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O’Leary Quintet By Jean Rukkila

Red, red, red, red and rain

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awn light overtakes the candle I’ve been writing by, sleepless.

Sleepless with too many thoughts for one lifetime Sleepless with guessing at how friends fare far away Sleepless because my pillow nests by the Milky Way. Awake where stars witness meteors. Look. The Universe.

Then the red smear of dawn rewards my attention.

On the first walk to the outhouse I pass ladybugs huddled on a tree trunk.

They’ve chosen this peak at near 9,000 feet for hibernation.

I’ve chosen this peak at near 9,000 feet to be as awake as possible.

For weeks and weeks we are companions.

My thoughts look like that. Brain cells quivering.

Dawn with a candle. All photos at Elden Lookout courtesy of the author

Ladybugs on a tree.

At lunch I tote pages to a rock place Where I draw and paint.

Red book meets rosy lip of Sunset Crater, My feet, treetop’s reach.

Dots of distant pine trees Dabs of sky between clouds.

Later a cloud to the north erupts, Tears me away from my reading.

Look out Highway 89!

A mushroom blossoms overhead.

Buckets of rain wash trucks off the Rez, While tourists squint through blue and gray.

Red returns as glowing rainbow.

When I’m done at the typewriter I’ll put mint leaves in the teapot.

Light another candle.

Breathe with dusk until dinner Take the day’s red to bed. Dream.

Jean at lunch.

Highway 89 cloudburst.

A native of Arizona, Jean Rukkila is a fire lookout and writer who has taught journal-keeping as a visiting artist in schools around the state and in writing classes at Coconino Community College. See more of her writing at www.flagstaffletterfromhome.com.

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efore people became quite so fascinated with capturing photos of celebrities looking like actual people (I saw Demi Moore’s bra strap!), they used to be fascinated with the secrets of the unknown: Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster and, most importantly, the Bermuda Triangle.

For those of you who did not grow up with Leonard Nimoy’s In Search of—you poor, sad souls—let me explain. The Bermuda Triangle is an area of ocean where, supposedly, planes and boats had a greater-than-average tendency to disappear—whether or not this is true is debatable (actually it’s neither true nor debatable, but that’s just the skeptic in me).

However, for those who did believe it was true, all sorts of theories existed, including aliens, giant whirlpools (which were strong enough to suck in planes), and, of course, top-secret, nefarious government operations (the Jade Helm of its day, as it were.) One of the most popular theories, however, was the Lost Island theory. This was the theory that there was a mysterious hidden island within the Bermuda Triangle that contained all of the missing planes and boats, and maybe even other missing things as well, such as socks and car keys.

And also, of course, homework, which I suppose explains why my children start (and finish) every search for their missing belongings by tossing the contents on the top of my

Lost on the big island in the middle dresser like FBI agents looking for drug money.

Every time. They obviously think that it is the Bermuda Dresser.

Part of me realizes they don’t actually expect to find their missing geometry worksheets and car keys nestled amongst the spare change, half-read novels and prescription bottles—their frantic dishevelment is more of a “feel my pain” gesture than a genuine search. But another part of me, the part that used to watch In Search of as a kid, kind of thinks they really expect to find their

things there. If they didn’t then why else would they start (and end) every single search right there?

“Have you seen my math book?” they’ll ask me in the middle of the night (I don’t care if it’s only 9 p.m.; any time after I go to sleep is technically the “middle of the night” as far as I’m concerned).

“Whaaa?” will be my intelligent reply.

“My math book. You know, the book I use to do the math homework you nag me about.

Where is it?”

Part of me realizes they don’t actually expect to �ind their missing geometry worksheets and car keys nestled amongst the spare change, half-read novels and prescription bottles—their frantic dishevelment is more of a ‘feel my pain’ gesture than a genuine search.

Fortunately for me, sarcasm works just as well as caffeine. “How should I know? I already passed my math final. Thirty years ago.”

“Nice. Real helpful.”

“Why would your math book be on my dresser?”

“Because I’ve looked everywhere else.”

Everywhere except, as it eventually turns out, in their backpack. Or on the floor of their room. Or, ironically enough, on top of their own dresser.

This revelation, of course, had made me wonder about the true location of all those missing boats and planes from the ’70s. Maybe none of them were actually ever missing at all. Maybe the searchers just had the same attitude toward looking for those planes that my kids have toward looking for their homework—if the plane isn’t on that big island in the middle, then it’s gone. Forever. Maybe, in reality, the planes were just parked one hangar over, and boats were moored at the dock next door. Maybe the real name of the show should’ve been In Search of … Kind of.

At least that’s what it would have been named if it had been hosted by my children.

Kelly Poe Wilson has lived in Flagstaff since 1985. She lives with her wonderful husband, Jim, and her dreadful children, Clementine and Clyde. More of her work can be found at www.kellypoewilson.com.

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In the few months since he’s gone from predominantly local musician to a nationally touring one, Ky Burt has been a man on the move, constantly shifting space from Colorado to Oregon and back again. Armed with a guitar and/or banjo, Burt has been plucking away at acoustic strings and the ties that bind our hearts to the flame he carries through his selfpenned tunes. No matter the venue, Burt serenades souls with poetic lyricisms that connect and conquer, relating on deeper levels with the listener who picks up on his creative interplay between people, place and the natural world surrounding us. It’s been a long and winding road—literally—for this former Arizonan, and he shows no signs of slowing his pace as he hones melodies and verse in makeshift practice space, also called a van, and zig-zags the weirdest stops in the U.S. like Bakersfield, California’s Merle Haggard Drive, and also the most pristine mountain tops stretching beyond the horizon. More than a road-toughened traveler, this musician embodies the land he’s discovering every day with each gig in a garden, a wine bar, or the next here in town at Wanderlust Brewing Co., 1519 N. Main Street, from 6:30–8:30 p.m. Free. A second show takes place at Sedona’s Vino di Sedona on Friday from 7–10 p.m. 351-7952. www.kyburt.com.

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Except no one’s New Jersey baby’s going to fix up treats like these, instead Flag’s own Satchmo’s hoists the load at the music and food-minding establishment, the State Bar. The Blues Brunch will satiate palates with an all-you-can-eat Cajun buffet with all the fixin’s including brunch-time staples and some creative, homemade eats inspired by the heart of the bayou. Of course, there is no such thing as too early to toss back a few drinks, so the beer and wine will flow forth in harmonious accompaniment at the rate of four drinks per lady or gentleman. And in joyfully rounded tradition, these brunches need the blues! To set the dancefloor aflame, the legendary Arizona Blues Hall of Famer, Tommy Dukes and his glorious band will be on hand to serenade folks between bites of the tasty concoctions in all forms waiting in the batter’s box to blast away taste buds. Put some spice in your step at the State Bar, 10 E. Rte. 66, from 11 a.m.–2 p.m. A space at this feast is $55 per person or $100 per couple. Tickets are available at the State Bar and Satchmo’s, 2320 N. 4th Street. Direct questions to 266-1282.

Before the weekend hits, an interesting opportunity has reared its head for any and all to stand on a corner in Winslow. The catch is there won’t be a flatbed Ford with one particularly leery occupant hangin’ around. The NAU Summer Seminar Series, instead, is about to stack up all the la-dee-da summertime feels— kidding! It’s about to get heavy in this piece with a hefty dose of reality thanks to NAU’s Creative Writing program and the College of Arts and Letters. Allen Woodman’s Why Your Dog Loves You (and People Don’t): Fiction and Poetry on Love and the Brevity of Life sets the evening’s mood that tows the lines of humor and sarcasm with short-form and poetic meditations on love and just how short our time on this plane really is. Joining the cast is a handful of NAU’s most inspiring faculty lending their guest reading talents. Jane Armstrong, Justin Bigos, Erin Stalcup, Nicole Walker and Michael Vincent will lend voices to the inspiring words of Robert Bly, Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda— to name a few. As a bonus, it all takes place within the stunning backdrop of La Posada Inn, 303 E. 2nd Street, in Winslow. The event is free and begins at 5:30 p.m. 289-4366. www. nau.edu/cal.

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Pluto. Lou Moretti, Dylan and Mike Jung, Christian Jerman and Jason Vargo are churning out tunes your daddy taught you, and they’re doing it with all the flare, style and charisma crowds have come to ache for. Between out-right rock and role and melodious mash-ups, it’s bound to get naughty thanks to this pleasure-seeking crew. No matter what the night has in store, it would be advisable to tack on solid dancing shoes and breathable fabrics to the roster ‘cause it’s going to get shweaty out there on the patio—if weather permits—or inside if the rain’s decided to come down hard. Either way, come prepared for a

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Hey friends holding ears to the ground for the poetic inclinations this little literary haven of a town has to offer, the Poet’s Den has switched up the pitch a bit. Now slingin’ shorts the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month at a new venue, KEEP FIT WITH LUNGES‌ Poet’s Den is more ready than ever to continue the momentum One group of Flag favorites, Muskellunge, simply does not know built over the last nine months in celebrating the written the meaning of the word rest. “Rest? Who needs it!” vocalist word. This installation will highlight England’s prominent and songwriter Nolan McKelvey would probably say if asked.

McKelvey, Aaron Tyler, Frank Dedera, Ron James and Tim Hogan Romanticist, John Keats. Though this dear friend of Percy released their fifth full-length, Preying or Praying, only a couple Bysshe Shelley found a terrible death in 1821, and at merely weeks ago on July 17, but they haven’t earned their 25 years, his short career as a poet (he only hard-working status as a band contented to rest published 54 poems) has endured the ages. on its laurels. For that and for the love of Literary critics trashed his works during the stage, they’ve booked some solid Keats’ life, but his sonnets, epics gigs for the fans that have propelled and odes like “Bright Star” and them through ups and downs over “Ode on a Grecian Urn” grew in the last decade. This latest cut popularity, inspiring countless brings each musician’s talents readers and would-be suiters to the front of the house from looking to woo the ladies, Tyler’s barn-burning mandolin not long after. Centuries to James’ drums that add a later, students continually rockin’ flare to the grass-style devote hundreds of hours tunes Muskellunge lures listeners into. And McKelvey, to studying his poems and dang you and your twirling, letters. With this, Tuesday’s heart-pounding lyricisms readers are offered materithat just slam-drunk all up als to read from, but are in our headpieces. Not only encouraged to bring their does Muskellunge soothe the own. No selection chosen, but soul with their tunes, but their you still want to read? S’kay, message is a call to action and one will be chosen for you. demands attention. Listen up, It’ll be a love fest at Uptown up and away on the patio at the Pubhouse, 114 N. Leroux, beginFlagstaff Brewing Co., 16 E. Rte. Fo ning at 7:30 p.m. The literary open mic lk 66, beginning at 10 p.m. $5 cover at the oto s in ph ger y s kicks off afterward. Free. 773-0551. Check door. To learn more, call 773-1442 or visit e -so n t gwriter Ky Burt. Cour out Poet’s Den on Facebook.

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EDITOR’SHEAD

Hitting the tipping

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By Andrew Wisniewski

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‌Curses, Foiled Again A man wearing a transparent plastic bag over his head demanded money from a convenience-store clerk in Phoenix. After threatening to shoot the clerk in the head, the robber stopped abruptly and ripped a hole in the bag, apparently to prevent suffocating. “It gives the impression, looking at the pictures, that he was using it kind of

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on’t ask why, but it wasn’t until just last week that I watched Wrenched for the first time. I was already familiar with the Ed Abbey and Monkey Wrench Gang story, but that did not prevent me from getting all hot and bothered—like binging hard on some Downton Abbey. Amirite? ‌When it comes to the topic of money-hungry big outside interests and developers destroying something someone loves, it strikes a nerve. The same thing happened as I watched Our Canyon Lands, a new film by local filmmaker Justin Clifton, and the focus of this week’s cover story. Again, it was a storyline I already knew a decent amount about, but nonetheless, it did its job by making me cringe.

Lately, as I drive around town and see all of the growth that’s happening, I can’t help but experience a similar feeling. In the last several months a number of long-standing empty lots have been fenced off with construction either having already started, or ground soon to be broken. One of the more notable eyesores is the Sportsman’s Warehouse going in on the southwest corner of the Route 66 and Fourth Street intersection. Then there’s the free-standing Starbucks on Route 66 and Industrial, a mere quarter mile from … you guessed it, another Starbucks, as well as numerous other businesses along Milton.

We’ve got multi-story hotels that have gone up, student housing projects constantly jeopardizing downtown (remember the one that threatened to displace 56 low-income families in Arrowhead Village on Balckbird Roost? Now the threat has moved on to Mike’s Pike with The Hub, a proposed mixeduse rental/retail complex), and the monstrosity of a luxury condo palace of sorts towering over Aspen Place at the Sawmill—I remember when that whole area was a quiet meadow!

Oh, and there’s the REI that just happened and one day appeared, also at the Sawmill. Here’s a little something to chew on: we’re the smallest city based on population with an REI in the country!

Most recently, the Arizona Daily Sun broke news that a proposed four-story Marriot Residence Inn may go in downtown opposite Wheeler Park.

It will have to be “approved by the city’s Historic Preservation Commission and blend in with the rest of historic downtown.” If approved, the hotel will be 82,500 square-feet, have 109 units (compared to the Monte V’s 50 on four floors), and would be the first structure “of more than two stories in downtown in decades.” And then there’s the wonderful

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like a nylon [mask] to distort the appearance of his face,” police Sgt. Darren Burch said. addition of Jimmy Johns next to Peace Surplus, one of three within a two-mile radius (if that) of one another. Outrageous.

Now, to be clear, I care about what happens all over town, and I have no problem with growth. This place is my home. I was born and raised here. But it really pushes my buttons when corporate chains find their way into the downtown neighborhood. In my mind, downtown of all places should be the one place where local businesses and restaurants thrive, and visitors can go to experience the vibrant community and culture Flagstaff has to offer up—not grub down at some half-baked sandwich shop or the like. What needs to be done for that to happen?

In the almost five years since I moved back to town, I’ve been of the belief that Flag still retains that “charm” that I’ve seen fade from other mountain towns I’ve visited over the years. When I moved into my historic downtown home two years ago, our landlord required that whoever move in be respectful to the “hood” and in some way be involved in the good goingson around town. Thankfully, my roommate and I both were, and I loved seeing that. It makes me think what would happen if homeowners like her stopped renting and started selling to outsiders with cash money?

A lot of the creative types in town who have given and continue to give our town its weird and wonderful pulse are the same folks who fall under the old “poverty with a view” slogan. They’re the ones who work multiple jobs.

They pour our coffee in the morning and beer at all other times of the day and night. They serve us our food and do whatever else needs to be done to live here, all the while helping to create a colorful scene in their free time.

They, of course, are not the sole contributors to all that’s hip, but I do think if those folks started to disappear, we’d start to see a serious problem arise. It’d be more than just bricks stacked up high and corporate names plastered high across storefronts that silently whisper “come spend your hard-earned dollars here.”

And at the end of it all is the forever gridlock of traffic on Milton. But we’ll leave that for another day.

So, I ask: Are we still charming, Flag? Is there a tipping point? And if so, when will we know that we’ve hit it?

“But he was having problems with his airflow.” Once he’d torn the plastic-bag, surveillance cameras got a clear shot of his face. (The Arizona Republic)

Paper or Plastic?

Arizona State University’s Flexible Display Center is spending at least $100 million to develop a plastic screen that rolls up and doesn’t crack when dropped. “Flexible … black-and-white screens for e-readers are very close to commercialization,” said Nick Colaneri, director of the center, which opened in 2004 under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Army. He predicted color flex screens are three to five years away. The military is interested in flexible screens for their portability, durability and low power usage. As for consumer applications, DisplaySearch, an industry research company, predicts the market for flexible screens, which use the same technology as digital book readers and can even be sewn to fabric, could surpass $1 billion this year and reach $8.2 billion by 2018. (The Arizona Republic)

Second-Amendment Follies Joshua Seto, 27, and his fiancée were walking to a store in Chandler when he tucked her pink handgun in the front waistband of his pants. The gun accidentally fired, hitting Seto in his penis and thigh. “If you are going to carry a handgun on your person,” police Detective Seth Tyler advised after Seto was treated at the hospital, “use a holster, not your waistband.” (The Arizona Republic) After Andrew Seals, 24, started to sit down in a bathroom stall at a Wal-Mart in Mesa, his Ruger .357-caliber revolver fell out of its holster. It fired a round, police Sgt. Ed Wessing reported, that went through the stall door, ricocheted off a wall into a ceiling light, then struck the floor, missing a man standing at a urinal by just 5 feet. (The Arizona Republic)

There Oughta Be a Law State senators in Arizona introduced legislation, SB 1467, that would require all educational institutions in the state, including state universities, to suspend or fire any instructor who “engages in speech or conduct that would violate the standards adopted by the Federal Communications Commission concerning obscenity, indecency and profanity if that speech or conduct were broadcast on television or radio.” (The Huffington Post)

Walk This Way Surveillance video at a pet shop in Mesa showed Eric Fiegel, 22, stealing several snakes, including baby boa constrictors, by stuffing them down his pants and walking out. Police said Fiegel went to another pet store and traded some of the snakes for $175 and a large reptile tank. (The Arizona Republic)

Quirks News When Guns Are Outlawed Andri Lynn Jeffers, 26, admitted trying to rob a gas station in Yavapai County by threatening the clerk with a toy penguin. Authorities said Jeffers told the clerk that the object, which she concealed under her sweater, was a bomb. (The Arizona Republic)

Problem Solved As part of the Arizona Department of Transportation’s “Pull Aside, Stay Alive” campaign to promote safe driving during haboobs—severe dust storms that occur in desert areas, especially around Phoenix and Yuma, during the summer—the agency invited residents to tweet haikus about dust-storm safety. (Associated Press)

Letter of the Law Officials stopped Dana Crow-Smith from handing out free water at an art event in downtown Phoenix, claiming she violated the city’s “mobile vendor” ordinance. It bans vendors from “giving away goods, wares, or merchandise or food” while standing on private property. Crow-Smith, who believes she was standing on a public sidewalk but concedes she might have inadvertently stepped onto a private lot, said she was publicly expressing her Christian faith by giving passers-by water, not selling it. But City Manager David Cavazos said her giveaway was unfair to merchants who paid for permits to sell food and drink at the event. (The Arizona Republic)

Show Business Arizona resident Jesus Llovera, 43, is suing actor Steven Seagal and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for his arrest, which the civil lawsuit claims was staged for a

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reality television show that followed Seagal’s exploits as a “deputized officer.” Llovera said Seagal and deputies raided his home because they suspected he was raising fighting roosters, although he insisted the more than 100 roosters on his property were for show, not for fighting. He noted the Sheriff’s Office SWAT team showed up in full riot gear, handcuffed him and took him outside, where Seagal waited, wearing camou-

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flage and sunglasses and hoisting a rifle, while four cameras filmed the event for the cable series “Steven Seagal: Lawman.” The program was slated to premiere on the A&E Network but never aired. Sheriff’s Deputy Chief Dave Trombi denied that the search warrant was based on the needs of the production company, and the Sheriff’s Office explained that deploying a tank, a bomb robot and 40 deputies was a normal response.

(The Arizona Republic) Editor’s note: It is with a heavy heart that we inform our readers who missed last

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Screen

No, really—he does his own stunts Reviewed by Dan Stoffel

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throughout the world, Hunt naturally decides s a kid, I loved watching the original to take his team underground to fight the Mission: Impossible television series good fight. Along with his old colleagues Benji that aired on CBS from 1966–1973. The (Simon Pegg), Brandt (Jeremy Renner), and thought of a small team of operatives using Luther (Ving Rhames), the beautiful but their unique talents along with lots of dangerous Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Fertrickery, deception, gadgets and guson) is here to give Ethan and disguises, had me hooked. So the gang a hand … Or is she?

I was thrilled to see Tom MISSION There are several Cruise resurrect the ImposIMPOSSIBLE – reasons the Mission: Impossible Missions Force for a ROGUE NATION sible series has been so big-screen feature back Directed

by Christopher McQuarrie successful (the first four in 1996. And other than Rated PG-13 films have pulled in more the second installment in HARKINS THEATRES $2 billion, and the fifth is 2000, the series, now on its poised to continue that run). fifth chapter, has been quite First, the villains are intelligent good. In fact, very unusual for and intriguing. Here, the largely a film series, the Mission: Imposunknown Sean Harris kills it as Solosible movies have actually improved mon Lane, a menacingly bookish bad guy over the years, and Rogue Nation is who seems to have an answer for every move no exception. the IMF makes. Second, the films revere the Cruise again stars as Ethan Hunt, and as toys and trickery for which the television series the film opens (well, after an action-packed was known—lots of great gadgets and techBond-like pre-credit segment), CIA Director nology keep both the audience and the enemy Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) is working with guessing. And finally, the stunts and set pieces Congress to disband the IMF. Recognizing are crazy exciting. From that opening sequence that an evil organization is sowing chaos

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s this week’s issue of Flag Live approached, I was struggling a bit to think of a film to review for the Screen section. Then it hit me: I just got back from a vacation to Germany and Denmark, so why not check out a movie from one of those beautiful countries? I’ll admit that I’m no expert on cinema from either nation, so I went looking at the IMDB pages

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does most of them himself, relying very little on either doubles or CGI. Cruise may be a little nutso in his personal life, but he knows action, and he can jump on as many couches as he wants if he keeps producing and starring in popcorn fun like Rogue Nation.

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Radovan (Slavko Labovic). Fortunately for Frank, they kind of of a couple of Danes with whom I am a bit familiar: the direclike the guy, but one can only slide so far. tor Nicolas Winding Refn, whose excellent 2011 Ryan Gosling Though obviously not part of the Dogme 95 movevehicle, Drive, I reviewed (as well as his not-so-excellent ment started by Danish directors Lars von Trier and 2013 Gosling picture, Only God Forgives); and Mads Thomas Vinterberg, Pusher seems influenced by it, Mikkelsen, the wonderful Danish actor currently with handheld cameras following Frank around starring as TV’s Hannibal, familiar to many as a PUSHER using available lighting and sets. This makes Bond villain in Casino Royale (2006) and from (1996) Pusher very visceral and real; it has a Mean other notable Danish films such as The Hunt Directed by Streets (1973) feel to it. Though certainly not (2012) and After the Wedding (2006). As it Nicolas Winding Refn perfect, it’s an impressive debut for both turns out, the 1996 movie Pusher was the Rated Unrated Refn and Mikkelsen, and would actually set first feature for both of them.

AMAZON PRIME and the stage as the first of a trilogy, followed by Pusher chronicles a week in the life NETFLIX DVD With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II (2004) which of Frank (Kim Bodnia), a drug dealer who focused on Tonny; and I’m the Angel of Death: spends his days moving from one transaction Pusher III, with Milo at the center. And I have to to another, arranging one deal to finance the say that it gave me a very different perspective of next, staying a step ahead of the game while he pals Copenhagen than I got as a tourist walking the city with around the streets of Copenhagen with friend and henchmy wife and our gracious hosts. Perhaps we’ll have to return man Tonny (Mikkelsen). After a big heroin sale goes bad, Frank someday to get a taste of those dimly-lit discos and brown gets more and more desperate in his attempts to make things sugar heroin. right with Milo (Zlatko Buric), a bigger fish, and his enforcer

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new movie has joined the list of the Top 10 grossing films of all time. Jurassic World opened in theaters on June 12, and since that date has quickly climbed to No. 3 on the All-Time Box Office charts for both domestic (U.S. and Canada) and worldwide audiences. Whether you loved the movie or consider its inclusion on the Top 10 list as an affront against quality films, it does show that audiences like an action-packed thrill ride at the movies.

Take a look at the current domestic and worldwide Top 10 films, as listed at Box Office Mojo and see if you notice anything: Domestic: 1. Avatar (2009). 2. Titanic (1997).

3. Jurassic World (2015). 4. Marvel’s The Avengers (2012). 5. The Dark Knight (2008). 6. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999). 7. Star Wars (1977).

8. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). 9. The Dark Knight Rises (2012). 10. Shrek 2 (2004).

Worldwide: 1. Avatar (2009). 2. Titanic (1997). 3. Jurassic World (2015). 4. Marvel’s The Avengers (2012). 5. Furious 7 (2015). 6. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). 7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011). 8. Frozen (2013). 9.

Iron Man 3 (2013). 10. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011).

The lists show that we do love our superheroes and that Batman and Star Wars films do much better domestically than worldwide.

Worldwide audiences show their love of the Fast and Furious franchise and for Disney films. By the way, any animated film aimed at children that

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reaches a Top10 list is doing incredibly well. After all, most of the tickets are purchased for children at a lower price, so getting to the Top 10 means that A LOT of tickets were sold.

There is also something else about these lists: most of these movies were made after the year 2000. Only three movies on these lists were made before 2000: Titanic, Star Wars, and Stars Wars: The Phantom Menace.

In today’s world of higher ticket prices, is it fair to think that the same number of tickets was sold for a more recent film compared to other box office favorites of the past? If you are an old-movie fan, then you cry out, “No!” Here is what that list looks like when the grosses are adjusted to 2014 dollars (this list applies to domestic screenings): 1. Gone with the Wind (1939). 2. Star Wars (1977). 3. The Sound of Music (1965). 4. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). 5. Titanic (1997). 6. The Ten Commandments (1956). 7. Jaws (1975). 8.

Doctor Zhivago (1965). 9. The Exorcist (1973). 10.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

Now we see the biggest box-office champ of all time: 1939’s Gone with the Wind.

As Jurassic World bumped ET: The ExtraTerrestrial off the domestic list—it bumped Lord of the Rings: Return of the King off the worldwide list—and may overtake Titanic on the list, it shouldn’t get cocky. Guess what opens on December 18? Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The box office force will be strong with that one.

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By DOUGLAS McDANIEL

Unrestricted monk Going beyond with Michael Franti & Spearhead

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ichael Franti, mastermind of the group Spearhead, has been pushing the frontiers of meditative influence in recent months, pushing the edges of performance for the cause of perfect calm. Indeed, now working outside the parameters of the rock ‘n’ roll traditions for booze, dope and righteous (or more often, outrageous) rebellion, Franti has in recent months been soothing his audiences with yoga sessions prior to the show, the culmination of a practice that began with his first yoga class on Sept. 12, 2001. Last year at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside of Denver, Franti performed the acoustic accompaniment to a yoga class led by the famous power yogi Baron Baptiste. He has been merging his shows with the yoga vibe ever since. For example, this past weekend he performed at Wanderlust in Whistler, British Columbia, a five-day yoga, meditation and mindful-living festival. ‌“I think the two things go very well together,” Franti says during a recent telephone interview prior to his show in Flagstaff. The Red Rocks show was “super energy,” he adds, the product of 14 years of practicing yoga at different schools, playing guitar, and bringing what he’s learned to his shows. While Franti, who has been regarded as a high-minded globalist for most of the past 20 years, and who has a penchant for preferring to not wear shoes, has grown accustomed to playing before bigwigs at such events as presidential inaugurations— this month he further cemented his place in transcendental culture by playing at the Dalai Lama’s birthday party.

“The Dalai Lama has been a big leader for me, ever since I first heard about him in a Clash song (“Washington Bullets” off of Sandinista) in 1981,” Franti says. “I saw several films about him and studied the history of Tibet, how they converted the entire military into monks, and then I played at his birthday party, and the next day I was invited to play lunch, and actually got to meet him.”

According to accounts of the meeting, the six-foot six-inch tall Franti, with dreadlocks and tattoos, cut an imposing figure before the Tibetan religious leader, who said “his physical looks are quite heavy ... but when he plays ... Oh!” Then came the one-on-one conversation that Franti says he will always remember.

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Michael Franti (center) & Spearhead. Courtesy photo

“He told me, ‘You have a good heart. You would have become a monk, but for you to do that you will have to shave. But because you can’t do that, I will make you an unrestricted monk,’” Franti says.

After the meeting, the religious leader joked that his impression of Franti, who appeared to be a “strange person” is “much changed.”

Franti began his musical career as an angry-man sort in alternativeland after emerging from an unusual background in the 1980s.

Coming from mixed ancestry—his mother had Irish, German and French ancestry, and his father was of African-American and Native American descent—he was an orphan who was adopted by a Finnish-American couple and

went on to graduate from the University of San Francisco, where he first began writing poetry.

After he began experimenting with rap and hip-hop, he was resourceful enough to get his songs played on a campus radio station. He also played in an industrial punk/spoken-word band called the Beatnigs, then found success with a politically charged band called the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.

It was during this time, as Franti formed Spearhead in 1994, that the band opened for U2. Franti says that watching Bono perform inspired him, especially the way Bono could get the crowd singing to vowel sounds in the choruses. Known today as an activist to funk, soul and hip-hop beats, Michael Franti wants his music and efforts in globetrotting to spread

the positive message of human rights, leading him to speak out on the criminal justice system, AIDS, gay rights, poverty, drug addiction, the death penalty and suicide. But he does so less with topical announcements in song, looking more often for the transformative portion of the story.

He says a big moment when he softened his musical temperament was when he wrote a song called “Positive” while he was waiting for the results of an AIDS test. Though the results of the test were negative, he decided to write a more down tempo song in order to get the mood right.

“It needed to be told in a quieter voice in order to express the proper emotions,” he says.

“I want people to be transformed by the music ... People are not moved to act by facts, figures or politics, but by the quality of their ideas.

Like, for example, Martin Luther King when he said ‘I believe.’ People identify with that. Just to identify with that has power—if you want to reach people beyond the first row. That’s what I want to do.”

The members of Spearhead include versatile Bay Area guitarist J Bowman, multi-instrumentalist Raliegh Neal II, West African drummer Manas Itiene, and bassist Carl Young, who has been a member of Michael Franti & Spearhead for 21 years.

Prior to ascending the heights of the yogaloving festival crowd this year, Franti tore the meniscus on his knee in January. He was out for six weeks, but the timetable for the impending tour meant he was hobbling on crutches when the show began. For the performer who is usually an active presence on stage, this was a lot to take.

“The first week of shows, I had to sit on a stool, and it was a challenge to be still,” he says.

“I had to channel my inner John Lee Hooker.”

See a healed Michael Franti & Spearhead as they return to Flagstaff on Fri, Aug. 7 for a performance at the Pepsi Amphitheater, Exit 337 off I-17 south of town at the Ft. Tuthill County Fairgrounds. Special guests the Movement will open the show. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $35–$49.

For more info or to purchase tickets, call (866) 977-6849 or visit www.pepsiamp.com. To learn more about Michael Franti & Spearhead, check out www.michaelfranti.com.

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On the Wall Fortuitous seasons hinge on collaborations

Zombies in Love by Rachel Greig.

Off the Grid by Terry Samples. Courtesy photo

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n the final First Friday ArtWalk before university classes resume, the abundant galleries and unconventional art viewing spaces are making the final push for summer.

The days may be shortening, but the forwardthinkers of this town are showing no signs of slowing. And so this month, we bring you a taste of collaboration on all fronts from ideas just breaking free to those enjoying laborious fruits. ‌Dark horizon Like most late afternoons during monsoon season, Terry Samples ticks away the hours Friday waiting for a storm. The locallybased artist finds inspiration in thunderheads, contrasting light playing on the landscape and within the Grand Canyon’s formations. He combines them all into a creative amalgam of real life and the imagined.

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since he’s shown in Flagstaff because of the large-scale nature of his paintings. Beyond a BFA from NorthTexasUniversity, Samples gathered insight through his Master’s in anthropology and archeology, and as an archeologist working within the Grand Canyon.

“The canyon is a focal point for just about everyone who has a digital camera,” he says with a laugh, “but I don’t copy a photograph. I try to interpret a landscape in my mind. These are paintings, they’re not pictures and they’re not meant to be.”

With this freedom, Samples exaggerates facets on his terms, adding tinges of green, a gentle whirlpool to a river on the edge of familiar. While he manipulates imagination, weather, he says, is out of reach. “We have our desires, but the weather has its own way just like nature, and I admire it for that reason— unpredictable and out of control sometimes, like me.”

Samples freely admits to this attitude, inherent especially in his swirling, constantly

shifting landscapes. He adds, “Painting to me is a discovery and it’s a compromise between myself and where the painting wants to go. I follow along. Sometimes I just watch my hands paint.” For this artist, the outcome bears his intrepid mood, weather patterns or a fleeting feeling encased in oil paint sticks.

Living and working across the Colorado Plateau, Samples’ work showcases the Painted Desert’s palette as he responded to color and the environment. His previous body of work contained sunsets he says were popular, albeit some people called them “violent.”

“I’ve always been a backyard painter— always finding fascinating things right outside my door,” Samples says of shifting to local landforms again. The San Francisco Peaks, Marion Crater and well-traveled streets carry the load. And, of course, there’s always the storm. Travel to the eye at West of the Moon Gallery, 14 N. San Francisco Street, from 6–9 p.m. 774-0465. www.westofthemoongallery.com.

Artful sharing The creative process is a fickle beast.

At times, ideas gush forward onto the page, canvas, loom or otherwise. And at remarkably similar moments, the flood is found to have reduced to a trickle. Life happens and halts the artistic juices to a viscous flow.

In 2011, Lydia Paar was finishing her book.

With the daily humdrum between a job and bills weighing her down, she felt the urge to surface from the every day. She enrolled in an art residency program at Millay Colony and, surrounded by like-minded creatives, found the pages filled much more quickly after that.

“Other people were there working on similar projects,” Paar says, “We supported each other with conversation … It was really great to keep that momentum.”

Upon her return and post-editing, she decided to explore catalyzing an art residency program in town. A couple exist already, most recently RogersLake retreat through NAU, but Paar’s idea dove beyond formal tradition.

ARTS With little capital to purchase space or land, a friend lent her shed to the residency exchange project that would become NOMAD: the Network of Mutual Artistic Development. Paar realized more than one friend might have a room, a shed, a barn or camping space to lend an artist hoping to separate from typical life for a while.

She envisioned establishing an online platform that combines the most usable, attractive features of websites like Couch Surfing and Airbnb to connect artists specializing in all media to would-be hosts with room to spare. Users specify their medium, where they are or want to go and for how long. In exchange, hosts can specify what they would like to learn.

“Maybe a house wife, an older retired couple—a space without full-time renters but want to have some new energy coming into the house,” Paar says. “In exchange, instead of monetary, what we envision is the visiting artist would offer host lessons or leave them a creative product, offer community workshops. More of a teaching trade.”

After much research and development, the website is ready to launch into the beta-testing phase and needs a final fundraising push. At this ArtWalk gathering, visitors are encouraged to take a first look, explore the website alongside the work of first-wave NOMAD artists including Chelsea Kavanagh, Ben Craigie, Jacques Seronde, William Ambrose, Christa Magpie Corvidae, and many more. Lindsay Davis Kelsey will provide homemade treats with music by Tim Leavy and Rooftop Solar, 16 E. Rte. 66, Ste. #203, beginning at 5 p.m. www.nomadinternational.org. Also visit NOMAD on Facebook.

Monsters in love ArtBox Institute, hosted by the Flagstaff Arts Council, recently sent off its class of 2015.

Three of those students, now current with marketing and tools of the artistic trade, have joined forces for this First Friday ArtWalk. Frederica Hall will showcase her Red List series depicting close-ups of extinct or endangered creatures alongside Debbie Shepard’s meditative Zentangle-style designs in Tangled Tattoos.

Local painter and multimedia artist Rachel Greig will join the group with her enchanting paintings. For this creator, it’s typical to bounce between artfully exploring extremes that may seem worlds away. Her latest series, Monochromatic Monster Mash, takes a second look at combining elements of this—and other— worlds that tow the line between elation and hideousness.

Love is a state of being not solely reserved for beautiful people, Greig says, but everyone is searching high and low for the same thing: “to love and be loved, whether you’re a zombie or a human, we all want the same thing. At the end of the day, we’re all just looking for that freak who happens to like

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In frames of the series, mummies entwine and Dr. Frankenstein’s monster finds true love in Elvira—matches made in monster heaven.

The artist also ran with the gamut colored pencils and paints, selecting a different medium for each while discovering new textures to apply to these creatures.

“I never like to tack myself down to one strict medium, I feel like that’s really confining and I am always up for trying new things,” Grieg says. “Every piece is in a different medium as a way of challenging myself.

I feel like life is diverse anyway. I can’t just confine myself to strictly doing watercolor or colored pencils.”

Each frame adapts black and white and a single color like blue for the cold, dead vampires after a bloody kiss and green for the dizzy-in-love zombies. The monochromatic feature tying Monster Mash began as an accident, the artist says. “It was a happy accident that just happened to fall into place. I didn’t plan it, but it worked out really well.” Let the art bug bite at Kickstand Kafé, 719 N. Humphreys, from 6–9 p.m. 779-5393. www.artbyrachelgreig.com or www.fredericahallarts.com or www.zentangle.com.

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Note: Last month’s On the Wall profiled Youth Lens at Freeman Huber Law. Due to the judges’ schedule conflicts, they were unable to award the winners their prizes at last First Friday’s ArtWalk, and will be announced on Fri, Aug. 7. The People’s Choice voting will be extended and the winner will be announced Sept. 4—so keep voting for your favorite photograph captured by one of Flagstaff’s talented high school students.

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Fighting

House of Fire Ruin. South Fork of Mule Canyon in Cedar Mesa, Utah.

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LOCAL FILMMAKER JUSTIN CLIFTON KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES

By Andrew Wisniewski

“ Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it.

The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.” — Theodore Roosevelt

Chris Cresci setting up on the rim at Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

Photo by Justin Clifton

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y now most folks with any sort of ear to the ground on the ongoing landleasing debacle in Utah are likely familiar with the story of environmentalist and activist Tim DeChristopher. In December of 2008, DeChristopher successfully bid on 14 parcels of land (totaling 22,500 acres) near Canyonlands National Park for $1.8 million with no intent to pay for them. His protest was an effort to thwart a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public lands after a sneaky attempt by the Bush administration to rewrite the area’s land-management plans to prioritize energy development. At the time of the auction, DeChristopher was removed

Nearly seven years later, the debate over how these federal and public lands are used rages on.

In an effort to hone in on the discussion, local Flagstaff filmmaker Justin Clifton and the Grand Canyon Trust offer up a new documentary short, Our Canyon Lands, a 35-minute look at the identity of these lands to the American Southwest, the value they hold to the people who are forever connected to them, and the negative impact any further development might welcome in the future.

“There’s something powerful in that sentence,” Clifton says of Teddy Roosevelt’s classic words as the former

another that there’s an intrinsic value to these landscapes, to an intact eco-system that is beyond our ability to understand.”

If you’ve ever spent any time in Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah—part of the greater Colorado Plateau—far away from built environments, that sense of understanding has likely become a little clearer. You know how light dances on its canyon walls, how its unique geology and ecology flourishes, and what it truly means to feel at peace and to be human. But what isn’t often realized is the division of land that runs throughout. In one single glance your eyes see a sweeping landscape that your mind

rests protected park land, and on the other, public lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management open for industrial development, particularly by those geared toward pulling fossil fuels from beneath the topsoil.

“You think about the park’s 330,000 acres, and it sounds like a huge amount of space, but to see that delineation once you’re in the park boundaries or inside a protected area looking out, you realize it wouldn’t take much to ruin the intrinsic value of the national park,” Clifton says.

And it is at this fork in the road where the debate heats up. Which direction is the right direction? Is there a direction?

from the auction by federal agents, taken into custody, and later served 21 months in prison.

He was released in 2013.

U.S. president once noted the “sublimity,” “great loneliness” and “beauty” of the Grand Canyon. “The idea of reminding one

perceives as a solitary section of the park— but it’s not. In some spots, an arbitrary boundary bisects its beauty. On one side

And how should the land that is open for development be used … if at all? èèè

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Deadhorse boundaries near Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

Photo by Justin Clifton

Oil well near Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

Photo by Justin Clifton

Other sides of the fence With the Escalade Project threatening the confluence of the Colorado River and Little

On the other side are those bent on preserving the integrity of the park. Over the years multiple proposals have been put

Colorado River, many northern Arizonans are

in motion to do just that, yet developers

smack in the middle of a similar controversy— one where hungry investors and developers look to cash in on a prized natural wonder with deep

continue to threaten these lands with a boom-and-bust approach that would mar the environment and leave the economy to

meaning to so many people on the opposition.

crash and burn. And the age-old back and

In Our Canyon Lands, author and activist Terry Tempest Williams says, “I don’t think we can underestimate the scale of this landscape,

forth is whether or not the economy should be driven by big industry or recreation, the latter of which in years past has proved a

how big the Colorado Plateau is, but I also don’t

reliable source of revenue that has eclipsed

think we can underestimate the scale of the threat.”

In the case of Canyonlands National Park,

the shortsighted goals of oil and gas companies in Utah’s Canyonlands.

Clifton says the best outcome is one

that threat comes through continuing efforts

where all stakeholders are considered and

by big oil and gas interests looking to make the Colorado Plateau an energy colony that would provide natural resources for nearby big cities

layers of protection are put in place that would eliminate the major uses that might potentially decimate the landscape—

and the West. Industrial operations that require the use of millions of gallons of fresh water— water that is critical to the sustained health of the Colorado River and the park.

“Every aspect of the landscape down to its most minute detail is designed to capture and transport water down to the Colorado River Basin,” Clifton says. “What’s more important: a small amount of finite resources, or a renewable resource in water?”

identifying the culturally sensitive areas, and asking how the park will meet the needs of all of the people who want to use it.

As Walt Dabney, a retired National Park Superintendent, says in the film; alluding to the idea of all parties seeing the issue from the same side: “It’s like a big gold mine, except that you can mine it forever if you don’t screw it up.”

Potash works from the air near Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

Photo by Justin Clifton

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Deadman Point drill rig in Utah. Photo by Tim Petersen

We are of this place As equally important, or perhaps even more so, are the generations of Native Americans whose lineage traces back to Utah’s greater Canyonlands region. Like veins that run through the land and those who have inhabited these areas for thousands of years, it is a sacred and important cultural landscape.

It makes up and is at the core of who they are. And to lose these landscapes would equate to losing their identity.

The story itself is evolving further.

enough to do what we want them to do.

To be unchanged. To be able to function as an ecosystem. To have visitors come here and enjoy them and not have some activity or some development going on in the middle of what should’ve been the park that completely changes the character of that place and compromises it.” Where we are today is these tribes and various conservation organizations continuing to come together to, as Clifton says, “finish this project so all future generations can have the same

Clifton says that in mid-July, a coalition of 21 different Native American tribes—

experience we’re having today.”

All of these places are gifts. They

including Pueblo and Navajo tribes— came together with a unified voice to

are gigantic jewels in our collective scenic heritage.

protect the landscape, specifically Bears Ears, Utah, where the film starts. It’s a groundbreaking movement where instead of conservation organizations trying to garner support from native tribes, the tribes themselves are leading the charge for the designation of a national monument to save this place that holds vast cultural and historical significance.

In the film Dabney notes that the national parks “never were made big

Our Canyon Lands will premiere at the Green Room, 15 N. Agassiz, on Thu, Aug. 6. It’s free and open to the public. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the film starts at 6:30 p.m. A Q&A with filmmaker Justin Clifton will follow the screening. View the trailer, learn more, and be a part of the conversation at www.grandcanyontrust.org/our-canyonlands-film-series. For more info about the Bears Ears Coalition and to donate, see www.bearsearscoalition.org.

Ruins in proposed monument boundaries.

Photo by Justin Clifton

Rock art. Photo by Justin Clifton

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The creeping kind Proud ‘partners’ corporatize our parks

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hile we Americans celebrate the 100th anniversary of our National Park Service, America’s so-called “leaders” are aggressively commercializing our parks, converting these jewels of the common good into just another corporate cash cow.

This started with “co-branding” agreements, rationalized by NPS officials as “aligning the economic and historical legacies” of parks with advertisers. In other words, they are selling the Park Service’s proud public brand … as well as its soul.

First in line was Coca-Cola. In 2010, the multibillion-dollar colossus became a “Proud Partner” with NPS by making a mere $2.5 million tax-deductible donation.

In return, Coke got exclusive rights to use park logos in its ads—and it also was allowed to veto an NPS plan to ban sales of bottled water in the Grand Canyon park.

Disposable plastic bottles are that park’s biggest source of trash, but Coke owns the Dasani brand of water, so bye-bye ban.

Public outrage forced officials to reverse this crass move, but NPS’ integrity has yet to recover.

By Jim Hightower

Then this April, the park service abandoned its policy of rejecting any ties to alcohol products when Anheuser-Busch also became a Proud NPS Partner by making a $2.5 million tax-deductible “gift.” In turn, its Budweiser brand was given the Statue of Liberty. Not literally, but symbolically—Bud now has the right to plaster Lady Liberty, the iconic symbol of the USA itself, on its cans.

Creeping commercialization of our public parks is not creeping, it’s running rampant! For example, take a whiff of this: In return for becoming a Proud Partner, Air Wick was authorized to market a new fragrance collection that it advertises as being “uniquely inspired by America’s national parks.”

Jim Hightower is a best-selling author, radio commentator, nationally syndicated columnist and editor of The Hightower Lowdown, a populist political newsletter.

He has spent the past four decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers that ought-to-be: consumers, working families, small businesses, environmentalists and just-plain-folks. For more of his work, visit www.jimhightower.com.

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Bartender wisdom The spirit of the context

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ften times I’ll be tending bar, pour a person a Guinness, and as the beer cascades in the Imperial pint, they’ll ask something along the lines of: “Is the Guinness in the U.S. as good as it is Ireland?”

To which my reply will be along the lines of “No,” as I push the tap handle back and top off the pint. There’s really no way it could be, in fact. Although rumors persist that the pint of Guinness you’re drinking on draft is made in Canada (nasty rumor, in fact), for the time being, in the U.S. all draft Guinness is from Ireland. As the folks at Guinness attest: “All the Guinness sold in the U.K., Ireland and North America is brewed in Ireland at the historic St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin.”

So it is the same beer. Of course, it has to travel a bit and this will wear on a beer’s taste as kegs move from truck to boat to train to who knows what else before it winds its way into the keg cooler I pour from. The system we pour on is the same system over there (75 percent nitrogen, 25 percent CO2 mix—not all bars do this and you can taste that difference). Guinness provides the Imperial pints, so it’s the same shape vessel containing your draught.

The reason why I can so confidently say that the Guinness is better in Ireland boils down to the fact that you’re in Ireland when you drink it. So, of course, drinking a Guinness in Ireland is better than drinking it in the pub that is a block away from where you just got off of work. I enjoy pouring the best Guinness I can in the mountain town I call home, but I can’t compete with a pint poured in a pub that looks out on the statue of famed Irish leader Jim Connolly with his huge hands raised up to the heavens as if to embody the rising Irish tide of freedom!

The context, the surroundings, your environment and mood add an extra life to whatever you’re drinking. Whether traveling far or near, a libation imbibed while you’re feeling light and good tastes that much better. I’ve had the good fortune of making three trips in the past decade to Ireland. For only one was I working. I was there to do a poetry reading in Dublin in a gorgeous building at the top of O’Connell Street.

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Not exactly a shift in the salt mine. I also was heading to Belfast for a few days to interview famed poet, peace activist, and retired steel worker Dennis Greig. While the time in Belfast was intense, beautiful and terribly sad, I didn’t drink much then.

I was on the clock. Afterward, however, I was on a bus heading south, back to Dublin, and I could let my mind, my wits, relax a bit. That pint at a pub just outside of TrinityCollege may have been the best Guinness I ever had. In fact, I’m pretty sure out of the thousands to choose from that was the top one.

I don’t have any scientific evidence, case studies, trial groups, or the like, but those memories of tossing back a beer set in a significant life context are the best ones. Beer, wine, or whiskey, the best drink I ever had was a bottle of Miller Lite served a little warm. It was years ago. I’d been sitting at a bar with some of my coworkers back when I used to work as a wildland firefighter. My old fire boss and I were drinking some Miller Lites and occasionally washing them down with a well whiskey. Even with hazard pay and overtime, wildland firefighters don’t make top shelf single malt kind of money, certainly not compared with the risk (I was an E3 government employee in 2002. I didn’t make much.)

But I loved what I did and that night I was blowing off some steam, and I had to say to my fire boss mid-more or less truefire story, “Dave, I have to go.” “Where?” he said. “To the dance floor,” I replied, where the person who I would eventually marry was dancing. We boogied to a local band whose name I can’t recall. As the night wound down we ordered a couple of Miller Lites that certainly tasted better than anything brewed before or after. Slainte.

For more than 20 years, James Jay has worked in the bar business from dishwasher, bouncer, bartender, bar manager to pub owner. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry and his poems have been selected for the New Poets of the American West anthology.

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Coconino Center for the Arts: New exhibition, Journey, by local artist Sei Saito.

Prescott artist Jan Marshall’s watercolor exhibition, The Space Between, will show concurrently in the Jewel Gallery. Both run through Aug. 15.

Gallery hours are Tue-Sat, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.

2300 N. Ft. Valley Road. 779-2300 Downtown Flagstaff: Flagstaff Eats. Walking food tours in downtown Flag. Two-and-a-half hours of walking and sampling food from seven different restaurants. Tours offered every weekend Thursday through Sunday. $40 per person. Sign up on www.flagstaffeats.com.

213-9233 Flagstaff CSA and Market: Weekly harvest from local, pesticide-free farms.

Spaces open for the summer share. Prorated rate: $450 for full (weekly) shares and $240 for half (bi-weekly) shares. Runs through October. Come in Thu 1-7 p.m. for CSA pick-up. Open Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sat-Sun 10 a.m.-2 p.m. with fresh, local produce. 116 Cottage Ave. 213-6948 Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Continuing Taoist tai chi and beginner class. Every Thursday. 5:30-7:30p.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org.

400 W Aspen. 288-2207 Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Weekly Mindfulness Meditation every Thursday.

Room 24 upstairs. 6:30 p.m. instruction, 7-8:30 p.m. sitting and walking meditation. 8:30 p.m. discussion. Come and go anytime. Free and open to all.

400 W. Aspen. 774-7383 Freeman Huber Law Offcies: Nature Exposed Photography presents the finalists of this year’s Youth Lens: High School Photography Contest. Featuring 26 entries. Prizewinners will be announced during next month’s ArtWalk on Aug. 7. Exhibition runs through Sept. 4.

Free. 19 W. Birch. (480) 398-3108 The Green Room: Film screening: Our Canyon Lands. A new film by local filmmaker Justin Clifton and the Grand Canyon Trust focusing on boundary and development issues in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park.

Doors open at 6 p.m., films starts at 6:30 p.m. Q&A with Clifton following the film. Free and open to the public. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio: Individualized kung fu instruction in xingyi, bagua and taji. Every Thursday. 6-8 p.m. www. flagstaffkungfu.org. 4 W. Phoenix. 779-5858 Joe C Montoya Community and Senior Center: Hour-long small group guitar classes. Ages 13 and up. Two sessions every Thursday from 3-5 p.m. Flexible format, multiple styles.

Registration required. $30 for five classes, and $4 materials. 245 N Thorpe. (505) 6146706 Joe C Montoya Community and Senior Center: Guitar for absolute beginners. Short-term class teaches tuning, terminology, basic chords, melody and simple notation. Meets first three Thursdays of each month. $25 for three classes, and $4 materials. Ages 13 and up. Registration required. 245 N Thorpe. (505) 614-6706 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Bipolarized: Rethinking Mental Illness. Special encore event. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Q&A with filmmaker Ross McKenzie following the film. $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members.

2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 The Museum Club: Line dance lessons. Every Tuesday and Thursday night from 6-7 p.m. $3. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 The Museum Club: Flagstaff Swing Dance Club presents dance lessons every Thursday night from 7-8 p.m.

Different dance style taught each month. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434

Museum of Northern Arizona: Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe.

Juxtaposing old and new by identifying historic sites and making new contemporary photographs via re-photography. Runs through Nov. 1. Museum hours are Mon-Sat, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Regular museum admission rates apply. $12 adults (18 and up); $8 youth, students with ID and American Indians; children 10 and under are free. 3101 N. Ft. Valley Road. 774-5213 Museum of Northern Arizona: Roundball Religion. Ongoing series and new exhibition by Flag photographer Joe Cornett. Featuring homemade and improvised basketball hoops and their backstories. Runs through Sept. 30. Museum hours are Mon-Sat, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Regular museum admission rates apply. $12 adults (18 and up); $8 youth, students with ID and American Indians; children 10 and under are free. 3101 N. Ft. Valley Road. 774-5213 Museum of Northern Arizona: Thirsty Thursdays. New after-hours series celebrating the Museum’s recent National Medal win.

Featuring music, dance, storytelling, and hands-on activities. Cash bar and food vendor on-site. 5 p.m. $5. 3101 N. Ft. Valley Road. 774-5213 Red Rock State Park: Guided nature walk at 10 a.m. Guest speaker or a ranger/naturalist gives a 45-minute talk at 2 p.m.

Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per vehicle. 4050 Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Partnered dance night. Featuring salsa, zouk, West Coast swing, East Coast swing, kizomba, bachata and more. Hosted by Flagstaff Latin Dance Collective and Grand Canyon Salsa Festival.

Every Thursday. 7 p.m.-midnight. Free. Every Thursday. 101 S. San Francisco. 774-3523 Simply Spiritual Healing: Thursday night meditation. Every Thursday.

6-7 p.m. $20. All are invited. 105 E. Birch. 779-6322

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | THU 8.6

Cruiser’s Café: World musician Vincent Z. Noon-2:30 p.m. Every Thursday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Williams. 635-2445 Heritage Square: 2015 Summer Concert Series. Featuring Burnett Family Bluegrass. National award-winning, allfamily bluegrass band from Flag. 5-7 p.m. Free.

Downtown Flagstaff on Aspen between Leroux and San Francisco.

Main Stage Theater: Acoustic Happy Hour with Llory McDonald.

4-7 p.m. First Thursdays with Menagerie. 8 p.m.

Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Monte Vista Lounge: Karaoke with Ricky Bill. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 The Spirit Room: Gina Machovina. 8 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome.

(928) 634-8809 Wanderlust Brewing Co.: Ky Burt. New Americana, folk and blues from Portland, Ore. Music from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Taproom open from 4-9 p.m. 1519 N. Main Street, Ste. #102. 351-7952

VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | FRI 8.7

Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse: Theatrikos Theatre Co. Presents: The Full Monty.

Directed by Jan Rominger. Performances 7:30 p.m.

Fri and Sat; 2 p.m. Sun. $25. Runs through Aug. 9.

11 W. Cherry. www.theatrikos.com. 774-1662 Downtown Flagstaff: First Friday Art Walk. Monthly event celebrating local artists and galleries. 6-9 p.m. Various locations downtown and on the southside. www. flagstaffartwalk.com

AUG. 6–12, 2015 Episcopal Church of the Epiphany: Taoist tai chi. Every Friday. 9-10:30 a.m. flagstaff. az@taoist.org. 423 N. Beaver. 774-2911 Flagstaff Elk’s Lodge: Weekly all-you-can-eat Fish Fry. Fish fry begins at 6 p.m. and bingo starts at 7 p.m. $10. Must be 18 or older to participate in bingo. All proceeds benefit Elks Children Charities. Every Friday. 2101 N. San Francisco. 774-6271 The Green Room: Indigo Art Market during First Friday ArtWalk.

Featuring Jill Sans in the main gallery and other Flag artists and vendors. Painting, jewelry, art prints and more. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free entry. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Kickstand Kafé: First Friday ArtWalk featuring the work of recent ArtBox 2015 graduate students Rachel Greig’s Monochromatic Monster Mash; part of Frederica Hall’s Red List, animal portraits of extinct animals; and Debbie Shepard’s Tangled Tattoos based on Zentangle designs on nudes in ink and color pencil. Music and refreshments. 6-9 p.m. Free. 719 N. Humphreys. 779-5393 Lanning Gallery: “Summer in Sedona.” Showcasing the gallery’s warmest and brightest artworks. 5-8 p.m. during Sedona’s First Friday ArtWalk. Runs through Aug. 16. 431 State Rte. 179. Hozho. Sedona. (928) 282-6865 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Lila and Eve. (4 p.m. Fri; 4:30 p.m.

Sat; 7 p.m. Tue and Wed.) The Stanford Prison Experiment. (7 p.m. Fri and Sat; 4 p.m. Tue and Wed.) $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members.

2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Morning Glory Café: 30th Anniversary/Celebrate Southside Extravaganza. Complimentary food and beverages. Live music and art. Community open mic sign up from 5-5:30 p.m. Southside business scavenger hunt with grand prize drawing at 8:30 p.m. During First Friday ArtWalk. Free. 115 S. San Francisco. 774-3705 Turquoise Tortoise Gallery: Turquoise Tortoise Gallery Reception. New exhibition featuring summertime art and jewelry.

5-8 p.m. during Sedona’s First Friday ArtWalk.

Runs through Aug. 16. 431 State Rte. 179.

Sedona. (928) 282-2262

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | FRI 8.7

Altitudes Bar and Grill: Suns of Glory. 5-8 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver.

214-8218 Flagstaff Brewing Co.: The Naughty Bits. 10 p.m. Free. 16 E. Rte. 66.

773-1442 The Green Room: Electric Kingdom. Monthly dance party following First Friday ArtWalk. Featuring Blake Brady, Jei Christo, Just Joe and Johnny Swoope. Visuals

by Jahmontee. Art and photography by Taylor Mahoney, Megan June and Olivia Spencer. 9 p.m. $5. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Main Stage Theater: Acoustic Happy Hour with JD Powers. 4-7 p.m. PK Gregory Four Chords and a Damn Lie CD Release Show . 9 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood.

(928) 202-3460 Monte Vista Lounge: First Fridays with Enormodome. Monthly mix of ’90s covers by the alternative rock duo from Flag.

9:30 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 The Museum Club: Briana Payne Band. Country, rock and blues from Arizona. 8 p.m. $5. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Oak Creek Brewing Co.: The Chosen. 8 p.m. Free. 2050 Yavapai Drive.

Sedona. (928) 204-1300

Pepsi Amphitheater: Michael Franti & Spearhead. Roots, rock, reggae, hip-hop and soul from San Francisco. Opener: The Movement. Gates open at 6:30 p.m., show starts at 7:30 p.m. $35-$49. Exit 337 off I-17 south of Flagstaff at the Ft. Tuthill County Fairgrounds. (866) 977-6849 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Skoolboy. Laid back house music all night long.

7 p.m. Free. Every Friday. 101 S. San Francisco.

774-3523 The Spirit Room: Ghost Town Social with DJ Lounge Lizard. 8 p.m.

Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 State Bar: The Mother Road Trio. Americana and blues from Flag. 7 p.m. Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282 Vino di Sedona: Ky Burt. New Americana, folk and blues from Portland, Ore. 7-10 p.m. Free. 2575 Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 554-4682

VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | SAT 8.8

Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse: Theatrikos Theatre Co. Presents: The Full Monty.

Directed by Jan Rominger. Performances 7:30 p.m.

Fri and Sat; 2 p.m. Sun. $25. Runs through Aug. 9. 11 W. Cherry. www.theatrikos.com. 774-1662 Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class. Every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468 Galaxy Diner: Swing Dance Club every Saturday. Lessons from 7-10 p.m. Free. 931 E. Historic Rte. 66. 774-2466 The Green Room: Distinguished Scoundrels: Border to Border Comedy Tour. 6:30 p.m. Free. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Heritage Square: Movies on the Square: Double feature: Muppets Most Wanted (2014). Pre-show entertainment at 5 p.m. by Me and Chris. Movie at dusk (7:30-8 p.m.).

Free. Aspen between Leroux and San Francisco downtown. 779-2300 James Cullen Park: Continuing Taoist tai chi. Every Saturday 9-10:30 a.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. Bonito/Hopi and Apache. 288-2207 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Lila and Eve. (4:30 p.m. Sat; 7 p.m.

Tue and Wed.) The Stanford Prison Experiment.

(7 p.m. Sat; 4 p.m. Tue and Wed.) $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona.

(928) 282-1177 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Met Opera Encore: Aida. On the big screen. 1 p.m. $12.50. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Murdoch Community Center: Zumba class. Every Saturday at 9 p.m. $5. 203 E. Brannen. 226-7566 Red Rock State Park: Saturday and Wednesday daily bird walks. 7 a.m.

Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per vehicle. 4050 Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | SAT 8.8

Altitudes Bar and Grill: Jimmy Deblois. 6-9 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver. 214-8218 Cruiser’s Café: John Carpino. Singer-songwriter from northern Arizona. 5:30-9:30 p.m. Every Saturday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Williams. 635-2445 Flagstaff Brewing Co.: Muskellunge Patio Party. Bluegrass from Flag.

10 p.m. $5 cover at the door. 16 E. Rte. 66. 773-1442 The Green Room: Maka Only with Nic Bam! and Stage. Local support by Boom Box Bros. 8 p.m. $5. 15 N. Agassiz.

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rite now and be read! Flag Live invites you to submit your free-write for consideration for publication. With the first issue of each month we post a writing prompt followed by a 3/4 page of blank lines. You write (legibly, please!) a story, poem or creative non-fiction piece on the form or in a one page double-spaced Word document typed in Time New Roman, size 14 font.

(Please note: submissions that exceed or do not meet the outlined criteria will not be accepted.) ‌You can use your smartphones, digital cameras or scanners to create an image document of your writing and send it—or your one page double-spaced Word doc—to Andrew Wisniewski at andyw@flaglive.com by Fri, Aug. 14 at 5 p.m. Author and writing mentor Mary Sojourner will read submissions and choose a writer to be featured in Flag Live the last week of the month. The cycle will continue with a new prompt and new winner each month. Watch for it … and Write on!

Round 18 Prompt: S/he/I can’t hide my fear. I gave up on my disgust a few hours ago. I turn to the door, look back and …

Base the fear and disgust not on a person, but on a value or belief the character holds deeply.

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Monte Vista Lounge: decker. Psychedelic desert rock from Sedona.

9:30 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 The Museum Club: Briana Payne Band. Country, rock and blues from Arizona. 8 p.m. $5. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Oak Creek Brewing Co.: Kenzo. 3 p.m. Free. Open mic with James Turner.

8 p.m. Free. 2050 Yavapai Drive. Sedona. (928) 204-1300 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Live @ 5. Featuring Jane Brooks with weekly special guests. 5 p.m. Free. Every Saturday. 101 S. San Francisco. 774-3523 The Spirit Room: Llory McDonald and Combo Deluxe. 2 p.m. Free.

L.A. Witch and Death Valley Girls. 9 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 State Bar: Vincent z. World music from Flag. 7:30 p.m. Free.

10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282

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Canyon Dance Academy: Flag Freemotion. Ballroom dance lessons and dancing every Sunday. Learn social and ballroom dancing. 5-7 p.m. No partner needed. $8, $5 for students. 853-6284. 2812 N. Izabel. 814-0157 Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse: Theatrikos Theatre Co. Presents: The Full Monty.

Directed by Jan Rominger. Performances 7:30 p.m. Fri and Sat; 2 p.m. Sun. $25. Runs through Aug. 9. 11 W. Cherry. www.theatrikos. com. 774-1662 Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy: Flag Freemotion. Conscious movement/freestyle dance. Moving meditation to dance-able music. Minimum instruction and no experience required. Every Sunday. 10:30 a.m. www. flagstafffreemotion.com. 3401 N. Ft Valley Road.

225-1845 Flagstaff City Hall: Flagstaff Community Market. 8 a.m.-noon. Free.

Runs through Oct. 18. www.flagstaffmarket.com.

Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio: Weekly Flagstaff Zen Sangha Meditation.

8:30 a.m. Free. Every Sunday. Sutra service, walking meditations (kinhin), and two 25 minute sitting meditations (zazen). First time come at 8 a.m. for orientation. 4 W. Phoenix. 773-0750 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Globe on Screen: Julius Caesar. On the big screen from the famous Globe Theatre of London.

3 p.m. $15, $12.50 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Monte Vista Lounge: Sunday Night Trivia with Lindsay and Savanna.

Every Sunday. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco.

779-6971 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Game Night in the Whyld Ass Restaurant and Zumba with Jimmy on the rooftop. 7 p.m. Free.

Every Sunday. 101 S. San Francisco. 774-3523 State Bar: Blues brunch. Featuring a Cajun buffet by Stachmo’s and music by Arizona Blues Hall of Famer Tommy Dukes. Beer and wine included.

11 a.m.-2 p.m. $55 per person; $100 for a couple.

10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282 Tranzend Studio: Flagstaff Latin Dance Collective. Lessons: beginner and all level fundamentals, technique and musicality. 7 p.m. Open dancing in main room with salsa, bachata, merengue and cha cha; side room with zouk and kizomba until 10 p.m. Every Sunday. $10 drop-in, $8 for students. 417 W. Santa Fe. 814-2650

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1899 Bar and Grill: Vincent Z. Acoustic world music. Every Sunday.

6:30-8:30 p.m. 307 W. Dupont. 523-1899 Altitudes Bar and Grill: Sip ‘N Stroll and the Flat Fives. 2-5 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver. 214-8218 Cruiser’s Café: John Carpino. Singer-songwriter from northern Arizona. 5:30-9:30 p.m. Every Sunday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Williams. 635-2445 Flagstaff Brewing Co.: Dave Logan Band. 10 p.m. Free. 16 E. Rte. 66.

773-1442 The Green Room: Karaoke. 8 p.m. Free. Every Sunday. 15 N. Agassiz.

226-8669 Josephine’s: Vincent Z for brunch every Sunday. Acoustic world music. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. 503 N. Humphreys. 779-3400 864-7072 Mountainaire Tavern: Gina Machovina. 3 p.m. Free. 110 Mountainaire Road. 525-1137 The Spirit Room: Llory McDonald and Combo Deluxe. 2 p.m. Free.

166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809

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Charly’s Pub & Grill: Game night. 5-8 p.m. Free. 23 N. Leroux. 774-2731 Episcopal Church of the Epiphany: Taoist tai chi. Every Monday. 10:30 a.m.-noon. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. 423 N Beaver. 288-2207 Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class. Every Monday. 6 p.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468 The Green Room: Weekly trivia night hosted by Martina. Every Monday. 6:30-8 p.m. Free. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Hozhoni Art Gallery: Larry Linhardt @ Large. Featuring the work of premiere Sedona found-object artist. Runs through Sept. 11. Opening reception from 5-7 p.m. on Aug 28. Gallery hours are Mon-Wed and Friday 11 a.m.4 p.m. Closed Sat and Sun. 2133 N. Walgreen Blvd.

526-7944 Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio: Tango classes. Fundamentals: 6-6:30 p.m. $5.

Figures and Techniques: 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10. (Both classes for dancers having completed a beginner dance series). Practica: 7:30-9 p.m. Practica included in price of class. 4 W. Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Amy. One night only. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | MON 8.10

Campus Coffee Bean: Open Mic night. Every Monday. 6-8 p.m. ccbopenmic@gmail.com. 1800 S. Milton Road. 556-0660 Cruiser’s Café: World musician Vincent Z. Noon-2:30 p.m. John Carpino. Singer-songwriter from northern Arizona. 5:30-9:30 p.m. Every Monday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Williams. 635-2445 The Green Room: Karaoke. 8 p.m. Free. Every Monday. 15 N. Agassiz.

226-8669 Hops on Birch: Open mic night. Every Monday. 8:30 p.m. sign-up.

9 p.m. start. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011 Main Stage Theater: Karaoke Service Industry Night. 8 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Pulse continued on page 28

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The Museum Club: Open mic night. Every Monday. 8 p.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Olde Sedona Bar and Grill: Jam session/open mic every Monday. 9 p.m. 1405 W. Hwy. 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-5670 State Bar: Buggaboo. Americana, country and blues from Austin, Texas. 7 p.m. Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282

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Firecreek Coffee Co.: Speak Up: Bridging the gap between local people and local politics. Forum for Flag residents to connect with local politics. 5 p.m. Free. Every Tuesday. 22 E. Rte. 66. 774-2266 Hops on Birch: Trivia night with Eric Hays. Every Tuesday.

8:30 p.m. sign-up. 9 p.m. start. 22 E. Birch.

774-4011 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: The Stanford Prison Experiment.

(4 p.m. Tue and Wed.) Lila and Eve. (7 p.m. Tue and Wed.) $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members.

2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 The Museum Club: Line dance lessons. Every Tuesday. 6-7 p.m. $3.

3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Orpheum Theater: Hunting Film Tour. Doors open at 6 p.m., film starts at 7 p.m. $15. All ages. 15 W. Aspen.

556-1580 Ponderosa High School: Beginner Taoist tai chi. Every Tuesday 5:30-7 p.m.

Followed by continuing Taoist tai chi. Every Tuesday. 7-8:30 p.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. 2384 N. Steves. 288-2207 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Cult Circus. ’80s movies. 6 p.m. Black Box talks with guest speakers. 8 p.m. Free. Every Tuesday.

101 S. San Francisco. 774-3523 Taala Hooghan Infoshop: Dharma Punx meditation group every Tuesday.

8:15 p.m. 1700 N. 2nd St. www.taalahooghan.org Temple of the Divine Mother: Unplug and Recharge Meditation: Come join us to unplug from stress and recharge your being by learning moving, sound, & guided meditation. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month.

Ongoing from 7-8:30 p.m. by donation.

Uptown Pubhouse: Poet’s Den. Bi-weekly poetry and literary night.

Hosted by Molly Wood. Featuring the collective works of a new poet with each go ‘round. This time: John Keats. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m. followed by readings of the featured poet and an open mic. Every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Free. 114 N. Leroux. 773-0551

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The Green Room: Honky Tonk Tuesdays. Featuring DJ MJ. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. Free. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Main Stage Theater: Open mic with D.L. Harrison. 8-11 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Mia’s Lounge: Jazz Jam. 9 p.m. Free. 26 S. San Francisco.

774-3315 Monte Vista Lounge: Karaoke with Ricky Bill. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 Oak Creek Brewing Co.: Drumz and Dance Party. Free. 6:30 p.m. 2050 Yavapai Drive. Sedona. (928) 204-1300

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Charly’s Pub & Grill: Team trivia. 7 p.m. 23 N. Leroux. 774-2731 Firecreek Coffee Co: Poetry slam. Every Wednesday. Signup at 7 p.m., 8 p.m. start. 22 E. Rte. 66. 774-2266 Flagstaff CSA and Market: Weekly Wednesday Meditation. Guided meditation and open discussion. Anyone is welcome to join. Every Wednesday. 9-10 a.m. 116 Cottage Ave. 213-6948 Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class. Every Wednesday. 7 p.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468 Heritage Square: Dancing on the Square. Free lesson from 7-8 p.m., followed by open dancing until 10.

Lessons taught by volunteers, alternating between Latin and swing each week. All ages welcome. No partner needed. 7-10 p.m. Free.

Runs through Aug. 26. Downtown Flagstaff on Aspen between Leroux and San Francisco.

Jim’s Total Body Fitness: Flagstaff Latin Dance Collective. Six week salsa dance fundamentals. 6-7p.m. $15 drop in, $20 for couples. Every Wednesday. www.latindancecollective.com. 2150 N. 4th St. 814-2650 Lumberyard Brewing Co.: Extreme Wednesdays. Showing extreme sports videos. Free. 10 p.m. 5 S. San Francisco. 779-2739 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: The Stanford Prison Experiment.

4 p.m. Lila and Eve. 7 p.m. $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona.

(928) 282-1177 Main Stage Theater: In House Dart and Pool Leagues. 6 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Majerle’s Sports Grill: Trivia night. Every Wednesday. 7 p.m. 102 W. Rte. 66. 774-6463 Murdoch Community Center: Zumba class. Every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. $5.

203 E. Brannen. 226-7566 Red Rock State Park: Saturday and Wednesday daily bird walks. 7 a.m.

Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per vehicle. 4050 Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907 The Rendezvous: Classic Horror Movie Wednesdays. This week: The Satanic Rights of Dracula (1974). 8 p.m.

Free movie and popcorn. 100 N. San Francisco.

779-6971 State Bar: Wings and Wine. Pairing Pillsbury Winery from Cottonwood with Wil’s Grill from Flag. 6 p.m. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | WED 8.12

Altitudes Bar and Grill: Liquor Smiths. 9-11 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver.

214-8218 The Green Room: Soulective. DJs spinning funk, dance, hip-hop and EDM. Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. Free 15 N. Agassiz.

226-8669 Mia’s Lounge: Open mic night. 9 p.m. Free. 26 S. San Francisco.

774-3315 Monte Vista Lounge: The Mod Zombies. ’60s garage rock from Phoenix.

9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Encore Karaoke. 7 p.m. Free. Every Wednesday.

101 S. San Francisco. 774-3523 The Spirit Room: Ronno Piano hosts open mic. 2 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809

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Appliance Repair in your home. Best in Flagstaff w/23 yrs Exp & Insured. Call Russ @928-863-1416

CONCRETE

Accel Construction Group offers The Best Concrete Work for the Best Price. Free Estimates. ROC# 219882. 928-527-1257 QUALITY CONCRETE Free Est. Chris 928255-3548. Not a Licensed Contractor

EQUIPMENT

Annual Equipment Service Special Service most makes of Farm, Construction, & Lawn Equipment Pick up/Delivery Available 7741969 www.flagequip.com

FIREWOOD

Aspen & Juniper Firewood For Sale. Ready to burn. Call for info: 779-0581 Clean, barkless aspen $150, hard pinon $160, ponderosa $125, mixed $145, juniper avbl.

All wood buy 2 cords save 15% Full cords 16” split & delivered (928) 587-8356 FIREWOOD FOR SALE Juniper $170 & Oak $240 cord. Jose (928) 863-0147 Andy (928) 600-4618 Ramirez FIREWOOD FOR SALE Call 928-310-0012

HANDY PERSON

HAULING

Flag Hauling, Yard Clean Up, Haul Off Misc Debris, Metal, Wood, Batteries, etc. Fast, Reliable & Reasonable Rates, Lic/Ins 928-606-9000

HOUSE CLEANING

Hassle Free House Cleaning Detailed Reliable Service. Lic & Ins Laura @ 928226-0349 Housecleaning, Services Not Limited. I have Tools & 25 Years Experience. Please call 853-2874

LANDSCAPING

Kikos Landscaping Pine Needles, Yard Clean-up Francisco Valdez 928-221-9877 or 814-4787 message Not a licensed contractor HANDY SAL Complete Yard Clean-up, Hedges & weed wacking. 928-221-7931 Not a Licensed Contractor AFFORDABLE LANDSCAPE. ALL PHASES OF LANDSCAPE, PAVERS, & MORE. OVER 25 YRS EXP. CALL 928-606-9000 Peak Prop. Maint & Landscape LLC ROC#297647 ALL-N-LANDSCAPING, Paver Patios, Walkways, Edgers, Planting, Clean-up, Irrigation Main’t Free Est. Not a licensed contractor Call Juan & Betty@ 928-526-2928.

PAINTING

“Nick the Painter”, 25 yrs exp. Top Quality, Low Prices Small Jobs OK. Ref Avail.

Interior/Exterior 928-310-1862. Not a licensed contractor.

ROMANO’S PAINTING Interior & Exterior, residential painting. Free over the phone estimates. 928-600-6261 Instagram: @ romanopaintingaz Licensed & Bonded ROC#224346

PERSONAL SERVICE

CERTIFIED CAREGIVERS Available For In Home Care Call Us 928-225-9780

PEST CONTROL

High Country Pest Control LLC Spraying For Ants, Spiders, Bees, Wasps & other Pests. Humane Animal Removal - Skunks, Squirrels etc. Lic. & Ins. #9184. App#110560.

Don: 928-221-3324

PET SITTING

I OFFER HOUSE & PET SITTING Dogs, cats, birds etc. Ref. available. Michael. 928-6999321. Thank you!

PLUMBING

Plumbing Needs, Repairs, Add-ons & Remodels. (928)-890-8462 Not a licensed contractor.

HELP WANTED

Estimating Position for Retail Tenant Improvement General Contractor. Must have construction bkgd, blue print reading, computer literacy, verbal & written communication skills. Willing to train. Resume: cbertnick@ shradermartinez.com MERCHANDISERS Flagstaff Area Coremark, has openings for Merchandiser position to stock, place order & provide customer service to our customers in Flagstaff & its surrounding areas. MUST own reliable transportation, driver license & car insurance.

Pre-Placement Background check & Drug Test Required. EOE / AA. Fax resume to 702-876-2372 or email: lcastro@core-mark. com. No phone calls.

Applications are being accepted by The Town of Chino Valley for AZ P.O.S.T. certified Police Officers. Salary $20.40 - $26.77 DOE/Q, including benefits. Visit www.chinoaz.net for additional job information & to apply. EOE. Position open until filled.

Purchasing Agent-Flagstaff Experience in bid process, project takeoffs, & budgeting needed. Able to read blueprints and trouble shoot for accuracy. Some field work req’d. Ability to create and maintain professional contacts.

Must be proficient in Outlook, Word and Excel. A background in the Homebuilding Industry a plus. Offering Paid Holidays and a Competitive Benefit Package. Salary DOE. Please fax resume to 520-615-8902 Attn: Liz or email Lgallego@miramontehomes.com Sleep Inn located at 2765 S. Woodlands Village Blvd is hiring for Front Desk, Housekeepers & Maintenance Positions. Pick-up an application at the front desk.

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM

Experienced Housekeepers Hilton Garden Inn, Flagstaff MUST APPLY IN PERSON 350 W. Forest Meadows

MISC FOR SALE

2015 John Deere Riding Mowers Are Now In Stock! As Low as $1499 + tax OAC. Call for Details & Fincg. Specials Flag Equipment 928-774-1969 www.flagequip.com

FEEDS

HAY FOR SALE. Grass, alfalfa, & grass/alfalfa mix hays. Located on farm 50 min. west of Page. 3835 N. Johnson Cyn Rd. Kanab UT 84741 (435) 644-8936

GARAGE SALES EAST

Sat 08/08 & Sun 08/09 7am-12pm. Huge Sale: Furniture, Books, Clothes, Toys and SO Much More!! 8330 Acacia Drive in Doney Park

GARAGE SALES WEST

Aspen Trails Community Yard Sale Lake Mary Road to Mohawk Sat. August 8th 8am to Noon

SMALL MACHINERY

Honda Generator Sale Save 20% off select Honda Generators in stock Flagstaff Equip 928-774-1969 www.flagequip.com

HOMES FOR SALE

Best of Flagstaff 4 bdrm/3.5 ba, 3860 sq.ft., 1.5 acre lot, (largest in Amberwood); Front = mtns/Back = forest Heated driveway! 2nd home, barely lived in. 602-620-6969 FSBO-3Bdrm House on 1 acre bordering National Forest. Adjacent lot also available.

(928) 853-3692 3272 S. Little Drive $449,000 Spacious home in University Heights, listed @ $139/ sq.ft. 4bd, 3.5 ba including in-law quarters w/ potential for 5th bdrm. Large lot w/ plenty of parking. Potential for student housing?

Gardners delight-greenhouse included.

Linton R.E. 928-606-5096.

10 acre horse property by owner adjoins Coconino National Forest; roping arena, cutting pen, 8 large horse pens w/ loafing sheds, 4 stall horse barn, tack barn, 30’x60’ hay & equipment barn. 2400 sq ft cedar & malapais rock home - $745,000. 602-524-8162 or 928-526-3323

CONDOS FOR SALE

APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED

1 & 2 bdrm apt-house in Sunnyside $700$999/mo. Call Mary @ 928-526-7909.

TOWNHOME UNFURNISHED

3bed/1ba, 1100 sq. ft. Duplex, Avail 08/08, appliances incl. 2315 N Center #2, $1125/ mo. 1 yr lease Do Not Disturb Tenant. Call John 928-527-3787

ROOM FOR RENT

1 Rm Avail Now, $525mo Incl util, in 3bd/1ba furn house. W/D, CATV-Internet, N/P, N/S. 1 Mile FMC, 2 mi NAU, 9 mo lease. Call for appointments, Showing July 7th & 8th.

(520) 247-4961 Room for Rent downtown in 3bd/2ba townhouse. $450/mo. + $450 security deposit. 1/2 mi from NAU & hospital. Call (928) 607-7502

STORE AND OFFICE RENTALS

Various Retail Store Front Space & Office Space on 4th St & 7th Ave, some w// utils incl. 526-0300.

Old jewelry store 2300 N. 4th St 2600 sf, $1,700/mo Water & garbage provided Call 928-526-0300

DOMESTIC AUTOS

1983 Lincoln Town Car-Very Good Condition Inside and Out, Low Miles, (102K), New Fuel Injectors, Fuel Pump, Fan Clutch, Cold A/C, Well Kept, $2000 Firm. In Page, AZ (928) 640-3826 2001 Chrysler 300M: $2,800 Leather interior, new brakes, runs great, good tires, 2nd owner. (480) 519-1598 1978 Dodge Power Wagon P/U 400 Big Block Engine, Clean Lift Kit and Winch, $7800.

Steve 928-525-4183 or Dorothy 928-5260300 Cell 928-266-2884

MFG HOMES SALES

1986 Jeep Wrangler Soft Top High performance transmission 350 Big Block Engine, $6800 Steve 928-525-4183 or Dorothy 928-526-0300 or cell 928-266-2884

MOBILE HOMES FOR SALE

1BR/1BA custom prefab on 36 acres; solar & wind off grid. $$$ views. Fenced. Horses OK. Metal bldg/garage. 17miles N of Williams. $149K cash. 602-999-3009. PhoenixGreenHomes.com $149,000 cash

COMML & INDUST PROPERTIES

8000 sq ft old charter school building, 2301 N. 4th St. Selling for appraisal price of $750K. 928-526-0300

HOMES FURNISHED

3--12’ x 14’ bedrooms for rent individually.

Master suite + private bath also available.

Fully furnished, great location. N/S, N/P. Deposit required. Starting at $650/mo. Contact Blaze Austin 256-283-3179 Quiet cul de sac in Munds Park on the forest line. 1 br + loft, fully furnished w/pool table, washer & dryer. Available 9/1/15. For more info: (928) 221-3981. $1400/mo.

HOMES UNFURNISHED

Beautiful Munds Park 4Br 4Ba 2500sqft 2.5 car garage on .5acre, washer / dryer. Large private deck vaulted ceilings gas fireplace, small pet considered. $1700 / month. Andy at (928)890-4350 Ponderosa Trails, 4 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage, 2100sq.ft. This beautiful home backs private forest land in one of Flagstaff’s favorite neighborhoods! Available August. (928) 6074895 $2100/mo.

Rent to Own: 10 Acres in Parks, 2br/2ba in vintage bldgs, also w/ bunkhouse & storage bldg. VIEWS! $1250 + deposit (928) 635-2011 Parks Area 3+2 mfg. home on almost half acre, fenced, Next to RR crossing, Income producing water well, Owner carry preferred MLS#162865 Mark O/A 928-856-1144 $975/ mo. markjcooper1@gmail.com

All-Clad Grill/Griddle. New in box (Paid $330) $225. Great gift! . Dale Earnhart jacket-Never worn. $75. 928-606-4956 Side-by-side, white, refrigerator. Used summers only. Excellent condition. 150.00.

Call 928.286.4593 NEW Craftsmen 1.5hp router w/ table, guide & bit set, $160. Dell XP laptop, $30. Pair of Hodgman waders sz 8, $25. (928) 527-1121 New Craftsman Drill Press, 12” 2/3hp, $150 Call 928-310-3190 Craftsman 5HP snowblower, engine runs, transmission blown. FREE! 928-853-9939 New 5100 BTU air conditioner, $80. 32” Flatscreen TV, new worth $260, selling for $180. New coffee maker, worth $90, selling for $40. Call (928) 225-6822 Gas Dryer Fisher Paykel, $100. Maytag Centennial Washer, $150; 26” LG HD TV, $50. All Work Great! In Flagstaff call (952) 250-6798 Wood Stove, glass in door, variable speed fan: $280. (928) 607-3472 Helwig Pro Overload springs, $125. EZLift receiver hitch & bars, $50. Lincoln buzz box welder, $20. Mac 4600 chainsaw, $30. Boat anchor, $10. Call Andy (928) 526-2268 (3) 400+ Watt Power Inverters w/ Cables.

12 volt to 120 volt. $40 each OBO. 928600-4520 Futon, black metal, gently used. Comes w/2 pads & 1 cover for pads. $100 call (928) 853-6051

TRUCKS

1bd/1ba Arbors Condo. Fully upgraded, granite countertops, in-unit w/d. 1st floor unit w/enclosed porch. 1 mi from NAU and downtown. Call/ text 623-221-4103 for showing. $139,999 1998 Cavco-Corner lot, fully furnished, additional room, large deck, AC/heat pump, Munds Park RV Resort #181. $51,900 602684-9726 or 602-738-6093

BARGAIN CORNER 25 cu ft Almond Amana Refrigerator w/ ice maker $175. 25 cu ft White Whirlpool Refrigerator W/ ice makers$125. 928-606-6504 or 928-606-7500 SOCCER CLEATS, outgrown, Adidas US sz.

7; Umbro US sz. 8.5, $15 per pair. Call (928) 814-2615.

Maytag Glass Electric Range, good condition, $125. Call (928) 284-0730.

Mitsubishi 55” Projection TV. HDTV, loaded with features. Excellent Condition. Only $99. 928-637-8849 Dog kennel 2’2” x 3’6” & Ht 2’5” $20.00. 1 Bench press $20. 1 Bench press w// leg curl + extension $20. (Different weights as a set $50.) 928-856-0369 Wheelbarrow $10, BBQ $10. 928-522-5839 LG portable A/C $125. Amana 4 burner gas stove top white/gray $100. 4piece ceramic canister set white/silver $20. Used white kitchen sink w/fixtures $30. 928-699-6351 96 Pontiac Grand AM, 4 cyl, runs but needs engine work; $300. Call 928-255-3189 Outboard Motor Johnson 9.5hp,$300 or will trade, Call 623-385-9611 2 Sturdy Antique Toilets, $25 each OBO. Nearly New Snow Blower, needs transmission. $250. Call (928) 774-6852.

Moving. Snowthrower. Snow Joe Ultra 18”.

(Brand New Cost $220) Sell for $100.

928-533-6769

4 WHEEL DRIVE

AIRCRAFT

1946 Cessna 120, fresh annual, 2252 TT/443 SMOH, tie down Flagstaff, Must sell - lost eyesight, $14,000 (928)-525-1814

ATV’S & UTV’S

2014 Red Polaris Ranger 900XP EPS, Excellent cond. 2,700mi. $15.5k fully loaded OBO or $13k stripped. Call (928) 600-4609

CAMPERS

1994 Jayco TE $500 OBO 1994 Jayco 12 Tent Trailer needs jacks replaced. Mark (928) 606-2441.

5TH WHEELS

2010 Cyclone 3010 Toy Hauler, Full Amenities, Load Dampening King Pin, Furnace/AC, 5.5 kw Generator, $37,000. For more info/details, call (928) 660-1980.

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Full Remodel, Carpentry, Roof, Tile, Drywall, Concrete, Landscaping, Painting, Plumbing, Doors & Windows, Electrical. 928-221-4036 Not a licensed contractor A1 Handyman! Call Mike’s Tool Box Decks, tile, doors/windows, paint. Mike, 928600-6254 Free Estimates Not a Licensed Contractor All Home Repair & Remodeling. (928)-3109800. Carpentry, decks, drywall, stone & tilework, painting, roofing, flooring, landscaping & maintenance. Not a licensed contractor Licensed Contractor/Craftsman Can tend to all your Home Remodel or Repair needs. No job too small. ROC# 265086. (928)-5254072 AZ NATIVE HANDYMAN Major/Minor home repairs, decks, roofing, drywall, fencing, welding, storage sheds & auto repairs.

Quality Assured. Free local estimates. 928814-0497 Not a licensed contractor N. AZ Remodel & Repair LLC. Remodels, repairs from smallest to largest job. Locally owned, 15 yrs exp. Lots of references.

Free Est. 480-298-3267 Not a Licensed Contractor

MASSAGE

Natural Touch Massage: LCMT Sports, Swedish, Relaxation, Deep Tissue. Call Sue 928-606-5374 Receive a Massage or Reflexology session in the comfort of your home. Call Gudi Cheff at 221-7474.

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