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NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 5, 2012 VOL. 29, NO. 41

Ang Lee’s Life of Pi is truly an amazing film for the ages. OPINION

Tom Danehy 4 Ryn Gargulinski 6 Jim Hightower 6 Guest Commentary 8

CURRENTS The Skinny 9 By Jim Nintzel

Private Eyes 9 By Tim Vanderpool

Civil-rights defenders sue for the right to record Homeland Security actions Media Watch 10 By John Schuster

Murky Matters 11 By Albert Vetere Lannon

As a fired electrician fights to get his job back, Metro Water increases its rates Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by David Mendez

Police Dispatch 12 By Mariana Dale

An Advertising Icon 13

In response to the new Facebook guidelines, the Tucson Weekly declares (some quasi-legal mumbo jumbo about copyrights).

By Jane Eppinga

The Santa figure the public came to know and love was born, in part, here in Tucson More Than Mental Illness 14 By Mari Herreras

Friendships form over symptoms and words at a writing workshop for Tucsonans who refuse to be labeled

When Readers Procrastinate In this space, I often say nice things about all of you who take the time to read this fine publication, bettering yourselves and the community in the process. But this week, dear readers, it’s time for a bit of a tonguelashing. On Nov. 8, I informed y’all that we would be doing one last Get Out of Town! issue, on Dec. 13, before retiring it after a 10-year-run—and I invited you to take part. To repeat: “Every year since 2003, we’ve kicked people, places, organizations, etc. that somehow annoy or perturb us out of town. (Not that they ever leave … but, hey, the process makes us feel better.) This year, we’re asking you to join us by writing up your own Get Out of Town! submissions— and we’ll run the best of the bunch in the Get Out of Town! issue. If you want to give something or someone the boot, email your write-up to mailbag@tucsonweekly.com no later than Tuesday, Dec. 4. Be sure to include contact info, so we can verify authorship.” Well, here it is, mere days before that Tuesday deadline, and how many Get Out of Town! reader submissions have arrived in my inbox? One. And that reader revoked the submission, fearing reprisal by his homeowners’ association. (Long story.) So … help us send off this Tucson holiday-naughtylist tradition in style by submitting your own Get Out of Town! ideas. I know you have them, and you’re just procrastinating; Southern Arizona, while awesome in innumerable ways, ain’t perfect. Get off your butts, and send in those submissions. Operators are standing by! (OK, there’s just one operator, and it’s me, and I get emails on my phone, so I am not necessarily standing by, but still … just send in your darn submissions!) JIMMY BOEGLE, Editor jboegle@tucsonweekly.com COVER DESIGN BY ANDREW ARTHUR

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CULTURE

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City Week 20 Our picks for the week

For the Masses 40

TQ&A 22 Victor Alvarado, Outlet Cafe and Innovation Centre

If you want a lot of food, for cheap—and you don’t mind salt—then head to Hibachi Super Buffet

PERFORMING ARTS

Noshing Around 40

Holidays on Pointe 28

MUSIC

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Thanksgiving has come and gone, so that means it’s Nutcracker season!

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By Adam Borowitz

Tucson Born 47 By Gene Armstrong

The Supersuckers are finally starting to grow up

‘Humbug’ With Heart 31 By Sherilyn Forrester

The Gaslight Theatre’s take on the story of Scrooge is a complete delight

Soundbites 47 By Stephen Seigel

Club Listings 49

VISUAL ARTS

Nine Questions 52

City Week listings 32

Live 53

BOOKS

Rhythm & Views 54

Dying for a Drink 35 By Tim Hull

MEDICAL MJ

This terrific new book tells the history of a famously deadly oasis in southwestern Arizona

A Lack of Green 55

CINEMA Journey for the Ages 36 By Bob Grimm

The beautiful, magical Life of Pi is an amazing filmmaking achievement Film Times 37 Showing Off 38 By Colin Boyd

The director gets in the way of what could have been a fine Anna Karenina Now Showing at Home 39

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DANEHY OPINION

Yet another ‘Weekly’ editor will be departing soon—but Tom will miss this one

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EDITORIAL Jimmy Boegle Editor Dan Gibson Editor in Training Jim Nintzel Senior Writer Irene Messina Assistant Editor Mari Herreras Staff Writer Linda Ray City Week Listings David Mendez Web Producer Margaret Regan Arts Editor 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, Jerry Morgan Chow Writers Sherilyn Forrester, Laura C.J. Owen Theater Writers Mariana Dale, Inés Taracena Editorial Interns Noelle Haro-Gomez, Brooke Leigh Taffet Photography Interns Contributors Jacquie Allen, Gustavo Arellano, Gene Armstrong, Sean Bottai, Rob Brezsny, Max Cannon, Rand Carlson, Jeff Chen, Jane Eppinga, Michael Grimm, Jim Hightower, Tim Hull, David Kish, Keith Knight, Albert Vetere Lannon, Joshua Levine, Andy Mosier, Dan Perkins, Ted Rall, Dan Savage, John Schuster, Chuck Shepherd, Eric Swedlund, Tim Vanderpool SALES AND BUSINESS Jill A’Hearn Advertising Director Monica Akyol Inside Sales Manager Laura Bohling, Michele LeCoumpte, Alan Schultz, David White Account Executives Jim Keyes Digital Sales Manager Beth Brouillette Business Manager Robin Taheri Business Office Florence Hijazi, Stephen Myers Inside Sales Representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING VMG Advertising (888) 278-9866 or (212) 475-2529 PRODUCTION AND 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, Kristy Lee, Daniel Singleton, Denise Utter, Greg Willhite, Yaron Yarden Production Staff

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atirist Mort Sahl used to say that one of the drawbacks of J. Edgar Hoover’s decades-long tenure as head of the FBI was that he came to view United States presidents as transients merely passing through his life. Far be it for me to compare myself to J. Edgar Hoover (for one thing, I’ve only worn a dress a couple of times in my life), but I kinda understand what Sahl was talking about. Having been blessed to be associated with this fine publication for more than 25 years, I have managed to maintain that association through a string of disparate editors. With some, I have bonded; with a couple of others, I merely coexisted; and with one or two, I had to bob and weave and do the Ali shuffle. A couple of them—Serious Journalists, both—thought I was the Antichrist. One called me in to fire me, only to learn that I wasn’t a member of the staff. (I’ve always been a freelancer.) She was still going to bounce me, when I noticed a book on her shelf and mentioned that it was one of my favorites. The book, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, is a masterful indictment of the FBI’s maniacal war on the American Indian Movement in the 1970s. It turned out that my editor was best buds with the book’s author, Peter Matthiessen. She and I talked about that book for about three hours, and then she never messed with me again. See, kids, it’s good to read books. I’ve told the story before about how another editor took me to lunch and ended up with enough tortilla-chip fragments on her sweater to feed an Ethiopian village for a month. She told me that she hated first-person stuff; she didn’t like sports; and she didn’t think humor had a place in the Weekly. My next column had better be a work of serious journalism, she said, or it would be my last. So, figuring I’d go out in a blaze of glory, I turned in “Tom Goes to the Golf Tournament and Goofs on People.” (I even submitted it with that headline.) Fortunately for me, she got on the wrong side of someone higher up the food chain and was let go. What followed was a succession of cool people, including a couple of my favorites, Dan Huff and James Reel. Alas, they all passed through and moved on. Which brings me to Jimmy Boegle. For the past 10 years, I have had to endure an endless stream of this guy’s snotty remarks, almost every one of which I richly deserved. Most of the remarks had to do with my occasional habit of tiptoeing up to a deadline, but he also issued forth on my taste in music and sports, and my Walmart wardrobe. He also

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came to see me coach several times, which goes above and beyond and is very much appreciated. Thank goodness we won every time he showed up; I’m sure he had some barbs ready had we lost. Jimmy guided this paper through some challenging times with a steady hand and a clear vision. The Internet has caused dozens of daily newspapers around the country to blink out of existence, some (including the Tucson Citizen) after more than a century of publication. And with the ongoing death-by-a-thousand-cuts being perpetrated on the morning paper by its out-of-state ownership, it has become incumbent on the Weekly to step to the forefront. Believe me, it’s a lot harder to be the voice of reason and the paper of record than it is to be the screamer on the outside, tossing eggs and tomatoes over the wall. (At least that’s what they tell me.) Jimmy was up to that task and set high standards in journalism and community involvement. In all his time here, he only axed one of my columns. After a couple of years of stewing, I came around to understanding his reasons for having done so. But I continued to T.P. his house for another six months, because I had bought in bulk. Jimmy’s far from perfect. For one thing, he went to Stanford, a school that was founded out of guilt by a robber baron and established in memory of a 15-year-old kid (which is the way most of the members of the school band act in public). The school’s motto is Die Luft der Freiheit weht, which pretty much says it all, right? They claim that the English translation is “The wind of freedom blows,” but most people just go with the shortened version, “Stanford blows.” Jimmy is also an ardent fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers, which puts him in a group that’s even more exclusive than enlightened Republicans: Jimmy is a member of the group Non-Latino Baseball Fans Younger Than the Age of 40. So at the end of the year, Jimmy’s leaving us to start (along with his partner, Garrett) his own paper in the Coachella Valley part of California. The Coachella Valley, best known for its rowdy springtime music festival, has an official motto of “At Least We’re Not Imperial Valley.” It sounds like more of a challenge than an opportunity to me, but I certainly wish him the best. He’s a good guy and a great editor. I’m going to miss him.

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GARGULINSKI OPINION

A smoking ban puts the county on the cutting edge—of stupidity HIGHTOWER BY JIM HIGHTOWER

FIXING AMERICAN AIRLINES

BY RYN GARGULINSKI, rgargulinski@tucsonweekly.com

ima County gets a big, fat slap on the back for finally being on the cutting edge of something. Too bad we are on the cutting edge of one of the most inane trends wafting across the globe. No more smoking on any Pima County property. This means you. This also means outdoors. Pima County parks remain exempt from the ban, despite at least two news stories that stated otherwise. But the ban does apply to parking lots, outdoor county-sponsored events, and those grimy little cubbyholes behind Dumpsters where smokers had been previously “allowed” to puff in a Quasimodo-type stance so no one would see them and complain. It’s not just the traditional cigarette that’s banned, either. The ordinance applies to “cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco, water pipes, hookahs, e-cigarettes, chewing tobacco, snuff and other products containing tobacco.”

Hoo-boy, the startling revelation that American Airlines had some of its passenger seats come loose during flights earlier this fall gives new meaning to the phrase “flying by the seat of your pants.” But that’s what the top bosses of this once-proud airline have been doing for months as they continue to downsize its skilled workforce, outsource essential jobs and generally demoralize the people who make an airline successful. Having plunged Tobacco-users who double as county employees “may face the corporation into bankruptcy last year, disciplinary action” if they are caught using tobacco-related the geniuses in American’s executive suite products, according to the text of the ordinance. The text also decided that the way to fix the airline’s says the ban applies to nonemployees who are visiting county financial mess and restore public confifacilities or attending county-sponsored functions, although dence in its service was to force more cuts the punishment for disobedience is unclear. on the employees who provide the services. The idea of banning smoking outdoors on any property Thus, in February, it was decreed that still reeks. Yes, we know. Smoking is stinky. Smoking is maintenance crews in Fort Worth, Texas, yucky. Smoking gives you bad breath, yellow teeth, wrinkly and Tulsa, Okla., would be slashed, and skin and smelly clothes. A Pima County Health Department more than a third of their jobs would be flier says so. It also says smoking “may” make you cough, outsourced. Tom Horton, American’s geniusmake it tough to keep up with your friends, make you in-chief, blithely declared that airplanes breathe all raggedy, give you cancer or even kill you. “can be maintained in Asia or Latin We got it. Got a cigarette? America … anywhere.” True—but not necThe ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces that kicked essarily well-maintained. in statewide on May 1, 2007, cited secondhand smoke as the In September, when the seats started reason behind the prohibition. Although the air has cleared coming loose, the brass callously drove in bars, restaurants and within 20 feet of any establishment’s company morale further down by implying that American’s maintenance crews, who are members of the Transport Workers Union, were THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow the culprits. But TWU fired right back, pointing out that maintenance of two lines of 757s, including seats, had been outsourced to a nonunion, low-wage corporation where employees don’t get expert union training or regular onsite reviews by federal safety inspectors. As a frequent flier on American, I have a personal interest in this fight. I want CEO Horton to come to his senses and recognize that he can’t climb out of bankruptcy by stepping on the line employees he has to count on to make the flying experience pleasant and safe. Cut the corporate hierarchy—not the people we customers actually trust to deliver a good product.

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doorway, window or mouse hole near the corner floorboard, that is not enough. People are still smoking! Apparently, crouching behind the Dumpster for a quick puff should also be taboo. The excuse the county is using for this new, improved ban is that it will cut health-care costs. A letter from UnitedHealthcare to Pima County’s humanresource director decried how insuring smokers is so very costly, even though most of them drop dead at a muchyounger age than nonsmokers. That same letter failed to mention, however, that most health-insurance companies tack on a hefty surcharge to smokers’ health-insurance premiums. That might mar the excuse. Everyone is also keeping very mum about why people smoke in the first place. Here’s where the real whopper kicks in. Many in Tucson and its surrounding environs tend to take pride in their compassion for people and things. We’re always seeing yellow bumper stickers encouraging us to “Be Kind.” We let people stream across the border willy-nilly in the name of human rights. Some would let rattlesnakes attack their kids before they dared do anything harmful to dissuade the snake. “We have to have compassion,” many wail. We have to understand that all living beings have the right to be here. We must live and let live, respect and let feed, coddle and love, except when it comes to smokers. Smokers are evil. Smokers are bad. Smokers should be shot in the kneecaps and left to rot, without a cigarette, in the desert. This thought process illustrates the gross hypocrisy that has come to roost in our fair land. Smokers are not evil. They are suffering from that fine concept known as addiction. Sorry, but throwing a 1-800 number at smokers so they can engage in a free smoking-cessation program is not the answer. Nor is banning all tobacco products across county-owned property. It’s not only smokers who think such draconian laws banning outdoor smoking are ridiculous. “I think all of the controls are stupid,” says nonsmoking Tucsonan Elizabeth Bjay Gardner. “Do it for alcohol, too, then. Or ban driving cars or planes flying over your house spewing out jet fuel, because I’m sure that’s going to harm your lungs and health more than those smokers you pass by.” And we won’t even get into the stench, rot or health problems that can come from food addictions, alcohol addictions, heroin addictions or playing around with cocaine. We don’t have time for such things. We’re too busy hanging the smokers. After all, we are on the cutting edge of what is new. What is now. And what can be astoundingly asinine.

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BY JEFF CHEN

ince March 2010, I’ve become intimately acquainted with many of the things that people in our society no longer want to live with: empty liquor bottles, deflated soccer balls, the guts of deer, aluminum siding. My team and I have picked up this stuff on roadsides from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast. It’s taken us the better half of three years. We collected garbage as we went, six out of seven days a week, for eight months of the year. We did this to make a statement about America. That statement is about the sheer immensity of waste. We’ve hauled away some 188,593 pounds of garbage: ripped plastic, failed kitchen devices, jagged tires, flying Styrofoam, sex toys, beer cans and bottles, and outrageously excessive packaging. Although I do not believe that litter is the biggest environmental catastrophe of our time, it is a powerful indicator that our economy is out of whack—built on the rapid consumption of mostly virgin resources in the form of throwaway packaged goods. We’re highly skilled at buying things we don’t necessarily need, but we’re not very good at disposing of them properly. Picking up litter from a roadside involves repetitive motion. We all wore neon reflective vests and carry 3-footlong trash-grabbers. With each squeeze of the handle, the rubber suction cups at the other end grasp a piece of rubbish that gets stuffed into the giant bag that we hold with our other hand. Each piece of trash can tell a story—and the story begins inside the Earth, because all materials begin there—and it usually ends in a commingled, massive burial. But aside from the occasional surprising envelope full of cash or the duct-taped live chicken in a box, there is no juicy story behind most of the trash. Who really cares about the cigarette butt, Bubble Wrap or roof shingle? Sent to a 30-acre landfill, most trash just sits there, surrounded by a plastic liner. The waste this signifies is something most of us don’t know about, or don’t want to know about. We’re addicted to consumption, and I’ve seen a cross-country trail of trash to prove it. Each day that my team walked the roads of this country, I found myself obsessing over our addiction to “stuff.” Each time I pick up an aluminum beer can, I picture a person hurling that can out of a car window; if it’s a can of soda pop, I can’t help thinking about our dependency on corn. I envision the damming of the Amazon River and the upheaval of its people to bring in bauxite-ore production. With each passing car, I smell oil addiction. And in each economically depressed town I pass, I sense corporate greed that promotes mono-economies like monoculture crops. Here in the arid West, UV-degraded plastic is so brittle that it shatters when touched, releasing a few more of those plastic polymers and persistent organic pollutants that bio-accumulate in our ecosystems. I admit it: I’m not exempt from my own addiction to what’s available in our still-rich

culture—but that’s also how I understand the need for this ongoing campaign for reform. Economists call the impacts of drilling, manufacturing, selling and disposing of used-up or unwanted products “externalities,” but a better term for that is “eternalities,” because this stuff is eternal. Nothing ever goes completely “away.” It takes a lot of mining and industrial might to create what quickly become useless products. These companies—aided by tax breaks and cheap overseas manufacturing— don’t take any binding responsibility for the waste they create. Instead, the burden descends on us, individual citizens, and our cash-strapped municipalities, to haul away the waste that’s created, sometimes reducing some of that waste through communitysupported recycling. It’s time to pass a law requiring “extended producer responsibility” so that companies remain responsible for their products. We have nothing to lose but our growing mountains of trash. Jeff Chen is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn. org). He is the co-founder of Pick Up America, the nation’s first coast-to-coast litterpickup movement. The group of young people celebrated the completion of their trek Nov. 11 at Ocean Beach in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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THE SKINNY

Civil-rights defenders sue for the right to record Homeland Security actions

MCCAIN REMAINS CRANKY

Private Eyes BY TIM VANDERPOOL, tvanderpool@tucsonweekly.com

based CBP public-information officer, elaborated. “CBP policy is that, if you want to record (at ports of entry), you can always come down and ask us, and give us a little synopsis of exactly what you want to obtain by taking pictures and where they’re going to be shown,” he says. “You can always take pictures off the port property. If you’re off port property, there’s nothing we can do.” But that hands-off attitude is apparently optional; Ray Askins was not on federal property when he was allegedly manhandled for taking pictures. Nor was Christian Ramirez. Osorio acknowledges that even someone snapping pictures from a distance might face a few questions. He offers this analogy: “Say we’re at Walmart, and I’m following you, and I’m taking your picture. Wouldn’t you want to know why I’m taking that picture, and where it’s going to come out? It’s curiosity.” Curiosity is one thing. But constitutional rights are another, say opponents of the policy. “Our clients were harassed when they were outside of CBP facilities, in places that, as far as we could tell, were completely public,” says Sean Riordan, a staff attorney with the San Diego ACLU. “So whatever authority CBP might think it has within its own installations, there certainly is a limit to their ability to suppress photography and video recording in public places.” Riordan says that even if the agency wants to limit camera or video use on government property, “there still ought to be a First Amendment right to record CBP officers going about their business—especially when CBP officers are doing something that would be of public interest.” Such as male agents frisking women at inspection stations or accosting an innocent border-crosser. To Riordan, the First Amendment defines “a right to make a record of that using a camera. By doing so, it doesn’t jeopardize national security or the CBP’s interest in legitimate law enforcement. All it does is creates the conditions for accountability within the agency.” But customs isn’t the only branch of federal law enforcement that treads this fuzzy line. The U.S. Border Patrol has also tangled with First Amendment rights at its checkpoints, most notably in the case of Terry Bressi, an engineer with the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. (See “Running the Gauntlet,” Currents, June 18, 2009.) Bressi routinely passes through Border Patrol checkpoints coming and going from his job at Kitt Peak National Observatory, on the Tohono O’odham Nation west of Tucson. His tussle with the federal agents began in

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iven the multitudes of people crossing every day through America’s ports of entry, our border law-enforcement folks turn surprisingly shy when citizens try to photograph their work. Just ask Ray Askins, who blogs about environmental and human-rights abuses along the U.S.Mexico border. As he was photographing the California port at Calexico on April 19, he was approached by agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He says the agents demanded his camera. When Askins refused, they allegedly handcuffed him, took the camera and deleted its images. Or ask Christian Ramirez, a San Diego resident who crosses the border several times each month to visit relatives in Mexico. Ramirez is human-rights director for a nonprofit social-justice organization called Alliance San Diego, and his job includes monitoring border law enforcement. On June 20, 2010—Father’s Day— Ramirez and his wife visited his dad in Mexico. They claim that after returning through the port at San Ysidro, they witnessed male U.S. Customs agents singling out women for special inspections and pat-downs. When Ramirez began taking cell-phone pictures from a pedestrian bridge, the two were reportedly approached by a half-dozen more agents. One of them took his phone, Ramirez says, only to return it with all of the photos of the agents deleted. In October, the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties, joined by the law firm Morrison and Foerster, filed suit on behalf of both Ramirez and Askins in federal court. “The border is not a Constitution-free zone,” said the San Diego ACLU’s legal director, David Loy, in a press release. “Border agents are not above the law, and the law guarantees our right to hold them accountable by documenting their conduct.” But Customs and Border Protection, a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, requires that permission be granted for the use of recording and camera equipment at U.S. ports. When asked about this policy, a Customs spokesman sent the Weekly this statement: “CBP has the authority to protect against the disclosure of private or proprietary information,” it said. “Also we protect against the potential that images taken in the Federal Inspection Station can be used to circumvent law-enforcement efforts such as unlawful entry, drug-smuggling and other customs violations established to protect Americans, residents and visitors.” Contacted by phone, Juan Osorio, a Nogales-

The Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales. 2002, after he spotted them apparently monitoring a Tohono O’odham DUI checkpoint. When he raised a stink over this mixing of tribal and federal police duties, he found himself beside the road in handcuffs. That incident so outraged Bressi that he began photographing Border Patrol agents while passing through their checkpoints, a pastime they hardly found endearing. In response, those agents sometimes removed their nametags. They’ve tried to force him to show identification, and had him cited by tribal police for impeding checkpoint traffic flows. The citation was quickly thrown out in Pima County Justice Court. “People tell me, ‘That kind of thing happens all the time. Why are you making such a big deal over it?’” Bressi explained to the Weekly in 2009. “But to me, it just shows how far government is overreaching.” Perhaps it does happen all the time. At least that’s how it seemed to Kat Rodriguez last year, when she led a visiting group of activists through the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales. As coordinator for the Tucson immigrant-rights group Derechos Humanos, Rodriguez is accustomed to dealing with agents. But when a board member of the Washington, D.C.-based Alliance for Global Justice tried to cross with a camera, he got an up-close look at justice border-style. One agent told the man to turn the camera off, Rodriguez recalls. A few minutes later, she says, the agent approached again, this time demanding to see the camera. When the man refused, he was taken into an inspection area and interrogated for 25 minutes. “He said they took the camera from him, looked at it and then gave it back to him.” Rodriguez considers this sheer harassment. “All it succeeds in doing,” she says, “is oppressing tourists who have a camera in their hand.”

Sen. John McCain continued his cranky war with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice this week. As you may recall, McCain was all up in Rice’s grill because she didn’t say anything about terrorist connections when she discussed the September bombing of a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, while appearing on the Sunday talk shows a few days after the attack. Rice has maintained that she was delivering the talking points that had been approved by the intelligence community, but McCain was insisting that the White House scrubbed the references to terrorism for some sort of political benefit. Last week, however, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed that it had called for the removal of the references to terrorism—leading McCain to issue a statement expressing that he was “somewhat surprised and frustrated” about the revelation. We’d guess that frustration came from the fact that the DNI statement made McCain look even more foolish than he did two weeks ago, when he blew up at a CNN reporter who asked him why he was holding a press conference complaining about the lack of information about the Benghazi attack instead of attending a classified briefing on the matter. On Sunday, Nov. 25, McCain was on Fox News Sunday, where he said he wanted to hear Rice’s side of the story: “I’d give everyone the benefit of explaining their positions and the actions that they took.” McCain got his meeting with Rice earlier this week, but it didn’t go so well, especially after Rice released a statement saying she never intended to deceive the American public and had relied on an “incorrect” initial assessment. By Tuesday afternoon, McCain was back on Fox News, saying that he still had plenty of doubts about Rice’s ability to serve as secretary of state. McCain is rolling the dice by escalating this one; he may not have the votes to actually block Rice’s nomination, in which case the Republicans are starting their new outreach to women and minorities on flimsy grounds—by attacking an African-American woman on overblown charges. McCain does seem concerned about the GOP’s image. During Sunday’s Fox News segment, he said the Republican Party needed a “bigger tent,” starting with immigration reform, so the party stops alienating the rapidly growing Hispanic demographic. He also said that when it comes to abortion, the party should “leave the issue alone,” although when host Chris Wallace asked a follow-up question, McCain reiterated that he was pro-life. “But if someone disagrees with me, I respect your views,” said McCain. His

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WHITWORTH LEAVES KOLD Perhaps attempting to take advantage of the two-years-in-one-stop-and-then-move-on rule of broadcast advancement, Kayna Whitworth is vacating her morning-anchor position at KOLD Channel 13 for a weekend-anchor opportunity at WHDH in Boston. Whitworth joined the KOLD morning team a couple of years ago after working in similar capacities for stations in Bend, Ore., and Boise, Idaho. Replacing Whitworth on the morning show is Emily Turner, who arrives here from Jacksonville, Fla. A Jacksonville native, Turner has held radio gigs in Gainesville and Orlando, Fla., and Mobile, Ala.

A NEW FACE AT KGUN KGUN Channel 9 didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to go as far as Florida to find its new morning-show anchor. The local ABC affiliate is welcoming Greg Gurule as the replacement for Steve Nunez. Gurule has worked in the industry for the better part of three decades and crossed paths with KGUNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s news director, Forrest Carr, during a stint in Albuquerque, N.M. Most recently, Gurule worked as a reporter/anchor for KPHO in Phoenix, but he left the business for a couple of years to tend to personal issues. Guruleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first day at KGUN is slated for Dec. 3.

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Murky Matters BY ALBERT VETERE LANNON, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com hen Metro Water District managers fired electrician Donovan Hemway after he was nearly electrocuted, they stirred up already murky waters—and several government investigations of Metro Water are under way, as Hemway fights to get his job back. 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 said on Aug. 13 that 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. Hemway had worked for Metro for almost six years. (See “Sparks Flying,” Currents, Sept. 20.) “I was nearly killed,” Hemway told the board then. Hemway had been ordered to do a pumpefficiency test. Now, Hemway is insistent about getting his job back. Jessie Atencio, assistant director of the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health, wouldn’t comment about the division’s investigation. Hemway said he has received confirmation that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has begun a separate investigation of his termination, which occurred while he was on family and medical leave. The electrician’s charge of employment discrimination is pending at the state Attorney General’s Office, and an interview has been scheduled, he said. Hemway’s first victory came when Metro Water, on the eve of a formal hearing, decided not to fight his workers’ compensation claim. The Industrial Commission of Arizona sent Hemway a letter notifying him that the Employers Compensation Insurance Co. had accepted his claim for compensation over jobcaused medical issues. Hemway sent the ICA a letter on Nov. 15 relaying reports from employees that a Metro Water supervisor was intimidating workers. Hemway charged that the supervisor told several people, including witnesses to the May 10 incident, that “if Mr. Hemway sues, there will be layoffs.” The supervisor also reportedly made light of a 6-inch hose rupture as “just a pinhole leak,” despite company video showing Hemway drenched while near a live electrical connection. Hemway’s letter argued this showed “a pattern of unlawful disregard in a hostile work environment” that could lead to “stress claims and even a fatality.” The company received the letter at 11:33 a.m. on Nov. 16, according to a delivery-confirmation service. Hemway claims that at 1:28 p.m. that day, he observed the supervisor in question

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Metro Water electrician Donovan Hemway asks for protection at the Aug. 13 Metro Water board of directors meeting. ference prospectus, Hill was to teach a Sept. 25 driving slowly down his street. class on “Reducing Risks and Costs.” While Hemway sees his battle with the comTanner also asked about Foulk’s comments at pany as David versus Goliath, the fallout may be a previous board meeting that debt service was affecting Metro Water in other ways. At a public “strangling the district.” Seventy-five percent of hearing Oct. 22 on proposed rate increases, Metro customer David Tanner, a former compa- Metro’s annual income, $6.6 million, reportedly goes to debt service. Foulk said he was misquotny supervisor, asked a series of questions about ed. His statement, however, remains in Metro Metro’s practices. According to the meeting Water’s approved board minutes from Aug. 13. minutes (posted on the Metro website, Another Metro customer, Annette Cline, sent www.metrowater.com), one of the questions an email to the board opposing the rate increase, involved how much Metro was paying attorneys “to fight employees who complained about wage adding, “I don’t really get the impression that my opinion as a longtime Metro customer really and hour law and job-safety violations.” matters to the board of directors, anyway.” The General manager Mark Stratton said the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association amount was not yet known. Board chairman wrote the board that any increase in connection Bryan Foulk denied any company wrongdoing, saying nothing was “being swept under the carpet.” fees “will adversely affect our builder members.” The board dropped the proposed water-conAnother question from Tanner: “Is the rate nection fee increase, but voted unanimously to increase needed so managers can continue to raise the base rate by $2.50 a month; to increase attend conferences at Whiskey Pete’s in Buffalo water consumption charges by 4 percent; and to Bill’s Resort and Casino near Las Vegas?” establish to a new water-resource-utilization fee Stratton responded that the only manager of 10 cents per thousand gallons. who attended a conference there was deputy Metro Water customer Donovan Hemway, general manager Chris Hill. Hill was the person unemployed since his discharge from the comwho initiated the change in a pump-testing propany, will have to pay the new rates while he cedure that almost killed Hemway when a hose continues his battle to get his job back. ruptured, Hemway said. According to the con-

remarks don’t really help anyone understand what he thinks about policy vis-à-vis funding for Planned Parenthood, access to abortion or any of the other thorny questions related to the issue. McCain also joined those Republicans who appear to be testing the water regarding the anti-tax pledge that’s been extracted from them by Grover Norquist, the dark lord of deficit spending. McCain said he didn’t support higher tax rates, but he did support removing or limiting deductions in order to bring in more revenue. That led to one of the most interesting exchanges between Wallace and McCain, as Wallace pointed out that McCain had fought against the Bush tax cuts that he now considers sacrosanct. McCain told Wallace that “every economist that I respect says if you raise tax rates at this time, in fact, the president even said that a couple of years ago, it harms the economy. We are trying to help the economy. And, so, unless I can be convinced that raising tax rates will be beneficial, then obviously, I think there’s reason and ground for my position.” But as The Washington Post reported during McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, McCain had the opposite opinion when the Bush tax cuts were debated in 2003. Back when he was fighting against the tax cuts, McCain told CNBC: “Most of the economists view this as primarily benefiting wealthier Americans. There’s a theory, I think, that’s prevalent—it was true in the 2001 tax cuts—that if you give it to the wealthy people, then they will then, you know, create jobs, etcetera. The interesting thing to me is that most economists will tell you that it’s the middle-income Americans that have been keeping the economy afloat.” Given that McCain’s fears about the Bush tax cuts seem to have been justified—the deficit has exploded; the promised jobs have not appeared; and most of the benefit has gone to the wealthiest Americans—it strikes us as odd that he now considers himself to have been wrong back then. But who knows what he’ll consider himself to have been wrong about six months from now?

BALANCE OF POWER The Democrats managed to pick up four seats in the Arizona Senate, which means that Republicans will hold 17, and Democrats will have 13. And the Dems managed to pick up four seats in the Arizona House of Representatives, so they’ll be outnumbered 36-24. That has Democrats singing an optimistic tune going into the new legislative session, which begins in January. Dems hope they’ll have a more moderate Legislature and get a few of their

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A man who said he was reacting to visions from God about his former boss yelled at schoolchildren and threatened to turn his dogs loose on a crossing guard, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. The man’s former boss reported that the man nearly ran him off the road. Around the same time, a crossing guard saw the man shouting that the driver of a white pickup truck—apparently, the former boss—was a rapist and child-molester. When deputies arrived, the crossing guard pointed out the man, who was standing next to his nearby house. When deputies approached, the man became frantic and started pacing. He said he witnessed “visions coming from God” that depicted his former boss and the boss’ son sodomizing and murdering women. He told deputies he was “just trying to keep the neighborhood safe.” Deputies arrested the man, who was booked into jail on two counts of disorderly conduct. They also requested a mentalhealth evaluation.

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An intoxicated woman initially refused to put on pants when confronted by a deputy after she failed to pay her cab fare, according to a PCSD report. The driver picked up the woman and a male companion at a bar and drove them to the woman’s apartment. When they arrived, the man said that he would not pay the fare, because the driver drove to the woman’s place instead of his house. As they exited, the woman slapped a side mirror, damaging it. When deputies arrived, the driver pointed out the woman’s apartment. The driver identified the woman from a driver’s license in a purse that deputies found outside the apartment. A deputy looked through a window and saw the woman and the man lying on a bed. One deputy took custody of the man when he answered the door, and another went inside to check on the woman. When she awoke, the woman refused a deputy’s request to put on some pants, and she threw the contents of her dresser to the floor. Eventually, she put on a pair of jeans and slippers. Outside, the woman denied the driver’s claims and said she could not recall sharing the cab or her bed with the man. The woman was taken to jail, where she was booked on charges of criminal damage and theft. The man also was charged with theft. On the way to jail, the woman threatened to have a deputy’s “ass beat” and said that her family was “rich and powerful in this town.”

Dispatches From Black Friday hat I learned during my first time as a Black Friday shopper is that, surprisingly, the process isn’t nearly as terrifying or harrowing as it is generally thought to be. I arrived in the epicenter of American capitalism—a suburban Walmart Supercenter—just before 8 p.m. on Grey Thursday, the newly minted bastard offspring of what is said to be the biggest consumer spending day of the year. Entering the parking lot, I saw something I’d never seen before: drivers circling the lanes like sharks, searching for open parking spots. The lot itself was packed from the building’s northern-most end to the parking lot of the nearby Sam’s Club, another arm of the Walton Empire. I felt like I moved through a portal transporting me from the peaceful night air of Glendale, Ariz., to a surprisingly clean Middle Eastern bazaar. The aisles leading from the entryway were clogged with carts; the path to the back of the store was a slow-moving river of humanity. Value-priced products had already been flung about, with T-shirt packs becoming small, cotton speed bumps willing to topple any shopper who wasn’t smart enough to watch where he or she was stepping. The Walmart’s in-store McDonald’s employees were even wandering through the scrum, selling coffee, soda and yogurt snacks to the crowds. One has to keep energy up for a rush on Tupperware, after all. As I mentioned, the chaos wasn’t actually all that chaotic—sure, the electronics department would descend into a free-for-all whenever a sales blitz was announced, and tempers flared over the number of registers that were open at any given time—but nothing happened that was very unusual. The takeaway: Black Friday is an absurd concept, particularly when its start has been stretched to the day before. But if you’re going to participate, do so in the suburbs—you may feel like you’re in another part of the world, but you’re less likely to be stabbed.

“OH. SOUR GRAPES!!!! … Such a disappointment for the Fridena-ites that they, fortunately, will not have a ‘mouth-piece’ on the (Pima Community College board of governors) to manipulate. They simply DO NOT understand the nature of our democracy and its inherent diversity of opinion. When such people lose an election … they cry foul and conspiracy. Their reaction to this election is predictable and laughable.” —TucsonWeekly.com user “Francis” does not hold back his feelings on Richard Fridena’s statement following incumbent Marty Cortez’s election victory (“Richard Fridena: ‘We Must Continue to Insist That [Marty Cortez] and the Other Trustees Represent Our Best Interests,’” The Range, Nov. 14).

BEST OF WWW As was mentioned elsewhere in this paper, the Tucson Weekly’s new editor will be my predecessor, one Mr. Dan Gibson. I worked with him during my time as an intern and gleaned as much knowledge of the job as possible from him; as a friend, I have been astounded at the weird range of general trivia he knows. I couldn’t be happier for him and for the Weekly—let’s just hope he doesn’t crowd my space over here with his insistence that we cover Insane Clown Posse as much as possible on We Got Cactus. Congrats, Dan.

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THE WEEK ON OUR BLOGS On The Range, we told you about a politically charged gun-shop owner in the White Mountains; gave you ideas for alternatives to the Black Friday mess; followed the Tucson Unified School District’s closure proceedings; let you know about the brand-new Smashburger; gave you your new Thanksgiving anthem; looked at Fiona Apple’s reasoning for not making her South American tour dates; updated you on Mexico’s possible name change; took a look at Chef ’s Kitchen and Catering; and more! On We Got Cactus, we checked out a LCD Soundsystem/Miles Davis mashup; read a bit about Rage Against the Machine’s 20th anniversary of their debut single, “Killing in the Name”; read Big Meridox’s explanation of his new album; previewed the Delicate Steve show at Plush; kept up with the ongoing adventures of the Modeens; and asked Julie Reed nine questions, give or take.

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bills passed. It’s hard to see how the Legislature could grow more conservative, so perhaps they’re right. But with Republican Andy Biggs ousting Steve Pierce as Senate president, and Andy Tobin remaining speaker of the House, we have a feeling that it ain’t gonna be all about spending on schools and social programs.

BY JANE EPPINGA, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com m hen Santa needed to escape the North Pole’s cold and snow, Haddon Sundblom wintered in Tucson and became friends with the Westward Look resort’s owner, Robert M. Nason. Haddon Hubbard Sundblom established our image of Santa Claus in his famous series of Coca-Cola Christmas advertisements. He produced these paintings during our nation’s most troubled times, the Great Depression and World War II, when all the world needed hope, joy and Santa Claus. From 1931 to 1966, Sundblom created 40 Santa Claus paintings for Coca-Cola. Just how much the people cared about his Santa Claus became evident when a printing mistake reversed Santa’s belt buckle in one painting. Thousands of letters poured in to Coca-Cola pointing out the error. Sundblom used the Nason children, Lani and Sancy, as models for the children in many of his paintings of Santa Claus. They appeared in 1963 in “The Pause That Refreshes.” Sancy cuddles up to Santa Claus while Lani serves him—what else—a Coca-Cola. By 1964, Santa Claus appeared with the children on his lap and at his knee while enjoying a new puppy and a CocaCola. Still, we are reminded that Santa Claus has many more stops to make in “Things Go Better With Coke.” Sundblom, the youngest of 10 children of Swedish immigrants, was born in Muskegon, Mich., on June 22, 1899. He lost both parents at an early age. After his mother died, the 13-yearold Sundblom dropped out of school and set out to make his fortune. He hitchhiked to Chicago, where for seven years, he worked on construction jobs during the day, and studied at night at the Art Institute of Chicago, with the intention of becoming an architect. During a construction layoff in 1925, he got a job as an illustrator with the prestigious Charles Everett Johnson Studios. A year later, Sundblom and two colleagues, Howard Stevens and Edwin Henry, formed their own advertising agency. Many of the nation’s top illustrators got their start in Sundblom’s studio, and did a variety of work to sustain themselves while learning their craft. The studio artists included a plumbing contractor, a politician, a millinery tycoon, a policeman, a boxer, a world-champion pistol shot and two ministers. Sundblom would later claim that through a spirit of good will, they inspired each other. Sundblom’s talent for themes and artistry soon brought him clients such as Cream of Wheat, Nabisco Shredded Wheat cereals, Aunt Jemima pancake mix, Maxwell House coffee, Cashmere Bouquet and Camay soaps, and

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Gerber baby food. Sundblom’s face can still be seen on Quaker oatmeal boxes, and he produced the Gerber baby. He also produced posters for the U.S. Marines and advertisements for Ford, Packard, Lincoln, Buick and Pierce-Arrow. His illustrated stories appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies’ Home Journal, Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping. During the peak of his professional career, Sundblom produced more than half of the Coca-Cola billboard art. Sundblom was not a fan of the scrawny Santa Clauses wearing cheap costumes in the department stores. Sundblom provided his Santa Claus with what we have come to consider the traditional Santa uniform: a cap; a long, red coat trimmed with white fur; red trousers; high black boots; and a leather belt with a massive brass buckle that girds a “little round belly, that shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly”: He brought to life the words of Clement C. Moore’s poem “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Santa Claus, like Sundblom, was a big, expansive and ebullient man, sometimes stealing a drumstick out of the refrigerator. And, of course, he drank Coca-Cola. Santa would leave an extra orange or two in the socks “hung by the chimney with care” if you left him a Coke. When Sundblom was faced with the problem of finding another Santa model, a friend suggested that he look in the mirror. One morning while shaving, he looked at his lathered Swedish face and saw that the years had matured it into a perfect Santa Claus. In 1931, Sundblom painted a full-length Santa Claus that became the first in a long series of

Coca-Cola cutouts. In “They Remembered Me,” Santa is grateful to a family for leaving him a bottle of Coca-Cola. Even though he has tracked “new-fallen snow” into the living room, one senses that the family is more than happy for his visit. During World War II, Santa Claus carried war bonds in his sack of gifts, and he toasted American soldiers with a Coke. The year 1943 was the only time Sundblom made a political statement. He posed Santa Claus next to a globe with a caption that read, “Here’s to our GI Joes.” In 1948, Santa appears with the Sprite boy, who wears a Coca-Cola hat. Santa takes a long drink of Coca-Cola in “Travel Refreshed” while the Sprite boy holds the reins to the tiny reindeer and looks out mischievously at the viewer with wonderful twinkling eyes. The Sprite boy originally appeared in 1942, and was used in correspondence and advertisements to remind people that Coke and Coca-Cola were trademarks. By the 1960s, televisions were in almost every home, and magazines began to use more photography. Illustration was fast becoming an obsolete career. Haddon Sundblom created his last two Santa Claus paintings for Coca-Cola in 1964. The last one was used in 1966. The whereabouts of the 1966 painting is a mystery. Sundblom pursued his art career in semiretirement until his death in March 1976. The world is a richer place for having known Haddon Sundblom’s artistry. He helped us believe that Santa Claus is a human who carries out the work and spirit of the child’s birthday we celebrate on Dec. 25.

With all the votes finally counted, we can examine voter turnout in Election 2012. Statewide turnout was about 74 percent, while in Pima County, turnout was 78 percent. That’s a drop from the nearly 80 percent of Pima County voters who cast ballots in the 2008 presidential election, and the 82 percent who cast ballots in 2004. There were too many problems with voting. Some of that came from buggy lists; some of it came from the confusion that follows redistricting; and some of it came from voters who walked in their vote-by-mail ballots on Election Day. Despite the bitching about the loss of the tradition of going to a polling place, most voters are more interested in filling out a ballot at home. And when you look at lines of people waiting for hours to vote in other states, who can blame them? Nobody wants to wait like that unless there’s a 55-inch big-screen for less than $200 involved. In Pima County, more than twothirds of the 385,725 ballots cast came from people who got them in the mail. But close to 44,000 of those vote-by-mail ballots were dropped off on Election Day, which throws a lot of sand in the vote-counting gears. The signatures on each of the envelopes need to be checked to ensure that the ballot was filled out by an actual voter. We expect the Legislature will try some kind of reform to deal with this problem—but the solution won’t be easy or cheap. By Jim Nintzel Find early and late-breaking Skinny at The Range, our daily dispatch, at daily. tucsonweekly.com. Jim Nintzel hosts the Political Roundtable every Friday on Arizona Illustrated, airing at 6:30 p.m. on KUAT Channel 6. Follow the Skinny scribe on Twitter: @nintzel.

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After spending time with Kelty and others who are part of the Poets and Writers group at Our Place Clubhouse, I’d become more and more sensitive to the words mental illness, crazy and insane, but there we were, with Kelty and her fellow writers talking about mental illness— and sharing unexpected laughter. “Basically, I heard three people for about three years, until I finally got on the right medication, and I was working with a therapist and going to school. I realized they weren’t real about two years ago. Even if you know they aren’t real, you experience them as real,” Kelty said. “I had kind of a bad time when I realized how crazy I had become, and I got really upset. That happens.” As Kelty spoke, there were sounds of affirmation from around the table. The other members of the group had been through what Kelty had, albeit in their own way, with their own illness. Every Thursday afternoon, the writers’ group meets with Sheila Wilensky, a local writer and a board member of the Coyote Taskforce, the organization that operates the clubhouse as well as the Café 54 restaurant on one side of it, and the ReThreads Thrift Store on the other. The group recently received a grant from Poets and Writers, a nonprofit literary organization, to help publish a chapbook of members’ writings. A chapbook is a small book, usually of poetry, but Wilensky said they plan to include a wide variety of writing from the group, as well as an introduction by U.S. Rep. Ron Barber. Wilensky said it was her personal experi-

lty Rachel Ke ences with mental illness that led her to join the organization’s board, and her work as an educator and writer that moved her to start meeting regularly with clubhouse members who are interested in writing. Together, the writers work on Natalie Goldberg-style Writing Down the Bones exercises, starting out with one theme, but often touching or ending on the pains mental illness has caused in their lives. These are the things Wilensky calls secrets— those deeply hidden stories or experiences that need to be told in order for society to fully understand that the people in her group are just people. “Perhaps it’s an act of revolution,” Wilensky said of the writers and their chapbook. “I know, for me, I hate secrets. I know, in my family, we have my father’s brother, who was hospitalized, and we never met. We don’t know why,” she said, adding that another cousin was

diagnosed with autism and also institutionalized. There’s also a niece who struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder and wrote an award-winning book about her ordeal. “I want to say that over the years in my life, of course, I’ve gone for therapy during difficult times,” Wilensky said, adding that about six years ago, her doctor recommended she take an anxiety medication. “I don’t take a full dosage, but it has helped me tremendously. But, look: The reality is that I am lucky enough to be one … who can afford this luxury of a $15 co-pay every month to get this stuff. Not everyone can, and I think that’s an important part of this: Who can afford to get treatment, and who can’t afford to get treatment, and who has to live with the shame?” The shame that individuals with varying levels of mental illness experience is what Wilensky and others at Our Place consider to be the catalyst for a new civil-rights movement for people suffering from mental illness. Noting that she has seen civil-rights movements for African Americans, women and now the LGBT community during her lifetime, Wilensky said, “I believe we are moving these secrets out in the open from people who are treated and highly functional. Of course, it’s a Catch-22: As soon as you say something about having a mental illness, people look at you differently. “At the most-basic level, this group and our chapbook is about education. But it’s also about injustice.”

I hated thinking I was mentally ill. At first, it was a spiritual illness, alcoholism, drug abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, a lonely childhood, but eventually it became a relief—a reason for extreme fear, shyness, solitude then hyperactivity, fear of being an outsider, having to hide my true self. Mental illness changed me—it changed the way I saw things. When I was “outside looking in,” there “had to be a reason for such a renunciation.” I had to make the transition of being outside and oblivious to being part of a community and (having) gratitude for a life that isn’t spectacular, just ordinary. —“Sugar Mountain,” by Rachel Kelty

ne term used at Our Place in place of mental illness is “brain disorder.” It’s preferred by some, because it gets away from the stigma associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and other diagnoses. “It’s still in the language itself, even the word disorder—this is the way to be; this is the way not to be. And there’s not a lot of room for something else in between,” Kelty said. “Right now, I like the word recovery.” At Our Place, there is a sense of relief—finding community, structure, building work skills or, as executive director Mindy Bernstein said, having someone for the first time ask you what

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you want to do with the rest of your life. “Often, you feel that you are on the outside looking in, but here, and in this writing group, you are part of a community and have something to contribute,” Kelty said. “Once I found the right medications, I still wasn’t feeling comfortable with the way I present myself. That’s been the hardest part—just getting comfortable around people. I had really bad symptoms for about 20 years, and they went away, but they were replaced by a really, really horrible shyness.” She said she feels more in the present now. When she’s talking, “it’s not me putting someone in front of myself to present to people. It’s me.” For a brief moment, Jared Loughner comes up in the conversation—how the young man with obvious mental-health issues became an unwelcome symbol for mental illness in Tucson after shooting and killing six people, and wounding 13 others, including former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, on Jan. 8, 2011. Sitting across from Kelty is Tyrone Scercy, a member of the clubhouse since the mid-1990s who recently returned after his symptoms flared up so badly that it cost him his job and landed him in jail for almost a month. “What most people don’t understand is that one in five Americans have a mental illness. It’s impossible to say that every single person is a violent person,” he said. “Most people diagnosed just deal with it in a successful way and are able to do great things in society. It’s a small number that have to deal with difficult emotional issues that can cause them problems.” Scercy was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was 16, and he said he was lucky that he was often in private hospitals, because his father had insurance as a truck driver hauling gasoline. He said many people during that time didn’t understand him, but that he worked on his issues from age 16 to 22, and then went on to college. While in his mid-20s, he decided he needed to move out of his parents’ house and sign up for the public mental-health system. “I didn’t want to be a burden to them, and I wanted to deal with this on my own,” he said. Scercy was able to get an apartment and start a career in social work. But the past few years have been difficult for him. His symptoms returned when his doctor changed his medication, and that became a problem at his job at COPE Behavioral Services, where he worked as a recovery-support specialist. It was a job he took pride in, because he wants to become a social worker, he said. “It gets frustrating when you are trying to be someone who is not on assistance for the rest of your life, and then I get sick and end up right back in the same spot,” Scercy said. The same spot is the clubhouse, where Scercy said he has always found refuge. “There were some misunderstandings with my employer, who ended up also becoming my provider. It was bad situation for me to be in. Part of it is my fault, too. I can’t put it all on them. There were some misunderstandings, and my symptoms were getting worse, and I ended up in jail for about a month without my medications. And then, after that, I went from hospital 16 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

to hospital, trying to get stable again,” he said. “There are a lot of people who end up in jail who have mental-health issues, and simply, they are acting out, and no one understands they have mental-health issues.” Scercy said he is working again, but in the fields of retail and employment counseling. The pay is minimum wage—half of what he was earning before. The writing group helps him express himself, Scercy said. He said he’s even returned to several children’s stories he’s written and is interested in finding an illustrator and publisher.

I have gone through so much hardship behind my mental illness. I have lost jobs, relationships, and even valuable time. I have faced adversity at every corner of my life; others may have wanted me to give up and just wallow in my mental-health despair. You know, sit there and be a compliant patient and just not cause issues with myself and others. I am already a peaceful person at heart and want peace for my fellow man, woman and child. I still, however, want the dream all Americans and others want for their lives: prosperity and a life of happiness. —“Three Things You Would Like People to Know About Your Mental Illness,” by Tyrone Scercy

ert-Faraj Lani Halb t one end of the table, Doreen Scherf smiles at Kelty and Scercy’s stories, offering compliments to her fellow writers and reminding each of them of their talents. It’s Scherf who brings up Scercy’s children’s stories, as well as Kelty’s talents as a baker at the Small Planet Bakery. In addition to participating in Wilensky’s Thursday writing group, Scherf also leads a Tuesday peer-writing-group at Our Place. She said writing and other forms of creative expression have helped her and others feel better. She also credits Our Place for its supportive atmosphere. “This is a really safe place,” she said. “It saves us from isolation.” For about 10 years, Scherf worked as a middle-school teacher. She looks back at that time and realizes she was manic during most of it. As she was going through severe depression, she turned in her resignation. “Because I was losing my mind,” she said. “I mean that literally. I didn’t know what to do. I loved the kids.” She left school to get help, thinking she’d be able to return. She did at one point, but was

able to last only one semester. “I have anxiety. I was suffering from depression and even heard voices and was diagnosed with a schizophrenic disorder,” she said. “I was very sad. I was a very good teacher. I was also bipolar—I was up and down,” Scherf said. Once Scherf realized she wouldn’t be able to return to teaching, her case manager helped her find Our Place. Her husband wanted a place for her to go every day, because he was afraid she might hurt herself while he was at work. “I just needed to get going, get moving. I fell in love with it,” she said of Our Place. Scherf said most people don’t understand that she has a mental illness, which makes it difficult to explain when she tells people she can no longer teach, or that she needs to take Sun Van transportation because her medications prevent her from driving safely. “It shouldn’t be shameful. It’s not contagious and not something you can definitely always see, so it is difficult to explain. People have said to me, ‘You look all right to me,’” Scherf said. “And I think the other thing is what we all say: We are not evil, not dangerous. Sometimes we are to ourselves, I think, for sure. But I have never, ever wanted to hurt anyone else.”

I am 40, and I teach literature to eighth-graders. They give a lot of stink eye and are very different from each other. I have had four hair colors in two weeks and now there’s not enough hair on my head to change the style. I have been diagnosed with depression, finally, and I want to have a baby, but that’s not in the stars. I want to go into the MFA program at the U of A, but we can’t afford it. Work is killing me. My passion is being sucked out of me. I am very, very sad and feel immobilized. —From a prompt: “What We Were Like at Different Stages in Life,” by Doreen Scherf

riting, Scherf said, gets into your core. “It helps you simply express yourself and makes you think about things you never thought you would.” When asked if she thinks it’s saved her life, Scherf mentioned a thick, red journal she has at home. During her deepest depression, she filled every page of it. “But now I’m afraid to take it down and read it. I remember back then that I felt like I was walking through Jell-O. My medications that I am on right now are working very well. I have a very supportive husband, sister and in-laws. Life is good.” Like Scherf, Pam Lipshutz is eager to compliment her fellow writers. Sitting at the head of the table, she looks fondly at everyone and praises their writing and their art—both Kelty and Scherf are also capable artists. “They are beautiful,” Lipshutz said. It’s an example of the unfailing support Wilensky said she sees during the writing sessions. When the group first started, she went over the rules most workshop-style groups try to maintain: Be careful with criticism, and be supportive of each other’s work. “What they do after each person reads is clap,” Lipshutz said. “I’ve never seen anything

like it. It’s wonderful how they support each other. I leave here feeling so good. “For me, it’s a good form of therapy,” she said. “It gives me a chance to express feelings that I may not be dealing with, and that’s especially good if you can’t get therapy.” What also helps, she said, is how Our Place helps her focus on the future and on finding a part-time job. But Lipshutz admits that she struggles with her mental illness. “Ever since I was a kid, I’ve basically had mental illness—OCD, anxiety, and I was in special ed,” she recalled. Lipshutz also had severe curvature of the spine. At 18, she had her spine fused. Now, more than 30 years later, she suffers from stenosis and mobility issues, which force her to use a walker. “From the get-go, I was challenged. I have a degree in social work and nursing, and I couldn’t do either of them,” she said. “My anxiety prevents me from being able to stay focused. I was finally diagnosed with dysexecutive syndrome. It’s like a learning disability. If I am in a stressful situation where there is a lot of information coming, I totally blank out, and someone has to step in and take over for me.” In social situations, one question that often comes up is, “What do you do for a living?” Lipshutz said she is still trying to figure out what to tell people. “It is devastating not being able to work, not having a job. People look at you and say, ‘She sounds normal; she looks normal. What the hell is your problem? Are you stupid? Are you lazy?’ But what the hell can I do? If I don’t have expectations, I do fine. When there are expectations, my anxiety goes up. Although right now, my meds are working, and, yes, I will have to take them for the rest of my life,” she said. Lipshutz said she was approved for disability aid, but she still wants to find part-time work. But just looking at the want ads gives her panic attacks. “Look, when I was first born, I never said I wanted to be a mentally ill person. Believe me, no one here does,” she said. “All of me needs to be acknowledged. At least socially, here, I don’t have to hide. I am so used to feeling ashamed of myself.”

Our parents divorced in 1974, leaving my sister and I homeless. Though my sister and I traveled with Mom to Portugal for the summer, we returned to the country with no address, bed or food. Mom didn’t return to the country. Dad didn’t invite us to stay at his girlfriend’s house. Until college began, we had to bunk down at the homes of friends. Our friend’s parents were forced to temporarily adopt us before our first semester of college. During my first college break, I stayed with my sister at her college. The dormitory bed we shared was unusually narrow, but we managed. Fortunately she was on the food plan. She would sneak food back for me at the dormitory that she put into plastic containers and stuffed into her coat sleeves. If it hadn’t been for her, I would have been out on the streets without food during my school break. So much for growing up middle class. It felt like our parents had abandoned us. —“No Room at the Inn,” by Pam Lipshutz

utz Pam Lipsh ecause of shame and social stigma, those trying to get better in the midst of mental illness tend to isolate themselves. Mindy Bernstein said her organization’s clubhouse model works, because it addresses that issue. The organization was formed in the late 1980s with funding from three mental-healthcare providers. That funding mechanism changed in the early 1990s, just as Bernstein was hired: A group of parents and staff members banded together to keep the clubhouse going as a self-funded agency. Bernstein said people are asked what they want to do with their lives as soon as they arrive, and they are asked to also think about that as they are assigned volunteer positions. In a “good clubhouse, you can’t tell the difference between members and staff. Everyone is working,” she said. How people are treated is also different: The clubhouse isn’t a clinic. People who are referred by their behavioral health-care agency become members and are not considered clients. And words, as in the writing group, are important. Bernstein said she stays away from the term mental illness and prefers to use brain disorders or brain diseases. “You’re insane; you’re a wing nut; you must be crazy; you belong in an insane asylum,” she said, giving examples of the derogatory language that can surround discussions of mental illness. “This language is tolerated in our society … while words like ‘kike’ and ‘wop,’ we don’t use that language. We don’t say ‘crippled’ or ‘retard.’ We, as a society, evolved.” That kind of change needs to happen for people with mental illnesses, she said. Bernstein said the clubhouse also works because funding comes from people who understand the issues. One important funder is the Community Partnership of Southern Arizona. “They have done so much in this community to help reduce stigma,” Bernstein said. “They have a vision of what a community in recovery looks like.” The group has brought in 700 members since it was formed, but most of them have moved on with their lives—marrying, finding jobs, getting promotions, or going back to school. And many check back in with Our Place to say hello. “We have about 150 individual members who come through (to volunteer and seek community) every month … and we never know who is coming,” Bernstein said.

To me, peace is the garden, or nature in general. There is nothing nicer than a quiet morning at home, sitting with my coffee and smokes, listening to the birds who are singing their lilting morning songs. There is a difference in their joy between morning, noon, afternoon, evening and at night. From scripture comes the phrase, “His eye is on the sparrow, and I know his eye is on me.” And how lovely it is to watch, early morning, when the air has a crystal-clear fresh quality, as the little birds take to the birdbath, squatting in the water, tilting their tiny bodies to pick up every splash, flapping their wings to create splatters of water that wash their wings. Sounds are dampened. Quiet, save for the birds’ morning songs. It’s the same in the garden. The quiet of the garden, where my squash plants sport huge orange flowers, with the promise of fruit and sustenance to come. —“Peaceful Garden,” by Lani Halbert-Faraj

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herf Doreen Sc We do tend to isolate, but being here with others also dealing with this is very helpful,” Lani Halbert-Faraj said. “And it is indeed an illness.” Halbert-Faraj said she has struggled with mental illness most of her life, but most recently, she found herself addicted to opiates after a doctor oversubscribed medications to treat fibromyalgia. The doctor is now in prison, and Halbert-Faraj has to go to the methadone clinic every morning. “I found myself staying at home more and more. I wasn’t feeling better, and then a friend told me about Our Place. I’ve only been coming here for eight months. I try not to miss a day,” she said. “It’s been a tremendous gift. I have a reason to organize my life more than ever before. My depression didn’t seem to relent, and it was because I was isolating at home. This opened up a window for me. I get dressed, and I go somewhere.” The writing, she said, has become a form of self-discovery. “I’ve brought forward things I hadn’t thought of before. I like Sheila’s approach in having us write. She inspires us with her openings and readings. I leave very up and hopeful.” Perhaps the chapbook they make will give people a different perspective. Halbert-Faraj thinks about people with physical disabilities who have to go through recovery. Society thinks of them differently, she said.

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convert it into a sanctuary for “Five years ago, I went on undocumented immigrants one of the delegations to Agua from Central America who Prieta, Sonora, and it was one of were fleeing persecution by the most powerful experiences their governments. Southside’s I’ve had,” Pollack said. “It is stance soon spread to other a great way to connect with congregations across the communities on the border country. and learn more about what is BorderLinks, the Samaritans, currently going on there.” Southside Presbyterian and For Pollack and others other groups are still fighting working at BorderLinks, it is to make our community amazing to look back at the more welcoming to migrants organization’s local and national and more sensitive to their 25-year trajectory. This year, situations. Whether through at La Lucha Sigue Conference, educational modules or inBorderLinks will celebrate the the-field work, all of these changes it has sparked by using Pablo Alvarado, national coordinator of the National Day Laborer organizations have contributed education as the main tool Organizing Network. to the movement. to promote a more-humane “Through these 25 years, BorderLinks has also been able to create approach to border issues and illegal immigration. a strong partnership with all the other organizations that (also) work La Lucha Sigue (The Struggle Continues) will also celebrate the with border-related issues,” Pollack said. “It is amazing to see the 30th anniversary of the Sanctuary Movement, which started in impact we all have helped bring.” Tucson and provided refuge for Central American immigrants at BorderLinks’ delegations are open to people from around the various religious congregations. The conference also will honor country. Pollack said it is rewarding that, after participating in a the 10th anniversary of Samaritans, a local organization that helps delegation, the members take what they have learned back to their migrants in their journey across the Sonoran Desert. home cities and towns. “We realized that these important anniversaries were coming up, The two-day La Lucha Sigue conference will include panel so we began to plan an event where we could recognize them and discussions, lectures, strategy sessions and debates led by community celebrate those who have played an important part in the struggle for organizers and guest speakers, such as the Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, the migrant rights,” said the Rev. Alison Harrington, pastor at Southside executive director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice Presbyterian Church. in California; and Pablo Alvarado, the national coordinator of the Harrington, along with other members of local humanitarian National Day Laborer Organizing Network. organizations, began planning La Lucha Sigue in April. The event is “We are a community that is living in fear. Because of the current intended not only as a celebration, but also as a melting pot for ideas immigration policies, so many families are being torn apart. The deaths to develop better strategies to fight anti-migrant sentiments. The along the border continue,” Harrington said. “This conference is a conference was scheduled post-election so that the organizations could wonderful opportunity to come together and find ways to appeal for get a feel for what the country’s political landscape may look like. the dignity of every individual, every family, and the value of every life.” “Pressure for permanent immigration reform began the very La Lucha Sigue will be held Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, next day after the elections,” said Harrington. “It is time to strategize Dec. 1, at Most Holy Trinity Church, 1300 N. Greasewood Road. how we are going to move forward, locally and nationally, in the Admission is $20 and includes both days. For a conference movement to defend the dignity of all people.” schedule and to purchase tickets, visit thestrugglecontinues.org. Southside Presbyterian played a key role in the Sanctuary Inés Taracena Movement, which began in 1982, when the pastor at the time, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com the Rev. John Fife, and other members announced they would

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ART Far-Away Patterns and Illuminated Spirals Landings: Stephen Strom/Stu Jenks Reception: 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1 On display 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, through Thursday, Feb. 14 ArtsEye 3550 E. Grant Road 325-0260

Photographers Stephen Strom and Stu Jenks work in a variety of mediums, from film to iPhones. They traverse deserts and mountains in California, Arizona, Utah and beyond in hopes of finding intriguing images. Together, their works constitute the Landings show at ArtsEye, the gallery that is the fine-art arm of Photographic Works. Strom was an astronomy researcher for 40 years, and his work often led him to mountaintops like Kitt Peak, where he saw a sparse landscape spread out below him. He became interested in photography in the 1970s and took classes at the University of Arizona. He soon returned to the summits with a new purpose—to document the views from above. “I can see not only patterns that are spread out before me without interruption by intervening foliage. … I can see history unfold before me,” Strom said. Strom said he seeks out patterns in the landscape that prompt an emotional reaction in him and, hopefully, the viewers. Jenks also incorporates patterns into his photography. But instead of seeking patterns in the land, he creates his own swirls and spirals using lighters and Christmas lights combined with long exposures. Jenks said that at one show featuring his trademark lighted spirals, a woman told him, “I am so glad you were there when they came.” Though he’s not quite sure who “they” are, he assumes she found his work otherworldly. “I like spirals and circles and things like that, because they tend to be universal mysterious imagery,” Jenks said. Though he has done cityscapes before, Jenks said he is partial to the natural environment. “An empty landscape lends itself more to a sense of mystery,” he said. Admission is free. —M.D.

Far left: Clear Lake in California, the shooting location for Tim Ramos’ film California Indian. Left: The Tucson Steampunk Society in costume at the Lavender and Lace Ball in Bisbee on Nov. 17.

FILM

SPECIAL EVENTS

A Native American Perspective

Tea With a Twist

25th Anniversary ry of World AIDS Day

Native Eyes Film Showcase

The Tucson Steampunk Society’s Dickens Afternoon Tea Party

6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1

2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1

4 to 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 1

Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd.

First United Methodist Church 915 E. Fourth St.

Hotel Congress 311 E. Congress St.

626-2973; statemuseum.arizona.edu

982-0556; www.meetup.com/Tucson-Steampunk-Society

622-8848; hotelcongress.com

How does someone choose between family and heritage, and money and fame? That’s one question the annual Native Eyes Film Showcase hopes to answer. Started by the Arizona State Museum nine years ago, the showcase has “continued as a vehicle since then to bring the native voice and perspective to Tucson,” said Lisa Falk, the museum’s director of education. This year’s showcase features two movies: California Indian and Dead Man. Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers will play a set of Native American blues music between the screenings. Farmer, who also acts in both films, will answer questions with fellow actor and director Tim Ramos before and after each show. California Indian is Ramos’ first feature-length film. He refined his technique in the American Indian studies and film programs at UCLA. After graduating, Ramos began making documentaries to preserve native culture and language in Northern California. But after eight years, he still had dreams of seeing his own screenplay come to life. California Indian tells the story of a Pomo Indian man who leaves a blossoming radio career in Los Angeles to return to his reservation, where questionable casino investors threaten the tribe’s sovereignty. The goal is to depict Native Americans as “real people” who don’t always have to be linked with traditional regalia and heavy spirituality, Ramos said. “I wanted to tell a story that kind of weaves in contemporary society with us Native Americans,” Ramos said. Dead Man is a 1995 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch that stars Johnny Depp as a young man on an odyssey through the 19th-century West. Tickets for the screenings and musical performance range from $6 to $15. A combo ticket for all three events is $20. —M.D.

Steampunk is the result of the unlikely marriage of 19th-century culture and technology from the 21st century and beyond. “You can think of it in short terms as being Victorian science fiction reimagined and brought to life,” said Tucson Steampunk Society organizer Jocelynne Weathers. Steampunk aficionados range from literature lovers to graphic-novel readers to fans of Victorian costumes. At steampunk gatherings, it’s not unusual to see corsets and spats mixed with mechanical gears and flight goggles. Weathers took the helm at the Tucson Steampunk Society in May and, with co-organizer Jenn Lopez, immediately set to work replenishing the calendar of events with trips to period movies, balls and conventions. This is the first year for the Dickens tea, an afternoon of light refreshments, cider, cocoa and tea-dueling. The latter is a standard steampunk competition. It’s based around the attempt to eat a soaked biscuit without dropping any of it. A successful handto-mouth transfer is called a “nom.” “I like to think of it as drinking tea with intent and aggression,” Weathers said. Though costumes are not required, there will be no lack of people showing off handmade attire with hopes of winning the costume contest. And there is no age limit for enjoying the festive dress and atmosphere of steampunk culture. “The 6-year-old who wants to make a rocket pack out of a cardboard box is at home with the 65-year-old who’s been a machinist all his life and can actually make that rocket pack look real,” Weathers said. Admission is $15, or free for children younger than 12. Tickets must be purchased in advance, and a limited number are available. —M.D.

Eazy-E was one of the e most influential gster-rap group members of the gangster-rap N.W.A. News of his death from AIDSrelated illness in the mid-1990s sent a udiences around shockwave through audiences ar’s World AIDS the world. At this year’s e. Day, he gets a tribute. logized for his lifeEazy-E “never apologized style, but his dying wish was for people ppened to him to learn what had happened es,” said Heather because of his choices,” Moroso, founder of Positively Beautiful, an organization that empowers people living with HIV/AIDS through fashion, music, photography and other art forms. ts, such as Jivin Local hip-hop artists, m some of N.W.A’s Scientists, will perform and Eazy-E’s biggest hits to celebrate nfluence. Various the rapper’s life and influence. organizations will alsoo honor the 30 million people who have died of AIDS, and n how to treat the provide information on nt acquiring HIV. disease and to prevent ary of World AIDS The 25th anniversary tion of how much Day will be a celebration reatment and HIV/AIDS research, treatment ved. In the early awareness have evolved. ere diagnosed days, when people were nsidered a with AIDS, it was considered death sentence. o and other Nowadays, Moroso ople with doctors who treat people HIV/AIDS have more options to symptomhelp people live an asymptome most atic life. However, the important thing is to educate people on how to preted, vent becoming infected, Moroso said. eave “I want people to leave at HIV/ this event knowing that AIDS is not (a reason)) for eople discrimination, and people shouldn’t be judged because of it,” Moroso said. tion is A $5 or $10 donation ght events; suggested for the night ree, but a daytime events are free, ed. —I.T. donation is encouraged.

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. NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 5, 2012

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SPECIAL EVENTS

TQ&A

EVENTS THIS WEEK

Victor Alvarado

ART AND MUSIC FESTIVALS Musical performances, kids’ activities, food vendors and dozens of art and craft vendors are featured on selected Saturdays and Sundays; free. Visit fineartfest.org for more information. Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Dec. 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Oro Valley Marketplace, corner of Tangerine Road and Oracle roads.

Victor Alvarado and his business partner, Danny Kirk, are at the tail end of a crowd-funding campaign on Propel Arizona to raise $35,000 to secure a space and start their project, the Outlet Cafe and Innovation Centre. Alvarado said the cafe and center will be a place that supports entrepreneurship in Tucson by providing work spaces and equipment; it should also be a good spot to meet for locally roasted coffee and hand-crafted beers. For more on the campaign, go to propelarizona.com/projects/ the-outlet-cafe-and-innovation-centre1/323. For information on the project, visit theoutletcafe.co, or go to its Facebook page at facebook.com/theouletcafeinnovationcentre.

MARI HERRERAS

ATOMIC HOLIDAY Tucson Scottish Rite Cathedral. 160 S. Scott Ave. 6228364. A cabaret-themed fundraiser, Atomic Holiday, with special guest David Fitzsimmons, features music, performance and a silent auction starting at 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; $50. The event supports Desert Voices’ mission to unite the LGBT community and allies through music. Call 791-9662, or visit desertvoices.org for more information.

Mari Herreras, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com

We have Gangplank in Tucson. What’s different about this project? I actually met with them. It was a good idea to sit down and realize the potential benefits of having a work space like ours, and another work space like theirs. They are a nonprofit with the idea of paying things forward. It’s free to go there, but you buy a desk for the next person to come in. Sometimes, its fun to be in a collaborative space, but other times, people need a more-dedicated space, or they need to go outside for a breather—like our coffee shop. Where are you from? I was born and raised in Tucson, and spent two years in Austin, Texas, before coming back recently. How did you come up with this project idea? I was talking with Danny, and he was trying to find a space that worked well for him. There are good aspects of a coffee shop, a library, but all have their negatives and drawbacks. So we started creating this space. Where are you looking for space? Right now, we are doing a big push in downtown and the UA area. We want to start off with a smaller prototype. And as we attract more visitors, we’ll increase.

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Although you’ll offer memberships, is this still a for-profit venture? It’s a for-profit venture, for sure, but we are in this realm where we can pretty much do whatever we want. We want to offer classes free of charge to some of our volunteers and members. We figure networking is the biggest value, so we’ll have things available for someone to go into a weekly class—maybe on résumé-building or marketing. We are for-profit, but we can do a lot with this space. What will the memberships look like? Three tiers. One of them is affordable for a college student or grad student, maybe at $20 a month. It won’t be contractual, and they can cancel anytime. The bigger ones will be $50 a month and more. The biggest is called the Change-maker. You can afford a private or dedicated space that could even be shared with two or three people at $300 a month. There will be copiers and teleconferencing. What will the coffee space be like? I want to create a forum for lively discussions and a nighttime atmosphere. Maybe every couple of nights, we’ll have talks with discussions afterward. The coffee shop itself, I’m planning on staying local with all of our products. We’ll have a limited menu,

with locally roasted coffees, local foods and local beers. We want to create a place for a power lunch or to have a deal-making beer. What kind of feedback are you getting about the project locally? We were lucky enough to connect with the entrepreneurial community, and as soon as we broke into that community and told them what we planned on doing … they understood. The hardest part is getting across why this is a good investment. In one sense, it is partrestaurant, and some are weary of investing in lifestyle businesses. Once we start the prototype, we think they will have a better understanding that this is more than a coffee shop. I imagine you’re also talking to the city powers-that-be? We’re calling out to the local government to understand that while technically, we’re not a nonprofit, we know we can offer a true value, especially in business retention and urban development. With everything going on downtown, we know we will be a good fit. This is a space for many different people in Tucson: designers, those in marketing and consulting, and, yes, journalists fall right in that realm, too.

CASCABEL COMMUNITY FAIR Homestead products, arts, live music, and homemade food and desserts are featured from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1 and 2, at milepost 20, Cascabel Road, Cascabel; free admission. Call 2122529 for more information. Activities nearby include free tours of the Cascabel Clayworks, which hosts many local artisans working in clay, leather and photography; the Akasha Center of Light gallery of paintings and ornaments; and Forever Home Donkey Rescue. Tours of the Oasis Bird Sanctuary are available for a $5 suggested donation. Cascabel is on a dirt road, so visitors are urged to drive gently. COATED WITH FUR Scottsdale veterinarian Kristen Nelson, author of Coated With Fur, speaks at an event that also features a silent auction of animal-inspired art by Tucson artists and photographers, from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2, at A Wing and a Prayer Arabian horse ranch, 12465 W. Emigh Road, Marana; $35. Proceeds benefit the Pima Library Foundation. Call 747-3310 or 982-3583. CORAZÓN DE JUSTICIA AWARDS DINNER Casino del Sol Event Center. 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. Coalición de Derechos Humanos hosts a dinner honoring community organizers for their commitment to justice and social change, from 6 to 9:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29; $40. The keynote speaker is Rob Williams, the E. Thomas Sullivan professor of law and American Indian studies, and faculty co-chair of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program at the UA James E. Rogers College of Law. Reservations and menu selections are requested in advance. All proceeds benefit Coalición de Derechos Humanos. A DICKENS AFTERNOON TEA First Church United Methodist. 915 E. Fourth St. 6226481. Members of the Tucson Steampunk Society create a Dickens fantasy including period characters and science-fiction set-pieces along with cold beverages, tea and trimmings, from 2 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; $15, free child younger than 12. Call 982-0556. HOLIDAY NIGHTS Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Stroll through the park with Frosty the Snowperson and enjoy live performances at various locations, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1; $15, $10 member, $2 child 12 or younger. Visit tohonochulpark.org for reservations and more information. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1: guitarist Domingo DeGrazia, Way Out West, Desert Melodies and a piano sing-along with Kyle Bronson. LA LUCHA SIGUE/THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church. 1300 N. Greasewood Road. 884-9021. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Sanctuary Movement, the 25th anniversary of BorderLinks, and the 10th anniversary of Samaritans, a conference revisits the history of humanitarian aid and the need for widespread education about life on the U.S.-Mexico border, from 1 to 4:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30; and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; $20. A concert features Francisco Herrera singing in both English and Spanish at 7:30 p.m., Friday; $20. Conference sessions cover the history of humanitarian aid and civil rights along the border and strategies for creative policy change. Visit thesstrugglecontinues.org to register and for more information. PAWSITIVELY CATS HOLIDAY CELEBRATION Tucson Racquet and Fitness Club. 4001 N. Country Club Road. 795-6960. A jewelry sale, a silent auction, a giving tree for shelter cats with special needs, and animal-trivia games with prizes for all are featured at a fundraising event for PAWsitively Cats no-kill shelter, from 4 to 8 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; $10, $5 child, or 12 cans of Friskies paté cat food, or 40 pounds of cat litter. Admission is free for PAWSitively Cats volunteers. Call 870-1904 for more information.

TAMAL FESTIVAL AVA: Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheater. Casino del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. Live entertainment and music, contests, food demonstrations, art and craft vendors, a children’s play area and more than 50 food vendors are featured from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; free. TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION BENEFIT The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. A performance of Scrooge benefits the Twilight Wish Foundation, an organization that helps seniors, at 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; $20. Visit twilightwisharizona. org for tickets and more information. WORLD AIDS DAY: 25TH ANNIVERSARY Hotel Congress. 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. A faux triathlon, a movement and dance event, speakers, balloon sculpture, art shows, a live feed from Tanzania and live music are featured from 4:30 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; free. In addition, several agencies offer free HIV testing. The triathlon involves cyclists wearing costumes. They accumulate stickers from participating bars and race through an obstacle course that culminates in a polar-bear plunge into icy water; $25. Afterward, a 21+ event includes an Eazy E tribute by four bands, DJ Antenna and China Collins. A dance party follows. Email drmoroso@mac.com for more information.

UPCOMING 2ND SATURDAY DOWNTOWN Free events take place throughout downtown from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m., the second Saturday of every month. The main stage on Scott Avenue just south of Congress Street features an eclectic mix of music and dance performances. A free concert takes place at 7 p.m., at the Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; and a kids’ area in the south parking lot of the Chase Bank building at 2 E. Congress St. features a jumping castle and a familyfriendly film. Jazz fusion, African, hip-hop and soul music is featured in La Placita Village, 110 S. Church Ave. Street activities include mimes, buskers, stilt-walkers, living statues, car clubs, food trucks and vendors. Visit 2ndsaturdays.com for more information. ARIZONA HISTORY MUSEUM HOLIDAY FESTIVAL Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. Fun activities, live performances, food trucks, children’s theater, storytelling, book sales and more are featured from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8. Parking is free at the garage on the corner of Euclid Avenue and Second Street. $5, $4 senior or age 12 through 18, free younger child. Visit arizonahistoricalsociety.org. FOURTH AVENUE WINTER STREET FAIR More than 400 vendors of arts and crafts; 35 food vendors; entertainment on two stages; kids’ activities; and street entertainment, including musicians, jugglers and mimes, are featured on Fourth Avenue between Ninth Street and University Boulevard, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Dec. 7 through 9; free. Visit fourthavenue.org for more information. LUMINARIA NIGHTS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Luminarias, decorated trees and wreaths, and music by a wide cross-section of Tucson musicians and choirs are featured from 5:30 to 8 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Dec. 7 through 9; $11, $5 child, $2 discount member. Hot cider and cookies are free; other food is available from a number of local vendors, restaurants and food trucks. Parking is available at Emmanuel Baptist Church with a free shuttle to the gardens. Call 326-9686, ext. 10, or visit tucsonbotanical.org. TUBAC LUMINARIA NIGHTS Tubac. Exit 34 on Interstate 19 South. Streets are lined with luminarias at 5:30 p.m., and stores are open until 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Dec. 7 and 8; free. Homemade food is for sale; Santa is available for photos; and Talias Van’s Bright and Morning Star Choir and Orchestra performs. Call 398-2704, or visit tubacaz. com for more information. TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE HOLIDAY LUNCHEON Skyline Country Club. 5200 E. St. Andrews Drive. 2990464. Fine dining, a silent auction of services, a gift drawing and music by the TSO Young Artist Competition and the TSO String Quartet are featured at a luncheon to support the Young Artists Competition, at 11 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; $65. Visit tsoleague.org, or call 2998188 for reservations and more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR ART AND CRAFT VENDORS AND NONPROFITS Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Artists, crafters and nonprofit agencies are sought to reserve booth space inside Fluxx during the Fourth Avenue Merchants’ Winter Street Fair, from 10 a.m. to

6 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Dec. 7 through 9. The deadline for applications is Monday, Dec. 3. Visit fluxxproductionsstudioandgallery.tumblr.com/forms for an application and more information.

sale of original, affordably priced works by Oracle artists and artisans continues through Sunday, Dec. 23. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday through Sunday; free. Call 896-2079 or 896-2234 for more information.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: DOWNTOWN PARADE OF LIGHTS Friday, Nov. 30, is the deadline for entries in the Annual Downtown Parade of Lights, featuring decorated vehicles, floats, dance troupes and live music starting at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 15. Prizes of $250 to $500 are awarded in four categories. Visit downtowntucson.org for an application and more information.

HOLIDAZZLE SHOW AND SALE Toscana Studio and Gallery. 9040 N. Oracle Road. Oro Valley. 575-1445. Paintings, photography, jewelry, pottery, decorative crafts, mosaics and fabric arts created by members of the Southern Arizona Arts Guild are featured for sale from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1 and 2; free admission. A reception takes place from 4 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1. Email judithakramer@aol.com for more information.

BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK CAT MOUNTAIN STATION ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR Cat Mountain Station. 2740 S. Kinney Road. 5788795. More than 50 local artists and craftspeople sell jewelry, woodwork, wrought iron, stained glass, beadwork, recycled art, fabric art, folk art, candles, tile art and more, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free admission. COATIMUNDI CAT CLUB SHOW RiverPark Inn. 350 S. Freeway Blvd. 239-2300. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christmas in the Desertâ&#x20AC;? is the theme of a cat club show featuring 18 judges giving awards for up to 62 breeds from Friday through Sunday, Nov. 30 through Dec. 2; $5, $4 senior, $3 child older than 12, free younger child with a paid adult, $16 family of four, $1 discount for nonperishable food donation for the Community Food Bank. Call 488-3838, or visit coatimondi.com for more information. COMPUTER WORKSHOPS AT THE LIBRARY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Classes are free, but reservations are required. Get one-on-one help in understanding free digital downloads, and download eBooks, audiobooks and videos to your device, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29. Bring your device and your library card or PIN. HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. An arts and crafts fair takes place from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., every Saturday and Sunday, through Sunday, Dec. 23, around the Gaslight Theatre; free admission. HOLIDAY INSPIRATIONS Many Hands Courtyard. 3054 N. First Ave. 419-7191. A holiday artisansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; market takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1; free. An artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reception with refreshments and live music by Don East takes place from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free. LOW-INCOME TAX CLINIC Pio Decimo Center. 848 S. Seventh Ave. 623-0344. Tax-related assistance, education and advocacy are provided on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Here to Helpâ&#x20AC;? Day, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29; free. MARKET ON THE MOVE Saguaro Canyon Church. 10111 E Old Spanish Trail. 885-7088. Market on the Move sells USDA-inspected surplus fresh produce from 8 to 11 a.m., the first Saturday of every month; free admission. Call 7499429, or visit the3000club.org for more information. NORDIC GUILD FAIR Streams in the Desert Lutheran Church. 5360 E. Pima St. 325-1114. Vendors from Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish clubs sell Scandinavian foods, crafts and collectibles from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; free. Call 834-4359 for information. PRESCOTT COLLEGE OPEN HOUSE Prescott College/Tucson Center. 2233 E. Speedway Blvd. 319-9868. Information about Prescott College degree programs in sustainability and environmental studies is shared from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29. Guests learn how to begin and complete studies in community-based limited residency programs; free. Call to RSVP and for more information.

OUT OF TOWN DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF THE SANTA RITA AREA Green Valley Democratic Headquarters. 260 W. Continental Road. Green Valley. 838-0590. Current events are discussed from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., every Wednesday; free. Email acalkins10@aol.com, or visit gvdemocrats.org for more information. HIGH-DESERT ART AND GIFTS MARKET Studio Tour Welcome Center and Gallery. 1880 W. American Ave. Oracle. 896-2464. A holiday show and

UPCOMING ACCESSORIES TRUNK SHOW Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. A trunk show featuring one-of-a-kind jewelry by Laurie Wetterschneider of Laurie and Lisa Designs, and handpainted silk scarves by Debra McDonnell, takes place from 5 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 6, in the museum lobby and store; free. ORALIA LOPEZ: MATA ORTIZ POTTERY SALE Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. A show and sale of pottery by Oralia Lopez of Mata Ortiz takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 8 and 9; free. John Bezy lectures on Mata Ortiz pottery at 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; free. TEDXTUCSON Gallagher Theater. UA Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd. 626-0370. A local TED event, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tucson: City of Healing and Innovation,â&#x20AC;? features a series of inspiring talks and ideas worth sharing, from 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; $20. Featured presenters are Patricia Pearson, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why Ghosts Are Good for Youâ&#x20AC;?; and Stuart Hameroff, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quantum Biology.â&#x20AC;? Visit tedxtucson. com for more information. TOY PARADE TO BENEFIT AVIVA CHILDRENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SERVICES Freedom Park Center. 5000 E. 29th St. 791-4969. At noon, Sunday, Dec. 9, more than 100 motorcycles collect toys for abused and neglected children served by Aviva, then drive them in a parade from Freedom Park to the Morgan McDermott American Legion Post 7, 330 W. Franklin Road; $20 per rider, $5 passenger plus an unwrapped toy. Pre-registration takes place from 4 to 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7, at Post 7. Call 237-3965.

ANNOUNCEMENTS FARMERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; MARKETS Alan Ward Downtown Mercado: south lawn of the Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, October through May; 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, June through September (339-4008). Arivaca Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: 16800 Arivaca Road, Arivaca, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday. Bear Canyon Open Air Market: northwest corner of Tanque Verde Road and the Catalina Highway, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (982-2645). Bisbee Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: Vista Park in the Warren section, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-227-5060). Community Food Bank: 3003 S. Country Club Road, 8 a.m. to noon, Tuesday (622-0525). Corona de Tucson Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: 15921 S. Houghton Road, Vail, 8 a.m. to noon, Friday (870-1106). Douglas Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: Raul Castro Park, between D and E avenues, downtown Douglas, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday (520-805-5938 or 520-805-0086). El Presidio Plaza Park Mercado: 115 N. Church Ave., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday (339-4008). El Pueblo Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: El Pueblo Neighborhood Center parking lot, SW corner of Irvington Road and Sixth Avenue, 8 to 11 a.m., Saturday (882-3304). Elgin Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: KiefJoshua Vineyards, 370 Elgin Road, Elgin, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, May through October (520-455-5582). Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Markets at La Posada Green Valley: 665 S. Park Centre Ave., Green Valley, is 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Monday (603-8116). Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market at Voyager RV Resort: 8701 S. Kolb Road, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday (603-8116). Friday Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market at Broadway Village: 2926 E. Broadway Blvd., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday (603-8116). Green Valley Village Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: 101 S. La CaĂąada Drive, Green Valley, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday (490-3315). Marana Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: 13395 N. Marana Main Street, Marana, 3 to 6 p.m., Tuesday (882-3313). Metal Arts Village Saturday Morning Market: 3230 N. Dodge Blvd., 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday (326-5657). Oracle Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: 2805 N. Triangle L Ranch Road, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday (896-2123). Oro Valley Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: Town Hall at the corner of La CaĂąada Drive and Naranja Road, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (882-2157). Plaza Palomino: 2970 N. Swan Road, winter: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; summer: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (plazapalomino.com). Rincon Valley Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and Artisansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: 12500 E. Old Spanish Trail, winter: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; summer: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (591-2276). St. David Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: St. David High School, 70 E. Patton St., St. David, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May through

October (520-221-1074). St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Plaza Saturday Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Plaza, southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (603-8116). Santa Cruz River Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: Mercado San AgustĂn, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday (622-0525). San Manuel Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: 801 McNab Parkway, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-212-2337). Sierra Vista Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: corner of Carmichael Avenue and Willcox Drive, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday; and corner of Charleston Road and Highway 90 bypass, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday (520678-2638). Sunsites Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: Shadow Mountain Golf Course, 1105 Irene St., Sunsites, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-826-1250). Tucson Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Plaza, southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue, winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Sunday (882-2157). Tucson Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market at Jesse Owens Park: Jesse Owens Park, 400 S. Sarnoff Drive, winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Friday (918-9811). Tucson Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market at Maynards: Maynards Market and Kitchen, 400 N. Toole Ave., winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (5450577). Tucsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Green Art and Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: 8995 E. Tanque Verde Road, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (9822645). Ventana Plaza Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: 5455 N. Kolb Road, 3 to 7 p.m., Tuesday (603-8116).

BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK MONDAY MIXER Redline Sports Grill. 445 W. Wetmore Road. 888-8084. Conversation and connections take place from 5 to 7 p.m., the first Monday of every month; free. Call 9099375 for more information. SCORE BUSINESS COUNSELING Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Experienced executives give individualized advice about starting or building a business, from 9 a.m. to noon, every Monday and Saturday; and 3 to 5 p.m., every Tuesday; free by appointment. TUCSON PRESIDIO ROTARY CLUB Hotel Tucson City Center. 475 N. Granada Ave. 6232000. Lunch is open to the public at noon every

Wednesday; $15. Call 909-9375 for reservations and more information. WOMEN IMPACTING TUCSON Arizona Inn. 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. CafĂŠ Terra Cottaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former owner and chef, Donna Nordin, who also was a consultant for Ghirardelli Chocolate, presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;All About Chocolateâ&#x20AC;? at a luncheon from 11:20 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday, Dec. 3; $30, $25 with a reservation made by Thursday, Nov. 29. Call 323-3100, or visit arizonainn.com/witlunch for reservations or more information.

UPCOMING BUILD-A-BIKE FIVE-DAY INTENSIVE WORKSHOP BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. Participants learn to build their own bike in a workshop from 4 to 8 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, Dec. 11 through 15; $80, $40 deposit and advance registration are required. Call for a reservation. TAKE THE FEAR OUT OF CALLING FOR DONATIONS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Challenge your fears and get the tools of empowerment to successfully secure in-kind donations for a nonprofit organization, from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m., Friday, Dec. 7; free. Reservations are required. Call 791-4010 for reservations and more information.

FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, is screened at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30; $5 and $7. Heroes Behind the Badge, a documentary about risks taken by law-enforcement professionals, screens at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5; $10 suggested donation. Proceeds benefit organizations that help wounded officers and their families. Visit foxtucsontheatre.org for more information.

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LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Hendrix 70: Live at Woodstock, the entire 1969 performance, uninterrupted, is screened in newly restored high definition with a new surround-sound theatrical mix, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29; and noon, Saturday, Dec. 8; $9, $5 member. Sunday, Dec. 2, at 11 a.m.; and Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m.: The Graduate, 45th-anniversary screening; $5 suggested donation. Visit loftcinema.com for a complete list of forthcoming films and to reserve tickets. NATIVE EYES FILM SHOWCASE Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Native Eyes Film Showcase: A Night at the Loftâ&#x20AC;? begins at 6 p.m. and continues until midnight, Saturday, Dec. 1; $20 for the whole evening. Beginning at 6:15 p.m., director and actor Tim Ramos of the Pomo Tribe, and actor and musician Gary Farmer of the Cayuga tribe meet and greet audience members before and after a screening of California Indian; $10, $8 member. At 9 p.m., the Santa Fe group Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers perform native blues; $15. At 10:30 p.m., Gary Farmer introduces his film Dead Man, featuring a young Johnny Depp; $8, $6 member. PINK SMOKE OVER THE VATICAN Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. A film about the women who are paving the way for women priests in the Catholic Church screens at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 29; freewill donation. A discussion follows with the Rev. Marilyn VanVeeren.

UPCOMING BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING Himmel Branch Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. Beauty Is Embarrassing, a film about commercial artist Wayne Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to find peace and balance between work and art, is screened from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, Dec. 10; free. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Warren Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flow State, a videographic art film about skiing the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most striking mountains, screens at 8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7; $20. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre. org for tickets and more information.

GARDENING EVENTS THIS WEEK BUTTERFLY MAGIC Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Walk through a greenhouse full of beautiful and rare butterflies from 11 countries, through April 30, 2013. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., daily; $13, $7.50 ages 4 through 12, $12 student, senior or military, includes admission to the gardens. ORGANIC GARDENERS COMPOSTING EXHIBIT Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Tucson Organic Gardeners members answer questions in the composting-demonstration area from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the first and third Saturday of every month, through May 18, 2013; $13, $4 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.

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STEEL CULVERT WATER-TANK INSTALLATION St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Presbyterian Church. 3809 E. Third St. 3251001. Staff members of Watershed Management Group present best-practices for installing a steel culvert cistern at the site of a cistern the group is installing, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 8; free. Participants carpool from the St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parking lot. They should be prepared to participate in the technical and manual aspects of plumbing and cistern installation, including lifting, digging and using power tools. RSVP is required; call 869-0802 to RSVP and for more information. TUCSON AFRICAN VIOLET SOCIETY The East Side Night Meeting of the Tucson African Violet Society gathers from 7 to 9 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades, 201 N. Jessica Ave. The East Side Day Meeting takes place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., the second Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades. The Northwest Day Meeting takes place from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the second Thursday of every month, at The Inn at the Fountains at La Cholla, 2001 W. Rudasill Road. WATERSMART LANDSCAPES FOR HOMEOWNERS Pima County Cooperative Extension Center. 4210 N. Campbell Ave. 626-5161. Classes are free; call to register. Saturday, Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to noon, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greywater Rebate Seminar.â&#x20AC;? Tuesday, Dec. 4, from 9 a.m. to noon: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hands-On Water-Wise Garden Design.â&#x20AC;? Visit ag.arizona. edu/pima/smartscape for more information about all classes in the series.

UPCOMING FALL GARDEN TOURS Extension Garden Center. 4210 N. Campbell Ave. Pima County Master Gardeners lead tours of the demonstration gardens at 9 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; and Wednesday, Dec. 12; free.

HEALTH EVENTS THIS WEEK ALZHEIMERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TRAINING: TECHNIQUES FOR HANDLING CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS Home Instead Senior Care. 3208 N. Tucson Blvd. 7709943. A training session offers free resources to help families cope with challenges presented by Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease while maintaining their family-membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dignity, from 2 to 4 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5; free. Call for more information. GROCERY TOUR AND HEALTHY-RECIPE SWAP Quality Strength Fitness Studio. 3870 W. River Road, No. 108. 891-9488. Fitness professionals provide recipes and shopping tips, then guide a tour through a nearby supermarket to illustrate how to eat well on a budget, at 11 a.m., every Wednesday. Call 891-9488 for more information. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;TIS THE SEASON TO BE POISONED Arizona Health Sciences Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 626-7301. An exhibit of holiday hazards and related safety tips arranged around a parody of â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Visit From St. Nicholasâ&#x20AC;? continues through Thursday, Jan. 10, in the Health Sciences Library near Room 2101, the Java City coffee bar; free. On display through Saturday, Dec. 1, is an exhibit that examines the role of gender in the perception and treatment of mental illness. Hours are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday; and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday. Holiday hours are 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m., Saturday through Friday, Dec. 15 through 21; and Wednesday through Friday, Dec. 26 through 28. The library is closed Saturday through Tuesday, Dec. 22 through 25; and Dec. 29 through Jan. 1. Call 6266165, or email barta@pharmacy.arizona.edu.

onstrations, hayrides, tours, a farmers’ market, a petting zoo, candle-making, field games, an obstacle course, clay-throwing, a puppet play, cake-walks, music and more takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1. Admission is free. Call 325-5514 for more information.

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SALPOINTE HIGH SCHOOL ADVANCED DRAMA Salpointe High School. 1545 E. Copper St. 327-6581. Students perform The Crucible at 7 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Nov. 29 and 30, in the Corcoran Theatre; $5, $3 student. Call 547-4328, or email dmilne@salpointe.org for more information.

BARNES AND NOBLE Barnes and Noble. 5130 E. Broadway Blvd. 512-1166. Dr. Andrew Weil signs his newest book, True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure, along with his his books Spontaneous Happiness and The Happiness Toolkit, at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 11; free.

KIDS & FAMILIES EVENTS THIS WEEK BOOKWORM CLUB Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Families enjoy storytime and a related hands-on activity in the Children’s Discovery Garden, from 10 to 11 a.m., the first Saturday of every month; $13, $4 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel includes admission to the gardens. Visit tucsonbotanical.org. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM TUCSON Children’s Museum Tucson. 200 S. Sixth Ave. 7929985. The museum celebrates the holiday season with a “Winter Wonderland” event, including hands-on activities, story times and a visit from Santa, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; $2. GET OUTSIDE CLUB Staff and volunteers from Ironwood Tree Experience lead an urban nature walk along the Rillito River, at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29; free. Collecting-jars, binoculars, lizard-catching rods, plant presses, field guides and other equipment are available to participants throughout the walk. Call 319-9868, ext. 7, for more information, including the meeting place. HANUKKAH MALL MADNESS FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES Park Place Mall. 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 748-1222. Local synagogues and Jewish agencies host arts and crafts, Hanukkah games and music from Jewish traditions, from 1 to 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2, inside the mall; free. Call 577-9393 for more information. JONATHAN HANSON: VICTOR THE RELUCTANT VULTURE Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Naturalist Jonathan Hanson reads from and signs his book for ages 8 through 12, Victor the Reluctant Vulture, from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free with admission; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org for more information. MULTI-GENERATIONAL CORE INTRODUCTION TO KINGIAN NONVIOLENCE Western Institute for Leadership Development. 1300 S. Belvedere Ave. 615-2200. A two-day participatory workshop about how to apply Martin Luther King’s six principles and steps of nonviolence as a way of life and a powerful strategy for social change takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1 and 8; $20, $10 college student, $5 high school student. Snacks and drinks are provided; participants bring their own lunches. Call 991-6781, or email nvlp@ cultureofpeacealliance.org MUSICAL FAIRY LIGHTS Valley of the Moon. 2544 E. Allen Road. 323-1331. Musicans perform starting at 2 p.m., and lights come on at dusk to sparkle among the statues and along the paths of Tucson’s historic fantasy land, on Saturday, Dec. 1; freewill donation. Beverages and snacks are available. ORO VALLEY READ TO A DOG Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Trained and certified therapy service dogs listen intently and nonjudgementally as children practice reading aloud, from 4 to 5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29; free POKEMON MEET-UP Bookmans. 1930 E. Grant Road. 325-5767. Bring a Nintendo DS and a copy of Pokemon White, White 2, Black or Black 2 and challenge others, make trades and talk about Pokemon from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free. RIVER BEND FARM AND CRAFT FAIR Tucson Waldorf School River Bend Campus. 3605 E. River Road. 529-1032. A fair featuring artisans’ dem-

STARR SKATES HOLIDAY SKATE JAM Santa Rita Park. 22nd Street and Third Avenue. Mike McGill and Kevin Staab are among skateboard greats featured at an event that also includes music, food and giveaways from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; free admission. Representatives of Uncle Skate Charity and Old Cocks Skateboarding also perform. Call 3270217, or email jim@starrskates.com for more info. STORIES THAT SOAR Holaway Elementary School. 3500 N. Cherry Ave. 696-6880. Students’ original stories come to life in a theatrical production by the Stories That Soar ensemble at 8 a.m., Friday, Nov. 30. Call 360-6709 to arrange admission to the school campus. SUGAR PLUM TEA Marriott University Park. 880 E. Second St. 792-4100. The hotel ballroom is transformed into the Kingdom of Sweets for high tea with the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, harpist Christine Vivona, Chuck George, and characters from The Nutcracker ballet, with seatings at 11 a.m. or 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; $75. A holiday marketplace and silent auction are also featured. All proceeds benefit Ballet Tucson. Visit ballettucson.org, or call 903-1445 for reservations and more information. TEACHER PARENT CONNECTION Teacher Parent Connection. 101 S. Pantano Road. 2981612. Free gifts, zoomy microscopes, Zelda the Zebra, Alpha-Bug Soup, Castle Blocks and more are featured at a party celebrating the store’s re-opening, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; free. A TIME TO DANCE YOUTH BALLET Berger Performing Arts Center. 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. 770-3762. New choreography and costumes are featured in this 17th annual production of The Nutcracker, at 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; $10 general admission. Call 272-3400 for reservations. TSO JUST FOR KIDS Tucson Symphony Center. 2175 N. Sixth Ave. 8828585. The TSO Percussion Ensemble presents Pecos Bill: A West Side Story, at 10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, at Tucson Symphony Center, 2175 N. Sixth Ave.; $3. Children are encouraged to dress in Western wear. Visit tucsonsymphony.org for more information. Also on Saturday, Dec. 1, the TSO String Quartet presents Princesses, Superheroes and Pirates: Oh My!, wherein the audience saves the day, at 10 a.m., at Oro Valley Town Hall Council Chambers, 11000 N. La Cañada Drive; free. Children are encouraged to wear costumes. TUCSON RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELING EXHIBIT Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch Library. 7800 N. Schisler Drive. 594-5200. An exhibit of children’s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds opens Sunday, Dec. 2, and continues through Thursday, Jan. 31; free. 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. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for more information. UA POETRY CENTER FAMILY DAYS UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. An open house for kids and families takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; free. Poetry Joeys workshops for children ages 4 through 10 take place from 10 to 11 a.m., and the center’s poetry collection is open to youth for writing projects. Other activities include yoga, multilingual story time and Book Club 11+, which features a different title each Family Day. Visit poetry.arizona.edu for the schedule. WEIHNACHTSMARKT Desert Sky Community School. 122 N. Craycroft Road. 749-0521. Weihnachtsmarkt, a street market associated with the celebration of Christmas, is re-created from noon to 6 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2. The event features craft tables for children, performances, games, prizes and vendors selling holiday items; free admission. Visit desertskycommunityschool.org for more information. ZOOLIGHTS Reid Park Zoo. 1030 S. Randolph Way. 881-4753. Light displays, animal-themed light sculptures and thousands of sparkling bulbs are featured from 6 to 10 p.m.,

daily, from Saturday, Dec. 1, through Sunday, Dec. 23; $6, $4 child, $1 member discount. Call or visit tucsonzoo.org for more information.

run for all ages at 9 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; $25 5k, $15 1-mile with advance registration. A wide range of other kids’ activities take place from 8 a.m. to noon on the mall. Visit tucsonmarathon.com to register.

OUT OF TOWN FAMILY FUN FOR THE HOLIDAYS El Rancho Robles. 1170 N. Rancho Robles Road. Oracle. 896-7651. Ornament-decorating, candy-cane hunts, hayrides and more take place in a turn-of-thecentury setting from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1 and 2; free. Family photos or photos with Santa are $10 each. Email elranchorobles@gmail. com, or visit elranchorobles.com for more information. FIESTA DE TUMACÁCORI Tumacácori National Historical Park. 1891 E. Frontage Road. Tumacácori. 398-2341. Booths representing a wide variety of local nonprofit historical, cultural and religious organizations provide food, handicrafts and information from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free. The event also features demonstrations of rawhide-braiding, leatherworking, horse-hair rope-making, and tortilla-making, as well as continuous free entertainment representing several cultures. Guided walks to the Santa Cruz River and tours of the mission are available both days. A mariachi procession opens the fiesta at 10 a.m., Saturday, and a mass follows at 10:30 a.m. No dogs are allowed, and the Anza Trailhead is closed to horseback riders during the fiesta. ORO VALLEY TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY Oro Valley Marketplace. Oracle and Tangerine roads. Oro Valley. See the 25-foot Christmas tree light up while enjoying live holiday music, hot chocolate and a visit from Santa, at 6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30. Free; call 7973959 for info.

UPCOMING BARNES AND NOBLE Barnes and Noble. 5130 E. Broadway Blvd. 512-1166. Polar Express Story Time and Pajama Night features hot chocolate, cookies, crafts, letters to Santa and readings of other holiday favorites at 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7; free, boarding tickets will be issued at the door. Children are encouraged to wear pajamas and bring their favorite pillow. HOLIDAY TREE-LIGHTING Hilton El Conquistador Resort. 10000 N. Oracle Road. Oro Valley. 544-5000. Music by the Arizona Youth Chamber Ensemble and the Ironwood High School Encore! Show Choir begins at 4 p.m., and a tree-lighting takes place at 6 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7; free. JINGLE TRAIL 5K AND SANTA’S LITTLE HELPER 1K Cienega High School. 12775 E. Mary Ann Cleveland Way. Vail. 879-2800. Bring a new, unwrapped toy to register at 8 a.m., for a 1k run starting at 8:45 a.m., and a 5k walk/run starting at 9 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 8. The event benefits the Shyann Kindness Project Toy Drive and the Cienega High School Link Crew’s AdoptA-Family project. $20 for 5k, $10 for 1k. Visit taggrun. com to register and for more information. JOAN SANDIN: CELEBRATE ARIZONA Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Joan Sandin uses illustrations and rhymes to tell the story of how Arizona became a state on Feb. 14, 1912, in her book Celebrate Arizona! She discusses and signs the book at noon and 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; free. Reservations are required, but must be made no earlier than one week in advance; call between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for a schedule of talks or information. NATURE STORIES Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. An art activity follows a story-reading from 11 a.m. to noon, Friday, Dec. 7 and 21; free. Call 6157855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for information. NUTCRACKER TEA Hacienda del Sol. 5601 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. 299-1501. A tea and silent auction take place from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 9; $15 to $25. Proceeds help underwrite expenses of the Arizona Dance Theatre production of The Nutcracker. Visit creativedancearts.com. TSO JUST FOR KIDS Sahuarita Municipal Complex. 375 W. Sahuarita Center Way. Sahuarita. 822-8800. The Flute Viola Harp Trio presents two performances of Pip and the Pirate, the story of graduation day at the pirate academy; one at 10 a.m., and the other at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; $3. Visit tucsonsymphony.org for more information. TUCSON MARATHON FAMILY FITNESS FEST UA Mall. 1303 E. University Drive. A day of family fitness includes a 5k run for all skill levels, and a 1-mile

OUTDOORS EVENTS THIS WEEK FIRST SATURDAY BIRD WALK Sabino Canyon. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 7498700. Sabino Canyon volunteer naturalists Mark and Jean Hengesbaugh lead adults on an easy bird walk co-sponsored by the Tucson Audubon Society, at 8 a.m. on the dot, the first Saturday of every month; $5 parking or $20 annual pass. Wear good walking shoes, and bring water. NED’S NATURE WALK Sabino Canyon Visitors’ Center. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 749-8700. Volunteer naturalist Ned Harris leads a nature walk for adults along moderately difficult trails, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., every Wednesday, through Dec. 19; free. Wear good walking shoes and carry water. SABINO CANYON FALL HIKE Sabino Canyon Visitors’ Center. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 749-8700. A difficult hike along Esperero Trail to the ridge, over four to five hours and 7 miles with an elevation gain of 1,200 feet, takes place at 8:30 a.m., Friday, Nov. 30; free. Children younger than 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Call 429-4492 for reservations and information about what to bring. Visit sabinonaturalists.org for information about other, regularly scheduled Sabino Canyon hikes. SUNDAY HIKES Catalina State Park. Oracle Road, 5 miles north of Ina Road. 628-5798. A moderately paced hike of 7 to 9 miles over 400 to 1,400-foot elevations takes place at 7:30 a.m., every Sunday in December, weather permitting; $7 park entrance fee. Call 638-5404 for reservations by 4 p.m. Saturday. TUCSON MOUNTAIN PARK BIRDING WALK Tucson Mountain Park Ironwood Picnic Area. 1548 S. Kinney Road. Canyon towhees, rufous-winged sparrows, Gila woodpeckers and other birds of the desert Southwest may be found on this guided walk for ages 12 and older from 8 to 10 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations and more information. URBAN BIRDING An Audubon Society guide leads a walk through a rich habitat located across from Catalina State Park in Oro Valley Marketplace, at 7 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4; free. Email jmacfarland@tucsonaudubon.com to register. Meet at In-N-Out Burger, 11545 N. Oracle Road.

OUT OF TOWN COLLOSAL CAVE MOUNTAIN PARK Colossal Cave Mountain Park. 16721 E. Old Spanish Trail. Vail. 647-7275. Lisa Haynes, coordinator of the UA’s Wild Cat Research and Conservation Program, presents four wild cat species of the Sonoran Desert region, and discusses steps being taken to protect them, at 2 and 3:15 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; $5 per car of up to 6 people, includes park access from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. Call 647-7275 for more information. PATAGONIA LAKE STATE PARK Patagonia Lake State Park. 400 Patagonia Lake Road. Patagonia. (520) 287-6965. Visitor center hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Avian tours take place on the pontoon boats at 9 a.m. and 10:15 a.m., daily. Pontoon boats depart for the Lake Discovery Tour to the west end of the lake at 11:30 a.m., daily. A twilight pontoon tour takes place just before dark on Saturdays. Each boat trip is $5. Bird walks are held every Monday and Friday at 9 a.m.; walks are about three hours long; free. Park entrance fees are $10 vehicle, $17 non-electric camping sites, $25 electric sites. Visit azstateparks.com for more information. SANTA CRUZ RIVER WALKS Tumacácori National Historical Park. 1891 E. Frontage Road. Tumacácori. 398-2341. Guided walks of a halfmile along a level, unpaved trail through rare habitat for birds and wildlife take place at 10:30 a.m., every Wednesday, from Dec. 5 through April 24; free. WALKING TOURS OF OLD TOWN TUBAC Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Alice Keene leads a tour of the original adobe buildings and discusses the history of Arizona’s first European settlement, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Friday, Nov. 30; $7.50 includes admission to the park.

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BEGINNER BIRD WALK Mason Audubon Center. 8751 N. Thornydale Road. 744-0004. The Tucson Audubon Society hosts an introduction to birdwatching for all ages with a casual, guided stroll through the saguaro-ironwood desert at 8 a.m., every Saturday; free. Call 629-0510, ext. 7011. BIRD WALKS Catalina State Park. Oracle Road, 5 miles north of Ina Road. 628-5798. A 2.5 hour guided walk along mostly flat terrain begins at the picnic-area parking lot ramada at 8:30 a.m., every Friday and Sunday, weather permitting; $7 park entrance fee. Birders of any age or skill level are welcome. Dogs are not allowed. CONNECTING PLANTS AND PEOPLE Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. A guided walk explores the edible and useful plants growing along the trails, at 10 a.m., every Saturday; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org for more information. MASON CENTER MORNING BIRD WALKS Tucson Audubon Society Mason Center. 8751 N. Thornydale Road. 572-9881. Learn the basics of birdwatching and how to identify the backyard birds commonly seen in the Tucson area, at 8 a.m., every Saturday, through May 25, 2013. A brief presentation is followed by an easy walk on a half-mile trail. Advance registration is required; email volunteer@ tucsonaudubon.org for reservations. MOUNT LEMMON SKYCENTER SKYNIGHTS PROGRAM Mount Lemmon SkyCenter. 9800 Ski Run Road. 6268122. A peek through the largest public viewing telescope in the Southwest is just part of a five-hour tour of the universe, from 5 to 10 p.m., nightly; $48 Monday through Thursday, $60 Friday through Sunday, $30 student. Reservations are required. Visit skycenter.arizona. edu for reservations. Search Facebook for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mt. Lemmon SkyCenterâ&#x20AC;? for daily photo updates about current events in the universe. RAMSEY CANYON PRESERVE WALKS Ramsey Canyon Preserve. 27 Ramsey Canyon Road. Miracle Valley. (520) 378-2785. Nature Conservancy docents give guided walks through the habitats of more than 170 bird species and a wide range of wildlife at 9 a.m., every Monday, Thursday and Saturday; $5, $3 member or Cochise County resident, free younger than 16, admission is good for a week. Pets are not allowed. SABINO CANYON STAR PARTY Sabino Canyon. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 7498700. The UA Astronomy Club operates several telescopes at the Sabino Canyon Visitor Center from 5:30 to about 9:30 p.m., the first Saturday of every month, weather permitting; free. The organization also typically has scale models to illustrate relative sizes in the universe. Email towner@email.arizona.edu to confirm. SABINO CANYON WALKS Sabino Canyon. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 7498700. Volunteer naturalists guide adults on a leisurely paced walk to identify plants and birds, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., every Tuesday, through Tuesday, April 30. Volunteer naturalist Dick Dobrin leads a leisurely paced nature walk on an easy trail, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4. Volunteer naturalist Bruce Kilpatrick helps visitors pan for garnets by Sabino Creek, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., every Wednesday, through Wednesday, May 1. Hikes are free with $5 daily, or $20 annual, admission to the park. Call or visit scvntucson. org for more information. TOHONO CHUL GUIDED BIRD AND NATURE WALKS Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Birders at any level of expertise tour the nature trails and gardens of 49-acre Tohono Chul Park and learn to identify some of the 27 resident bird species at 8:30 a.m., every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. A one-hour walking tour of the nature trails takes place at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark. org for more information. WAKE UP WITH THE BIRDS Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. Spot wetland birds, hummingbirds, songbirds and raptors on a walk from 8:30 to 10 a.m., every Thursday; free. Binoculars are available. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

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SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK ADVENT RETREAT: TO WALK A SACRED, HOLY PATH St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. An advent retreat focuses on the history and inspiration of the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s labyrinth, and the use of an Anglican rosary for contemplation, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; $25 includes lunch and materials. Call or email greg.foraker@ stphilipstucson.org to register. BEGINNERS OPEN HOUSE Kadampa Meditation Center, Arizona. 1701 E. Miles St. 296-8626. Anyone interested in learning about Buddhism and meditation is invited to an open house at 6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30; free. HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA The Studio. 4648 E. Speedway Blvd. 425-7605. Part of a fundraising series for One Global Village, The Dalai Lama: The Power of Compassion, Part 1, featuring the spiritual leader discussing how empathy contributes to well-being, screens at 6 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; $9 suggested donation. Call 360-7340, or visit oneglobalvillage.org for more information. TEACHINGS OF BRUNO GROENING University of Arizona Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. Help and Healing on the Spiritual Path Through the Teachings of Bruno Groening is screened in Room C of the cafeteria from noon to 5 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; freewill donation. Call 904-4801, or visit www. bruno-groening.org/english for more info.

UPCOMING THE COSMIC CHRIST IN THE HEART OF HUMANITY Tucson Museum of Art Education Center. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Puran Bair offers mystical insights based on the story of the nativity, from 7 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 6; free. Call 299-2170. IONS MONTHLY PRESENTATION Unity of Tucson. 3617 N. Camino Blanco. 577-3300. Rubin Naiman presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;The United States of Consciousness,â&#x20AC;? from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7; $5. Call 399-8285, or visit ionstucson.org.

SPORTS EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA WILDCAT HOCKEY TCC Arena. 260 S. Church Ave. Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m.: San Diego State. Tickets are $5 to $17. Visit arizonawildcathockey.org for tickets. AZ BLISTER WAKA KICKBALL Joaquin Murrieta Park. 1400 N. Silverbell Road. 7914752. The fall season ends on Thursday, Nov. 29. Three games are played starting at 6:30 p.m. A playoff tournament and end-of-season party take place Saturday, Dec. 8. Visit kickball.com for more information. GREAT PROSTATE CANCER CHALLENGE Reid Park Zoo. 1030 S. Randolph Way. 881-4753. A run-or-walk event raises awareness and research funding for prostate cancer at 8:15 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; $40 10k, $35 5k, $20 youth and fun run. On-site registration is from 7:15 to 8:15 a.m. Pets are not permitted. Call 784-7084, or email tanderson@aiurology.com to register a team or join one. Visit zeroprostatecancerrun. org/races/tucson, to register and for more information. UA MENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BASKETBALL UA McKale Memorial Center. 1721 E. Enke Drive. The UA meets Southern Miss at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4; $20 to $115. Visit arizonawildcats.com/sports for tickets and more information.

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Holidays on Pointe BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com he Nutcracker may be candy-caned and snowflake-strewn, but it’s one of the most demanding dances around. Take the part of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Don’t be misled by her frothy tutu or glittering tiara. “The Sugar Plum pas de deux is the most difficult role in ballet,” declares Mary Beth Cabana, artistic director of Ballet Tucson. “The dancer has to be strong as an ox. It’s really tough.” Ballet Tucson’s Sugar Plum, prima ballerina Jenna Johnson, proves the point. She is a delicate beauty—with killer thighs and biceps, and a leap as high as the Catalinas. Over at Tucson Regional Ballet, which each year does A Southwest Nutcracker, set in 1880s Tucson, a couple of powerhouse high school girls, Lindsey Felix and Stephanie Liu, dance the Prickly Pear Fairy, counterparts of Sugar Plum. Their male partners, college dancers at the UA, says executive director Linda Walker, continually marvel at the girls’ strength. “They tell me, ‘Those girls are powerful.’” The splendor—and yes, power—of the dancing in The Nutcracker, choreographed way back in 1892 by the legendary Petipa, is one of the biggest reasons The Nut’s fans keep coming back Christmas after Christmas. Ever since 1954, when the Russian George Balanchine brought it to the New York City Ballet, The Nutcracker has been firmly established as a holiday staple in the U.S. “It’s one of the things people will do over the holiday, even if they don’t go to dance normally,” Cabana says. They do it, Walker agrees, because “it’s beautiful classical ballet, and it’s fun.” Tucson steps up with seven local productions and a touring show; there’s also a big-deal version up the road in Phoenix. Those Sugar Plums start leaping this weekend, and plié clear through to Christmas.

Week One Ballet Continental gets the first Nutcracker word each year. Trained by the late George Zoritch, a proponent of the grand Russian tradition, artistic director Lisa Baker DiGiacomo stages her 27th edition down the road in Sahuarita, with a full complement of 64 dancers. Continental boasts three Sugar Plums this year, including Darby Downs, who has “danced in our Nutcracker all 27 years,” DiGiacomo says. “She started as a mouse.” Guest artist Nicholas McLain partners with Downs and the other two fairies, Andrea Pardi and Brittani Johnson. Visiting actor Rick McAtee is Drosselmeyer, the mysterious party guest who starts the fantasy rolling. 28 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

Ballet Continental’s Nutcracker is at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2, at Sahuarita Auditorium, 350 W. Sahuarita Road in Sahuarita. Tickets are $15 adults; $12 seniors age 55 and up; $8 students and children younger than 12; and $2 more at the door, available azballetcontinental. com; at Young Artists’ Community Ballet Academy of Dance, 1100 Whitehouse Canyon Road; and at retail outlets in Green Valley and Sahuarita; 326-7887. For the 12th annual Nutcracker performed by A Time to Dance, artistic director Dee Dee Doell has created “all new snow choreography,” she says. And since the average age of dancers in the show is 15—old enough to be in toe shoes—“this year, the entire corps de ballet is on pointe.” The 50 dancers include a few 50-somethings and “lots of little ones playing animals.” Longtime studio dancer Jerrica Stewart once again takes on Sugar Plum, and Jacqueline Alverado is Clara. A Time to Dance’s Nutcracker is at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30; and 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, at Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. Tickets are $8 in advance at 320-1566, or $10 at the door; atimetodancetucson.com. Week Two Ballet Arizona made its Big Apple debut in February, winning plaudits from The New York Times, whose critic gushed that artistic director Ib Andersen “has acquired a reputation as an artistic director of uncommon prowess in transforming Ballet Arizona … into something special.” It’s worth the trip up Interstate 10 to see Andersen’s Nutcracker, a sumptuous affair with Tchaikovsky’s score played live by the Phoenix Symphony. Fun fact: Dancers ran through 300 pairs of pointe shoes during last year’s Nutcracker. The troupe dances the ballet 19 times, opening at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7, and closing with a 2 p.m. matinee on Christmas Eve at Symphony Hall, 75 N. Second St. in Phoenix. Tickets range from $18 to $122, with discounts for seniors, students and groups of 10 or more; available at (602) 381-1096; or at www.ticketmaster.com for a hefty fee; www.balletaz.org. Week Three Tucson Regional Ballet has once again enlisted the Tucson Symphony Orchestra to play live for A Southwest Nutcracker. It’s especially fitting in Arizona’s centennial year to see the mice transformed into coyotes, the soldiers

Ballet Tucson’s Jenna Johnson as the Sugar Cavalier. into cavalry, and the German family into a Hispanic familia in the Old Pueblo. Clara becomes Maria, danced by Sara Hickman; her Cavalier is a Caballero (alternated by Max Foster and Barton Cowperthwaite); and Drossemeyer is Tío Diego (Will Dingeldein). All six guest artists are dance majors at the UA, and at least two have local roots. As a young modern dancer, Foster used to dazzle at Orts Theatre of Dance and FUNHOUSE movement theater. Paetia Mechler, who often starred at Tucson Regional Ballet as a teen, returns to play Mother Piñata. The 90 dancers perform choreography that Walker and Carolyn Wallace first created in 1994; other artistic directors along the way, including the incumbent, Jeffrey Graham Hughes, have made their own contributions. A Southwest Nutcracker is at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 15; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 16, at the Tucson Convention Center Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. Tickets are $29 and $32, with discounts for seniors and scouts. They’re available at www.tucsonregionalballet.org, 8850862; and www.ticketmaster.com for a fee, (800) 745-3000. Ballet Rincon’s artistic director, Jennifer Neuser, imports two dance stars for her eastside dance company’s traditional Nutcracker. Mark Nichols of UA School of Dance dances Cavalier, and Christopher Compton, who

Plum Fairy, and Stuart Lauer as Her danced for Twyla Tharp and as a guest artist with Pennsylvania Ballet, is Drosselmeyer. The studio’s own Reed Neuser is Clara, and Hanna Herrington and Heylie Strachan alternate as Sugar Plum Fairy. Neuser takes credit for most of the choreography, but this year, Cory Gram, a UA dance grad and alumnus of Ballet Tucson, created a new Sugar Plum Pas de Deux. Mika Deslongchamps contributed a new battle scene. And, as always, the production has a “magical growing Christmas tree!” company spokeswoman Diana Knoepfle says. Ballet Rincon dances at 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 14; and 2 and 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 15, at Vail Theatre of the Arts, 10701 E. Mary Ann Cleveland Way; $10 and $14 adults; $8 and $12 seniors and children. Tickets are available at Ballet Rincon studio, 10544 E. Seven Generations Way, No. 200, and at the theater box office one hour before the concerts; 5742804; www.ballet-rincon.com. Arizona Dance Theatre presents a “good old traditional Nutcracker,” assistant director Lauren Baquet cheerfully says. Fifty-five dancers, including a “lot of little ones” from the Creative Dance Arts studio, fill the starry stage of Pima’s Proscenium Theatre. Guest artist Marquez Johnson, a UA dance grad who’s now the dance teacher in the Flowing Wells district, dances the Nutcracker Prince. Seventeen-year-

old Gabrielle Malkin, who’s been with the studio since the age of 3, stars as Sugar Plum. The studio’s Megan Lemcke is Clara. Artist director Kandis Meinel is the choreographer. Arizona Dance Theatre performs at 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15 and 16, at Pima Community College West Center for the Arts, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tickets are $23 and $25; available at the box office, 206-6986. For more info, contact the studio at 887-5658; www.creativedancearts.com. Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker, a traveling production from the country that invented ballet, hits Tucson toward the end of a grueling cross-country tour. It boasts 40 Russian dancers, silk puppets and a Christmas tree that’s said to grow seven stories tall. Moscow Ballet dances at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 17, and Tuesday, Dec. 18, at the Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St. Tickets range from $27.50 to $180; 547-3040; www.foxtucsontheatre.org. Week Four Ballet Tucson dances its traditional Victorian Nutcracker the weekend before the big day. “It’s wonderful for people to come right before Christmas,” Cabana enthuses. “These are great dates.” The troupe, the only paid professional dance company in Tucson, is back at Centennial Hall after a three-year detour downtown to the Music Hall. Ballet Tucson’s 30 pros lead a cast of 120 onstage, making this production the biggest in town. Cavalier Stuart Lauer partners with Sugar Plum Fairy Johnson. Daniel Precup, fresh from fine dramatic turns as Quasimodo and the Devil in the company’s season-opener last month, takes another turn as Drosselmeyer. Four teens from the school each get a shot at Clara: veterans Brittany Askren and Natasha Tsakanikas, reprising their Claras from last year, and newbies Abigail Pye and Grace Liatti. Ballet Tucson dances at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; and 1 and 5 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23, at UA’s Centennial Hall. Tickets are $31 to $59 general; $27 to $41 for students/children/seniors; $20 to $32 for groups of 10 or more. Available at box office, 621-3341, and at www.uapresents.org. Add $10 service fee for phone orders; www.ballettucson.org. Dancing in the Streets Arizona dances a traditional ballet with a Latin twist. Even the title is bilingual: The Nutcracker Ballet—El Cascanueces. This studio prides itself on teaching ballet to southside kids who might never before have thought of pirouetting. The troupe is led by Joseph Rodgers, a native Tucsonan who danced at Feld Ballet and Ballet Chicago before returning home four years ago to start the kids’ company. Some 100 children and teens dance under the falling snow at the Fox. Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and the Arizona Daily Star’s David Fitzsimmons promise to make an appearance— not in tutus, we trust. The volunteer musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Tucson play the Tchaikovsky score live. Shows are at 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; and 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23, at the Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St. Tickets are $13 to $35; available at the box office, 547-3040, or at www.foxtucsontheatre.org. For more info, visit www.ditsaz.org; 867-8489 and 298-7738.

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OUT OF TOWN BALLET CONTINENTAL Sahuarita Auditorium. 350 W. Sahuarita Road. Sahuarita. 625-3502. Celebrating its 27th season in 2012, Ballet Continental presents The Nutcracker Ballet at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; $15, $12 senior, $8 younger than 12 or student with ID. Visit azballetcontinental.com for reservations and more info.

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MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK 17TH STREET MUSIC 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 7147. Tom Walbank plays updated bottleneck Delta blues from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; free. ARIZONA FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC Leo Rich Theater. 260 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. The Pacifica Quartet and clarinetist Anthony McGill perform at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5; $30. Call 577-3769, or visit arizonachambermusic.org for reservations. THE CIVIC ORCHESTRA OF TUCSON Rincon/University High School Auditorium. 421 N. Arcadia Drive. 440-5661. The orchestra presents Musical Potpourri, a program of lighter classics, at 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free. Call 730-3371 for info. FOOTHILLS PHILHARMONIC WINTER CONCERT Catalina Foothills High School. 4300 E. Sunrise Drive. 209-8300. Conducted by Laszlo Veres, the orchestra presents “Parade of the Charioteers” from Ben Hur, Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Op. 214 and “Sleigh Ride,” among other popular works, at 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2. $5 adults, $3 children 12 and younger, available at the door. Call 209-7503 for info. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Robert Shaw and the Lonely Street Band present Blue Christmas: A Holiday Salute to the King at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; $20 to $35. Visit foxtucsontheatre.org. HOLIDAY CARD TO TUCSON St. Augustine Cathedral. 192 S. Stone Ave. 6236351. The UA Arizona Choir and Symphonic Choir, the University Community Chorus, the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus and the Tucson Girls Chorus perform classical and popular music of the season from around the world, together and separately, at 3 and 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free admission, but a voucher is required. Call 626-9227 to request a voucher. MESSIAH SING-IN Grace to the Nations. 6180 E. Pima St. 886-4046. Jeffry Jahn conducts the audience, the orchestra and soloists in a performance of Handel’s Messiah, at 7 p.m., Monday, Dec. 3; free. Bring your own score, or rent one for $7 plus a $5 deposit which is refunded when the score is returned. Visit tucsonsingin.org. OLD PUEBLO BRASS BAND Foothills Mall. 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 742-7191. Two euphoniums and a tuba are featured in a program of patriotic and holiday music, new and old, at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30; freewill donation. Visit oldpueblobrassband.com, or call 325-1420 for info.

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PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE MUSIC PCC Center for the Arts. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 2066986. Unless otherwise noted, performances are in the Proscenium Theatre; $6. Call or visit pima.edu/ cfa for tickets and more information. Thursday, Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m.: Wind Ensemble with the UA Wind Ensemble. Saturday, Dec. 1, at 3 p.m.: orchestra concert. Sunday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m.: the Chorale and College Singers. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m.: Musical Theatre Workshop in the Recital Hall. REVEILLE MENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHORUS Grace St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church. 2331 E. Adams St. 327-6857. Our Favorite Things!, a program featuring a wide range of music, from traditional to humorous, is staged at 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; and at 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; $25, $20 advance, $15 student advance. Ten percent of proceeds benefits Wingspanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s EON LGBT Youth Center. Visit reveillemenschorus.org for tickets and more information. SONS OF ORPHEUS Sunday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m.: holiday concert at Tucson Estates, Multipurpose Building, 5900 W. Western Way Circle; $7, $5 resident. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m.: holiday benefit concert for the Community Food Bank, with elementary students of the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and Blind, Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway Blvd.; freewill donation of cash or nonperishable food items. Visit sonsoforpheus.org for more information. ST. PHILIPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FRIENDS OF MUSIC CONCERTS St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Concerts are held at 2 p.m., Sunday, in the sanctuary unless otherwise noted; freewill donation. Visit stphilipstucson.org for more information. Dec. 2: HarpFusion, music by 10 harps. Monday, Dec. 24, at 9 and 11 p.m.: the combined adult choirs, soloists and orchestra present Franz Schubertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mass in G major D. 167. TIĂ&#x2039;STO WITH ZEDD AVA: Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheater. Casino del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. Dance DJ TiĂŤsto headlines a concert also featuring Zedd, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5; $35. Visit tickets.solcasinos. com for tickets and more information. TSO POPS Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Ann Hampton Callaway Sings Streisand at 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; $39 to $69. Visit tucsonsymphony.org for tickets and more information. TUCSON DESERT HARMONY St. Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Presbyterian Church. 7575 N. Paseo del Norte. 297-7201. The a cappella chorus presents Cool Composers and Holiday Warmth, including holiday-themed works by Barry Manilow, Elton John, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and others, at 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; $20. Call 790-1813 for reservations. UA MUSIC UA School of Music. 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655. Visit music.arizona.edu, or call 621-1162 for reserva-

tions or more information. Friday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m.: The UA Philharmonic Orchestra, Crowder Hall; $5. Saturday, Dec. 1, at 3 p.m.: UA World Music Gang, Crowder Hall; $5. Saturday, Dec. 1, at 4 p.m.: Fred Fox Graduate Wind Quintet, Holsclaw Hall; free. Sunday, Dec. 2, at 2:30 p.m.: William Wolfe Guitar Award Recital student competition, Holsclaw Hall; $5. Monday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m.: string chamber music concert with student artists, Holsclaw Hall; free. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m.: UA Wind Ensemble, Crowder Hall; $5.

$10 to $20, $90 for the season. Dec. 7: Mariachi Christmas with Azteca del Sol. Visit thegoodshepherducc.org for more information.

UA OPERA UA Crowder Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 621-1162. An Evening of Opera Scenes is staged at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4; $5. Visit music.arizona.edu, or call for reservations or more information.

SADDLEBROOKE SINGERS DesertView Performing Arts Center. 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. Christmas Around the World is presented at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 6; and 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; $20, $16 advance. Visit tickets.saddlebrooketwo.com for tickets and more information.

UAPRESENTS Unless otherwise indicated, performances are in Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. Call 6213341, or visit uapresents.org for tickets and more information. Thursday, Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m.: Sybarite5, in Crowder Hall, 1017 N. Olive Road; $15 to $45. Sunday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m.: Celtic Woman; $15 to $105.

OUT OF TOWN COMMUNITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Community Performing Arts Center. 1250 W. Continental Road. Green Valley. 399-1750. Thursday, Nov. 29, at 7 p.m.: Essential Soul With the Socials, a soul, Motown and R&B Las Vegas-style revue; $23, $20 advance. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m.: An Evening of Jazz with Pat Watson and Mike Padilla; $18, $15 advance. Visit performingartscenter.org for tickets and more information. DESERTVIEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER DesertView Performing Arts Center. 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. ABBA Fab, a multimedia tribute to ABBA including live performance by nine musicians, takes place at 4 and 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30; $25, $23 advance. Visit tickets.saddlebrooketwo. com for tickets and more information.

UPCOMING ARIZONA ROSE THEATER COMPANY Suite 147 at Plaza Palomino. 2970 N. Swan Road, No. 147. 440-4455. Holiday Tunes in Tinseltown features holiday songs popularized in the movies at 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7; 2 and 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 9; $10, $8 senior or military, $6 child. Visit arizonarose.cc for tickets and more info.

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CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. A variety show includes a puppet show, a singalong, fiddleplaying, poetry, song and dance by children and adults, and more, at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1; $5. Call for more information.

TUCSON CHAMBER ARTISTS Concerts are $25 unless otherwise indicated. Friday, Dec. 7, at 7 p.m., at St. Francis in the Valley Episcopal Church, 600 S. La CaĂąada Drive, Green Valley; and Saturday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 9, at 3 p.m., at St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave.: Christmas Lessons and Carols by Candlelight, featuring the TCA chorus and soloists with organist Jeffrey Campbell. Saturday, Jan. 5, at 7:30 p.m., at St. Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Presbyterian Church, 7650 N. Paseo Del Norte; and Sunday, Jan. 6, at Grace St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, 2331 E. Adams St.: Bach and Britten, featuring the TCA chorus, orchestra and soloists. Call 401-2651, or visit tucsonchamberartists.org for tickets and more information.

LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play opens with previews Thursday and Friday, Nov. 29 and 30, and continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday preview, Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $12 preview, $16 senior, military or student. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for tickets and more information.

ZZ TOP AVA: Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheater. Casino del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. ZZ Top performs at 8 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 9; $25 to $75. Visit tickets.solcasinos.com for tickets and more information.

COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. Charles Dickensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; A Christmas Carol opens Friday, Nov. 30, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 30. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, discounts available. Call or visit thecomedyplayhouse.com for tickets or more info.

PCC MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP PCC Center for the Arts. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 2066986. Friends and Lovers, a play about a theatrical production, is staged at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5; $6. Call 206-6986, or visit pima.edu/cfa for tickets and more information. WAYPOINT THEATRE COMPANY Academy Hall. Atria Bell Court Garden. 6653 E. Carondelet Drive. Dove Tale, a comic but reverent story about Mary, Joseph and the angel Gabriel, opens with a preview at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 9. Showtimes are 7 p.m., Thursday and Friday; and 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $11 to $18. A music show precedes the play. Dessert is included at 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1. Visit waypoint-theatre.org for tickets and more information.

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JAVARITA COFFEE HOUSE Javarita Coffee House (The Good Shepherd United Church of Christ). 17750 S. La CaĂąada Drive. Sahuarita. 625-1375. Live acoustic roots music is presented at 7 p.m., on selected Fridays, through April;

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A CHRISTMAS CAROLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ... WITH A TUCSON TWIST Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Personalities from 94.9 MIX FM, and KGUN Channel 9 lead a cast of celebrities in an updated version of the Charles Dickens classic thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loaded with topical Tucson references, at 5 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; $15, $10 military, $5 child 4 to 13, free younger child. A â&#x20AC;&#x153;Meet the Castâ&#x20AC;? reception including wine and appetizers takes place from 4 to 5 p.m. in the upstairs lobby; $50 preferred seating, $100 loge. Visit foxtucsontheatre.org.

THE SONS OF ORPHEUS Friday, Dec. 7, at 7 p.m.: holiday concert at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W. Continental Road, Green Valley; $18, $15 in advance at performingartscenter.org. Sunday, Dec. 9, at 3 p.m.: holiday concert with the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive, SaddleBrooke; $40, $30 advance at tickets. Visit saddlebrooketwo.com for tickets and more information. Tuesday through Thursday, Dec. 11 through 13, at 6 and 8 p.m.: Christmas concerts at San Xavier Mission with the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus to benefit the restoration of the mission, 1980 W. San Xavier Road; $90. Visit sonsoforpheus.org for more information.

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FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Saturday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m.: the Romeros with Concerto Malaga; $25 to $62. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for more information.

KINGFISHER STRING QUARTET Dove of Peace Lutheran Church. 665 W. Roller Coaster Road. 887-5127. An afternoon of chamber music includes works by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Ravel, at 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; freewill donations. Call (612) 237-3980 for more information.

BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh previews Thursday, Nov. 29, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 16. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m., Sunday; $8 to $20. Call or visit beowulfalley.org for tickets and more information.

ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Jane Austenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Emma opens Saturday, Dec. 1, and runs through Saturday, Dec. 22; $40 to $75. Showtimes vary. Call or visit arizonatheatre.org for tickets.

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PERFORMING ARTS The Gaslight Theatre’s take on the story of Scrooge is a complete delight

THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Scrooge: A Gaslight Musical continues through Sunday, Jan. 6. 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. A noon performance on Sunday, Dec. 9, benefits Salpointe Catholic High School; $25, $22, younger than 18. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com for reservations or more info.

‘Humbug’ With Heart BY SHERILYN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com n case you haven’t noticed, it’s that most &#%@$ time of the year. You know the one—when the newspaper arrives engorged with glossy ads to tempt you to venture out before dawn to shove and grab, and swipe your credit card until the magnetic stripe wears out. When stores’ regular merchandise is displaced by peculiar—and pointless—crap, and by décor that at other times of the year would be appropriate only in brothels. And when a new crop of cavities is cultivated by cookies, candy and other calorie-laden cuisine. Yes, it’s Christmas, a time of magic and mania. But what is truly miraculous is that there are those who manage to slog through the madness, making an indomitable commitment to embrace what the season is really about: making people laugh, eating popcorn, listening to cleverly corrupted Christmas carols, and booing the bah-humbug guy until he understands that his Grumpy Gus attitude really sucks. In these parts, it’s the gang at the Gaslight Theatre who is committed to salvaging the season for us. The current production, Scrooge, is a spirited and silly interpretation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This is a fun and frolicking romp with nary a seriously cynical streak in its refashioned story of Ebenezer Scrooge and the folks who, in spite of his stingy spirit, never give up shoveling good will his way. In writer/director Peter Van Slyke’s version, tailor-made for the Gaslight, there are some inventions that Dickens (who wrote his story in 1843) missed, particularly that of setting the story in the 1950s. Bob and Gwen Cratchit (Todd Thompson and Maria Alburtus-Gawne) own a diner in the town of Dickensville. They have a sick son, Tiny Tim (Anchor Erickson), who looks remarkably well for someone who, we are told, is quite unwell due to some unspecified illness, and is in need of an operation too expensive for the Cratchits, who obviously need an injection of Obamacare. But there was no such thing in the 1950s. Bob Cratchit goes to the local savings and loan, an institution that was indeed still around in the ’50s, to ask Mr. Scrooge (David Orley) for a loan. His plea is met with a “Bah! Humbug!” So the caring and generous citizens of Dickensville, led by Mayor Fezziwig (Mike Yarema), are selling raffle tickets to raise money for Tim’s operation. Meanwhile, Scrooge’s dead partner in the savings and loan, Jacob Marley (Joe Cooper), decides he needs to intervene, which he can do since there were still helpful ghosts able to teach critical lessons in the ’50s. So he scares

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Little Outlaws, continues through through Monday, Dec. 31. Showtimes are 7 and 8 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 6, 7 and 8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $4, $2 child younger than 12. Visit wildweststuntshow.com, or call 398-5618 for more information.

LAST CHANCE ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE UA Tornabene Theatre. 1303 E. University Blvd. 6211162. Inspecting Carol, a farce about a production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, closes Sunday, Dec. 2. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., weeknights and Saturday; and 1:30 p.m., Sunday; dates may vary; $20 to $31. Call 621-1162, or visit arizona.tix.com for tickets; see cfa.arizona.edu for more information. INVISIBLE THEATRE Invisible Theatre. 1400 N. First Ave. 882-9721. Mesa, a comedy about a road-trip to an Arizona retirement home, closes Sunday, Dec. 2. 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.

OUT OF TOWN Jake Chapman, Tarreyn Van Slyke, Todd Thompson, David Orley, Maria Alburtus-Gawne, Sarah Vanek, Mike Yarema and Anchor Erickson in Scrooge: A Gaslight Musical. Scrooge out of his wits in an apparition in Scrooge: A Gaslight Musical Presented by the Gaslight Theatre which he predicts Scrooge will be visited by a couple of other apparitions who will attempt to One to four shows daily, through Sunday, Jan. 6; closed Christmas Day encourage him to see the error of his ways. So the Ghost of Christmas Past (Tarreyn 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. Van Slyke) floats through the air in a festooned $17.95 adults; $15.95 students, seniors and military; $7.95 children 12 and younger hula-hoop-type contraption, which reminded me of something—oh, what is it? Oh, yeah, Runs two hours, with one intermission how the Good Witch Glinda makes an 886-9428; entrance in Wicked, but with much more, uh, www.thegaslighttheatre.com conservative technology. Scrooge gets a glimpse of his younger self, who did seem to have something akin to a heart, but refused to that it is her duty not only to accompany the use it. Scrooge still isn’t too impressed and songs, but also to drive the action. Ackermann retreats into slumber. on piano, Blake Matthies on bass and Adam Then the Ghost of Christmas Present (Jake Ackermann on drums are terrific. Chapman) appears as an Elvis-type dude, Orley gives Scrooge an unusual reading, dressed formally, including a bizarre white seeming a bit daft at times. But he delivers his bouffant that looks like lacquered cotton “humbugs” credibly enough and elicits boos candy. He lets Scrooge take a peek at what the from the audience, so it must work. folks in Dickensville are saying about him Company member and choreographer behind his back. This ghost is one cool dude Sarah Vanek gets to shine in this show. As who reminds Scrooge that the Christmas spirit Miss Snivling, Scrooge’s secretary at the savis not about the “dough-re-mi, man.” ings and loan, she had designs on Scrooge a But it takes Marley returning to show him few years back. But she has now caught the the stone marking his grave to really give eye of Mayor Fezziwig. Actually, with her cat’sScrooge the kick in the pants that leads to his eye glasses and a hairpiece that reaches skytransformation. And here again, there is a ward and holds the possibility of containing departure from Dickens’ telling: Scrooge, after all kinds of items and creatures, she would buying all the raffle tickets the townsfolk are catch anyone’s eye. selling, transmogrifies into—you guessed it— Your ticket includes a variety show that Santa Claus. How cool is that? launches after the main show, and the enterThe energetic cast performs the story with tainment this time is The Andy Williams Show, not a degree of subtlety, and sings Van Slyke’s which features holiday songs delivered by a modified lyrics with gusto (and skill). The cast impersonating various musical personalimusic is absolutely necessary for the producties who were popular in the late ’60s. tion’s momentum, and musical director Linda Thank you, Gaslight! You get the holidays Ackermann demonstrates a keen awareness right.

COCHISE COLLEGE THEATRE WORKSHOP AND BISBEE’S OBSCURE PRODUCTIONS Bisbee Central School Project. 43 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-5347. Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth opens Friday, Nov. 30, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 9, at the Central School Project, 43 Howell Ave., Old Bisbee. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $12, $10 advance, $6 child. Thornton Wilder’s Arizona Days, a presentation by author Tom Miller about the 18 months Wilder spent in Southeast Arizona in the 1960s, takes place at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4, in the Mona Bishop Room at the Sierra Vista Public Library, 2600 E. Tacoma St., Sierra Vista; free. Call 432-2901, or email theaterbisbee@gmail.com for reservations and more info.

UPCOMING ARIZONA ONSTAGE Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, featuring Tucson jazz singer Anna Anderson and pianist Collin Shook in a representation of a 1959 cabaret performance by Billie Holiday, opens Thursday, Dec. 6, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 23. Showtimes are 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m., Sunday; $20 to $37.50. No show on Friday, Dec. 7. Call (800) 838-3006, or visit arizonaonstage.org for tickets and more information. ODYSSEY STORYTELLING Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Six storytellers share tales from their lives based on a monthly theme, at 7 p.m., the first Thursday of every month; $7. Dec. 6: The End of the World as We Know It. Jan. 10: Myths-Monsters Under the Bed. ALS interpretation is provided. Beverages are available for sale. To tell a story on a future topic, send a synopsis and a brief bio a month in advance. Call 730-4112, or visit storyartsgroup.org for more information

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OPENING THIS WEEK ARTSEYE GALLERY ArtsEye Gallery. 3550 E. Grant Road. 325-0260. Landings, an exhibit of work by Stephen Strom and Stu Jenks, opens Saturday, Dec. 1, and continues through Thursday, Feb. 14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; free. Visit artseye.com for more information. ATLAS FINE ART SERVICES Atlas Fine Art Services. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 622-2139. A group exhibition of works created on a small scale, smallWORKS, opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1. The show continues through Saturday, Jan. 19. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and by appointment Monday and Tuesday; free. BICAS ANNUAL ART AUCTION Whistle Stop Depot. 127 W. Fifth St. 271-7605. An art auction to benefit BICAS opens with a preview party featuring entertainment from 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, and continues from 6 to 9 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free admission. The auction features one-of-a-kind sculpture, paintings, assemblages, jewelry and functional art depicting or made from the bicycle and bicycle parts. Refreshments are served. Saturday, Bradford Trojan performs. Sunday entertainment includes music by DJ Carl Hanni and Puppets by Hansel and Friends. Visit bicas. org for more information. CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557. Reflections of the Sonoran Desert, an exhibit of works by six artists inspired by the Sonoran Desert and its history, opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, and continues until Saturday, Dec. 29. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. HAPPY HOUR FOR PUBLIC ARTISTS La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar. 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. The Tucson-Pima Arts Council invites people interested in making public art to a nohost cocktail party and idea-exchange, from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29; free admission. JANE HAMILTON FINE ART Jane Hamilton Fine Art. 2890 E. Skyline Drive, No. 180. 529-4886. An exhibit of romantic Southwestern landscapes and figures opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30, and continues through Monday, Dec. 10. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Wednesday, and Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit janehamiltonfineart.com for more information. JOEL D. VALDEZ MAIN LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A display featuring a snowy miniature village complete with a moving train is unveiled Friday, Nov. 30, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 30. An exhibit of paintings by Serena Tang and photography by Chris Brozek opens Saturday, Dec. 1, and runs through Monday, Dec. 31. Models That Tell a Story: The Art of Dioramas and Vignettes, an exhibit of various types of models, runs through Thursday, May 30, 2013. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov for more information. KIRK-BEAR CANYON BRANCH LIBRARY Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. All Over Everywhere: The Art of Joan LaRue and Jane Barton opens Saturday, Dec. 1, and continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free.

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MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101. 615-3001. Desert Holiday, an exhibit of snow scenes and other Southwest holiday paintings by Diana Madaras, opens Saturday, Dec. 1, and continues through Monday, Dec. 31. A reception featuring a 12-foot tree decorated with Madaras’ Southwestern ornaments takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 6; free, but an RSVP is requested. The reception is part of a holiday Art Walk among nearby galleries. Carolers and refreshments are included. PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY AND STUDIO Philabaum Glass Gallery and Studio. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. The Ins and Outs, featuring work by Wes Hunting and Bob and Laurie Kliss, opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, and continues through Saturday, Jan. 26. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit philabaumglass.com for more information. RAICES TALLER 222 ART GALLERY AND WORKSHOP Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335. Tesoros Pequeños (Little Treasures), an exhibit of affordable small works, opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, and continues from 1 to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday, through Saturday, Dec. 29; free. RITA WATTERS ART GALLERY AND CRAFTERS GIFT SHOP Rita Watters Art Gallery and Crafters Gift Shop. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road, No. 27. 777-7034. A collection of works suitable for gift-giving opens Thursday, Nov. 29, and continues through Thursday, Jan. 3. Hours are 1 to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; free. TEMPLE GALLERY Temple Gallery. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. An exhibit of illustrations by Valerie Galloway opens Friday, Nov. 30, and continues through Tuesday, Jan. 8. A reception takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7. 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. VILLAGE BLACKSMITH SCULPTURE GARDEN The Village Blacksmith. 2967 N. Alvernon Way. 3257650. An artists’ reception for one-of-a-kind forged steel and stainless-steel sculptures, including wildlife, contemporary, abstract and kinetic, takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, through Dec. 15; free. Refreshments are available. WEE GALLERY Wee Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., No. 171. 360-6024. Marcy Miranda Janes: New Works in Cut Paper opens with a reception from 6 to 11 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, and continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; free. ZOË BOUTIQUE Zoë Boutique. 735 N. Fourth Ave. 740-1201. A holiday party and art opening takes place from 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; free. Works for sale include new art and ornaments by a dozen Tucson artists, through Thursday, Jan. 31. For each can of food donated to the Community Food Bank, attendees get a raffle ticket for a holiday stocking full of merchandise.

CONTINUING ART INSTITUTE OF TUCSON Art Institute of Tucson. 5099 E. Grant Road. 3182700. Mostly Magic, an exhibit of paintings by Al Tucci, former director of the UA School of Theatre Arts, continues through Friday, Jan. 11. Hours are from 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. CAMPUS CHRISTIAN CENTER ART GALLERY Campus Christian Center Art Gallery. 715 N. Park Ave. 623-7575. An exhibit of two-dimensional works by 21 members of the Contemporary Artists of Southern Arizona continues through Saturday, Dec. 8, when a reception takes place from noon to 2 p.m. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY Davis Dominguez Gallery. 154 E. Sixth St. 629-9759. An exhibit of Josh Goldberg’s abstract paintings and works on paper, and Sabino Canyon, a joint exhibit of paintings by James Cook and bronzes by Mark Rossi, continue through Saturday, Dec. 29. 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. DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Art Gala continues through Sunday, Feb. 3. An artists’ reception takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30. 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. DRAGONFLY GALLERY Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Gallery. 146 E. Broadway Blvd. 628-3164. The Divine Feminine: A Three-Woman Exhibition continues through Thursday, Jan. 10. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday; free. THE DRAWING STUDIO The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947. The Jewel Box, an invitational art-jewelry show, takes place from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8, in conjunction with Second Saturdays Downtown. Small Wonders, a collection of affordable original jewelry and other works by faculty, students and other artist friends, continues through Saturday, Dec. 15. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 4 p.m., and 6 to 9 p.m., for the First Saturday Art Walk. Proceeds benefit the studio’s youth, senior and scholarship programs. ETHERTON GALLERY Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. An exhibit of photographs by John Loengard, Ralph Gibson and Harry Callahan continues through Saturday, Jan. 5. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and by appointment; free. Visit ethertongallery.com for more information. THE IMAGE COLLECTOR GALLERY The Image Collector Gallery. 417 N. Fourth Ave. 9770267. A Glimpse of Cuba, a collection of images taken by David Scott Moyer in four Cuban cities last April, continues from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., daily, through Monday, Dec. 31; free. Visit “A Glimpse of Cuba” on Facebook 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. KRIKAWA JEWELRY DESIGNS Krikawa Jewelry Designs. 4280 N. Campbell Ave., No. 107. 322-6090. A juried exhibition of one-of-a-kind jewelry by Tucson jewelry artists continues through Thursday, Jan. 31. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; free. LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery. PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6942. P.O.V.: Interpreting the Human Figure continues through Friday, Dec. 7. 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. MARK SUBLETTE MEDICINE MAN GALLERY Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery. 6872 E. Sunrise Drive. 722-7798. Mell Modern, an exhibit of modernist work by painter and sculptor Ed Mell, continues through Friday, Dec. 14. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit medicinemangallery.com for more information. MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFÉ Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café. 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. Watercolor Images of an Impermanent World, an exhibit of work by Julia Graf, continues through Monday, Jan. 14; free. Visit montereycourtaz.com for more information. OLLI-UA FINE ART GALLERY University Services Annex Building. 220 W. Sixth St. 626-9039. Transforming Wilderness: Wildflower Portraiture by Roxanne Duke continues through Friday, Dec. 14. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. PORTER HALL GALLERY Porter Hall Gallery. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. An exhibit of work by Dee Bates featuring desert forms and colors continues through Sunday, Dec. 9; free with admission. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $13, $7.50 ages 4 through 12, $12 student, senior or military. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. SHERATON HOTEL AND SUITES Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 3236262. Fall/Winter Fine Art Exhibit, featuring works by members of the Southern Arizona Arts Guild, continues through Sunday, April 7, 2013. The exhibit is open 24 hours, daily, on the first and second floors; free. SOUTHERN ARIZONA ARTS GUILD Miguel’s. 5900 N. Oracle Road. 887-3777. Monthly meetings at 8:30 a.m., the first Saturday of every month, feature a buffet breakfast, guest speakers,

networking, socializing, promotion opportunities and critiques by qualified experts; $13, $10 member. Visit southernazartsguild.org, or call 574-6966. TOHONO CHUL PARK Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Holiday for the Park, a fundraiser featuring ornaments created by local artists, continues through Tuesday, Dec. 11. Horse Country: Horses in the Southwest, depicting the role of horses in Southwestern history, and an exhibit of work by Tucsonan Wil Taylor run through Sunday, Jan. 20. The Mayan Calendar runs through Saturday, Feb. 9. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark. org for more information. TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. 573-8100. An exhibit of works by Cima Bozorgmehr, Betina Fink, Katya Micklewight, Barbara Strelke and Dee Transu continues through Saturday, Feb. 2, in the Lower Link Gallery; free. The gallery is open 24 hours every day. TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL Pioneer Building. 100 N. Stone Ave. 207-5182. Navigations, an exhibition of work that engages the eye in visual exploration, continues through Thursday, Jan. 10. A reception takes place from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Tuesday, Dec. 25 and Jan. 1; free. Call 624-0595, ext. 10. 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. 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. WOMANKRAFT WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. The Holiday Bazaar continues through Saturday, Dec. 22. A reception takes place from 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1. Regular hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; free.

LAST CHANCE AGUA CALIENTE PARK RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Desert Visions, featuring impressionistic landscapes by Phyllis Magrane, closes Wednesday, Dec. 5. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information. BRIDGE GALLERY Bridge Gallery. 5425 N. Kolb Road, No. 113. 5774537. A group show closes Friday, Nov. 30. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit bridgegallery.net. JOEL D. VALDEZ MAIN LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Exhibits of Mel Dominguez’s paintings, the Quilters’ Guild Quilt Show and Thomas McDonnell’s mixed-media works close Friday, Nov. 30. 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. KIRK-BEAR CANYON BRANCH LIBRARY Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. My Beautiful World: The Art of Jennifer Carr closes Friday, Nov. 30; free. 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. MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101. 615-3001. Tucson Homes and Gardens, an exhibit of paintings by Diana Madaras, closes Friday, Nov. 30. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit madaras.com for more information. MURPHEY GALLERY Murphey Gallery. St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Inspirations by the Abstract 5 closes Tuesday, Dec. 4. Hours are 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday; free. PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY AND STUDIO Philabaum Glass Gallery and Studio. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Glass Pioneers, an exhibit celebrating

the of 50th anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement, with works by Micheal Nourot and Cynthia Miller, closes Friday, Nov. 30. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit philabaumglass.com for more information. QUANTUM ART GALLERY Quantum Art Gallery. 505 W. Miracle Mile, No. 2. 9077644. In Finem in Principio, an exhibit of works exploring the past and future by Nicole Carter and Clayton Schwarder, closes 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. THEE COLLECTION AGENCY Thee Collection Agency. 657 W. St. Mary’s Road, No. 6. (213) 453-2637. An exhibit of large-scale, abstractmodern collage works by Adam Rodriguez closes Friday, Nov. 30. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; free. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. Quilts by the UU Quilters closes Sunday, Dec. 2. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday through Friday; and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday; free.

OUT OF TOWN BIOSPHERE 2 CENTER Biosphere 2 Center. 32540 S. Biosphere 2 Road. Oracle. 838-6200. The Art of All Possibilities, an interdisciplinary exhibition that relates art to the scientific research, architecture and culture of Biosphere 2, continues through Thursday, Feb. 28. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; $10 to $20. DOUGLAS ART GALLERY Douglas Art Gallery. 625 10th St. Douglas. (520) 3646410. An exhibit of fiber works by members of the Bisbee Fiber Arts Guild closes Friday, Nov. 30. Regular hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. FIBER ARTS FRIDAY Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Fiber-art enthusiasts gather from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the last Friday of every month; $5, $2 ages 7 through 13, free younger child. Bring knitting, crocheting, spinning or quilting for uninterrupted project time hosted by members of the Southwest Fiber Arts Resource Group. GOURD ART FESTIVAL AND HOLIDAY EVENT Green Valley Village. 101 S. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 625-6551. A show of gourd art from the Valley Gourd Patch, representing artists from Rio Rico, Tubac, Green Valley, Sahuarita and other nearby communities, takes place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1; free. Saturday, Dec. 1, from 1 to 5 p.m., local merchants hold a holiday open house, raffle and sidewalk sale; free. Light refreshments are served. Proceeds benefit the Animal League of Green Valley. Call 207-6398 for more information. ORO VALLEY FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS Oro Valley Marketplace. Oracle and Tangerine roads. Oro Valley. More than 80 artists in all mediums, a 35-foot Christmas tree, live music including 100 tuba-players, free refreshments, food vendors and family-arts activities are featured from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free. One hundred decorated trees are for sale to benefit children in the custody of Child Protective Services. Visit orovalleyfestival.org, or call 797-3959 for more info. PAINT OUT IN THE PARK Honey Bee Canyon Park. 13880 N. Rancho Vistoso Blvd. Oro Valley. 877-6000. Jane Barton of the Tucson Plein Air Painters Society shares techniques for painting landscape scenes with artists age 12 and older, from 8 to 11 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima. gov for reservations and more information. SAM POE GALLERY Sam Poe Gallery. 24 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-5338. The Inside Outside Home and Garden Show continues through Saturday, Dec. 15. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; free. SUBWAY GALLERY Subway Gallery. 30 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 4329143. Prints and Watercolor Landscapes, an exhibit of works by Pamela Blunt and Monte Surratt, continues through Thursday, Dec. 6. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday through Sunday; free. Visit subwaygallerybisbee.com for more information. TUBAC PRESIDIO STATE HISTORIC PARK Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Southwestern Vistas, an exhibit of landscape paintings by Tubac artist Walter Blakelock Wilson, opens Friday, Nov. 30, and continues through Tuesday, April

30. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $5, $2 ages 7 through 13, free younger child. VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS GALLERY Ventana Medical Systems Gallery. 1910 E. Innovation Park Drive, Building No. 2. Oro Valley. 887-2155. An exhibit of two-dimensional work in a range of media, representing artists who are, or are inspired by, cancer survivors, continues through Friday, Jan. 4. Hours are by appointment with 48 hours notice.

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WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION KIVA GALLERY Western National Parks Association Kiva Gallery. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Southwestern-Flavored Art, an exhibit of prints of original works by Christiana Morgan, Eric Jabloner and Linda Ahearn, closes Friday, Nov. 30. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except during lectures, from noon to 1 p.m., and from 2 to 3 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for more information.

UPCOMING AGUA CALIENTE PARK RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Saguaros on Fire, featuring photography by Greg McCown, opens Friday, Dec. 7, and runs through Wednesday, Jan. 2. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information. ASUA ART CLAYWORKS END-OFSEMESTER CERAMIC ART SALE Ceramics Lab and Studio. Esquire Apartments Building, 1230 N. Park Ave., Suite 113 and 114. 621-2211. The ASUA Student Art Clayworks Club holds a ceramic art sale from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7. The event takes place in Suite 114. Call 621-3136, or e-mail aurorec@email.arizona.edu for more information. CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA St. Francis in the Foothills. 4625 E. River Road. 2999063. A group of 130 artists who work in mixed media meet for a program from 9:30 a.m. to noon, the first Friday of every month; free. Dec. 7: LynnRae Lowe, metal artist, discusses the concept of creativity. Email carolchambers@q.com for more information.

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MURPHEY GALLERY Murphey Gallery. St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. The Tucson Pastel Society Holiday Charity Show opens Sunday, Dec. 9, and continues through Thursday, Jan. 10. Sales proceeds benefit the Ronald McDonald House of Southern Arizona. An artists’ reception takes place from 12:30 to 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 16. Hours are 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. SPIRIT GALLERY Spirit Gallery. 516 Tombstone Canyon Road. Bisbee. (520) 249-7856. A artist’s reception including food, wine and music by the Tin Can Tourists, takes place from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 15; free. SPIRIT GALLERY Spirit Gallery. 516 Tombstone Canyon Road. Bisbee. (520) 249-7856. An exhibit of work by Sharon Lee is celebrated with mulled wine, live music and a cookie exchange from 1 to 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 9; free. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. Paintings of Frances Dorr opens with a reception at 11:45 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 9, and continues through Sunday, Jan. 6. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday through Friday; and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday; free. WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION KIVA GALLERY Western National Parks Association Kiva Gallery. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Scenes From the West, an exhibit of paintings by Dick Myers, opens with a reception from 3:30 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8, and continues through Saturday, Dec. 22; and from Wednesday, Dec. 26, through Saturday, Dec. 29. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; free. The gallery is closed for lectures from noon to 1 p.m., and from 2 to 3 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 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

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Monday, Dec. 31. Email curator@tucsonartsbrigade.org, or visit tucsonartsbrigade.org for more guidelines and information. CALL FOR ARTISTS WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Submissions are sought for several upcoming exhibits. Deadlines are Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, for Scenes From the Trails We Travel, Saturday, Feb. 2, through Saturday, March 30, 2013; March 23, 2013, for Drawing Down the Muse, works by women, Saturday, April 6, through Saturday, May 25, 2013; and Saturday, June 22, 2013, for It’s All About the Buildings, Saturday, July 6, through Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Call for more info. CALL FOR ARTISTS Campus Christian Center Art Gallery. 715 N. Park Ave. 623-7575. Artwork in any medium, suitable for wall display, is sought for two eight-week exhibits midJanuary through mid-March, and mid-March through mid-May, 2013. Artists submit a description of the work to be submitted, a resume and samples in the form of photos, slides or a website. The deadline is Monday, Dec. 3. Submissions are accepted by email to juniper@ email.arizona.edu, or may be mailed to the attention of the Fine Arts Committee. CALL FOR ARTISTS Dinnerware Artspace. 450 N. Main Ave. 869-3166. Artists of any age or skill level, working in any media, are sought for an unjuried showcase of art inspired by chickens. Works are to be delivered from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29, or by special arrangement. The exhibit opens with a reception featuring food trucks from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30, and continues from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1. Call or email dinnerwareartspace@gmail.com for more information. CALL FOR ARTISTS Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Artists are sought to show their work for one of a series of four-week exhibitions planned for the calendar year 2014. Work must reflect nature, wildlife, landscapes, Southwestern themes or local cultures that are in keeping with the park’s setting. Thursday, Jan. 10, is the application deadline. Email aguacalientepark@pima.gov, or call 749-3718 for details. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominees are sought for the 2013 Governor’s Arts Awards. Categories are artist; arts in education, individual; arts in education, organization; business; community; and individual. Deadline for submission is 5 p.m., Friday, Dec. 14. For nomination forms and more information, visit governorsartsawards.org. DONATE ART SUPPLIES TO EMERGE! CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. In collaboration with Paperworks, BICAS collects card stock, plain and decorative papers, strong glue, markers, paints, brushes, rubber stamps and ink, stencils, scissors, embellishments, ribbons, buttons, stickers and anything else that would be good collage material for use by mothers and children at Emerge!, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. THE FIBER SHOP Bisbee Community Y. 26 Howell St. Bisbee. Works by members of the Bisbee Fiber Arts Guild are displayed for sale every Friday and Saturday, through Friday, March 1, 2013. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; free admission. TINY TOOLE GALLERY Tiny Toole Gallery. 19 E. Toole Ave. 319-8477. Sculpture, painting and contemporary bronze works are displayed from 8 p.m. to midnight, the first Saturday of every month; free.

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food, music and dance, takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 11. The exhibit DeGrazia’s Unseen Treasures, a selection of paintings from a vault holding thousands of works by Ted DeGrazia, continues through Tuesday, Jan. 15. Portraits of DeGrazia, an exhibit of photographs and paintings of Ted DeGrazia, including works by Louise Serpa and Thomas Hart Benton, runs through Sunday, Jan. 20. Ted DeGrazia Depicts the Life of Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino: 20 Oil Paintings is on permanent display. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; free. Call or visit degrazia.org for more information. MINI-TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. Holiday decorations throughout the museum continue through Sunday, Jan. 6. Decor includes more than a dozen miniatures depicting holiday traditions, through history and around the world. Holiday musical performances and craft projects are also featured. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, except Christmas Day; 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. MOCA MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Vinjon Global Corp: Quietly Taking Over the World, featuring works by Hunter Jonakin and Jordan Vinyard, closes Sunday, Dec. 2. An exhibit of Peter Young’s large-scale abstract paintings from the 1960s to the present continues through Sunday, Jan. 13. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; $8, free member, child younger than 17, veteran, active military and public-safety officers, and everyone the first Sunday of each month. Call or visit moca-tucson.org for more information. TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. The Shape of Things: Four Decades of Paintings and Sculpture continues through Sunday, Jan. 6. Barbara Rogers: The Imperative of Beauty, a 50-year Retrospective runs through Sunday, Jan. 13. Henri Matisse: The Pasiphaé Series and Other Works on Paper runs through Sunday, Jan. 20. The traditional holiday exhibit, El Nacimiento, continues through Saturday, June 1, 2013, in the Casa Cordova. Art + the Machine runs through Sunday, July 14, 2013. 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 runs through Sunday, Jan. 6. In Relief: German Op-Art Ceramics continues through Sunday, Jan. 27. Broken Desert: Land and Sea, work by Heather Green, Greg Lindquist and Chris McGinnis that explores human impact on nature, continues through Sunday, March 3. The Samuel H. Kress Collection and the altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo are on display until further notice. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and noon to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $5, free member, student, child, faculty and staff with ID. Visit artmuseum.arizona.edu for more information.

OUT OF TOWN WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Unless otherwise noted, exhibits, demonstrations and sales of traditional Native American arts take place from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily, except Sunday; free. Dec. 1: Hopi katchinas. Saturday, Dec. 15: Zuni fetishes. Monday, Dec. 17, through Monday, Dec. 31, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Huichol beadwork, yarn paintings, wood carvings, gourd bowls, masks and more. Saturday, Jan. 5: turquoise jewelry, including talks at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. about how to buy it.

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. Visit arizonahistoricalsociety.org for more information. DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9191. “La Fiesta de Guadalupe,” a festival of

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TUBAC PRESIDIO STATE HISTORIC PARK Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Talks take place at 2 p.m.; $7.50, $4.50 child age 7 through 13, free younger child, includes admission to the park. Saturday, Dec. 1: J. Edward de Steiguer discusses his book Wild Horses of the West: History and Politics of America’s Mustangs. Thursday, Dec. 6: Bob Sharp gives an illustrated talk and signs his book Eight Valleys: A Linked Landscape. Call or visit tubacpresidiopark.com for more information.

EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA 100: ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR THE CENTENNIAL UA Library Special Collections. 1510 E. University Blvd. 621-6423. Inspired by the state’s centennial, Arizona 100: Essential Books for the Centennial showcases 100 books that define the cultural, historical, environmental and political landscape of Arizona, from the Spanish Colonial era to the present, through Friday, Dec. 14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. AUTHORS EVENT Bookmans. 1930 E. Grant Road. 325-5767. Meet Arizona authors Kris Tualla, Deena Remiel, Morgan Kearns, Belinda Boring, Mackenzie McKade, Amber Scott and Lacey Weatherford from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Dec. 1; free. 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. Nov. 29: Inferno by Dante Alighieri, translated by Mary Jo Bang. Visit poetry. arizona.edu for more information. FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB Flowing Wells Branch Library. 1730 W. Wetmore Road. 594-5225. A book club meets for coffee and conversation at 10 a.m., the first Saturday of every month; free. FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE Friends of the Pima County Public Library. 2230 N. Country Club Road. 795-3763. Recently discarded library books are for sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday through Monday, Nov. 30 through Dec. 3; free admission. Books are half-price Sunday, and $5 per bag Monday. Gift certificates are available. GAYLE HARTMANN AND TOM SHERIDAN: LAST WATER ON THE DEVIL’S HIGHWAY Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Co-authors Gayle Hartmann and Tom Sheridan share unique perspectives on the human and natural history of the Arizona-Mexico border, and sign their book, Last Water on the Devil’s Highway, at 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; $8, free member. LYDIA MILLET AND JENNIFER SPIEGEL Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Lydia Millet reads from her book Magnificence; and Jennifer Spiegel reads from her books The Freak Chronicles and Love Slave, at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30; free. Refreshments and a Q&A follow. MYSTERY-WRITERS EVENT Clues Unlimited. 3146 E. Fort Lowell Road. 326-8533. Tucson authors Elizabeth Gunn, Michael Hayes, Susan Cummins Miller, J. Carson Black and Lisamarie Jelderks sign their books from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free. TRICKHOUSE LIVE Casa Libre en la Solana. 228 N. Fourth Ave. 325-9145. Kimi Eisele and Kristi Maxwell present their work in poetry, prose and other arts from 7 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4; $5, $3 student. Search for “Trickhouse Live” on Facebook for more information.

UPCOMING JIM TURNER: ARIZONA: A CELEBRATION OF THE GRAND CANYON STATE Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. Jim Turner discusses and signs his tribute to the Arizona Centennial at a social gathering for booklovers, at 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 9; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov. LEADING LADIES OF LITERATURE Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Marion Doane presents a reading series, “Leading Ladies of Literature: Standing Up, Speaking Out, Making Their Voices Heard,” from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., the first Thursday of every month. More information is available in a handout at the library’s info desk. LILY ALVAREZ DOLAN: FIRE IN THE BIBLE Bookmans. 1930 E. Grant Road. 325-5767. Lily Alvarez Dolan signs and sells her Fire in the Bible from 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; free. LITERATI St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. The St. Philip’s book discussion group meets at 7:30 p.m., the second Monday of every month, through May; free. The Dec. 10 selection is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. MARK SUBLETTE: PAINT BY NUMBERS Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery. 6872 E. Sunrise Drive. 722-7798. Mark Sublette reads and signs his Charles Bloom murder mystery, Paint by Numbers, from noon to 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; free.

ANNOUNCEMENTS ABBETT MYSTERY BOOK CLUB Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch Library. 7800 N. Schisler Drive. 594-5200. Discover and talk about new authors in a friendly atmosphere at 2 p.m., the first Tuesday of every month; free. CALL FOR WRITERS Friday, Nov. 30, is the deadline for submissions for the 2013 Short Fiction Award offered by Kore Press. The winner receives a $1,000 cash prize and publication by Kore Press. Call 327-2127, or visit korepress.org. CALL FOR WRITERS The deadline is Saturday, Dec. 1, for a writing competition that offers prizes of $250 to $1,000 to authors of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. All winners receive scholarships to a two-day workshop following the Festival of Books in March. For more information, visit tucsonfestivalofbooksliteraryawards.submittable.com/ submit. NONFICTION BOOK CLUB: ‘TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION’ Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. A book club focusing on nonfiction meets at 1:30 p.m., the first Monday of every month; free. SUMMER RESIDENCY AT THE POETRY CENTER UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Poets and prose-writers are invited to apply for a residency of two to four weeks between Saturday, June 1, and Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, in order to develop their work. Two residencies will be awarded: one in poetry, and one in prose. Writers stay in a guest house near the library and receive a stipend of $150 weekly. Guidelines for submissions are at poetry.arizona.edu..

OUT OF TOWN LOCAL AUTHORS SERIES Joyner-Green Valley Branch Library. 601 N. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 594-5295. Patti Day discusses her book The Ride: In the Air and Through the Courts at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4; free. RONALD C. TOBIN: A RUBY FOR VICTOR Community Performing Arts Center. 1250 W. Continental Road. Green Valley. 399-1750. Ronald C. Tobin signs copies of his novel A Ruby for Victor: The

LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK A HISTORY TOUR AROUND THE RINCONS Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. All ages are welcome to a presentation by Don Maggert about the history of settlers around the

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BOOKS This terrific new book tells the history of a famously deadly oasis in southwestern Arizona

Dying for a Drink n the lonely southwestern corner of Arizona, where bighorn sheep tiptoe around the dry, jagged-rock mountains and jet pilots pretend to bomb the Middle East, there is a kind of shabby oasis known as Tinajas Altas, the High Tanks. In Last Water on the Devil’s Highway, a new addition to the University of Arizona Press’ Southwest Center Series, a luminous group of desert researchers tells the story of this remote pile of sun-scorched boulders. It is a place, the authors write, “that is vibrantly alive, but where death is close by.” Used as a food-production station and seasonal camp by various regional Indian tribes for millennia, the Tinajas Altas, along the infamous El Camino del Diablo between Sonoyta, Sonora and Yuma, is a series of 15 rock basins, or catchments, of varying sizes. At least one of the “tanks” is the size of a backyard swimming pool, and taken together, they hold an estimated 20,000 gallons of water when full after a monsoon or a winter rain. Some of the basins hold water year-round, and for hundreds of years, they provided countless desert wayfarers with the only remotely reliable source of water in what is generally agreed to be hottest, driest and least-hospitable corner of North America. The area’s reputation as a wasteland was secured when the military took it over in the 1940s to use as a bombing range. The heyday of the tanks and El Camino del Diablo occurred between 1848 and the Civil War. That’s when a steady stream of treasure-seekers from Sonora traveled overland to California and later to the Colorado River region, suffering the symptoms of gold fever and wanting to avoid running into Apaches along the Gila River. They were willing to risk everything, and many of them lost. As the authors tell it, the area around Tinajas Altas was once crowded with the graves of those who either didn’t make it to the tanks in time, or found the few easily accessible tanks dry. In 1898, surveyors with the International Boundary Commission reported seeing some 65 graves in just one day’s ride, one of them containing an entire family. More recent research estimates that between 400 and 2,000 people died on the trail between the 1850s and 1900, making the Devil’s Highway the deadliest immigrant trail in North America. Dashes of shade, greenery and water in such rough country are bound to play an outsized

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JOANNE STUHR: PRE-COLUMBIAN MOTIFS IN TAXCO SILVER Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. Joanne Stuhr discusses the pre-Columbian inspiration for silver jewelry and tableware produced in Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico, beginning in the 1930s, from 1:30 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; free.

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MARK WINTER: THE SALTILLO SERAPE Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Navajo textile-expert Mark Winter shows examples of rare weaving, and discusses the evolution of the Saltillo serape, from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29; $10, $8 senior, $5 college student with ID, free age 18 or younger, active military or veteran with ID, and TMA members, includes admission to the museum.

1. Flight Behavior: A Novel

BY TIM HULL, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

Barbara Kingsolver, Harper ($28.99)

Last Water on the Devil’s Highway: A Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas By Bill Broyles, Gayle Harrison Hartmann, Thomas E. Sheridan, Gary Paul Nabhan and Mary Charlotte Thurtle University of Arizona 240 pages, $49.95 Also: Hartmann and Sheridan will discuss the book at Tohono Chul Park, 7366 N. Paseo del Norte, at 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1; $8, or free for park members

role, and thus Tinajas Altas has become over the years a beloved destination for desert rats, scientists and hunters. The water here attracts normally elusive bighorn sheep. According to various accounts, the land around the tanks was once strewn with tossed-away bones and horns. Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy’s son, camped at the tanks during a sheep-hunting expedition in 1911. In a book about his adventures published many years later, Roosevelt retells a harrowing story about a Mexican bandit who emptied the tanks of their water and hid in ambush, waiting to gather the possessions of the dead. Perhaps it was the dark romanticism surrounding Tinajas Altas, coupled with its stark beauty, that prompted a writer in 1940 to reflect that it was “the kind of place that makes poets want to write poetry and others wish they could.” Research for this comprehensive and beautiful book began in the late 1990s, sponsored in part by the U.S. Air Force. Archaeologists surveyed Tinajas Altas in 1998, and the results were published in a two-volume report. But the authors of Last Water on the Devil’s Highway wanted to put out a more “accessible book that would explain why Tinajas Altas is a magical place worth of respect and preservation.” They have met that goal admirably. Be warned: Spending time within the pages of this book will likely get you itching to wander the Devil’s Highway. But there’s plenty more to read about the area before braving the trail. A good place to start is an article from 1896 by Capt. David du Bose Gaillard titled “The Perils and Wonders of a True Desert,” which is available online. Gaillard headed the second border survey of the international boundary, from 1891 to 1896, and was in the Devil’s Highway region in 1893. The authors of Last Water call his article, published in The Cosmopolitan magazine, the “best single piece on Tinajas Altas and this remote part of the Sonoran Desert.” That was perhaps true then, but it is no longer.

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Rincon Mountains, from 1 to 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations.

2. A Guide to Southern Arizona’s Historic Farms and Ranches: Rustic Southwest Retreats Lili DeBarbieri, History ($19.99)

3. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else Chrystia Freeland, Penguin ($27.95)

4. Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time Rick Hanson, New Harbinger ($15.95)

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

PAT GILMAN: MIMBRES BEYOND THE MIMBRES VALLEY HOMELAND Casa Vicente Restaurante Español. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. Pat Gilman of the University of Oklahoma discusses why some 11th- and 12th-century people who were apparently of the Mimbres culture lived so far from their homeland, at 6:15 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4; free. The event begins at 5 p.m., and includes no-host food and beverages from the menu. Call 882-6946, ext. 16. PCC SPEAKERS’ SERIES PCC District Office. 4905 E. Broadway Blvd. 206-4500. Humanities and philosophy faculty member Stewart Barr presents “Ethical Relativism: A Platonic Response” at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4; free. SHAOL POZEZ MEMORIAL LECTURESHIP SERIES Congregation Anshei Israel. 5550 E. Fifth St. 7455550. J. Edward Wright, director of the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, presents “Apocalypse 2012: The End of the World According to the Mayans, Jews and Others,” at 7 p.m., Monday, Dec. 3; free. Visit judaic. arizona.edu, or call 626-5758 for more information.

Patricia Barey and Therese Burson, Abrams ($16.95)

6. I Am the Desert Anthony Fredericks, Rio Nuevo ($15.95)

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7. Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World The Dalai Lama, Mariner ($13.95)

8. State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream Jeff Biggers, Nation ($25.99)

9. The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance and Hope Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, Haymarket ($16)

10. A Thousand Mornings Mary Oliver, Penguin ($24.95)

JACK LASSETER: CHIEF LOCO Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Jack Lasseter tells the story of a heroic, moderate leader in his presentation “Chief Loco: The Apache Peace Chief,” at noon and 2 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5; 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 a schedule of talks, or more info. JACK LASSETER: THE SPANISH HISTORY OF NEW MEXICO DesertView Performing Arts Center. 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. Jack Lasseter presents “The Spanish History of New Mexico” at 10 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 29; $20. Visit tickets.saddlebrooketwo.com.

UPCOMING BROWN BAG LUNCH: AFGHANISTAN UN Center/UNICEF Store. 6242 E. Speedway Blvd. 881-7060. Anna Hacker, who built an education center for children and women in Kabul, gives an update on issues affecting women and children in Afghanistan, at noon, Thursday, Dec. 6; free. Coffee, tea and snacks are provided; guests bring their own lunches. CAROLYN RASHTI: THE WONDER OF WATER St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Carolyn Rashti discusses the health benefits of immersion and mild movements in water without swimming, at 10:15 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 9; free.

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GREGORY MCNAMEE: THE LIFE OF MIKE BURNS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Gregory McNamee, editor of Mike Burns’ The Only One Living to Tell: The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian, discusses Burns’ life in the context of 19thcentury Arizona, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8; free. Call 791-4010 for more information. TMA BREAKFAST CLUB Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. A series of art talks take place over brunch from 10 a.m. to noon, on selected Tuesdays; $35, $210 includes all seven brunches scheduled. Dec. 11: Julie Sasse, chief curator and curator of modern and contemporary art, discusses the historical shifts in modern and contemporary art that resulted in shaped paintings. A tour of the exhibit The Shape of Things follows.

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CINEMA The beautiful, magical ‘Life of Pi’ is an amazing filmmaking achievement

Journey for the Ages

TOP TEN Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending Nov. 25, 2012

BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com t’s that time of year when studios release their Oscar hopefuls, continuing the tradition of saving the best (or what they hope to convince us is the best) for last. So here’s Life of Pi, an adaptation of the seemingly unfilmable novel by Yann Martel about a 14-year-old boy spending more than 200 days at sea on a lifeboat alone—except for a Bengal tiger that totally wants to eat his face. Many have looked at making the 2001 spiritual novel into a film, and many have just thrown their hands up in the air and said, “Screw this. I’m going to Cabo!” I’ve never read the book, but seeing a synopsis of the story had me thinking it would be best to leave this particular fable on the page. It looked like a real bitch to film. Then I read that somebody got director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Hulk) on the project. For me, this meant that something amazing could be on the way. Life of Pi is just that: an amazing achievement in filmmaking. Not only does it prove that an entirely unfilmable project was filmable; it’s also one of the year’s best movies, and easily one of the best uses of 3-D. Lee is a creative force who cannot be deterred; Life of Pi is his most enchanting film to date, and this is the guy who gave us Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It only takes a few seconds of this film’s opening, depicting animals grazing in an Indian zoo, to see that a master has something special in store. Here’s a 3-D movie so innovative that even Roger Ebert declared, “I love the use of 3-D in Life of Pi.” Anybody who reads Ebert knows he detests 3-D, so we are definitely talking about a landmark film achievement when The Ebert comes around. Lee cast Suraj Sharma as the teenage Pi, and Irrfan Khan as the adult Pi. Both deliver performances that center the film. In a movie full of so many visual treats and surprises, much of them done with excellent CGI, these two men give the film a beautiful and sincere human element. Khan sets a good, worldly tone as the older Pi, being interviewed by a writer (Rafe Spall) who heard from a source that he had a great story to tell. Khan describes in very matter-offact terms how he came to be the lone survivor of a spectacular shipwreck. The shipwreck sequence contains some of the most harrowing and eye-popping footage you will see any year. Lee uses 3-D to put you right in the middle of it. As water pounds Pi, you’ll be checking yourself to see if you are wet.

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Salma S Sal Sa alm lma Ha lma H Hayek aye ekThe in Sa in Savages. S ava vage g s. ge s. Zach Galifianakis in Campaign. Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi. Pi finds himself in a lifeboat with animals from his family’s zoo that were being transported on the big boat: a frightened zebra, a crazed hyena and a rather annoyed tiger. Things transpire to where it is just Pi and the tiger staring each other down, with Pi using a makeshift raft to stay the heck out of the boat. The tiger, as it turns out, is not very good company. The tiger itself is a mixture of CGI and actual tigers. He’s named Richard Parker for a reason I won’t give away, and there’s never a dull moment when he’s onscreen. I especially liked it when Richard Parker found himself in the water and unable to get back on the boat. And let it be said that there are few things sadder than a giant, soaked tiger that is very hungry. Through a series of exciting fishing efforts, Pi manages to feed himself and Richard Parker. They eventually wind up on a mysterious island full of meerkats. The meerkat island is one of those fantastical things you can’t believe you are seeing as you are seeing it. The movie is full of many moments that fit that description: whales breaching the water’s surface; magically starry skies reflected on the

Life of Pi Rated PG Starring Suraj Sharma and Irrfan Khan Directed by Ang Lee Fox 2000, 127 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).

shimmering sea; zebras flying through the air. Perhaps it’s easier just to say that most of the moments in this movie fit that description. Those who have not read the book are in for a lot of surprises when watching Life of Pi. Those who have read it are in for some big surprises as well, in that the film greatly honors the best-seller. If you read it thinking, “There’s no way anybody can make this into a movie!” you are in for a big shock. It’s a movie, all right—and it’s a great one.

FILM TIMES Film times reflect the most current listings available as of Tuesday evening, with screenings beginning on Friday for most opening titles. As schedules at individual theaters frequently change post-press, we recommend calling ahead to avoid any inconvenience.

AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. Call for Fri-Wed film times Argo (R) Thu 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Flight (R) Thu 1:20, 4:55, 8, 11:05 Killing Them Softly (R) Fri-Sun 10:05, 12:30, 2:55, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Mon 12:30, 2:55, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Life of Pi (PG) Thu 11:15, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 11:15 Life of Pi 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 11 Pitch Perfect (PG-13) Thu 1:35, 9:50 Red Dawn (PG-13) Thu 12:40, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:25 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Rise of the Guardians 3D (PG) Thu 11:40, 2, 4:20, 6:45, 9:15 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 11:50, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Skyfall: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) Thu 12:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 Taken 2 (PG-13) Thu 5:20, 7:35 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 11, 1, 1:45, 4, 5, 7, 8:05, 10, 10:50 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11:30, 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 10

Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 902. Anna Karenina (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:30, 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10 Argo (R) Thu-Wed 11:15, 2, 4:50, 7:35, 10:25 A Christmas Story (PG) Wed 2, 7 The Collection (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:15, 1:25, 3:35, 5:45, 8, 10:15 Flight (R) Thu-Fri 12:10, 3:35, 7:05, 10:10; Sat 7:05, 10:10; Sun-Mon 12:10, 3:35, 7:05, 10:10; Tue 12:10, 3:35, 10:10; Wed 12:10, 3:35, 7:05, 10:10 Killing Them Softly (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Life of Pi (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35; FriWed 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 Life of Pi 3D (PG) ThuWed 11:45, 12:45, 2:45, 3:45, 5:45, 6:45, 8:45, 9:45 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu-Wed 11:15, 12:20, 2:35, 3:40, 5:55, 7:10, 9:20,

10:30 The Metropolitan Opera: La Clemenza Di Tito Live (Not Rated) Sat 10:55 The Nutcracker Mariinsky Ballet 3D (Not Rated) Mon 2, 7 Red Dawn (PG-13) Thu 11:15, 12:40, 1:40, 3, 4:05, 5:20, 6:30, 7:45, 9, 10:40, 11:20; Fri-Wed 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:25, 7:45, 9:45, 10:40 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu-Wed 11:45, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Rise of the Guardians 3D (PG) Thu 1, 3:30, 6, 8:40; Fri-Sun 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30; Tue-Wed 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 12:30, 1:30, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6, 8, 9:15, 10:30, 11:15; FriWed 11:20, 12:30, 2:45, 3:45, 6, 7, 9:15, 10:15 Star Trek: The Next Generation—A Celebration of Season 2 (Not Rated) Thu 7 Tarantino XX: Reservoir Dogs 20th Anniversary Event (Not Rated) Tue 7 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 11, 12, 1:20, 1:50, 2:50, 4:10, 4:40, 5:40, 7, 7:30, 8:30, 9:50, 10:20; FriTue 11:30, 1:20, 2:20, 4:10, 5:10, 7, 8, 9:50, 10:45; Wed 11:30, 2:20, 5:10, 8, 9:50, 10:45 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11:25, 12:20, 2:10, 4:50, 5:50, 7:25, 10; FriWed 11:25, 12:20, 2:10, 3, 4:50, 5:50, 8:25 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (PG) ends Thu 3, 8:25

Century Gateway 12 770 N. Kolb Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 962. Alex Cross (PG-13) Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45; Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; SunMon 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45; Tue 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) ends Thu 6:50 Brave (PG) Thu 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:25; Fri-Sat 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55; Sun-Mon 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:25; Tue 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55; Wed 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:25 Chasing Mavericks (PG) Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:10, 7:10, 9:50; Sun-Mon 12:30, 3:10, 7:10; Tue 12:30, 3:10, 7:10, 9:50; Wed 12:30, 3:10, 7:10 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu-Wed 12:10, 3:35, 7 End of Watch (R) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40; Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; SunMon 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40; Tue 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 Finding Nemo (G) ThuWed 12 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Thu 2:30, 5, 7:30; Fri-Sat 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; SunMon 2:30, 5, 7:30; Tue 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Wed 2:30, 5, 7:30 Frankenweenie (PG) ThuWed 12:35, 2:45, 7:10

Frankenweenie 3D (PG) Thu 4:55; Fri-Sat 4:55, 9:35; Sun-Mon 4:55; Tue 4:55, 9:35; Wed 4:55 Fun Size (PG-13) ends Thu 12:15, 2:25, 4:40 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:15; Fri-Sat 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:40; Sun-Mon 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:15; Tue 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:40; Wed 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:15 Looper (R) Thu 12:40, 3:55, 7:20; Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:55, 7:20, 10; Sun-Mon 12:40, 3:55, 7:20; Tue 12:40, 3:55, 7:20, 10; Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7:20 Seven Psychopaths (R) Thu 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35; Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05; Sun-Mon 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35; Tue 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05; Wed 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35 Silent Hill: Revelation (R) Thu 12:30, 3, 5:20, 7:50; Fri-Sat 9:45; Tue 9:45 Sinister (R) Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:55, 7:40, 10:10; SunMon 12:15, 2:55, 7:40; Tue 12:15, 2:55, 7:40, 10:10; Wed 12:15, 2:55, 7:40 Trouble With the Curve (PG-13) Thu-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 7:05

Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Argo (R) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Fri-Wed 3:40, 9:20 A Christmas Story (PG) Wed 2, 7 The Collection (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:05, 10:20 Flight (R) Thu 12:50, 4, 7:10, 10:20; Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:25, 6:45, 10:05 Killing Them Softly (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Life of Pi (PG) Thu 12:05, 2:10, 3:15, 6:25, 8:30, 9:35; Fri-Wed 12, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Life of Pi 3D (PG) Thu 11, 1:10, 4:20, 5:20, 7:30, 10:30; Fri-Tue 11, 1, 2:10, 4:10, 5:20, 7:20, 8:30, 10:30; Wed 1, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10; Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:40, 7, 10:20 The Metropolitan Opera: La Clemenza Di Tito Live (Not Rated) Sat 10:55 The Nutcracker Mariinsky Ballet 3D (Not Rated) Mon 2, 7:30 Red Dawn (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 12:20, 1:35, 2:50, 4:05, 5:25, 6:35, 7:50, 9:05, 10:20; Fri 11:25, 12:25, 2, 2:55, 4:25, 5:30, 6:55, 7:55, 9:25, 10:25; Sat 11:25, 2, 4:25, 5:30, 6:55, 7:55, 9:25, 10:25; SunTue 11:25, 12:25, 2, 2:55, 4:25, 5:30, 6:55, 7:55, 9:25, 10:25; Wed 12:25, 2:55, 5:30, 7:55, 10:25 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu 11:10, 12:55,

1:45, 4:25, 6:15, 7:05, 9:45; Fri-Tue 12:05, 1:55, 2:45, 5:25, 7:15, 8:05; Wed 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05 Rise of the Guardians 3D (PG) Thu 11:55, 2:35, 3:35, 5:15, 7:55, 8:55; Fri-Tue 11:15, 12:55, 3:35, 4:35, 6:15, 8:55, 9:55; Wed 11:15, 4:35, 9:55 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 11:15, 12, 12:45, 2:40, 3:25, 4:10, 5:55, 6:40, 7:25, 9:15, 10:05; FriWed 11:10, 12:45, 2:30, 4:05, 5:55, 7:25, 9:15 Star Trek: The Next Generation—A Celebration of Season 2 (Not Rated) Thu 7 Tarantino XX: Reservoir Dogs 20th Anniversary Event (Not Rated) Tue 7 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 11:35, 12:25, 1:05, 1:50, 2:30, 3:20, 4, 4:50, 5:35, 6:20, 7, 7:45, 8:35, 9:20, 10; Fri-Sun 11:30, 12:10, 12:50, 1:30, 2:20, 3, 4:20, 5:10, 5:50, 6:30, 7:10, 8, 8:40, 10; Mon 11:30, 12:50, 1:30, 2:20, 4:20, 5:10, 6:30, 7:10, 8, 10; Tue 11:30, 12:10, 12:50, 1:30, 2:20, 3, 4:20, 5:10, 6:30, 7:10, 8, 10; Wed 11:30, 12:50, 1:30, 2:20, 4:20, 5:10, 6:30, 7:10, 8, 10 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11:40, 1, 3:40, 6:20, 9, 10:25; Fri-Wed 11:45, 1:10, 2:35, 4, 5:25, 6:50, 8:15, 9:40 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (PG) ends Thu 2:20

Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace 12155 N. Oracle Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 899. Bolshoi Ballet: The Pharaoh’s Daughter (Not Rated) Sun 12; Tue 7 A Christmas Story (PG) Wed 2, 7 Flight (R) Thu-Fri 12:40, 3:55, 7:10, 10:30; Sat 7:10, 10:30; Sun-Mon 12:40, 3:55, 7:10, 10:30; Tue 12:40, 3:55, 10:30; Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7:10, 10:30 Killing Them Softly (R) Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:25, 5, 7:35, 10:05 Life of Pi (PG) Thu 10:25, 4:25, 10:25; FriMon 10:30, 4:25, 10:25; Tue 10:30, 4:25 Life of Pi 3D (PG) ThuMon 11:55, 1:25, 2:55, 5:55, 7:25, 8:55; TueWed 11:55, 2:55, 5:55, 8:55 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu-Wed 12:05, 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 The Metropolitan Opera: La Clemenza Di Tito Live (Not Rated) Sat 10:55, 10:55 The Nutcracker Mariinsky Ballet 3D (Not Rated) Mon 2, 7:30 Red Dawn (PG-13) Thu 11:50, 2:25, 4:55, 7:20, 9:55; Fri-Tue 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:20, 9:55 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu 11:10, 4:20, 9:25; Fri-Tue 11:10, 1:45, 4:20

Rise of the Guardians 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 6:55; FriTue 6:55, 9:25 The Sessions (R) ends Thu 12, 2:35 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 10:40, 12:20, 3:40, 7, 10:10; Fri-Wed 10:40, 12:20, 2, 3:40, 5:20, 7, 8:40, 10:10 Star Trek: The Next Generation—A Celebration of Season 2 (Not Rated) Thu 7 Tarantino XX: Reservoir Dogs 20th Anniversary Event (Not Rated) Tue 7 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 10:30, 11:45, 1:20, 2:50, 4:30, 5:50, 7:30, 8:50, 10:20; Fri 10:30, 11:40, 1:20, 2:50, 4:30, 5:50, 7:30, 8:50, 10:20; Sat-Sun 10:30, 1:20, 4:30, 5:50, 7:30, 8:50, 10:20; MonWed 10:30, 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) ThuWed 11:05, 1:55, 4:40, 7:15, 10

Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. Call for Fri-Wed film times Alex Cross (PG-13) Thu 12, 2:20 Arbitrage (R) Thu 2:10, 4:30, 6:50 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 9:45 Brave (PG) Thu 12:10 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 9:10 End of Watch (R) Thu 7:10, 9:50 Frankenweenie (PG) Thu 11:15, 1:20, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30, 9:35 Fun Size (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 1:10, 3:10, 7:40 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11:50 The Intouchables (R) Thu 4:40 Looper (R) Thu 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40 Seven Psychopaths (R) Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Trouble With the Curve (PG-13) Thu 5:15

Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Casablanca (PG) Fri 7:30

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

Hotel Transylvania (PG) ends Thu 12:15 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (PG) Sat 10 a.m. Killing Them Softly (R) Fri-Wed 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 Life of Pi (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40; FriSat 10:05, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:25; Sun 10:05, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Life of Pi 3D (PG) Thu 12, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40; FriWed 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15 Lincoln (PG-13) ThuSat 11:40, 3:10, 6:50, 10:15; Sun-Wed 11:40, 3:10, 6:50, 10:10 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu 11:10, 12:50, 1:50, 3:30, 4:30, 6:10, 7:10, 8:50, 9:50; Fri-Sun 10:10, 11:10, 12:50, 1:50, 3:30, 4:25, 6:10, 7:10, 8:50, 9:50; MonWed 11:10, 12:50, 1:50, 3:30, 4:25, 6:10, 7:10, 8:50, 9:50 Rise of the Guardians 3D (PG) Thu 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:35; FriSat 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50; Sun-Wed 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8:10, 10:35 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 3, 6:45, 10:05; Fri-Sat 11:50, 3:50, 7:30, 10:45; Sun-Wed 11:50, 3:50, 7:30, 10:40 Taken 2 (PG-13) Thu 11:50, 2:40, 5:10, 8, 10:25; Fri-Sat 2:30, 7:50, 10:35; Sun-Wed 2:30, 7:50, 10:20 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 10:45, 11:30, 1, 1:45, 2:30, 3:15, 4, 4:45, 5:20, 6:15, 7, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10; Fri 10:20, 11:20, 12:20, 1:20, 2:20, 3:20, 4:20, 5:20, 6:20, 7:20, 8:20, 9:20, 10:20; Sat 10:20, 11:20, 12:35, 1:20, 2:20, 3:20, 4:20, 5:20, 6:20, 7:20, 8:20, 9:20, 10:20; Sun 10:20, 11:20, 12:20, 1:20, 2:20, 3:20, 4:20, 5:20, 6:20, 7:20, 8:20, 9:20, 10:05; Mon-Wed 11:20, 12:20, 1:20, 2:20, 3:20, 4:20, 5:20, 6:20, 7:20, 8:20, 9:20, 10:05 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11, 2, 3:50, 4:50, 7:40, 9:30, 10:20; Fri-Sun 10:15, 11:15, 1:10, 4, 5, 6:45, 9:40; Mon-Wed 11:15, 1:10, 4, 5, 6:45, 9:40 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (PG) Thu 12:55, 6:40; Fri-Sat 2:10, 7:45, 10:40; SunWed 2:10, 7:45, 10:25

Dead Man (R) Sat 10:30 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (PG) Sat 10 a.m. The Flat (Not Rated) Thu 3 Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers in Concert (Not Rated) Sat 9 The Graduate (PG) Sun 11 a.m.; Tue 7 Hendrix 70: Live at Woodstock (Not Rated) Thu 7:30 How to Survive a Plague (Not Rated) Sat 4 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (R) Fri-Sat 9; Sun 10; Tue 10 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (R) Fri-Sat 11:15; Mon 10; Wed 10 The Loneliest Planet (Not Rated) Thu 2:45, 10; Fri 12:30, 5:15; Sat 12:30; Sun 5:15; Mon-Wed 12:30, 5:15 The Man With the Iron Fists (R) Thu-Wed 10:15 Octaman (Not Rated) Mon 8 The Other Son (PG-13) Fri 1:45, 6:30; Sat-Wed 1:45, 7:45 The Perks of Being a Wallflower (PG-13) Thu 12:30, 7:45; Fri 4:30; Sat 6:45; Sun 1:30, 9:45; Mon-Wed 4:30, 9:45 A Royal Affair (R) Thu 4, 7; Fri 1:15, 7; Sat 1:15; Sun-Wed 1:15, 7 Searching for Sugar Man (PG-13) Thu 12:45, 5:30; Fri-Wed 11:30 a.m. Trapped in the Closet: The R. Kelly Sing-Along (Not Rated) Fri 10 Wake in Fright (R) Thu 5:15, 9:45

Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. Call for Fri-Wed film times The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 2:15 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 4, 9:10 Brave (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:10, 6:50 The Campaign (R) Thu 9:20 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 4:30, 7:55 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 9:35

Fun Size (PG-13) Thu 11:40, 1:50, 7 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5, 7:20 House at the End of the Street (PG-13) Thu 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 12, 2:20, 4:50, 7:10 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 12:20, 2:30, 4:40 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Thu 9:45 Trouble With the Curve (PG-13) Thu 11:45

The Screening Room 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Call for films and times

Tower Theatres at Arizona Pavilions 8031 N. Business Park Drive. 579-0500. Call for Fri-Wed film times Argo (R) Thu 11, 4:45 Flight (R) Thu 10:15, 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Life of Pi (PG) Thu 10:40, 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Life of Pi 3D (PG) Thu 12, 2:50, 5:45, 8:35 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu 12, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Red Dawn (PG-13) Thu 10:25, 12:40, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu 10:30, 11:40, 2, 3:10, 4:20, 5:30, 6:40, 9, 10:10 Rise of the Guardians 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 7:50 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 12:15, 1:45, 3:15, 6:15, 7:45, 9:15 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 10:20, 11:45, 1, 2:20, 3:40, 5, 6:20, 7:40, 9, 10:15 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11:10, 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20

Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. The Loft 806-4275. Cinema Argo (R) ends Thu 2:45, 9 The Collection (R) Fri-Sun 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30; Mon-Wed 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30 Flight (R) Thu 12:20, 3:45, 7:15, 10:30; FriWed 11:45, 3:05, 6:30, 9:45 Here Comes the Boom (PG) Thu 11:45, 6:05; Fri-Wed 11:35, 5:15

3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility All Together (Not Rated) Fri 11, 4:15; Sat 11, 5:30; Sun-Wed 11, 4:45 Barrymore (Not Rated) Thu 11 Brooklyn Castle (PG) Fri 3, 7:45; Sat 3; Sun 4, 7:15; Mon-Tue 3; Wed 3, 7:15 California Indian (R) Sat 6:15

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

NEWLY REVIEWED: ALL TOGETHER

The Jeopardy! answer is Tout Va Bien, and the question is: “This had been the last Jane Fonda movie shot in French.” Godard’s film was 40 years ago, and Fonda dusts off her Français for All Together, a comedy about growing old. Fonda—whose French is really good, by the way—portrays Jeanne, a retired professor who moves into one big house with her husband, another couple and a longtime friend. There are real possibilities here, but director Stéphane Robelin seems content to let that basic construct simmer, and hope that the rest comes naturally. The key performances—Fonda and fellow second-generation star Geraldine Chaplin—are good, but imagine if they had more to do. All Together is a little too observational and should have been more invested in what the setup could produce. Boyd BROOKLYN CASTLE

The numbers at Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn aren’t good: More than 60 percent of students come from homes below the poverty line, and the state education budget is getting cut year after year after year. The only thing that seems to buoy the school is its chess program: Yes, inner-city middle school students have not only taken to chess; they’ve excelled, winning more than 25 national championships. If Friday Night Lights were about chess, I.S. 318 would be its star. Set against a backdrop of declining public resources, Brooklyn Castle introduces us to a collection of smart, talented and personable students who use chess to expand their horizons, make friends and make their way. The underlying current is familiar: Our public-school system needs immediate reform, or programs like this—so unique and so impactful—will go away for good. Boyd RISE OF THE GUARDIANS

Taking place after the events of the children’s books, Rise of the Guardians tells the story of Jack Frost (the voice of Chris Pine), who is tasked with joining a group of mythical characters such as North (aka Santa Claus, voiced by Alec Baldwin), the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher) and the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman)

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to save the world from being engulfed in nightmarish darkness by the Bogeyman, Pitch (Jude Law). While the film is time well-enough spent for kids, for adults, it’s a bit of a misfire: There is not enough adult humor to make it enjoyable for anyone older than the age of 10, and there are far too many plot holes and inconsistencies. The voice cast, however, puts all they can into their performances. What a joy it is to hear Alec Baldwin finally doing something different from his usual shtick. Allen

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Showing Off

THE LONELIEST PLANET

A couple (Gael Garcia Bernal and Hani Furstenberg) goes backpacking with a guide, and you get to see them walk around a lot. A lot. This movie is just a series of shots consisting of characters walking, and doing very little talking; there are very few breaks in the monotony. When those breaks do occur, and the characters actually talk, some semi-interesting stuff does happen—but it’s not enough to justify watching this plodding film from director Julia Loktev. She seems to be attempting some sort of statement about how you don’t really know the person you are spending your time with until somebody points a gun at you. That’s all. If you want to learn a valuable life lesson while taking a nap in the theater, have at it. Grimm THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS

Hip-hop star RZA co-writes (with Eli Roth), directs and stars in this total waste of time. This is some sort of martial-arts/spaghetti-Western mash-up that features a whole lot of people chopping each other up. Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu and others star along with RZA, who plays the blacksmith who eventually winds up with the weapons named in the movie’s title. There’s some sort of war going on, but I had a hard time determining who was fighting whom. I do know that a bunch of lethal hookers came on the scene near the film’s end and started kicking ass; I have no idea why. There are lots of bad wigs, plus gushing blood and dismembered limbs, along with disgusting scenes of Russell Crowe licking people. Trust me when I tell you this: You do not want to see lots of scenes featuring Russell Crowe licking people. It’s traumatizing. This is a “Quentin Tarantino Presents” feature, meaning they put his name on it, so people will shell out dough because they think he directed it (he didn’t)—and they wind up witnessing a complete piece of shit. Grimm A ROYAL AFFAIR

Remember that creepy villain from Daniel Craig’s first James Bond flick, Casino Royale? He was played by a Danish actor named Mads Mikkelsen, and it’s the sort of work that could box an actor in if he doesn’t get a lot of play in the U.S. What’s that? He’s playing Hannibal Lecter on TV next spring? Yeesh … lighten the mood, Mads. Fortunately for Mikkelsen, there’s A Royal Affair, which casts him as an Enlightenment-era doctor who becomes the personal physician of Denmark’s King Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), has an affair (the royal kind) with the queen (Alicia Vikander), and eventually grabs power over the entire nation when the king’s mental illness renders him largely incompetent. It’s a fascinating story that is apparently mostly true; it’s well-assembled from beginning to end; and it gives Mikkelsen a chance to showcase a couple of new angles. Boyd SKYFALL

This is my all-time-favorite Bond film. Daniel Craig had been my favorite Bond since Sean Connery, and with this fine entry, he has actually become my favorite Bond. Sam Mendes directs this installment with a depth and level of excitement I haven’t detected before in the series (although Casino Royale came close), and Javier Bardem, as a former British agent gone bonkers, is a Bond villain for the ages. Great action scenes, fun homages to the series and a nice supporting turn from Judi Dench as M make this a Bond film to be truly enjoyed. Skyfall also features Ralph Fiennes and a decent song from Adele. I don’t know how many Bonds Craig has left in him, but I hope it’s a lot. Grimm THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2

And with this, the suffering of discerning moviegoers finally ends. No more Bella pouting, no more Edward swooning, no more Jacob abs. (OK, I admit the Jacob abs were wonderful.) Bella is now a supervampire capable of taking down mountain lions and sitting in a chair really quickly. The world’s head vampires hear that Bella has had a baby (a weird looking CGI baby, at that), and they look to start a vampire war. The previous film showed some promise, but this one (directed by Bill Condon, as was Part 1) tosses that promise aside and reverts to the awfulness that pervaded the earlier films. Stephenie Meyer has hinted the saga could go on with Taylor Lautner’s Jacob and the grown-up Bella Baby. No … this needs to stop now. Grimm

In ‘Anna Karenina,’ the director gets in the way of what could have been a fine film

BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com s a director, Joe Wright largely thinks in terms of sweeping romances. His Pride and Prejudice played it close to the vest, while Atonement swung the pendulum entirely in the other direction, focusing more on his own craftsmanship and big thinking as a filmmaker. Anna Karenina is more like Atonement, although with such a beloved novel as its launching pad, perhaps Wright should have kept his hands in his pockets a bit more: His style dwarfs the substance. Presented at times as a play—with scenes occurring in the fly gallery above the stage or with a crew moving sets on and off camera— Anna Karenina really isn’t about the story at all. It’s about seeing what tricks and gimmicks Joe Wright can bring to the story. The actors are effectively the background, and the mechanics of the filmmaking are what stars. It’s an incredibly selfish way to make a movie. On the other hand, it could also be an exhilarating way to make this movie. Wright frees himself from the traditional trappings of epic, doomed love stories and tragic heroines by giving us, for lack of a better comparison, Moulin Rouge! without the songs. It is arch, outwardly artistic, shamelessly broad, annoyingly colorful and more than a little brash— but that has more significant disadvantages than advantages. There are other considerations beyond the director’s vision, however, principally concerning the performances. Despite being married, Anna (Keira Knightley) has taken a lover, the dashing Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). This was no small thing in aristocratic 19th-century Russian society. Because Wright’s tinkering cuts to the chase of every conversation, there is no emotional buildup in any scene; each confrontation or confession of love is full-throated from beginning to end. The effect is that each scene feels cut together like a movie trailer, where you’re only supposed to get the main points. Wright’s directing was likely brutal on the actors, particularly Knightley and Taylor-Johnson, whose characters actually do have a wide range of emotions to convey, but are forced by design to treat each one like a paint swatch, merely and quickly representing something more real. Knightley, who has chosen not to handle Anna with kid gloves and displays some genuine ugliness, has to bounce from romance-literature icon to Cruella de Vil. It’s just not convincing. As her old-news husband, Jude Law is

Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina.

Anna Karenina Rated R Starring Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jude Law Directed by Joe Wright Focus, 130 minutes Opens Friday, Nov. 30, at Century El Con 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 902).

more measured. As her philandering, high-living brother, Matthew Macfadyen makes quite an impression, thanks to fewer scenes and a devilmay-care approach. But this all underscores the point: Because Law is supposed to be cloaked in melancholy most of the time, that emotion is conveyed more easily. And because Macfadyen is supposed to make us laugh, it’s an easier target to hit. They’re outlying characters, and our connection to Anna Karenina doesn’t flow from them. We just can’t bounce in as many directions as Anna does, as quickly as she does, because of the way this film is woven together. It’s troubling to see a potentially great performance by Knightley undercut like this. To be sure, she is not at the top of her game, but how could she be when her character is merely set dressing for the machinations of the director that he so desperately wants you to see instead? On a positive note, let it not be said that this is anything but a gorgeous-looking film. The production design is immaculate and daring, and the costumes would make peacocks blush. It is beautiful down to its last stitch. But, of course, if you were showing off as much as Joe Wright, why would you spare any expense on the baubles?

N O W S H O W I N G AT H O M E The Dark Knight Rises (Blu-ray)

Tarantino XX: 8-Film Collection (Blu-ray)

WARNER MOVIE B+ SPECIAL FEATURES B+ BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 7.5 (OUT OF 10)

LIONSGATE/MIRAMAX MOVIES ALL A’S, EXCEPT FOR JACKIE BROWN, WHICH GETS AN ASPECIAL FEATURES ABLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 9 (OUT OF 10)

The Bane voice took a lot of getting used to, but once I accepted the fact that this chapter’s villain sounded like a strange combo of Darth Vader, Grover and Gandalf, I was OK. I’ve previously said this was the weakest of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films, and I stand by that statement. That said, it is still a pretty awesome movie. Anne Hathaway makes for a fine Catwoman; Bale delivers his best work as the Bat; and Tom Hardy is a frightening physical presence as Bane, even with the stupid voice. The scene where Batman reappears after a long absence is one of the best in the franchise, as is that awful football game and the opening plane sequence. When Bane and Batman go toe-to-toe, it’s powerful stuff. On the downside, Michael Caine’s Alfred is a whiny bitch in this film. I just wanted him to shut the hell up. I mean, things are bad enough in Gotham without his pissing and moaning all the time about Bruce Wayne not having a girlfriend. He cries more in this film than Demi Moore in Ghost. Word has it that Batman will be relaunched in 2015’s Justice League, with a new actor wearing the cowl. SPECIAL FEATURES: You can opt for the whole secondscreen experience by downloading the app and watching exclusive content on your tablet. There are also some decent production featurettes focusing on everything from the Batmobile to a look back at the trilogy; also featured are closing thoughts from Nolan and crew.

This box set has all of the films Quentin Tarantino has directed, as well as True Romance, which he wrote. (Other notable Tarantino-penned flicks, such as Natural Born Killers and From Dusk Till Dawn, are excluded.) So that means you get Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, True Romance, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, Death Proof and Inglourious Basterds. That’s a pretty damn good weekend if you choose to watch them back to back. Tarantino got his start with Reservoir Dogs, a bloody heist film where you never saw the heist, and never looked back. Pulp Fiction, its follow-up, remains his best film, although all of his movies qualify as excellent or very good. In fact, the only film in this box I would give less than an A to is Jackie Brown, and that scores an A-. Yes, I give Death Proof a straight-up A. Rosario Dawson caving in Kurt Russell’s skull with her boot—awesome! The legend continues with December’s Django Unchained. Tarantino recently said he only has two films left in him. I certainly hope he is just teasing. SPECIAL FEATURES: The movie discs are the former releases of each film, so you get the bonus content those prior releases had. On top of that, you get two discs of exclusive bonuses, including “Critic’s Corner,” hosted by Elvis Mitchell. It’s a panel of critics discussing each of Tarantino’s movies for a total of nearly five hours. It’s a little tedious. The best feature would be the more-than-twohour-long Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking, a career retrospective involving many of the folks from the QT universe. Among the

things we learn: Tarantino basically owes his career to Harvey Keitel, and the late editor Sally Menke will be sorely missed. (The upcoming Django Unchained is the first Tarantino film not to be edited by Menke.) There’s also a panel discussion on Jackie Brown that includes Tarantino and Pam Grier, and some Django trailers.

Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day (Blu-ray) WARNER MUSIC MOVIE B+ SPECIAL FEATURES B BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 7.5 (OUT OF 10)

Five years ago, Led Zeppelin staged a reunion concert at London’s O2 arena. The concert also stood as a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records and the man who helped propel Zep to stardom. Many, including Jimmy Page himself, thought the concert was a prelude to a world tour. Alas, thanks to a busy Robert Plant, that never came to pass. After watching their blistering, brilliant set on this Blu-ray, I’m thinking this concert was a fitting conclusion to the Zeppelin legacy. Jason Bonham sits in for dad John on the drums; John Paul Jones is back on bass and keys; and … wow, Plant and Page are in top form, with Plant eschewing some of those primal screams for something more mature but no less powerful. He is a beautiful beast in this thing. Highlights include a terrific “Ramble On,” a jaunty “Trampled Under Foot” and, my personal favorites, “Kashmir” and “The Song Remains the Same.” If this is the last we ever see of Led Zep, it is a fitting and graceful exit, indeed. SPECIAL FEATURES: A bonus DVD containing rehearsal footage, and two CDs with audio of the concert.

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CHOW If you want a lot of food for cheap—and you don’t mind salt—then head to Hibachi Super Buffet

NOSHING AROUND BY ADAM BOROWITZ noshing@tucsonweekly.com

For the Masses

Stella Java on the Move A little café that chiefly served the coffee needs of those inside the medical-plaza building next to St. Mary’s Hospital is moving into a space at Mercado San Agustín, 100 S. Avenida del Convento. Stella Java uses beans roasted right here in Tucson by the coffee geniuses at eXo Roast Co., and fine teas from local company Maya Tea Co. Mercado San Agustín is already a wonderful place to stop in for a bite thanks to restaurants ranging from a taco shop to Agustín Brasserie. The addition of this great little café makes it that much better; www.stellajava.com.

BY JACQUELINE KUDER, jkuder@tucsonweekly.com am fortunate to have this very cool gig where I go out to eat, write about it, get paid—and repeat it. When people learn that I am a food-reviewer, I generally get the same reaction: “Wow, that is the coolest job ever!” Most times, I would have to agree. Here at the Weekly, we do our best to abide by standards when we review restaurants—we wait until they’ve been open a minimum of three months; we always try to go twice to make sure that one bad experience wasn’t just a rough day; and we try to be fair and objective. But we’re all human, and sometimes, after visit No. 1 to a restaurant, I can’t help but face the second visit with some amount of dread. I have to admit: I wasn’t too keen on visiting Hibachi Super Buffet even the first time. I am not a big fan of buffets, and one that touts multi-regional cuisine, including Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Mexican and American, sounded a bit like a horror show. Fortunately, it wasn’t that bad. But still, the best thing I can say is that you get what you pay for; there’s a large selection; and the beer is cheap and cold. There are 11 buffet lines, each featuring from six to 10 dishes; a hibachi grill, where patrons pick out a mixture of raw meats, vegetables and noodles, which are then grilled to order; a sushi station; and a scoopyour-own ice cream bar. The restaurant is huge, with the capacity to seat probably 400 or so, if you include the special-event space. It’s clean and bright, and adorned with large crystal chandeliers, neon lights and a big fountain. There also are several TVs, and white marble tables with ample seating make up the rest of the space. The service is prompt and, for the most part, friendly. Lunch is $6.99 per person, and dinner and all weekend meals are $9.99; kids 10 and younger get a discount. Beers are cheap—on both visits, I opted for the Tsing Tao at $2.99 a bottle. Kirin Ichiban, Corona and Heineken also are available, and for $2.49, you can get Coors Light, Budweiser or Bud Light. Wine is $3.99 a glass or $17.99 a bottle, and sake ranges from $2.49 to $5.99. The buffet selection is massive. Stick with the traditional Americanized Chinese selections, and—for the price—you shouldn’t be disappointed. Anything deep-fried is also a pretty safe bet. If you play it smart, you can get quite the bang for your buck. Steamed crawfish, mussels, clams and peel-and-eat shrimp are plentiful and pretty tasty. The baconwrapped shrimp wasn’t bad, but wasn’t great. Beef and broccoli, sesame chicken, orange

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Wine, Wine, Wine Need some help finding the perfect wine to accompany your holiday feasts? Consider checking out the weekly tastings down at CataVinos, 3063 N. Alvernon Way. Discover South American wines—which some say are among the most-underappreciated wines around—at tastings from 4 to 8 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 29 through Dec. 1. American wines take center stage at tastings from 4 to 8 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 6 through Dec. 8. Italian wines are featured from 4 to 8 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 13 through Dec. 15. The tastings are $10 each; $8 if you buy some wine; or free if you buy a case; www.catavinoswines.com.

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Tamale Time

Crab, crayfish, shrimp skewers and bok choy from Hibachi Super Buffet. chicken, lo mein and fried rice were fairly standard for inexpensive Chinese fare, though the sauces were extra viscous, and the food had a distinct … shininess to it. The salt-and-pepper crab (salt-and-pepper shrimp were available on the subsequent visit) was whole and deep-fried, shell and all, in a light batter. They were pretty darn tasty. The hibachi grill station was probably the highlight of both visits. Patrons can select their own mix of raw meats, seafood, vegetables and noodles, and it’s freshly grilled to order. The desserts were also pretty tasty, with many choices, including cakes, mousses, puddings, custards, cream puffs and other various pastries, as well as fresh fruit and that buffet staple, Jell-O. The sushi was a bit ominous-looking—I’m not sure the turnover rate is especially high, and roomtemperature-or-warmer sushi is always a bit disconcerting.

Hibachi Super Buffet 4629 E. Speedway Blvd 326-0000; hibachitucson.com Open Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Pluses: Inexpensive; large selection; cheap beer Minuses: Everything tastes relatively bland and is super-salty

All in all, despite feeling that I ingested about 300 times the recommended daily amount of sodium, the buffet was a fair value for the price. If you’re looking for a cheap meal with lots of choices, or you’re feeding a large family, Hibachi Super Buffet would be a reasonable option to consider. Just stay away from the tacos. Seriously.

The eighth annual Tamal and Heritage Festival takes place Saturday, Dec. 1, at the AVA Amphitheater at Casino del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. This year’s festival features more than 50 food vendors, cooking demonstrations, contests and live music. Admission is free. Visit www.casinodelsol.com.

Coming Soon: Five Palms Fine Dining Five Palms Fine Dining, which is setting up shop in the former home of Café Terra Cotta at 3500 E. Sunrise Drive, has started hiring, signaling that the opening isn’t far off. This new restaurant will be quite the affair, with a full wine shop and various spaces designed for special events.

So Long This is my last column here at the Tucson Weekly, and I wanted to take a few lines to say that it’s been a blast writing for all of you. Thanks for reading, and may your holidays be filled with good things to eat and drink. See you around.

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American classic in a delightful and delicious way, and desserts are to die for. Reservations are strongly recommended. (1-17-11) $$-$$$ BILLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GRILL NE Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive. 299-2020. Open daily 11 a.m. to dusk. Bistro/ Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Great cacti and mountain views make this one of the most memorable spots in town. Take a hike before or after. $$ BLUE WILLOW C 2616 N. Campbell Ave. 327-7577. Open Monday-

Friday 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. A Tucson institution, Blue Willow set the standard for wholesome fare Ă la the 1970s: omelets, quiche, crĂŠpes, homemade soups and tofu scrambles. Today, the restaurant continues to shine due to a joyful dedication to quality and a chocolate du jour dessert dish that hits the spot every time. Great outdoor patio and nifty gift shop. (1216-99) $-$$ BOBOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RESTAURANT C 2938 E. Grant Road. 326-6163. Open MondaySaturday 5:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 5:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Diner/No Alcohol. MC, V. Long a favorite breakfast spot, Boboâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serves up enough ham, eggs and pancakes to feed all of Tucson. Lunch specials are iffy, but breakfastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially the omeletsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is outstanding. $ BREAD AND BUTTER CAFĂ&#x2030; E 4231 E. 22nd St., No. 101. 327-0004. Open Monday-Saturday 5 a.m.-2 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.-1 p.m. CafĂŠ/Diner/No Alcohol. MC, V. For a cheap, fast breakfast or lunch, the Bread and Butter CafĂŠ is a longtime Tucson favorite (although the joint doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t serve butter; go figure). The coffee cup is bottomless and constantly refilled; the eggs are cooked perfectly to order. Be sure to save room for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;wedgeâ&#x20AC;? of homemade pie; dessert is where this cafĂŠ really excels. Expect a wait during peak weekend hours. (4-9-09) $

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BUFFET AT THE DESERT DIAMOND CASINO AND HOTEL S 7350 S. Nogales Highway. 342-1327. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-9 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (champagne brunch) and 4-9 p.m. Counter/ Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. A lot of the food here is buffet-bland, yet hardly anything is less-thanaverage in quality in a surprisingly restful setting. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a decent respite from your casino exertions. (1-7-09) $$ CAFE TREMOLO NW 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd., No. 152. 742-2999. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Cafe Tremolo is like a Tucson version of the Hard Rock CafĂŠâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;except with better food. Beautifully presented entrĂŠes, sandwiches and desserts make this an ideal lunch or dinner spot, and if you know anything about classic rock or jazz, you can geek out at the awesome collection of music memorabilia. Friendly service and a full bar make the experience complete. (9-16-10) $$ CHAFFINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FAMILY RESTAURANT C 902 E. Broadway Blvd. 882-7707. Open daily 6 a.m.-

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Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, DC, MC, V. Despite its location right next to a microbrewery chain, Jalopy’s Grillville is standing its ground as a great local alternative. With tasty pizzas, a large selection of burgers and friendly service, it’s an ideal place to catch a game and a bite to eat. Jalopy’s is also moving into the local-brews business. (6-7-12) $$ JAX KITCHEN NW 7286 N. Oracle Road. 219-1235. Open Sunday

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BY GENE ARMSTRONG, garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com eekly.com n decades past, much of the topheavy music industry was oriented toward making money from album releases, and concert tours were vehicles to promote record sales. As the business has evolved, that dynamic has been flipped: Concerts often are primary sources of revenue, with albums serving as promotional tools for the performances. This suits Eddie Spaghetti, singer and bassist for the venerable Seattle-based rock band Supersuckers, just fine. “That’s the whole deal for the Supersuckers; always has been,” Spaghetti said. The Weekly reached him on his cell phone while he was— where else?—on the road. “The live show is where we do our business, really,” he said. “We have songs that involve the crowd and make them feel part of the show. That’s where you can get the true Supersuckers experience. It’s one of the few true experiences left that a band and its fans can have. I think we make pretty good albums, but when we play live, that’s the Supersuckers—it’s what we grew up wanting to do, and it’s what our fans want from us. “You can watch videos of riding roller coasters all day long. But you can never really live the experience, feel exactly what it feels like, until you actually get on the ride.” The authentic Supersuckers experience returns to Tucson for a gig Wednesday, Dec. 5, at Club Congress. Recent arrivals to Tucson may not know that the band actually began here almost a quartercentury ago. But longtime local music buffs will remember that this group started in the Old Pueblo in 1988 as the Black Supersuckers, a name borrowed from an advertisement in the back of an adult magazine. The band featured five pals who grew up together and attended Santa Rita High School. (Those days are immortalized in the tune “Santa Rita High” on the 1999 Supersuckers album, The Evil Powers of Rock ’n’ Roll.) The personnel back then included bassist Spaghetti (né Edward Daly), drummer Dancing Eagle (aka Dan Siegel) and guitarists Dan “Thunder” Bolton and Ron “Rontrose” Heathman. Spaghetti wasn’t singing yet; those duties went to Eric Martin, with whom Spaghetti had previously played in a glampunk band called Thai Pink. The group abbreviated its name and moved to Seattle in 1989. Martin promptly left the band, his departure a result of “creative differences,” and Spaghetti took over on vocals. Soon after that, Martin died of a drug overdose. The Supersuckers carried on, releasing a

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spate of loud, fast and catchy proto-punk tunes, many of them collected on the band’s first fulllength album, The Songs All Sound the Same, released by Empty Records in 1992. Their album The Smoke of Hell also came out that year, on the mighty Sub Pop Records, for which the band recorded during most of the tumultuous 1990s. They were the self-proclaimed (perhaps ironically) “Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Band in the World,” proud to fly the flag of three-chord punk and hard-rock as grunge, urban soul, country-pop and jam-band acts took over the world of music. They briefly went country with the popular Must’ve Been High in 1997, drawing from their shared exposure to the collective unconscious in Tucson. “I grew up on the eastside, and country music was all around us,” Spaghetti says. “I guess you could say it was the music du jour all that time, and I totally fought against it all along. But then, one time, somebody gave me a cassette tape of The Best of the Best of Merle Haggard. Once I heard ‘Mama Tried,’ I completely changed my tune about country music.” Although the band still relies on hard-rock and punk-derived songs of a few basic chords, twang is now an occasional ingredient in many Supersuckers tunes. They’ve also played with respected country stars such as Willie Nelson and Steve Earle. Nelson’s harmonica-player, Mickey Raphael, often sits in with the Supersuckers, as does the pedal-steel player, Jordan Shapiro. Inevitable hip-hop influences infiltrated the Supersuckers’ music on the 2003 album Motherfuckers Be Trippin’, one of several released on the band’s boutique imprint, MidFi Records, which is no longer active. “We kind of came to the end of our rope putting out our own records,” Spaghetti said. The band also has succumbed to writing the occasional catchy power-pop harmony or Americana-sounding number. How could they not with Spaghetti on vocals? He’s charismatic, talented and can sing in tune. Such attributes also have been on display on his three solo albums, the most recent of which was 2011’s

Supersuckers 8 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5 Club Congress 311 E. Congress St. $10 advance; $12 day of 622-8848; hotelcongress.com

Sundowner. Although the Supersuckers have occasionally taken breaks from recording and touring, Spaghetti keeps running. “It never really stopped for me. I kept going on as a solo act,” he said. “Whenever I’m not playing with the band, I miss the band, and when I’m with the band, I miss the solo thing.” He has a fourth solo album in the can. That will have to wait until after the release of the next Supersuckers album, tentatively scheduled for next summer. The new material—with current guitarist “Metal” Marty Chandler and drummer Christopher “Chango” Von Streicher—won’t be a drastic departure from the band’s Motorheadmeets-Sex Pistols style, but some elements may seem more mature, Spaghetti said. “It’s sort of a tough rock-pop sound. It seems like some of the new songs we have been making up are not limited in scope. There are a few more chords, and maybe not so much cursing,” said this father of three. “We’ve been fighting against it for 20 years, but I think it’s about time we grew up.” Another style of music that Spaghetti initially resisted was disco, but he (and the rest of the band) came around to that, too. It hasn’t really influenced the Supersuckers’ music, but it has provided the soundtrack for many a social interaction going back to the band’s Tucson days. “Around the end of our time in Tucson, the band lived together in this old adobe house across from Catalina High School, and we started throwing these disco parties. It was the late ’80s, so disco had been gone for about 10 years, and it was cool again. We’d go to the thrift stores and get all these disco 45s. I was sort of the ‘Duke of Disco’ at the time.”

Thanksgiving has come and gone, which means we’re all being inundated with Christmas music, whether we like it or not. Just as holiday bargains arrive earlier each year, so, too, do a thousand different versions of “Joy to the World.” Still, each holiday season, throngs of musicians head out on tour with their Christmas-themed concerts. With the music itself being so inescapable, why would anyone actually pay to see this stuff? Well, some people, myself included, actually like Christmas music (though I would do just fine only hearing it for the last couple of weeks before the actual holiday, thanks). And sometimes, those shows aren’t just one performer’s rote takes on holiday classics. One of the earliest Christmas concerts to hit town will also likely be one of the most interesting, inventive and entertaining we’ll see this season. Sufjan Stevens doesn’t do anything half-assed. Sure, we’re still waiting for his concept albums about the other 48 states—Stevens recorded two albums, Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State (2003) and Come on Feel the Illinoise (2005), each devoted entirely to its titular state, and claimed that he planned to do one for each of the remaining states. (He later backed off that claim.) Those two albums are nothing short of masterpieces—musically rich, detailed explorations of an alternate history of each region. Both of those albums were released on Asthmatic Kitty, a label he co-owns, as is all of his musical output. Which matters for this reason: What label would allow one of its artists to release not one, but two box sets of Christmas music, as Stevens has done? The first, Songs for Christmas, arrived in 2006 containing 42 songs, both originals and classics, on five CDs; stickers; a sing-along book; a pair of short stories by Stevens; an essay by Rick Moody; a poster of Stevens decked out in full X-mas regalia; and more. Its follow-up, Silver and Gold, was released on Nov. 13 and similarly contains five EPs of music; an 80-page book; temporary tattoos (emo Jesus! Japanimation unicorn!); and a DIY Christmas tree ornament. Like I said, the guy doesn’t do anything half-assed. The music itself ranges from original songsketches that others might have filed away to some of the most gorgeous takes on holiday classics you’re likely to hear. Stevens’ fragile, beautiful voice helps. It’s goofy; it’s reverent; and it’s quite a trip. With Stevens’ penchant for theatricality, you can bet that the holiday-themed show he brings to town this week will be all that and more. Kick off the holiday season properly by attending the Sufjan Stevens Christmas Sing-Along: Seasonal Affective Disorder Yuletide Disaster Pageant on Ice, which takes place on Monday, Dec. 3, at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. Sheila Saputo opens the all-ages show at 8 p.m. Advance tickets are $20 and available at rialtotheatre.com or 740-1000. Use the same info for questions.

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FORMING NEW ALT-ROCK MEMORIES Formed in the summer of 2011 and containing former members of Sleeping Violet and Flashing Amber Lights, Tucson five-piece In Repair releases its debut album this week. Self-produced and recorded, and mixed by Bradley Torrison, Souvenirs (self-released) harks back to the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s age of post-grunge, after the wave of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden soundalikes had passed, but when driving, distorted riffs and earnest, yearning vocals were still in vogue. Although the band doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound much like them, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably a safe bet that fans of Foo Fighters and Incubus will dig In Repair. Souvenirsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;14 songs in 50 minutesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if a tad long, is surprisingly cohesive. Too often, debut albums tend to sound samey (especially over 50 minutes), but the songs on In Repairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut, while all in an alt-rock vein, are remarkably diverse. Album opener â&#x20AC;&#x153;Consent to Treatmentâ&#x20AC;? is what its title suggests, a song about addiction; while the lyrics could be lifted from a Tool album, the charging (not-so-moody) guitars suggest otherwise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lather, Rinse, Repeatâ&#x20AC;? surfs on a nifty three-note lead-guitar part, and benefits from a too-short middle section in which the lyrics are simultaneously sung and spoken. At just longer than two minutes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Square Peg, Round Soul,â&#x20AC;? a burst of punk energy with double-time bass-drum blasts, is one of the best songs on the album. Elsewhere, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Better Than Me,â&#x20AC;? a nice exercise in soft-loud dynamics (something the band excels at), contains a soaring chorus, but the softer parts sound a bit forced, or over-earnest, or something. But the acoustic closer, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Car Crashes and Cancer,â&#x20AC;? fares far better on the soft parts (which is to say, all of it). Though it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound much like punk rock, Souvenirs is a fine debut album influenced by bands that were influenced by punk. In Repair will celebrate the release of Souvenirs with a CD-release show at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St., next Thursday, Dec. 6. The band will perform in between headliners Signals and openers Sleep Trigger, who begin the night at 9 p.m. Admission is $5. For more information, head to plushtucson.com, or call 798-1298.

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CAJUN PUNKS Punk rock has infiltrated a number of musical genres that one would never associate with it. The Pogues brought punk to traditional Irish music; Gogol Bordello merged it with gypsy music; and now thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Lost Bayou Ramblers, who bring punk energy to Cajun music. Actually, the Lost Bayou Ramblers have been around since 1999, when Lafayette, La.based brothers Louis and Andre Michot, whose father and uncles toured the world playing traditional songs as Les FrĂ¨res Michot, formed the band. The Ramblers initially took after them, playing traditional acoustic Cajun music (which they continue to do), but somewhere along the way, they forged their own sound, a stomping, bass-drum-heavy, fiddle-and-accordion-led twist on the traditional music, updated for modern ears. As such, it will please both fans of the traditional stuff and those with modern tastes. Each of their six albums has garnered wildeyed praise, and the band has been nominated for a Grammy. Listening to their latest,

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2. The Expendables 2 (DVD) Lionsgate Mammoth Waltz (Bayou Perdu), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to see why. You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand most of the lyrics on Mammoth Waltzâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sung in Cajun Frenchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter. Nor will it matter if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got any BeauSoleil albums on your iPod. The bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music is so infectious, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really matter what you normally listen to; you will love these guys. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe me, ask the Violent Femmesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gordon Gano, Dr. John, or Scarlett Johansson (yes, that Scarlett Johansson), all of whom have guest spots on Mammoth Waltz. The Lost Bayou Ramblers ramble into Boondocks Lounge, 3306 N. First Ave., for a show on Saturday, Dec. 1. The Ramblers will perform at 6 p.m., followed by a set by Tony and the Torpedoes at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, or $12 at the door. For more details, head to boondockslounge.com, or call 6900991.

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve run out of room to tell you about all of the other great stuff happening this week, so be sure to check out our listings section and our music blog, We Got Cactus, for more details. In the meantime, some highlights: How to Dress Well, Beacon, and â&#x20AC;Ś music video? at Solar Culture Gallery on Saturday, Dec. 1; Doug Stanhope at the Rialto Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 1; The Audacity, Big Eyes and Lenguas Largas at the District Tavern on Wednesday, Dec. 5; POG benefit featuring Kaia Chesney, Algae and Tentacles, Ghost Writer and gHosTcOw at Plush on Wednesday, Dec. 5; TiĂŤsto College Invasion Tour at AVA at Casino del Sol on Wednesday, Dec. 5; Math the Band, Jaime J. and The Gym Clique (brilliant name!) at Solar Culture Gallery on Tuesday, Dec. 4; Pinups for Pets benefit for Tucson CARES animal rescue featuring live burlesque and performances by Rattle Rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Boys and the Black Sleep at Surly Wench Pub on Saturday, Dec. 1; Tinsels cassette-release party with Tom Grrrl, S.L.F.M. and Cypress Estrada at Tucson Live Music Space on Tuesday, Dec. 4; Zion I at The Hut, next Thursday, Dec. 6; DJ BL3ND and 2ToneDisco at The Rock on Friday, Nov. 30; Pacific Air and Blondfire at Club Congress on Sunday, Dec. 2; Authority Zero and Fayuca at The Hut on Friday, Nov. 30; Dream Sick, St. Ranger and Secret Meetings at Sky Bar on Saturday, Dec. 1; Hollywood Hate, Sabertooth Snatch, Sorry State and Vanish Twin at the District Tavern on Friday, Nov. 30; Impending Flip CD-release at La Cocina on Wednesday, Dec. 5; Mynx, Gay Kiss and Man Bites Dog at Tanline Printing on Saturday, Dec. 1; Blue Christmas: A Holiday Salute to the King at the Fox Tucson Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 1; Black Jackalope Ensemble, Boreas and Union Pacific at La Cocina, next Thursday, Dec. 6.

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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. APPLEBEE’S ON GRANT 4625 E. Grant Road. 319-0544. 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. BIG WILLY’S RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILL 1118 E. Sixth St. 882-2121. 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. BREWD: A COFFEE LOUNGE 39 N. Sixth Ave. 623-2336. 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. CHE’S LOUNGE 350 N. Fourth Ave. 623-2088. 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. COPPER QUEEN HOTEL 11 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-2216. COW PALACE 28802 S. Nogales Highway. Amado. (520) 398-8000. COW PONY BAR AND GRILL 6510 E. Tanque Verde Road. 721-2781. CUSHING STREET RESTAURANT AND BAR 198 W. Cushing St. 622-7984. DAKOTA CAFE AND CATERING CO. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-7188. DELECTABLES RESTAURANT AND CATERING 533 N. Fourth Ave. 884-9289.

THE DEPOT SPORTS BAR 3501 E. Fort Lowell Road. 795-8110. DESERT DIAMOND CASINO MONSOON NIGHTCLUB 7350 S. Nogales Highway. 294-7777. DESERT DIAMOND CASINO SPORTS BAR Interstate 19 and Pima Mine Road. 294-7777. 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. EL CHARRO CAFÉ SAHUARITA 15920 S. Rancho Sahuarita. Sahuarita. 325-1922. EL CHARRO CAFÉ ON BROADWAY 6310 E. Broadway Blvd. 745-1922. EL MEZÓN DEL COBRE 2960 N. First Ave. 791-0977. EL PARADOR 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. 881-2744. ELBOW ROOM 1145 W. Prince Road. 690-1011. ELLIOTT’S ON CONGRESS 135 E. Congress St. 622-5500. ENOTECA PIZZERIA WINE BAR 58 W. Congress St. 623-0744. FAMOUS SAM’S BROADWAY 1830 E. Broadway Blvd. 884-0119. FAMOUS SAM’S E. GOLF LINKS 7129 E. Golf Links Road. 296-1245. FAMOUS SAM’S SILVERBELL 2320 N. Silverbell Road. 884-7267. FAMOUS SAM’S VALENCIA 3010 W. Valencia Road. 883-8888. FAMOUS SAM’S W. RUTHRAUFF 2480 W. Ruthrauff Road. 292-0492. FAMOUS SAM’S IRVINGTON 2048 E. Irvington Road. 889-6007. FAMOUS SAM’S ORACLE 8058 N. Oracle Road. 531-9464. FAMOUS SAM’S PIMA 3933 E. Pima St. 323-1880. FOX AND HOUND SMOKEHOUSE AND TAVERN Foothills Mall, 7625 N. La Cholla Blvd. 575-1980. FROG AND FIRKIN 874 E. University Blvd. 623-7507. LA FUENTE 1749 N. Oracle Road. 623-8659. FUKU SUSHI 940 E. University Blvd. 798-3858. GENTLE BEN’S BREWING COMPANY 865 E. University Blvd. 624-4177. GOLD Westward Look Resort, 245 E. Ina Road. 917-2930, ext. 474. THE GRILL AT QUAIL CREEK 1490 Quail Range Loop. Green Valley. 393-5806. GUADALAJARA GRILL EAST 750 N. Kolb Road. 296-1122. GUADALAJARA GRILL WEST 1220 E. Prince Road. 323-1022. HACIENDA DEL SOL 5601 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. 299-1501. HIDEOUT BAR AND GRILL 1110 S. Sherwood Village Drive. 751-2222. THE HIDEOUT 3000 S. Mission Road. 791-0515. HILDA’S SPORTS BAR 1120 Circulo Mercado. Rio Rico. (520) 281-9440. THE HOG PIT SMOKEHOUSE BAR AND GRILL 6910 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4302. THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200. IBT’S 616 N. Fourth Ave. 882-3053. IGUANA CAFE 210 E. Congress St. 882-5140. IRISH PUB 9155 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-2299. JASPER NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANT AND BAR 6370 N. Campbell Ave., No. 160. 577-0326. JAVELINA CANTINA 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200, ext. 5373.

JEFF’S PUB 112 S. Camino Seco Road. 886-1001. 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. LOTUS GARDEN RESTAURANT 5975 E. Speedway Blvd. 298-3351. LOVIN’ SPOONFULS VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 2990 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 120. 325-7766. MARGARITA BAY 7415 E. 22nd St. 290-8977. MAVERICK 6622 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-0430. MAYNARDS MARKET AND KITCHEN 400 N. Toole Ave. 545-0577. MCMAHON’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE 2959 N. Swan Road. 327-7463. MIDTOWN BAR AND GRILL 4915 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-2011. MINT COCKTAILS 3540 E. Grant Road. 881-9169. MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFÉ 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. MR. AN’S TEPPAN STEAK AND SUSHI 6091 N. Oracle Road. 797-0888. MR. HEAD’S ART GALLERY AND BAR 513 N. Fourth Ave. 792-2710. MUSIC BOX 6951 E. 22nd St. 747-1421. NEVADA SMITH’S 1175 W. Miracle Mile. 622-9064. NORTH 2995 E. Skyline Drive. 299-1600. O’MALLEY’S 247 N. Fourth Ave. 623-8600. OLD FATHER INN 4080 W. Ina Road. Marana. 744-1200. OLD PUEBLO GRILLE 60 N. Alvernon Way. 326-6000. ON A ROLL 63 E. Congress St. 622-7655. ORACLE INN 305 E. American Ave. Oracle. 896-3333. O’SHAUGHNESSY’S 2200 N. Camino Principal. 296-7464. OUTLAW SALOON 1302 W. Roger Road. 888-3910. PAPPY’S DINER 1300 W. Prince Road. 408-5262. PARADISO BAR AND LOUNGE Casino Del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. THE PARISH 6453 N. Oracle Road. 797-1233. LA PARRILLA SUIZA 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300. PEARSON’S PUB 1120 S. Wilmot Road. 747-2181. PLAYGROUND BAR AND LOUNGE 278 E. Congress St. 396-3691. PLUSH 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298. PURGATORY 1310 S. Alvernon Way. 795-1996. PUTNEY’S 6090 N. Oracle Road. 575-1767. 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. 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. SOLAR CULTURE 31 E. Toole Ave. 884-0874. STADIUM GRILL 3682 W. Orange Grove Road. Marana. 877-8100. THE STATION PUB AND GRILL 8235 N. Silverbell Road. 789-7040. 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. THIRSTY’S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILL 2422 N. Pantano Road. 885-6585. 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. VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 549 1884 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4626. WHISKEY TANGO 140 S. Kolb Road. 344-8843. 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 NOV 29 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch Boondocks Lounge Ed DeLucia Trio The Breeze Patio Bar and Grill Live music Café Passé The John Einweck Jazz Quartet Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Live classical guitar Chicago Bar Neon Prophet Club Congress Chamberlab La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Stefan George, Hank Topless, Clay Koweek, Donkey Tonk Band, Freddy Parish Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Kevin Sterner and Strait Country (George Strait tribute) 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 Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Mark Noethen Quartet Las Cazuelitas Event Center Live music Maverick Jack Bishop Band McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Susan Artemis Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café BishopNelly Duo O’Malley’s Live music On a Roll Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Carnival Ride (tribute to Carrie Underwood) Plush Al Foul RPM Nightclub 80’s and Gentlemen Rialto Theatre Kid Ink, T. Mills, Serge Dog Sheraton Hotel and Suites Prime Example Sky Bar Live music The Steakout Restaurant and Saloon Drew Cooper Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Whiskey Tango Live music

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 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 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 Thirsty’s Neighborhood Grill

DANCE/DJ Big Willy’s Restaurant and Sports Grill DJ Hurricane and Project Benny Blanco Diablos Sports Bar and Grill Bikini bash with DJ Mike Lopez Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company DJ spins music The Hideout Fiesta DJs The Hut DJ MGM IBT’s DJ spins music Javelina Cantina DJ M. Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar DJ Bonus Pearson’s Pub DJ Wild Wes 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

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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

FRI NOV 30 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bamboo Club Live music The Bashful Bandit Live music Bedroxx DJ Du and the Cooper Meza Band Bluefin Seafood Bistro George Howard and Mark Noethen Boondocks Lounge Giant Blue Café Passé Tom Walbank, Roman Barten Sherman 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 Club Congress Otherly Love, Ohionan, Louise Le Hir La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar The Greg Morton Band Cow Palace Live music Dakota Cafe and Catering Co. John Ronstadt and Howard Wooten Delectables Restaurant and Catering Michael P. Nordberg 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 Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music Hacienda del Sol Tesoro, Freddy Vesely The Hideout Sol Down The Hut Authority Zero, For or Against, Despondency Denied, Three White Lies Irish Pub Keeping the Peace Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar The Chain of Fools Blues Band Las Cazuelitas Event Center Mariachis Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Lovin’ Spoonfuls Vegetarian Restaurant Amber Norgaard Maverick Flipside McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky Mint Cocktails Barbara Harris Band Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Bobby Ronstadt and friends Mr. An’s Teppan Steak and Sushi Edna and Ely with Malik Alkabir, Manny Brito Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Mothership Connection and Captain Antenna Old Father Inn Live music Oracle Inn Wild Ride Band O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge The Garcia Brothers The Parish The Jive Bombers La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Plush Amy Andrews, Brian Lopez Ric’s Cafe/Restaurant Live music RJ’s Replays Sports Pub and Grub Rockers Uptown Runway Bar and Grill Monstrosity, Kung Fu Vampire, Liquid Assassin 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 Tanque Verde Swap Meet Live music Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 549 Johnnie and the Rumblers Whiskey Tango Live music Wisdom’s Café V 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 Karaoke with 1Phat DJ 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 Big Willy’s Restaurant and Sports Grill DJ Obi-Wan Kenobi Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Flamenco guitar and dance show Circle S Saloon DJ BarryB La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Coming Out: A Queer Dance party: DJs Jaime J and Raw-B Delectables Restaurant and Catering After Dark The Depot Sports Bar DJ and music videos Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Groovin’ Fridays Old School Party 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 The Rock DJ BL3ND, 2ToneDisco 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 The Station Pub and Grill Chubbrock Entertainment Surly Wench Pub Sanctuary Unicorn Sports Lounge Y Not Entertainment Wildcat House Top 40 dance mix Wooden Nickel DJ spins music Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz

COMEDY Laffs Comedy Caffé Jackie Kashian

SAT DEC 1 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bashful Bandit Live music The Bisbee Royale The Samples The Bone-In Steakhouse Bobby Wilson Boondocks Lounge Lost Bayou Ramblers, Tony and the Torpedoes Brewd: A Coffee Lounge Moxy Café Passé Country Saturdays Cascade Lounge George Howard Che’s Lounge Live music Chicago Bar Neon Prophet Club Congress World AIDS Day party: Jivin Scientists, GldnGhst, Feeding Frenzy, The Pangs La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Ferrodyne, Carlos Arzate Colt’s Taste of Texas Steakhouse Live music Cow Pony Bar and Grill DJ spins music Cushing Street Restaurant and Bar Live music Dakota Cafe and Catering Co. Howard Wooten Delectables Restaurant and Catering Live music Don’s Bayou Cajun Cookin’ Melody Louise El Charro Café Sahuarita Live salsa band El Mezón del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Enoteca Pizzeria Wine Bar Phil Borzillo Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Live music 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 Drift The Hideout Los Bandidos Las Cazuelitas Event Center Mariachis Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Lookout Bar and Grille at Westward Look Resort Live acoustic

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Maverick Flipside McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky Mint Cocktails Elvis impersonator Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Moonstruck Coyotes Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Local Motion O’Malley’s Live music Old Pueblo Grille Jazz Jam with Pete Swan Trio Oracle Inn Wild Ride Band O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Sol Down La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Ric’s Cafe/Restaurant Live music Rock n’ Java Ray of Hope Band The Rock The Wolfgang, Setback, One After the Other, Stranger Danger, Creating a Scene Sheraton Hotel and Suites Tucson Jazz Institute Sky Bar Live music The Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar Live music Solar Culture How to Dress Well, ... music video? Stadium Grill Live music Sullivan’s Steak House The Bishop/Nelly Duo Tanque Verde Ranch Live music Tanque Verde Swap Meet Live music Tucson Live Music Space The Vile Impurity, Byleth, Cities of Refuge, Before I Die, Screams of Era, Silence Is Golden Whiskey Tango Live music Wisdom’s Café Bill Manzanedo

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y-Not Karaoke Brats Circle S Saloon Karaoke with DJ BarryB The Depot Sports Bar Karaoke with DJ Brandon Elbow Room Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star karaoke Famous Sam’s W. Ruthrauff Famous Sam’s Pima The Grill at Quail Creek IBT’s Amazing Star Entertainment Jeff’s Pub Kustom Karaoke Margarita Bay Midtown Bar and Grill Nevada Smith’s Old Father Inn Chubbrock Entertainment Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Stockmen’s Lounge Terry and Zeke’s

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Chicago Bar Reggae Sundays Club Congress Pacific Air, Blondfire La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Catfish and Weezie Dakota Cafe and Catering Co. Howard Wooten Driftwood Bar Acoustic rock La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music Hacienda del Sol Freddy Vesely Irish Pub Johnnie Molina Las Cazuelitas Event Center Live music Lotus Garden Restaurant Melody Louise McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: David Prouty Old Pueblo Grille Jazz Jam with Pete Swan Trio O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Raging Sage Coffee Roasters Paul Oman Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon Live music Sullivan’s Steak House Howard and Loud

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC The Bashful Bandit Y-Not Karaoke Club Congress Club Karaoke Cow Pony Bar and Grill Diablos Sports Bar and Grill Elbow Room Open mic Famous Sam’s W. Ruthrauff Family karaoke The Hideout IBT’s Amazing Star Entertainment Margarita Bay Mint Cocktails Y Not Karaoke Pappy’s Diner Putney’s Karaoke with DJ Soup River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke with KJ David RJ’s Replays Sports Pub and Grub YNot Productions Karaoke Salty Dawg II Tucson’s Most Wanted Entertainment with KJ Sean Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon The Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar Stockmen’s Lounge Whiskey Tango Wooden Nickel Woody’s World Famous Golden Nugget

DANCE/DJ IBT’s DJ spins music Kon Tiki DJ Century Outlaw Saloon Singing, Drumming DJ Bob Kay plays oldies Ra Sushi Bar Restaurant DJs spin music Shot in the Dark Café DJ Artice Power Ballad Sundays

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The Auld Dubliner DJ spins music Bedroxx DJ spins music Brodie’s Tavern Latino Night Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Flamenco guitar and dance show La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar DJ Herm Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Noches Caliente Desert Diamond Casino Sports Bar Fiesta DJs: Country Tejano night Driftwood Bar ’90s R&B with DJ Qloud Nyne El Charro Café on Broadway DJ Soo Latin mix El Parador Salsa-dance lessons with Jeannie Tucker Famous Sam’s Valencia DJ spins music Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company DJ spins music IBT’s DJ spins music Music Box DJ Lluvia On a Roll DJ Aspen Pearson’s Pub DJ Wild Wes Rusty’s Family Restaurant and Sports Grille DJ Obi Wan Kenobi Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge DJ 64, DJ Phil Sinbad’s Fine Mediterranean Cuisine Belly dancing with Emma Jeffries and friends Sir Veza’s Taco Garage Wetmore DJ Du Wildcat House Tejano dance mix Wooden Nickel DJ spins music Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz

Fox and Hound Smokehouse and Tavern Team Trivia with DJ Joker The Hut Geeks Who Drink

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The Auld Dubliner Margarita Bay Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Cut-Throat Karaoke Music Box O’Malley’s Purgatory River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke with KJ David Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon Whiskey Tango Wooden Nickel

Laffs Comedy Caffé Jackie Kashian Rialto Theatre Doug Stanhope

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Arizona Inn Dennis Reed Boondocks Lounge The Bryan Dean Trio Chicago Bar The Ronstadts Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music Hacienda del Sol Aaron Gilmartin Las Cazuelitas Event Center Live music McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse David Prouty Plush Michael P. Rialto Theatre Sufjan Stevens Christmas Sing-Along, Sheila Saputo Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon Ed DeLucia Trio Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Tucson Live Music Space Redrick Sultan, Black Jackalope Ensemble

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Arizona Inn Dennis Reed Armitage Wine Lounge and Café Ryanhood The Auld Dubliner Irish jam session Azul Restaurant Lounge Live piano music The Bashful Bandit Sunday Jam with the Deacon

Club Congress DJ Sid the Kid IBT’s DJ spins music Surly Wench Pub Black Monday with DJs Matt McCoy

NINE QUESTIONS Sara Mohr

TUE DEC 4 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Live classical guitar Chicago Bar Jive Bombers Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live mariachi music Hacienda del Sol Aaron Gilmartin Las Cazuelitas Event Center Live music Maverick Jack Bishop Band McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Susan Artemis Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Ned Sutton and Band Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar The Jeff McKinney Band Sheraton Hotel and Suites Arizona Roadrunners Sky Bar Live jazz Solar Culture Math the Band, Jaime J. Stadium Grill Open jam Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Whiskey Tango Pozer

Sara Mohr was born in North Dakota and has lived in Tucson since she was 4. She started playing piano at 5 and is a piano and music instructor for the School House of Rock. She is also the keyboardist and singer for the new project Sorry About the Garden. A bartender at Plush since the bar opened, Mohr is the creator of the bar’s signature Sexy Blue Jesus cocktail. Eric Swedlund, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC Beau Brummel Club Cactus Tune Entertainment with Fireman Bob The Canyon’s Crown Restaurant and Pub Open mic Famous Sam’s W. Ruthrauff Jeff’s Pub Kustom Karaoke Margarita Bay Music Box Old Father Inn Chubbrock Entertainment Outlaw Saloon Chubbrock Entertainment Purgatory River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke with KJ David RJ’s Replays Sports Pub and Grub YNot Productions Karaoke Salty Dawg II Tucson’s Most Wanted Entertainment with KJ Sean Terry and Zeke’s

DANCE/DJ IBT’s DJ spins music Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music

TRIVIA/PUB QUIZ Club Congress Geeks Who Drink

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What was the first concert you saw? Huey Lewis and the News at the UA’s McKale Center. Holy saxophone! I accidentally sat on a piece of gum, and got it all over my Esprit pants. So ’80s. What are you listening to these days? Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos. It was actually my mom’s, but I stole it from her and spun it over and over until it was full of static. I was fascinated with the Moog synthesizer. What was the first album you owned? Fever Ray, PJ Harvey, Rachmaninoff. What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone seem to love, but you just don’t get? Rockabilly. It’s fun at first, but after a while, I find it tiresome. What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live? Genesis, with Peter Gabriel as the frontman, in one of his crazy getups. I have a serious soft spot in my heart for ’70s prog-rock. Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure? Disco while wearing roller skates. No joke. What song would you like to have played at your funeral? “Learning to Fly” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. What band or artist changed your life, and how? Tori Amos. I know, I know. I’m such a girl! She is an amazing pianist and orchestrator. There is a perfect balance of dark and light in her songs. Her music makes me feel very mortal and creative. Every time I listen to her music, I find myself going over to my piano. … Also, my once-upon-a-time piano teacher David Barela. He taught me to believe in my art. Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time? Blue by Joni Mitchell.

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LAURYN HILL, BIG MERIDOX RIALTO THEATRE Monday, Nov. 26 She was an hour and a half late. Her DJ, Rampage, played an opening set that grimly foreshadowed an exercise in ’90s nostalgia. But once Lauryn Hill literally emerged from a cloud of smoke and stepped up to the microphone, and that voice echoed through the Rialto Theatre, all was forgiven. Ms. Hill played a mix of Fugees and solo hits, album tracks and some Bob Marley covers. Still, she made very few concessions to a pop audience. She was at times jovial, angry, playful and upsettingly emotional, but she was obviously genuine in her intensity. Hits became 10-minute marathons featuring Hill’s very impressive band-leading, where she visibly conducted her excellent 10-piece band, James Brown-style, turning improvisations into incendiary anthems. Rumors of Hill’s eccentricities are prevalent, and the stress did seem to influence her performance. From her epic “Black Rage” protest poem/song to “Ex-Factor,” the emotional high point of the concert, every tic and catch in her throat drew frenzied screams from the spellbound crowd. In the late 1970s, soul legend Marvin Gaye was court-ordered to record an album whose royalties would serve as alimony payments to his ex-wife. The resulting double LP, Here, My Dear, was an extremely explicit account of the disintegration of the marriage, as well as of Gaye’s personal demons. While the painful confessions of Lauryn Hill’s show did not go as far, parallels can be drawn: She made constant referrals to betrayal, injustice, personal oppression and psychological suffering. Overall, Ms. Hill’s performance was a tour-de-force of the human experience, in line with the soul greats who preceded her. But she simultaneously reached back further, through early jazz, ragtime and blues. Her band was absolutely stunning, stopping on dimes at less than a moment’s notice. And as comic relief, Hill coached her three (excellent) backing vocalists through mismatched harmonies during her set. Opening MC Big Meridox, a Tucson native, won over the audience within seconds with his friendly demeanor and ’90s-flavored rhymes. His half-hour performance more than warmed the audience up for the headliner. He even apologized to older attendees for his profanity. It was a great beginning to an amazing night. Joshua Levine mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

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As I type these words, the Rihanna plane has just careened to a sudden landing, and her hostages have disembarked. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fascinating and difficult moment to think through Rihanna and her celebrity. Unapologetic marks a significant shift in the crafting of her persona, finding her in full-fledged defiance mode after the last few tentative years since The Incident. While 2011â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Talk That Talk had a title track featuring guest-MC and protective bigbrother-figure Jay-Z, Unapologetic boasts a song called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Businessâ&#x20AC;? featuring ex-boyfriend/exbatterer Chris Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and in case you were wondering, the song is truly and spectacularly awful. Rihannaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to be our 21st-century Tina Turner, storming out on Ike and thus cementing her place in the pantheon of feminist pop goddesses. Unapologetic might work better as a manifesto if it featured Rihanna at the height of her powers. It makes perfect sense that she would want to send the message that she wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t and shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to justify her personal choices, but her defensiveness has dulled her hooks rather than sharpened them. If anything, Unapologetic could stand to be more of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;fuck youâ&#x20AC;? (like, maybe if the song featuring Brown had been amazing rather than embarrassing). Lead single â&#x20AC;&#x153;Diamondsâ&#x20AC;? is a fine but tepid midtempo song with lackluster musical ideas that are bolstered mostly by the rhythm of Sia Furlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lyrical contributions. Rihanna can execute a pop song, but can she immortalize one anymore? Unapologetic unapologetically suggests the answer is no. Sean Bottai

New Jersey punkers Titus Andronicus step back from the epic sweep of The Monitor for a lean and fun third album. After that ambitious and surprisingly cohesive Civil War concept album, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refreshing to see the band wielding some irreverent humor to balance out weightier material. The only mission statement here is urgency. Album opener â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ecce Homoâ&#x20AC;? finds singer Patrick Stickles issuing an existential call to arms: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing in the universe with any kind of objective purpose.â&#x20AC;? The question for Stickles is whether life is just being bored, or a lot moreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and he gives both answers. Then, on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Still Life With Hot Deuce and Silver Platter,â&#x20AC;? Stickles turns around and takes aim at the same sort of arrogant selfimportance: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going through phases / Are you some kind of man / Or a moon?â&#x20AC;? Two songs later, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the balls-to-the-wall â&#x20AC;&#x153;Food Fight!,â&#x20AC;? a Jerry Lee Lewismeets-punk burst that puts its stamp on the world in just 71 seconds. Next up is a vastly different song, the eight-minute, paranoia-tinged confessional â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Eating Disorder.â&#x20AC;? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing about the songsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sequencingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is that both reach a cathartic conclusion. Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mischief or frustration, the release is what matters. Life includes the big and the small, the heavy and the light, hulking incomprehensibility and simple joys. And by taking things to the brink and then stepping back, Titus Andronicus capture whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so essential about that balance. Eric Swedlund

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I left Arizona for Tulsa, Oklahoma, wound up in Tennessee,â&#x20AC;? Namoli Brennet sings on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dust on the Radio,â&#x20AC;? one of the highlights of her new album, a document of playing on the road over the course of six months and 20,000 miles. It includes songs from some of the Tucson-based singer-songwriterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nine previous albums as well as some new tunes. Whether they were recorded in concert in California, Indiana, Oregon, Texas, Montana or Massachusetts; on the radio in Iowa; or at Empty Sea Studios in Seattle, all the performances here are stripped-down and moving. They sound as good with Brennet simply singing, playing acoustic guitar and kicking a tambourine as they do in more-elaborate arrangements on her studio albums. The rhythmic and haunting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Settle Down,â&#x20AC;? from 2011â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s We Were Born to Rise, was recorded at a songwriting circle in Chandler, and you can hear the intimate echo of the environment. Brennet gets kind of epic on the six-minute jam â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Will Get Along,â&#x20AC;? into which she inserts lyrics from Joni Mitchellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Yellow Taxiâ&#x20AC;? and Lou Reedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walk on the Wild Side.â&#x20AC;? Brennet isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always alone. Michael Connoly contributes lively mandolin-playing to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rough Enoughâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t That Enough.â&#x20AC;? And Kari Newhouse joins in on the gorgeous â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Life,â&#x20AC;? with both women weaving a gorgeous spell of vocal harmonies and delicate guitar-picking. Gene Armstrong

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served by his fellow man, if the system would allow it. Yes, there will always be people who would rather walk into a safe, familiar environment to get meds. There is a niche market there. But I think most patients (most of the ones I talk to, anyway) would rather get meds the way they always have—from their friends (who are now caregivers and fellow patients). In a perfect world (Colorado?), we would all be allowed to grow whatever meds we need in the privacy of our extra bedrooms, and we would be allowed to sell them to whomever

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY HOROSCOPE 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700 $1.99 per minute. 18 and over. Touchtone phone required. ARIES (March 21-April 19): “They are trying to make me into a fixed star,” complained religious leader Martin Luther a few centuries ago. “I am an irregular planet.” I invite you to use that declaration as your own in the coming weeks. You have every right to avoid being pinned down, pigeonholed and forced to be consistent. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need abundant freedom to mutate your identity. You deserve a poetic license that allows you to play a variety of different roles and explore the pleasures of unpredictable self-expression. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The StarSpangled Banner” is America’s national anthem. It features the lyrics of a patriotic poem written by Francis Scott Key. But the melody itself is entirely lifted from a bawdy old song that celebrates Bacchus, the ancient god of wine and ecstatic dancing. I love it when things are repurposed as dramatically as that. Do you? The coming weeks will be prime time to repurpose stuff with creative abandon. Make the past useful for the future, Taurus. Turn good old ideas into fantastic new ones. Don’t just recycle; transform. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’m guessing that in the coming weeks, you will be receiving a multitude of inquiries, invitations and temptations—probably more than you feel capable of responding to, and certainly more than you should respond to. A few of these opportunities might be appealing and lead to interesting adventures. But some will be useless, diversionary or trivial. Will you be able to tell the difference? That’s your big challenge. If you’d like help dodging unwanted solicitations, give out this phone number as your own: (212) 479-7990. It’s a free service provide by “The Rejection Line” at Rejectionline.com. People calling that number will be politely told you aren’t available. CANCER (June 21-July 22): For millennia, the plant known as the yellow avalanche lily has thrived on mountain slopes and meadows throughout Western North America. It blooms early in the spring, just in time for broad-tailed hummingbirds that migrate from Central America to sip the flower’s nectar. But now there’s a problem with that ancient arrangement. Due to global warming, the lily now blossoms 17

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days earlier than it used to. But the hummingbirds haven’t made an adjustment in their schedule, so they’re barely showing up in time to get their full allotment of nectar. I suspect this is a metaphor for a shift you may be facing in your own life rhythm. Fortunately, you’ve been forewarned, and you can adjust better than the hummingbirds. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In our calendar, there is no special holiday devoted to honoring the joy and power of rebellion. This oversight confounds me. All my experience tells me that the urge to revolt is a fundamental human need. Every one of us has a sacred duty to regularly rise up and overthrow a stale status quo that is oppressing us—whether that’s an organized group effort we’re part of, or our own deadening routine. I’m telling you this, Leo, because it’s an excellent time to celebrate your own Rebellion Jubilee. Your vitality will soar as you shed numbing habits and decaying traditions. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ve recently had resemblances to an 8-year-old kid wearing the pajamas you loved when you were 5. Your bare arms are jutting out beyond where the sleeves end, and there’s a similar thing going on with your legs. The fabric is ripped here and there, because it can’t accommodate how much you’ve grown. You’re feeling discomfort in places where the overly tight fit is squeezing your flesh. All of this is somewhat cute but mostly alarming. I wish you would wean yourself of the past and update your approach. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A lot of leopard frogs live on Staten Island, one of New York City’s five boroughs. Most of them make a sound that resembles a long snore or a rapid chuckle. But over the years, biologists have also detected a third type of frogly expression: a clipped, repetitive croak. Just this year, they finally figured out that this belonged to an entirely distinct species of leopard frog that they had never before identified. It’s still so new it doesn’t have a name yet. I expect a metaphorically similar development in your life, Libra. You will become aware of a secret that has been hiding in plain sight. You will “find” something that actually revealed itself to you some time ago.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Tom Tolbert is a sports talk-show host on San Francisco radio station KNBR. I am amazingly neutral about him. Nothing he says fascinates me or mirrors my own thoughts. On the other hand, he never makes me mad, and he’s not boring. I neither like him nor dislike him. I simply see him for who he is, without any regard for what he can do for me. He has become a symbol of the possibility that I’m able to look at a human being with complete impartiality, having no wish for him to be different from what he is. In the coming week, I suggest you try to achieve this enlightened state of mind on a regular basis. It’s prime time, astrologically speaking, to ripen your mastery of the art of objectivity. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you say “rabbit rabbit rabbit” as soon as you wake up on the first day of the month, you will have good luck for the next 30 to 31 days. At least that’s how reality works according to a British superstition. But judging from your astrological omens, I don’t think you will have to resort to magic tricks like that to stimulate your good fortune. In the next four weeks, I suspect you

will be the beneficiary of a flood of cosmic mojo, as well as a surge of divine woowoo, a shower of astral juju and an upwelling of universal googoo gaga. If it would give you even more confidence to invoke your favorite superstitions, though, go right ahead. Even scientists say that kind of thing works: tinyurl.com/SuperstitiousBoost. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to Greek myth, Perseus cut off the head of Medusa. She was the creature whose hair was composed of snakes and whose gaze could turn a person into stone. The immortal winged horse Pegasus was instantaneously born from Medusa’s blood. He ultimately became an ally to the nine Muses, and Zeus relied on him to carry thunder and lightning. I predict that while you’re sleeping, Capricorn, you will have a dream that contains elements of this myth. Here’s a preliminary interpretation of that dream: You are undergoing a transition that could, in a sense, give you the power of flight and a more abundant access to a muse. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s time for you to be leader of the pack, Aquarius, to

take your gang to the next level; to make sure the group mind isn’t suppressing innovation and enforcing peer pressure, but is rather inspiring every member of the tribe to be as creative as they dare to be. And if it’s not realistic for you to wield that much power, then do whatever you can to synergize the alliances that hold your posse together. Build team morale. Gossip constructively. Conspire to animate an influx of fresh magic. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you’re a food company that wants to sell chicken in the shape of a chicken wing, it must have actual chicken wing meat in it. Otherwise, the law says you’ve got to call your product “wyngz.” I’ve always thought that there’s a lot of information the media presents as “news” that is really as fake as wyngz. That’s why I advocate calling the bogus stuff “newzak” (rhymes with “muzak”). Your assignment in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to make sure you’re not putting out any wyngz- or newzak-like stuff in your own chosen field. The fates will help you rather dramatically if you put a high premium on authenticity.

¡ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net Dear Mexican: In President Bush’s State of the Union address, he reiterated a need for a guestworker program. What is your opinion of such a program? The program seems like mierda that screws people over in the long run to me, but what do I know? Una Guerita Por Un Mundo Sin Muros : Dear Gabachita for a World Without Border Walls: Sorry I’m answering your question— what, five years later? ¿Siete? The sad part about my laziness is that the question remains relevant, and what Republicans once dismissed as Aztlanista claptrap from the mouth of Dubya (who will remain the best GOP friend to Mexis we’ll ever have—mark my palabras) is now the gospel they’re preaching after the disaster that was their outreach efforts to Latinos during the 2012 presidential election. It’s been absolutamente HILARIOUS to see Republicans wake up and smell the tacos more than a decade after Latinos became a political force, to see them lamely prop up Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as a presidential candidate (the only position he’s worthy of is being Secretary of Coños), to see gabacho pundits ask themselves what Latino voters want without having a Latino on their panels or asking said voters, and—most laughably—to watch them introduce the idea of resurrecting the guestworker program. Conservatives love the idea of having Mexicans work cheaply but not being able to become citizens, but it’s an idea that’ll fail as badly as it did the first time around, from the 1940s until the 1960s. For the last time, America: Mexicans are not just workers; they’re humans who’ll notice living conditions are better here and will want to stay here—how ya gonna keep ’em down on the rancho after they’ve seen Paree? A border fence? P-shaw. While it’s true some Mexicans might want to only work here and go back to Mexico, demographics and history show otherwise. “Immigration reform” without some sort of amnesty is like a burrito without the tortilla— and who the fuck besides calorie-conscious hipsters wants that?

I was with some cousins for a week in Lindsay, a major orange-picking city in Central California. They own a mini-market, and I’d go help them every day, and got to know some customers. Many of the Mexican customers would come in and yell “Agooshtoo” or “wey” to me and my cousins, and we’d yell it back, and they would smile and get their beer. When they would leave, they would say “a rato,” and we’d yell it back. I asked my cousins, but they didn’t really know much except that the first two were probably curse words. Any help? Gabacho From Gilroy Dear Gabacho “Wey” is easy—they’re saying güey, which, as I wrote so long ago in one of the first ¡Ask a Mexican! columns, is the “ass” of Mexican Spanish, even though it derives from the word for “ox.” But it’s not a fighting word, and you and your primos should be honored—Mexi men use güey as a form of endearment among each other, à la the American English “fucker” and “man.” If they really wanted to insult you, they’d call you puto, pendejo, baboso or—better yet—pinche puto pendejo baboso. “Agooshtoo” sounds like a gusto (to be at ease), but it very well could be from an indigenous language like Mixtec or Triqui, since the Central Valley is home to tens of thousands of folks from Oaxaca. “A rato” is the elided form of al rato, which means “later”—in this case, they’re telling ustedes güeyes that they’ll be back in a bit for more beer. Now that I answered your pregunta, do me a favor, and leave some cerveza on credit for my güeyes so they can be agusto, por favor! Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican. net; be his fan on Facebook; follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellano; or ask him a video question at youtube.com/askamexicano!

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a straight man at that age where the general public still considers me young. Although Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve attended many weddings, I have no interest in marrying or even being in a relationship. I never have. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not asexual. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had and enjoyed sex. I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel the need to be with anyone. As long as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got music and friends, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m satisfied. Unfortunately, I seem to be the only one. My parents want grandkids. My friends want to set me up. My television set only ever shows people in or pursuing relationships. My government wants me to father and raise future dead soldiers. I try not to internalize these views, but sometimes, I wonder whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to happen if I change my mind somewhere down the road. What the hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong with me? Or not wrong with me? What do I tell people who insist that somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong or that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll change my mind? And what should I do if I actually do change my mind?

What should you do if you change your mind someday? You should date, IDGAF; you should marry. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t describe your current choices as superiorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if it does mean a better social lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to eat crow if you change your mind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come a long way in our attitudes about sex and relationships,â&#x20AC;? says Klinenberg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now that living alone is more common than living with a spouse and two children, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it time we learned to respect the choice to go solo, too?â&#x20AC;? Indeed it is. And the sooner you demand a little respect from your parents and friends for your choices, IDGAF, the sooner youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get it. Single and partnered people alike should follow Eric Klinenberg on Twitter: @EricKlinenberg. To find out more about Klinenbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books and his research, go to ericklinenberg.com.

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Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the etiquette around (nonpenetrative) sex toys after a breakup? I bought restraints, a blindfold, etc. for my ex, and she left them behind. It seems a waste to throw them away. Is it a bit squicky for a guy to bust out an arsenal of old toys when a new gal comes along?

Honestly, IDGAF, yours is one of those letters that I have a hard time giving much of a fuck about. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get me wrong: You sound like a nice guy, articulate and pithy, and I typically like people who know what they do and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want. But cowards annoy me. Forgive me for working my own sexuality into this, but I have to say: When I was at that age the general public unanimously considers youngâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;still a teenagerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I walked into my motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bedroom and informed her that I was a faggot. (Begging my parents for tickets to the national tour of A Chorus Line for my 13th birthday somehow didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do the job; five years later, I had to come out to them all over again.) If I could work up the nerve to come out to my very Catholic parents about putting dicks in my mouthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at the beginning of the AIDS crisis, at thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you can find the courage to come out to your parents and friends as not asexual, not unhappy and not planning to date, cohabit, wed or reproduce. While Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sympathetic to your plight, IDGAF, I found someone who is. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Few young adults say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not interested in sex or relationships, but IDGAFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preference for going solo is hardly unique,â&#x20AC;? says Eric Klinenberg, professor of sociology at New York University and author of Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today, an unprecedented number of people are opting to live alone. One-person households represent 28 percent of all households in the U.S., and in cities, the numbers are higher.â&#x20AC;? Your coupled-up friends and grandchildstarved parents might have an easier time accepting your lifestyle choices if they knew just how common they are. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In recent decades,â&#x20AC;? says Klinenberg, â&#x20AC;&#x153;young adults have been the fastest-growing group of American singletons. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re delaying marriage and spending more years single. Moreover, they increasingly recognize the fact that over their long lives, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re likely to cycle in and out of different situations: alone, together; together, alone.â&#x20AC;? And despite the negative stereotypes that slosh around about single peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re antisocial, unhappy, isolatedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Klinenbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research shows that those who live alone do just fine in the friends and social-life departments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People who live alone tend to be more social than people who are married,â&#x20AC;? says Klinenberg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more likely to spend time with friends and neighbors; more likely to spend time and money in bars, cafes and restaurants; and even more likely to volunteer in civic organizations. So much for the myth of selfish singles!â&#x20AC;? So what should you tell your nagging friends and family? â&#x20AC;&#x153;How about letting them know that going solo is what works best for him right now,â&#x20AC;? says Klinenberg, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hardly made a vow to stay single forever. Or, if heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feeling feisty, he can remind them that, no matter how theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve arranged their lives at the moment, someday, they might find themselves opting out of sex and relationships, too.â&#x20AC;?

Alone With Accessories She Had Jonathan Schroder, general manager of Mr. S Leather in San Francisco (mr-s-leather.com), suggests that you get rid of your bondage gear. Schroder is in the business of selling sex toysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mr. S is famous for its high-quality bondage gearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; but his advice isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about his desire to move merchandise. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about your desire for gals, AWASH. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Personally, I think some of the best gear you can get is hand-me-down gear,â&#x20AC;? says Schroder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great tradition in the gay-leather community about passing gear from older folks to younger folks. But my gut tells me that a new girlfriend might wig out about used bondage gear. We have a lot of customers and couples who have a strong preference for cleanliness. But straight women in particular prefer that things be wiped down, well-cleaned and shiny. So a woman who opens a dresser drawer and finds restraints with signs of wear and tearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and signs of someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sweat or fluids on themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is probably going to be turned off.â&#x20AC;? So get rid of your old gear, Schroder advises, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t throw it away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Find someone who wants and canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford bondage gear, and give it to them,â&#x20AC;? says Schroder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gear is expensive, and there are people out there who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford it. Help â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em out.â&#x20AC;? @fakedansavage says polyamory a â&#x20AC;&#x153;choice,â&#x20AC;? not an â&#x20AC;&#x153;identity.â&#x20AC;? Where have we heard that argument before? Meet the new bigots, same as the old. @lilyldodge If all people are naturally nonmonogamousâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a point Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made about 10 million timesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;then from my perspective, polyamory and monogamy are relationship models, not sexual orientations. (And if poly and monogamy are sexual orientations, Lily, wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going solo have to be considered one, too?) That was my point. Poly can be central to someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexual selfconception, and it can be hugely important, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an orientation in the same way that gay, straight or bisexual are orientations. People can and do, of course, identify as poly. But is poly something anyone can do, or something some people are? I come down on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;doâ&#x20AC;? side. Lily clearly disagrees. But as @GetItBigGurl said on Twitter, where Lily and I engaged about my comments in last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Openly pondering difference between orientation vs. lifestyle isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bigotry; legislating against polyamory is.â&#x20AC;? No one is legislating against polyamory here. Just thinkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; about things. Follow me @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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