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OPINION Tom Danehy 4 Irene Messina 6 Broadway in Tucson kicks off 2012-2013 with Stomp.

Jim Hightower 6 Guest Commentary 8 Mailbag 8

CURRENTS The Skinny 9 By Jim Nintzel

Bittersweet Home 9 By Tim Vanderpool

Seniors face a tough transition into their new apartments Media Watch 10 By John Schuster

Dead Heat 11 By Jim Nintzel

Flake and Carmona spar over the environment, Medicare Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by David Mendez

Police Dispatch 12 By Anna Mirocha

Officers on Oracle 13

The official newsweekly of the 47 percent.

By Brian J. Pedersen

After an increase in accidents, Oro Valley cracks down Sparks Flying 14 By Albert Vetere Lannon

After nearly being electrocuted, a Metro Water employee is fired The District’s Dozen 15

Our Local, LessSuccessful Mitt Romney

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The whole Mitt Romney “47 percent” flap reminds me of a similar hubbub caused by one of Romney’s fellow Republicans last year—on a local level. In April 2011, Inside Tucson Business (a sister paper of ours) did a story on a feud between Tucson Ward 6 City Councilman Steve Kozachik and state Sen. Frank Antenori. Patrick McNamara, the reporter, noted that Kozachik had reached out to local legislators in an effort to get them to stop trying to take actions that would hurt his midtown Tucson constituents. In response, Antenori, of Legislative District 30—a sprawling district including Green Valley, Sierra Vista and far-east metro Tucson—said this about Kozachik: “He hasn’t reached out to anybody. … He doesn’t represent the people I represent. The majority of the people I represent pay taxes. Probably the majority of people he represents don’t—or receive some government subsidy.” One irony: Frank Antenori, as a member of the military and an employee of defense-contractor Raytheon, has been subsidized by the government, directly or indirectly, throughout his career. Another irony: After having his ass handed to him in the GOP primary to replace Gabrielle Giffords in Congress, Antenori decided to run for the state Senate in his new district, Legislative District 10 … which includes a good chunk of Kozachik’s midtown Ward 6. Beyond these insane statements by Romney and Antenori, for the good of the country, this Republican war on the poor needs to stop. Even if 47 percent (actually, 46 percent) of Americans don’t pay federal income tax, they pay a lot of other taxes. Instead of shitting on these people, shouldn’t we be doing what we can to help them get to the point where they are paying federal income taxes? America is better than this. Isn’t it?

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Three incumbents, nine challengers and a whole lot of issues: Welcome to the TUSD school-board races

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By Laura C.J. Owen

COVER DESIGN BY ANDREW ARTHUR

By Adam Borowitz

How I Learned to Drive occasionally veers off-course

Darlings of Denver 52

Celebration of Rhythm 33

The Lumineers embark on their first headlining tour, with a hit record to their credit

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Stomp kicks off Broadway in Tucson’s new season Twisting Old Into New 34 By Margaret Regan

Irish band FullSet brings its versions of old tunes

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Soundbites 52 By Stephen Seigel

Club Listings 54 Nine Questions 58

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Rhythm & Views 62

By Margaret Regan

The UA Poetry Center shows off Beata Wehr’s artist’s books

BOOKS Cats and the Cook 38 By Paul Wine

Julia Child’s love of felines

CINEMA Art and Inspiration 39 By Bob Grimm

The new Resident Evil flick is one of the year’s worst movies Film Times 40 Art and Inspiration 41 By Colin Boyd

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MEDICAL MJ Breaking Down the Bust 64 By J.M. Smith

What will the big Shop 420 raids mean to Tucson’s legit MMJ community?

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Tom ponders the city Transportation Department, disingenuous talk-show hosts and the refreshing mayor

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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, Rob Brezsny, Max Cannon, Rand Carlson, Michael Grimm, Jim Hightower, David Kish, Keith Knight, Albert Vetere Lannon, Joshua Levine, Anna Mirocha, Andy Mosier, Dan Perkins, Michael Petitti, Ted Rall, Dan Savage, John Schuster, Chuck Shepherd, Eric Swedlund, Tim Vanderpool, Paul Wine 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

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few things to touch upon; let’s call it pre-autumn cleaning: • Back in the heyday of Saturday Night Live, there was a vicious skit that I believe starred Bill Murray. (Hey, it was a long time ago.) It involved a disgraced political candidate giving his concession speech on election night. Instead of being at campaign headquarters, he’s holed up in some seedy motel room. He calmly goes through a litany of blunders and gaffes he has committed along the way, some of which suddenly come to mind as he’s relating other sins. There’s drug use, the embezzlement of campaign funds, graft and all sorts of corruption. The whole time, his underage girlfriend, who appears to be stoned out of her mind, is standing by his side. I remember thinking it was funny. But nowadays, it would play as a docudrama.

I thought of it during the past couple of weeks as the tragicomic opera involving the city of Tucson’s Transportation Department played out. With the city about to put a much-needed $100 million bond issue before the people for a vote, could the exposed crimes—felonies and misdemeanors—have come at a worse time? It is highly doubtful that city voters will want to entrust their government with that much money so close to the exposure of these scandals. Here’s a really distressing note: One of the most egregious offenses involved streets administrator Kurt Hough reportedly ordering city workers to use city materials to pour a concrete motorcycle pad right next to an existing asphalt slab, because Hough and his motorcycle buddies didn’t like parking on asphalt. Apparently, during the hot summer months, asphalt softens, and a motorcycle kickstand can sink into it an inch or two. Well, boo-freakin’-hoo. Let’s hope that the city goes after every single penny, even if it costs more to retrieve it than what the city will get back. Maybe the next jackass will think twice before abusing his position. • After I wrote about how the owner of the Guadalajara Original Grill finally got the OK to put in a patio at her restaurant after butting heads with city staff for four years, Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild called me. He said that while he certainly would prefer that people who are doing business with the city go through the proper channels, he wants people to know that if they feel mistreated or stonewalled, they should email him at mayor1@tucsonaz.gov. He says he reads all of his emails, and that he’ll take appropriate action if he feels it’s necessary. I’m sorry, but that’s almost frighteningly refreshing. • One of my most-consistent critics keeps emailing me

RANDOM SHOTS By Rand Carlson

about how a certain morning-drive talk-show host took me to task after he claimed that I called him a racist in my column. Let me make this clear, once and for all: I did not call him a racist. I hinted in my column, and then flat-out said when I went on his show, that he uses obvious racial references and cues to get a point across to (and get a rise out of) his audience. His defense was something along the lines of, “When I mentioned Al Sharpton, I never said he was black.” Yeah, well, when I mention Sofia Vergara, I don’t have to say, “Latina actress Sofia Vergara.” I assume that anyone with a pulse and an IQ above that of a fern knows that she’s Latina. Likewise, people know that Sharpton is black, and they further know that the names of Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are used by right-wing talk-show hosts to elicit a certain response from their mostly rabidly white audiences. (Likewise, there’s that ridiculous recording of women talking about how they’ve shown up to get their share of “Obama money.”) I don’t even think it’s that big of a deal; I really don’t. That’s the way it’s been done for decades. Successful hosts know their audiences, and they play to them accordingly. It’s just disingenuous to do it and then deny that it’s being done. My favorite part of this whole thing is how Tea Party defenders bristle at the suggestion of racism in their movement. It’s absolutely hilarious. Look, there is racism in the Democratic Party, and there’s racism in the Republican Party. But we’re supposed to believe that there is no racism in the most-strident political movement in this country over the past several decades? That stance is indefensible. Another emailer defied me to point out one instance of hatred by Tea Partiers toward President Obama. Let’s try this: Each of you go back over your life, however far back it stretches, and name a United States president (other than the current one) who has been openly and often accused of being un-American. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were involved in criminal activity while in the White House, but that just makes them crooks, and it’s an almost infinite distance between crook and traitor. Bill Clinton was a sleaze; Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford were incompetent; George W. Bush was a dolt. But none one of them was un-American. There have been a whole lot of unpopular presidents in my lifetime, but if you guys can’t see that this one is being treated way differently than all the rest, there’s something wrong.

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A world champion in skydiving, native Tucsonan Tee Taylor is a true pioneer in the sport HIGHTOWER BY JIM HIGHTOWER

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ee Taylor clearly remembers the day she first heard about skydiving. “When I was about 16, I can still remember my father coming in. … He said, ‘Hey, I saw this article in this magazine about a new sport. They call it skydiving—when you jump out of an airplane and do acrobatics in the air before you pull the parachute. Doesn’t that sound like fun?’ I said, ‘It does sound like fun.’” Taylor didn’t think about skydiving again until she was 20 years old. “There was an article in the newspaper about some people who made a parachute (landing) on the UA campus. It was some sort of scandalous thing, because they didn’t have permission. That was in 1961.” Taylor looked up the people mentioned in the article and found out where to go for training. “Training was pretty short; it was basically what to do in case of a malfunction. They had us jump off the tailgate of a truck and do parachute-landing falls. Then you were hooked up to a static line, so that your parachute was pulled automatically from the airplane, and you jumped—just like that. “When we made jumps, it was on a dirt road. I think it was probably Sandario Road. At that time, it wasn’t even a club. (We were) a group of people who would rent an airplane, find a pilot and a place you could land, and go make parachute jumps.”

Some statements by corporate chieftains tickle my funny bone—but more often, they torture my cynical bone. Take the hoary claim that today’s extravagant level of CEO pay is the natural product of the magical free market. To attract top executive talent, goes this line, it’s essential to lay out a feast of big bucks. Not mentioned is another “magical force” bloating the big boss’ paycheck: you and me. Specifically, taxpayers: In a case of the rules being rigged by and for the elite, America’s tax laws conveniently determine that the more the chief is paid, the bigger the tax break the corporation gets. After a move to Dallas, Taylor continued jumping and So, naturally, they get a lot. In its annual began entering competitions. She was the eighth woman in report on executive excess, the watchdog America to earn a class D license, the highest level. In 1963, Institute for Policy Studies recently docushe won a spot on the U.S. Parachute Team. The next year, mented 26 corporations that lavished an she traveled to Germany to compete in the world average of $20 million on each of their championships, and became the 1964 women’s world CEOs last year, including CBS, Citigroup, skydiving champion. Discovery Communications, Motorola As I sit with Taylor in her home, she pulls out several Mobility, Oracle and Viacom. In every case, photographs and newspaper clippings. In one striking the compensation loophole and other spephoto, at age 24, she is clad in a jumpsuit and helmet, cial breaks meant that the corporation paid more to their top guy than they paid in fedstanding with her feet apart and her hands on her hips. She eral income taxes. has a slight smile and looks directly into the camera. When I In addition, thanks to the George W. Bush tax giveaways to the uppermost upper-income-takTHIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow ers, more than half of last year’s 100 top-paid CEOs were able to dodge at least a million dollars each in personal income taxes they otherwise owed to support the public services that benefit them. The honcho of oil-and-gas fracker ConocoPhillips, for example, got nearly a $7 million tax subsidy from us on his 2011 pay of more than $145 million. It’s bad enough that top bosses have grossly inflated their pay while relentlessly slashing the wages of employees—but it’s grotesque that they’ve perverted our tax laws to underwrite their excess. To see the IPS report and recommendations for reform, go to www.ips-dc.org.

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mention that she looks fearless, Taylor laughs and says, “I probably was.” Case in point: A Sept. 10, 1963, headline from the Dallas Morning News reads, “Arm Cast Aside: Woman Will ‘Chute’ for National Trophy.” Taylor is pictured in her suit and helmet, wearing a cast on her forearm. She says she broke her wrist one night and jumped the next day. Last year, Taylor was inducted into the National Skydiving Museum Hall of Fame. But instead of talking about herself, she wants to talk about the sport. “What an exciting and wonderful thing it is today,” she says. “How interesting it was to be involved in the beginning, and see the number of people who enjoy it now through tandem jumps, and see the acceptance of the sport. Back then, it was a crazy thing to do. Today, presidents have made jumps.” Taylor also marvels at the advancements in skydiving. When she began, participants purchased parachutes through Army surplus, and needed to hand-cut and sew panels to modify the chutes. Reserve packs were worn as a belly pack instead of on the back. And the landing target, called a “dead center,” has gone from the size of a basketball when she started to about the size of a nickel today. An active, 71-year-old great-grandmother, Taylor says she looks forward to more skydiving and riding the motorcycle she purchased when in her 50s. It’s in the shop now, but she is eager to ride. Skydiver, motorcyclist, grandmother, greatgrandmother—Taylor has many roles, but she says that no single one defines her. “I am a balanced woman … who has lived with children, grandchildren, had a job and did charity work—all the things that people do,” she says. “I just happened to be in on the beginning of skydiving, and did well in it. It served me well in my life.” Taylor hesitates to offer a message for the masses, but she does offer encouragement. “I particularly like for other women, younger women, kids and young girls to see that women can do these things … and be feminine. They can be accomplished in other areas also, and they can be adventurous.”

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One Buddhist Teacherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Views on Geshe Michael Roach As a Zen Buddhist teacher, I feel moved to add some comments regarding issues not fully addressed in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buddha in the Desertâ&#x20AC;? (Sept. 6). I was surprised to find that Michael Roach had such a large following in Tucson. Whenever people heard I taught Buddhism, they mentioned Roach as if he were equated with Buddhism. Though his early work with the Asian Classics Institute is widely recognized as solid, many in the wider Buddhist community felt he had fallen off the mark sometime around the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, and his teaching since has been a strange mixture of authentic Tibetan Buddhism, distorted Buddhist philosophy, and newage pabulum. The larger Buddhist communityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even the lineage in which he had studied and was ordainedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has unfortunately ostracized him and his community, which has led to an even greater insularity within the Diamond Mountain community that seems to be a contributing factor in the tragic death of Ian Thorson. Whenever I discuss the issue of cultism, I offer prospective students at least two points of inquiry. First: Notice if the personality of the teacher seems more important than the message. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;cult of personalityâ&#x20AC;? is often a sign that something is askew. Second: Note the level of transparency within the community. I was not surprised that Christie McNally and Ian secreted themselves in the cave and had students secretly aid them, despite the fact that the pair had been told to leave the retreat grounds. After all, their leader, Michael Roach, had concealed the true nature of his relationship with Christie for years. This leads to the general principle: Beware of any â&#x20AC;&#x153;secret teachingsâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;transmissions.â&#x20AC;? A healthy community must be transparent in operations and structure. I feel deep empathy and sorrow for those most touched by this sad event: the families of Thorson and McNally, obviously, but also their students and the other retreatants. While Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hoped that the revelation of this sad affair would prompt some deep questioning and structural changes within the community, it seems that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;true believersâ&#x20AC;? have closed ranks and moved on, with little changed. Caveat emptor. Poep Sa Frank Jude Boccio

The once-great Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has sadly lost its way BY DAVE STALLING

he family of Olaus J. Murie recently demanded that the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation cancel the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Olaus J. Murie Award. The reason? The foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;all-out war against wolves is anathema to the entire Murie family.â&#x20AC;? I sympathize with the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position. In 1999, while working for the Elk Foundation, I created the Olaus J. Murie Award, with the coordination and the approval of the Murie family. The award recognized scientists working on behalf of elk and elk habitat, and was given in the name of Olaus J. Murie because he is widely considered the â&#x20AC;&#x153;fatherâ&#x20AC;? of modern elk research. Murie wrote Elk of North America, the first comprehensive and scientific treatise on elk and elk management. During most of its 28-year-history, the Elk Foundation and its more than 185,000 members, who are primarily hunters, avoided controversy. Instead, the group focused on its mission: â&#x20AC;&#x153;To ensure the future of elk, other wildlife and their habitat.â&#x20AC;? Most of the foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaders had solid backgrounds in wildlife biology, ecology and wildlife management, and they resisted the occasional pressure from hunters to get involved in issues such as gun rights or wolf reintroduction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are not a hunting organization supporting conservation; we are a conservation organization supported by hunters,â&#x20AC;? former foundation director Gary Wolfe used to say. But starting in 2000, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors changed; many staff members were fired; and the nonprofit group went through a string of short-term directors. Then, in 2007, the foundation board hired David Allen, a former marketer for NASCAR and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. At first, it seemed that Allen would follow a path similar to former leaders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are not a hunting club. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t intend to be a hunting club. We are a membership organization that has an overwhelming number of hunters â&#x20AC;Ś but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not doing wildlife conservation to improve our hunting,â&#x20AC;? Allen said when he took the job. That approach did not last long. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wolf reintroduction is the worst ecological disaster since the decimation of bison herds,â&#x20AC;? Allen said recently, as he claimed that wolves are â&#x20AC;&#x153;decimatingâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;annihilatingâ&#x20AC;? elk herds. When asked about the utility of predator-prey relationships, Allen explained, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Natural balance is a Walt Disney movie. It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t real.â&#x20AC;? Under his leadership, the Elk Foundation recently offered the state of Montana $50,000

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to contract with the federal Wildlife Services agency to â&#x20AC;&#x153;aggressivelyâ&#x20AC;? kill more wolves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the next step is the grizzly bear,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got bear issues with elk calves in the springâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both grizzly and black bear. We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have all these predators with little aggressive management and expect to have ample game herds, and sell hunting tags and generate revenue.â&#x20AC;? This approach has not gone over well with some conservationists. Ralph Maughan, a director of the Western Watersheds Project and the Wolf Recovery Foundation, said that Allen â&#x20AC;&#x153;has not only taken a strongly anti-wolf position, but he has done it taking an in-your-face way to traditional conservation organizations such as those supported by Olaus Murie. â&#x20AC;Ś Allen has also expressed contempt for many of the concepts of ecology, as he seems to be moving the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation toward a single-species, single-value-of-elk (hunting) approach.â&#x20AC;? There has been a lot of good, solid research on elk and wolf interactions, some of it funded by the Elk Foundation in years past. Most of it shows that when wolves are restored to an ecosystem, both habitat and elk herds improve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Allen and his anti-wolf rhetoric have alienated him and his organization from many of the very organizations that have helped the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in subtle and profound waysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;garner the successes it has had over the years,â&#x20AC;? said Bob Ferris, a 30-year wildlife researcher. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sad that a foundation that once understood the complex relationship between elk and wolves has succumbed to the pressures of hunters who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like wolves. Dave Stalling is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is an elk-hunter, fisherman and wildlife conservationist who lives in Missoula, Mont.

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lived next door to the Armory Park Senior Center, which serves as a big, friendly living room for elderly folks who often have few surviving friends or relatives. To reach the center now, they must board a shuttle or catch a ride with volunteers. When residents tried to revive their sense of community at Sentinel by chewing the fat over coffee, the kitchen with the coffeemaker was locked down. This only added to a sense among some residents that they’d been hoodwinked. “The first shock was that no one was told that there would be no staff at nights or on weekends,” says the daughter of one resident, who asked not to be named, to protect her mother from repercussions. “My mom and I just looked at each other. We couldn’t believe it. And then they locked down the kitchen.” Although site manager Rick Mucklow says access to the kitchen coffeemaker is being negotiated, other common areas, such as the library, exercise and “multipurpose” rooms, remain locked around the clock. While residents have keys to these areas, some report a fortified ambience that leaves them cold. Then there was the move itself. Greenbaum’s company hired Bekins Moving Solutions to transport residents’ belongings, and in some cases even help them pack. Many longtime Armory Park dwellers had amassed quite a personal inventory, and the whole operation “was a challenge,” says Bob Watson, Bekins’ general manager. “With some of them, we had to start at the door of their apartments and work our way in. And most of them didn’t want to move, even when we told them they were going to these beautiful new apartments.” But Bekins’ contract did not obligate the company to completely unpack those belongings at Sentinel Plaza. And that left lots of disabled folks overwhelmed by stacks of boxes. In a panic, Armory Park Senior Center officials called for help. Many who volunteered later described a scene of utter chaos. “Some very disturbing stuff,” one wrote in an email to the Weekly. “Can’t believe this is federally funded, and the management/builders are thinking this was a great idea.” Making things worse, an elevator at Sentinel was out of commission during several days of the move. Greenbaum says he helped coordinate the volunteers, and paid Bekins to help people pack and unpack if they wanted. “But mostly volunteers helped with unpacking. The promise we really made to residents was that we would provide assistance to those who needed it. And

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t age 68, Vern Berry fills his mornings by hauling food boxes to charities around town. Much of the rest of his time is spent at Sentinel Plaza, a recently finished $27 million, 143-unit, federally subsidized senior-housing complex on Congress Street west of Interstate10. But even the robust Berry isn’t immune to a tumble, particularly when shoddy construction hikes the odds in this new place he calls home. There’s the support bar in his shower that easily pops loose from the wall. And there are drawers that tumble off cheap plastic tracks whenever they’re pulled open. As a former real-estate broker, Berry knows the telltale signs of corner-cutting: “When you look around, the builder was saving money in a lot of ways,” he says. “They knew what they were doing.” All of which is far less than Sentinel Plaza’s elderly residents expected when they recently moved here en masse from the aging Armory Park Apartments at 12th Street and Fifth Avenue. They have found Sentinel lacking the basic accoutrements of old age, such as stable gripping bars, raised toilet seats and safe showers. Common rooms all require a key to enter, and apartment doors lock automatically. The lowincome residents who forget their keys inside are required to call a locksmith. Many were also surprised to learn that the staff at Sentinel enjoys bankers’ hours: On evenings and weekends, residents are on their own. “That’s a real concern in emergencies,” Berry says. “Most of these folks can’t afford those emergency alarm buttons.” Steven Greenbaum is president of the Chicago-based Senior Housing Group, which built and owns Sentinel Plaza. He dismisses numerous concerns as “minor glitches.” “In the grand scheme of things,” Greenbaum says, “they are wrinkles that will get ironed out over time. … My feedback is that the vast majority of residents are thrilled with their apartments, thrilled with the building, happy to be settled in, and extremely grateful that they now have a much-nicer place to call home.” Considering his company owns nearly 20 federally subsidized senior-housing properties across the country—including facilities such as Sentinel that it has built or rehabbed with public tax credits—one would hope that such “wrinkles” had been smoothed out long ago. But several people interviewed by the Tucson Weekly, including those with family members at Sentinel Plaza, report a host of ongoing problems. Perhaps the first victim of this move was simple camaraderie. For years, these residents had

Vern Berry at Sentinel Plaza. that’s what we did, between the combination of the movers and the volunteers.” But those volunteers say the owner had little input in what devolved into an exhaustive rescue effort. “I clearly heard Greenbaum say—and a lot of other people clearly heard him say—‘We will help you unpack, too,’” Vern Berry recalls. “But if the volunteer crew had not been here, a lot of these people would still be staring at their full boxes.” Perhaps all could be forgiven, if not for the fact that Greenbaum’s company stands to make a lot of money from Sentinel Plaza and the pending sale of the Armory Park Apartments. With help from the city of Tucson, Senior Housing won an annual allotment of $2.85 million in low-income, federal-housing tax credits for the next 10 years at Sentinel. The company then used those credits, awarded by the Arizona Department of Housing, to entice investors for its $27 million project. Wells Fargo ultimately helped bankroll the effort. Greenbaum says he had initially considered simply renovating the decrepit Armory Park Apartments, but the idea was scrapped when potential investors and state officials balked. “There’s no perfect solution,” he told me in an earlier interview, “when you have a building that’s 40 years old and in need of significant capital to save it, and you have expiring affordability commitments.” But apparently those apartments still have some life in them, now that the old folks are out of the way: Tucson-based Peach Properties recently announced plans to buy Armory from Greenbaum’s company, and to market the apartments as upscale downtown studios after a complete renovation.

The Republicans who want to knock off the incumbents on the Pima County Board of Supervisors have a similar problem: They haven’t had much luck raising money. Republican Sean Collins, who captured about 43 percent of the vote in his unsuccessful effort to oust Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll in last month’s GOP primary, slipped into the red while running his campaign. As of mid-August, Collins had raised just $19,091, according to his pre-primary campaign-finance reports. He’d spent $18,210 of that, leaving him with $880 in the bank at the end of the reporting period. But that’s not counting the debt that Collins ran up. The pre-primary report had some glitches in the math, and Collins spokeswoman Jeannie Haldorsen told The Skinny that as of Aug. 16, the campaign had $11,490 in debt. Most of that—$8,990—was owed to TagLine Media. Haldorsen said she didn’t know how much of that debt has been cleared, but new campaign-finance reports are due before Sept. 27. Collins isn’t the only Republican candidate who ran up big debts with TagLine, a consulting company that keeps popping up in the various efforts to knock incumbents off of the Pima County Board of Supervisors. Republican Fernando Gonzales, who hopes to unseat Supervisor Richard Elías in heavily Democratic District 5, had raised just $8,945 for his campaign as of mid-August. He’d spent $5,757 of that, leaving him with $3,188 in the bank, according to his pre-primary campaign-finance report. But Gonzales’ campaign-finance report showed that he had also run up $6,468 in debt on his campaign. All but $500 of that was owed to TagLine Media. Gonzales told us last week that he now owes TagLine about $2,500. Republican Tanner Bell, who is facing Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson, also owes money to TagLine. Bell has raised $11,406 for his campaign and had spent $9,190, leaving him with $2,216 in the bank. That’s not enough to cover his debts, which totaled $5,228.49, according to his campaign-finance report. With the exception of $60, all of that debt was owed to TagLine. Bell said that he’s not sure where the debt now stands. “Since we were fired unexpectedly by the company months ago, we are currently waiting on a final aggregate statement of all the products/services that we purchased from them,” Bell told us via email. What’s so interesting about all this debt to Tagline? Well, the firm is connected to two separate but related complaints filed by two Republican candidates who lost to Ally Miller in last month’s GOP primary for the

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‘LION’ AIMS TO HELP COMMUNITY NEWS OUTLETS Dylan Smith, the editor & publisher of the nonprofit tucsonsentinel.com, also holds down a position that doesn’t include an ampersand: He’s now the chairman of the board of LION, the organization of Local Independent Online News Publishers. “It’s a nationwide network of people doing what I do: run local and neighborhood websites,” Smith said. “We have a wide range of involvement—for-profit, nonprofit sites—and we cover cities and regions, down to people who do very focused neighborhood coverage in big cities.” The advent of the online news website is an example of technology changing the traditional journalism model. Newspapers don’t have a monopoly on reporting any longer, although finding reliable news sources online can still be challenging. LION hopes to change that: Part of the organization’s focus is on finding quality reporting within the new structure, and coming up with ideas to make the model financially viable, which is a big hurdle. “With newspapers shutting down, and with thousands upon thousands of layoffs in the newspaper industry, there are still people making some healthy money running sustainable sites in the long-term,” Smith said. “We want to be able to share that, and share best practices as others start things up—(making it so new sites are) not having to go through some of the mistakes other sites made.” LION participated in a major recruiting push last week at the Block by Block event in Chicago. “It went great,” Smith said. “We had dozens of publishers there expressing interest. A good number of people signed up.” LION hopes to launch a more-extensive website soon at lionpublishers.com, as recruiting and networking efforts increase.

‘STAR’ COLUMNIST BRODESKY IN CAR-BIKE CRASH Arizona Daily Star metro columnist Josh Brodesky is leaving for the The Arizona Republic soon, but he almost didn’t get the opportunity to ply his trade at the state’s largest paper. Brodesky was riding his bike when a Toyota Camry struck him at Drachman Street and Mountain Avenue. Brodesky, writing about the incident in his Star column on Sunday, Sept. 16, said he suffered a concussion and some serious road rash after he was knocked from his bike. Brodesky said his doctor told him that his bike helmet, which cracked when his head hit the ground, played a major role in limiting the severity of his injuries.

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Another big departure for the morning daily: Veteran Arizona Daily Star photographer David Sanders recently left the newspaper for a position with UNS Energy Corp., the parent company of Tucson Electric Power.

“I am leaving the Star to be a photographer/videographer for Tucson Electric,” Sanders wrote on his Facebook page.

JACKSON A CMA BROADCASTER OF THE YEAR FINALIST Buzz Jackson, program director and afternoon-drive personality at KIIM FM 99.5, has made the final cut in the Country Music Association’s Medium Market Broadcaster of the Year category. Jackson is one of six finalists, and one of just two afternoon-drive hosts. The other four are on morning shows. Jackson won an Academy of Country Music Broadcaster of the Year award two years ago. He was nominated for the CMA award once before.

MACKEY JOINS CUMULUS Former Lotus on-air personality Adrienne Mackey has been added to the roster at Cumulus. She’ll have a variety of duties at the cluster, generally in a fill-in capacity, from on-air shifts to traffic reports. Mackey spent six years at Lotus, most notably at classic rocker KLPX FM 96.1, but she crossed over to the cluster’s alternativerock station KFMA FM 92.1 on occasion.

LOTUS GEARS UP CONCERTS Classic rockers George Thorogood and Molly Hatchet have agreed to perform on Oct. 7 at AVA at Casino del Sol. The Sunday-evening double-bill, sponsored by KLPX FM 96.1, is a fundraiser for the American Lung Association. That will mark the second show in as many weeks put together by Lotus Broadcasting. KFMA FM 92.1’s Fall Ball is slated for Sunday, Sept. 30, at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium. The Offspring and Hollywood Undead head up the eight-band bill for the all-day event.

TV STATIONS GARNER EMMY NOMINATIONS KUAT Channel 6, KOLD Channel 13, KGUN Channel 9 and KVOA Channel 4 have all received news-category nominations for the 2012 Rocky Mountain Emmys. KUAT, the UA’s PBS-affiliated outlet, garnered nominations in 17 categories. Mitch Riley and Luis Carrion were well represented. Riley was nominated in numerous categories for his multifaceted work involving a feature on the Zoppé Circus. Thomas Kleespie was nominated in multiple categories as well. KOLD received seven nominations, including Best Daytime or Evening Newscast in a Medium Market. Aaron Pickering got a nod for weather talent, as did Dave Cooney for sports anchor. KGUN was nominated for four awards. Among them, Best Team News Coverage for its efforts on the Monument Fire near Sierra Vista, and a nomination for a news show related to the anniversary of the Jan. 8, 2011, shootings. Erin Christiansen is going head to head with Pickering in the weather talent category. KVOA received two nominations, and Tucson 12, the city of Tucson’s channel, received one. The Rocky Mountain Emmy winners will be announced Oct. 6 in Glendale.

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In their tight U.S. Senate race, Flake and Carmona spar over the environment, Medicare

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Dead Heat BY JIM NINTZEL, jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com s a new poll showed a tight contest between Republican Congressman Jeff Flake and Democrat Richard Carmona in the race for a U.S. Senate seat, the two candidates battled last week over environmental issues and Medicare funding. The Public Policy Polling survey of 993 likely voters, taken Sept. 7 to 9, show that 44 percent of voters support Flake, while 43 percent support Carmona, who served as surgeon general in the George W. Bush administration. The survey, by the Democratic-leaning firm, also shows Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney with the support of 53 percent of Arizona voters, while 44 percent support President Barack Obama—which suggests that some Arizonans are willing to consider splitting the ticket to support Romney in the presidential election, but Carmona in the Senate race. Carmona spokesman Andy Barr said via email that the poll “proves what we’ve been saying all along. This race is winnable, because Rich Carmona is a unique candidate with broad and bipartisan appeal.” Meanwhile, Flake spokesman Andrew Wilder said a close race was no surprise. “The Flake campaign has always expected this to be a close race,” Wilder said via email. “That’s why Jeff is working hard to earn the trust and votes of Arizonans.” In the days after the poll hit, the two camps continued to swing at each another. Team Flake went after Carmona on the environmental front, challenging the Democrat to support a land swap that would allow mining near Superior. “Does Carmona agree with Jeff Flake and most Arizonans that this land exchange needs to happen, or does he agree with the Obama administration in blocking the bill?” Wilder asked in a press release after the Arizona Democratic Party criticized Flake for supporting the swap. While some Democrats have supported a swap in the past (including Ann Kirkpatrick, the oneterm Democratic congresswoman who is hoping to make a comeback in the new Congressional District 1, where she faces Republican Jonathan Paton), the bill allowing the swap passed the U.S. House of Representatives last year, but didn’t get through the Senate. Carmona told the Weekly via email that he had visited Superior to tour the mine site and talk with local residents. “They agree that while the land exchange has enjoyed the support of Democrats and Republicans, for years, both sides have used it in a game of political football,” Carmona said.

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Richard Carmona and Jeff Flake. “Governing requires cooperation and compromise. I understand the need to protect our natural resources while making critical investments to create jobs. So I refuse to believe we can’t find a workable solution to balance the environmental and economic concerns and allow this project to move forward.” Carmona took an additional shot at Flake, calling it “shameful that the future of economically depressed mining towns in rural Arizona, like Superior, remain hinged on the whims of chronic politicians like Jeff Flake, who, after 12 years in Congress, try to distance themselves from congressional inaction created by partisan gridlock they’ve perpetuated in Washington.” On another front, Team Carmona fired back at Team Flake over the GOP campaign’s charge that Carmona supported more than $700 billion in cuts to Medicare over the next decade. Team Carmona argued that Flake’s charge— which GOP politicians and their allies in the independent-campaign universe have been making for the last two years—had been ruled mostly false by PolitiFact and misleading by The Washington Post and FactCheck.org. The Carmona campaign also pointed out that Flake had supported more than $700 billion in future spending reductions when he voted to support a GOP budget plan developed by Congressman Paul Ryan. Wilder stood by the claim that the Affordable Care Act had cut Medicare spending by more than $700 billion over the next decade in an emailed response to Team Carmona’s statement. “The Carmona campaign can try to spin things all day long, but they don’t dispute that Democrat Carmona supports President Obama’s health-care law, which cut $716 billion from

Medicare to pay for it,” Wilder said. “So it’s a little rich for the Carmona campaign to ‘Mediscare’ Arizona’s seniors when their candidate supports a law that actually cut hundreds of billions from Medicare.” Team Flake continued to push the issue this week with the release of a letter signed by more than 40 Arizona physicians who urged Carmona to call for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. The doctors—led by Phoenix physician Jeffrey Singer, who has supported propositions in the past to prevent the government from requiring Arizonans to buy health insurance— said that the Affordable Care Act would exacerbate a doctor shortage, and that Medicare cuts to hospitals, doctors and other providers would hurt the elderly. “Instead of reforming Medicare to control costs, these types of cost controls will only make it cost-prohibitive for physicians to accept new Medicare patients,” the doctors wrote. Barr said that Carmona believed in reforming the Affordable Care Act rather than repealing it in its entirety. “Dr. Carmona frequently says both parties got it wrong on health care, and Congressman Flake knows that,” Barr said via email. “Congressman Flake also knows that he voted for that same ‘cut’ to Medicare he is now falsely accusing Dr. Carmona of supporting. If Congressman Flake—a 12-year incumbent and former lobbyist—could run on his record, he would. But instead, Congressman Flake has run an entirely negative and misleading campaign in hopes of distracting voters from his record of slashing benefits for seniors and veterans, and trying to block women’s access to contraception.”

District 1 seat held by the retiring Ann Day. Both Mike Hellon and Stuart McDaniel filed the complaints because they say that an independent campaign (funded by La Encantada developer Mitch Stallard) spent at least $10,000 on TV and newspaper ads supporting Miller. Since the independent campaign used TagLine, and Miller had been using TagLine, Hellon and McDaniel asked county election officials to look into whether any illegal coordination had occurred. Miller has refused to answer any questions as to whether she was involved in any coordination—she has dodged phone calls from the Tucson Weekly and the Explorer—but Deb Weisel, the head honcho at TagLine Media, told the Weekly last month that she has severed ties with all of the Republican candidates, because she’s now working for a few independentcampaign efforts that are backing the Republicans in various ways. Since the law prohibits coordination between candidates and independent-expenditure campaigns, Weisel chose to go with the indie committees, which include Arizonans for a Brighter Future, a nonprofit business league that does not have to disclose its donors. Arizonans for a Brighter Future has been running TV and radio ads that criticize the county’s spending and bonding programs. Weisel said last week that she was “pretty surprised” that the candidates still owed her so much money. But she added that sometimes, candidates just don’t pay their bills. “I have candidates who owe me money from three years ago,” she said. Weisel said she didn’t do credit checks before she agreed to work with the candidates, although she added that running credit checks is “probably a good idea.” Weisel said she isn’t concerned about an investigation by the Secretary of State’s Office into coordination between the independent campaigns and the candidates’ campaigns. “I’m honest to a fault,” Weisel says. “I don’t have anything to do with those campaigns.”

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD After hearing from a group of unhappy downtown residents, the Tucson City Council voted unanimously last week against extending a rezoning agreement for a key downtown parcel. The property in question, at Stone Avenue and Franklin Street, sits on the edge of the historic El Presidio Neighborhood and is smack-dab in the midst of the developing Warehouse Arts District. Most of the property is owned by the city of Tucson. Town West, which has done some

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SOME JOKE NORTH BALD EAGLE AVENUE AUG. 25, 7:22 A.M.

A man found running through some bushes while dressed only in shorts—which appeared to be soaked with urine—told sheriff’s deputies that his friends had removed the rest of his clothing as a joke after he passed out. A deputy responded to a call about a man lying on the pavement on a street corner, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. The deputy found the man running through some bushes near the corner. The man, who reeked of alcohol, was shirtless and had no shoes or socks on, although one sock was found in a pocket of his shorts, the report said. The man told the deputy he had been at a party when he passed out. He said he awakened to find that his friends had played a practical joke on him. The deputy told the man he was clearly intoxicated, and that it was not OK to wander around the neighborhood halfdressed when morning walkers were out, and children were on their way to a nearby school. The deputy also found a glass pipe in the man’s pocket. The man claimed his friends planted it on him. The man was arrested on suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia.

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ast week, I wrote about how incredible it is that we live in an age where data can be transmitted, almost instantly, to any corner of the globe. Last Wednesday, we were smacked in the face by the realities of living in such an age. We’re now familiar with Innocence of Muslims, a schlocky, poorly made film apparently directed by a man better known for making soft-core porn than works of art; with the rage of thousands of Muslims, who refuse to stand by as their prophet is insulted; and with the name of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was one of four Americans to lose their lives in a protestturned-attack upon a U.S. consulate. The reasons for the violence are still murky—the film itself is chief among the explanations being given, though cases can be made for a range of theories—but the truth is there’s no acceptable explanation for the deaths. In the same vein, there’s no acceptable reason for Americans to cry for return strikes against Libya, Egypt or any of the countries who have protesters calling for American heads. This ridiculous, eye-for-an-eye, “let’s nuke the place and let the One True God sort ’em out” bullshit is as much a part of the problem as the people who are launching rockets at American embassies. What many Americans have missed is that multitudes of Muslims have mourned the death of Stevens, and that there have been counter-protests, vigils and letter-writing campaigns to console Stevens’ widow. I view those Muslims, and those who feel that their religion is more peaceful than their recent history implies, to be a quiet majority—not unlike political moderates who would prefer to expand civil rights while slowing unwieldy government spending. It may be naïve, but if a few bigots with a video camera (and their financiers) can make this big of an impact, in the same way, I have hope that a few decent people can do something that actually benefits this world.

COMMENT OF THE WEEK “Yo soy un Latino! (I am a Latino!) Grijalva does not represent the way I think, nor does he represent (the ways in which) so many more like me think, believe or live. Adios, Raul. Vaya con Dios y desfruta su tiempo libre. (Goodbye Raul. God be with you, and enjoy your free time.)” —TucsonWeekly.com user “Bisbee boy” sends Raul Grijalva his regards (“Grijalva Believes That Latino Voters Will Send a ‘Very Big Wake-Up Call’ This Season,” The Range, Sept. 13).

BEST OF WWW In case you missed it: Adam Borowitz’s “Can You Survive on $4 of Food a Day?” post from Sept. 14 stirred up a great amount of discussion, from eyewitness accounts of SNAP-card abuses, to words from program supporters who encourage modifying the rules, to comments by people who may or may not have been talking out of their asses. It’s definitely worth a look. Good work, commenters!

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A man accused of throwing rocks at homes in a trailer park claimed he was making art, a PCSD report said. A caller said a man was “going crazy,” screaming and throwing rocks at trailers (some of which were later found to be damaged). The deputy found the subject walking toward a different trailer park. When asked to stop, the man said, “No.” He was then detained. The man denied that he had been throwing rocks; he said he instead had been banging them together “to get the sugars off the rocks so he could use the rocks for artwork,” the report said. The man also told the deputy he was very upset, because the floors of his residence stayed dirty even when he tried to clean them. A different deputy interviewed the man (described as nonsensical and sweating profusely) about a fire he’d apparently started in his front yard. The man said he’d been burning his trash, because the trash bin he usually used was locked. Neighbors described the subject as a “nightmare” and possibly on drugs. The man’s girlfriend showed deputies a hole in a wall that she said was caused by the man hitting it with a hammer for no apparent reason. The man was arrested on multiple charges. 12 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

THE WEEK ON THE RANGE We shared the schedule for this year’s Tucson Meet Yourself festival; marveled at the work of SugarSong Custom Cakes; took a look into trading food with our neighbors; considered overstuffing ourselves with Sonoran hot dogs; drooled over Dragoon Brewing’s Ojo Blanco; looked into Epazote Kitchen and Cocktails; previewed the soon-to-open Wild Garlic Grill; challenged readers to live on $4 of food a day; talked about the new U-Like Buffet at Oracle and River roads; and updated you on the return of MaFooCo and the opening of Umi Star. We recapped Twitter reactions to UA football’s victory over Oklahoma State; considered free speech and tattoos; looked at the fury of Yelp restaurant reviews; reminded you to not drive through flooded washes; reconsidered who soldiers should “friend” on Facebook; remembered the Sept. 11 memorials on Mars; shared news about the resignation of UA Poetry Center director Gail Browne; realized that cat videos have transcended internet culture; talked Twitter wars with Heroes and Villains; cooed over the baby zebra at Reid Park Zoo; planned an exit strategy in case this “journalism” thing doesn’t work out; wandered through Casa Video’s documentary section; and read a harrowing story of schizophrenia and family. We also looked at President Obama’s post-convention popularity bounce; giggled at a failed Tea Party concert in Phoenix; checked out the Flake-Carmona race; kept track of the political wars on the airwaves; read Raúl Grijalva’s blog; updated you on downtown rezoning votes; gave you a list of Pima Community College’s chancellor-search committee members; shared a map of the world’s Muslim protests; linked you to Jim Nintzel’s Political Roundtable; and a whole lot more!

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Officers on Oracle BY BRIAN J. PEDERSEN, bpedersen@tucsonweekly.com ince its inception 40 years ago, the town of Oro Valley and its police force have had a reputation for speed traps and ticket-writing quotas. True or not, the perception exists. But with injury-causing car crashes trending toward an all-time high in Oro Valley, the town is actually tapping into that reputation in hopes of saving lives and making its streets safer. This week, the Oro Valley Police Department held the first of what it says will be a series of “high-visibility enforcement” deployments for its motorcycle officers. Referred to as HiVE details, the first pair of rollouts saw four motorcycles camped out along Oracle Road near the intersections with Suffolk Drive and Magee Road, on the south edge of the town. Those intersections account for about 25 percent of all injury-involved crashes in Oro Valley over the past few years, Mayor Satish Hiremath said. “I don’t think there’s really been any other area that’s been that problematic,” Hiremath said. The deployments aren’t meant to secretive, town officials say. They issued a press release a week before the first detail, and further announcements are planned to let motorists know ahead of time that there will be an increased police presence in the area. “We want people to know when we’re going to be there; we want people to see us,” said Lt. Chris Olson, head of the Oro Valley Police Department’s Special Operations Division. “We want to be noticed.” As of last week, Oro Valley had logged 58 crashes that resulted in injury or death in 2012. Only 60 were registered in all of 2011. Two of the crashes this year have been fatal, including an Aug. 11 wreck that killed 62-year-old John Kostelny when he was rear-ended on his motorcycle while stopped at a light at Oracle Road and First Avenue. The driver who allegedly struck him, Francisco Villalpando, has been indicted on a manslaughter charge. A second fatal accident occurred in the town in January. Bessie Datt, 78, was killed crossing Oracle Road at La Reserve Drive when a driver who had a green light struck her. No charges were filed, because the driver wasn’t considered at fault. While two fatal collisions might not seem like a lot—Tucson has had 22 so far this year—that’s considered a whopper of a tally in Oro Valley. “We’ve gone years with zero,” Olson said. Oro Valley is on pace to surpass its all-time high of 94 wrecks, recorded in 2010. That kind of ominous record is why Olson said he pushed

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Oro Valley police officers are keeping an extra eye out on Oracle Road this week. to saturate high-volume traffic areas with motorcycle cops. It’s about keeping the streets safe, not making money, he said. “We’re not interested in the citations,” Olson said. “We won’t necessarily look to get nitpicky, but we will be inclined to stop people. It doesn’t really matter when we deploy; we just want (drivers) to see us.” Though neither of this year’s fatal accidents happened in the area of this week’s deployments, the high volume of injury crashes there, combined with the fact that Oracle Road sees more than 50,000 vehicle trips per day, means most of Oro Valley’s HiVE details will be along Oracle, which is technically a state highway, but is policed by town officers. “We’re not going to put these motor officers in an area that doesn’t demonstrate this need,” Olson said. Even with all of the advance notice and explanation, Olson said he won’t be surprised if watchdogs and other critics cite the effort as an Oro Valley money-grab. The lieutenant said he’s heard the revenue-generating gripes throughout

his 11 years with the town, but he points out that in 2011, his department issued 1,755 speeding tickets, or just less than five per day. “Even if you just use the (traffic) numbers for Oracle, that’s one speeding ticket for every 10,000 cars,” Olson said. “Yet we still can’t seem to shake that reputation.” Hiremath, who credits the deployment as the kind of out-of-the-box ideas he’s pushed his department heads to come up with, said, “The town of Oro Valley, by statute, only gets $18 of every ticket that we write. There are a lot easier ways to generate revenue.” No time frame has been set for the next set of HiVE details; much will be determined by how the first deployments go. When they’re set to occur, though, Olson said anyone who drives through Oro Valley will get fair warning. “We will publish dates, times and locations a week ahead of time, just like Tucson (police) does with its radar vans,” Olson said. “Over the next 90 days, I hope we make a significant impact. We don’t want to see the same numbers as in 2010.”

good developments around town (such as its current work rehabbing a deserted apartment complex on Fort Lowell Road east of Campbell Avenue), got the original rezoning on the property in 2007. The plan at that time was to build a hotel, a brewery, retail space, artist studios, condo units, parking garages and such in a complex that would include towers as high as 15 floors. But with the economic slowdown, that project—which had the support of some neighbors—has stalled. So Town West officials had recently approached council members and neighboring property owners with the idea of doing a student-housing complex instead. Town West was not seeking approval for student housing last week; instead, the company simply wanted an extension of the rezoning allowing for the earlier plans. In most cases, these kinds of extensions are granted, because council members are sympathetic to the challenges that developers have faced during the economic downturn. But in this case, Ward 1 Councilwoman Regina Romero said she was skeptical that the original plan would ever be completed. “What we have in front of us tonight will not happen,” Romero said as she made the motion to reject the extension. Ward 6 Councilman Steve Kozachik said he had seen recent proposals from Town West for a student-housing complex on the site, which he called “not at all consistent with the master plan” for the area. Kozachik said he wanted to see a viable plan for the property that “fits in contextually with what’s being developed” in the Warehouse Arts District. The concern over student housing comes as neighbors near the new District on Fifth apartments, near Fourth Avenue and Sixth Street, are having conflicts with the noise and traffic generated by the 700-plus students who have moved into the massive complex. New student-housing complexes are already in the works on the east end of downtown near the Fourth Avenue underpass. Kozachik says that student housing makes sense in the downtown area, but he’s concerned about over-saturation. “I’m not real-estate expert, but I do know that we have 50 to 60 stories of student housing in design … or under construction,” Kozachik says. “You have to wonder at what point you reach that tipping point where you have oversaturated the market.” By Jim Nintzel Find early and late-breaking Skinny at The Range, our daily dispatch, at daily. tucsonweekly.com. Follow the Skinny scribe on Twitter: @nintzel.

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CURRENTS After nearly being electrocuted, a Metro Water employee is fired—and the risk-management specialist resigns in protest

Sparks Flying lectrician Donovan Hemway last month asked the board of directors of the Metro Water District for whistleblower status to protect his job—and to investigate his near-electrocution. He was fired the next day. Metro’s risk-management specialist, Janet Gallup, then resigned in protest. A state investigation is now under way. Speaking to the board of the water district— which serves about 50,000 people in the northwest, northeast and southwest areas of metro Tucson, according to its website—Hemway on Aug. 13 said he was nearly electrocuted on May 10, when he became drenched while working in a live, 480-volt cabinet at Metro’s DeConcini well site. A single father, Hemway had worked for Metro for almost six years. “I was nearly killed,” Hemway told the board. “I have concern for the safety of my co-workers as well as my own.” Hemway had been ordered to do a pumpefficiency test by deputy manager Chris Hill, and he believes that Hill’s change in normal test procedure is what triggered the accident. This was not the deputy manager’s first possible misadventure. In an incident last year, Gallup said, she asked general manager Mark Stratton to discipline Hill for ordering employees to work in a trench that had not been shored up, a violation of safety rules. Stratton responded that Gallup “was a cancer at Metro Water.” Gallup, who was also Metro’s chief safety officer, said she was reprimanded for reporting to the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or ADOSH, that a contractor was forcing employees to work in unprotected trenches. Hill was named Metro’s safety officer following Gallup’s resignation. The apparently close

relationship between Stratton and Hill may stem from their eight-year business partnership in a private company, Agua Southwest LLC. An ADOSH investigation of Hemway’s nearelectrocution is under way. ADOSH’s Tucson office told the Tucson Weekly that it could not comment while an investigation is in progress. Hemway claimed that supervisors on the scene failed to report the accident to the company’s risk-management officer. Gallup confirmed that and said that Hemway’s firing was “a major blow” to Metro after he “did so much to improve their electrical system.” Insomnia has plagued Hemway since the near-electrocution and helped lead to threats of discipline for absenteeism, even as Metro’s employee-assistance program was reportedly recommending medical leave for him. Hemway had received only one disciplinary warning letter prior to the accident, but after it occurred, he received four more. Stratton issued a written rebuttal to Hemway’s charges on Sept. 7, available online at www. metrowater.com, for the Sept. 10 board meeting. Denying any violation of safety procedures, Stratton said Metro had acted “in an appropriate manner,” including requiring employee sign-off of a “hazard awareness form.” Stratton wrote that a hose rupture involved with the accident occurred because a 200 PSI (pounds per square inch) hose had been replaced with a 50 PSI hose. How that happened is not explained. He also said that “corrective action” has been taken to avoid similar incidents, and that this change “eliminated the need to follow up.” Stratton and Hill did not return the Weekly’s phone calls. Metro’s security and safety procedures involve the use of video cameras, and the entire incident was recorded. The original video, however, was

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Metro Water electrician Donovan Hemway asks for protection at the Aug. 13 Metro Water board of directors meeting. Chairman Bryan Foulk said is “strangling the lost, according to Stratton, and a second downdistrict.” load came up four minutes short. Stratton said Stratton’s response claims that management that the shortened version begins just before the has been “professional” and that Hemway has hose rupture and shows Hemway wet. no “substantive proof of any wrong-doing,” so The letter of termination from Stratton, no board action is required. received the day after the Aug. 13 board meetGallup, who said she’d finally “had it” with ing, charged Hemway with “blatant disregard of Metro after six years, added: “When managepolicies” and “excessive absenteeism.” In his ment isn’t following the rules, there is a big report to the board, Stratton added a charge of problem. I believe Metro Water has a duty to “continued insubordination.” Gallup told the Weekly that Hemway “certain- provide honesty, integrity and safety to its ratepayers and employees.” ly has a valid stress claim” and that Metro was “trying to sweep it under the rug.” Metro faces a $1.2 million deficit that board Dave Devine contributed to this article.

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The Tucson Unified School District’s five-member governing board has three seats up for election this fall, and all three incumbents are running to retain their seats. But nine other candidates are also running in the Nov. 6 election, looking to help govern a district that’s gone through two years of chaos. Two years ago, students in Mexican-American studies classes asked the board to fight efforts in the Arizona Legislature to ban the courses; they felt ignored and decided to take over a board meeting in April 2011. At the next board meeting, community members who wanted to attend were greeted by security guards who checked them for weapons—part of new security procedures. Once inside the board room, attendees were surrounded by Tucson Police Department officers dressed in riot gear. Seven people, including longtime educator Lupe Castillo, were arrested for speaking out. Some of the demonstrators reported that police roughed them up. Later, Tucson police Chief Roberto Villaseñor met with community members to apologize. Mexican-American studies isn’t the only issue that the district faces. There’s also the district’s ongoing federal desegregation case. A special master appointed by a federal judge is supposed to present a new desegregation plan on Sept. 21. The district is being investigated by the federal government over allegations that the board has violated open-meeting laws. And the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights recently found that a school psychologist was wrongly fired for attempting to advocate for special-education students. The district settled the case for $180,000. There’s also the dispute over the district’s master plan for school facilities, which is expected to go to the board for a vote by the end of the year. It could include school closures and other cuts in order to help the district deal with a projected $17 million deficit. For this article, the Weekly interviewed 11 of the 12 candidates for the three board seats. The one exception: Debe Campos-Fleenor. When we called to interview her about two weeks ago, her assistant requested that we fax questions to the candidate, as she was “experiencing medical issues.” We explained that would be unfair to the other candidates, and offered to do the interview over the phone. In an e-mail we received after deadline, Campos-Fleenor explained that she had “major reconstructive foot surgery and am unable to have a (phone) interview at this time. … Please accept my apologies, and thank you for reaching out to me.”

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was extended a year. Board member Mark Stegeman, a UA economics professor, abstained from the vote, while the other four board members approved the motion. The next vote that evening was to give Pedicone a raise, from $205,000 to $211,000. It passed 3-1, with Stegeman voting “no” this time, and Michael Hicks abstaining. “I strongly supported his appointment, and I’ve supported almost all of his initiatives,” Stegeman said of Pedicone. He said he voted against giving Pedicone a raise, because he is already paid more than the superintendent of the largest district in the state. “That didn’t seem sensible when we are in a severe budget problem.” Stegeman said whether to extend Pedicone’s contract should have been decided after the Nov. 6 election. “I think whoever is elected to the board should have a chance to weigh in. If I am re-elected … I would certainly care about the opinion of those coming in, even if they haven’t taken their seats yet.” The timetable for the school-facilities master plan concerns Stegeman, too, because a lameduck board could make a decision on whether to close any TUSD schools. Last year, Stegeman tried to introduce a resolution that would have made some of the MAS classes electives, explaining that his intention was to protect the classes from state efforts to kill them. This summer, he tried to introduce a resolution to return the MAS textbooks that were removed from classrooms following a state mandate. Because there are no longer any MAS classes, he was accused of political opportunism. Stegeman earlier had been outspoken in his opposition to MAS classes. In August 2011, he testified at a hearing on the classes as an expert witness for the state. On the stand, Stegeman declared that the MAS classes violated state law, and he compared the classes to a cult. Four days later, he was ousted from his position as board

president on a 3-2 vote, and was replaced by Miguel Cuevas. But six months later, during the first board meeting of 2012, Cuevas was voted out as president on a 3-2 vote, and Stegeman returned to the position, with new board member Alexandre Sugiyama providing the decisive vote. Then, six months later, Stegeman gave up the position, and Cuevas was back in as board president. Critics have said a lack of consistency in positions has fueled a long-standing distrust of the board. But Stegeman said “relations on the current board are gradually improving. I think the MAS issue has caused a lot of friction, and as that issue recedes a bit, that will help. “I think everyone would agree the board isn’t working together as well as it should be,” Stegeman said. “I think the board needs to be more active and provide more leadership and direction to show the community where it wants to take the district.” Stegeman said he was surprised when Pedicone requested an emergency board meeting in the spring to discuss a $17 million projected deficit. “But I don’t see it as a budget cliff,” he said. “We have a problem to solve. I think it’s good to be realistic about it … but not over-dramatize it.” Stegeman said he wants to re-examine policies against retaliation in light of the recent settlement with the school psychologist who claimed whistle-blower status. “I want to look at those policies and make sure they are adequate, but I also want to ask the board to pass a statement of principle that we do take retaliation seriously, and that as a board, we are very committed,” Stegeman said. Stegeman said there is tremendous inertia in TUSD. The only thing that will change that, he said, is for the board to take a “strong leadership role to enforce change.” Although the district is showing signs of improvement, he said, “If the board next year is as passive as it is this year, I’ll be disappointed.” Asked to name some of his achievements while on the board, Stegeman points out a procurement decision in which he asked staff to put the purchase of 20,000 classroom computers out to bid, which he said saved the district $3 million. “It’s not as important as student achievement, but … if I wasn’t there, I don’t think it would have happened.” Stegeman also noted his efforts to bring the district and community members together to reopen Richey Elementary, a school the district closed almost two years ago that served a few hundred students in Old Pascua, the Pascua Yaqui neighborhood near Grant Road and Stone Avenue. Attempts to reopen the school were unsuccessful, but Richey could open next year as the district’s first charter school. Stegeman also mentioned a resolution he brought before the board that created a new policy requiring structured activities for students during recess. Miguel Cuevas MIGUEL CUEVAS, A STUDENT WHO WORKS FOR CUSTOMERservice company Afni, is the youngest person ever elected to the district governing board. He was 21 when voters picked him four years ago, breaking a record set by now-U.S. Rep. Raúl

Grijalva, who was elected to the board at age 23. Cuevas said his interest in running for the board came because he was the first person in his family to graduate from a district high school (Cholla), after his mother, father and brother all dropped out. “That has always been my guiding focus: my experience when it comes to TUSD,” he said. “I, as you know, have made sweeping changes when it comes to academic reform, teacher evaluations and leadership at our schools. At this point, I think we are on the right trajectory, and I want to see that continue.” Asked for specific examples he has championed, Cuevas cited increases in student achievement, district-wide professional development for teachers, and the purchase of 20,000 computers for student use. “I believe that my youth has been my strength, in many aspects,” he said. “I continue to be the only board member who has taken and passed the AIMS test. … I have a younger sibling in the district, at Tucson High, and very soon will have another younger sibling going to kindergarten as well.” Cuevas acknowledged that his vote to dismantle MAS has come with a price, including being hassled at the Fiesta Grande Street Fair, being called names during school-board meetings, and having to deal with what he described as a protest in front of his grandparents’ house. These experiences, he said, are part of “a learning experience. If I am going to be a change agent, I know there are going to be certain consequences.” The protest Cuevas referred to involved five supporters of MAS who canvassed residents in Cuevas’ neighborhood. The volunteers went to his grandparents’ home—which is one of two addresses within the district that Cuevas claims as a residence. His grandmother reportedly told them that Cuevas didn’t live there anymore. However, that address is on his voter registration and on re-election paperwork filed with the Pima County School Superintendent’s Office. As a result of the possible discrepancy, Cuevas said, “It’s my understanding that former (Tucson) City Councilmember Steve Leal … submitted a complaint to the Pima County Recorder’s Office,” and that Leal’s complaint was forwarded to the Pima County Attorney’s Office. Cuevas said his family and neighbors at the two addresses have been questioned, and that an investigator from the County Attorney’s Office met with him. “She seemed to be more worried about other items, like where I work at, and, quite frankly, I replied that it is none of her business,” he said. However, Cuevas said he told the investigator that “I would comply with any concerns she has with my residence. I sent an email to my fellow board members and the superintendent of schools, and shared information with the leader of the protests,” and made them aware that he lives at both his grandparents’ home and his father’s home. “I received legal advice that because both residences are in TUSD, the issue is moot,” Cuevas said. Cuevas said he didn’t know if the county had completed its investigation. A request from the Weekly to the County Attorney’s Office asking

for more information remains unanswered. Leal confirmed that he sent an email about Cuevas to the Recorder’s Office on July 27. Cuevas said the investigation into where he lives is “a waste of taxpayers’ money. This is all politically motivated and maybe an opportunity to score some political points through the county attorney’s side.” Cuevas added that there are people in the County Attorney’s Office “who are politically motivated and are attached to Mexican-American studies.” Cuevas said he is still pursuing a degree, but isn’t currently enrolled at the UA, where he was majoring in public management and public policy. Regarding his relationships with his fellow board members, Cuevas said that what’s taken place in TUSD is similar to what happens in other large urban districts, where board members have a variety of political leanings. “I believe collaboration is important.” But collaboration remains difficult, he said, because of special-interest groups that focus on negatives such as the uproar over MAS, and because of “former board members and longtime advocates who have been part of the district and continue to want to lead and control the district in various aspects.” Cuevas said that as president of the board, his leadership has kept the district from spinning out of control. “I believe progress we’ve made has been incremental, but also vastly positive. I believe there are certain detractors out there who would rather talk about MAS, talk about failures, and not talk about our successes,” he said. Cuevas said he wants to focus on building a multicultural curriculum that’s being developed by MAS co-founder Auggie Romero. He also said the reorganized MAS department and its new director need to be “focused on student achievement and not political activism,” an apparent swipe at the MAS program’s co-founder and director, Sean Arce, whom the board fired. When asked whether he may have received faulty legal advice when he voted to end the MAS program, Cuevas said: “It would be cowardly of me to say it was legal advice. But I sought legal advice from the district, and personally, I went out of my way to talk to constituents, business representatives, nonprofits, parents and students … and felt this was in the best interest of the district.” Alexandre Sugiyama WHEN THE PIMA COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT’S Office announced that Alexandre Sugiyama had been named to fill the late Judy Burns’ seat on the school board, the appointment was scrutinized by board critics, who noted that Sugiyama, a UA economics professor, works in the same department as Mark Stegeman. When Sugiyama was sworn in during a January 2012 board meeting, he quickly got a taste of politics, TUSD-style. After helping Stegeman return as board president, his next big vote was in favor of dismantling the MAS program. “I got appointed at a certain time in the district’s history that was a very controversial time,” Sugiyama acknowledged. Sugiyama described that meeting as the

beginning of what he estimates will be a yearlong learning curve in becoming an effective school-board member. “I came prepared, having done research and (having) gone to training, but it is still difficult,” he said. “I realize that when you are on the board, there is a lot to learn, and not a lot of time for a new board member to come up to speed. I actually enjoy the policy work and learning about what people do and how the pieces interact, and I realize I will be a better board member if given more time to do this.” While Sugiyama admits he’s not always comfortable acting as an ombudsman between the district and interested parties, he said he is collaborative, is interested in how systems are developed, and likes to bring research and data to policy discussions. Sugiyama said he also has insight into the district because his wife is a former TUSD teacher, and one of his children is in kindergarten this year, at Borton Elementary School. Sugiyama said he decided to run for a full term “because I realize that people were very upset about the MAS thing, and I realized that it would not necessarily be good for the district if we got people who were passionate and … interested in (just) one issue. “We spend a lot of time in meetings dealing with legal problems—lawsuits against the district, personnel matters, talking about real estate. You end up spending a lot of time on just running the district. We have to vote on every single hire and fire.” If elected, Sugiyama said he wants the district to consider buying better software that can prepare budget reports more easily understood by the public. He said he also wants to increase transparency when it comes to carrying out district policies. Sugiyama said he has heard reports that teacher morale is low, and he wants to examine ways to better use employee evaluations to help understand where the problems occur: at the school level, or within TUSD administration. Despite what the public may see as a district with a lot of problems, Sugiyama said he’s hopeful. He said he has met many talented people working in the district who are capable of solving its problems. But part of the challenge, he said, is a school board that is fighting itself over past mistakes instead of looking for ways to improve. For example, he said, the Arizona School Boards Association ranks boards based on how much training they do. “We need to look more closely at those who have reached gold status. I think we should work on this, and do more training. It’s important in order for people to gain more trust in the board.” While he’s hopeful about the district’s future, he acknowledges that meaningful reform takes time. “In a district this complex, nothing magical is going to happen overnight.” He said the recent forums on the schoolfacilities master plan were meant to educate the public on how the district spends its money, and not to serve as a discussion about where to begin cutting, although he acknowledges the board has been told there are “financial problems coming down the pipeline.” For supporters of MAS, Sugiyama hasn’t been exactly easy to figure out. This spring,

when the board voted 3-2 not to renew former MAS director Sean Arce’s contract, Sugiyama cast one of the votes in support of him. “That was a very difficult vote,” he said. “Not only is it a personnel decision, which is challenging, but the issue has taken on a greater national and local significance. It has become symbolic. I didn’t think voting the other way was in the district’s best interest.” Sugiyama said that while he doesn’t expect the MAS issue to go away, he wants to move forward with the multicultural-studies curriculum. He said it might achieve some of the same goals that MAS had, while keeping state politicians out of TUSD schools. “There are certain times when you can say you really believe in something, but we have a supermajority of Republicans, and that is the political reality in Arizona,” Sugiyama said. “I don’t think it is in the best interest to pick a fight even if you believe you are morally right.”

THE CHALLENGERS Ralph Ellinwood ATTORNEY RALPH ELLINWOOD WAS ONE OF 54 PEOPLE WHO applied to fill the TUSD board seat vacated when Judy Burns died suddenly in 2011. Sugiyama was appointed, but Ellinwood decided the board would benefit from his experience as a TUSD parent who has worked on a school site council, and his work as an attorney. On the site council, Ellinwood said, he learned how the board, the budget and the administration can affect each school. And as an attorney who has represented many indigent clients, he said, he saw that many of them had gone through the TUSD system without graduating. “That’s a big problem. … Why is it that so many kids don’t make it out of high school? I saw it as budgeting issue,” he said. As an example, he brought up the desegregation fund and how the money went to schools that had large minority populations, such as Tucson Magnet High School, which his daughter attends. But when a judge declared TUSD in desegregation compliance, those funds were shifted to eastside schools and University High School, Ellinwood said. “Before, those funds used to go to a tutoring program and help for struggling students to pass the AIMS test. When the money started going elsewhere, that was an eye-opener for me.” Ellinwood said the board handled the district’s Mexican-American studies program poorly from the beginning. The lack of curriculum standards made it easy for Republicans in the Legislature to criticize the program, he said. Ellinwood said student achievement also is a major concern. He said that his site-council experience showed him that many Tucson High freshmen come to the school without sufficient English and math skills. “It is almost impossible for them to take general curriculum and be successful,” he said. Ellinwood said he would get neighborhoods involved in discussions about possible school closures. As an example, he noted that Mission View and Ochoa elementary schools, in the South Tucson area, are well-loved in that com-

munity. “Why not ask them to come up with a plan? I think they’d come up with a good plan. And if it works, implement it.” Kristel Foster KRISTEL FOSTER, A TEACHER WHO WORKS IN THE Sunnyside School District’s English Language Learners program, said she has always supported TUSD’s Mexican-American studies program. But at a campaign forum, she acknowledged that based on the information presented to the board, she, too, would have voted to dismantle the program, rather than lose $15 million in state funding. “Being as close to teachers as I am, I don’t know if I could have turned to them to say, ‘There goes $15 million, and possibly your jobs,’” she said. However, Foster is quick to remind those who question her views that she supported the MAS teachers and the program before the vote. She said she understands “the importance of critical pedagogy and the value of the classes, and I’d vote to bring them back if I have the opportunity.” Foster questions whether the projected budget shortfall the board is dealing with is only $17 million. At a town hall, she said the amount could be more like $60 million, and that the district is counting on the passage of Proposition 204, which would fund education by extending a one-cent increase in the sales tax. “It makes it seem fishy,” she said. Foster has faced concerns that she would have a conflict of interest if elected, because she works for the Sunnyside district. Foster said she wouldn’t be the first TUSD board member to work for another district, and that her employer offers TUSD a good model for how to increase graduation rates. A subject close to home is TUSD’s program for English-language learners. The district has been criticized for following state rules that allow the students in the program to be segregated from other students for four hours a day. At Sunnyside, she said, the students are segregated only two hours a day. And so far, the state hasn’t taken away any of the Sunnyside district’s funding. “TUSD could do much better for their students,” Foster said. Robert Medler ROBERT MEDLER, VICE PRESIDENT OF GOVERNMENT affairs at the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, was also one of the 54 applicants to fill Judy Burns’ seat on the board. Medler said he’s running “because I see a lot of problems in how (the district) has been run, and I hear from a lot of people interested in Tucson who don’t like what they hear about our schools. I wanted to step up and do something about it.” Medler said the dispute over MexicanAmerican studies has received too much attention and that the district needs to focus more on students who weren’t in the program. If school closures are necessary, Medler said, the board should look at school performance, enrollment, building conditions and transportation costs in deciding which ones to shutter. Medler said that “absolutely the board needs CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE SEPTEMBER 20 - 26, 2012

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DISTRICTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DOZEN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 to better work together. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know any of them personally â&#x20AC;Ś but, honestly, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d meet them for a cup of coffee and get to know them personallyâ&#x20AC;? as long as it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t violate openmeeting laws. He said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerned that the district doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put enough money into classrooms, but thinks the biggest issue facing TUSD is its reputationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if the criticism of the district isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always justified. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an override and canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pass one, but are our constituents really that different from (those in) Amphi or Flowing Wells (where recent overrides have passed)? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think so. So what is it?â&#x20AC;? he asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like many things, a lot of those opinions are based on perceptions that are rather outdated: All the schools are bad; district is inefficient; no one at (TUSD headquarters) knows what they are doing; teachers are bad.â&#x20AC;? But there is a lack of data, he said, to back up such criticisms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perhaps it starts with listening to both sides and improving communication,â&#x20AC;? he said. Menelik Bakari MENELIK BAKARI IS A RETIRED TUSD SCHOOL TEACHER. HIS last assignment was in 2007, teaching social studies to eighth-graders at Doolen Middle School. Bakari also worked as an adjunct professor at Pima Community College, teaching African and African-American history, and other history classes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I worked for the district for a long time,â&#x20AC;? he

said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It bothers me when my district doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard too many negative things. I want to help turn that around and turn that negative into a positive. I just feel that maybe new blood, maybe new spirit, will help.â&#x20AC;? Bakari said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never run for public office before, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;my heart has always been in education. I also like history, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done a lot of traveling, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what inspired me to teach history at Pima.â&#x20AC;? Bakari said he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t attended many TUSD board meetings, so he canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t comment on how the board has conducted itself in recent years. But â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think sometimes, grown-ups forget what (schools and schoolteachers) are all about. To me, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about kids and making kids better. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m an old-schooler. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about achievement and kids. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I stayed with eighth-graders.â&#x20AC;? As evidence of his connection with students, Bakari said that when he encounters former students around town, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have good memories and are happy to see me.â&#x20AC;? As for returning Mexican-American studies to TUSD classrooms, Bakari said that when he first started working for TUSD, he was in the African-American studies department. He said he worked with district schools for five years on how to infuse African-American history into the regular history curriculum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what has to happen hereâ&#x20AC;? with the MAS program, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It needs to be part of all the history classes.â&#x20AC;? John Hunnicutt ON TUESDAY, SEPT. 11, JOHN HUNNICUTT AND STEGEMAN spoke at the Pima County Republican Partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weekly luncheon at El Parador on Broadway Boulevard. Hunnicutt cited his local ties as he reminded the audience that he and his wife, ArizonaDailyIndependent.com blogger Loretta Hunnicutt, both critical of the MexicanAmerican studies program, spoke about MAS at a past GOP meeting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was raised in Tucson and went to Salpointe High School and the UA,â&#x20AC;? he said. Hunnicutt, who owns a credit-card processing company that employs about 100 people, told the Weekly the district is bloated and needs to get administrative costs under control in

order to put more money in classrooms. Hunnicutt said he wants to improve the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standing in academic achievement, which is among the lowest in the state. He also wants to ensure that the curriculum in all TUSD programs meets district and state standards. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take a rocket scientist,â&#x20AC;? he said, to know that new teaching methods donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always help students do better, and that many of the old methods still work. Hunnicutt filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in March 2011. In an emailed reply to questions about itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a reply which was also sent to conservative radio personalities James T. Harris and Jon Justiceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately, over 4 million people filed for bankruptcy since 2008. Over the years, because of my good fortune, I have funded many enterprises, including my own. Over the past three years, people were no longer able to repay to me the money I had lent them; as a result, I had to declare bankruptcy. I worked hard to keep people employed as long as I could and finally had to declare myself.â&#x20AC;? Hunnicutt told the Weekly that â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t intend to run a hard race. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe that school-board races should be as political as they have become. As a result, we will put up a few signs around town, and maybe a few radio commercials. Other than that, I have employed hundreds of good people in Tucson over 30 years. They know me, and they know what kind of man I am. If that serves to get me elected, that would be fine. If not, that would be fine as well. I will continue to work for the kids of Tucson one way or another.â&#x20AC;? Betts Putnam-Hidalgo BEFORE BETTS PUTNAM-HIDALGO DECIDED TO RUN FOR the school board, she was one of the parents who showed up at board meetings wearing hand-lettered T-shirts expressing support for Mexican-American studies. She still wears such shirts; now, they say: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vote Betts.â&#x20AC;? Discussions about how to fix the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget deficit, and whether schools should be closed, have made Putnam-Hidalgo think about how those buildings could be used differentlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; perhaps for adult classes or more educational programs for children.

But she also wants the district to consider partnering with vocational educational programs in which students would learn how to refit the schools to use solar energy, and to improve energy efficiency overall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If utilities are some of the greatest costs at these schools, than letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s do something about it,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I recognize that some schools will have to close, but why not create a program that can save buildings, cut costs and help teach students these new skills? Why not partner with solar businesses and create a new curriculum?â&#x20AC;? If budget cuts are needed, she said, they should begin in central administration rather than at individual schools. She describes the mindset that schools will need to be closed as a slash-and-burn mentality that is based on deficit figures that may not be accurate, especially if voters extend a sales-tax increase to fund education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hate that we have to focus on (budget issues) right now, rather than have meaningful discussions on the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core standards and the testing that comes with them. That should be the focus of town halls,â&#x20AC;? she said. If she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win a board seat, PutnamHidalgo said she will continue to attend board meetings and remain active in the district. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So dream on, Dr. Pedicone and Mark Stegeman. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll still be around making noise.â&#x20AC;? Cam Juarez WHEN CAM JUAREZ WAS PUTTING UP CAMPAIGN SIGNS a couple of weeks ago, some drivers saw him struggling to get the job done, and stopped to help. Juarez was born with phocomelia, which means his arms are underdeveloped. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess they saw me, and because of my disability, they felt I needed help. I was fine, but I took them up on their offer. I think I ended the day with 12 votes,â&#x20AC;? Juarez said, laughing. Juarez said he has become known as the Chicano candidate who supports MexicanAmerican studies. But Juarez said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a single-issue candidate. Because of his disability, Juarez said, he understands how some kids struggle when they are different from other students, and he also understands how special teachers can make a difference.

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“I had been beaten up in school for several years until one teacher built up my confidence. It never happened again, and I became popular with the other kids. They wanted to be my friend,” he said. Juarez is a planner for Pima County’s Neighborhood Reinvestment Program, and he has a son who is enrolled in the Early Learning Center at Ochoa Elementary School. As a planner, Juarez has worked with residents in many different communities, which he believes would give him an advantage in dealing with the variety of constituencies served by the district. On his website, Juarez said that the current board “has squandered the district’s legacy of quality, stewardship and excellence in education.” Speaking of district Superintendent John Pedicone, Juarez noted: “It’s obvious some constituents don’t like him, and others do,” Juarez said. But “I don’t want to find myself harping on him about MAS. Right now, we need to harp on him about the budget, school closures and (the increase in) class sizes.” Don Cotton DON COTTON ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HE STRUGGLES WITH name recognition in the school-board race, but he said that hasn’t dampened his desire to help change the district. Cotton, a Vietnam veteran, served in the U.S. Air Force. He also ran small businesses, worked in purchasing for the city of Tucson and worked for the U.S. Postal Service before formally retiring. He raised three children after his wife died when they were 2, 9 and 12 years old. Now he has two more young children in district schools,

ages 9 and 12. “When I was raising my first kids, I was so busy as a single dad, I didn’t have time to get involved in school,” Cotton said. “Now I feel it’s time to get involved. TUSD is losing students and not spending enough money in the classroom. I believe the focus should be on the needs of the students.” Cotton said he wants to bring a business approach to the district and make administrators more accountable when spending district funds. “I also think we need to go back to basics—reading, writing and math at the elementary level, with support in after-school and before-school programs. We also need to encourage parents to be more involved.” Cotton said the district should suspend any plans for school closures and other budget cuts until after the board election. “They knew about this deficit long ago,” he said. “To move forward on this now—where were they a few years ago? And you don’t approve a raise (such as one for Pedicone) when the district is struggling. “I’ve heard (the incumbents) talking about how good it is, and that things are improving, but if that’s the case, why are we losing so many students? We wouldn’t be if they were doing a great job.”

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SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2012 OUR TOP PICKS OF WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO DO IT BY INÉS TARACENA AND MARIANA DALE

Exploring Desire

Browncoats for Charity

PICK OF THE WEEK

Desire can manifest itself through greed, lust or even revenge. It is a craving that can bring out the worst in people: How far will people go to satisfy their fetishes for pain, money or sex? The Exhibitionists explores the darkest corners of desire and sex. It is bound to make audiences uncomfortable—in a good way—when it premieres at the fifth annual Arizona Underground Film Festival. The festival features cult films from various genres such as horror, exploitation, drama and documentary. The films are either too risqué for mainstream moviegoers, or they were released and quickly done in by weak box-office receipts. “Because of the content of the film, I placed a strong focus on seeking out underground film festivals as a venue,” said Michael Melamedoff, director of The Exhibitionists. “And the Arizona Underground Film Festival has a tremendous reputation.” The mastermind behind the AZUFF is David Pike, a film buff with an infatuation for edgy cinema. Pike knew other cities had underground film festivals, and wondered why Arizona wasn’t home to one. So he created the AZUFF. “When the festival started out, it was me and one or two other people helping out,” Pike said. “It has grown a lot over the years. The more it grows, the more people want to be a part of it. We get a lot more serious films that want to play the festival and use the festival as a launching platform.” Pike was determined to hit the Tucson film scene with something different. He said he wanted audiences to experience an alternative way of looking at film. With the festival, he is showcasing a clandestine side of cinema. Pike has given exposure to films that are often overlooked because of their content and low-budget status. “They may not have a huge budget, but they still are great films,” Pike said. “They come out, and word-of-mouth and time make them popular. This is what gives them cult status.” AZUFF also is a pioneer in introducing exploitation—a genre that exaggerates certain subjects, such as zombies, Nazis and sex—to film festivals. The festival’s dynamic spirit has attracted underground filmmakers, such as Melamedoff, from around the country. Michael Melamedoff The Exhibitionists is Melamedoff ’s second feature film. It depicts 36 hours in the life of Walter Todd, a filmmaker with odd sexual obsessions and an explosive dark side, as he tries to gather some of his friends for a New Year’s Eve party full of surprises. “This movie is a truly unique viewing experience because of the way it gets under the viewer’s skin,” Melamedoff said. “It’s a very provocative film. It is a tremendously disturbing film, and at the same time, it pulls it off a tremendous sense of grace and sense of humor.” Melamedoff started filming The Exhibitionists in August 2011. He had a budget of $100,000 and a 12-day shooting schedule that was

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made even shorter when Hurricane Irene hit New York. “We really thought the film was going to remain incomplete,” Melamedoff said. “We thought our sets would be destroyed, and the subways wouldn’t reopen in time for us to finish filming the movie.” But the hurricane moved on; the sets were intact; and Melamedoff was able to put the film in the can. He submitted The Exhibitionists to Pike earlier this year. “When David reached out to me to tell me the film had been accepted, we were thrilled,” Melamedoff said. “David has built a wonderful festival over the last five years, and it seemed like a very appropriate home to premiere the movie.” Melamedoff said his work exposes the different ways in which people manifest desire. He plays with how people approach what they want, both positively and negatively. “My films are for people who, at some level, feel like they are not being spoken to by traditional Hollywood movies,” Melamedoff said. “I hope I am giving that to them, and I am thrilled this city is opening its arms to me.” Melamedoff and actor Richard Short will attend the premiere and take questions from the audience after the screening. The Exhibitionists premieres at 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Screening Room, 127 E. Congress St. The Arizona Underground Film Festival begins at 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21, and runs through Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Screening Room and Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas, 4811 E. Grant Road. Tickets are $7.50 per film; various festival passes are also available. For more information, visit azuff.org. Inés Taracena mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

“Can’t Stop the Serenity” 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22 Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St. www.azbrowncoats.org

To say Browncoats are simply fans of Joss Whedon and his cinematic creations would be a grave understatement. “It actually means so much more than just the term ‘browncoat.’ For me, it’s a group of incredible people who I’ve done charitable work with,” said Shelby McBride, president of the Arizona Browncoats and coordinator of “Can’t Stop the Serenity.” The event is an annual tradition for Browncoats around the world. The group takes its name from the distinctive attire worn by rebel soldiers in Firefly, a science-fiction TV show set in 2517 that ran for one season in 2002. The full-length film Serenity was released in 2005 and follows where the show left off. The Arizona Browncoats have hosted the event in Tucson and Phoenix since 2006 and have raised more than $45,000, McBride said. The festivities include a raffle, a costume contest, a video-gaming hub and a screening of Serenity. The proceeds benefit Equality Now, a global human-rights organization, and the Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona. “They (Browncoats) really look and see there are things that are not right in the world, and things need to change,” McBride said. “We go out there, and we stand for equality for everyone.” The Arizona chapter counts more than 200 members in its Yahoo! group, but McBride expects membership will grow. “We know people are Browncoats,” she said, “They just don’t know it yet. Just give it time—we’ll get you.” Tickets are $10, or $8 for military members, seniors and students, and can be purchased at the Fox Tucson Theatre box office or at foxtucsontheatre.ticketforce.com. —M.D.

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Picnic With Shakespeare

Go Greek!

All Things Chinese

El Rio Theatre Project’s Shakespeare in the Park: The Taming of the Shrew

Tucson Greek Festival

Chinese Culture Festival

Thursday, Sept. 20, through Sunday, Sept. 23

y, Sept. 30 Saturday, Sept. 22, through Sunday,

7 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Sept. 21 through 23; Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 27 through Oct. 7

St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church 1145 E. Fort Lowell Road

Various locations

Himmel Park 1000 N. Tucson Blvd. 791-5909

There’s sometimes a language barrier between William Shakespeare and readers or viewers of his works. Michael Givens, recreation coordinator for El Rio Theatre Project, confessed he had hit a wall with the Bard’s Elizabethan English. When Givens started directing plays, he had doubts about directing any Shakespearean classics. “I would read them and ask, ‘What did I just read?’” he said. “And then I read them again, and I still wasn’t sure of what I just read.” It wasn’t until Givens read Much Ado About Nothing that he began to understand the beauty in Shakespeare’s literature. “The language barriers started deteriorating, and I started embracing Shakespeare’s pieces,” he said. “The more I got to know him, the more accessible he became to me.” Out of this breakthrough came Shakespeare in the Park, a local tradition celebrating its sixth year. With Shakespeare in the Park, Givens hopes to help others overcome the language barriers that keep them from appreciating Shakespeare. To make the plays more accessible to people, Givens said, he rewrites certain parts, because “if I read one sentence eight times, and I don’t know what it means, most of the audience won’t know what it means, either.” This year, El Rio Theatre Project will present The Taming of the Shrew. “I want people to enjoy Shakespeare,” Givens said. “We have been working hard on this play, and to have people come and enjoy it makes the hard work worthwhile.” Admission is free but donations ($5 is recommended) will be accepted. Playgoers are encouraged to bring a blanket and picnic food. —I.T.

888-0505; www.tucsongreekfest.com

The Tucson Greek Festival is 37 years old this year, but Genie Gekas’ connection predates even the first festival. “My family was one of the first pioneer families that started the Greek (Orthodox) Church in Tucson,” Gekas said. Her father helped build St. Demetrios from its origins as a small gathering in a home to a congregation of more than 300 families. Now, some 65 years after the church was founded in 1947, the Greek Festival has evolved to take a wider look at Greek culture. The festival is “not only full of food and culinary things, but also music, crafts and educational lectures,” Gekas said. “It allows us to show the community who we are.” Three to five lectures are scheduled each day, and the topics range from ancient Greek warriors to Greek humor, history and archeology. The rhythmically inclined can learn traditional Grecian folk dance from the Panathenian Dancers, or just watch the pros take the stage. Many will be dancing their way to the food, one of the largest attractions at the festival. Among the offerings are roasted lamb shank, Greek-style lasagna and saganaki. The food can be washed down with Greek beer and wine, and attendees should save room for baklava. The Greek Festival website claims the flaky layers of phyllo dough, sugar and cinnamon are “directly from heaven.” The festival will also feature a slew of other activities, from food demonstrations to vendors selling traditional herbs. “You can’t do it all in one visit,” Gekas said. Admission is $3 a day, or $5 for a four-day pass. Children younger than 12 are admitted for free. Proceeds benefit St. Demetrios and its ministries. —M.D.

626-5124; confucius.arizona.edu

A trip to China would take more e than ving from 900 hours of kayaking and driving aps. But Tucson, according to Google Maps. e Festival activities at the Chinese Culture de from are no more than a short car ride most Tucson homes. rday, Chinese Health Day on Saturday, Sept. 22, at Reid Park, kicks off the festival with performances by martialns in arts and tai chi masters; lessons traditional Chinese medicine; and free admission to Reid Park Zoo. The weeklong celebration is the en product of collaboration between fucius the University of Arizona’s Confucius ch as the Institute and local partners such Chinese Cultural Center. ry“The Confucius Institute is tryulture ing to provide a platform for culture o-director exchange,” said Zhao Chen, co-director of the institute. “One importantt thing for people to remember is the Chinese nt have a long history and different aspects of culture.” hinese The festival gives those of Chinese meland, heritage a reminder of their homeland, and those unfamiliar with the country tures a taste of Chinese culture. Lectures throughout the week will touch on artial Chinese music, cinema and martial ese poetry arts. There will also be a Chinese nese concert and celebration of Chinese language. A Moon Festival Concert, at UA Crowder Hall, will cap off the week on estival Sunday, Sept. 30. The Moon Festival ch like celebrates the fall harvest, much ina’s Thanksgiving, and is one of China’s largest annual holidays. mber Confucius Institute staff member son Larry Lang, who moved to Tucson d, from Beijing 35 years ago, said, “It’s great to have a Chinese experience right at home in Tucson.” Admission to all events is free. Visit confucius.arizona. edu for a complete schedule. —M.D.

Left: Demetri Theopos and Jimmy Karemelas at the 2011 Tucson Greek Festival. Below: “Chromebeard With His Daughter,” 1984, gelatin silver print (cropped).

©ANN SIMMONS-MYERS, COURTESY OF ETHERTON GALLERY

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Far left: Taming of the Shrew’s Jamie Hoggan and John Mussack.

A reception for Ann SimmonsMyers: Bikers takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21, at Temple Gallery, 330 S. Scott Ave. The show runs through Tuesday, Oct. 16. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and before Arizona Theatre Company performances. Call 624-7370 for info.

Submissions CityWeek includes events selected by Inés Taracena and Mariana Dale, and is accurate as of press time. Tucson Weekly recommends calling event organizers to check for last-minute changes in location, time, price, etc. To have material considered, please send complete information by Monday at noon 11 days prior to publication. Send to: Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726, or fax information to 792-2096, or e-mail us at listings@tucsonweekly.com. SEPTEMBER 20 - 26, 2012

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Betty Bitgood

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; kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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.

Betty Bitgood and her late husband started Hope of Glory Ministries in 1996, inspired by a group in Phoenix called Church on the Street. With support from their pastor, they fed homeless people living in Santa Rita Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;until the city and county deemed it illegal to feed hungry people there. Bitgood now serves meals at a church near the Veterans Affairs medical center on South Sixth Avenue. Bitgood said she wants to open what she and her volunteers call the Hope Center, which would provide a range of services to people in need. For more information, visit tucsonhope.org, or call 471-1720. Mari Herreras, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com

How did you become interested in this work? My husband and I met some people from the Church on the Street in Phoenix. That year was the first time the Super Bowl was held in Phoenix, and the city shipped all of their homeless people to Tucson. The church came down and started feeding people at Santa Rita Park. We just started seeing what they were doing, and I thought we should help out. We started helping with the meals and started having meals one Sunday a month. We started as Church of the Street, but that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t my choice, since we were under my pastor at that time.

to our door. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require that they participate, but we feel the way we behave is also part of how we minister.

When did Hope of Glory start? In 1996, and then we formally got our 501(c)(3) in 1999. Our pastor was still supporting us, especially when we had to get supplies and stuff. We were given a little van and started accumulating supplies and served in the park, until the city and county decided that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a good idea.

How do you get your food? We do use the Food Bank, but we have several other sources weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been gleaning from over the yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;pizza from Pizza Hut, sweets from Starbucks, bread from Fryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. We get other people to donate meals, and we have one volunteer who does our Thursday meals. We serve meals three times a week.

Some homeless ministries require clients to participate in religious activities. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re biblically based and stick with Bible teachings, but that covers a lot of denominations right there. We have many people from different faiths who come and have helped us over the years. But no matter what, we serve anyone who comes

Do you want to build your own facility? Yes, we need another shelter here in Tucson. There is a huge need that I have seen ever since I started this. Now I get so many phone calls. People out there are desperate and are so scared, getting ready to get kicked out of their house, or living out of their car. We want to do it big, and our vision has never

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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.

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TQ&A

Where are you located now? The church we were at changed hands, and the pastor there had a heart for the homeless, but he wanted to do things his way. They turned their space into a summer-sun and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winter shelter, and they feed countless meals. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big hub for the homeless, which is a good thing. But we ended up at a Hispanic churchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Centro Cristiano Esperanza (125 W. Veterans Blvd.)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re serving now.

gotten smaller. My volunteers and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do anything less than 3,600 square feet. We want a shelter space for families, men, women, some cottage industry, a day care, a place where people can get (Department of Health Services aid) and Social Security without running around town. Does it feel like we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough homeless services? They are limited in size, and as far as on-site services, those are not available. And as far as families being housed together, there is so little of that. The only (housing facility like that) I know of is run by Primavera. Families need to be kept together. At other shelters, they are split up, and then there is the issue of: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are they married?â&#x20AC;? If they come in with children, and they are a family, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care if they are not married. How many people do you serve? In 2011, we served about 8,000 meals. On a weekly basis, we see anywhere from 40 to 60 people depending on the time of the month, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three times a week. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s close to 120 to 180 people a week, and, of course, they are the same people. Out of those, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably 30 percent who are chronically homeless, and 10 percent marginally homeless. The rest are neighbors.

CHINESE CULTURE FESTIVAL 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, on the UA campus and at Reid Park. 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, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chinese Martial Arts,â&#x20AC;? and demonstrations of the use of traditional Chinese weaponry. Tuesday, Sept. 25, from 11 a.m. to noon: lecture, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Traditional Chinese Music.â&#x20AC;? Wednesday, Sept. 26, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.: lecture, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chinese Cinema,â&#x20AC;? and director Wu Tianming, plus a screening of King of Masks. 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, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Recent Efforts in the Search for Remote Human Ancestors in China.â&#x20AC;? 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 for a more details. COOKS AND CHORDS BENEFIT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Chinese Cultural Center. 1288 W. River Road. 2926900. Acoustic music, a raffle, a silent auction and

MISS LATIN GAY PRIDE PAGEANT Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Latin Pride Somos! Week concludes with a beauty pageant from 8 to 11 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; freewill donation. Visit fluxxproductionsstudioandgallery.tumblr. com 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.

OUT OF TOWN EAGLES AND ACES CHARITY GOLF AND POKER TOURNAMENT Canoa Ranch Golf Resort. 5800 S. Camino Del Sol. Green Valley. 437-1966. An all-day golf and poker tournament for cash prizes takes place from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $350 per pair includes hotel accommodations. The event benefits the American Diabetes Association. Register and find more information at eaglesandaces.com, or call 303-3610. 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, through Sunday, Oct. 14; $5 parking. Visit skithelemmon.com. ORO VALLEY CLASSIC CAR SHOW Oro Valley Marketplace. Oracle and Tangerine roads. Oro Valley. The Outlaw Rebels perform rockabilly music at an event featuring classic cars and trucks, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $5, free child age 10 or younger. Call 331-5280 for more information.

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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.

UPCOMING ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON MEMBERSHIP COFFEE Shop on the Block. 1307 N. Alvernon Way. 299-5433. Prospective members get an overview of the league’s philanthropies, a tour of the facilities and an opportunity to talk to current members at 10 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 27; free. Call 236-8452, or email memberservices@ assistanceleaguetucson.org for reservations and more information.

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FLAVORS OF TUCSON Loews Ventana Canyon Resort. 7000 N. Resort Drive. 299-2020. The Arizona Chapter of the American Liver Foundation holds an event featuring food by 16 different chefs, wine, and live and silent auctions from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27; $225 per person. Each table has its own chef, who is responsible for creating a unique presentation. Proceeds benefit the American Liver Foundation. Call (866) 953-1800, or visit liverfoundation.org/chapters/arizona for more info. GLOW Triangle L Ranch. 2805 Triangle L Ranch Road. Oracle. 623-6732. GLOW is a nighttime art experience including site-specific illuminated installations, live music, and performances involving illuminated props and costumes, from 7 to 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Sept.

28 and 29; $10, $5 ages 3 to 18 with a guardian, free child younger than 3. Visit trianglelranch.com/glow.htm for more information. INDEBTED/ENDEUDADO MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Indebted/ Endeudado, a multilingual event featuring devised theater, visual art, performance art and dance exploring what it means to be in debt, takes place at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29; $8, $5 member. Artists from Mexico participate through Arizona Between Nosotros. A panel discussion about the art and critical theory of “nosotros” features representatives of Arizona Between Nosotros at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 3; $5, free member. LOBSTER LANDING Windmill Inn at St. Philip’s Plaza. 4250 N. Campbell Ave. 577-0007. Orders may be placed starting Saturday, Sept. 29, for one or more of 2,000 Maine lobsters to be delivered Saturday, Nov. 3, and sold that day, cooked or raw, for $25. The event also features food samples from Tucson restaurants, and beer and wine-tasting from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; $40, $35 advance. Clam chowder is available for $15. Proceeds benefit Child and Family Resources. To order lobsters and make reservations, visit lobsterlandingtucson.com. NIGHTFALL Old Tucson Studios. 201 S. Kinney Road. 883-0100. Three live shows, pyrotechnics, stunts, effects, a laserlight show, live music by the Mission Creeps and spontaneous appearances by hideous live characters take place throughout three streets and 12 buildings from Friday, Sept. 28, through Sunday, Oct. 28. Hours are 6 p.m. to midnight, Friday and Saturday; and 6 to 10 p.m., Sunday and Thursday; $25, $20 child. Discounts are available Friday through Sunday, Sept. 28 through 30. Visit nightfallaz.com for complete information. NUESTRO JARDIN HUMANITIES SERIES Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Maria de Jesus Robles presents “Poems and Papél Picado,” at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. RAW PRESENTS: ENSEMBLE Plush. 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298. A musical performance, a fashion show, an art exhibit, performance art

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and a featured hair stylist and makeup artist are part of a multifaceted showcase at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27; $15. Fashionable dress is recommended. TUCSON OKTOBERFEST Hi Corbett Field. 3400 E. Camino Campestre. 3279467. A family festival with food, beverages, a range of entertainment, a kids’ activity area, and more than 100 arts and crafts vendors, takes place from Thursday, Sept. 27, through Sunday, Sept. 30. Hours are 6 to 10 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27; noon to 11 p.m., Friday, Sept. 28; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30; $3 to $6, free age 12 and younger, free Thursday, Sept. 27, with two cans of food for the Community Food Bank. The event benefits Tucson-area Optimist Clubs. Call WINGSPAN BENEFIT DINNER JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa. 3800 W. Starr Pass Blvd. 792-3500. Dinner, dancing, entertainment and casino tables are featured at a dinner-dance at 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29; $125 includes dinner and casino chips. Proceeds benefit the LGBTQA community center, Wingspan. UA director of LGBT studies Susan Stryker gives a keynote address. Comedian and entertainer Shann Carr is the featured entertainer. Call 624-1779, ext. 118, for more reservations and more information.

BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK 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 GRAND WINE-TASTING CataVinos. 3063 N. Alvernon Way. 323-3063. Each visitor gets a commemorative etched-crystal wine glass for tasting the many wines being poured by area distributors in an outdoor tent pavilion, from 2 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $18. FLUXX VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT PARTY Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Fluxx hosts a party for potential volunteers from 3 to 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; free. Free food and drinks are served. Volunteers are needed for Tucson Pride and the Out in the Desert Film Festival. Visit fluxxproductionsstudioandgallery.tumblr.com

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 Friday, through Sept. 28. Anyone may speak, recite or perform. MEDICARE AND SOCIAL-MEDIA 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 options and how to find the best coverage, 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 information. OCCUPY TUCSON TEACH-IN ON PAULO FREIRE Historic YWCA. 738 N. Fifth Ave. 622-4700. A discussion about the Brazilian philosopher and educator Paulo Freire, whose book Pedagogy of the Oppressed was banned from TUSD, takes place from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 25; free. PEOPLE-OF-COLOR RESOURCE FAIR Donna Liggins Parks and Recreation Center. 2160 N. Sixth Ave. Entertainment, food, giveaways, workshops, health screenings, face-painting and information from representatives of a host of community agencies are featured from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Sept.

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22; free. People of color and others who are medically under-served learn about services for mental health, food, housing, financial literacy and more. Visit caahw. org for more information. PRESIDIO FASHION EXCHANGE Dinnerware Artspace. 425 W. Sixth St. 869-3166. Tucson-area artists, and fashion and accessory designers who use primarily re-purposed and recycled materials, show and sell their work in the parking lot from 8 a.m. to noon, every Saturday. Anyone may participate; tables and chairs are free. A clothing trading table also is featured; bring at least five gently used items to participate; take as much as you want. Text 869-3166, or email dinnerwareartspace@gmail.com for more info. 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 Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Members of the League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson lead a discussion of the propositions on the Nov. 6 ballot, from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; free. Refreshments are served. Call 622-0905 for more information.

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SNAP CHALLENGE The Community Food Bank challenges the community to get by from Monday through Friday, Sept. 24 through 28, on $4 per day for food, the average amount of SNAP (formerly food stamps) allowed for each person. The challenge kicks off at 10 a.m., Monday, Sept. 24, at Fry’s Food Store, 2001 E. Irvington Road. Call 8823317, or visit cfbsnapchallenge.org for more info.

9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29; and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30; free. Hot donuts are served at 9 a.m. each day. Afternoons feature free eegee’s, family portraits and glitter tattoos. Afternoon activities continue into Friday evening, when a DJ plays tunes for dancing. Adoptions are free for all mixed-breed dogs, cats, puppies and kittens; all purebred pets are half-off. Adoption includes a Furbaby Party Pack of toys and treats.

TUCSON ARTS BRIGADE’S GRAND-OPENING CELEBRATION Historic YWCA. 738 N. Fifth Ave. 622-4700. Food, live music, speakers and youths’ art for sale are featured at the opening of a new headquarters for this community arts organization, from 4 to 6 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; freewill donation. Visit tucsonartsbrigade.org for more information.

MAPPING ARIZONA’S FUTURE: A FORUM ON ARIZONA’S KEY BALLOT INITIATIVES PCC West Campus. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6042. Project Civil Discourse, an initiative of the Arizona Humanities Council, hosts a simulcast discussion among people in seven Arizona cities, from 6 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27; free. The event is aimed at setting aside partisanship, promoting respect, taking different viewpoints into account, and finding common ground on divisive issues such as growth, education, health care, religion, race, immigration and transportation. Visit projectcivildiscourse.org for more information

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.

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QUILT, CRAFT AND SEWING FESTIVAL Tucson Expo Center. 3750 E. Irvington Road. 7508000. Representatives of sewing, quilting and embroidery machines, and other sewing, quilting, needle-art, knitting, rubber-stamping, embossing, scrapbooking and creative-arts vendors, show their latest tools, supplies and patterns from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27, through Saturday, Sept. 29; free admission and parking. Visit quiltcraftsew.com for more information.

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.

TUCSON RENEGADE ROLLER GIRLS Las Cazuelitas Event Center. 1365 W. Grant Road. 2060405. A no-penalties roller-derby contest with music by Texas Trash and the Hangovers takes place at 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29, in the expo center; $10. Call 3337768 for more information.

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.

UPCOMING ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. The Arizona State Museum seeks volunteers for its docent program. Classes take place from 2 to 4:30 p.m., every Wednesday, from Oct. 3 through Jan. 23; $225, $185 member. After initial training, docents volunteer at least four hours monthly, October through April. Duties include greeting museum visitors, leading tours, interpreting exhibits and objects for visitors, and answering questions in the galleries. Visit statemuseum. arizona.edu for more information and an application. DIVORCE RECOVERY 1 Trained facilitators lead nonsectarian support groups from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday or Thursday; $60 requested donation, but no one is turned away. Each course is eight weeks and closes after the second week. New classes start Tuesday, Oct. 2, at Streams in the Desert Lutheran Church, 5360 E. Pima St. Call 495-0704, or visit divorcerecovery.net for more information. FURBABY FIESTA ADOPT-A-THON BY PETSMART CHARITIES Humane Society of Southern Arizona. 3450 N. Kelvin Blvd. 321-3704. Adoption specials and free family fun take place from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday, Sept. 28;

BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK DATOS TUCSON LUNCHEON Doubletree by Hilton Hotel. 445 S. Alvernon Way. 8814200. Arizona State professor emeritus Loui Olivas discusses the Hispanic market for Arizona businesses, at a luncheon meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20; $75, $60 THCC members. Register online at tucsonhispanicchamber.org. The event is cohosted by The Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. EWOMENNETWORK ACCELERATED NETWORKING LUNCH Union Public House. 4340 N. Campbell Ave., No. 103. 329-8575. Barbara Eisele of Life Transformations Now! presents “Yes, It’s All in Your Head” at an accelerated networking lunch organized by eWomenNetwork, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 26; $55, $38 advance, $28 advance member. Make reservations by Sunday, Sept. 23, for advance pricing. Call (480) 3821317, or visit ewomennetwork.com for reservations and more information. INDIVIDUAL JOB COUNSELING Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A job counselor from Career Services Unlimited provides free, one-on-one counseling about choosing a career, resume-writing, interview skills, networking and job-search skills from noon to 3 p.m., Monday, Sept. 24; free. No appointment is needed; sessions are limited to 30 minutes. Call 791-4010 for more information.

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FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK 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 info.

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EVENTS THIS WEEK UNIQUE BORDER BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Jeff Babson of Sky Island Tours gives a presentation about birds that are unique to the Tucson region, including hummingbirds, warblers, owls and trogans, from 6 to 8 pm., Thursday, Sept. 20; $23, $20 member. Elizabeth Willot, curator of the annual Butterfly Magic discusses butterflies common to the Tucson area and how to promote their well-being in home landscapes, from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 23; $14, $10 member. Class fees include admission. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for reservations and more info.

OUT OF TOWN HARVEST FESTIVAL Native Seeds/SEARCH Conservation Farm. 42 San Antonio Road. Patagonia. A bean stomp, dance party and potluck take place from 3 to 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; free. Visit nativeseeds.org for more info.

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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. 27, from 10 to 11 a.m., â&#x20AC;&#x153;Diabetes Prevention.â&#x20AC;?

ANNOUNCEMENTS ALZHEIMERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SUPPORT GROUPS All meetings are free; call for reservations. Family members and others caring for people with dementia gather for discussion, education and support from 1:30 to 3 p.m., the first and third Thursday of every month, at the Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive, 229-5300. An Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association Support Group meets at 4:30 p.m., the second Monday of every month, at Santa Catalina Villas retirement community, 7500 N. Calle Sin Envidia, 730-3132. An Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s caregiver support group and concurrent activity group for those with the disease meet from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., the second and fourth Tuesday every month, at TMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s El Dorado Campus, 1400 N. Wilmot Road, 324-1960. A second Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s caregiver group meets there from 10:30 to noon, the first and third Thursday. CURVES LAUGHTER YOGHA CLUB Curves. 2816 N. Campbell Ave. 326-1251. Men, women and children laugh for well-being from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., every Sunday; freewill donation. Call Gita at 777-7544, or visit laughteryogawithgita.com for info.

MATING HABITS OF BUTTERFLIES Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Butterfly propagation is the topic, and guests are encouraged to bring related photos and videos, from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30; $14, $10 member, includes admission to Butterfly Magic after hours. Contact the gardens beforehand if you plan to bring visuals. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for reservations.

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.

HEALTH EVENTS THIS WEEK 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

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.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS SAAF. 375 S. Euclid Ave. 628-7223. The Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation hosts a support group from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., on the third Thursday of every month. Ask for Stacey Luethje for more information.

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. 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. BEAUTIFUL BEES Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute. 7700 W. Gates Pass Road. 883-3945. A nature walk, a potluck, a project to build a take-home habitat for raising a caterpillar, and a presentation by naturalist and photographer Jillian Cowels on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beautiful Beesâ&#x20AC;? highlight Community Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; freewill donation. Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities are featured after the potluck. Visit sasionline.org for 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 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum Tucson. 200 S. Sixth Ave. 7929985. Readings from local childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. 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. 26; Oct. 10, 17 and 24; and Nov. 7, 14 and 28. THE NIGHT BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY Kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center. 1725 N. Swan Road. 322-5437. Joni Riminstein signs and sells copies of her Night Before My Birthday Book from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; free. PCC THEATRE ARTS PCC Proscenium Theatre. Pima Community College West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6986. The Jungle Book opens Wednesday, Sept. 26, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 7. Showtimes are at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $6. ASL interpreters accompany the performance at 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 5. Jungle Jamboree, a free family event, takes place from 9 to 11 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, in the Black Box Theatre. Call or visit pima.edu/cfa for tickets. PUPPET MUZIK Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Traveling puppet-theater Puppet Muzik takes part in Bookmansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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,

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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. ‘STOMP’ OUT LOUD: A BEHIND-THE-SCENES EXPERIENCE TCC Music Hall. 260 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. A day-long 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. TUCSON’S RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELING EXHIBIT Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. An exhibit of children’s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds 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. 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. WEEKEND MATH TUTORING Math tutoring for TUSD students in grades 3 through 12 takes place from 10 a.m. to noon, most Saturdays, through May 11, at Roberts-Naylor K-8 School, 1701 S. Columbus Blvd.; free. Visit tusd1.org/math to register.

OUT OF TOWN SOCCER SHOOT James D. Kreigh Park. 23 W. Calle Concordia. Oro Valley. Free hot dogs, chips and soda are provided for

UPCOMING TREEHOUSE FARM FESTIVAL TreeHouse Farm. 116 Camino Agave. Elgin. 576-0066. Part farm tour and part farmers’ market, this event offers hands-on projects, gardening classes, farm animals and greenhouse strawberries from the vine, from noon to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29; $5. TUCSON’S RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELING EXHIBIT An exhibit of children’s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds opens Tuesday, Oct. 2, and continues through Tuesday, Oct. 30, at the Quincie Douglas Branch Library, 1585 E. 36th St. Admission is free. Visit library.pima.gov/locations for hours. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

OUTDOORS EVENTS THIS WEEK PIMA PRICKLY PARK Pima Prickly Park. 3500 W. River Road. 615-7855. A new park featuring native prickly pear and cholla cactus, agaves and palo verde trees opens Saturday, Sept. 22. Opening-day festivities include a sale of rescued cactus from 10 a.m. to noon, refreshments, music, 15 educational exhibits and displays both inside and outside the Pima County Natural Resources Parks and Recreation buildings. Hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visit tucsoncactus.org for more information.

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.

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SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK LAMA LODU RINPOCHE: BUDDHIST TEACHINGS IN THE KAGYU TRADITION The Bodhisattva Institute. 714 N. Desert Ave. 3252272. Lama Lodu Rinpoche gives lessons for all skill levels from Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 20 through 23; freewill donation. Thursday, Sept. 20, from 7 to 9 p.m.: Explanation on the Aspiration of Mahamudra. Friday, Sept. 21, from 7 to 9 p.m.; and Saturday, Sept. 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Explanation on Nyung Nes Practice. Sunday, Sept. 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Explanation on Chenrezig Practice. Visit bodhisattvainstitute.org for more information.

JESUS FOR PRESIDENT Southside Presbyterian Church. 317 W. 23rd St. 6236857. Brandon Wert leads a series of discussions based on the book Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals at 6:30 p.m., every Monday, Oct. 1 through Nov. 5. Bring a copy of the book. Call 623-6857 for more information.

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NATIVE-AMERICAN FALL EQUINOX CELEBRATION Yoga Connection. 3929 E. Pima St. 323-1222. Tony Redhouse performs a traditional blessing ceremony honoring the four winds in the circle of life and setting intentions for the future, from 2 to 3:15 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 23; $7 suggested donation.

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 run over a course featuring spectacular mountain views begins at 6:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, and finishes 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.

PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN BOOK GROUP Rincon United Church of Christ. 122 N. Craycroft Road. Pastor Steve Van Kuiken leads an open book club at 4 p.m., the second and fourth Wednesday of every month; free. September’s book selection is Reading the Bible From the Margins by Miguel De La Torre.

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.

SECULAR HUMANIST JEWISH CIRCLE HIGH HOLIDAY OBSERVANCE St. Francis in the Foothills. 4625 E. River Road. 2999063. A “Celebration of Community and Connection” led by Rabbi Miriam S. Jerris incorporates themes, songs and poetry related to both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur at 10 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $40, $25 member includes a catered buffet lunch. Call 2963762, or email srubinaz@comcast.net for reservations.

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UPCOMING FLAMENCO FESTIVAL Casa Vicente Restaurante Español. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. Guest artists include international touring dancers and flamenco musicians, from 9 p.m. to midnight, Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 27 through 29; and from 3 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30; $15 to $25. The event also includes wine-tasting, cooking demonstrations, workshops and booths selling traditional flamenco clothing. Visit tucsonflamencofestival.com for tickets and a complete schedule of performances. ZUZI! DANCE COMPANY ZUZI! Theater. 738 N. Fifth Ave. 629-0237. Frida Kahlo: Blood and Gold incorporates modern, flamenco and aerial dance and features guest artist Barbara Schluessler at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29; $15, $13 student, senior or military. Call 6290237, or email zuzisphere@gmail.com to reserve tickets. Visit zuzimoveit.org for more information.

MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK 17TH STREET MUSIC 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 7147. Free concerts take place from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday. Sept. 22: Acero, tropical tunes. Visit seventeenthstreetmarket.com for more information. 2+1 Prince Chapel AME Church. 602 S. Stone Ave. 6242871. Gospel group 2+1 and special guest Wayne Carter perform at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 23; $10. Proceeds help support church operations and youth activities. Visit princechapame.org, or call 664-6907 for more information. 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. AVA: ANSELMO VALENCIA TORI AMPHITHEATER AVA: Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheater. Casino del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. Performances are at 8 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Visit casinodelsol.com for tickets and more information. Saturday, Sept. 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. 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 $30. 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 tickets. Call (800) 595-4849, or visit inconcerttucson.com for tickets and more information. GASLIGHT THEATRE FAMILY CONCERTS The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Unless otherwise indicated, all shows take place at 7 p.m., Monday; $12 to $22. Sept. 24: The Original Wildcat Jass Band. Call or visit thegaslighttheatre.com. LAVA MUSIC Abounding Grace Church. 2450 S. Kolb Road. 747-3745. Shows are from 7 to 9 p.m. on selected

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‘How I Learned to Drive’ at Arizona Repertory occasionally veers off-course

Lessons and Lechery BY LAURA C.J. OWEN, lowen@tucsonweekly.com aula Vogel’s oft-produced play, How I Learned to Drive, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for drama, cruises into Tucson once again, this time courtesy of the students at the University of Arizona Repertory Theatre. Staged at Live Theatre Workshop in the summer of 2011 and at Arizona Theatre Company way back in 1999, the disturbing play delves into incest and power. Driving turns out to be a metaphor for something much darker. Unfortunately, this production takes a few wrong turns. Our protagonist is a young woman known to her family as Li’l Bit (Brenna Welsh). Drawing on her memories, she narrates the play, first conjuring up a traditionally American image of a boy and girl “parking” in a car. Then she takes it back in time to rural Maryland in 1967, when Li’l Bit is 17. Joining the scene, Li’l Bit steps into a car consisting of just two chairs. She begins a classic push-pull with the boy (played by Sean Meshew) over “how far” they will go sexually. The actors face forward, not touching each other, simply miming the actions. But Li’l Bit is parking not with a boy, but a married man—and not just any married man. The scene changes entirely in tone when Li’l Bit asks him to take her home and calls him Uncle Peck. Peck is married to L’il Bit’s Aunt Mary, and this “relationship” had been going on for some time. But Uncle Peck really is teaching Li’l Bit to drive. A recorded voice-over, narrated by an unseen driver’s-ed teacher, links the scenes with advice on driving. Peck takes the task seriously, but he also uses it as a means to be alone with his wife’s niece. The minimalist staging—with the actors miming props and simply suggesting intimate actions—indicates that we are watching what playwright Tennessee Williams called a memory play. In The Glass Menagerie, Williams has the narrator, Tom, explain to the audience, “Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted … it is not realistic. In memory, everything seems to happen to music.” Playwright Vogel and director Brent Gibbs have taken Williams’ approach to heart: 1960s music fades in and out of many scenes, often coming through an invisible car radio. Welsh does well as Li’l Bit. Rather than signaling her age with childish mannerisms, she plays it straight, allowing us to believe in Li’l Bit’s youth through her dialogue and subtle body language. For example, Li’l Bit developed breasts at a young age, and has been made by her family and others to feel self-conscious about them, as

Sean Meshew and Brenna Welsh in How I Learned to Drive. if her body is no longer truly her own, but instead the property of others. To convey Li’l Bit’s anxiety, Welsh develops a slight hunch and a way of crossing her arms over her chest. Meshew’s acting is a bit studied and stylized, but this works well for his character. Uncle Peck is a man who’s always acting, always pretending, to both Li’l Bit and himself, that his intentions are benign, and that his love for her is pure and healthy. Vogel, remarkably, does not write Uncle Peck as a pure villain. By the end of the play, we have come to see him as a mysterious and tragic figure, broken and tormented—unable to truly love or be loved. As for Li’l Bit, her feelings about driving— first fearful, then self-destructive and, finally, confident—mirror her growth as a person. Even so, she has been forever shaped by the “lessons” of Uncle Peck. The script calls for three “chorus” characters: a Male Chorus (Owen Virgin), a Female Chorus (Kathleen Cannon) and a Teenage Chorus (Kate Nienhauser). These characters do not serve as a traditional Greek chorus, commenting on the action. Instead, they play multiple characters, members of Li’l Bit’s family and community. All three actors are solid, but their performances cause a few uncomfortable moments. Li’l Bit’s family is Southern, and they adhere, frankly, to the stereotype of Southerners as ignorant hicks. The actors adopt thick, slightly over-the-top Southern accents, often generating mirth from the audience, despite the somber nature of much of the play.

How I Learned to Drive Presented by Arizona Repertory Theatre 7:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Sept. 20 and 21; 1:30 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 23; 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29; 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30 UA Tornabene Theatre Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard $28 adults; $26 UA employees, military members and seniors; $19 students Runs one hour and 40 minutes, with no intermission 621-1162; tftv.arizona.edu/season/event/159

It’s easy to see these broad choices reflecting the fact that the play recounts Li’l Bit’s memories. The characters are not nuanced—they represent Li’l Bit’s muddled and emotional impressions. Still, at what point does the production stop commenting on stereotypes and go on to push us to laugh at “those ignorant folks”? One suspects that the student actors are often going for easy laughs, in the place of finding the honest humanity of the characters. To be fair, Cannon does have a humanizing moment as Aunt Mary, when she delivers a speech—riddled with grief and misplaced anger and denial—about Peck’s obsession with Li’l Bit. More such moments would help How I Learned to Drive move from very competent to very moving. Both the play and the production are put together well, but I left the performance stuck in neutral.

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PERFORMING ARTS The ever-popular ‘Stomp’ kicks off Broadway in Tucson’s new season

LISA OTEY AND FRIENDS Z Mansion. 288 N. Church Ave. 623-4889. Concerts are at 7 p.m., Monday; $15. Call 370-5912, or visit lisaotey.com for reservations. Sept. 24: Diane Van Deurzen, jazz and blues vocalist. Oct. 1: Liz McMahon, jazz and pop vocalist.

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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.

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version.” Kearns hinted that this might not be the case much longer. Although the productions themselves are not developed in Tucson, there are numerous critical tasks associated with “facilitating their engagement here,” for which the organization is responsible. “These groups travel with a small corps of technical folks, so we hire a lot of local professionals to help with load-ins and load-outs, lighting, rigging, costume repair, wigs, laundry, stagehands—you name it,” Kearns says. “And we also hire local musicians, because the tour may come with a conductor and lead violinist, but not an entire orchestra. “For one show last year, we had a payroll of $80,000 (beyond the costs of booking the show). When Wicked was here, they used $50,000 worth of hotel rooms. They traveled with 22 trucks, and we did a three-day loadin with a crew of 70 to 80 people,” most of whom were Broadway in Tucson hires. Kearns says the group strives to bring in a variety of shows, some with well-established fan bases, and some which are not so wellknown. Stomp belongs to the former category. A riotous celebration of rhythm, Stomp utilizes familiar objects—brooms, garbage can lids, hubcaps—as percussion instruments to create a unique and energetic show that appeals to all ages. John Sawicki has performed in Stomp all over the world. A New Yorker and son of a drummer, Sawicki says he “was one of those kids who got in trouble at school for tapping pencils on their desks.” As a young man, he played for a number of bands, but when his parents bought him tickets to see Stomp on Broadway, “It was like being a kid in a candy store.” He hung out after the show and passed his business card around, which got him an audition. “I got the gig,” he says, and he has been “stomping” since 1997. “I love rhythms. I love playing beats, and I love having people smile at what I do.” All of what the audience hears is generated by the eight Stompers onstage. There is no additional soundtrack on tape supplementing what the Stompers create. “It’s 100 percent legit,” Sawicki says proudly. And it’s hard work. “Being a Stomper is like being a professional athlete,” he says. “Injuries come with the job.” Sawicki knows: He snapped his Achilles tendon, which sidelined him for a long while. But during his healing process, he was able to work with Stomp creators Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas to develop a new show, Pandemonium: The Lost and Found Orchestra,

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 lineup. 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 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.

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heater is bustin’ out all over our desert burg. There are certainly plenty of homegrown shows, but Broadway in Tucson, a presenting organization that brings in touring productions of big, brassy Broadway musicals, is getting ready to pop the cork on its new season. First up is a brief return engagement of Stomp this weekend; it’s been through Tucson numerous times, and never fails to draw adoring crowds. Then comes Anything Goes, Cole Porter’s tried-and-true musical, given an injection of new life a couple of years ago, when it won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. Memphis, which won the 2010 Tony for Best Musical, is followed by the return of Wicked, which, when it played here in early 2011, was a hard ticket to come by. Then comes Blue Man Group, also making a return engagement, offering their unique collision of comedy, music and technology. The season concludes with Million Dollar Quartet, a musical based on the recently discovered tapes of one unusual night when legends Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins gathered for a jam session at the famed Sun Studio in Memphis. Broadway in Tucson is part of the 100-year-old Nederlander theater empire, which has produced and helped develop dozens of Broadway shows. It owns theaters across the country and in London, including nine Broadway theaters, as well as the Pantages and the Greek in Los Angeles. And it coordinates a nine-member group that presents touring productions across the country. Broadway in Tucson is part of that group. According to Broadway in Tucson general manager Lendre Kearns, it’s a complicated process to get these shows here, and to ensure they have a successful run. “These shows close somewhere Sunday night, and they have to break the sets down, load up the trucks, and get here Monday so they can unload the trucks and get everything set for our opening on Tuesday,” Kearns says. “And some of these shows travel with six, 12 or more trucks. So routing is an issue. That’s why we can get some shows and not others.” Other factors include whether or not the Music Hall, where these shows are performed, is available on certain dates. “Maybe the Tucson Symphony is scheduled for the dates the (touring) show would be available to us.” And then there’s the issue of “blackouts.” Says Kearns: “Jersey Boys has been on our wish list for a while, but because it was playing in Las Vegas, (cities in) California and Arizona were not allowed to book a touring

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Saturdays; $20, $15 advance. Visit lavamusic.org for tickets and more information. Sept. 22: Wyatt Easterling. Sept. 29: Chuck Pyle.

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

Stomp Presented by Broadway in Tucson 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; 2 and 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22 Tucson Convention Center Music Hall 210 S. Church Ave. $29 to $59, plus fees Runs 90 minutes, with no intermission (800) 745-3000; www.broadwayintucson.com

which Sawicki calls “an orchestra of junk. You shut your eyes, and you think you’re hearing the New York Philharmonic, but if you open them, you’ll see a bunch of garbage and junk made to sound like orchestra instruments.” Stomp stays fresh, Sawicki says, because, although about 80 percent of it is structured, there is room for improvisation. “And the cast is multi-ethnic, so you have different rhythms from all over the world. We’ve got some new stuff in this show that you guys haven’t seen before.” Sawicki also has a theory about why the show remains so popular. “We all share the rhythm of life, which is your heartbeat. Everybody has a pulse—that’s as basic as it gets. There are so many different sounds in the world; everything around us has a kind of rhythm. What we do is take the chaotic sounds of the world and organize them. It’s not just a lot of noise. It’s really beautiful, what we do.”

UA MUSIC Holsclaw Hall. UA School of Music, 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1162. Guest artist Eckart Sellheim, fortepiano, presents Beyond the Etudes: A Time Traveler’s Master Class at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 26; $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. UAPRESENTS Unless otherwise indicated, performances are in Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. Call 6213341, or visit uapresents.org for tickets and more information. Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m.: Bonnie Raitt; $36 to $95.

OUT OF TOWN DESERTVIEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER DesertView Performing Arts Center. 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. Saturday, Sept. 22: The Three International Tenors (and a Guy From Detroit!); $24, $22 advance. Visit tickets. saddlebrooketwo.com for tickets and more information.

UPCOMING FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for reservations and a complete schedule. Sunday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m.: Mary Chapin Carpenter; $25 to $75. Monday, Oct. 1, at 8 p.m.: Pat Metheny Unity Band; $40 or $50.

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JAZZ LEGENDS: LIVE Tucson Country Club. 2950 N. Camino Principal. 298-2381. Lewis Nash, Gregory Gisbert, Harry Allen, Michael Patrick Dease, Cyrus Chestnut, Charles Berghofer and Dennis Rowland perform a concert to support music and arts programs in the schools, at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 28; $40 to $50; $99 includes a 5:30 p.m. dinner with the artists and front-row seating. Visit saaca.org for tickets and more information. TSO PREVIEW Joyner-Green Valley Branch Library. 601 N. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 594-5295. Ann-Marie Schaffer discusses the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s openingweekend performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto at 3 p.m., Friday, Sept. 28; free. Two free tickets to the concert will be given away after the lecture.

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. The Thursday, Sept. 27, performance benefits Habitat for Humanity and features a pre-show reception and a talk-back session after the show; $30. Visit waypointtheatre.org.

TUCSON CHAMBER ARTISTS. Saturday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m., at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 11575 N. First Ave., Oro Valley; and Sunday, Sept. 30, at 3 p.m., at Vista de la Montaña United Methodist Church, 3001 E. Miravista Lane: How Sweet the Sound: American Folk Songs and Spirituals, featuring the TCA chorus, chamber players and soloists; $20. Call 401-2651, or visit tucsonchamberartists.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.

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CALL FOR MALE SINGERS Tucson Boys Chorus Center. 5770 E. Pima St. The Sons of Orpheus men’s choir welcomes prospective members to rehearsals from 7 to 9 p.m., every Wednesday; free. The choir sings a broad range of classical and popular works for men’s voices. Call 621-1649, or email contact1@sonsoforpheus.org for more information.

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.

CALL FOR VOCALISTS UA School of Music. 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655. The University Community Chorus is open to new adult and high school singers for the fall season. No audition is required, but music-reading experience is helpful. Rehearsals are from 7 to 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, through Nov. 27. Please arrive early. Registration and music are $75 for the season. Contact conductor Elizabeth Schauer at 626-8936, or email erschaue@email.arizona.edu.

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, continues through Saturday, Oct. 6; $36.50 through $78.50, including fees. Showtimes vary. Call or visit arizonatheatre.org.

DRUMMER SOUGHT Desert Melodies, a vocal group that sings covers of pop songs from the ’50s through the ’70s, seeks a drummer who can commit to at least one paid gig per month. Call 490-0748, or email hspianogirl@msn.com for info.

THEATER OPENING THIS WEEK BROADWAY IN TUCSON Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Stomp is staged at 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; and 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 Friday, Sept. 21, 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 info. RED BARN THEATRE Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. Autumn Extravaganza features “Chris and Rosemary” on trombone, voice, piano and fiddle; a singalong, the original piano version of the Peer Gynt Suite; “Conversation with Tam” puppetry; and belly-dancing by Christina at 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; $5. 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. TRAIL DUST TOWN Trail Dust Town. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 2964551. Loop Rawlins, formerly a featured performer with Cirque du Soleil, performs whip-cracking, trickroping and gun-spinning at 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; free. Call 296-4551, or email jerry@wildweststuntshow.com for more information.

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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, 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. 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.

LAST CHANCE INVISIBLE THEATRE Invisible Theatre. 1400 N. First Ave. 882-9721. Motherhood Out Loud, a portrayal written by a collaboration of several American writers, closes Sunday, Sept. 23. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., 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. 3274242. Collected Stories, which chronicles the relationship between two female writers, closes Saturday, Sept. 22. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; $18, $16 in advance. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop. org for tickets and more info. THE ROGUE THEATRE The Rogue Theatre. 300 E. University Blvd. 551-2053. Journey to the West closes Sunday, Sept. 23. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Friday; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $30, $20 on Thursday. Visit theroguetheatre.org for tickets.

UPCOMING ETCETERA Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. MixTape: Physical. Variety. Show, a collection of original short works, opens with a preview Thursday, Sept. 27, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 7. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday preview, Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $10. Visit livetheatreworkshop.org for reservations and more info.

PERFORMING ARTS The young Irish band FullSet brings its new versions of aged tunes to the United States

Twisting Old Into New BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com hen the Irish band FullSet played three gigs in Montana earlier this month, the musicians were taken aback by the locals’ fervor for all things Irish. “There’s a huge Irish community,” Seán McCarthy reported by phone last week from Grand Rapids, Mich., where FullSet was playing at a festival. “They’re very proud of their Irish heritage. The Irish language is even taught at the University of Montana” in Missoula. But the traditional musicians, on a six-week tour of the United States, have been wowing audiences everywhere, not just in Irish enclaves. At Disney World, the reception to the bands’ three shows was “brilliant,” McCarthy said. “They want us back next year.” FullSet plays Tucson Saturday night, Sept. 22, at the Berger Performing Arts Center. The band is young—the oldest member is 25, and McCarthy, at 23, is “the baby of the group”— but has already won plenty of acclaim back home in Ireland. Named New Group of the Year in the 2012 Live Ireland Music Awards and Best New Band in the Irish American News Music Awards, the band released its first album, Notes at Liberty, last year. Hailing from counties Cork, Dublin and Tipperary, the six musicians play the classic traditional instruments. McCarthy handles the uilleann pipes, the difficult Irish “elbow” pipes that have a mellower sound than Scottish bagpipes. “I spent quite a few years squeaking and squawking,” he joked, but he went on to become an All-Ireland uilleann champion—six times over. Likewise, the band’s fiddler, Michael Harrison, is an All-Ireland winner. FullSet also features Janine Redmond on button accordion; Eamonn Moloney on bodhrán, the Irish drum; Andrew Meaney on guitar; and Teresa Horgan on voice and flute. “Some bands do all very new tunes,” McCarthy said. “We try to find old tunes that haven’t been recorded before, and give them our own twist. We put a lot of time into finding them.” McCarthy heard the song “Half Hanged MacNaghten” as a child. His father runs two musical festivals in the family’s native County Cork, and “an awful lot of musicians stayed at our house. I heard Peter O’Hanlon sing this song when I was very young.” Based on a story that McCarthy swears is true, the old song tells of a young man who was sentenced to hang for accidentally killing his true love. “The rope broke,” McCarthy recounted. “He could have run away, but he put the rope on

Janine Redmond and Andrew Meaney.

FullSet With dance by Tucson’s Tir Conaill Academy of Irish Dance 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22 Berger Performing Arts Center 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. $20 advance; $18 seniors, students and members of Tucson Friends of Traditional Music; $3 more at the door 981-1475; www.inconcerttucson.com

again. He wanted to die, because he had lost his sweetheart.” In addition to the rediscovered songs of old, “We do have some new tunes on our album”— in the old style. Harrison wrote the instrumental jig “Corofin Nights” and has already composed a few more for the next album. The band members have known each other since they were teens. “Four of us spent a summer together playing in a show in Tipperary meant for tourists. We’ve been very close friends ever since. Four years ago, we came together as a band. A year ago, we released our first album. We’ve had a good start.”

VISUAL ARTS The UA Poetry Center shows off Beata Wehr’s striking artist’s books

Stranger in a Strange Land BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com he UA Poetry Center is a bastion of language, an airy modernist building filled with books, texts and words. So there’s a certain irony in the center’s current art exhibition, From Here and Far Away. Beata Wehr is displaying her handmade artist’s books, and most of them have no words in them at all. Even when they do, the words can’t always be read. Take “Book 91. Certain difficulties with reading and text 2,” from 2009. Of all Wehr’s tomes on view, this is the most conventional. Instead of the eccentric materials found in her other books—stones sewed onto calendar pages or bits of found metal stitched onto black paper—this one has white paper pages and printed text. But Wehr has obliterated most of the words with white paint. A few are visible here and there, but they’re almost impossible to read. It’s frustrating to squint through the glass exhibition case and try to make out the tiny letters on the page. That’s deliberate: The whitewash job gives a viewer a small view into the world of the immigrant, where it’s demeaning not to be able to read what’s in front of you, not to understand what’s being said. A native of Poland who moved to Tucson nearly two-dozen years ago, Wehr finds herself living in an in-between world, in a space neither here nor there, where cultures clash, and languages are mutually unintelligible. “Book 91” re-creates that Babel experience of cultural dislocation for viewers who’ve never lived as strangers in a strange land. In her wordless books, by contrast, Wehr tries to find her place in her new landscape. “Book III. Souvenir from Rancho Linda Vista,” 2012, is a fold-up accordion book, made up of eight connected pages, each with found materials from the ranch stitched carefully onto black cardboard. One can imagine Wehr in the desert at the ranch below the Catalinas, walking step by step, marking her new home, making it hers by engaging with its castoffs. The trash that Wehr finds turns delicate in her hands. She positions each object just so on the black page, stitching each item into minimalist compositions touched by the human hand. “Souvenir” has been opened up so you can see all of its accordion pages. A thin battered fragment of aluminum is stitched to Page 1. Page 2 has a nail and a wire, engaged in an elegant minuet. A circular wire, threaded through a medallion-like metal disc, makes up Page 5. Another wire twists off Page 6, entwined like a

“Book 109: Short Stories (Book about drinking),” 2011, mixed-media artist’s book by Beata Wehr. set of rosary beads. In the desert’s detritus, a newcomer can find grace and belonging. The viewers got lucky with the open-book “Souvenir,” but as a form, artist’s books can be problematic. They’re usually displayed in a case, and viewers get to see only two pages at a time, as in “Book 91.” “Book 109: Short Stories (Book about drinking),” 2011, has linen pages stitched together, here and there splotched with gesso. The short story on view is intriguing, but we get to read only one page: Its wordless text is a flattened beer stein, made from a smashed real-life beer can. The beer’s foamy froth is represented by five flattened beer caps, curving over the mug like a halo. This is one book I would like to read to the end. The sculptural “Book 44: Calendar for 2001 (Carpe diem 2)” has 12 calendar pages stacked up in a pile, January (Styczen in Polish) on top, December on the bottom, a stone stitched to every day. Wehr, evidently wanting to seize every single day of 2001, sewed 365 pretty stones—pink, gray, cream—onto the 12 months. The stack turns into an appealing little sculpture, but the only month we can really read is Styczen. Fortunately, the show also has “Pages,” a book of 10 cloth pages that never were bound together. Instead, all 10 sheets hang on the wall like lit-

tle paintings, each a foot square. The storyline is not at all clear, but the abstracted images are charming. Once again, Wehr has used metal discards to create graceful compositions. On the opening page, a cascade of coppery metal circles tumbles down toward a stretch of silvery metal mesh. A raggedy rusted piece of metal suggests a mountain on Page 7. On Page 10, the grand finale, rusty pieces of metal have been turned into a primitive human figure riding in a car. These “Pages” are like ancient pictographs. They’re mysterious, but somehow familiar. In the 1990s, Wehr had a show of paintings in the old gallery now occupied by Buffalo Exchange’s corporate offices. One of those paintings—an alluring yellow abstraction, pleasingly tall and narrow—remains in my memory all these years later. So while Wehr’s books are painterly indeed—beautifully composed, delicately colored, tactile and layered— it’s a pleasure to find that she hasn’t given up pure painting: In the far northern corner of the Poetry Center, she has an array of 10 encaustic paintings, each just 8 inches square, glowing with brilliant color. Painted in the last couple of years, they radiate fire-engine red, canary yellow, midnight blue. They’re abstractions, but if you look closely, you start seeing narratives in them, the same

From Here and Far Away: Artist’s Books, Pages and Paintings by Beata Wehr Reception, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 24 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; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, through Friday, Dec. 7 UA Poetry Center 1508 E. Helen St. Free 626-3765; poetry.arizona.edu Also: To read about the resignation of Gail Browne, the UA Poetry Center’s longtime director, visit daily.tucsonweekly.com

way the books suggest stories. A black painting pierced by gold flashes turns into a city street by night. Elsewhere, a green-brown arc conjures up a mountain, a patch of rose-white, a sky. And, if I’m not mistaken, verticals in green and orange are Tucson’s own saguaros. My favorite, though, is an interior, a place of refuge painted in calming pale blues and greens, lit by streaming yellow and gold. The colors are softer than in the neighboring paintings, but just as radiant. They suggest, whether here or far away, a place the artist can call home. SEPTEMBER 20 - 26, 2012

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OPENING THIS WEEK ARTISTS’ MARKET Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Gallery. 5605 E. River Road, Suite 131. Art books and supplies are for sale from 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Friday, Sept. 26 through 28; and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29 and 30; free admission. Donations of canned goods are requested for the Community Food Bank. 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. FLUXX STUDIO AND GALLERY Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Conforming Dimension, an exhibit of work by Timothy Steehler, opens Sunday, Sept. 23, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 7; free. An artist’s reception takes place from 6 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27. Hours are by appointment. 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; closed Saturday; free. Visit tucsonjcc.org for a schedule of holidays.

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. 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

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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.

5. 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.

CAMPUS CHRISTIAN CENTER ART GALLERY Campus Christian Center Art Gallery. 715 N. Park Ave. 623-7575. An exhibit of art made by Evey Weissman from recycled materials continues through Friday, Oct. 12. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; free.

MANY HANDS COURTYARD Many Hands Courtyard. 3054 N. First Ave. 419-7191. Inspired Visions continues through Saturday, Oct. 6. Regular hours are from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Visit manyhandsartistcoop.com.

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MONTEREY COURT CAFE GALLERY Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café. 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. Rustic Landscape, a collection of abstract photography by Mia Larocque, continues through Sunday, Nov. 11; free. Visit montereycourtaz. com for more information.

TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. 5738100. Blooms and Bugs, an exhibit of works by Tucson photographers, closes Saturday, Sept. 22, in the Lower Link Gallery. TIA galleries are open 24 hours, daily; free. Visit flytucsonairport.com for more information.

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, 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. 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. 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. 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, 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 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.

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. 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 international artists and 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 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, continues through Tuesday, Nov. 6, in the Education Building. Flights of Fancy, a garden-wide 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 info. 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.

OUT OF TOWN 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 5 p.m., Thursday through Sunday. Visit subwaygallerybisbee.com for more information. TUBAC CENTER OF THE ARTS WORKSHOP Tubac Center of the Arts. 9 Plaza Road. Tubac. (520) 398-2371. Beata Wehr leads a workshop, “Critique of Art: Art of Critique,” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 26; 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 several artists’ works 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 JOEL D. VALDEZ MAIN LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Exhibits of photography by Brian Powell and sculpture by Bonnie Gibson open Monday, Oct. 1, and continue through Wednesday, Oct. 31. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov for more information. SOUTHWEST FIBER ARTS FESTIVAL Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Fiber-artists and vendors offer wearable art, hand-dyed fibers, classes and demonstrations, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 3; $5, $2 youth age 7 to 13, free younger child. Alpacas, angora goats and rabbits also are displayed. Call or visit tubacpresidiopark. com for more information. Exhibiting vendors and artists must apply by Monday, Oct. 1. TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Life-sized and dancing skeletons created and decorated by Tucson artists are displayed along the gardens’ pathways from Tuesday, Oct. 2, through Sunday, Nov. 4, to celebrate the Day of the Dead. Bellos Adornos, a photographic exhibit celebrating the decorative traditions of Tucson’s Mexican-American homes and gardens, continues through Tuesday, Nov. 6, in the Education Building. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $13, $4 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BICAS UNDERGROUND ART WORKSHOPS BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. BICAS offers workshops to create useful objects and art projects from recycled materials, from 5 to 8 p.m., every Tuesday; freewill donation. Materials are provided, or you may bring your own. Call 201-5011, or search for “Bicas Underground Art” on Facebook for information about each week’s project.

BRIDGE GALLERY Bridge Gallery. 5425 N. Kolb Road, No. 113. 5774537. Southwest contemporary art is featured. 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 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 create work on 22-by-30-inch high-quality paper that will be provided. The finished works will be included in a traveling artshow fundraiser, and auctioned sometime in 2013. Artists receive promotion, plus 30 percent of the auction amount for their work. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Nov. 30. Email curator@tucsonartsbrigade.org, or visit tucsonartsbrigade.org for more guidelines and 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 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. 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.

through Friday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. Visit centerforcreativephotography.org for more information.

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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.

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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 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 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, close 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; 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 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.

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MUSEUMS EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA HISTORY MUSEUM Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. 100 Years: 100 Quilts continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. The quilts, created for the state’s centennial, depict Arizona landscapes, cultures, historical places and unique events. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, $4 senior or age 12 through 18, free younger child. ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. The museum 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. Hopi Quilts: Unique Yet Universal, an exhibit of 20 Hopi quilts, closes 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

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 SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM DAY Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Admission to the park is free from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29, as part of an annual event hosted by Smithsonian Magazine. For admission, print free tickets from smithsonianmag.com/museumday.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 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.

ALL THE BOOKS YOU CAN FIT IN A BAG FOR $5 Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. The library is selling gently used books by the grocery-bag full from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; and 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 23; free admission, $5 per bag of books. 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. BOOK FAIR TO BENEFIT YWCA Barnes and Noble. 5130 E. Broadway Blvd. 512-1166. On 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. 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 for more information. 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. JOSEF HASLINGER: A BILINGUAL READING UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Austrian novelist Josef Haslinger reads from the English translation of his 2007 book Tsunami: A Report From Phi Phi Island, at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 26; free. 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. MATHEW MARINE: DEVIL’S MOON Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. Matthew Marine signs copies of his Devil’s Moon mystery from 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22; free.

FOURTH WEDNESDAY MYSTERY BOOK GROUP Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. A mystery book club meets at 7 p.m., on the fourth Wednesday of every month; free. The Sept. 26 selection is Private: #1 Suspect by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. GREAT LITERATURE OF ALL TIMES Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. A reading and discussion group meets from 10 a.m. to noon, on the third Thursday of every month; free. Information about each month’s selection is available at www.orovalleylib.com. Pick up the handout at the library in advance. MAIN LIBRARY BOOK CLUB Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. This group meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month; free. The selection for Sept. 20 is Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Copies of each month’s reading selection are available at the first-floor information desk. Parking for two hours is validated for the lot below the library. Participants bring lunch. Call 791-4010 for more information. MURPHY-WILMOT BRANCH LIBRARY BOOK CLUB Murphy-Wilmot Branch Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. Readers share insights into a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction at 10 a.m., the fourth Saturday of every month; free. SCIENCE-FICTION BOOK CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Science-fiction fans meet to discuss the month’s selection from 7 to 8 p.m., the fourth Tuesday of every month; free. Visit www.orovalleylib.com. SONORAN SLEUTHS MYSTERY BOOK CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Fans of mystery and suspense meet from 11 a.m. to noon, on the fourth Wednesday of every month except December; free. Each month’s topic may be found at orovalleylib.com. Call for more information. WOODS MEMORIAL LIBRARY BOOK CLUB Woods Memorial Branch Library. 3455 N. First Ave. 5945445. Adults read and discuss fiction and nonfiction titles at 1 p.m., the fourth Saturday of every month; free.

LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK ALISON FUTRELL: CLEOPATRA, PERFORMING DIVINITY UA Student Union Bookstore. 1209 E. University Blvd. 621-2426. Alison Futrell discusses the exotic life of power broker and divine ruler Cleopatra VII at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20; 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.

ALLEN DART: ARTS AND CULTURE OF ANCIENT SOUTHERN ARIZONA HOHOKAM INDIANS Karichimaka. 5252 S. Mission Road. 883-0311. Allen Dart discusses the arts and culture of the Hohokam in the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Third Thursday Food for Thought Series, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20; free. No-host dinner is available from the menu. Reservations are requested. Call 798-1201, or email info@oldpueblo.org for reservations.

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.

ANN SUNDERLAND: YOU CAN FIGHT MEDICARE FRAUD AND ABUSE St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Ann Sunderland of the Pima Council on Aging discusses the difference between fraud, abuse and preventable errors, and ways to spot scams, at 10:15 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 23; free.

UPCOMING JANET K. SHAWGO CataVinos. 3063 N. Alvernon Way. 323-3063. Janet K. Shawgo signs and sells her books Look for Me and Wait for Me from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29; free.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CATALINA MYSTERY BOOK CLUB Dewhirst-Catalina Branch Library. 15631 N. Oracle Road, No. 199. Catalina. 594-5345. Members of an informal book club discuss the month’s mystery at 10:30 a.m., the fourth Tuesday of every month; free. Most go to lunch afterward. ECLECTIC WRITERS’ GROUP The Eclectic Writers’ Group meets from 7 to 9 p.m., every Monday, at a residence at 2060 N. Painted Hills Road; free. Call 797-6614 for more information.

ART LECTURES AT DUSENBERRY LIBRARY Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. Docents from the UA Museum of Art and the Tucson Museum of Art give talks from 2 to 3 p.m., the second and fourth Tuesday of every month; free. Sept. 25: “Grant Wood: American Gothic,” Vida Thomas, TMA. Oct. 9 “The Symbolist Movement in Art and Poetry,” Norman Miller, UAMA. ART NOW! CONTEMPORARY ART SINCE 1980 MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Art historians offer differing, and occasionally opposing, perspectives on iconic works, and invite the audience to join the debate in a salon setting at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 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. ‘DISCOVER ART’ LECTURE SERIES Woods Memorial Branch Library. 3455 N. First Ave. 594-5445. Docents from the UA Museum of Art lecture from 2 to 3 p.m., the third Friday of every month; free.

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Sept. 21: “Introduction to the UA Museum of Art,” Carolyn Rivers. ELEANOR ALDEN: NEW AND OLD MYTHS ABOUT STEPFAMILIES Casas Adobes Congregational Church. 6801 N. Oracle Road. 297-1181. Eleanor Alden examines the history, mythology and archetypes of step-families at a meeting of the Southern Arizona Friends of Jung, at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; $15, $10 member. Visit safoj.org for more information. HUMANITIES SEMINARS PROGRAM UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Registration is open for 10-week and 4-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. 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 a seminar, “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 Morris Institute of Justice follows. Visit lrlaw.com for details; email eskatz@questoffice.net 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.

OUT OF TOWN 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.

UPCOMING MICHAEL ROBINSON: RECOVERING THE JAGUAR Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Michael Robinson, conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity, discusses the biological and political history of jaguars in the U.S., at noon and 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29; 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. PCC SPEAKERS’ SERIES PCC District Office. 4905 E. Broadway Blvd. 206-4500. Donna Gifford, PCC vice president of online development, presents “Solstice Markers at Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico,” at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 2; free.

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BOOKS Julia Child’s love of felines is detailed in this book, co-written by Tucsonan Patricia Barey

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Cats and the Cook

Antigone Books’ best-sellers for the week ending Sept. 14, 2012

BY PAUL WINE, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

1. In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery

ug. 15 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Julia Child, who, until her death in 2004, was the longstanding ambassador of French cooking in America. The irrepressible Child is still adored by a multitude of fans, and in recent weeks, the country has witnessed a cavalcade of commemorative events. In addition to a recently released biography, there have been celebratory dinners, bookstore tributes, rebroadcasts of memorable television programs and, undoubtedly, innumerable wine glasses raised by food connoisseurs in honor of her culinary achievements. A new book by Therese Burson and Tucsonan Patricia Barey may have cat-fanciers raising toasts to Child as well. Julia’s Cats: Julia Child’s Life in the Company of Cats, tells, as the title implies, the story of Child’s abiding love for cats. Set within the context of her midlife metamorphosis into one of the world’s mostcelebrated cooks (despite the name of Child’s long-running PBS show, she never thought of herself as a chef), this tale of feline devotion brings to light a not-so-widely-known side of Child, which began to find expression at about the same time she discovered French cooking. Child’s introduction to French cuisine occurred in 1948. In the fall of that year, her husband, Paul, a U.S. Foreign Service employee, was reassigned to Paris. Traveling with him to the French capital, Child experienced her first authentic French meal in the medieval town of Rouen. A simple lunch of oysters, sole meunière, salad and a cold bottle of PouillyFuissé was an almost-mystical experience for Child, who later described the meal as having awakened her soul. Not long after arriving in Paris, as the Childs were settling into their new apartment, Julia had another serendipitous experience, crossing paths with a rambunctious green-eyed cat. Until that encounter, she had never thought of herself as a “cat person.” However, there was something about the playful kitty that had, much like the meal in Rouen, a significant impact on Child, turning her almost instantly into a confirmed cat-lover. Minette Mimosa McWilliams Child, as the purring parvenu was christened, soon became an integral part of the household. This short but engaging volume, which outlines the major stages of Child’s transformation into a cultural icon, is sure to delight most cat aficionados. Containing numerous photographs of cats at rest and play, the book is full

Julia’s Cats: Julia Child’s Life in the Company of Cats

Annette Kolodny, Duke ($27.95)

By Patricia Barey and Therese Burson

Erin Morgenstern, Anchor ($15)

2. The Night Circus

Abrams Image 144 pages, $16.95

of the kinds of stories that cat devotees never grow tired of. In addition to the usual run of feline escapades involving mice, birds and trees, we read about cats dozing in dumbwaiters; amusing themselves with potatoes, Brussels sprouts and brassieres; café sightings of illustrious cat fanatics such as Colette and Albert Camus; over-the-top cat shows; frantic trips to the vet; the unfortunate consequences of cat suppositories; and the poignant story of Julia’s last cat, who was curled up on a pillow beside her when she died. These cats are certainly photogenic and mischievous, but they’re not quite distinctive enough to carry off a book by themselves. (The exception would be Child’s first cat, Minette, the plucky subject of Minette’s Feast, a beautifully illustrated children’s book.) It is Child’s personality, bubbling over with a seemingly endless supply of joie de vivre, that really brings this work to life. Child is truly a role model for late bloomers. Noting her unflagging determination to always “charge ahead,” Barey and Burson follow her, nearing 40 and increasingly obsessed with French food, as she enrolls in the famous Le Cordon Bleu culinary academy, starts her own cooking school, co-authors the ground-breaking Mastering the Art of French Cooking and launches a television career that lasted nearly four decades. This book, in addition to spotlighting her seemingly perfect marriage, also serves up obscure biographical tidbits, including a visit by Alice B. Toklas to Child’s Paris apartment during a wedding party for Ernest Hemingway’s son, her surprising passion for fast food—Child was mad about McDonald’s french fries, Costco hot dogs, and In-N-Out Burger—and the outlandishly elaborate menu she once planned for her final meal. (Her actual last meal was a steaming bowl of French onion soup.) Those who want a wider, more-detailed view of Child’s life would do well to read Bob Spitz’s definitive biography, Dearie. However, Barey and Burson provide readers with an affectionate and revealing glimpse of an inspiring woman who, whether making boeuf bourguignon or cuddling a cat, relentlessly followed her bliss. “Her secret to the good life,” they write, “was simple: Find something you love, and do it every day.”

3. Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money From Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity—A Community Resilience Guide Michael Shuman, Chelsea Green ($17.95)

4. Wench: A Novel Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Amistad ($14.99)

5. Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life Natalie Goldberg, Bantam ($17)

6. Bruno, Chief of Police: A Novel Martin Walker, Vintage ($14.95)

7. Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins ($8.99)

8. Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy, Bantam ($4.95)

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

10. How to Be a Woman Caitlin Moran, Harper ($15.99)

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CINEMA Sloppy and nonsensical, the new Resident Evil flick is one of the year’s worst movies

Just Terrible

TOP TEN Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending Sept. 16, 2012

BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com he rapidly deteriorating Resident Evil franchise delivers its worst film yet with Resident Evil: Retribution. In this fifth chapter, things get so sloppy, disorganized and frantic that it is as if one of the T-virus zombies bit the movie on the leg, and got it all crazy and infected. This is the third installment directed by the much-maligned Paul W.S. Anderson, who has been involved with the franchise from the beginning in various capacities. He directed the first movie, took a couple of movies off, returned for 2010’s lousy Afterlife, and then directed this monstrosity. He has the dubious distinction of having directed the best and worst films in the franchise. Things are getting very repetitive in the land of Alice (Milla Jovovich), the superexperimental woman trying to take down the Umbrella Corporation, the evil bastards responsible for the T-virus. The T-virus is a germ-warfare weapon gone terribly wrong that turns people and animals into ravenous zombies who sometimes sprout strange shit out of their faces and totally lack table manners. The film’s opening credits involve Alice in a firefight on a big boat, and the battle is shown in reverse. I actually thought this was neat, and it made me hope I was in for a relatively good time. Unfortunately, it was the best part of the movie. It’s not a good thing when your movie peaks in the first three minutes. Alice gets her ass blown off the ship and wakes up in some sort of facility where the Umbrella Corporation basically tests zombie scenarios on giant soundstages simulating Russia, New York, Tokyo, etc. They do this for reasons I couldn’t really discern or give two shits about. Alice tries to escape with a hearingimpaired girl in tow. The girl thinks Alice is her mom, because she existed in one of the testing zones where an Alice clone was her suburban mother. The real Alice, wielding guns and wearing tight black outfits, feels a sort of obligation to the little girl, and starts taking care of her like Ripley took care of Newt in Aliens. Actually, I just did a very blasphemous thing by comparing anything in this raw-sewage extravaganza to the mighty Aliens. I apologize to James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn for doing this. I assure you that it won’t happen again. Some of the series’ prior stars return, including Michelle Rodriguez as Rain, the indistinguishable mercenary looking to kill Alice for, once again, reasons I couldn’t really

1. Snow White and the Huntsman Universal

2. What to Expect When You’re Expecting Lionsgate

3. Safe Lionsgate

4. The Five-Year Engagement Universal

5. Battleship Universal

6. The Dictator Paramount

7. Bernie Millennium

8. The Lucky One Warner Bros.

9. Girl in Progress Lionsgate

10. The Pirates! Band of Misﬁts Sony

Bingbing Li in Resident Evil: Retribution. discern. Rain also has a clone who is a little more mild-mannered and hates guns. Anderson seems to be a director who shoots first and thinks later. Many of his scenes contain bad dubbing and looping, which can be quite distracting. He has continuity problems throughout, and seems to think he can distract viewers from these problems by blowing things up. He’s just a sloppy bastard behind the camera. Also, things just “happen” in this movie with no real explanation or reason. When new monsters show up (no zombie dogs this time), it’s as if you are hitting a new stage in a mindless video game, rather than it being something that contributes to the movie’s narrative. Jovovich, who is married to Anderson, has never been a master thespian, but she has decent action-star chops. Therefore, it’s time for her to move on from this mess. Granted, Anderson and Jovovich did attempt something new with last year’s The Three Musketeers fiasco. However, when you want to move on, it is not recommended to do so with a Three Musketeers reboot directed by your hack-director husband. I saw this movie with somebody who is not only a big fan of the franchise, but also of the

Resident Evil: Retribution

Kristen Stewart in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Rated R Starring Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory and Michelle Rodriguez Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson Screen Gems, 95 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).

video games from which it came. He told me that this movie is actually faithful to many aspects of the video game itself. He also told me that the movie blew ass, and he walked to his car with his head hanging low. Another person we watched it with called the film “the worst movie I’ve ever seen.” I’ve seen Roberto Benigni’s Pinocchio, so I can’t make that claim. But I can tell you that this is easily one of the year’s worst films—and I’ve officially lost faith in this franchise. It got off to a good start, but it has seen its glory days pass. SEPTEMBER 20 - 26, 2012

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AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30; Fri-Wed 11:35 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 11, 2, 5, 8; Fri-Sun 11, 2, 5, 8, 11; Mon-Wed 11, 2, 5, 8 The Campaign (R) ends Thu 1:40, 6:45 The Cold Light of Day (PG-13) ends Thu 10 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 11:40, 3:30, 7:05; Fri-Wed 12:50, 6:45 Dredd (R) Fri-Wed 2:15 Dredd 3D (R) Fri-Wed 11:45, 5, 7:25, 9:45 End of Watch (R) Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 11:55, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20; Fri-Wed 9:50 Finding Nemo (G) Sat 10 a.m. Finding Nemo 3D (G) Thu 11:15, 12:25, 2, 3, 4:45, 5:40, 7:30, 8:15, 10:10; Fri-Sun 11:15, 12:45, 1:50, 3:20, 4:40, 5:55, 7:20, 8:30, 10; Mon 11:15, 12:45, 1:50, 3:20, 4:40, 7:20, 10; Tue 11:15, 12:45, 1:50, 3:20, 4:40, 5:55, 7:20, 8:30, 10; Wed 11:15, 12:30, 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 8:30, 10 Hope Springs (PG-13) ends Thu 11:05, 4:10, 9 House at the End of the Street (PG-13) Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Last Ounce of Courage (PG) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:35, 10 Lawless (R) Thu 11:20, 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15; Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:45, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20 The Master (R) Fri-Wed 11:50, 3:30, 7:05, 10:10 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:25; Fri-Wed 11:25, 1:55, 4:35, 7:10 ParaNorman (PG) ends Thu 11:05, 4:05 ParaNorman 3D (PG) ends Thu 1:30 The Possession (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 1:55, 4:25, 7:15, 9:35; Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:15, 5, 7:50, 10:15 Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG) Thu 7, 9:45 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Thu-Wed 11:55, 2:45 Resident Evil: Retribution 3D (R) Thu 5:30, 8:15, 10:40; Fri-Wed 5:30, 8, 10:30 Resident Evil:Retribution —An IMAX 3D Experience (R) Thu 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45; Fri-Wed 11, 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:30 Trouble With the Curve (PG-13) Fri-Wed 11:10, 40 WWW. WEEKLY.COM

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1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 The Words (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:30, 5, 7:20, 9:40; Fri-Wed 4:20, 10:15

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) ends Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) ends Thu 12:15, 2:35, 5 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Fri-Wed 1:15, 6:55 The Bridge on the River Kwai (PG) ends Thu 2, 7 The Campaign (R) Thu 11:35, 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:25; Fri-Wed 4:20, 9:55 Celeste and Jesse Forever (R) ends Thu 12:25, 5:10 The Cold Light of Day (PG-13) ends Thu 7:20, 9:45 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 3, 6:30, 10; Fri-Tue 9:50 Dredd (R) Fri-Wed 12:15 Dredd 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 End of Watch (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:40, 1, 2:20, 3:40, 5, 6:20, 7:40, 9, 10:15 The Expendables 2 (R) ends Thu 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Thu 11:30, 12:45, 2:10, 3:20, 4:50, 6, 7:30, 8:45, 10:10; Fri-Wed 11:25, 12:45, 2:10, 3:20, 4:45, 6, 7:30, 8:45, 10:05 For a Good Time, Call... (R) Thu 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40; Fri-Wed 2:25, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 Glenn Beck Unelectable 2012 Live (Not Rated) Thu 8 House at the End of the Street (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:50, 1:10, 2:25, 3:45, 5:05, 6:30, 7:50, 9:15, 10:30 Last Ounce of Courage (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:20, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55; Fri-Wed 11:30, 4:30, 9:35 Lawless (R) Thu 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20; FriWed 11:35, 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20 The Master (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:40, 1, 2:50, 4:10, 6, 7:15, 9:10, 10:25 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 11:40, 2:10, 4:35, 7:35, 10:05; Fri-Tue 11:45, 2:10, 4:35, 7:25; Wed 11:45, 2:10 The Possession (PG-13) Thu 1, 3:25, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30; Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:25, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Premium Rush (PG-13) ends Thu 2:45 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Thu 5:30; Fri-Wed 12:30, 5:30, 10:25 Resident Evil: Retribution 3D (R) Thu 11:20, 12:30, 1:55, 3, 4:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:30; Fri-Wed 11:20, 1:55, 3, 4:25, 7, 8, 9:30 Robot and Frank (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; Fri-Wed 11:55 Trouble With the Curve (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:20, 12:45,

2:05, 3:30, 4:50, 6:15, 7:35, 9, 10:20 Unconditional (Not Rated) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 The Words (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Fri-Wed 2, 7:05

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) ends Thu 12:55, 4 The Watch (R) Thu 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45; Fri-Sat 7:35, 10:10; Sun-Mon 7:35; Tue 7:35, 10:10; Wed 7:35

Century Gateway 12

Century Park Place 20

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, 6:50, 9:50; Sun-Mon 12:50, 3:50, 6:50; Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50 The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (PG-13) ends Thu 12:10, 3:10, 6:10 The Apparition (PG-13) Fri-Sat 7:50, 9:55; SunMon 7:50; Tue 7:50, 9:55; Wed 7:50 Hit and Run (R) Fri-Sat 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Sun-Mon 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45; Tue 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:30; Sun-Mon 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7; Tue 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:30; Wed 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7 Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1, 3:20, 5:35 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10; Fri-Wed 12:35, 2:55, 5:20 Magic Mike (R) ends Thu 7:35 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Thu-Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7:15 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG-13) Thu 12, 3:15, 6:30; Fri-Sat 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:35; Sun-Mon 12, 3:15, 6:30; Tue 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:35; 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, 10:05; SunMon 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30; Tue 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05; Wed 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30 Moonrise Kingdom (PG-13) Thu 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25; Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:40; Sun-Mon 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25; Tue 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:40; Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) ends Thu 12:35, 3:40, 6:55 Step Up Revolution (PG13) Thu 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20; Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:45; Sun-Mon 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20; Tue 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:45; 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 Total Recall (PG-13) Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:45, 7:10, 10; SunMon 12:45, 3:45, 7:10; Tue 12:45, 3:45, 7:10, 10; Wed 12:45, 3:45, 7:10

5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35; Fri-Wed 11:10, 5:10 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 12:55, 4, 7:10, 10:20; Fri-Wed 2:25, 8:05 The Bridge on the River Kwai (PG) Thu 2, 7 The Campaign (R) Thu 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50; Fri-Wed 7:15, 9:35 The Cold Light of Day (PG-13) ends Thu 11:50, 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 3:55, 7:40; Fri-Wed 1:30, 7:35 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) ends Thu 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:45, 10:15 Dredd (R) Fri-Wed 11:15 Dredd 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8, 9:15, 10:30 End of Watch (R) Fri-Wed 11:20, 12:40, 2, 3:20, 4:40, 6, 7:20, 8:40, 10 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 11:55, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Thu 11:10, 12:35, 1:55, 3:20, 4:40, 6, 7:25, 8:45, 10:10; Fri-Wed 11:10, 12:30, 1:50, 3:10, 4:30, 5:50, 7:10, 8:35, 9:50 Glenn Beck Unelectable 2012 Live (Not Rated) Thu 8 House at the End of the Street (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:30, 12:50, 2:10, 3:30, 4:50, 6:15, 7:25, 8:50, 10:10 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) ends Thu 11:10, 1:30, 4:05, 6:35, 9 Lawless (R) Thu 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05; Fri-Wed 11:25, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30 The Master (R) Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:45, 7, 10:15 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11, 1:35, 4:10, 6:55, 9:30; Fri-Tue 11:05, 1:40, 4:25 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 11:35, 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25; Fri-Wed 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:30 The Possession (PG-13) Thu 11, 12:15, 1:25, 2:40, 3:50, 5:05, 6:15, 7:35, 8:40, 10; Fri-Wed 12, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Premium Rush (PG-13) ends Thu 11:30 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Thu 12:30, 3, 5:30; Fri-Wed 11, 4:10, 9:25 Resident Evil: Retribution 3D (R) Thu 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 8, 9:15, 10:30, 10:40; Fri-Wed 12:15, 1:35, 2:50, 5:25, 6:50, 7:55, 10:25 Trouble With the Curve (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:05, 12:20, 1:55, 3:10, 4:45, 5:55, 7:35, 8:45, 10:20

The Words (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05; Fri-Wed 11:45, 5:35

Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace 12155 N. Oracle Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 899. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:55; Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Ballet in Cinema: Move to Move From Nederlands Dans Theatre (Not Rated) Sun 12; Tue 7 The Bourne Legacy (PG-13) Thu 1, 4:05, 7:20, 10:25; Fri-Mon 1:55, 7:30; Tue 1:55; Wed 1:55, 7:30 The Bridge on the River Kwai (PG) ends Thu 2, 7 Dredd (R) Fri-Wed 2:20 Dredd 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:45, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 End of Watch (R) Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:25, 5:05, 7:50, 10:25 Farewell, My Queen (R) Thu 11:15, 1:45, 4:25, 7, 9:50; Fri-Wed 11:30, 4:30, 9:30 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Thu 10:40, 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40; Fri-Wed 10:40, 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Glenn Beck Unelectable 2012 Live (Not Rated) Thu 8 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:35, 4:20, 6:50, 9:25; Fri-Sat 11, 1:35, 4:05, 6:50; Sun 4:05, 6:50; MonTue 11, 1:35, 4:05, 6:50 House at the End of the Street (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Lawless (R) Thu 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10; Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 The Master (R) Fri-Wed 12:45, 4, 7:15, 10:25 ParaNorman (PG) ends Thu 11:20, 1:40, 4 The Possession (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10; Fri-Wed 9:25 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Thu-Wed 12 Resident Evil: Retribution 3D (R) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; Fri-Wed 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Robot and Frank (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30; Fri-Wed 2, 7:05 Trouble With the Curve (PG13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:50 The Words (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45; Fri-Mon 11:20, 5, 10:30; Tue 11:20, 10:30; Wed 11:20, 5, 10:30

Cinema La Placita La Placita Village, Broadway Boulevard and Church Avenue. 326-5282. Horse Feathers (Not Rated) Thu 7:30

Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:40; Fri 4:20,

9:35; Sat 4:20; Sun-Wed 4:20, 9:35 Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) Fri-Wed 11, 1:10, 3:20, 7:50 Bernie (PG-13) ends Thu 11 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 12; Fri-Wed 1:40 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Fri-Wed 11, 1:20, 3:30, 7:20 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 11, 1; Fri-Wed 11:10 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG13) Thu 11:05, 2, 3:30, 5, 6:30, 8, 9:30; Fri 11:20, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:25; Sat 11:20, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:35; Sun 11:20, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:25; Mon 11:20, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30; Tue 11:20, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:25; Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:25 Moonrise Kingdom (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:35; Fri 11:30, 5:35, 7:40, 9:50; Sat 11:30, 5:35, 9:50; Sun-Wed 11:30, 5:35, 7:40, 9:50 The Queen of Versailles (PG) Thu 11:10, 1:20, 5:20; Fri-Wed 4:40 Ruby Sparks (R) Thu 3:05, 7:30, 9:50; Fri 2:20, 7; Sat 2:20, 7:35; Sun 2:20, 7; Mon 2:20; Tue-Wed 2:20, 7 Ted (R) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 10; Fri-Wed 5:30, 10 To Rome With Love (R) ends Thu 2:20 Total Recall (PG-13) FriWed 11:15, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45

Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Can’t Stop Serenity (Not Rated) Sat 6 The Iron Giant (PG) Sat 2

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

Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 806-4275. The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 11:30, 2:50, 6:10, 9:10; Fri-Sat 6:05, 9:45; Sun-Wed 6:05, 9:25 The Campaign (R) Thu 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25; Fri-Sat 9:40; SunWed 9:05 The Cold Light of Day (PG13) ends Thu 12:40, 6:15 The Dark Knight Rises (PG13) Thu 2:10, 6:05, 9:35; Fri-Wed 11:15, 3, 6:45 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) Thu 4, 6:40; Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:30 Dredd (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10:20 Dredd 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sun 10:50, 1:30, 4, 6:40, 9:20; Mon-Wed 11:05, 1:30, 4, 6:40, 9:20 End of Watch (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:40; Sun-Wed 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 11:45, 2:15, 5, 7:40, 10:10; Fri-Sat 8:10, 10:45;

Sun-Wed 8:10, 10:35 Finding Nemo (G) Thu 12:50; Fri-Wed 11:20 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Thu 11, 1:50, 3:40, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20; Fri-Sat 10:20, 1, 2, 3:40, 4:40, 6:10, 7:10, 9, 10; Sun 10:20, 1, 2, 3:40, 4:40, 6:10, 7:10, 8:50, 9:50; Mon-Wed 1, 2, 3:40, 4:40, 6:10, 7:10, 8:50, 9:50 Hit and Run (R) ends Thu 3:20, 8:40 House at the End of the Street (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sat 10:40, 11:40, 1:20, 2:20, 4:10, 5:10, 7, 8, 9:50, 10:50; Sun 10:40, 11:40, 1:20, 2:20, 4:10, 5:10, 7, 8, 9:40, 10:40; Mon-Wed 11:40, 1:20, 2:20, 4:10, 5:10, 7, 8, 9:40, 10:40 Last Ounce of Courage (PG) Thu 11:10, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:30; Fri-Wed 11:45, 4:45, 10:05 Lawless (R) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15; 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 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 11:20, 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:20, 6:15 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 1:20, 6:20, 8:45; Fri-Sun 10:10, 12:50, 3:15; MonWed 12:50, 3:15 ParaNorman 3D (PG) ends Thu 3:50 The Possession (PG-13) Thu 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30; Fri-Sat 10:30, 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15; Sun 10:30, 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9; MonWed 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9 Premium Rush (PG-13) ends Thu 9 Queen: Live in Budapest (Not Rated) Thu 7 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Thu 11:05, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15; Fri-Wed 12, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Resident Evil: Retribution 3D (R) Thu 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15; Fri-Sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30; Sun-Wed 11:10, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15 Stolen (R) Thu 11:40, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20; Fri-Wed 10:25 Total Recall (PG-13) ends Thu 12:45, 3:45, 9:40 Trouble With the Curve (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; FriSun 10, 11, 12:40, 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:10, 10:10; Mon-Wed 11, 12:40, 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:10, 10:10 The Words (PG-13) Thu 12:15, 5:15, 7:45; FriWed 2:15, 7:45

The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility Arbitrage (R) Fri-Tue 11, 1:15, 5:30, 7:45; Wed 11, 1:15, 7:45 Beloved (Not Rated) Wed 7 Bidder 70 (Not Rated) Tue 7 Bob Roberts (R) Wed 3:30 Farewell, My Queen (R) Thu 11, 2, 5:30; Fri-Wed 2:30 Forbidden Zone (R) FriSat 10 The Giant Claw (Not Rated) Mon 8 Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Not Rated) Thu 9:30

Human Rights Watch Film Festival kickoff (Not Rated) Sat 10 a.m. Iron Sky (R) Thu 10; SunWed 10 Samsara (PG-13) Fri-Sat 12, 4:45, 7:15; Sun 4:45, 7:15; Mon-Wed 12, 4:45 Shoot the Piano Player (Not Rated) Thu 7 Shut Up and Play the Hits (Not Rated) Fri-Tue 10 Sleepwalk With Me (Not Rated) Thu 1:30, 3:30, 7:50; Fri-Tue 3:30; Wed 10 Vertigo (PG) Sun 12 Wild Horse, Wild Ride (PG) Thu 11:30, 4:30

Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. Call for Fri-Wed film times Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Thu 11, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Magic Mike (R) Thu 7:30, 10 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Thu 12, 3:10, 6:30, 9:35 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:25 Savages (R) Thu 4:40, 9:30 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 4:20 Step Up Revolution (PG13) Thu 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) Thu 11:20, 1:50 The Watch (R) Thu 2, 7:20, 9:45

The Screening Room 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Arizona Underground Film Festival (azuff.org) Fri 8; Sat 4, 6, 8, 10; Sun 4, 6, 8; Mon-Wed 6, 8

Tower Theatres at Arizona Pavilions 8031 N. Business Park Drive. 579-0500. Call for Fri-Wed film times 2016: Obama’s America (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 The Campaign (R) Thu 5:30, 7:30 The Cold Light of Day (PG-13) Thu 1:05, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 12, 2:15, 4:35, 7:05 Finding Nemo (G) Thu 2 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7 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 11:25, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:10, 6:40 The Possession (PG-13) Thu 1:40, 3:40, 5:40, 7:40 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Thu 11:20, 1:55, 4:40, 7:15 The Words (PG-13) Thu 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:35

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Reviews by Jacquie Allen, Colin Boyd and Bob Grimm.

Mark your calendars to go see ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ on Oct. 5

Art and Inspiration BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com here really should be two reviews for the documentary Searching for Sugar Man: one for anyone going to the film completely blind, and one for those who watch trailers and do their research. Let’s talk to the uninitiated first: You should see this movie at the soonest available opportunity. It’s fantastic, unexpected and somehow real. That’s less of a review than a strong encouragement, but it will have to do. Just buy a ticket and go. Seriously, whether or not you love the film after the fact, simply knowing the story is worth the experience. And the music is good, too. Oh, and thank you for not numbing every possible effect a movie can have on you by watching clips and trailers on the Internet. That clean slate will serve you well in this case, because even knowing the premise will ruin the surprise at least a little. Now, to everyone else: It’s not a universally bad thing to watch trailers. After all, if you’re stoked for the new James Bond movie, the trailer is only going to help. And you really don’t care, at a certain point, what the trailer for a Michael Bay flick shows you. So you can’t be blamed for checking out Searching for Sugar Man—but because it’s not the sort of thing you see at the multiplex every day, knowing even the smallest detail can deflate your reaction as the film unfolds. And since you’ve probably seen the trailer if you’re still reading this, you may already know exactly what that feels like. If you’re cheating here and have not seen the trailer, this is a gigantic spoiler alert. From here on out, you can only blame yourself. In the late 1960s, when record companies were looking for the next Bob Dylan, Detroit gave rise to Sixto Rodriguez. His desperate urban folk songs never made a single dent in the U.S., but somehow—nobody really knows how—a copy of his album Cold Fact was smuggled into South Africa. During apartheid, a lot of Western music wasn’t heard there at all, and as a consequence, Rodriguez became, in the words of a record executive, bigger than Elvis and the Rolling Stones. His two albums became essential listening, and Searching for Sugar Man claims Cold Fact played a significant cultural role in the nation rising out of its unfortunate, costly history of racial oppression. The performer had no idea his music was resonating half a world away, and when he got out of the industry entirely after his second album, Rodriguez vanished, working odd construction jobs in his native Detroit.

NEWLY REVIEWED: ARBITRAGE

Nearing 60 and wanting to get out of the rat race, hedge-fund manager Robert Miller (a terrific Richard Gere) finds a potential buyer for his company. The only problem: His firm is hemorrhaging millions due to a bad investment in Russian copper mines, so he borrows heavily to cook the books and make up for the missing revenues. On the financial-drama scale, this isn’t as gripping as last year’s Margin Call, but this part of Arbitrage hangs together pretty well. However, there’s a wildly unnecessary subplot involving vehicular manslaughter and a poor effort to cover it up that takes the focus off of what could be a really interesting story. The subplot gives Susan Sarandon and Tim Roth something to do, but it reduces Arbitrage to little more than a Law and Order episode. Boyd FINDING NEMO 3D

The trailer before The Amazing Spider-Man for the 3-D release of Finding Nemo worried me, as it made the film look grainy and murky. However, that worry was dispelled in the opening moments of this rerelease of one of Disney/Pixar’s most-beloved films. Even though the 3-D transfer is just another moneygrab—nothing of note “physically” pops out—the colors and digital animation come alive in this conversion. Even though Finding Nemo is almost a decade old, the animation and the script are still as vibrant and fresh as they were in 2003. Nemo has aged well—and may be even better now than it was when it first came out. Allen SAMSARA

Sixto Rodriguez in Searching for Sugar Man.

Searching for Sugar Man Rated PG-13 Directed by Malik Bendjelloul Sony Pictures Classics, 86 minutes Opens Friday, Oct. 5, at Century El Con 20 (800326-3264, ext. 902).

However, more than 30 years after his album was smuggled into Cape Town, the phone rang. For the first time, Rodriguez knew his story (even if he never wound up getting the royalties). The trailer you saw tells you most of that, and spoils much of the remarkable discovery this film offers. What the promo can’t communicate, though, is something deeper, and the real point of Searching for Sugar Man: Art is unpredictable. Its inspiration is mysterious, and its impact is impossible to divine. Somehow, a single album by an artist the rest of the world didn’t bother to get to know became woven into the national fabric of an entirely different culture, in one of the mosttotalitarian states in the world. There’s no way this should have happened, and the way it did happen is the only way it could have. Those who have not seen the trailer have already been encouraged to line up and see the film. That holds true for everyone who knows Rodriguez’s astounding story as well. Searching for Sugar Man is what documentaries are supposed to be: a true story that expands your knowledge instead of just reinforcing beliefs you already have. And, again, the music is good. Maybe Rodriguez will finally gain an audience in the United States.

Rarely has a film come along that looks this good. Shot in glorious 70-millimeter, Samsara plays to its strength by presenting many things that can only be truly appreciated on such a grand scale. By and large, it’s IMAX-quality stuff. (The IMAX science movies, that is, not the cheap up-converted Hollywood flicks.) Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson don’t have a story to tell so much as an experience to share. They traveled to 25 countries over a fiveyear span to capture remarkable visuals, and it’s certainly a captivating show. They do not editorialize regarding the subjects they shoot, nor do they reach for a larger point of connectedness—except for the one that dawns on you as you watch: We’ve got a remarkable planet, and here’s a pretty good atlas for it. Boyd SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS

For a guy who allegedly never wanted to be in a big band, James Murphy managed to put together a good one. LCD Soundsystem called it quits last year after three albums and a final, four-hour show at Madison Square Garden. This film spends some time with Murphy in the days before and after the show, and shows highlights from the concert, including an appearance by Arcade Fire. You do get a genuine sense that Murphy wants the whole thing to be over with, but he’s so damned good in concert that you wish he were kidding about quitting. The concert portions are terrific (only segments are shown). Their albums are great, but LCD Soundsystem goes to another realm when performing live. I’d like to think a couple of years off might recharge Murphy, but his demeanor here makes it seem unlikely. This is a very good movie, and a bittersweet one if you are a fan. It’s also worth noting that Murphy has an adorable French bulldog. Grimm TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE

Is it always necessary to have the old guy in an oldguy movie struggle to take a piss so we know he’s old? Who doesn’t know Clint Eastwood is getting up there? That’s the first scene in Trouble With the Curve, and the rest of the movie is filled with more of the same—Clint’s eyes are going; his job as a baseball scout is on the line because he’s out of touch; he doesn’t trust computers because he’s a fossil. And in each of those scenarios, as well as the ones that could actually propel a movie that pairs Eastwood and Amy Adams, this film is empty. There’s nothing here from Eastwood that wasn’t more evident or profound in Million Dollar Baby or Gran Torino. Adams gives it a real go, but she’s just bullpen help in a game that got away from the starting pitcher. Boyd

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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 FAREWELL, MY QUEEN

The French period-piece Farewell, My Queen strips the pretty away from the era of Louis XVI, showing the rising tide of revolution in disheveled detail. History paints a mixed picture of Marie Antoinette, although she was certainly reviled by the French by 1789, when this film takes place. The legendary queen is portrayed by Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), who is definitely up to the task. Her Marie Antoinette is not some kind of Paris Hilton with a title, but a woman of strength, smarts and desire. But as the queen’s official reader, Léa Seydoux plays a more-central role. She is firmly planted between the haves and have-nots, and her relationship with the queen is not easily defined. These are two great performances, and this is a fascinating story of crumpling power told from a perspective we rarely see. Boyd HIT AND RUN

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 IRON SKY

In the year 2018, Sarah Palin, or somebody who looks a lot like her, is president and sending men to the moon. Once there, they discover a colony of Nazis who have been hiding out and plotting to conquer the Earth since the end of World War II. It’s up to one of the surviving astronauts (Christopher 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 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 inter-

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esting 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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Yes, I voluntarily watched this, a movie about people getting attacked by sharks after a tsunami hits Australia. I read the Blu-ray package; I studied the movie a bit; I proceeded to watch it anyway. The catch: The people fighting off sharks are inside a supermarket and a parking garage. That’s right; this is a movie about people trying to evade sharks by climbing atop the frozen-food section or jumping out of sunroofs. And, oddly enough, it isn’t the worst movie containing sharks that I’ve ever seen. (That honor goes to Jaws: The Revenge. God, I hate that movie.) There are some decent action and gore scenes here, and the sharks occasionally look good. Granted, the stuff that happens in between the shark attacks is melodramatic bullshit, but director Kimble Rendall drums up a decent scene or two. One of the better moments occurs when a shark goes airborne and chews off a hanging man’s bottom half—while his top half dies painfully. This particular moment is perpetuated with just the right amount of B-movie cheese. What the movie lacks is a sense of humor. I suppose it’s funny enough that the protagonists are evading sharks just moments after buying toilet paper, but it is utterly devoid of intentional laughs. The filmmakers should have taken a cue from Piranha 3D, which mixed some good, goofy laughs with well-executed carnage. Still, I must give props to those who came up with this idea and saw it through to its unlikely fruition. It’s not a very good movie, but I wasn’t expecting it to be. You have the option of watching this in 3-D if you

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As Snow White movies go, this one isn’t bad. In fact, I rather liked threequarters of it before it degenerated into a strange Joan of Arc movie. Kristen Stewart plays Snow White in a decent performance that will be forever clouded by the fact that she was probably sticking her tongue down director Rupert Sanders’ throat between takes. Tween girls everywhere will hate this film for life, because it wound up being the grenade thrown into Stewart’s real-life relationship with Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson. It isn’t even Stewart who gets the greatest kudos for the movie. That honor goes to Charlize Theron as the bloodthirsty queen looking to chomp on Snow White’s heart. Theron has been on a roll lately, and she totally smoked Julia Roberts, who played a similar role in the far-inferior Mirror Mirror. The scene in which Theron immerses herself in white goo is chilling and remarkably beautiful at the same time. The dwarves are famous actors’ faces placed on little bodies thanks to some nice effects work. Bob Hoskins (in his last film appearance before announcing his retirement), Ian McShane and Nick Frost are in the group, and they look pretty wild. There’s talk that Stewart might be dropped from the franchise, with future chap-

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DIS, MC, V and checks. Little Mexico Steakhouse is great for steaks and shrimp entrĂŠes. The steaks have an interesting, smoky flavor, and portions are huge. The Mexican fare tends to be unimaginative, though. (9-1709) $$-$$$ $$-$$$

Thursday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 2-10 p.m.; Sunday 1-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/Diner/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Good value on steaks, burgers and grilled chickenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often worth the trip. $$-$$$ THE STEAKHOUSE AT THE DESERT DIAMOND CASINO S 7350 S. Old Nogales Highway. 342-1328. Open daily 4-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V, Checks. So you just won a big payout at the poker table, or the slots have been extremely generous. Where are you going to go? The answer is right there inside the hotel-casino. Big portionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from the salad through dessertâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are the norm. Steaks are the draw, of course, but seafood options are also quite worthy. The service is friendly, and the prices at the bar are most reasonable. (5-8-08) $$$ THE STEAKOUT RESTAURANT AND SALOON NW 3620 W. Tangerine Road. 572-1300. Open Monday-Thursday 4-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. The prices are edging toward the top of â&#x20AC;&#x153;midrange,â&#x20AC;? but the result is good-quality beef grilled to order in a casual, Western setting. Not much choice among side dishes, though, and the dessert standards are variable. (6-25-09) $$$-$$$$

SUSHI AND JAPANESE AN DEL SOL S 5655 W. Valencia Road, inside Casino del Sol. 8387177. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Mr. Anâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dining ventures seem to get better and better. The menu is gigantic, so it can be hard to choose. We were knocked out by the tuna tartare and completely surprised by the sweet-and-sour fish. The sushi rolls have clever names; the Big Birtha comes to mind. While the prices are a little high, the portion sizes more than make up for it. (5-5-11) $$-$$$$ FUKU SUSHI C 940 E. University Blvd. 798-3858. Open daily 11 a.m.-midnight. CafĂŠ. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. A welcome addition to the Main Gate mix. The sushi offerings are many, with a full slate of both traditional and house rolls. The honor roll is a definite winner. This is one of the few places around thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s truly doing fusion food; the Japanese fish tacos are a prime example. Fuku has a youthful vibeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and prices that fit into a student budget. (2-5-09) $-$$ FUSION WASABI E 250 W. Craycroft Road, Suite 100. 747-0228. Open

Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-11 p.m.; Saturday 4:30-11 p.m.; Sunday 5-9:30 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. Fusion Wasabi offers two thingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;teppan yaki and sushiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go wrong with either one. The teppan yaki makes for a nice, tasty show, much like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get anywhere else. But the sushi is where Fusion Wasabi excels. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some of the best Tucson has to offerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially the strawberry-topped Fusion Wasabi roll and the 24-karat-gold-topped Fusion Wasabi ultimate roll. (1-5-06) $$$-$$$$ GINZA NE 5425 N. Kolb Road, No. 115. 529-8877. Open

Tuesday-Saturday 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Sunday and Monday 5-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Ginza offers a unique Japanese dining experience called izakaya, similar to tapas-style dining. The list of izakaya offerings is long and varied, including chicken, shrimp, smelt, squid, mountain potato, yam and much more. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sushi side of the house thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bring us back. The boats offer generous combinations of traditional sushi and house specialties, and at lunch, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find bento bowls. (7-31-08) $$$-$$$$

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BY JACQUELINE KUDER, jkuder@tucsonweekly.com kly.com rowing up in Tucson, I knew that Miracle Mile was not exactly a desirable place to hang out; after all, stories of crime, prostitution and other undesirable activities were common. So when I found out that Miracle Mile’s Monterey Court Café was next on my list of places to review, I was a bit wary. My wariness was completely unfounded. In many cities across the country, neighborhoods with checkered pasts are being reimagined, and the Miracle Mile strip is no exception. Historic buildings and neon signs are being restored to their original state, and the glitz and glam of the ’30s and ’40s is slowly coming back. Monterey Court, a motor inn built in 1938, has been turned into a marketplace for artisans and artists, with galleries, clothing shops, live music and plenty of mini-festivals and activities. The café, the only restaurant in Monterey Court, is at once affordable and elegant, with delicious food. The café has a dozen or so tables inside, and a large outdoor bar and dining area. The décor is modern and sleek, maintaining a sense of openness in the small space. On both of our visits, the service was quick and friendly, both indoors and on the patio. The only thing that seemed to be missing was patrons. The café serves brunch and dinner. It has an array of local and seasonal brews on tap, as well as a small but well-selected and affordable variety of West Coast wines. In fact, everything on the menu is extremely affordable, especially considering the portion sizes. The most-expensive entrée was the pasta, at $14.50. On our first visit, Ted and I decided to enjoy a cool weeknight evening on the patio. We were the only customers, but I’ve heard from friends that the nights with live music draw a better crowd. (An events calendar is on the Monterey Court website.) We started off with beers from Lumberyard Brewing Co. in Flagstaff and Tucson’s Dragoon Brewing ($4 per pint), bruschetta ($6.50) and crab cakes ($7.95). The appetizers came out lightning-fast and were fantastic. The bruschetta, served in a deconstructed fashion, featured house-stretched mozzarella, thick slices of ripe tomatoes, a generous chiffonade of basil, and a sweet but tangy balsamic vinaigrette. It disappeared quickly. The crab cakes were meaty, moist and sumptuous, served over a puddle of greengoddess dressing. The two cakes were panseared to a nice crispness, and the inside was heated through without being dry.

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The Asian salmon at Monterey Court Café. Entrées were equally, if not more, delicious. Ted decided on the Asian salmon ($12.95), while I went for the roasted chicken ($11.95). The salmon was a nice-sized pan-seared filet served atop a bowl of Asian noodles, which were chockfull of goodies like whole garlic cloves, large mushrooms, bok choy, snow peas and tons of spicy ginger sauce. Our server warned Ted to keep mixing the ingredients together as he ate, lest all the ginger sauce collect at the bottom and make the last bites unpalatably spicy. Ted enjoyed it thoroughly, saying that it was one of the best salmon dishes he’s had in quite some time. My roasted chicken was excellent; the halfchicken was quartered, and the pieces were wellseasoned and moist—even the white meat. The pieces were served atop a potato rosti (akin to a large hash brown), which could have used more cooking time. The outside wasn’t very crispy, and the middle was a bit raw. The chicken was also served with roasted root veggies—which on that day were parsnips and turnips, and they were roasted to crispy perfection. On our second visit, we tried to make it to brunch, which the menu and website say ends at noon. But when we arrived a little past 11 a.m., the café had already switched to the lunch/dinner menu. We decided on the guacamole ($8.50) and a farm salad ($8.75) for starters. For an entrée, I opted for the chicken and brie melt ($8.95), while Ted went for the barbecue pork sandwich ($7.50). Everything was fantastic, but the guacamole really stood out. Two whole, smashed avocados with red onion, tomato, lime and cilantro were mixed with a generous handful of bay shrimp

Monterey Court Café 505 W. Miracle Mile 207-2429; montereycourtaz.com Open Tuesday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pluses: Great, affordable food; local beers on tap; friendly service Minuses: A lack of customers; contradictory brunch hours

and topped with a sprinkling of feta-cheese crumbles. The shrimp and feta added an unusual and amazing flavor to the guacamole; I wished only that the remaining half of an avocado in our dish had been ripe. The salad was fresh and tasty, with blue cheese, walnuts, spinach and orange segments. Everything was beautifully presented. The sandwiches weren’t gigantic, but they were served with a hefty portion of “flash-baked” small potato halves, making them filling entrées. My chicken and brie had a generous amount of melted cheese over the moist grilled chicken breast and sweet caramelized onion, but the combination of sun-dried tomato paste and kalamata-olive bread was a bit overwhelming. Ted’s sandwich was definitely the better of the two, with a nice heap of shredded pork on a ciabatta roll with pepper slaw and cilantro-lime dressing. Overall, the artful presentation of the food, the glamour and chicness of the setting, and the tasty, down-to-earth menu make Monterey Court Café a great place to get delicious, wellprepared food for a reasonable price.

I am consistently impressed by the brew coming out of Dragoon Brewing Co., 1859 W. Grant Road, No. 111. But its newest brew is truly something else. Ojo Blanco has a tannish-gold color and contains hints of coriander, cumin and lime, imparting a complex flavor to the hazy, Belgian-style witbier. This microbrewery also has Russian stout, India pale ale and several other truly superb beers on tap. I suggest heading down there during tasting-room hours, when you’ll find a food truck out front as well. For hours and more information, head over to www.dragoonbrewing.com. Borderlands Brewing Company, 119 E. Toole Ave., also has a new brew worth checking out. Smoke and Irons is a Scottish ale made with mesquite-smoked grains. And $1 from every pint sold goes to the Greater Tucson Fire Foundation, which helps provide local firefighters with tools and training. You can taste just a hint of smoke in this unique brew, which brings up many possibilities for creative food pairings. There’s more info at borderlandsbrewing.com.

Sausage-Related News You may have noticed a heap of construction work going on next to Sausage Deli, 2334 N. First Ave. If you were worried that yet another Taco Bell was going in there, take heart: The new building will be the new home of the Sausage Deli, which has fed Tucson its glorious sandwiches for more than 30 years. In other sausage-related news: Have you checked out all of the things they’re wrapping in bacon at the Sausage Shop, 1015 W. Prince Road? Recently, we’ve found stuffed onions, various hamburger patties, chicken cordon bleu and other things wrapped in thick strips of homemade bacon, and that just scratches the surface. They also produce various flavors of bacon and have an enormous selection of sausages, steaks and overstuffed sandwiches; 888-1701.

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11 a.m.-11 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The second Hana Tokyo—the first one is in Sierra Vista— offers a huge selection of Japanese offerings, including teppan yaki. However, it’s the sushi artistry that makes Hana Tokyo stand out; the enormous scorpion roll is actually shaped like a scorpion, for example. Not only do the sushi rolls look cool; they taste great, too. (7-2111) $$-$$$$ IKKYU NW 2040 W. Orange Grove Road. No. 180. 297-9011. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. Ikkyu offers down-home Japanese food in a fast-casual style. Rice bowls, noodles, ramen and sushi are at the ready, making for a perfect quick dinner or some fine takeout. Prices fit any budget. Word is the ramen shouldn’t be missed. $-$$ (11-19-09) $-$$ KAMPAI NW 6486 N. Oracle Road. 219-6550. Open Monday-

Saturday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4:30-9:30 p.m. Bistro/ Beer and Wine. AMEX, MC, V. The food, both from the sushi bar and regular menu, is delicious. The spicy garlic shrimp is worth a try. And the ginger-intensive dressing on the house salad’s good enough to bottle. (2-12-04) $$-$$$ KAZOKU SUSHI AND JAPANESE CUISINE E 4210 E. Speedway Blvd. 777-6249. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The sushi and other offerings at Kazoku will delight your taste buds, and the décor is beautiful. The lack of an all-you-can-eat option means you should bring a loaded wallet. (1-14-10) $-$$$ MR. AN’S TEPPAN STEAK AND SUSHI NW 6091 N. Oracle Road. 797-0888. Open daily 11

a.m.-2 p.m. and 5 p.m.-midnight. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, VISA. There’s fire! There’s fish! There’s fun! All brought to you by Tucson’s hospitality icon, Mr. An. The teppan side of the menu offers all the usual goodies prepared by some of the friendliest teppan chefs in town. You can get regular sushi items as well. But then there are the house specialties like the Mango Crunch or the Summerhaven or even the improbable Bleu Panda. Any way you choose, this is a great choice for a fun family night out or a special occasion. (8-2610) $$-$$$ OISHI SUSHI AND TERIYAKI E 7002 E. Golf Links Road. 790-9439. Open Monday-

Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 1-10 p.m.; Sunday 4-9 p.m. Café. Beer, Wine and Sake. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This is one of the top places to go in Tucson for inexpensive, tasty, all-you-can-eat sushi. Korean dishes, teriyaki offerings, noodle dishes and some nice bento-box lunch specials are also available, but the sushi deal is what makes this place truly special. (7-12-07) $$-$$$ ON A ROLL C 63 E. Congress St. 622-7655. Open Monday-

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Wednesday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Thursday and Friday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Saturday 4 p.m.-2 a.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Asian food has arrived in downtown with On a Roll. You’re likely to find a young, hip crowd here, along with a bright, urban décor and lots of tasty, fresh sushi offerings. The rest of the menu has some gems, too, like the Kobe beef burger. However, bring a fat wallet; you’ll pay more here than you will at other sushi joints around Tucson. (1-8-09) $$-$$$ RA SUSHI BAR RESTAURANT NW 2905 E. Skyline Drive. 615-3970. Open daily 11

a.m.-11 p.m.; bar open until midnight. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Ra Sushi, a Benihana-owned chain that got its start in the Phoenix area, is a little pricier than other area sushi joints. For those extra few bucks, you’ll get a hip, trendy atmosphere and quick service. You’ll also find tasty food, some occasional nifty specials and a wide variety of appetizers. Think what it would be like if P.F. Chang’s did a sushi place. (3-1804) $$-$$$ SACHIKO SUSHI E 1101 N. Wilmot Road. 886-7000. Open Monday-

Friday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.; Sunday 5-9 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 3200 E. Valencia Road (741-1000). Sushi is prepared here with innovative skill. A bowl of udon arrives with attentive art and detail. Good Korean grill as well. $$-$$$ SAGA C 2955 E. Speedway Blvd. 320-0535. Open Monday-

Friday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Saturday noon10 p.m.; Sunday 4-9 p.m. Café. Beer, Wine and Sake. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Chiles, shrimp cocktails and unfamiliar names for sushi rolls like San Carlos, Yaqui and jalapeño make Saga a standout among local sushi ven-

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ues. Where else can you indulge a craving for don buri and shrimp tostadas at the same time? Consummately fresh seafood is the key to Saga’s phenomenal success. Serves great fish and shrimp tacos. (6-22-00) $$ SAKURA E 6534 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-7777. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-11 p.m.; Saturday 5-11 p.m.; Sunday noon-10 p.m. Bistro/Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. This venue is devoted to the open flame and teppan. For some of the best sushi in town and an entertaining evening at the teppan table, Sakura is a solid win. (3-14-02) $$-$$$ SHOGUN JAPANESE RESTAURANT AND SUSHI BAR NW 5036 N. Oracle Road. 888-6646. Open Monday-

Friday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday noon-9 p.m. Café/Sushi Bar. Beer, Wine and Sake. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Traditional Japanese cuisine is served up by kimono-clad waitresses in an atmosphere right out of the miniseries by the same name. You get decent sushi and fine renditions of other Japanese specialties $-$$

SUSHI ON ORACLE NW 6449 N. Oracle Road. 297-3615. Open TuesdayThursday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m.; Friday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Sunday 5-9 p.m. Café/ Sushi Bar. Beer, Wine and Sake. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. The folks here don’t mess around. They offer large portions of food, delicious sushi and a gracious staff. The Sushi on Oracle salad is a fine example of their exquisite presentations. Get there early: There are 10 tables and only 12 seats at the sushi bar. (10-31-02) $$

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Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday noon-10 p.m. Café/Sushi Bar/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd., Suite 312 (877-8744). An unpretentious neighborhood sushi restaurant satisfying beginner and honed sushi appetites. All-you-can-eat sushi for $19.95. Ample portions of combination plates and rice bowls. (12-5-02) $-$$ SUSHI KING C 1800 E. Fort Lowell Road, No. 116. 321-4000. Open

Monday 5-10 p.m.; Tuesday-Friday 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday 4-10 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. MC, V. Located in a midtown strip mall, this small joint could become a neighborhood favorite—even if you’re not a sushi fan. There are plenty of options, good-sized portions and reasonable prices. The roll assortment is interesting and covers the full gamut. The atmosphere is warm and welcoming, and you’ll be one of the gang after only a few visits. (3-2207) $-$$ SUSHI LOUNGE

sushi option has finally arrived on the southside! With an extensive menu featuring not only sushi, but also many other Chinese and Japanese appetizer and entrée options, there is something for everyone. If you find yourself suddenly missing those other southside restaurants, order your sushi rolls “Mexican style,” and they’ll add onions and jalapeños. (6-28-12) $$-$$$

Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Sunday 5-9 p.m. Café/Sushi Bar. Beer, Wine and Sake. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. After several years of turbulent ownership changes, it appears this onetime Tucson favorite has made a nice comeback. The sushi and nigiri is fresh and tasty; the all-you-can-eat ($19.95) and happy-hour/ lunch deals (with much of the menu offered for halfprice) are amazing. (8-5-10) $-$$$

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SUSHI TRAN NW 9725 N. Thornydale Road, No. 49. 579-6604. Open Sunday-Thursday 5 to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 5 to 9:30 p.m. Bistro/Beer and Wine. MC, V. Sushi Tran, tucked away in a northwest-side strip mall, boasts friendly service and good sushi rolls and nigiri, with a wide range of non-sushi Asian and Pacific Rim dishes, too. Skip the sashimi, but don’t miss out on the greenmussel appetizer. Expect to spend at least $25 per person in a family-friendly environment that is quiet and clean. (1-28-10) $$-$$$ SUSHI YUKARI E 5655 E. River Road, No. 151. 232-1393. Open

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SUSHI-CHO C 1830 E. Broadway Blvd., Suite 148. 628-8800. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Saturday 5-10 p.m. Café/Sushi Bar/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Small, tasty and enormously popular, Sushi-Cho wows with its complete attention to all the fine details, especially at the sushi bar, where the large portions exceed finger-food expectations. $-$$ YAMATO JAPANESE RESTAURANT C 857 E. Grant Road. 624-3377. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-2:15 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m.; Saturday 5-9:30 p.m. Café. Beer, Wine and Sake. AMEX, MC, V. The fresh fish makes the sushi at this tiny midtown spot a real treat. The rest of the menu offers up all sorts of traditional Japanese goodies that prove to be tasty as well. The low-key atmosphere is another plus. And while Yamato may not be easy to find the first time, you’ll probably find yourself returning again and again. (1117-05) $-$$

THAI BAI THONG E 4853 E. Speedway Blvd. 881-5068. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. MC, V. Bai Thong is a modest, quiet, affordable family Thai joint with some standouts, including papaya salad and fiery fried rice. Wash it down with icy Singha beer, and be happy. Note: They’re willing to make any dish vegetarian. (7-19-07) $-$$ BANGKOK CAFÉ C 2511 E. Speedway Blvd. 323-6555. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Café/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. Featuring fine service and a calming atmosphere, Bangkok Café features delicious soups, appetizers and salads, as well as a number of curry, rice, noodle and other dishes. While some of the entrées tend to be a bit bland, the ingredients are always fresh. (10-14-04) $-$$

YOSHIMATSU HEALTHY JAPANESE FOOD AND CAFÉ C 2660 N. Campbell Ave. 320-1574. Open MondayThursday 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Friday 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Saturday 11:30 a.m.2:30 p.m. and 5-9 p.m. Diner/Beer and Wine. MC, V. One of the more unique restaurants you’ll ever find, Yoshimatsu features a decor combining weird Japanese TV, action figures and eclectic music. The food is fast, inexpensive and tasty. Try the Japanese pizzas; they’re amazing. You can get takeout, but we recommend dining in. It’s such a cool place. (2-27-03) $-$$

KARUNA’S THAI PLATE C 1917 E. Grant Road. 325-4129. Open TuesdayThursday noon-3 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday noon-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Sunday 5-9 p.m. Counter/Diner/No Alcohol. MC, V. Karuna’s offers all the traditional dishes you’ve come to expect on Tucson’s small Thai scene, as well as an awesome and affordable daily lunch buffet. Some of the fire of Thai cooking may be absent, but all the other ingredients are flavorfully present. $

YUKI’S SUSHI C 2962 N. Campbell Ave. 326-7727. Open MondayFriday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 3-10 p.m. Sushi Bar/ Full Bar. MC, V. For an excellent indulgence in properly prepared and inventive sushi, Yuki’s serves up some of the freshest and most inviting sushi around, with an extensive selection of sakes. Service can be harried, though. $$-$$$

MINA’S THAI NE 5575 E. River Road, No. 141. 299-0453. Open Monday-Saturday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 4:30-9 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. After bouncing around town, Mina’s Thai is now entrenched in a cozy little space at River and Craycroft roads. Here, you’ll find all of your Thai favorites, served to you graciously by Mina and her family. While some of the dish-

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BY GENE ARMSTRONG, garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com t’s been an eventful year so far for the Denver-based folk-rock band the Lumineers. After a pair of EPs, the trio saw the April release of their full-length debut album, The Lumineers. Near-constant touring has followed, with the group spending most of their time supporting such acts as Old Crow Medicine Show, Brandi Carlile and Pokey LaFarge. They’ve also appeared on VH1 and CMT, and were guests of both Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien. All the while, The Lumineers has been gathering retail steam, selling more than 130,000 copies. Not bad for an indie band in this day and age. As you might imagine, band-member Jeremiah Fraites was relieved to be home for 12 days a couple of weeks ago. “It’s nice to have a breather,” said Fraites, a drummer, percussionist and mandolin player, via phone from Denver. The band—which also includes guitarist and lead singer Wesley Schultz and classically trained cellist-pianist Neyla Pekarek—will be back on the road by the time you read this, for their first headlining tour, which will bring them to Tucson this week. Bad Weather California will open the show. Later this fall, the Lumineers will head to Europe to open a tour of arenas for the Civil Wars. Like groups such as the Decemberists, Mumford and Sons, Of Monsters and Men and the Avett Brothers, the Lumineers bring folk music into the 21st century, imbuing it with an indie-rock edge, a boisterous spirit and barreling momentum. Fraites and Schultz started playing together about 10 years ago as an indirect result of a heartbreaking loss they shared. Schultz had been best friends with Fraites’ older brother, Joshua, since childhood. In 2002, Joshua died of a drug overdose. In the process of healing, Schultz and Jeremiah discovered they could write and perform songs together, and that they were pretty good at it. Back then, Fraites and Schultz hadn’t yet moved to their adopted home of Denver. “Wes and I grew up in Ramsey, N.J., which is sort of a suburb of New York City, and we were always making music and trying to play in the city. But there is so much competition there, and very little opportunity to play.” They eventually moved to Denver, the main impetus being “pretty much the cost of living in New York. Wes lived in Brooklyn, and he would have to work so much just to pay rent and bills. We also kind of wanted to move as far away from our parents and be out from under their influence.”

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Once in Denver, Fraites and Schultz decided they wanted to add new textures to their sound. They thought a cello would sound good in the mix, so they placed an ad on Craigslist, Fraites said. “Neyla was quite literally the first and only person to respond. She’s a great cellist, which was obvious, and after a quick audition, we also knew how much we liked her singing style. We just knew she would fit it.” Pekarek’s voice adds richness, balance and a feminine presence to the Lumineers’ arrangements. “Musically, female vocals are a good thing to have to accompany Wes,” Fraites says. “I always try to back him up with shouting in my nottoo-pretty voice. She can sing a lot prettier than I do. She actually has won a world championship in barbershop quartet-style singing, too.” By the time of the making of The Lumineers, the band had attracted some interest from major record labels. The group turned down the offers they received from the majors and released the album on the Nashville independent label Dualtone. “We did pass up several offers,” Fraites said. “They just didn’t seem to be a good fit. We were kind of scared of getting lost in the shuffle at the major labels. Major labels don’t have anything to lose, but artists do. And (the labels) have more money than they know what do with. But we wanted to work with a label that had human beings.” In Denver, the Lumineers found a home base and a thriving music scene. But Fraites finds it ironic that, with the touring, they spend less and less time there. That’s not the only way in which the lives of the Lumineers have changed. “As little as two years ago, or last year at this time, all these songs on the album were new. In just that period of time, they’ve risen from the underground, so to speak,” Fraites said. “And where we used to play to a few people in small bars—or once or twice, there were more of us

The Lumineers with Bad Weather California 8 p.m., next Thursday, Sept. 27 Rialto Theatre 318 E. Congress St. $16; all ages 740-1000; www.rialtotheatre.com

There are lots of great shows happening around Ye Olde Pueblo this week, but before we get to that, a quick reminder that submissions for this year’s Great Cover-Up, the annual charity event set to take place at Plush, Club Congress and the Rialto Theatre from Thursday, Dec. 13, through Saturday, Dec. 15, are now being accepted. If you’re interested in participating, e-mail greatcoveruptucson@gmail.com with the following information: your band name; what type of music you normally play; your top three picks for bands/ artists you’d like to cover; and a contact name, phone number and/or email address. For a full summary of what exactly the Great Cover-Up is, check out the Aug. 23 edition of Soundbites. The event organizers (I’m one of them) are currently standing by, awaiting your awesome ideas. Thanks for playing.

THE RIALTO IN FULL ‘BLOOM’ onstage than in the audience—now we’re playing to full theaters. It’s great, but a little weird, too.” Sometimes Fraites gets asked odd questions by fans or journalists. “Some people say, ‘Are you sick of playing these songs?’ And I have to say no, because it’s a whole different experience now to play ‘Ho Hey’ and ‘Stubborn Love’ when people are actually listening. “I mean, we have rehearsed and performed these so songs so much; we do know them pretty well. But it’s important to remember that many people in the audience may be hearing them for the first time. And it may be a cliché, but every gig is different, and when we show up in Tucson, it’s going to feel completely different to play these songs for these people than it does in any other town.” Fraites is also taken slightly aback by the occasional fans who follow the group from gig to gig. “Sometimes, I’ll be talking to people after a show, and I’ll hear about someone who saw us the night before and drove 11 hours to see this show. I mean, that’s amazing.” It wasn’t long ago that Fraites was driving for hours to concerts by his favorite bands. “When I hear that, I remember 10 or 12 years ago, and Coldplay was playing in Connecticut, and we’d drive for maybe 2 1/2 hours, and it was a big production. We had to buy beer, and maybe pot, and sandwiches, and get hotel rooms. It was pretty crazy sometimes. And I still appreciate what people might go through to see our shows.”

For the first time since they played at Solar Culture Gallery in 2008, the Baltimore-based duo Beach House—French-born Victoria Legrand and Baltimore native Alex Scally—return to town this week for a show at the much-larger Rialto Theatre. It’s not surprising that they’ve graduated to a larger venue. In 2008, the gauzy dream-poppers were critics’ darlings, but in recent years, their popularity among the masses has caught up to the band’s critical assessment. I’ll be honest here: Beach House is one of those bands I just don’t “get.” I don’t dislike them; I just don’t get what the fuss is all about— and I am definitely in the minority here, so I’ll turn the gushing over to a couple of writers who love them as much as most people seem to. The Tucson Weekly’s former web producer, Dan Gibson, had this to say: “The group’s latest album, Bloom, is among the best-reviewed albums of the year so far, and for good reason, since it’s a gorgeous work of art, touching on what people liked about dream-pop acts like Mazzy Star and the Cocteau Twins without being derivative.” Meanwhile, Weekly contributor Michael Petitti called Bloom “revelatory,” saying it captured “a group at the height of their powers.” He also wrote this: “The praise for Beach House’s stunning fourth album, Bloom, is nearly (and deservedly) unanimous, but the consensus adjectives surrounding the album—gauzy, spacey, dreamy—obscure its true aural feats: an unexpected fullness and muscularity.” So you can see why I feel a little left out of the uproar, huh? Perhaps I’ll give Beach House another shot when they perform at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St., on Monday, Sept. 24. Former Ponytail guitarist Dustin Wong, whose latest album, Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, was released on Thrill Jockey earlier this year,

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SUPPORT THIS SCHOOL Local surf-rockabilly combo The El Camino Royales will headline a benefit this week for Origins Society/Project Origins, which, according to Royales drummer the Mighty Joel Ford, is “a nonprofit school for adults and children with disabilities” here in Tucson. Ford has been working with adults with developmental disabilities for the last few years, and, as he succinctly puts it in an e-mail to the Soundbites desk, “With the lack of support from this wonderful state, it ain’t easy.” Sunny Italy and The Procell will perform prior to The El Camino Royales at the benefit, which takes place from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Tucson Racquet and Fitness Club, 4001 N. Country Club Road, on Saturday, Sept. 22. You need not be a member to attend. Tickets are $10 per person, or $25 per family (yes, it’s a family-friendly event), and will be available at the door. The evening will also include some raffle action. Plus, who can resist little kids dancing to surf-rock? There’s an event page on Facebook if you need more info.

GOODBYE, FOR NOW Two local bands are heading out on respective tours this week, but they’ll each be playing shows in town before they leave. Infectious indie-rockers Logan Greene

The 17th Street Guitar and World Music store’s top sales for the week ending Sept. 14, 2012 Electric will take the stage, er, floor, at Sky Bar, 536 N. Fourth Ave., tonight, Thursday, Sept. 20, before hitting the road. The Sadie Hawks, featuring Matt Milner, the magnanimous host of KXCI FM 91.3’s Locals Only show, will get things started around 8 p.m. For more info, call 622-4300. The husband-and-wife duo Quiet Please is taking it to the highway for a week for shows in Texas and New Mexico “with the whole family in tow—Josephine (11 months) and Vaeda (12 years old)—a family gypsy kinda thing,” according to band member John Sweeden. But prior to that, they’ll headline a tour kickoff show at La Cocina, 201 N. Court Ave., on Friday, Sept. 21. The night’s activities begin around 10 p.m. with opening sets by Fur Family and Main Squeeze. Call 622-0351 for more details. And, since we’re on the topic of La Cocina, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that Chris Black is reviving his all-star band the Ashes of Love this week for “A Happy Hour for Them That Ain’t”—i.e., covers of the saddest country songs ever written, performed by Black, Emilie Marchand, Gabriel Sullivan, Connor Gallaher and Nick Coventry. The band was a staple at the late, lamented Red Room at Grill, and we’re thrilled to see ’em back in action. They’ll be at La Cocina around 10 p.m. tonight, Thursday, Sept. 20. Admission to all these shows is free, but donations are always welcome.

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ON THE BANDWAGON More good stuff headed our way this week: The Soft Pack, Heavy Hawaii and Caught on Film at Plush on Saturday, Sept. 22; 2 Chainz at the Rialto Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 22; Bonnie Raitt and Randall Bramblett at UA Centennial Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 26; Zac Harmon at Plush, tonight, Thursday, Sept. 20; Jerry “Ya Ever Notice … ?” Seinfeld at UA Centennial Hall on Friday, Sept. 21; Christopher Lawrence at Club Congress on Friday, Sept. 21; Attaloss, Armastus, Bethany Heights, One After the Other and others at The Rock on Friday, Sept. 21; Tejano Showcase featuring La Mafia, Hermanos Farias Reunion, Los Garcia Brothers and Rio Jordan at AVA at Casino del Sol on Saturday, Sept. 22; Sean Paul, Jahmar International and Neon Prophet at the Rialto Theatre on Wednesday, Sept. 26; MEOWmeow Productions and Wingspan present Puertas Abiertas Cumbia Night featuring DJ Dirtyverbs, Vox Urbana, Jaime J. and Lola Torch at Plush on Friday, Sept. 21; Whole Lotta Zep at Boondocks Lounge on Saturday, Sept. 22; Try a Little Tenderness: A Salute to Otis Redding and Stax Records at the Fox Tucson Theatre on Friday, Sept. 21; Race You There and Roll Acosta at Sky Bar, next Thursday, Sept. 27; POW/MIA Recognition Day with Shovelhead Road at The Bashful Bandit on Friday, Sept. 21; The Disgustingtons, Bricktop and Industry at Surly Wench Pub on Friday, Sept. 21; Wyatt Easterling at Abounding Grace Sanctuary on Saturday, Sept. 22.

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CLUB LIST Here is a list of venues that offer live music, dancing, DJ music, karaoke or comedy in the Tucson area. We recommend that you call and confirm all events. ARIZONA INN 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. ARMITAGE WINE LOUNGE AND CAFÉ 2905 E. Skyline Drive, No. 168. 682-9740. THE AULD DUBLINER 800 E. University Blvd. 206-0323. AZUL RESTAURANT LOUNGE Westin La Paloma, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. 742-6000. THE BAMBOO CLUB 5870 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 524. 514-9665. THE BASHFUL BANDIT 3686 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-8996. BEAU BRUMMEL CLUB 1148 N. Main Ave. 622-9673. BEDROXX 4385 W. Ina Road. 744-7655. BEST WESTERN ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871. THE BISBEE ROYALE 94 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-6750. BLUEFIN SEAFOOD BISTRO 7053 N. Oracle Road. 531-8500. THE BONE-IN STEAKHOUSE 5400 S. Old Spanish Trail. 885-4600. BOONDOCKS LOUNGE 3306 N. First Ave. 690-0991. 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. THE CANYON’S CROWN RESTAURANT AND PUB 6958 E. Tanque Verde Road. 885-8277. CASA VICENTE RESTAURANTE ESPAÑOL 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. CASCADE LOUNGE Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive. 615-5495. CHICAGO BAR 5954 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-8169. CHUY’S MESQUITE BROILER 22ND STREET 7101 E. 22nd St. 722-5117. CIRCLE S SALOON 16001 W. El Tiro Road. Marana. 682-5377. CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. LA COCINA RESTAURANT, CANTINA AND COFFEE BAR 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. COLT’S TASTE OF TEXAS STEAKHOUSE 8310 N. Thornydale Road. 572-5968. COMFORT SUITES 7007 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-2300. COPPER QUEEN HOTEL 11 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-2216. COW PALACE 28802 S. Nogales Highway. Amado. (520) 398-8000. COW PONY BAR AND GRILL 6510 E. Tanque Verde Road. 721-2781. CUSHING STREET RESTAURANT AND BAR 198 W. Cushing St. 622-7984. DAKOTA CAFE AND CATERING CO. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-7188. DELECTABLES RESTAURANT AND CATERING 533 N. Fourth Ave. 884-9289. THE DEPOT SPORTS BAR 3501 E. Fort Lowell Road. 795-8110. DESERT DIAMOND CASINO MONSOON NIGHTCLUB 7350 S. Nogales Highway. 294-7777.

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DESERT DIAMOND CASINO SPORTS BAR Interstate 19 and Pima Mine Road. 393-2700. DIABLOS SPORTS BAR AND GRILL 2545 S. Craycroft Road. 514-9202. DON’S BAYOU CAJUN COOKIN’ 8991 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-4410. DRIFTWOOD BAR 2001 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4317. DRY RIVER COMPANY 800 N. Kolb Road. 298-5555. 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. 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. 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. HOTEL TUCSON CITY CENTER 475 N. Granada Ave. 623-2000. THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200. IBT’S 616 N. Fourth Ave. 882-3053. IGUANA CAFE 210 E. Congress St. 882-5140. IRISH PUB 9155 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-2299. JASPER NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANT AND BAR 6370 N. Campbell Ave., No. 160. 577-0326. JAVELINA CANTINA 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200, ext. 5373. JEFF’S PUB 112 S. Camino Seco Road. 886-1001. KNOW WHERE II 1308 W. Glenn St. 623-3999. KON TIKI 4625 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-7193.

LAFFS COMEDY CAFFÉ 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-8669. LAS CAZUELITAS 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. NIMBUS BREWING COMPANY TAPROOM 3850 E. 44th St. 745-9175. 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. PINNACLE PEAK 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 296-0911. 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. PY STEAKHOUSE 5655 W. Valencia Road, inside Casino del Sol. (800) 344-9435. RPM NIGHTCLUB 445 W. Wetmore Road. 869-6098. RA SUSHI BAR RESTAURANT 2905 E. Skyline Drive. 615-3970. RAGING SAGE COFFEE ROASTERS 2458 N. Campbell Ave. 320-5203. 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. RUNWAY BAR AND GRILL 2101 S. Alvernon Way. 790-6788. RUSTY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILLE 2075 W. Grant Road. 623-3363. SALTY DAWG II 6121 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 106. 790-3294. SAM HUGHES PLACE CHAMPIONSHIP DINING 446 N. Campbell Ave. 747-5223. SAPPHIRE LOUNGE 61 E. Congress St. 624-9100. SHERATON HOTEL AND SUITES 5151 E. Grant Road. 323-6262. SHOOTERS STEAKHOUSE AND SALOON 3115 E. Prince Road. 322-0779. SHOT IN THE DARK CAFÉ 121 E. Broadway Blvd. 882-5544. SINBAD’S FINE MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE 810 E. University Ave. 623-4010. SIR VEZA’S 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. STADIUM GRILL 3682 W. Orange Grove Road. Marana. 877-8100. THE STEAKOUT RESTAURANT AND SALOON 3620 W. Tangerine Road. Marana. 572-1300. STOCKMEN’S LOUNGE 1368 W. Roger Road. 887-2529. SULLIVAN’S STEAK HOUSE 1785 E. River Road. 299-4275. SURLY WENCH PUB 424 N. Fourth Ave. 882-0009. TANQUE VERDE RANCH 14301 E. Speedway Blvd. 296-6275. TANQUE VERDE SWAP MEET 4100 S. Palo Verde Road. 294-4252. TERRY AND ZEKE’S 4603 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-3555. 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 20 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch The Bisbee Royale Logan Phillips Boondocks Lounge Grams and Krieger The Breeze Patio Bar and Grill Live music Café Passé Jazz Telephone Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Live classical guitar Chicago Bar Neon Prophet La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Stefan George, Ashes of Love Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Little Texas 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 Honey Henney Lime and guests Irish Pub Gary Alan Durrenberger Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar The Bluerays Las Cazuelitas Event Center Live music McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Susan Artemis Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Kevin Pakulis and Amy Langley O’Malley’s Live music On a Roll Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge The Crue (Motley Crue tribute) Pinnacle Peak Bluegrass Music Jam Plush Zac Harmon PY Steakhouse Gabriel Ayala RPM Nightclub 80’s and Gentlemen Sheraton Hotel and Suites Prime Example Sky Bar Logan Greene Electric, The Sadie Hawks The Steakout Restaurant and Saloon Andrew Cooper Sullivan’s Steak House Live music 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 Driftwood Bar Karaoke Idol Driftwood Bar 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 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, art show, wine tasting Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz

COMEDY Laffs Comedy Caffé Open mic

TRIVIA/PUB QUIZ Bumsted’s Geeks Who Drink The Canyon’s Crown Restaurant and Pub Geeks Who Drink Driftwood Bar Team trivia Salty Dawg II Team trivia

If you would like your band, club or solo act to be listed, send all pertinent times, dates, prices and places to: Club Listings, Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726. Fax listings to 792-2096. Or e-mail us at clubs@tucsonweekly.com. Deadline to receive listings information is noon on Friday, seven days before the Thursday publication date. For display advertising information, call 294-1200.

FRI SEP 21 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bamboo Club Live music The Bashful Bandit Live music Bedroxx DJ Du and the Cooper Meza Band The Bisbee Royale Buzz and the Soul Senders Bluefin Seafood Bistro George Howard and Mark Noethen Boondocks Lounge Neon Prophet Café Passé Tom Walbank The Canyon’s Crown Restaurant and Pub Live music Cascade Lounge Doug Martin Chicago Bar The AmoSphere Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler 22nd Street Bobby Wilson La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar The Greg Morton Band, Fur Family, Main Squeeze, Quiet Please Cow Palace Live music Dakota Cafe and Catering Co. John Ronstadt and Howard Wooten Delectables Restaurant and Catering Duo Vibrato Dry River Company Saint Maybe El Mezón del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Live music La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente The Grill at Quail Creek Paul McGuffin Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music Hacienda del Sol Freddy Vesely, Al Perry The Hideout Sol Down Hotel Tucson City Center The Bishop/Nelly Duo The Hut Dubfest Day One: Salacious Irish Pub Government Cheese Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Birks Works Las Cazuelitas Event Center Mariachis Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Maverick Flipside McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky. Patio: Retro Rockets Mint Cocktails Heather Hardy Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Monterey Court Jazz Festival Day One: John Einweck Trio with Bobby Elias, Rafael Moreno; Angel Diamond with Peter Swan, Lew Lepley, Evan Dain; Matt Mitchell and the Hot Club of Tucson with Nick Coventry, Evan Dain Mr. An’s Teppan Steak and Sushi Los Cubanos Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Mothership Connection and Captain Antenna Nimbus Brewing Company Taproom Two Lane Blacktop Old Father Inn Live music Oracle Inn Wild Ride Band O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge The Rainy Daze Band La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Redline Sports Grill Giant Blue Ric’s Cafe/Restaurant Live music River’s Edge Lounge Greg Spivey The Rock Attaloss, Armastus, Bethany Heights, One After the Other, Blow Up the Sky, The Getaway Mile, Serenity From Ruin Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon Andy Hersey Shot in the Dark Café Mark Bockel The Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar 80’s and Gentlemen Stadium Grill Live music Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Surly Wench Pub The Disgustingtons, Bricktop, Industry Tanque Verde Swap Meet Live music V Fine Thai Phony Bennett Whiskey Tango Live music Wild Bill’s Steakhouse and Saloon Beau Renfro and Clear Country Wisdom’s Café Volodia Woody’s Susan Artemis

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y-Not Karaoke Brats Brodie’s Tavern Driftwood Bar Famous Sam’s W. Ruthrauff Famous Sam’s Pima Iguana Cafe Jeff’s Pub Kustom Karaoke Know Where II New Star Karaoke LB Saloon Margarita Bay Midtown Bar and Grill Putney’s Karaoke with DJ Soup Riley’s Irish Tavern Chubbrock Entertainment Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Salty Dawg II Tucson’s Most Wanted Entertainment with KJ Sean Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon Stockmen’s Lounge Terry and Zeke’s Wings-Pizza-N-Things YNot Entertainment

DANCE/DJ The Auld Dubliner DJ spins music Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Flamenco guitar and dance show Circle S Saloon DJ BarryB Club Congress DJ Christopher Lawrence The Depot Sports Bar DJ and music videos

Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Friday Night Groove Desert Diamond Casino Sports Bar Fiesta DJs: Latin/Urban night Diablos Sports Bar and Grill DJ Mike Lopez El Charro Café Sahuarita DJ spins music El Charro Café on Broadway DJ spins R&B El Parador Salsa-dance lessons with Jeannie Tucker Famous Sam’s Valencia DJ spins music Fuku Sushi DJ spins music IBT’s CelloFame Javelina Cantina DJ M. Maynards Market and Kitchen DJ spins music Music Box ’80s and more NoRTH DJ Phatal O’Malley’s DJ Dibs Plush Puertas Abiertas dance party Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge Flashback Fridays with DJ Sid the Kid Sinbad’s Fine Mediterranean Cuisine DJ spins music Sky Bar Hot Era party, Elemental Artistry Fire-Dancing Unicorn Sports Lounge Y Not Entertainment Wildcat House Top 40 dance mix Wooden Nickel DJ spins music Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz

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LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bashful Bandit Tumblin’ Dice The Bisbee Royale Brian Lopez, Gabriel Sullivan The Bone-In Steakhouse Bobby Wilson Boondocks Lounge The Railbirdz, Whole Lotta Zep Café Passé Oktoberfest: The Bouncing Czechs Cascade Lounge George Howard Chicago Bar Neon Prophet La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Combo Westside Colt’s Taste of Texas Steakhouse Live music Cow Pony Bar and Grill DJ spins music Cushing Street Restaurant and Bar Live jazz Dakota Cafe and Catering Co. Howard Wooten Delectables Restaurant and Catering Bryan Dean and Koko Don’s Bayou Cajun Cookin’ Melody Louise Dry River Company Greyhound Soul, Silverbell, Quick Henry, Hank Topless, Van Christian, Cock Posse El Charro Café Sahuarita Live salsa band El Mezón del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Live music La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Gold Live music Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music Hacienda del Sol Freddy Vesely, The Railbirdz The Hideout Los Bandidos The Hut Dubfest Day Two: Simpkin Project Irish Pub Top Dead Center Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Corey Spector Las Cazuelitas Event Center Mariachis Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Lookout Bar and Grille at Westward Look Resort Live acoustic Maverick Flipside McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky Mint Cocktails Elvis impersonator Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Monterey Court Jazz Festival Day Two: Daniel Slipetsky and band, Diane Van Deurzen and Lisa Otey, Amilcar Guevera and Homero Ceron, Rafael Moreno and Descarga, Susan Artemis Mr. An’s Teppan Steak and Sushi The Bishop/Nelly Duo Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Live music Nimbus Brewing Company Taproom Five Way Street O’Malley’s Live music Old Pueblo Grille Jazz Jam with Pete Swan Trio Old Tubac Inn Restaurant and Saloon The Ronstadts Oracle Inn Sidetracked Souls Band O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Los Sociales La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Plush Caught on Film, Heavy Hawaii, The Soft Pack Rialto Theatre 2 Chainz Ric’s Cafe/Restaurant Live music River’s Edge Lounge Ben Hyatt The Rock Suicidal Tendencies, Flying Donkey Punch, Hillbilly Bo Runway Bar and Grill The Gunrunners, D.U.I. Squad Sheraton Hotel and Suites Tucson Jazz Institute The Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar Live music Stadium Grill Live music Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Surly Wench Pub Betty Blowtorch, Sugar Stains Tanque Verde Ranch Live music Tanque Verde Swap Meet Live music Tucson Live Music Space News From the Front Whiskey Tango Wound2Tight Wisdom’s Café Bill Manzanedo

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Concerned about getting to

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Don’t be. It’s easy. Really. How is the streetcar construction affecting the Club Crawl ® layout?

Good news: We are still using Congress Street between the Rialto Theatre and Hotel Congress, and Fifth Avenue between Broadway Boulevard and Toole Avenue, to host three of our outdoor stages. However, the section of Congress Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues will remain under construction, and will not be part of this fall’s event.

Where can I park?

The closest parking sits in the new Centro parking garage, just east of the Rialto Theatre. This garage can be accessed from westbound Broadway. You will turn right into the garage just after the southbound Toole exit. Parking is $5, and you can park all night. The next-closest parking garage to the event is at the corner of Pennington Street and Sixth Avenue. To access this garage, head south on Stone Avenue; turn left on Pennington; then travel east to the Scott Street entrance. There are 750 parking spots here, and the price is only $3 for the entire night. There are also 1,000 on-street parking-meter spaces near Club Crawl® that are free after 5 p.m. The La Placita garage, at Church Avenue and Jackson Street (one block south of Broadway), has an additional 500 spaces. With four other large parking garages nearby, the number of parking spaces downtown totals 14,000. In other words, there’s plenty of cheap, accessible, nearby parking! For more parking information, go to Tucson’s Parkwise site at parkwise.tucsonaz.gov/parkwise/ where-can-i-park-downtown.

How do I get into Club Crawl®? How do I avoid the lines?

There will be one main entrance to Club Crawl®, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Toole Avenue. We always advise folks to show up early to beat the rush and enjoy of all the great acts we have scheduled at Club Crawl starting at 8 p.m. However, even during the rush, we’ll have plenty of people working the line to get everyone into the enclosure quickly.

How do I get a VIP pass? What does that do for me?

VIP passes can be purchased for $15 in advance, or $20 at the door. There are a limited number available, so we advise you to go to either Zia Record Exchange location to purchase yours before they run out. VIPs will have their own entry lane at the main entrance. The VIP passes will also get you to the front of the line at all of the venues.

How do I get priority seating for the DeVotchKa show at the Rialto Theatre during Club Crawl ®?

Special priority seating will put you either in front of the stage or in a reserved seat in the balcony. These tickets can be purchased for $15 and will also include a Club Crawl® wristband. They are available only through the Rialto box office at 318 E. Congress St., or online at www.rialtotheatre.com. Please note there is a limited number available—so get your tickets now! 56 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

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