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Next on the Menu Janos Wilder won’t be reopening DOWNTOWN Kitchen + Cocktails, but he hasn’t hung up his apron yet

By Austin Counts

TUCSON SALVAGE: Life on the Streets

ARTS: Modernism Week Goes Virtual

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CONTENTS CURRENTS

TUSD set to launch in-person hybrid learning on Nov. 12

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University of Arizona cases on the rise as police encounter more parties

TUCSON SALVAGE

A Clover in weeds, loss, beatings, homelessness and love

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COVID Rising

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EDITOR’S NOTE

HOW ABOUT THAT ELECTION, HUH? Who saw that coming?

Actually, I’m writing these words on Tuesday morning, so I’m in the dark about the results, though I’m hoping the picture is a lot more clear by the time this edition is in your hands. We’ll have results and analysis all week long as they count the ballots at our website, so visit TucsonWeekly.com for all that.

But before you go off to our website to read those election results, lemme tell you about this week’s issue. We are chock-full o’ COVID news this week. Staff reporter Nicole Ludden brings us plenty of it, from TUSD’s decision to return to the classroom to what’s happening in the Amphi and Marana districts, which both brought students back into the classroom last month. Ludden also looks at how cases are bumping back upward on the University of Arizona campus and fills you in on what Gov. Doug Ducey had to say about the state’s rapidly rising numbers just as the holidays approach.

In other COVID-adjacent news, Austin Counts talks to Janos Wilder about why he won’t be reopening DOWNTOWN Kitchen + Cocktails. I’ve been enjoying Janos’ innovative southwestern fare since way back in his

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days in the Tucson Museum of Art’s Stevens House, proposed to my wife at his La Paloma restaurant and celebrated his return to downtown a decade ago. Janos isn’t hanging up his apron—he’ll be doing cooking classes, catering and such—but I’m sure gonna miss knowing I could pop in and try something spectacular whenever I’m hungry for it.

Elsewhere in the book, Tucson Salvage columnist Brian Smith brings us a harrowing tale about a woman living on the streets of Tucson; arts writer Margaret Regan previews this weekend’s virtual edition of Modernism Week; Cannabis 520 columnist David Abbott gets a taste of the CBD cannabis and products you can purchase at Healthful Flowers; calendar editor Emily Dieckman tells you how you can have some (safe) fun this week; and there’s plenty more to enjoy scattered throughout the book.

— Jim Nintzel Executive Editor Hear Nintz talk about the latest on the outbreak and other news at 8:30 Wednesday mornings on The Frank Show on KLPX, 91.1 FM.

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CURRENTS

ON COURSE

TUSD set to launch in-person ‘hybrid learning’ on Nov. 12

By Nicole Ludden Nicolel@tucsonlocalmedia.com TUCSON’S LARGEST SCHOOL district will allow students to return to in-person classes starting Nov. 12.

Tucson Unified School District’s governing board voted to return to school in a hybrid model in a 3-2 vote on Tuesday, Oct. 27, with board members Kristel Foster, Bruce Burke and Leila Counts approving the reopening date, and members Adelita Grijalva and Rachael Sedgwick opposing.

Pima County Public Health Director Theresa Cullen discussed the county health department’s three specific guidelines for opening in a hybrid model: a two-week decline in COVID-19 cases, two weeks of percent positivity below 7% and hospital visits for COVID-19 illness below 10%. As of Oct. 22, Pima County had met all three benchmarks.

“We believe that as a county, it is OK for school districts to go to a hybrid learning model based on the current statistics,” Cullen said.

She noted the health department recommends the district take strict mitigation tactics including increased sanitation, social distancing and universal mask-wear-

ing, as well as reporting COVID-19 cases to the health department and complying with isolation and quarantine guidelines.

The governing board unanimously approved a second motion to authorize “the Superintendent to initiate school closures… if such closures are recommended by the Pima County Health Department and deemed necessary to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in Pima County.”

Board member Foster said she approved the motion to reopen based on the advice of experts like Cullen at the board meeting.

“I have to follow the pragmatic advice of the experts that are here, and so that’s why I’ll be supporting this,” Foster said.

Counts shared she’s had a positive experience running a local preschool without any cases of coronavirus, and said she also made her vote based on scientific guidance.

“I’m pulling my reasoning from data, from what we’re hearing from the scientists and also my personal experience,” Counts said.

However, two board members opposed the motion to reopen in November, partially because of concerns the district’s teachers have shared.

In an email read aloud at the board meeting, Tucson Education Association President Margaret Chaney said the union’s official position is to hold off on the approved hybrid model until January.

Among many reasons she gave to postpone reopening, Chaney cited anxiety from the community about returning, the likelihood of COVID-19 cases increasing after students travel during breaks and the lag time in data tracking the virus.

“For TUSD’s governing board to meet on Oct. 27 to make a decision about whether it’s safe to open two weeks from the date does not take into account the data that will be gleaned over those weeks,” Chaney said.

Sedgwick emphasized many teachers’ concerns about returning, and said she believes “it’s very, very important that we respect and protect our teachers.”

Grijalva shared concerns about teachers being mandated to return to classrooms and mentioned TUSD has a much broader reach than other local school districts who have reopened.

“If I don’t feel it’s safe enough for my children, and I’m not gonna send my children to school, I can’t, in good conscience, vote to say it’s not safe enough for my kids but it’s okay for other people,” Grijalva said.

ENROLLMENT NUMBERS TAKE A HIT IN REMOTE-ONLY LEARNING Before the vote on a return date at the board meeting Tuesday, Superintendent Gabriel Trujillo discussed concerns about the district’s dwindling enrollment numbers.

According to Trujillo, the district experienced a 4.9% decline in enrollment compared to the 40th day of its 2019 school year, but he acknowledged enrollment loss numbers for Pima County school districts have ranged from 2% to 13.5% this year.

“The district receives its funding based off the average physical attendance of the student body across the first 40 days of the school year. Well, that number has not been kind to us this year,” he said.

“COVID-19 has had a very, very detrimental effect on student enrollment for the 2021 school year.”

Trujillo said from Oct 7-Oct. 21, almost 200 families withdrew from TUSD. According to the superintendent, the 2021-22 school year is facing a $15.5 million budget deficit.

Board member Counts says she considered the deficit predicted for the next school year in casting her vote to reopen, and said it “feels like looking down the barrel of a gun.”

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN REMOTE LEARNING Halley Freitas, the district’s senior director for assessment and program evaluation, went over TUSD students’ math and English language arts (ELA) benchmark test scores.

From the first quarter of 2019, proficiency in math decreased by 7% for elementary students and 5% percent for middle schoolers. Math proficiency increased 5% for high schoolers, although Freitas said this is “entirely due to the ninth grade,” which

saw a 14% gain she called an “anomaly.”

Although ELA test scores saw a much less notable change across the board, tenth graders averaged a 10% proficiency loss, while sixth-graders averaged a 3% decline.

However, as students learn from their computers, Freitas acknowledged data from online tests may not be as accurate as data from tests administered in-person.

“There are concerns about threats to the validity of this data because of remote testing with limiting monitoring capabilities,” Freitas said.

Board member Grijalva said she believes test scores will go up when students aren’t in isolated conditions.

“We also have students who are in very high levels of stress who just aren’t coping well with the isolation, not being able to do their extracurricular activities,” Grijalva said. “The workload is staying relatively the same, but the escape options for children are a lot less.”

WHAT WILL HYBRID LEARNING LOOK LIKE? The TUSD board approved a new hybrid model for returning to school in-person that involves separating students into hybrid and online-only groups.

Four days a week, in-person students learn at their physical school sites for the first half of the day and work remotely from home the rest of the day. On Wednesdays, every student attends class remotely.

Remote students work asynchronously in the mornings and attend online teacher-led instruction in the afternoon. While teachers are instructing remote students the second half of the day, students in the hybrid system work asynchronously.

Asynchronous work involves working on class projects and assignments, social-emotional learning lessons with counselors, specialized services and working on digital platforms, according to a presentation from TUSD. TUSD also came up with a contingency plan if the percentage of students who wish to attend classes in-person is at an unsafe level. This level, which the district refers to as a “threshold,” depends on each campus, but TUSD says most are between 45-60% of students on campus.

If a threshold becomes too high, the school will have the option of splitting their in-person students into two cohorts to attend classes on different days. Cohort A would attend on Mondays and Thursdays while cohort B would attend on Tuesdays and Fridays. ■

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KEEPING COUNT AS TUCSON’S SCHOOLS REOPEN or in-person classes, some are reporting an increasing number of COVID-19 cases among students and staff—many who are being asked to quarantine themselves if they were in contact with people who have tested positive.

As of Monday, the Amphitheater Unified School District has reported 20 active coronavirus cases resulting in 98 students and staff members quarantining, according to Communications Director Michelle Valenzuela.

Since opening in a hybrid model on Oct. 12, Amphitheater has reported 24 total cases reaching 10 different school sites.

Valenzuela says four of those cases are no longer active.

Superintendent Todd Jaeger believes the cases are originating from off-campus events.

“While it’s somewhat defeating and concerning that we’ve had the cases that we had, it’s notable to me that they have all originated off of campus,” Jaeger said. “In other words, we don’t have a single case yet that we know of that originated on campus.”

The superintendent said high COVID-19 case counts are usually related to one specific activity that occurred over a weekend.

Such was the case, according to Jaeger, with eight Ironwood Ridge High School students who tested positive over the past week.

He asks students to practice proper safety protocol to avoid the virus as much outside of school as they do in the classrooms.

“The message for everyone there is that you can’t socially distance, you cannot properly wear masks, you cannot take appropriate precautions in just one part of your life, it has to be in all walks of your life,” Jaeger said. “In school, still, it does not take a lot of policing, the kids are generally very, very compliant. I guess I was hoping that was the case off of campus as well.”

At Holaway Elementary, both fifth-grade classrooms moved to entirely online instruction after two staff members reported positive COVID-19 tests on Oct. 28 and 31.

Jaeger said these larger quarantines

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will be “narrowly tailored” based on each school’s coronavirus outbreaks after consulting with the Pima County Health Department.

“We are always going to keep the safety of students at the forefront of our decision making. We’re consulting specifically with public health officials, epidemiologists and the like to tell us what we should do,” he said. “It’s all of those other events in our life that pose potential exposure risks as well, that we have to be vigilant of. We have to be vigilant in all of our interactions out there in public right now.”

A complete list of Amphitheater schools that have reported positive coronavirus cases since reopening can be found at tucsonlocalmedia.com.

MARANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT’S COVID-19 CASES Marana has reported 19 positive COVID-19 cases with 56 students and staff members in quarantine since they reopened in a hybrid model Oct. 19, according to Alli Benjamin, the district’s public relations and community engagement director.

Three employees and 16 students have tested positive, causing five employees and 51 students to quarantine.

The district experienced 14 more coronavirus cases and 32 more students and staff in quarantine since last Monday, but Benjamin was not able to reveal the number of cases from each school and the date they were reported since Oct. 26.

Benjamin did say the affected locations include Mountain View High School, Marana Middle School, Rattlesnake Ridge Elementary, Estes Elementary, Picture Rocks Elementary, Gladden Farms Elementary, Quail Run Elementary and Butterfield Elementary. Benjamin said a positive test from a staff member in the district’s transportation department was reported on Oct. 29.

Four students tested positive for coronavirus at Mountain View High School between Oct. 22 to 25, Benjamin said.

One student was reported as testing positive at Marana Middle School on Oct. 21, but no potential contacts were established, according to Benjamin. ■

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA IS reporting elevated COVID-19 cases reflective of a state-wide uptick after large gatherings occurred over the Halloween weekend, UA President Robert C. Robbins said in a news conference Monday, Nov. 2.

From Oct. 23 through Nov. 1, UA found 79 positive coronavirus cases after administering 7,122 tests for a positivity rate of 1.1%, an increase from the 0.6% rate the university reported the previous 10-day period.

The university found seven gatherings with over 100 attendees throughout the past week. UA’s CART team, a collaboration with the UA and Tucson police departments that looks for noncompliance to COVID-19 precautions, responded to 18 incidents since Oct. 26.

“This is not just a nuisance. These people who are acting indiscriminately are placing all of us at risk,” Reentry Task Force Director Richard Carmona said.

The university allowed classes of 50 or fewer students to return to campus last week as it continues phase 2 of its reopening plan. According to Carmona, there have been no issues with classroom

transmissibility.

Robbins says the university will continue in this phase until fall break on Nov. 26 if public health metrics tracking the spread of coronavirus allow. However, some of these metrics are beginning to cause concern.

“We’re concerned about the deterioration of conditions nationally,” Robbins said.

“While Pima County is faring better than some other areas, we do see some signs of concern here as well.”

Carmona said Pima County’s current R0, pronounced “R naught,” which indicates how contagious a virus is, has increased to 1.71 from 0.99 last week. The transmissibility rate for the zip code surrounding the university has increased from 0.68 to 1.25 this week.

Statewide, coronavirus is spreading as fast as it did in June. Carmona went over data showing over the past 14 days, coronavirus cases in the state increased by 67%, while deaths increased by 57%.

If students travel outside the Tucson area over fall break, the university is asking them to complete the semester outside the area or remotely online. Those who don’t travel can complete the semester from their student residences. ■

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stitutions are open and our tourist destinations are open,” Ducey said. “While at the same time, we do have mitigation steps in place that have allowed us to protect lives while protecting livelihoods, and we’re gonna continue to do that.”

Given the likelihood of travel and large gatherings, Christ says she anticipates seeing a spike 10-14 days after Thanksgiving that could potentially increase over the next 4-6 weeks.

In preparation for the holiday season, she said ADHS will be putting out guidance, working on mitigation strategies and making sure hospitals have enough resources, although she said the biggest barrier for hospitals is not “the beds, but could be the staffing.”

Christ urged citizens to continue mitigation tactics such as wearing a mask, maintaining social distancing and getting an influenza shot.

“We understand that this has been a difficult year, and many have grown tired of the mitigation strategies. But now is not the time to let up,” she said.

When asked about the example he’s setting for Arizonans after repeatedly

CURRENTS

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By Nicole Ludden Nicole@tucsonlocalmedia.com GOV. DOUG DUCEY AND ARIZONA Department of Health Services Director Dr. Cara Christ provided a COVID-19 update at a press conference last week amid rising cases throughout the state.

On Oct. 29, the Arizona Department of Health Services reported 1,315 new COVID-19 cases throughout the state, with a percent positivity of 9.7%.

Pima County reported 105 new COVID-19 cases on Oct. 29 and now has recorded 28,067 of Arizona’s 242,480 total positive cases.

“The recent increase in cases has resulted in an increase in the COVID-19 rates in many counties,” Christ said at the Oct. 29 press conference. “At the Arizona Department of Health Services, we remain on high alert. We’ve worked to contain COVID-19 from all angles, and we continue to take further action in light of recent increases.” Although Ducey acknowledged Arizona’s rising coronavirus numbers, he said in comparison to other states, “we’re not in that zone that we’re seeing in other places.”

“We do see this rising in different parts of the country, our expectation in Arizona

has been that cases would continue to go up,” he said.

The governor recognized that that the state’s current R naught number, which indicates how contagious a virus is, is currently at 1.16, which means coronavirus is spreading as fast as it did in June.

“Arizona did one of the best jobs in the nation when our time of challenge did come of driving it beneath one, but as we head into influenza season it becomes more challenging,” Ducey said.

Although the current rise in COVID-19 cases is alarming, Ducey said there’s even more to come.

“We know that there is a storm ahead of us, yet it’s not here,” Ducey said. “But those simple guidelines of wearing a mask, washing our hands, being socially distanced and using common sense have served us very well to date.”

However, the governor doesn’t plan on imposing new safety restrictions to prevent further spread of COVID-19.

“The mitigation that we’ve put out, the plan we put into effect remains in effect.

I am proud that Arizona is open, that our economy is open, that our educational in-

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attending public events sans-mask, including at a Trump rally at the Prescott Regional Airport on Oct. 19 and as he spoke at today’s press conference, Ducey called upon the First Amendment.

“We’ve been consistent the entire time through the pandemic to protect people’s rights under the Constitution,” Ducey said.

“There are five days left in the election cycle and we’ll continue to protect people’s rights.”

Although she didn’t directly acknowledge the dangers of attending a large rally, Christ said, “I would always recommend to wear masks.”

When asked if she’s concerned COVID-19 cases could be increasing because of rallies like the governor attended, she said “I think there’s a lot of different things that are playing a role in the increase in the cases.”

“What I would recommend to Arizonans is if they are going to attend a large gathering or even go somewhere that has people that they don’t live in their household with, make sure that you are taking those precautions and stay six feet away from others,” Christ said. ■

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A Clover in weeds, loss, beatings, homelessness and love CLOVER EMERGES TO A STAND from something resembling sleep and her foot finds gravel on the concrete walk and makes her flinch. Her mouth tastes like dirt and so she steps among her possessions, in two shopping carts garrisoned around the blanket-on-concrete sleep space until she locates a half-full liter of RC cola, unscrews it and swigs.

In that moment a pair of old ladies in the neighboring hair salon peak through the front door, give Clover the brutal judge-y once-over, in her fitted jean shorts, mottled lime-green strappy top, dirty feet and leg tattoos. They shake their heads in disgust and disappear inside. Clover is accustomed to such greetings, so absorbed in her they no longer intensify her shame.

“It’s hard to know the difference between praying and preying on.”

Still, no one wants their inner-perish exposed, not here, an abandoned storefront on Pima Street near Craycroft Road in Tucson, not anywhere.

Minutes later Clover visualizes some woman I don’t see when I look into her hazy blues and that gently freckled face, and she is ashamed, shields her face with her hand, and bows her head: the deep parenthesis of street torment around her mouth, scars from a recent beating on her chin, the unkempt strawberry-blonde hair. She is tired in a way no sleep can fix.

“I look like an old leather handbag more and more each day,” she says, in something resembling a laugh. “Not a designer bag, more like the kind you find in the back of the barn, under a pile of things, one smelling like concern and manure.”

A purple flowered drape secured with straps covers one of her shopping carts with her things, a piece of decorative dignity. “Isn’t that pretty,” she says, “it’s a shower curtain, Dumpster-dived.”

Clover is waiting on a friend, her street companion called Swerv, to return from somewhere. She is not sure where they will head today, east feels best.

That’s a thing about being lost, what happens when you stop thinking you are going somewhere? Can’t stay here, the ladies no doubt called the cops.

Clover’s biggest fear now is yielding to utter hopelessness.

It is a few days before Halloween, Tucson’s first cold morning of the season, and Clover is rummaging yet another plastic bag filled with new Dumpster loot; this one from a clandestine, now-shuttered, porn creator.

Filled of lingerie of all different colors and sizes, she pulls out a dildo and says, “Yuck! Don’t touch that!” And with two

Street survivors: Swerv (left) and Clover.

fingers tosses into another bag meant for trash.

This storefront is her home since the rainy night before, a dying strip bookended by a laundromat and liquor store and, further east, a 7-Eleven, in which she is not allowed to set foot, not even for water to feed her Cup-a-Soup.

I offer to buy her food and juice from that 7-Eleven, and she looks at me, says, “You’re not going to expect anything in return, are you?”

The line broke my heart.

“Just so you have something to eat,” I say.

I return with orange juice and power bars and Clover is pushing bags and backpacks filled with the little things, cleaning supplies, cords, toiletries and moisturizers, into the low shelf of a shopping cart. She says, “This is a lot harder than you think, figuring out what you have and need and letting the rest go.” She pulls out a brown body-length duster with a hood, and slips it over her clothes, adding, “The good news is I am who I say I am. The bad news is I am who I say I am.” She tosses a throw pillow from her things and curls up on it against a dirt-colored stucco wall as the sun begins to turn warm. She keeps a six-foot distance.

That life to which she is no longer invited bends and revolves around her, where people in clean pandemic masks only seem to bob along in leisure and fun and work. How terrifying it is when you can no longer participate, when you

are so unwanted, stepped over, hated.

When you have children you long for in care of your mother. When a pandemic does little to alter your life.

Passing car noise on Pima Street bounces off hard stucco and glass and creates a difficult rumble to talk over.

One can never understand the ugly drone of traffic, its smelly discomfort and the sun-scorched parking lots, until you actually live where it is specifically designed for the auto luxury of their owners, or sit with someone long enough to hear it soundtrack their life, how it sets an unsettling tone for endless formless days, yet so familiar it can no longer be defined or even heard.

It starts there, even before wrenching pangs of hunger and thirst and the hunt for a water spigot that hasn’t been shut off to the homeless. Where all the surrounding energy is subsumed into a bone-aching hustle, a gross theatric of survival.

One who goes out of the way to pay Clover close attention is a neighborhood committee woman. She’s been known to run over her things with her car, honks her horn when Clover sleeps.

This woman hunts for Clover. Calls the cops. Once told her she should kill herself.

Clover can hardly understand the cruelty. “They are the first to go to church and say they are praying for us, and turn around and can be the most cruel.

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It’s hard to know the difference between praying and preying on. In a world full of cons, who is the biggest con? The one who isn’t the con.”

She continues, “Kindness is free but it’s the most generous thing a person can do. Hate is gonna hate and potatoes gonna po-tate. I’m far too compassionate for my own good. I don’t get angry, I just get sad.”

Clover Eoghon is her street name (I promise her I won’t use her real name), she

is 32. She contests panic with self-effacing sides (“No, really, I’m just completing an anthropological study of what living with nothing is all about!”), and a running monologue of seamless sentences and incisive insights (“It’s hard to sleep, people don’t like to see us sleeping, it makes them uncomfortable. Sleeping is what you do in a home.”) Her biggest complaint today is her books were recently stolen, again. But she wept with joy when she found a dictionary in a

Dumpster.

“Sometimes when I speak people look at me sideways,” she says, smiling. That toothy smile is consistently fretful, tells the pressures of her needs. “I’m out here and I don’t know slang at all. It’s all ‘scrilla’ this, ‘fire’ that.”

She eschews food vouchers (“I just won’t, it feels wrong”), chooses Dumpster hunts, whittles the work to a three-point personal checklist: “One thing I need.

One thing frivolous. One thing someone

Now I’m fighting not to be gone.

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else needs. But the frivolous thing always winds up going to someone else.”

CLOVER’S BIOLOGICAL MOTHER nearly killed her, swung her around and smashed her head and stuck her in a dresser drawer. She was 9 months old.

Her new mother found her in foster care and stayed by her side when she was in a coma, for months. “My biologicals were drug addicts, arrived in Tucson from Ireland, left me. The brain isn’t perfect now. There have been traumas.”

Her Ireland visits as child shaped a fleeting relationship with her biological aunt and grandmother, true Celtic gypsies and giofogs, steadfast in their own dialect and laws. “They are serious people,” she says. The association explains the discernable Irish brogue that sporadically colors and pulls her words.

Clover tries to keep her adoptive mother and step-siblings separate from her life now. “She’s a truly good thing in my life and she is really disappointed in me right now.”

There were so many things she could be talking about, her voice soft and honest. Like how she moved out

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at 18, worked on ranches, trained livestock, dogs, birds. She was a gymnast in school, so later taught dance. She worked with special needs folks, is fluent in sign language, both her mother and a step-sister are special needs. She worked in a tattoo shop as a piercer.

Had her own rat rescue outfit, would sit outside Bookmans bookstore to teach children about rats, to which says, “Everything is just a bit misunderstood sometimes.” A red heart tattoo over the real one brightens her sun-spotted chest and she touches it often, perhaps unknowingly, as if it might vanish.

There is her need for a puppy because her last one was murdered. (“Someone shot my dog with heroin.”)

She talks of her two sons instead, and begins crying, how she is in no condition to face them. “I’m sure they see me, in my mom’s car, whenever they drive by. Thank God for my mother.”

Her 13-year-old, the oldest, is her “miracle son, provides true beauty by tragedy.”

That tragedy unfurled at 19, when she scarcely understood sex. She met a guy who seemed cool to a teen in eyeliner and spiked wristbands. He invited her to a friend’s place. A horror kicked in and lasted months. She became a hostage, chained to a bed, repeatedly raped. “At the Tiki Motel, and it got busted and I got set free.”

She pauses, lets certain details slide into uncustomary vagueness, the bed, the wallpaper, the smells, the faces, the pain. But adds, “Damaged people are

Damaged people are the most dangerous because they know how to survive.

the most dangerous because they know how to survive.” Clover would rather talk of her sons and how her mother took her back in.

She stays in this neighborhood because everything she knows is here, where she grew up, familiarity in lieu of happiness. That and her children and mother live a few blocks away. Clover sometimes get close enough at night, in an alley, to hear her children laugh or cry or play, to dream of sewing rips in their pajamas or making their meals, a story at bedtime. She’d long for them with every fiber of her being. She’d camp there until a cop would chase her off.

“My youngest,” Clover says, “is the offspring of a boy with whom I went to kindergarten through 8th grade. We reconnected.”

She keeps a journal for them, tentatively titled “The Manifesto of a Mother Monster.” One theme is how “life is short but it’s the longest thing anyone ever does.” It is to correct perceptions too. “My adopted sister told my 13-year-old I’m out here sucking dick for drugs. If I was sucking dick for money, I wouldn’t be here. Look, I’m old fashioned, I don’t sleep with people. I’ve been told I prey on men out here and a lot of girls out here do that. I’ve been beaten up three different times by guys out here because I wouldn’t sleep with them. My chin scars are the result of one beating. My face was horribly disfigured.

“So now I’m known as Crazy Clover.

In my heart, I know I’m decent.

Wounded, but decent. My mom raised me right. But sometimes I get to be Crazy Clover, scream, cry, break things, before I can get back up.”

The man for whom she last left home was Caveman, as he’s called out here, and mother heartily disapproved so a door-shutting rift ensued. Clover’s aspirations for family repair vanished in the weight of a struggle where she sees no chances. Yet Clover describes Caveman as fiercely intelligent with a tragic heart and soul. He tossed her to the street after dreamy talk of marriage.

She’s “been lost ever since. Love fucked me over worse than any drug; I believe in people but I’m not sure most of them are people.”

She laughs. “I’d like to the think the best thing a person can find in the trash

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is me. Caveman did once. I loved him way more than I should’ve but not any less than I could’ve.” Then she adds, as if speaking directly to him, “I hope you are happy and loved, whoever you are with.”

SWERV APPEARS. He is a young-looking 44-year-old in cap and jacket, well turned out for a guy with no home, bathroom or food.

He keeps things in a shoulder bag and his deportment is gentle. He greets Clover with a quiet “hey,” and tosses her Marlboro red. Swerv (Jeremy Chap) was born and raised in Tucson and did hard time for drug offenses, laughs the prison time kept him looking young. He designs jewelry and keeps a watchful eye on Clover. The two met a year ago.

“I think I was throwing up out here and he came up and offered me cereal.”

“Yep,” he says. “Pop-Tart cereal,” Swerv knowingly nods as Clover talks, interjects occasional comments, her entire life is his too, the street communal, quiet understanding and sympathy.

Clover requests music and Swerv pulls Clover’s biggest fear now is yielding to a weathered battery-powered portautter hopelessness. ble radio out of one his bags, flicks it on, sets it on the sidewalk and TI’s ral world. “I’m not a tweaker, the darker “Whatever You Like” spills out. the drug the darker the soul. But when “Music, finally,” Clover says.

I’m at my wit’s end, in danger, in a tunSwerv steps around, focuses on sortnel, I know I wouldn’t be able to move ing things before they can push their from the spot where I lay without it.” lives along the dirt and exhaust.

Her tattoos, some reduced to shadClover talks of Boots, her good friend owy leavings, spell a yin-yang of hard who died in summer. “She wouldn’t have truths and tender clinging innocence, hung herself. No way. Her real name was pillars of her life, Tupac and The Sound Jackie Lopez, she was a good girl who of Music: “realize, realize, realize” and just wanted to be loved.”

“Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti.”

Another friend with whom Clover There’s another, on her forearm, Ed would fictionalize worlds to cope with Sheeran: “The worst things in life come their own worlds, took to talking in fake free to us.” That one best summarizes Russian accents, laughing and laughing. the idea, she explains, that you have to It didn’t last. The friend developed a pay in some way in life for something cavity in her lungs, “a common suffering that truly matters. for people of our particular class. She “People keep trying to repaint things,” drowned on her own blood, gasping, cryshe says, “can’t really see to just clean it ing and screaming. Basically, she died of off. Nobody really truly looks at art, like a broken heart.” nobody really wants to look at people, Swerv produces a paperback-sized much less talk to them.” aluminum crucifix, festooned with little She adds, waving her hand over the spherical balls, like giant pearls, and shopping carts and mussed baggage at hands it to Clover. She doesn’t want it. her feet. “I keep thinking I’m going to She talks of her “star power.” Her get out because I know I’m meant for words for meth, which she does maybe more than this. At least I thought I was. once a week, this mother’s little helper, Now I’m fighting not to be gone.” ■ an unnatural stimulation for an unnatu-

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ARTS & CULTURE

TUCSON MODERNISM WEEK

STYLE GUIDE

Begins Friday, Nov. 6. Most events end by Sunday, Nov. 8, but virtual events are live through Dec. 31.

A celebration of mid-century modern architecture in Tucson, from self-driving tours of mid-century neighborhoods to online lectures by architectural scholars and to a cool interactive “home visit” to seven houses designed by the likes of architects Judith Chafee, Arthur T. Brown and Tom Gist.

All events are free but many require RSVPs to get hooked up to the virtual events or to receive free downloaded guides. For more info, see tucsonmod.com.

A virtual Modernism Week celebrates Black architect Paul R. Williams

By Margaret Regan tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com

AT MID-CENTURY, PAUL R. WILLIAMS was a sought-after architect in Los Angeles.

Known for his luxury houses for Hollywood stars—among them Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson—Williams could make houses in almost any style, including the popular “California Spanish” genre. But he gave these works a distinct modernist cast, with simple, elegant rooms and patios that allowed indoor-outdoor living.

A great irony of Williams’ work is that he would never have been allowed to live in the houses he designed. Williams (1894-1980) was a Black man—the first black architect to be installed in the American Institute of Architects—and the grand houses he built were mostly in neighborhoods that practiced legal segregation. African-American residents were banned from living there.

But Williams did more that build homes for the rich. He designed government buildings, a cathedral, churches and hotels—and public housing projects for people of modest means. He once declared, “Expensive homes are my business and social housing is my hobby.”

In 1948, that passion for “social housing” brought the respected LA architect to Tucson.

Developer Del E. Webb hired Williams and an LA colleague, A. Quincy Jones Jr., to design a massive affordable housing project in Tucson. There was a shortage of houses after World War II, and Webb planned to build several thousand modernist homes for people of modest means. Now 72 years old, Pueblo Gardens, as it’s called, is one of the mid-century neighborhoods on the Tucson Modernism Week self-guided tours this weekend. Visitors to Pueblo Gardens, located south of 22nd Street and east of Kino Boulevard, can see how this experiment in modernism has fared.

Tucson Modernism Week has had to go mostly virtual this year, thanks to COVID, says Demion Clinco, CEO of the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation, sponsor of the popular 9-year-old event.

SELF-GUIDED DRIVING TOURS 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday through Sunday.

TUCSON MODERNISM WEEK HOME VIRTUAL TOUR Sunday, Nov. 8, through Thursday, Dec. 31, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Self-directed with interactive media.

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“Shangri La” home, part of this year’s Tucson Modernism Week virtual tour.

“We had to cancel our spring home tour of ranches,” Clinco says, and he realized quickly that the autumn modernism celebration had to be re-imagined. The popular annual home tour of mid-century modern houses has gone online, and so have the lectures by architecture scholars and exhibitions put together by University of Arizona Museum of Art (see details on the right).

A new category of self-driving tours, though, takes people away from their computers and sends them tootling around town; they can check out sites from inside their cars or stroll along the sidewalk. The five tours cover modernist churches, neon signs, the commercial districts of Sunshine Mile, Miracle Mile, and mid-century modern neighborhoods. Tour goers can sign up online to get a free written guide about each place, arriving via downloads.

An ambitious menu of 15 to 20 neighborhoods brings tour-goers to subdivisions.

Tucson built a “high volume” of suburbs post war, Clinco says. On the tour you can see the glamorous Wilshire Heights on the east side; middle class Broadmoor in midtown; and Indian Ridge Terrace at the edge of the foothills, complete with a Hohokam archaeological site.

Pueblo Gardens, the one that brought

Williams to town, is far more modest than most of the neighborhoods on the tour.

The project was billed as an effort to provide decent housing for working families after the hard years of World War II. The development got national attention, with write-ups in Life magazine and other outlets.

Not only would the houses be affordable, their designs, fresh and modern, would signal a new era of “American optimism,” Clinco says.

Williams and Jones designed one-, two- and three-bedroom houses, ranging in price from $5,000 to $8,000, according to an informative article by Elissa Schirmer Erly. Modest as the houses were, their modern features were attractive. Walls of windows and patios created indoor-outdoor living; roof overhangs muted the fierce sun. And the wood frame exteriors were novel to Tucson: the architects ordered “California redwood combined with plywood or stucco painted with bright desert colors,” Erly writes.

But the optimistic project did not succeed.

Only 750 homes were built, instead of the planned 3,000, and not even all of those were sold. The leftover houses eventually landed in the hands of the Federal Housing Administration. Promised amenities were

MOVIES ABOUT ARCHITECTS Anne Rysdale, A Personal Perspective. 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday Edward Nelson, A Persona Perspective. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday through Monday LECTURES Seven one-hour lectures, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Saturday Exhibitions at University of Arizona Museum of Art Modern Art Collection digital gallery tour, 5 p.m.

Friday to 5 p.m. Sunday Early Modernism in Tucson, digital exhibition, 5 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Sunday COCKTAILS AFTER DARK Online cocktail demos. tucsonmod.com abandoned; people who bought into the neighborhood had to fight for years to get sidewalks and street lights.

Scholars speculate that Webb’s project failed because too many builders had rushed to create new post-war housing. And in any case Tucsonans were already drifting away from the center of the city, moving toward the new red-brick eastern suburbs.

Ironically, a project that offered the promise of a home to people without a lot of money had the same racial codes as the rich white neighborhoods in LA. In early years of Pueblo Gardens, only whites or people of “Caucasian race” were allowed to live or buy a house there. As with so many of his projects, architect Williams himself would not have been welcome. ■

The All Souls Procession 2020 Mausoleum.

The All Souls Procession is another Tucson tradition that offers some peace of mind and closure for many who have lost loved ones during the year. Just like everything else, this year, it of course looks different. But if you’d still like to either submit a photo for the ancestors project slideshow or drop off an item to be burned in the big, beautiful urn, you can! Drop offs are open at the All Souls Mausoleum through this Friday. 6 to 9 p.m. through Friday, Nov. 6. MSA Annex, 267 S. Avenida del Convento.

Golf ’N Stuff Family Night. Family nights at everyone’s favorite mini golf/arcade/laaaaaser taaaag spot are back. Feeling a little nervous about being back? The golf courses will have no more than four players per tee time; golf balls, golf clubs and pencils are sanitized in a UV-C sanitizer after every use; alcohol-based sanitizer dispensers are available throughout the facility; and all areas of the park are cleaned each morning. Those are just a few of their safety measures. Come on down for an evening of discounted wristbands and family fun. 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. Golf ‘N Stuff, 6503 E. Tanque Verde Road. Prices vary.

St. Philip’s Plaza Market. Especially during these cooler fall months, one of the most pleasant ways to spend a weekend morning is by strolling through an open-air market, filled with local treasures. Whether you’re looking for some fresh-baked pastries, a new piece of jewelry, a plant to spruce up your WFH office space or an incredibly cozy pair of socks, you’ll find something to enjoy (or to buy as a gift, now that the holidays are fast approaching) at this sweet little market, set amidst Eucalyptus trees, flowing fountains and friendly people. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7 and Sunday, Nov. 8. St. Philip’s Plaza, 4280 N. Campbell Ave. First Saturday at the Potter’s Yard. If you’ve never bought anything from HF Coors, you’re missing out! They make high-quality, commercial grade ceramic dinnerware which comes in all sorts of gorgeous colors and patterns—and they do it right here in Tucson.

At this event, you can save up to 90 percent on seconds, overruns and discontinued items from their factory store. They’ve got tons of products, including mystery boxes. And they’ll even be serving scones and coffee from Prep & Pastry. What a deal! 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7. HF Coors, 1600 S. Cherrybell Stravenue.

La Calavera Catrina. La Calavera Catrina is an exhibit organized by the Denver Botanic Gardens, featuring the work of Ricardo Soltero. His colorful, joyout, larger-than-life skeleton sculptures are some of the most recognizable figures of Dia de Los Muertos, and now they’ll be on display outside of Denver for the first time at the Tucson Botanical Gardens. It’s truly a special sight to see, so treat yourself to a day -- or, better yet -- night out. The gardens are open daily from 8:30

Ballet Tucson Fall 2020 Pop Up Performance at the Tucson Botanical Gardens. If you think the Tucson Botanical

Gardens are usually magical, and even more magical with the Calavera Catrina exhibition, get ready for some next-level whimsy with this performance by Ballet Tucson dancers. The event features new choreography by Chieko Imada and Daniel Precup, including a piece created especially for Dia de los Muertos. And you’ll love the tango starring Tucson prima ballerina Jenna Johnson. Let your election week troubles step aside for just an hour or so while you watch dancers move beautifully through some of the prettiest landscapes in town. 6:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. Included with admission to the gardens, $15 for adults with discounts for kids, members, seniors, military and students.

NOV. 5, 2020 TUCSONWEEKLY.COM 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., but if you’d like to see the exhibit at night, and the gardens lit up with special lighting, evening hours are 6 to 9 p.m.

Thursday through Sunday. Exhibit is on display through Nov. 29. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. $15 adults, $13 students/senior/military, $8 kids 4 to 17 and free for members and kids under 4. Reserve tickets in advance at tucsonbotanical.org.

Picturing 2020: A Community Reflects.

Well, what a year it’s been. We won’t rerun a laundry list here of all of the nightmares that 2020 has brought with it, but suffice to say most of us are feeling at least a little bit unstable. At the University of Arizona Museum of Art, they’re hosting an online exhibit full of works depicting the experiences of this year, including isolation, resistance, resilience and hope. More than 150 Southern Arizona artists are featured in an exhibit you can spend an evening scrolling through—and that’s scrolling in a refreshing way that builds community and solidarity, which we could all use now.

Visit artmuseum.arizona.edu.

Tucson Modernism Week. Well, what’s more modern than an event going virtual due to the coronavirus? Though it’s changed formats, this celebration of modernist art style is as cool as ever. Take a self-guided driving tour down the sunshine mile or through some mid-century modern neighborhoods, hear about some of the region’s most prominent modernist architects and view digital art exhibitions. The fun runs Friday, Nov. 6 to Sunday, Nov. 8. Details at preservetucson.org.

Dia de los Muertos Celebration at the Presido Museum. It’s certainly been a weird year, and having to cancel many of the Day of the Dead celebrations that can bring catharsis and peace has made things even harder. But the Presidio San Agustin has several altars on display for COVID-19 sufferers, pets, veterans, Supervisor Richard Elias and individual families. They have rigorous safety procedures in place on site as well. The altars have been on display since October, but this Sunday, they’re hosting a full-on celebration! There will be painting of Calavera masks, tinsmithing of ornaments and sealed bags of treats to take home. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8. Included with admission ($5 adults, $1 kids 6 to 13.)

by Emily Dieckman Venomous and Poisonous Animals of Arizona. They say it’s important to sometimes stop and smell the flowers. But isn’t it also important to sometimes stop and take stock of just how many massively dangerous animals there are in Arizona that you manage to avoid being harmed by every day? Not to be dramatic, but with rattlesnakes, Gila monsters, scorpions and all sorts of spiders, Arizona is nothing if not full of interesting creatures. In this online session hosted by Pima County Parks & Rec, Sandy Reith, who has spent decades working with the county, the Phoenix Zoo and Arizona Fish & Game, will be talking all about the biology and adaptations of some of these creatures. 10 to 11 a.m.

Saturday, Nov. 7. Free. Search on EventBrite.com

Mercado Flea. The Flea is back for the second time this season! Held the second Sunday of each month, this open-air market features 35 + vendors selling antique, vintage and all sorts of used and collectible items.

Just head over to the parking lots and sidewalks on Avenida Del Convento between the Mercado San Agustin and the MSA Annex for some gorgeous vintage pieces and a pleasant morning in the sunshine. All of the restaurants and coffee shops in the Mercado and Annex are now open for indoor/outdoor seating, including Seis Kitchen, Agustin Kitchen, Decibel Coffee, Presta Coffee, Dolce Pastello, La Estrella Bakery, Beaut Burger, Kukai and Westbound bar, along with MAST and several other retailers. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8.

100 S. Avenida del Convento.

Sunday Blues BBQ. This event at Hotel Congress is also limited capacity and first-come, first-serve. And be sure to wear a mask, except for when you are shoveling brisket or pouring beer into your mouth, as you should be on a Sunday afternoon. These evening events are brought to you by Congress and the Southern Arizona Blues and Heritage Foundation, and are truly balm for the soul. This week is a double header, with the Porch Rockers and Anna Warr! Come on down. Doors at 4 p.m., show starts at 4:15 p.m. Sundays. Hotel Congress Outdoor Plaza, 311 E. Congress St. $8 donation at the door supports the music.

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Despite closing his restaurant’s doors during the pandemic, acclaimed Chef Janos Wilder isn’t hanging up his apron just yet

By Austin Counts austin@tucsonlocalmedia.com JANOS WILDER HAS NO INTENTION of fading away from Tucson’s culinary scene—a scene he helped build for nearly 40 years.

The James Beard Award recipient takes issue with how the Arizona Daily Star presented his decision to hault DOWNTOWN Kitchen+Cocktails’ 10-year run with their headline: Tucson Chef Janos Wilder ends restaurant career with closure of DOWNTOWN Kitchen.

“By no means is this the end...it’s just the beginning. It’s a time for me in my life where this makes sense,” Wilder said. “I’ve been cooking in Tucson for almost 40 years and this isn’t the time when I want to be dealing with the

rigors of a 70-80 hour work week, seven days a week, as things are uncertain.”

Wilder’s restaurant is the third downtown culinary hotspot to close this past October, a time when the local service industry typically would be flush with customers. Beloved Cafe Poca Cosa shuttered its eatery on Oct. 15 and Elvira’s followed suit less than a week later.

Both restaurants cited the economy’s downturn during the pandemic as the main factor in their decisions to close.

In Wilder’s case, he said he got a better deal which would allow him to focus more on his catering and event space, The Carriage House, which also features a video production studio to produce online cooking classes. His landlord at that location, Ross Rulney, recently purchased the building that houses DOWNTOWN Kitchen+Cocktails from previous owners Tim Fuller and Barbara Grygutis.

PHOTO BY STEVEN MECKLER

Janos Wilder: “This renaissance that took place is not ending now. There’s $300 million worth of projects in downtown Tucson happening today.”

Both men decided it was in their best interest to make bold moves as uncertainty looms—Wilder closes his restaurant on Sixth Avenue and focuses on his catering venture one street away on Arizona Avenue and Rulney gives the chef a deal on his rent at that space.

“In terms of making the decision to not renew our lease at DOWNTOWN Kitchen + Cocktails, I’m feeling really positive about it,” Wilder said. “I’m at The Carriage House now with a favorable rent structure and he’s going to rent that space to someone else it will work for.”

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Working solely from The Carriage House now gives the chef the freedom to pursue projects he had hoped to do for years, but was unable to as a full-time restaurateur. As president of the Tucson City of Gastronomy Board of Directors and chomping at the bit to produce online cooking classes, Wilder said he is ready to begin the next phase of his cooking career.

“I want to focus more attention on those sorts of things that have fallen through the cracks over the years when you work full time at a restaurant,” Wilder said. “Best of all, I get to go home for dinner almost every night. I haven’t been able to do that in the 40 years I’ve been married and to have that opportunity is pretty terrific.”

The 66-year-old began his culinary career as a teenager at Magoos, a pizza parlor in Menlo Park, Calif. Like many who start down this path, Wilder’s interest in food and kitchen work ultimately led to a steady paycheck while pursuing a degree in political science from UC Berkeley.

After graduating, he continued to pursue his passion for cooking throughout the Southwest and France until “falling in love with the flavors of our region” and then settling down in Southern Arizona in 1983.

Later that year, the young chef opened his first restaurant, Janos, on the grounds of the Tucson Museum of Art. Long before the Farm to Table movement was even a thing, Wilder was looking for local farmers to grow indigenous produce months before hiring staff.

Wilder said downtown Tucson of the early 1980s was “deep into the process of decay,” but he strongly felt he could bring his culinary vision to life and give the Old Pueblo a restaurant on par with any big city—anywhere. His gamble paid off. Within a year, Janos was receiving accolades in the New York Times and was named a top restaurant in the region by Playboy in 1984.

“We opened downtown in spite of it being downtown, not because it was downtown,” Wilder said. “Maybe it was a little bit of naivety, but I felt that if you build it, they will come. It really caught the public’s imagination locally, nationally and elsewhere.”

By the late ’90s, his restaurant moved to a location at the Westin La Paloma Resort, where he later opened popular northwest nightspot, J-Bar, inside the establishment. However, Wilder closed his flagship restaurant in 2012, so he

could concentrate on his other restaurant, DOWNTOWN Kitchen + Cocktails, which opened two years earlier. At the time, the downtown area was still rough, but earmarked for renovation.

“When we reopened downtown in 2010, the renaissance had not begun but I knew it was coming,” Wilder said. “Once the Fourth Avenue underpass was upgraded, I was like, ‘Oh my God, they built the Champs-Elysees from University Boulevard to downtown.’ Then the streetcar came in and all of that was a step in the right direction.”

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of downtown’s culinary community is in a slump, but he strongly believes it will bounce back with new faces and fresh ideas.

“This renaissance that took place is not ending now. There’s $300 million worth of projects in downtown Tucson happening today. They’re not stopping,” Wilder said.

“COVID is not going to last forever. It will take a little time and there will be some dislocation and more restaurants are going to close, but others are going to take their place. This could also be an opportunity for others who will have great success moving forward.” ■

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Medical Marijuana

FLORAL ARRANGEMENT New CBD flower shop getting in on the ground floor with 31 strains of leaf

By David Abbott david@tucsonlocalmedia.com TRAVIS FREEMAN AND TAYLOR Reed have devoted a lot of time to the study of CBD leaf and have come to a conclusion: There is definitely a market for the 31 strains of CBD and CBG products on the shelves of their new enterprise, Healthful Flowers on East Speedway.

Healthful Flowers opened on Oct. 15 and offers an assortment of smokable CBD products, as well as edibles, oils

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Travis Freeman (left) and Taylor Reed are bringing high-quality CBD leaf to the Tucson marketplace at Healthful Flowers on East Speedway.

and even low-dosage pet treats.

“Taylor and I have placed ourselves firmly on the ground floor of the CBD and CBG flower market,” Freeman said.

“One of our goals is to positively affect the quality of CBD and CBG flower moving forward by creating a standard that we are proud to stand behind.”

Both CBD and CBG are derivatives of the hemp plant, although traces of the compounds also exist in cannabis plants.

The World Health Organization has determined they have no negative public health effects or “effects indicative of any abuse or dependence potential.”

For those not familiar with CBD and

CBG, CBD is short for cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive cannabinoid used for pain relief and to treat a variety of ailments such as arthritis, epilepsy and headaches.

CBG, short for cannabigerol, functions more like THC, interacting directly with the cannabinoid receptors in the brain, although unlike its psychoactive relative, CBG can work as a buffer to offset or alleviate feelings of paranoia some patients experience when using high levels of THC. Reed and Freeman met as students at Catalina Magnet School. Reed was born and raised in Tucson and graduated from UA in 2010 with a degree in broadcast journalism. After graduation, he moved to China to teach English, but recently returned to Tucson.

Freeman has lived in Tucson for 25 years and is former owner of Buzz Smoke Shop. After not seeing each other for a decade, the pair reunited and decided to go into business together. Once they buried themselves in research for their new enterprise, they found the local CBD market was lacking.

“We’re trying to get in on the ground floor,” Reed said. “It’s been an education for us: It’s new and a lot of people aren’t

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A selection of CBD and CBG leaf at Healthful Flowers.

familiar with CBD flower.”

Since hemp flower is relatively new to the marketplace, one of the challenges Reed and Freeman have encountered has been finding reputable growers.

Arizona’s climate is not as conducive to growing hemp plants as other parts of the country, so Healthful Flowers has had to go out-of-state for consistent supplies. Unlike federal laws that prohibit interstate transactions for marijuana, the hemp trade is legal across state lines.

“One of the biggest hurdles has been finding distributors and growers,” Freeman said. “We have strains from North Carolina, Vermont, California and Kentucky as well.

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to source locally.”

Included in the 31 rotating flower strains to be found at Healthful Flowers, there is a full spectrum of textures and aromas similar to those encountered in any local dispensary.

Signature selection Alpen Gleaux, a deep, dark purple flower, has a flavor profile that’s reminiscent of berries and pine, with zero percent THC. Other strains have a full spectrum of aromas reminiscent of marijuana strains such as Sour Diesel and Kush.

CBD pricing is lower as well, starting

at $5 a gram at the low end and $10 at the high end, but there are plenty of specials throughout the week.

There are also low-dosage oils and high-dosage products weighing in at 10,000 mg for those experiencing debilitating pain, including chocolates made from 70 percent cacao as well as a selection of gummies and honey.

Freeman hopes Healthful Flowers can help invigorate the local CBD marketplace and in turn help establish a niche for hemp growers to create opportunities in the industry in the near future.

“It’s moving in the right direction,” Reed said. “We think we’re going to see a boom in strains and, hopefully, it helps the hemp industry.”

Healthful Flowers, located at 5460 E. Speedway, suite 104, specializes in organic, pesticide-free CBD flower. No medical marijuana card is necessary to purchase Healthful Flowers products.

The shop also displays original local artwork, all of which is available for purchase. ■ For more information, call 279-1819, or go to www.healthfulflowers.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Charles Baudelaire championed the privilege and luxury of changing one’s mind. He thought it was natural and healthy to always keep evolving beyond one’s previous beliefs and attitudes, even if that meant one might seem inconsistent or irrational. “It is lamentable,” he once proclaimed, “that, among the Rights of Human Beings, the right to contradict oneself has been disregarded.” I bring these thoughts to your attention, dear Aries, so that you will feel at peace with the prospect of outgrowing rules, strategies, and approaches that have worked well for you up until now—but that have outlived their usefulness.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1903, archaeologists digging in a cave in Cheddar Gorge, England found the fossilized remains of “Cheddar Man,” a person who had lived there 9,000 years earlier.

In 1997, DNA tests revealed that a teacher named Adrian Targett, who was living a half-mile from the cave, was a direct descendant of Cheddar Man. I propose that we invoke this scenario to serve as a metaphor for you in the coming months.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your ancestors are likely to play a bigger role in your life than usual. Connections between you and them will be more vivid and influential and worthy of your meditations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The horoscopes I write are my love letters to you. As I compose them, my goal is to celebrate your beauty and strength even as I discern what’s lacking in your life and what confusions might be undermining you. In my philosophy of life, that’s how love works at its best: remaining keenly aware of the good qualities in the beloved while helping them deal with their problems and heal their wounds. I suggest that in the coming weeks you adopt my approach for use with your own close relationships.

Your allies are in special need of both your praise and your rectifications.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to the film Amadeus, composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) and Antonio Salieri (1750–1825) were adversaries who disliked and undermined each other. But there’s evidence that this was not entirely true. In fact, they collaborated on creating a cantata that was performed by Nancy Storace, a famous singer they both admired. It’s unlikely they would have cooperated in such a way unless they had a working relationship. I suspect that a comparable correction is due in your world, Leo. It’s time to dissolve a misunderstanding or restore a lost truth or fix an old story that got some of the facts wrong.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When Charles de Gaulle was 15 years old, he wrote “General de Gaulle,” a short story in which he envisioned himself, many years in the future, as a general in the French army. Thirty-five years later, his imaginary tale came true, as he became a general of the free French army fighting against Germany in World War II. In the spirit of de Gaulle’s prophecy, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I encourage you to compose a comparable tale about your own destiny. Have fun as you visualize in great detail a successful role you will play months or even years from now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to ask for help and seek support. I urge you to be forthright in doing so! Resources that have been inaccessible before may be more available now. I suspect you will be able to capitalize on the luck and skill of allies who have benefited from your favors in the past.

Their successes could bring you blessings and their breakthroughs should inspire you to instigate breakthroughs in your own life. Be straightforward: Ask them to lend their influence in your behalf.

SAVAGE LOVE OLD TIMES

By Dan Savage, mail@savagelove.net

I’m a nearly-80 straight male, with undiminished libido. I have no problem with it, just a persistent curiosity. Like, why now?

And why so various? And is it common among us old geezers? Male and female?

I’m more sex-obsessed than ever before, including adolescence. Until my 60s, tits were my sexual focus, and other body parts were strictly subsidiary, whether I was looking, fantasizing, masturbating or fucking. Now butts, bellies, assholes, cunts, legs, arms, shoulders are equal turn-ons.

Well, I do have one problem: women aren’t interested in me “that way” anymore.

The secret smiles in public are no longer complimentary or inviting or challeng-

ing. They’re just fond, polite smiles for a nice-looking old man. The availability of porn plays a big part in my obsessions. It primes the pump visually, mentally and physically, by showing more body parts and what can be done with them. Lack of a steady sex partner may also explain my obsession—but I was sometimes without a sex partner when I was younger and I wasn’t similarly obsessed. So is this the usual pattern? Does being relieved of the stress and distractions of work free all retired men—and women—to be perpetually horny or what?

—Geezer Energy Rocks Id And Titillates Retired Isolated Chap

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the 1970s, an Englishman named Stephen Pile founded the Not Terribly Good Club. It was designed to be a gathering place for mediocre people whose lives were marked by inadequacy and incompetence.

To organize his thoughts about the club’s themes, Pile eventually published a book entitled The Book of Heroic Fallures. Unfortunately, it sold so many copies that he got expelled from his own club. He had become too successful! I suspect that in the coming months, you may have an experience akin to his. The odds are good that you’ll find interesting success in an area of your life where you have previously been just average.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder,” wrote Scorpio poet James Broughton. I believe that’s stirring advice for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. Broughton’s words inspired me to come up with a corollary for you to heed, as well: “At every turning point, be ready to stumble into an opportunity disguised as a problem.” I’ve got one more clue for you. Last night in my dream, my Scorpio poetry teacher offered a thought that’s well-suited for you right now: “Whenever you want to take a magic twisty leap into the big fresh future, be willing to engage in one last wrestling match with the past.”

others and misery to the world,” he said. “But I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.” Even if that’s not an intention at the core of your long-term plans, Capricorn, I recommend you consider adopting it during the next few weeks. Being a vigorous and rigorous force for good will be especially needed by the people with whom you associate—and will also result in you attracting interesting benefits.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Known as “the bad boy of bridge,” Aquarian-born Geir Helgemo is a champion in the card game of bridge. At times he has been the top-rated player among Open World Grand Masters. But in 2019, he was suspended from the World Bridge Federation for a year because he tested positive for taking testosterone supplements that are banned. Why did he do it?

He hasn’t said. There is some scientific research suggesting that testosterone may boost cognitive function, but other evidence says it doesn’t. I’d like to use Helgemo’s foolishness as a teaching story for your use, Aquarius. According to my astrological analysis, you’re approaching the peak of your competence and confidence. There’s no need for you to cheat or sneak or misbehave in a misplaced effort to seek an even greater advantage. In fact, righteous integrity will enhance your intelligence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Actor Gary Busey is quirky and kooky, but his peculiar rants sometimes make good sense. Here’s one that I suspect might be useful for you to consider during the next two weeks: “It’s good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.” I don’t mean to imply that your adversaries and nemeses are totally accurate in their critiques of you. But there may be a thing or two you can learn from them right now that would truly improve your life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I might really have gone round the bend,” confessed Botswana author Bessie Head. “I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can’t be all there, but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it’s much better than being unhappy and sane.” Although I don’t expect your state of mind in the coming weeks will be as extreme as Bessie Head’s, Pisces, I do suspect it will have resemblances to her dreamy cheerfulness. If I had to give a title to this upcoming phase, it might be “Wise Folly.” And yes, I do think your “craziness” will generate useful insights and fertile revelations. ■

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Musician John Coltrane described one of his life goals as follows: “There are forces out here that bring suffering to

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“I don’t have statistics for GERIATRIC, but I can tell him that wherever his libido falls on the ‘none’ to ‘yowza’ scale, he’s normal,” said Joan Price, author of Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex. “While it’s true that most seniors see their libidos decrease or at least mellow, I hear from people like GERIATRIC all the time—older folks who feel exuberantly sexy.”

What explains the sudden surge in libido experienced by some seniors?

“There’s a freedom to sex in our older years,” said Price. “We may still get those ‘at your age’ restrictive, shaming messages, but we’re happiest and most fulfilled when we ignore them. So I would advise GERIATRIC to enjoy his charged libido and not to worry about whether it’s a ‘usual pattern.’ Who cares?

It’s your pattern. You do you!’

And Price says there are women who’d be down to do you, too.

“As he sees it, his problem is that the women he desires ‘aren’t interested,’” said Price. “As I see it, his problem is that he’s not actively seeking out women who are.”

Your days of picking up women on the street may be behind you, GERIATRIC, but they’re supposed to be behind us all.

Instead of making women feel unsafe when they’re out in public by assuming a smile is a signal of interest, Price suggests looking for connections online.

“GERIATRIC needs to polish his seduction skills and get on the dating sites,” said Price. “He needs to show a potential bedmate what he has to offer— and I don’t mean a dick pic. He needs to

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woo a woman with his words—at least to begin with— and, most importantly, he needs to show interest in who she is as a full person, not just the body parts that turn him on.”

But don’t get on dating sites if your bullshit detectors were removed with your gallbladder. If someone seems too good to be true—if someone seems too young and too hot to be interested in a guy your age—they’re almost certainly a scammer. And if a flirtatious exchange becomes a sob story becomes a money beg, hit the block button. I’m a firm believer in intergenerational romance, GERIATRIC, but for safety’s sake you should stay in your generational lane. That means getting on Our Time and/or Silver Singles instead of Tinder and/or Plenty of Fish.

For while there might be a small handful of hot twenty-something gerontophiles in your area, the odds of that you’ll find one are too slim to bother trying. And you’ll have better luck going after women closer to your own age.

“Libidinous older women are out there, I can assure him,” said Price. But you’ll have to do the work, GERIATRIC, “since most will want to feel safe and appreciated as well as desired before they invite him into their beds.”

Finally, GERIATRIC, seeing as the horny old man has been a cliché for as long as men have existed, I don’t think you should blame online porn for your predicament. Some people’s libidos ramp up as they age, like Price said, and it sounds like you’re one of those people. Maybe instead of seeing porn as the cause of all your problems, GERIATRIC, you could see porn as your friend. Solo sex can be good sex and porn is there to help you enjoy it.

Follow Joan Price on Twitter @Joan Price. You can find Price’s books and the educational film she made about senior sex with porn star and sex educator Jessica Drake at her website www.joanprice.com.

Pre-COVID I was in the whirlpool at a hotel spa when an elderly gentleman asked if I wanted a foot massage.

There’s only one reason a guy offers another guy a foot massage: he was gay and into feet. I’m straight and not into feet but I said, “You can rub my feet—but just my feet, no higher.” My wife insists this means I had a “gay encounter.” I say it was gay for the other guy but not for me. What say you?

—Fighting Over Our Terms P.S. We’re not really fighting.

Not all encounters with gays count as “gay encounters,” FOOT, but seeing as this was clearly an erotic experience for the elderly guy and you knew it—you weren’t being secretly perved on—I’m going to side with your wife. Even if you didn’t get off on it, even if you were just enjoying the massage, you knew the other guy was getting off on it.

I’m a 45-year-old straight woman in a monogamous relationship with a 48-year-old straight man. One thing that keeps playing over and over in my mind is something he said to me three months into our relationship.

He spent the night for the first time at my place. We were laying in my bed the next morning, just talking and enjoying each other’s company, when his phone beeped. He read a text and then said, “That was my friend Susan. I can’t wait for you to meet her. I think you’re really gonna like her—oh, and she sucked my dick 25 years ago at a rest stop in New Jersey.” It turns out “Susan” is his best friend. I had not met her yet and this was the first thing I knew about her. When I asked why he told me this, his response was that he was half asleep. He wasn’t. When I pressed further he told me it was something that happened a long time ago and that they laugh about it now but then told me it was none of my business! I agree! It’s none of my business! So why did he feel the need to tell me? Then he told me Susan can never know I know because she would feel humiliated. But that’s exactly how I feel! Are Susan’s feelings more of a priority to him than mine? I’ve hung out with him and Susan three times. I have asked if we can get together again, as a group, so I would feel less insecure about the times they get together without me, but there’s always some excuse for why it’s not possible. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a relationship and I’ve invested a year in this man. He is a decent guy otherwise, Dan, but this nags at me.

—Boyfriend’s Long-Ago Blowjob Your boyfriend was either playing head games— meaning he was fucking with you on purpose—or he lacked the emotional intelligence and/or impulse control to realize why sharing something like that, at a moment like that, was a bad idea. If he’s the kind of guy who enjoys tormenting the women he dates, BLAB, he would’ve done similar or worse things by now. (And a woman he dated a quarter of a century ago probably wouldn’t be on speaking terms with him, much less one of his closest friends.) Assuming he hasn’t done similar or worse—I’m guessing you would’ve included other examples in your letter if he had—perhaps he deserves the benefit of the doubt here: he said something stupid and thoughtless, he couldn’t come up with a good explanation for why he said it, and doesn’t like to be reminded of it. As for Susan… he’s known her for 25 years. If he wanted to be with her, he’d be with her. And he may be reluctant to get together as a group because he worries—perhaps not without cause—that you might bring it up. If he’s given you no other reason to suspect he might be cheating on you, cram this ancient blowjob down the memory hole. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage.

On the Savage Lovecast, Dan chats with Adam Sass, author of Surrender Your Sons- an escape from conversion camp thriller. www.savagelovecast.com

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