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JULY 7, 2022 | VOL. 37, NO. 27 The Tucson Weekly is available free of charge in Pima County, limited to one copy per reader. Additional copies of the current issue of the Tucson Weekly may be purchased for $1, payable at the Tucson Weekly office in advance. To find out where you can pick up a free copy of the Tucson Weekly, please visit TucsonWeekly.com

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County courthouse honored for renovation.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

ADMINISTRATION Steve T. Strickbine, Publisher Michael Hiatt, Vice President

GREAT WORK IN PROGRESS OFTEN WHEN I TELL SOMEONE I’M in the newspaper business as a publisher, I get an incredulous look. I get it.

Few industries have taken the kind of beating the newspaper business has over past decade. But today from my seat, I’m happy to report that publications like this one, and their important journalistic missions, are alive and well.

As an Arizona native and a lifelong believer in the importance of good journalism, I’ve always admired this newspaper and the reporters and editors who have been spilling its ink for nearly 40 years. That’s an amazing run in an industry where more than 1,700 weekly publications have closed since 2004.

It’s no wonder in a survey of 12,000 professional journalists released last week by the Pew Research Center, 72% of respondents used a negative word to describe the news industry.

Among the most common choices?

Struggling. Chaos. Dying. Declining. Stressful. Difficult.

The newspaper business may be all those things, but community news remains vital.

Which is precisely why I continue to believe strongly in our profession, and why I’ve poured my life savings into the Tucson Weekly and more than 30 other publications.

What journalists do — from celebrating

local treasures like The Loft cinema to covering the impact of mining in the Santa Ritas — matters. We’re here to tell you the stories, from where to get insanely good jerk tequila glazed shrimp (D’s Island Grill on Fort Lowell Road) to how Yasmynn Lopez and her group BABZ is engaging a new generation of Tucson girls to skateboard.

Every week, Tucson Weekly takes you to corners of the city you might never visit otherwise and introduces you to advocates, business owners, volunteers and experiences you might never glimpse without a smart, in-the-know tour guide.

Frankly, I can’t imagine a cooler way to make a living. In that regard, I’m a lot like the journalists Pew surveyed. For all the turmoil they’ve witnessed in their careers, 77% said they would pursue a career in journalism again, and they are extremely proud of their work.

The pride we have in our work wouldn’t mean much if you, the Weekly’s readers, didn’t share in the excitement. After all, we work for you. If you don’t continue to value our content, then our advertisers might stop seeing Tucson Weekly as the right venue to reach tens of thousands of would-be custom-

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Stopping by Horseshoe Bend on the way back from a trip to Utah.

A HIGH-STAKES MISSION AT HORSESHOE BEND In which my explorin’ ventures slightly beyond the Sonoran

By Emily Dieckman Tucson Local Media

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I’M NOT A VERY SPONTANEOUS person, but I like to try, or pretend, to be one. So, when I drive by Horseshoe Bend on my way home from a trip to Utah, I think, “I still have six hours of driving until I’m home, but that won’t stop my adventurous spirit! I go where the wind takes me!”

In reality, this looks more like me doing a double take when I pass the sign, then pulling over to consider whether this is worth it. How long is the hike to this site the National Park Service website describes as a “social media darling” (ugh)? What time will I get home if I add this detour? Is it too hot? But I’ve been wanting to see it, and who knew the next time I’d be in the area? So I turn around.

Viva adventure!

Having just come from a week of clambering around other national parks, I am

more than prepared to do the 1.5-mile round-trip walk. Too prepared, actually.

I change into hiking clothes in my car, strap into my hiking boots, and ready my CamelBak and water bottle.

Maybe I should have kept my cute dress on. On the hike (OK, stroll) out, I try to decide whether I feel superior to all the tourists around me because I’m so prepared, or like an idiot compared to the people around me because I am so overprepared. I am definitely not going to run out of water. But the women in cute outfits are definitely going to get cuter photos for Instagram, and they’re not going to run out of water, either.

A note about photographing Horseshoe Bend… I think a lot of the “social media darling” shots I’ve seen on the internet must have involved drones, because it feels almost impossible to get

the whole bend in one photo, even while getting reasonably close to the edge. And I’m certainly not about to get unreasonably close to the edge. (I Google “Horseshoe Bend deaths” when I get home, and I do not recommend you do the same.)

I ask a friendly-looking woman if she’d mind taking a photo of me. I just want to send it to my mom so she can marvel at what a spontaneous, adventurous daughter she raised. The woman calls her tall boyfriend over and starts speaking to him in French, enlisting his height for the task. Oh no. These people came all the way from France to spend their vacation taking photos of an American. He takes a few with her careful coaching, and I thank them.

“Now us?” the woman asks.

Of course! I owe them. A pleasure and a privilege to repay this favor for my new French friends! I step back to take a photo and realize a little pile of stuff we made off to the side is now in the frame. “Let me move this!” I announce. I try holding my hands above my head to take a photo from higher up. Maybe that would get the whole horseshoe in the shot? Hm. It’s hard to take a picture when you can’t see what you’re capturing. I decide to just take a normal photo and adjust as needed from there.

As I’m helplessly piddling around, looking like someone who has never taken a picture of anything in her life, the man starts to lower himself onto one knee. Yes, reader. This man proposes to his girlfriend. And I am the engagement photographer.

I basically black out from stress. (I crumple easily under stress and happen

to find almost everything stressful.) But I am conscious enough to hit the shutter button with feverish speed. We’re done trying to find the perfect angle. The perfect angle is anything where these lovebirds are in the frame.

The woman is shocked, and their interaction is mostly quiet, the way bliss sometimes is. I take somewhere between 10 and 10 million photos before I decide I should maybe just switch to video. Is that what they would want? Who knows?

There! I switched to video. Now I can stop frantically touching the icon because “Oh my God. I forgot to press ‘record.’” (Luckily only a few seconds go by before I realize this, but I do not take this offense lightly. Those seconds haunt my dreams.)

I record the remainder of the interaction until the woman comes to get her phone back. Both of our jaws are resting at the bottom of the canyon. I congratulate her and ask if she wants any more photos. She shakes her head.

Dazed, I congratulate them again and wander off.

It occurs to me I should shift from dazed wandering into frantic fleeing.

What if the photos didn’t come out well?

Did I just spoil an engagement? I speedwalk back to the car and try to reassure myself that at least one of the photos I took, or one frame of the video, is probably usable. And, worst-case scenario, the happy couple will have a story about the “américain stupide” who ruined their proposal photos/their engagement/their lives.

This was far too much spontaneity for one day.

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HISTORIC COUNTY COURTHOUSE RENOVATION HONORED

By Alexandra Pere Tucson Local Media

THE PIMA COUNTY HISTORIC Courthouse renovation won a major award in June.

The courthouse project was named the

2022 Public Works Project of the Year among historical restoration projects costing $25 million to $75 million by the Arizona chapter of the American Public

Works Association.

“We were very surprised,” said Lisa Josker, director of Pima County’s facilities management department and overseer of the renovation project.

“We’ve never won an award for a building,” Pima County Historic Courthouse at 115 N. Church Avenue finished renovations in 2021 after prolonged delays due to the pandemic.

Planning began in 2015, when the various tenants, including the offices for the Pima County treasurer and Pima County assessor, along with the justice courts, moved to new digs. Before the move, the courthouse was operational for 86 years.

Built in 1929, the courthouse is the third historic courthouse in Pima County. The first two courthouses were demolished. They once stood where the historic courthouse and the January 8 memorial now stand.

For 86 years, the courthouse has seen its fair share of historical figures and rabble rousers. Famously, the courthouse held bank robber John Dillinger after he was captured in 1934. He was arraigned in courtroom eight of the old courthouse.

The county preserved the courtroom, and it was discovered during the project

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that the county had shaved off some of the original courtroom during a past renovation. The Dillinger Courtroom has been restored to its original size.

This wasn’t the only surprising discovery made during the recent renovation.

“It was interesting, because when we were demolishing walls and checking out old building systems, HVAC, electrical cabling, that’s where we saw where the ’56 addition was up against the original ’29 building,” Josker said. “That’s where we found behind walls the original color of the exterior building.”

As the county grew, the need for a bigger courthouse was apparent and a south wing was added to the building in 1956. During renovations, workers discovered that the original building color was sandy tan. History was revealed.

Nicknamed “The Pink Lady,” the historic courthouse was Pepto Bismol pink color for many years.

“That was super cool, it was like being the building detectives,” Josker remarked. The building has been restored to its original sandy tan color.

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The historic courthouse is now considered a community center for Southern Arizona with several tourist attractions and offices located inside its rooms. The Southern Arizona Heritage and Visitor Center, Pima County Attractions and Tourism, University of Arizona Gem and Mineral Museum, and Visit Tucson are found there, while the January 8 memorial is behind the courthouse.

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ers. And if they go away, well, we’d likely follow in the path of those other 1,700 weeklies that didn’t make it.

Some may see that thought as depressing, but to me it’s the source of a boundless drive: We can’t let it happen. Our livelihoods, readers and advertisers depend on us moving forward, on continuing to evolve.

As we trudge the sometimes-bumpy road of bringing you the news every week, we don’t always make everybody happy.

We’ve experienced our share of criticism, and lots of grumbling from former journalists who love to second guess the work of those still in the trenches. I hope you’ll judge the paper by its content going forward and its usefulness to you as a member of the Tucson community. We’re committed to keeping it alive and thriving.

“We absolutely love our offices at the Pima County Historic Courthouse, it’s wonderful to work in a building that’s steeped in history and has been restored to its former grandeur in the heart of downtown,” said Megan Evans, director of communications at Visit Tucson.

Josker said the courthouse is a community project for the public to visit.

Courthouse hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The center closes for all holidays except Columbus Day.

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL!

Some people say, “No news is good news.” For us, spreading the news is in our DNA. On that note, a stalwart of Arizona journalism and steward of reader trust for more than 33 years, retired last month.

Congratulations and thanks to Jim Nintzel on a legendary career here at the paper. As he departs, those of us sticking around will need to double down on the proposition that has motivated reporters, editors and photographers since the first days of the printing press.

The truth matters.

I encourage you to pick up a copy, read us online or become one of our thousands of email subscribers. However you choose to connect with us, please Read On! - Steve T. Strickbine Tucson Weekly Publisher

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Sizzling Summer Sounds. In this series, the Invisible Theatre hosts six performances by world-class entertainers. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 7, see IT’s ToReeNee Wolf headline “Star Child.” At 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 8, and 2 p.m. Saturday, July 9, Liz Cracchiolo and Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky perform “Come Fly with Me.” And stay tuned for another round of performances by different artists next week.

7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 7, and Friday, July 8, and 2 p.m. Saturday, July 9. Invisible Theatre, 1400 N. First Avenue.

520-882-9721, invisibletheatre.com. $40.

Monsoon Literacy Celebration at the Fox. We love any reason to celebrate monsoons here at the Tucson Weekly, and this is a particularly good one to teach kids about the Sonoran Desert and the joys of reading. The afternoon starts with readings from books by Julia Donaldson and Byrd Baylor, who wrote 30 books about the Southwest and Native American culture, going on to win a Caldecott Medal before dying last year at age 97. That’s followed by hands-on activities and a screening of Thomas Wiewandt’s award-winning movie “Desert Dreams: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert.” After a singalong and video series is the main event, a 30-minute animated film called “The Gruffalo,” based on the storybook by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

2 p.m. Sunday, July 10. Fox Tucson The-

The Chicken and the Egg. Puppet shows keep kids — and sometimes adults — entertained. However, they’re great ways to share stories and concepts in a relatable and unintimidating way, too. For example, the most recent show at Red Herring Puppets uses colorful shadow puppets, original songs and a big ol’ bird to talk about the cycles of life and the birds and the bees. Recommended for folks aged 6 and older, the show will teach everyone a thing or two about the animal kingdom. Lisa Sturz, the topnotch puppeteer behind Red Herring, has worked with everyone ranging from Jim Henson Productions to Lucasfilm to Disney Imagineering.

2 p.m. Saturdays, July 9, July 16, July 23 and July 30. Red Herring Puppets, 4500 N. Oracle Road in the Tucson Mall. 828-273-1488, redherringpuppets.com. $8.

Summer Safari Nights at Reid Park Zoo. The theme of this week’s special nighttime series at the zoo is “caring for carnivores.” And how could you not

care for cuties like jaguars and African lions? As usual, stroll through the zoo for a night full of keeper chats, animal encounters, artifact stations and special activities. You can also take a ride on the Cox Jungle Carousel and enjoy a special performance from Mr. Nature. If all this talk of carnivores has you working up an appetite, grab dinner and a cold drink at the Zoofari Market.

5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 9. Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court. 791-3204, reidparkzoo.org. $10.50 adults, $8.50 seniors, $6.50 kids ages 2 to 14.

Tucson Art Walk. Another month means another art walk hosted by some of the Foothills’ finest galleries. Wilde Meyer Gallery, Jane Hamilton Fine Art, Sunset Interiors, Sanders Gallery, Settlers West Gallery and FoR Fine Art Gallery will have works on display, so you can spend an evening strolling through the selections. Find the perfect piece to take home or give as a gift, or, if it’s more in your price range, just enjoy taking it all in. The evening also features light refreshments and live entertainment by harpist Vanessa Myers.

4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 7. Foothills Art District at the intersection of Skyline and Campbell (some galleries on the southwest corner and some on the northeast corner). foothillsartgalleries.com. free admission.

Loteria Game Night at Crooked Tooth Brewing. Have you ever played this game of chance? Sometimes called Mexican Bingo, it’s a total blast, especially when played over a few local beers. Pablo Sandoval is hosting this evening fun at Crooked Tooth, where the first-place winner receives a $35 gift card, the runner up gets a $15 gift card and third place yields a $10 gift card. Participation is free — just make a purchase or two while you’re there to support the event, please.

Teams of one to five people can sign up

on a first-come, first-serve basis, so show up early to secure your spot.

7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 12. Crooked Tooth Brewing, 228 E. Sixth Street, 444-5305, free admission.

Cool Summer Nights at the Desert Museum: Astronomy Night. If you’d like to venture a bit farther than the Reid Park Zoo for a themed museum night, head to the Desert Museum for an evening of exploration, activities and stargazing. Museum docents will be around all night to talk about subjects ranging from scorpions to desert skies.

You can also enjoy art exhibits in the Ironwood Gallery and Baldwin Education Building, hit up the stingray touch exhibit, and reserve a spot for the kiddos in the Packrat Playhouse. You can even grab the night’s specialty cocktail, the Space Monkey.

6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 9. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702, desertmuseum.org. $24.95 general admission, $22.95 seniors, $21.95 military and AZ/Sonora residents, $13.95 youth aged 3 to 12, free for kids and members. Other discounts available.

Have a Drink for Jim Nintzel. Wherever you are, and whatever you may be doing on the day this issue of the Tucson Weekly comes out, I ask that you pour yourself another glass of whatever you’re drinking in honor of Jim Nintzel (though a Fresca might be the most fitting tribute). As you likely know, he’s been on the Weekly staff for decades. Right around the time I moved to Tucson five years ago, he took the helm as executive editor of the paper and has been its fearless leader until now, with his last issue. You may know him best for his long-running column, the Skinny; for his ever-clever editor’s notes; or for his tireless dedication to using that photo of former Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller lying in the road. I know him best as a headline-writing wizard and a boss who always looked out for his people, letting us report on everything from politics to alleged psychics to out-of-state music festivals; making us laugh even in stressful situations; and making us better writers. He’s off to greener pastures now, where, he tells me, he will ponder what it means to not have a deadline for the first time since the 1980s.

Here’s to you, Nintz. The Weekly will never be the same.

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By Linda Ray

Tucson Local Media

THE DISCO BALL, THE GLITTER

bomb, the power pixie of Tucson comedy, Jen Blanco, is a driven woman.

At age 14, was very certain of two things: She would go into medicine, and she would be a high-school comedy star.

To those ends, she spent many an under-age night at open mics, drinking only Shirley Temples to meet her two-drink minimum. “I knew I’d never get into med school with priors,” she said.

As a senior she won her Chicago suburban high school’s slot in its district and regional comedy competitions. And then, apart from fronting a ska band in college, she mostly set comedy aside. She went on to become a mother and an audiology specialist, logging enviable flight miles on call to assist in cochlear implant surgeries.

Late in 2018, comedy started calling her name again. “Comedy has always been my best coping mechanism,” she says.

She took improv classes and performed at Tucson Improv Movement (TIM), and when COVID-19 hit, she took a both of Mo Urban’s TIM stand-up courses on Zoom. “It was a kick in the pants to restart my writing,” Blanco said. “Mo is an amazing teacher.”

Traveling for work has allowed Blanco to perform in Denver, Phoenix and New Orleans, and she has started performing for audiology conferences. But her TIM classmates also inspired her to create an open mic at TIM. “When you’re first starting, it’s a little bit scary,” Blanco said.

“But when you take a class, you’re already familiar with TIM’s stage. It’s like mom’s kitchen. It’s not like starting at Laff’s (professional stage).

“At least Kurt (Leuders, co-host) or I are always at the mics, and we’re easy,” she said. “We’re happy to laugh and clap and support you.”

In 2021, Blanco also began producing her own booked showcases at The Screening Room. Called Lady Bits, they feature only people who identify as fe-

male, a population that historically was underrepresented in Tucson’s comedy scene.

The same gonzo energy and commitment that won her intramural comedy contests has only gotten more focused with time. She promotes the show early, often and everywhere. “If you ever talk to me, you’re going to hear me drop Lady Bits, Saturday, July 16, at The Screening Room.” She’s had a full house for nearly every show.

Lady Bits tickets are $10 at the door or at eventbrite.com. The lineup includes Lisa Kristine, Ly Johnson, Autumn Horvat, Allana Erickson-Lopez, Ashley Tappan and Phoenix comedian Cari Medina.

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wordplay. They wouldn’t be as punchy in English.”

He said the audience for the Chicano Comedy show appreciates that “the primary subject of the jokes is the Mexican way of living, both in the U.S. and Mexico, and especially the oddities of how they raise children.”

The July 14 lineup features Raul Garcia, Savannah Hernandez and Peter Jordan, all of Phoenix, and Tucsonan Drake Belt, whom Jesus is presenting as this show’s “Token White Person.” Otamendi’s grandmother will be selling tamales in the lobby .

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THERE’S A PLACE FOR US “I just felt like there wasn’t really a space that was highlighting Latino comedy, specifically,” said Jesus Otamendi, explaining what inspired him to produce the Chicano Comedy Show series at The Screening Room. The next show is at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 14. Tickets are $8 on eventbrite.com, $10 at the door.

Otamendi said it’s not that Latino comics aren’t welcome at other Tucson Shows. It’s that being bilingual, bi-cultural, and a member of a bi-cultural family inspires jokes that can only be fully appreciated through common experiences.

The proof of his theory is that his Chicano Comedy Shows tend to attract more people with Latino backgrounds, and with Otamendi’s brotherly nudging, a few more Latino comedians are turning up at open mics.

Otamendi’s Chicano Comedy Show, performed entirely in English, launched in February 2021. A few years earlier, TIM Comedy Theater debuted “Carcajadas,” a show that features improv and standup sets in Spanish. Otamendi has performed in Spanish for that show. “Some jokes only work in Spanish,” he said.

“Some jokes are just a cultural thing, or

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS… THURSDAY, JULY 7 David Nail has long considered Arizona to be a “magical place,” as his grandparents lived here. “It was one of those places you’ve never been to, but you had family there,” Nail said. “They were super important because they were so far away.

It seemed like a made-up fantasy land.” He’s coming to Tucson’s Whiskey Roads… A mainstay on the Tucson music scene — playing more than 200 gigs a year with aplomb — jazz guitarist Matt Mitchell and his trio carry the torch into the Late Night. At The Century Room.

Preceded by pianist Marco Rosano tickling the ivories for Cocktail Hour…

FRIDAY, JULY 8 This piano prodigy made his national debut on “Star Search” at the age of 10. He has gone on to work with luminaries: Sting, Regina Spektor, Josh Groban and Sugarland. Fivetime Las Vegas headliner of the year, showman Frankie Moreno, steps into the white-hot spotlight. At Casino Del Sol Event Center… The Aristocrats walk a musical highwire, teetering between Zappa-esque improvisational spirit and rock/fusion. And it’s all thanks to the musicians’ individual “day jobs” — guitarist Guthrie Govan (Steven Wilson, Asia/GPS, Hans Zimmer), bassist Bryan Beller(Joe Satriani, Dethklok) and drummer Marco Minnemann (Steven Wilson, Joe Satriani, Steve Hackett). At Club Congress. The Hump House crew brings the dance floor to life after the show… Inspired by the world around her, singer-songwriter Little Cat en-

chants with original folk/Americana originals and select renditions. With an opening set by ambient pop artist Asphalt Astronaut. At Crooked Tooth Brewing Co.… Celebrating the cultural remezcla germane to the borderlands. El Tambó resident DJ Humblelianess keeps things lit. At Hotel Congress (plaza)… Influenced by the DIY ethos of the Pixies and PJ Harvey, Cedars is an electronic rock band from central Texas who believes that beauty will change the world. With Peter Kasen. At Monterey Court…

With songs about “Stripper Poles” and “Cherry Pop Tarts,” Funky Bonz provide ample reason to take a “Walk on the Wild Side.” At Chicago Bar… Phoenix-based Rise! Arizona Women’s Jazz Collective focuses on the music of female jazz composers like Mary Lou Williams, Carla Bley, Roxy Coss and Joni Mitchell. At The Century Room. Followed by Late Night Lounge. Vinyl DJ ambent spins an eclectic mix of jazz from across the spectrum… Incorporating mandolin, violin, drums and bass, Tucson’s Pelican Museum performs original red dirt country-inspired folk rock.

At Jackrabbit Lounge… Emcees Mas Vas, Aske, MTM and Sycness mince words. At Thunder Canyon Brewery…

SATURDAY, JULY 9 Radiating their signature soulful, funky grooves, Miss Olivia and the Interlopers score the soundtrack for Second Saturdays at The Fox. In addition, director Taylor Hackford’s “Ray” (2004) — a musical drama focusing on 30 years in the life of music legend Ray Charles — will be screened. At Fox Tucson Theatre. Wait. There is more. The country-tinged rock of Armando Moreno and The Revival will charge the night air outdoors as part of Second Saturdays Downtown, on the Scott

Avenue stage… Known for her eclectic electronic pop and creative visuals, artist/producer Cowgirl Clue was born and raised in the heart of the Lonestar State. At Club Congress. Followed by Posi & Walters the Don behind the decks… Akin to Psalm 151 — the allegory of David slaying the Philistine giant Goliath — whose authorship is beset in mystery, acoustic roots trio the Keith Robison Band pursue esoteric knowledge. At Borderlands Brewing… Gone Country: A tribute to Alan Jackson stars Jack Bishop and his all-star country band. “No pop, no hard rock, just the good stuff.”

At The Gaslight Music Hall… Cuing up today’s hottest jams, turntablists Bex & Halsero curate the “hot fun in the summertime” jams. At Hotel Congress (plaza)… As part of the Late Night series, jazz pianist Chris Penã and his quartet add words to the musical lexicon. “Music is a mission for me,” Penã said. “I want my music to help people see how amazing life really is.” At The Century Room. Preceded by LA based pianist Denali Kauffman performing solo sets during Cocktail Hour…

That precocious Little Cat pounces on your lap once again. At MotoSonora Brewing Co… On “Dangerous” vocalist Earl Rosales crows, “Three young men came running my way/ They said, ‘give us all of your money and you won’t get jacked’/I turned around and yelled, ‘you better fall back’/I’m fuckin’ dangerous.” Influenced by reggae, rock, island jams, ska, hip-hop and punk, Skitn cooks up solid downtempo grooves to fuel any party. But it’s not all hedonism.

“There’s a spiritual element to the party. Having a good time is good for your soul.” At The Hut… DJ Roch & Friends spin sultry “baby-making music.” At Jackrabbit Lounge…

SUNDAY, JULY 10 “Good time Charlie’s got the blues.” A distant relative of folk hero Davy Crockett, red dirt Texas country crooner Charley Crockett does just that. At Rialto Theater. With Texas truth teller Vincent

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COURTESY PHOTO

“To be Titled (Self-Portrait),” 2016

SUMMER SAMPLE This season’s art shows will delight Tucsonans

By Margaret Regan Tuscon Local Media

TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART

On a night in 1956, Brad Kahlhamer arrived on the 11:59 to Tucson. And as cuIN THESE DESPERATE HOT DAYS, rator Julie Sasse, says in an essay about as we await the monsoons, art offers us the artist, “Metaphorically, Kahlhamer is a refuge. Take a look at these museums waiting for the ‘11:59 to Tucson’ to take and galleries, guaranteed to have air him back to his beginnings.” conditioning. These aren’t your only The renowned artist-musician was options, though. MOCA has a great show born in Tucson that night, but he’s nevby Grace Rosario Perkins, and Tohono er learned who his birth parents were.

Chul’s “The Elements-Air” offers up the Adopted by a kindly white couple, he was work of 41 Arizona artists. told only that one or both of his parents Enjoy! were Native. The mystery of his identity

has been with him ever since, and it is Brad Kahlhammer’s “11:59 to Tucson:” crucial to his art. runs through Sunday, Sept. 25 at Tucson A major exhibition at the Tucson Mu- Museum of Art. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. seum of Art is filled with his color paint- Thursday to Sunday. ings and wild images of Western anitucsonmuseumofart.com; 520-623-2333 mals, mountains, Native peoples as well SCULPTURE TUCSON as self-portraits. “Buffalo, Headlands” is a marvelous example of what the Sculpture Tucson is trying blackmuseum calls his “signature visual lan- smith-made metal hooks on for size. guage:” paint everywhere, thick and thin, This something new and different for splashed and battered. the organization, which regularly puts up Some of his work is about his own good-size sculptures outside around the life. The oil canvas “To Be Titled,” for city, to everyone’s delight. instance, shows himself in long black This time around the group will display hair and darkish skin. Elsewhere, a pic- work that’s small, but comes in abunture of a Native man bears the letters dance. The show has no fewer than 366 UGH, a memory of school-days bullying. hooks, all made by Matt Jenkins, a CanaThe kids called a Native man that racist dian blacksmith who has won multiple name, and soon began harassing Kahl- prizes along with internationals acclaim. hamer with the same epithet. Eventually, The hooks are sort of like household hanKahlhamer honored the man by proudly dles, but Jenkins’s are pieces of art. calling himself UGH Jr. 224 In 2016, he began on the work Much of the work incorporates sym- “#366Hooks: Form and Designed Rebols and motifs that are associated with vealed Over a Year’s Time.” The plan was Native cultures in the West. The bright to fire up his smithy and produce a one orange and black painting “Dakota” is a unique hook every single day of the year. vision of abstract shapes that could be He succeeded in spades, even making an animals or people. “American Horse” is extra hook for leap year 2016.

The handsome pieces, come in all an acrylic work that features tiny little horses circling around the perimeter of a shapes and (smallish) sizes.

Barbara Grygutis, a well-known sculpmassive human face. A controversial series, “Next Level Figures,” is inspired by Hopi kachinas, 3D constructions of wood and wire, feathers and braided rope, and painted images.

After college in Wisconsin, Kahlhamer made his way to the East Village in New York City, where he found a circle of artists and musicians who would become lifelong friends. His work, “Fort Gotham Girls and Boys Club,” in acrylic and ink celebrates these friendships, while also making images in the style of Northwestern Native cultures. But he has not forgotten Tucson. In one of the many sketchbooks in the show, he drew a loose picture of the saguaros and mountains of Marana. And in that picture, he drew himself as a little COURTESY PHOTO boy playing in the desert “American Horse,” 2014 he hasn’t forgotten.

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ture artist and a founder of Sculpture Tucson, says that “#366Hooks is an opportunity for art enthusiasts to re-examine their relationship with everyday objects and encourages us all to think outside the ‘hook’ when it comes to functional design.”

The art is on view in the Sculpture Tucson’s Post House in Brandi Fenton Memorial Park on River Road. The exhibition is free and open to the public; it runs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday.

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CONTRERAS GALLERY In the art warehouse district, the summer “Tucson” show at Contreras Gallery is always a hit. The rules, written by owners Neda and Michael Contreras, are simple. Artists can portray “Tucson and anything that relates to it: its people, culture architecture, landscapes, plants, fauna and insects etc.

This year, nine artists painted our favorite city and environs. The usual cacti, flowers and blue ski are in abundance, but where’s a strong showing of architecture, both historical and grungy.

Richard Engesser followed the latter, He painted an old man lounging against the walls of The Buffet Bar. Interestingly, Engesser painted the dive’s pavement clean and the walls nicely painted. Another work, “Quonset Hut on Dodge,” takes a look at a poorer side of town.

Other favorites are Jack Petty’s “Ash Ally,” a pretty hangout for cool artists in the ’50s, and Jacqueline Chanda’s “Coffee Shop at the Courthouse.” Good for her for picturing workers on an ordinary day, instead painting grand the Courthouse dome. And finally, I am taken by Gene Hall’s painted birds and bugs.

“Tucson” runs to Friday, Aug. 26, at Contreras Gallery, 110 E. Sixth Street, Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Masks required. contrerashousefineart.com; 520-398-6557 ■

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The cast of “Tall Tales” at Live Theatre Workshop prepares to put their unique spin on American folklore.

TELLING TALES

Theater premieres original treatment of American legends

By Bridgette M. Redman Tucson Local Media

WHEN IT COMES TO AMERICAN tall tales — passed down orally for generations — the telling has always been as much a part of the story as the content itself. The characters in them are larger than life and the details are stretched past the point of being believable.

And yet, they live in our collective memories, delighting us from childhood to adult, which is why Richard Gremel and David Ragland have paired up again to bring an original musical to Live Theatre

Workshop’s Children’s Theatre.

Running from Friday, July 15, to Sunday, July 31, “Tall Tales: Legends of America” has five storytellers recreating the stories of Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill and John Henry.

It uses song, puppetry, shadow work and representational set pieces and props to recreate the magic of these traditional American tales.

“The idea was to really help expose an audience that may not have been familiar with some of the myths and folklore around the history of America,” said Ragland, who has been creating plays and

musicals with Gremel for 15 years.

“He loved the idea of rearranging some of America’s folk songs to go along with that and then mix in some originals.”

The five actors move in and out of each other’s stories, sometimes narrating, sometimes taking center stage. Gremel said he wanted to focus on the idea of storytelling and how we tell stories to each other.

“We hear stories when we were kids, we hear them in school, we tell stories to other people,” Gremel said. “These stories of these characters have been passed along over the years; they’ve had different renditions. They’ve all been told in different ways.”

When Gremel started to write this mu-

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sical, he looked up as many American tall tales and folklore as he could before settling on the three. Ultimately, he chose that trio because the trifecta of stories had morals to teach.

John Henry taught that setting your sights high and looking to the future while trying to achieve your dreams. Paul Bunyan’s moral is that you should always lend a helping hand and help someone you see in need. For Pecos Bill, being kind to others was important.

“These morals sort of shaped the rest of the play,” Gremel said. “Kids can gain a lot from those morals, but I think also if we have adults in the audience, they’re going to gain a lot from a reminder of those morals as well and what they can take away

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from these stories that they have heard in their past. Those types of morals still ring true today.”

Ragland said an overarching goals of the show is to inspire young people to be the best versions of themselves.

“One of the overall themes is that you can tell your own story and that you can be a legend, too,” Ragland said. “The main theme song of the play is called ‘You Can Be a Legend Too.’ It’s a play that’s intended to be empowering to our children and youth — that they can really make anything possible if they put their mind to it.”

Much of the set is minimal to keep the focus on the story. Gremel and Ragland both said that they’re making the most of the story’s theatricality to make it visually appealing and interesting.

Paul Bunyan, for example, carries around a puppet of his blue ox. The tornado that Pecos Bill lassoes is made with a swirling tube of fabric. When Paul Bunyan chops redwood trees, there is a ladder that represents the tree.

“The presentation will be fresh and also surprising to audiences who expect to see something more traditional,” Ragland said.

“We’ve got a lot of fun visuals, we’ve got shadow puppetry, we’re using props in ways that we normally wouldn’t use props to create these characters and the costumes are a lot of fun,” Gremel said.

“It’s going to be just a great experience to watch and see.”

The cast features Tyler Gastelum (Paul Bunyan, ensemble), Rafael Acuna (Pecos Bill, ensemble), Gianbari Bebora Deebom (John Henry, ensemble), Brian McElroy (ensemble) and Amaya Ravenell (ensemble).

Gremel said that even though they did readings while developing this show, he couldn’t have imagined what it would be once the actors started bringing it to life.

“Our one actor who is playing Paul Bunyan, he just has really turned him into this gentle teddy bear,” Gremel said.

“There’s this moment where he has built a strong relationship with this ox. Even though you’re seeing a puppet onstage, it just feels so real.”

He also has high praise for Deebom, saying that she “does an amazing job of really bringing heart to the John Henry story.”

Ragland said that she manages to cap-

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ture not only the Henry character, but the other unnamed characters she plays.

“When she plays John Henry, you’ll see her using her lower register and she’ll sort of have a real stoic stance,” Ragland said. “Then when she’s in one of her other roles, she will be more playful and have traditional Western accents.”

All the actors, he says, are good character actors with strong singing voices.

Gremel has enjoyed watching the elaborate variety of physicality each actor brings to their roles. He credits them with bringing a lot of ideas to the show on how to make things work.

“I told the actors in the beginning if you have an idea, bring it forward, because this really is about us telling stories and utilizing what we have,” Gremel said. “It really has been a great collaborative process.”

Because the stories are folk tales, Gremel wanted the music to capture the sound of classic folk music or bluegrass.

As a former member of the Tucson Boys Chorus, he said he was also attracted to old country Western songs. They were genres he felt fit well into this show. He found some traditional songs, such as “A

Lumbering,” that fit well into the show.

Other familiar songs include “Home on the Range” and “Get Along Little Doggies.” There are also new songs.

“If you didn’t know any of the traditional songs, you would have a hard time guessing which one was traditional and which one was original,” Gremel said. “David has just done such a great job of making it all sound like it all fits together.”

Ragland hopes that people of all ages will come out to see the show.

“It’s a unique presentation around some of the tales and folklore that you’ve

grown up with, but these are fresh takes,” Ragland said. “The marriage of the music and the dialog really elevates the whole experience.” ■

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EVERY DAY THE WEEDLY GETS email updates on cannabis happenings and political actions throughout the country and an astonishing and/or depressing number of them — epending on one’s point of view — are about prohibitionist trends.

The Weedly has attended virtual seminars and heard first-hand, the hair-onfire narratives that leads us to believe it may still be 1936 (the year classic stoner movie “Reefer Madness” was released) instead of 2022.

Take, for example, the recent mass murder in Uvalde, Texas.

As officers stood by and watched, prohibitionists used the shootings to call for more regulation. Not that they want to regulate guns, but the real culprit: legal weed.

On May 31, in the days after the horrific event, Fox “News” personality Laura Ingraham tipped off where the prohibitionist crowd is leaning, featuring a segment on her White Power Power Hour claiming marijuana is responsible for mass shootings in the U.S. and not the precious penis substitutes in the hands of angry incels.

Claiming that the Uvalde shooter was frustrated because his parents would not allow him to smoke weed, Ingraham complained that the New York Times buried “the story.”

“Was it bad information or is this the pro-marijuana bias that we’ve become accustomed to that’s so powerful because billions are on the line with it nationwide?” she posited.

“Is the story now irrelevant? ... The American people are hearing a lot about AR-15s and background checks, but they also deserve to hear about this as well.

Respected medical studies for years now have demonstrated that pot use, especially among teens, can trigger psychosis and increase the chance that the young person will develop violent behaviors.”

Blaming the river of blood on baby boomers and high-potency cannabis (not the benign Woodstock dirt-weed everyone wistfully fantasizes about), guest Russell Kamer claimed, “We are shifting

to a new addiction for profit industry.”

Kamer is medical director of Partners in Safety, a group that provides workplace drug testing and other employment related services.

“Tobacco, alcohol, even opiates are fading away and now the money is shifting over to the new industry,” he said. “And this shapes the conversation. Even in the medical field, many of my colleagues are not aware that this current marijuana is much more dangerous.”

To which Ingraham responded: “I guess they’re fine with doing a run on the guns, and I guess you can argue that if that’s what you want to do, get rid of the Second Amendment, but completely oblivious to what legalization of marijuana has done and is doing to an entire generation of Americans with violent consequences.”

A week after Ingraham barfed out her prohibitionist rant, the Wall Street Journal published a piece by Allysia Finley, titled “Cannabis and the Violent Crime Surge: Heavy marijuana use among youths is leading to more addiction and antisocial behavior.”

The piece repeated Ingraham’s charge that the NYT was covering up the connection between pot and the Uvalde shooter, linking pot use to mass shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. (2018); First Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas (2017); Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida (2016); the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. (2012) and even Gabby Giffords’ shooting here in Tucson in 2011.

What was the common denominator in all these killings? Anyone who guessed “guns” would be completely wrong, because the real culprit was the devil’s lettuce, marijuana.

Earlier this spring, prohibitionists went after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who co-sponsored the States Reform Act, which attempted to bridge the bipartisan divide in Congress to decriminalize cannabis and allow states to regulate in any way they wish.

A new political action committee called Protect Our Kids has invested tens of thousands of dollars going after Mace

and other pro-cannabis Republicans.

Luke Niforatos, executive vice president of SAM and CEO of Protect Our Kids, recently told Marijuana Moment that Mace was the “face of marijuana legalization for the Republican party,” and accused her of being “a lackey for Altria Phillip Morris, the largest tobacco company in America which is bankrolling marijuana legalization.”

“Her constituents do not support commercializing marijuana, yet an inordinate amount of her time is spent stumping for the policy,” he claimed. “Legalization of marijuana has hurt kids, families, and caused large health harms in states that have passed such policies. It’s time to hold her accountable.”

Closer to home, Jan. 6 Committee darling, Arizona Speaker of the House SUBMITTED PHOTO Rusty Bowers (who is, let’s One of the common denominators of recent 21st century face it, still Rusty Bowers) Reefer Madness is Alex Berenson’s 2019 book, “Tell Your has created a cottage in- Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and dustry in recycling talking Violence.” points culled from “Reefer Madness,” ad- Snowflake. That case was dismissed. vocating for legislation that would curtail CLUTCHING IT LIKE THE BIBLE cannabis users rights and shovel money One of the common denominators of into research seeking to find correlations recent 21st century Reefer Madness is between pot use and violent behavior.

Last year, Astroturf groups from Phoe- Alex Berenson’s 2019 book, “Tell Your nix parachuted into Graham County to Children: The Truth About Marijuana, get the locals all spun up in an attempt Mental Illness and Violence.”

The book has been cited in organizato curtail legal, and profitable, cannabis tions from the International Academy businesses in the county.

A group calling itself “Respect the on the Science and Impact of Cannabis Will of the People,” submitted more than (IASIC) to the hallowed halls of the Leg2,200 signatures in support of overturn- islature in the state of Arizona, with its ing a cannabis-friendly zoning change. anti-cannabis message linking pot use A different group calling itself “Protect to “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”-scale viGraham County No to Drugs” inserted it- olence.

In a House Health and Human Servicself into a zoning fight over a cultivation es Committee meeting in February 2020, facility.

The chairman of that organization, Bowers stated his belief that marijuana identified as former Peoria chiropractor is “habit forming” and a “gateway drug,” Kenneth Daniel Krieger, has a history of as he invoked the names of “friends” who attempts to stop grow facilities across used pot in the 1950s and ’60s, but are the state. Krieger reportedly led a group now inexplicably dead. known as “Citizens for a Safer Snowflake” that sued to stop Copperstate Farms from REEFER MADNESS CONTINUES ON PAGE 22 setting up its successful grow facility in

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Bowers claimed that marijuana use leads to “violent violence: Not just somebody punching you in the face, but very horrendous insanity violence.”

Blaming it on “the hyper increase in THC,” Bowers advocated for keeping cannabis listed as a Schedule I narcotic and advocated continued punishment of even the most benign recreational users.

The legislation he was championing, HCR 2045, would have directed the Department of Health Services to fund a study to link cannabis to violent behavior.

“Tell Your Children” has become a major piece in the echo chamber of prohibitionist rhetoric. Arizona NORML Executive Director Mike Robinette says he has seen it pop up in legislatures in both Arizona and Colorado as well as in many prohibitionist groups throughout the country.

“We saw Bowers clutching it to his heart as if it were his Bible,” Robinette said.

“It’s like they had a book club and Berenson’s book was assigned as the book to be read. Then they all sat in a circle and echo-chambered to death about it.”

AN ALPHABET OF ANTI-POT GROUPS Leading up to the passage of Prop 207, a group calling itself Arizonans for Health and Public Safety, chaired by anti-cannabis activist Lisa James, filed a challenge against Smart and Safe Arizona in an attempt to get the legislation pulled from the 2020 ballot.

The Arizona Supreme Court swatted down the challenge and Prop 207 passed with the support of 60% of voters.

Arizonans for Health and Public Safety came from a group calling itself AZ Parents Concerned About Legal Recreational Pot, which has connections to MATFORCE, a Yavapai County group focused on addressing opioid and other drug addictions. It has more than 300 volunteers, as reported on the website marijuanaharmlessthinkagain.org.

MATFORCE itself is connected to several programs devoted to drug prevention and education in schools, including “the Yavapai Reentry Project, Trauma Lens Care, public awareness and education campaigns, and advocat[es] for policy change at the state and local level.”

In addition to those groups, there are others, such as the Parent Action Network, an initiative that is also associated with SAM. Given that cannabis is now legal in some form in 36 states, the proliferation of an alphabet soup of prohibitionist groups with a dedicated political agenda should set off alarm bells for pro-cannabis activists throughout the country, especially given the current state of freedoms in the United States and the courts’ willingness to overturn the will of the people.

NORML’s Robinette thinks that rather than go after legalization, these groups have begun to focus on weakening existing cannabis laws.

“I don’t know if they’ve gained or lost power, but I think they’re shifting the focus of their power,” he recently told the Weedly. “I’ve been preaching that the real next threat from the prohibitionist groups will be not to go after legalization but to try to alter the market through prohibition of products—for example, high potency THC products, extracts, concentrates, etc.”

Through his work with Colorado’s branch of NORML, Robinette has seen a troubling trend, with groups that traditionally support legalization buying into anti-pot propaganda packaged in “save the children” rhetoric.

“They have this down to where it’s about children,” he said. “They’ve got the scare tactics and everything they do will make Americans and Arizonans fear what cannabis has become. Because they’re a little loose with their facts, they can certainly perpetuate fear.”

Robinette emphasized that he and NORML are not advocating for kids to have access to pot and that Prop 207 and the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act have protections enshrined in law to keep it out of the hands of people under the age of 21. Medical patients under the age of 18 must have parental consent to qualify for MMJ certificates and gain access to commercial markets.

PRO-CANNABIS INFORMATION For every book and study championed by prohibitionist groups, there are answers in the cannabis community.

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws website features a “Fact Sheet” page at norml.org/marijuana/fact-sheets that provides a long

list of peer reviewed papers and studies surrounding the effects of legalized cannabis on society.

From impacts on health, safety and the economy, to effects on crime rates to racial disparities in enforcement, NORML provides evidence-based information intended to guide cannabis policy.

In the wake of Ingraham’s Kabuki Theater of fear mongering, a study by the University of New Mexico was released that found a correlation between pot use and pro-social behavior, directly contradicting prohibitionist talking points.

Likewise a peer reviewed article in the Jan. 2022 edition of the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry found a strong correlation between marijuana use and a reduction in social anxiety, which might be helpful to an armed male who can’t get laid.

advertising to kids, etc., etc. But what Osborne wants to do is treat cannabis businesses as second-class corporate citizens. Because there’s that myopic, blind, lack of acceptance that 60% of Arizonans wanted a legal, controlled market and wanted legalization.”

Bowers and Osborne, who chairs the Health and Human Services Committee, have also acted as gatekeepers, blocking good cannabis bills from getting a hearing in many cases.

“We couldn’t get an autism spectrum disorder bill with veterans’ PTSD as a qualifying condition to even be heard in her committee because it was a wall,” Robinette said. “The prohibitionists aren’t done. They’re not going away. And they’ll just continue to push and try to find ways to sway public opinion.”

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

IN CONCLUSION

Given the contentiousness of our political processes in 2022, it behooves everyone in favor of legal access to pot to become their own advocate, as the prohibitionist forces are motivated and have well-funded political machines at their disposal.

As Prop 207 was passed by voters, it is subject to the Voter Protection Act, meaning that making changes in the law would require the support of threefourths of the Arizona Legislature.

“The fundamental reason NORML supported 207 had nothing to do with the business model, it had to do with six or seven major consumer protections that were afforded by Prop 207,” Robinette said. “DUI protections are in place, but also the smell of raw or burnt marijuana does not give an officer probable cause to search. Those are great protections.”

Robinette is concerned that the next attack will come in the form of THC caps for commercial cannabis products, which would likely drive consumers back into the illegal market.

“My fear is, given the fact of redistricting, coming back into the legislature next year with potentially up to half new members in the House and Senate, we have new fertile ground to plant seeds with regard to potency caps,” he said.

“Rep. Osborne out of Goodyear has for two years straight tried to rein in advertising and has said in committee, we need to put guardrails up around 207. Well, 207 has its own guardrails: It restricts advertising and does not allow

According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, there are 191,682 certified medical marijuana patients as of the end of May and, combined with adult-use recreational, legal cannabis sales totaled nearly $1.5 billion in 2021.

If even a small fraction of those pot users became psycho killers as a result of their consumption, it seems as if there would be rivers of blood running through the streets of Tucson and the metro Phoenix area, but unless there really is a “lamestream media,” we have not seen that.

If we’ve learned anything in the past two years, dear Weedly readers, it’s that legalization is a matter of definition and enforcement and, much like representative Democracy, the fight is never over and the war is never won.

Pay attention to the process. Arizona NORML can offer a blueprint and education about the process. Regardless of what one thinks of the organization or its positions, AZNORML can offer a gateway to an arcane process and enough information for consumers to make informed decisions on what is sure to be a continuing attack on freedoms we thought were already enshrined in law. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper than hiring a lobbyist.

Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court should serve as a cautionary “Handmaiden’s Tale” about the importance of standing up, fighting and voting for candidates who truly represent our values as cannabis consumers. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema excepted. ■

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FOR THE STONER ON THE GO Cost-effective ways to smoke wax

By Katya Mendoza Tucson Local Media

IF YOU TURN 710 UPSIDE DOWN, it spells oil. It’s also the date for the upcoming stoner holiday that celebrates the use of cannabis oil products.

While flower reigns supreme in medical and recreational use, THC concentrates are increasing in popularity.

Concentrates— highly potent extracts of THC that resemble honey or butter — come in a variety of forms, such as waxes, oils, crumble, BHO or shatter.

“They’re essentially the orange juice out of the fruit,” said CJ, co-owner of Glass Geeks.

They also require particular tools for consumption.

Devices such as water pipes and electronic vaporizers are some of the most popular apparatuses available for purchase at local dispensaries and smoke shops.

“The most cost-effective way to smoke wax is a nectar collector,” CJ said.

The straw-like dab rigs enable concentrate users to torch its tip for about 30 seconds and slightly dab at the wax product at an angle before sucking at the mouthpiece.

They can also vary in price from $7 to over $100, depending on the design or make.

Some of the more expensive and fancier nectar collector models are made from glycerin, and allow users to freeze the device to cool the smoke by about 300 degrees.

“It’s one of the easiest ways to get started smoking wax,” said Vivian Shenk, as-

sistant manager at Sticky’s Smokeshop.

“They’re like hummingbirds,” CJ added, because of the mimicking action of dipping a beak into a flower to collect the juice.

While using a blowtorch may shy users away from using concentrates, electronic vape pens offer a more friendly approach and are preferable for travel.

“If you were to go camping, I normally don’t recommend people having butane torches on them because it does hit about 113 degrees out there. You don’t want it to blow up,” Shenk said.

Butane blow torches are recommended to be stored in cool, dry environments.

Vape batteries, which are available at smoke shops, require pre-loaded and disposable extract cartridges available for purchase at dispensaries. The cartridges are screw-on and cost anywhere from $20 to $50 or more depending on the product.

Pens that work on a coil, require users to load themselves with a “BB” concentrate or .1 to .3 grams.

Brands such as Evolve-Plus by YoCan, utilize dual-quartz systems which contain replaceable coils that allow users to apply a small amount of product using a dabber or dab tool. Vape pens have different heating modes such as pre-heat or standard sessions for users to vaporize their products.

“On a small device or coil like that, you don’t use that much product, you’ll find better longevity in the coil which means you’re spending less money as a consumer to use your medication,” said Sonny

Sutherland, store manager of Sticky’s Smokeshop.

Replaceable coils also range in price, anywhere from $3.99 up to $11.99 depending on the device and quality of coils due to companies’ varieties that they offer.

Rechargeable pocket batteries, or distillate cartridge batteries, allow users to screw in 510 thread cartridges at the top of the pen.

There are also captive cartridges which allow users to drop into the system via a threaded magnetic connector.

A popular item offered by dispensaries known as Stizzy-pods, which are live-resin STOCK IMAGE pods, are exclusively Concentrates— highly potent extracts of THC that resemble sold at dispensaries and are unavailable for honey or butter — come in a variety of forms, such as waxes, oils, crumble, BHO or shatter. sale at smoke shops.

While these tools are available for purIn place of torching a banger, or chase at dispensaries, they are sold at a flat-bottomed attachment where concenmuch higher rate. trates are placed, electronic dab rigs only “Their profit is very high, at about a require a few presses of a button to heat 400% margin rate,” Sutherland said. up the product.

Electronic vaporizers can also get The Puffco brand is well-known for its pricey. excellent customer reviews, service and One of the most popular electronic dab longevity and often flies off the shelves rigs such as the Puffco Peak Pro’s retail at local smoke shops.

With hundreds of ways to consume prices range from $275 to $400, depending on the model. concentrates, consumers can feel over“The popularity is the convenience, whelmed.

Which is why there is no shame in enyou have a full dab rig without having a torch and as long as it’s charged, you can joying an old-fashioned pre-roll, for as little as $7. ■ dab wherever you’re at,” CJ said.

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SLOW AND LOW Control is the key to concentrates

By Alexandra Pere Tucson Local Media

ACADEMIC SCIENCE IS STRUGGLING to catch up to state legalization of marijuana. The industry seemingly pushed full steam ahead as popularity grew. Yet, what has been discovered in recent years is the cleanest methods for consuming or burning concentrates.

The versatility of concentrates in the cannabis industry is a revolution in highend marijuana consumption. Sauce, shatter, wax, crumble, rosin, hash and kief are just a few varieties that typically have higher concentrations of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

The methods to smoking concentrates can seem intimidating and first-time users should consider a few bells and whistles before diving headfirst into concentrate products.

“I think when concentrates first came onto the market, it was something really exciting and different for patients to utilize, especially for someone like myself, who has

a higher tolerance,” Adriana Tysenn said.

Tysenn is the compliance and education director for Downtown Dispensary, 221 E. Sixth Street, Suite 105, and its sister store, D2 Dispensary, 7105 E. 22nd Street.

Tysenn considers herself a concentrate aficionado. Tysenn uses a PuffCo concentrate vape pen for her personal products, but she also recommends one of the newest products to come from local brand iLava, the Dablicator - Entourage Day. Tysenn said this is a great option for beginners. The product is fully activated; meaning it is edible, can be used for vapes, tracking and dabbing. Tracking is a way to customize joints by infusing them with concentrates while rolling.

“When I first started using concentrates, it was like a dab and what is the dab? How big is a dab? How small is a dab?” Tysenn said. “So, this is a really reliable way to medicate and knowing that it is a 10-milligram metered dose every time.”

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iLAVA manufactures a wide variety of cannabis products including vapes, topicals, extracts, metered dose products and multicannabinoid gummies.

The Dablicator is designed to twist, click and push for a precise 10 mg measured dose every time.

For parties interested in smoking concentrates or “dabbing,” there is key research that suggests having control of your temperature settings is most important to safely ingest concentrate. According to a 2017 Portland study, burning concentrates at high temperatures can release toxins called methacrolein (MC) and benzene.

The study titled “Toxicant Formation in Dabbing: The Terpene Story,” showed the toxins were significantly reduced or not present when the concentrates were burned below 322 degrees Celsius or 611 degrees Fahrenheit.

With this data in mind, users should remember to go low and slow with burning concentrates or buy products that help control temperatures.

The Puffco vape pen that Tysenn uses has different temperature settings to allow for full temperature control and the brand also produces an electronic dab rig called the Peak Pro. In addition to electronic tech tools, lab technician Gabe Partagas from Earth’s Healing said customers can find inexpensive infrared temperature guns on Amazon to use with the traditional dab rig-blow torch combination.

“We usually like to go in the realm of 450 to 550 degrees (Fahrenheit) for our solventless products and with hydrocarbons, we typically go to the neighborhood of 475 to 600 degrees,” Partagas said.

Earth’s Healing offers a multitude of concentrates with unique extraction processes. Their lab has three different techniques for cannabis concentrate extraction. Hydrocarbon extractions use

solvents like butane to extract the resin, which then get separated from the butane. They also have solventless extractions and distillation extracts. The distillation process refines crude oil into highly concentrated THC oil for vapes and edibles.

“We’re very excited about our solventless hash rosin that we’ve been releasing,” Partagas said. “Solventless has definitely been gaining popularity recently.”

Lab Director Eddie Saavedra at Earth’s Healing added that it is important to keep their concentrate tech clean. Saavedra recommended using 99% isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs to keep things fresh.

“If you’re using a PuffCo, it’s very important to Q-tip after every hit because after so much time, those leftover bits can actually turn into carbon and become harmful for you,” Saavedra said. “So, it’s best to just vaporize them and then clean out your vaporizer or whatever you’re using to vaporize, whether it’s a banger, or like a quartz banger, or the Puffco and clean it with maybe a little bit of ISO and Q-tip.” ■

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IN LOVE WITH THE BUDTENDER

By Katya Mendoza Tucson Local Media

What’s your name? Sabriena Casarez What local dispensary do you work at?

Botanica How long have you been a budtender?

I’m currently a retail supervisor at Botanica and have been in that role for about a year and a half and was a budtender food a year and a half at Botanica, before that.

What do you like about being a budtender? I love my job because I think smoking weed is a social activity that brings people together and allows for a lot of connection and community.

I used to like being in the restaurant world because it would allow me to basically exchange energy with people who ate the food I made. Now, I think the consultation aspect of budtending is a similar exchange between plant/ earth to people.

Flower or concentrate? I like to combine my flower with my concentrate.

Favorite strain of weed/THC concentrate and why? I like anything that is high in certain terpenes (terpinolene and mycrene), such as Jack Herer, Skywalker OG, Kosher Kush, because they have great anxiety relief with euphoria and a relaxed body high.

What’s a new strain that you recommend to people right now? New strains currently in the store right now that I’ve been all about I think would be Dillenger centrate I would say, would be something and Forest Queen. that has an easy-to-handle texture like How can people find the right dose? shatter or crumble. I recommend people Dosing depends on the method of con- start by mixing it with flower since that’s the easiest way to start out and build a sumption. tolerance to the higher levels of THC. AlWhat’s your recommended entry lev- ternatively, dabbing requires more speel concentrate people can try and how cific equipment and fire and sometimes can they consume it? Entry-level con- that’s intimidating for people. If someone

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OIL RUSH

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A sampling of the finest oils, edibles and devices By the Tucson Weekly Test Department Tucson Local Media

We don’t know who decided it was a good idea to add solvent to fresh bud to extract THC, terpenes and other essential elements from marijuana, but the process has sure come a long way from the days when people were using harsh solvents and (sometimes) blowing their kitchens up.

These days, the process is refined so instead of buying some sticky black goop on the black market, you’re purchasing golden wax, shatter, batter and the like that’s high in THC—so high, in fact, that some of this stuff will put you into orbit.

Here’s a roundup of some of the finer products you’ll find at local dispensaries.

COLORADO CHEM LIVE HASH ROSIN EARTH’S HEALING You’ve heard of cold-brew coffee, but have you heard of cold-brew cannabis extract? Earth’s Healing creates its Colorado Chem Live Hash Rosin by taking house-grown flower that’s frozen immediately after harvest. Then the flower is dropped into an ice-cold water bath and stirred with a giant whisk, which separates trichomes—tiny little crystals that contain cannabinoids and terpenes— from the flower. These trichomes are then squished and heated to form the live hash rosin without the use of solvents. The result is a golden, soft rosin that is easy to maneuver onto your preferred smoking device. It’s safe to say that Colorado Chem provides a mile-high sensation.

THE CITRADELIC SUNSET LIVE RESIN EARTH’S HEALING Citradelic Sunset Live Resin is created from house-grown flower that is processed through a closed-loop hydrocarbon system, leaving behind the strain’s THC and terpenes. The result is a mild flavor and a powerful buzz that will heal what ails you with a buzz as beautiful as an Arizona sunset.

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Tucson Weekly’s annual Cannabis Bowl, Pure Edibles has given its line a marketing makeover but the candies are just as good as ever. These treats come to use from Noble Herb of Flagstaff, where they sure know something about being high. The edibles are made with cannabis grown at the company’s Camp Verde farm, although they are made in a Phoenix kitchen. The gummies come in stylish round tins, with 100 mg of THC dosed out in 10mg pieces, so they available to medical and recreational consumers alike. We sampled the sativa fruit punch as well as indica watermelon and mango flavors, which were part of Pure’s Unwind line. All of them were fruity flavored with no trace of cannabis. The sativa gummies pack a sweet punch without making us foggy or tired, while the indica options definitely helped us unwind. We also tried out a few of the brand’s full spectrum candies, meaning they were made from the entire plant rather than having some of the terpenes and other chemicals removed during processing. The sour blue razz and caramel soft chews had a taffy consistency and were both sweet with a slight cannabis taste. They delivered a terrific high in both head and body. Bonus suggestion: Drop a caramel in your coffee and have a sweet, caffeinated experience to start or end your day.

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The smaller Utillian 2 kit is ideal for on-the-go vapin.

sampled the Royal Wedding, a hybrid in iLava’s Entourage Twilight line that straddles the line between sativa and indica strains, so it’s ideal for the end of the day when you’re ready to unwind.

Royal Wedding delivers on the promise to grant you an uplift while not knocking you out too early in the evening.

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As always, iLava’s team has created a quality golden budder with a mild flavor and strong effect. A few draws of this sliced away our worries like a hot knife through butter. Just don’t overdo it or We’ve said it before and we’ll say it you may find yourself melting away like a again: When it comes to easy dosing, stick of butter left out in the summer sun. nothing works better than The DablicaILAVA MOLECULAR REAL LIVE tor from iLava, the house brand of DownRESIN BLUE DREAM CARTRIDGE town Dispensary/D2. This ingenious pen-like device contains 1000mg of liqDisposable cartridges are an easy way uid extract. You just spin one end to set to enjoy concentrates without the hassle your dose and then push down a button of dealing with waxy or sticky formulato release precise amount of high-poten- tions, so many who dabble in cannabis cy oil. It makes it easy to place a drop on are familiar with them. No muss, no fuss, your flower as a bong-topper, squirt into just screw the disposable cartridge onto your vaporizer or dab rig, or even lay a battery and you’re on your way uptown. down a line like frosting on your flower Plus, they offer some degree of discretion as your roll a joint to give your smoking as it doesn’t smell like you’re smoking session an extra boost. This time out, we pot. But those vape cartridges also tend

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IO EXTRACTS BLUE COOKIES SYRINGE If you’re looking for a potent liquid form of THC, IO Extracts’ syringe fits the bill. A house brand of Marana’s Nature Med, IO Extracts is 84% THC, so you know you’re getting a powerful dose. The syringe itself is scored with markings on the side so you know how much you are squirting into your smoking tool of choice. We found this was ideal for a bong topper or to lay down a little extra something in a joint.

The flavor was mild and the high was intense. Just remember the motto: Start low, go slow. A major dose of this could bring on a bad dose of The Fear.

IO EXTRACTS DRAGONFRUIT DISPOSABLE VAPE This all-in-one unit, packed with 1000mg of Dragonfruit extract with 87% THC, is one of the most potent carts we’ve ever tried. Just a couple of draws left us in a very happy place, with the lyrics of “Puff the Magic Dragon” echoing in our head. We could totally see frolicking in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee after partaking in this delight.

IO EXTRACTS LEMON RUNTZ BATTER This easy-to-handle batter made from a lemon runtz strain comes in at 65% THC, so you know it’s packed with medicine. We noted a mild flavor and a powerful uplift after just a few doses. There’s a reason the box warns you to “prepare for lift off” when you open it up. You’ll keep your feet on the ground but keep reaching for the stars with a dose of this. Who needs NASA when these kinds of extracts are around?

AIROPRO CARTRIDGES We’d never encountered the Airo line before—and we’d been missing out. The battery is a sophisticated machine that put the usual pen battery to shame. It’s based on magnets, so your cartridge pops on and off easily but stays in place while you’re carrying your rig. Its haptic feature gives a slight vibration when you draw from it and it will pulse when the battery starts to drop too low and needs a charge. It has overcharge protection so

you don’t need to worry about damaging the battery if you leave it plugged in too long. While the gizmo itself is groovy, it doesn’t mean much if the product is substandard. We can assure, after trying three carts in the brand’s Artisan Series, that it delivers on the medicinal (and recreational) front. The Black Mamba sativa (with a potent citrus and blackberry flavor), Guava Jam hybrid and Northern Lights indica all hit smooth with no harsh after-effects and were among the best carts we’ve ever tried.

22 RED As more states legalize recreational marijuana, more artists and celebrities are getting into the cannabis game. One of the latest is System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian, whose LA-based 22Red brand has recently entered the Arizona market. “I’ve been a connoisseur of cannabis for a very long time, over 20 some years,” Odadjian tells the Tucson Weekly Test Department. “I have a big love for the genetics and of the varieties out there.” While he says he smokes less than he did in his youth, he has remained fascinated by the variety of strains out there. He co-founded 22Red with partners in the cannabis business with aim of delivering high-quality, organic product.

22Red concentrates are produced from flower that has been cryogenically frozen before the THC, terpenes and other elements are extracted through clean methods. “I can’t stand for something that is not natural and organic,” Odadjian says.

“I have to be righteous to myself.” A sample of the Shred 22 Sour Diesel was quite aromatic, with a powerful scent of cannabis. The taste was mild with no additives.

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UTILLIAN VAPE PENS If after reading all this, you might find yourself concentrate-curious. But one of the biggest challenges with extracts is figuring how you want to smoke them. A regular bong or pipe will get sticky and clogged. While it will get you super high, a dab rig—a bong that includes a metal bowl—generally requires you to heat it up with a butane culinary torch, which can generate some anxiety with rookie users (especially after a few high-potency doses).

A quality e-rig can run into the hundreds of dollars. Nectar collectors and similar devices work OK but inexperienced user sometimes struggle to get a decent draw.

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All those problems are solved with Utillian wax vaporizer. We tried out two of their devices, courtesy of the company. The smaller Utillian 2 kit is ideal for on-the-go vaping. It’s a slender, pensized model that’s simple to use. Unlike many vape pens on the market, Utilllian 2 is held together with magnets, so you don’t have to screw it together (and there’s less chance that wax will gunk up any threads). The parts—a battery, a dual-quartz heating coil and a glass mouthpiece—pop apart easily, but hold tight when it’s in use. It has four different temperature settings, so you can at low temp for more flavor or a higher one if you want to blow clouds. The bowl is easy to load and burns cleanly, though of course you should clean it between smoke sessions.

You carry the whole thing in a slick case that includes spots for the USB charger and a metal wax tool you can use to pack your bowl. $49 at Utillian.com.

Meanwhile, the Utillian 5 is a larger portable vaporizer that delivers an equally solid smoke sesh. As with the Utillian 2, the unit has four temperature settings that allow you to control how hot the coil gets as it vaporizes the extract. The makers have put a lot of thought into this stainless-steel vape; the mouthpiece, for example, has a spoon attached on the underside that allows you to scoop your preferred dose and it right over the coil so it burns without gunking up the heating apparatus. A 1500mAh battery ensures it will burn plenty of wax between charges. $89 at Utillian.com ■

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By Dan Savage, mail@savagelove.net

GAY DUDE HERE. WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH MONKEYPOX? DO I NEED TO BE WORRIED? Yes, you do. I tried to raise the alarm about monkeypox on the May 24, 2022, episode of the Savage Lovecast, back when there were 100 cases in 15 countries, all of them among gay and bi men.

Now there are more than 5,000 cases all over the world, and almost all of them — more than 99% of cases — are among gay and bi men.

“Right now, it’s behaving very much like an STI — and almost all of the cases have been among men who have sex with men,” said Dr. Ina Park, a professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and Medical Consultant at the Centers for Disease Control Division of STD Prevention.

Monkeypox, Dr. Park explained, is the milder, gentler cousin to smallpox, and is spread by skin-to-skin contact or through respiratory droplets.

“But anyone who comes into close contact with someone who has monkeypox could catch it,” said Dr. Park. “And unlike other STIs which don’t live for very long outside the body, monkeypox can live for weeks on infected clothing, bedding, and other surfaces — think dildoes, slings, fetish gear — and barriers such as condoms worn over the penis or inside the rectum will protect those areas, but they don’t prevent transmission to other exposed parts of the body.

If you notice red painful bumps anywhere on you or your partner’s body — especially the genital/anal area — or if you are exposed to monkeypox, get checked

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HOW SOON IS TOO SOON TO SAY “I LOVE YOU” FOR THE FIRST TIME? On your first date, right after a stranger from an app shows up at your door, during your first threesome with that hot couple you just met a bar — too soon.

Even if you’re already feeling it, even if you’re crazy enough to think they might be feeling it already too, you should wait at least six months to say it. But you know what? Once you’ve said it — once you’ve said “I love you” for the first time — feel free to backdate that shit. Go ahead and say, “I wanted to say it before the entrée even came on our first date,” or, “I wanted to say it when showed up looking better than your pics,” or, “I wanted to say it when you both came inside me simultaneously.”

IS IT AN OVERREACTION FOR ME, A CIS WOMAN WHO LIVES IN WISCONSIN AND DOESN’T WANT KIDS, TO NOT WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH MY FIANCÉ SINCE THE RULING ON ABORTION? I’VE TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO HIM THAT IT’S A LOT TO COME TO TERMS WITH. Each of us grieves in our own way, and at our own pace. If you’re not feeling sexy right now because of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade — if the chance of an unplanned pregnan-

cy in Wisconsin, where a law from 1849 banning abortion can now be enforced, dries you up — that’s totally understandable. And if your fiancé is anxious to get back to penetrative sex, well, pegging counts.

A SUBMISSIVE GUY REACHED OUT TO ME VIA MY PRETTY TAME INSTAGRAM AND WANTS TO SEND ME MONEY AND WANTS NOTHING IN RETURN. SHOULD I SAY NO TO THIS? In this economy?

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seemingly beyond your capacity and impossible to achieve with your current levels of intelligence, skill, and experience—and then, in the coming months, accomplish them anyway. 2. Embrace optimism for both its beauty and its tactical advantages. 3. Keep uppermost in mind that you are a teacher who loves to teach and you are a student who loves to learn. 4. Be amazingly wise, be surprisingly brave, be expansively visionary—and always forgive yourself for not remembering where you left your house keys.

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ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) My readers and I have collaborated to provide insights and inspirations about the topic “How to Be an Aries.” Below is an amalgam of my thoughts and theirs—advice that will especially apply to your life in the coming days. 1. If it’s easy, it’s boring. —Beth Prouty. 2. If it isn’t challenging, do something else. —Jennifer Blackmon Guevara.

3. Be confident of your ability to gather the energy to get unstuck, to instigate, to rouse—for others as well as yourself. 4. You are a great initiator of ideas and you are also willing to let go of them in their pure and perfect forms so as to help them come to fruition. 5. When people don’t get things done fast enough for you, be ready and able to DO IT YOURSELF.

that your restlessness spawns. Keep changing the way you change. Be easily swayed and sway others easily. Let the words flowing out of your mouth reveal to you what you think.

Live a dangerous life in your daydreams but not in real life. Don’t be everyone’s messenger, but be the messenger for as many people as is fun for you. If you have turned out to be the kind of Gemini who is both saintly and satanic, remember that God made you that way—so let God worry about it.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) As a child, Cancerian author June Jordan said, “I used to laugh all the time. I used to laugh so much and so hard in church, in school, at the kitchen table, on the subway!

I used to laugh so much my nose would run and my eyes would tear and I just couldn’t stop.” That’s an ideal I invite you to aspire to in the coming days. You probably can’t match Jordan’s plenitude, but do your best.

Why? The astrological omens suggest three reasons: 1. The world will seem funnier to you than it has in a long time. 2. Laughing freely and easily is the most healing action you can take right now. 3. It’s in the interests of everyone you know to have routines interrupted and disrupted by amusement, delight, and hilarity.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) I know three people who have told me, “I don’t like needing anyone for anything.”

They fancy themselves to be rugged individualists with impeccable self-sufficiency.

They imagine they can live without the help or support of other humans. I don’t argue with them; it’s impossible to dissuade anyone with such a high level of delusion. The fact is, we are all needy beings who depend on a vast array of benefactors. Who built our houses, grew our food, sewed our clothes, built the roads, and create the art and entertainment we love? I bring this up, Taurus, because now is an excellent time for you to celebrate your own neediness. Be wildly grateful for all the things you need and all the people who provide them. Regard your vigorous interdependence as a strength, not a weakness.

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VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) Novelist Lydia Peelle writes, “The trouble was, I knew exactly what I wasn’t. I just didn’t know who I was.” We all go through similar phases, in which we are highly aware of what we don’t want, don’t like, and don’t seek to become. They are like negative grace periods that provide us with valuable knowledge.

But it’s crucial for us to also enjoy periods of intensive self-revelation about what we do want, what we do like, and what we do seek to become. In my astrological estimation, you Virgos are finished learning who you’re not, at least for now. You’re ready to begin an era of finding out much, much more about who you are.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) You need the following experiences at least once every other day during the next 15 days: a rapturous burst of unexpected grace; a gentle eruption of your strong willpower; an encounter with inspiration that propels you to make some practical improvement in your life; a brave adjustment in your understanding of how the world works; a sacrifice of an OK thing that gives you more time and energy to cultivate a really good thing.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) Author John Berger described birch trees as “pliant” and “slender.” He said that “if they promise a kind of permanence, it has nothing to do with solidity or longevity—as with an oak or a linden—but only with the fact that they seed and spread quickly. They are ephemeral and recurring—like a conversation between earth and sky.” I propose we regard the birch tree as your personal power symbol in the coming months. When you are in closest alignment with cosmic rhythms, you will express its spirit. You will be adaptable, flexible, resourceful, and highly communicative. You will serve as an intermediary, a broker, and a go-between.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) This might sound like an unusual assignment, but I swear it’s based on two unimpeachable sources: research by scientists and my many years of analyzing astrological data. Here’s my recommendation, ScorCOMMUNITY SERVICES HEALTH & BEAUTY LIVING SPORTS & RECREATION pio: In the coming weeks, spend extra time EXPLORETIREMENT REFOOD DRINK RETAIL & SERVICES watching and listening to wild birds. Place R COMMUNITY&SERVICES HEALTH & BEAUTY SPORTS & RECREATION yourself in locations where many birds fly RETAIL & SERVICES FOOD & DRINK COMMUNITY SERVICES and perch. Read stories about birds and talk HEALTH & BEAUTY T S about birds. Use your imagination to conW SPORTS & RECREATION E ILLS N G MARANAN FOOTH jure up fantasies in which you soar alongEWS side birds. Now read this story about how birds are linked to happiness levels: tinyurl. com/BirdBliss T DES

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) People who don’t know much about astrology sometimes say that Pisceans are wishywashy. That’s a lie. The truth is, Pisceans are not habitually lukewarm about chaotic jumbles of possibilities. They are routinely in love with the world and its interwoven mysteries. On a regular basis, they feel tender fervor and poignant awe. They see and feel how all life’s apparent fragments knit together into a luminous bundle of amazement. I bring these thoughts to your attention because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to relish these superpowers of yours— and express them to the max.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) In accordance with the astrological omens, here’s your assignment for the next three weeks: Love yourself more and more each day. Unleash your imagination to come up with new reasons to adore and revere your unique genius. Have fun doing it. Laugh about how easy and how hard it is to love yourself so well. Make it into a game that brings you an endless stream of amusement.

PS: Yes, you really are a genius—by which I mean you are an intriguing blend of talents and specialties that is unprecedented in the

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