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OPINION OPI Tom D Danehy 4 Renée Downing 6 The Tucson Area Music Awards results are in!

INSIDE

Ji H Jim Hightower 6 Guest Commentary 8 Mailbag 8

CURRENTS The Skinny 9 By Jim Nintzel

Preponderance of Evidence 9 By Mari Herreras

The federal DOE’s Office of Civil Rights determines that TUSD officials retaliated against a whistleblower Media Watch 10 By John Schuster

Fuzzy Obfuscations 11 By Tim Vanderpool

Citizens speak out about the RTA’s inflexibility regarding Broadway Boulevard Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by David Mendez

Police Dispatch 12

Now applying for a job with the city of Tucson Transportation Department.

By Anna Mirocha

Closing Time 13 By Brian J. Pedersen

Cold case: Two years ago, Anthony Duron, an innocent bystander, was killed at Pearl nightclub Welcome to ‘Algiers’ 15 By Jim Nintzel

Calexico releases its first studio recording in four years

About Last Week It’s time to offer some answers to your questions and comments, some of which I didn’t even need to make up: • Another cover typo last week? WTF? Yeah, yeah, we messed up again, and I am mortified by that. I sincerely apologize. Really. • These damn cover typos are evidence that the goddamn media is going to hell in a handbasket. No, really, they’re not. They’re symptoms of the fact that we messed up two things on the cover over the last three months, and nothing more. Yeah, some segments of the media are indeed going to hell, but not our segment. I messed up, and that’s all. Pure and simple. • What in the hell is a “handbasket”? I am guessing it’s a basket that goes in one’s hand, with a handle or something. But I would think that’d just be a “basket,” seeing as the word “handbasket” is only ever used in that phrase. Beats me. • How dare you imply that the folks at Diamond Mountain are Buddhists. They’re not Buddhists. You should apologize for calling them that. Well, I have two responses: One, it’s not the job of the Tucson Weekly to determine whether or not any particular religious person, group or sect is “legitimate.” Our job is to report the facts, and it’s a fact Geshe Michael Roach and his numerous followers consider themselves Buddhists. So do many outsiders. Second: Did you read the story? It clearly lays out all the reasons why some Buddhists don’t think of Roach and his followers as true Buddhists, and notes that prominent Buddhists have renounced Roach. What was reported was 100 percent accurate and true. So, other than the typo, we do not apologize for anything. JIMMY BOEGLE, Editor jboegle@tucsonweekly.com COVER DESIGN BY ANDREW ARTHUR

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CULTURE

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City Week 16 Our picks for the week

Taste of Asia 41

TQ&A 18 Margaret Zinser, Beads of Courage’s Bead Challenge

PERFORMING ARTS Successful Shows 29 By Sherilyn Forrester

IT satisfies with vignettes about motherhood; Rogue wows with an epic journey Gabler vs. Gabler 30 By Laura C.J. Owen

Two Heddas are better than one at Beowulf Alley

VISUAL ARTS Art of the Artist 34 By Margaret Regan

Two exhibits at the Gallery of the Sun show not-oft-depicted sides of Ted DeGrazia

BOOKS Our Progressive Days 35 By Tim Hull

A retired ASU prof looks at Arizona’s populist roots

CINEMA Truly Terrible 37 By Colin Boyd

Branded is an awful film about marketing … or something Film Times 38 Overstuffed! 39 By Bob Grimm

Featuring a story within a story within a story, The Words is way too convoluted Now Showing at Home 40

By Rita Connelly

Oro Valley’s Grain River Asian Bistro offers some dishes that are among the region’s best Noshing Around 41 By Adam Borowitz

MUSIC Where He Needs to Be 51 By Casey Dewey

Legendary punk frontman Keith Morris seems revived by OFF! Soundbites 51 By Stephen Seigel

Club Listings 53 Nine Questions 55 Live 57 Rhythm & Views 58

MEDICAL MJ Baby Steps 59 By J.M. Smith

In Los Angeles and at home, medical-marijuana dispensaries score small victories

CLASSIFIEDS Comix 60-61 Free Will Astrology 60 ¡Ask a Mexican! 61 Savage Love 62 Personals 64 Employment 65 News of the Weird 66 Real Estate/Rentals 66 Mind, Body and Spirit 67 Crossword 67 *Adult Content 62-64

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After watching the two national conventions, Tom has some thoughts

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EDITORIAL Jimmy Boegle Editor Jim Nintzel Senior Writer Irene Messina Assistant Editor Mari Herreras Staff Writer Linda Ray City Week Listings Margaret Regan Arts Editor David Mendez Web Producer Stephen Seigel Music Editor Bill Clemens Copy Editor Tom Danehy, Renée Downing, Ryn Gargulinski, Randy Serraglio, J.M. Smith Columnists Colin Boyd, Bob Grimm Cinema Writers Adam Borowitz, Rita Connelly, Jacqueline Kuder Chow Writers Sherilyn Forrester, Laura C.J. Owen Theater Writers Mariana Dale, Eliza Liu, Inés Taracena Editorial Interns Noelle Haro-Gomez, Brooke Leigh Taffet Photography Interns Contributors Jacquie Allen, Gustavo Arellano, Gene Armstrong, Sean Bottai, Rob Brezsny, Daniel Buckley, Max Cannon, Rand Carlson, Casey Dewey, Dan Gibson, Michael Grimm, Jim Hightower, Tim Hull, David Kish, Keith Knight, Joshua Levine, Jim Lipson, Anna Mirocha, Andy Mosier, Dan Perkins, Ted Rall, Dan Savage, John Schuster, Chuck Shepherd, Eric Swedlund, Tim Vanderpool SALES AND BUSINESS Jill A’Hearn Advertising Director Monica Akyol Inside Sales Manager Laura Bohling, Michele LeCoumpte, Alan Schultz, David White Account Executives Jim Keyes Digital Sales Manager Beth Brouillette Business Manager Robin Taheri Business Office Natasha Marble, Stephen Myers Inside Sales Representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING: The Ruxton Group (888)-2Ruxton New York (212) 477-8781, Chicago (312) 828-0564, Phoenix (602) 238-4800, San Francisco, (415) 659-5545 PRODUCTION & CIRCULATION Andrew Arthur Art Director Laura Horvath Circulation Manager Duane Hollis Editorial Layout Kristen Beumeler, Kyle Bogan, Jodi Ceason, Shari Chase, Chris De La Fuente, Anne Koglin, Adam Kurtz, Matthew Langenheim, Daniel Singleton, Brian Smith, Denise Utter, Greg Willhite, Yaron Yarden Production Staff Tucson Weekly® (ISSN 0742-0692) is published every Thursday by Wick Communications at 3280 E. Hemisphere Loop,Tucson, Arizona. Address all editorial, business and production correspondence to: Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 27087,Tucson, Arizona 85726. Phone: (520) 294-1200, FAX (520) 792-2096. First Class subscriptions, mailed in an envelope, cost $112 yearly/53 issues. Sorry, no refunds on subscriptions. Member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN).The Tucson Weekly® and Best of Tucson® are registered trademarks of Wick Communications. Back issues of the Tucson Weekly are available for $1 each plus postage for the current year. Back issues from any previous year are $3 plus postage. Back issues of the Best of Tucson® are $5. Distribution: The Tucson Weekly is available free of charge in Pima County, limited to one copy per reader. Additional copies of the current issue of the Tucson Weekly may be purchased for $1, payable at the Tucson Weekly office in advance. Outside Pima County, the single-copy cost of Tucson Weekly is $1. Tucson Weekly may be distributed only by the Tucson Weekly’s authorized independent contractors or Tucson Weekly’s authorized distributors. No person may, without prior written permission of the Tucson Weekly, take more than one copy of each week’s Tucson Weekly issue. Copyright: The entire contents of Tucson Weekly are Copyright © 2012 by Wick Communications. No portion may be reproduced in whole or part by any means without the express written permission of the Publisher, Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726.

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onclusions I reached during the two weeks of conventions: • There is not an American alive who could beat Bill Clinton in an election. There aren’t a whole lot of dead ones, either, although I think a Ronald Reagan-Bill Clinton race would be entertaining as all hell. Clinton took Romney and Ryan and the entire Republican Party behind the woodshed and beat the livin’ piss out of ’em. He exposed them for what they are—out of touch with the dwindling middle class, with the principles of balancing a budget (about which Mr. Clinton will forever be able to boast) and, quite often, with the truth.

The two words I was happiest to hear come out of President Clinton’s mouth were “hate” and “arithmetic.” He used the latter to explain what he and the Republican Congress used to balance the budget back in the late1990s. It’s clever, because “arithmetic” is even more basic than “math.” The only people who can’t do arithmetic (as in balancing a runaway budget requires spending cuts and tax increases) are those who don’t want to do arithmetic. His use of the word “hate” was especially important. As mentioned in this column recently, many people on the right (and/or in the Tea Party movement) really hate the president, a fact that is indisputable and quite disturbing. There have been bad presidents from both parties. Richard Nixon was a megalomaniacal clod; Jimmy Carter wasn’t up to the job; Bill Clinton signed the bill abolishing the Glass-Steagall Act; and George W. Bush got us into two unnecessary and protracted wars, pushed through an incredibly expensive Medicare prescription program and, at the same time, delivered huge tax cuts when he should have been raising taxes to pay for everything. All of them were wrong in one way or another, but none was hated in huge numbers like Barack Obama. I wonder why that is. • Sean Hannity is a dishonest little twerp. All through the spring and early summer, he railed about how President Obama was going to raise a billion dollars for his re-election campaign, calling it unfair and ridiculous. But then Romney pulled ahead in fundraising, and ever since, not a word from Hannity about money. What happened to all that talk about how big money was going to distort the political process? Hypocrite. On the day of President Obama’s acceptance speech, the Dems moved the speech from a football stadium to the convention arena, citing weather concerns. The right jumped on this, claiming that the Obama people were concerned that

RANDOM SHOTS By Rand Carlson

the president would be speaking to a half-full stadium. Quite honestly, we’ll never know. Hannity, not content to have fun with that, went on the radio and claimed that the chances of rain in Charlotte, N.C., that day were “ZERO.” I went online to different weather sites, and they all said that the chances were at least 50 percent. You know that somebody has gone around the bend when he makes false statements that are easily looked up and refuted. It did indeed rain in Charlotte that day, and there were thunderstorms in the area for hours. Something called The Washington Times reported that the rain let up just before the end of the president’s speech, which proves … what? As a point of reference, that same day, much of Tucson was blasted by storms. Some parts of town got 2 inches of rain. Power was knocked out; washes ran deep; there were more than a dozen calls for swift-water rescues. Officially, Tucson (at the airport) received a trace of rain that day. • If you’re going to make a big deal out of the president’s middle name (Hussein), then fairness dictates that you also use Mitt Romney’s first name, which is Willard. I’m sorry, but Willard is way creepier than Hussein, even if you don’t know anything about the rat movie from the 1970s. The only cool Willard I’ve ever known about was the character that the late Chris Penn played in the original Footloose. And he wasn’t even all that cool, seeing as how he dated Sarah Jessica Parker, and he couldn’t dance. • Being the smartest person in the room (or at least having other people think you are) is a double-edged sword. Faux-intellectual jock-sniffers seem willing to convey that honor upon Paul Ryan, whether he deserves it or not. When the smartest person in the room says something, he is generally given the benefit of the doubt, because he’s so freakin’ smart. But when something he said is repeatedly shown to have been false, he gets no benefit of the doubt whatsoever. A dumb guy could have just made a mistake; the smart guy doesn’t make mistakes. He lies. Where I come from, the three things you didn’t want to be were cheap, disloyal or a liar. The Republicans have shown that they view being cheap as a virtue. Judging by the way they treated the previous two GOP presidents, disloyalty is not that big a thing, either. But they should care about lying, because, in politics, if you’ve gotta lie, your argument is broken. • Finally, if you weren’t choked up by Gabrielle Giffords leading the Pledge of Allegiance, you need to get off the planet, because you’re dragging the rest of us down.

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A once-great American company stumbles toward the elephant graveyard HIGHTOWER BY JIM HIGHTOWER

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icrosoft is doomed. I say this not just because of what I learned in a recent Vanity Fair article about the idiotic way the company has been run for the last decade—under CEO Steve Ballmer, management institutionalized the most productivity- and morale-destroying system imaginable, a mandatory bell-curve performance-rating system for the employees within every unit. (No matter how well a unit does, most of the team must be mediocre, and someone must be rated failing.) Such an organism cannot live. But I also know that Microsoft is dying because of the way its software, whose stench I breathe all day since I started a new job, reeks.

Poor ALEC just keeps bumbling, stumbling and tumbling. You could feel sorry for such a hapless soul, except that this isn’t a person, but the soulless ALEC—the American Legislative Exchange Council. This secretive corporate front is behind hundreds of regressive and repressive bills that are being pushed through Republican-controlled state legislatures. Its bills and tactics are so venomous Of course I’m writing this using Word, a program I’m that 35 of ALEC’s brand-name corporate used to, so it doesn’t seem so bad. But really? It is. funders—from Amazon to Walmart—have (WordPerfect—remember?—was much better.) As the great withdrawn their names and money this year. Louis Menand once wrote in The New Yorker, “It is time to But with the billionaire Koch brothers speak some truth to power in this country: Microsoft Word and others behind it, ALEC will continue is a terrible program.” Until you have to do something comstumbling ahead with its far-right agenda. plicated in it, Word is adequate. Irritating, of course—did Condemning it is one thing, but what’s realany user in history ever accept the “Special Delivery” sugly needed is a noncorporate, independent, gestion that pops up when you type “Special”?—but OK above-board, overtly progressive alternative enough. to ALEC’s special-interest backroom connivHowever, as soon as you try to do something more coming—a clean source of model legislation plex than updating a résumé using a Microsoft product, readily available for the consideration of you’re dumped into a scratchy, itchy underworld of grolocal and state public officials and the pubtesque interface design and inexplicable glitches. Take it lic at large. from me: Building emails and Web pages using Outlook Well, great news, folks: ALICE will soon and SharePoint is like playing a perverse, boring video arrive! The American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange is not just a clever play game that’s all traps and puzzles, and no rewards. After an on ALEC’s name, but an effective counter to hour of taking a table out of a SharePoint page (Ctrl Z, over its agenda and methods. Originated by Joel and over again), adjusting it in Word or Outlook, pasting it Rogers—one of progressive America’s most-creative thinkers and doers—ALICE will offer a THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow one-stop, Web-based public library of about 1,000 model laws on a wide range of policy issues, complete with in-depth background materials. It’s a nationwide, cooperative effort that already has enlisted a couple of hundred professors, policy experts, students, lawyers and others who are volunteering their brains, energy and time to assemble a first-rate, easily accessible library open to all lawmakers, mayors, grassroots groups, media and … well, everyone. If you’d like to help ALICE in some way, go to www.alicelaw.org.

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back in and relinking the images, the very best I can expect is that the page won’t look that bad. In the meantime, I’ve had to contend with blurry little buttons that rearrange themselves on the toolbar between one environment and another; tools that are available over there, but missing where I need them (Surprise! No font size control for you here, Missy!); tables that resize themselves; images that have to be positioned using text-formatting buttons, because the image-positioning buttons only work now and then; and a process for creating an “Add to Outlook” link requiring 13 separate steps—during the course of which, if you hit the “Descending Order” option on the “Modified” button before counting to three, your sort goes wrong, and you have to back up two steps. I am not making any of this up. Thirteen steps. This endless scramble is only made more painful by the contrast with the other software I use. Moving over from Office to Photoshop or InDesign is like stumbling out of the bug-infested underbrush and slipping into a cool, clear pool of beautiful, intuitive design. Adobe products, made by designers for designers, help you do things. They’re big programs that take a while to learn, but the people who make them work hard to make everything as easy as possible. And, oh my God! Adobe help actually answers your questions! (In the latest version of Outlook, the help button has been hidden away under File. I take this as a tacit acknowledgement of the truth that if you need help with a Microsoft product, you’d best go straight to Google.) All that is keeping the company I work for from switching to something else is the expense and scale of the job of moving huge databases into a better platform. At some point, someone will add up the sheer time wasted across the company by employees having to dick around with Microsoft—the time wasted by the employees of companies all over the world, every hour of the day—and it will be over. The Vanity Fair article ends with a fascinating observation made by Steve Jobs about Bill Gates, and, ultimately, about his company: “He’s a businessperson. Winning business was more important than making great products. Microsoft never had the humanities and liberal arts in its DNA.” Admittedly, Bill Gates has become a deeply admirable philanthropist, while I haven’t heard that Jobs ever gave anyone a dime. Yet there’s something profound in the difference that Jobs has pointed out here. Where beauty is not appreciated, there will never be true usefulness. Without art, all you get is a kludge.

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If It Is on the National Register of Historic Places, Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Significant For the information of your readers, as well as Tom Danehy: The city of Tucson does not arbitrarily decide whether a building such as the Marist College is historic or not (Aug. 16). That determination is made by applying federal criteria. To be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a building or other cultural resource must be nominated via a detailed proposal which must in turn pass a rigorous state and federal review. We can argue about where the funding for preservation should come from, but the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic and cultural significance is not in dispute. I wonder why Mr. Danehy did not contact Tucsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Historic Preservation Office for this information, and relied instead on an adobe contractor he apparently picked out of the phone book. Laura Tabili

Comments From Readers at TucsonWeekly.com Regarding â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buddha in the Desertâ&#x20AC;? (Sept. 6): Please research what Buddhism is about, and the fact that a Buddhist monk cannot be married or have a â&#x20AC;&#x153;partner.â&#x20AC;? Buddhism is a religion founded more than 2,600 years ago by the Buddha. The image of the Buddha is sacred to Buddhists, and the cover page is disrespectful, showing the Buddha in the dirt, with dirt on his face, and words on his face. You misspelled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buddha,â&#x20AC;? and I ask you to apologize to Buddhists for this image and publish a retraction ofâ&#x20AC;Ś saying that Roach and his followers are Buddhists. â&#x20AC;Ś Roach and his followers are calling themselves Buddhists, but they are not. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Buddhist_in_Tucson There are con men and women in all religions. There are cults that pretend to have a spiritual aspect, but are only there to prey on others. This was one of those instances. A threat to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;future of American Buddhismâ&#x20AC;?? Not hardly, since there is no â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Buddhism.â&#x20AC;? There are only students of the Buddhaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teachings. Regarding your cover, we should respect all religions. This was not one of those occasions for you. Jack Ferguson

By endorsing only two candidates for three seats, leadership at the teachersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; union has let down its members BY MIGUEL ORTEGA

he Tucson Education Association has officially announced which candidates it is endorsing in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tucson Unified School District governing-board race: It has endorsed two candidates, Cam Juarez and Kristel Foster, out of 12 contenders. The problem is that there are actually three seats up for grabs, not two. Yet the TEA leadership decided it was in the best interest of TUSD teachers, students and parents to only endorse two candidates. Why would the TEA do that? I came up with a couple of possible explanations. Maybe the other 10 candidates are so terrible, and so against TEA goals and principles, that none were worth supporting. Or perhaps all 10 are so similar, and good enough, that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really matter who gets that third seat. But can either conclusion be taken seriously? Some candidates have similar platforms, but there are many high-profile, important issues on which candidate positions contrast profoundly. Some support charter schools, while others fear the loss of collective bargaining if TUSD goes in that direction. Some support Superintendent John Pediconeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership; others, not so much. Some are extremely supportive of the former Mexican-American studies program, while several have worked to eliminate it. And so on. This brings me to yet another possibility, a feasible one, given that it has become a trend of sorts with electoral politics in Tucson. Recently, party and union leadership have taken it upon themselves to decide which candidates are viable, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;electable,â&#x20AC;? enough to support, even during contested primaries. While some may see this as a pragmatic approachâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as â&#x20AC;&#x153;cold, hard politics,â&#x20AC;? as one high-level politico explained it to meâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;others see it as a cynical and dangerous process that only helps to erode local democracy. I agree with the latter view. It may have been determined that with the current board makeup, electing these two candidates is all the TEA needs to â&#x20AC;&#x153;count to three,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; as they say. After all, three votes are all you need to set policy favorable to TUSD employees. But do TEA members deserve leadership that works just enough to get by, or do they deserve union leadership that does all it can to support building the best board possible? The truth is, the TEA leadership is not fully representing its membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; interests with this move. The passing of Judy Burns reminded us that the unexpected happens. One day, the majority of the board will lean one way; the next day, an unexpected appointment

may completely change the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction. And sometimes, we elect candidates who we think will do right by us, only to be disappointed once they are in office. I would argue that we have built the current supermajority of lessthan-capable TUSD board members through similar political neglect, or failed political maneuvers over the years. But that is another story for another time. At the end of the day, the TEA leadership may indeed succeed in helping elect the two chosen candidates. I have no doubt that the union rank-and-file will step up and do all they can to try to make this happen. I would have supported a different combination of choices that included candidates who have actually been TUSD educators, volunteers or parents of TUSD students, like Betts PutnamHidalgo or Menelik Bakari. But while we can debate who the best candidates are among a handful of good prospects, I certainly canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t embrace giving up a third seat to the possibility of a bad candidate. That is a real possibility that is only made more real by not also proactively campaigning for a third candidate. The bottom line is that the TEA leadership has decided that its membership does not deserve the very best governing-board candidates possible. The TEA, in essence, decided not to even try for the very best. If that third seat is filled by someone less than unionfriendly, the TEA membership will have every right to hold the TEA leadership accountable for giving only a twothirds effort to fulfill their obligation. After all, you kinda get what you kinda work for. Miguel Ortega is a longtime education advocate and was a TUSD board candidate in previous elections.

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Preponderance of Evidence BY MARI HERRERAS, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com t took 2 1/2 years for Rose Hamway to get official confirmation of what she felt in her heart: She was doing the right thing by advocating for Tucson Unified School District special-education students. But that doesn’t mean the school psychologist feels fully vindicated. On Tuesday, Aug. 28, Hamway received formal findings by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, regarding a discrimination complaint she filed on March 2, 2010. An OCR investigation concluded that TUSD officials did indeed retaliate against her, and that she is entitled to a settlement of $180,000, despite the school district’s claims that Hamway failed to follow the chain of command and didn’t get along with her co-workers. “I was numb, and I really was sad. It put me right back in there,” Hamway said about the findings. “I have difficulty reading it, because it is still so sad how they treated me and, by extension, how they treated the kids. … That finding speaks volumes.” The last we heard from Hamway—before she left Tucson to spend time with family in Michigan last week—she was still waiting to see whether TUSD would abide by the settlement negotiated between the district and the OCR. When we first spoke to Hamway (See “NotSo-Special Education,” Aug. 23), she had just gone public regarding her discrimination complaint after her case was placed on the Tuesday, Aug. 14, school-board agenda for discussion during executive session. Hamway, who was hired by TUSD in 2009 after a 10-year stint with the Douglas Unified School District, told the Weekly she confronted co-workers and administrators about specialeducation students at Rincon and Sahuaro high schools being denied services or being misdiagnosed. She also said she witnessed one student being manhandled by an aide. Hamway said she followed the chain of command in reporting her concerns. In December 2009, she was placed on administrative leave, although shortly after that, she was approved for medical leave. But in early 2010, the district decided not to renew her contract. Advocating on behalf of students with disabilities, which was part of Hamway’s job at TUSD, is considered an activity protected from retaliation, according to the 12-page OCR report. “The advocacy by you and the events leading up to your non-renewal all transpired within an approximately four-month period of time,” the report said. “Therefore, we find there are abundant and sufficient facts to clearly establish a

causal connection between your advocacy for disabled students and the adverse employment action taken against you.” District officials, according to the OCR report, told federal investigators Hamway failed to follow the chain of command in communicating her concerns with the administration, and that she was the one who violated procedures and district policy. The district also alleged that Hamway failed “to establish good working relationships with staff.” None of that jelled with the OCR. “We note that all of the witnesses the district identified to support its position that you failed to establish a good working relationship with staff members, are the same individuals you had identified as not following federal disability laws either with the district or the state Department of Education,” the report said. Hamway said she knew it was important to follow the chain of command. She first filed a grievance in September 2009 with Shannon Roberts, TUSD’s equal employment opportunity representative. Hamway also sent a copy to TUSD’s lead psychologist. The OCR report said the district never responded. Hamway then discussed her concerns with then-Assistant Superintendent Lupita CavazosGarcia, who resigned from TUSD last month, and former TUSD Exceptional Education Director Lorraine St. Germain, who retired last year. Hamway said that before she filed her discrimination complaint with the OCR, she also tried to air her concerns with former state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, now the state attorney general; John Huppenthal, now the superintendent of public instruction; former TUSD Superintendent Elizabeth Celania-Fagen; and current Superintendent John Pedicone, as well as TUSD governing-board members. No one responded, she said. Now, Hamway says she wonders if any real change will come about from the OCR findings, including how special-education students are served. “For them to abide by the settlement—that’s what I am waiting to see,” Hamway said. “There are many people who have quickly retired or taken leave right before the findings came out, and there are people who remain.” Hamway said she is particularly interested to see whether change occurs in the district’s EEO office, where she first went with her concerns in 2009. She claims the office has a reputation for not offering help when employees go there with a grievance or concern. “That moment when you go in there and say, ‘Help,’ that’s when you

TUSD whistleblower Rose Hamway are labeled a troublemaker and become a target,” Hamway said. Hamway is also unsure who made the final decision to fire her. The OCR looked at that, too, and determined that when the board voted to not renew her contract, it did so based on state statutes that consider a negative performance evaluation. If that was the case, a copy of the evaluation should have been presented to Hamway for review. The OCR report said: “The first time you saw the negative performance evaluation was when you reviewed the documents the district submitted in response to your unemployment claim. There is also no evidence that anyone from the district attempted to confer with you after the evaluation was completed on March 17, 2010,” the report said. In the resolution agreement, signed by Pedicone on Monday, Aug. 27, TUSD agreed to write a check to Hamway for $180,000 by Friday, Aug. 31. The district is also required to distribute copies of its policy on retaliation to staff and administrators, and provide training on the district’s discrimination grievance procedure. The agreement also says that “at a minimum, this training will be provided to all employees in the Exceptional Education Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Office.” Hamway said that when you file a complaint with the OCR, you are asked what you want as resolution. Hamway asked for an apology, for the board and staff to receive training on grievance procedures and retaliation, and to get her job back. “I knew I probably wasn’t going to get my job back,” she said. Hamway said she also hoped the school board would receive the training, and she’s disappointed it’s not part of the resolution.

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One of the big questions for the Arizona Legislature is whether to extend health-care coverage to lowincome Arizonans. There’s a small chance that the expansion won’t be an issue—if Mitt Romney wins the presidency, somehow follows through with his promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and takes away the federal money that would fund the expansion across the country. But if that doesn’t happen, Arizona is one of the states that has to decide whether to extend AHCCCS coverage (which is Arizona’s version of Medicaid) to people who earn up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. This is part of the ACA that’s designed to help people who can’t afford to purchase the mandated health insurance, which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year was constitutional. As part of that ruling, the justices also concluded that requiring the states to expand coverage to 133 percent of the federal poverty level or lose all their Medicaid funding was not constitutional, because it was too coercive—so the states have the option of complying with that part of the law. To give you some idea of what we’re talking about here, the poverty level for a family for three this year is $19,090, so under the Affordable Care Act, a single mom with two kids would be able to earn up to $25,390 and be eligible for Medicaid. In Arizona, that means the family would be covered by a private insurance plan subsidized by the state. We’ve already seen some Republican governors, such as Texas’ Rick Perry and Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, say they don’t want to expand coverage in their state, even though the federal government will cover most of the costs in the immediate future. But Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has not ruled out accepting the funds. We don’t expect that the Arizona Legislature will be eager to expand eligibility, given that lawmakers have balanced the budget over the last two years in part by rolling back a previous voterapproved expansion. But Brewer is being lobbied by health-care professionals and the state’s hospitals, many of which are experiencing a budget squeeze since the state reduced AHCCCS eligibility. They can no longer sign up patients that show up at the emergency room and require treatment. From what we hear, Brewer is at least considering the major economic boost that expanding the AHCCCS rolls would have on Arizona’s health-care industry—and the damage that will result to hospitals if she does not. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee has estimated that the state will have to spend roughly $250 million in 2014 to get an additional $1.38 billion in federal health-care

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KQTH CHANGES LINEUP, SLOGAN KQTH FM 104.1 has finally gotten around to doing what most radio stations do when they hire a second local talent: place said local talent in the afternoon-drive slot. The conservative-talk station last week transitioned James T. Harris from his 10 a.m.-to-noon broadcast time to 3 to 6 p.m., weekday afternoons. “Our lineup was determined with great input from our listeners, and we can now provide local talk for Tucson at times when they are available,” program director Ryan McCredden said in an email, presumably a one-sentence sidestep regarding what actually took place: The station needed to let some stipulations in its contract with Michael Savage expire before it could do what it wanted to do all along. One of the lessons in introductory radio is that the medium focuses largely on those who listen during commutes to and from work; hence the term “drive time.” So, if you go through the trouble of hiring local talent, the first place you want to slot that talent is in the morning drive, from about 6 to 10 a.m.—say, like Jon Justice—and next in the afternoon drive, from 3 to 6 p.m., like Harris. To the station’s credit, it showed a commitment to local talk and saw the potential benefit in a second locally produced show. But when it brought Harris in, it put the show on from 10 a.m. to noon. So, McCredden’s statement means one of two things: Either McCredden isn’t a very good program director, because he thought putting Harris on from 10 a.m. to noon was a good idea, and he needed “great input from our listeners” to tell him what most in the business already knew; or the station had to wait for a deal it cut for Savage to run its course. The latter would make sense, considering Harris’ transition to the afternoon drive slot occurred immediately after Labor Day, suggesting that Savage’s afternoon-drive stipulation expired at the end of August. Savage was at the center of an odd contractual snafu a few years ago. When KQTH launched the FM talk station, it focused on KNST AM 790, the longtime market format leader, and noticed that KNST hadn’t kept the specifics of its deal with Savage up to date. KQTH swooped in and offered the syndicator a better slot. For a time, KNST managed to also keep the show, but had to broadcast it later in the evening. Yes, the same radio show was being broadcast on competing stations at different times. Eventually, KNST’s connection to Savage was severed, and now KQTH can broadcast Savage when KNST originally did—from 6 to 9 p.m. With the change, KQTH is running syndicated programming from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The lineup features the soon-to-beretired Neal Boortz from 10 a.m. to noon, Laura Ingraham from noon to 1 p.m., and Las Vegas-based talk-show host Jerry Doyle from 1 to 3 p.m. After Savage airs from 6 to 9 p.m., Mark Levin is on from 9 p.m. to midnight.

KQTH has also scrapped its tagline. Gone is “Tucson’s News/Talk FM,” which McCredden described as “generic” in an internal memo. That seemed like a perfectly acceptable tagline until KNST started simulcasting its product at 97.1 FM. So now there are two Tucson talk FMs, and I guess that could be confusing for lucky residents with ratings books. The new tagline is “104.1 The Truth, Right Talk for Tucson.” That might read OK, but it sounds kind of bulky when you say it. And after all, there is a lot of “saying” in radio; it’s sort of the point of the medium. But they did an excellent job of getting “right” in the tagline somewhere. That’s very important for conservative talk stations, because, you see, “right” has a double meaning. This could be one of the most-important reasons liberal talk often struggles by comparison. What can you really say with the phrase “left” in your tagline? “Left talk for Tucson?” What does that get you? It certainly doesn’t mean you’re “right.” It’s probably the reason liberals invented that “progressive” catchphrase, hoping they could make headway with some niche terminology, because conservatives have the inside track on that whole double-meaning marketing advantage.

FIRST UA PAC-12 NETWORK BROADCAST GOES WELL A lot of folks missed out on the UA football team’s impressive upset of Oklahoma State on Saturday night, Sept. 8. Beyond the late-game/time-zone issue, many weren’t able to see the matchup because the Pac12 Networks continue to need to work out deals with some major television providers, especially on the satellite front. The DirecTV holdout remains a significant issue. But in terms of broadcast delivery and production performance, the game came across well and was a definite improvement over conference games broadcast on Fox Sports. Among the positives: better camera work; better turnaround time for highlights; and the high-definition appearance on cable outlets. Fox Sports was terrible about being a play behind in its highlights packages, and the Pac-12 broadcast eliminated that issue. But that’s not going to be an easy task for the producer of UA games, because Arizona implements a no-huddle offense under new coach Rich Rodriguez. But it’s there when time allows, and that’s a definite positive step. And the camera crew was excellent. On the glitch front, however, play-by-play announcer Kevin Calabro flat-out missed some important calls. That could have happened due to a number of reasons: poor spotters, a bad television feed (announcers will often watch a game on an in-booth monitor instead of watching what’s on the field), an unfavorable vantage point for looking at the field, or bad eyes. As convenient as it can be to complain about a big dog like ESPN, it’s also easier to appreciate what an established network can do—to the point where it’s taken for granted. The Pac-12 Networks have a way to go—and I’m in absolutely no hurry to see more fieldhockey promos as they scour for advertising—but their UA debut went well.

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funds by expanding AHCCCS coverage to people living below 133 percent of the federal poverty line. The state’s contribution then begins to drop, while the feds’ contribution rises; the state is on the hook for $169 million the following year, while the feds contribute a staggering $1.82 billion. However, in 2020, the state’s costs are projected to start rising again. So there’s a lot of money at stake— and hospitals would really like to be able to get a piece of it rather than close down their emergency rooms. AHCCCS officials are now having meetings across the state to determine the future of the program. If you want to give some input, stop by the United Way Community Resource Campus, 330 N. Commerce Park Loop, between 1 and 3 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 18.

BY TIM VANDERPOOL, tvanderpool@tucsonweekly.com

those who believe that they have a mandate to do this,” DiGrazia says. “When I spoke to Mr. DeGrood prior to this whole process going forward, he seemed very obstinate, and unable to think that anybody on the task force could come up with anything that was more than a minor revision to the giant plan that’s going through like a steamroller.” If so, then DeGrood and the RTA have “functionality” as their all-purpose ace in the hole. In a recent interview, I asked DeGrood how the RTA would determine whether Broadway revisions had strayed too far from the 2006 mandate. He didn’t really have an answer. “From our standpoint, we have to go back and reconcile that against what we presented to the voters,” he said. On the other hand, opponents of the current widening plan believe that functionality can mean something other than an eight-lane mini-highway. They argue that reshaping the road within its current boundaries could work just fine, while leaving all those homes and businesses intact. Indeed, that would seem a prime goal of these task-force meetings, with their city-imposed mission of achieving “context sensitive solutions.” That’s consultant-speak for coming up with a road project that doesn’t wreak too much havoc. But getting there might actually require thinking outside the box. Among those prying off the lid is Ward 6 Councilman Steve Kozachik. Like others, he thinks the fix may be in—and that DeGrood’s vague language is meant to keep the task force groping in the dark, until any changes it proposes are ultimately shot down by the RTA. That trigger could be pulled by the agency’s powerful Citizens Accountability for Regional Transportation Committee, or CART. Standing outside the meeting, Kozachik shook his head in disgust. “I think DeGrood is setting up the CART—and using the argument about functionality—to drive the (task force) back to what was on the ballot,” the councilman said. The RTA may also be cherry-picking what it chooses to get tough about. For instance, Kozachik says a review of several Broadway engineering elements reveal them to already be well above the 10 percent cost-increase threshold that requires another public vote. “The fact of the matter is that they’ve already violated their own standard. So how come this whole roadway project is not already back on the ballot?” Back inside the meeting, task-force member Colby Henley asked DeGrood how the group would know whether it was venturing too far astray. “I think the real question,” DeGrood answered, “is if (you) decide to go with some-

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rom Jim DeGrood’s lips tumbled the banter of a wily bureaucratic operator, a talent that included pirouetting around questions for minutes on end. And so the transportation services director for the Regional Transportation Authority dipped and twirled for a packed house on Aug. 30 as a citizens’ task force met to ponder plans to widen Broadway Boulevard into an eight-lane behemoth. This ambitious project was set in motion in 2006, when voters approved a 20-year, $2.1 billion regional transportation plan, overseen by the RTA and funded with a half-cent increase in the sales tax. DeGrood stood behind the lectern, facing a big audience that also included a clutch of hired consultants for whom taxpayers are spending some $330,000 over the next few months. He breezily detailed the $71 million Broadway project, noting which governments were chipping in what. Then he emphasized that cost overruns topping 10 percent would require another public vote, and that any big changes to the widening plan could smack into a mysterious wall called “functionality.” Just before the populace gave his agency neardictatorial powers over those road-building billions, the RTA board had pledged “not to diminish functionality” as project plans were updated, DeGrood said. He called it a matter of faith with the voting public. The citizens’ task force was thus convened to rehash a 20-year-old plan to plump Broadway to eight lanes, thereby obliterating an entire generation of small businesses, homes and historic properties. But if the citizens instead chose to shrink the project, they risked reducing its “functionality” in moving Tucsonans from point A to point B. And at that point, the RTA might just tell the task force to take a hike. Of course, one man’s functionality is another man’s fiasco. Just ask Rocco DiGrazia, task-force member and owner of the popular Rocco’s Little Chicago Pizza on Broadway. To him, functionality means keeping pace on a busy night and serving up pie after steaming pie. It does not mean ripping out a hundred buildings such as his to plant more asphalt. Still, he says he’s encouraged that the task force consists of Broadway neighbors and businesspeople who have some skin in the game. “At least we have people with vested interests who are able to express their concerns now. Myself and other members are certainly going to make sure that the committee amounts to as much as it can.” In other words, it could prove a crucial counterbalance to officials who want to start paving yesterday. “It does seem that there’s a big push by

Rocco DiGrazia fears for the future of his business if the RTA doesn’t reconsider its plans. thing that’s not matching completely the literal description” of the original plan. “… I’m not going to make a recommendation that’s going to diminish functionality. Now what is functionality? I think that’s pretty gray.” Contacted later by phone, Kozachik said he wants the city—the lead agency on this project—to define that darned term once and for all. He also hopes to blow out the “functional” margins a bit: “Could it include the concept of moving people instead of just automobiles? I want to broaden the definition so that we give the citizens’ task force purview to explore options way beyond level of service, and take that out of the hands of the RTA.” Meanwhile, the task force’s own “functionality” remains a tad murky. For instance, the group had worked for several weeks with a consultant in charge, rather than an elected chairman and vice chairman as required by law. (See “Broadway or Bust,” Aug. 30.) City project manager Jenn Toothaker Burdick blamed the mixup on bum advice from the City Clerk’s Office, but declined to name names. Assistant City Clerk Suzanne Mesich says she doesn’t know who gave Burdick the bad information. “There was somebody from our office who’s no longer here, so I can’t confirm that he gave her that information.” The task force also continues to make decisions by consensus, rather than taking votes. While this approach may be warm and fuzzy, it also might be violating the law, says City Attorney Mike Rankin.

The air war is under way in Congressional District 1, where Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick is facing Republican Jonathan Paton. Kirkpatrick, a former state lawmaker who represented a lot of the area in Congress for one term before getting knocked out of office by Republican Paul Gosar, is on TV with her first biographical ad, which focuses on her ties to the district. Meanwhile, the Democratic JONATHAN Congressional Campaign Committee is already hammering away at Paton, a former state lawmaker who fell short in a GOP primary in his first congressional run two years ago. The DCCC is spending $500,000 in ads that hit Paton on his work for the payday-loan industry, which has been a persistent thorn in his side. Meanwhile, the National Republican Congressional Committee, which has reserved $900,000 in air time in the district, has launched its first ad, which links Kirkpatrick to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and criticizes Kirkpatrick’s vote for the Affordable Care Act, because it could destroy jobs and raise taxes. The ad also highlights Paton’s military service, as well as his vow to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut taxes. CD 1 is a sprawling district that includes areas in and around Marana and Oro Valley and heads up the eastern side of Arizona to take in Flagstaff and many of the tribal lands up north. Democrats have an 8 percentage-point voter-registration edge in the district, but when it comes to how well GOP candidates actually do in the district, it’s pretty close to even odds. Those stats have National Journal calling it a GOP-leaning district, but the magazine also names it No. 12 on the list of House seats most likely to flip to the opposite party. The National Journal House Race Hotline editor Scott Bland calls Kirkpatrick “a good fit for a seat

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A woman at a convenience store who told deputies she thought she was shopping at Target—when she tried to buy $191 of miscellaneous items—also described herself as the “queen” of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Following a call from a store employee, deputies found the woman at the store’s automatic teller machine. Asked what she was doing, the woman replied that she was “trying to see if that thing worked.” The ATM then made a strange noise, as if it were shutting down. She then went to the convenience-store cash register and tried to use numerous credit cards to purchase her massive collection of sundries. All were declined. The woman then told deputies that she was the queen of the Pascua Yaquis and that she and her husband, the king, had been staying at the tribe’s casino. She added that she’d just told her husband she was pregnant, but he didn’t believe her—so she’d come to “Target” for a pregnancy test. Deputies weren’t sure whether the woman had been drinking, but they drove her to the casino to ensure her safety, according to the report. Staff at the casino confirmed that she had indeed been staying there—but said she had not paid for her room, and she had been kicked out earlier in the evening. Pascua Yaqui Police Department officers were called to the casino. They detained her in their vehicle, but told deputies they had no probable cause for arrest. Then, a sheriff’s deputy noticed suspicious activity in the vehicle: They found that the woman had used nail polish to scribble graffiti on the car’s Plexiglass divider. Asked about it, the woman said she did “not have a statement.” The woman was booked into jail on suspicion of criminal damage.

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COMMENT OF THE WEEK “Frankly, I could give a rat’s ass. I’m more worried about staying out of World War III, the quickly evaporating middle class and (the) dismal education system, not to mention the prospect of women’s rights being set back another 60 years.” —Tucson Weekly.com user “Pammy Culhane” explains just how little she cares about a presidential candidate’s potential tax returns (“Hackers Claim to Have Mitt Romney’s Tax Records—and Will Sell Them for $1,000,000”), The Range, Sept. 5.

BEST OF WWW I’m not going to lie, folks: I’m still trying to familiarize myself with the methods and madness of my predecessor—and I am doing so during a big part of the year, considering that Club Crawl®, the Best of Tucson® and the forthcoming launch of our music blog are fast approaching. If you have any suggestions, complaints or tips on anything you’d like to see from the folks at the Weekly Wide Web, feel welcome to send an email or drop us a message in the comments.

THE WEEK ON THE RANGE We compared a sitcom matriarch to a presidential candidate; discussed Chuck Norris’ dire warnings about the future of America; showed you Barack Obama’s confident side; shared the White House’s beer recipes; imagined how a Green Beret turned Senate candidate tidies his backyard; explained the demands of the hackers who claim to have Mitt Romney’s tax returns; shared the fact-check findings of former President Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention; watched Ann Kirkpatrick’s new TV ad; showed how vehement NFL punters can be about their political beliefs; marveled at Gabrielle Giffords for neither the first nor last time; and, as always, featured Jim Nintzel’s Political Roundtable. We published a few more entries in Adam Borowitz’s Food Truck Diaries, featuring Serial Grillers and Red Wagon Steak and Sub; let Tucsonans know that Vero Amore is open at its new location; shared a fall food-festival preview with events that are likely to expand both palates and waistlines; mentioned a giveaway at Tucson’s favorite fried-food emporiums; let the city know about another food truck that’s prepping to roam the streets of the Old Pueblo; learned that the shop taking over Knucklehead Alley’s old space is to be called “JunXion Bar”; and talked about great things happening at Food Conspiracy Co-Op. We also celebrated softball legend Jennie Finch’s birthday; learned the origins of downtown’s community chalkboard; read an excerpt from the new David Foster Wallace biography; hyped up, and then revealed the winners of the TAMMIES; talked a bit about gardening in the desert; listened to new Calexico and remixed Beastie Boys; talked a bit of Star Wars; shared our “Love Letters to Tucson”; drank beer for a good cause; and let the new Web guy introduce himself to everyone.

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MEANWHILE, IN CD 2 … s soon as Nancy Duron saw the clothes her son was wearing, she knew exactly what Anthony Duron had planned for the evening. “He had that pair of slacks he wore to go to Pearl,” Duron said, referring to a now-renamed nightclub on Wetmore Road. “He liked going there. But the dress code, you had to go formal, and he didn’t like that. He didn’t like slacks, but I told him, ‘You’re growing up; you have to dress up.’” Anthony Duron had recently turned 21 and was getting himself into a consistent, responsible life routine: He worked during the day, and then helped care for his 3-year-old daughter, Lilianah, in the evenings. When he wanted to go out, as he did on Aug. 14, 2010, he always made sure there was someone to watch Lilianah, his mother said. Duron died early the next morning, from a bullet to the back of his head that apparently was in no way intended for him. It was closing time at Pearl, about 2 a.m. on Aug. 15, and the parking lot was teeming with patrons leaving the club. Duron was with some friends, walking back to their cars, when a fight broke out among the crowd. “There was a fight that night, but not about him,” Nancy said. Shots were fired, and the 100-plus people still in the parking lot scattered. Nancy Duron said that Anthony’s friend Pablo Sierra looked back as he ran and saw Anthony lying on the pavement, dead. Anthony was one of four people shot that evening. Two other men and one woman were wounded, but they all survived. Nancy Duron got a call not long after the shooting. When she heard what had happened, her first reaction was disbelief. Then she started screaming. “I just went crazy,” she said. “I hung up the phone and called his phone. I kept calling his phone, but no one was picking up.” Tucson police have not made an arrest in the shooting, although they have several persons of interest. The large number of people in the parking lot at the time of the incident, and the unknown number of people who left the scene before police arrived, made an already complicated case that much harder to solve. “This was definitely a case of wrong place, wrong time (for Anthony),” said Tucson police Det. Mike Carroll, who has been assigned to the homicide for the past two years. “It makes it a lot harder because of the number of people there. No one person has pointed out, ‘I saw soand-so shoot Anthony Duron.’ But there may

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Speaking of those national rankings of House races: There’s not much good news for Republican Martha McSally, the former fighter pilot who hopes to unseat Congressman Ron Barber, a Democrat who won the race to complete Gabrielle Giffords’ term in the June special election. The Cook Political Report has Congressional District 2 in the “likely Democratic” column, while the National Journal has dropped it from No. 64 to No. 72 on its list of seats likely to change parties. “GOP polling shows a tight race between Barber and Martha McSally, but it would be exceedingly rare for the district’s voters to turn on Barber so quickly after a special election, even if McSally is a strong candidate,” notes the National Journal.

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Nancy Duron: “I hope one day, they do find the person who did this. I need somebody to speak up.” more willing to come forward now.” be a witness out there, and we haven’t found Anthony, the oldest of Nancy Duron’s eight them.” children, helped provide significant financial Anthony’s death came as local law enforcesupport for his family through his job at a fire/ ment was dealing with one of the deadliest storm/flood-damage restoration company. Not spates of violence in the region’s history. Eight people became homicide victims in a two-week long after Anthony’s death, Nancy’s husband, a roofer, suffered an injury and was no longer span in late August 2010. Five of those killings have been solved—some almost right away, and able to work. The two are now in the process of getting divorced, Nancy Duron said. others a year or more later. “It’s been crazy. I don’t know how we’ve Carroll said Duron’s case can still be solved, managed without (Anthony),” she said. “His but police will need a break to help tie the forensic evidence it has to a suspect. That break daughter is always asking, ‘Nana, have you would likely have to be in the form of someone heard anything? Have they got the guy?’ I hope one day, they do find the person who did this. I coming forward after staying silent to this need somebody to speak up.” point. “I’ve had plenty of cases like that; I just had one recently,” Carroll said. “It happens. Anyone with information related to the shooting Someone might have seen something, and of Anthony Duron is encouraged to call 911 or things have changed in their life, and they’re 88-CRIME.

The Skinny would like to express our condolences to the family and friends of Wanda Shattuck, who died at age 78 on Wednesday, Sept. 5. Local political strategist and radio talk-show host Emil Franzi remembers that Shattuck, a lifelong Tucsonan who helped elect a string of Pima County supervisors up in the Catalina foothills area, was “a good friend and one tough broad. She could kick ass and take names.” In addition to her success in electing county supervisors, Franzi recalls that Shattuck managed to kill a proposal for a freeway along the Rillito and Pantano riverbeds by pulling together environmentalists, anti-tax conservatives and small-business owners who would be affected by the project. “She knew how to build coalitions,” Franzi says. Shattuck also led an effort to block future highway construction in the city of Tucson without voter approval. Services are scheduled for 10 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 15, at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 3738 N. Old Sabino Canyon Road. By Jim Nintzel Find early and late-breaking Skinny at The Range, our daily dispatch, at daily. tucsonweekly.com. Jim Nintzel hosts the Political Roundtable every Friday on Arizona Illustrated, airing at 6:30 p.m. on KUAT Channel 6. The program repeats on 12:30 a.m., Saturday. Nintzel also talks politics with radio talk-show host John C. Scott on Thursday afternoons. Scott’s show airs from 4 to 5 p.m., weekdays, on KVOI AM 1030. Follow the Skinny scribe on Twitter: @nintzel. SEPTEMBER 13 – 19, 2012

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WELCOME TO ‘Algiers’ Calexico releases its first studio recording in four years BY JIM NINTZEL, jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com

tron or theremin. The final step was crafting the lyrics. The songs on Algiers explore familiar themes found in Calexico’s music: People are in motion to new places and often crosswise with the law, former lovers or themselves. “In a lot of my songs, there is that character who is en route, for different reasons, and the songs come together on that living road,” Burns says. While Burns has shouldered most of the lyrical work in the past, he found himself struggling to find the right words at times, so he asked Convertino to take a shot. Convertino embraced the challenge, finding inspiration in everything from the pages of The New York Times to his home life. “The music comes first; so many times, the lyrics come from the mood of the song,” Convertino says. “A lot of times, it tells you what to put on it, or not to put anything at all on it.”

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WHEN IT CAME TIME TO RECORD A NEW Calexico record, Joey Burns and John Convertino decided they needed to get out of town. They had started work on the album in Tucson nearly a year ago, but life kept interfering, with a steady stream of distractions and interruptions. So on the advice of producer Craig Schumacher of Wavelab Studio, they headed to New Orleans for 12 days last December. “We all had a strong connection to that place, and it felt like the right time to go there,” Burns says. “It really let us just focus 12 hours a day on making a record.” Burns, Convertino and Schumacher set up shop in the Living Room, a former church that’s now home to a recording studio. It didn’t take long for the duo to find the inspiration they needed in their new environs. The result, all these months later, is Algiers, named for the 15th Ward neighborhood that’s home to the Living Room. The new record, released this week, accents Calexico’s classic desert noir with a twist of Afro-Cuban flavor. “I think going to a different location was really inspirational, to get out of the comfort zone of what we’re familiar with in Tucson,” Convertino says. In a way, Convertino says, it was also a return to their roots—just the two of them, playing together until a song takes shape, as they did on Spoke, their 1997 debut. “A lot of the songs are based on improvisations that happen between Joey and me, initially, when we sit down with guitar and drums,” Convertino says. Here’s how Calexico writes a song: Burns and Convertino start jamming, trying to catch a mood as Schumacher listens with a keen ear. He rolls tape when he senses that they’re finding a song. “Craig knows when to pick up when we’ve almost created an arrangement,” Convertino says. “I feel like that’s a magical moment—the song is being recorded as it’s being thought of.” During their time in New Orleans, the skeletons of the songs on Algiers—and a lot of other stuff that didn’t make the cut—were laid down on tape. Then they returned to Tucson and huddled with Schumacher at Wavelab, bringing in more musicians to layer in keyboards, horns, strings and the occasional flourish of a mello-

There have been a lot of changes in the music business in the last four years as well. The label they’d been with for more than a decade, Chicago’s Touch ’N’ Go, essentially folded. “It’s really sad not to have the staff and all the friends we’ve relied on for so long,” Burns says. Now the band is on ANTI-, a label that has put out records by the likes of Wilco, Tom Waits, Neko Case and Beth Orton. “ANTI- Records really stands out, because they’re doing things in the mindset and philosophy (in which) musicians want to be heard,” Burns says. “They don’t push you to do things that are unnatural. So it’s great to be able to work with new friends like that.”

Calexico in the studio in New Orleans, where the skeletons of the songs that became Algiers were put on tape.

IT’S BEEN FOUR YEARS SINCE CALEXICO released a studio album. The last one, Carried to Dust, was hailed for its “mixture of organic warmth, welcome variety and subtle complexity” by Pitchfork magazine. Magnet called it the band’s “best-sounding record: Each voice and instrument has its place, wheeling around Convertino’s graceful drumming like dancers going around the maypole.” The band has stayed busy since releasing Carried to Dust. Burns and Convertino have played a supporting role on albums by Tom Russell, Neko Case, Sergio Mendoza and others. They traveled to Cuba to back up Amparo Sanchez on an album recorded in the same studio that produced the Buena Vista Social Club. They’ve toured with Arcade Fire. Burns produced Amos Lee’s Mission Bell, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release in January 2011. They’ve dabbled in soundtrack work for two films: John Michael McDonagh’s indie-comedy The Guard,

and Aaron Schock’s Circo, a documentary about a traveling Mexican circus. They’ve helped organize the annual Festival en el Barrio, a spring musical celebration in downtown Tucson to benefit radio station KXCI FM 91.3. They’ve headlined an annual Dance of the Dead, to cap off the autumn All Soul’s Procession, as a fundraiser for Many Mouths One Stomach, the nonprofit group that organizes the march through downtown. They’ve given their support to political causes, including voter-registration efforts and concerts in support of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. In the wake of the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting, they played benefit concerts. And on the anniversary of the rampage earlier this year, they helped lift spirits as part of a remembrance on the UA mall. They’ve been through a lot of changes in their personal life. Burns became the father of twin daughters who are now 16 months old, while Convertino recently relocated to Ohio after his wife landed a job teaching at Kent State University.

EARLIER THIS WEEK, CALEXICO HEADED TO Europe for the first leg of a tour promoting Algiers. The touring members of Calexico include Burns and Convertino as well as Calexico regulars Jacob Valenzuela and Martin Wenk. Keyboardist Sergio Mendoza is putting his own band, Y la Orkesta, on hold for the next few months for the tour. Jairo Zavala, a Spanish guitarist who performs under the name Depedro, will be filling in for Paul Niehaus (who had other commitments this fall). And the newest addition to the band, Ryan Alfred, is taking up the standup and electric bass normally played by Volker Zander. The seven musicians spent the two weeks before the tour hunkered down at Waterworks Recording, east of downtown. They worked through the new songs and reworked old ones, honing how they will sound live. They went back and forth over little details: Should the bass and drums get the spotlight? Do they need keyboards to fill the space? Can the guitar go up an octave? When should they bring in the piano? When should the trumpet soar? How is each song built? It’s just one more step in the process of transforming the polished recorded songs into a live performance. And it never ends, because each performance will bring new surprises as they remix the set list. “We’re always trying to come up with some new aspect to our sound, and we don’t want to fall into a cliché,” Burns says. “Even though we still have a lot of the same instrumentation on this record and with us on tour, we really want to go somewhere new. That’s the thrill, and otherwise, the thrill is gone, so why do this?” SEPTEMBER 13 – 19, 2012

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SEPTEMBER 13-19, 2012 OUR TOP PICKS OF WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO DO IT BY MARIANA DALE AND INÉS TARACENA

An Evening With Adam

PICK OF THE WEEK

Adam Carolla will step out of the studio and onto the stage at the Rialto Theatre on Friday. From The Man Show to Loveline, Carolla has been slinging comedy since the 1990s. Now known for his recordbreaking podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, Carolla will be leaving his podcast partners-in-crime, Alison Rosen and Bald Bryan, at home in favor of an eclectic evening of solo comedy. “It’s a combination, sort of: one-man show meets standup, meets improvisation, meets PowerPoint presentation,” Carolla said in an interview. “It’s pretty unique. It’s not just standup; it’s kind of ‘an evening with.’” Though he has performed in the greater Phoenix area many times, this will be Carolla’s first gig in the Old Pueblo. During the interview, he inquired about the rivalry between Phoenix and Tucson and proposed a solution of his own. “It’s an arbitrary line drawn in the desert that separates Tucson from Phoenix—that’s why you should get along,” Carolla said, “Start hating on Montana. Find some place different than you, and start channeling your ire toward those places.” Carolla has proved himself to be a comedic jester-of-all-trades. After his eponymous show was booted by CBS Radio in 2009, he took his act to the airwaves independently via the podcast. Guinness World Records dubbed the dispatch the most-downloaded podcast in the world in 2011. At that point, it had been downloaded more than 59 million times. Carolla has also made reality TV appearances on Dancing With the Stars and The Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump. The road to recognition started out in a one-bedroom apartment Carolla shared with three other men after he moved out of his parents’ house. His work résumé includes stints as a construction worker and ditch-digger. Once he acquired his own set of tools, he became a carpenter for hire. “It became pretty apparent, pretty quickly, that it sucked— that it was really hard work, Adam Carolla and it didn’t pay much, and it didn’t have any perks or benefits whatsoever,” Carolla said. “I decided comedy would be a much better life—harder to pull off, but if I did pull it off, it would be a much better lifestyle.” So he traded a life of under-the-table payments and IRS debt for comedy. However, his new career started out with a series of what he calls “open-mic disasters.” “I just kept stinking, and eventually I went from stinking to not stinking. It was a slow process,” Carolla said. He didn’t direct his comedy focus into any one area, rotating between sketches, standup and, at one point, something he calls “comedy traffic school.” He broke into the radio biz after becoming Jimmy Kimmel’s boxing instructor during Kimmel’s radio career. He later took off the gloves and put on headphones as part of the Kevin and Bean radio show. His voice has rarely been absent from the airwaves since.

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After nearly two decades in comedy, Carolla said that his style and perspective have remained the same, although he’s become more polished. “I have hopefully gotten better—evolved—sort of like a musician who gets better at his craft, but not necessarily picks up another instrument or plays another type of music,” Carolla said. The key to comedy greatness, according to Carolla, is repetition and practice. In addition to his daily podcast, he does live podcasts and standup shows almost every weekend. “It doesn’t give you a lot of chance for the rust or for the barnacles to settle in on you, “Carolla said. Carolla’s most-recent book, Not Taco Bell Material, came out in June. In it, Carolla jokes about the 16 homes he has lived in since he was born. He said a few of those stories will probably make their way into his Tucson routine. Carolla described the experience of performing onstage as similar to a band choosing songs from a set list. “I always end with a ‘Stairway to Heaven,’” he said, before confessing: “I don’t even know what that means.” Adam Carolla performs at 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14, at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. Tickets for the all-ages show are $39.50. For tickets or for more information, call 740-1000, or visit www.rialtotheatre.com. Mariana Dale mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

LECTURE To Spark Debate “Richard Miller: Why Do We Want Church-State Separation?” 9 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 16 DuVal Auditorium, University of Arizona Medical Center 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 297-9919; www.freethoughtarizona.org

The separation of church and state—or the lack thereof—has been at the center of countless debates. There are people who want religion to have a say in our laws, and there are people who want the two strictly segregated—such as members of Free Thought Arizona. “Once religion comes into play, affecting our Legislature, it is something we can’t accept,” said Jerry Karches, one of the group’s founders. “Lawmakers are using the Bible to dominate the legislative process on birth control and abortion, and these things do not make sense to us.” Free Thought Arizona originated in 2004. Since then, the group has been fighting to keep politics secular. Members rely on science for guidance. The organization hosts events and lectures that are open to people interested in learning about the group’s ideals. In Sunday’s lecture, Richard Miller, vice president of the Phoenix chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, will explain the reasons why church and state are like water and oil. He also will discuss what the Constitution says about religion, and speak about the Bill of Rights and the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, which states that the U.S. is not “in any sense” founded on Christianity. Miller is an advocate for many secularist organizations and a board member of the Phoenix chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. “What will be presented at the lecture will, hopefully, motivate people to also be interested in the separation of church and state,” Karches said. The first 200 attendees will receive a free pocket copy of the Constitution to commemorate Constitution Day on Sept. 17. The lecture is free, but donations will be accepted. —I.T.

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Far left: Jeremy Carriere munches on a caterpillar at the 2011 Arizona Insect Festival.

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Buggin’ Out

An Evening With the Pops

Arizona Insect Festival 2012

For Those With a Fetish for Mystery …

10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15

Festival Repertory Theatre’s Veronica’s Room

UA Student Union Grand Ballroom, 1303 E. University Blvd., Third Floor

7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m., Sunday, through Sept. 30

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Cabaret Theater Temple of Music and Art 330 S. Scott Ave.

Are cockroaches cuddly? You can find the answer to that question and many others that may have been bugging you at the Arizona Insect Festival. The exposition is put on by the University of Arizona Department of Entomology, with help from the UA’s Center for Insect Science and the UA Insect Collection. “This is not so much about science as (it is) about helping people get beyond these emotional brick walls they have,” said Kathleen Walker, an assistant professor in the Entomology Department and coordinator of this year’s festival. According to Walker, it’s the parents, not the kids, who are usually afraid of the critters on display. More than 20 booths will staffed to allow people the opportunity to inspect live bugs and interact with them. A popular aspect of the event is the ability to hold many of the creatures, including the massive Hercules beetle, millipedes, Manduca caterpillars and horse lubber grasshoppers. The festival provides several avenues for enjoying insects. Foodies can sample waxworm-larvae tacos. Walker describes the larvae as “nice, juicy little things”—no different than shrimp. Dessert is a chocolate-chip cookie, with a cricket crunch. Sports enthusiasts can cheer on their favorite candidate in a race of Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and the artistically inclined can visit the illustration booth to view insects through a microscope and then try their hand at sketching insect portraits. Both bug-lovers and people who haven’t gotten over their childhood bug traumas are encouraged to attend. “This is not Fear Factor. Everyone has to find their level of comfort,” Walker said. “Maybe you want to start with a butterfly and maybe stay away from the sting table.” Admission is free. —M.D.

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When Veronica’s Room debuted on Broadway in 1973, Adele Furman was among those who saw the play in its opening week. As she sat in the theater, she was gripped by the plot and the performances. Now, almost 40 years after its opening, Furman has the opportunity to share the classic play with Tucson. Veronica’s Room was written by Ira Levin, the author of Rosemary’s Baby. It is a mystery thriller that mixes reality with the unknown. Without giving too much away: It depicts a young couple’s misfortune after an older couple—a couple they do not know—invites the young couple into their home. “These four people are caught up in an unexpected and dramatic story,” said Furman, who is producing and directing the play. “I don’t want to say much about it, but audiences will have a very exciting experience.” The play is presented by the Festival Repertory Theatre, Furman’s theater company. Furman had been eager to bring the play to Tucson, but was waiting for the right time and the right actors. This is the second time Furman has had the opportunity to direct and produce Veronica’s Room. In 1976, she directed it for a theatrical group in Monticello, N.Y. “The audience’s reaction was amazing to me,” Furman said. “Nobody clapped for about 30 seconds, and then they went wild.” The thriller stars Elin Brown and David Zinke as the older couple, and Whitney Morton and Michael Gifford as the younger couple. Furman said that after they have seen it, playgoers will have a new perspective on the advice to “never talk to strangers.” Tickets are $18, or $15 for seniors. —I.T.

Left: Michael Gifford, Whitney Morton, David Zinke and Elin Brown.

Tucson Pops Orchestra: Music Under the Stars 7 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 16 and 23 DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center Reid Park, 1100 S. Randolph Way 722-5853; www.tucsonpops.org

Much joy can come from being outdoors while surrounded by the sounds of a talented orchestra—and it makes the musicians feel good, too. László Veres said that bringing a smile to someone’s face through the music he conducts is one of his most rewarding experiences. Veres is musical director of the Tucson Pops Orchestra, whose Music Under the Stars series has been bringing pleasure to Tucsonans since 1955. For 57 years, residents have been invited to come to Reid Park, set up a picnic and listen to the orchestra perform. “There is nothing like being onstage experiencing the sound of the orchestra,” said Veres, who has conducted the orchestra for about 16 years. “It is magnificent, and I am lucky to be a part of it.” The fall 2012 season of Music Under the Stars will feature everything from classical music to marches. The lineup will be “very varied,” Veres said. “We will play music from Broadway (and) light classical music. (We will) feature soloists and also play some popular music,” he said. During the first performance, last Sunday, Sept. 9, one of the pieces performed was “Hollywood Blockbusters” by James Horner, which highlights music from movies such as Apollo 13. This Sunday, Sept. 16, will feature Johannes Brahms’ Double Concerto for Violin and Cello performed by David and Steven Brubaker. The concluding evening, Sept. 23, will include “Star Trek Through the Years” by Calvin Custer, and the allegretto from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. “I owe it to the community to bring joy into their lives during the 2 1/2 hours or so of the concert,” Veres said. “I’m grateful to make them happy presenting them with music.” The event is free. —I.T.

Emily Rockey, curator of horticulture, leads a hands-on workshop on orchid care and maintenance, from 10 a.m. to noon, Sunday, Sept. 16, at Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way; $20, $15 member, includes a small orchid to take home. Call 326-9686, or visit tucsonbotanical.org to register.

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TQ&A Margaret Zinser Bead-maker Margaret Zinser has carried a torch for Beads of Courage since 2008, when she organized the first Bead Challenge at the Sonoran Glass School (633 W. 18th St.). Local bead artists will hit the torches from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15, to make beads for the Tucson-based nonprofit, which supports children coping with serious illnesses. Beads are used to help children around the world celebrate milestones in their treatment. For more on the Bead Challenge, call 884-7814, or go to www.beadsofcourage.org.

How did you hook up with Beads of Courage? It’s based out of Tucson, so when it first started up … I would send in donations from time to time. As I started to get involved with the Sonoran Glass School a little more than five years ago, it seemed crazy to me that the studio wasn’t doing collaborative projects with this arts and medicine organization. Once I joined the board, one of my first projects was to work with (Beads of Courage executive director and founder and director) Jean Baruch and do the marathon of bead-making challenge. Do we have a caring glass community? Absolutely. There’s a lot of that spirit that goes into 18 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

Beads of Courage and this idea that these objects become tangible milestones for the kids who receive these beads. When we make them, we’re imbuing these items with as much positive intention as we can. It’s very powerful to see this come full-circle. Kids from local hospitals who’ve participated come to the challenge, and it’s magical for them to see how these beads are made, and it’s powerful for artists to see how powerful these are for the kids who wear them. The overall goal of the challenge is to make beads that go back to the program, right? That’s the primary goal. Because we’re serving around 30,000 kids, that’s a lot of beads. … Most of the beads in the oncology and cardiac program are manufactured beads, simply because some of these strands end up being really long. The handmade beads are used for those big-treatment milestones—a rough day, surgery, treatment or an act of courage. For those, we are perpetually short, and we get thousands of handmade glass beads donated, and it is spectacular that they come right in the door and go right out. There’s always a big push to help stock our inventory to our participatory hospitals. How do you feel, being involved? It certainly is a blessing. The reasons I got into beadmaking, honestly, are fairly

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EVENTS THIS WEEK

WINGS FOR WOMEN GALA Viscount Suite Hotel. 4855 E. Broadway Blvd. 7456500. A gala dinner-dance with casino games, a silent auction, mariachi dinner-music and a magic show benefits homeless women, starting with cocktails at 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; $70. Visit wingsforwomentucson.org

BROADWAY-PANTANO WQARF MEETING Ward 2 Council Office. 7575 E. Speedway Blvd. 7914687. A meeting of the community advisory board of the Broadway-Pantano Water Quality Assurance Revolving Fund takes place from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 18; free.

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How long have you been a bead-maker? Full-time for about eight years, but I started 11 years ago. The vast majority of the things that I make are standalone beads and pendants that are ready to wear, or for my customers who make jewelry to integrate into their own designs. When I started as a bead-maker, I started with a book and a torch. I got a kit and learned about it as a craft long before I decided to start doing it. I never thought it was something that could be done on a small scale or in one’s home. But I started burning at home, and then started taking a few classes here and there, and at Sonoran Glass School, and I later joined their board to start the first Bead Challenge.

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selfish. This is something I enjoyed doing, and it keeps a roof over my head. But I think the blessing is in getting to meet Jean of Beads of Courage and working with the Sonoran Glass School. It gives my work, in a different context, a lot more meaning. How does the public get to participate? They can show up at the event and cheer on the bead-makers, and learn about Beads of Courage. There will be projects that anybody can do that are very family-friendly. There’s also a little exhibit of the Beads in Space Tour. We had a small portion of glass beads made by artists here in the U.S. that were able to go on the last two space shuttle launches. We’re highlighting those beads on the idea that your imagination can take you anywhere. The beads have been traveling throughout participating hospitals this summer. We’ll also have fundraising projects—a store filled with artwork by the artists who are making beads. A large percentage of the proceeds are going to Beads of Courage. How many bead-makers are participating? We will have nine torches going all day, working in shifts of two hours apiece, with around 25 to 30 artists. The local glass community really comes out to support this event. It’s hard not to.

ANNUAL GREEK FESTIVAL St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church. 1145 E. Fort Lowell Road. 888-0505. Authentic Greek food, beer and wine; live music and folk-dancing; kids’ rides; cooking demonstrations; import sales; and lectures are featured from 5 to 10 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20; 5 to 11 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; 4 to 11 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; and noon to 6 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 23; $3, free military or child age 12 and younger, free Sunday for seniors. Bring a can of food and get $1 off a food purchase. Parking and shuttle transportation are free. AUTUMN MOON FESTIVAL Tucson Chinese Cultural Center. 1288 W. River Road. 292-6900. The UA Confucius Institute presents a festival of Chinese medicine, martial arts, tai chi, poetry, films and music from Saturday, Sept. 22, through Sunday, Sept. 30. Events are free unless otherwise noted. Saturday, Sept. 22, from 8 a.m. to noon: Chinese Health Day with the leading performers at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Sunday, Sept. 23, from 3 to 5 p.m.: lecture, “Chinese Martial Arts.” Tuesday, Sept. 25, from 11 a.m. to noon: lecture, “Traditional Chinese Music.” Wednesday, Sept. 26, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.: lecture, “Chinese Cinema” and director Wu Tianming. Thursday, Sept. 27, from 7 to 9 p.m.: Chinese Moon Festival Poetry Concert and lecture on ancient and modern Chinese poetry. Friday, Sept. 28, from noon to 2 p.m.: lecture, “Recent Efforts in the Search for Remote Human Ancestors in China.” Saturday, Sept. 29, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Chinese Language Day. Saturday, Sept. 29, from 6 to 8 p.m.: dinner, moon cakes, paper lanterns, dancing and other Chinese traditions related to harvest time; $15, $10 member of the Chinese Cultural Center, $5 child, free child who brings a paper lantern. Sunday, Sept. 30, from 7 to 9 p.m.: Moon Festival Concert at Crowder Hall in the UA School of Music, 1017 E. Olive Road. Visit confucius.arizona.edu or tucsonchinese.org for more information. COOKS AND CHORDS BENEFIT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Chinese Cultural Center. 1288 W. River Road. 2926900. Acoustic music, a raffle, a silent auction and stations of chef-prepared dishes paired with spirits are featured from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $50. Proceeds benefit the Arizona Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Call 455-3958, or visit arizonams.org for tickets and more information. MOUNT LEMMON SKI VALLEY OKTOBERFEST Mount Lemmon Ski Valley. 10300 Ski Run Road. Mount Lemmon. 576-1321. German food, beer and live music by the John Prokop Band are featured from 11:45 a.m. to 5 p.m., every Saturday and Sunday, from Saturday, Sept. 22, through Sunday, Oct. 14; $5 parking. Visit skithelemmon.com for more information. ORO VALLEY CLASSICS AND OLDIES CAR AND MOTORCYCLE SHOW Oro Valley Marketplace. Oracle and Tangerine roads. Oro Valley. Kids’ activities, jumping castles, American food, and live rockabilly and country music by the Outlaw Rebels and Good Question are featured at a motorized vehicle show for all types of ground vehicles from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $5, $20 per vehicle. Call 797-3959, or visit ovcarshow.org for more information. SALEO GOLF TOURNAMENT Dell Urich Golf Course at Randolph Park. 600 S. Alvernon Way. 791-4161. Golfers check in for a scramble format at 7 a.m., and a shotgun start takes place at 8 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $125 includes an awards luncheon. Proceeds help underwrite scholarships given by the Southern Arizona Logistics Education Association. Visit saleo.org to register and for more information. A TASTE OF ORACLE Village Square. 1995 W. American Ave. Oracle. 4008250. Live music, food, a raffle, vendor booths, a silent auction and children’s activities take place from 3 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; free admission. Proceeds benefit the Tri-Community Visitors Center. Call 400-8250 for more information.

FALL ARTS AND CRAFTS SHOW Tanque Verde Ranch. 14301 E. Speedway Blvd. 2966275. More than three-dozen members of the Tucson Arts and Crafts Association exhibit and sell their work from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; free. A raffle benefits the Humane Society of Southern Arizona; bring any pet food for a free raffle ticket. Call 797-1751, or visit tucsonartsandcrafts.org for more information. FREE SHREDDING, SCAM-PREVENTION TIPS Northminster Presbyterian Church. 2450 E. Fort Lowell Road. 327-7121. Documents of all kinds, in unlimited quantity and with or without paper clips or staples, are shredded from 8 to 11 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 13, to promote fraud protection for seniors; free. Five boxes per person are allowed. Everyone receives a free Senior Fraud Protection Kit. Call 694-0464 for more info. FREE SPEECH FRIDAY OPEN MIC Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Bookmans takes a stand against censorship with open-mic nights from 6 to 8 p.m., every Thursday, through Sept. 28. Anyone may speak, recite or perform. ‘MAGIC: THE GATHERING’ FREE TOURNAMENT Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. A two-pack standard Magic: The Gathering tournament takes place at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 13; free. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m.; the first 20 registrants will play. Each participant receives two free packs. Prizes include one to three additional packs and $10 to $25 in gift certificates. PRIDE: WHAT ARE YOU DOING FROM OCT. 11, 2012, THROUGH FEB. 15, 2013? We’d love to help you reach the LGBTQ community with a free listing in our Oct. 11 PRIDE issue. Fill out the listings-submission form at tucsonweekly.com, or email your info by noon, Friday, Sept. 28, to listings@ tucsonweekly.com. Put PRIDE on the subject line. A REVIEW OF THE BALLOT PROPOSITIONS FOR NOVEMBER Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Members of the League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson lead disussion of the propositions on the Nov. 6 ballot at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; refreshments are served. Call 622-0905 for more information. THAI FOOD COMMUNITY BUFFET FUNDRAISER Wat Buddhametta: Tucson Buddhist Meditation Center. 1133 S. Swan Road. 745-4624. All-you-can-eat pad Thai, egg rolls, chicken curry, vegetarian curry, desserts and more are served from 6 to 8 p.m., the third Saturday of every month; $10, free child younger than 10. Proceeds help support free classes at the center. TIHAN VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION St. Paul’s United Methodist Church. 8051 E. Broadway Blvd. 296-6149. The Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network holds an orientation for prospective volunteers from 1 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; $17 covers materials. Volunteers are needed to provide advocacy and emotional support, front-desk receptionist duties, officecleaning help, HIV education and outreach, fundraising support and moving assistance. Advance registration is required; call 299-6647, or email volunteercoordinator@ tihan.org to register and for more information. TUCSON PIMA COLLABORATION TO END HOMELESSNESS Holiday Inn. 4550 S. Palo Verde Road. 746-1161. A day-long series of workshops provide information on ending homelessness and helping individuals and families who are at risk of homelessness, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14; $60 to $80. Reservations are requested. Call 990-8740 to register; visit tpch.info for more information. YWCA WORKSHOPS Barnes and Noble. 5130 E. Broadway Blvd. 5121166. The YWCA presents three free workshops for women from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15: from 2 to 2:45 p.m., “Personal Finance Fundamentals,” Tiana Ronstadt; 2:45 to 3:30 p.m., “Understanding Your Strengths to Achieve Your Potential,” Janina Latack; and 3:30 to 4 p.m., “Finding the Passion Within You,” Michelle Pitot. Curious George reads to attendees’

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

UPCOMING BENEFITS AND SERVICES FOR VETERANS AND THEIR SURVIVORS Himmel Branch Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. Cathi Starr of the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services provides information for veterans and widowed spouses about service-connected disabilities and compensation, pension benefits, the Aid and Attendant Program, and burial and widowed spouses’ benefits, from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, Sept. 24; free. FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AND WINE RELEASE Canelo Hills Vineyard and Winery. 342 Elgin Road. Elgin. (520) 455-5499. Canelo Hills celebrates its fifth anniversary by releasing two 2009 wines in tastings from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22 and 23; $10 regular tasting, $15 reserve tasting, $40 after-hours vertical tasting. Visit canelohillswinery.com for more information. FIFTH ANNIVERSARY GRAND WINE-TASTING CataVinos. 3063 N. Alvernon Way. 323-3063. Participants are given a commemorative etched-crystal wine glass to use in tasting the many wines being poured by area distributors in an outdoor tent pavilion from 2 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $18. MEDICARE AND SOCIALMEDIA EDUCATIONAL EVENT YWCA Frances McClelland Leadership Center. 525 N. Bonita Ave. 884-7810. Baby boomers, Medicare beneficiaries, their families and caregivers learn more about Medicare and how to find the coverage that’s best for them, from 9 to 11 a.m., and from 2 to 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20, as part of National Medicare Education Week; free. Attendees also can participate in a hands-on computer workshop to learn about online resources and ways to connect with family and friends. Visit nmew.com for more info. TUCSON BEER CUP Hotel Congress. 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. Born and Brewed: Tucson’s Beer Cup, a competition among six local brews, takes place from 7 to 10 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; $25, $20 advance includes 12 tastes of beer and complimentary snacks. Each brewery fields two beers; the winner gets a giant trophy and their own tap handle in the hotel’s Tap Room. Competitors are Nimbus, Borderlands, Dragoon, Thunder Canyon, Barrio and 1702.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 24-HOUR CRISIS LINE: 624-0348, (800) 553-9387 Wingspan. 430 E. Seventh St. 624-1779. Report a violent or discriminatory action against you or someone you know by calling the 24-hour bilingual crisis line at 6240348 or (800) 553-9387. If it’s an emergency, please first call 911. All services are available in English and Spanish. BEAGLE RESCUE Several beagle-adoption events and play dates are scheduled throughout the month. Visit soazbeaglerescue.com for the schedule and to learn more about Southern Arizona Beagle Rescue. 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. 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 for more information. 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 VOLUNTEERS: TUCSON CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL Community groups, businesses, religious groups, neighborhood associations and ad hoc groups of five or more volunteers are needed to adopt parks, streets, washes and other public areas on an ongoing basis. Call 7913109, or visit tucsoncleanandbeautiful.org for more information. 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. 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 for more information. DESERT CRONES Fellowship Square Villa III. 210 N. Maguire Ave. 8865537. Women older than 50 meet from 1 to 3 p.m., every Thursday except holidays, to enjoy companionship and creativity. Programs include guest speakers, writing workshops and drumming circles. Call 409-3357, or email hobbitmagick@hotmail.com for more information. DIVORCE RECOVERY DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP First Church United Methodist. 915 E. Fourth St. 6226481. An open support group for anyone ending a relationship takes place from 1 to 2 p.m., every Tuesday; free. 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 for more information. EXTREME COUPONING SAAF. 375 S. Euclid Ave. 628-7223. Cents-off coupons are collected from the Sunday newspaper and Tuesday home mailings to help support the food programs of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation. Coupons need not be cut out. They may be delivered from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. FOUNTAIN FLYERS TOASTMASTERS Coco’s Bakery Restaurant. 7250 N. Oracle Road. 7422840. Participants learn and enhance speaking and

leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment, from 6:30 to 7:45 a.m., Tuesday; free. Call 861-1160 for more information.

month. Free; no-host food and beverages. Call 3269174, or visit tucsonsingletarians.tripod.com for more information about the club’s many other activities.

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.

TUCSON SOCIAL SINGLES Singles meet from 5 to 7 p.m., every Friday, at a different location; free. Call 219-4332, or visit tucsonsocialsingles.org for locations and more info.

ITALIAN CONVERSATION Beyond Bread. 3026 N. Campbell Ave. 322-9965. All skill levels practice from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., every Tuesday; free. Call 624-9145 for more information. JIGSAW PUZZLE EXCHANGE Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Exchange your jigsaw puzzle for a different one at the Jigsaw Puzzle Exchange display. Parking is free on Saturday, Sunday, evenings or for less than an hour. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov for more information. MAHJONG Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 229-5300. Play Mahjong from 1 to 3:30 p.m., each Saturday; free. Call for more information. MARXIST DISCUSSION GROUP Revolutionary Grounds. 606 N. Fourth Ave. 620-1770. A discussion of selected readings takes place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., the first and third Sunday of every month; free. Call 235-0694 for more information. NOOK EREADER CLASSES Barnes and Noble. 5130 E. Broadway Blvd. 512-1166. Classes are held from 7 to 8 p.m., the first Tuesday of every month; and from 7 to 8 p.m., the third Tuesday of every month; free. PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION GROUP Metropolitan Grill. 7892 N. Oracle Road. 531-1212. Lively, friendly and civil discussions of philosophical questions old and new take place at 6 p.m., the first and third Monday of every month; free. Call 575-1743 for more information. PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE A volunteer for the Pima Council on Aging provides information and answers questions about support available to seniors for caregiving, meals, housing, legal services and transportation; free: from 10 a.m. to noon, the second Tuesday of every month, at Sahuarita Branch Library, 725 W. Via Rancho Sahuarita; from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the second and fourth Tuesday of every month, at Oro Valley Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive; from 10 a.m. to noon, the second and fourth Wednesday, at Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center, 1660 W. Ruthrauff Road; from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the second and last Wednesday, at Quincie Douglas Senior Center, 1575 E. 36th St.; and from 10 a.m. to noon, the third and fourth Wednesday, at Freedom Park Recreation Center, 5000 E. 29th St. For more information, visit pcoa.org. THE ROADRUNNERS TOASTMASTERS Atria Bell Court Garden. 6653 E. Carondelet Drive. 8863600. The Roadrunners Toastmasters meet weekly from 6:30 to 8 a.m., Wednesday, to mutually support public speaking and leadership skills. Call 261-4560, or visit roadrunnerstoastmasters.com for more information. SCRABBLE CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Play Scrabble from 1 to 5 p.m., each Monday; free. Call for more information. SINGLES 50+ LUNCH GROUP Thunder Canyon Brewery. 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 7972652. A group meets for conversation and no-host lunch at noon, Sunday. Call 797-9873 for more information. SOCRATES SATURDAY FORUM Ward 6 City Council Office. 3202 E. First St. 7914601. All are welcome to join a philosophical discussion at 9 a.m., the first and third Saturday of every month; free. Email lanamorgan1@yahoo.com for more info. TOASTMASTERS OF UNITY Risky Business Sunrise. 6866 E. Sunrise Drive. 5770021. Participants learn the art of public speaking, listening, thinking and leadership in a relaxed, informal and supportive atmosphere, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., every Saturday; free. Call 861-7039, or visit toastmastersofunity.com for more information. TUCSON SINGLETARIANS A social club for singles age 50 and older meets from 5 to 7 p.m., each Wednesday on the westside, and Thursday on the eastside, at locations that change each

URBAN YARNS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Knitters and crocheters gather informally from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., each Friday, to work on their own projects, review the library’s fiber-themed books and find inspiration for new projects; free. No instruction is provided. Call 791-4010 for more information. XEROCRAFT: A PLACE TO CREATE Xerocraft. 1301 S. Sixth Ave. 906-0352. Tools and space for creative individuals to materialize their visions are available from 7 to 10 p.m., every Thursday; and from noon to 4 p.m., every Saturday; free. Visit xerocraft.org for more information. YARNIVORES: A CROCHET AND KNITTING MEET-UP GROUP Murphy-Wilmot Branch Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. A brown-bag dinner and socializing devoted to the yarn arts take place from 6 to 7 p.m., every Thursday; free. Bring dinner and a project.

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BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK AAF TUCSON LUNCHEON MEETING Hotel Tucson City Center. 475 N. Granada Ave. 6232000. Sheila Krishnan of Carondelet Health Network presents “How to ‘Be Well’: Building a Brand From the Inside Out,” a discussion of brand strategy in the health-care field, at a meeting of the American Advertising Federation of Tucson, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 18; $20 to $50. Reservations are requested. Call 326-1060 for reservations and more information.

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GRANTS DATABASES OPEN LAB Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Volunteers, staff and board members of nonprofit and community organizations research private grantmakers with the help of a librarian from 2 to 4 p.m., the second Friday of every month; free. Seating is firstcome, first-served. Call 791-4010 for more information. NETWORKING HAPPY HOUR Hacienda del Sol. 5601 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. 299-1501. The Collaboration of Legal Support Associations invites attorneys, judges and legal-support professionals to a no-host happy hour and networking event from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 19; free. Bring a donation for the Tucson Community Food Bank to enter a raffle. PIMA COUNTY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD PCC Community Campus. 401 N. Bonita Ave. 2064528. A representative of the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration talks about workplace benefits and how the administration oversees them at a meeting from 7:30 to 9 a.m., Friday, Sept. 14; free. Call 243-6766 for more information. SAFETY WORKS EXPO PLUS Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 323-6262. Educational sessions on workplace-safety, workplace-health and human-resources issues, and prescription drugs in the workplace take place from 7 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 19; $59. Call (602) 631-2810 for more information. SUNBELT WORLD TRADE ASSOCIATION Viscount Suite Hotel. 4855 E. Broadway Blvd. 7456500. Arnold Norton, agriculturist and economist formerly with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, speaks about the impact of drought on producers, consumers, exports and the global economy at a breakfast meeting of the Sunbelt World Trade Association, at 7:30 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 18; $18, $15 member. RSVP to ebellmann23@comcast.net, or call 471-1144 for reservations.

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DROP-IN JOB-HELP 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 info. 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.

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YWORKS EMPLOYMENT TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR WOMEN YWCA Frances McClelland Leadership Center. 525 N. Bonita Ave. 884-7810. Employment-training and development workshops for women who are unemployed, underemployed or transitioning in the workforce take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., the second and third Tuesday of each month. Computer-skills help is available from noon to 5 p.m., the second and third Wednesday of each month. Each workshop is $25; scholarships and internships are available. Call 884-7810, ext. 107, or visit ywcatucson.org to register and for more info.

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EVENTS THIS WEEK â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;BAG ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Catalina United Methodist Church. 2700 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-4296. Bag It, a humorous film confronting the proliferation of plastic bags, is screened at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14, in the Fellowship Hall; free. Discussion follows. The event is hosted by the League of Women Voters Natural Resources Committee and the church. 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. Sept. 13: Casablanca, 1942. Sept. 20: Horse Feathers, 1935. Sept. 27: Breakfast at Tiffanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1961. Visit cinemalaplacita.com for a schedule and parking info. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. To Sir With Love screens at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 16; $5 to $7. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for tickets and more information. LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Visit loftcinema.com for a complete list of forthcoming films and to reserve tickets. Saturday, Sept. 15, at 10 a.m.: May I Be Frank, including a 9 a.m. mini-expo of raw and organic foods, and nutrition and holistic-health consultants, and a post-film Q&A with the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s star, Frank Ferrante; $10. Sunday, Sept. 16, at 11 a.m.; and Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m.: a screening Carl Theodore Dreyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), commemorates the saintâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 600th birthday; $5 suggested donation. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m.: Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West; free. Sunday, Sept. 23, at noon: Alfred Hitchcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vertigo; $8, $6 member. QUEER FILM SERIES UA Modern Languages Building. UA mall west of Cherry Avenue. Screenings in the Queer Film Series take place

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UPCOMING ARIZONA UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL The Screening Room. 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Narrative, horror, documentary, experimental, animation and exploitation films are featured in a nationally known underground cult-film festival that opens Friday, Sept. 21, and continues through Saturday, Sept. 29; $7 per screening. Call 561-7621, or visit azuff.com for more information. CANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T STOP THE SERENITY AND DR. HORRIBLEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SING-ALONG-BLOG Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Stop the Serenity and Dr. Horribleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sing-Along-

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SEED LIBRARY AT SANTA CRUZ FARMERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; MARKET Santa Cruz River Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market. 100 S. Avenida del Convento. 882-3304. The Pima County Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seed Library is available at the Santa Cruz Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market from 4 to 6 p.m., the second Thursday of every month; free. Call 791-4010 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. TUCSON ORGANIC GARDENERS St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Presbyterian Church. 3809 E. Third St. 3251001. Members and prospective members of Tucson Organic Gardeners meet at 7 p.m., the third Tuesday of every month. Free literature, refreshments and a minimarket are available. Call 670-9158, or visit tucsonorganicgardeners.org for more information.

UPCOMING GREEN BAG LUNCH Native Seeds/SEARCH Retail Store. 3061 N. Campbell Ave. 622-5561. A dutch-treat lunch-and-learn gathering takes place from noon to 1 p.m., the last Tuesday of every month; free. A different speaker is featured each month. Visit nativeseeds.org for more information. HARVEST FESTIVAL Native Seeds/SEARCH Conservation Farm. 42 San Antonio Road. Patagonia. A bean stomp, dance party and potluck takes place from 3 to 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; free. Visit nativeseeds.org for more info.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CLASSES AT TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. The gardens frequently offer classes on a wide range of gardening and related topics, including photography, painting and fauna that frequent Tucson gardens; $10 to $35, or free with admission; $8, $4 child age 4 through 12, $7 student, senior and military. After Sunday, Sept. 30, admission is $13, $7.50 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. COMMUNITY GARDEN Volunteers are sought to help grow vegetables and herbs for EONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. THE GREAT XERISCAPE Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. A presentation and tour exploring how to use native and arid-adapted plants in water-saving landscapes take place at 10 a.m., the third Saturday of every month; $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.

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 for more information. TOURS OF THE TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exploring Tucson Botanical Gardensâ&#x20AC;? is offered at 10 a.m., every Friday. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Birds and Gardening Tourâ&#x20AC;? is given at 10 a.m., the first and fourth Wednesday of every month. A â&#x20AC;&#x153;Historical Tour of the Gardensâ&#x20AC;? is given at 10 a.m., and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Butterfly Walkâ&#x20AC;? 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.

HEALTH EVENTS THIS WEEK TMC SENIOR SERVICES TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. Classes and events are free, but advance registration is required; call 324-4345 to register. Monday, Sept. 17, from 2 to 3:30 p.m.: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Necessary Conversations: How to Ensure Your Wishes Are Followed at the Time of Death.â&#x20AC;? Wednesday, Sept. 19, from 10 a.m. to noon: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elder Law: Advance Directivesâ&#x20AC;?; and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.: Dementia With Dignity, an Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film.

UPCOMING RED ROAD TO SOBRIETY San Xavier Recreation Center. 8549 S. J. Mayor Drive. 807-1115. A workshop to help people return balance to their lives through traditional teachings of Tohono Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;odham ancestors takes place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; free. Healthy Native American food is provided. Free raffle prizes, a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corner, a health-and-wellness fair and a fun run/walk begin at 8:30 a.m. Call 327-9863 for more information. TMC SENIOR SERVICES TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. Classes and events are free, but advance registration is required; call 324-4345 to register. Thursday, Sept. 20, from 9 to 10 a.m.: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stress, Depression and Anxietyâ&#x20AC;?; and from 1 to 2 p.m.: â&#x20AC;&#x153;New to Memory Loss Information Session.â&#x20AC;? Monday, Sept. 24, from 2 to 3:30 p.m.: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brain Fitness.â&#x20AC;? Tuesday, Sept. 25, from 9 to 10:30 a.m.: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prostate Health: What All Men Need to Know.â&#x20AC;? Wednesday, Sept. 26, from 9 to 11 a.m.: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Healthy Legs, Healthy Lifeâ&#x20AC;?; and from 1 to 3 p.m.: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fit at 50 and Beyond.â&#x20AC;?

ANNOUNCEMENTS CURVES LAUGHTER YOGHA CLUB Curves. 2816 N. Campbell Ave. 326-1251. Men, women and children laugh for well-being from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., every Sunday; freewill donation. Call Gita at 777-7544, or visit laughteryogawithgita.com for more information.

FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Any family caregiver who needs a safe place to share highs and lows, learn about resources, ask questions and develop coping skills is invited to drop in for this facilitated group from 10 to 11:30 a.m., the first and third Wednesday of every month; free. Participants may attend as often or as seldom as they like. Call 790-0504 or 891-3299 for more information. FREE HEALTH SCREENINGS Radiant Research. 7840 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 140. 885-6793. Free screenings for cholesterol, blood sugar, gout and BMI are offered from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m., every Wednesday. Call to schedule a screening. GAY/LESBIAN AA MEETINGS Water of Life MCC. 3269 N. Mountain Ave. 292-9151. Groups for both men and women are Pink Triangle, which meets at noon, every day; Odds and Ends Group, which meets at 7 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; and Wednesday Night Candlelight, which meets at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday. A women-only Pink Triangle group meets at 7 p.m., every Friday. Visit aatucson.org for more information. HIV TESTING The Centers for Disease Control recommend HIV testing for all people ages 13 through 64. Visit napwa.org for more information on AIDS testing and its benefits. Testing hours at SAAF, 375 S. Euclid Ave., are from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., every Monday and Wednesday; and 1 to 8 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. Walk-in testing is also available at COPE, 101 S. Stone Ave., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. All testing is confidential; results are available in about 15 minutes; and counseling is available. Call for an appointment and more information. MEDITATION FOR HEALTH ENHANCEMENT TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. A class on meditation for health takes place from 11 a.m. to noon, the second Thursday of every month; free. Pre-registration is required. Call 324-4345 to register or for more information. PCAP: AFFORDABLE MEDICAL SOLUTIONS FOR PIMA COUNTY RESIDENTS A representative from the Pima Community Access Program, a service that links uninsured Pima County residents with an affordable and comprehensive network of health-care providers, is available by appointment to enroll members of the community and give a free assessment. Call 309-2931, or email susa@mypcap.org for information or an appointment.

KIDS & FAMILIES EVENTS THIS WEEK ALL TOGETHER THEATRE Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Mother Goose Unplucked!, a musical play exploring what might happen if Mother Goose went missing, continues through Sunday, Nov. 4. Showtime is 1 p.m., every Sunday; $5 to $8. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for reservations and more info. ARIZONA INSECT FESTIVAL UA Student Union Grand Ballroom. 1303 E. University Blvd. Learn about the importance of insects in our daily lives through theme-based activities and interactive exhibits from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; free. Visit cals.arizona.edu/ento/festival for more info.

BEADS OF COURAGE BEADS IN SPACE UA Medical Center Diamond Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. An exhibit of artist-decorated glass beads that traveled on NASAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Atlantis space shuttle in 2010, and the space shuttleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Endeavor mission in 2011, is open to the public from 4 to 6 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14; free. The beadsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; space trips promoted awareness of childhood cancer through Beads of Courage, an organization that supports children with cancer by providing opportunities to express themselves through art. Call 344-7668 for more information. MOCA NEXT LOUNGE MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. High school students with valid ID can hang out, draw, watch art videos or get help with homework from artists and mentors with a wide range of expertise, from 2 to 5 p.m., on selected Wednesdays; free. Fall dates are Sept. 19 and 26; Oct. 10, 17 and 24; and Nov. 7, 14 and 28. SONORAN DESERT KIDS CLUB Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. Kids ages 8 through 12 learn about prickly pear cactus, harvest the fruit and make prickly pear juice, from 9:30 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Sept. 15. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for reservations and more info. SUMMER LIVE BIRD DEMONSTRATIONS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. As part of the summer exhibit Flights of Fancy: Birds at Home in the Garden, a black vulture and an American kestrel visit the Porter Hall Gallery from 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information about the exhibit and the many bird-related classes and activity taking place. SUPER SMASH BROS 64 Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Ages 14 and older compete for $75 in store credit at 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; free. Registration starts at 2 p.m.; the earliest registrants will play. 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. TITAN PLAYERS OF PALO VERDE HIGH SCHOOL Palo Verde High School. 1302 S. Avenida Vega. 5847400. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged is staged at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 13; $5. Proceeds help underwrite a spring trip to New York for the drama students. Call 584-7596, or email Nikisha. McFall@TUCS1.org for more info. 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. 15; free. Families also can call to arrange an appointment. Visit tucsongirlschorus.org for more information. TUCSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELING EXHIBIT Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. An exhibit of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds 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.

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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.

THE ARIZONA YOUTH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Rincon/University High School. 421 N. Arcadia Ave. 232-5600. The ensemble stages Thoroughly Modern Millie Jr. at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; and 2 and 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $10, $8 student. Call 319-0400, or visit arts-express.org for tickets and more information. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. The Iron Giant, the story of a 9-year-old boy who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot, is screened at 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $4 and $5, free child age 12 or younger. Proceeds benefit Kids Need to Read. LOVE OF LITERACY WEEKEND Children’s Museum Tucson. 200 S. Sixth Ave. 7929985. Readings from local children’s authors including Byrd Baylor, interaction with storybook characters, hands-on activities and more take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22 and 23; free, including admission to the museum. Stories That Soar performs at 11:30 a.m. each day, and several community organizations participate with exhibits. Visit childrensmuseumtucson.org for more information. THE NIGHT BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY Joni Riminstein signs and sells copies of her Night Before My Birthday Book from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, in the Kid’s Center, 1725 N. Swan Road (878-9222); free. PUPPET MUZIK Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Traveling puppet theater Puppet Muzik takes part in Bookmans’ month-long salute to freedom of expression, at 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; free. ROCKET LAUNCH Tucson International Modelplex Association Complex. 3250 N. Reservation Road. Spectators watch and learn about model rocketry from 8 a.m. to noon, Sunday, Sept. 23; $5 launch, free spectator and younger than 18. Rental rockets with motors are available for $2 per launch. The club has a waiver for rockets to fly up to 4,500 feet. Visit sararocketry.org for more information. SOCCER SHOOT James D. Kreigh Park. 23 W. Calle Concordia. Oro Valley. Free hot dogs, chips and soda are provided for the whole family at a soccer shootout for kids age 11 and younger, from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; free. Call 631-7414 for more information. STOMP OUT LOUD: A BEHIND-THE-SCENES EXPERIENCE TCC Music Hall. 260 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. A daylong package for youth, Behind the Scenes: STOMP, includes a theater workshop, lunch, a behind-the-scenes look at the Broadway in Tucson production of STOMP, and admission to the 2 p.m. performance; $65. Parents and siblings of workshop participants attend the performance for $25. Register online at arts-express.org, or call 319-0400 for more information. UA POETRY CENTER FAMILY DAYS UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. An open house for kids and families takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, Oct. 13, Nov. 17 and Dec. 1; free. Poetry Joeys workshops for children ages 4 through 10 take place from 10 to 11 a.m., and the center’s poetry collection is open to youth for writing projects. Other activities include yoga, multilingual story time, and Book Club 11+, which features a different title each Family Day. Visit poetry.arizona.edu for each day’s schedule.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CRAFT-APALOOZA Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Kids enjoy crafts from 1 to 2 p.m., every first and third Saturday; adult crafts are featured from 1 to 2 p.m., every second and fourth Saturday; free. Supplies are provided. Visit bookmans.com for each week’s featured craft. 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

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OUTDOORS OUT OF TOWN ORACLE STATE PARK REOPENS Oracle State Park. 3820 Wildlife Drive. Oracle. 8962425. Oracle State Park offers an array of programs, lectures, workshops and special events on Saturdays, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., through Nov. 24; $7 per vehicle. Saturday activities include bird walks, plant walks, guided hikes and tours of the historic Kannally ranch house. Workshops teach basket-making with native grass, paper-making with local plants and nature-journal making. Most activities are fee with park admission. The park is open Wednesday through Friday to school groups with reservations. Visit friendsosp.org for a schedule of activities and workshops.

SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK BETH MOORE SIMULCAST El Camino Baptist Church. 7777 E. Speedway Blvd. 886-7770. Bible teacher Beth Moore is featured in a simulcast from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; $20 includes lunch and a beverage. RSVP for attendance and reservations for child care are requested. Call or visit elcaminochurch.org to register and for more information. BRUNO GROENING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS University of Arizona Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. The community meets to discuss teachings of Bruno Groening from 3 to 4:30 p.m., selected Saturdays, in Room E of the cafeteria; freewill donation. Dates are Sept. 15, Oct. 6 and 27, Nov. 17, Dec. 8 and 29. Call 904-4801, or visit www.bruno-groening.org/ english for more information.

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UA FOOTBALL UA Stadium. University of Arizona. Home games are at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, unless otherwise noted. 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.

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INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM Quaker Meeting House. 931 N. Fifth Ave. A reading and discussion group for anyone interested in Buddhism meets from 6 to 7:30 p.m., every other Tuesday, from Sept. 18 through Nov. 13; $45 includes five sessions and the accompanying text. Scholarships are available. Call 696-9273, or email nbtucson@gmail.com for reservations or more information.

SOUTHERN ARIZONA HORSE EXPO Tucson Equestrian Center. 8405 N. Via Socorro. 3493455. Horse enthusiasts observe and are entertained by expert clinicians from 9 a.m to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 15 and 16; $15, $10 advance from local feed stores. Event highlights are seven-time worldchampion mounted shooter Gary Bennett, the Arizona Mini Mystics Horse Drill Team, Jamie Drizin, Trey Young and Van Hargis.

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EDWENE GAINES: SPIRITUAL LAWS OF PROSPERITY Donald R. Nickerson Performing Arts Center. 3231 N. Craycroft Road. 327-6395. Motivational speaker and author Edwene Gaines presents a workshop based on her book The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity: A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance, from 2 to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 16; freewill donation. Call 3191042 for more information.

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EVENTS THIS WEEK UPCOMING EL TOUR ADVENTURE St. Gregory College Preparatory School. 3231 N. Craycroft Road. 327-6395. St. Gregory School hosts a 10k and a 5k run along the Rillito River Trail through the Tucson Mountain Preserve, starting at 6:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; $25 to $35. Each finisher receives a Ben’s Bells medallion. Proceeds benefit Ben’s Bells and My Team Triumph. Visit perimeterbicycling.com for details and to register. HORSE SHOW Pima County Fairgrounds. 11500 S. Houghton Road. 762-3247. The Southern Arizona Arabian Horse Association presents the Silver Buckle Duel, which includes competitive and working events, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Sept. 14 through 16;

CATALINA STATE PARK TRAIL RACE Catalina State Park. Oracle Road, 5 miles north of Ina Road. 628-5798. A 5.2-mile and a 10.3-mile course featuring spectacular mountain views begin at 6:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, and finish with breakfast, smoothies, a post-race massage, photos and finisher tech shirts, all included in the registration fee; $40. Call 797-7867, or visit everyoneruns.net to register and for more information. UA WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL UA McKale Memorial Center. 1721 E. Enke Drive. Tickets are $7 to $12. Visit arizonawildcats.com for more information. Saturday, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m.: Washington. Friday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m., Stanford. Sunday, Sept. 30, at 11:30 a.m.: California.

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BLUEGRASS GUITAR WORKSHOP 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 7147. Jeff Sanders of the Desert Bluegrass Association leads a guitar workshop for beginner and intermediate guitarists, from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; free.

DANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK ECSTATIC DANCE TUCSON Rhythm Industry Performance Factory. 1013 S. Tyndall Ave. 481-8003. Participants express themselves with dance, and have fun in an alcohol-, drug- and judgment-free environment, at 7:30 p.m., the third Saturday of every month; $7 suggested donation, free child. Call 229-6247 for more information. MEDITERRANEAN NIGHTS WITH AMAYA Amaya performs a concert incorporating the dance traditions of the Romani people in India, Egypt and Spain at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15, at Leo Rich Theater, 260 S. Church Ave.; $16. Call 881-0883, or email Kathryn.ferguson1@gmail.com for reservations or more information. For information about Amaya, visit wisewomandancer.com.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 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.

MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK 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. Friday, Sept. 14: Alejandro Fernandez; $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, Average White Band; $25 to $40. Saturday, Sept. 29: Marco Antonio Solis; $50 to $150.

DESERT VOICES OPEN HOUSE AND REHEARSALS Water of Life MCC. 3269 N. Mountain Ave. 292-9151. New, inquiring and returning singers gather for socializing, a presentation about Desert Voices, and an opportunity to sing at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 17; free. Call 7919662, or visit desertvoices.org for more information. KIRK-BEAR CANYON BRANCH LIBRARY Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. Lisa Otey and Diane Van Duerzen perform hot jazz, blues and cabaret-style music from 3 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; free. 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. 15: Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements. Sept. 22: Wyatt Easterling. Sept. 29: Chuck Pyle. MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFÉ Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café. 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. Gabriel Ayala performs at 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15. Visit montereycourtaz.com. RHYTHM AND ROOTS CONCERT SERIES Plaza Palomino. 2960 N. Swan Road. 320-6344. All shows are at 8 p.m. 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, singer-songwriter; $25, $22 advance. Call (800) 594-8499, or visit rhythmandroots.org for tickets. Call 319-9966 for more information. TUCSON MUSIC THEATRE Casas Adobes Congregational Church. 6801 N. Oracle Road. 297-1181. A Broadway Revue featuring highlights from West Side Story, Cabaret and Gypsy opens Friday, Sept. 14, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 7. Showtimes are at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $8. Call 461-6520, or visit tucsonmusictheatre.com for more information.

TUCSON POPS ORCHESTRA: MUSIC UNDER THE STARS DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. 1100 S. Randolph Way. The Tucson Pops Orchestra presents free concerts at 7 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 16 and 23. Call 7225853, or visit tucsonpops.org for more information.

FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for reservations and a complete schedule. Friday, Sept. 21, at 7:30 p.m.: Try a Little Tenderness: A Salute to Otis Redding and Stax Records; $20 to $35.

UA MUSIC UA Crowder Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 621-1162. The Arizona Symphony Orchestra presents a program including works by Walton, Fauré and Beethoven, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; $5. Trombonist Moisés Paiewonsky presents a faculty recital, Imágenes, accompanied by musicians playing several other instruments, at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 17; $5. Visit music.arizona.edu, or call 621-1162 for reservations.

FULLSET Berger Performing Arts Center. 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. 770-3762. Irish band FullSet, featuring Michael Harrison playing uilleann pipes, performs at 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, with guests the Tir Conaill Irish Dancers; $23, $21 senior or student, $3 less for advance registration. Call (800) 595-4849, or visit inconcerttucson.com for tickets and more information.

OUT OF TOWN ORO VALLEY CONCERT SERIES Oro Valley Marketplace. Oracle and Tangerine roads. Oro Valley. Concerts take place at 6 p.m., Thursday; free. Visit saaca.org for more information. Sept. 13: Gabriel Ayala, classical and smooth jazz guitar.

UPCOMING THE ARIZONA EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY Unless otherwise noted, concerts take place at 3 p.m., Sunday, at St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave. Tickets are $25, $22 senior, $5 student. Sept. 23: Corde á Vide, baroque violin and harpsichord. Oct. 21: Agave Baroque, baroque violin and guitar with gamba and harpsichord, at Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2331 E. Adams St. Nov. 4: Les Sirènes, two sopranos with baroque cello and harpsichord. Visit azearlymusic.org for more information. CONCERT TO STOP SUNZIA Robertson Horse Arena. 714 Madison St. Benson. 5869230. Live music by Way Out West and Ice 9, and readings by cowboy poets are featured at a benefit concert to help prevent SunZia’s proposed construction of transmission lines through the San Pedro River Valley, from 6:30 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $10. Call (520) 323-0286, or visit cascabelworkinggroup.org.

MANÁ TCC Arena. 260 S. Church Ave. Grammy-winning Latin-rock band Maná brings its Drama y Luz Tour to Tucson at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20; $55 to $142 includes fees. Visit livenation.com for tickets. MONTEREY COURT JAZZ FESTIVAL Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café. 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. Eleven local and regional acts, including Odeen Mays of Kool and the Gang with the Pete Swan Trio, perform at a jazz festival from 5 to 10:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; from noon to 10:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 23; $12 each day, $27 three-day pass. Visit montereycourtaz.com for the line-up. OKTOBERFEST CELEBRATION Café Passé. 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. Cafe Passé transforms into a Biergarten with Oktoberfest traditions, German menu items and live music from Saturday, Sept. 22, through Sunday, Sept. 30; free admission, no-host food and beverages. In the German tradition, Mayor Jonathan Rothschild will tap the first keg at noon, Saturday, Sept. 22. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. that evening, the Bouncing Czechs perform. The Awkward Moments perform from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 23 and 30. Alt Deutsche Band plays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29. Oktoberfest menu items include a sausage salad, Weisswurst with pretzels and zwiebelkuchen and sweet onion pie. PAMELA DECKER ORGAN RECITAL Holsclaw Hall. UA School of Music, 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1162. The Roy A. Johnson Memorial Organ

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Successful Shows BY SHERILYN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com otherhood is common to women, but the specific experiences involved in being a mother—or mother figure— are as varied as moms and their offspring. Yet there are universal aspects of motherhood, and that’s why we can appreciate the cavalcade of mothers currently parading their stories onstage at the Invisible Theatre. Motherhood Out Loud is a fairly new piece, developed over the last five years under the guidance of Susan R. Rose and the late Joan Stein. It doesn’t tell a story conventionally, with characters we get to know as they are engaged in conflict and resolution. Rather, it’s a series of brief vignettes, all addressing various facets of being a mom: the mystery (and pain) of childbirth; sending a little one off to school; the difficult role of stepmom—and so on. A total of 14 writers contributed the various monologues and scenes, all of whom are known for other literary efforts, but were solicited by Rose and Stern to weigh in with their stage-worthy personal observations about parenthood. This may have offered Rose and Stein a few challenges, but the consequence is a delightful little piece, strung together well and given a successful reading by IT. Lori Hunt, David Alexander Johnston, Susan Kovitz and Barbea Williams are given the task of portraying dozens of characters, each distinct and well-defined, and they do a good job. This sort of setup requires the actors to create an instant personification, establishing place and circumstances with little more than a slice of sound, a costume piece or a prop. It also offers numerous challenges for the designers, who must create an environment that can be quickly transformed from kitchen to park to bedroom to bar, and for the director—in this case, Susan Claassen—who must ensure that each vignette makes its point and flows seamlessly into another, offering the audience a sense of story and creating a whole from the sum of its parts. The success of IT’s teamwork results in an entertaining, light-hearted experience, with just enough thoughtful content to give the piece a bit of heft and to give our hearts a tug. Kovitz evokes our sympathies as she struggles to figure out if she should let her 7-yearold son dress in the princess clothing he has always favored. We appreciate Hunt as she supervises her child at the park, enjoying a smoke and confiding that, although she loves her kid, she wishes they had met under different circumstances. Williams is hysterical as a Muslim woman trying to explain to her daughter, who has just started her first period, why

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she can’t cook during Ramadan. And Johnston shines as he relates his experiences as a gay father and, later, how he must become the caretaker for his aging mother. IT opens its season with a short play that covers a lot of ground, with well-composed monologues delivered by a capable cast. It sweetly reminds us that we are each some mother’s child.

he Rogue Theatre has chosen to open its season in a grand way with an elaborate production of Mary Zimmerman’s telling of the Chinese epic Journey to the West. In subject, scale and style, the production is a huge undertaking, and director Cynthia Meier has shepherded it with an eloquent vision and numerous imaginative flourishes. Part fable, part parable, part legend, the play is based on stories well-known in eastern Asia, but largely undiscovered in our culture. It’s full of the fantastic, rich with myth and dense with moral and spiritual lessons. Chiefly, it’s the story of Tripitaka (Christopher Johnson), a monk who undertakes a journey of many years to find sacred Buddhist scriptures, which he carries back to the emperor. He is assisted by an assortment of strange but lovable characters: Pig (Matt Bowdren), Sha Monk (Ryan Parker) and Monkey King (Patty Gallagher). It is, in essence, a representation of the archetypal

journey to discover spiritual truths and how they can abide in us. This is an epic story and an epic production, and the Rogue does itself proud. The large company of actors, most of whom are called on to play numerous characters, perform admirably. It’s also a visual delight, with outstanding costumes (designed by Meier) and a simple but versatile set. The musical direction by Paul Amiel, who performs with Julie Wypych, provides a rich texture to the storytelling. The production is undeniably an accomplishment. However, it also confirms the notion that there can indeed be too much of a good thing: It’s just too long. The first part of the script provides engaging fun with the Monkey King (wonderfully wrought by the acrobatic Gallagher) and his search for immortality, and it does help set up what is the core of the piece. But we don’t need quite so much of it. It takes a long time for the story to develop, and although it’s fun to watch, it winds up impeding the dramatic momentum and diluting the ultimate impact. We are left to search too long for the heart of the tale, which distances our hearts from an emotional investment. Still, Journey to the West provides a rich theatrical experience, and it leads to what must be one of the most unusual climaxes in theater history: a long moment of silence, in which actors, musicians and audience sit quietly in response to a lesson learned from the play’s

Motherhood Out Loud Presented by the Invisible Theatre 7:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m., Sunday, through Sunday, Sept. 23 1400 N. First Ave. $28 Runs 90 minutes, with no intermission 882-9721; www.invisibletheatre.com

Journey to the West Presented by the Rogue Theatre 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; 2 p.m., Sunday, through Sunday, Sept. 23, with an additional performance at 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22 The Rogue Theatre 300 E. University Blvd. $20 Thursday; $30 Friday through Sunday; $15 student rush 15 minutes before curtain Runs three hours, including pre-show music and one intermission 551-2053; www.theroguetheatre.org

embrace of the Buddhist scriptures: The divine resides, we are told, in emptiness, formlessness and silence. Perhaps a bit of the divine might also be present in the form, fullness and faith demonstrated in a solid play-making effort. SEPTEMBER 13 – 19, 2012

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Gabler vs. Gabler BY LAURA C.J. OWEN, lowen@tucsonweekly.com t’s a double-Hedda! Two Heddas are running in repertory at Beowulf Alley Theatre as the first offerings of the season: Henrik Ibsen’s classic Hedda Gabler, and Jeff Whitty’s The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, a contemporary riff on the iconic character. The conjunction of the two shows is a clever idea, and while the execution is far from perfect, it’s a shame that audiences won’t have more time to experience them. Because of unexpected renovations, Beowulf had to delay the start of its fall season and shorten the planned run. Therefore, the two Heddas opened last week and will conclude this weekend. The productions are being staged on alternate nights, so you could see the somber Hedda Gabler and give the strange, witty romp The Further Adventures a pass, or vice versa. But you’d be missing out. Let’s start with the classic. Ibsen’s play (first published in 1890) revolves around the complex title character, played here by Bree BoydMartin. A Beowulf regular, Boyd-Martin has a pale beauty that’s appropriate to the role. Her Hedda is restrained, vibrating with a certain frightening quietness. In her heyday, the character was the Hedda Gabler, famed for her beauty and brains. Now she’s Hedda Tessman. No longer in the blush of youth, she has deigned to marry the underwhelming scholar George Tessman (Nicholas Salyer). Suffering under the constraints of her comfortable but confined life, Hedda has unresolved feelings for a former paramour—the drunken, brilliant Eilert Loveborg (Evan Engle). We watch her brutally manipulate Loveborg as well as his lover, Thea (Lily Delamere). Director Michael Fenlason has moved the play from 19th-century Norway to 1960s America. The set is a simple but attractive midcentury interior painted a period-appropriate sea-foam blue. (In fact, it’s the mostambitious set I’ve seen at Beowulf—a pity it has to go down so quickly.) The switch to the ’60s works well. Middleclass women were still under pressure to perform as housewives, limiting their own career ambitions in favor of assisting the men they married. However, it was also a time of sweeping social change, and the time period makes Hedda’s unpleasant actions more ambiguous. She’s certainly trapped by her own restless, cruel nature, but she’s also trapped by her circumstances. As he did last season with Shakespeare’s King Lear, Fenlason has significantly cut the

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Bree Boyd-Martin and China Young in The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler. script of Hedda Gabler, and updated all of the references. I admire his willingness to adapt and shorten classic plays, but, as with that Lear, there’s something about this Hedda that drags. The blocking, for instance, feels limited. In several scenes, when there are important beat changes (significant shifts in the character’s intentions), the actors blithely sit through them, barely moving a muscle. The production has a feeling of being underrehearsed—it is well-cast, and there was clearly thought behind the production’s concept. But the actors don’t feel quite sure of themselves; they are not confident enough to take risks. As with the character of Hedda herself, one senses powerful, untapped potential lurking beneath the surface.

s for The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, you could enjoy this show without having ever seen a production of Ibsen—but it helps. The Further Adventures, first staged in 2006, picks up right after the last scene of Hedda Gabler. Our tragic heroine (played here by China Young) finds herself in a sort-of famousfictional-character afterlife. To her dismay, her boring husband, Tessman, is still around (now played by Matt Brown). Fortunately, so are many other iconic characters—from other plays. Medea (Rebecca Sweet), the title character who kills her children in the Greek tragedy by

Euripides, shows Hedda the ropes of long-lasting fame. Only fictional characters who are remembered survive, Medea teaches her. To pass out of collective memory is to die, permanently. Hedda is less than pleased at her new pseudo-immortality, to say the least. Playwright Whitty is best-known for writing the book for the popular puppet musical Avenue Q, and this play shares Avenue Q’s irreverent sensibility and dark humor. Much of Adventures’ broad, farcical comedy is fun for everyone, but it has its limitations: Its success depends partly on the audience’s knowledge of theater and literature. It’s to your advantage to have more than a passing acquaintance with Hedda Gabler, Greek tragedy and Gone With the Wind, as well as the characters from Mart Crowley’s play (and movie) The Boys in the Band. Seeing Adventures the night after seeing Hedda Gabler means the source material is fresh in your mind—the “new adventures” even happen on the same set as the previous play. Director Nicole Scott takes advantage of the meta nature of the script, sending the actors into the audience and up and down the aisles. Still, the production is too long, reaching what feels like a natural stopping point several times before finishing. The lighting is uneven—at times too bright, and at others too dim. There’s one really striking moment, though: When the cast of Hedda Gabler appears to the

Hedda Gabler and The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler Presented in repertory by Beowulf Alley Theatre Company Hedda Gabler: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14; 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 16 Runs one hour and 50 minutes, with one intermission The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler: 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 13, and Saturday, Sept. 15 Runs two hours and 10 minutes, with one intermission 11 S. Sixth Ave. $20 regular; $18 seniors; $8 students and military 882-0555; www.beowulfalley.org

Adventures cast—and one Hedda watches the other perform. Because Adventures is largely concerned with storytelling (Why are stories important? How do fictional characters retain their relevance when the “real world” changes?), this meta-moment is all the more poignant if you’ve just seen Hedda’s story enacted the night before. You leave the theater thinking about storytelling and plays, and why they still matter in our lives, even if, at times, the medium of theater seems outdated. Taken separately, the two productions are enjoyable but flawed; taken together, they leave you reflective and engaged.

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series features UA faculty artist Pamela Decker at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; $5. Call 621-1162, or visit tickets.arizona.edu for tickets and more information. UA MUSIC UA Crowder Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 621-1162. Visit music.arizona.edu, or call 621-1162 for reservations or more information. Sunday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m.: graduate choral conductors’ recital with the Honor Choir, Kantorei, Recital Choir and University Singers; free. Thursday, Sept. 27: Dance Music for Winds, the UA Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony and a preconcert talk by the conductors; $5.

THEATER OPENING THIS WEEK ADAM CAROLLA LIVE Rialto Theatre. 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000. The former host of Loveline and The Man Show performs at 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14; $39.50. Visit rialtotheatre.com for tickets and more information. ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. A Southwest premiere of the musical Next to Normal, about a suburban family in crisis, opens Saturday, Sept. 15, and continues through Saturday, Oct. 6; $36.50 through $78.50, including fees. Showtimes vary. Call or visit arizonatheatre.org for tickets or more information. FESTIVAL REPERTORY THEATRE Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Veronica’s Room, a murder mystery by Ira Levin, opens Friday, Sept. 14, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $15 senior. Call 529-3829 for reservations and more information. GASLIGHT THEATRE FAMILY CONCERTS The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Showtime is at 7 p.m., Monday; $12 to $22. Sept. 17: It’s Magic featuring Craig Davis and Myryka with Norm Marini. Call or visit thegaslighttheatre.com for tickets and more information. JEFF DUNHAM AVA: Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheater. Casino del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. Comedy Central star Jeff Dunham performs at 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; $40 to $85. Call or visit solcasinos.com. SOMOS Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Six personal stories from the Latin@LGTBQ Community, family and allies, are spoken at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 19; freewill donation. Presenters are Jana Segal, Steve Barancik, Bryan Lee, Brian Taraz, Sara P. Smith and Austin Counts. Salvador Duran performs before and after the stories. The event is in partnership with Wingspan’s Puertas Abiertos and Odyssey Storytelling.

CONTINUING ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE UA Tornabene Theatre. 1303 E. University Blvd. 621-1162. How I Learned to Drive continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., weeknights and Saturday; and 1:30 p.m., Sunday; dates vary; $20 to $31. Call 621-1162, or visit arizona.tix.com for tickets; see cfa.arizona.edu for more information. GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. The ensemble’s goofy take on The Phantom of the Opera 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. INVISIBLE THEATRE Invisible Theatre. 1400 N. First Ave. 882-9721. Motherhood Out Loud, a portrayal written by a collaboration of several American writers, continues through Sunday, Sept. 23. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $28. Call or visit invisibletheatre.com for tickets and more information. Rush tickets are available at half-price, one half-hour before each performance. 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. THE ROGUE THEATRE The Rogue Theatre. 300 E. University Blvd. 5512053. Journey to the West continues through Sunday, Sept. 23. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; 2 p.m., Sunday; and 2 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $30, $20 on Thursdays. Visit theroguetheatre.org for tickets and more information.

LAST CHANCE BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and Jeff Whitty’s The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler are staged through Sunday, Sept. 16. Further Adventures is performed on Thursday, Sept. 13; and closes Saturday, Sept. 15. Hedda Gabler is performed on Friday, Sept. 14; and closes Sunday, Sept. 16. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m., Sunday; $8 to $20. Call or visit beowulfalley.org for tickets. COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. A.A. Milne’s The Truth About Blayds closes 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 info.

UPCOMING BROADWAY IN TUSON Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Stomp is staged at 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; and at 2 and 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; tickets start at $29. Visit broadwayintucson.com for tickets and more info. COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. The Mystery Genius of Jacques Futrelle’s Thinking Machine opens Saturday, Sept. 22, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $12, $10 senior or student, unless otherwise noted. Call or visit thecomedyplayhouse.com for tickets or more information. SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK Himmel Park. 1000 N. Tucson Blvd. 791-3276. The El Rio Theatre Project presents The Taming of the Shrew at 7 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Sept. 21 through 23; and Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 27 through Oct. 7; free. Call 837-8032 for more information. UAPRESENTS UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. Call 621-3341, or visit uapresents.org for tickets and more information. Friday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m.: Jerry Seinfeld; $50 to $80. Friday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m.: The Daily Show Live: “Indecision Tour 2012,” on the patio; $15 to $40. Sunday, Oct. 21, at 3 p.m.: Shaolin Warriors; $15 to $42. Saturday, Nov. 17, at 8 p.m.: Mummenschanz, on the patio; $15 to $45. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 7:30 p.m.: David Sedaris; $15 to $45. WAYPOINT THEATRE COMPANY Academy Hall. Atria Bell Court Garden. 6653 E. Carondelet Drive. Lilies of the Field opens Thursday, Sept. 20, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. Showtimes are 7 p.m., Thursday; 7:30 p.m., Friday; and 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $9 to $23. Thursday, Sept. 27, is a benefit performance for Habitat for Humanity with a pre-show reception and a talk-back session after the show; $30. Visit waypointtheatre.org. WINDING ROAD THEATRE ENSEMBLE Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. Speech and Debate, about teenage misfits linked by a sex scandal, previews on Thursday, Sept. 20, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 7. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $20, $15 preview, $17 student, military, senior or theater artist. Call 401-3626, or visit windingroadtheatre.org for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR ACTORS Hotel Congress. 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. Auditions for Who Killed Santa Claus? take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15. Performances are at 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 11. Rehearsals are 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Monday through Wednesday, beginning Monday, Oct. 1. Paid parts are available for three men and two women; most require singing; all require experience in adult improv. Call (310) 367-5640 for more info. Do not call the hotel.

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OPENING THIS WEEK CONRAD WILDE GALLERY Conrad Wilde Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., Suite 195. 622-8997. Strange Botany, including works by Barbara Rogers, John Randall Nelson and Mary Meyer, opens Saturday, Sept. 15, and continues through Saturday, Oct. 27. A reception takes place from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 20. Hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; free. Visit conradwildegallery.com for more information. IRONWOOD GALLERY Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. Fiesta Sonora, a group exhibit of paintings reflecting the varied aspects of the Sonoran Desert, opens with an artists’ reception from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 28; free with admission. The exhibit is in partnership with the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; $14.50 ages 13 and older; $4.50 children 6 to 12; and free ages 5 and younger. Call or visit www.desertmuseum.org for more info. TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Bellos Adornos, a photographic exhibit celebrating decorative traditions in Mexican-American homes and gardens throughout Tucson, opens Tuesday, Sept. 18, and continues through Tuesday, Nov. 6, in the Education Building. Flights of Fancy, a gardenwide display of decorated bird houses of all shapes and sizes, runs through Sunday, Sept. 30. Many of the bird houses are for sale and may be picked up at the end of the exhibit. Gardener by Day; Artist by Night, an exhibit of art works by staff, board members and family, runs 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 through 12, free member or younger child, $7 student, senior and military personnel 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. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.

CONTINUING AMITY FOUNDATION’S DRAGONFLY GALLERY Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Gallery. 146 E. Broadway Blvd. 628-3164. A Retrospective of the Art of Pedro Restrepo-Palez, featuring the historian and diplomat’s paintings, continues through Thursday, Nov. 8. The reception includes children’s art activities and music by Heather “Li’l Mama” Hardy and band. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Call 628-3164, ext. 210, for more information. 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 abstract photographic works by Tucsonan Pete Trexler, continues through Monday, Nov. 26. 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 AND GALLERY BICAS Art Annex. 44 W. Sixth St., No. 1D. (503) 2015011. Foundlings, a selection of art, jewelry and functional objects referencing bicycles or cycling culture, or created from re-purposed bicycle parts and materials,

continues through Saturday, Oct. 27. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; 6 to 9 p.m., the first Saturday of every month; and by appointment; free. For more information, email art@bicas.org. CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557. Deities, an exhibit of contemporary paintings and mixed-media works by Wallace Begay, continues through Saturday, Sept. 29. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Visit contrerashouseoffineart.com for more information. DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Desert Hues of Autumn, an exhibit of work by local artists, 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. 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, continues through Saturday, Sept. 29. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. ETHERTON GALLERY Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders, a collection of documentary photography, 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. 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, 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. 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, 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. KIRK-BEAR CANYON BRANCH LIBRARY Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. Abstract Mania: The Art of Mickey Eigen 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. 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 is held 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. Visit pima. edu/cfa for more information. MANY HANDS COURTYARD Many Hands Courtyard. 3054 N. First Ave. 419-7191. Inspired Visions continues through Saturday, Oct. 6. An artists’ reception takes place from 5 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15. Regular hours are from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Visit manyhandsartistcoop.com for more information. MURPHEY GALLERY Murphey Gallery. St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. An exhibit of work by artists who are parishioners of the church continues through Thursday, Oct. 4. Hours are 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; free.

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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. 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, 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. SANTA MUERTE MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL Sacred Machine. 245 E. Congress St., Suite 123. 7777403. A festival featuring 27 international artists and 18 musical performances continues through Wednesday, Nov. 7. Hours are 5 to 8 p.m., Wednesday through Friday; and 4 to 9 p.m., Saturday; free. Visit sacredmachine.com for a complete schedule. TEMPLE GALLERY Temple Gallery. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. Ann Simmons-Myers: Bikers 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. TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. 573-8100. 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. 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, 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. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. An exhibit of landscapes by Don Weber continues through Friday, Oct. 5. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday through Friday; and Tuesday by appointment. WOMANKRAFT WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Mosaics and Collage continues through Saturday, Oct. 27. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free.

LAST CHANCE 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 closes 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.

OUT OF TOWN RANCHO LINDA VISTA Rancho Linda Vista. 2436 W. Linda Vista Road. Oracle. Ain’t Saying, Ain’t Asking, an exhibit of paintings and cardboard work by Mykl Wells, opens with an artist’s reception at 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15, and continues through Wednesday, Oct. 10. Hours are from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, or by appointment; free. SUBWAY GALLERY Subway Gallery. 30 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-9143. Paintings and Drawings by Gene Elliston and Mike Jay continues through Friday, Oct. 12. Hours are 11 a.m. to

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TRIANGLE L RANCH Triangle L Ranch. 2805 Triangle L Ranch Road. Oracle. 623-6732. Big Desert Sculpture Show closes 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. WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION KIVA GALLERY Western National Parks Association Kiva Gallery. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Celebration of Ironwood Forest, featuring 15 photographs by Murray Bolesta, continues through Saturday, Sept. 29. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; free. Visit wnpa.org for more info. WYATT EARP HOUSE AND GALLERY Wyatt Earp House and Gallery. 102 E. Fremont St. Tombstone. (520) 457-3111. Art Inspirations, a multimedia exhibit of severals artists’ work inspired by Western photographs, continues through Monday, Oct. 29. An artists’ reception takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Monday; free.

UPCOMING DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY Davis Dominguez Gallery. 154 E. Sixth St. 629-9759. Take Five, a group landscape-painting exhibit, opens Friday, Sept. 21, and continues through Saturday, Nov. 3. An artists’ reception takes place from 6 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 6. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit davisdominguez.com for more information. TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. 5738100. Arizona Summer Skies, an exhibit of laser prints on aluminum by Lynn Rae Lowe, closes Saturday, Sept. 15, in the Upper Link Gallery. TIA galleries are open 24 hours, daily; free. Visit flytucsonairport.com for more information. SHERATON HOTEL AND SUITES Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 3236262. Fall/Winter Fine Art Exhibit, featuring works by members of the Southern Arizona Arts Guild, opens Sunday, Sept. 23, and continues through Sunday, April 7. A reception and artisans’ market takes place from 4 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 6. The exhibit is open 24 hours daily, on the first and second floors; free. TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER Tucson Jewish Community Center. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000, ext. 106. Sparks, an exhibit of watercolors by Mount Lemmon resident Jeanne Hartmann, opens with a reception from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 23, and continues through Wednesday, Oct. 17. Except for Jewish holidays, gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Thursday; and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday and Sunday; free. Visit tucsonjcc.org for a schedule of holidays.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BICAS UNDERGROUND ART WORKSHOPS BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. BICAS offers workshops to create useful objects and art projects from recycled materials, from 5 to 8 p.m., every Tuesday; freewill donation. Materials are provided, or you may bring your own. Call 201-5011, or search for “Bicas Underground Art” on Facebook for information about each week’s project. BRIDGE GALLERY Bridge Gallery. 5425 N. Kolb Road, No. 113. 5774537. Southwest contemporary art is featured. 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. CALL FOR ARTISTS The Tucson Pima Arts Council seeks grant requests for projects that engage people in creating, interacting and collaborating to achieve a healthy, just and vibrant civil society. Applications are due Friday, Sept. 21. Find more information information and download an application for the Place IV Grant Opportunity at tucsonpimaartscouncil.org. 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. Submissions received by Monday, Oct. 29, are showcased during the Tucson Fall Open Studio Tour, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 10 and 11. Work

received by Monday, Nov. 26, is included in 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. CALL FOR ARTISTS Tucson Arts Brigade seeks artists to produce work on 22-by-30-inch high-quality paper that will be provided. The finished 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 for more information. CALL FOR ARTISTS AND ARTISANS WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Applications to sell art and craft items in WomanKraft’s annual holiday bazaar are due Saturday, Oct. 20. The bazaar runs from Saturday, Nov. 3, through Saturday, Dec. 22. Items must sell for $1 to $100. Call 3433107 to apply and for more information. GALLERY ROW ARTWALK Fine art, live music and wine-tastings are featured at several art galleries at the corner of Skyline Drive and Campbell Avenue, from 5 to 7 p.m., every Thursday. Call 615-3001, or visit tucsongalleryrow.com for more information. OPEN STUDIO ART CLASSES WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Anyone can make crafts for free from 1 to 4 p.m., every second Friday and Saturday. Visit womankraft.org for more information. SOUTHWESTERN LEAGUE OF FINE ARTISTS Ward 6 City Council Office. 3202 E. First St. 791-4601. Speakers, demonstrations and conversations among artists are featured at meetings from 1 to 3 p.m., the third Monday of every month. Members’ works are exhibited at the Old Pueblo Grille and at other sites through out the year. Any artist is welcome to join the group. 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 STATE MUSEUM Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. 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 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 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 for more information. MINI-TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. The exhibit No Small Parts: The Role of Scale Models in Theater Set Design opens Tuesday, Sept. 18, and continues through Sunday, Nov. 11. A reception is held from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20; included with admission. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday; $9, $8 senior or military, $6 age 4

to 17, $6 adults Thursday through Dec. 27, free younger child. Visit theminitimemachine.org for more info. 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, closes Sunday, Sept. 16. Works by previous participants in the MOCA artist-residency program are featured in Air Show, which also closes 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. Tucson Collects: Spirit of the West, an exhibit of Western art from private collections, and 100 Years: 100 Ranchers, a collection of photographs by Scott T. Baxter for the Arizona centennial, continue through Sunday, Sept. 23. A closing party featuring a silent auction, a 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. An exhibit of drawings and prints from the UA Museum of Art’s permanent collection opens with a reception featuring a talk by guest-curator Michael Stack from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14, and continues through Sunday, Jan. 6. 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. 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 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 on botanic art, 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.

UPCOMING ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. The museum honors the Arizona Quilters Hall of Fame with two days of workshops, lectures, receptions and exhibits celebrating native quilting, on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 21 and 22. Visit statemuseum.arizona. edu for a schedule. 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.

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 HISTORY MUSEUM Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. The museum focuses on Southern Arizona history from the Spanish colonial through the territorial eras. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, $4 senior or age 12 to 18, free younger child, member, visitor to the library or the store, 2-for-1 admission the first Tuesday 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. FORT LOWELL MUSEUM Fort Lowell Museum. 2900 N. Craycroft Road. 8853832. The museum features exhibits about military life on the Arizona frontier. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday; $3, $2 senior or age 12 to 18, free younger child or member, 2-for-1 admission the first Saturday every month. Visit arizonahistoricalsociety. org for more information. INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE MUSEUM International Wildlife Museum. 4800 W. Gates Pass Road. 629-0100. The museum highlights more than 400 species of insects, mammals and birds from around the globe. Dioramas depict wild animals in their natural settings. Videos, interactive computers and hands-on exhibits promote wildlife appreciation and conservation. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $8, $3 ages 4 to 12, free younger child or member, $6 senior, student or military. Visit thewildlifemuseum.org for more information. THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM The Jewish History Museum. 564 S. Stone Ave. 6709073. The museum is housed in the oldest Jewish house of worship in Arizona and features the history of Jewish pioneers in exhibits, artifacts, research, genealogy and story-telling. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; and noon to 3 p.m., Friday; $5, free age 17 and younger. Visit jewishhistorymuseum.org for more information. KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY Located atop the 6,875-foot summit of Kitt Peak, the observatory offers nightly viewing and an advanced overnight program that lets visitors stay on site, use advanced equipment and “explore some of North America’s most spectacular night skies.” (Stargazing by reservation only.) Open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily. Guided tours are at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; a single tour is $5.75, $3 age 7 to 12, free younger child, June through October; $7.75, $4 age 7 to 12, free younger child, November through May. Special rates for three tours are available. Night tours feature four hours of guided observing time and a box dinner; $48, $44 student, military or senior. Call 3188726, or visit noao.edu/kpno for more information. LA PILITA MUSEUM La Pilita Museum. 420 S. Main Ave. 882-7454. The museum exhibits the written and photographed history of Barrio Viejo and El Hoyo. The permanent exhibit is Who Walked Here Before You, a collection of photos of Carrillo Gardens and Elysian Grove of the 1890s to

1920s. Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free, $2 requested donation. Call or visit lapilita.com for more information. MISSION SAN XAVIER DEL BAC San Xavier del Bac Mission. 1950 W. San Xavier Road. 294-2624. Founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino, the “White Dove of the Desert” continues to serve the religious life of the surrounding Tohono O’odham community. It is open to the public from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; free. Free tours are on the half-hour from 9:30 a.m., through 12:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except during special religious observances. Traditional O’odham food and crafts are available year-round. Call or visit sanxaviermission.org for more information. PIMA AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM Pima Air and Space Museum. 6000 E. Valencia Road. 574-0462. The museum is one of the largest aviation museums in the world and is the largest non-government funded aviation museum in the United States. The museum maintains a collection of more than 300 aircraft and spacecraft from around the globe and more than 125,000 artifacts. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last admittance, 4 p.m.), daily; free child younger than 7; $15.50, $9 ages 7 to 12, $12.75 senior, military, Pima County resident and AAA from November through May; $13.75, $8 ages 7 to 12, $11.50 Pima County resident, $11.75 senior, military and AAA from June through October. Visit pimaair.org for more information. PRESIDIO SAN AGUSTÍN DEL TUCSON Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón. 133 W. Washington St. 837-8119. Take a trip into Tucson’s past with living history demonstrations, re-enactments and special events. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; free. Visit tucsonpresidiotrust.org for more information. SOUTHERN ARIZONA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM Southern Arizona Transportation Museum. 414 N. Toole Ave. 623-2223. The museum features audio and visual interactive elements for youth and adults alike, a diorama with trains and a 1907 depot, a state-of-the-art media wall, knowledgeable docents and a locomotive. Locomotive Saturdays are held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and offer an up-close-and-personal look at a real locomotive. Hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday; $6, free during Locomotive Saturdays hours. Visit tucsonhistoricdepot.org for more information. 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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VISUAL ARTS Two exhibits at the Gallery of the Sun show not-oft-depicted sides of Ted DeGrazia

Art of the Artist BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com hen Louise Serpa was just coming into her own as a rodeo photographer, she called on Ted DeGrazia. The year was 1966. Serpa was 41. DeGrazia was 57, and far more famous. He had been profiled in National Geographic and other national media, and when UNICEF picked one of his designs for a Christmas card, his work made its way into millions of homes. Serpa was still new at art. She’d been in Tucson just a half-dozen years, but in that time, she had taught herself black-and-white photography. Her work was already so good—and she was so persuasive—that she had earned herself the right to shoot inside the ring at bigtime rodeos. She was the first woman ever to do so. Serpa, who died in January at the age of 86, had a gift for capturing the exact right moment on film—that instant when horse and cowboy reached highest to the sky, or crashed the hardest to the ground. But no cowboy or cowgirl that Serpa shot could have been as stylized as DeGrazia—or as prone to mythmaking. As the Portraits of DeGrazia show at the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun demonstrates, the many artists who attempted to paint or sculpt him too often got bogged down in clichés. In the dozens of works here by as many artists, DeGrazia appears over and over as the archetypal rugged individual, a classic Western icon, all squinty eyes and manly beard, posed against big skies and tall mountains. Serpa took a different approach: She brought the great man down to size and made him human, even humble. She posed him, beautifully, in the sun against the plain adobe bricks of his studio. And she put him to work inside, molding a small clay sculpture in his hands. Sure, he’s still got the macho 10-gallon hat, the cigarette, the dusty cowboy clothes. But Serpa’s gelatin silver pictures get past all that. In one, he even has his hat in his hands. A smile plays around his lips. He seems to recognize that in Serpa, he’s up against a force at least equal to himself. DeGrazia later made her a card from one of her best prints—a lovely close-up of his hands at work—and wrote: “To Louise! Let’s Do a Book. Love, Ted.” It’s too bad they didn’t. Serpa’s searching camera might have taught us more about DeGrazia than we can learn either from the adoring portraits made by his friends, or from the work that made him famous—sentimental paintings of childlike Indians and Mexicans fluttering around the Southwest, some of them on angel wings.

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Thomas Hart Benton, the crusty American regionalist, saw in these paintings a return to emotion and much-needed realism. In a written screed displayed next to his small 1962 oil on canvas, “Study for Desert Artist,” Benton denounces the experimentation of the postwar years. DeGrazia, he says, “has shown up at the right time.” At a time when artists like Jasper Johns were splashing paint on canvases in wild paintings of flags and maps, DeGrazia’s homespun paintings were “full of a delicate and very human poetry which everybody feels and everybody can understand.” In his own painting, Benton pictures DeGrazia in his beloved Tucson landscape. Remarkably, he manages to make the craggy Catalinas into Benton-esque rolling hills. And he dressed the artist, paintbrush in hand and palette nearby, in full cowboy regalia. The other guest artists also routinely portray DeGrazia as a cowboy-artist, and they use a cavalcade of Western art styles. In a typical example, an undated, untitled oil by Richard D. Thomas portrays him with a soft-edged realism. Lit by the sun, Thomas’ heroic DeGrazia leans against a corral post, decked out in a 10-gallon hat and silver belt buckle. An Italian friend pushed the hagiography even harder. In the white plaster bust “Per Mio Umilde Amico E Paisano Ted DeGrazia” (For My Humble Friend and Compatriot Ted DeGrazia), sculptor A. Chersin transforms DeGrazia into a hero of classical antiquity. He wears a toga, and an olive wreath encircles his head. This over-the-top work at least hints at the complicated life story obscured by the myth. Ettore DeGrazia was the child of poor Italian immigrants. He was born in 1909 in Morenci, where his father worked in the mines; when Phelps Dodge shut the operation down in 1920, the whole clan moved back to the Calabria region of Italy. When they returned to Arizona five years later, Ted, now about 16, had to relearn English. As a young artist, DeGrazia drew on this painful history in unabashedly modernist paintings. A companion show, The Bisbee Years, rounds up work he made when he lived in the Mile-High City, from 1936 to 1942. Drawing on his father’s years in the mines, he made several serious expressionist paintings about labor and working conditions. In 1941’s “Untitled-Miners,” a trio of men descends down the shaft in the cage; 50 shades of gray conjure up the darkness way down in the mine. “Mining,” a triptych from 1936, is a montage of smokestacks spewing poison into

Untitled oil on canvas (cropped) by Richard D. Thomas, undated. the blue Arizona sky, a tangle of pipes and machinery, and a horde of hard-hatted men marching lockstep into the Earth. No wonder DeGrazia was thrilled to meet Diego Rivera, the great Mexican painter who used contemporary techniques to paint the labor and culture of his own country’s oppressed. Their 1942 meeting is memorialized in a photo here. DeGrazia—dressed like a bohemian instead of the cowboy of later years—stands with the massive Rivera in front of one of his murals. DeGrazia went on to intern with Rivera and another great muralist, José Clemente Orozco, and he even exhibited at Palacio de Bellas Artes. DeGrazia’s later switch to more-commercial, cutesy art may well have had its psychic costs. A collection of his self-portraits, also on view, makes a 180-degree turn away from the picturesque portraits made by his friends. DeGrazia paints himself as a tortured soul. And he turns away from the styles Benton approved of, and runs instead through a catalog of modernist experiments. In 1950, he made a near-Rouault, a small oil strafed with thick bands of black paint. Surrounded by his now-familiar painting subjects—a mother and her children, a child holding a sombrero—his face is despondent, and painted in a shocking fauvist brew of pink, lime and blue. A 1956 oil has another tragic face, and a background shattered into cubist shards. In 1965, just a few years after Benton painted him so benignly, DeGrazia turned himself into a

Portraits of DeGrazia; The Bisbee Years 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily, through Jan. 20 (Portraits) and Feb. 10 (Bisbee) DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun 6300 N. Swan Road Free 299-9191; www.degrazia.org

despairing Van Gogh. A flaming orange background appears ready to consume his gaunt, gray face. By 1970, 12 years before his death, DeGrazia paid homage to the subjects that made him famous. In the drawing “Turnabout Is Fair Play,” one of his angels—stick hair, round black eyes, no mouth—is painting a portrait of her creator. DeGrazia acknowledges the debt: He’s dependent on her to give him life, or at least a living. One artist friend, W.T. Zevik, was brave enough to razz him. He drew a cartoon of DeGrazia working on an angel painting—and sitting on a huge bag of money. Zevik called it, ironically, “Starving Artist.” But if some artists considered him a sellout, DeGrazia was largely adored. In 1966—the same year when Louise Serpa looked at him with her clear-eyed gaze—Richard France painted him as a kind of patron saint of Tucson. In France’s untitled acrylic, DeGrazia’s cowboy-hatted head floats in the clouds, sailing well above his Gallery of the Sun, and up and beyond the golden Catalinas.

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The time period covered in voting for the 2012 Tucson Area Music Awards, known as the TAMMIES, was May 1, 2011, through April 30, 2012. Here’s an (admittedly incomplete) look back at some of the significant music events during that span. May 2011 The Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association presents the 26th annual Tucson Folk Festival, featuring more than 100 acts, including dozens of local performers and national headliner Tony Furtado. Twenty-five local musicians participate in the Tucson Rock Lottery, in which they form bands by drawing names out of a hat, write songs and perform them at Plush—all in a 12-hour span. Proceeds from the event are donated to CysticLife, a social network and online resource for the cystic-fibrosis community. After canceling a Phoenix-area show and an appearance at HoCo Fest in 2010 to protest SB 1070, Los Lobos return to Arizona to perform at the Rialto Theatre. KFMA Day, which features performances by Sublime With Rome, Hollywood Undead, Flogging Molly, Sum 41, Black Label Society, All That Remains, Black Veil Brides and Drive A, is held at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium. The Dan Vinik-directed documentary Flor de Muertos, most of which was filmed during Calexico’s 2009 Dia de Los Muertos concert at the Rialto Theatre, screens for the first time at the Loft Cinema. The show is a sellout. Sacred Machine Museum and Curiosity Shop celebrates its first anniversary with the Beyond the Sacred Music and Arts Festival, a two-day art and music event at the gallery and the Rialto Theatre that features performances by Blind Divine, Gabriel Sullivan and Taraf de Tucson, The Jons, Brian Lopez, Ensphere and Dead Western Plains. Second Saturdays Downtown, the monthly downtown street festival, celebrates its first year. Performers include the Michael P. Big Band, Determined Luddites and Chillie Willie Groove. Four of the acts that appear on the local compilation CD Can We Get Together?—Beyond the Firewall, Chorizmex, Wax 78 and the Terrifix—perform at a show called Tucson Getting Together at DV8. The CD and show are both benefits for the Tucson Together Fund for victims of the Jan. 8, 2011, shootings. T2 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

The Border Action Network spring fundraiser, featuring Rich Hopkins and the Casa Maria Band, The AmoSphere, Poi-Zen Fire Troupe, Puppet Muzik and Mariachi Herradura de Tucson, is held at Hotel Congress. Innisfail and Easyco both reunite for a show at Plush benefiting the family of Rural/Metro firefighter Dennis Bracety, who is battling a rare and sudden onset of dermatomyositis, a cousin of muscular dystrophy. Bricktop, The Pork Torta and Pop Gestapo perform at a benefit memorial for Petra “Boggie” Den Bogter at the Surly Wench. The Arizona Relief Concert for Japan, at The Rock, features sets by Annabels Ashes, Leaving Holly, Warsaw, Flesh Factor, Silent Flux, Hopheads and Ryan Poulson/Drout. Kiss and the Tells, Tom Walbank and Seashell Radio perform at Dinner and Dancing at La Cocina: A Fundraiser for Casa Libre. Music on the Mountain, the summer music series on Mount Lemmon organized by Bonnie Vining’s Live Acoustic Venue Association, or LAVA, kicks off with a performance by Chuck Wagon and the Wheelchairs. Notable releases: The Pork Torta, Casual Living; Jamie O’Brien, Chasing Ghosts; The Distortionists, The Mark Side of the Dune; The Swigs, Johnson Family Values; Discos, Discos; Yardsale Heart, Watercolours. June 2011 In conjunction with the release of Came on Like the Sun—a coffee-table book of vintage photos of the band put together by Doug Finical—the Sand Rubies, after 26 years, perform their farewell show at The Hut. Matt Milner takes over hosting duties on KXCI FM 91.3’s Locals Only. Mariachi Luz de Luna, Duo Libre and Aztec dancers perform at La Cocina for the national kickoff for the Tequila Party, a Latino get-outthe-vote movement meant to counteract the Tea Party. Following an extended hiatus, Tesoro returns to perform as co-headliners with Spirit Familia

at Plush. A decade after their most-recent album, La Cerca releases Rock ’n’ Roll to the Rescue. The digital-only album The Good Sam Compilation, benefiting Sam Abate, the victim of a hit-and-run, is released. It features 27 songs by local artists including Forrest Fallows, Long Live the Smoking Gun, and Logan Greene and the Bricks. Jamming for Jessyka, a benefit show for caraccident victim Jessyka Murray featuring live performances by JT Reno, Tony Williams, Fancy Hats and others, takes place at The Rock. Saddle City Band veteran Ricky Dean Pegram, who is suffering from what he calls “a rare brain tumor called a meningioma, which creates a perplexed look on doctors’ faces,” releases a career-spanning CD, The Best of Ricky Dean—It Ain’t Easy. The CD-release party, which doubles as a benefit for the Tucson Artists and Musicians Healthcare Alliance, or TAMHA, features performances by Second Nature, Whole Lotta Zep, Time Pilots and others. Run-On Sunshine releases its debut album, Memory Game, only on cassette. The Concert to Aid Victims of the Southern Arizona Fires, featuring performances by the Bryan Dean Trio, Cinder Bridge and the Dave Owens Band, among others, is held at the C-Note Lounge. Cats and Jammers, a benefit show for Last Resort/Tucson’s Maine Coon Cat Emergency Fund that includes performances by the Cochise County All-Stars, Al Perry, and Gary Love and Anna Warr, takes place at Boondocks Lounge. Veteran local bass player Gerry Ptak dies. Notable releases: The Missing Parts, Sueños; Acorn Bcorn, 3 Songs + 3 Songs; Provocative Whites, Sugar Plum Kerosene. July 2011 Arizona Lotus Corp.’s Second Annual Red, White and Boom, at the Pima County Fairgrounds, features a WTF lineup of Calexico,

Starship featuring Mickey Thomas, and Savor: A Tribute to Santana. KIIM FM 99.5’s annual Freedom Festival, headlined by Tracy Lawrence, takes place at the Kino Sports Complex soccer fields. Start Our State hosts Baja Arizona Independence Day, which features performances by Gabriel Sullivan and Taraf de Tucson, Silverbell, Seashell Radio and Yardsale Heart. It takes place at the Rialto Theatre. Diego’s Umbrella headlines Club Congress’ annual Xmas in July. The Cordials make their live debut, opening for Saint Maybe at the Red Room at Grill. Ricky Dean Pegram dies. A two-day CD-release party for Live at Red Room, Vol. II, featuring performances by John Polle, Ultramaroon, Discos, Madame Zero, Mad River Glenn and French Quarter, is held at the Red Room. Rainer’s Roll Back the Years, a collaboration with Calexico’s John Convertino and Joey Burns recorded in the summer of 1997, is released. Al Perry’s debut art show, Perry’s Postcards, takes place at record-store Ancient Radio. The event features musical performances by nonmusicians, and musicians performing on instruments that they’ve never played. Plush hosts a TAMHA benefit featuring acts that are required to incorporate the ukulele into their performances. Artists include Some of Them Are Old, Winston Watson’s Brother Love and the Salvations, Amy Rude, Tracy Shedd, and A House, A Home. Batucaxé celebrates its 10th anniversary by performing at the Third Annual Monsoon Mania Dance Party at the Rhythm Industry Performance Factory. Community Radio Tucson and the Prometheus Radio Project hold their first community meeting in an attempt to establish a low-power FM radio station in Tucson. Notable releases: The Modeens, Get With the Times; Bricktop: Broken Bottles and Suicide Throttles; Gaza Strip, Makes No Sense.

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August 2011 HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS perform the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. in its entirety at Che’s Lounge, and later in the month release their second, self-titled album. Former Black Sun Ensemble guitarist Bolt of Apollo organizes The Kitty Meow Puppy Chow Rescue Mission Punk Fest, which takes place at The Hut and features performances by the Besmirchers, Al Foul, and Texas Trash and the Trainwrecks. Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout perform at a wet T-shirt contest at The Bashful Bandit. After a decade, the Bled announce they will embark on a final tour before breaking up. KXCI Celebrates 1971, a benefit for the community radio station at the Rialto Theatre, features local acts including A Son y Sol, Diane Van Deurzen and Lisa Otey, Gila Bend, Silverfox and Atom Heart Mother, performing songs from albums released in that year. We Heart Stacy: A Rock ’n’ Roll Benefit Concert for Stacy Fortson, a writer and photographer for local music magazine BSceneLive who broke her leg when a mosh pit broke out behind her at a show, is held at The Hut. Performers include Race You There, Despondency Denied, Bradley Sconzert and Savage Zoo. The Lisa Otey and Friends Series, in which the local jazz/blues singer is joined by a different guest performer for each show, kicks off at Z Mansion with an appearance by Lisa’s mom, Gay Otey. Powhaus Productions presents Tulle: A Tribute to Alexander McQueen, featuring performances by Leather Clutch, El Hanko Dinero, Diana Gen and Treasure MammaL, at Plush. Whole Lotta Zep re-creates Led Zeppelin’s 1972 Tucson appearance—their only one—at Club Congress. The Tucson Weekly’s 18th annual Tucson Area Music Awards, or TAMMIES, ceremony is held at the Rialto Theatre. Big winners include Calexico (Band/Musician of the Year), Dead Western Plains (Up-and-Coming Artist of the Year) and The Tryst (Best New Release). Performers at the ceremony include Gabriel Sullivan and Taraf de Tucson, Seashell Radio, The Tryst, Greg Morton and Hollywood Knights, as well as the 2011 inductee into the TAMMIES Tucson Music Hall of Fame, Neon Prophet. Savelab, a benefit for producer Craig Schumacher, who owns and operates Wavelab Studio and is battling cancer, is held on two stages at Club Congress. Performers include the Wayback Machine, the Last Call Girls, the Carnivaleros, Funky Bonz and Ferrodyne. The Second Annual March of the Moai, at The Hut, features performances by Slacktone, Surfside IV, Mission Creeps, Big Tiki Dude, Fish Karma and 8 Minutes to Burn. Dirt Nasty headlines O’Malley’s on Fourth’s Back 2 School Party. Calexico, the Silver Thread Trio and Craig Schumacher perform alongside Amos Lee at the Fox Tucson Theatre during a taping of the PBS series Live From the Artists Den. Notable releases: Key Ingredients of African Soul, Abidjan to Bulawayo; Jimmy Carr and the Awkward Moments; Heather Hardy, Get Out of the Road.

115 Down performs at Sharks on Congress Street during the 2011 Fall Club Crawl®. September 2011 The Seventh Annual HoCo Fest is held at Hotel Congress over four nights. Performers include DeVotchKa, Calexico, Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta, Kiss and the Tells, Luca, Dan Stuart and Jon Rauhouse. Proceeds from the fourth night are donated to Craig Schumacher to help with his medical bills as he recovers from cancer. Calexico performs at the opening of Calexico: A Retrospective, “an intimate and moving, behind-the-scenes photographic exhibition, which celebrates this pre-eminent Tucson, Arizona, band’s rich history and depth of artistry,” at Sacred Machine Museum. Doctorr Faustus hosts The Monster Mash, which includes performances by Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout, Jimmy Carr, Katie Colville and Countach, as well as a freak show and Scream Queen contest, at The HangArt. Etherton Gallery opens an exhibition of rock photography called Rockin’ the Desert: Photographs by Baron Wolman and Lynn Goldsmith. The Fifth Annual Tucson Musicians Museum Celebration of Music and Culture takes place at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa. Ten local musicians are inducted into the museum’s class of 2011 at the event: Bryan Dean, Toni Clark, Jose Yebra, Carl Cherry II, Richard J. Leek, Mike Kuhn, Tim O’Connor, Howe Gelb, William Don Carlos and Dave Plank. Inducted posthumously are Gerald Ptak and Ricky Dean Pegram. Previous TMM inductees Chuck Morrow, Dean Armstrong and Plato T. Jones, all of whom had died in the past year, are memorialized.

Powhaus Productions presents Glitter Ball 3000, a rock ’n’ roll dance party featuring performances by the Electric Blankets, Thriftstore Throwdown and Faster Than Light, as well as DJs the Vinyl Baron and B-Rad, at the Rialto Theatre. Casa Vicente hosts the Third Annual Tucson Spanish and Flamenco Festival. Friki Fest II: Skull Island is held at the Rialto Theatre. Performers include Agent Orange, the Lords of Altamont, Mission Creeps, Vicky and the Vengents and Scorpion vs. Tarantula. The two-day Tejano Showcase 2011, at AVA at Casino del Sol, features performances by Los Aguilares, Boni Mauricio, Jaime y los Chamacos, Los Texmaniacs featuring Flaco Jimenez and the Farias Brothers Reunion, among others. Depedro, Calexico, Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta, and Guerrila Tangueros perform at Monstrosa: An Evening of Latin Music, at Plush. Green Revolution Radio launches Green Revolution Records at a showcase at Sky Bar. Performers include Frankie Lopez, Brookee Lin, Triple Double, Alan Fullbeard, Still Life Telescope and the Mark Archambault Combo. After Stone Temple Pilots drop off the bill due to “unavoidable scheduling conflicts,” Korn steps in to headline KFMA’s Fall Ball, held at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium. Other performers include Staind, Five Finger Death Punch, Chevelle, Asking Alexandria and Middle Class Rut. Phat Entertainment presents PHATfest, an EDM festival on two consecutive nights, at Hotel Congress and the Rialto Theatre.

Performers include RUN DMT, Electric Feel DJs, Infected Mushroom, Sonario, Dirtyphonics and Tranceducer. Notable releases: Combo Westside, Full Bloom; We Killed the Union, Bloodset Arizona; Stefan George and Tom Walbank, My Old Friend the Blues; French Quarter, Desert Wasn’t Welcome; Brass Tax, Math Jazz at the Dollar Store; Namoli Brennet, We Were Born to Rise; A Fall to Break, The Man in the Mask; CCS Crew; Monster Pussy, Tails of the City. October 2011 About 90 local and national acts perform at the Tucson Weekly’s Fall Club Crawl® in the downtown and Fourth Avenue area. Performers include Grams and Krieger, the Love Me Nots, Broken Romeo, Greyhound Soul, the Project and Los Nawdy Dawgs. The Tucson Museum of Art opens Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, one of several exhibits of rock photography around town as part of the Tucson Rocks celebration. The seventh annual Tucson Film and Music Festival features a variety of music-related films, including shorts, narratives, music videos and documentaries. Among them are Better Than Something: Jay Reatard and Kumaré. Fish Karma, Al Perry with Skip Heller, Ghiant and The Pork Torta perform as part of the festival. Folkapalooza, a fundraiser for the Tucson Folk Festival, is held on the patio at Hotel Congress. The event features performances by the Wayback Machine, Combo Westside, The Modeens, Whole Lotta Zep, the Bryan Dean continued on next page SEPTEMBER 13 – 19, 2012

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Full Release, Zackey Force Funk and Zoology. Rich Hopkins hosts his annual Casa Maria Thanksgiving Benefit at Plush. Performers include Stefan George, Salvador Duran and Tammy West. An Evening of Ongoing Expression, an art show and performance benefiting Café 54, features paintings by Joelle Pitts, Fish Karma and Al Perry, and music by Perry, Karma and Kevin Henderson. The Tucson Musicians Museum finds a permanent location at the 17th Street Market’s music store. Grill, and by extension, the Red Room, which had become a beloved hub of downtown music culture, close their doors. Young Hunter, Otherly Love and Brass Tax perform at the first installment of RR Nites, a sort-of replacement for the Red Room, at La Cocina. The Bled performs its final local show at The Rock. Notable Releases: Ryanhood, After Night Came Sun; Kitchen on Fire, Here We Are; Alien Jane, 11:11; Lazer Totin’ Lizards, Smoke Break; Sabra Faulk, Acoustic Angel.

Above: Salvador Duran and Rich Hopkins performed at the Casa Maria Thanksgiving Benefit at Plush. Al Perry, right, performed at a Café 54 benefit, An Evening of Ongoing Expression.

LOCAL MUSIC continued from Page T3 Trio and Heather Hardy. In an amusing culture clash, Insane Clown Posse performs at the Rialto Theatre on the same night as Second Saturdays Downtown. The Southern Arizona Blues Heritage Foundation presents the Blues and Heritage Festival, which features performances by Elvin Bishop, Hans Olsen, Arthur Migliazza, George Howard and Gary Mackender, at the DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center in Reid Park. The Wayback Machine hosts and serves as the house band at Bluesapalooza, at Boondocks Lounge. It features performances by AmoChip Dabney, Mitzi Cowell, Gary Mackender and many others. Luz de Vida, available as a 37-song digital download featuring local and national artists (including Spoon, Ozomatli and Robyn Hitchcock), and as a 12-song, locals-only, limited-edition vinyl album, is released by Fort Lowell Records at a show at the Rialto Theatre. Performers include Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico, Reno del Mar, Mariachi Luz de Luna, HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS, La Cerca and Golden Boots, all of whom appear on the album. Proceeds from the album and show are donated to the Tucson Together Fund, dedicated to helping the victims of Jan. 8, 2011. (Full disclosure: I was on the team that put the album together.) The Carnivaleros celebrate their 10th anniversary with a performance at Suite 147 in Plaza Palomino. Nightmare on Congress Street, a four-venue T4 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

event that’s all-inclusive with the cost of a single ticket, takes place at Club Congress, the Rialto Theatre, Sacred Machine Museum and Playground’s rooftop. Performers include People From the Sun, The Jons, American Android and DJ Bonus. The Desert Bluegrass Association presents the 12th Annual Desert Bluegrass Festival at AVA at Casino del Sol. Performers include Whistle Stop, Copper River and Titan Valley Warheads. Notable releases: David Neff, My Name’s David; Tridon, Lucky #7; Naïm Amor, Soundtracks Vol. IV; GSol, Shine; Solace in Nothing, Demons; Broken Romeo, Desperation Daze; The Outlaw Rebels, The Outlaw Rebels. November 2011 Ozomatli headlines the Festival Mundial del Dia de Los Muertos at AVA at Casino del Sol. The fest also features The Jons, Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta, Salvador Duran, Mezzo Forte, Nefftys and Los Gallegos. Calexico releases the vinyl-only box set Road Atlas: 1998-2011, which collects eight of the group’s tour EPs, live albums and a soundtrack. The band also headlines the post-All Souls Procession show at the Rialto Theatre, which includes performances by Sergio Mendoza, the Silver Thread Trio, Salvador Duran, Mariachi Aztlan de Pueblo High School and the Pride of Arizona Marching Band. Hotel Congress hosts the 11/11/11 party, featuring performances by 11 acts (12, actually) including Remix Artist Collective (R.A.C.), Golden Ghost, Jamie J., Crime, Sean Harris with

December 2011 Sweet Pea and the Bean, Quieres Mas, Church Key, Special Brownie and Grupo Tesoro are among the performers at Hotel Congress’ annual World AIDS Day event. Boondocks Lounge hosts a Blues Benefit for Mary and Marty Kool. Performers include Tony and the Torpedoes, Grams and Krieger with Nancy McCallion, and the Tall Paul Band. Powhaus Productions presents the doomsday-themed party Prophecy, featuring performances by Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout, Jaime J., and the Fiestacles, at the Rialto Theatre. Burger Records reissues the Resonars’ 1999 album, Bright and Dark, leading to bandleader Matt Rendon reconstituting the band. The 14th Annual Great Cover-Up is held over three nights at three venues: Plush, Club Congress and the Rialto Theatre. Performers include Genevieve and the LPs, Jeremy Michael Cashman, The Monitors, Flagrante Delicto, Crosscut Saw, Leila Lopez and Doctor Dinosaur. Proceeds are donated to TAMHA. Jo Wilkinson and Grains of Sand play their farewell concert at Suite 147 at Plaza Palomino. Rhythm Dragons, Neiphi and Knock-Out are among the performers at the Stuff the Bug Holiday Ball, benefiting Casa de los Niños, at Club Carnage. The Xmas Eve EVE Holiday Hootenanny, held at Club Congress, features performances by Howe Gelb, Brian Lopez, Acorn Bcorn, Gabriel Sullivan and Make My Baby. The Arizona Blues Hall of Fame Show, which includes performances by the Bad News Blues Band, Tony Uribe, Ed DeLucia and Bryan Dean, takes place at Club Congress. Roast ’Em and Toast ’Em, a benefit for KXCI, is held at the Temple of Music and Art. Roasters take the piss out of station DJs Milo Solujic, Carol “Ruby” Anderson, Kidd Squidd and Marty Kool. The Heather Dickey Memorial Benefit, featuring short, mostly acoustic sets by artists including Animus Divine, Angelic to Ashes, Godhunter, Bad Tourist, Hillbilly Bo and CCS Crew, is held at The Rock.

KXCI broadcasts its annual holiday-themed Sonic Solstice program, which includes live performances by Acorn Bcorn, Saint Maybe and Gabrielle Pietrangelo, among many others. Notable releases: Love Mound, The Noose, the Tree, and the Desert Sky; Sugar Stains, Sweet Revenge; Rescue Lights, One More Try; the Tall Paul Band, Sleeper; various artists, Tucson Songs; Hank Topless, It’s So December. January 2012 Top Dead Center hosts its annual food drive for the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona at The Hut. Performers include 8 Minutes to Burn, Heather Hardy and Cadillac Mountain. Future congressman Ron Barber organizes a benefit for his Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding featuring Ben Folds, Calexico and the Silver Thread Trio. The event is held at the Fox Tucson Theatre. The 20th Wooden Ball, organized by Chris Holiman and held over two nights at Plush and Club Congress, features mostly acoustic performances by … music video?, Hank Topless, Tracy Shedd, Kaia Chesney, and Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl among many others. Titan Valley Warheads perform their 30th anniversary show at Suite 147 in Plaza Palomino. Mean Beans perform their last Tucson show at Club Congress before relocating to San Francisco. Jonathan Holden, the tireless music promoter behind the Rhythm and Roots concert series, and an original board member of KXCI, dies after a brief illness. His wife, Susan, takes over the concert series. Saint Maybe, Cadillac Steakhouse, Acorn Bcorn, Holy Rolling Empire, DJ Likedaang and O/W/L/S perform at the opening of Return Trip: Art From the Boneyard Project, at the Pima Air and Space Museum. Notable releases: Sleep Driver, Signals; Bryan Dean Trio, Sobriety Checkpoint; A House, A Home, Stories of the Frontier; Scorned Embrace, Enclosures; Rich Hopkins and Luminarios, Buried Treasures; Silver Thread Trio, Trigger and Scythe; LeeAnne Savage, To the N9nes; Silverbell, Whitewashed Heart; Gridlokd. February 2012 Topaz, a new downtown performance space, opens with a two-night music-and-arts festival called Dune Drift. Musical performers include Otherly Love, Andrew Collberg and the Hollywood Diamonds, and the Pork Torta. Boondocks Lounge hosts Love Songs or Not! A Benefit to Keep the Folk Festival Free, featuring performances by Kevin Pakulis and Amy Langley, Mitzi Cowell, Sabra Faulk, JC and Laney, Robyn Landis and Ice-9. Ozomatli performs at the Rialto Theatre to help raise money and support the Acosta plaintiffs, a group of Tucson Unified School District teachers suing the state over the closure of Mexican-American studies. Music Is Medicine: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Jonathan Holden takes place at Plaza Palomino. Performers include Louie Levinson, Gene Holmes, Jack Wood, Titan Valley Warheads, John Coinman, Peter McLaughlin and Friends and many others. continued on next Page T6

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LOCAL MUSIC continued from Page T4 Tora Woloshin, who advanced to the Top 32 on the Fox singing-competition show The X Factor, releases her debut album, Open Heart Surgery. The Dusty Chaps reunite to perform their concept album, Domino Joe, in its entirety at Plush. Mike Davis, onetime Tucsonan and bass player for the MC5, dies. Fringe Fest’s The Barely Free Baja Spectacular features tons of local musicians, including members of the Tryst and Sweet Ghosts, Leila Lopez and Brian Green, Collin Shook, Brian Lopez, Jimmy Carr and organizer Bryan Sanders, over two nights at Solar Culture Gallery. The annual Blues Sunday service, featuring performances by Lisa Otey, Diane Van Deurzen and Hurricane Carla Brownlee, takes place at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church. Notable releases: Electric Blankets, 7-inch; Andrew Collberg, 7-inch; Vine St.; Chris Black, Drunk at the Funeral; Gabriel Sullivan and Taraf de Tucson, None of This Is Mine; Gabriel Sullivan, Where the Bad Ones Go; Einweck Brothers, Beautiful Lonesome. March 2012 Although one of its members has moved to Seattle, and another will soon depart for New York, Seashell Radio celebrates the release of their second album, Slick Machine, with a performance at Plush. Following the closure of the beloved local-

centric boutique, Bohemia Marches Forth … The Bon Voyage Party and Benefit takes place at La Cocina and features performances by Combo Westside, Jimmy Carr and the Awkward Moments, Hans Hutchison, the Cordials, Amy Rude and Ryen Eggleston, Vannessa Lundon and Jazz Telephone. In advance of SXSW in Austin, the third annual Bröötal Sun Fest and a showcase from Burger Records converge on Tucson. The former, which takes place at Skrappy’s, The Pound and Dry River Collective over four days, features performances by Doctor Dinosaur, the David Liebe Hart Band, and TS and the Past Haunts, among many others; the latter, which takes place over two nights at La Cocina, includes performances by Lenguas Largas, Otherly Love, Pangea, Audacity, Acorn Bcorn, Cosmonauts, Feeding People and, in their first live performance in 16 years, the Resonars. Club Congress’ St. Patrick’s Day Zep Fest, a two-night event paying homage to Led Zeppelin, features performances by Dread Zeppelin, Flagrante Delicto and Whole Lotta Zep. The Mollys reunite to perform at the St. Patrick’s Day Dance Party at Boondocks Lounge. Bill Wooldridge, who operated Skrappy’s with his wife, Kathy, and played guitar in Widow’s Hill, dies. A pair of tribute and benefit shows, one at Sky Bar and one at Skrappy’s, are held. In addition to performances by Sleep Driver, Lariats, Shepherds and Sailors, Cariad and Saving Today at the Skrappy’s event, Broken End Stereo make the trip to Tucson from Texas

to perform, while Our Cure the Rocketship reunites in tribute. Following the 2011 death of the band’s cofounder, songwriter and lead guitarist, Hector Sanchez, Diver City releases its EP with a release party at The Rock. Notable releases: Brian Lopez, Ultra; Way Out West, Saddle Sore Blues; Sinphonics, Ghost Note Anthems; Jameson Clay Koweek, DonkeyMan and the Bootgaze Band; various artists, The T.U.C. Mixtape (Tucson Underground Cares). April 2012 Relocating from Barrio Viejo to the El Presidio neighborhood, the third annual Festival en el Barrio features performances by Calexico, Megafaun, Grupo Fantasma, Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta, The Pork Torta, Hollywood Knights, Shaun Harris, Silverbell, Dry River Yacht Club and Mariachi Aztlan. The after-party, at La Cocina, features Brownout and DJs Herm and (Weekly contributor) Carl Hanni. To celebrate 25 years of operating Solar Culture Gallery, Steven Eye throws a block party featuring performances by Baba Marimba, Salvador Duran, Gary Bear and DJs Throw3r, Emily Skyrocker, Krti Mouserider and Elektratek. Summerdog perform a 30-year anniversary reunion show at El Casino Ballroom. Roughly 100 local and national acts, including Chali 2na, the Wyatts, Dream Sick, the Gallery, Vox Urbana, Shark Pants, Billy Sedlmayr, Roll Acosta and Gaza Strip, perform at the Tucson Weekly’s Spring Club Crawl®. Tempest Broog Productions presents Night

of the Dog Star!, a benefit for Tucson CARES Animal Rescue, at Plush. In addition to several burlesque performers, the event features live music by Ensphere, The Modeens, Fish Karma and The Pork Torta. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Tucson International Mariachi Conference leaves its longtime home at the Tucson Convention Center for new digs at Casino del Sol. Performers include Shaila Dúrcal, Mariachi Nuevo Tecalitlan and Mariachi Femenil Nuevo Tecalitlan. The 13th annual KFMA Day, at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, features performances by Incubus, Cage the Elephant, Chevelle, Dirty Heads, Neon Trees, Awolnation, Anberlin and Civil Twilight. The Bisbee Pop Narkotic Party, featuring more than a dozen acts from Tucson and Bisbee, including Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl, The Tryst, Hans Hutchison, One Gentle Mule and Jacob Acosta, is held at the Battle Stags Fine Art Garage. DV8 hosts Stop the Violence, which features a lineup of local rappers memorializing Carlos Sandoval, a Salpointe Catholic High School student who was murdered at age 17. Performers include Eclipzo, E-Fresh, AZ Celebrities, Monster House, Cash Lansky, Celena Santa Cruz and Killa Highlife. Proceeds from the event are donated to Homicide Survivors. Notable releases: Naïm Amor, Dansons; Otherly Love, 5+5=X; The Project, Child Support; The Vases, Manic; Jonestown Band, The Last Days of Jonestown.

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PERFORMANCE AWARDS Blues Tom Walbank (C, R): 34.8 percent Runners up: 2. Bad News Blues Band (R): 33.3 percent 3. Bryan Dean Trio (C, R): 31.9 percent Bluegrass Dusty Buskers (C, R): 42.2 percent Runners up: 2. Cadillac Mountain (C, R): 25.7 percent 3. Greg Morton Band (C, R): 17.6 percent 4. Run Boy Run (C): 14.6 percent Country/Western LeeAnne Savage (R): 45.7 percent Runners up: 2. Al Perry (C): 24.2 percent 3. Cochise County All Stars (C): 15.5 percent 4. Hank Topless (C): 13.8 percent Cover Band 80’s and Gentlemen (R): 23.9 percent Runners up: 2. Top Dead Center (R): 16.3 percent 3. Whole Lotta Zep (C): 16.2 percent 4. Atom Heart Mother (C): 15.5 percent 5. The Zsa Zsas (C): 14.7 percent 6. Vintage Sugar (R): 13.4 percent

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DJ Matt McCoy (C, R): 35.3 percent Runners up: 2. Kidd Kutz (R): 30.9 percent 3. Carl Hanni (C): 13.1 percent 4. Herm (C): 12 percent 5. Bonus (C): 8.7 percent Electronic … music video? (C, R): 28 percent Runners up: 2. Leather Clutch (R): 25.3 percent 3. Zackey Force Funk (C): 19.6 percent 4. Altrice (C, R): 13.7 percent 5. CrimeKillz (C): 13.3 percent Folk Silver Thread Trio (C, R): 34.4 percent Runners up: 2. Ryanhood (R): 16.3 percent 3. The Tangelos (R): 15.6 percent 4. Amber Norgaard (R): 13.1 percent 5. Dylan Charles (C): 12.4 percent 6. Namoli Brennet (C): 8.2 percent Funk/Soul Kiss and the Tells (C): 24.5 percent Runners up: 2. The AmoSphere (C, R): 20.3 percent 3. Kate Becker and the Zodiacs (C): 18.9 percent 4. 8 Minutes to Burn (R): 18.3 percent 5. Funky Bonz (C, R): 17.8 percent Hip Hop The Project (R): 39.9 percent Runners up: 2. Shaun Harris (C, R): 31.0 percent 3. Isaiah Toothtaker (C): 17.3 percent 4. Big Meridox (C): 11.7 percent Jazz The Tryst (R): 34.9 percent Runners up: 2. Collin Shook Trio (C, R): 17.8 percent 3. The Black Jackalope Ensemble (C): 16.5 percent 4. Jazz Telephone (C, R): 16.2 percent 5. Matt Mitchell/Hot Club of Tucson (C): 14.6 percent

Latin Jazz/Salsa Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta (C, R): 37.8 percent Runners up: 2. Tesoro (R): 21.8 percent 3. Salvador Duran (C): 16.3 percent 4. Combo Westside (C): 9.7 percent 5. A Son y Sol (C): 9 percent 6. Reno del Mar (R): 5.4 percent Mariachi Aztlan de Pueblo High School (C, R): 37.1 percent Runners up: 2. Luz de Luna (C, R): 33.9 percent 3. Tesoro de Tucson (C): 29 percent Metal Stands With Fists (R): 41 percent Runners up: 2. Young Hunter (C): 27.4 percent 3. Anakim (C): 16.9 percent 4. The Gallery (C): 14.7 percent Punk Acorn Bcorn (C): 22.7 percent Runners up: 2. Deceptively Innocent (R): 20.1 percent 3. Lenguas Largas (C): 18.8 percent 4. Lariats (R): 15.3 percent 5. Church Key (C): 11.7 percent 6. Ultramaroon (C): 11.4 percent Reggae/Ska Neon Prophet (C, R): 56.6 percent Runners up: 2. Planet Jam (C, R): 30.1 percent 3. Skitn (C, R): 13.4 percent Rock Broken Romeo (R): 22.6 percent Runners up: 2. The Whiskey Knuckles (R): 21.4 percent 3. Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout (C): 21.3 percent 4. Seashell Radio (C): 19.8 percent 5. HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS (C): 14.9 percent

Runners up: 2. Al Foul (C, R): 30.7 percent 3. Last Call Brawlers (C): 23.2 percent Tejano Hollywood Knights (C, R): 35.4 percent Runners up: 2. Los Gallegos (C): 25.1 percent 3. The Festival Band (R): 15.7 percent 4. Suerte (R): 15.3 percent 5. Relente (R): 8.5 percent World Batucaxé (C, R): 27.4 percent Runners up: 2. Gabriel Sullivan and Taraf de Tucson (C): 25.4 percent 3. Spirit Familia (C): 20 percent 4. Vox Urbana (C): 13.7 percent 5. Key Ingredients of African Soul (C): 13.6 percent

MUSICIANS AWARDS Female Vocalist LeeAnne Savage (R): 33.1 percent Runners up: 2. Silver Thread Trio (C): 21 percent 3. Keli Carpenter (The Tryst) (C, R): 15.8 per cent 4. Sabra Faulk (C): 13.5 percent 5. Katherine Byrnes (Sweet Ghosts, Michael P.’s Big Band) (C): 9.8 percent 6. Amy Rude (C): 6.8 percent Male Vocalist Brian Lopez (C, R): 36.3 percent Runners up: 2. Cameron Hood (Ryanhood) (R): 19.8 percent 3. James Turpin (Broken Romeo) (R): 17.8 percent 4. Carlos Arzate (American Android) (C): 13.7 percent 5. Paul Jenkins (… music video?) (C): 12.4 percent Songwriter LeeAnne Savage (R): 35.7 percent Runners up: 2. Keli Carpenter (The Tryst) (R): 19.6 percent 3. Cameron Hood (Ryanhood) (R): 15.6 percent 4. Isaac Reyes (Lenguas Largas) (C): 11.2 percent 5. Amy Rude (C): 9.9 percent 6. Hank Topless (C): 8 percent continued on Page T12

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Tucson music veteran LeeAnne Savage takes home two of the top 2012 TAMMIES F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives, which is debatable. But there certainly can be multiple chapters. Singersongwriter LeeAnne Savage’s career is a good example. A veteran of more than two decades in Tucson music, Savage took home the honors at this year’s Tucson Area Music Awards for Band/Entertainer of the Year and, for her To the N9nes, Best New Release. She also was honored as the top country artist. Released early this year, To the N9nes is Savage’s second album, following 1997’s Neptune Amor, a document of her days fronting such popular dance-rock groups as LeeAnne Savage and Her Dyn-O-Mite Party Band and Shockadelica.

Born in Missouri and raised in Illinois, Savage moved to Tucson in 1987. She hadn’t really performed much before moving here. “Music was much more a fantasy to me as a child,” she says. “I was painfully shy. My singing into the hairbrush was the extent of it, although I was in a choir in school.” After settling in the Old Pueblo, Savage sang with several groups—Secret Lives, White Rabbit, Vital Signs and Reform School—while developing her skills and style. She also was tapped to fill in temporarily for the lead singer of a Los Angeles-based band called the Game, which turned into a two-year commitment to touring with that act. When she returned to Tucson in the mid1990s, Savage built bands that became some of

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the most-popular club draws in Tucson, in large part due to her explosive singing and playfully sexy presence onstage. After a while, though, she grew weary of having to play so many cover songs and not being able to concentrate on her original songwriting. “I had released Neptune Amor, and we were playing a combination of originals with highenergy covers,” she says. “We had built up an audience with this style of party rock and soul, and we were paid very well. But I was growing frustrated, because when we would perform originals, the audience wasn’t with us. There were a couple of originals they would respond to—people still ask me to play ‘I Want Barbie’s Doll’ or ‘Don’t Wait Up.’” But, most of the time, she says, the audience’s attention drifted when Savage wasn’t playing Prince, Madonna or INXS covers. “They would stare blankly at us; they couldn’t relate. There was no connection.” She notes that over the course of a music career that has waxed and waned, and is now surging again, it has been challenging to establish a performing persona and then break it down. Audience expectations can be a tricky thing. For instance, she never downplayed her sexuality onstage during the ’90s—and she certainly understands the complexities of branding and image— but that was only one aspect of who she is. “I’ll just say this: When you’re a performer, you go onstage and assume a certain personality to command the attention of audience,” she says. “And I think, for me, that persona sort of evolved in that environment to be very much a strong female presence, a very dominant presence, sort of the hostess of the party for any given night. “But I always was a small-town Midwest girl at heart. And when I was singing onstage and looking at girls who were 16 with fake IDs in the audience, thinking that if I had a daughter, she would be their age, I started to rethink the message I was putting out there.” She also started to rethink who she was as a musician. “There is the tendency to pigeonhole music, and sometimes that doesn’t allow a performer to explore all the facets of who she is,” she says. Whether she’s playing pop or country or rock, Savage says she is still the same person, but the perspectives of outside observers can sometimes be confining. “It’s not the music or the artist or the songwriter that puts limits on what you do, but it’s everyone else in the music business who wants to put a label on you for the ease of recog-

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nizing what you do.” Savage took the initiative and gave herself the time and opportunity to grow as an artist. From about 2000 to 2006, she rarely performed live, sticking to the occasional private party or corporate gig. During that time, she became a real estate agent and a fitness instructor. Country-influenced pop and rock music, especially when it had a strong songwriting foundation, always bubbled in the back of Savage’s musical consciousness. “I grew up in the Midwest on country music. Then I took a break from it, and I got into the music of Aerosmith, Styx and Boston,” she says. “And as I started pulling out of the club scene, when I was writing, there were these very strong storylines there, which is a large part of country. As much as you maybe try to get away from what you know best, it’s inevitable that you go back to it, and when you do, you find yourself.” Around 2005, she found herself writing the songs on To the N9nes, which lean toward the heartland-born country pop and twangy rock often associated with John Mellencamp, one of Savage’s musical heroes. Lyrically vivid and melodically rich, the album is packed with excellent material such as “I Like to Play With Boys,” “Say I Do,” “I’m Always With You,” “The Way You Got to Me” and the downright-anthemic tracks “Midwest Small Town” and “Good All-American Girl.” Savage recorded the album with top session musicians in Nashville, and she says she couldn’t have been happier with the musicianship. But she also has assembled a Tucson band she calls top-notch. It includes bassist Troy James Martin, drummer Daniel Thomas, lead guitarist Charles Lolmaugh, acoustic guitarist Eric Schaffer and keyboards-player Robert Glenn Francis. “We get to rehearse once a week or so, maybe more often, according to the gig load,” she says. “Everyone is really busy with day jobs and having a life. We’re adults now.” Savage admits she wasn’t as comfortable in the studio for To the N9nes as she would have liked to have been, but she knows the next album will go a lot more smoothly. She has been writing energetically and already has more than enough new material for another recording that she hopes to see released in the spring. “It’s just a matter of picking the right songs for cohesion and getting into the studio to get them down,” she says.

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Boreas, the TAMMIES Up-and-Coming Artists of the Year, begin work on their ‘opus one’

Boreas plays pop music, but with a secretly subversive twist. A strong background of formal musical training leads the band into what they call an “uncanny valley of pop music.” “We sound really close to music that people know, but there’s just something a little weird about it,” says singer-guitarist Sam Golden. The 2012 TAMMIES Up-And-Coming Artists of the Year, Boreas consists of Golden and Evan Casler on guitar, Bob Hanshaw on bass, and Seth Vietti on drums. The band cites influences as varied as Animal Collective, the Beach Boys, Radiohead and Paul Simon as contributing to the band’s sound, which is catchy and full of four-part harmonies, but at the same time dense and complex musically. Golden said the aesthetic he strives for when writing music is to be “accessible but not ordinary,” which is how Leonard Bernstein described Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. “All of us just like making music that we like. We’re not making music for anybody. It’s objectless, and we’re very happy people like it. But we’re not playing for people; we’re playing for ourselves,” Golden says. It’s an attitude very much in line with what the band sees as the artistic spirit of Tucson, an ego-less approach of creating art, whether or not anybody will ever see it.

“It’s not there to be marketed; it’s there to celebrate one’s own creativity,” Casler says. “If we can toe that line of sharing our art, while still creating art to celebrate what we feel inside creatively, that’s a great balance to have. And that’s a genuine Tucson spirit.” Boreas grew out of Grandpa Moses, a folk band that Golden and Vietti put together in high school, later recruiting Hanshaw to play bass for the 2007 Arizona Daily Star Battle of the Bands, where they won the Popular Choice Award. When they began recording an album, the band morphed into Boreas, taking the name from one of their songs. (They then changed the name of that song so it wouldn’t serve as a theme song.) Boreas put in a full summer of practicing and songwriting every day, then split up for college, with Golden at Arizona State University, Hanshaw at the UA, and Vietti “bouncing around a bit.” But they knew Boreas wasn’t done. “We had these tentacle groups playing, trying to have a Boreas group in all the cities we lived in,” Golden says. “The time was very productive, not just immediately for the band. We were all studying music.” Golden and Vietti returned to Tucson in 2011, and the pieces were in place for Boreas to start again. “Summer 2011, we just slammed together an EP in two weeks so we could have something to sell, and went on tour,” Hanshaw says. “Then we came back, and we were totally tight from playing 14 shows in 17 days.” That’s when Casler joined the band to replace a temporary touring guitarist. At first merely “hired muscle,” Casler eventually carved out his own niche to balance the other three musicians. “It became apparent we needed a fourth person to play the songs live. We’d been writing songs that were so centered around studio work, adding things piece by piece, and we ended up with songs that were bigger than we could play live,” Vietti says. “It’s definitely a product of the four of us. We each have very different inspirations and influences, and kind of smash them all together in practices.” Boreas songs tend to start with Hanshaw’s lyrics, which he’ll pass to Golden—contextfree, with no melody or chords or musical ideas at all—to start with. Golden works on the music from there, bringing ideas to the band in practice. “The nice thing about this process we have

going on right now is before, at least for me, it would take one or two months to write a song I was happy with. But when Bob gives me lyrics, I could crank out a song in a day or two. There’s hardcore synergy going on with the songwriting process,” Golden says. Though Golden writes roughly 80 percent of the band’s music, and Hanshaw puts together a similar portion of Boreas’ lyrics, the process doesn’t seem to work in the opposite direction, at least not with the same ease. “For some reason, it takes me a really long time to write lyrics when Sam brings me a song without words, even though I really like doing that,” Hanshaw says. “It’s just hard to shoehorn natural-sounding language into an existing musical structure.”

In the space of a year, the band has gone from struggling to reproduce its recorded material live, to embarking on a new album that, for the first time, will represent the excitement of their quickly evolving live show. “We are at the very beginning of recording a new album, and we really want this one to capture the live experience in a way that none of our other stuff has,” Hanshaw says. “The stuff we have recorded, while it’s good and I stand by it, exists only in the studio. There’s something about our live show that I really just love, being able to totally explode into the music.” The band plans to spend the fall, winter and spring writing new songs, honing their current material onstage and scheduling sessions with a producer, recording full-band live takes as much as possible. “I describe our first album and two EPs and singles as kind of the juvenilia. This is opus one. This going to be our first real mature statement as a band,” Golden says. Boreas’ task, from now until May, is to write and perform, pushing and pulling their songs in different directions and testing them out live, letting the songs evolve into what’s best. “There are a lot of songs that we’re just generating now that we want on the album. The best way for us to figure out what those songs are supposed to sound like is to play them live, experiment, and see what kind of response we get,” Casler says. “We definitely feed a lot on having an audience there and having to be performers. That’s what we are onstage, just children playing in the sandbox, and I’m glad that it seems to resonate with people.”

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Linda Ronstadt and her grandfather, Federico, join the Tucson Area Music Awards Hall of Fame No lifetime achievement award seems more appropriate than this year’s Tucson Area Music Awards Hall of Fame recognition of singer Linda Ronstadt and her grandfather, Federico Ronstadt. We all know Linda Ronstadt as the superstar country-rock artist who branched out to do everything from American standards with Nelson Riddle to a pair of mariachi ranchera albums that revived interest in that music around the world. But the Ronstadt family in general has had an inestimable impact on our city’s musical landscape since the day 14-year-old apprentice carriage-maker Federico Ronstadt arrived in 1882. Federico Ronstadt’s is an exemplary American-immigrant story. The son of a mining engineer, Federico grew up in the small village of Bonomici, Sonora. He was a master metalworker and woodworker who became one of the most-popular carriage-makers in the Southwest, and his work was highly sought in Mexico as well. Early in the 20th century, he moved from carriage-making into the hardware business and, later, automotive sales. He also was active in the city’s political scene. But what he is likely most remembered for is his love of music. He grew up on a mix of Mexican folk music and classical music, and learned the guitar, flute, clarinet and piano along the way. Linda Ronstadt still owns the 1890 Martin guitar he played for her when she was a child. In 1888, Federico founded the first classicalmusic ensemble in the city’s history—the Club Filarmónico. Initially, it had just eight to 10 members, but it became one of the mostimportant ensembles of its type in the entire Southwest. It had a rough start. Few of its members could read music, and Federico, with his brother Ricardo, taught the members how to play their instruments, along with sightreading. The first group consisted of winds and strings, with Federico playing clarinet and Ricardo on flute. The Club Filarmónico debuted at Carrillo’s Gardens in 1890 and became immediately popular. The group raised money for brass instruments and drums, and was soon playing weekly around town. It was especially popular around patriotic holidays. Federico was also a composer, and there is a story that one of his pieces got into the hands of renowned bandleader John Philip Sousa, who T10 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

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Linda Ronstadt wrote about the piece. That’s roughly like having Paul McCartney write about your song at the height of the Beatles’ popularity. In 1896, the much-larger group traveled to California by rail. Federico wrote about it in his diary, which later became the book Borderman. He wrote about the difficulties in getting there and the various reactions at the venues where Club Filarmónico played. Of those passages, Linda says, “He could as easily been talking about my own first trips to California, or those of my brother Michael (also an accomplished musician, fronting the Ronstadts and Ronstadt Generations bands).” In 1897, Club Filarmónico merged with its competitor, the Banda Militar, and Federico was chosen to lead the group. Most of the players in

the combined group joined the National Guard during the Spanish-American War, after which Ronstadt gave up the baton to pursue his business interests. But in 1929, he was back at it again, this time as one of the founding board members of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra—the longest continuously operated orchestra in the western United States. Federico was among those who insisted it perform only a classical repertoire, rather than including dance-band music, as Club Filarmónico had done. Federico had two families, with seven children by his first wife, and four by his second. His first family included a very special musical daughter, Luisa Espinel, who was Arizona’s first opera star. She was a world-renowned interpreter of Spanish art songs, as well as a field collector of folk songs. She starred in Tucson’s first production of La Traviata and had a bit part in the Marlene Dietrich film The Devil Is a Woman. In 1946, Espinel notated and assembled a folio of all of the Mexican folk songs her father had sung to her as a child. Titled Canciones de Mi Padre, it is the sole source of Sonoran folk songs of the 19th century known to be in existence. In the 1980s, Linda Ronstadt would borrow the title for her own first recording of mariachi repertoire. Federico’s second family included Linda’s father, Gilbert Ronstadt, whose own love of music was formative in Linda’s development. In fact, with the exception of the rock music she made, virtually everything else she recorded has its origins in his record collection, which was the soundtrack to family life every Sunday afternoon. There is no doubt that Linda Ronstadt is our city’s biggest musical superstar. She earned her accolades through hard work, perfectionism and a curious musical spirit. As a child, Linda grew up singing harmony with her siblings, Peter, Gretchen (Suzy) and Michael, as dishes were washed in the evening. Peter had been a prized soloist in the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, and it is from him studying The Pirates of Penzance that she picked up that later recording role. As a young teen, she sang with Peter’s folk group, the New Union Ramblers, at coffee shops around the University of Arizona. She quit Catalina High School in 1964, attended the University of Arizona for a semester or two, then headed off to California, where

she partnered with Tucson musical buddy Bobby Kimmel to seek her musical fortune. They teamed up with guitarist/vocalist Kenny Edwards in a group called the Stone Poneys and scored a major hit with Mike Nesmith’s “Different Drum.” After three albums with the Stone Poneys, Linda went solo. A long string of hits followed, including “You’re No Good,” “Silver Threads and Golden Needles,” “When Will I Be Loved,” “Alison,” “Crazy,” “Blue Bayou,” “Poor Pitiful Me,” “Long, Long Time,” “Adios,” “I Don’t Know Much” and “Ooh Baby Baby.” The backup band she assembled for her early recordings eventually also went out on its own, as the Eagles. During a career that ended just two years back, Linda Ronstadt earned 10 Grammys, two Academy of Country Music Awards, an Emmy, and an Alma Award. She recorded gold and platinum records (certified sales of half a million and a million copies, respectively) as a solo artist and with such partners as Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Nelson Riddle. In the 1980s, she defied her record label and teamed up with the best mariachis on the planet to release Canciones de Mi Padre and the subsequent Mas Canciones. The project was hatched at the Tucson International Mariachi Conference, where Ronstadt got to meet the musical heroes she’d heard for years through her dad’s record collection. Her recordings catalyzed a revival of interest in mariachi music around the world, and propelled the mariachiconference movement in the U.S. and Mexico. From the 1990s through the early 21st century, Ronstadt’s recordings were sporadic but golden. She chose beautiful jazz standards for the bulk of them, and learned to use the studio to enhance what she considered to be her declining voice. Even in decline, her artistry was far greater than 90 percent of what made the airwaves on radio and television. The last performance of her career was in 2010 in San Antonio with the group she says she enjoyed playing with more than any other— Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano. Today, she lives in the San Francisco Bay area, where she continues to support music education and political causes.

The Tucson Area Music Awards Hall of Fame Inductees 1994: Dean Armstrong 1995: Travis Edmonson 1997: Rainer Ptacek 1998: Chuck “Wagon” Maultsby 1999: Brad Singer 2000: Stefan George 2001: George Hawke 2002: Lalo Guerrero 2003: Lisa Otey 2004: Brian Bromberg 2005: Al Perry 2006: George Howard 2007: Ernie Menehune 2008: Sand Rubies 2009: Calexico 2010: Howe Gelb 2011: Neon Prophet 2012: Federico and Linda Ronstadt

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WINNERS’ LIST continued from Page T7 Guitarist Bryan Dean (R): 28.2 percent Runners up: 2. Ryan Green (Ryanhood) (C, R): 21.1 percent 3. Mike Sydloski (Cheepness, Atom Heart Mother) (C): 14 percent 4. Doug Floyd (Funky Bonz, The Jits, Amber Norgaard, Bad Tourist) (R): 13.9 percent 5. Connor Gallaher (Catfish and Weezie, Andrew Collberg, Marianne Dissard) (C): 13.3 percent 6. Clay Koweek (Taraf de Tucson, Donky Tonk Music, Andrew Collberg, Otherly Love, Will Elliott) (C): 9.5 percent Bassist Troy Martin (The Tangelos, LeeAnne Savage) (R): 24.7 percent

Runners up: 2. Ray Clamons (8 Minutes to Burn, Top Dead Center) (R): 31.3 percent 3. Dick Solomon (Ultramaroon, Lenguas Largas, Shark Pants) (C): 18.8 percent 4. Carlos Solorzano (Come Thirsty) (R): 16.6 percent Keyboardist Collin Shook (Collin Shook Trio, The Black Jackalope Ensemble) (C, R): 36.7 percent Runners up: 2. Cassie Van Gelder (Seashell Radio) (C): 24.3 percent 3. John Gatty (Top Dead Center) (R): 23.7 percent 4.. Ralph Martinez (Relente) (R): 15.3 15 percent

Horn Player Jacob Valenzuela (Calexico) (C): 24 percent Runners up: 2. Jon Villa (The Jons, Taraf de Tucson, Y La Orkesta, Giant Giant Sand) (C, R): 22.9 percent 3. Aldy Montufar (The Tryst) (C, R): 17.3 percent 4. Ruben Moreno (Mariachi Luz de Luna) (C): 14.7 percent 5. Rick Hernandez (Festival Band) (R): 11.3 percent 6. Jeff Grubic (Jazz Telephone, Amor/Grubic) (C): 9.9 percent String Player Heather Hardy (C, R): 40.8 percent

Multi-Instrumentalist Sergio Mendoza (Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta) (C): 26.7 percent Runners up: 2. AmoChip Dabney (The AmoSphere, Gentle Thunder) (R): 16.4 percent 3. Ben Schneider (Otherly Love, Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout, Golden Boots) (C): 14.6 percent 4. Michael P. Nordberg (Michael P.’s Big Band, The El Camino Royales) (R): 14.8 percent 5. The Rosano Brothers (C) (Rosano Bros. Virtual Quartet, etc.): 10.3 percent 6. Chris Black (Chamberlab, Taraf de Tucson, The Awkward Moments) (C): 9.6 percent 7. Gary Mackender (The Carnivaleros) (C): 7.6 percent

Runners up: 2. Vicki Brown (Brian Lopez, Amy Rude) (C, R): 24.8 percent 3. Mona Chambers (Brian Lopez) (C, R): 22.3 percent 4. Beth Daunis (Reno del Mar) (C, R): 12 percent

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Runners up: 2. Taylor Bungard (The Tryst, This Group of People) (R): 19.3 percent 3. Brian Green (The Impossibles, Leila Lopez, Courtney Robbins) (C): 17.4 percent 4. Chris Pierce (Faster Than Light, The Black Jackalope Ensemble) (C): 16.3 percent 5. Mark Lee (Funky Bonz, Bad Tourist) (R): 12.9 percent 6. Garth Bryson (Church Key, Garboski) (C): 9.4 percent

Drummer Winston Watson (Saint Maybe, Greyhound Soul) (C): 33.2 percent

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A retired ASU professor looks back at Arizona’s populist roots

Our Progressive Days BY TIM HULL, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com n front of the old neoclassical courthouse in Prescott, there’s a life-size statue of William “Buckey” O’Neill. Miner, lawman, journalist, politician and adventurer, O’Neill was a popular and colorful presence during the state’s Territorial era. He’s remembered today mostly for dying in Cuba while fighting with Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. A plaque on the statue, which the town erected in 1907 to honor those who served in the Spanish-American War, neglects to mention that O’Neill, as a charter member of Arizona’s Populist Party in the 1890s, called for government ownership of the railroads. I suspect the statue would be pulled down like Saddam’s if it did. Yes, everybody knows that our troubled state is these days firmly under the sway of the Gospel of Trickle-Down Economics, the Old Testament and Fox News. But it hasn’t always been so. Indeed, Arizona was once considered to be an arid nest of socialist vipers, so dangerous and unpredictable that President Taft, a Republican, had to approve the new state’s Constitution along with Congress, just to make sure it wasn’t too progressive. Retired Arizona State University professor David Berman traces the rise and fall of such anticorporate, pro-labor sentiment and political action in Arizona from the late Territorial days through World War I in his new study Politics, Labor, and the War on Big Business: The Path of Reform in Arizona, 1890-1920. It wasn’t that men like O’Neill, who started out as a Republican, came to the territory to stir up trouble; in some ways, it was thrust upon them. The railroad and mining corporations, as Berman tells it, took advantage of the seemingly blank slate. They kicked the workers in the teeth and the guts whenever they got the chance, and paid virtually no taxes. They spent the money that should have gone into the public coffers on bribing Territorial legislators. The railroad corporations were O’Neill’s particular target. He frequently cried out that most of the land and capital in the territory was controlled by elites who were “richer than any class the world has ever seen.” O’Neill and the populists never had much success at the ballot box, but Berman traces their influence all the way to statehood and the progressive policies of Gov. George W.P. Hunt. Populist ideas such as direct democracy—ini-

Politics, Labor, and the War on Big Business: The Path of Reform in Arizona, 1890-1920 By David R. Berman University Press of Colorado 376 pages, $55

tiative, referendum and recall—were essential to Hunt’s progressive Democrat platform, many planks of which found their way into the state’s founding document. Hunt, an energetic and determined reformer, did much to further the cause of labor rights in Arizona’s mines. Few industries in the history of capitalism have treated their workers with less humanity. Miners had to fight to get any concession from the owners, who claimed they’d have to shut down if forced to pay their workers fairly and to make the mines safe. These dangerously thin profit margins didn’t seem to be a factor when it came to hiring private armies and spies to put down worker unrest. The workers themselves were far from blameless; unions often fought among themselves more than they did against management, and everybody hated Mexicans. Berman is at his best when he is reforming the somewhat-tarnished image of Hunt. When he took office in 1912 as Arizona’s first governor, Hunt, armed with his “People’s Constitution,” called for an increase in corporate taxation, an eight-hour work day, workers’ compensation, free textbooks in public schools, old-age pensions and other progressive legislation, dredging up the everlasting hatred of the corporate class. Viewed from the perspective of history, Hunt’s policies now seem pretty tame. In fact, Berman’s précis of Hunt’s politics could well serve as a general statement of purpose for a centrist resurgence. “Hunt in many ways was typical of the middle-class progressive reformers of the period who, unlike radicals, did not want to mobilize the working class into a movement aimed at fundamentally restructuring the capitalist system, but instead hoped to eliminate class conflict by changing the behavior of both the public and the business elite—especially the latter—toward pursuit of public interest rather than selfish interest,” Berman writes. “He sought the golden mean somewhere between Socialism and rugged individualism.” Of course, these days in Arizona, that golden mean is nowhere to be found. But it is somewhat heartening to know that things can always change.

ARIZONA 100: ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR THE CENTENNIAL UA Library Special Collections. 1510 E. University Blvd. 621-6423. Inspired by the state’s centennial, a showcase of 100 books that define the cultural, historical, environmental and political landscape of Arizona, from the Spanish Colonial era to the present, continues through Friday, Dec. 14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; free.

TOP TEN Mostly Books’ best-sellers for the week ending Sept. 7, 2012 1. A Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher Novel Lee Child, Delacorte ($28)

2. The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien, Ballantine ($8.99)

3. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Erik Larson, Broadway ($16)

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

5. Animal Farm George Orwell, Signet ($9.99)

6. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger ($16.95)

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

8. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck, Penguin ($16)

9. The Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery

BOOK FAIR TO BENEFIT YWCA Barnes and Noble. 5130 E. Broadway Blvd. 512-1166. From Saturday, Sept. 15, through Thursday, Sept. 20, a percentage of both in-store and online sales benefits YWCA Women’s Leadership and Empowerment Programs. Only purchases made with vouchers qualify for the benefit; download vouchers at ywcatucson.org. DEANNE STILLMAN: DESERT RECKONING Casa Libre en la Solana. 228 N. Fourth Ave. 325-9145. Deanne Stillman reads from her book Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in California History as part of the Trickhouse Live Series, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 18; $5. EDGE 47: READINGS BY EMERGING AND YOUNGER WRITERS Casa Libre en la Solana. 228 N. Fourth Ave. 325-9145. Natalie Diaz, Shann Ray and Bill Wetzel read from their work at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 19; $5 suggested donation. Refreshments are served following the reading. OTHER VOICES READING SERIES Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Lisa Zaran and Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow read from their work at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14; free. Refreshments and an open reading follows. Anyone is welcome to read; sign-up is at 6:45. Visit antigonebooks.com for more information. POG AND FRIENDS POETRY READING The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947. A reading and gathering of poets from more than a dozen poetry-writers’ organizations take place from 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; $5, $3 student. Call 615-7803 for more information. THIRD WEDNESDAY FICTION GROUP Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. A group meets to discuss a work of fiction at 7 p.m., the third Wednesday of every month; free. UA POETRY CENTER READING UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. C.D. Wright reads poetry selections at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 13; free. Visit poetry.arizona.edu for more info.

Craig Johnson, Penguin ($15)

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10. Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

A CLOSER LOOK BOOK CLUB UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. All are welcome to discuss novels and other works of fiction at 6 p.m. on selected Thursdays; free. Sept. 20: Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star, translated by Benjamin Moser. Oct. 25: Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way, translated by Lydia Davis. Nov. 29: Inferno by Dante Alighieri, translated by Mary Jo Bang. Visit poetry.arizona.edu

E.L. James, Vintage ($15.95)

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GECKO GALS SIGNING Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. Ashleen O’Gaea, Carol Costa, Jude Johnson and Mary Ann Hutchison sign their latest releases from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, at the fall festival of the Tucson Area Wiccan/Pagan Network. Call 293-6373 for more information. KEITH LEHRER AND ADRIENNE LEHRER MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Keith Lehrer, author of Art, Self and Knowledge, and Adrienne Lehrer, author of Wine and Conversation, sign and talk about their books at 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, in the bookstore; free. RAFE SAGARIN: LEARNING FROM THE OCTOPUS Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Rafe Sagarin reads from his book Learning From the Octopus: How Secrets From Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Disease, at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; free. Refreshments and a Q&A follow. THOMAS COBB: WITH BLOOD IN THEIR EYES UA Bookstore. 1209 E. University Blvd. 621-2426. Thomas Cobb, the first graduate of the UA’s MFA Creative Writing Program, discusses his new book about Arizona’s deadliest gunfight, the Power Affair, with Bruce Dinges of the Arizona Historical Society, at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 25; free.

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iconic works and invite the audience to join the debate in a salon setting at 5:30 p.m., Wednesdays, Sept. 19 and 26; Oct. 10, 17 and 24; and Nov. 7, 14 and 28; $15, $10 member. Wine and snacks are served. Call or visit moca-tucson.org for dates and topics.

ABBETT BOOK CHOICES Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch Library. 7800 N. Schisler Drive. 594-5200. Members meet to discuss popular titles recommended by other group members, at 2 p.m., the third Wednesday of every month; free.

CONSTITUTION DAY UA James E. Rogers College of Law. 1201 E. Speedway Blvd. 621-1413. Scholars and practitioners review major cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court during its most recent term, from 1 to 4 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14; free. CLE credit is available. Visit rehnquistcenter. org to register.

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BOOKLINKS: A BOOK CLUB FOR ADULTS Miller-Golf Links Branch Library. 9640 E. Golf Links Road. 594-5355. Men and women share insights about a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction books at 12:30 p.m., the second Friday of every month; free. OMNIVOROUS READERS Sahuarita Branch Library. 725 W. Via Rancho Sahuarita. Sahuarita. 594-5490. Author Maurynne Maxwell leads a discussion on a mix of contemporary fiction and nonfiction at 10 a.m., on the third Saturday of every month; free. RIVER READERS BOOK CLUB Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. Adults read and discuss popular fiction titles recommended by group members at 6:30 p.m., on the third Tuesday of every month; free.

LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK ALLEN DART: PREHISTORY OF THE SOUTHWEST Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. 2201 W. 44th St. 7981201. Archaeologist Allen Dart provides an introductory course covering the region’s archaeology and cultures, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., every Friday, through Nov. 16; $50, $40 members of the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and the Arizona Archaeological Society. The cost of the text is additional. Call or email info@oldpueblo. org to register or for more information. ART NOW! CONTEMPORARY ART SINCE 1980 MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Art historians offer differing, and occasionally opposing, perspectives on

THE EXCITING NIGHTLIFE OF BATS Brandi Fenton Memorial Park. 3482 E. River Road. 877-6154. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum conservation biologist Karen Krebbs discusses the biology, adaptations and latest research about bats from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 15, for ages 12 and older; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for reservations and more info. GAYLE DE DE: SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND HEARING St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Gayle De De discusses language comprehension and its relationship to cognitive processes from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 19, at a meeting of the Family Caregiver Support Group; free. HUMANITIES SEMINARS PROGRAM UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Registration is open for 10-week courses and four-week courses comprising the fall seminar series that begins on Monday, Oct. 1; $85 to $195. Course titles and professors are “Mysterious Moments From the History of Astronomy,” Richard Poss; “What’s Bugging You? Insects and Culture,” David Byrne; “The Good Fight Revisited: The Spanish Civil War and Its Intellectual Legacy,” Malcolm Compitello; “Text and the City: Rome in Legend, Myth and Imagination,” Cynthia White; “Nobel Laureates of Literature,” Homer Pettey; “Taking Charge of Aging,” Charlene Kamfe; and “The Archaeology and Geology of Ancient Greece,” Mary Voyatzis and George Davis. Visit hsp.arizona.edu to register and for more information. RICHARD MILLER: WHY DO WE WANT CHURCH-STATE SEPARATION? DuVal Auditorium, UA Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. Richard Miller discusses

what the Constitution says about religion, examples of sectarian and secular constitutions, the Treaty of Tripoli and the Bill of Rights, from 9 to 10:15 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 16; freewill donation. SECULAR VALUES VOTER TOWN HALL DuVal Auditorium, UA Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. Serah Blaine, executive director of Secular Coalition for Arizona, discusses the state of secularism in Arizona and engages with secular voters at 10:30 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 16; freewill donation. A Q&A follows. Call 297-9919 for more info. TMA BREAKFAST CLUB Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. A series of art talks takes place over brunch from 10 a.m. to noon, on selected Tuesdays; $35, $210 includes all seven brunches. Sept. 18: Christine Brindza Glasser, curator of Art of the American West, presents “Straight From the Chuck-line Rider: A Little Western Art Gossip.” A tour of the exhibitions Tucson Collects: Spirit of the West and 100 Years, 100 Ranchers: Photographs by Scott T. Baxter follows.

OUT OF TOWN ALLEN DART: ANCIENT NATIVE-AMERICAN POTTERY Sahuarita Branch Library. 725 W. Via Rancho Sahuarita. Sahuarita. 594-5490. Archaeologist Allen Dart uses digital images and actual artifacts to show NativeAmerican ceramic styles that characterized specific areas in Arizona history and prehistory, from 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15; free. LECTURES AT THE WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Author and historian Jan Cleer presents “Desperado Trails: Outlaws on the Arizona Frontier” at noon and 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15. Former interpretive park ranger Richard Boyer presents “A Glimpse Into the National Parks” at noon and 2 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 19. Lectures are free. Reservations are required, but must be made no earlier than one week in advance; call between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for directions.

UPCOMING DISCOVERING THE DESERT’S BOUNTY Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Herbalist Laurie Melrood leads a workshop about how the desert’s variety of trees, cacti and plants have been used by indigenous communities for food, medicine, dyes, tools, toys, baskets, furniture and more, from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 23; $17.50 includes park admission. Reservations are recommended. Visit tubacpresidiopark.com for more information. LECTURES AT THE WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Alan Kruse presents “Father Kino: Padre With a Mission” at noon and 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22. Authors and historians Bill Broyles, Gayle Harrison Hartmann and Thomas E. Sheridan discuss their book Last Water on the Devil’s Highway, at noon and 2 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 26. Lectures are free. Reservations are required, but must be made no earlier than one week in advance; call between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for directions or more information. TAKING THE POLITICS OUT OF REDISTRICTING (OR NOT) Lewis and Roca. 1 S. Church Ave., Room 700. 6222090. Linda McNulty, commissioner of the Independent Redistricting Commission, and Joe Kanefield, counsel to the Independent Redistricting Commission, present, “Taking the Politics Out of Redistricting (Or Not),” from 3 to 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20; $100 donation. The seminar is in Phoenix, and in Tucson via videoconferencing. A cocktail reception and fundraiser for the institute follows. Visit lrlaw.com for details; email eskatz@ questoffice.net by Thursday, Sept. 13, for reservations. TOUR OF LOS MORTEROS AND PICTURE ROCKS To celebrate the autumnal equinox, archaeologist Allen Dart leads a tour of Los Morteros, an ancient village with a Hohokam ball court, and other sites, from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Sept. 22; $15, $12 member of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center or Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary. The tour departs from the corner of Silverbell Road and Linda Vista Boulevard. Reservations are required. Call 798-1201, or email info@oldpueblo.org for more information.

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BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com t a critical juncture in Branded, an imaginary dragon, representing a healthy vegetarian fast-food restaurant, emerges from its egg and attacks the imaginary amorphous clowns that represent a leading burger chain. Roughly 15 minutes before that, a cow was slaughtered by a marketing whiz-kid as part of a ritual sacrifice. Welcome to the imaginations of filmmakers Jamie Bradshaw and Aleksandr Dulerayn. Bradshaw and Dulerayn have chosen to critique the invasive role of marketing through a movie so boundlessly absurd and ridiculous that any point they try to make is completely obscured by their inability to construct a cohesive or even competent motion picture. The action begins exactly where you’d expect a movie about marketing to begin: Moscow. Didn’t you know that it’s the center of the advertising world? Sure, since the fall of communism, there’s plenty of commercialism and consumerism in the former Soviet Union, but would anyone believe that the heartbeat of marketing is a few doors down from the Kremlin? Misha (Ed Stoppard) assures us that it is. He tells his girlfriend, Abby (Leelee Sobieski), that Lenin created the first “superbrand”—Soviet communism—and he then explains it in such a way that any previous school of thought with enough adherents could have also created the first superbrand, be it Christianity or Kamehameha. In essence, Misha argues, anything people bow to and bend to is the result of great marketing. Together, Misha and Abby are producing a reality TV series that transforms fat housewives into beauty queens through a regimen of plastic surgeries. When there’s trouble in the operating room, all of Russia blames the producers of the show, and Misha vows never to use his marketing skills again. Meanwhile, a wizened marketing ace (oh, poor Max von Sydow) has been hired by the fast-food titans to shore up their flagging business and pick up on the new body consciousness. His solution is to convince consumers that fat is the new fabulous. If people find fat sexy, fast-food profits will increase. Remember the slaughtered cow? Here’s how it fits in: Misha, who did the only logical thing when he left marketing and became a shepherd, is troubled one night by a dream. As a result, he builds a weird wooden temple, leads a cow to its ultimate demise, and dumps its blood over his head. This cleansing allows him to see things nobody else can see, and to solve a problem nobody else even realizes is a problem. OK, then.

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2. Battleship Universal

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4. Safe Lionsgate

5. The Dictator Paramount

6. Dexter: Season 6 (Discs 1 and 2) Showtime/Paramount

7. The Lucky One Warner Bros.

8. Bernie Millennium

9. Dexter: Season 6 (Discs 3 and 4) Showtime/Paramount

10. Sons of Anarchy: Season 4

Leelee Sobieski in Branded. Fueled by cow blood, Misha can now see things like the dragon and the shapeless clowns hovering around anyone’s head that let him visualize what fuels their impulses and desires. If you haven’t had a burger in a couple of days, the hovering clown grows larger; eat a burger, and it shrinks. And with his new X-ray powers, Misha sees that marketing is the problem, not the solution. And the only way to effectively battle marketing and make the world whole again is to … wait for it … market something else instead, hence the dragon ushering in a new era of healthy alternatives to fast food. So if you’re keeping score, marketing is now both the problem and the solution. To be sure, marketing is at something of a cultural tipping point. Targeted ads follow you wherever you go on the Internet, reminding you of a site you’ve visited in the past. Companies send you text messages about upcoming promotions. NBA jerseys will feature corporate logos next season. The next Amazon Kindle will load ads to your tablet’s home screen unless you pay to not have them. None of these marketing channels existed 15 years ago. The prescient use of marketing messages in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report was not too far off: We’re entering an era where ads can be closely tailored to your specific wants and needs. So the ground covered in Branded is absolutely worth investigation. But like this? As cinematic tests of endurance go, Branded

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Branded Rated R Starring Ed Stoppard, Leelee Sobieski and Jeffrey Tambor

Katey Sagal in Sons of Anarchy.

Directed by Aleksandr Dulerayn and Jamie Bradshaw Roadside, 106 minutes Now playing at Century El Con 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 902).

is in the same gold-medal qualifying round as the Nicolas Cage remake of The Wicker Man: It’s excruciating, but in the same rubbernecking tradition of that gem, you almost have to see it to fully appreciate the suckage. The low-budget seams are visible throughout, which raises the question of why Bradshaw and Dulerayn—also producers—made a film that requires a large budget to be effective, to say nothing of why they made a film about marketing that involves a pivotal animal sacrifice. All the while, a disquietingly mechanical narrator (she sounds like Siri’s more-outgoing sister) covers steep chasms in the storytelling that would simply be unanswered questions otherwise. Maybe the directors found just the right number of unanswered questions and didn’t want to overdo it. If you’re a connoisseur of truly awful films, bon appetit. SEPTEMBER 13 – 19, 2012

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AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10; FriWed 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25; Fri-Sun 11, 2, 5, 8, 11; Mon-Wed 11, 2, 5, 8 Brave (PG) ends Thu 11:50, 2:25, 4:50 The Campaign (R) Thu 12:25, 2:45, 5:25, 7:50; Fri-Wed 1:40, 6:45 The Cold Light of Day (PG13) Thu 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15; Fri-Wed 10 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 1:30, 5, 8:30; Fri-Sun 11:40, 3:30, 7:05, 10:35; MonWed 11:40, 3:30, 7:05 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 11:35, 2:05, 4:45, 7:35, 10:05; Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sun 11:15, 12:25, 2, 3, 4:45, 5:40, 7:30, 8:15, 10:10, 10:50; Mon-Wed 11:15, 12:25, 2, 3, 4:45, 5:40, 7:30, 8:15, 10:10 Hit and Run (R) ends Thu 10 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:35, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45; Fri-Wed 11:05, 4:10, 9 Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark: The IMAX Experience (PG) ends Thu 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:45 Last Ounce of Courage (PG) Fri-Wed 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 Lawless (R) Thu 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55; Fri-Wed 11:20, 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) ends Thu 7:15 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:25, 10; FriWed 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:25 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 11:05, 4:05, 9:15; FriWed 11:05, 4:05 ParaNorman 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 6:45; Fri-Wed 1:30 The Possession (PG-13) Thu 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8, 10:20; Fri-Wed 11:25, 1:55, 4:25, 7:15, 9:35 Premium Rush (PG-13) ends Thu 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; FriWed 11:55, 2:45 Resident Evil: Retribution 3D (R) Fri-Sun 5:30, 8:15, 10:45; Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:15, 10:40 Resident Evil:Retribution —An IMAX 3D Experience (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11, 1:45, 38 WWW. WEEKLY.COM

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Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 902. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) Thu 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50; FriWed 12:15, 2:35, 5 The Birds (PG-13) Wed 2, 7 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Branded (R) ends Thu 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 The Campaign (R) Thu 11:35, 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30; Fri-Wed 11:35, 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:25 Celeste and Jesse Forever (R) Thu 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 10:10; FriWed 12:25, 5:10, 10:10 Chinatown (R) Thu 2, 7 The Cold Light of Day (PG-13) Thu 12, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45; Fri-Mon 7:20, 9:45; Wed 7:20, 9:45 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu-Wed 11:25, 3, 6:30, 10 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8, 10:30; Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:30, 12:45, 2:10, 3:20, 4:50, 6, 7:30, 8:45, 10:10 For a Good Time, Call... (R) Fri-Wed 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu-Tue 11:25, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Wed 11:25 Last Ounce of Courage (PG) Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:20, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Lawless (R) Thu-Wed 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:20, 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:35; FriWed 11:20, 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:35 ParaNorman (PG) ThuWed 11:40, 2:10, 4:35, 7:35, 10:05 The Possession (PG-13) Thu 12, 1, 2:25, 3:25, 4:50, 5:50, 7:10, 8:10, 9:40, 10:30; Fri-Wed 1, 3:25, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu 12:05, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; Fri-Wed 2:45, 7:30 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Fri-Wed 5:30 Resident Evil: Retribution 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:20, 12:30, 1:55, 3, 4:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:30 Robot and Frank (PG-13) Thu 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 The Words (PG-13) ThuWed 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30

Century Gateway 12 770 N. Kolb Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 962. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7; Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:50, 7, 10; Sun-Mon 12:50, 3:50, 7; Tue 12:50, 3:50, 7, 10; Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7 The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 3:10, 6:10; Fri-Sat 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10; Sun-Mon 12:10, 3:10, 6:10; Tue 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10; Wed 12:10, 3:10, 6:10 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10; Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35; SunMon 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 12:55, 3:45, 7:20; Fri-Sat 7:35, 10:05; Sun-Mon 7:35; Tue 7:35, 10:05; Wed 7:35 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7:15 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG-13) Fri-Sat 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40; Sun-Mon 12, 3:15, 6:30; Tue 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40; Wed 12, 3:15, 6:30 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30; Fri-Sat 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10; Sun-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 Moonrise Kingdom (PG13) Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:05, 7:25; Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55; Sun-Mon 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25; Tue 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55; Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25 Safety Not Guaranteed (R) ends Thu 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15 Savages (R) ends Thu 12:45, 3:55, 7:05 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 12:35, 3:40, 6:55; FriSat 12:35, 3:40, 6:55, 9:45; Sun-Mon 12:35, 3:40, 6:55; Tue 12:35, 3:40, 6:55, 9:45; Wed 12:35, 3:40, 6:55 Step Up Revolution (PG13) Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:50; Sun-Mon 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20; Tue 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:50; Wed 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20 Ted (R) Thu 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40; Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20; Sun-Mon 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40; Tue 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20; Wed 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) Thu 12, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50; Fri-Wed 12:55, 4 The Watch (R) Thu 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45; Fri-Sat 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15; SunMon 12:25, 2:55, 5:20,

7:45; Tue 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15; Wed 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45

Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. Call for Fri-Wed film times 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 The Birds (PG-13) Wed 2, 7 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 12:55, 4, 7:10, 10:15 The Campaign (R) Thu 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Chinatown (R) Thu 2, 7 The Cold Light of Day (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 12:05, 3:50, 7:30 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) Thu 11:30, 1:55, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 11, 1:35, 4:20, 7, 9:40 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Mon 11:10, 12:35, 1:55, 3:20, 4:40, 6, 7:25, 8:45, 10:10; Tue 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40; Wed 11:10, 12:35, 1:55, 3:20, 4:40, 6, 7:25, 8:45, 10:10 Hope Springs (PG-13) opens Fri Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 11:25, 2, 4:30, 6:55, 9:25 Lawless (R) ends Thu 11:20, 2:15, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) ends Thu 12:10, 3:25, 6:40, 10 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) ends Thu 11, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 11:05, 1:30, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 ParaNorman 3D (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 The Possession (PG-13) Thu 11:15, 12:30, 1:40, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8, 9:10, 10:30 Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Fri-Mon 12:30, 3, 5:30; Tue 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10; Wed 12:30, 3, 5:30 Resident Evil: Retribution 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; FriMon 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 8, 9:15, 10:30; Wed 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 8, 9:15, 10:30 The Words (PG-13) Thu 11:35, 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45

Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace 12155 N. Oracle Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 899. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. Call for Sat-Wed film times 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu 12:10, 2:35,

5:05, 7:30, 9:55; Fri 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:55 The Birds (PG-13) Wed 2, 7 The Bourne Legacy (PG-13) Thu 1, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20; Fri 1, 4:05, 7:20, 10:25 The Campaign (R) Thu 10:10 Chinatown (R) Thu 2, 7 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 11, 1:35, 4:15, 7, 9:40; Fri 7:05, 9:35 Farewell, My Queen (R) Fri 11:15, 1:45, 4:25, 7, 9:50 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 10:40, 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:25; Fri 11, 1:35, 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 Lawless (R) Thu 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05; Fri 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:40, 2:15, 5, 7:40, 10:15; Fri 11:40, 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:15 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 11:20, 1:40, 4:05, 6:50, 9:15; Fri 11:20, 1:40, 4 The Possession (PG-13) Thu 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10; Fri 12:10, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10 Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu 12, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Fri 12 Resident Evil: Retribution 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Robot and Frank (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:05, 9:30; Fri 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30 The Words (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45; Fri 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45

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

Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. Call for Fri-Wed film times The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:40 Bernie (PG-13) Thu 11 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 2:05 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 11, 1 Magic Mike (R) Thu 4:35 Moonrise Kingdom (PG13) Thu 11:10, 1:15, 3:25, 5:35, 7:40, 9:55 Ruby Sparks (R) Thu 11:50, 2:15, 7:10, 9:35 Savages (R) Thu 4:45, 9:30 Ted (R) Thu 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 To Rome With Love (R) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:25, 7 The Watch (R) Thu 7:30, 9:45

Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. To Sir, With Love (Not Rated) Sat 7:30; Sun 2

Gallagher Theater UA Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd. 626-0370. Pitch Perfect (PG-13) Tue 6 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 6, 9; Sun 2, 5

Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 806-4275. The Apparition (PG-13) ends Thu 8:10, 10:25 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 7:10, 10:20; Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:50, 6:10, 9:15; Sun-Wed 11:30, 2:50, 6:10, 9:10 The Campaign (R) Thu 1, 3:20, 5:40, 8, 10:15; FriSat 10:45, 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:35; Sun 10:45, 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25; Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 The Cold Light of Day (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Fri-Wed 12:40, 6:15 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 11, 2:30, 6:10, 9:45; Fri-Sat 10:30, 2:10, 6:05, 9:55; Sun 10:30, 2:10, 6:05, 9:35; Mon-Wed 2:10, 6:05, 9:35 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) Thu 12:45, 6:05, 8:50; FriSun 10:20, 1, 4, 6:40; Mon-Wed 1, 4, 6:40 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 11:20, 1:10, 2:10, 4, 5, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40; Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:15, 5, 7:40, 10:10 Finding Nemo (G) Fri-Sun 10; Mon-Wed 12:50 Hit and Run (R) Thu 3:30, 6:20, 9:15; Fri-Sat 10:05, 3:20, 9:05; Sun 10:05, 3:20, 8:40; MonWed 3:20, 8:40 Hope Springs (PG-13) ends Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:20 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) ends Thu 3:15 Last Ounce of Courage (PG) Fri-Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40; Sun-Wed 11:10, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:30 Lawless (R) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10; Fri-Sat 10:15, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Sun 10:15, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10; Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) ends Thu 12, 4:20 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:10, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05; Fri-Sat 11:20, 2, 4:30, 7:10, 10; Sun-Wed 11:20, 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 11:05, 6:30, 9; Fri-Sat 1:20, 6:20, 9; Sun-Wed 1:20, 6:20, 8:45 ParaNorman 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:50; Fri-Sun 10:40, 3:50; Mon-Wed 3:50 The Possession (PG13) Thu 11:15, 12:10, 1:40, 2:40, 4:10, 5:10, 6:40, 7:40, 9:10, 10:10; Fri-Sat 10:10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:40; Sun

10:10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30; Mon-Wed 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30 Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu 12:20, 3:10, 6:15, 9:05; Fri-Sat 9:10; SunWed 9 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Fri-Sat 10:50, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; Sun 10:50, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15; Mon-Wed 11:05, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15 Sparkle (PG-13) ends Thu 11:40 Total Recall (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30; Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45; SunWed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 The Words (PG-13) Thu 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:25; Sun-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05

The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility 2 Days in New York (R) Thu 1, 5:30 All the President’s Men (PG) Wed 3:30 The Dark Power (Not Rated) Mon 8 Farewell, My Queen (R) Thu 2:30, 4:45; Fri 11, 2, 5:30; Sat-Sun 2, 5:30; Mon-Tue 11, 2, 5:30; Wed 11, 5:30 Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Not Rated) Fri-Sat 4:15; Sun 4:15, 9:30; Mon-Wed 9:30 Iron Sky (R) Fri 10; Sat 10, 12; Sun-Wed 10 May I Be Frank? (Not Rated) Sat 10 Out of the Past (Not Rated) Thu 7 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Not Rated) Sun 11; Tue 7 The Queen of Versailles (PG) Thu 12:15 Rec 3: Genesis (R) Thu 10 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) Sat 12 Shogun Assassin (R) FriSat 10 Sleepwalk With Me (Not Rated) Thu 11, 3:15, 7:45, 10; Fri-Tue 1:30, 3:30, 7:50; Wed 1:30, 7:50 Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West (Not Rated) Wed 7 Wild Horse, Wild Ride (PG) Fri-Sun 11:30, 7; Mon 11:30, 5:30; Tue 11:30, 4:30; Wed 11:30, 3

Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) ends Thu 11:10

Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) ends Thu 11:35, 1:40 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) ThuWed 11, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Magic Mike (R) Thu 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; FriWed 7:30, 10 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Fri-Wed 12, 3:10, 6:30, 9:35 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 2, 4:35, 7, 9:30; Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:25 Savages (R) Thu 4, 6:50, 9:40; Fri-Wed 4:40, 9:30 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 4:30; Fri-Wed 11:10, 4:20 Step Up Revolution (PG13) Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 That’s My Boy (R) ends Thu 9:55 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:10; Fri-Wed 11:20, 1:50 The Watch (R) Thu 11:50, 2:10, 7:20, 9:45; Fri-Wed 2, 7:20, 9:45

The Screening Room 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. The Avenue (Not Rated) Sat 7:30

Tower Theatres at Arizona Pavilions 8031 N. Business Park Drive. 579-0500. Call for Fri-Wed film times 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu 11:10, 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 The Campaign (R) Thu 5:35, 7:35 The Cold Light of Day (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 1:10, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 6:25 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 12, 2:15, 4:35, 7 Hit and Run (R) Thu 12:35, 7:10 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 1:50, 4:10 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 11:15, 1:20, 3:25 Lawless (R) Thu 11:45, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 11:40, 2, 4:20, 6:40 The Possession (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 1:30, 3:35, 5:40, 7:45 Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu 2:50, 5 The Words (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 7:40

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Featuring a story within a story within a story, ‘The Words’ is way too convoluted

Overstuffed! BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tusonweekly.com ’m OK with a film telling a story within a story—you know, those movies where a narrator in the present day reads from a book, and we see his story play out. The Princess Bride totally rocked that format. But when you go to a story within a story within a story … well, you start to lose me. That actually happens in The Words, a film boasting a decent cast and at least one good storyline out of the many it throws out. Dennis Quaid, in story No. 1, is a big author at a conference doing a reading of his book. Story No. 2 would be the depiction of the book itself, which is about a writer (Bradley Cooper) who finds a crumply novel in an antique briefcase and decides to publish it as his own. Story No. 3 features Jeremy Irons as the man who wrote the crumply novel. He makes himself known to the plagiarist, and we get a little of his present-day story. Then, the Jeremy Irons character tells his freaking backstory, and we find ourselves in a flashback inside a narrative being told by somebody in the present day. Confusing? Perhaps. Unnecessary? I think so. Boring? Definitely. The biggest problem is that you just don’t give a shit about Dennis Quaid’s obviously disenchanted author. The film tries to be clever regarding his character, giving him more purpose as the story plays out, but his existence is unneeded. The more-interesting story is the one with Cooper and Irons. I’m not saying their tale has the makings of a great movie, but it is more coherent and streamlined. Every time the movie popped back to the Quaid character, I lost interest. And every time the Irons character took me into a flashback, I found it to be one story level too many. Cooper tries dutifully to make something of this mess. His character calls for him to be insecure, guilt-ridden and cowardly. He’s effectively subtle at times, but comically bad at others. He has one drunken scene with his screen wife (Zoe Saldana) that earns an instant berth on his “When I Totally Sucked!” reel. The film perks up when Irons shows up on a park bench and ridicules the young author for stealing his story. I was hoping there would be more interaction between Cooper and Irons, but this is where co-directors/cowriters Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal screw up: Instead of focusing on Irons and Cooper, they bring the story back to a younger version of Irons in postwar Paris, and

NEWLY REVIEWED: THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY

While the big studios pool all their marketing muscle at Sundance in January and the Toronto International Film Festival in September, the crap they don’t want to promote heads to the theaters. Exhibit A: The Cold Light of Day. It’s a spy/family movie, siphoning some of the gas out of Jason Bourne’s tank, starring Bruce Willis as a CIA agent who had kept his work a secret from his family— until business interrupts pleasure on a family vacation. His son, Will (Henry Cavill, soon to play Superman), is then thrust into the middle of all the typical spy-movie nonsense. How typical? Will spends the rest of his time dodging bullets and hunting a briefcase. Being typical is not a crime— but the transparent script and Mabrouk El Mechri’s flaccid direction are. Boyd FOR A GOOD TIME, CALL ...

In the back of your mind, you’ll probably feel like For a Good Time, Call … is 15 years too late. Lauren and Katie (Lauren Miller and Ari Graynor) live in New York, which can be a soul-crushing experience if you’re young and broke. So they decide to make money by launching a phone-sex line. While some of those interludes are funny (and all are necessarily raunchy), who in the hell calls phone-sex lines anymore? Isn’t that why Al Gore invented the Internet? There’s a reason for the plot, though: This is more or less the life story of Miller and her co-writer, Katie Anne Naylon, when they were starving college students. Outdated plot notwithstanding, Miller and Graynor play off each other exceptionally well, and that’s just barely enough: Most of the rest of the film is just OK. Boyd

Bradley Cooper in The Words.

The Words Rated PG-13 Starring Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid Directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal CBS, 96 minutes Now playing at AMC Loews Foothills 15 (888262-4386), Century El Con 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 903), Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace (800-326-3264, ext. 899), Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 (806-4275) and Tower Theaters at Arizona Pavilions (579-0500).

details about how he lost his book. Until the moment when these flashbacks started, I was hanging in with the film—but that flashback took me out of the movie, and even worse, it was followed by another lengthy visitation with the Quaid character. I started thinking about stuff like backgammon and how I haven’t really played it in a long time. Then I remembered how I hated playing backgammon and preferred chess. Then I reminded myself that I was supposed to be concentrating on this overstuffed movie. Of the women in the movie, Saldana fares best, with a typically good performance in a movie beneath her station. Olivia Wilde is a dud as a grad student who is basically stalking Quaid’s author. The writing for her character is awful. If you take out Quaid, the drunken Cooper scene, the whole Irons flashback and the stupid Wilde character, you wouldn’t have much to watch with The Words: It would be about a half-hour long, and a trite 30 minutes at that. But at least it would be over fast, and Quaid would be freed up to make that Breaking Away sequel I’ve always wanted him to make.

HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI

A remake of a true classic from 1962, Takashi Miike’s Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai doesn’t quite match the visceral power of the original, but it’s certainly an audacious task for a filmmaker like Miike, who’s best known for resplendent gore and bloodshed. Ironically, the worst that can be said about his remake is that it’s almost too safe and quiet. Even the fight scenes feel like pre-season action. It was apparently common for independent samurai to find pity from other warriors by threatening ritual suicide, but the House of Iyi is ready for the scam, and the results aren’t pretty. Fast-forward a number of years, and another samurai arrives with a surprisingly similar tale. Hara-Kiri certainly has the look and feel of an epic, yet it also manages to be an endearing tribute to an essential film while adding its own wrinkles. Boyd

Kirby) to infiltrate their plan and stop the madness. One small problem: An evil Nazi scientist has injected him with a serum that turns his black skin white. This turns out to be more of a nasty shot at conservatives (mainly Sarah Palin) than fun horror/comedy. It’s not sick enough to be effective as horror, and it’s not funny enough to make it a solid laugher. Kirby’s performance is a lot of fun, though, and Julia Dietze is decent as the film’s heroine; I also liked the movie’s usage of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator. This one is OK for a goof, but I wish it were a couple of notches crazier. Grimm WILD HORSE WILD RIDE

Wild Horse Wild Ride follows people who have to properly train wild mustangs over 100 days for the Extreme Mustang Makeover. Since 2007, the project has been able to place more than 3,300 horses. The competition tests not only the horses’ skill, but also the trainers’ emotions; the film shows how the animals are trained, and the effect they can have on their new human friends, who have chosen to work with the animals so they can be adopted out, rather than be placed in government-sanctioned confinement. Many of the participants become extremely attached to the horses, with quite a few not wanting to let their new friends go. The film rarely lags, except for when it focuses on one of the participants whose insufferably self-centered personality can be quite grating. Beyond that, the filmmakers rightly place the focus on the animals and the program’s fight to save them, leading to a heartwarming and educational movie. Allen

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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

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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 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 LAWLESS

With Lawless, I was hoping for a late-summer powerhouse that would top off a mediocre season. I figured a film with John Hillcoat at the helm and featuring Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce and Shia LaBeouf couldn’t fail. While Lawless isn’t a complete failure, it is a bit of a letdown. Hillcoat (The Road) here is telling the “true story” of the Bondurant brothers, Depression-era bootleggers who stood up to the law. That sounded appealing. However, the film makes the mistake of positioning the youngest brother, Jack (LaBeouf), as the primary character, when his older brothers, Forrest (Hardy) and Howard (Jason Clarke), are far more compelling. LaBeouf isn’t necessarily bad; it’s just that Hardy and Clarke are way better and far more interesting to watch. Guy Pearce overdoes it as the bad guy in a film that ultimately feels empty and misdirected. Grimm THE POSSESSION

An Internet legend, the Dybbuk Box is an old wine chest that supposedly holds the spirit of a trapped Jewish demon. Since 2001, several people who have owned the box have been subject to strange phenomena. The piece of lore which inspired The Possession is remarkable; the film based on these odd cases is anything but. The filmmakers decided to make a by-the-numbers film about exorcising a demon from the young woman who owns the box (Natasha Calis). The always-dependable Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars as the girl’s father, and he does what he can with the material; it’s just too much of the same thing. Why filmmakers chose to turn an interesting and original story into something as banal and lifeless as this is as mysterious as the legend that inspired the film. Allen SLEEPWALK WITH ME

Comedian Mike Birbiglia apparently suffers from a major sleepwalking problem, and this semi-autobiographical film takes a funny and sometimes shocking look at it. Birbiglia essentially plays himself, a struggling standup comedian who is trying to sustain a relationship with his girlfriend (Lauren Ambrose). He seems rather mellow during the day, but is prone to nasty and violent sleep episodes, during which he acts out what’s happening in his dreams, and he nearly kills himself numerous times. Birbiglia directed along with Seth Barrish, and the film is one of the year’s more-pleasant surprises. David Wain makes a brief cameo, as does comedian Marc Maron as a thinly veiled version of his marvelously sarcastic self. Grimm

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It’s been a big year for the Titanic, 100 years after it sunk and paved the way for a whole lot of Hollywood types to make a whole lot of money. The year brought us the very nice 3-D release, and now we get this, the even-nicer Blu-ray. I’m a sucker for this movie. I insist that the beautiful Celine Dion song is a hymn sung by angels drinking fairy shakes while nestling upon fluffy clouds made of my favorite candy. I love this movie unconditionally. It truly is grand filmmaking, the likes of which we may never see again, especially when you consider that director James Cameron has become obsessed with blue people having sex with their pets via their hair. Until that movie, Cameron was my hero. Aw, hell, he’s still my hero, even if he is preoccupied with Sigourney Weaver dead and naked and lying in psychedelic grass. Titanic looks as good as it has ever looked on a homevideo screen, and it has lost none of its emotional punch. I still cry every time the ship goes down. Shit, I cry when the opening credits roll, and I see all of the happy people waving, because I know that their socks are going to get really wet while they are still upon their feet. You can buy this as a fourdisc combo with a Blu-ray, a 3-D Blu-ray and digital copy, or in a package with a DVD replacing the 3-D Blu-ray. I find that the DVD versions make for great coasters these days. SPECIAL FEATURES: You get a lot of deleted scenes and 60 featurettes from the prior releases, along with multiple commentaries featuring Cameron, cast members and crew members. On top of all this, you get two nice new documentaries, one of them

being Final Word, which aired on the National Geographic Channel a few months ago. In it, Cameron admits that the stern of the Titanic may have tilted far less before it sank. His movie got it all wrong, and I don’t care. It still rules.

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As 30 Rock heads into its seventh and final season, the show gets crazier by the minute. The sixth season was consistently nuts—and perhaps not quite as funny as previous seasons. It’s gone from being one of TV’s funniest shows to being a modestly funny show that is just bizarre. While the spoof of America’s Got Talent is hilarious, the Leap Day episode featuring Jim Carrey is odd on many levels. The Leap Day guy changing into a monster at the end was actually scary. Alec Baldwin, no matter how outlandish the show gets, maintains a cool comic energy unrivaled anywhere else on TV. He’s a god on this show, and he’s the reason to keep watching, even if Tina Fey is starting to lose her marbles. I still laugh, but 30 Rock is getting a little long in the tooth. Here’s hoping the last season returns the show to its wittier, classier days. I don’t mind weird, but constant weirdness can get a bit exhausting. The seventh and final season commences Thursday, Oct. 4, on NBC. SPECIAL FEATURES: Audio commentaries with cast and crew, deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes featurettes.

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This is an interesting approach to a real-life drama. Back in 1979, Monty Python released Life of Brian, a film that satirized organized religion and politics. A lot of religious leaders, many of whom didn’t even see the movie, lobbied against the film and targeted the Pythons as blasphemers. Director Owen Harris, rather than doing a straightforward drama about the controversy, took the novel approach of depicting John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones as the “Python” versions of themselves: The actors don’t play the Python members as real guys, but as variations of the characters they depicted during their time together. For instance, Darren Boyd portrays John Cleese as a variation of his Basil Fawlty character from Fawlty Towers, and while that was something Cleese did outside of Python, he’s easily identified with that persona. Only Michael Palin, played by Charles Edwards, comes off as semi-normal, even if he is married to a man playing a woman. The result captures the absurdity of the condemnation the Pythons faced, while eerily capturing the essence and vibe of their group. The men all do dead-on impressions of the Pythons. It’s fun, albeit strange, to watch. The film ends with the infamous TV chat show in which Palin and Cleese faced off against bizarre religious leaders. Fans of Python will find this to be an interesting watch, while those unfamiliar with the Brit comedy legends will be totally lost. SPECIAL FEATURES: Just a brief feature about the making of the opening credits, some deleted scenes and outtakes.

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New: North Fattoria Italiana NoRTH Modern Italian Cuisine, at La Encantada (2995 E. Skyline Drive), is being rebranded and remodeled. It closed recently to make way for construction that will culminate in its reopening as North Fattoria Italiana. Visitors to the new restaurant can expect a casual feel modeled after a “Tuscan farmhouse,” according to a press release. The new menu is full of artisan pizzas, antipasti, house-made sausage and more Italian goodness than we can list here. There will also be brunch on Sundays, happy hours and reverse happy hours when North reopens Wednesday, Sept. 19.

BY RITA CONNELLY, rconnelly@tucsonweekly.com riving through Oro Valley, you can’t help but notice the glut of chain restaurants that line Oracle Road. By the time you get to Rancho Vistoso Boulevard, you almost feel like you’ll never find a locally owned restaurant of any sort. But then you come across Grain River Asian Bistro. This restaurant offers a wide array of choices, no matter what Asian food you’re craving. We enjoyed everything that we ordered—yet little flaws dampened our enthusiasm just a bit. Grain River’s menu reads like a map of Asia and the Pacific Rim. You’ll find Thai, Korean, Japanese, Hawaiian, Chinese and Formosan (the chef and crew are from Taiwan) plates. The menu states that dishes can be prepared with beef, chicken, shrimp or a mix-and-match. We found the layout of the menu to be a bit confusing. Decipher this: “Thai style cashew dish Stir fried cashews, bell peppers, onions, carrots and water chestnuts. Your choice: Chicken or beef 11, Shrimp 12, Mix & Match 13 Seafood 14.” Or: “Japanese style Tokyo dish Batter-fried with chef’s special teriyaki sauce. Your choice Chicken 14 Shrimp 15.” Three college graduates had a tough time sorting it all out. Had the menu been organized better, ordering would have been easier—but that is a minor flaw. On the plus side, the dishes are nicely presented, and the portions are big enough to share. Service was spot-on during both visits; you get the feeling everyone there is family. The room is decorated simply, with a few pictures and a large mirror. Pale-green and rusty-red walls add a modern flair. Cloth panels decorated with Chinese writing divide the dining area from the kitchen. The tables are packed together, making it cozy, but loud. The crowd is mainly well-heeled retired folks from nearby Rancho Vistoso. I didn’t notice the background music on our first visit, but during our follow-up dinner, the same Asian chanting was played over and over. Wine, beer, sake and cocktails are available, although there is no bartender. We sampled the Grain River saketini ($7), a mix of vodka, sake, tropical fruit juices and raspberry juice. (The menu said it was cranberry juice, but the server said customers didn’t like the taste, so they switched to raspberry.) I think we might have preferred the cranberry, because the drink was a tad on the sweet side. We tried to sample the food of several regions of Asia, so we had the shrimp pad Thai ($12), the Korean bulgogi with beef

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Orange-peel chicken at Grain River Asian Bistro. ($15), the orange-peel chicken ($10) and the Grain River fish ($15). For appetizers we tried the harumaki, or Japanese egg rolls ($3), and the Formosa salad ($8). Because a choice of soup—miso, egg-drop or hot-and-sour—comes with each entrée, we had the chance to try all three. The miso was OK. The egg drop was rich with strands of egg, and had a slick mouth feel that at first seemed odd, but then mellowed out. The savory broth of the hot-and-sour soup was tangy and included lots of vegetables and strips of tofu swimming around. It was by far the best of the three, and one of the better hot-and-sour soups we’ve had in Tucson. The harumaki were served with a sweet-andsour dipping sauce. These tiny starters were super-crispy, but nothing special. The Formosa salad, though, fared better. The mixed greens, Asian noodles, shredded chicken, green onions and cilantro (the menu said there were peanuts, but we couldn’t find any) had been tossed with a light dressing featuring a balance of salty and sweet. And the salad textures ranged from crispy to smooth. Yin and yang is a theme of sorts at Grain River, and the salad embodied that philosophy. The bulgogi was like no other I’ve ever had. It came in a thick, dark sauce that dominated the dish and masked the smoky flavor that makes bulgogi so good. Don’t get me wrong; the dish was tasty—just not what I was expecting. The shrimp pad Thai was a nice version of one of my favorite Asian dishes, although for the price, there could’ve been more shrimp. The orange-peel chicken, which can often be

Grain River Asian Bistro 12985 N. Oracle Road, Oro Valley 818-1555; grainriverasianbistro.com Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 9 p.m. Pluses: Good-sized portions Minuses: Frustrating website; confusing menu

more batter than chicken, was pleasing. Big chunks of white meat had been fried in a light, almost-airy batter. You could actually see pieces of orange in the sauce. Again, it was one of the better versions we’ve had in town. The Grain River fish consisted of a goodsize flounder filet, steamed and served with a light-brown sauce. Julienned strips of fresh ginger and scallions were artfully placed across the top. The ginger added a light essence to the tender fish. There wasn’t much heft to the sauce—the steam apparently thinned it out— but you could taste soy and an almost maplelike hint of sweetness. Were I to visit again, I might order one of the bento specials, which are available both at lunch ($7 to $12) and dinner ($15 to $16). In addition to a wide choice of entrées, you get a little bit of everything: a choice of soup, an egg roll, a dumpling, rice and salad. I’d also ask for soy sauce or sriracha; neither were on our table. Grain River has good food. I don’t know if I’d drive all the way to Oro Valley again to eat there, but folks in the neighborhood should take advantage of this pleasant little taste of Asia.

There’s something new happening every time I stop in at Food Conspiracy Co-op, 412 N. Fourth Ave. Most recently, I found the store had added a salad bar and a hot-food line stocked with mouth-watering dishes too fragrant and delicious to pass up. Or, if you come in a little earlier, you’ll find an interesting selection of muffins and bagels made fresh each day. We’ve also heard that the store has received a grant from the city to install a water-harvesting system on the roof, which will pave the way for the installation of a garden in the back. Add that to the renovations that are changing the appearance of the store inside and out, and you have the makings of a whole new chapter for the age-old co-op.

Totally Greeking Out A restaurant called The Little Greek has opened at 1101 N. Wilmot Road, in El Dorado Plaza. It’s owned and operated by members of the Kranis family, who have a heap of experience in the Tucson restaurant business. Expect flaming plates of kasseri cheese, traditional Greek soups, braised lamb shanks and much more; www.thelittlegreektucson.com. The Tucson Greek Festival, at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, is right around the corner, on Sept. 20-23. The annual event offers a huge array of souvlaki, spanakopita, gyros, appetizer plates and Greek-style pork ribs. The dessert menu is also long and mouthwatering, and there will be Greek beer and ouzo; www.tucsongreekfest.com. The Fat Greek restaurant, at University Boulevard and Park Avenue, is boarded up after a water pipe broke and flooded the place. Owner George Markou says the restaurant will feature a bigger menu with more traditional dishes and seafood when it reopens around the end of the year; thefatgreek.biz.

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Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This longtime Tucson favorite continues to please with one of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most unique dining areasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the main room is an old courtyard thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now indoors, even though real trees and plants remain. The foodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth noting, tooâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; some dishes are hit-and-miss, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always win with the fantastic tableside guacamole. (1-1-04) $$-$$$ EL RIO BAKERY W 901 N. Grande Ave. 624-4996. Open Monday-

Saturday 6 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/ No Alcohol. MC, V. El Rio Bakeryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been around for decades, and when you sample their delicious pastries (we particularly like the empanadas), youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know why. However, El Rio also offers up other tasty Mexican fare; the soups are especially good. We recommend a steaming-hot bowl of albondigas (meatball) soup. (2-18-10) $

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MEXICAN CLUB 21 C 2920 N. Oracle Road. 622-3092. Open Sunday and Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. MC, V. Offering good Mexican food for more than 50 years, this neighborhood favorite should be considered when looking for a cool place to enjoy a margarita or a cold beer. Moderately priced meals make it a nice place for families, too. (4-22-04) $-$$ CROSSROADS RESTAURANT DRIVE IN S 2602 S. Fourth Ave. 624-0395. Open SundayThursday 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.noon. CafĂŠ/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Crossroads has been around for decades, and when you taste the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know why. Traditional Mexican fare and seafood dishes primarily featuring shrimp and filet of sole highlight the menu. The service is friendly, and if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a hurry, you can get anything on the menu to go; you can even get a six-pack to take home. (7-24-03) $-$$ EL CHARRO CAFĂ&#x2030; E 6310 E. Broadway Blvd. 745-1922. Open SaturdayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Summer hours: Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.9 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at

9 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ. Beer and Specialty Drinks. MC, V. This is one of those secret little places that you might not want to share with everybody. Old-fashioned, damn good Mexican fare is served up with a smile. The tortillas are made specially for El Sur and definitely add an extra touch. The dĂŠcor is funky and down-home, and the servers treat you like family. With prices and flavors that remind of a simpler time, the place attracts a crowd. Try the flan if you have any room for dessert! (12-29-05) $ LA FRESITA W 1450 W. St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Road. 622-4005. Open daily

6 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DC, DIS, MC, V. More than just a friendly neighborhood taqueria, La Fresita offers full plates of goodies such as steak ranchero, chiles, tacos, burros, quesadillas and more. The corn tortillas are homemade and served up fresh and hot every day. The fruit shakes are sweet and delicious. With breakfast, lunch and dinner on the menu, La Fresita has literally something for everybody, even gringos! Hamburgers are on the menu. (10-6-05) $ LA FUENTE C 1749 N. Oracle Road. 623-8659. Open Sunday-

Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m. Bistro/ Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Take a fresh look at this Tucson classic. With tasty Mexican-food classics like chiles rellenos and unexpected surprises like fried red snapper, La Fuente is definitely worth a visit if you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been in a while. A nice tequila and margarita selection is also offered. (5-27-10) $$-$$$

GUADALAJARA GRILL C 1220 E. Prince Road. 323-1022. Open daily 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Salsa is made tableside, and the customer is in charge of what goes into it. The chips are fresh, hot and endless, but leave room for what comes next. Every dish is redolent with distinct and finely tuned flavors. (10-21-04) $$-$$$ LA INDITA C 622 N. Fourth Ave. 792-0523. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Diner/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. La Inditaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menu shows its Michoacan Tarascan Indian heritage. Menu items like the Tarascan tacos and Indian fry bread make La Indita a continued favorite. $ LEOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MEXICAN RESTAURANT E 5114 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-9180. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Leoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s may be one of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-kept secrets. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find such delicious standards as cheese enchiladas, flautas and burros, along with treats like mole and fish tacos. There are vegetarian specialties and a kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; menu as well. The house margarita also is a winner. Finish off your meal with those airy puffs of fried dough: sopapillas. (11-22-07) $-$$ LUPITAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAFE NW 7077 N. Thornydale Road. 744-7505. Open Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. CafĂŠ. Beer, Wine and Margaritas. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Lupitaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cafe brings a little southside flavor to the northwest with authentic, affordable Mexican fare. Friendly service and a bright, colorful atmosphere make this cozy cafĂŠ a great dining experience, and the Sonoran hot dogs are among the best in town. Breakfast is served all day, and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss out on the expertly cooked menudo on Saturdays and Sundays. (6-17-10) $-$$ MAICO C 835 E. 22nd St. 294-2836. Open Monday-Saturday 6 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. MC, V. One could easily miss Maico, situated along busy 22nd Street. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re glad we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Tiny as it may be, Maico serves some excellent Mexican chow for diners to enjoy in its outside dining area. Maico has a way with beef, chicken, pork and fish. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find all the usual taqueria items and friendly service. (11-13-08) $ MARIAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAFĂ&#x2030; S 3530 S. Sixth Ave. 620-1465. Open TuesdaySaturday 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/ Beer and Wine. AMEX, MC, V. Quality Mexican food and tableside pay television setsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what more is there to say? In operation for a quarter of a century, Mariaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s satisfies on a variety of levels. $-$$ MARISCOS CHIHUAHUA S 3901 S. Sixth Ave. 741-0361. Open daily 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Diner/Beer Only. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Cash and checks. Also at 1009 N. Grande Ave. (623-3563), 2902 E. 22nd St. (326-1529), 999 N. Swan Road (881-2372), 356 E. Grant Road (884-3457), 435 W. Irvington Road (294-3194) and 4185 W. Ina Road (572-2523). Alcohol served varies per location. A bit of the Mexican seaside has found its way north. At Mariscos Chihuahua, shellfish reigns supreme with fresh Guaymas shrimp being the specialty of the house. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the shrimp ceviche, a Mariscos favorite that has regulars coming back for more. $-$$ MARTINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COMIDA CHINGONA C 555 N. Fourth Ave. 884-7909. Open MondaySaturday 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5:30-10:30 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. CafĂŠ/BYO. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V and checks. Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fits the Fourth Avenue vibe perfectly: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s casual; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s independent; and the foodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty darned good. The huevos rancherosâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with a surprising number of delicious vegetablesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is excellent, and the carne asada has a rich, smoky flavor. Just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask for guacamole or sour cream. (9-23-10) $-$$ MARYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LUCKY DOLLAR MARKET S 1555 S. 10th Ave. 884-8720. Open Monday-Friday 6 a.m.-1 p.m. CafĂŠ/No Alcohol. Cash. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is one of Tucsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s least-refined restaurants, but the insanely cheap, flavorful food keeps locals a-cominâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The chorizo is the house specialty; alongside some eggs, potatoes and refried beans, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pure deliciousness. (2-18-10) $ MI NIDITO S 1813 S. Fourth Ave. 622-5081. Open Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Diner. Beer, Wine and Margaritas. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Another of the perennial Tucson favorites, with consistently good food and service generally worth the waitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;particularly if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for a great chile relleĂąo. $ MICHAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S S 2908 S. Fourth Ave. 623-5307. Open Sunday 7 a.m.8 p.m.; Monday 6:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday

6:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 6:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Diner/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. One of the perennial favorites among local Mexican food aficionados. The chorizos are made on site, and the chimis are crisp and full. $-$$ LA OLLA NW 8553 N. Silverbell Road, No. 102. 579-0950. Open Monday-Saturday 11:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. CafĂŠ. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, MC, V. While chains dominate in Marana, La Olla is a wonderful mom-and-pop place with a Mexican bent. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find all the traditional stuffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;enchiladas, tacos, chimisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;along with some surprisingly creative items, from appetizers to desserts. For starters, try the empanadas: tiny pies filled with cilantro pesto, shrimp chile and manchego cheese. EntreĂŠs include a breaded pork tenderloin topped with garlic shrimp and chipotle crema. (5-28-09) $$

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PERFECTOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MEXICAN RESTAURANT S 5404 S. 12th Ave. 889-5651. Open MondayWednesday 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.-5 p.m. CafĂŠ/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. This homey little spot attracts a crowd. Perfectoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serves all the usual stuff, and there is truly something for everybody. Kids will enjoy a burro and french fries; grown-ups will enjoy luscious soups, fresh seafood and homemade desserts. A Sunday buffet attracts a huge crowd, and the house-made choco flan is unique and tasty. (12-10-09) $-$$ LA PLACITA CAFĂ&#x2030; E 2950 N. Swan Road, No. 131. 881-1150. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Sunday 5-9 p.m. Full Cover. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The official Mexican restaurant of the Old Fort Lowell Neighborhood, La Placita CafĂŠ, tucked away in Plaza Palomino, serves up consistently good, lard-free Sonoran and Oaxacan food in nearsecret. Divine chile rellenos, sopa de mariscos and delicious mole are among the standouts on the large menu. Nice folks, too. (4-26-07) $$-$$$ QUESADILLAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GRILL C 110 S. Church Ave., Suite 7136. 798-3697. Open Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DC, DIS, MC, V. The menu features standard tacos, enchiladas and tostadas. The breakfast burritos are especially worth checking out, featuring an â&#x20AC;&#x153;assemble-your-ownâ&#x20AC;? list of ingredients that makes breakfast worth getting up for. (3-1-01) $ SAN CARLOS MEXICAN GRILL W 1370 N. Silverbell Road, No. 180. 792-2075. Open Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/Beer Only. DIS, MC, V. Ample, reliable servings of shrimp and fish dishes inspired by Sea of Cortez cuisine, plus the usual Sonoran favorites, are as unpretentious but appealing as the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nicely done storefront space. (11-15-07) $-$$ SIR VEZAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TACO GARAGE E 4699 E. Speedway Blvd. 323-8226. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. (bar open until midnight); Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight (bar open until 2 a.m.). Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 220 W. Wetmore Road (888-8226). Sir Vezaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is a cool concept, mixing cars (including occasional hot-rod-themed events), booze, sports, music and youthful energy. The food is cheap and largely tasty, with numerous taco offerings, salads, burgers and even â&#x20AC;&#x153;chicken and churros.â&#x20AC;? The patio is wonderful (even if the view is not), and there are numerous tequila choices. This is a great place to get just a little bit rowdy with friends. (6-3-10). $-$$ TACO GIRO MEXICAN GRILL E 5754 E. 22nd St. 514-2199. Open daily 7 a.m.-10 p.m. CafĂŠ. Beer and Margaritas. AMEX, MC and V. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an undeniable formula for success: great food at seriously low prices. The salsa barâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool, and the service is quick and friendly. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no decor to speak of, however: This is a place to go when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re craving good Mexican food, and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to bust your budget. (2-21-08) $ TAQUERIA PICO DE GALLO S 2618 S. Sixth Ave. 623-8775. Open daily 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Diner/No Alcohol. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Although not as flashy as some of its competitors on the Tucson Mexican food scene, Pico de Gallo has nevertheless been serving up outstanding fare for years. Ceviche, birria, fresh fruit cocktail and a carne asada to die for

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TEQUILA FACTORY S 5655 W. Valencia Road (800) 344-9435. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. An emphasis on presentation highlights the colorfully decorated Tequila Factory; each dish looks like a work of art. The food, featuring typical Mexican fare, usually tastes pretty good—but it always looks amazing. An all-you-can-eat brunch is offered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Sunday. (11-20-03) $$-$$$

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

TERESA’S MOSAIC CAFÉ W 2456 N. Silverbell Road. 624-4512. Open MondaySaturday 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Diner/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. With regional Mexican cuisine, featuring the cooking of Oaxaca, Teresa’s Mosaic Café has become one of the nicer places in town to suck down margaritas and nibble on fresh tortillas. A lofty view of the Catalinas and the rich complexity of Oaxacan molés can be sampled with equal pleasure. $-$$ ZENDEJAS #13 C 1628 E. Sixth St. 867-8001. Open MondayWednesday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 10 a.m.2 a.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, VISA. Legendary UA placekicker Max Zendejas is back, and instead of serving up last-second field goals, he’s serving up inexpensive Mexican fare. Burros are central, as is cold beer and the casual, comfy atmosphere. The red chili burro is a winner for red meat-lovers; seafood fans will find a grilled tilapia burro. Gringos can munch on wings and burgers. The place is tiny, so if you want to get a table on game day, get there early. (9-9-10) $ ZIVAZ MEXICAN BISTRO E 4590 E. Broadway Blvd. 325-1234. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.9 p.m. Café/Counter. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. While the look and layout of Zivaz feels familiar, the restaurant’s melding of tasty, nuanced Mexican food with a fast-casual format is quite unique. Most of the dishes—from standards like tacos, sopa de tortilla and enchiladas to somewhat unusual fast-casual

FALAFEL KING C 1800 E. Fort Lowell Road, No. 168. 319-5554. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Falafel King offers high-quality Lebanese fast food. The shawarma can sometimes be a tad dry, but the lamb kabobs are moist; the falafel is superb; and the baba ganoush—a pureed eggplant dip— is smokey, rich and irresistible. (2-7-08) $-$$ LUXOR CAFÉ C 3699 N. Campbell Ave. 325-3771. Open SundayWednesday 5 p.m.-1 a.m.; Thursday 5 p.m.-2 a.m.; Friday and Saturday 5 p.m.-4 a.m. Café/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. A large and fascinating menu combined with excellent cooking makes this comfortably exotic, hospitable Middle Eastern joint a standout; fair prices make it a great value. The owner and chef are both from Egypt, which is reflected in the presence of homestyle vegetarian specialties like falafel, fool (spiced, mashed fava beans) and koshari (a homey mixture of rice, beans and pasta), plus a wide selection of chicken, beef, lamb and fish dishes. Don’t miss the superb baklava. (5-1707) $-$$ SHISH KEBAB HOUSE OF TUCSON E 5855 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 118. 745-5308. Open Monday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday noon-8 p.m. Café/Counter/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Try the motabal, a sinuous purée of eggplant grilled over an open flame, completely unlike any baba ganoush we’ve ever had. Together with a deftly light and lemony version of hummos and the cracked-wheat dish tabouli, it makes a refreshing meal. The kafta is ground beef with a hint of ginger. Meals at

Shish Kebab House are all available to go—and with seating for no more than 60, that seems like a good plan. $-$$ SINBAD’S FINE MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE C 810 E. University Ave. 623-4010. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday 4-9 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. The atmosphere at this university-area restaurant is delightfully beautiful, and the food’s even better. Fresh, flavorful and often healthy—many selections are vegetarian—it’s no wonder Sinbad’s is a Tucson favorite. (5-8-03) $-$$

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Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.9:30 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Counter/Diner/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This diner serves fresh, fast food done up Asian style. By day, it’s a buffet. And at night, it offers friendly table service with all types of Asian specialties. It’s a nice place to enjoy a quick lunch or meet with friends. Enjoy the tasty wor wonton soup and crab puffs. No sushi, though. (1-20-05) $-$$

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DAO’S TAI PAN’S E 446 N. Wilmot Road. 722-0055. Open daily 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. A huge menu of delicious Chinese and Vietnamese cuisine makes Dao’s worth visiting. The restaurant may look like a fast-food joint, but the cuisine and the service prove that Dao’s is anything but. Be sure to try the multifaceted Vietnamese crepe. (2-17-05) $-$$

ASIAN BISTRO C 3122 N. Campbell Ave., No. 100. 881-7800. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Yes, you’ll find plenty of traditional Asian plates here, but this midtown “bistro” also offers an assortment of dishes from all over China, Thailand and other countries. While dining at the restaurant is a pleasant experience, Asian Bistro also delivers to a wide area of midtown. Beverages include fruity slushes, bubble teas and blended coffees. (5-29-08) $-$$ AZIAN C 15 N. Alvernon Way. 777-8311. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.-midnight; Saturday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.-midnight; Sunday noon to 9:30 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. While Azian needs more-helpful sushi-roll menus, and the servers need to explain the do-it-yourself Korean barbecue a heck of a lot better, the results sure are tasty. The all-you-can-eat options come with a buffet at both lunch

HOT WOK ASIAN BISTRO E 7755 E. Golf Links Road, No. 101. 751-6374. Open

Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DIS, MC and V. At this small Asian fast-casual joint, the food is plentiful and fairly priced—and it comes out of the kitchen hot and fast. While most of the menu is Chinese-influenced, you can also find pho, pad Thai and wings. Hot Wok is not glamorous, but considering that most of the restaurants nearby are chains, this is a pleasant neighborhood spot. Don’t look for smiles from the staff—but do look for a great deal. (3-1-12) $ OM MODERN ASIAN KITCHEN NW 1765 E. River Road. 299-7815. Open Monday-

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11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday Noon-9 p.m. Café/Counter/ Beer Only. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The food at this downtown spot, which offers a full assortment of both Thai and Chinese standards, can be hit-and-miss—but when it’s good, it’s really good. The tom yum soup is incredible, and you should really try the pad prig king (a dry red curry). You can find some amazing deals as lunch specials, too. (1-12-12) $-$$ SERI MELAKA E 6133 E. Broadway Blvd. 747-7811. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. For a wonderful dip into the festive and aromatic cooking of Southeast Asia, a trip to Seri Melaka will leave your senses swimming. From the spicy, authentic sambals to the outstanding curries, Seri Melaka serves up authentic cuisine at reasonable prices. (10-18-01) $$ TAKAMATSU E 5532 E. Speedway Blvd. 512-0800. Open Sunday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. After a devastating fire, Takamatsu is back. If you like Japanese or Korean food, you’ll find plenty of tasty entrées here, although the emphasis is on Korean barbecue and sushi (including the tempting all-you-can-eat option for $19.95). For an interactive, do-it-yourself treat, try preparing the Korean barbecue yourself at your table. Just consider yourself warned: Pork belly, though delicious, will catch on fire if you’re not paying attention. (12-1-11) $$-$$$

BROOKLYN PIZZA COMPANY C 534 N. Fourth Ave. 622-6868. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2:30 a.m.; Sunday noon-10 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. There may be nothing gourmet or innovatively outrageous about Brooklyn Pizza, but if you like your pie with a crunchy, handtossed crust, a savory simmered tomato sauce, lots of gooey mozzarella cheese and the traditional toppings of your choice, you’ve come to the right place. Sandwiches also reflect attention to the “only best ingredients” philosophy. There’s nothing here that will disappoint. $ BZ’S PIZZA E 9431 E. 22nd St., No. 137. 546-1402. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. Eastsiders have a nifty little pizza joint that puts out some great gourmet pies. The crust is light and chewy; the sauce is smooth and rich; and if you can’t find a topping you like, you should just stay home. Nightly pasta specials, great salads and sandwiches are on the menu. The vibe is family-friendly, although BZ’s is also a great place to meet friends for a glass of wine and a couple of pizzas. (7-7-11) $-$$

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PIZZA 1702 C 1702 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-1702. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This little university-area pizza joint has friendly service and pizza slices bigger than your head. With an ever-changing 50-plus beers on tap, there’s something for everyone. If that’s not enough, generous salads and delicious wings will keep you coming back for more. (3-13-08) $$ BIANCHI’S W 1110 N. Silverbell Road. 882-8500. Open Sunday-

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EMPIRE PIZZA AND PUB C 137 E. Congress St. 882-7499. Open SundayWednesday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Counter/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Empire Pizza and Pub has injected a new kind of life into downtown Tucson, serving up big New York-style pizza by the slice (or whole), along with some salads and Italian sandwiches. The small patio offers views of the craziness on Congress Street, while the back bar area offers a couple of TVs featuring whatever game happens to be on. (2-3-11) $ GRANDMA TONY’S E 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 885-7117. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Diner/No Alcohol. MC, V. Also at 7878 E. Wrightstown Road (886-4461). Brought to you by the folks at the Gaslight Theatre, these are hand-tossed pies with a round edge and real mozzarella. The favorites are the ham and pineapple or the mushroom and sausage. For the same lowish price, you can also order any combination of toppings. $-$$

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GRIMALDI’S C 446 N. Campbell Ave., No. 100. 882-6100. Open daily 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. One of New York City’s highest-rated pizza joints is serving some of the best pizza in Tucson. You’ll pay more here for your coal brick-oven pie, but it’s worth it. We recommend sitting in the bar area while you munch on your pizza or calzone, so you can watch the doughthrowing and pizza-baking show. All three sauces (red, white and pesto) are tasty; just be careful while selecting the often-pricey toppings. (9-25-08) $$-$$$ LA MADRINA NW 7872 N. Oracle Road. 742-2111. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday noon-8 p.m. Summer hours: Closed Monday. Counter/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. This tiny joint offers up good pizza, decent sandwiches, nice salads and a most-interesting cheesecake, all wrapped up in an unpretentious setting. Tucked away in a corner of the Trader Joe’s plaza on North Oracle Road, La Madrina has been in business since the mid-’80s. Pizzas come in four sizes with a wide assortment of toppings, including anchovies and shrimp. And the “best cheesecake ever” is pretty darn good. (8-16-12) $-$$ MAGPIES GOURMET PIZZA E 105 S. Houghton Road. 751-9949. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 4654 E. Speedway Blvd. (795-5977), 605 N. Fourth Ave. (628-1661) and 7315 N. Oracle Road (2972712). Only the Fourth Avenue location serves beer and wine. This local chain brags about serving the best pizza in town—and to a large extent, they back up that brag. Fresh ingredients and lots of them highlight their diverse selection of pies. (6-12-03) $-$$ MARCO’S PIZZA S 6330 E. Golf Links Road, Suite 142. 747-3898.

Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 10550 N. La Cañada Drive (2976500) and 5650 S. 12th Ave., Suite 180 (300-4449). This Ohio-based franchise offers some of the better chain-joint pizza in Tucson. The chicken fresco pie— featuring moist grilled chicken, tangy red sauce and delicious bacon—left our mouths watering and wanting more. Some of the employees weren’t as knowledgeable as they could have been, but there’s no denying that Marco’s makes exceptionally tasty, moderately priced pizzas. (12-18-08) $$-$$$ NEW YORK PIZZA DEPARTMENT E 1521 N. Wilmot Road. 207-7667. Open Sunday-

Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. New York Pizza Department offers some of Tucson’s best thin-crust pies, both whole and by the slice. The ingredients make the pizzas so great—yes, that’s real ham, not lunchmeat, on your meat-lover pizza. Calzones, panini, stromboli, subs both hot and cold, Italian bombers, wings, salads and several entrées round out the sizable menu. (12-22-11) $-$$ NO ANCHOVIES C 870 E. University Blvd. 623-3333. Open daily 11

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

OREGANO’S E 4900 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-8955. Open daily 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Diner. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. A 1950s-style pizza joint, Oregano’s is sure to please on every level. From handmade stuffed pizzas and enormous bowls of pastas to salads and Italian favorites (lasagna, sausage sandwiches, ravioli), Oregano’s has it all. Be sure to call ahead to see how long the line is, since the wait can easily be an hour. (1-3-02) $-$$

10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Saturday 12-11 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. MC, V. For a full-on, classic deep-dish pizza, you can’t beat Zachary’s. Specializing in made-to-order pizzas (give yourself time), Zachary’s delivers pizzas so large and deep, we dare you to finish more than one slice. (8-2-01) $-$$

RENEE’S ORGANIC OVEN E 7065 E. Tanque Verde Road. 886-0484. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Folks on the eastside have reason to celebrate. This little gem of a pizzeria offers up pizzas, pastas, sandwiches and salads using fresh and often organic ingredients. A nice little wine list is available. This is a familyfriendly place that rivals other upscale pizza joints in town. (3-23-06) $-$$

BEYOND BREAD C 3026 N. Campbell Ave. 322-9965. Open MondayFriday 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday 7 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, MC, V. Also at 6260 E. Speedway Blvd. (747-7477) and 421 W. Ina Road (461-1111). Voted best bread in Tucson ever since it opened, Beyond Bread specializes in reviving the art of artisan bread, with its small batches and hand-formed loaves. Monstrous sandwiches, excellent pastries and swift service have earned this venue its status as one of the best places in Tucson to grab a quick bite to eat. (2-5-01) $

ROCCO’S LITTLE CHICAGO C 2707 E. Broadway Blvd. 321-1860. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Diner/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This Windy City-style pizzeria has made a big splash in the Old Pueblo with its tasty square-cut, thin-crust and oversized stuffed pizza. Mushroom mania (the Fungus Humongous) and hot-and-spicy chiles and sausage (the Great Chicago Fire) are just two of the specialty pizzas that await your pleasure, or you can mix and match ingredients to create something uniquely your own. Little touches like ripe, red, sliced roma tomatoes and a blend of four cheeses make Rocco’s pizza a hit in any form. $-$$ SAUCE NW 7117 N. Oracle Road. 297-8575. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.10 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 5285 E. Broadway Blvd. (514-1122) and 2990 N. Campbell Ave. (795-0344). Whippet-thin specialty pizzas and tasty salads dominate the menu at Sauce, a fast-casual restaurant owned by the folks behind Wildflower and NoRTH. A trendy, bright atmosphere and a large outdoor dining area provide ample reasons for you to eat out, although to-go orders for those who want to dine at home are welcomed. (12-25-03) $-$$ TINO’S PIZZA E 6610 E. Tanque Verde Road. 296-9656. Open

Monday-Thursday 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 10:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sunday 3-9 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. You can’t argue with the success of Tino’s; the place has been around since the mid-’80s. The pies here will satisfy any pizza craving; they’re hot, cheesy and just plain good! Sandwiches, salads, calzones and sides round out the menu. This is an all-American pizzeria. (2-4-10) $-$$ VERO AMORE E 3305 N. Swan Road, No. 105. 325-4122. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 12130 N. Dove Mountain Blvd., No. 104 (579-2292). The Dove Mountain location has a full bar. The only pizza joint in town that’s certified as following the rigid guidelines of pizza from the old country, Vero Amore serves great pies. A couple of pasta dishes and salads round out the menu. The atmosphere is warm and cozy, and the service is sincere. The wine list is just right. This little pizza joint is a nice addition to the myriad restaurants in the Swan/Fort Lowell roads area. (8-24-06) $$ ZACHARY’S C 1028 E. Sixth St. 623-6323. Open Sunday 12-10 p.m.; Monday 4-10 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m.-

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morning, stop by. Of course, then there are all those cupcakes from 2 Cupcakes, which shares the building (www.2cupcakes.com). They are as tasty as they are pretty. (9-8-11) $ PJ SUBS T6 FILLING STATION C 2500 E. Sixth St. 326-9500. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Want a tasty sandwich, some well-prepared fries and wings, and a cocktail, all while watching the game? PJ/T6 may just be the place for you. There’s nothing here on the menu that’s particularly noteworthy, but they do what they do well. (9-24-09) $-$$ WHICH WICH? C 943 E. University Blvd., Suite 125. 884-0081. Open

Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday-Sunday 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Within about a dozen broad categories (various kinds of flesh, seafood, vegetarian, Italian, comforts, classics, etc.), you can customize your sandwich down to the type of mustard. The results can be terrific, if you choose wisely. Don’t pass up the thick shakes and warm, soft cookies. (6-4-09) $ WORLD WIDE WRAPPERS C 500 N. Fourth Ave., No. 7. 884-7070. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. MC, V. The folks at this longtime Fourth Avenue eatery offer fresh and healthful world-influenced food and drink. The veggies are bright and colorful, attesting to their freshness. The proteins are perfectly seasoned, and the other ingredients pop with flavor; we especially love the mango salsa. You get your choice of tortillas, or you can forgo them and have it all in a bowl. A great break during all that fun shopping on the avenue. (6-21-12) $

SEAFOOD BLUEFIN SEAFOOD BISTRO NW 7053 N. Oracle Road. 531-8500. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Kingfisher’s sister restaurant is making a name for itself on the northwest side. Delicious seafood dishes for both lunch and dinner are the star attractions, but you’ll also be wowed by the comfortable, industrial-chic décor, the quaint outside patio and the large, welcoming bar. (1013-05) $$$-$$$$ LA COSTA BRAVA S 3541 S. 12th Ave. 623-1931. Open Monday-

Wednesday 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Café/Full Bar. MC, V. A well-kept secret, La Costa Brava offers up a down-and-dirty deal on some of the freshest fish in town. Local distributor Rodriguez Seafood serves fresh catches in a simple yet satisfying fashion. The real deal. (1-31-02) $-$$ KINGFISHER BAR AND GRILL C 2564 E. Grant Road. 323-7739. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-midnight; Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m.-midnight. Bar is open Monday-Saturday to 1 a.m.; Sunday to midnight. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. This venue’s strength is the creative talent of its kitchen and innovative renditions from the American regional repertoire. The late-night bar menu is deservedly popular. Award-winning wine selections. (3-27-03) $$-$$$ RESTAURANT SINALOA W 1020 W. Prince Road. 887-1161. Open Sunday-

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SOUTHWEST AGAVE S 1100 W. Pima Mine Road. 342-2328. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Off Interstate 19 on the way to Green Valley, Agave is a gem in the desert, well worth the drive. Featuring a menu heavy on steak and seafood, along with delightful service and an upscale, earth-tones decor, it’s easy to forget you’re dining on the grounds of a casino. The prices are reasonable, too. (2-5-04) $$-$$$ FIRE + SPICE E Sheraton Hotel and Suites, 5151 E. Grant Road

323-6262. Open daily 6 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC and V. Hidden next to the pool at the Sheraton is Fire + Spice, a restaurant that shows a ton of potential. Southwest-inspired appetizers like nachos, quesadillas and jalapeño snake bites are a delight, and the service and décor are friendly and welcoming. The kitchen occasionally skimps on ingredients or otherwise loses focus, but the quality of the menu is undeniable. (6-11-09) $$ FLYING V BAR AND GRILL NE Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort

Drive. 299-2020. Open Sunday-Thursday 5:30-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 5:30-10 p.m. Full Cover/ Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Overlooking a golf course and Tucson’s city lights, Ventana Canyon’s Flying V has one of the nicest atmospheres of any local restaurant. Featuring salads, fish and meats, the restaurant’s fare is consistently delicious. The prices are a bit steep, but the view is worth the extra money. Sit on the wooden deck next to the large fountain if you can. (7-22-04) $$$-$$$$ HIFALUTIN RAPID FIRE WESTERN GRILL NW 6780 N. Oracle Road. 297-0518. Open Sunday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Servers are dressed in Western wear and topped with cowboy hats at this warm and cozy restaurant. The open kitchen gives you the opportunity to see the cooks in action. The general’s favorite chicken and margaritas are standouts. (11-28-02) $-$$ LODGE ON THE DESERT C 306 N. Alvernon Way. 320-2000. Open Sunday-

Thursday 7-10:30 a.m., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7-10:30 a.m., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. This classic Tucson restaurant is in the process of reinventing itself after a major renovation, followed by a devastating kitchen fire. The entrées are executed well, with attention to detail. The flavors lean toward Southwestern, with a few oddities thrown in. It’s definitely worth a visit. (12-16-10) $$-$$$$ OCOTILLO CAFÉ W At the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N.

Kinney Road. 883-5705. Open December-April daily 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Open June-August Saturday 5-9 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. As if there weren’t enough good reasons to visit the Desert Museum, there’s also the excuse of an outstanding meal served with the beautiful backdrop of the Sonoran landscape. Fresh, seasonal ingredients abound in the cuisine. Admission to the museum is required to dine at the Ocotillo Cafe. $$-$$$ OLD PUEBLO GRILLE C 60 N. Alvernon Way. 326-6000. Open Sunday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Another installment in the successful and popular Metro Restaurant empire, Old Pueblo Grille specializes in quality food with a decisively desert flair. Chiles show up in everything from mashed potatoes to ice cream, and a menu of specialty margaritas and 101 tequilas dominates the list of libations. A lovely patio and a charming Southwestern motif add ambiance. (4-27-00) $$ SIGNATURE GRILL

SPANISH CASA VICENTE RESTAURANTE ESPAÑOL C 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. Open Tuesday and Wednesday 4-10:30 p.m.; Thursday and Friday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-10:30 p.m.; Saturday 4-10:30 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC and V. Tucson is again home to a good Spanish restaurant, thanks to Casa Vicente. While the entrées are worth noting, the numerous tapas are the real standouts. You can get paella, too-but only if you order for at least four people, or if you go for the Thursday night special. (9-8-05) $-$$$

SPORTS BAR DIABLOS SPORTS BAR AND GRILL S 2545 S. Craycroft Road. 514-9202. Open daily 11 a.m.-2 a.m. (Full menu served until 10 p.m.) Café/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. Diablos takes standard bar fare and kicks it up a notch with spicy, well-prepared appetizers, burgers, sandwiches and salads. With more than 20 TVs, you won’t miss a minute of the game while enjoying tall, cold beers and really hot wings, served with a smile. (7-29-10) $-$$ GRUMPY’S GRILL NW 2960 W. Ina Road. 297-5452. Open MondaySaturday 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. “Burgers, baskets and beer,” the catchphrase for this bar and grill, says it all. Add a friendly atmosphere and big-screen TVs, and you’ve got a great neighborhood eatery. The baskets are big, and dinners range from steak to spaghetti and meatballs. Happy-hour prices attract a nice crowd. (9-27-07) $-$$ MIDTOWN BAR AND GRILL E 4915 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-2011. Bar is open daily 10 a.m.-2 a.m.; Food is served daily 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Visit this place for the abundant TV screens on game days, and very good burgers; the rest of the menu is not bad, but rather undistinguished. (2-12-09) $-$$ RUSTY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILLE W 2075 W. Grant Road. 623-3363. Open daily 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. Atmospherewise, this is actually two restaurants in one--a sports bar and a trendy family restaurant. With decent prices, a hip decor and tasty sandwiches, burgers and dinner entrées, Rusty’s is one of the cooler places to eat or drink on the westside. (6-26-03) $$-$$$ TRIDENT GRILL C 2033 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-5755. Open daily 11

a.m.-2 a.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. While Trident Grill is a popular UA-area sports bar, its menu takes diners above and beyond the usual sports-bar fare. All the requisite appetizers, sandwiches and burgers are joined by an impressive menu of seafood offerings. The comfortable décor shows management’s love of the Navy SEALS and the Washington Redskins, and the service is friendly and efficient. A place to kick back, watch the game and eat some shellfish. (9-28-06) $$-$$$

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STEAKHOUSE COLT’S TASTE OF TEXAS STEAKHOUSE NW 8310 N. Thornydale Road. 572-5968. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Right out of a Larry McMurtry novel, the hoe-down atmosphere at Colt’s is a perfect backdrop for some of the tastiest steak dinners in town. Although chicken and fish are also offered, stick with the restaurant’s namesake, and you’ll never be disappointed. $$-$$$

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Starr Pass Resort and Spa. 791-6064. Open daily 6:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Some of the town’s best views can be found at the Signature Grill—and you can enjoy them for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Southwestern favorites such as tableside guacamole and rock-shrimp ceviche are always enjoyable. Weather permitting, the outdoor patio may just be the perfect place for a date. (4-2-09) $$$-$$$$

DAISY MAE’S STEAK HOUSE W 2735 W. Anklam Road. 792-8888. Open daily 3-10

p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Calling all you cowboys and cowgals: Gather around the table for some mighty fine vittles, including steaks, ribs, chicken and chops, all cooked to order on an outdoor mesquite grill! Smiling servers will bring you all the beans you care to eat. This is a little piece of Old Pueblo dining history and a great place to bring out-of-towners. (10-26-06) $$-$$$

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BY CASEY DEWEY, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com t’s 2012, and famously dreadlocked punk-rock frontman Keith Morris hasn’t slowed down one bit. And he still has a lot to say. “I’ve never had a schedule this full and busy in all of my years of doing this,” Morris said during a recent phone interview. “I’m (almost) 57, and it feels great.” What’s keeping Morris so busy is the recent popularity of his blazing new hardcore band, OFF! Forget the dreaded term “supergroup”; OFF! is a powerhouse containing four ableminded gentlemen with their own punk pedigrees. The group not only features the ex-lead singer of the trailblazing hardcore pioneers Black Flag and the Circle Jerks, but also Steven McDonald (Redd Kross) on bass, Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket From the Crypt/Hot Snakes) behind the drums, and Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides) on guitar. OFF!, along with the reunited hardcore veterans Negative Approach and three other bands, will be playing at The Rock on Saturday, Sept. 15. It may be run of the mill now, but once upon a time, punk rock was dangerous, and no band epitomized danger more than Hermosa Beach, Calif.’s Black Flag. Formed in 1976 by guitar-player Greg Ginn, Black Flag set the stage for American hardcore, beefing up the tones of punk rock and writing songs about rage, alienation and police brutality. Their concerts were as chaotic as they are mythical; legions of Los Angeles police officers arriving in full riot gear looking to break up the show and bust a few heads were not an uncommon occurrence. Keith Morris was the first of several singers—the most famous, of course, being Black Flag’s longest-lasting frontman, the jackof-all trades Henry Rollins. Morris left the band because of creative differences with Ginn. According to Morris, “The guys in Black Flag were really into practicing, like all the time. I had other things to do, like alcohol and drugs.” Soon after leaving Black Flag, Morris formed the Circle Jerks, taking Greg Hetson, the guitarplayer from Red Cross, with him. (Hetson’s old band was forced to change the spelling to Redd Kross due to a threatened lawsuit by the humanitarian institution.) For more than two decades, the Circle Jerks pummeled slam-dancing audiences with their fast, fun and whiplash-inducing anthems. Morris, almost always with a Budweiser firmly gripped in his hand, was a consummate showman, barking out lyrics in a machine-gun staccato one second, and stopping the song to scold a rowdy audience the next. Hetson soon started pulling double duty by

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joining up with fellow SoCal band Bad Religion. Morris sobered up, and by the dawn of the ’90s, the band went on hiatus, swimming to the surface here and there with the occasional live reunion. It was out of the ashes of a proposed new Circle Jerks album in 2009 that OFF! came into being. After enlisting Dimitri Coats to produce and help write the new album, Morris found himself at odds with the rest of the band. Finding the new material not up to snuff, Coats firmly told the band: “These songs aren’t good enough to be on a Circle Jerks album.” With egos and tempers running hot, the other members decided to end the project. While still trying to chip away at what he and Coats had already worked on, a revelation came to Morris on a hot summer night: While Coats was playing guitar, he hit a certain chord that sent Keith into something he hadn’t felt in a long time. “What he played took me back to where I came from and where I wanted to be again,” Morris said, in his laid-back, hint-of-the-beach tone. “Sometimes, bands don’t go where they need to be; they get stuck and continue to do the same thing.” At the end of the night, Morris gave Coats some homework: Nervous Breakdown, the first Black Flag EP. Soon after, a mold was formed, and Morris and Coats recruited McDonald and Rubalcaba to help flesh it out. “These guys know their stuff, and there are a lot of different influences going on,” Morris says before rattling off numerous bands: “The Saints. The Damned. The Kinks. Kiss. Hawkwind.” OFF! made their live debut at the South by Southwest Music festival in Austin, Texas, and afterward went straight to work on an EP. That EP, along with three others, was released by Vice Records, the often controversial and polarizing Vice magazine’s record label, in late 2010. When asked about the band’s decision to sign with Vice, Morris said, “Yeah, we got some flack from those with less-than-open minds. But you know what? Vice magazine isn’t just a trendy, hipster magazine. They have some of

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the best photojournalists working for them; the articles are always genuinely interesting; and all you need to do is flip past the first few fashion ads to discover that. I don’t understand that mindset. I want my world to be wide-open.” Featuring cover art by the reclusive Raymond Pettibon, the artist who lent his stark handiwork to the majority of Black Flag’s releases and fliers, the collection, titled simply First Four EPs, is a blistering mash of urgent fury and pure “piss-off” attitude. With each song clocking in around the minute mark, their point is made quickly and sharply. You wouldn’t be in the wrong to think that Morris hasn’t sounded this alert and alive since the Circle Jerks were pissed off at the denizens of “Beverly Hills” or advocating a “Coup d’Etat.” OFF! released a full-length, self-titled album this year, again with cover art by Pettibon. Tracks like “I Got News for You,” “Toxic Box” and “Borrow and Bomb” are short, sizzling and intense; you get the feeling that if any of these tracks went past 1:50, the band would selfannihilate. “Jet Black Girls” is a particularly resonating number. “It’s an ode to the girls that hung out at the old punk club in Hollywood, The Masque,” Morris explains. “It’s about that whole scene. And, you know, smoking ‘coco puffs’ with Derf Scratch, the bass player from Fear.” Asked if he had any memories of Tucson, Morris said, “Yeah. … It involved three trailers out in the middle of the desert, a certain substance I was looking for, and making the show just on time.”

If Wilco likes you, they really like you. If Wilco doesn’t like you, they tend to carry a grudge. At least that would seem to be the lesson we can draw from the group’s return to Tucson this week. The experimental roots band first played Tucson on Nov. 9, 1996, at The Rock, shortly after the release of their second album, the two-disc set Being There. Here’s how I previously described the show: “The band delivered on every front—but it’s too bad the club didn’t return the favor. After a brief opening set by The Handsome Family, Wilco blazed through one of the best sets I’ve ever witnessed. It was raw where it needed to be, yet polished when called for; band and audience alike were having a blast. After a transcendent version of Being There’s opening salvo, “Misunderstood,” during which (Jeff) Tweedy jumped into the audience, the band was unexpectedly done. The geniuses running The Rock at the time cut short the set to make sure that Wilco didn’t disrupt their dance night, which began the second the band was done performing—never mind that no one was actually there to dance yet.” Based on conversations with band members, who went out carousing at the late, lamented Airport Lounge after the show, they were pissed. So pissed, in fact, that it would be another 13 years before the band would return to Tucson. (To be fair, they had a show scheduled for the Rialto Theatre in 2004 that ended up being canceled when Tweedy entered rehab for prescription painkillers.) They sold out a show at UA’s Centennial Hall, with Grizzly Bear opening, in 2009. By that point, the band had become a different one entirely than the version that performed at The Rock—both in membership and the music they were playing. Aside from Jeff Tweedy, bassist John Stirratt was, and is, the only remaining member from the band’s first incarnation. (Rest in peace, Jay Bennett.) And over the last several years, they’ve added guitar genius Nels Cline to the fold, and veered from delicate, straightforward acoustic numbers and country-rock tunes to krautrock-inspired jams and noisy earfucks—and back again. Just take a listen to last year’s The Whole Love (dBpm/ANTI-) for proof. Along with the adoring audience, they must have had an enjoyable experience at that Centennial show: A mere three years later, they’re returning to town this week for a performance at the Tucson Convention Center Music Hall. And, to sweeten the deal even further, they’re bringing Jonathan Richman with drummer Tommy Larkins as openers. (Related note: Tucson can no longer claim Larkins as our own, as he recently relocated to upstate New York.) I, for one, am stoked that Wilco will appear at the TCC Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave., on Wednesday, Sept. 19. Richman will open the allages show at 7:45 p.m. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.com or 800-7453000) for $38 and $44 before service charges.

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MASSIVE MANÁ Maná is likely the biggest Mexican band in the world. A few of the Guadalajara-based band’s many accolades: The group’s fifth album, 1992’s ¿Dónde Jugarán Los Niños? (WEA Latina), is the best-selling Spanish-language album of all time; the band has won four Grammy Awards and seven Latin Grammy Awards. And they’ve done it with an interesting amalgam of styles ranging from pop and reggae to calypso and rock. Following its participation in the Sound Strike boycott of Arizona due to the passage of SB 1070, Maná broke its boycott in May, when it performed a sold-out show at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, despite protesters outside of the arena. This week, Maná returns to Tucson for the first time since the boycott. They’ll perform at 7:30 p.m., next Thursday, Sept. 20, at the TCC Arena, 260 S. Church Ave. Tickets for the allages show are available through Ticketmaster and the venue box office. Tickets range from $43 to $123 before service charges. For tickets, head to ticketmaster.com, or call (800) 745-3000. For more info, call 791-4101.

COUNTRY BEFORE GLITTER If the professional party planners of MEOWmeow Productions know one thing, it’s that there’s no rest for the wicked. The clan has been on quite a roll—its most recent feat was to resurrect Freddie Mercury for a set of Queen hits at the singer’s birthday bash at Club Congress—and this week, they’re back with two very different parties. Up first is Ho Down! The Country Revue, which the crew describes as “a night of country, hay bales and boot-stompin’ fun.” The evening will feature live performances by the Wild Stallions of Hell, The Get Right Rounders and Sunny Italy, and DJ (and MEOWmeow head honcho) Jared “Kitty Katt” McKinley will spin lots of old country tunes between acts to keep the two-stepping going. Ho Down! The Country Revue starts at 10 p.m., Friday, Sept. 14, at La Cocina, 201 N. Court Ave. Admission is $3. For more information, head to lacocinatucson.com, or call 622-0351. The fun continues the very next night when MEOWmeow takes over the Rialto Theatre for the group’s biggest party of the year, Glitterball. This will be the third installment of the event (the first two were thrown by MEOWmeow’s precursor, Powhaus Productions), which celebrates everything ’70s glam-rock (so dress accordingly). Uranus resident Kitty Quasar—along with his sister Titania (“queen of the moon of Uranus that is of the same name”)—will once again beam in to host the event, which will feature live sets by Sugar Stains and Phoenix’s Scorpion vs. Tarantula. The event will also feature a reprise of the Queen set. DJs B-Rad and The Vinyl Baron will spin glam tunes to keep you dancing between the live acts. And, from a press release: “The Celestial Bodies of Uranus, an alien burlesque group, will be exposing exotic anatomy, and Glitter Fairies will baptize the willing with glitter bombs and glitter showers (if you promise not to be born again).” What that means from personal experience: If you attend the event, you will be finding glitter all over your house for the next few months.

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Trust me; it’s worth it. The Glitterball gets rolling at 9 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. Admission is $5, and you must be 18 or older to attend. More information is available at rialtotheatre.com, or by calling 740-1000.

AN OLD-TIMEY SATURDAY NIGHT Illinois native, St. Louis resident and Jack White collaborator Pokey LaFarge brings his band Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three to town for a night of acoustic old-timey music this week. The group convincingly spins out authentic country blues, ragtime, jazz and pretty much every other style that falls under the umbrella of Americana. Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three perform at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St., on Saturday, Sept. 15. Tom Walbank and the Ambassadors open at 9:45 p.m. Advance tickets are $8 and available at plushtucson.com; they’ll be $10 at the door. Call 798-1298 for answers to any questions.

2. Oﬀ! First Four EPs (cassette) (Burger)

3. Al Foul Keep the Motor Running (self-released)

4. Mostly True: The West’s Most Popular Hobo Graﬃti Magazine (book) Bill Daniel (Microcosm)

5. Justin Valdez Deuce-Seven Oﬀ Suit (Los Muertos)

6. The Deadbeats Kill the Hippies 10” EP (Dangerhouse)

7. Buzzcocks Love Bites (Mute)

8. Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma and Death: Mondo Memphis, Volume 1 (book) Tav Falco (Creation)

9. The Abigails

ON THE BANDWAGON Tons of other great stuff is happening around town this week. Here are some highlights: Diunna Greenleaf and Blue Mercy and Bob Corritore at Suite 147 at Plaza Palomino on Friday, Sept. 14; Generation Cool with the Minibosses and others at Club Congress on Saturday, Sept. 15; Lenguas Largas, Dez Vibz and Acorn Bcorn at The District Tavern on Friday, Sept. 14; the B-Side Players, The Jons and Carlos Arzate at Club Congress on Friday, Sept. 14; Andy Hersey at the inaugural installation of the Truelove and Friends series each Tuesday at Monterey Court on Tuesday, Sept. 18; The Used, Twin Atlantic and Stars in Stereo at the Rialto Theatre on Wednesday, Sept. 19; The Dirty Heads, Pacific Dub and Something Like Seduction at The Rock on Friday, Sept. 14; Cuchillo at Club Congress on Wednesday, Sept. 19; Tab Benoit at the Rialto Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 18; Little Texas at Thursday Thunder at Monsoon Nightclub at Desert Diamond Casino next Thursday, Sept. 20; The Imposters, Man Bites Dog, Kid Puto and Pop Gestapo at Tucson Live Music Space on Sunday, Sept. 16; Triple Double Band at The Hut on Friday, Sept. 14; Bearkat, David Ragland and Logan Greene at The HangArt on Friday, Sept. 14; Jeff Dunham at AVA at Casino del Sol on Saturday, Sept. 15; Hank Topless at Borderlands Brewing Company on Friday, Sept. 14; Run-On Sunshine, Tinsels, Dying Bedmaker and Ocean Void at Tucson Live Music Space, tonight, Thursday, Sept. 13; Alejandro Fernandez at AVA at Casino del Sol on Friday, Sept. 14; Logan Greene Electric and The Sadie Hawks at Sky Bar next Thursday, Sept. 20; and lots more, so check our listings section.

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CLUB LIST Here is a list of venues that offer live music, dancing, DJ music, karaoke or comedy in the Tucson area. We recommend that you call and confirm all events. ARIZONA INN 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. ARMITAGE WINE LOUNGE AND CAFÉ 2905 E. Skyline Drive, No. 168. 682-9740. THE AULD DUBLINER 800 E. University Blvd. 206-0323. AZUL RESTAURANT LOUNGE Westin La Paloma, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. 742-6000. THE BAMBOO CLUB 5870 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 524. 514-9665. THE BASHFUL BANDIT 3686 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-8996. BEAU BRUMMEL CLUB 1148 N. Main Ave. 622-9673. BEDROXX 4385 W. Ina Road. 744-7655. BEST WESTERN ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871. BLUEFIN SEAFOOD BISTRO 7053 N. Oracle Road. 531-8500. BOB DOBBS 2501 E. Sixth St. 325-3767. 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. THE BREEZE PATIO BAR AND GRILL Radisson Suites. 6555 E. Speedway Blvd. 731-1414. 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. 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) 3988000. COW PONY BAR AND GRILL 6510 E. Tanque Verde Road. 721-2781. CUSHING STREET RESTAURANT AND BAR 198 W. Cushing St. 622-7984. DAKOTA CAFE AND CATERING CO. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-7188. DELECTABLES RESTAURANT AND CATERING 533 N. Fourth Ave. 884-9289. THE DEPOT SPORTS BAR 3501 E. Fort Lowell Road. 795-8110. DESERT DIAMOND CASINO MONSOON NIGHTCLUB 7350 S. Nogales Highway. 294-7777.

DESERT DIAMOND CASINO SPORTS BAR Interstate 19 and Pima Mine Road. 393-2700. DIABLOS SPORTS BAR AND GRILL 2545 S. Craycroft Road. 514-9202. 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. ECLIPSE AT COLLEGE PLACE 1601 N. Oracle Road. 209-2121. 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. FOX AND HOUND SMOKEHOUSE AND TAVERN Foothills Mall, 7625 N. La Cholla Blvd. 575-1980. FROG AND FIRKIN 874 E. University Blvd. 623-7507. LA FUENTE 1749 N. Oracle Road. 623-8659. FUKU SUSHI 940 E. University Blvd. 798-3858. GENTLE BEN’S BREWING COMPANY 865 E. University Blvd. 624-4177. GOLD Westward Look Resort, 245 E. Ina Road. 917-2930, ext. 474. THE GRILL AT QUAIL CREEK 1490 Quail Range Loop. Green Valley. 393-5806. GUADALAJARA GRILL EAST 750 N. Kolb Road. 296-1122. GUADALAJARA GRILL WEST 1220 E. Prince Road. 323-1022. HACIENDA DEL SOL 5601 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. 299-1501. THE HANGART 512 N. Echols Ave. HIDEOUT BAR AND GRILL 1110 S. Sherwood Village Drive. 751-2222. THE HIDEOUT 3000 S. Mission Road. 791-0515. HILDA’S SPORTS BAR 1120 Circulo Mercado. Rio Rico. (520) 281-9440. THE HOG PIT SMOKEHOUSE BAR AND GRILL 6910 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4302. THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200. IBT’S 616 N. Fourth Ave. 882-3053. IGUANA CAFE 210 E. Congress St. 882-5140. 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. JOE AND VICKY’S PLACE 3700 N. Oracle Road. 888-1900. 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 EVENT CENTER 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. NEW MOON TUCSON 915 W. Prince Road. 293-7339. NORTH 2995 E. Skyline Drive. 299-1600. O’MALLEY’S 247 N. Fourth Ave. 623-8600. OLD FATHER INN 4080 W. Ina Road. Marana. 744-1200. OLD PUEBLO GRILLE 60 N. Alvernon Way. 326-6000. 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. THE PARISH 6453 N. Oracle Road. 797-1233. LA PARRILLA SUIZA 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300. PEARSON’S PUB 1120 S. Wilmot Road. 747-2181. PLAYGROUND BAR AND LOUNGE 278 E. Congress St. 396-3691. PLUSH 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298. PURGATORY 1310 S. Alvernon Way. 795-1996. PUTNEY’S 6090 N. Oracle Road. 575-1767. RPM NIGHTCLUB 445 W. Wetmore Road. 869-6098. RA SUSHI BAR RESTAURANT 2905 E. Skyline Drive. 615-3970. RAGING SAGE COFFEE ROASTERS 2458 N. Campbell Ave. 320-5203. REDLINE SPORTS GRILL 445 W. Wetmore Road. 888-8084. LE RENDEZ-VOUS 3844 E. Fort Lowell Road. 323-7373.

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. ROCK N’ JAVA 7555 W. Twin Peaks Road. Marana. 572-5738. THE ROCK 136 N. Park Ave. 629-9211. ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871. RUSTY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILLE 2075 W. Grant Road. 623-3363. SALTY DAWG II 6121 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 106. 790-3294. SAM HUGHES PLACE CHAMPIONSHIP DINING 446 N. Campbell Ave. 747-5223. SAPPHIRE LOUNGE 61 E. Congress St. 624-9100. SHERATON HOTEL AND SUITES 5151 E. Grant Road. 323-6262. SHOOTERS STEAKHOUSE AND SALOON 3115 E. Prince Road. 322-0779. SHOT IN THE DARK CAFÉ 121 E. Broadway Blvd. 882-5544. SINBAD’S FINE MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE 810 E. University Ave. 623-4010. SIR VEZA’S TACO GARAGE SPEEDWAY 4699 E. Speedway Blvd. 323-8226. SIR VEZA’S TACO GARAGE WETMORE 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. SOLAR CULTURE 31 E. Toole Ave. 884-0874. 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. SUITE 147 AT PLAZA PALOMINO 2970 N. Swan Road, No. 147. 440-4455. 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. TRIDENT GRILL 2033 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-5755. TUCSON LIVE MUSIC SPACE 125 W. Ventura St. UNICORN SPORTS LOUNGE 8060 E. 22nd St., No. 118. 722-6900. 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 SEP 13 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch Boondocks Lounge Grams and Krieger The Breeze Patio Bar and Grill Scotty P. Café Passé Jeff Grubic and Naim Amor Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Live classical guitar Chicago Bar Neon Prophet Club Congress Opti Club presents Hume La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Stefan George Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Cooper 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 I Was Totally Destroying It, The Trophy Fire Irish Pub Jeff Carlson acoustic show Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Corey Spector Las Cazuelitas Event Center Live music McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Susan Artemis Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café The Pueblo Boys O’Malley’s Live music On a Roll Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Karen Holloway (Adele tribute) Plush Annon and TLS RPM Nightclub 80’s and Gentlemen Redline Sports Grill Bike night with Five Way Street Sheraton Hotel and Suites Prime Example Sky Bar Wayland, Another Lost Year The Steakout Restaurant and Saloon Andrew Cooper Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Tucson Live Music Space Run-On Sunshine, Tinsels, Dying Bedmaker, Ocean Void Whiskey Tango Live music Wild Bill’s Steakhouse and Saloon Wild Oats

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC The Bamboo Club Karaoke with DJ Tony G Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y-Not Karaoke Buffalo Wild Wings Y-Not Karaoke The Depot Sports Bar Karaoke with DJ Brandon Driftwood Restaurant and Lounge El Charro Café Sahuarita Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star karaoke Famous Sam’s Valencia Hilda’s Sports Bar The Hog Pit Smokehouse Bar and Grill Steve Morningwood acoustic open-mic night Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Open mic with Bob Paluzzi Know Where II New Star Karaoke Margarita Bay Music Box Karaoke with AJ Oracle Inn Karaoke and open mic Outlaw Saloon Chubbrock Entertainment Pappy’s Diner Open mic River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke with KJ David Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Stadium Grill Chubbrock Entertainment

DANCE/DJ Diablos Sports Bar and Grill Bikini bash with DJ Mike Lopez Eclipse at College Place DJ spins music Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company DJ spins music The Hideout Fiesta DJs IBT’s DJ spins music Javelina Cantina DJ M. Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar DJ Bonus RJ’s Replays Sports Pub and Grub DJ M Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge Salsa night Sir Veza’s Taco Garage Wetmore 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,

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NINE QUESTIONS Wes McCanse Wes McCanse is the guitar-player and producer for local electro-rockers â&#x20AC;Ś music video? Over the course of three fulllength albums and several years, the band has received multiple accolades. Wes and â&#x20AC;Ś music video? have won TAMMIES for Best Electronic act for the past five years, have recorded with Fort Lowell Records, and have toured the United States extensively. Joshua Levine, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

What was the first concert you attended? In sixth-grade, I saw the Offspring with the Vandals and the Lunachicks at the Tucson Convention Center. What are you listening to these days? Why?, Flaming Lips, The Pharcyde, Sigur RĂłs, Clinic, LCD Soundsystem. What was the first album you owned? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember the exact album, but it was definitely a cassette by Jerry Lee Lewis. I idolized him when I was a little kid. What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone seem to love, but you just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get? Skrillex. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of interesting sounds, but he throws them together with no taste or style. If I could emulate diarrhea with a synthesizer, it might be neat, but I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t release albums of it. What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live? Jimi Hendrix. Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m definitely not cool enough to listen to oldschool hip-hop, but I do anyway. What song would you like to have played at your funeral? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything in Its Right Placeâ&#x20AC;? by Radiohead. What band or artist changed your life, and how? Although I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t listened to it in more than a decade, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cliffs of Doverâ&#x20AC;? by Eric Johnson is the reason I bought my first guitar. Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time? Radioheadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kid A.

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IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY CLUB CONGRESS Friday, Sept. 7 I discovered It’s a Beautiful Day during a memorable mid-’80s weekend when a passing car nearly tore off my vehicle’s door as I impulsively stepped into the street to buy flowers from a cart. That weekend also saw my virgin viewing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. At some point, I asked a friend what was on the radio, and she answered, “It’s a Beautiful Day.” That music was more than a decade old then, and the band had been defunct for years. Today, the reconstituted band can fill Club Congress with fans, albeit in chairs, for their sing-able orchestral folk. That’s a testament to the sheer size of the baby boom. Band founder David LaFlamme dangled his glittering silver fiddle as he explained how he made it through: “I was in India six weeks in 1972, specifically to kick my cocaine habit. I went to an ashram to get clean, and I’ve been clean ever since.” Of the band members onstage, only drummer Val Fuentes knew him then, and has been with him since. Apart from the ’90s, when LaFlamme worked “in pictures” and Fuentes was with the New Riders of the Purple Sage, they’ve made new music and played the old favorites around L.A. While the Congress show included golden hits such as “White Bird,” “Bombay Calling” and “Time Is,” it was primarily loaded with newer material. LaFlamme introduced one of the new songs, “San Francisco Nights,” with a story about how he met his wife of 39 years, Linda Baker LaFlamme, the band’s deliverer of smooth but powerful vocals, at a show. She interrupted to say she had actually been there to see Booker T. and the MGs. “Soapstone Mountain,” with its primordial alt-country arrangement, was first recorded in 1970. And 1971’s “The Grand Camel Suite” seemed prescient with the Middle Eastern flavor of its country twang. After hearing this band’s songs badly played by convention-hotel bands for 40 years, it was great to find their pre-punk, folk-jazz fusion put back right, live, and set in its historically colorful context. Surely they’re ready for a close-up on Glee. Linda Ray lray@tucsonweekly.com

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For anyone familiar with AmoChip Dabneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s various stage personas, this all-instrumental improvisational suite for piano is probably the last thing youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect to hear. A multi-instrumentalist excelling on saxophones, keyboards and bass, Dabney is the consummate pro. His work has garnered two Grammy nominations, and his high-energy sax-playing is always in high demand. To say this is a radical departure is a bit of an understatement. But somehow, on an album more closely aligned with George Winston than George Clinton, Dabney serves up an exquisite poem without words. While none of these 12 pieces resemble anything like a completed or traditional song, they are not designed to be. Instead, they are phrases, snippets, ideas and meanderings, woven together in a way that is emotionally engaging, but with room to breathe. Dabney also keeps it interesting with phrasings and tones that offer a variety of contrasts throughout. Within several pieces, you can sense there are times when he is literally reaching for the next note, not quite sure as to what it might be, yet heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing with a confidence and a vibe that never leaves you hanging. He is at ease within these more openended musical landscapes. This is late-night stuff to be sure, blending complementary bits of classical and jazz. More to the point, these pieces are bits of Amoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; soulful, complex and not easy to define, yet always a good ride. Jim Lipson

When Jamie Smith said late last year that the new xx album would be heavily influenced by club music, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure anyone anticipated the sound of Coexist. While club music calls to mind propulsive dance beats and crushing layers of synths, those are nowhere to be found on Coexist. The albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first impression is just as spare and haunting as 2009â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s xx was. But by the second or third listen, Coexist does reveal itself to be The xxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of a dance album. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reunionâ&#x20AC;? feeds ambient steel drums through reverb until suddenly, a low, throttling dance beat kicks in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Missingâ&#x20AC;? begins with a sci-fi pulse, employs full stops of dead silence and builds to a Portishead-esque crescendo. The frazzled beats underlying â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fiction,â&#x20AC;? one of the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s darkest and best songs, would sound at home on any early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s British house album. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sunsetâ&#x20AC;? might come closest to being an actual club banger, and is the first time the band has framed singer Romy Madley Croft as a straight-up dance diva. The album isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t entirely cohesive. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not excited by the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lead single, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Angels,â&#x20AC;? which hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grown any more interesting since it debuted earlier this summer. Tracks like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Song,â&#x20AC;? while sounding gorgeous, feel a bit short on ideas. But then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the exquisite â&#x20AC;&#x153;Try,â&#x20AC;? a song built almost entirely around one spectral loop. Coexist is a record that requires patience and time to work its magic, but is utterly, enthrallingly, worth the effort. Sean Bottai

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blessings if you do it with flair and purpose, but not if it’s the result of being inattentive and careless. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Should we boycott the writing of Edgar Allan Poe because he married his 13-year-old cousin when he was 26? Should anti-drug crusaders stop using their iPhones when they find out that Steve Jobs said that “doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life”? Should we stop praising the work that Martin Luther King Jr. did to advance civil rights because he engaged in extramarital affairs? Those are the kinds of questions I suspect you’ll have to deal with in the coming days, Leo. I encourage you to avoid having knee-jerk reactions. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Arthur Turner, a Virgo reader from Austin, is upset with my recent horoscopes. In his email, he wrote the following: “You’re making me mad with your predictions of nonstop positivity, Brezsny. I need more dirt and grit and muck. I’ve got to have some misery and decay to motivate me. So just please shut up with your excess projections of good times. They’re bringing me down.” Here’s my response to him and to any other Virgo who feels like him: I’m afraid you’re scheduled to endure even more encounters with cosmic benevolence in the coming week. If these blessings feel oppressive, try to change your attitude about them. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The humorous science journal Annals of Improbable Research published a paper entitled “The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth.” Signed by 198 Ph.D. physicists, it came to this conclusion: “So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the Earth.” If possible, Libra, I suggest you summon a comparable amount of high-powered expertise for your own purposes. But please make sure that those purposes are weightier than the question of peanut butter’s role on our planet’s movements. Round up the best help you can, yes; call on all the favors you’re owed; and be aggressive in seeking out brilliant support—but only for a truly important cause. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sept. 16 is the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish

New Year. So begins 10 days of repentance. Whether or not you’re Jewish, Scorpio, you are entering an astrological phase when taking stock of yourself would be a brilliant move. That’s why I invite you to try the following self-inventory, borrowed from the Jewish organization Chadeish Yameinu. 1. What would you like to leave behind from the past 12 months? 2. What has prevented you from living up to your highest standards and being your very best self? 3. What would you love to bring with you into the next 12 months? 4. Who served as a teacher for you in the past year? 5. Were you a teacher for anyone? 6. Is there anyone you need to forgive? 7. How will you go about forgiving? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If I’m accurately interpreting the astrological omens, the coming months will be a soulful feast in which every day will bring you a shimmering revelation about the nature of your soul’s code and how best to activate it. Reasons for grateful amazement will flow so freely that you may come to feel that miracles are routine and naturally occurring phenomena. And get this: In your dreams, Cinderella and Sleeping

Beauty will get married, win the lottery and devote their fortune to fostering your spiritual education until you are irrevocably enlightened. (I confess there’s a slight chance I’m misinterpreting the signs, and everything I described will be true for only a week or so, not months.) CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A reader named Marissa begged me to insert a secret message into the Capricorn horoscope. She wanted me to influence Jergen, a guy she has a crush on, to open up his eyes and see how great she is. I told her I wouldn’t do it. Why? For one thing, I never try to manipulate people into doing things that aren’t in alignment with their own desires. For another, I faithfully report on my understanding of the tides of fate, and refuse to just make stuff up. I urge you to have that kind of integrity, Capricorn. I suspect you may soon be invited or coaxed to engage in what amounts to some tainted behavior. Don’t do it. Make an extra effort to be incorruptible. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The far away, the very far, the farthest, I have found only in my own blood,” said poet

Antonio Porchia. Let’s make that thought your keynote, Aquarius. Your assignment will be to search for what’s most exotic and unknown, but only in the privacy of your own heart, not out in the great wide world. For now, at least, the inner realm is the location of the laboratory where the most useful experiments will unfold. Borrowing from novelist Carole Maso, I leave you with this: “Make love to the remoteness in yourself.” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It would be an excellent time for you to elope, even if you do so with the person to whom you’re already mated. You might also consider the possibility of wearing a wedding dress everywhere you wander, even if there is no marriage ceremony in your immediate future, and even if you’re a man. And if neither of those ideas appeals to you, please at least do something that will symbolize your intention to focus on intimacy with an intensified sense of purpose. Fling rice at yourself. Seek out someone who’ll give you lessons in how to listen like an empathetic genius. Compose and recite vows in which you pledge to become an utterly irresistible and reliable ally.

¡ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net .net Dear Mexican: Is it just me, or has what to call our friends from south of the border become a partisan issue? While taking in both political conventions over the last couple of weeks, I’ve noticed that Republicans invariably use the word “Hispanics,” while Democrats are far more likely to say “Latino/a.” What gives? Is there some nefarious semantic plot afoot, such as when right-wing commentators dropped the “ic” from “Democratic?” Or is there a more-innocent explanation? How do Hispanics and/or Latinos refer to themselves? Ensuring My Future in Brown America Dear Gabacho: Man, I can write a whole book on your pregunta—and I did! It’s called Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America— so let me be brief. While you over-generalized a bit—Latinos from the East Coast tend to call themselves “Hispanics” regardless of political aﬃliation, while Republican Latinos usually call themselves vendidos—you’re on to something. It’s not just a political-ideology litmus test, but also a gabacho one, and it boils down to is this: Any gabacho who calls brownies “Hispanics” is usually clueless about them, while any gabacho who calls us “Latinos” is a fellow traveler of the Reconquista. Voila—there’s your explanation to why the GOP favors “Hispanic,” while Dems like “Latino.” A gross generalization, yes, but apply this rule to the gabachos, Democrats and Republicans in your life, and I guarantee you’ll be pleasantly surprised! What is the relationship with the Chicano culture to the song “Crystal Blue Persuasion?” I’ve seen Tommy James and the Shondells perform it numerous times, and I never got goosebumps or teared up or anything. But Chicanos ALWAYS request that song. Why? What is the connection? Did Tommy James have a Chicana heina on the side, and it’s about her? Was it a 1970s drug, a bottle of wine (like Boone’s Farm)? What? Dime, por favor! MC Cuervo Dear Readers: It’s rare I break my pseudonym rule, but I’m doing it for MC Cuervo, whose real

name is Danny Valenzuela and co-hosts, along with Ricky O, the Latino Soul Party every Friday night on KUVO FM 89.3 in Denver and worldwide on www.kuvo.org. It’s an awesome show spinning the best oldies-but-goodies and new Latin Soul tracks—puro DESMADRE, so tune in! Anyhoo, I’m surprised that MC Cuervo doesn’t know his Chicano-soul history: While it’s true that hippy-dippy gabachos Tommy James and the Shondells recorded the ﬁrst (and best) version of the best-seller in 1969, multiple soul groups with a Chicano fan base quickly covered it, as did Latin soul pioneer Joe Bataan. From there, it lived on in muchos oldies-but-goodies compilations, including Art Laboe’s Dedicated to You and Oldies but Goodies anthologies, in Thump Records’ Old School Love Songs album, and even that Barrio Oldies series with the pink covers that everyone’s cholo cousin had a pirated version of in the 1980s. It got a new lease on life in 1990, when A Lighter Shade of Brown incorporated it into its classic “On a Sunday Afternoon,” and just got major play on Breaking Bad. But the question remains—why do Chicanos love the song so much, and how did it transition into the pantheon of Chicano-favored oldiesbut-goodies? It’s basically a Mexican song: The bongos and the acoustic guitar arpeggios come from Latin America, while the dreamy electric guitar and dramatic organ riﬀs sound like “96 Tears” (another Chicano classic) after a couple of bong hits, and the horns and harmonies straight out of Eastlos. Perfect cruising music and perfect love song equals a canción that’s more Mexican than Vicente Fernandez’s mustache. 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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