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Southern Arizona’s recent COVID-19 news
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Art museums and galleries under coronavirus siege
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Tucson restaurants and bars are reopening. Do you have reservations?
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GOV. DOUG DUCEY HAS ANOTHER big decision to make this week: Whether to lift Arizona’s stay-at-home order and go back to our old ways or to extend it in order to limit the spread of the deadly virus in our community. As staff reporter Austin Counts explains in this week’s cover story, Ducey has already allowed bars to reopen, even if their food service consists of having a bag of chips behind the counter. It’s a bit of surprise, given that Ducey previously said bars would remain shuttered as restaurants reopened, but we live in a surprising world these days. As much as I could use a drink right now—and as much as I miss enjoying meals at my favorite restaurants—I’m gonna stick with takeout for a few more weeks as I watch whether we continue to flatten the curve. I’m no epidemiologist, but as far as I can tell, hanging out in an enclosed place with an air conditioner that is recycling the air that everyone is breathing seems like a bad idea at this particular time. I’m going with the advice of the public health experts whom I trust and am advising readers to do the same: Avoid unnecessary trips, wear a mask when you go out and—especially if you’re elderly or you have those underlying health conditions— stay home if you can. Support your favorite businesses with phone orders and curbside pickup, but don’t risk your life—and the lives
of others you could infect. Elsewhere in the book this week: Longtime columnist Tom Danehy really, really misses sports; arts writer Margaret Regan looks at how the pandemic has hammered the arts sector—and whether galleries and museums will be reopening later this summer; Cannabis 520 columnist Nick Meyers looks at whether Arizona voters will get a chance to vote this year on legalizing recreational use of marijuana by adults; sex columnist Dan Savage has more advice on when you should just dump the MF’er already; and, of course, our cartoonists are still drawing their distractions, horoscope writer Rob Brezsny is still telling your fortune for the week and our New York Times crossword is here to keep you puzzled. While our print edition is ultra-slim for your pleasure these days, you’ll find plenty of breaking news at TucsonWeekly.com, where our team continues to bring you the latest on what’s happening our community, from controversies over modeling teams being fired and rehired to the Community Food Bank’s latest distribution plans. See you on Zoom! — Jim Nintzel Executive Editor Hear Nintz talk about the latest coronavirus news on at 9:30 Wednesday mornings on The Frank Show on KPLX, 96.1 FM.
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By Jim Nintzel jimn@tucsonlocalmedia.com THE LOCAL NUMBERS. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Arizona had topped 11,700 as of Tuesday, May 12, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. Pima County had seen 1,623 of the state’s 11,736 confirmed cases. The coronavirus had killed 562 people statewide, including 136 in Pima County, according to the report. In Maricopa County, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases had risen to 6,219. THE NATIONAL NUMBERS. Nationwide, more than 1.33 million people had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, which had killed more than 80,000 people in the United States as of Tuesday, May 12, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins University. President Donald Trump, who said in a recent Fox News appearance that he expected the death toll to remain below 100,000, is urging businesses to reopen across the country. The IHME model now predicts roughly 137,000 deaths in the United States by the beginning of August. The IHME model forecast of the most likely number of deaths in Arizona jumped from 1,043 last week to 2,987 this week, although the forecast has a range between 1,038 and 7,015. In a testimony before the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, May 12, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and the top infectious disease expert in the Trump administration, said that states and cities should follow the guidelines set out by the CDC when allowing businesses to reopen. “It’s my concern that if some areas—cities, states, what have you—jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability to respond effectively and efficiently, my concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks,” Fauci said. “The consequences could be really serious.” STAY AT HOME, UNLESS YOU DON’T WANT TO ANYMORE. Gov. Doug
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Ducey stay-at-home order remains in place through May 15, but retail stores, barber shops, salons and similar businesses were allowed to reopen last week, while restaurants and bars were allowed to resume serving inhouse food and drink on Monday, May 11. Other businesses, such as gyms and theaters, will remain shuttered for now. Many Republican state lawmakers said they thought Ducey was moving too slowly on easing restrictions, while some Democrats and public health officials said Ducey was moving too quickly. Congressman Raúl Grijalva said that rushing the opening while the virus was still widespread could cause a spike in cases. “If we make the wrong decisions now, it will cost more lives and prolong the economic misery,” Grijalva said. “We can’t afford to get this wrong.”
having just tested 18.9 people per 1,000 people. Still, it was a step up for Arizona, which was last among the states last week. While Ducey spokesman Patrick Ptak said last week he did not know how many tests were administered in the first weekend of the blitz, County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry said that fewer than 600 tests were conducted in Pima County.
LET’S HOPE THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS SMOOTHER THAN PPP. The Tucson City Council voted to spend $5.5 million from the City of Tucson’s CARES Act appropriation to provide financial assistance to small businesses, non-profits, and workers and their families through the We Are One | Somos Uno Resiliency Fund, with $3 million for rent, food and gas assistance for workers, $2 million for small business continuity grants and $500,000 for nonprofit continuity grants.
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OOPS, NEVER MIND. The Arizona Department of Health reversed a decision to halt work with an ASU/UA team that was modeling the spread of the virus in the state. After criticism from public health officials and Democratic lawmakers, the health department said it would resume its partnership with the modeling team. IT’S GONNA TAKE A WHILE TO BOOST THESE NUMBERS AT THIS RATE. The Ducey administration continued its second weekend of a “testing blitz” with a plan of testing 10,000 to 20,000 people every weekend. The Kaiser Family Foundation noted as of Monday, May 11, Arizona was 40th in the nation for testing on a per capita basis,
NEED TO FEED. The Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona opened a new drive-thru food bank at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium to help serve a larger portion of the community faster and more efficiently. The drive-thru site is open from 7 to 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
A LIFE SENTENCE. At least five Arizona prisoners have died from complications related to COVID-19 and criminal justice reform advocates fear the number of deaths are likely to increase as prisons are ideal breeding grounds for the virus. In 2019, 11 percent of the state’s prison population was over 55 years old. Prison healthcare vendor Centurion recently identified 6,600 incarcerated people who are vulnerable to COVID-19 based on their age group, health status and diagnoses. —Additional reporting from Kathleen B. Kunz, Austin Counts, Jeff Gardner, Tara Foulkrod and Jim Nintzel
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TOM REALLY, REALLY MISSES SPORTS. AND E-SPORTS DON’T COUNT! By Tom Danehy, tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com I MISS SPORTS. I miss sports like a wino would miss wine. Like Jared Kushner would miss his facial moisturizer if it weren’t part of the national emergency stockpile. I miss sports on a daily basis more than I miss Popeye’s Chicken halfway through Lent. I begin missing sports from the moment I wake up, when, back in the day, I used to check the morning paper for scores (although, after the Star started getting printed in Phoenix, any game that ended after the old people got done eating at Sweet Tomatoes—around sundown—was tagged as having finished after press time). I miss sports all day—reading about it, watching, rooting, playing, and coaching. Especially coaching. And I miss sports late at night, when I used to tune into SportsCenter to catch some scores, some highlights, and some smart-ass talk from Scott Van Pelt. I saw some idiot on one of the cable news networks the other night. He used that awful phrase (“new normal”) for which, after this all goes away, people will be sentenced to hard labor for having been criminally annoying in public. He
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said, “Isn’t it amazing how easily people have kicked their sports addiction?” No, it isn’t amazing. People haven’t kicked sports, but many of us would like to kick you. That’s one of my main beefs with Dr. Fauci and others who blithely talk about sports not coming back until 2021. That’s unacceptable. Sports are a major part of the fabric of America and much of the world. Right now, all we’re getting to watch are reruns of games to which we already know the result, the NFL Draft (which is always the most-overhyped event of the year), and (ugh!) people playing video games. Let’s make this clear: E-sports is not a sport. It’s a freakin’ video game. I’ve got no problem with kids (or even adults) spending countless hours with a controller in their hands, sword-fighting with Knights Templar or killing zombies. Not everybody is capable of reading a book all the way through, so they have to pass the time somehow. It takes skills to get good at playing some video games. But what does it take to watch somebody else play video games? A selfie as you blow past
the sign that reads “abandon hope all ye who enter here?” It’s bad enough that millions go on Twitch to watch others be couch potatoes. But when ESPN put that nonsense on national TV, they stepped over a line. What I really don’t understand is why, as we’re now into May, we don’t have some sports already. There could be tennis or golf. With just a few minor precautionary measures, there could be swimming or track & field. Heck, I don’t know why we can’t have baseball and softball, which have minimal human contact. The NBA has been talking about getting back at it ever since they were the first pro league to shut down. Unfortunately, they have gone the route of Richard Pryor’s pimps on cocaine—be talkin’ all the time but don’t be sayin’ sh-t! They’ve leaked a couple dozen scenarios, but the one that appears to have the most traction is to forget the rest of the regular season and go right to the playoffs. They want to get all of the teams in one place, sequester the players in hotels and just go at it. They’re talking about best-of-three series for the first two rounds (which would be exciting as all hell, with a much greater chance of upsets instead of the tedious best-of-seven format throughout). If they manage to pull their collective head out of their butt and put this on, you’ll have TV rating like it was the Super Bowl with the final episode of M*A*S*H shown during
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halftime. The players want the site to be Las Vegas, but that city’s crazy mayor has a burning hemorrhoid telling her to open things all the way up immediately. The league wants it at the Wide World of Sports venue at Disney World in Florida. I don’t care where it is; just get it done. Finally, does anybody really think that there won’t be an NFL season? The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, originally said that there wouldn’t be any sports in his state until 2021, but then tacked over to the position of “maybe they can play in empty stadiums.” The NFL is not a business; it’s not a conglomerate. It’s a force of nature. If California doesn’t want games, the Rams and Chargers can play in Phoenix and the 49ers can join the Raiders in the new stadium in Vegas. If multiple states balk, the NFL could just lease Devon Island (the largest uninhabited island in the world) from Canada, build two or three domed fields (it would be easy since they wouldn’t have to build any seats), and just go to town. In the meantime, give us something. Tell the Major League Baseball players to quit whining about missing their families. It’s a one-time deal and you’re serving a much-greater good. Plus, people, in large numbers, will watch your boring-ass games. Tell the NBA to make a decision before LeBron James starts to calcify. And don’t say anything about NASCAR. I miss the hell out of sports, but I’m not THAT desperate. ■
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Shows that had just been mounted were seen by very few people. Julie Sasse, chief curator at the Tucson Museum of Art, had worked for more than four years on the book Southwest Rising about influential gallerist Elaine Horwitch. She had just opened a companion exhibition of work by Horwitch’s artists, when the museum was suddenly closed. Curators everywhere, in museums large and small, “have lost shows of a lifetime,” Sasse says. Likewise, curator Rebecca Senf had recently opened her show on the early years of Ansel Adams at the Center for Creative Photography. Those early photos were the topic of her doctoral dissertation, and her new book, co-published by Yale and the CCP, inspired the exhibition. Then the Center closed. Etherton Gallery’s Go Figure, a show of five artists working in oil, collage and mixed media. No sooner was it up than the gallery closed down. The good news is that all three of these galleries, are keeping the work up on the walls, hoping that the venues will re-open soon and the fans can see the now-hidden art. But some shows have vanished altogether. Davis Dominguez Gallery, which already planned to close permanently June 13, had a gorgeous show featuring three women artCOURTESY PHOTO ists—Bailey Doogan, Jan Olsson and Judith “Wyoming #44,” by Billy Schenck, is part of ‘Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and Stewart—that “barely anyone saw,” says the the Legacy’ of Elaine Horwitch, on display at the currently shuttered Tucson Museum of gallery’s Candice Davis. It’s no longer up at Art through Sept. 20. Museum officials hope to reopen in July with limited admission. the gallery. In its place, fans can see an online version of another exhibition that was meant to be the longtime gallery’s grand finale. Works by Coronavirus brings down the curtain on museums and galleries sculptor Joy Fox and abstract painter Josh Goldberg are on view. But instead of taking in the lush swathes of color on Goldberg’s giant canvases in person and inspecting By Margaret Regan ration work was shut down in March when the texture of Fox’s textured clay, viewers tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com the Getty, along with nearly every other art will peer at these delights through the small venue in the nation, shuttered its doors to “WOMAN-OCHRE” WON’T BE screens of their phones and computers. escape a deadly coronavirus that now has coming back to Tucson any time soon. Technology has come to the rescue, it killed more than 282,500 people worldwide The famed painting by Willem de seems, like it or not. Websites everywhere and nearly 80,000 in the U.S. Kooning was returned to the University of are chockablock with online exhibitions “Woman-Ochre” will return one day, its Arizona Museum of Art in the summer of (most of the shows mentioned here are on colors glowing and the tears to its canvas 2017. Thirty-two years after it was stolen, it the web), and TMA’s Sasse and the CCP’s sewn up. But that unfortunate delay, no was discovered—damaged—in the home of a matter how long, is just one small setback in Senf can both be found giving virtual tours deceased couple near Silver City. of their star-crossed shows. an art world that’s struggling. The wild piece, blazing in ochre and black, Education curators are busily creating art Here in Southern Arizona, galleries and had been undergoing restoration at the Get- museums have been closed since March, lessons and games for kids and adults. ty Center in Los Angeles since last spring, At MOCA Tucson, the art classes are when Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and and it was scheduled to make a triumphant then Gov. Doug Ducey ordered non-essenrelated to the work of the exhibition artists. return to UAMA this fall. Amir H. Salla’s brilliantly colored canvases, tial businesses to shut down. (Ducey gave That’s not going to happen now. still filling up the museum’s Great Hall, retail businesses, including galleries, the The Getty team had been making “ingreenlight to re-open May 8, but it’s not at all inspired online sessions that teach “how to credible progress” on the redo, says UAMA certain that most arts venues will any time do a still life,” MOCA’s Morah Riedl says. At interim director Jill McCleary. But the resto- soon.) UAMA, an online project taught aspiring
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artists how to make a zine. In a way, the pandemic may permanently change the way humans perceive art. As McCleary puts it, “We’re transforming the things we do into a digital world.”
BUT EVEN A BRAVE NEW VIRTUAL art world needs money to survive. As we all know by now, the pandemic has done more than kill; it’s crashing the economy and leaving millions of workers unemployed. The arts are in trouble. “The Tucson cultural leaders have been talking,” says Jeremy Mikolajczak, CEO of TMA, “and we’re all getting hit hard.” A recent survey shows just how hard. In a blind questionnaire, the Southern Arizona Cultural Leadership Consortium (SACLC) asked its 31 member institutions—ranging from the Rialto Theatre to Tohono Chul Park to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum—to calculate the fallout of the virus and the closures. The 21 that responded reported catastrophic financial losses: added together, the 21 institutions estimate losses of some $15.3 million from March through June. And they’re short another $2.2 million that they had expected to earn, from planned events that didn’t happen, admission tickets that were not purchased and the like. Their staffs are decimated. The 21 organizations had 574 employees before the pandemic blew in. About half the workers—289—were laid off or furloughed. Most of the 214 staffers who still have jobs are getting reduced pay. The survey also addressed the plight of artists. Painters and musicians and chefs, who would have been hired by the organizations for short-term gigs, together are looking at $2.1 million that they will never see. “The creative work force is the hardest hit,” Mikolajczak laments. The Tucson art scene will endure “a slower recovery than elsewhere,” he predicts. The Old Pueblo doesn’t have the financial support that wealthier cities like Phoenix do, he notes. Our rival to the north has “foundations with more resources and more municipal and corporate donors.” On the plus side, Rio Nuevo, the downtown development group, has “pulled aside $2.5 million to distribute to businesses in the Rio Nuevo district,” says Terry Etherton, who’s exhibited photography and contemporary paintings in his gallery downtown for 39 years. The group awarded him with a $10,000 grant for business expenses. The local Arts Foundation early on doled out artist grants that were quickly snapped up, and the Arizona Commission on the
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Arts is inviting cultural organizations to apply for AZ Care grants before June 2. And the federal Paycheck Protection Program has poured some welcome money into Tucson’s art community. Etherton had to lay off three full-time employees when he had to close the gallery in March, but he applied for PPP and got $55,000. “I was able to bring everyone back here full time,” he says jubilantly. The money is technically a loan, but if the business meets certain criteria, including devoting 75 percent of the cash to payroll, the loan is forgiven. The money runs out in July. “We’re OK for two months,” Etherton says. TMA also won PPP money. The sprawling museum normally has 40 to 45 workers, and 32 were laid off in March. The PPP cash was enough to bring nine staffers back to work, including four curators. (Mikolajczak declined to give the amount of the loan.) The museum is now back up to about 14 workers. Their laid-off colleagues are getting unemployment checks from the state (up to $240 a week) and the feds ($600 a week), and museum board members and other donors picked up the bill for their health insurance through the end of July. If all goes well, Mikolajczak says, “Absolutely I will hire them back.” The UA museum workers have not lost their jobs, but they’re subject to the pay cuts of the furlough program. Some galleries are trying to raise their own money. MOCA had to take its annual art auction online through May 22; fans are busily vying for art works. Raices Taller, a 24-year-old co-op that specializes in Latinx work, needs money for rent and utilities. A fundraising campaign is underway, and “it’s gone really well,” co-director John Salgado says, with much of the money coming from artists. Raices also is planning an auction of small prints by local artists, all of them images of the corazón—the heart.
SOME ARTS VENUES ARE tentatively beginning to think about when they can reopen. Legally, now they can. Gov. Doug Ducey allowed retail businesses—which include galleries— to open up fully on May 8, provided managers followed protocols for social distancing. Ducey had pledged he would take that measure only once the threat
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Left: “Con Gratitud y Amor por los Doctores (With Gratitude and Love for the Doctors)” by Ceci Garcia is among the prints featuring images of the heart that Raices Taller Gallery is auctioning as a fundraiser. Upper right: “West of Roswell,” 2014, oil on linen, by John Fincher, is part of TMA’s ‘Southwest Rising’ exhibition. Lower right: Detail from “Birth, Cursed, Reversed,” 2019, acrylic on canvas, by Amir H. Salla, whose large-scale paintings hang in the MOCA Tucson museum, now closed by the pandemic.
of COVID-19 in the state was trending downward. A pandemic task force of UA and ASU specialists advising the state had warned that it would be dangerous for businesses to open before the end of the month, but Ducey didn’t take their advice. Arizona has seen 11,380 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, May 11—and the largest single-day of new reported cases, 456, was just one week earlier, on Monday, May 4. A total of 542 people in Arizona have died after contracting the disease, including 134 in Pima County. At least one small gallery in Tucson, Madaras, opened on Friday, May 8. As of last week, Etherton was planning to wait until May 15. “No big parties,” he says wryly; patrons, as everywhere, will be required to stand six feet apart in the spacious gallery and take advantage of the hand sanitizer on offer. But others don’t foresee opening their
doors for quite a while. MOCA likely will stay closed all summer. Likewise, the university venues—UAMA, CCP, the Joseph Gross Gallery, the Arizona State Museum—don’t expect to open until the locked-down university comes back to life. President Robert Robbins is hoping to start live classes on Aug. 24. Other galleries are thinking about splitting the difference and opening in mid-summer. “We’re hoping for July,” TMA’s Mikolajczak says. “Our goal is July 2.” By that time, the new Kasser Family Wing housing Latin American art will be finished (construction has proceeded during the closure). Sasse’s Southwest Rising will be up and on view through Sept. 20. But there will be no parties to celebrate these milestones. The post-lockdown museum will have plexiglass screens, masks and “not too many people,” he says. Patrons will buy timed tickets in advance, to keep the numbers down. And the museum at first
will have fewer hours, operating only Thursday through Sunday. July is also the goal for the little galleries in the Warehouse Art District around Sixth Street and Sixth Avenue. Contreras Galley is hoping to reopen with Cats and Dog: An Abstract Perspective, a show originally scheduled for the spring. The popular annual Tucson show will follow in August. “We’re looking at early July,” says Raices’s Salgado. “Our first exhibition will be Estamos Unidos (We’re Together). It will be people’s reflections on COVID. I’ve never seen so much creativity.” But gone are the days of the district’s First Saturday artists receptions, where galleries had receptions on the same nights and patrons came in hordes. Contreras has a stark message on its website: “There will be no First Saturday artists receptions until there is a vaccine in use for the coronavirus.” ■
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Tucson Restaurants and Bars Are Reopening. Do You Have Reservations? By Austin Counts Austin@tucsonlocalmedia.com
AS ARIZONA RESTAURANTS return to dine-in service this week by allowing customers to make reservations, a growing number of local restaurateurs and bar owners are having reservations about going back to business during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chef and co-owner of The Parish Travis Peters said his place would not be reopening for dine-in services at this time, but they will continue offering carry-out to patrons. The chef said he and his partners aren’t rushing to reopen due to a few remodeling projects underway—they’re updating their patio and repainting. Peters also said they want customer confidence to return before reopening. “We’re having some construction stuff done so it was kind of an easy decision for us. To-go has been so strong for us that we’re just kind of riding it out,” Peters said. “We’re also waiting for the whole public to get more comfortable and hopefully
we can open a warm dining room in a few weeks.” When The Parish does reopen, Peters said he wants the customer to know they’ll take every precaution to keep you and your food safe while dining there—as they’ve always done. “Restaurants are so clean all the time but I think we’re just increasing the guest perception to be able to see the things we’re doing...the things we’ve always done,” Peters said. “People want to see their server with their to-go food with gloves on, using sanitizer, wearing a mask. We want the guest to feel more comfortable. This is all new for everybody.” Lindy Reilly over at Fire N’ Smoke Wood-Fired Pizza and BBQ is also reluctant to return to dine-in service. He said it’s hard to be confident in that business model when customers are already skeptical of take-out food. The cost of reopening dine-in service is just too great for him and probably many other restaurants, he said. “If customers already have an unfounded fear of takeout food already, I don’t need that to compound. Even with limited capacity...if you’re going to open like that and carry a staff, you need a full restaurant to make that machine work,” Reilly said. “Having a staff when you’re partially open...I think you’re going to watch some restaurants possibly fold.”
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Peters and Reilly both agree that the state’s guidance for reopening dine-in service is equally unclear as it is unenforceable. Guidance such as “limiting parties to no more than 10,” “consider offering masks to wait and host staff,” and “operate with a reduced occupancy and capacity” are opaque at best. Furthermore, the state’s guidance is recommended, not actually required. On May 11, the Pima County Health Department issued more specific guidance with a list of 17 protective measures restaurants should “immediately adopt” during the pandemic. These protective measures include minimum health and wellness checks of employees, vendors and on-site delivery personnel as they arrive on the premises; limiting in-door capacity by 50 percent; and a six feet minimum distance between tables, just to name a few. While health department officials are hoping the Pima County Board of Supervisors will amend county health codes to adopt 15 of these measures during the pandemic, the clarified guidance is still just suggested at this time. If adopted, the two measures that won’t be required are having touchless payment systems and requiring all food handlers to have a national safety certification. “Unfortunately, no one is giving a 100 percent clear guide to move forward. It’s just suggestions, which makes it difficult because it’s unclear how to navigate,” Peters said. “Everyone is doing their best. I hope one of us gets it right because who the hell knows.” Ducey also gave bars that serve food a green light to reopen under Governor Doug Ducey’s May 4 executive order. Not only does this allow bars that had a county food permit before the pandemic to resume selling alcohol, but it also allows Arizona bars that never had a food permit in their respective counties to begin offering patrons prepackaged food so they too
can reopen. While bars across the state are officially closed, Ducey’s order has offered a loophole for bar owners to resume business. Ducey spokesman Patrick Ptak explained the governor’s May 4th order doesn’t specify that a bar needs a food license to serve pre-packed food. They only need a license and should follow the state-suggested guidance. A state-issued liquor license would be adequate during this unprecedented time, said Ptak. “The executive order doesn’t specify if (bars) need a food license or not. I would focus on: Can these establishments provide physical distancing? That’s what we’re focusing on,” Ptak said. But enforcement of that physical distancing within bars remains up in the air. Ptak said the administration would count on people to do the right thing. “We’ve seen Arizonans act responsibly here and that’s what we expect to see going forward,” Ptak said. “We can always come back and revisit if we need to but expect people to follow the guidelines.”
EASTSIDE BOTTLESHOP AND brewpub Arizona Beer House—an establishment without a food permit—celebrated reopening at midnight on May 11 with an “End of Isolation” party. The event had more than a dozen thirsty patrons in attendance. Bartender Greg Turkington said he was happy to be serving beers and looking forward to seeing his regulars again. “I feel like everyone has got a good enough grasp on the concept of social distancing that we should be able to trust everyone to do the right thing,” Turkington said. “We’re going to basically trust a lot of people on keeping the right mindset and the right safe action.” Small groups of customers began to stumble in after midnight, seemingly mesmerized they could order pints again and possibly return to life before
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the pandemic. Turkington smiled as he handed out a bag of chips with each pint he served. He advised groups to keep it to two people per table on the patio. Owner Brian McBride said it’s the fourth time he’s rescheduled the event. They had originally planned for reopening April 1, but the governor’s March 30 stay-at-home executive order pushed it back to May 1. When Gov. Ducey announced Arizona was staying closed until May 15, McBride pushed the date back again. This time he said he was happy to reschedule after hearing bars would be included in Gov. Ducey’s May 4 announcement. “We’re trying to put something out there for people to look forward to,” McBride said. “We’re trying to do something small. We’ve never been open past midnight so I figured there’s no better time than now to give it a shot.” McBride said he hasn’t done much to prepare for customers returning besides implementing a few suggestions from the governor’s guidance for dine-in service. They’ve removed some chairs but since it’s a big space with garage doors, McBride said his establishment will feel more outdoorsy than most. “Everything is already spaced out. We have a huge space so we’re lucky for that,”
McBride said. “We have a big patio and we’ll have the garage doors open, so basically it will be like sitting outdoors.” During the reopening party, however, the garage doors remained closed, with chairs and tables stacked in front of them. McBride doesn’t think there is much he can do about enforcing social distancing outside of removing tables and chairs, he said. It’s up to the individual to decide whether they feel comfortable with being back in the public, he added. “We can’t really monitor who is coming together and who wants to sit by each other,” McBride said. “I feel like people manage social distancing themselves and what they’re comfortable with.” McBride also said he was leaving it up to his employees to let him know if they were sick or not. He doesn’t plan on checking anyone’s temperatures and it will be the employee’s choice to wear a mask or not, he said. “They know if they feel sick not to come into work and that’s how it’s always been,” McBride said. “The masks...that’s a tough one. If the employees feel comfortable wearing we’ll make that option available.”
MORE THAN 100 LOCAL OWNERS and employees have signed their name to
Too Soon Arizona, an online open letter calling for businesses to stay closed to dinein and in-person retail service, despite the state lifting restrictions for those industries. The group pulled together in less than a week after Gov. Ducey’s May 4 announcement that certain businesses—retail, grooming, restaurants and bars that serve food—could be reopened before the May 15 end of the stay-at-home order, according to co-founder Jasper Ludwig, owner of 5 Points Market and Restaurant. She, along with Sally Kane of the Coronet and Allie Barron of La Cocina, spearheaded the initiative for businesses to remain closed to in-person services while coronavirus cases are still on the rise in Arizona. “Through conversations, we established a small group of business owners who believe that it’s not possible to open dining rooms safely,” Jasper wrote in an emailed response. “We assumed there were many others who felt similarly uneasy about reopening while feeling pressure to open their doors. This letter is a way for us to communicate to our customers, other business owners and folks making decisions that affect the well-being of our communities, that we’re not comfortable opening indoor spaces to the public. It’s just too soon.”
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Mayor Regina Romero also believes it’s too soon to return to dine-in service. “I have expressed my disappointment with this decision as local data and guidance from the Pima County Health Department do not support us resuming our regular activities,” Romero said. “I applaud all of the Arizona businesses that are staying strong and finding creative and innovative measures to adhere to social distancing guidelines.” Tucson City Councilmember Steve Kozachik also disagrees with the governor’s order to allow certain businesses to reopen, but there’s little the city and county can do about it, he said. “We’re under Ducey’s thumb to a pretty significant degree,” Kozachik said. “He preempts local decision-making on the matter.” Kozachik said he understands businesses are eager to reopen, but the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases across the state are indicative that now is not the time and the public knows it. “Businesses who have swung their doors open still have got to have customers. I don’t think we’re there yet,” Kozachik said. “You tell me, would you buy tickets to a sporting event or to a movie theater right now, if you could?” ■
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By Nick Meyers tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com DESPITE THE STATE’S STAY-AThome order, backers of the Smart and Safe Arizona initiative say they are on target to qualify for the Nov. 6 ballot. With just under two months left until the July 2 deadline, the campaign has collected more than 100,000 signatures over the minimum requirement of about 238,000 signatures for the proposed ballot proposition, which asks Arizona voters to approve recreational cannabis use for adults in the state.
However, other initiative campaigns might not be in as comfortable position. As of the Weekly’s print deadline, plaintiffs had been waiting more than a month to hear from the Arizona Supreme Court after they were granted an “expedited” hearing to determine whether they could use the state’s E-Qual system to collect signatures. Smart and Safe Arizona petitioned the Supreme Court along with Save Our Schools Arizona, Invest in Education and Arizonans for Second Chances on April 2 to direct Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbes to allow initiatives to use the E-Qual system. Though Gov. Doug Ducey has only extended his stay-at-home order through May 15, campaign organizers have lost nearly two months of signature gathering. And even once the stay-at-home order lifts and shops and cafés start bustling again, chances are many people will still choose to remain home, leaving little chance to make up for lost time. Members of the Arizona Legislature use the E-Qual system to collect signatures every election cycle. But it appears the same privilege isn’t granted to citizen initiatives. Given the Republican majority’s hostility
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towards ballot props—Ducey has signed several recent bills that place roadblocks in the path of initiative campaigns—it’s unsurprising to see the state argue against allowing such campaigns to use the E-Qual system. It’s a pretty passive offense. I can’t imagine it’s the easiest task in the world to manage a state under an invisible threat and caught between competing models and studies, but that’s likely the excuse state officials will rely on should they come under the scrutiny they deserve for inhibiting the rights of Arizonans. The campaigns aren’t the only ones met with silence from state leadership. Doctors who evaluate and prescribe cannabis have been left in the dark regarding whether they can use telemedicine to consult patients. Right now, every other doctor in the state can use telemedicine to check on and prescribe medicine to their patients. But should one of those patients have to see their cannabis doctor, then they must show up in person or find someone willing to do a house call. Either way, some cannabis patients are being put at risk for the simple reason
that some people don’t like cannabis. The state health department refuses to change the restrictions without Ducey’s approval, and that’s as likely to happen as catching him smoking a joint. Patients with cancer, multiple sclerosis or AIDS—whose immune systems are already under threat and who are struggling with heartbreaking diagnoses—receive protections for every other doctors they see, but if they choose to use cannabis to medicate, they’re subject to increased risk. The fact that there’s been so much confusion around the subject indicates its clearly not that big of an issue for the governor’s office to simply allow cannabis patients the same precautions as anyone else. The sad thing is this isn’t anything new for the cannabis industry. We’re coming up on the 10-year anniversary of Arizonans voting for medical cannabis, and patients, doctors and dispensaries alike still must roll with the punches and put up a fight when necessary. Even with another vote on adult-use legalization on the horizon, the end of the fight for cannabis equality is nowhere in sight. ■
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): During a pandemic, is it possible to spread the news about your talents and offerings? Yes! That’s why I suggest you make sure that everyone who should know about you does indeed know about you. To mobilize your efforts and stimulate your imagination, I came up with colorful titles for you to use to describe yourself on your résumé or in promotional materials or during conversations with potential helpers. 1. Fire-Maker 2. Seed-Sower 3. Brisk Instigator 4. Hope Fiend 5. Gap Leaper 6. Fertility Aficionado 7. Gleam Finder 8. Launch Catalyst 9. Chief Improviser 10. Change Artist TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Of all the signs, Tauruses are among the least likely to be egomaniacs. Most of you aren’t inclined to indulge in fits of braggadocio or outbreaks of narcissism. (I just heard one of my favorite virtuoso Taurus singers say she wasn’t a very good singer!) That’s why one of my secret agendas is to tell you how gorgeous you are, to nudge you to cultivate the confidence and pride you deserve to have. Are you ready to leap to a higher octave of self-love? I think so. In the coming weeks, please use Taurus artist Salvador Dali’s boast as your motto: “There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realize they adore me.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When I was young, I had a fun-filled fling with a smart Gemini woman who years later became a highly praised author and the authorized biographer of a Nobel Prize-winning writer. Do I regret our break-up? Am I sorry I never got to enjoy her remarkable success up close? No. As amazing as she was and is, we wouldn’t have been right for each other long-term. I am content with the brief magic we created together, and have always kept her in my fond thoughts with gratitude and the wish for her to thrive. Now I invite you to do something comparable to what I just did, Gemini: Make peace with your past. Send blessings to the people who helped make you who
you are. Celebrate what has actually happened in your life, and graduate forever from what might have happened but didn’t. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “You have two ways to live your life, from memory or from inspiration,” writes teacher Joe Vitale. Many of you Cancerians favor memory over inspiration to provide their primary motivation. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, although it can be a problem if you become so obsessed with memory that you distract yourself from creating new developments in your life story. But in accordance with astrological potentials and the exigencies of our Global Healing Crisis, I urge you, in the coming weeks, to mobilize yourself through a balance of memory and inspiration. I suspect you’ll be getting rich opportunities to both rework the past and dream up a future full of interesting novelty. In fact, those two imperatives will serve each other well. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Anne Lamott has some crucial advice for you to heed in the coming weeks. “Even when we’re most sure that love can’t conquer all,” she says, “it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.” I hope you’ll wield this truth as your secret magic in the coming weeks, Leo. Regard love not just as a sweet emotion that makes you feel good, but as a superpower that can accomplish practical miracles. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Theologian St. Catherine of Siena observed, “To a brave person, good and bad luck are like her left and right hand. She uses both.” The funny thing is, Virgo, that in the past you have sometimes been more adept and proactive in using your bad luck, and less skillful at capitalizing on your good luck. But from what I can tell, this curious problem has been diminishing for you in 2020—and will con-
SAVAGE LOVE CHANGE THE LOCKS
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It’s taken a lot to do this but here goes. I am a 38-year-old gay male. I have been dating this this guy for one year and 10 months. It’s been a lot of work. He cheated on me numerous times and he lives with me and doesn’t work and I’ve been taking care of him for seven months now. He always accuses me of cheating or finds something to blame me for. What I am angry about now is how for the past four months he has been accusing me of playing games by conspiring with people to make him hear voices. If I look
up at the ceiling or look around he said I am communicating with “them.” I keep telling him I do not hear or see anything but he insists that I am lying. He also says I put a curse on him. One day I got up and he packs his bags and said he had enough and walked out. He said I was not being loyal. This is a man who has been doing coke since age of 14 and he is now 43 years old. He does meth and whatever else. He said until I come clean about hearing the voices too and admit I cast some sort a spell on him he won’t
tinue to do so. I expect that in the coming weeks, you will welcome and harness your good luck with brisk artistry. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I’m curious about everything, except what people have to say about me,” says actor Sarah Jessica Parker. I think that’s an excellent strategy for you to adopt in the coming weeks. On the one hand, the whole world will be exceptionally interesting, and your ability to learn valuable lessons and acquire useful information will be at peak. On the other hand, one of the keys to getting the most out of the wealth of catalytic influences will be to cultivate nonchalance about people’s opinions of you. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): On the kids’ TV show Sesame Street, there’s a Muppet character named Count von Count. He’s a friendly vampire who loves to count things. He is 6,523,730 years old and his favorite number is 34,969—the square root of 187. The Count was “born” on November 13, 1972, when he made his first appearance on the show, which means he’s a Scorpio. I propose we make him your patron saint for the next four weeks. It’s an excellent time to transform any threatening qualities you might seem to have into harmless and cordial forms of expression. It’s also a favorable phase for you to count your blessings and make plans that will contribute to your longevity.
and jewels. But I’m happy to inform you that if you don’t have a treasure, the coming months will be a favorable time to find or create it. So I’m putting you on a High Alert for Treasure. I urge you to be receptive to and hungry for it. And if you are one of those rare lucky ones who already has a treasure, I’m happy to say that you now have the power and motivation to appreciate it even more and learn how to make even better use of it. Whether you do or don’t yet have the treasure, heed these further words from Alice Munro: “You must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): At this moment, there are 50 trillion cells in your body, and each of them is a sentient being in its own right. They act together as a community, consecrating you with their astonishing collaboration. It’s like magic! Here’s an amazing fact: Just as you communicate with dogs and cats and other animals, you can engage in dialogs with your cells. The coming weeks will be a ripe time to explore this phenomenon. Is there anything you’d like to say to the tiny creatures living in your stomach or lungs? Any information you’d love to receive from your heart or your sex organs? If you have trouble believing this is a real possibility, imagine and pretend. And have fun!
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool,” writes novelist Erica Jong. “Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great,” says singer Cher. “He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom,” declared art critic James Huneker. “Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced,” observed philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. You’re primed to prove these theories, Sagittarius. Congratulations!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “A myriad of modest delights constitute happiness,” wrote poet Charles Baudelaire. I think that definition will serve you well in the coming weeks, Pisces. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, there won’t be spectacular breakthroughs barging into your life; I expect no sublime epiphanies or radiant transformations. There’ll be a steady stream of small marvels if you’re receptive to such a possibility. Here’s key advice: Don’t miss the small wonders because you’re expecting and wishing for bigger splashes. What has been your favorite lesson during our Global Healing Crisis? FreeWillAstrology.com. ■
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Few people have a treasure,” writes Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro. She’s speaking metaphorically, of course—not referring to a strongbox full of gold
Homework: Saul Bellow wrote, “Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy?” Do you agree? FreeWillAstrology.com.
talk to me or see me. Mental illness runs in his family and one sibling already committed suicide. He didn’t want professional help because, he says, “I am too smart for that.” I’m hurt and angry and want some advice. ANY ADVICE. Please. —Desperate For Answers
Block his number, change your locks, and pray he forgets your address. You might wanna seek some professional help yourself. You need to get to the bottom of why you wasted nearly two years on this asshole. Being alone can’t be worse than being with someone who cheats on you and then accuses you of cheating—to say nothing of someone who abuses drugs, hears voices, and makes other irrational/delusional accusations. He wasn’t just a danger to himself, DFA, he was a danger to you. He’s out of your apartment—now you need to get him out of your head.
I don’t see the problem. A delusional and potentially dangerous drug addict with mental health issues who refuses to get help packed his bags and walked out of your life. Yahtzee, DFA, you win. It was his presence in your life (and your apartment) that was the problem and your boyfriend—your ex-boyfriend—just solved it for you.
About a month ago I broke up with my
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boyfriend after I found out was cheating on me. Long before we broke up I freaked out about a rash and looking back I think it was probably herpes all along. I found out for sure three days ago and I’m honestly thinking about not telling him. He doesn’t show any symptoms and he’s the type of guy who will call me a slut if I tell him. He’ll blame me for his wrongdoing and just keep going and going. I honestly don’t know if I should tell him, since he’s asymptomatic. This is going to cause a huge problem between us. He has a lot of anger issues and he could use this as blackmail. I’m legitimately scared. —Her Ex Reacts Personally Letting a former sex partner know you may have exposed them to an STI—or that they may have exposed you to an STI—is the decent, responsible, courteous, and kind thing to do. Not just for their health and safety, HERP, but for the health and safety of their future sex partners. But people who are unkind, scary, and violent have no one but themselves to blame when a former sex partner/girlfriend/boyfriend/enbyfriend is too afraid for their own safety to make that discloser. Provided your fears are legitimate, HERP, and you’re not inflating them to avoid an awkward or unpleasant conversation, you don’t owe your ex a call. I’m a bi guy, living alone. At the start of the year, this new guy moved into the house where I live in—we share communal areas but have private rooms—and he’s a bit of a slacker but holy shit is he hot. I’ve had regular fantasies about him. And now with the quarantine, those fantasies have increased along with the number of times I see him in a day. I’ve been feeling the urge to ask him if he’s interested in anything but my friends have advised me to “not shit where I eat.” But due to the quarantine, the only other option I have is masturbating and that’s not doing the trick. Should I take the plunge and ask him? —Household Entirely Lacks Pleasure Health authorities have advised us to shit where we eat for the time being. The New York City Health Department recommends masturbation, HELP, because you are and always have been your safest sex partner. But your next safest partner during this pandemic is someone with whom you live. NYC Health has advised us all to “avoid close contact—including sex—with anyone
bondage because I can easily get out. We used to fight because I wanted him to tie me up and he didn’t want to do it and now we’re fighting because he wants to tie me up and I won’t let him do it. Any advice for a fan? —This Isn’t Exactly Desirable If people can teach yoga, give concerts, and conduct first dates via online streaming services, then one of your bondage buddies can—if they’re into the idea—give your boyfriend a few bondage tutorials online. I’m glad to hear you already reached out to your bondage buddies, TIED, since now you’ll be asking them to do you and your boyfriend a favor. But I imagine it’s a favor they’ll enjoy doing.
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outside your household.” That doesn’t mean everyone inside your household is fair game, of course; some people are quarantining with their parents. But if there was ever a time when you could approach a non-related adult with whom you live to see if they might wanna fuck around, now’s the time. Apologize to the hot slacker advance for potentially making things awkward and invite him to say no. (“If you’re not interested, please say no and I promise not to bring it up again.”) But if the answer is yes, HELP, send video. I’m a gay bondage bottom. My boyfriend of four years is 100% vanilla and we solved the “problem” of my need to get tied up—and it’s a real need—by outsourcing it. (Can you tell we’re longtime readers and listeners?) I was seeing two regular FWBs/bondage buddies but that’s obviously on hold right now. (I’ve reached out to both my FWBs to let them both know I’m thinking about them and that I care about them, Dan, like you’ve been urging people to do on your show.) The issue is I still really need to get tied up and my boyfriend is willing but he’s so bad at it that I don’t want to bother. He knows how much I need it and he’s hurt that I’d rather go without than let him put me in bondage that isn’t really
I’m a teenage girl with a female friend who keeps joking about having sex with me. We’re both into girls and sex, but while I find her really hot, she probably doesn’t feel the same about me. How can I tell if she’s joking about it because she finds the idea ridiculous or if she’s joking about it because she actually wants to? Once everything goes back to normal COVID-wise, what should I do? —Getting Into Real Life
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The ability to ask someone a direct question—particularly someone you’re interested in romantically and/or sexually—is an important skill, GIRL, and getting some practice now, when stakes are relatively low, will benefit you all your life. So get your friend on the phone and ask her this: “Are you serious about wanting to have sex with me? It’s fine if you don’t want to, but I’m actually attracted to you. Please say no if the answer’s no.” If the answer is yes, you can make a date to get together once circumstances/pandemics allow. But if the answer is no, GIRL, then you can get some practice making declarative statements: “I don’t want you to make those jokes anymore. They’re hurtful to me.” And if she continues to make jokes about having sex with you after you’ve made it clear she’s hurting your feelings, then she’s just being cruel and doesn’t deserve your time, attention, or friendship. ■ The Savage Lovecast, every Tuesday. This week, with Marc Maron! www.savagelovecast.com mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage
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Job Zone Staff Scientist Endangered Species Program The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a Staff Scientist at our Tucson, AZ location to advocate for the conservation of endangered species. This position will involve working with a team of attorneys, communications specialists, and advocates to protect endangered species across the United States. The Staff Scientist will pair science with advocacy to promote endangered species conservation initiatives and conduct scientific and factual research to support endangered species program campaigns and litigation. The position will also include policy advocacy and campaign activities that focus on conservation of endangered species and their habitats. Main duties include: • The position requires extensive scientific and policy writing, including preparing petitions to list species under the Endangered Species Act and writing comments on environmental review documents and other agency proposals. • Provide factual and research support and analysis for legal and campaign work in order to protect endangered species from the threats they face. • Media advocacy, including writing press releases, media outreach and delivering effective statements to reporters to highlight risks to wildlife and the extinction crisis. • Communicate with decision-makers, the public, scientists and opinion leaders on endangered species issues through outreach and public speaking. • Build relationships with key scientists, coalition partners and community leaders.
Essential Qualifications: • This position requires a Ph D in Environmental Science, Conservation Biology, Geography, Ecology, Environmental Studies, Wildlife Biology, Fisheries or other species related science. • It also requires two years of professional experience in science, law, public policy, campaigning or advocacy. Knowledge of R programming language, and Scientific literacy and familiarity with conservation biology literature is required as is a demonstrated commitment to environmental protection. Application process: Please apply via our website by submitting a cover letter, resume, references, and a writing sample as a single document. www.biologicaldiversity.org
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