, ballsy music? The crazy derby names, sassy uniforms and cool gear? Yeah, those are all good, but … I gotta be honest with you: It’s the thrill of watching strong, determined women skate fast around a small track while they attempt to outmuscle and outpace each other in a strategic and intricate ballet of bruises. This ain’t the contrived, banked-track spectacle that I remember watching on UHF TV when I was a kid in the 1970s, which was kind of a female version of professional wrestling. These women play hard, and there’s a reason the games are called “bouts”—skate to hit; hit to win. Supporting roller derby can be as easy as getting your car washed on a monsoon Saturday by people named Carrie Gunns, Mystery Meat and Dewey Decimatrix. The women of roller derby work hard on their game, like any other athletes, but also work to support their teams, league and each other. As BAM Bina put it, “It really is a labor of love.” Homemade munchies! PBR! Frayed fishnet! Maybe someday, roller derby will be an Olympic sport. In the meantime, the Copper Queens, the Vice Squad and the venerable Furious Truckstop Waitresses are ready to lace up their quad skates, strap on their pads and buckle their helmets. Check out tucsonrollerderby.com, and get your ass down to the Wreckhouse, 1145 E. Valencia Road, for the season opener on Friday, Sept. 28, to support the roller revolution.
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Tom Danehy Needs to Study Up More on Adobe Since Mr. Danehy, by his own admission, knows nothing about building with adobe, he should make sure to consult more than one source before spouting half-baked wisdom (Danehy, Aug. 16). Coming from a family of adobe-builders—not the warm, fuzzy liberals you deride, but plain ol’ working stiffs—I’d like to add a bit of information on this millennial craft. Multi-story adobes are remarkably resilient and quite common throughout the world. Right here in our backyard, look at the various ruins of past civilizations, still standing after hundreds of years—a bit eroded without roofs, but still there. In the Middle East, there are entire cities with multiple-story buildings. As for the need to shore them up with immensely thickened walls, such as in Mali, this is done for defense purposes as much as stability; the more-common technique, seen here in the Southwest, is to build buttresses along the sides, similar to those in the medieval cathedrals of Europe. These adobes are reinforced with natural materials such as straw or nopal juice, which was used in the renovation of San Xavier, in keeping with the historical construction. Modern adobes are reinforced with various far-more-durable substances, in conformity with the stringent building codes. One such material is cement, which in a proportion of only 5 percent makes the bricks as resilient as baked ones, without the need for firing. As such, they can be used just like other blocks, and will not deteriorate under water. Water damage is what is wrong with the Marist Building, something which could have been avoided with a minimum of roof repair and foresight. “The business side of the church actually knows what it’s doing” is incorrect, since it failed to address a simple problem at its inception, because the building was empty and did not yield revenue. We have destroyed much of the Old Pueblo in the name of progress. Can we not do the right thing this time? Maria Cadaxa
Claim: Tucson Forward Wants to Get Rid of Davis-Monthan Tucson Forward is dedicated to one purpose: to end the presence of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson (Guest Commentary, Aug. 16). To this purpose, Robin Gomez cites a list of problems including noise and safety (accidents in San Diego, Virginia and the Osprey in Marana). He also suggests that somehow, minority low-income residents are especially affected by the noise from the base. Gomez also makes the point that the economic analysis of the report (on the impacts of possibly expanding Operation Snowbird) 8 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
ignores Tucson’s tourism impact, but Gomez does not seem concerned about the huge economic impact of D-M over the past 60 years. I have lived in Colonia Solana for 26 years and can respond to the noise issue. Yes, there are times when we hear noise from the base. It has actually been reduced in recent years due to changes made in the landing and takeoff procedures. For the record, I served in a bomb wing with the Strategic Air Command, and joined the 162nd Fighter Wing, Arizona Air National Guard, when I moved to Tucson. I would hope that as Americans, we could accept some inconvenience in our lives, knowing that by doing so, we contribute to the security of our nation. Stanley P. Abrams
Claim: Obama Is on the Payroll of … Mexican Drug Cartels?! I’m writing about J.M. Smith’s “Keep the Faith” (Medical MJ, Aug. 23). Unfortunately, I am not nearly as optimistic as Mr. Smith. The Mexican drug-cartels don’t want any legal marijuana sold in Arizona or anywhere in the United States. So will they go after the medical-marijuana dispensaries? Not directly. Instead, they’ll have politicians on their payroll to do it for them. Unfortunately, I voted for and campaigned for one of those politicians who now resides in the White House. Kirk Muse
Comments From Readers at TucsonWeekly.com Regarding “We Call B.S.,” Aug. 23: Thank you, Jim Nintzel, for the clearest analysis of county taxes I’ve ever read. I just checked and see that my actual county taxes here in Santa Cruz declined. The slight increase arose from bond issues, including a splendid new fire station located less than a block from my home—which I’ve already used when I went there not long ago to ask for help installing a child’s car seat in my car. Three friendly firemen—all fathers, obviously—installed the seat in less than 10 minutes. This would have cost me at least $20 if I’d gone to a car dealer. —riorican What’s funny is we complain about how the county is run, poor roads and the poor business climate, but here, the Weekly bashes four candidates. While this county and city burn, its leaders fiddle, just as Nero when Rome burned. If we do not stop the status quo in Pima and Tucson, the region will be a Detroitstyle wasteland. Look at incumbents and say we gave them a chance (sometimes 16 years); now, let’s give someone else a chance. … Pima and Tucson are broken. It’s time for some new leaders—leaders who don’t whine. Leaders who find solutions. Politicians should not be in office for nearly two decades. —Stand up Citizen
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Suspicions abound regarding the widening of a main thoroughfare
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Broadway or Bust ay back in the 1940s, when limitless growth was still gospel, local big wheels first floated the notion of seriously widening Broadway Boulevard. That yearning was finally put to paper in 1987, when a study concluded that the street should be plumped to a span of 150 feet, from Euclid Avenue to Camino Seco. In 2006, scaled-down ambitions to make Broadway eight lanes between Euclid Avenue and Country Club Road were approved by voters as part of a sweeping, 20-year regional-transportation scheme. But the vast nature of that plan left out much of the fine print. It includes the fact that current Broadway-widening strategies are based on 25-year-old traffic projections that some consider flawed. Or that such construction will lead to the demolition of more than 100 homes, businesses and historic properties. Then there’s the price tag: Budgets for the project top $71 million, with $42 million of that coming from the Regional Transportation Authority; $25 million from Pima County transportation bonds; $1.2 million from the Pima Association of Governments; and $3 million from the city of Tucson. Opposition to this costly juggernaut gained traction in April when Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik—whose Ward 6 encompasses the planned project—demanded that it be scaled back, and the costs limited to the RTA’s $42 million share. He and others point out that simply acquiring right-of-way properties is estimated to cost more than $43 million. The RTA, however, seems none too pleased with the idea of substantially tweaking the planned expansion, and has been coyly threatening that it could withhold its money should the Broadway revision venture too far astray. Nor do RTA chieftains hide their disdain for a citizens’ task force, convened by the city last spring to rehash Broadway’s pending transformation. “We have to recognize that each jurisdiction has its own way of approaching projects,” says RTA transportation services director Jim DeGrood. “That’s even in our administrative code—we support that the jurisdiction needs to go through public participation and citizen involvement to develop their project, to make decisions along the way. And this is the city’s expression of it.” But expression or not, “I think we need to see what those changes are,” he says. “I think they need to be fully vetted.” That last point could be taken any number of ways. Here’s how DeGrood explains it: “Look, the city of Tucson requested that we include
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Broadway Boulevard in the (2006) RTA plan,” he says. “The citizens who were involved in the formation of the plan supported it, and that’s what was presented to the voters. “If we want to go in a student-body left—in a completely different direction from 20 years of city direction, policy and land acquisition— that’s certainly something the city can ask us to look at doing. From our standpoint, we have to go back and reconcile that against what we presented to the voters. “Does that mean that every element, as it was exactly expressed in the very short (bond-election) description … has to be adhered to? No, I don’t think it says that. But I think the spirit of it has to be met.” Within that tense box, the citizens’ task force has begun mulling its own preferences. But given the RTA’s clenched fist, and the city’s inclination to avoid a prolonged, regional brawl, some folks fret that the task force is merely a charade. Those suspicious gained purchase at a June 20 public “listening session.” Following the public meeting, a few participants complained that their written comments were massaged, bringing them more in line with the current plan. The consulting firm that collated those comments—Kaneen Advertising and Public Relations—vehemently denied the charges and provided the Tucson Weekly with examples of scrupulously reproduced points of discussion. These allegations reveal a process already fraught with suspicion. That isn’t helped, say critics, by the garden-party style of the meetings, where participants are parceled into small groups, with comments channeled along a series of well-polished themes. Laura Tabili is a member of the Broadway Coalition, which opposes widening the road into an eight-lane behemoth. She recalls some “misinterpretations” from that June meeting. “And part of that was because of the format, in which people were not permitted to say what they had to say.” She describes a number of “facilitators” who compiled folks’ comments on big, easel-mounted tablets. “It’s like playing telephone,” Tabili says, “because right there, there’s a slippage between the meaning the person intended and what someone scrawls down on a piece of paper with a marker.” According to Tabili, there is some concrete benefit to these meetings—namely for the small army of consultants hired to run them. “One of our group called it ‘consultant welfare,’” she says. According to Jennifer Toothaker Burdick, manager of the Broadway Boulevard Project, the city will pay around $330,000 to at least a half-
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The historic First Assembly of God Church is among the buildings threatened by the Broadway Boulevard project. Laura Tabili is in the foreground. dozen consultants in the first eight months of this process. Among them is Nanci Beizer, hired to run the citizens’ task-force meetings. Several attempts to contact Beizer by press time were unsuccessful. But Tabili describes Beizer’s steerage of a July task-force meeting in particular as “extremely heavy-handed,” particularly when Beizer “bamboozled” the group—as Tabili puts it—into designating the facilitator as the de facto task-force chairwoman. That designation also collided with the city’s own law regarding citizens’ task forces: “The task force shall elect from its membership a chairperson and vice chairperson,” reads the law, “who shall serve for terms of one year and may both be reelected to those positions.” Seems pretty straightforward. Yet Toothaker Burdick says the City Clerk’s Office gave her the green light to let Beizer take charge. But assistant city clerk Suzanne Mesich says she doesn’t know where Toothaker Burdick got that interpretation, “since the law clearly states that the task force is to have a chairperson and a vice chairperson.” After a call from the Tucson Weekly, assistant city attorney Dennis McLaughlin says he informed Toothaker Burdick’s department “that they need to advise the (task force) that they need to have a chair and a vice chair. They may be able to have a facilitator as well as a chairman. But the ordinance says what it says, and they need to follow the ordinance.” All of which does not bode well for a credible outcome to these Broadway-corridor meetings. And that’s tragic, since only a transparent, honest process will prove that the city isn’t just scheming to bulldoze its own citizenry—not to mention their homes and businesses.
One of the kinks of the deadlines for campaign-finance reports is that the pre-primary reports are due just days before the primary election—so there’s not much of an opportunity to let voters know much about who’s financing the candidates before the final votes are cast. We don’t have enough space here to go into everything that we’ve stumbled across in the reports that were filed last week; we’ll be dropping some tidbits this week on The Range, our daily dispatch, at daily.tucsonweekly.com. But we do want to talk about an odd turn of events in the race to replace the retiring Ann Day on the Pima County Board of Supervisors. By the time you’re reading this, we’ll probably know who won the Republican primary in that race— and so this particular item might be moot. But we think it’s worth noting that two Republican candidates, Mike Hellon and Stuart McDaniel, have filed separate complaints with the Pima County Elections Department. They both want an investigation into an independent campaign that’s boosting one of the other candidates, Ally Miller. Reports filed with the Pima County Elections Department show that developer Mitch Stallard, who wrestled with the county over the development of the upscale La Encantada shopping center at Campbell Avenue and Skyline Drive, dropped at least $10,000 on TV and newspaper ads boosting Miller’s candidacy. That’s fine. But here’s the gripe from Hellon and McDaniel: They point out that Stallard’s independent campaign is being handled by TagLine Media, which was also handling Miller’s campaign earlier this year. TagLine has been in the center of the county races. The consulting firm’s GOP clients this year have included Miller, Sean Collins (who challenged Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll in the GOP primary), Tanner Bell (who is challenging Supervisor Sharon Bronson) and Fernando Gonzales (who is challenging Supervisor Richard Elías). TagLine is also working with Arizonans for a Brighter Future, the nonprofit business league dedicated to tossing out the incumbents on the Board of Supervisors. Hellon says that TagLine can’t work for both Miller and the independent campaign, because the law prohibits coordination between independent campaigns and candidates. “TagLine Media is running both Ally Miller’s campaign and Stallard’s independent campaign out of the same offices and using some of the same materials,” Hellon says. “It’s apparently a blatant violation of campaignfinance laws requiring independent expenditure to not be coordinated with the campaign. If they’re producing the material for the campaign and for the independent committee, that, by definition, is coordination.”
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CREDENTIALED OR NOT CREDENTIALED BY UA ATHLETICS? The Rich Rodriguez era gets under way at Arizona Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 1, and that means a bunch of media types will be in the press box, on the sidelines and later in a cordoned-off portion near the locker room for the UA football team’s seasonopener against Toledo. With slight variations, it’s been this way more or less since the dawn of sports coverage. In Tucson, a slew of Arizona Daily Star reporters, including beat-writer Ryan Finley and columnist Greg Hansen, will be joined by TV folks with cameras in tow, the everdwindling radio people, and a new presence: the website reporter. In Tucson, and in a number of locations with a high-profile sports program, website coverage has exploded. Whether it’s Anthony Gimino, who has two decades of experience covering Wildcat athletics with the Star and the Tucson Citizen newspaper, and now with tucsoncitizen.com, or it’s a relative newcomer working for a site connected to a larger network, there’s no shortage of information pertaining to Arizona sports. But online, what do sports fans read? To note his 1,500th story for tucsoncitizen. com, Gimino recently wrote a column about what generated the most traffic. Of the Top 10 entries, six stories dealt with the football recruiting saga of a high school student, and Arizona’s decision to wear blue helmets for a bowl game—or the use of copper-colored helmets in future encounters. You don’t exactly need a press pass to write about that. And because the athletic department’s sports-information wing now puts press-conference and postgame material online at arizonawildcats.com, a lot of the benefits of the press credential seem questionable. You could argue that television stations want their own footage to fill space during nightly newscasts, but the quotes that get on the air will be the same ones used by every other reporter on hand. For websites, the new players in this reporting equation, the press credential seems to be something of a status symbol, and therefore a benefit of sorts, even if the audience doesn’t care about such distinctions. “Having (credentials) at least gives you some credibility. In my position at tucsoncitizen.com, being online-only, we’re partly a slave to page views,” said Gimino, who is paid by Gannett, which operates tucsoncitizen.com. However, the site also features at least a half-dozen contributors—some with respected media careers, some without traditional journalism training, and many without any credentials—who cover the UA. “We have to quantify exactly how many views we’re getting, where they’re coming from, who’s linking to you,” Gimino said. “Journalistically, you have to balance that with, ‘Do I really sit at home all day and write about uniforms and recruiting news, which you could do and have a very fine page-view total at the end of the day? Or do I go out, go to practices, and talk to coaches and players? Am I going to games, writing some of the atmosphere, some of the stuff
you don’t see on TV?’ It’s that stuff that probably gives you the credibility to play around and do the kind of nonjournalistic stuff that gets you well-read. If you didn’t do one, you may not get the other. Finding that balance of original content versus curated content versus aggregated content versus putting your spin on a news release, whether you’re the newspapers or online or have your own blog—it’s what we’re all trying to solve.” The websites dedicated to UA athletics that receive media credentials tend to be connected to larger networks. That list includes goazcats.com, which belongs to the rivals.com network. (Goazcats.com editor Tracy McDannald did not respond to efforts to get his comments for this story.) Wildcatsportsreport.com is affiliated with the 247 Sports network and operated by Brad Allis, who, in addition to having nearly two decades of sports-reporting experience, is entering his ninth season alongside me for pregame and postgame broadcasts on Wildcat radio flagship station KCUB AM 1290. There’s also wildcatauthority.com, which operates under the scout.com banner. Game stories and press-conference material generally don’t drive the hit-count train for these sites, which charge subscribers for content. The engine that does is recruiting news, and that’s a touchy area for universities concerned about the potential for NCAA sanctions. Arizona was stung by goazcats.com when it was operated by Jim Storey, whose participation in a Tucson high school basketball tournament led to the revocation of scholarships and other penalties for the men’s basketball program. Due to Storey, goazcats.com had its credentials revoked again last spring, but the site gave the university paperwork showing that Storey no longer had official involvement with the site, and the credentials were reinstated. That scenario is an indication of how network-affiliated websites view the importance of a credential. “The press credential legitimizes what we’re doing,” said Jason Scheer of wildcatauthority. com. “If the UA allows you to have a press credential, then they’re recognizing you as a legit media outlet that benefits the university. If I was forced to, I could function without credentials. But with credentials, it kind of brings everything together and makes life overall easier than it would be without it.” Not all UA sports websites take that view. Pointguardu.com, which covers UA men’s basketball and basketball recruiting—it went so far as to travel to the Bahamas to report on the team’s exhibition games this summer—prefers functioning without credentials. “Here’s the UA press credential. You get it; you have access to Sean Miller’s press conference. (But) it was streamed online. Why do I need to be there?” asked pointguardu. com owner Ace Thakore. “The next thing is a press conference with the players and Sean after the game. Once again, streamed online. … The UA offers very limited access to the players, anyway. They give one-on-one access to the big guys like The Sporting News and other national reporters every once in a while, but I don’t see the little sites with individual interviews with these guys, so you’re big-time limiting the access to these players. “… Press conference information is, ‘This is what we want to tell you; this is what we’re telling you; this is what you’re going to report, because this is what we’re going to say.’ I can go read 1984.”
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McDaniel echoes the same complaint. “There’s not a wall of separation there,” McDaniel says. “TagLine produced all of Ally’s material and took all of her photographs.” But TagLine’s Deb Weisel says the candidates are barking up the wrong tree. Weisel says she cut off the candidates in early July in order to work with the various independent campaign committees. “I’m not working for any of (the candidates),” Weisel says. “I sent them all letters. Actually, Ally had quit long before the other ones, because she knew that I was probably going to start working for an independent, so she just did her own thing.” Miller’s most-recent campaignfinance report, covering activity between June 1 and Aug. 17, shows no expenditures to TagLine. Even while she was working for Team Miller, Weisel says she did very little for the candidate, who wrote most of her own material. “Really, it was just design work,” Weisel says. “She’s a pretty confident person.” Weisel believes the complaint will not result in any penalties. “We’re following the law,” Weisel says. “There was a lawyer involved and everything—a campaign lawyer, and he said, ‘Just make sure you send them a letter, and there shouldn’t be any problem at all.’ I’m really just a vendor, but we covered our tracks, and we really have nothing to worry about.” Deputy County Attorney Daniel Jurkowitz forwarded the complaints to Amy Chan, the state election director in the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office. In his letter to Chan, Jurkowitz wrote that “only your office has jurisdiction to conduct an investigation and reach a reasonable cause determination regarding the allegations.” Miller, who has said she plans to blackball the Weekly over reporting about her allegations on the campaign trail, did not return a phone call.
BY JIM NINTZEL, jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com issouri GOP U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape” have thrust the topic of abortion into the center of the nation’s political debate. Even while Republican candidates were trying to distance themselves from Akin’s comments, the controversy continued, because Republican Party officials last week ratified a plank in the GOP’s national platform that calls for a ban on abortion without exceptions for rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, who was the odds-on favorite to win this week’s Arizona GOP primary for a Senate seat, said that while he believes abortion should be illegal in nearly all cases, he supports exemptions. “I have always, throughout my career, said that there should be exceptions for rape, for incest and for life of the mother,” Flake said after a speech last week at the Pima County Republican Club. “I’ve received a lot of criticism from groups on the right because my position wasn’t as they wanted it to be, but that’s been my position, and I’m sticking with it.” But the Arizona Democratic Party has been reminding voters that Flake was one of 227 cosponsors of the bill that Akin was discussing when he got into trouble last week. That bill, H.R. 3, was designed to narrow the circumstances under which federal dollars could be used to pay for an abortion. Among other changes in federal law, it would have redefined “rape” to “forcible rape” in an exemption to the Hyde amendment, which blocks the use of federal funding to terminate a pregnancy. But that provision to H.R. 3 was stripped from the bill after pro-choice advocates warned it could mean that victims of statutory rape, date rape or other nonconsensual situations would fall outside of the Hyde amendment exemption. Flake said last week that he makes “no distinctions” between different forms of rape. “Forcible rape seems redundant to me,” Flake said. He pointed out that the language regarding “forcible rape” was stripped from the bill before it passed in the House of Representatives on May 4, 2011. H.R. 3, which failed in the Senate, had a number of other provisions that concerned supporters of abortion rights, including new restrictions on tax deductions for insurance policies that covered abortion care, and a prohibition on paying for abortion with money that women save in private health-savings accounts. Democrat Richard Carmona, who will face Flake in November, condemned Akin’s statements that women don’t get pregnant from “legitimate rape,” calling it a “stunning display of ignorance”
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and pointing out that statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 32,000 pregnancies a year are a result of rape. “This issue of forcible rape or legitimate rape—these are outrageous statements,” Carmona said. “Rape is rape. It’s a violation of the highest order.” Carmona said he opposed the provisions of H.R. 3. “I’ll speak to you with my hat on as (former) surgeon general of the United States,” Carmona said. “Any legislation that impedes access to care for any population—in this case, women—is going to result in poorer health outcomes and a greater cost to society. … If you deny funding, then you’re denying funding to the poorest members of our society, so you’re disadvantaging a population that is already poor and has few resources.” The controversy also spilled over into Southern Arizona’s congressional races. Republican Jonathan Paton, who is seeking a seat in the sprawling Congressional District 1, called on Akin to get out of the Senate race. “Akin’s comments are reprehensible and wrong, and I completely condemn them,” Paton said in a statement. “There is no defense for his words, and Akin should apologize and step down as a candidate.” Paton opposes legal abortion in nearly all instances, but makes an exception for women who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest, or who could face health issues as a result of their pregnancy. In his answers to a 2012 questionnaire from the Center for Arizona Policy, Paton did not support exceptions for rape or incest. But he says that was an error on the part of his campaign, and he will be clarifying his position with the conservative Christian organization. Paton’s likely Democratic Party opponent, Ann Kirkpatrick, also condemned Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape.” “These comments were more than a political gaffe,” Kirkpatrick said via email. “They were a reminder that we need to elect common-sense leaders who will stand up for women’s health issues and say no to extremists pushing an outof-touch agenda.” The former congresswoman does not support banning abortion, according to spokeswoman Jennifer Johnson. “Ann is pro-choice,” Johnson said via email. “She believes that medical decisions belong between a woman and her doctor, without the government interfering.” In the Congressional District 2 race, Republican candidate Martha McSally also told
Richard Carmona: “This issue of forcible rape or legitimate rape—these are outrageous statements. Rape is rape. It’s a violation of the highest order.” the Center for Arizona Policy that she opposed abortion in cases of rape and incest. In a February interview with the Tucson Weekly, McSally sidestepped a question about abortion in cases of rape or incest, saying that “legislators are not really involved in this issue right now. We have a Supreme Court decision, and so I’ll be focusing on things that the House of Representatives needs to be doing.” But last week, McSally spokesman Bruce Harvie said that McSally opposes abortion rights, but “supports exemptions for rape, incest and the life of mothers.” Harvie said that McSally would also be clarifying her stance with the Center for Arizona Policy. Democratic Rep. Ron Barber, who will face McSally in November (barring an unlikely upset in the Tuesday, Aug. 28, primary), supports abortion rights. “I support that (ruling) and support the right of a woman to make that decision, which is a very difficult one for the woman who has to make it,” Barber told the Weekly in May. “We don’t need government or anyone else making that decision.” Barber condemned Akin in a statement to reporters. “Rep. Akin’s comments are yet another attack on women’s rights and their ability to make their own health-care decisions,” Barber said. “This kind of extremism cannot be allowed to dictate our nation’s policies. We need leaders on both sides of the aisle who will stand up for women, not turn back the clock on equality.”
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Congressional District 2 Republican candidate Martha McSally, who was widely favored to win this week’s GOP primary, has released a poll showing that she trails Democratic Congressman Ron Barber by 5 percentage points in the November general election. The survey of 400 likely general-election voters, conducted by OnMessage Inc. on Aug. 7 and 8, showed that Barber had the support of 50 percent of the voters, with 45 percent supporting McSally. The poll had a margin of error of 4.9 percent. McSally spokesman Bruce Harvie said that the campaign is “very excited” by the poll results. The 5-point spread is a lot closer
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Closer to Home BY BRIAN J. PEDERSEN, bpedersen@tucsonweekly.com or 15 years, a regional offshoot of Pima County’s juvenile-corrections program has operated in quiet, yet effective anonymity on the northwest side. Juvenile-crime levels today aren’t nearly as high as they were in the late 1990s, when eastside and northwest-side satellite offices were opened to alleviate congestion at the county’s juvenile facility on Ajo Way. But county officials say there is still a need for probation officers, surveillance officers and other staff dedicated to points north of Grant Road and west of First Avenue. They also needed a better place to conduct business, after the Northwest Community Justice Center became cramped and run-down. The Pima County Board of Supervisors in May approved a five-year lease for an 11,300-square-foot, two-story building at 4955 N. Shamrock Place, at the end of a cul-de-sac off Ruthrauff Road, just east of La Cholla Boulevard. The office opened Aug. 14. About 30 county employees work there, and the building provides ample space for meetings with northwestside families whose children have run afoul of the law. “We were forced to move, because the old building was deteriorating,” said Dodie Ledbetter, the county’s deputy juvenile court administrator, about the justice center’s former location on Highway Drive, hugging Interstate 10 and the train tracks. “The floor was becoming uneven. I don’t know if sinking is the right word, but you could tell when you walked through there that it was wobbling. It wasn’t new when we moved in, in 1997, and it was getting to the point of becoming unsafe.” Steve Marrone, the probation supervisor for the Oro Valley area, said the layout of the new building “is much more conducive than the other one was. It was designed with our function in mind so that it flows better. And we’re right in the middle of the action, in the (857)05 ZIP code.” The new building has enough room for a satellite courtroom, something juvenile-corrections officials have wanted on the northwest side for some time. “Part of the reason we did move … was that it was better-situated to have court,” said Marrone, who has worked in juvenile corrections for 30 years. The new Northwest Community Justice Center will soon provide space for family drugcourt personnel, Ledbetter said. However, the date when a roughly 1,300-square-foot room off the main lobby will become a courtroom hasn’t
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been determined, she said. “What is the likelihood? I can’t answer that,” Ledbetter said. “In 1997, when we opened the (first) building, the plan was to put a courtroom in there. It has always been a desire, but it’s been a while since we looked at the data. It would all have to be looked at again.” Ledbetter said an analysis needs to be done to determine the percentage of the juvenilecourt caseload that comes from the northwest side. Ledbetter and Marrone said the northwest office currently handles about 400 active cases. “It all depends on what data we can come up with,” Ledbetter said of opening a satellite court. In 2011, the county had 10,293 juvenile referrals, with 6,166 juveniles ultimately referred to
court. Those numbers are down about a third from 2007, when nearly 15,000 referrals led to more than 9,000 juveniles heading to court. The county juvenile-court system also handles dependency cases, such as adoptions, severances and emancipations. That part of the department handled an average of 950 cases per year between 2005 and 2011. Ledbetter said she also hopes to get the opinions of those who would have the most to gain from a northwest-side courtroom—the families. “It helps to talk to the families to find out what would be beneficial for them,” Ledbetter said. “It would be so much easier for our families to get to court if it were closer to them—closer to their work sites, closer to their homes.”
The Skinny is saddened to report the passing of Mary Schuh, a longtime local-government watchdog with the Pima Association of Taxpayers who stepped up to run for the Amphitheater School Board in 2000, when the board was in desperate need of reform. Schuh died last Saturday, Aug. 25, from complications related to treatment for lymphoma. She was 78. Our condolences to her husband, Jim, and their five kids and four grandkids. Nancy Young Wright, a former state lawmaker who served alongside Schuh on the Amphi School Board, remembers that Schuh was “fearless.” “She was dogged and determined and smart and funny,” says Wright, who is now seeking a seat on the Pima County Board of Supervisors. “I’m really going to miss her.” Wright remembers that Schuh was skilled at piercing the arcane details of budgets and other government actions through humor. “She never really quit,” says Wright. Ken Marcus, another friend of the family, said that “the community has lost a big advocate.” Marcus said that Schuh had an amazing institutional memory of local politics and could often remember key details from the past when new issues arose. “She had a lockbox up there in her memory,” Marcus said. “She never took anything personally and always had a keen wit about her.” By Jim Nintzel Follow the Skinny scribe on Twitter: @nintzel.
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ROCK CITY continued from Page 15 Brian Smith
A tap on my shoulder. “Are you Brian Smith?” “Uh, yeah,” I said, turning around. Then the world switched to slo-mo. The fist came hard. I watched my beer form a graceful arch from the bottle into the freezing night air. Woodward Avenue and the Detroit skyline dived, and my head bounced hard on the ice. Hurt like it cracked open. Real time: I looked up and felt my head. Some dude in a cheesy facial mullet gazed down on me. What? Am I already dead after a few weeks in Detroit? Who the …? I saw under his jacket that the T-shirt he wore sported some sort of trendy Detroit phraseology across the front. Little tips of burnt-yellow flames peeked out from under the neckline, and I thought: Really? I imagined a chest-sized tattoo of flames wrapped around a giant horseshoe emblazoned with the word “Luck.” They make such people in Michigan, too? “Welcome to Detroit,” he said, adding, “asshole.” He turned, and I watched his pointed-toe cowboy boots take him back into the club. Wait. I recognized this dude. He was in a band that I tore mercilessly apart in the pages of Detroit’s Metro Times. I couldn’t tell you what instrument he played, but the band was a grungy quartet that had, before I arrived in Detroit, switched to a silly, Kid Rock-like cowboy ruckus, if you can believe it. I learned later that this guy didn’t actually live in the city of Detroit, despite his welcoming comment. He claimed Detroit for cred. He lived in the suburbs. I discovered lots of other people claimed the same thing. In truth, they were too scared to actually live in Detroit. My eye swelled to an ugly purple lump that oozed puss. It stayed that way for a week or so. Because I got punched, my editor, who hired me to call out the truth, bestowed upon me an employee bonus in beers at local bars. That “critique” was my first piece for the Metro Times. Weeks later, I wrote about the White Stripes, and Jack White didn’t like it. I heard he wanted to beat me up—and he was already a huge rock star. He’d leave long-winded messages on my voicemail late at night telling me how little I knew about Detroit and its music, and to go back to Arizona. I was pretty happy when he moved to Nashville and said horrible things about Detroit. We called out Kid Rock often, so he was no fan of ours. We once honored him as “Boob of the Year” for his overall right-wing douchebaggery. Our cover illustration featured Rock protruding from one of Pam Anderson’s grotesque mammaries. Not everyone got the jokes. An Eminem piece we ran in the early aughts—in which we pointed out that he made domestic battery pop-culture friendly, and how he won fame on the backs of black Detroit rappers—earned the writer death threats. See, Detroit, and parts of its burbs, run on 16 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
a kind of “don’t fuck with us” passion. And its citizens are fiercely loyal, even provincial. Lakes surround the area, so there’s a sense of islandlike isolation, which begets invention, creativity. That’s what has fed, for years, Detroit’s rich music and arts, and given it its regionalism and feel. There’s also the heavy, beat-pound of y, 2/4-time / the assembly lines that still pumps in th the hearts of natives.
When I fronted Tucson’s Pills and then Gentlemen Afterdark back in the ’80s—we kohl-eyed kids never dreamed we’d live to see 25—it was all very rock ’n’ roll in the mythological sense. We got hassled relentlessly by rednecks—called “faggot,” “homo,” “punkrock pussy,” etc.—even as we stepped into the lighted safety of a Circle K for beer. We learned early to have a legitimate fear of murder. We learned to never travel solo. So years later, in 2002, I figured Detroit was perfect. Why not? A troubled dude for a troubled town. Like the city, I made enervation my own, and Detroit often feels sealed in entropy; it invites the heartbreaking loneliness in to show you depths of geographically inspired despair that will complement your own despair. On gray winter days, sometimes Detroit’s only comfort is the enveloping warmth of steam rising from manholes, or the soft, amber glow inside old-man bars with a few regulars on the stools.
It was often that way for me. At first. I saw Detroit as the end of the line, a place to go and likely expire, some romantic idea of an alcoholic writer typing out his last days accompanied by a bottle, a smoke, a cough and a shot liver—a man empty in the house of himself in a city filled with empty houses. How perfect! Or, with lots of luck, it would offer a new beginning for a Tucson-weaned, rock ’n’ roll singer who had miraculously—with salutations to Salinger, Camus, Harry Crews, Denis Johnson, Jim Thompson, Flannery O’Connor and an editor named Jeremy Voas, among others—slipped from a power-pop band called Beat Angels and drunken stages into a new career as a “writer.” I started out at Metro Times as the music editor, moved up to features editor, and then became managing editor. I wrote and edited stories on the forgotten, the rising, the under-sung and th the dying. There isn’t a city in America that’s better for such things.
Welcome to Detroit, yo. A gutted paradise established by French settlers in the 1670s, it was “Paris of the West” in the Jazz Age, a moneyed utopia mostly defined by Henry Ford’s dreams of an automobile Earth and a mass-produced America. When I first arrived, I lived downtown and walked the streets at night. It was mostly deserted and lonely, but I heard the music, and often felt the culture, carted up by Southerners— and from folks the world over—who came for
factory work. For them, it was a workingman’s utopia. Auto production moved at a remarkable clip then, and time clocks punched out rhythms to match. The sound was melodious. The city got drunk on its own wealth. Holy shit, it must’ve been some party. Hence the hangover. It has been long and ugly. Here’s some drive-by Detroit history: The beauty of the Motor City’s art-deco skyscrapers, mansion-lined streets and legendary nightclubs peaked in the ’50s, when the city’s population topped out at nearly 2 million. In the following decades, folks fled to the burbs and beyond, and the auto industry’s downward slope pretty much killed the city’s tax base, and also the city’s optimism. In 2010, 713,000 souls inhabited this Rust Belt behemoth. More than 20,000 have bailed since. Yet 3.5 million people live in the suburbs, made up of townships responsible for their own taxes, which doesn’t do Detroit any favors. Many people live in the burbs, work in the city, and then take the money and spend it back in the burbs. When you cross a city border, such as 8 Mile, into the suburbs, your taxes and insurance costs slice in half, and streets and neighborhoods suddenly are well-lighted and appear safe. The cops are responsive there, and the trees stay trimmed. It’s no wonder people leave the city. Detroit is too vast to afford an infrastructure that was designed for a few million people. No one is moving back. So how do you pay a police force to protect a city whose population has shrunk by two-thirds, while its size geographically has stayed the same? You can’t. Republican state Gov. Rick Snyder is now
are battlegrounds of inertia in a bankrupt school system, their very futures reflected in the dead eyes of the street urchins who gave up long ago. It’s a dystopian futility as grim as any Ray Bradbury vision. It’s an unimaginable future of American failure, and there’s absolutely nothing like it in Arizona, except maybe old Bisbee, if that glorified ghost town were splayed out flat on 143 square miles. But there is heartbreakingly beautiful art and music, and lovingly kept historic neighborhoods. Community gardens, DIY startups and makeshift music/art venues accent community. There are countless bittersweet tales of ingenuity, too, like the guy whose financial desperation led him to open a strip bar in his basement. Patti Smith said recently that Manhattan is over, that hungry artists and musicians should relocate to Detroit, because it’s vital now, crammed with DIY energy and dirt-cheap real estate. She’s right. True inspiration can thrive in sadness and abandonment of lost eras; creation is sourced from possibility, and rises from ruin. This is where techno music was born. Detroit gave America new garage rock, dirty soul and R&B. It gave us rock ’n’ roll and Motown. Jack White—with the history lessons in his music and strange g verisimilitude in his aesthetics, lyrics and performances—still personifies Detroit, new and performances— old, in brilliant ways.
I drove home after a party one night, and my right hand covered my right eye while the left attempted to keep the car on a blurry road made of melting rubber. My thengirlfriend—a woman I’d met in Detroit whose tragic flaw included a passion for the bottle that equaled my own—was drunk, passed out in the passenger seat. I had a rule to never drive hammered, but this was Detroit, where traffic laws, as my old editor Voas would say, are “optional.” I didn’t give a shit in a city that didn’t give a shit. Nice. We did make it home. Barely. What a selfish chickenshit, I thought. Sure, death for me was an entertainable option, but someone else’s life could’ve ended that night. The drinking wasn’t even romantic or joyous anymore. Nor was it creative or smart, just broken and sad, a symptom of some inner deadness, and a silly Bukowskian cliché. I even looked yellow. I stopped drinking the next day. Cold turkey, as Lennon would say. Quitting was brutal beyond comprehension. I white-knuckle detoxed for three days straight, not in a hospital, but in my office at work and at home. The first 24 hours—a Saturday—I felt like I was trapped in a car crash for hours straight: skidding tires, screams, shattering glass. The sickness and terror were real. I swore someone was trying to deck me—invisible madmen leapt from corners and threw invisible sucker punches. I often ducked at nothing. The tremens and muscle twitches weren’t easy to hide when I appeared at work on Monday— with a writing assignment due. Have no idea how I did it. That was 2003. Been sober since. Before that, I’d been drunk every night since Gentlemen Afterdark expired in the early 1990s. Sobriety CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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overseeing a city in financial emergency. Whole thing’s a mess. More, the city has never suffered a shortage of political boondogglers, the most recent of whom, and the most glamorous in a gentlemen’s-club kind of way, was Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, in office from 2002 to 2008. His gigantic presence—statuesque, big-voiced, broad-shouldered, egomaniacal—resembles what would result if you crossed an articulate, pre-TV-era politician with a Southern preacher. His charisma played stopgap for his besuited rapstar image, down to his entourage, body guards and sparkly SUVs. Whoever said politicians are just ugly pop stars had it right. But the then-30something Kilpatrick wasn’t ugly at all, and that made him frightening. Everyone loves a star, and Kilpatrick made old-school political thugism pop-rap art. He claimed to love Detroit, so he proved said love by stealing from the city, lying and cheating. He got jailed a few times after costing a city, too poor to care for itself, millions. Detroit is like a historical figure who, years ago, found a red curtain to cower behind. To some, Detroit is now readying to reveal a new face. Hipster hoods such as Corktown draw myriad white folk, which, in a city that’s 89 percent black, can make it resemble a whitepride rally—call it segregation in a uniform of gingham, Converse, ironic eyewear and bored indifference. Detroit’s midtown and downtown are coming up, too—in gentrifyingly white ways—and the Paul Ray-coined term “cultural creatives” is too easily tossed about, slapped on app designers, bloggers, ad men, Web developers and millionaire CEOs such as Quicken Loans’ Bill Emerson, who received more than $100 million in tax breaks to relocate his company here, with promises of a “new Detroit.” But this isn’t really about social activism or community, and these changes feel, in fact, cold and digital. It’s as soulless as any place where lots of white people gather to be hip. But who knows how such shifts might aid a city that’s billions of dollars in debt? A Whole Foods store recently broke ground in midtown (with $4.2 million in tax incentives)— but not really within walking distance from downtown—and the entire city went down on bended knee. But I have hope. Lots of it. But there’s still plenty more reason not to. This is where two American cities I love, Tucson, Ariz., and Detroit, Mich., couldn’t be any more polaropposite, though each has seen downtown redevelopment that didn’t seem possible a decade ago. See, it’s as if most of the rest of Detroit, these myriad square miles, doesn’t exist. Yes, downtown occupancy is at 100 percent, but endless miles of thoroughfares, such as Grand River, Gratiot Avenue and Michigan Avenue, cut straight through apocalyptic wastelands to the shiny suburbs. It’s hard to imagine that this is an American city. Even from a strictly aesthetic standpoint, if Broadway, Speedway and Grant Road were ghettoized from one end to the other, it still wouldn’t compare. You’d have to throw in Fort Lowell, Ajo Way and River Road. It’s where barely sustained businesses hang among block after block of abandoned or crumbling storefronts. It’s where doomed children amped on sugar sit in classrooms that
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ROCK CITY continued from Page 17 hasn’t been an easy ride. There’s an ex-girlfriend, a flopped marriage, lots of 12-steps, therapists and, finally, a woman for whom, it seems, I’d waited my entire life. But she had to be earned. My bank account was suddenly flush with the funds that I normally funneled to area bartenders. After several months, I had enough to plop down on a house. I found one in a still-desirable neighborhood on Detroit’s west side, an area populated with retired educators, teachers and city workers who lived mostly in brick colonials built before World War II. There were giant trees, large yards and flower gardens. The quiet, once-all-Jewish neighborhood was how I imagined white people lived in the 1950s, inside city limits with well-kept yards—not exactly permissive, but neighborly, with a nosy sense of lookout duty. Every night, TVs flickered blue behind drawn living-room curtains; dads watered lawns at sunset, and their sons came around in winter offering to shovel snow from your walkway. The elderly often died in their homes. Not at all rock ’n’ roll. A few neighbors welcomed me to the street with gifts of potted plants and fresh-baked cookies. No joke. We were the only whites in an otherwise all-black neighborhood. I dug it. But even this sedate little hood near University of Detroit Mercy had rich Motor City history. In the ’60s, Motown head Berry Gordy placed Stevie Wonder and his family in a house a stone’s throw away. Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops lived around the block, and up the street was Marvin Gaye’s house, where he wrote one of the greatest albums of all time, What’s Going On. Temptations singer David Ruffin and songwriter Eddie Holland (from Motown and HollandDozier-Holland fame) each once owned big, beautiful homes a short walk away, when the city was still desirable. Eminem’s pal, D12 rapper Proof, grew up at his grandmother’s house the next street over. The whole city’s like this, crammed with cultural history born of songs and people who continue to touch the world in profound ways. A nearby section on Livernois Avenue thrived in the ’50s and ’60s as the “Avenue of Fashion.” That stretch now is basically shrimp shacks, 24-hour hair salons, dollar stores, an African art gallery, a shop for strippers and some abandoned spaces: your basic mishmash of Detroit, good and bad. A mile over, on McNichols Road, the scenery suffers further, depending on your perspective. You’ll find block after block of streets filled with dead streetlights and ugly landscapes where houses once stood, collapsing homes and burnt-out apartment buildings, all filtered in among semi-cared-for places, like rotted teeth in an otherwise-OK mouth. Other streets in the vicinity are dropdead stunning, built with auto money in the ’20s and ’30s, still kept up within reasonable distance of historic luxury. The well-dressed black ladies in church hats, these octogenarian matriarchs of shootstraight wisdom and Southern whip-ass, became my own personal gods. I imagined one on each shoulder, protectors. They’ve suffered riots, murder, segregation, unemployment, poverty. They watched as crack rotted their neighborhoods and their beloved city fell apart. They emerged with countless grandchildren, 18 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
a gut-rich cackle and ear-bending stories. I befriended two in my neighborhood, and they’d take me in for coffee and storytelling. But it didn’t take long for a sense of isolation to creep in—that particular strain of entropy and loneliness—particularly when the sun drops around 5 p.m. in wintertime. I began to long for human variety like that found in other Detroit areas: some Middle Easterners, South Asians and Eastern Europeans. Walking my streets was humiliating, because few people here did. Most drove. One reason why there’s a high percentage of tubby Detroiters. Besides, there wasn’t really anywhere to walk unless you needed your nails done, or that dollar-store toilet brush, or a stiff cocktail where the Spinners and Bettye LaVette would drink back in the day. This was a university neighborhood, sure, but it was at least five miles to the nearest New York Times. The lovely university is fenced off—and there’s an abandoned Burger King across the street. I still get called lots of funny names on major streets and on corners, but never with menace. Such cat-calls include “Nikki Sixx,” “Marilyn Manson,” “Mick Jagger” and—from a gaggle of homeless gents to whom I donated almost daily—“Yo, Woodstock!” The best came on a day I was doing a story on an older jazz percussionist. I was at a Detroit elementary school to observe him entertain fourth-graders, and as we walked the hallway, a little kid who stood about waist-high saw me approach and stopped dead in his tracks. Then he hopped back a few steps, pointed and shouted with no irony, “Is you Michael Jackson!?” I never felt so white in my life. And forget any kind of big-sky openness, like any-day wintertime Tucson. Motor City winters mean hunker-down time—whiteouts and a frozen life. I marveled at how anyone could’ve survived these ravaging months here hundreds of years ago. Me? I prayed daily for the furnace to stay in proper working order.
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Sometimes it’s simple things. Sometimes I return home to Tucson to see my dad and friends or to play in some kind of silly reunion show with my bands, and this never fails: I’ll roll in to, say, a Circle K or gas station, and shock hits. I see clean lines, open aisles,
mopped floors. Even a mirthful face or two. We used to get beat up in such places? Where are the dirt-hued walls and the smudged, bulletproof glass that separates cashiers from customers, like it is in about every Detroit liquor outlet, convenience store (party store) and filling station? It’s not easy for me to forget Tucson summers, either. The dry, subtropical heat worked the senses so thoroughly that you could actually hear the heat. That hum. It was indelible as the cicadas’ sweet monotonic symphonies out near Old Spanish Trail where I grew up and raced bicycles. Certain Ramones songs easily call up the smell of chlorine and after-school swims in pools, and the futile longing for girls who hung around them. Dark clouds remind of those mad monsoons that marched over the Rincon Mountains from the southeast and whisked up desert perfumes of chaparral bushes and palo verde trees, that kicked out city power and turned dry washes into raging, mudcolored rivers that sucked up lawn chairs and whole trees, and upturned barbecues and the occasional little kid. In spring, in the gentle aftermath of melting snow and ice, Detroit’s empty fields open gently, and wild flowers radiate from within, and it all grows and grows, sometimes over your head. I can fall into grass that towers over me, in the middle of the city. Acres of green rise up, around and through the city, in vacant lots and on roofs of abandoned buildings. The city opens up; people crawl out from winter and celebrate its fertility and rebirth. Summertime air fills with scents of countless barbecues upon which unidentifiable meats sizzle. It rises from parks, streets, front yards. Outdoor music, canned and live, varies hugely, sometimes from neighborhood to neighborhood, from electronic, ’60s soul and big-lunged gospel, to hip-hop, world and jazz—reflections of the city’s population. In evenings, fireflies zigzag above lawns, around
porches, in gardens. The city’s half-natural, half-manufactured beauty is constant wonder in summer months. Its busted grace is hazy, sad, poetic. Once-architecturally (and -historically) significant lines and elegant curves are but piles of rebar-ribbed cement and burnt-rust beams; other buildings stand hollowed out, with crazy open space and views, and whole ecosystems growing within. In wintertime, it’s silent as death. Imagine dozens of structures larger than Tucson’s old Pioneer Hotel, but in various stages Tucso of decay, dec scattered all around Tucson.
A few months back, METRO TIMES informed me that it could no longer afford my salary. “All business,” they said. Yeah, well, I lived most of my life with no salary. Back to normal. I was getting accustomed to, and quite fond of, biweekly checks and zero financial desperation. As I wrote on Facebook, it doesn’t matter how many readers you cultivate or how many writing awards you earn; you won’t survive a collapsing world. I love Detroit, though. It’s a love affair fraught with negativity, ugliness and contempt, and also complete pride and adoration. From my highrise apartment, I can squint at faded downtown towers and the famed GM towers and make them look like cathedrals. I watch rippling reflections of lights of Canadian casinos on the Detroit River, and see hundreds of people on Detroit’s Riverwalk, people who weren’t there
five years ago. Yet the futility is pronounced, and overcome, in the hoods and their abandoned Victorian houses. See torn layers of wallpaper trace bloodlines of single-income families who subsisted on factory work through the decades. See a tree grow from the basement of this old place. It pushes through the first floor into the den, and continues into the master bedroom on the second level. Then it blooms into the sky through an aperture in the ceiling. You swear the breeze through the holes in walls and missing doors creates voices as mournful as lost souls. You note the children’s initials carved in frontyard sidewalks long ago. This is a transition, a return to Earth, but also life springing eternal—pushing through dead foundations, self-created obstructions. It overcomes, man. Either that, or it dies. This is where I live. This is where I love. I never reconciled with that dude who knocked me flat in my first weeks in Detroit. I did just realize that the only time in Detroit that I ever got assaulted, even hassled, was at the hands of that one suburban mook. But that sucker punch sparked a bigger thing— something that, crazy as it sounds, jolted me awake, to begin the trip to quit booze and drugs, which then led me to appreciate the small wonders, like mornings and fireflies and grace in a city that’s busted in every way imaginable, but a city that’s also providing for itself a place in the present, and one in the future. Then she came, the once-in-a-lifetime love, an earned reward. Had to go through that to arrive in this house of myself.
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• YOM KIPPUR - Wednesday, September 26 8:30 am - Family Service 10:00 am - Main Service 10:00 am - Youth Yom Kippur Program 10:30 am - Tot Yom Kippur Service 1:00 pm - Yom Kippur Study Session 3:00 pm - Afternoon Service, Yizkor and Neilah Services 6:15 pm - Break Fast–everyone's invited!
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AUGUST 30-SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 OUR TOP PICKS OF WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO DO IT BY GENE ARMSTRONG, DAVID MENDEZ AND INÉS TARACENA
Sax Star
A Sense of Place
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Contemporary-jazz saxophonist Jeff Kashiwa has compared the making of music, especially jazz, to the craft of acting. However, he came up with a new analogy when I called him recently at his home in Edmonds, Wash. “I don’t mean to demean the art of making music, but I now think it has a closer connection to standup comedy,” he says. “There are bits in comedy and songs in jazz that are carefully composed and mapped out in advance, but once you get into the set and feel how it is flowing, you have room to improvise.” Kashiwa and his band, Coastal Access, will play Sunday night at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort. Joining Kashiwa on the bill will be Tucson-based singer Crystal Stark, who performs jazz, pop, R&B and gospel music and was a contestant during the fifth season of TV’s American Idol. Stark also teaches music at Acacia Elementary School. She and Kashiwa have music education in common: In addition to giving private lessons, Kashiwa teaches music technology at Shoreline Community College, north of Seattle. Born in 1963 in Louisville, Ky., Kashiwa moved with his family at a young age to the Seattle area, where he was raised and first exposed to music. “I always have to give credit to the public-school systems and their outstanding music programs for giving me my start in music,” Kashiwa says. He first played a type of plastic recorder, called a song flute, in the fourth-grade. “That was to prepare us for real instruments in the fifth-grade.” He discovered the sax a couple of years later. “I think it was in eighth-grade band when I happened to see the big, shiny saxophones in a row, and I thought I had died, gone to heaven.” He hasn’t forgotten his earliest Jeff Kashiwa mentors. “I still remember all my teachers, and now it has come full circle, because my junior-high band director, John Law, and I are still friends, and we’re working on this new curriculum. With so many music and arts classes being cut by districts and government, we wanted to develop this satellite program and make it available to schools that want it.” Law and Kashiwa’s system teaches K-6 students the fundamentals of reading music and performance. In the new program, the song flute has been replaced by a similar inexpensive, plastic instrument called the flutophone, Kashiwa says. As for his musical education, Kashiwa traveled to Boston to attend the Berklee College of Music, and then crossed the country again to finish his degree at the California State University at Long Beach before returning to the Seattle area. As Kashiwa grew older, he learned to play soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, as well as the flute and the EWI (electronic wind instrument). He cites influences such as Jay Beckenstein, Phil Woods, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon and Stanley Turrentine. Although Kashiwa is best known in contemporary- and smoothjazz circles, his playing also is awesomely funky, which he attributes to a musical diet that also included Bootsy Collins, Parliament-
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Funkadelic, and Earth, Wind and Fire. While still in his 20s, Kashiwa was tapped to take over the sax position in the popular jazzfusion group the Rippingtons. He did that for 10 years before leaving in 1999 to start his solo career. Last week, he released his eighth album, Let It Ride, with Coastal Access, which includes Melvin Davis on bass, Allen Hinds on guitar, Dave Hooper on drums and Mark Ellis Stephens on keyboards. That’s the lineup that will play Tucson this weekend. Kashiwa points out that each of his band mates is a solo recording artist in his own right, Collectively, they boast experience playing with Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters, Chaka Khan, Gerald Albright, George Duke, Toni Braxton, Herbie Hancock, David Sanborn, Marcus Miller, David Byrne, Larry Carlton, Roberta Flack and Josh Groban, among others. In addition, Kashiwa has performed frequently with Acoustic Alchemy. And, since appearing at the Rippingtons’ 20th anniversary show in 2006, he also continues to tour regularly with that group. Saxophone fans will likely be excited to learn that Kashiwa is reconvening Sax Pack, the supergroup in which he plays with fellow reedmen Steve Cole and Kim Waters. “We’re just starting to gear up for a fall tour; we have a lot of dates in September. And we just finished a new CD, but more than likely, we’ll wait to release it in 2013,” he says. Jeff Kashiwa and Crystal Stark will perform at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 2, at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort and Spa, 7000 N. Resort Drive. Tickets are $35 general; $25 for Tucson Jazz Society members and military personnel; and $20 for students. VIP table seating and special room packages are available. Call 903-1265, or visit tucsonjazz.org for more information. Gene Armstrong garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com
The sum of the sequence from then until now is not equal to here multiplied by there Opening reception: 3 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4 On display 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; noon to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, through Wednesday, Sept. 12 Lionel Rombach Gallery UA Campus, 1031 N. Olive Road 626-4215; www.cfa.arizona.edu/galleries/lionel.html
The title of this exhibit—which would be a contender for the Longest Exhibit Title Ever award if there were such a thing— refers to the works of three UA students who want viewers to question their identity, their history and their sense of place in the world. Anna Garner, Karen Gard deClouet and Jenny Day share a common interest in exploring memories and sense of place. The images and mediums they use represent their individual artistic styles, but “the umbrella that we are all sitting under is a conceptual drive behind the theme,” Gard deClouet said. “We thought of the concept together.” Garner’s paintings were influenced by her grandfather’s death, although he passed away long before she was born. She said the theme of her pieces is preventing him from going fishing, which is what he was doing when he died. The style of her work is influenced by the landscape painters who emerged in the 16th century, she added. Day’s works are influenced by memories associated with places, and how identities are shaped by place. “I think it is interesting to be able to understand our own identities, our sense of self,” Garner said. “The viewers should come and be able to … question that concept for themselves, and for them to be able to think how they are connected or disconnected from place.” The exhibit will be on display through Wednesday, Sept. 12. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and noon to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. Parking is available at the UA garage at Speedway Boulevard and Park Avenue. Admission is free. —I.T.
Far left: Cynthia Hogue reads from her poetry at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 30, at the UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St.; free. Visit poetry.arizona.edu for more info. MICHAEL MARTINEZ
JOANNA ELDREDGE MORRISSEY
Connor Griffin and Amanda Gremel
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Drag Queens for a Cause
Girl Scouts and a Century of Service
History Plus Tapas
Hispanic Heritage Celebration
Archaeology Café: “Preserving a 20th-Century Downtown”
6 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 2
11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 1
6 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4
Doubletree Hotel 445 S. Alvernon Way
Kennedy Park, Fiesta Area 3700 S. Mission Road
Casa Vicente 375 S. Stone Ave.
299-6647; www.tihan.org
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882-6946, ext. 16; www.archaeologysouthwest.org
16th Annual Turnabout for TIHAN: Invasion of the 50-Food Glamazons
This is Butch’s 30th year of living with HIV. But back in 2006, it seemed like he was about to take his last breath. Butch was down to 94 pounds; he had hepatitis C; his T-cell count was below 200. In an effort to give Butch some hope, his doctor put him in touch with the Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network. “They literally pulled me back from the brink,” said Roger O’Daniel, aka Butch. “I don’t know if I would still be alive if I hadn’t been connected with TIHAN.” TIHAN gave him a care team. Volunteers gave him rides to appointments, and took care of him after he suffered a heart attack. Butch is one face in a growing crowd of people benefiting from TIHAN’s work. The organization offers support programs for people living with HIV and AIDS, and education programs to battle misconceptions about the disease. To help the organization raise money, TIHAN is hosting the 16th annual Turnabout drag show, featuring staffers from local LGBT bars—many of whom don’t usually do drag. “We are raising money to keep our programs going so that we can provide more social support, nutritional support, practical kinds of help, and advocacy to people living with HIV,” said Scott Blades, executive director of TIHAN and one of its founders. This year, the fundraiser has a B-movie theme, “The Invasion of the 50-Foot Glamazons.” The event will feature Janee Starr and Tempest DuJour as emcees, and the newly crowned Miss Gay Arizona America 2012 will also perform. “It doesn’t matter who you are, or what your sexual orientation is: People are people, and everybody deserves to be included, respected and cared for,” Blades said. Tickets are $10 in advance, or $15 at the door. —I.T.
Fans of the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars may have caught the episode about bakers competing to see whose cupcakes would star at the 100thanniversary celebration of the founding of the Girl Scouts of the USA. After all, you can never go wrong with cupcakes. But instead of using cupcakes, the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona is noting the centennial with a celebration that’s intended to spread the word among Tucson’s Hispanic community that girls with courage, confidence and character improve our lives. “Everyone already knows about our cookies and … crafts, of course, but this is meant for us to kick off our Hispanic initiative and celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month,” said Maria DeCabooter of the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona. This Saturday’s event is intended to honor the diversity of the Hispanic community. “We’re trying to start troops up that are completely bilingual,” DeCabooter said. “In addition, we’re trying to have a more family-oriented atmosphere. A lot of times, moms and grandmas may be kind of hesitant about sending off their daughters, so we try to make events where your daughter could come, but (the girl can) also bring along your mom and grandma, and so everyone could participate together.” The event will feature performances by Mariachi Aztlan de Pueblo High School and Grupo Folklorico Miztontli from the University of Arizona. DeCabooter said the festivities will include a jumping castle and craft activities. Food from local vendors will be for sale. Admission is $2 for individuals, and $5 for families. —D.M.
Fall’s cooler temperatures are approachhho ing, and that’s good news for those who love to talk history and archaeology while munching on some tasty tapas: ’s The Archeology Cafés on Casa Vicente’s outdoor patio are starting again. For the past five years, Archaeology nSouthwest has partnered with the downtown eatery to give Tucsonans a place hito chat about the art, culture and architecture of Southwestern civilizations. The cafés, held on the first Tuesday of the month, feature experts in those fields leading informal discussions. “Between about 6 and 6:15, our presenters will get up in front of the crowd and speak really informally—no PowerPoint, no jargon—just having a conversation with the group about theirr re latest research or topics that people are really interested in,” said Kate Sartherr Gann of Archeology Southwest. “Then we open up the floor,” she said. “We kind of based this on the science-café, science-pub model that started in Europe, where people show up for happy hour, and it’s more like ds talking about research with your friends than giving a presentation at a formal conference.” re This season’s café kickoff will feature Demion Clinco and Helen Erickson of the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation speaking on efforts to preserve landscape-architect Garrett Eckbo’s work around the Tucson Convention Center. Gann also expects Clinco and Erickson to also talk about preservation efforts for downtown’s Marist College, and discuss the neon signs that were restored and placed along Drachman Street on the Pima Community College Downtown Campuss earlier this year. The event is free. Patrons can buy drinks and tapas if they wish. —D.M.
Left: All Together Theatre’s Mother Goose Unplucked! continues through Sunday, Nov. 4, at 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. Showtime is 1 p.m., every Sunday; $5 to $8. Visit livetheatreworkshop.org for reservations.
The UA Wildcats face Toledo at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 1, at Arizona Stadium, 1 N. National Champion Drive. $15 to $60.50. Visit arizonawildcats.com for info.
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TQ&A Marjie Hrabe A community forum on education organized by the Pima County Interfaith Council will be held from 10 a.m. to noon, next Saturday, Sept. 8, at St. Odilia Catholic Community, 7570 N. Paseo del Norte. Marjie Hrabe, a deaconess at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church and a council leader, said the program is nonpartisan and nonsectarian. Panelists include Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett; Alberto Siqueiros, superintendent of the Indian Oasis-Baboquivari Unified School District; and David K. Crowe, CEO and president of Tucson Embedded Systems. The audience will have the opportunity to voice opinions, ask questions and offer suggestions. For more information, visit www.pimacountyinterfaith.org. Mari Herreras, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com
How long have you lived in Tucson? I moved to Tucson 12 years ago and got involved with St. Mark’s. As a deaconess, I am commissioned by the church to go out and work on these issues. I actually got married and moved out here and got involved with the (interfaith council) when I became a deaconess … and found that’s where my heart lies. What’s the overall goal of the council’s forums, like the education academy? I think the general message is that all of us need to find out what we’re passionate about and find a group that can help create the change we need in our community. What’s the strategy behind the forums? We go out and educate people on what the issues are, and hopefully find people who have the energy to learn and want to create change. We want to inform people of things they may not be aware of. How do you figure out what the issues are? We have a statewide agency, and all of us go out and listen to people in our institutions, asking people, “What keeps you up at night?” or, “What concerns your family, and what would you like to see change?”
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How will you look at education? What we are presenting is the state budget, and how it affects the school system. We are nonpartisan and recognize that both parties and even the independents have played into this structural deficit we have. We want to look at what that means, and how we can create change that is going to help kids, because that’s what it’s all about. What do you think is helpful about this kind of forum? We are so busy these days, and there are so many issues out there. The economy is bad, and we are working to pay the bills. (People) don’t have time to do the research on these issues. We get to do that for you, and then we learn together and work together on this to create change. What have you learned putting this together? I got to meet with a (school) principal, and the mostinteresting thing he was telling me was that studies of technology used in schools show that what really matters is meeting face to face and having that teacher experience. It’s where kids learn the best. Here, we are asking people to come together face to face. We think that’s important, and I think it was kind of interesting that science was backing
up what we were already doing. Why education? The economic problems have brought forward a lot of issues, so families are under stress financially. How much more do parents have to buy for the classroom? (We are) also concerned how much more education is going to be under-funded. What do you hope people get out of the forum? I hope to see people who are willing to discuss the issues and set aside party politics and talk about the kids, and what we want to do for these kids. Testing at the thirdgrade level shows how many of our kids are going to end up in the prison system. Do you think some people in the community don’t really care about education? No, I don’t think that whatsoever. I have not gotten an inkling of that. I think people truly feel overwhelmed and don’t know where to start. We’ve taken that first step: Let us show you what we are offering, and if you want, you can engage. Truthfully, I think people don’t get engaged in something unless it involves them. I love children, and I love for them to have the best. … I’ve always said I’d go to Washington to fight for them, because that’s our future, literally.
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DANIEL MORENO AWARD DINNER AND SILENT AUCTION Skyline Country Club. 5200 E. St. Andrews Drive. 299-0464. Local individuals who have helped promote mental-health recovery are honored, and Dr. José Apud of the National Institute of Mental Health is the keynote speaker, at a dinner meeting that also features a silent auction, from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 7; $65. Call 250-7525 for reservations and more information.
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TEAL TEA Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 3236262. The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition, Tucson Chapter, hosts its annual fundraising tea honoring survivors of ovarian cancer and their caregivers, from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8; $40. Call 342-4599 for reservations.
ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM’S 60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. In honor of its own birthday, the museum admits anyone with a Sept. 3 birthday, or anyone celebrating their 60th birthday in 2012, for free from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday, Sept. 3. Birthday cake is served, and several landmark events are celebrated: The launch of the new Animal Keeper Interaction Program, the grand opening of the new Great Blue Heron/ Cienega Exhibit, and the dedication of the new Baldwin Education Building Library. $14.50 adults, $3 children ages 6 through 12. Visit desertmuseum.org for a schedule and more information. HISPANIC HERITAGE CELEBRATION Kennedy Park. 3700 S. Mission Road. The Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month with kids’ activities and entertainment by Mariachi Aztlan de Pueblo High School and Ballet Folklorico Miztontli from the UA, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 1; $5 family, $2 individual. Food and beverages are available for sale. Call 319-3156. LABOR DAY PICNIC DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. 1100 S. Randolph Way. The Pima Area Labor Federation hosts the community celebration of Tucson’s working families and union members from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday, Sept. 3; free. The event features hot dogs, musical acts, dancers, labor-history exhibits, children’s activities, “Union Olympics” games and more. Call 388-4139. TURNABOUT FOR TIHAN: INVASION OF THE 50-FOOT GLAMAZONS Doubletree Hotel. 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200. Janee Starr and Tempest Du Jour emcee a show featuring GLBT clubs’ staff in drag, at 6 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 2; $15, $10 advance. This adults-only event benefits the Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network. The evening also includes a raffle and prizes. Call 299-6647 for reservations and more information.
OUT OF TOWN BREWERY GULCH DAZE Bisbee City Park. Brewery Gulch. Bisbee. An artists’ soapbox derby, live music, a pet parade, kids’ games, a youth art show, a silent auction of recycled art, mining games, a Miz Ol’ Biz contest and more are featured in this 37th annual event from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 2; free. Call 432-2071 or (866) 224-7233. RENDEZVOUS OF GUNFIGHTERS Tombstone Visitor and Information Center. 395 E. Allen St. Tombstone. (888) 457-3929. Gunfighter groups from around the U.S. compete in a series of events including best costume. Five shows take place daily from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 1 and 2; and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, Sept. 3; free. Call (888) 457-3929, or visit tombstonechamber. com for more information.
FASHION’S NIGHT OUT La Encantada. 2905 E. Skyline Drive. 299-3566. In-store parties, free gifts, music by DJ PCparty, entertainment by BreakOut Studios and four interactive, live fashion exhibits are featured from 6 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 6; free. The event celebrates Tucson fashionista Paula Taylor’s new book, How to Produce a Fashion Show.
BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK ASUA PRIDE ALLIANCE Pride Alliance, an organization for LGBTQA students on campus, has its first meeting of the fall semester from 5 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 5, at a location to be announced. All students are welcome to network, meet new friends and find out how to get involved. The organization hosts more than 70 events a year including Coming Out Week, Transgender Awareness Week, Second-Chance Prom, Queer Skate Night, Asexual Awareness Day and Homo for the Holidays. Visit pridealliance.org for more information. DIVORCE RECOVERY 1 Trained facilitators lead nonsectarian support groups from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday or Thursday; $60 requested donation, but no one is turned away. Each course is eight weeks and closes after the second week. A new class starts Tuesday, Sept. 4, at Catalina United Methodist Church, 2700 E. Speedway Blvd., Room H30. Call 495-0704, or visit divorcerecovery.net. FOOD TRUCK POD Civano Nursery. 5301 S. Houghton Road. 546-9200 ext. 9. Food trucks serving a variety of foods and beverages gather from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Aug. 30 and 31; free admission. Call 248-9218 for more information. METAL ARTS VILLAGE Metal Arts Village. 3230 N. Dodge Blvd. 326-5657. Artists’ studios featuring hand-crafted furniture, sculpture, home decor, landscape design, metal, glass, wood and other art are open from 6 to 9 p.m., every month on the evening of the full moon; free. The event also features a cookout, live music and wine-tasting. Openstudio dates in 2012 are Friday, Aug. 31; Saturday, Sept. 29; Monday, Oct. 29; Wednesday, Nov. 28; Friday, Dec. 28. 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.
OUT OF TOWN UPCOMING 2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN Free events take place throughout downtown from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m., the second Saturday of every month. The Southwest Soul Circuit features jazz fusion, African, hiphop and soul music. FC Tucson Soccer hosts a soccer showdown in the parking lot of the MLK Apartments at Toole and Fifth avenues. The main stage on Scott Street just south of Congress Street features music and performance in a range of genres. A free concert takes place at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St., and a kids’ area in the south parking lot of the Chase Bank building at 2 E. Congress St. features a jumping castle and a screening of a family-favorite movie. Street activi-
DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF THE SANTA RITA AREA Green Valley Democratic Headquarters. 260 W. Continental Road. Green Valley. 838-0590. Current events are discussed from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., every Wednesday; free. Email acalkins10@aol.com, or visit gvdemocrats.org for more information.
UPCOMING ARIZONA AIRCRAFT EXPO Million Air. 1840 E. Valencia Road, No. 8. 445-6300. The latest models of general aviation aircraft are
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Downtown • HUB Restaurant &
Creamery 266 E. Congress St. • Playground 278 E. Congress St. • Enoteca Pizzeria & Wine Bar 58 W. Congress St. • Mother Hubbard’s Café 14 W Grant Rd. • La Cocina 201 N. Court Ave. • Lindy’s on 4th 431 N. 4th Ave. • Café 54 54 E. Pennington St. • Cushing Street Bar 198 W. Cushing St.
• El Charro 311 N Court Ave. • V Modern Thai 9 E Congress St. • Brooklyn Pizza Company 534 N 4th Ave. • Sky Bar 534 N 4th Ave. • Arizona Bagel & Deli 117 N. Church Ave. • Caruso’s Italian Restaurant 434 N. 4th Ave.
North • El Charro 6910 E. Sunrise • Acacia 3001 E Skyline Dr. • Fini’s Landing 5689 N Swan Rd. • Golden Dragon 4704 E. Sunrise Dr.
Northwest • The Parish Gastropub 6453 N. Oracle Rd. • Beyond Bread 421 W. Ina Rd. • Genghis Grill 4386 N. Oracle Rd. • Golden Dragon 6433 N. Oracle Rd. • Noble Hops 1335 W. Lambert Lane • Saigon Restaurant 7332 N. Oracle Rd.
• Vero Amore 12130 N. Dove Mountain Blvd. #104 • Sir Veza’s Taco Garage 220 W. Wetmore • El Charro 7725 N. Oracle Rd. • Shogun Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar 5036 N Oracle Rd.
West • Daisy Mae’s Steakhouse 2735 W. Anklam Rd.
Northeast • Risky Business 6866 E. Sunrise Dr. • Risky Business 8848 E. Tanque Verde Rd.
East • Nimbus American Bistro & Brewery 6464 E. Tanque Verde Rd. • Beyond Bread 6260 E. Speedway Blvd. • Diablos Sports Bar & Grill 2545 S. Craycroft Rd. • Renee’s Organic Oven 7065 E. Tanque Verde Rd. • My Big Fat Greek Restaurant 7131 E. Broadway Blvd. • Joe’s Pancake House 2532 S. Kolb Rd.
• Golden Dragon 6166 E. Speedway Blvd. • Venice Pizzeria 7848 E. Wrightstown Rd. • El Charro 6310 E Broadway Blvd. • Brushfire BBQ 7080 E 22nd St. • Canyon’s Crown Restaurant & Pub 6958 E Tanque Verde Rd. • New Delhi Palace 6751 E Broadway Blvd. • Jerry Bobs 7066 E Golf Links • Molina’s Midway Restaurant 1138 N Belvedere Ave. • Casa Molina 6225 E Speedway Blvd. • Thai China Bistro 5121 E Grant Rd.
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South • Don Pedro’s Peruvian Bistro 3386 S. Sixth Ave. Suite #120 • El Charro 15920 S. Rancho Sahuarita
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NON-CHEMICAL CONTROL OF INSECTS IN YOUR HOME AND GARDEN Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Learn to identify and control common insect pests, from 3 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8; free.
BEARS OF THE OLD PUEBLO Bears of the Old Pueblo provides social activities for gay and bi bearish men and their admirers. Check the website to verify dates, times and programs, but newcomers are welcome at all regular activities, including a meeting and potluck from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the second Saturday of every month, at the Ward 6 Council Office, 3202 E. First St.; coffee from 7 to 9 p.m., every Wednesday, at Crave Coffee Bar, 4530 E. Broadway Blvd.; happy hour from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., every Friday, at Venture-N, 1239 N. Sixth Ave.; “bear-tinis” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., every Friday, at The Shelter, 4155 E. Grant Road; and dinner from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., every third Thursday, at a location announced in the online calendar and on Facebook. In addition, annual pool parties and potlucks are held on Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day weekends. Many other activities are scheduled throughout the year. Call 8290117, or email bop@botop.com for more information. Visit botop.com, or follow “Bears of the Old Pueblo” on Facebook for a complete calendar of events.
SMOKE AND IRONS FOR THE TUCSON FIRE FOUNDATION Borderlands Brewing Company. 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773. Borderlands Brewery introduces its new “Smoke and Irons” brew at a benefit for the Tucson Fire Foundation from 4 to 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 7; freewill donation. Beer sales and donations at the event benefit the foundation. Search “Tucson Fire Foundation” on Facebook for more information. WOMEN IMPACTING TUCSON Arizona Inn. 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. Guest speakers are Johanna Duffek of Communities in Schools Arizona, and mayoral aide Andrew Greenhill at a luncheon from 11:20 to 1:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 10; $30, $20 with a reservation made by Thursday, Sept. 6. Call 323-3100 or visit arizonainn.com/wit for reservations or more information.
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ing problems and regular maintenance techniques. Visit bicas.org for more information. BIKE MAINTENANCE FOR WOMEN AND TRANSGENDER FOLKS BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. BICAS is open exclusively for women and transgender folks from 4 to 8 p.m., every Monday. Learn bike maintenance, or earn a bike with volunteer labor. Workshops are led by female and trans-identified mechanics. Visit bicas.org. BINGO Water of Life MCC. 3269 N. Mountain Ave. 292-9151. Join in a game of bingo at 6:30 p.m., every Friday; $6 to $20. Call 822-6286 for more information. BRIDGE CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 229-5300. Adults play bridge from 1 to 4 p.m., every Wednesday; free. Call for more information. CALL FOR VENDORS DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. 1100 S. Randolph Way. Vendors are sought for the Tucson Parks and Recreation’s Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24 and 25. Call 791-4877 for an application and more information. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: TUCSON CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL Community groups, businesses, religious groups, neighborhood associations and ad hoc groups of five or more volunteers are needed to adopt parks, streets, washes and other public areas on an ongoing basis. Call 7913109, or visit tucsoncleanandbeautiful.org. CHESS CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. All serious chess players are invited from 1 to 5 p.m., every Friday; free. Call for more information. THE COFFEE PARTY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Friendly discussions of current events take place from 1 to 3 p.m., every Tuesday; free. Candidates from all political parties are invited to speak. Call 878-0256 for more information and to arrange a time to speak. COMMON SENSE FORUM Martha Cooper Branch Library. 1377 N. Catalina Ave. 594-5315. The forum meets at 2 p.m., every first Saturday, for a discussion based on social structures that Miklos Szilagy described in his self-published book, How to Save Our Country; free. Call 275-5259. COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A CLUB MEETING Salt of the Earth Labor College. 1902 E. Irene Vista. 235-0694. A discussion of party activities takes place at 7 p.m., the first and third Monday of every month; free. Call 624-4789 for more information. COMMUNITY DRUM CIRCLE Himmel Park. 1000 N. Tucson Blvd. 791-3276. A community drum circle takes place from 3:30 to 6 p.m., every Sunday; free. All are welcome. Call 743-4901, or e-mail cactuscarrie10@gmail.com for more information. CONQUISTADORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB Jewish Community Center. 3800 E. River Road. 2993000. Anyone who wants to conquer fears of public speaking may practice in a supportive environment at 7 p.m., every Wednesday. Email davidmegaw@comcast.net. 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. 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 St. Francis in the Foothills Church. 4625 E. River Road. 299-9063. 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 at 10 a.m., the second Friday of every month. Call 298-6542, or email deljonesaz@cox.net. 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. FARMERS’ MARKETS Alan Ward Downtown Mercado: south lawn of the Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, October through May; 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, June through September (339-4008). Arivaca Farmers’ Market: 16800 Arivaca Road, Arivaca, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday. Bear Canyon Open Air Market: northwest corner of Tanque Verde Road and the Catalina Highway, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (982-2645). Bisbee Farmers’ Market: Vista Park in the Warren section, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-227-5060). Community Food Bank: 3003 S. Country Club Road, 8 a.m. to noon, Tuesday (622-0525). Corona de Tucson Farmers’ Market: 15921 S. Houghton Road, Vail, 8 a.m. to noon, Friday (870-1106). Douglas Farmers’ Market: Raul Castro Park, between D and E avenues, downtown Douglas, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday (520-805-5938 or 520-805-0086). El Presidio Plaza Park Mercado: 115 N. Church Ave., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday (339-4008). El Pueblo Farmers’ Market: El Pueblo Neighborhood Center parking lot, SW corner of Irvington Road and Sixth Avenue, 8 to 11 a.m., Saturday (882-3304). Elgin Farmers’ Market: Kief-Joshua Vineyards, 370 Elgin Road, Elgin, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, May through October (520-455-5582). Farmers’ Markets at La Posada Green Valley: 665 S. Park Centre Ave., Green Valley, is 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Monday (603-8116). Farmers’ Market at Voyager RV Resort: 8701 S. Kolb Road, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday (603-8116). Friday Farmers’ Market at Broadway Village: 2926 E. Broadway Blvd., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday (603-8116). Green Valley Village Farmers’ Market: 101 S. La CaĂąada Drive, Green Valley, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday (4903315). Marana Farmers’ Market: 13395 N. Marana Main Street, Marana, 3 to 6 p.m., Tuesday (882-3313). Metal Arts Village Saturday Morning Market: 3230 N. Dodge Blvd., 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday (326-5657). Oracle Farmers’ Market: 2805 N. Triangle L Ranch Road, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday (896-2123). Oro Valley Farmers’ Market: Town Hall at the corner of La CaĂąada Drive and Naranja Road, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (882-2157). Plaza Palomino: 2970 N. Swan Road, winter: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; summer: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (plazapalomino.com). Rincon Valley Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market: 12500 E. Old Spanish Trail, winter: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; summer: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (591-2276). St. David Farmers’ Market: St. David High School, 70 E. Patton St., St. David, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May through October (520-221-1074). St. Philip’s Plaza Saturday Farmers’ Market: St. Philip’s Plaza, southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (603-8116). Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market: Mercado San AgustĂn, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday (622-0525). San Manuel Farmers’ Market: 801 McNab Parkway, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-212-2337). Sierra Vista Farmers’ Market: corner of Carmichael Avenue and Willcox Drive, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday; and corner of Charleston Road and Highway 90 bypass, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday (520-678-2638). Sunsites Farmers’ Market: Shadow Mountain Golf Course, 1105 Irene St., Sunsites, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-826-1250). Tucson Farmers’ Market: St. Philip’s Plaza, southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue, winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Sunday (8822157). Tucson Farmers’ Market at Jesse Owens Park: Jesse Owens Park, 400 S. Sarnoff Drive, winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Friday (9189811). Tucson Farmers’ Market at Maynards: Maynards Market and Kitchen, 400 N. Toole Ave., winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (545-0577). Tucson’s Green Art and Farmers’ Market: 8995 E. Tanque Verde Road, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (982-2645). Ventana Plaza Farmers’ Market: 5455 N. Kolb Road, 3 to 7 p.m., Tuesday (603-8116). 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. JIGSAW PUZZLE EXCHANGE Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Exchange your jigsaw puzzle for a different one at the Jigsaw Puzzle Exchange display. 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BUSINESS & FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR NATIVE-AMERICAN ART AND CRAFT VENDORS Casino del Sol. 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 3449435. Travois Inc. seeks vendors for the Travois Indian Country Affordable Housing and Economic Development Conference, Monday through Thursday, Sept. 10 through 13. Space rental of $125 includes a six-foot table and buffet lunches with conference attendees on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Call (816) 994-8970, or email Eden@travois.com for vendor information. Visit travois.com for information about the conference. COMMUNITY-HEALTH MICROGRANT The Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation offers a $1,000 grant each month in 2012 to support a unique project in community health. Visit tomf.org for more information and to submit proposals. DROP-IN JOB-COUNSELING Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A job counselor is available to answer questions and offer help with resume-writing, online job-searching, email accounts, Internet-searching and more from noon to 3 p.m., every Monday; and from 9 a.m. to noon, every Thursday, in the second-floor Catalina Room; free. Walkins are welcome. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov to register or for more infor. JOB-SEEKERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; GATHERING Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Former executive recruiter Beth Cole facilitates a gathering for adult job-seekers from 3 to 4 p.m., every Friday; free. LGBTS ALLIANCE FUND Grant requests are now being solicited for 2013. Grants are awarded for a wide range of projects, often at critical times in a programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development. Past grantees include Ethica LGBT Adoptions, Kore Press, Pan Left Productions, Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona, Wingspan and dozens of others. For information about the fundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grant-request process for 2013, visit alliancefund.org. The deadline for submissions is Monday, Sept. 24.
FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK CINEMA LA PLACITA Cinema La Placita. La Placita Village, Broadway Boulevard and Church Avenue. 326-5282. Classic movies are shown outdoors at 7:30 p.m., every Thursday, through Oct. 25; $3 includes popcorn. Aug. 30: Sleuth (1972). Visit cinemalaplacita.com for a schedule and parking info. MUPPETS, MUSIC AND MAGIC: A MONTH-LONG CELEBRATION OF JIM HENSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LEGACY Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. The Loftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s month-long celebration concludes on Thursday, Aug. 30, at 7 p.m.: Jim Henson and Friends: Inside the Sesame Street Vaults. $8, $6 child 12 and younger or member. Visit loftcinema.com for a complete schedule and to reserve tickets. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE PRESIDENCY Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Kate Kenski of the UA Department of Communication provides context in introductions and closing discussions for a series of popular films about the American presidency and presidential elections, at 3:30 p.m., every Wednesday, from through Oct. 24; $5 each film. Sept. 5: The Best Man. Sept. 12: The Candidate. Sept. 19: All the Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Men. Sept. 26: Bob Roberts. Oct. 3: Primary Colors. Oct. 10: W. Oct. 17: The Ides of March. Oct. 24: The American President. Visit loftcinema.com for details and a complete calendar of screenings.
UPCOMING BORDERLANDS COMMUNITY FILM SERIES Sam Lena-South Tucson Branch Library. 1607 S. Sixth Ave. 594-5265. Maquilapolis: City of Factories, a documentary about workers fighting environmental hazards, is screened from 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8; free. Call 626-0189, or email michellek@email.arizona.edu. LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Visit loftcinema.com for a complete list of forthcoming films and to reserve tickets. Saturday, Sept. 8, at 10 a.m.: Bag It, a comic documentary about the life of plastic bags; free. Saturday, Sept. 8, at 7 p.m.: Grease SingAlong; $5 to $9 includes a Grease goodie bag. Tuesday,
Sept. 11, at 7 p.m.: General Education, followed by a Q&A with director and co-writer Tom Morris and producer and co-writer Elliot Feld; $5 to $9. SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES St. Francis in the Foothills. 4625 E. River Road. 2999063. Bliss screens following a 5:30 p.m. potluck supper on Sunday, Sept. 9; free. When a young woman named Meryem is raped, her village custom requires that she be killed in order for the dishonor to be expunged from her family. A young man named Cemal is given the task, but at the last moment has doubts.
GARDENING EVENTS THIS WEEK ORGANIC GARDENERS COMPOSTING EXHIBIT Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Tucson Organic Gardeners members answer questions in the composting-demonstration area from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 1 and 15; and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the first and fourth Saturday of every month through May 18, 2013; $8, $4 age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. After Sunday, Sept. 30, admission is $13, $4 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. TUCSON AFRICAN VIOLET SOCIETY The East Side Night Meeting of the Tucson African Violet Society gathers from 7 to 9 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades, 201 N. Jessica Ave. The East Side Day Meeting takes place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., the second Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades. The Northwest Day Meeting takes place from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the second Thursday of every month, at The Inn at the Fountains at La Cholla, 2001 W. Rudasill Road.
OUT OF TOWN PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS FRUIT CLASSES Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Highway 60. Superior. (520) 689-2811. Author Jean Groen teaches how to harvest and cook prickly pear fruit in season, at 10:30 a.m., Monday, Sept. 3; $9, $4.50 ages 5 through 12, free younger child, includes admission. Visit azstateparks.com for a video tour and more information.
UPCOMING BISBEE AND SIERRA VISTA GARDEN TOURS A self-guided tour of established gardens in the historic district and a variety of gardens in the Warren district of Bisbee begins at 10 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 8; $15. Tickets and maps are available where the tour originates, in front of the Mining and Historical Museum at 5 Copper Queen Plaza. Highlights include water-saving techniques, rain-harvesting and straw-bale gardening. Musicians perform at several garden stops. Call 432-3554 for more information. A tour of low-water landscapes and xeriscape gardens takes place at 9 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 9 in Sierra Vista; free. Call 458-8278, ext. 2141, or visit waterwise.arizona.edu for reservations. WATER-GARDENING POSSIBILITIES Tucson Koi and Water Gardens. 3372 N. Dodge Blvd. 323-5462. The nonprofit Tucson Water Gardeners hosts a self-guided tour of eight water gardens in and around Tucson from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 8 and 9; free. Gardens range from professionally designed vistas to smaller residential ponds, and include a wide selection of aquatic plants. Call 760-5565 for more information. WATERSMART LANDSCAPES FOR HOMEOWNERS Pima County Cooperative Extension. 4210 N. Campbell Ave. 626-5161. Classes are free; call to register. Saturday, Sept 8, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., “Residential Drip Irrigation”; and from 9 to 11 a.m., “Rainwater Harvesting.” Visit ag.arizona.edu/pima/ smartscape for more information about all classes in the series.
ANNOUNCEMENTS COMMUNITY GARDEN Volunteers are sought to help grow vegetables and herbs for EON’s youth meals and other LGBT programs in a large bed in the UA Community Garden at Highland Avenue and Mabel Street; free. Call 626-1996 or 6263431 for more information. PLANT LOW-COST TREES FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY Customers of Tucson Electric Power Company qualify for native shade trees to plant within 15 feet of their homes
on the west, south or east side. Trees are $8 including delivery. Call 791-3109, or visit tucsonaz.gov/tcb/tft. TOURS OF THE TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. “Exploring Tucson Botanical Gardens” is offered at 10 a.m., every Friday. The “Birds and Gardening Tour” is given at 10 a.m., the first and fourth Wednesday of every month. A “Historical Tour of the Gardens” is given at 10 a.m., and the “Butterfly Walk” is offered at 11 a.m., the third Thursday of every month. Tours are included with admission; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member. After Sunday, Sept. 30, admission is $13, $4 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.Visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.
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UPCOMING ADULT LOSS OF HEARING ASSOCIATION (ALOHA) Santa Catalina Roman Catholic Church. 14380 N. Oracle Road. Dr. John Cobb presents “Wear Your Hearing Aids or Your Brain Will Rust” at a meeting of ALOHA from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 6; free. ALOHA meets the first Thursday of every month through May 2, 2013. Call 795-9887 for more information. SUICIDE-PREVENTION GATEKEEPER TRAINING Parkwise Conference Room. 110 E. Pennington St. 791-5071. A training session provides a positive way to provide support, a framework for working with LGBTQ and other youth in a culturally aware manner, and training in how to question, persuade and refer someone who may be contemplating suicide, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 11; free. Call 624-1779, ext. 117, or email jsmith@saaf.org for more information.
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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. Sept. 1: useful clay vessels inspired by the Pre-Columbian collection. TEENZONE MOVIE AND POPCORN Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 229-5300. Teens enjoy eating popcorn and sitting in loungers to watch a movie from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the first Saturday of every month; free. Beverages and other snacks are available in vending machines. TUCSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELING EXHIBIT Pima County Juvenile Court. 2225 E. Ajo Way. 7402000. An exhibit of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds closes 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.
OUT OF TOWN 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., Sunday, Sept. 2. Visit huachucamountains.org for more information.
UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL DAY OF LITERACY Rudy Garcia Park. 5001 S. Nogales Highway. Games, food, music and dance performances by school and community groups, free books to take home and a tour of the Pima County Public Library Bookmobile celebrate and encourage literacy, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8; free. Email mulrich@pima.edu. KIDS CREATE Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. Kids Create, an ongoing series of workshops for children, takes place from 1 to 4 p.m., the second Saturday of every month. Each workshop produces a different project. On Sept. 8, children make mini cotton candy. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday; $9, $8 senior or military, $6 age 4 to 17, $6 adults on Thursday through Dec. 27, free younger child. Visit theminitimemachine.org for more information. THESE KIDS GOT TALENT Foothills Mall. 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 742-7191. Dozens of children ages 3 to 18 showcase their talent from 2 to 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; free. Performers are chosen by application; the first 20 applicants in each of three age categories will perform. Call 2931225, or visit www.kustars.com for details. TUCSON GIRLS CHORUS OPEN HOUSE AND ENROLLMENT Tucson Girls Chorus Music Center. 4020 E. River Road. 577-6064. Girls of any age who like to sing can learn about opportunities with any of five choral groups in the Tucson Girls Chorus at an open house from 10 to 11:30
a.m., Saturday, Sept. 8 and 15; free. Families also can call to arrange an appointment. Visit tucsongirlschorus. org for more information. TUCSON’S RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELING EXHIBIT Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. An exhibit of children’s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds opens Thursday, Sept. 6, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free.
ANNOUNCEMENTS BOOKWORM CLUB Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Families enjoy storytime and a related hands-on activity in the Children’s Discovery Garden, from 10 to 11 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 1, Oct. 6 and Nov. 3; $13, $4 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel includes admission to the gardens. Visit tucsonbotanical.org. 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.
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OUTDOORS EVENTS THIS WEEK BIRDING AT SWEETWATER WETLANDS Sweetwater Wetlands. 2667 W. Sweetwater Drive. 7914331. Birding expert Doris Evans leads a walk for ages 12 and older to see a variety of wintering and migrating birds and raptors along easy trails, from 8 to 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 5; free, but reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more information.
UPCOMING CELEBRATE BATS Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. Celebrate the International Year of the Bat and learn about Mexican free-tailed, Western mastiff, hoary and other bats that live in the park, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information.
HONEY BEE CANYON PARK BIRDING WALK Honey Bee Canyon Park. 13880 N. Rancho Vistoso Blvd. Oro Valley. 877-6000. Birding expert Marjorie Flory guides a walk for ages 12 and older to spot Gambel’s quail, verdins, gnatcatchers and other birds common to the Southwest desert, from 7 to 9 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 8; free. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for more information.
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 one-hour 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. BEGINNER BIRD WALK Mason Audubon Center. 8751 N. Thornydale Road. 744-0004. The Tucson Audubon Society hosts an introduction to birdwatching for all ages with a casual, guided stroll through the saguaro-ironwood desert at 8 a.m., every Saturday; free. Call 629-0510, ext. 7011. CONNECTING PLANTS AND PEOPLE Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. A guided walk explores the edible and useful plants growing along the trails, at 10 a.m., every Saturday; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org for more information. MOUNT LEMMON SKYCENTER SKYNIGHTS PROGRAM Mount Lemmon SkyCenter. 9800 Ski Run Road. 6268122. A peek through the largest public viewing telescope in the Southwest is just part of a five-hour tour of the universe, from 5 to 10 p.m., nightly; $48 Monday through Thursday, $60 Friday through Sunday, $30 student. Reservations are required. 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. 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. 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. WAKE UP WITH THE BIRDS Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. Spot wetland birds, hummingbirds, songbirds and raptors on a walk from 8 to 9:30 a.m., every Thursday; free. Binoculars are available. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information.
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fun activities for kids, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., the second Sunday of every month; freewill donation. Art projects, mindful snacking, brief guided meditation, jataka tales and charitable projects are among activities. A concurrent meditation takes place for adults. IONS MONTHLY PRESENTATION Unity of Tucson. 3617 N. Camino Blanco. 577-3300. Carla Wood presents “The Questions We Live By” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 7; free. The talk covers a model of spiritual evolution. Call 399-8285, or visit ionstucson.org for more information. SERVICE COMMEMORATING SEPT. 11, 2001 Catalina United Methodist Church. 2700 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-4296. The Tucson Chaplains Association hosts a service of peace, grace, healing and forgiveness in remembrance of the victims, the survivors and the related tragic events, from noon to 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 11.
ANNOUNCEMENTS BHAGAVAD GITA STUDY Govinda’s Natural Foods Buffet and Boutique. 711 E. Blacklidge Drive. 792-0630. Shared reading and indepth study of the ancient Indian text takes place from 6:30 to 8 p.m., every Wednesday; free. A free light meal follows. Visit govindasoftucson.com for more info. BUDDHIST MEDITATION A ND PRACTICAL TEACHINGS A discussion about Buddhist meditation and philosophy takes place at 10 a.m., every Sunday, and 7 p.m., every Thursday, at Kadampa Meditation Center, 1701 E. Miles St. A lesson also is given at 7 p.m., every Tuesday, at A Rich Experience, 7435 N. Oracle Road, No. 101; 7 p.m., every Friday, at Sunrise Chapel, 8421 E. Wrightstown Road; and 6:30 p.m., the first Tuesday of every month, at Golf Links Library, 9640 E. Golf Links Road; freewill donation. Call 441-1617, or visit meditationintucson.org for more information. DESERT RAIN ZEN Little Chapel of All Nations. 1052 N. Highland Ave. 623-1692. Weekly sits are held for all levels of meditators from 3:15 to 5 p.m., every Sunday; free. The
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. LGBTQ BUDDHIST MEDITATION AND PRACTICE Three Jewels. 314 E. Sixth St. 303-6648. Two 20-minute silent-sitting meditations, readings from Buddhist spiritual texts and discussion take place from 10 to 11:45 a.m., every Sunday; free-will donation. Bring a pillow or cushion. Call 884-4691 or 306-4691 for more information. 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. SUNDAY FEAST AND FESTIVAL Govinda’s Natural Foods Buffet and Boutique. 711 E. Blacklidge Drive. 792-0630. Mantra chanting takes place at 5:30 p.m., every Sunday, followed by a spiritual discourse at 6 p.m., and a ceremony consisting of music, chanting and dancing at 6:30 p.m.; free. An eight-course vegetarian feast is served at 7 p.m.; $3. Call or visit govindasoftucson.com for more information. TIBETAN BUDDHIST PRACTICE HOUR Little Chapel of All Nations. 1052 N. Highland Ave. 623-1692. Meditation instruction and practice, chant-
ing 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 mental-health awareness, from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m., every Tuesday and Saturday; free. Visit tucsonbuddhistcenter. org for more information. 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.
SPORTS EVENTS THIS WEEK UA FOOTBALL UA Stadium. University of Arizona. Home games are at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, unless otherwise noted. Sept. 1: Toledo. Sept. 8: Oklahoma State. Sept. 15: South Carolina State. Sept. 29, time TBA: Oregon State. Oct. 20, Family Weekend, time TBA: Washington. Oct. 27, time TBA: USC. Nov. 10, Homecoming, time TBA: Colorado. Friday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m.: Arizona State. Visit primesport.com/d/ arizonafootball for tickets; $15 to $60.50. Visit arizonawildcats.com for more information.
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.
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.
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Battle Between Writers BY LAURA C.J. OWEN, lowen@tucsonweekly.com ive Theatre Workshop is presenting a quiet but provocative two-person show, Collected Stories, about a conflict between an accomplished writer and her protĂŠgĂŠe. The work of prolific playwright Donald Margulies, (a Pulitzer Prize-winner in 2000 for Dinner With Friends), Collected Stories was originally produced in the late 1990s, eventually making its way to Broadway in 2010. Like most of Marguliesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; works, this dialogue-heavy drama has a small cast of characters who go about ordinary life, chatting earnestly and with sharp realism about life, love, art and relationships. On paper, Marguliesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plays can be boring; the clever talk goes on and on, and nothing much happens. But when his work is performed by capable actors, something extraordinary takes place: Strong currents of emotion emerge from behind all the chatter, and you realize that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve witnessed pivotal changes in the charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives. Director Sheldon Metz has done well with his casting in LTWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of Collected Stories. Veteran Tucson actor Cynthia Jeffery plays Ruth Steiner, a respected New York shortstory writer and professor. Samantha Cormier takes on the part of Lisa, a young student and aspiring writer. Jefferyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance as Ruth starts out solidly; you absolutely believe that this is a deeply intelligent, somewhat eccentric writer. But she really brings it in the final scene, where Ruth is required to be vulnerable on every levelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; physically, emotionally and intellectually. Jeffery manages to convey Ruthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pain without compromising the characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s innate strength and stubbornness. Young Cormier has been a large presence around town this past season, acting in two
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Beowulf Alley productions, as well as LTWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Harvey, on top of directing a musical for Arizona Onstage. I occasionally find her acting to be a little broad, but I admire the distinctiveness of her characterizations: Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nearly unrecognizable in the persona of each new character. To create Lisa, Cormier embodies a jittery physical presence. Her Lisa bounces around the stage, playing with her hair, unable to contain either her admiration for Ruth or her own burgeoning ambition. In a series of scenes that take place throughout the 1990s (a distinctive marker is the charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; discussions of the Woody Allen-Mia Farrow sex scandal involving Farrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adopted daughter), the relationship between the two women evolves from teacher-student to deep friendshipâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;before finally shifting into a fierce rivalry. The central conflict in the play has to do with the relationship between art and life: How much can we infer about writersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; personal lives from their work? Is it ethical for them to take material from the lives of their friends and family? The narrative arc is hinted at heavily as the women discuss the stories theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re writing. At one point, while they argue over the plot of one of Ruthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories, they strongly suggest what is to come late in the play. I heard someone next to me loudly whisper, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foreshadowing.â&#x20AC;? Yes, indeed it isâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too much of it. What happens is quite predictable, and it takes a long time to get there. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all that clever talking to be done, you see. While Marguliesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; many chatty scenes serve to round out the characters, and help us come to care about them, they do go on for quite a while. Director Metz and his actors make every effort to keep the blocking lively and engaged, despite the fact that reading and writing are
Samantha Cormier and Cynthia Jeffery in Live Theatre Workshopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Collected Stories. inherently sedentary activities. Still, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to be nearly superhuman not to get a little restless after 2 1/2 hours of people talking about books that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist. The actors make full use of the stage, and interact a great deal with the set, which almost becomes a third character. Resident set-designers Richard and Amanda Gremel have created a beautiful, cluttered Manhattan apartment for Ruth, full of books and piles of paper that she stubbornly refuses to move. We see Ruth and Lisaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shifting relationship play out in the charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tussles over the space and its objects. That explosive final scene, where Ruth confronts Lisa with an accusation, is worth the occasional mild tedium of some of the early scenes. Both Jeffery and Cormier play it with a potent mix of tenderness and outrage, and neither the play nor the production fully con-
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UPCOMING TWILIGHT TANGO MILONGA A free Argentine tango class from 7 to 8 p.m. is followed by a milonga, or tango dance party, the second Saturday of every month, at Café a la C’Art, 150 N. Main Ave.; and selected Sundays at the Viscount Suite Hotel, 4855 E. Broadway Blvd.; $10 requested donation. Dates at the Viscount Suite are Sept. 9, Oct. 7, Oct. 21, Oct. 28, Nov. 18, Nov. 25 and Dec. 30. Food and beverages are available for purchase, and visual artists showcase their work. Call 290-5699 for more information. Food and beverages are available for purchase. ZUZI! DANCE COMPANY FREE CLASSES Valencia Branch Library. 202 W. Valencia Road. 5945390. Yoga, hip hop and belly-dancing are taught in a three-part series of dance classes, from 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8 through 22; free.
ANNOUNCEMENTS 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 TANGO LESSONS AND DANCE Casa Vicente Restaurante Español. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. A free class for beginners (no partner necessary) takes place from 7 to 8 p.m., each Wednesday; and tango-dancing continues from 8 to 10 p.m.; free. Call 245-6158 for information. FREE ZUMBA CLASS Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Instructor Leslie Lundquist leads a workout for all skill levels, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., every Thursday; free. LET’S DANCE CLUB Tucson Women’s Club. 6245 E. Bellevue Road. 2963142. A group meets for ballroom dancing at 7 p.m., every Wednesday; $10, $8 members. No partner necessary. Call 623-2384 for more information. SCOTTISH COUNTRY-DANCE LESSONS Vineyard Church Hall. 625 N. Second Ave. 791-9971. Learn the social dancing of Scotland in a fun and informal environment from 7 to 9:15 p.m., every Thursday; free. The location changes in September. Call 3198468 or 203-7987 for more information.
MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK 17TH STREET MUSIC 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 7147. Free concerts take place from noon to 2 p.m., Sept. 1: Black Cat Bones. Visit seventeenthstreetmarket. com for more information. 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., unless otherwise noted. Visit casinodelsol.com for tickets and more information. Saturday, Sept. 1: Working Man’s Jam with Foghat, Great White, Slaughter and Lynch Mob; $10 to $30. Wednesday, Sept. 5: Crosby, Stills and Nash; $22 to $77. Friday, Sept. 7: Neal McCoy; $25 to $65. Saturday, Sept. 8: Ramon Ayala; $40. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m.: Def Leppard, Poison with Lita Ford; $48
to $150. Friday, Sept. 14: Alejandro Fernandez; $50 to $150. Friday, Sept. 21: Marco Antonio Solis; $50 to $150. Saturday, Sept. 22: Tejano Showcase; $15. Wednesday, Sept. 26: Brit Floyd, a Pink Floyd tribute; $50 to $150. Friday, Sept. 28: War; $25 to $40. FREE COMMUNITY SING First Christian Church. 740 E. Speedway Blvd. 6248695. Folksinger Ted Warmbrand leads a community sing from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 1, in the little chapel; free. No songbooks or instruments are permitted; only voices and goodwill are required. ST. PHILIP’S FRIENDS OF MUSIC CONCERTS St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Concerts are held at 2 p.m., Sunday, in the sanctuary unless otherwise noted; freewill donation. Visit stphilipstucson.org for more information. Sept. 2: Robert Williams presents The Romantic Bassoon in the Bloom Music Center. Sept. 9: Titan Valley Warheads, bluegrass. TUCSON JAZZ SOCIETY Loews Ventana Canyon Resort. 7000 N. Resort Drive. 299-2020. Saxophonist Jeff Kashiwa and vocalist Crystal Stark perform at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 2; $35, $25 member, $20 military and student with ID, $140 VIP table seats for two with two-drink minimum, $100 VIP table member. Call (800) 234-5117 for reservations; visit tucsonjazz.org for more information.
REVEILLE MEN’S CHORUS Rincon Congregational Church. 122 N. Craycroft Road. 745-6237. The chorus rehearses from 7 to 10 p.m., every Monday, and performs at community events throughout the year in addition to its own major concerts in May and December. Auditions take place year-round during rehearsals or by appointment. Call 304-1758, or email director@reveillechorus.org for an appointment. Visit reveillemenschorus.org for more information. SHAPE-NOTE SINGING Sonora Cohousing Common House. 501 E. Roger Road. 404-1988. Shape-note singing from The Sacred Harp takes place from 2 to 5 p.m., the first and third Saturday of every month; free. Copies of The Sacred Harp are available for loan or purchase. Call 743-1268, or visit tucsonfasola.org for more information. TUCSON MASTERWORKS CHORALE REHEARSALS Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church. 1200 N. Campbell Ave. 327-6521. Rehearsals take place from 7 to 9:15 p.m., every Monday. Visit tucsonmasterworkschorale.com for more information.
DESERT VOICES OPEN HOUSE AND REHEARSALS Water of Life MCC. 3269 N. Mountain Ave. 2929151. New, inquiring and returning singers gather for socializing, a presentation about Desert Voices, and an opportunity to sing at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 10 and 17; free. Call 791-9662, or visit desertvoices.org for more information. LAVA MUSIC Abounding Grace Church. 2450 S. Kolb Road. 747-3745. Shows are from 7 to 9 p.m. on selected Saturdays; $20, $15 advance. Visit lavamusic.org for tickets and more information. Sept. 8: X-Train Bluegrass Band. Sept. 15: Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements. Sept. 22: Wyatt Easterling. Sept. 29: Chuck Pyle. RHYTHM AND ROOTS CONCERT SERIES Plaza Palomino. 2960 N. Swan Road. 320-6344. All shows are at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7: The Wiyos, Americana from Brooklyn; $20, $18 advance. Friday, Sept. 14: Diunna Greenleaf, blues vocalist from Houston; $20, $18 advance. Friday, Sept. 28: Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers, blues harmonica; $23, $20 advance. Saturday, Sept. 29: John Gorka, singersongwriter; $25, $22 advance. Saturday, Oct. 27: Incendio, Latin fusion and world rhythms; $20, $18 advance, $12 student with ID. Call (800) 594-8499, or visit rhythmandroots.org for tickets. Call 319-9966 for more information.
ANNOUNCEMENTS BLUEGRASS MUSIC JAM SESSIONS The Desert Bluegrass Association hosts free public jam sessions monthly. The first Sunday, 3 to 5 p.m.: Udall Recreation Center, 7200 E. Tanque Verde Road, 2961231. The first Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m.: Rincon Market, 2315 E. Sixth St., 296-1231. The third Sunday, 3 to 5 p.m.: Music and Arts Center, 8320 N. Thornydale Road, No. 150-170, 579-2299. The third Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m.: Pinnacle Peak Restaurant, 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road, 296-0911. The fourth Sunday, 4 to 6 p.m.: Thirsty’s Neighborhood Grill, 2422 N. Pantano Road, 885-6585. Call the phone number provided for each venue for more information. CALL FOR SINGERS St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Singers are sought for St. Philip’s Canterbury Choir, a semi-professional ensemble of about 25 voices that leads worship on Sunday mornings. Skilled vocalists in all four parts are invited to audition Thursday, Aug. 30. Call 299-6421, ext. 32, or email jeffrey.campbell@stphilipstucson.org to schedule an audition. CALL FOR VOCALISTS UA School of Music. 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655. The University Community Chorus is open to new adult and high school singers for the fall season. No audition is required, but music-reading experience is helpful. Rehearsals are from 7 to 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, through Nov. 27. Please arrive early. Registration and music are $75 for the season. Contact conductor Elizabeth Schauer at 626-8936, or email erschaue@email. arizona.edu. DESERT VOICES Water of Life MCC. 3269 N. Mountain Ave. 292-9151. New members are invited to rehearse at 7 p.m., every Monday. Call 791-9662, or visit desertvoices.org.
CAFÉ BOHEMIA Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Under the auspices of Arizona Theatre Company, playwrights workshop new works in readings in the lounge; $5. Saturday, Sept. 8, at 8 p.m.: Kill Shakespeare by Anthony Del Col, based on the comic-book series Kill Shakespeare: The Live Stage Reading. 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 except October; $7. Sept. 6: At the Movies. Nov. 1: Religion: God, Allah, Yahweh, No Way. Dec. 6: The End of the World As We Know It. ALS interpretation is provided. Beverages are available for sale. Anyone can ask to tell their story; the six are chosen in advance. Call 730-4112, or visit storyartsgroup.org to sign up or get more information. THE ROGUE THEATRE The Rogue Theatre. 300 E. University Blvd. 551-2053. Journey to the West opens with a preview on Thursday, Sept. 6, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 23. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday preview; 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 2 and 7:30 p.m., the last Saturday of the run; and 2 p.m., Sunday. Tickets are $20 to $30. Visit theroguetheatre.org for tickets and more info.
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GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. The ensemble’s goofy take on The Phantom of the Opera opens Thursday, Aug. 30, and continues through Sunday, Nov. 11. 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. Showtimes are subject to change. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com for reservations or more info. GASLIGHT THEATRE FAMILY CONCERTS The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Unless otherwise indicated, all shows take place at 7 p.m., Monday; $12 to $22. Sept. 3: A Tribute to Elvis and the Blues Brothers, with David Fanning, Charlie Hall and Mike Yarema. Sept. 10: Homeward Bound: The Best of Simon and Garfunkel with Mike Yarema and Walker Foard. Sept. 17: It’s Magic featuring Craig Davis and Myryka with Norm Marini. Sept. 24: The Original Wildcat Jass Band. Call or visit thegaslighttheatre.com for tickets and more information. INVISIBLE THEATRE Invisible Theatre. 1400 N. First Ave. 882-9721. Motherhood Out Loud, a portrayal written by a collaboration of several American writers, opens with a preview on Tuesday, Sept. 4, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 23. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Tuesday preview; 7:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $28, $18 preview. Call or visit invisibletheatre.com for tickets and more information. Rush tickets are available at half-price, one half-hour before each performance.
CONTINUING COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. A. A. Milne’s The Truth About Blayds continues through Sunday, Sept. 16. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, discounts available. Call or visit thecomedyplayhouse.com for tickets or more information. LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-4242. Collected Stories, which chronicles the relationship between two female writers, continues through Saturday, Sept. 22. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 in advance. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for tickets and more information. 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. Each show also features a headline act. Aug. 30: Andrew Horneman. Sept. 6: Gary Hood. Email mark@ttowntv.com to apply and for more information.
UPCOMING ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE UA Tornabene Theatre. 1303 E. University Blvd. 6211162. How I Learned to Drive opens Sunday, Sept. 9, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., weeknights and Saturday; and 1:30 p.m.,
STAND UP TO STOP VIOLENCE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Eric O’Shea heads a lineup including Tucson comics Elliot Glicksman, Nick Seivert, Gary Hood, Nancy Stanley, Tom Potter, Suzie Sexton, Joey G and a UA student selected in a competition, at a benefit for Emerge Center to Prevent Domestic Abuse and the Blair Charity Group, at 7 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 9; $15 and $25. VIP tickets include a reception, a meet-and-greet and refreshments; $50. David Fitzsimmons emcees. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for more information.
ANNOUNCEMENTS MAGICAL MYSTERY DINNER THEATER Magical Mystery Dinner Theater. 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. 624-0172. Murder at the Vampire’s Wedding, a 2 1/2-hour, interactive comedy whodunit that includes a three-course dinner, takes place most Fridays and Saturdays; $29 to $42, includes dinner. Doors open at 7 p.m. Call for reservations or more information.
ART OPENING THIS WEEK CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557. Deities, an exhibit of contemporary paintings and mixed-media works by Wallace Begay, opens with an artist’s talk about Navajo mythology from 6 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 1, followed by a reception until 10 p.m., and continues through Saturday, Sept. 29. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Visit contrerashouseoffineart.com for more information. THE DRAWING STUDIO The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947. Capturing Nature’s Light, a juried exhibit of works by the studio’s associates, opens Saturday, Sept. 1, and continues through Saturday, Sept. 29. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. An artists’ reception takes place from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8. JOEL D. VALDEZ MAIN LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. An exhibit of works by Tucson chapter members of the American Sewing Guild; mixed-media work by Jon Howe; and Cuadro Arte Latino Internacional, an exhibit celebrating Mexican Independence Day and Hispanic Heritage Month, open Saturday, Sept. 1, and continue through Sunday, Sept. 30. Models That Tell a Story: The Art of Dioramas and Vignettes, an exhibit of various types of models, runs through Thursday, May 31, 2013. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov for more information. KIRK-BEAR CANYON BRANCH Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. Abstract Mania: The Art of Mickey Eigen opens Saturday, Sept. 1, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free.
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LIONEL ROMBACH GALLERY Lionel Rombach Gallery. UA Campus, 1031 N. Olive Road. 626-4215. The sum of the sequence from then until now is not equal to here multiplied by there, a group exhibit representing a multidisciplinary approach to the concepts of place, opens Tuesday, Sept. 4, and continues through Wednesday, Sept. 12; free. MURPHEY GALLERY Murphey Gallery. St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. An exhibit of work by artists who are parishioners of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church opens with a reception at 12:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 2, and continues through Thursday, Oct. 4. Hours are 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. RAICES TALLER 222 ART GALLERY AND WORKSHOP Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335. Raices and Friends, an exhibit of work by members and friends of the gallery, opens Saturday, Sept. 1, and continues through Saturday, Oct. 6. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday; or by appointment; free. Call or visit raicestaller222.webs.com for more information. TEMPLE GALLERY Temple Gallery. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. Ann Simmons-Myers: Bikers opens Friday, Aug. 31, and continues through Tuesday, Oct. 16. A reception takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Call 622-2823, or e-mail info@ ethertongallery.com for more information. TOHONO CHUL PARK Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Water: An Exploration in Prints, an exhibition of works by members of the Arizona Print Group, opens Thursday, Aug. 30, and continues through Sunday, Nov. 11. An artists’ reception takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 25. An exhibit of contemporary ceramics runs through Sunday, Oct. 21. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org for more information. WOMANKRAFT WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Mosaics and Collage opens with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 1, and continues through Saturday, Oct. 27. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free.
CONTINUING ART INSTITUTE OF TUCSON Art Institute of Tucson. 5099 E. Grant Road. 3182700. Eight X Ten, an exhibit of student photography, digital images, animation stills, fashion- and interiordesign illustrations, and other original art, all created to fit in an 8-by-10-inch frame, continues through Friday, Sept. 28. 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. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PAVILION GALLERY UA Medical Center South Campus. 2800 E. Ajo Way. 874-2000. Meditations, a series of large-scale photographic abstract works by Tucsonan Pete Trexler, continues through Monday, Nov. 26. An artist’s reception takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 6. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1:30 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. BICAS ART ANNEX BICAS Art Annex. 44 W. Sixth St., No. 1D. 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. 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. GEORGE STRASBURGER GALLERY AND STUDIO George Strasburger Gallery and Studio. 172 E. Toole Ave. 882-2160. An exhibit of new paintings by George Strasburger and photographs by Alfonso Elia continues through Saturday, Sept. 8, when a closing reception is held from 7 to 10 p.m. Regular hours are from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Saturday. Visit georgestrasburger.com and alfonsoelia.com for more information.
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LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery. PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6942. Desert Initiative: Looking Across the Border/Iniciativa del Desierto: Mirando a Través de la Frontera continues through Friday, Oct. 5. On Thursday, Sept. 13, a gallery talk takes place from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.; a reception takes place from 5 to 7 p.m.; and a related program of videos and performance, Arizona Between Nosotros: Throwing Up Clouds, is staged in the Recital Hall at 6 p.m. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday and Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday; and before most evening performances in the Center for the Arts, where the gallery is housed; free. The gallery is closed Monday, Sept. 3, for Labor Day. Visit pima.edu/ cfa for more information. MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFÉ Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café. 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. An exhibit of Karen Bellamy’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 information. QUANTUM ART GALLERY Quantum Art Gallery. 505 W. Miracle Mile, No. 2. 9077644. In Finem in Principio, an exhibit of works exploring the past and future by Nicole Carter and Clayton Schwarder, continues through Thursday, Nov. 29. Hours are 3 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. RITA WATTERS ART GALLERY AND CRAFTERS GIFT SHOP Rita Watters Art Gallery and Crafters Gift Shop. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road, No. 27. 777-7034. An exhibit of Rita Watters’ art and photography depicting stormy Arizona skies continues through Saturday, Sept. 15. Hours are 3:30 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and 12:30 to 8:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. 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 a buffet breakfast, guest speakers, networking, socializing, promotion opportunities and critiques by qualified experts; $13, $10 member. Saturday, Sept. 1: Lou Maestas discusses the subtractive oil rubout technique. Visit southernazartsguild.org, or call 574-6966 for more information. TINY TOOLE GALLERY Tiny Toole Gallery. 19 E. Toole Ave. 319-8477. Sculpture, painting and contemporary bronze works are displayed from 8 p.m. to midnight, the first Saturday of every month; free. TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Flights of Fancy, a garden-wide display of decorated bird houses of all shapes and sizes, continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. Many of the bird houses are for sale and may be picked up at the end of the exhibit. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. After Sunday, Sept. 30, admission is $13, $4 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information about the exhibit and the many bird-related classes and activities taking place. TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. 573-8100. Flight, Sight and Watermelons, an exhibit of watercolor paintings on paper by Catharine Kim Woodin, continues through Saturday, Sept. 8, in the Main Gallery. Arizona Summer Skies, an exhibit of laser prints on aluminum by Lynn Rae Lowe, is 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. TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL Tucson Pima Arts Council. 100 N. Stone Ave., No. 303. 624-0595. An exhibit of “broadsides,” writings published on a single sheet, continues through Friday, Sept. 28. The works are drawn from the archives of Tucson’s Chax Press and Kore Press, and from the UA Poetry Center. They include works by Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks and other well-known national and local authors. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Visit tucsonpimaartscouncil.org for more information.
LAST CHANCE CAFÉ PASSÉ Café Passé. 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. An exhibit of work by Wil Taylor closes Friday, Aug. 31; free. Hours
are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday through Tuesday; and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. Visit wiltaylor.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, closes 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. JOEL D. VALDEZ MAIN LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. An exhibit of paintings by Mahala Lewis, and an exhibit of blown-glass art by students of the Sonoran Glass School, ends Friday, Aug. 31. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov. JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY Joseph Gross Gallery. 1031 N. Olive Road, No. 108. 626-4215. Above and Below, an exhibition of work by Josh Keyes, closes Thursday, Aug. 30, when a closing reception takes place from 5 to 6:30 p.m. 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 Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. An exhibit of Wilberta Moulthrop’s horse paintings in acrylic and oil pastel closes 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. MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101. 615-3001. Western Roundup, an exhibit of Western paintings by Diana Madaras, closes Friday, Aug. 31. 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. 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, closes Saturday, Sept. 1. Summer hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and Monday by appointment; free. PORTER HALL GALLERY Porter Hall Gallery. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. The Patricia Katchur exhibit Desierto closes Monday, Sept. 3. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. TOHONO CHUL PARK Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Zoom In! A Photographic Exploration of Pollinators closes Saturday, Sept. 1. Hours are 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., daily, through Friday, Aug. 31; and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily, starting Saturday, Sept. 1; $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. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. The Members and Friends Photography Show closes Sunday, Sept. 2. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and Sunday.
OUT OF TOWN RLV GALLERY RLV Gallery. Rancho Linda Vista. Oracle. 896-2988. Art in August, a group exhibition of recent works, closes Friday, Aug. 31. Hours are 9 to 5 p.m., daily; free.
TUBAC PRESIDIO STATE HISTORIC PARK Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. An exhibit of art that tells the story of Juan Bautista de Anza’s 1775 expedition from Tubac to establish San Francisco closes 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 closes Friday, Aug. 31. 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.
UPCOMING DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Desert Hues of Autumn, an exhibit of work by local artists, opens Tuesday, Sept. 11, and continues through Sunday, Nov. 25. An artists’ reception takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14. 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. Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders, a collection of documentary photography, opens with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8, and continues through Saturday, Oct. 27. Danny Lyon gives a talk, and a screening of The Murderers takes place at 6 p.m., Friday, Oct. 5, at the Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Road, following a book-signing from 1 to 5 p.m. at Etherton Gallery. 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. Cheryl Molnar’s Subdivision #3, an installation exploring the paradox of suburban living, opens Thursday, Sept. 6, and continues through Wednesday, Jan. 9. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Visit cfa.arizona.edu/galleries for more information. TOHONO CHUL PARK Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. The Children’s Artwork Exhibition, featuring works by students from elementary through high school, opens Thursday, Sept. 6, and continues through Saturday, Nov. 3. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark. org for more information. TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Gardener by Day; Artist by Night, an exhibit of art works by staff, board members and family, opens Thursday, Sept. 6, and continues through Monday, Oct. 1, in the Porter Hall Gallery. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. UA POETRY CENTER UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. From Here and Far Away: Artist’s Books, Pages and Paintings, a one-woman show featuring the work of Beata Wehr, opens Monday, Sept. 10, and continues through Friday, Dec. 7. An artist’s reception takes place from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 24. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday and Thursday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit poetrycenter.arizona.edu for more information.
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SUBWAY GALLERY Subway Gallery. 30 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-9143. Southwest Scenes, featuring paintings by Lil Leclerk and photography by Radi Ann Porter, continues through Friday, Sept. 7; free. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday through Sunday. Visit subwaygallerybisbee.com for more information.
BICAS UNDERGROUND ART WORKSHOPS BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. BICAS offers workshops to create useful objects and art projects from recycled materials, from 5 to 8 p.m., every Tuesday; freewill donation. Materials are provided, or you may bring your own. Call 201-5011, or search for “Bicas Underground Art” on Facebook for information about each week’s project.
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.
BRIDGE GALLERY Bridge Gallery. 5425 N. Kolb Road, No. 113. 5774537. Southwest contemporary art is featured. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday. Visit bridgegallery.net for more information.
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VISUAL ARTS Tucson’s Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures celebrates its third birthday
Little Art, Big Detail he Art Institute of Chicago is a glorious treasure house of world art, teeming with Egyptian mummies and Renaissance sculptures, Roy Lichtenstein cartoon paintings and Georges Seurat’s famous A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. Even so, one of its most-popular exhibits is the Thorne Miniature Rooms in the basement, a collection of 68 pint-sized historical dioramas, furnished with exquisite scale-model furniture. More than half of the rooms were crafted by the late Eugene Kupjack, a superstar of the miniature world. It turns out that Tucson has two Kupjack creations of a quality to rival those at the Art Institute. Who knew? A Kupjack Georgian dining room and a re-creation of an 18th-century silversmith’s shop are among the most-prized objects at Tucson’s curiously named Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. Tourists and Tucson schoolchildren flock to inspect Kupjack’s shop, gleaming with tiny silver coffeepots and bowls, and candlesticks the size of a fingernail. Teensy carved chairs with red, tufted seats surround the long table in his dining room, and a miniature rose-colored Oriental rug adorns its wooden floor. The museum celebrates its third birthday this weekend. Despite its focus on the small, the place and the collection are big. The modernist building, designed by Swaim Associates Architects, is a labyrinth of curving rooms, running to nearly 16,000 square feet. The collection of miniatures—mostly, but not entirely, small houses— approaches 275 objects. (Pieces amassed by founders Pat and Walter Arnell form the bulk of the nonprofit museum’s holdings.) There’s a fun children’s fantasy wing, featuring a North Pole with elves cavorting in snow, and a magic tree inhabited by mice in Victorian costumes. A “world gallery” has reallife Thai spirit houses, children’s dollhouses and some contemporary miniatures that unfortunately go overboard in their celebration of conspicuous consumption. But the museum also has a serious purpose. It gets its confusing name, the Mini Time Machine, from the idea that historical objects—and modern replicas of historical architecture—can take visitors back in time, and around the world. Inadvertently, perhaps, visitors learn about changes in material culture and architecture, and about class and gender divides. The oldest work in the history gallery is a dark, rough-hewn toy kitchen, crafted in Nuremberg, Germany, around 1742. Miniature kitchens were popular playthings, but they also
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were used to teach little girls about their future duties. Made of plain wood, this one has none of the refinement of a Kupjack creation, but it’s charming in its own way. Itsy-bitsy copper pots are set upon the teensy-weensy shelves; toy pastries rest on a table; and leaded glass windows let in light at either end of the room. The stove has a flue for venting smoke to the outdoors—giving us some idea of the level of technology in an ordinary kitchen in the mid-18th century. And the costumes of the two dolls—the mistress is in a velvet dress, with the servant in an apron—speak to a social divide. This upstairs-downstairs theme was to become a staple of house miniatures in later centuries. The English Daneway House from 1775 is a so-called “baby house” or “cabinet house,” a plaything for wealthy adults meant to be opened up and shown off at dinner parties. The house itself is not too scale; it’s simply a backdrop for the prized miniatures inside. In the salon, a quartet of musicians are bent over their instruments, and in the library, tiny volumes of Shakespeare flank a marble fireplace. According to the museum’s Gentry Spronken, if you had strong eyes and a good magnifying glass, you could read the Bard’s complete works on the tiny pages. Later examples are more faithful to architecture. Around 1880, John Bellamy made a careful reproduction of his own home in Newton, Mass.—a classic New England white clapboard, graced with porches and multiple wings. Inside, a nursery and a grandparents’ chamber reflect a societal ideal of sheltering multiple generations under one roof. A telescope, perhaps representing Bellamy’s own scientific interests, gets a place of honor. More recently, in 1989, craftspeople Pat and Noel Thomas made an accurate miniature of the famed Gamble House, built in Pasadena by architects Greene and Greene at the turn of the last century. The pride of Pasadena’s architectural historic district, the Gamble house is here in all its woody splendor. By contrast, some miniaturists are intent on lionizing wealth and vulgarity, rather than fine design. Brooke Tucker’s “Yellow Rose of Texas” is an ode to the McMansion, and Charlotte Schoenbach’s “Chateau Meno,” all tapestries and gilt, is an homage to Versailles and the days of “let them eat cake.” It’s hard not to look at “Lagniappe,” the fantasy showpiece by Madelyn Cook in the front lobby, and not think of The Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield’s brilliant new documentary about the would-be biggest house in America—
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“Georgian Dining Room,” crafted by Eugene Kupjack. and the burdens of consumption. The billionaire owners of this new-world Versailles are determined to use their riches to fill their new palace with as much stuff as possible. Likewise, Cook’s imaginary owners of Lagniappe, a Tidewater, Virginia, plantation house, have searched the world for silks and furniture and paintings and silver. Cook pictures her merchant owner sailing the seven seas to buy what each room needs, like the satin bedspread on the four-poster in the bedroom, stitched with a golden royal crest, and the blue-velvet curtains. Sure, this is all in fun, and Cook has meticulously researched and re-created all these historical objects. Still, this is upstairs-downstairs with a vengeance. The black nanny in the front hallway tending to the white master’s children bears silent witness to the source of all this wealth: the unpaid labor of slaves. Why is it that most miniaturists seem to want to create only mansions? Few, it seems, care to duplicate the dwellings of the poor or the architecture that most of us live in. So it’s a relief to come across a set of Welsh quarrymen’s cottages, re-created in a model by Brian Long in 2001. The so-called Unicorn Cottages were designed by a Lord Newborough in 1810 to efficiently—and humanely—house men who spent their lives smashing rock. A single square building was cleverly divided into four twostory homes. Each had its own fireplace and chimney, and all four stacks were in the center of the building, helping to keep the heat inside. The architect paid attention to privacy, too, giving each house a separate front door, and locating each one on a different outside wall.
The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; noon to 4 p.m., Sunday 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive $9; $8 seniors and military; $6 ages 4 to 17; free ages 3 and younger; free admission all day on Saturday, Sept. 1 881-0606; www.theminitimemachine.org
On the other side of the globe, Shoichi Uchiyama created a small replica of the traditional thatched farmhouses that once peppered the countryside north of Tokyo. These worker houses were big enough to house the elderly along with the young, again reflecting an important cultural value. They were wood below, and thatch above, and Uchiyama followed the old techniques in crafting his miniature, using wood, mud and straw gleaned from the local soil. The house’s natural aesthetic is a welcome antidote to the more-is-more mantra. The thatch roofs were enormous, sloping organic affairs that rose and swelled likes waves in the sea. Flowers and plants used to sprout in the rooftop soil, and one 19th-century traveler poetically praised them as “gardens in the air”—architecture as aligned with nature as it’s possible to be. Margaret Regan reports on the arts twice monthly on the Buckmaster show, which airs from noon to 1 p.m., Monday through Friday, on KVOI AM 1030. Her next radio report will be broadcast live on Tuesday, Sept. 4.
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in Arizona: Photographs From the Collection, which showcases 20th-century photographs, continues through Sunday, Nov. 25. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. Visit centerforcreativephotography.org.
CALL FOR ARTISTS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Artists are sought for individual monthlong exhibits in the Porter Hall Gallery. Work should be two-dimensional with desert themes. Email an artist’s statement, a resume and either low-res digital images or a website link to communications@tucsonbotanical.org. Put “Porter Hall Gallery” in the subject line. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Aug. 31; selected artists are notified by Sunday, Sept. 30. Call 326-9686, ext. 35, for more information.
DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9191. Portraits of DeGrazia, an exhibit of photographs and paintings of Ted DeGrazia, including works by Louise Serpa and Thomas Hart Benton, continues through Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Ted DeGrazia Depicts the Life of Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino: 20 Oil Paintings is on permanent display. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; free. Call or visit degrazia.org.
CALL FOR ARTISTS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Artists are invited to submit life-sized dancing skeletons to line a pathway for a Feast With the Dearly Departed procession to be held Saturday, Oct. 27. The entry deadline is Friday, Aug. 31. Submit a .jpg of completed work or a detailed sketch along with a short biography to communications@tucsonbotanical. org. Call 326-9686, ext. 35, for more information.
FORT LOWELL MUSEUM Fort Lowell Museum. 2900 N. Craycroft Road. 8853832. An exhibit of artifacts from the centennial celebration at Bunker Hill Monument closes Friday, Aug. 31. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday; $3, $2 senior or student, free member, child younger than 12 or military family with ID. Bette Bunker Richards, historian of the Bunker Family Association, is curator of the Fort Lowell Museum.
CALL FOR ARTISTS BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. Submissions of art, jewelry or functional objects referencing bicycle-related topics or created from recycled bicycle parts and cycling gear are sought for ongoing commission-sales in the BICAS gallery, and for a benefit art auction Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1 and 2. Art should be ready to install, and may be dropped off at BICAS during business hours, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. The deadline for submissions is Monday, Nov. 26.
MINI-TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. The museum celebrates its third anniversary by offering free admission from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 1. Visit theminitimemachine.org for more information.
CALL FOR ARTISTS Tucson Arts Brigade seeks artists to produce work on 22-by-30-inch high quality paper that will be provided. The works will be included in a traveling art show and auctioned sometime in 2013. Artists receive 30 percent of the auction amount for their work. The submission deadline is Friday, Nov. 30. Email curator@ tucsonartsbrigade.org, or visit tucsonartsbrigade.org. CALL FOR ARTISTS AND ARTISANS WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. The deadline is Saturday, Oct. 20, to apply to sell art and craft items in WomanKraft’s annual holiday bazaar, which runs from Saturday, Nov. 3, through Saturday, Dec. 22. Items must sell for $1 to $100. Call 343-3107 to apply. GALLERY ROW ARTWALK Fine art, live music and wine-tastings are featured at several art galleries at the corner of Skyline Drive and Campbell Avenue, from 5 to 7 p.m., every Thursday. Call 615-3001, or visit tucsongalleryrow.com. VICTOR STEVENS STUDIO AND GALLERY IN THE DESERT Victor Stevens Studio and Gallery in the Desert. 14015 S. Avenida Haley. Sahuarita. 399-1009. Original work and giclee prints are shown from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., every Saturday; and by appointment. Visit victorstevensart.com for more information.
MUSEUMS EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA HISTORY MUSEUM Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. 100 Years: 100 Quilts continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. The quilts, created for the state’s centennial, depict Arizona landscapes, cultures, historical places and unique events. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, $4 senior or age 12 through 18, free younger child. ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. The museum salutes the Arizona Quilters Hall of Fame with two days of workshops, lectures, receptions and exhibits celebrating native quilting, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 21 and 22. Visit statemuseum.arizona. edu for a schedule. Hopi Quilts: Unique Yet Universal, an exhibit of 20 Hopi Quilts, continues through Monday, Sept. 24. Many Mexicos: Vistas de la Frontera continues through Friday, Nov. 30. Basketry Treasured, an exhibit of 500 pieces from the museum’s collection of Southwest American Indian basketry, which is the world’s largest, continues through Saturday, June 1, 2013. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, free youth younger than 18, active-duty military and their families, people with business in the building and everyone for public events. Visit statemuseum.arizona.edu for more information. CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. An exhibit for the Arizona Centennial, Made
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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 also runs through Sunday, Sept. 16. Hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; $8, free member, child younger than 17, veteran, active military and public-safety officers, and everyone the first Sunday of each month. Call or visit moca-tucson.org for more information. TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Arizona Doodle 4 Google, an exhibit of Arizona students’ entries in a Google doodle competition, closes 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. A closing party featuring a silent auction, barbecue supper and music by the Bill Ganz Western Band takes place from 5 to 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; $35, $30 Western Art Patrons member. Reservations are requested via payment by Thursday, Sept. 13. Call 577-5176 for reservations and more information. Regular gallery 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 information. UA MUSEUM OF ART UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567. Joshua Olivera’s Palimpsest: An Image of What Once Was closes 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, run through Sunday, Oct. 21. 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.
OUT OF TOWN AMERIND MUSEUM Amerind Museum. 2100 N. Amerind Road, Exit 318 off Interstate 10. Dragoon. (520) 586-3666. A Journey: The Art of Glory Tacheenie-Campoy, an exhibit of paintings, sculpture, mixed-media works and prints, continues through Wednesday, Oct. 31. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; $8, $7 senior, $5 age 12 through 18, free younger child. Visit amerind.org. FRONTIER PRINTING PRESS DEMONSTRATION Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Printer and teacher James Pagels demonstrates the 1858 Washington Press used to print Arizona’s first newspaper, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday, Sept. 3; $5, $2 age 7 to 13, free younger child, includes admission. Call or visit tubacpresidiopark.com for more information.
TUBAC PRESIDIO STATE HISTORIC PARK Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Sonoran Stories in Plants, an exhibit offering a Native American perspective to botanic art, opens Saturday, Sept. 1, and continues through Friday, Nov. 30. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $5, $2 age 7 to 13, free younger child. Call or visit tubacpresidiopark. com for more information.
ANNOUNCEMENTS ACADIA RANCH MUSEUM AND ORACLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Oracle Historical Society and Acadia Ranch Museum. 825 Mount Lemmon Road. Oracle. 896-9609. The Oracle Historical Society preserves artifacts and properties to educate and to encourage appreciation of the unique cultural-historical heritage of the community of Oracle and surrounding areas. Collections include the Huggett Family collection of ranching artifacts, a documents archive and many books on local history. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., each Saturday, with extended hours for special exhibits; free, donations welcome. ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY DOWNTOWN MUSEUM Arizona Historical Society Downtown Museum. 140 N. Stone Ave. 770-1473. Exhibits depict early Tucson businesses and homes. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; $3, $2 senior or age 12 to 18; free younger child, 2-for-1 admission the first Tuesday of every month. Visit arizonahistoricalsociety.org for more information. ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. A world-renowned botanical garden, zoo and natural-history museum that features a vast collection of native plants and wildlife. Walk into the lush hummingbird and mixed-species aviaries, or learn about the statuesque saguaro and other desert denizens via daily tours and bird walks. Activities for kids include a simulated fossil dig. Open every day, but hours vary by month; free child younger than 6; $13, $4.25 ages 6 to 12 from September to May; $9.50, $2.25 age 6 to 12 from June to August. Visit desertmuseum.org for more information. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM TUCSON Children’s Museum Tucson. 200 S. Sixth Ave. 7929985. Ongoing exhibits include Bodyology, a healthand-wellness exhibit, and Investigation Station, a playful, participatory exhibit about science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Unique events for kids take place monthly, and daily programs enrich early-childhood education. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $8, $6 ages 2 through 18, free younger child, $2 the second Saturday of every month. Closed Easter, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Visit childrensmuseumtucson.org for more information. INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE MUSEUM International Wildlife Museum. 4800 W. Gates Pass Road. 629-0100. The museum highlights more than 400 species of insects, mammals and birds from around the globe. Dioramas depict wild animals in their natural settings. Videos, interactive computers and hands-on exhibits promote wildlife appreciation and conservation. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $8, $3 ages 4 to 12, free younger child or member, $6 senior, student or military. Visit thewildlifemuseum.org. THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM The Jewish History Museum. 564 S. Stone Ave. 6709073. The museum is housed in the oldest Jewish house of worship in Arizona and features the history of Jewish pioneers in exhibits, artifacts, research, genealogy and story-telling. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; and noon to 3 p.m., Friday; $5, free age 17 and younger. Visit jewishhistorymuseum.org for more information. KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY Located atop the 6,875-foot summit of Kitt Peak, the observatory offers nightly viewing and an advanced overnight program that lets visitors stay on site, use advanced equipment and “explore some of North America’s most spectacular night skies.” (Stargazing by reservation only.) Open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily. Guided tours are at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; a single tour is $5.75, $3 age 7 to 12, free younger child, June through October; $7.75, $4 age 7 to 12, free younger child, November through May. Special rates for three tours are available. Night tours feature four hours of guided observing time and a box dinner; $48, $44 student, military or senior. Call 3188726, or visit noao.edu/kpno for more information. LA PILITA MUSEUM La Pilita Museum. 420 S. Main Ave. 882-7454. The museum exhibits the written and photographed history of Barrio Viejo and El Hoyo. The permanent exhibit is
Who Walked Here Before You, a collection of photos of Carrillo Gardens and Elysian Grove of the 1890s to 1920s. Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free, $2 requested donation. Call or visit lapilita.com for more information. MISSION SAN XAVIER DEL BAC San Xavier del Bac Mission. 1950 W. San Xavier Road. 294-2624. Founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino, the “White Dove of the Desert” continues to serve the religious life of the surrounding Tohono O’odham community. It is open to the public from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; free. Free tours are on the half-hour from 9:30 a.m., through 12:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except during special religious observances. Traditional O’odham food and crafts are available year-round. Call or visit sanxaviermission.org for more information. PIMA AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM Pima Air and Space Museum. 6000 E. Valencia Road. 574-0462. The museum is one of the largest aviation museums in the world and is the largest non-government funded aviation museum in the United States. The museum maintains a collection of more than 300 aircraft and spacecraft from around the globe and more than 125,000 artifacts. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last admittance, 4 p.m.), daily; free child younger than 7; $15.50, $9 ages 7 to 12, $12.75 senior, military, Pima County resident and AAA from November through May; $13.75, $8 ages 7 to 12, $11.50 Pima County resident, $11.75 senior, military and AAA from June through October. Visit pimaair.org for more information. PRESIDIO SAN AGUSTÍN DEL TUCSON Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón. 133 W. Washington St. 837-8119. Take a trip into Tucson’s past with living history demonstrations, re-enactments and special events. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; free. Visit tucsonpresidiotrust.org. SOUTHERN ARIZONA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM Southern Arizona Transportation Museum. 414 N. Toole Ave. 623-2223. The museum features audio and visual interactive elements for youth and adults alike, a diorama with trains and a 1907 depot, a state-of-the-art media wall, knowledgeable docents and a locomotive. Locomotive Saturdays are held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and offer an up-close-and-personal look at a real locomotive. Hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday; $6, free during Locomotive Saturdays hours. Visit tucsonhistoricdepot.org for more information. TITAN MISSILE MUSEUM Titan Missile Museum. 1580 W. Duval Mine Road. Sahuarita. 625-7736. The only one of 54 missile silos preserved as a National Historic Landmark, at seven stories underground. Tour includes the launch-control center and missile silo. Displays include an actual Titan II ICBM. Visitors can experience a simulated launch. Open daily from 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., except Thanksgiving and Christmas; $9.50, $8.50 senior or military, $6 ages 7 to 12, free younger child. Visit titanmissilemuseum. org for more information. TUCSON GAY MUSEUM A website tracks the history of how the gay community has responded to the political and social environment of Southern Arizona, and welcomes contributions of stories and artifacts. Visit tucsongaymuseum.org for more information. UA MINERAL MUSEUM UA Mineral Museum. 1601 E. University Blvd. 6214524. The museum is the longest continuously curated mineral museum west of the Mississippi and is recognized as one of the top collections in the country. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; $7.50, $5 age 4 to 15, free younger child. Visit uamineralmuseum.org for more information. UA SCIENCE: FLANDRAU UA Science: Flandrau. 1601 E. University Blvd. 6217827. The museum features a planetarium theater that shows live sky shows and galaxy tours, hands-on exhibits, science demonstrations and viewing through a 16-inch telescope, the largest public telescope in Southern Arizona. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday; 6 to 9 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, except Tuesday, Dec. 25 and Jan. 1; $7.50, $5 age 4 to 15, free younger child, $2 Arizona college student with ID, $2 discount to CatCard holders. Visit flandrau.org for more information.
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BOOKS
EVENTS THIS WEEK
Meg Files’ domestic-violence novel examines the push and pull of a bad marriage
A Tale of Abuse BY JARRET KEENE, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com ood literary novels tend to work in one of two ways: Either they push into emotionally unfamiliar territory that causes the reader to shake his or her head with wonder, or they pull the reader into such deeply familiar and highly dysfunctional scenarios that the reader can’t help but nod. Even as kids, we easily identify a relationship forged in hell. Some of us may have experienced unhealthy bonds ourselves. So when we read a novel that perfectly captures the evil essence of something like domestic abuse, we cringe in recognition as we turn to the next page. And then the next, eager to see how the protagonist will extricate himself or herself, if at all. Meg Files’ The Third Law of Motion is a cringe-worthy fictional account of a couple doomed to fail. Set in ’60s Michigan, the novel focuses on the inner lives of two characters— Dulcie White, a bright college student with a love of Tchaikovsky, a knack for writing and a bright future; and Lonnie Saxbe, a deranged yet handsome athlete with nothing but a shoe-selling job on his dim horizon. What brings them together? The social mores of pre-feminist Midwestern America, when getting pregnant left no option. Of course, in the view of today’s hard-right shitheads like Missouri Rep. Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin, getting knocked up by a violent extrack-star head-case like Saxbe is what God prescribes for women. Some ideas—and people—never evolve. But what’s truly indelible and incredible about Files’ novel is how much empathy she generates on behalf of Dulcie’s abuser. In many ways, Motion is about the infinite despair of untreated mental illness. Saxbe suffers the kind of paranoia and suspicion that we’ve all briefly known, but hopefully have never allowed to consume us. Here, for instance, is Saxbe discovering his now-wife’s makeup bag: He uncapped the red pencil. The lead was soft brown. He wrote Dulcie on the mirror. He put a brown heart around it. With the lipstick he
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ARIZONA 100: ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR THE CENTENNIAL UA Library Special Collections. 1510 E. University Blvd. 621-6423. A showcase of 100 books that define the cultural, historical, environmental and political landscape of Arizona continues through Friday, Dec. 14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; free.
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UA POETRY CENTER READING UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Cynthia Hogue and Kate Bernheimer read from their poetry at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 30; free. Visit poetry. arizona.edu for more information.
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UPCOMING MOCA BOOK CLUB: FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. The intersection of art and politics is the topic of the club’s 2012 book selections. Meetings are from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., selected Thursdays; $10, $5 member, includes wine. Tucson Weekly’s Jim Nintzel moderates. Sept. 6: What’s the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, Thomas Frank.
1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand, Random House ($27)
2. Caleb’s Crossing: A Novel wrote Lonnie inside the brown heart, too. He dumped the mess of her makeup back into the bag and zipped it up. He dropped the bag on the bathroom floor and stepped on it. He heard something plastic go. He put a sock on, and his right cordovan and stomped on the dirty bag until it was flat and pink goop was coming out of the zipper. As much as I loathed the character and his vicious insanities, I still wished he would find help, or that Dulcie might seek treatment on his behalf. More important, I urged Dulcie, sometimes out loud and much to my wife’s concern, to escape and never look back. Indeed, the way Files ratchets up the tension in each chapter, even while oscillating between points of view (those of Dulcie and Lonnie), is worthy of any thriller, and at least an appearance on Oprah’s book club. The tension derives from the way Files eloquently depicts the mindset of a person who refuses to acknowledge abuse. For example, this passage, in which Dulcie examines herself in the mirror after being slugged, stabbed me in the heart: In the mirror I saw my red cheeks and my split lip and dried blood at the corner of my mouth. I was glad it showed, for an instant righteous the way I was as a child when the handprints showed after a spanking, and then glad for the evidence of our change and our intimacy. “You know what, let’s do something,” he said. “Go get something to eat and go see a movie. Comb your hair and get your coat. I’ll get the car warmed up for you.” The color purple as a badge of marital closeness? Ugh. I won’t give away the end of the novel, except to say that this is a harrowing yet absorbing account of abuse, and how it is in some cases, sadly, made possible by two people. Files suggests that Saxbe’s aggression requires Dulcie’s passivity. It is a horrible thing to come to terms with, and only a novelist of Files’ caliber could extend such symbolism in fictional form. Files, who directs the Pima Writers’ Workshop and is a creative writing prof at Pima Community College, has written a taught, disturbing novel. It’s a book that deserves an audience, and given its easygoing yet haunting prose, it should have no problem securing one.
Geraldine Brooks, Penguin ($16)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
3. The Fault in Our Stars John Green, Dutton ($17.99)
ABBETT MYSTERY BOOK CLUB Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch Library. 7800 N. Schisler Drive. 594-5200. Discover and talk about new authors in a friendly atmosphere at 2 p.m., the first Tuesday of every month; free.
4. A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3 George R.R. Martin, Bantam ($8.99)
5. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Erik Larson, Broadway ($16)
6. Judgment Call J.A. Jance, HarperCollins ($25.99)
7. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Michael A Singer, New Harbinger ($16.95)
8. Fifty Shades of Grey E.L. James, Vintage ($15.95)
9. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Mary Roach, W.W. Norton ($14.95)
10. The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern, Anchor ($15) Laura Hillenbrand
FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB Flowing Wells Branch Library. 1730 W. Wetmore Road. 594-5225. A book club meets for coffee and conversation at 10 a.m., the first Saturday of the month; free. Saturday, Sept. 1: Jo Nesbo’s The Redbreast.
LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK ARCHAEOLOGY CAFE; PRESERVING A 20TH-CENTURY DOWNTOWN Casa Vicente Restaurante Español. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. Demion Clinco and Helen Erickson of the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation discuss the latest developments in downtown preservation projects at a no-host dinner from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4; free. Guests order from the menu. Seating is outdoors. Call 882-6946, ext. 16, for reservations. COFFEE WITH THE CURATORS Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. Coffee and informal conversation are featured in the museum lobby from 3 to 3:45 p.m. on selected Wednesdays; free. Sept. 5: Chuck Adams shares highlights of discoveries, new knowledge and artifacts from the Homol’ovi Research Program. Visit statemuseum. arizona.edu for more information.
UPCOMING AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN Mountain Oyster Club. 6400 N. El Dorado Circle. 6233417. Laura Penny, executive director of the Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona, presents the results of a recent study, “Self Sufficiency Standard for Arizona 2012,” at a luncheon meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8; $28. Reservations are requested by Monday, Sept. 3. Call 795-3952 for reservations. MINI-TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. Tea Tales, a tea with the museum’s founders that includes a talk titled “The Japanese Farmhouse,” takes place at 2 p.m., Friday, Sept. 7; $10, free member. Reservations are required. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday; $9, $8 senior or military, $6 age 4 to 17, $6 adults on Thursday through Dec. 27, free younger child. Visit theminitimemachine.org.
ANNOUNCEMENTS ART LECTURES AT ORO VALLEY LIBRARY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Docents from the UA Museum of Art discuss art topics from 2 to 3 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month, September through May; free.
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CINEMA As a horror film, this hauntedhouse story fails in every major way
Buyer Beware
TOP TEN Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending Aug. 26, 2012
BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com f you look beneath the surface, some horror movies have something on their minds. Divorce yourself from the unsightly stuff, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is making a point about capitalism, as are The Hills Have Eyes and Night of the Living Dead. Going back much further, the warnings about communist infiltration in Invasion of the Body Snatchers are none too subtle. And the teen-slasher subgenre was an open warning about drug use and casual sex. Give it away so freely, the movies warn through their faceless murderers, and you’ll get what’s coming to you. So could it be that this recent spate of haunted-house movies is, even subconsciously, a reaction to the very real housing crisis? It may seem like a silly thing for Hollywood to focus on (and it makes the industry a little late to the punch), but in the next few months, House at the End of the Street, the Sundance entry V/H/S, and another Paranormal Activity will hit theaters, all on the heels of Dream House, Silent House and The Apparition. For its part, The Apparition is incredibly uninspired. That might be in part due to its play-it-safe PG-13 rating, but this movie has larger problems than needing a bunch of profanity, more gore or a gratuitous nude scene: Not much happens for most of the film’s 80-ish minutes. When it does, the staging of the shocking moments is predictable, eliminating any trace of suspense. And The Apparition features two lead characters who couldn’t convince anyone they are a couple if we weren’t force-fed the notion in every scene. The film also appears to be making up its own rules about the way ghosts or spirits or whatever operate in the physical world. Did you know they can just pick someone to haunt, and that they are not confined to those spaces familiar to them? Think about that: How would they know where to go? Do they have a GPS or something? And how do they move from place to place? Of course, if you were on the other side, Ashley Greene’s house might be high on your to-haunt list. The unrealistically pretty Twilight co-star displays almost no depth as an actress, but that’s not why she was hired. Indeed, her main contribution to the film is spending much of her time onscreen in her underwear. She plays Kelly, a veterinarian whose boyfriend, Ben (Sebastian Stan), holds a pretty big secret: He used to be a ghost-hunter, like those guys on cable TV who set up cameras and high-tech devices in old houses and try to prove the existence of spirits. At one such
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1. The Hunger Games Lionsgate
2. The Dictator Paramount
3. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax Universal
4. A Separation Sony
5. Bernie Millennium
6. Hatfields and McCoys Sony
7. Bel Ami Sony
8. Freelancers Lionsgate
9. Marley Magnolia
10. The Snowtown Murders MPI Ashley Greene in The Apparition. summoning, things got out of control, forcing Ben to walk away for good. But his best friend, Patrick (Tom Felton), continued his research and unwittingly released a spirit into our world. And for some reason, that ghost wants to exact revenge on Ben. At first, the manifestations look like something that could have been handled during a routine home inspection—problems with the alarms, lights going on and off, and the presence of a moldlike substance on the floors and walls. But soon, things get more serious: All of Kelly’s clothes are tied in knots—yep, really—and all of her hangers are … also tied in knots. They’re apparently being haunted by a departed balloon artist. Eventually, there’s a real confrontation between the apparition and Ben, Kelly and Patrick; that’s when writer-director Todd Lincoln finally starts to show us something. The pace quickens; the intensity reaches an appropriate level for a suspense flick; and the story begins to make a tiny bit of sense, at least by the rules of the world that exists in this film. That modest euphoria fades quickly, although Lincoln takes his biggest step in the right direction in the film’s closing sequence. Of course, that’s a lousy time to finally show real promise. Greene and Stan exhibit no chemistry what-
The Apparition Rated PG-13 Starring Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan and Tom Felton Directed by Todd Lincoln Warner Bros., 82 minutes Now playing at Century El Con 20 (800-3263264, ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800326-3264, ext. 903) and Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 (806-4275).
soever. Felton, arguably the biggest star in the film thanks to his work as Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series, is really misused; he’s in the film’s opening moments, but disappears completely for more than an hour. The apparition leaves bread crumbs, indicating it had been in the kitchen or bedroom, but there’s no reason for the film to keep its appearance a secret as long as it does. And outside of the last 15 minutes, the editing, screenplay and character motivations are sorely deficient. In other words, in every area where a horror film can make its mark, The Apparition fails. As it was with overpriced houses at the peak of the bubble, the best advice you can get before seeing this film is: “Buyer beware.”
Bob Marley in Marley.
FILM TIMES Film times reflect the most current listings available as of Tuesday evening, with screenings beginning on Friday for most opening titles. As schedules at individual theaters frequently change post-press, we recommend calling ahead to avoid any inconvenience.
AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu-Wed 11:45, 2:20, 5, 7:35, 10 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40; FriMon 10:15, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20; Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20 Brave (PG) Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:25, 4:50 The Campaign (R) Thu 11:10, 1:20, 3:40, 5:50, 8:15, 10:25; Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:20, 3:35, 5:45, 7:55, 10:10 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu-Mon 10:15, 1:50, 5:20, 8:50; TueWed 1:50, 5:20, 8:50 The Dark Knight Rises: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 3, 7:15, 10:45; Fri-Wed 11:25, 3, 7, 10:30 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 10:30, 11:55, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5:10, 6, 7:45, 8:30, 10:15, 11; Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Hit and Run (R) Thu 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30; Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 9:50 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7, 9:45; Fri-Wed 11, 1:35, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Lawless (R) Thu-Wed 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG13) Fri-Wed 7:15, 10:25 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu-Mon 11:30, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55; Tue 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Wed 11:30, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (G) ThuWed 11:15, 1:30, 3:45, 6 ParaNorman (PG) ThuWed 11:15, 4:35, 9:30 ParaNorman 3D (PG) Thu 2, 7:05; Fri-Wed 2, 7:15 The Possession (PG-13) Fri-Mon 10:35, 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 8, 10:30; Tue-Wed 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 8, 10:30 Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu-Mon 10:25, 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45; Tue-Wed 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Sparkle (PG-13) ends Thu 10:50, 1:30, 4:15, 7:25, 10:05 Total Recall (PG-13) ThuMon 8:15, 11; Tue-Wed 8:15
Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 902. 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu 11, 11:45,
2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 8, 9:45; Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 The Apparition (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20; FriWed 11:20, 1:30, 3:40, 5:55, 8:05, 10:20 Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) Thu-Wed 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 11, 1:15, 2, 4:15, 5, 7:15, 8, 10:15; Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Brave (PG) Fri-Wed 11:30, 2, 4:30 The Campaign (R) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:15; Fri-Wed 11:35, 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 Celeste and Jesse Forever (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; FriWed 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:05 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 2:45, 6:35, 10:05; Fri-Wed 11:25, 3, 6:30, 10 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) ends Thu 10:55 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 11:15, 12:15, 1:50, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7, 8, 9:40, 10:40; Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8, 10:30 High Noon (PG) Thu 2, 7 Hit and Run (R) Thu-Wed 12:20, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Fri-Wed 11:25, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Lawless (R) Thu-Wed 11:40, 1, 2:20, 3:40, 5, 6:20, 7:40, 9, 10:20 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Fri-Mon 7, 10:10; Tue-Wed 10:10 Moonrise Kingdom/ To Rome With Love (PG-13/R) ends Thu 11:40, 3:40, 7:40 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:15, 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:35; FriWed 11:20, 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:35 The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (G) Thu-Wed 12:10, 2:30, 4:55 ParaNorman (PG) ThuWed 11:45, 4:35, 9:45 ParaNorman 3D (PG) ThuWed 2:10, 7:20 The Possession (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 12, 1, 2:25, 3:25, 4:50, 5:50, 7:10, 8:10, 9:40, 10:30 Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Robot and Frank (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Sparkle (PG-13) ends Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 To Rome With Love/ Moonrise Kingdom (R/ PG-13) ends Thu 1:30, 5:30, 10:05 Total Recall (PG-13) Thu 10:25; Fri-Wed 7:35, 10:25
Century Gateway 12 770 N. Kolb Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 962. The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 7, 10; Mon 12:50, 3:50, 7; Tue 12:50, 3:50, 7, 10; Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7
The Amazing SpiderMan 3D (PG-13) Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10; Mon 12:10, 3:10, 6:10; Tue 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10; Wed 12:10, 3:10, 6:10 The Hunger Games (PG13) Thu 12:20, 3:25, 6:30; Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:25 Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D (PG) ends Thu 12:50, 3:20 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10; Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35; Mon 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10; Tue 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35; Wed 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 Magic Mike (R) Thu 12:05, 1, 2:40, 3:30, 5:10, 6:25, 7:40; FriSun 3:45, 6:30, 7:20, 9, 9:55; Mon 3:45, 6:30, 7:20; Tue 3:45, 6:30, 7:20, 9, 9:55; Wed 3:45, 6:30, 7:20 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30; Fri-Sun 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10; Mon 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30; Tue 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10; Wed 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30 Men in Black 3 3D (PG13) Thu 6; Fri-Wed 1 Safety Not Guaranteed (R) Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:40; Mon 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15; Tue 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:40; Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15 Savages (R) Thu 12:45, 3:55, 7:05; Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:05; Mon 12:45, 3:55, 7:05; Tue 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:05; Wed 12:45, 3:55, 7:05 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 12:35, 3:45, 7; Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:40, 6:55, 9:45; Mon 12:35, 3:40, 6:55; Tue 12:35, 3:40, 6:55, 9:45; Wed 12:35, 3:40, 6:55 Ted (R) Fri-Sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15; Mon 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35; Tue 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15; Wed 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35 That’s My Boy (R) ends Thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:15 To Rome With Love (R) ends Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:50 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) Thu 12, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50; Fri-Sun 12, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; 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 The Watch (R) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45; Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:20; Mon 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45; Tue 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:20; Wed 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45
Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Call for Sat-Wed film times 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu 12, 2:20, 4:45,
7:05, 9:35; Fri 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 The Apparition (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:20; Fri 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 11:20, 12:45, 2:30, 3:50, 5:40, 7, 8:50, 10:15; Fri 12:50, 3:55, 7, 10:10 Brave (PG) Fri 11:20, 1:55 The Campaign (R) Thu 11:55, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; Fri 11:30, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Celeste and Jesse Forever (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri 11:35, 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 3:55, 7:40; Fri 12:25, 4, 7:40 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) Thu 11:35, 2, 4:25, 6:50, 9:20; Fri 11:40, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 11:10, 12:05, 1, 2:45, 3:40, 5:25, 6:20, 8:05, 9, 9:50; Fri 11, 12:20, 1:40, 2:55, 4:20, 5:40, 7, 8:20, 9:40 High Noon (PG) Thu 2, 7 Hit and Run (R) Thu 11:50, 2:25, 5, 7:35, 10:10; Fri 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55; Fri 11:50, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) ends Thu 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:10; Fri 11:55, 2:30 Lawless (R) Thu 11:10, 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10; Fri 11:05, 2, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Fri 4:30, 7:50 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:25, 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10; Fri 11, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (G) Thu 11:05, 1:25, 3:40, 6; Fri 11:05, 1:20, 3:35, 5:50 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 11:30, 4:35, 9:30; Fri 11:25, 4:25, 9:25 ParaNorman 3D (PG) Thu 2, 7:05; Fri 1:50, 6:55 The Possession (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8, 9:15, 10:30 Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu 11:40, 12:55, 2:10, 3:25, 4:40, 5:55, 7:10, 8:25, 9:40; Fri 11:10, 1:35, 4:05, 5, 6:35, 7:30, 9:10, 10:05 Sparkle (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 1:55, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30; Fri 9:30 Total Recall (PG-13) ThuFri 8:15
Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace 12155 N. Oracle Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 899. 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.; FriWed 12:10, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 1, 4:10, 7:20;
Fri-Wed 1, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 The Campaign (R) Thu 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40; Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 Celeste and Jesse Forever (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; FriWed 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 10:15; FriWed 11:20, 2:50, 6:30, 10:10 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 11, 1:35, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45; Fri-Wed 11, 1:35, 4:15, 7, 9:40 High Noon (PG) Thu 2, 7 Hit and Run (R) Thu 11:15, 1:55, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55; Fri-Wed 11:15, 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:35; Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Lawless (R) Thu 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05, 12:01; Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Moonrise Kingdom/ To Rome With Love (PG-13/R) ends Thu 10:40, 3:20, 8 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25; Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:20, 5, 7:45, 10:15 ParaNorman (PG) ends Thu 11:20, 4:05, 9:15 ParaNorman 3D (PG) ends Thu 1:40, 6:50 The Possession (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10 Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50; Fri-Wed 12, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Sparkle (PG-13) ends Thu 10:45, 1:30, 4:25, 7:30 To Rome With Love/ Moonrise Kingdom (R/ PG-13) ends Thu 12:50, 5:30, 10:10
Cinema La Placita La Placita Village, Broadway Boulevard and Church Avenue. 326-5282. Sleuth (PG) Thu 7:30
Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. Call for Fri-Wed film times Bernie (PG-13) Thu 4:30 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 2, 4:40 The Hunger Games (PG13) Thu 9:20 Hysteria (R) Thu 11:40 Ingenious (Not Rated) Thu 2:25, 7, 9:25 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 11, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 Magic Mike (R) Thu 11:50, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 7:30, 9:50 Savages (R) Thu 4:10, 9:30 To Rome With Love (R) Thu 11:10, 1:40, 4:20, 6:50 The Watch (R) Thu 11:30, 1:50, 7:10, 9:55
Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Call for films and times
Gallagher Theater UA Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd. 626-0370. What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG-13) Thu 6, 9; Sun 2, 5
Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 806-4275. The Apparition (PG-13) Thu 1, 3:15, 5:40, 8, 10:15; Fri-Sun 11:10, 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:50; Mon-Wed 11:10, 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 The Bourne Legacy (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 3:20, 6:40, 9:45; FriSun 12:50, 4:10, 7:20, 10:45; Mon-Wed 12:50, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Brave (PG) Fri-Mon 10:10, 1, 3:40; Tue-Wed 1, 3:40 The Campaign (R) Thu 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:15, 9:35; Fri-Sun 11:05, 1:20, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:35; Mon 11:05, 1:20, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30; Tue-Wed 1:20, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 11, 2:30, 6:05, 9:40; Fri-Sun 10:40, 2:20, 6:05, 9:55; Mon 10:40, 2:20, 6:05, 9:35; Tue-Wed 2:20, 6:05, 9:35 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:20, 9; Fri-Sun 1:25, 6:20, 9:10; MonWed 1:25, 6:20, 8:50 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 11:20, 12:50, 1:50, 3:30, 4:30, 6:10, 7:10, 8:50, 9:50; Fri-Sun 11:20, 1:10, 2:10, 5, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40, 10:40; Mon-Wed 11:20, 1:10, 2:10, 5, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30 Hermano (Not Rated) ends Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 9:10 Hit and Run (R) Thu 11:05, 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10; Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; MonWed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 9; Mon 10:45, 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 9:10; Tue-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 9:10 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:45, 5; Fri-Mon 10:30, 3:55; TueWed 11, 3:55 Lawless (R) Thu 11:10, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30; FriSun 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; Mon-Wed 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Fri-Sun 6:40, 10; Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:50 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:30, 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10; Fri-Sun 10:50, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50; Mon 10:50, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45; Tue-Wed 11:05, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (G) Thu 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20; Fri-Sun 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Mon-Wed 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 11:15, 6:45, 9:15; FriSun 11:45, 7:15, 9:45; Mon-Wed 11:45, 7:15, 9:40 ParaNorman 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:15; Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:45 The Possession (PG13) Fri-Sun 10, 11:30, 12:30, 2, 3, 4:30, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:30; Mon 10, 11:30, 12:30, 2, 3, 4:30, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:20, 10:25; Tue-Wed 11:30, 12:30, 2, 3, 4:30, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:20, 10:25 Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20; Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Mon-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10 Sparkle (PG-13) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05; Fri-Mon 10:20, 4; TueWed 4 Ted (R) ends Thu 7:45, 10:25 Total Recall (PG-13) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25; Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20; Mon-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:30, 9:15
The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility 2 Days in New York (R) Fri-Wed 2:45, 7:30 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (R) Thu 2:30 The Best Man (Not Rated) Wed 3:30 The Big Lebowski (R) FriMon 10 Bill W. (Not Rated) Thu 3 Cosmopolis (R) Fri-Sun 2:15, 7; Mon 2:15, 5:30; Tue 2:15, 7, 9:45; Wed 7, 9:45 Damnation Alley (PG) Mon 8 Goats (R) Thu 12:15, 4:45; Fri-Sun 12, 4:45; Mon 12; Tue-Wed 12, 4:45 Headshot (Not Rated) Thu 10 The Imposter (R) Thu 5:15, 10; Fri-Wed 10 Jim Henson and Friends: Inside the Sesame Street Vault (Not Rated) Thu 7 The Queen of Versailles (PG) Thu 12:15, 7:30; Fri-Tue 12, 5; Wed 12
Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R) Thu 4:40, 9:50; Fri-Wed 4:55, 10 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 11; Fri-Wed 11:05
Dark Shadows (PG-13) ends Thu 4:50 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) Thu 11:10; Fri-Wed 11 The Hunger Games (PG13) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Fri-Wed 1 Katy Perry: Part of Me (PG) ends Thu 12:15, 2:30, 7:20, 9:35 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) FriWed 11, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 12, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:30 Savages (R) Thu 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:40; Fri-Wed 4, 6:50, 9:40 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7; Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:10 That’s My Boy (R) Thu 11:30, 2:10, 7:10, 9:45; Fri-Wed 9:55 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:20, 7:20 The Watch (R) Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55
The Screening Room 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Call for films and times
Tower Theatres at Arizona Pavilions 8031 N. Business Park Drive. 579-0500. Call for Fri-Wed film times The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 11:10, 2, 4:55, 6:20, 7:50, 9:15 The Campaign (R) Thu 11:30, 1:35, 3:40, 5:40, 7:40, 9:50 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 2:30, 6, 9:30 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:30, 10 Hit and Run (R) Thu 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 11, 1:20, 3:45 Lawless (R) Thu 11:35, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (G) Thu 11, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 11:40, 2, 7, 9:25 ParaNorman 3D (PG) Thu 4:35 The Possession (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m. Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 1:15, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55
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FILM CLIPS Reviews by Jacquie Allen, Colin Boyd and Bob Grimm.
NEWLY REVIEWED: 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK
Julie Delpy writes, directs and stars in this sequel to her 2 Days in Paris, which finds Marion living in New York City with her new boyfriend, Mingus (Chris Rock). Things go crazy when Marion’s wacky family comes to visit from France. The visitors turn the couple’s lives upside down and test their loving bond. Rock has never been better in a movie, and he’s the best thing here. Delpy is charming, and her approach to filmmaking is enjoyably quirky. The movie amounts to something on the level of mediocre Woody Allen: It’s nothing to get too worked up about, but it has its moments, including a very strange cameo from a rather unpopular film star. The Delpy/Rock stuff gets high marks, but the crazy-family parts pull the film down a bit. Grimm CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER
Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg play the title characters, a married couple going through a divorce while trying to stay friends. They hang out with each other all of the time and still live in the same house, much to the chagrin of friends and co-workers. Jones co-wrote the screenplay with Will McCormack (who also plays a supporting role), and the movie has a fresh feel. Jones goes all-out with her performance. She’s funny, but also awkward and nasty when her script needs her to be. Samberg does his best film work yet as the confused-artist type who likes to dig deep holes for himself and then go surfing. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it’s different enough to make it a relatively unique romantic-comedy experience. Grimm COSMOPOLIS
Director David Cronenberg puts together his weirdest movie in a decade with this uneven adaptation of Don DeLillo’s best-selling novel. Cronenberg wrote the screenplay and cast Robert Pattinson as Eric Packer, a Manhattan billionaire who is riding around for a night in a stretch limo in search of a haircut. He interacts with the likes of Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon and Jay Baruchel in what is ultimately a pointless affair speckled by brilliant moments. Pattinson doesn’t have the chops to pull off such a complicated role, but he gives it a go. (To his credit, this would be a tough gig for any actor.) The film is beautifully shot and features a sweet, pulsating soundtrack. Cosmopolis is alternately mesmerizing and dull, with dialogue that is a little hard to decipher at times. Only Paul Giamatti, in a small but pivotal role, seems to know exactly what Cronenberg was shooting for. His few minutes are the movie’s best. Grimm HEADSHOT
former crime partner (Bradley Cooper) who isn’t happy and wants to shoot holes in him. The best thing about the movie is the sarcastic, playful rapport between Bell and Shepard, who make a great screen couple. As for the driving, there are some well-filmed chases, making it OK as far as action flicks go. Arnold and Cooper are both funny in their supporting roles. Cooper’s scene involving his character’s treatment in prison has to qualify as the year’s most-awkward film scene. Grimm ROBOT AND FRANK
We keep hearing that the robots are coming. Robot and Frank takes a rather droll look at the future, one in which robots are home health aides and librarians. Concerned that their father’s memory is slipping, Frank’s kids get him a robot to help him eat the right foods, stay on a schedule, and keep his memory nimble. Frank (Frank Langella) has other plans: A retired petty thief, Frank trains the robot to pick locks and do the little things his aging body can no longer get away with. There’s not much in the way of supporting help (from Susan Sarandon, Liv Tyler or James Marsden), but the sparring between Langella and the robotic voice of Peter Sarsgaard keeps the action lively and amusing. Boyd
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Here’s a sequel that learns a lot from the mistakes of the first installment. It gathers up a bunch of old goons, gives them big guns, and tells them to shoot things—and this time, they do it with much aplomb. It’s obvious before the opening title credit that Sylvester Stallone and friends are going to get things right and deliver the crazy-gory goods. Much of the credit must go to Simon West, who replaces Stallone in the director’s chair. West made the ridiculously enjoyable Con Air, which combined stellar action with funny, dumb dialogue to much success. Unlike the first movie, Expendables 2 gets real laughs from its boneheaded dialogue rather than groans. Grimm GOATS
The coming-of-age flick Goats is a tepid exercise that gets bogged down in the peculiarities of its supporting players and delivers no concrete resolution for its central character. The goats belong to Javier (David Duchovny), kind of a spiritual shaman to Ellis (Graham Phillips), a teenager about to embark on his first big grown-up adventure. He’s attending prep school on the East Coast, and manhood—as decades of fiction and nonfiction inform us—will soon follow. But it’s Ellis’ story, so much as it is a story, so why is this thing called Goats? And why are they in the movie so much? Hard to say, other than the adaptation from Mark Poirier’s novel may have cut out too much context. Goats was filmed in Tucson, so that’s a nice shot in the arm, but that’s really the only thing to get excited about. Boyd THE IMPOSTER
Although it relies heavily on deus ex machina to even jump from Act 1 to Act 2 and from Act 2 to Act 3, the Thai crime-noir Headshot does way more right than it does wrong. It’s the story of a career hit-man exacting one final score after his life is literally turned upside down: A near-fatal gunshot wound flipped his vision 180 degrees, so the floor is the ceiling, and vice versa. As the hit-man, Nopachai Chaiyanam is remarkably malleable; he can be ruthless and coldblooded, but his condition also makes him meek and powerless. He takes on different looks effectively, as a wild-eyed contract killer, a prisoner of his own traumatic wounds, and a devout monk with something to hide. Following the sensational The Raid: Redemption into theaters, Headshot gives us hope for more great Southeast Asian cinema. Boyd
Frederic Bourdin is, shall we say, a real jackass, and this movie gives him a chance to talk—happily— about an atrocity he committed. Bourdin, a Frenchman in his 20s, pretended to be another person, a teenage boy who had gone missing for three years, and he managed to dupe authorities and the boy’s family. Director Bart Layton uses archival footage, new interviews with Bourdin and re-enactments to tell the story. While it’s sickening that this idiot gets to gloat about his misdeeds, the story is quite absorbing, making the film worth a look. There are twists and turns that make the story increasingly bizarre, and it’s hard to look away. Still, Bourdin is a sickening sort, and the look of joy in his eyes while he brags about his stupid stunt is nauseating. Grimm
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First-time feature-director Marcel Rasquin has brought the world one of the best sports-related dramas in quite a long time in Hermano. Adoptive brothers Julio (Eliú Armas) and Daniel (Fernando Moreno) are both excellent soccer players. However, while Daniel lives and breathes the sport, Julio leads a double life as a collector for gangsters in their barrio. Things are complicated when they are both offered the chance to try out for a professional soccer organization—before tragedy strikes their home. This was 2011’s Oscar submission from Venezuela, and with good reason: Rasquin has produced a nearflawless effort. It is exciting and tense, and Armas and Moreno are simply spectacular, both as actors and athletes. Allen
Here is a stop-animation movie that isn’t afraid to be creepy. Norman (the voice of Kodi Smit-McPhee) can see dead people and has premonitions; as a result, he gets picked on at school and yelled at by his parents. As it turns out, he’s the only person who can save the town from a curse involving zombies and witches. Directors Chris Butler and Sam Fell have put together a great-looking movie, and Butler’s script actually pushes the PG rating to the point where adults might be surprised by what they have taken their kids to see. As for this being too scary for kids, let me tell you that the kids were screaming—with delight—at my screening. The film also features the voices of John Goodman, Leslie Mann, Casey Affleck and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. One of the year’s best animated films. Grimm
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Dax Shepard writes, co-directs and stars as Charles Bronson, a former getaway driver in the witness-protection program who risks his life to get his girlfriend (his real-life main squeeze Kristen Bell) to a job interview on time. Along the way, he is chased by a friendly but clumsy U.S. marshal (Tom Arnold) and a 40 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
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The Queen of Versailles’ Jackie Siegel is larger than life, or at least parts of her are. She appears to be an aging, enhanced trophy wife—and that’s at least half of her story. The documentary The Queen of Versailles depicts not just a beauty queen and model
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CINEMA Despite fun performances by two fine actors, ‘Premium Rush’ is totally pointless
Bike Bungle BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com remium Rush tries to cash in on the bike-messenger craze that is sweeping the nation, which has now merited two films, including the Kevin Bacon opus Quicksilver. Oh, wait … I’m mistaken. Nobody really gives a shit about bike-messenger movies. They didn’t back in 1986, and they most certainly don’t today. Premium Rush is actually a little better than the useless Quicksilver, with Joseph GordonLevitt giving a typically capable performance. He plays Wilee, a law-school dropout turned bike messenger in Manhattan. He likes speed; his bike has no brakes on it. The movie wouldn’t be anything if it were just about Wilee running around town delivering love letters. Nope, things get crazy when he finds himself delivering an envelope from a former schoolmate (Jamie Chung) who has the deranged attention of a New York officer with a gambling problem. As Bobby the crazed cop, Michael Shannon provides the film with a cartoon-villain performance that is enjoyably odd. The film includes a bunch of bike-riding and racing scenes that never amount to anything worthy of Gordon-Levitt and Shannon’s time. Heck, it isn’t even worthy of a Roger Daltrey song, like the one on the Quicksilver soundtrack. Do you remember that toe-tapper, “Quicksilver Lightning?” Yeah, I didn’t think so. Premium Rush is directed by David Koepp, who helmed 2008’s likable Ghost Town and got eaten by a T-rex in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. (His character was billed as “Unlucky Bastard.”) Koepp pulls off a couple of mildly exhilarating chase scenes, and I liked the gimmick of Wilee seeing into the immediate future and envisioning various crash scenarios if he picks certain paths. The action slows down as you see inside Wilee’s head, and he envisions himself either squeaking through traffic or hitting taxicabs, baby strollers, etc. As cool as some of the sequences are, they service a plot that goes nowhere and feels derivative. The movie actually plays like an unofficial remake of Quicksilver, which also featured an upwardly mobile young man taking to the streets on his bike because it makes him feel better than wearing a suit all day. (Maybe I should start riding bikes for work, because I hate ties, too!) Shannon plays his role with a whining sneer that is a bit much at times, but he keeps things under control for the most part. I suppose he was looking for some summer-blockbuster success with this puppy after smaller
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fare like Take Shelter and Machine Gun Preacher. I suppose he will have to wait for his turn as General Zod in the next Superman movie, Man of Steel. Gordon-Levitt, who is having a good year with The Dark Knight Rises and the upcoming, promising Looper and Lincoln, brings credibility to a poorly written, cookie-cutter role. He’s a likable actor, and while the movie is by no means good, he makes the proceedings more-tolerable. It’s like how Tom Cruise brought a certain amount of charm to the vapid Cocktail and Days of Thunder. There are many moments when bike-riders recklessly dodge cars, run red lights and generally cause street mayhem. At one point, Shannon’s character tells Wilee that everybody in New York hates him and couldn’t care less about him. There are no truer words spoken by a character in Premium Rush. I would rank my need to see a bike-messenger movie like Premium Rush alongside my need to see a movie about people washing their socks in a backyard basin using Ivory soap. There was no reason for this movie, and how it attracted the likes of Gordon-Levitt and Shannon is beyond me.
N O W S H O W I N G AT H O M E Harvey (Blu-ray) UNIVERSAL MOVIE B SPECIAL FEATURES C+ BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 6 (OUT OF 10)
The immortal James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a jovial town drunkard with a 6-foot-plus imaginary rabbit named Harvey for a friend. Josephine Hull won a Supporting Actress Oscar for portraying Elwood’s frustrated sister, Veta, and Stewart got a nomination for playing the polite and perhaps-confused Elwood. I called Elwood a drunkard, but it’s not like the film shows him stinking-drunk all of the time. This was made in 1950, so they are tame with that aspect of the story. Stewart plays it mostly straight and charming, with a few hints that his character is possibly super-drunk and hallucinating. There’s a comedic darkness to this story in the way it treats misunderstandings and mental illness. The movie was actually quite daring for its time. SPECIAL FEATURES: There’s not a lot, but there is a 1990 interview with James Stewart that is billed as an intro. (It’s basically Stewart talking about how much he loved the film over a photo montage.) You also get a couple of featurettes about the movie moguls who have run Universal Studios in its 100 years. Stewart reprised his role more than 20 years later for a TV movie. Sadly, that’s not included in this package.
The Office: Season Eight (Blu-ray) UNIVERSAL SHOW B SPECIAL FEATURES BBLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 6.5 (OUT OF 10)
The eighth season of this NBC show, the first without Steve Carell, turned out to be less of a showcase for newcomer James Spader and more of a chance for Ed
Helms to take center stage. Helms has done a good job, with the show still providing decent laughs on a weekly basis. While Carell’s absence is definitely felt, Helms is a powerful player in his own right, as are remaining cast members like Craig Robinson, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson and Jenna Fischer. The episode storylines often lean toward the bizarre, including a strange Halloween episode, and another involving a goofy garden party. I like bizarre humor, and I appreciated stuff like the garden-party valet attendant driving everybody’s cars into a cornfield so he could do stunts. The upcoming ninth season will be the show’s last. (Spader has already exited.) NBC apparently didn’t learn its lesson when it did the Friends spinoff, Joey: The network will be spinning off Wilson’s Dwight character for his own show based on his farm. Sounds promising … in hell. SPECIAL FEATURES: Nearly two hours of deleted scenes and bloopers, and some extended episode cuts.
The Dictator: Banned and Unrated (Blu-ray) PARAMOUNT MOVIE C SPECIAL FEATURES C+ BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 4.25 (OUT OF 10)
Sacha Baron Cohen delivered his first stinker with this misguided attempt at political satire. With the title character, he’s basically come up with somebody who isn’t that funny—and teaming him with Anna Faris isn’t exactly hot casting. Cohen plays a dictator from a fictitious nation; he is looking to make nuclear bombs. He winds up in New York City, where his iconic beard is shaved, and he winds up lost. The film actually gets slightly funnier in the unrated version, which includes an extra 15 minutes of footage— much of it good stuff. Still, it’s not good enough to recom-
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mend. You will get a few sick laughs out, but mostly groans and, worse, yawns. SPECIAL FEATURES: There’s about a half-hour of deleted and extended scenes, and some extra footage of the Larry King interview that appears in the film.
The Rescuers: 35th Anniversary Edition (The Rescuers/The Rescuers Down Under) (Blu-ray) WALT DISNEY MOVIE B- (FOR BOTH FILMS) SPECIAL FEATURES BBLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 6 (OUT OF 10)
I was about 9 years old when The Rescuers hit theaters. For me, it was a dud, and it failed to grip me like other Disney flicks such as Dumbo or even Pete’s Dragon. (Incidentally, Pete’s Dragon came out in the same year and will get a Blu-ray in October. Hooray!) The story of mice riding around on birds led to some so-so traditional animated work in The Rescuers, which was one of the last films to feature the work of Walt Disney’s old-school animators, the “nine old men.” It certainly has its charms, much of them owed to Eva Gabor and Bob Newhart, who voice the lead characters. The Rescuers Down Under, although less-successful at the box office, was a landmark animated film in many ways, heavily utilizing digital art— although the story was a mess. It did feature the late John Candy’s voice, so that was cool. While these two films are weaker Disney fare, they are still pretty good, which is a testament to how good Disney animated films usually are. SPECIAL FEATURES: The big extra would be “Peoplitis,” a deleted song from The Rescuers played over some original storyboards. You also get “Three Blind Mouseketeers,” a vintage animated short, and a real-life documentary about albatrosses.
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turned billionaire baby factory, but also a genuine person concerned about her kids’ futures after the economic meltdown of 2008. Siegel’s husband, David, founded a massive timeshare outfit in the 1980s, and in 2004 began construction on Versailles, the couple’s dream home—and the largest single-family property in the country. But when Siegel’s company fell on hard times, construction stopped, and the home sits as an unfinished monument to excess. The Siegels themselves come across as surprisingly well-adjusted realists, which makes their story stranger and more rewarding. Boyd SPARKLE
Being the final film performance of Whitney Houston only gets Sparkle so far—and it’s not far enough. A remake of a ’70s film, Sparkle is thematically like every other showbiz-kid-with-a-dream movie ever made, and like almost every other film in the genre, its musical numbers are the highlights. The showbiz kid with a dream in this go-round is Jordin Sparks, who, appropriately enough, was one in real life before winning American Idol. She plays Houston’s daughter, determined not to repeat the personal and professional mistakes of her mother. For several scenes, it is impossible to see Houston in character, because the parallels between art and life are so obvious. Sparkle is about what you’d expect it to be—a movie with passable acting and writing, but solid and occasionally show-stopping songs, particularly Houston’s “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” Boyd
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The Original Mr. K’s Moves The Original Mr. K’s BBQ restaurant, which was at 1830 S. Park Ave., has moved to 6302 S. Park Ave. I was always a fan of the unpolished feel at the original Mr. K’s, but the move positions the restaurant to begin a new chapter of Tucson barbecue history. The new space— which used to house Snuffy’s Grill—is nearly twice as big as the former spot, and it’s got a fresher feel. The menu and prices appear to be about the same. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.
BY JACQUELINE KUDER, jkuder@tucsonweekly.com ne of my guilty TV pleasures is Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. I’ve worked in plenty of restaurants that probably could have used his help, so that’s part of the appeal. But what I really like is that the show can offer a mini-tutorial on what restaurants should not do. Aside from all the yelling, the moral of each episode is: Have a plan; be consistent; and cook good food well. In some ways, my visits to Bella D’Auria reminded me of Kitchen Nightmares. Not because of cleanliness issues—the restaurant seemed quite clean and well-kept on both of our visits—but because it seems to lack direction. Fine dining, sports bar, nightclub, coffee bar … Bella D’Auria is all and simultaneously none of these things. The décor is confusing. Tall, pub-style tables are adorned with white-linen tablecloths, and the tile work on the floor is very classy and beautifully done. There is even a pianist on Friday and Saturday nights. But the majority of the seating is in what would traditionally be considered a bar, in full view of several TVs with sports channels blaring. The front of the bar is decorated with neon lights and panels that change color and would be better suited at a nightclub. And on top of the linen tablecloths are cardboard coasters advertising NFL Sunday Ticket. The other half of the dining area, not in front of the bar, has three huge, ceiling-mounted speakers and a projector, and more neon lights adorn the walls. I will concede the point that if the food is good, the atmosphere in which it is consumed shouldn’t matter as much. But, in reality, it does—yet the food at Bella D’Auria wasn’t impressive enough on either of my visits to forgive the lack of direction. As for Ramsay’s advice to cook good food, and cook it well, Bella D’Auria has the “good food” part down, ingredients-wise. The kitchen uses quite a few organic, sustainable and locally sourced ingredients—but the execution of the dishes is often a failure. Overcooking pasta in an Italian restaurant is absolutely unforgivable—but amazingly, that wasn’t the worst part of my Friday-night meal with Ted. Both the hostess and server were aloof and inattentive. Even worse, many of the staff members, including someone who appeared to be either an owner or a manager, chewed gum throughout our visit. If you’re serving food or drinks, that’s completely inexcusable. The menu also speaks to the lack of direc-
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The veal parmigiana from Bella D’Auria Restaurant and Bar. tion. The appetizers on the dinner menu are more like what you might find at a sports bar: fried clams, fried mozzarella sticks, coconut beer-battered shrimp, fried calamari, hot wings, bacon-wrapped jalapeño poppers and our choice, pan-seared provolone ($9). These menu items are not in any way Italian (with the exception of the provolone, perhaps), and are definitely not something I would order at a restaurant where the table linens are white, and the male servers are dressed in head-to-toe black, with button-down shirts and bowties. The provolone appetizer was, frankly, gross. A half-inch-thick slice of provolone, a little bigger than the size of my palm, was pan-fried and topped with sautéed greens. It wasn’t even completely melted in the middle, and the outside had a vague burned taste, as if it had been fried in used oil. There was no detectable seasoning on either the cheese or the greens—and eating a slab of semi-melted cheese with nothing to accompany it was just plain bizarre. After being charged $9, I was appalled. The entrées weren’t any better. My linguini with clams ($18.99) was drowning in garlic (and I really love garlic). The dish came with 12 tiny clams that were so chewy, it was like eating rubber bands, and the pasta was way past al dente. Ted ordered the veal parmigiana ($18.99)—and by the way, if you’re going to go with the “organic, local and sustainable” mantra, including veal on your menu seems like a poor choice. The veal was pounded thin and was tender, but was overwhelmed by the thick, bland breading. It sat atop a pile of spaghetti that was so overcooked, it was near mush. The dish’s only redeeming quality was the red sauce, which was thick, flavorful and well-seasoned, with just a touch of garlic. Dessert, thankfully, ended the meal on a positive note. We chose to share the Italian
Bella D’Auria Restaurant and Bar 4445 E. Broadway Blvd. 867-8213; www.belladauria.com Open for lunch 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; open for dinner 5 to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday and Sunday; 5 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday Pluses: Friendly, attentive lunchtime staff; red sauce and meat sauce are delicious Minuses: High prices for what you get; sloppily prepared dishes; overcooked pasta
lemon cream cake ($8). The cake was light and fluffy, with the perfect amount of lemon. The splash of amaretto on the plate was a lovely complement. Lunch with my mom was better, but there were still some issues. The lunch menu features a few of the same entrées as the dinner menu, plus some burgers and entrée salads. I decided on the meat lasagna ($11.99). Our server, who was quite friendly and competent (although a bit nervous), warned me it would take 25 minutes or so, and it did. When it came out, the dish was drenched in sauce. The lasagna noodles were soggy, and there was way too much cheese, but the meat sauce had a nice flavor to it. Mom ordered the salmon salad ($13.99), which consisted of a grilled filet on top of mixed greens, various salad veggies and some grilled pineapple, all dressed with cilantro-lime vinaigrette. She enjoyed it, saying that the flavors blended quite well, although the salmon was a bit dry and just a little overcooked. All in all, I can’t recommend a visit to Bella D’Auria until the owners figure out what it’s going to be—a fancy Italian restaurant, a sports bar or a late-night DJ hangout—and fix the sloppy errors in the kitchen.
Fans of fine smoked meats will want to check out what Bobby Dean’s Hickory BBQ food truck is up to. The truck serves amazing smoked brisket, pork, chicken, baby-back ribs, wings, sandwiches and all the classic barbecue side dishes. Owner Robert Mikles even tows a portable smokehouse behind the truck, filling the air with delectable barbecue smoke wherever he goes. Mikles tells us he’ll be parked in front of Putney’s Sports Saloon, 6090 N. Oracle Road, for the foreseeable future. Prices range from $6 for a sandwich to about $20 for a pound of meat to go; 975-6910. Speaking of mobile barbecue, have you checked out Guero Loco’s Bubba-Que yet? The food truck shows up at numerous food-truck gatherings around town, wowing crowds with tender, smoked meats that show up in tacos, burritos and other dishes. Call 425-6642, or find the truck on Facebook for more information.
Jack’s Original Barbeque Closes In sad barbecue news, longtime barbecuejoint Jack’s Original Barbeque, at 5250 E. 22nd St., has closed. The restaurant, which opened nearly 50 years ago, experienced a significant drop in patronage in recent years.
Labor Day Deals Those planning on breaking out the grill for Labor Day weekend might want to do a bit of shopping at the Collegiate Cattle Growers Association at the University of Arizona. The club sells an enormous selection of fine, locally raised meats from 3 to 6 p.m., Friday, at 4181 N. Campbell Ave.; www.ccgameats.com. For those who don’t feel like cooking, we suggest the two-for-one entrée specials at the various restaurants in the Metro Restaurant family. The deal is good throughout the Labor Day weekend; www.metrorestaurants.com.
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CAFES AND BISTROS CAFÉ PASSÉ C 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. Open Sunday-Tuesday 8 a.m.-8 p.m.; Wednesday-Saturday 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. Café Passe is a quirky coffee house, sandwich shop and neighborhood hangout in the heart of Tucson’s quirkiest area. Offering sandwiches, panini, salads, baked goods, coffees, teas, smoothies and other refreshments in a relaxed atmosphere, this is a go-to place for a break while shopping on Fourth Avenue. (10-1-09) $-$$ LA COCINA RESTAURANT, CANTINA AND COFFEE BAR C 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. Open Monday 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; Tuesday-Friday 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. With creative fare that’s actually good for you, a little history and some unique, nifty shopping, La Cocina offers a most wonderful experience. Vegans, vegetarians and those with gluten issues have a full array of goodies. The world is the inspiration here: Corn cakes with maple syrup, sweet potato and corn enchiladas, edamame hummus and pad Thai are just a few of the choices. The courtyard is lovely; the cantina is funky and fun. And there’s brunch on weekends. (2-10-11) $-$$
CRYING ONION CAFÉ NW 3684 W. Orange Grove Road, Suite 156. 5311330. Open Saturday-Thursday 6:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; Friday 6:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-8 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. MC, V, Cash and checks. Big breakfast portions and friendly service are two reasons why this northwest-side eatery draws such big crowds. The baked goods from scratch are another reason. Try a scrambler or the cinnamon roll French toast for a real treat. You won’t walk away hungry, and your wallet won’t be depleted. (128-05) $
GOURMET GIRLS GLUTEN-FREE BAKERY/BISTRO NW 5845 N. Oracle Road. 408-9000. Open TuesdaySunday 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This tiny bakery and bistro is a godsend for folks with gluten issues. In the bakery, you’ll find muffins, cupcakes, breads, pizza shells, bread crumbs, crostini, cakes, pies—you name it. The bistro menu includes fresh salads, homemade soups, sandwiches and breakfast items. Breakfast and lunch are served all day. (5-10-12) $$
THE CUP CAFÉ C 311 E. Congress St. 798-1618. Open SundayThursday 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.midnight. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Variety offered in an energetic environment. The Cup makes for one of the best reasons to eat downtown. (1-23-03) $-$$
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DAKOTA CAFE AND CATERING CO. E 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-7188. Open Monday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, MC, V. Fresh salads, hot grills and taste-pleasing combinations make this casual setting a continuing favorite. $$-$$$ DELECTABLES RESTAURANT AND CATERING C 533 N. Fourth Ave. 884-9289. Open Sunday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. The bohemian atmosphere of Fourth Avenue is enhanced by the lasting presence of one of the most consistently delicious eateries in town. Delectables specializes in simple dishes elegantly prepared and is perfect for either fine dining or after-game snacks. Desserts are extraordinary, and the people-watching along the avenue can’t be beat. (1-20-00) $$ THE ECLECTIC CAFÉ E 7053 E. Tanque Verde Road. 885-2842. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. A longstanding local café, the Eclectic excels at serving legendary breakfasts that feature fresh ingredients in robust portions. While service can be harried during peak hours, breakfast is worth the wait. Lunch and dinner are available, and while the menu dedicates itself to fresh ingredients, some of the other offerings aren’t as consistently solid as breakfast. Don’t miss the habit-forming chilaquiles, worth getting up and waiting in line for. (8-30-01) $ EPIC CAFÉ C 745 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6844. Open daily 6 a.m.midnight. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, MC, V. This is as close as you can get to Berkeley without leaving Tucson. The inexpensive, healthy food with fresh vegetables. The diverse crowd. The casual, occasionally cranky counter service. The art on the walls. The straws in the Viagralabeled container. It’s all there. (5-15-03) $ FEAST C 3719 E. Speedway Blvd. 326-9363. Open TuesdaySunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Chef Doug Levy takes usual ingredients and creates unusual, innovative and delectable fare. He changes the menu every month, which means two things: The menu is seasonally driven, and you can’t get too attached to any one item—but whatever the month may be, everyone will find something to enjoy. Many of the items can be prepared gluten-free. The wine book is one of the best in town, and service seldom falters. (2-24-11) $$-$$$ FROGS ORGANIC BAKERY NW 7109 N. Oracle Road. 229-2124. Open Wednesday-Saturday 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Owned by French bakers, Frogs prepares food with no chemicals, preservatives, artificial colors or trans fats. Ingredients are fresh, organic and from area farms. Menu offerings include moderately priced soup, sandwiches, salads, quiche and breakfast items. But you must visit to sample the terrific pastries. Choose from delectable fruit tarts, macarons, sticky buns, muffins and more. Don’t miss the almond croissants and the dessert of the day. (1-5-12) $-$$ GLASS ONION CAFE NW 1990 W. River Road, Suite 100. 293-6050.
Open Saturday-Monday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday 7 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday 7 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Good coffee, tasty sandwiches, sumptuous desserts and a comfortable atmosphere constitute this charming little Beatles-themed café. The service is warm and friendly, and Friday nights bring live music. The addition of green chiles makes the “Lonely Hearts Club” tastier than a run-of-the-mill club sandwich. (1127-08) $-$$
Tuesday-Thursday 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; and Sunday and Monday 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Jasper, now in its third iteration, is a chic hangout spot for cocktails and tapas with a Peruvian twist. With delicious and shareable dishes like the piquillo rellenos or the escabeche de pescado, be sure to bring a few friends along. The breakfast and lunch offerings are nice, too. (7-14-11) $$-$$$ JOEL’S BISTRO C 806 E. University Blvd. 529-7277. Open daily 8
a.m.-3 p.m.; Tuesday-Saturday 5-8 p.m. Summer hours: open daily 8 a.m.-3 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 5-8 p.m. Bistro/BYO. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Quiches, hot sandwiches, salads and a handful of regular entrées are all worth eating at Joel’s Bistro, but the star of the show is the crepes. It’s a beautiful thing to dine on sweet, succulent fruit crepes on a gorgeous day in the university area. (3-31-05) $-$$ SEVEN CUPS C 2516 E. Sixth St. 881-4072. Open Monday-Saturday
10:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Café/ No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Tucson is lucky to have Seven Cups, a traditional Chinese teahouse that serves a variety of some of the best teas you’ll find anywhere. Order a pot of tea and a Japanese pastry, take in the calm elegance and forget that the outside world exists for an hour or two. (9-2-04) $-$$ SOMETHING SWEET DESSERT LOUNGE E 5319 E. Speedway Blvd. 881-7735. Open Monday
and Tuesday 5 p.m.-midnight; Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday 11 a.m.-midnight; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Featuring dozens of desserts, late-night hours for the allages crowd, free wireless Internet and a book-exchange program, Something Sweet is carving out a new niche in Tucson. The colossal carrot cake is a wonder to behold. (1-22-04) $ SON’S BAKERY CAFÉ E 5683 E. Speedway Blvd. 885-0806. Open Monday
and Tuesday 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Wednesday-Saturday 7 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. MC, V. Son’s is an absolute gem, featuring amazing sandwiches and salads, and wonderful homemade desserts and pastries. Son, the proprietor, makes all the breads and baked goods himself, and he is a master. With the prices low and the service so welcoming and enthusiastic, Son’s is a delight in almost every way. (4-8-04) $ SUNNY DAZE CAFÉ S 4980 S. Campbell Ave. 295-0300. Open Sunday-
Tuesday 6 a.m.-3 p.m.; Wednesday-Saturday 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Tasty, inexpensive food can be found in abundance at Sunny Daze—but what really sets this southside café apart is its clean, tropical-themed décor. The small, square room is decorated to the hilt, and definitely worth checking out. (11-6-08) $-$$ TOOLEY’S COFFEE SHOP C 299 S. Park Ave. No Phone. Open daily 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. Cash only. Simple, honest food makes this café worthy of repeat visits. Breakfast is big, but the lunches are also quite satisfying. Coffee and teas are plentiful, and the vibe is kicked-back and cool. The décor is especially charming, with a patio that is ideal for alfresco dining. Be warned: Hours seem to change on a whim. It’s that laid-back. (3-26-09) $ WILKO C 943 E. University Blvd. 792-6684. Open Monday-
Saturday 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/ Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. This gastropub is a wonderful addition to the university area; in fact, it’s a plus for the entire city. Artisan cheeses and meats are a big part of the menu. The Sonoran hot dog becomes the Sonoran bratwurst, locally made and topped with guindilla relish. Other entrées include delicious pasta and a wonderful tilapia. Desserts are top-notch, which is no surprise, since they’re made by the folks at The B Line. (8-1111) $$
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a.m.-midnight. Bistro/Full Bar. MC, V. The Parish is a fine drinking establishment. Oh, and they serve food, too—really good food. The Southern-fusion gastropub features dishes with a Cajun/Creole twist, and the bold flavors are served with a smile. Consider yourself warned: When something is described as spicy, they mean it. (3-8-12) $$
CHINESE BA-DAR CHINESE RESTAURANT E 7321 E. Broadway Blvd. 296-8888. Open TuesdayThursday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The range of flavors is not especially broad or intense, but with that caveat, the mix of Mandarin, Szechuan and Cantonese cuisine can be quite satisfying, with a particular variety of fish and seafood dishes. (10-30-08) $-$$ C. I. CHU’S MONGOLIAN BARBECUE E 4540 E. Broadway Blvd. 881-4798. Open daily 11
a.m.-9 p.m. Diner. Beer, Wine and Sake. MC, V. Also at 7039 E. Tanque Verde Road (886-8619). C.I. Chu’s does Mongolian barbecue right. While the do-it-(mostly)yourself experience can be a bit confusing for first-time diners, this is a place to go for a relatively fast, affordable, uncomplicated and tasty bit of Asian food. (8-1204) $-$$ CHINA BOY C 1800 E. Fort Lowell Road, No. 136A. 867-8470.
Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday noon-8 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. At this tiny midtown spot, the flavors are fresh and bright; the prices are reasonable; the portions are huge; and they pack up everything in those charming little white boxes. The family dinners offer a nice assortment of choices, and the lunch specials do, too. The Mongolian beef pops with flavor, and the orange chicken is a great version of this standby. The crystal shrimp could be addicting—and the restaurant delivers, too! (10-20-11) $-$$
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Alibaba Restaurant has been in business more than 20 years, proudly serving Tucson with delicious Mediterranean and Persian cuisine. The restaurant has a Middle Eastern atmosphere, with a Mediterranean countryside ambiance. Diners feel as if they traveled to overseas countries while being entertained with belly dancers and Arabic and Egyptian music. Alibaba Restaurant has won Best Mediterranean every year, from 2007 to 2012, from Tucson Lifestyle Magazine. They participate and sponsor in the city’s nonprofit organizations, helping the community to grow in a better and healthier environment. The restaurant also joins in many Tucson events, such as Tucson Meet Yourself, the Fourth Avenue Street Fair and the Gem and Mineral Show.
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CHINA PASTA HOUSE C 430 N. Park Ave. 623-3334. Open Monday-Friday
8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. MC, V. This small UA-area restaurant features the delicious cuisine of Dandong, China. Gruel, dumplings, buns and noodle dishes fill out the menu. The pasta quality may vary—sometimes, it’s mushy; sometimes, it’s not—but the food is always tasty. The spicy, peppery “hot and sour noodles with three shredded stuff” is highly recommended. (5-3-12) $ CHINA PHOENIX NW 7090 N. Oracle Road, Suite 172. 531-0658.
Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. If you have a taste for dim sum on the weekend, you’re in for a cultural treat. The procuring of dumplings from pushcarts is a noisy business, but if you are hard up for dim sum, it will get you by. Dim sum is served on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (10-17-02) $-$$ DRAGON VIEW W 400 N. Bonita Ave. 623-9855. Open Monday-
Thursday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 4-8:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday noon-3 p.m. and 4-9:30 p.m.; Sunday noon3 p.m. and 4-8:30 p.m. Bistro/Beer and Wine. MC, V. Since original owner Harry Gee regained control of this secluded westside restaurant (it’s on a street that winds along the west side of the Santa Cruz between St. Mary’s Road and Congress Street), the fare is once again some of the best Chinese food in town. The duck, for one thing, is excellent, and the greens are also terrific if you let the staff guide your choice. (4-2-09) $-$$
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DRAGON VILLAGE RESTAURANT NW 12152 N. Rancho Vistoso Blvd., No. 180. 229-
0388. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday noon-9 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. While not matching the level of Bay Area Chinese restaurants, the crowded Dragon Village is
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perfectly fine by Tucson standards, with remarkable walnut shrimp and a good way with broccoli. (4-10-08) $ GOLDEN PHOENIX C 2854 E. 22nd St. 327-8008. Open daily 11 a.m.9:30 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. MC, V. The food here is consistently as good as what you’d find in San Francisco or Hong Kong. Austere atmosphere, but when the kitchen is on, this place is it. $-$$ GREAT WALL CHINA S 2445 S. Craycroft Road. 514-8888. Open daily 11
a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The service is quick and friendly; the décor is clean and welcoming. And the food? It’s consistently tasty, although the vegetarian offerings could use a boost. The pan-fried noodles are worth checking out, as is the not-too-sweet sesame chicken. Great Wall deserves to be part of the conversation when discussing Tucson’s top Chinese restaurants. (1-31-08) $$-$$$$ GUILIN CHINESE RESTAURANT C 3250 E. Speedway Blvd. 320-7768. Open Sunday
11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Hold on to your hats! With this venue, Tucson can boast it’s home to honest-to-goodness Chinese food, full of the bright tastes and textures for which the cuisine is renowned everywhere but here in the Old Pueblo. Tons of vegetarian options and daily lunch specials make Guilin a must-stop. $-$$ HARVEST MOON NW 12125 N. Oracle Road, Suite D5. 825-5351. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. Folks in Oro Valley can rejoice in the fact that they’ve got one of the best Chinese restaurants in the area right in their backyard. Wonderful starters include the crab puffs, foil-wrapped chicken and pot stickers. Can’t-miss entrées include the crispy duck and the scrumptious crispy shrimp with spicy salt. Soups are yummy, too! (12-31-09) $$ IMPRESS HOT POT C 2610 N. First Ave. 882-3059. Open Monday-
Bistro/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Impress Hot Pot is Tucson’s first Chinese hot-pot restaurant, and this do-it-yourself place is definitely worth a stop. Authentic Chinese flavors abound; try one of the many unique dishes like jellyfish, chicken feet or preserved eggs. Customize your own tasty hot pot with a plethora of ingredients and sauce options—and be sure to bring friends to share. (11-3-11) $$ P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO NW 1805 E. River Road. 615-8788. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. It may be more L.A. than Tucson, but there’s no denying that this hip chain is one of Tucson’s most popular places to be seen and dine. Diners are rewarded with commendable fare and a chic, eclectic ambience. Servers are intimately familiar with the menu, so by all means, take their advice. You won’t be sorry. (8-3-00) $$ PANDA BUFFET AND SUSHI C 2419 E. Broadway Blvd. 620-6688. Open Sunday-
Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Buffet/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This place takes the standard Chinese-food buffet formula and kicks it up a notch, offering a small but decent sushi selection, about three dozen dishes, and even eight varieties of scoop-it-yourself ice cream. However, Panda Buffet really shines when it breaks out the seafood buffet (on Sunday). Offerings include huge snails, oysters on the half-shell, several crab and shrimp creations, clams, crawfish and all sorts of other stuff. Not all of the dishes succeed, but enough of them do. (1-20-11) $-$$ PANDA HOUSE STIR-FRY NW 3725 W. Ina Road. 744-6200. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-8 p.m. Counter/ Diner/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Featuring buildyour-own stir fry and all-you-can-eat lunch Monday through Friday for less than $8. $-$$ PANDA VILLAGE E 6546 E. Tanque Verde Road. 296-6159. Open Monday-Thursday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday noon-9 p.m. Diner/ Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. We’ve had some extraordinary dinners at this Chinese venue. The kuo tieh, flavorful pork-filled dumplings lightly seared, are served with sauce of perfect fragrance and bite. $$
PEKING PALACE E 6970 E. 22nd St. 750-9614. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Bright, fresh renditions of Chinese classics. The hot and sour soup, Peking duck and stir-fried shrimp and scallops are often worth the trip. $$-$$$
COFFEE HOUSES BENTLEY’S HOUSE OF COFFEE AND TEA C 1730 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-0338. Open MondaySaturday 7 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Summer hours: Monday-Saturday 7 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Café/Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Delightful desserts, coffee you can get your hands around, and lip-smacking fresh salads and sandwiches make this standard a good choice. (4-19-01) $ IKE’S COFFEE AND TEA C 3400 E. Speedway Blvd. 323-7205. Open daily 6 a.m.-midnight. Café/No Alcohol. MC, V. Also at 100 N. Stone Ave. (792-1800). Ike’s does it right, with fresh ingredients in their salads and sandwiches, good coffee and a modern but mellow atmosphere. Try dessert, too; you won’t be disappointed. (7-10-03) $ LE BUZZ CAFFE AND NEWS E 9121 E. Tanque Verde Road, Suite 125. 749-3903. Open daily 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, MC, V, Checks. A pretty, warm, friendly neighborhood hangout with full espresso-bar offerings and a good bakery. Excellent service and a great location—the northeast corner of Tanque Verde Road and Catalina Highway—make Le Buzz a local favorite. (9-12-02) $ SPARKROOT C 245 E. Congress St. 272-8949. Open Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Sparkroot is the only coffeehouse in the state that serves marvelous Blue Bottle Coffee. The granola is a great way to start your day, and the dark-chocolate plate is a great way to finish it. In between, there are pressed-cheese sandwiches, salads and other bites that satisfy. All of this is offered in a space with a chic, big-city feel. (12-29-11) $
DELI BISON WITCHES BAR AND DELI C 326 N. Fourth Ave. 740-1541. Open daily 11 a.m.midnight (bar open until 2 a.m.). Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This college hangout earns its popularity with fresh sandwiches, tasty bread-bowl soups and enormous trays of nachos. A nice selection of beers and other alcohol add to the place’s appeal. (3-10-05) $ FIFTH STREET DELI AND MARKET E 5071 E. Fifth St. 325-3354. Open Monday-Thursday
8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday and Sunday 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. This is exactly what a neighborhood market/deli should be: small, cozy and nothing fancy, with friendly service. The food is pretty good, too; the noodle kugel is a real winner, and the brisket is better than homemade. Corned beef comes in extra-lean and regular varieties, and the soups are popular. Whether you stop to get a meal to-go or dine in, this deli should be on your list of regular dining spots. (12-25-08) $-$$ SHLOMO AND VITO’S NEW YORK DELICATESSEN NW 2870 E. Skyline Drive. 529-3354. Open Sunday-
Thursday 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Where do you go in the Sonoran Desert for smoked whitefish or matzo brei? Head on over to Shlomo and Vito’s, which is more of a restaurant than a true deli; there’s a full dinner menu in addition to an assortment of deli offerings. Desserts are made in-house. The portions are huge, and the patio offers views you can’t get in the Big Apple. There are Italian faves as well, but stick to the Jewish side of the menu. (6-19-08) $-$$ TONY’S ITALIAN DELI E 6219 E. 22nd St. 747-0070. Open Monday-Saturday
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EASTERN EUROPEAN AMBER RESTAURANT AND GALLERY NE 7000 E. Tanque Verde Road. 296-9759. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-1 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Amber offers just what this town needs: good, hardy Eastern European food in a thoroughly modern setting. Potato pancakes, kielbasa, goulash, schnitzel and other oldworld dishes are made from scratch and served with a smile. While the prices are a tad high, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be taking home a doggie bag or two to enjoy the next day. (8-2009) $$$-$$$$ POLISH COTTAGE C 4520 E. Broadway Blvd. 891-1244. Open Tuesday-
Saturday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday noon-7 p.m. CafĂŠ. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This tiny midtown spot is like a little slice of Poland. It offers your pierogi, your bigos, your kielbasa, your stuffed cabbage and your borschtâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;home-style food just like your babica made. The beer list is long, and, of course, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vodka. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stick-to-the-ribs stuff. (1-1912) $
ETHIOPIAN CAFĂ&#x2030; DESTA C 758 S. Stone Ave. 370-7000. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/BYO. MC, V. CafĂŠ Desta is more than just a place to grab some grubâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shared dining experience. With more-than-generous portion sizes and flavorful traditional Ethiopian dishes, the cafĂŠ is livening up the south-of-downtown scene, filling a small void in an area lacking restaurants. (5-12-11) $$ ZEMAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S C 2731 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-9928. Open Tuesday-
Sunday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 4:30-9:30 p.m. CafĂŠ/ BYO. MC, V, Checks. For a quick transport to North Africa, try Zemamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and savor the complex and spicy regional fare. Served with the traditional bread called injera, the food at Zemamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is a delightful excuse to eat with your hands, get sloppy and have good fun. (11-0200) $-$$
FRENCH AGUSTĂ?N BRASSERIE W 100 S. Avenida del Convento, No. 150. 398-5382. Open Tuesday and Wednesday 5-10 p.m.; Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Saturday 3-11 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. MC, V. This French-themed bistro in the westside Mercado San AgustĂn sits in a space that exudes an elegant charm without crossing into pretentiousness. The menu is limited, but the fare is generally excellent. The vichyssoise and the risotto should not be missed. (8-9-12) $$-$$$ GHINIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FRENCH CAFFĂ&#x2030; C 1803 E. Prince Road. 326-9095. Open Tuesday-
Thursday and Saturday 6:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; Friday 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-2 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Ghiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is a small marvel of culinary perfection. From the eggs cooked with broiled tomatoes, garlic and fresh thyme to the heavenly pasta creations, Ghiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s knows how to take an assortment of singularly fresh ingredients and create something truly special. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt that the tiny restaurant shares space with La Baguette, one of the most popular bakeries in town. Pick up a fresh baguette and some croissants while youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there. $ LE RENDEZ-VOUS C 3844 E. Fort Lowell Road. 323-7373. Open Tuesday-
Friday 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 5-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V, Checks. The deft touch of chef Jean-Claude Berger makes for a sumptuous lunch or dinner of simple dishes, like cabrilla in capers and lemon, done splendidly. $$-$$$
GREEK ATHENS ON FOURTH AVENUE C 500 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6886. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V, Checks. To sup with the gods, one needs to stroll no farther than up Fourth Avenue to Athens on Fourth. A small restaurant where Andreas Delfakis has quietly been serving the best authentic Greek cuisine in Tucson for years. (3-7-02) $-$$ THE FAT GREEK E 3225 N. Swan Road, Suite 105. 784-7335. Open
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AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also located at 994 E. University Blvd. (206-0246). Both locations of this locally owned Tucson restaurant serve up great Greek food, fast, with a smile. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss one of Tucsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tastiest gyros, but also consider trying one of the lesser-known specialties. Inexpensive and delicious. (11-5-09) $-$$ FRONIMOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GREEK CAFĂ&#x2030; C 3242 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-8321. Open daily 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This unpretentious but attractive family-owned spot provides quick service of the Greek basics, plus burgers and gyros. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very good Greek food at equally good prices. (2-28-08) $-$$ ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GREEK TO ME NW 15920 N. Oracle Road. 825-4199. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. From luscious appetizers like the rich taramosalata, to savory entrĂŠes like the pastitsio and the lamb shank, and concluding with a heavenly honey cake or lovely baklava for dessert, the food at this Greek joint sings. These are the same people who run the wonderful Athens on Fourth Avenue, so you know the foodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to impress. The atmosphere is casual, and the service is sincere and friendly. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lucky, George, the chef and owner, will come out to share a glass of wine or a little insight on how he prepared your dinner. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth the drive to Catalina. (11-17-11) $$-$$$ MY BIG FAT GREEK RESTAURANT E 7131 E. Broadway Blvd. 722-6000. Open Monday-
Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 7265 N. La Cholla Blvd. (797-7444). This Phoenix-based chain offers delicious food at extremely reasonable prices. The souvlaki is moist and marinated perfectly; the spanakopita is a spinach-and-feta delight. The dĂŠcor reminds one of Applebeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and the serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; while fastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;may suffer from an occasional lapse or two. However, the Greek standards served here are as good and inexpensive as anywhere else in Tucsonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if this is a chain joint. (4-3-08) $$-$$$
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HAWAIIAN LANIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LUAU HAWAIIAN RESTAURANT E 2532 S. Harrison Road. 886-5828. Open TuesdayThursday 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. MC and V. Enjoy an authentic taste of Hawaii right here in Tucson. Dishing up luau-style food (think lots of pork), the family-owned and -operated joint is a great place to cure that craving for laulau, kalua pork or chicken long rice. With a fairly extensive menu and a significant nod to the Filipino influence in Hawaiian food, Laniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is definitely worth the trip to the eastside (2-16-12) $-$$
INDIAN CURRY LEAF C 2510 E. Grant Road, No. 100. 881-2786. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/ No Alcohol. DC, DIS, MC, V. Curry Leaf offers affordable lunch specials, as well as delicious dinner entrĂŠes. The food is fresh; the service is friendly; and the portion sizes are generous for the price. Be sure not to miss out on the soft, buttery garlic naan. (9-15-11) $$ GANDHI C 150 W. Fort Lowell Road. 292-1738. Open daily 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Gandhi offers an expansive menu including a dozen curry dishes, a plethora of tandoori dishes, breads, biryanis (jambalaya-like stews) and other entrĂŠes. Vegetarians, take note: There are more than two dozen dishes offered that are sans-meat. And the buffet may be the best lunch deal in town. As one diner put it, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like â&#x20AC;&#x153;a roller coaster in your mouth.â&#x20AC;? (8-28-03) $-$$ INDIA OVEN C 2727 N. Campbell Ave. 326-8635. Open daily 11 a.m.-2:45 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This cozy little Campbell Avenue restaurant has long been a Tucson favorite for its large (more than 100-plus items) menu. The lunch buffet features a surprisingly good selection of tasty items, and the samosas are consistently fantastic. (4-27-06) $-$$
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NEW DELHI PALACE E 6751 E. Broadway Blvd. 296-8585. Open daily 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. New Delhi Palace is a great eastside spot for a quick, inexpensive and tasty Indian lunch buffetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as long as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not looking for super-spicy fare. Dinner is served fast and with a smile, and the menu offers an extensive selection of authentic and tasty Indian appetizers, entrĂŠes and desserts, as well as a great international beer selection. (11-4-10) $$-$$$ SAFFRON INDIAN BISTRO NW 7607 N. Oracle Road. 742-9100. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Subtle, delicate preparations in mod, minimalist surroundings. Portions are pricier than at other local Indian restaurants, but large. If you want to taste the heat, you need to ask for it. (9-18-08) $$-$$$ SHER-E PUNJAB C 853 E. Grant Road. 624-9393. Open daily 11 a.m.-
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CARUSOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S C 434 N. Fourth Ave. 624-5765. Open TuesdayThursday and Sunday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. CafĂŠ/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Carusoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has been around since 1938, and based on the crowds the restaurant draws on the weekends, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be around beyond 2038. The service is warm and friendly while the food is inexpensive and satisfying. Carusoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patio seating offers a special dining experience. (7-17-03) $-$$ DOLCE VITA E 7895 E. Broadway Blvd. 298-3700. Open Monday-
Friday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 4-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Spaghetti and meatballs is a surefire hit here, as are the pizza and eggplant parmigiana. $$-$$$ ENOTECA PIZZERIA WINE BAR C 58 W. Congress St. 623-0744. Open Tuesday-
Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 4-10 p.m. Bistro/Beer and Wine. AMEX, MC, V. Enoteca is a busy restaurant with delicious pastas, salads, pizzas and dinner entrĂŠes and more. The food is consistently tasty and reasonably priced. (5-12-05) $-$$ GIACOMOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S
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Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Caffe Torino serves gigantic, shareable portions of beautifully executed entrĂŠes. Flavors are authentic, and the menu offers a wide range of options. A well-thought-out wine list and a beautifully decorated space complete the experienceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect a quick meal. (4-21-11) $$-$$$
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Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This upscale chain serves fine American-style centralItalian food. Warm service, a elegant room and an inviting terrace (curtained off from the Tucson Mall parking lot) make it worth a shot if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re within range of the mall, hungry and in the mood for something better than Olive Garden. Breads and salads are terrific; appetizers and entrĂŠes are more hit-or-miss. The wine list, mostly California and Italian, features more than 40 interesting choices, many available by the glass. (12-15-11) $$-$$$ CAFFE MILANO C 46 W. Congress St. 628-1601. Open MondayWednesday 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; Thursday and Friday 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Saturday 5:30-9:30 p.m. CafĂŠ/Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s by weekday or weekend night, this downtown spot is a joy. Lunches are affordable and offer sandwiches, soups, salads and pastas. Dinner offers a full menu of Italian staples and house specialties. The patio at night is a great spot to enjoy downtown at its finest. The wine list is intensely Italian but has a price range for every pocket. Desserts and breakfasts also sing of Italy. Closed from June 14 through July 17. (10-506) $$-$$$ CAFFE TORINO NW 10325 N. La Canada Drive, No. 151. 297-3777. Open Monday 8 a.m.-2 p.m.; Tuesday-Friday 8 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Saturday 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Sunday 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-8 p.m. CafĂŠ/
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Sunday 4:30-9:30 p.m. Summer hours: ThursdaySunday 5-9:30 p.m. CafĂŠ. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, MC, V. Pictures of Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coastline adorn this Italian restaurant with a cozy authentic atmosphere. Friendly service, delicious food and reasonable prices make Giacomoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place to find amore. (12-18-03) $$-$$$ GUSTO OSTERIA E 7153 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-9487. Open
Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. In this charming eastside spot, rustic Italian food is served in a most convivial atmosphere, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wine list with prices that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be beat. The tender manicotti is freshly made and stuffed with a delightful cheese mix; the eggplant sandwich is delicious. Service is top-notch, and the patio is the kind of place you could easily spend a couple of hours. Remember that the initial recipes are courtesy of the master, Joe Scordato. (3-22-12) $$-$$$ J. MARINARAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NW 8195 N. Oracle Road. 989-3654. Open Tuesday-
Saturday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 3:30-8:30 p.m.; Sunday 3:30-8:30 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. MC, V. Brought to you by the folks who ran Ascoleseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, this East Coast Italian joint cooks up all of the usual Italian favorites. Steaks are also available, and on Sunday, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find prime rib. At dinner, the atmosphere is warm and friendly, like a restaurant youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d find back in the old neighborhood. If you dig the marinara sauce, you can purchase a jar to take home. (5-26-11) $-$$$ MAD MARIOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ITALIAN DELI C 1710 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-3258. Open daily 11
a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. While Mad Marioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offers a wide variety of tasty Italian entrĂŠes, the sandwiches are the way to go here. The corned beef reuben is simply amazingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and so is the jovial service from Mario himself. The restaurant offers free delivery in the UA/midtown area for orders more than $20. (2-212) $-$$ MAMA LOUISAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ITALIAN RESTAURANT S 2041 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4702. Open Monday-
Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday noon-8 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to find anything wrong with Mama Louisaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, a Tucson treasure since 1956. The foodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing; the service is superb; the prices are reasonable. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a large menu for both lunch and dinner, with plenty of vegetarian options. Try Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Special; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the signature dish for a reason. (3-20-03) $-$$ MICHELANGELO RISTORANTE ITALIANO NW 420 W. Magee Road. 297-5775. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. A popular northwest side venue, Michelangeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is sure to please if you temper your expectations with a note of realism--that note being this is Tucson, and good, authentic Italian fare is very hard to find. (5-2-02) $-$$ NORTH NW 2995 E. Skyline Drive. 299-1600. Open Monday-
Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. La Encantada has itself
pany, the spectacular mountain views can seduce you into a moment of sheer well-being. (11-30-00) $-$$
PIAZZA GAVI NE 5415 N. Kolb Road. 577-1099. Open SundayThursday 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. For anyone who loved the small trattorias that were the hallmark of the Gavi empire, this place may seem cavernous. But size doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter. Gavi brings all its wonderful touches to this roomy eatery: good food, giant portions and friendly service. The choices are plentiful; there are more than 20 types of pasta sauce alone. Pizza is on the menu. So is breakfast. Sandwiches are big enough for two (or three). The wine list leans toward the Italian side, but what else would you expect? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the amazing happy-hour deals. (7-12-12) $$-$$$
VIROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ITALIAN BAKERY AND CAFE E 8301 E. 22nd St. 885-4045. Open Tuesday 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. This charming little Italian joint serves up meaty sandwiches, fresh breads and pastries, pizzas and a handful of pasta dishes, along with impressive daily specialsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;-including a Sunday breakfast buffet that may be one of the best brunch deals in town. (10-25-07) $-$$
ROMA IMPORTS C 627 S. Vine Ave. 792-3173. Open Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/ No Alcohol. MC, V. Despite its odd location, Roma Imports manages to draw a crowd. Why? Its food rocks. The sandwiches and pasta specials are almost perfect for a causal meal to eat at La Taverna, Romaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in-house dining area. If you want some prepared goodies to take home, or are looking for the perfect ingredients to make your own Italian meal, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fail. And the desserts are amazing, too. (3-8-07) $
VITELLOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RISTORANTE ITALIANO NW 15930 N. Oracle Road, No. 178. 825-0140. Open Monday 4-8 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/ Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. What a pleasant surprise Vitelloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cozy; the staff is friendly; and the menu has just about everything Italian you might crave. The sauces range from a house marinara to a creamy vodka to a rich gorgonzola to a briny white clam. The pizzas are also quite good; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re simple and rustic. Panini, salads, veal, chicken, seafood and dishes are also available. The cannoli is like Nana used to make. (1-13-11) $-$$$
TAVOLINO RISTORANTE ITALIANO NW 2890 E. Skyline Drive. 531-1913. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Tavolino is now a shiny, chic kind of placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss a beat in the move. The appetizers are fresh and fabulous. The pastas will delight. (Try the tagliatelle alla Bolognese; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s killer.) Other entrĂŠes, especially those coming off the grill, are great examples of how Italian food is supposed to be. Service is most professional. (8-12-10) $$-$$$
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At long last, Y la Orkesta’s debut album is finally here
By Stephen Seigel, musiced@tucsonweekly.com
Mambo Time! BY ERIC SWEDLUND, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com David Garza ith his mambo orchestra a hit right out of the gate, Sergio Mendoza wanted to take his time to record the band’s debut album. Taking their cue from Perez Prado, Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta have put on electrifying shows from the start, adding a new twist to Cuban big-band music from the 1940s and 1950s. Writing new material and growing into the band’s own unique sound, however, took some time and experimentation. After all, it’s not like there’s much of a road map out there for a psychedelic indie mambo band. “I had that in mind, to make a band with that concept—a big band with a lot of horns, some mambo, some cumbia,” Mendoza says. “We tried a lot of different things, and it became another entire year of just experimenting with these songs we had, and we finally landed on these 11 songs.” More than two years in the making, Mambo Mexicano! is a shape-shifting record, far from a straight-up mambo-dance party. “It’s not 100 percent traditional. It has some of the original concept and ideas, but we’re trying different things,” Mendoza says. “I changed my mind a lot of times, to the point where people were starting to question me and starting to wonder if this record was ever going to be done. It did take a little over two years to complete, but in the end, it all came together.” From what Mendoza calls the “spaghetti mambo” of “Traicionera” to the electronics that color “Orkesta y Sonido” to the Brazilian influences on “Mambo in the Dark,” Mambo Mexicano! is a record of exciting shifts to go along with the phenomenal musicianship of Mendoza and his band. For the album’s U.S. release on the Los Angeles label Cosmica Records (the European version was released to coincide with an April tour), Mendoza dropped his name, and the band is now simply Y la Orkesta. It’s a nod to the group’s fluidity—more than 20 musicians show up in the album’s credits— and growth that came primarily onstage. “A lot of the time, it feels like I’m up there working it and leading the band and calling out different sections, and it really helps having Salvador (Duran) there,” Mendoza says. “He’s a hell of a performer, and it takes a lot of pressure off me. Between the two of us, we really get the show going, him with performing, and me with directing.” Y la Orkesta’s album-release performance will be one for the ages, with an extra-big band onstage headlining the HoCo Festival’s second night. The horn section alone counts as a big band—four trumpets, four trombones—and
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Mendoza promises other guests, like Camilo Lara of the Mexican Institute of Sound. “It’s going to be a fun night, with a lot of the friends and people who have recorded on this record. We’re happy it’s finally out,” he says. “It’s different every night, and that’s one of the parts that keep the musicians interested. It is a big band, and there are a lot of people playing the same song, but we still leave that freedom by keeping things really fresh and really open,” he says. “… When it’s a good crowd, it definitely leads to different things in the music.” Recorded mainly at Wavelab Studio, Mambo Mexicano! is the culmination of a quick ascendancy for Y la Orkesta, from one-off cover band at the annual Great Cover-Up to the winner of multiple Tucson Area Music Awards, including 2009 Up-and-Coming Artist of the Year and 2010 Band of the Year. The band is also a three-time winner in the Latin Jazz/Salsa category. “Every time you do the Great Cover-Up, it’s the rule that it’s going to be a one-off; you put a lot of rehearsal into it, but it’s just for one night. But I had a feeling that by doing Perez Prado, there was no way we wouldn’t do that again. It was a lot of fun putting it together, and it was a fun group, and I just knew it was going to get busy, and I was ready for that,” Mendoza says. Since the debut of Y la Orkesta, Mendoza has become even more in demand as a keyboard, accordion and vihuela player, touring with Calexico and DeVotchKa, and sitting in for shows with Lara’s Mexican Institute of Sound and Howe Gelb’s Giant Giant Sand. “It’s been a learning experience more than
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anything, and I still look at it that way, even as I do more and more,” he says. “I think it was Béla Fleck who said you learn more from those people you play with than the videos you watch or the music you listen to, and I think it’s true for me. You learn from them, and you take what you can to make your own personal project better.” Ultimately, Mendoza has directed the musical growth and experiences from his collaborative roles right back into Y la Orkesta. And being a bandleader has informed his perspective as a sideman. But can each continue building on the other one? “I think about that a lot,” he says. “What everybody would want to do—and most people would say you should do—is focus on one, and have your own band and try to make that happen. Maybe at some point, it’s going to lead to that, but I also like playing with a lot of people and playing a lot of different styles of music, and as long as I feel like doing that, I will keep doing things I normally wouldn’t do with my own band.”
Each year, I trot out an ancient cultural reference that wants to be a joke, but isn’t that funny, to announce this: To misquote the sage philosopher MC Hammer: Stop! TAMMIES time! The ballots have been counted, and the winners will be announced at the Tucson Weekly’s 19th Annual Tucson Area Music Awards ceremony and concert, which will be held at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 5, at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. The event is our yearly tribute to local musicians as voted on by you, our readers, and you’re all invited to join the party. Admission is free and open to all ages. A little recap of the voting process: There were two rounds of preliminary voting—one for readers, and one for a team of critics made up of music writers, local club-bookers, DJs and others with intimate knowledge of the local music landscape. The top vote-getters in each round were then placed on an online multiple-choice ballot, and the ultimate winners were picked by you, the readers. (So if you don’t like the results, don’t blame us.) Thanks to all who took the time to vote. This whole shebang couldn’t happen without you. And we certainly couldn’t do it without the hundreds of local bands and musicians who toil away in venues across town, enriching our lives and contributing to the local cultural landscape, usually for very little pay. The TAMMIES is our way of saluting and thanking them, and we hope you’ll join us on Wednesday to do the same. It’s worth noting that in recent years, print copies of the Weekly containing the results hit the streets on the same day as the ceremony. This year, that will not be the case: Our special TAMMIES section will be published in our Sept. 13 issue—a full week after the ceremony. Yes, there will actually be some suspense! In case you’ve never attended, you should know that it’s not some boring awards show (thanks to Jeb Schoonover, who produces the event). The awards announcements come in brief interludes between musical performances. This year’s TAMMIES Hall of Fame inductees are Linda Ronstadt and her grandfather, Federico Ronstadt, and all the performers will pay homage to them in one form or another. This year’s performers are Mariachi Aztlán de Pueblo High School, BK Special (which features Bobby Kimmel, onetime bandmate of Linda Ronstadt in the Stone Poneys), Club Philharmonico (the original Club Philharmonico was founded by Federico), Ronstadt Generations (featuring Michael J. Ronstadt and his two sons, Michael G. and Petie) and a grand finale that will include performances by Howe Gelb, David Slutes, Chuck Wagon and the Wheelchairs, Nancy McCallion, LeeAnne Savage, Sabra Faulk, Emilie Marchand, Kevin Pakulis and Amy Langley, and Katherine Byrnes. Please join us to pay tribute to the First Family of Tucson Music, as well as the many deserving winners of this year’s awards. See you there!
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A LABOR-DAYWEEKEND TRADITION Before the TAMMIES, however, this week brings with it another tried-and-true Tucson tradition: Hotel Congress’ annual HoCo Fest, a weekend-long music festival. This year, the event expands into four nights of music, and most nights have a (sometimes loose) theme. The action takes place on two stages for three of the four nights: an outdoor stage, and the indoor Club Congress stage. The outdoor stage is all-ages on Friday night; on other nights, the outdoor stage is open to minors with parental accompaniment. The indoor stage is strictly 21-and-older. Here’s what the schedule for this year’s HoCo Fest looks like: Friday, Aug. 31 (Indie-Rock Night), outdoor stage: The Modeens (7:45 p.m.), David Garza (8:45 p.m.), Strand of Oaks (9:45 p.m.), The Tallest Man on Earth (10:45 p.m.). Indoor stage: Wolf Larsen (8 p.m.), Lonna Kelley (9 p.m.), Wild Nothing (10 p.m.), followed by a free after-party with Otherly Love (11:30 p.m.) and Young Hunter (12:30 a.m.). Saturday, Sept. 1, outdoor stage (aka the Latin stage): Verbobala (7:30 p.m. and in between sets), David Garza (8:30 p.m.), Depedro (9:30 p.m.), Camilo Lara of Mexican Institute of Sound (10:30 p.m.), Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta (11:15 p.m.). Indoor stage: The Cordials (8 p.m.), Sweet Ghost (9 p.m.), Dry River Yacht Club (10 p.m.), Cowgirls, The (11 p.m.; the local punk band is playing its first show in 25 years). It’s followed by a free Camilo Lara and Dan Hernandez After-Party (12:30 a.m.). Sunday, Sept. 2 (a lineup of groundbreaking Tucson bands from the 1970s and ’80s), outdoor stage: Bob Meighan and the Dreadnutts (8:15 p.m.), The Dusty Chaps (9:45 p.m.). Indoor Stage: Chuck Wagon and the Wheelchairs (7:30 p.m.), Ned Sutton (9 p.m.), followed by a free Chronicles After-Party (10 p.m.) Monday, Sept. 3: True Drew (7 p.m.), El Hanko Dinero (8 p.m.), Turquoise Jeep (9:30 p.m.), followed by a free Retro-lution AfterParty (11 p.m.). Additionally, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, there will be a free Record Fair and Music Gear Expo, which also includes a fuzzbox clinic with Clif Taylor at 2 p.m., as well as a screening of Fuzz, his documentary on the topic, at 3 p.m. Admission each night is $15—there are no all-inclusive weekend passes—and each night concludes with a free after-party (as noted above). Hotel Congress is located at 311 E. Congress St. For more information about HoCo Fest, head to hotelcongress.com/club, or call 622-8848.
A NEW ALL-AGES VENUE! Although there are certainly options for local underage concert-goers—the Rialto Theatre and Solar Culture Gallery both feature all-ages shows almost exclusively—ask anyone younger than 21, and they’ll tell you Tucson is in need of a venue that specifically caters to the allages crowd. That issue is remedied this week with the opening of a new DIY, all-ages venue called the Tucson Live Music Space (TLMS), located at 125 W. Ventura St. (between Stone Avenue and Oracle Road, and Grant Road and Drachman Street). The venue already has a few shows scheduled for the next couple of weeks: 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4, is TLMS’ unoffi-
TOP TEN The 17th Street Guitar and World Music Store’s top sales for the week ending Aug. 24, 2012 cial opening (or, what they call in the restaurant biz, the soft opening), and will feature a pair of California bands—Sic Waiting and The Shell Corporation—as well as No Radio. 8 p.m., next Friday, Sept. 7, is the official grand opening featuring a rare performance by Shark Pants, The Wanda Junes (featuring members of Monster Pussy and Feel Free), Glass Affection and Phoenix’s Former Friends of Young Americans. 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 13, is a four-act bill featuring Run-On Sunshine, Ocean Void, Dying Bedmaker and Tinsels. Here’s the deal: Shows will typically start at 7 p.m. on weeknights, and 8 p.m. on weekends. At each show, attendees will be asked for a minimum $5 donation to help the nonprofit space pay its bills, and to help touring bands fill their gas tanks. Absolutely no drugs or alcohol will be permitted. For more information and updates, check out the TLMS Facebook page (www.facebook.com/pages/ TLMS/341092002644394) or email tucsonlivemusicspace@gmail.com. Finally, from a press release: “There is also a fundraising page that contains more information about TLMS’ mission. Although enough money has been raised to open the space, much more is still needed to help the space become sustainable: www.indiegogo.com/tucsonmusicspace.” Best of luck, TLMS, and glad to have you around.
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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. THE BISBEE ROYALE 94 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-6750. BLUEFIN SEAFOOD BISTRO 7053 N. Oracle Road. 531-8500. THE BONE-IN STEAKHOUSE 5400 S. Old Spanish Trail. 885-4600. 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. CHUY’S MESQUITE BROILER 22ND STREET 7101 E. 22nd St. 722-5117. 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. COMFORT SUITES 7007 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-2300. COPPER QUEEN HOTEL 11 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-2216. COW PALACE 28802 S. Nogales Highway. Amado. (520) 398-8000. 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.
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DESERT DIAMOND CASINO SPORTS BAR Interstate 19 and Pima Mine Road. 393-2700. DIABLOS SPORTS BAR AND GRILL 2545 S. Craycroft Road. 514-9202. THE DISTRICT 260 E. Congress St. 792-0081. 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. ELLIOTT’S ON CONGRESS 135 E. Congress St. 622-5500. 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. FIRE + SPICE Sheraton Hotel and Suites, 5151 E. Grant Road. 323-6262. 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. 2991501. 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 CAFÉ 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. OLD FATHER INN 4080 W. Ina Road. Marana. 744-1200. OLD PUEBLO GRILLE 60 N. Alvernon Way. 326-6000. OLD TUBAC INN RESTAURANT AND SALOON 7 Plaza Road. Tubac. (520) 398-3161. ON A ROLL 63 E. Congress St. 622-7655. ORACLE INN 305 E. American Ave. Oracle. 896-3333. O’SHAUGHNESSY’S 2200 N. Camino Principal. 296-7464. OUTLAW SALOON 1302 W. Roger Road. 888-3910. PAPPY’S DINER 1300 W. Prince Road. 408-5262. PARADISO BAR AND LOUNGE Casino Del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. LA PARRILLA SUIZA 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300. PEARSON’S PUB 1120 S. Wilmot Road. 747-2181. PLAYGROUND BAR AND LOUNGE 278 E. Congress St. 396-3691. PLUSH 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298. THE POUND 127-2 E. Navajo Road. PURGATORY 1310 S. Alvernon Way. 795-1996. PUTNEY’S 6090 N. Oracle Road. 575-1767. PY STEAKHOUSE 5655 W. Valencia Road, inside Casino del Sol. (800) 344-9435. 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. LE RENDEZ-VOUS 3844 E. Fort Lowell Road. 323-7373. RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000. RIC’S CAFE/RESTAURANT 5605 E. River Road. 577-7272. RILEY’S IRISH TAVERN 5140 N. La Cholla Blvd. 408-0507. RIVER’S EDGE LOUNGE 4635 N. Flowing Wells Road. 887-9027. RJ’S REPLAYS SPORTS PUB AND GRUB 5769 E. Speedway Blvd. 495-5136. THE ROCK 136 N. Park Ave. 629-9211. ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871. RUNWAY BAR AND GRILL 2101 S. Alvernon Way. 790-6788. 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. 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. THE STEAKOUT RESTAURANT AND SALOON 3620 W. Tangerine Road. Marana. 572-1300. STOCKMEN’S LOUNGE 1368 W. Roger Road. 887-2529. SULLIVAN’S STEAK HOUSE 1785 E. River Road. 299-4275. SURLY WENCH PUB 424 N. Fourth Ave. 882-0009. TANQUE VERDE RANCH 14301 E. Speedway Blvd. 296-6275. TANQUE VERDE SWAP MEET 4100 S. Palo Verde Road. 294-4252. TERRY AND ZEKE’S 4603 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-3555. TUCSON LIVE MUSIC SPACE 125 W. Ventura St. 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 30 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch Boondocks Lounge Ed DeLucia Band 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, Saturnalia Eddies Cocktails Cass Preston and His Band Elliott’s on Congress The Kachina Speakeasy Review 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 Santa Pachita and guests Irish Pub Gary Alan Durrenberger Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Corey Spector Las Cazuelitas Live music McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Susan Artemis Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Out of Kilters O’Malley’s Live music On a Roll Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Kelly Vohnn (Reba McEntire tribute) Plush Leila Lopez PY Steakhouse Gabriel Ayala RPM Nightclub 80’s and Gentlemen Sheraton Hotel and Suites Prime Example Sky Bar Union Pacific The Steakout Restaurant and Saloon Andrew Cooper Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Surly Wench Pub Brass Tax, Glass Affection Union Public House Howard and Loud Whiskey Tango Live music Wild Bill’s Steakhouse and Saloon Wild Oats
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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. RJ’s Replays Sports Pub and Grub 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
COMEDY Laffs Comedy Caffé Andrew Horneman, Matt Storrs, Tom Licklitter, Nick Novak
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DANCE/DJ The Auld Dubliner DJ spins music Casa Vicente Restaurante EspaĂąol Flamenco guitar and dance show La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Coming Out: A Queer Dance party The Depot Sports Bar DJ and music videos Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Friday Night Groove Desert Diamond Casino Sports Bar Fiesta DJs: Latin/ Urban night Diablos Sports Bar and Grill DJ Mike Lopez El Charro CafĂŠ Sahuarita DJ spins music El Charro CafĂŠ on Broadway DJ spins R&B El Parador Salsa-dance lessons with Jeannie Tucker Famous Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Valencia DJ spins music IBTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CelloFame Javelina Cantina DJ M. Maynards Market and Kitchen DJ spins music Music Box â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s and more NoRTH DJ Phatal Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DJ Dibs Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge Flashback Fridays with DJ Sid the Kid Sinbadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fine Mediterranean Cuisine DJ spins music Sky Bar Hot Era party, Elemental Artistry Fire-Dancing Surly Wench Pub Underworld Revel Unicorn Sports Lounge Y Not Entertainment V Fine Thai Ultra Fridays: DJs Soo and Zeta Wildcat House Top 40 dance mix Wooden Nickel DJ spins music Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz
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SAT SEP 1 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bashful Bandit Live Music The Bone-In Steakhouse Bobby Wilson Boondocks Lounge Tony and the Torpedoes CafĂŠ PassĂŠ Country Saturdays Cascade Lounge George Howard Chicago Bar Neon Prophet Club Congress HoCo Fest Day Two: Y la Orkesta CD-release, Camilo Lara, David Garza, Depedro, Dry River Yacht Club, Sweet Ghost, The Cordials, Cowgirls, The, Verbobala La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Tom Walbank Coltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taste of Texas Steakhouse Live music Cow Pony Bar and Grill DJ spins music Cushing Street Restaurant and Bar Live jazz Dakota Cafe and Catering Co. Howard Wooten Delectables Restaurant and Catering Live music Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bayou Cajun Cookinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Melody Louise Driftwood Restaurant and Lounge Live music Eclipse at College Place Live music Eddies Cocktails Classic rock â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll El Charro CafĂŠ Sahuarita Live salsa band El MezĂłn del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Enoteca Pizzeria Wine Bar Phil Borzillo Famous Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s E. Golf Links Live music Flying V Bar and Grill Solo guitarist La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Gold Live music Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music Hacienda del Sol Mark Willis The Hideout Los Bandidos The Hut Jet West, Black Bottom Lighters Las Cazuelitas Mariachis Liâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l Abnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Lookout Bar and Grille at Westward Look Resort Live acoustic Maverick Flipside McMahonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prime Steakhouse Daniel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Slyâ&#x20AC;? Slipetsky Mint Cocktails Live music Monterey Court Studio Galleries and CafĂŠ Corey Spector Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Live music Old Pueblo Grille Jazz Jam with Pete Swan Trio Old Tubac Inn Restaurant and Saloon Freestyle
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Christian Ramirez Christian Ramirez graduated from the UA with a degree in photography in 2009; became the programming and operations coordinator at MOCA-Tucson in 2010; and has been My Gal Friday for more than a year now, taking pictures for my Live reviews. When she’s not snapping awesome pics or setting up an exhibit, she often spends her time cradling her lovely cat, Mulder. Casey Dewey, mailbag@ tucsonweekly.com
What was the first concert you attended? The first show I ever went to by choice was the RX Bandits at Skrappy’s back when it was on Broadway Boulevard and Fifth Street, my freshman year of high school. What are you listening to these days? Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem; Visions by Grimes; The Horror by RJD2; Gloss Drop by Battles; Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes. What was the first album you owned? I think I was about 7 when my dad took me to Warehouse Music to buy The Monkees Greatest Hits on cassette. What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone seem to love, but you just don’t get? I’ll never understand the appeal of Bob Marley or reggae in general. What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live? Selena on her Amor Prohibido tour, duh. Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure? I don’t really believe in guilty pleasures, but I guess Katy Perry would fall into that category. Especially in 3-D.
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This full-length debut showcases Corin Roddick’s engaging electronic sound paintings and the chirping, littlegirl vocals of Megan James, which seem to alternate between naive and sensuous. With lyrical themes that range from playful to obsessive, the Canadian duo are the 21st-century offspring of ’80s and ’90s bands—such as This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins and the brilliant but little-known Insides—that found a home on the same label that released this album. On the opening track, “Crawlersout,” James’ lyrics are obtuse enough to invite multiple interpretations, but it’s hard to deny the strange attraction of lines such as, “They’ll weave their long souls / into the frame / to grow their foliage in / sew their long hairs / into their beds / to keep them crawlers out.” In the next tune, “Fineshrine,” she invites deep intimacy, singing, “Cut open my sternum and poke.” Roddick’s synthesizer constructions, on such numbers as “Lofticries” and “Ungirthed,” flirt with grandiosity and are almost prettily ornate. But there always seems to be something a little earthy and unsettling in the mix, whether it’s a skittering bit of hip hop, or the dark, doom-laden rhythm bed in the haunting “Cartographist.” The song to which I return most often is “Grandloves,” which features guest vocals by Young Magic’s frontman, Isaac Emmanuel. It’s eerily beautiful, thanks in no small part to Roddick’s phased synths, which sound like shifting curtains of sound, billowing to fullness and then hanging empty. Neither chilly nor dispassionate, Purity Ring makes dream pop that defies the expectations associated with the form. Gene Armstrong
We are living in a dream-pop renaissance. In the last few years, bands like Beach House, the xx, the Antlers, Wye Oak and Pains of Being Pure at Heart have put out classic albums that draw from the big fuzz and dissonant drone of ’80s shoegaze and the tensile pop sensibilities of Sarah Records-era twee. Wild Nothing contributed 2010’s excellent Gemini to the current boom, and Nocturne, the band’s latest, is a worthy successor. It’s a lithe and sunny record, recalling The Bats’ Silverbeet/Couchmaster period in how lacking it is in preciousness. To be so light and frothy without sickening sweetness is no easy feat (sorry, Belle and Sebastian). Opener “Shadow” immediately establishes the record’s dominant mood: personable string passages over a moody, coiled-tight rhythm section, gauzy vocals and jangly guitars that waver from melancholy to enthusiasm and back again. On the title track, Jack Tatum sings to an elusive paramour: “Do I amuse you / When the night is slow?” Tatum’s lyrics often speak of frustrated desire or ecstatic surrender. “You can have me,” he continues on “Nocturne,” but the song never loses its buoyancy. “She has got something I’ve never known,” he sings on “Only Heather,” one of the album’s standouts. “Only Heather / can make me feel this way,” he says, breezily. Nocturne is unmistakably a feel-good album with a feelbad heart, from the jagged guitar line on “Disappear Always” to the sing-song chorus on “Counting Days.” Sean Bottai
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A couple of years after his breakthrough sophomore album, The Wild Hunt, Swedish singer/songwriter Kristian Matsson has toned things down for There’s No Leaving Now, but it’s still a beguiling, dark work. Matsson seems to have mastered a certain sad troubadour style that, when he expresses depth, pegs him as the bastard child of Bob Dylan and Richard Thompson, with his particular brand of poetic, folky tunes. Opener “To Just Grow Away” unfurls a lovely jangle of British folk that sets a template for the rest of the album. For instance, “Revelation Blues” threads a rollicking acoustic chug over lachrymose observations (“Sometimes it’s just roses dying too young”), but also allows in some soft flute at its conclusion that suggests another work entirely. “Bright Lanterns,” however, remains an unapologetically gorgeous standout, with Matsson’s adenoidal voice coming through, eerily distant and intimate, over beautiful slide-guitar whines and tight acoustic balletics. Still, Matsson’s musical palette allows him to veer into both acoustic MOR (“Leading Me Now”) and blustery, rote acoustic rev-ups (“Wind and Walls”). Even if There’s No Leaving Now feels a bit less inspired than its predecessor, the title track, a gutting piano ballad about cruel inevitability, is a stunner. Similarly, the trickling guitar lines that add body to the thrum of “1904” and the lyrical explorations of familial madness coloring “Little Brother” lift Matsson’s music above the banal morass. Michael Petitti The Tallest Man on Earth performs at Hoco Fest on Friday, Aug. 31, at Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress St.; $15; 622-8848.
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where SB 1070 is concerned). The countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refusal to address zoningâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rejected the requestâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is important, because the dispensary canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get state approval without a letter from the local jurisdiction stating that the dispensary is or isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in compliance. So simply by not addressing the zoning, the county can block the dispensary, unless the Department of Health Services waives the requirement. Apparently, in Arizona, there is no safe harbor from a paranoid ignorance of reality. Of course the dispensaries are illegal under federal law. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illegal for me to get, have, roll, smoke and generally get relief from marijuana in any form, under any circumstances, anywhere. We all know this already. That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean the feds will swoop into state or county offices to round up employees. Dearest Gen. Horne, since you work for me: Please stop all your silly fretting about state and county employees being arrested. Relax, man; it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to happen. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a paranoid fantasy. I suggest you talk to your therapist about unreasonable fears of federal prosecution. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an unusual phobia, I will admit, but cognitive behavior therapy can work wonders in cases like this. I also suggest you stop trying to cockblock grandma. My momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s peers in Sun City deserve their meds, so STFU, and get out of their way, or you might get smacked with a purse or an umbrella or worse. Those people vote, Tom. If you piss them off, you could lose your job. So be brave, Gen. Horne. Grab the federal bully by the beard. I believe you will quickly see that the bully is a paper tiger, and that the beard is a fake, set in place to scare off the various cowering state attorneys general, one of whom was drummed out of court last December over basically this same issue. It shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t scare you, Gen. Horne, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only there to scare off the timid adventurers. Oh, wait â&#x20AC;Ś
â&#x20AC;&#x153;When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that is was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ralph Waldo Emerson
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plans and express themselves with more confidence and precision. You encouraged them to give themselves a gift now and then, and take regular walks by bodies of water. They were suspicious of your efforts to make them feel good, at least in the early going. But eventually, they gave in and let you help them. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the spirit of Sesame Street, I’m happy to announce that this week is brought to you by the letter T, the number 2, and the color blue. Here are some of the “T” words you should put extra emphasis on: togetherness, trade-offs, tact, timeliness, tapestry, testability, thoroughness, teamwork and Themis (a goddess of order and justice). To bolster your mastery of the number 2, meditate on interdependence, balance and collaboration. As for blue, remember that its presence tends to bring stability and depth. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the creation myths of Easter Island’s native inhabitants, the god who made humanity was named Makemake. He was also their fertility deity. Today, the name Makemake also belongs to a dwarf planet that was discovered beyond the orbit of Neptune in 2005. It’s currently traveling through the sign of Virgo. I regard it as being the heavenly body that best symbolizes your own destiny in the coming months. In the spirit of the original Makemake, you will have the potential to be a powerful maker. In a sense, you could even be the architect and founder of your own new world. Here’s a suggestion: Look up the word “creator” in a thesaurus; write the words you find there on the back of your business card; and keep the card in a special place until May 2013. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When novelist James Joyce began to suspect that his adult daughter Lucia was mentally ill, he sought advice from psychologist Carl Jung. After a few sessions with her, Jung told her father that she was schizophrenic. How did he know? A telltale sign was her obsessive tendency to make puns, many of which were quite clever. Joyce reported that he, too, enjoyed the art of punning. “You are a deep-sea diver,” Jung replied. “She is drowning.” I’m going to apply a comparable distinction to you, Libra. These days, you may sometimes worry that you’re in over your head in the bottomless
abyss. But I’m here to tell you that in all the important ways, you’re like a deep-sea diver. (The Joyce-Jung story comes from Edward Hoagland’s Learning to Eat Soup.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): No false advertising this week, Scorpio. Don’t pretend to be a purebred if you’re actually a mutt, and don’t act like you know it all when you really don’t. For that matter, you shouldn’t portray yourself as an unambitious amateur if you’re actually an aggressive pro, and you should avoid giving the impression that you want very little when, in fact, you’re a burning, churning throb of longing. I realize it may be tempting to believe that a bit of creative deceit would serve a holy cause, but it won’t. As much as you possibly can, make outer appearances reflect inner truths. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In Christian lore, the serpent is the bad guy who is the cause of all humanity’s problems. He coaxes Adam and Eve to disobey God, which gets them expelled from Paradise. But in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, there are snake gods that sometimes do good deeds and perform epic ser-
vices. They’re called Nagas. In one Hindu myth, a Naga prince carries the world on his head. And in a Buddhist tale, the Naga king uses his seven heads to give the Buddha shelter from a storm just after the great one has achieved enlightenment. In regards to your immediate future, Sagittarius, I foresee you having a relationship to the serpent power that’s more like the Hindu and Buddhist version than the Christian. Expect vitality, fertility and healing. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Lewis Carroll’s book Through the Looking Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice that she is an expert at believing in impossible things. She brags that there was one morning when she managed to embrace six improbable ideas before she even ate breakfast. I encourage you to experiment with this approach, Capricorn. Have fun entertaining all sorts of crazy notions and unruly fantasies. Please note that I am not urging you to actually put those beliefs into action. The point is to give your imagination a good workout. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m not necessarily advising you to become best friends with the dark side of your psyche.
I’m merely requesting that the two of you cultivate a more-open connection. The fact of the matter is that if you can keep a dialogue going with this shadowy character, it’s far less likely to trip you up or kick your ass at inopportune moments. In time, you might even come to think of its chaos as being more invigorating than disorienting. You may regard it as a worthy adversary and even an interesting teacher. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You need more magic in your life, Pisces. You’re suffering from a lack of sublimely irrational adventures, eccentrically miraculous epiphanies and inexplicably delightful interventions. At the same time, I think it’s important that the magic you attract into your life is not pure fluff. It needs some grit. It’s got to have a kick that keeps you honest. That’s why I suggest that you consider getting the process started by baking some unicorn-poop cookies. They’re sparkly, enchanting, rainbow-colored sweets, but with an edge. Ingredients include sparkle gel, disco dust, star sprinkles—and a distinctly roguish attitude. Recipe is here: tinyurl.com/ UnicornPoopCookies.
¡ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net ican.net Dear Mexican: What is the reason for the colors of the Mexican flag? Is there any razón it resembles the Italian flag, minus the águila y serpent? Conozco más mexicanos que estadounidenses pero none of mis ’manitos morenos seem to know why … El Girafe Dear Male Giraffe Gabacho: Good for you for having Mexican friends AND learning Spanish to speak to them! And for having such cultured conversations instead of just whistling at hot chicas who pass by the workplace, and talking trash on your kind! What’s now the Mexican tricolor is technically older than the Italian tricolore: Although Italian kingdoms had used red-white-green color schemes in their flags since the late 18th century, modern-day Italy really didn’t form until the Kingdom of Italy in the 1860s, and it adopted the general design that still exists today in Italy’s flag. Mexico’s tricolor, on the other hand, dates back to shortly after the War of Independence for Spain and is based on the flag of the Army of the Three Guarantees, the unit led by Agustín de Iturbide, Mexico’s first emperor; that flag was also red, white and green, although the stripes were diagonal instead of vertical. The reason for those color choices? Maybe Iturbide was a fan of Risorgimento, the movement that eventually unified all of Italy; maybe he wanted to confuse gabachos y Mexicans alike for centuries. Whatever the reason is, it’s lost to history, like numerous Aztec codices and Salma Hayek’s talent. I cycle-commute daily, and I follow the rules of the road, which include riding with traffic, not against it. (Riding against traffic is a good way to hurt another cyclist or get one’s self killed at an intersection.) Several times per week, I encounter (I don’t want to say “run in to”) characters who do this exactly backward, riding against traffic and even making their right turns across lanes of traffic like normal people make their lefts. Invariably, they’re either college students or Mexicans. Is this the normal way of riding a bike in Mexico? Do cyclists in Mexico more often find themselves becoming involuntary hood orna-
ments, or is this something that only happens on this side of the border? Thinking “Lucha Pollo” Is Not The Translation Of “Chicken Fight” Dear Gabacho: In 2004, the Center for Applied Research did a study for the Federal Highway Administration, titled “The Pedestrian and Bicyclist Highway Safety Problem As It Relates to the Hispanic Population in the United States,” that found a couple of interesting things. One stat was that Latinos were twice as likely to bike to work than gabachos; another was: “Hispanics and blacks are over-represented in pedestrian crashes” Latino deaths in bike-crashes were 2.88 per 100,000 population, while the rate for gabachos was 1.78 per 100,000. A disproportionate amount of said deaths and accidents in general happened late at night, when most Mexi riders are returning or going to work. The report recommended educational outreach to Mexicans to correct the errors that you pointed out, but to say it’s due to Mexican culture is false: Negritos had a greater rate of death than Latinos, and while no hard stats exist for cycling deaths in Mexico, Mexico City is world-renowned for its great urban cycling environment. If you see Mexicans cycling wrong, it’s probably because the urban streets don’t allow for a proper environment. (Cycling with traffic is also dangerous.) This is a teachable moment: Get with them and advocate for designated lanes, bike-sharing programs and amnesty for illegal immigrants. Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican. net; be his fan on Facebook; follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellano; or ask him a video question at youtube.com/askamexicano!
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I’m not sure that even you can help with this one, but I’ll give it a shot … My husband and I enjoy a solid, trusting BDSM relationship, and we’re both quite happy with not only our sex lives, but our lives together in general. There is one issue that concerns me. Roughly twice a month, in the middle of the night, my husband will “attack” me sexually in his sleep. I use the term “attack” lightly, because the moment lasts for about 30 seconds, and generally, I am able to ignore it and go back to sleep. However, there are times when I become frightened by these incidents and can’t seem to “get over it” by morning. Generally, the attacks amount to my husband groping my breast painfully and aggressively, violently digitally penetrating me, attempting to penetrate me with his penis (vaginally or orally) and/or shoving me. He doesn’t ejaculate or anything, as it is a very short incident. He is completely unaware of what he is doing when he does it, and I have been able to wake him up (when I have been lucid enough) as it is happening (if it lasts that long). He does masturbate in his sleep every so often (never to ejaculation), and so I’m figuring this is connected somehow. We have an active sex life, and he has assured me that he is not sexually dissatisfied, and I believe him. I have spoken to him about these incidents, and even though I try to laugh them off to hide my fear, he feels terrible about what he’s done. He is fully asleep when these incidents occur, so it’s not as if he can do anything about them. I have stopped telling him when the incidents happen, because I don’t want him to feel so bad about something he can’t control. I have tried seeking advice from other places, but I am usually told to “just ignore it” or “just enjoy it.” I don’t enjoy it. I can’t ignore it. It hurts and it scares me. Should I just ignore it and enjoy it? Is this a common problem? Is there even an answer? Am I being too sensitive? Scared Of Stiffy “SOS’s husband has semiregular sexsomnia, a subtype of sleepwalking,” says Jesse Bering, a psychological scientist and a regular contributor to Scientific American and Slate, “and SOS is not being too sensitive.” Bering devotes a chapter of his terrific new book—Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being Human—to the phenomenon of sexsomnia. “Involuntary sexual ‘automatisms’ occur within two hours of sleep onset, during non-REM sleep,” says Bering. “In most cases, these are harmless enough—gyrating against a pillow, vacuous masturbation. But there are also more violent and worrisome automatisms, such as those making SOS so understandably uncomfortable. In fact, there have been several high-profile rape and child-abuse cases involving sexsomnia.” Luckily, there is an answer, SOS, something your husband can do about his problem. “The good news is that sexsomnia responds well to pharmaceuticals, so SOS’ husband should find a knowledgeable doctor who is willing to prescribe a low dose of one of the benzodiazepines (such as clonazepam) to take before bedtime,” says Bering. But your husband is unlikely to get the help he needs if you continue to minimize the problem for fear of making him feel bad. Stop laughing these violent episodes off, SOS, and start telling him about every one. Explain to your husband that all of this violent sleepfucking has left you feeling traumatized, and that he has to see a doctor as soon as possible. Hearing that might make your husband feel terrible, SOS, but these episodes are making you feel terrible. Why shouldn’t he feel terrible about them, too? I accidentally raped my boyfriend. What happened was I awoke to find my boyfriend rubbing up against me. After a little while, he pulled my hand,
motioning for me to get on top of him to have sex, as he has done many times before. I obliged; and all was well—until he apparently woke up and pushed me off of him. I did not have any indication that he was asleep, since he was an active participant the entire time and was NOT lying there like a dead fish. In the morning, he expressed his displeasure about being woken up with sex. He said that he felt really violated. I apologized and explained my understanding of the situation. Now he says he feels really weird about what happened, and he can’t stomach me touching him. What should I do? Reeling After Problematic Intimate Sex Transgression You did not rape your boyfriend. You didn’t ask me to weigh in on whether or not you raped your boyfriend, RAPIST, but I felt obligated to toss that out there. Your boyfriend may or may not be a sexsomniac—this is just one incident—but he initiated routine (for you guys) sexual activity in his sleep, and you reciprocated. Once he woke up, and you both realized what was going on, you immediately stopped. Mistakes were made, RAPIST, but no one was raped. As for what you should do, well, I think you should dump the guilt-tripping, blame-shifting motherfucker. But if you want to keep seeing this guy, RAPIST, you need a simple way to determine whether he’s fully awake when he seems to be initiating sex in the middle of the night. Two or three hard slaps across the face might do the trick. Jesse Bering has a kinder, gentler suggestion. “In light of this experience, RAPIST may find herself feeling a bit gun-shy about any middleof-the-night sex initiated by her boyfriend or any future boyfriends,” says Bering. “After all, how can she know if he’s fully awake and innocently in the mood, or just having another episode? Here’s how: She should have an agreement with her boyfriend that, from now on, he will ‘flick’ his penis a few times for her by clenching his PC (pubococcygeus) muscle on initiating nocturnal sex.” And how will that help? “Penile flicking is an intentional action,” explains Bering, and one that cannot be performed by a sleepfucking sexsomniac at his partner’s request. “It’s a subtle, conscious signal to assure you that you’re not dealing with a lascivious zombie.” For more of Jesse Bering, check out his website at www.jessebering.com. You can follow Bering on Twitter @JesseBering. You will no doubt get some flak for your response to the snowboarder who needs a finger up his ass in order to come. He stated that he is so ashamed of this practice that when he’s fucking a girl and wants to come, he pushes the woman’s face in a pillow to hide it. How could you let that little bit of minisadism pass without comment? I hope you will throw a comment in next week’s column to acknowledge it. You are normally so thorough in your replies, Dan! Pillow Fight You’re right, PF. I dropped the ball in that response. BUMMED wrote that he goes “to great lengths to hide” his need for prostate stimulation, adding that he will “push (a girl’s) head in a pillow” when he fingers himself. And he was worried that the last girl he slept with must have seen him fingering himself—seen it and concluded he was gay— because she wasn’t responding to his texts. A little addendum for BUMMED: That girl might not be returning your texts because she didn’t appreciate having her face smashed into a pillow. You can do what you like with your asshole, bro, without being an asshole. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage, or follow me @fakedansavage on Twitter.
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Unclear on the Concept (and the Image) The Associated Press, reporting in August from Jerusalem, noted that the ultra-Orthodox community’s “modesty patrols” were selling eyeglasses with “special blur-inducing stickers” that fuzz up distant images so that offended men will not inadvertently spot immodestly dressed women. (The stickers apparently simulate nearsightedness, in that vision is clear in the near-field.) The “modesty patrols” have long tried to shame women dressed in anything other than closed-neck, long-sleeved blouses and long skirts, but they may be losing that fight. A columnist for the Tel Aviv daily Haaretz praised the eyeglasses for shifting the responsibility to men for their priggishness. Recurring Themes • Periodically, News of the Weird reports on foreigners’ cuisines that most Americans find unappetizing. A June Wall Street Journal story featured a hardy, fun-loving group of New Yorkers (the “Innard Circle”) who dine monthly at out-of-the-way ethnic restaurants in order to sample such dishes as camel’s eyeball (“way different from a goat’s eyeball,” said one member) and “crispy colorectal,” and had recently learned, from a non-English-speaking waitress, that they had just consumed bull’s diaphragm. Another member admitted “an element of showing off” to the exercise, and acknowledged that not all rookie members return for a second meal. The one body part that no one seems to recall having tried yet: uterus. • The way it usually happens: Mom and Dad start a road trip with their children, but after a rest stop, they fail to notice that one of the kids is not on board, and they may be well down the road before they turn around. However, in June, the family member left behind at a Memphis, Tenn., rest stop was Dad, and for 100 miles, no one grasped that he was missing. The family was traveling in a van, and everyone presumed Dad was in the back. He was still at the gas station, calling his own phone (which was in the back of the van). Dad finally reached Mom in the van by posting to Facebook. • In June, inmate Michelle Richards, 33, was about to begin her sentence at the Albany County (N.Y.) jail when guards discovered a hypodermic needle and seven packets of heroin inside her vagina. (She had been arrested for possessing a needle and heroin in her bra.) Richards’ arrest came about a week after inmate Andrea Amanatides was caught at the very same jailhouse using the same hiding place to sneak in heroin and 256 prescription pills (reported in News of the Weird eight weeks ago). Amanatides’ stash was discovered when the baggie holding it became dislodged and broke open on the floor. • Stores and transportation carriers are, after all these years, still unsure about which “assistance animals” they must allow without violating the federal Americans With Disabilities Act. Under the U.S. Department of 70 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
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