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GRAPES AND GAFFES In which I bumble my way through Arizona wine country

By Emily Dieckman I’M NEVER SURE HOW MANY questions you’re allowed to ask at a wine tasting. Part of me is eager to learn, but the other part doesn’t want to be annoying and isn’t sure how much information I’d retain anyway.

Once, a man at a relatively fancy winery gave me a sample of wine and explained that the grapes, let’s call them B grapes, were different than the grapes in the last wine I’d tried, which were A grapes.

“What’s the difference between A grapes and B grapes?” I asked.

“They’re a different kind of grape.” The man sounded a little exasperated he’d had to repeat himself.

“Oh no, I understand. But, I mean, how are they different?”

“They taste different,” the man said. “… how?” I asked. “Or, why? Are they grown in different ways?”

The man, who didn’t appreciate what must have felt like the third degree (though a very friendly-in-tone third degree, I swear!), said he didn’t know. My

friends teased me, and I dropped it and drank up.

When I went wine tasting in Elgin recently, I decided I wasn’t going to really try learning anything. Maybe a question or two, here and there, but I’d focus on being content with the information people presented voluntarily. I was going to relax and be content and not try to make it a learning experience. Maybe it was OK for this to just be a wine experience, and a day of laughter and cheese boards with a friend experience.

One question I did allow myself to ask at several different wineries was “How did you learn about wine?” I’m curious how people go from maybe, if anything, preferring white or red to being able throw around phrases like “medium bodied” and “mouthfeel.” The most common answer in Elgin was just that people learned as they went. They tried different wines, figured out what they liked and learned the vocabulary bit by bit.

It’s an honest answer, but never the one

you want to hear, right? Like when you ask someone about how they learned a new skill or achieved success and the answer is just that they worked hard. That’s great, but, frankly, I’d appreciate some sort of gimmicky shortcut being offered up instead. One winery manager takes the opposite tack when I ask him, admitting he’s mostly just faked it since he was hired. I immediately feel more at ease. It’s not exactly an expert hack, but it makes me feel like it’s okay not to know.

I pick up a small sample of red wine and read the menu description, which describes the wine as “literally sparkling.”

“Would you say that’s ‘literally sparkling?’” I ask out loud, half joking, half

curious. It’s not carbonated, but maybe sparkling means something else in this context? I am clueless! The question is directed at my friend, but winery manager, the one who said he’s been faking it until he makes it, answers first with a laugh and a firm no. “I’m not the one who wrote that,” he says.

The man tells my friend and me that we are fun customers, that he’s glad we’re not pretentious like some customers.

Of course, it’s difficult to be pretentious about a subject you know almost nothing about, but some people do manage to do it. So, we take the compliment.

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Though the French may may not agree with the rest of the world, Arizona soil has produced grapes that have eventually been made into internationally-awarded wines.

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GRAPES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 I think of a friend who would deserve the compliment more, because he does understand wine and manages not to be pretentious. He’s from France, where, I imagine, everyone is holding a glass of high-quality wine at all times. He doesn’t enjoy the Arizona wines he’s tried, but he tries not to be too harsh when he says so.

“I just don’t understand who came out to Arizona, looked at this landscape and thought, ‘This is a great place to grow grapes for wine,’” he said once, gently, rather than just saying, “I know a lot about wine, and this wine is bad.”

I had no answer for him (see above re: I know nothing about wine). But when I tell this to the winery manager, he has an answer without skipping a beat: “Gordon Dutt, a soil scientist from the University of Arizona, back in the ’70s.”

Well, look at that! Apparently, Dutt originally planted grapes as an experiment in 1972 and thought it went pretty well, so he expanded, eventually opening Sonoita Vineyards winery, the first commercial vineyard in the state. And, my French friend’s personal tastes aside, to-

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And so it was that I learned something about wine on our wine-tasting trip, even when I wasn’t trying to. Next, I’m going to visit France. If I learn anything about tannins or tartaric acid there, I will report back.

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World-class wheelchair athlete to revolutionary bean counter AN ELDERLY WOMAN SITS COMFY in a corner chair, lost in a book. A young mother with two cagey knee-highs signs a reproductive-freedom petition at the counter. A handful of others indulge in easy vices of Marx, vegan fare or iced, shade-grown organic. It is downright tranquil inside the winning, air-conditioned bookstore-coffeehouse Revolutionary Grounds, the brutal, hot summer day outside be damned.

Here is employee Colin Wylie Cutter.

His low center of gravity wheels, seemingly effortless, behind the counter and out to customers. His face is the first thing you notice, a countenance so pleasant as to suggest a certain chill, boho élan: long tied-back dreads, sea-blue warm eyes, no lines of pain or worry bracketing his mouth. Squint, and he could be the mellow dude peddling Molly in the parking lot of a psytrance fest.

He laughs, said “I must really hide it well.”

He means he suffers. I soon learn how spinal pains can color his movements, and he must listen to his body, a skill he learned as a world-class athlete. He knows his limitations. The 30-year-old son of a minister was born with spina bifida, a defect of the spinal cord, and bears lower-body paralysis. If he pushes himself, he hurts.

Revolutionary co-owner Joy Soler hauls supplies behind the counter and tells me Colin was a regular at the shop’s old locale near Downtown and “kept asking if he could work here.”

When the shop relocated to central Tucson a few years ago, Joy measured Colin in his chair and designed the kitchen area so he could turn around. “We live in a very inaccessible world,” Joy said, “and it’s not OK.” “Besides, Colin is generous and open

to the world,” she added. “That’s why he’s here.”

‘YOU’LL GO TO HELL’ A few days later, Colin is rolled up to a table inside Revolutionary, wearing a yellow-orange T-shirt, Vans multicolor shoes and fingernails painted in colorful Jackson Pollock-like splatters, which, he infers, offers him a kind of ironic self-amusement.

He rides the bus 30 minutes to work from his house, a chore in a wheelchair (“My goal when I get on the bus is to get off as soon as possible”).

Calm fills his speaking voice, but get him talking about nuances of, say, Jim Morrison, collegiate sports and hypocrisies of Christianity, sentences unfurl crammed with potent beliefs and insightful tangents. Yet, he apologizes for swearing. An old habit, he says, and joked, “You’re not supposed to. You’ll go to hell.”

In context, it is hard not to joke about hell.

He’s had many near-death experiences, including risky surgeries (22 total), a high-speed car wreck, sicknesses involving infections and an Oklahoma tornado, which recorded the highest windspeed ever on May 3, 1999. Lots of self-inflicted blackout nights. He feels fortunate to have made it out alive.

There is his sports career, cut short by injuries, which came up almost incidentally in conversation, like it’s just something he did once before in life.

Here is a proven world-class athlete in disability sports — basketball, track and field, swimming, weightlifting and table tennis — who kicked ass in big national and international events. He traveled the world as a kid athlete from his home outside Oklahoma City, met sports stars, won scads of medals.

Colin Wylie Cutter has had many near-death experiences.

The list of accomplishments is eye-popping. Briefly: he was a five-time national table-tennis champion, seventh grade through high school; is a national swimming record holder (50-meter backstroke) and three-time Junior Team USA member; a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee for track and field, in which he medaled in the World Championships in Switzerland (bronze in javelin) and the Czech Republic (gold in javelin) the next year. He’s a national champion powerlifter. A high school all-American.

In college, a wheelchair basketball star, division one.

Since he was a boy, he wanted to take disabled sports mainstream. He was an inspiration, as an athlete and as a participant, in the well-being of others and to newly disabled persons.

“I remember one was an Oklahoma high-school football star, just a stellar athlete with a big future. Then he got hit by a drunken driver. He was just going to die in the wheelchair. I got him into wheelchair basketball. He learned he could still run into people. Disabled athletics saved his life.”

He got a basketball and academic scholarship to the University of Missouri, studying sociology and psychology. “I took a year off and it turned into ten,” he said.

Nine years ago, Colin moved to Tucson to stay with cousins and dug it. Burned out on college, on the Midwest, he wanted to be around extended family. While training in Tucson for the Paralympics, he suffered three injuries in a row, involving a cracked sternum and torn-out shoulders. His career cut off.

If there was a method to overcoming the addictive, drug-like endorphin rush of competition, triumph and athletic prowess, he doesn’t reveal so much.

What rushes his head when he lays it on a pillow at night might be something else entirely.

“It felt like a forced, de facto retirement,” he said. “Healing up took a year and a half. Life can pull you in a different direction.”

He soon got popped for weed, sold $30 worth to an undercover, got four nights

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SALVAGE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 in jail and two years’ probation. He was the black-sheep boy in his family. He can laugh at the bust now. “My probation officer smoked weed, and even he said my case was just dumb.”

Things got worse when he hit a release valve of self-destruction. Booze, blow and blackouts, fueled by self-pity, and it didn’t end well. Three lost years, the last of which he spent trying to stop, which he did, armed with a nagging idea “he had more to offer the world.

“I never got to party and be a kid,” he said. “I was too busy with sports. It’s what I assume you do in high school. I was also trying to cope with pain issues, which is a temporary fix. And fractures with my dad.”

I asked if maybe his injuries and coming off a mad endorphin-rich sports ride played a role. He paused, considered.

Added, “Perhaps I was drowning out sorrows.”

Some guilt rises too: “I don’t think I was working during that time either. I think my poor mother footed the bill for my insanity.”

To support himself, he worked various jobs in Tucson, from house-sitter to restaurant greeter. There was an aborted relocation to Portland in which he talkedabout how the city’s inviting progressive policies do not exactly extend to the disabled. He tells a story of falling down stairs (“stairs are everywhere in Portland”) outside a friend’s place where he was staying. He cursed into the rainy night, and soon returned to Tucson.

He talked of depression, a lowly, persistent passenger in his being, debilitating at times. Yet to turn around and discover enough about oneself to attempt a new game is an accomplishment in itself. It’s not Fitzgerald’s thing of no second acts.

It takes years to master skills and become great at one thing, in sports, medicine, plumbing or whatever. He writes now.

There is an acute self-awareness, he reckoned, when limited mobility and restrained (and strained) interaction with other humans pushes one inward. When pinned in place depression can fester, where ideas, wonders and impressions marinate in the air around him and hopefully fall into him. Sometimes, he only imagines there is anyplace he could go.

It makes sense he has become a writer, and the accomplished short stories and poetry he shyly let me read soar from the vantage of a bound, quiet observer of the human condition in both satirical and heart-melting passages. It is his dream to be a published author, not at all farfetched.

He plays guitar, too, writes songs.

Gives and receives lessons.

‘REALLY SMART’ Framed by a long wall of well-curated new and used books, from transgender studies to fiction to anarchist organizing, Colin talked about his father, who he described as ultraconservative Christian.

“My dad is really smart,” he said.

“Speaks ancient Greek, has four degrees, made a life traveling around the world helping others. I used to hero-worship him.”

Colin was born in Zimbabwe, where his dad, a minister, did missionary work.

The family, including Colin’s mother and two older siblings, soon moved to a small town in central Russia. The family returned to their home state Oklahoma where Colin, still a child, could receive

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better medical care.

Colin grew up attending public schools where his faith created “opportunities for ethical and moral tests.”

His relationship with his dad “became an ongoing, slow-motion train wreck, never one big fallout.”

He and his dad were still talking up until 2016. The theological differences were one thing, but Trump, he said, was the end. “My dad is extremely dogmatic about it all. That’s what was so difficult for me to understand. Before that, my family was apolitical, what we were doing was supposed to supersede all that.

There was a noticeable change in him.

My sister said it well: ‘The way he is now is the person he raised us not to be.’”

He continued, “I just push back on the righteous, anyone, even if they’re right.

Look, I don’t mind if people are religious.

I mind if they try to shove it down someone else’s throat.”

Colin, who is very close with his siblings and mother, is hardly religious now but is not slow to recognize good Jesus in Christianity. “Growing up we were

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taught we could do anything,” he said, “and to be kind to everyone, to understand people have a story, never prejudge and how to be a good human, at its core.

I got that. But I learned all the hypocrisy in Christianity and got out.”

Still, he’s lived a life inhabiting the in-between breaches among the existence of others who get preferential treatment.

He talks of a disabled person’s pressure to surpass one’s goals to succeed in any life choice.

He said “almost definitively” he feels like a second-class citizen, “a subsect of the human race. People aren’t talking disabled rights at the moment. It’s not in vogue, and that’s OK, so many other people need help.

But my disability is not considered. I don’t feel malice toward anyone, (the discrimination) is “I’m just not a put-me-in-a-home type person.” not active, it’s passive. When I go to a job interview, if their eyes stare at the chair, I know I’m not get- chill. To know you don’t have to hit home ting the job. At Revolutionary, Joy said, runs.”

‘How can we make this work?’ I mean He talks Tatiana McFadden, the chamthat just doesn’t happen.” pion athlete born with spina bifida, how Such displacement extends to relation- she’s sponsored by oil company BP, been ships, and, yes, Colin can have sex. “Why on McDonalds cups, featured in a Netflix would you go on a date with a person documentary and “nobody outside diswho can’t walk?” ability communities knows who she is.

Now that he is gainfully employed She is in the Olympic Hall of Fame. is a kind of feat. He fights nihilism and “This is how the cookie crumbles for cynicism; the rejection of religion is one a disabled person.” He added, “There’s a thing, yet understanding his life has thing in me. You can succumb to it, and meaning is another. roll over. You can put me in a home. But “What I’m learning now is I don’t have I’m just not a put-me-in-a-home type of to do great things,” he said. “I can just person.”

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GAME OVER?

Five years after Bryan Burns’ death, former Wildcats star Davonte’ Neal has been charged with the murder

By Jimmy Magahern IN RETROSPECT, THE CLUES were out there. And, in some respect, they still are.

On Nov. 4, 2017, Davonte’ Neal, the former Arizona Wildcats football player turned Idaho State assistant football coach, posted on Twitter, “It hurts but once love is lost there is nothing you can do but watch it pass.”

A week and a half later, on Nov.15, Neal tweeted, “Betrayal at its finest.”

In between those dates, at around 3 a.m.

Saturday, Nov. 11, Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies responded to an accident at the overpass near Interstate 10 and Elliot Road in Tempe. There they discovered a male driver with what appeared to be a gunshot wound, and transported him to a hospital, where he died the following day. The man was identified as 25-yearold Bryan Burns.

It would take nearly five years before any outward progress was made on the case. But on May 25, 2022, a man living in an apartment in Pocatello, Idaho, was finally arrested for first-degree murder, on an extradition warrant to Arizona.

Fans of the Wildcats player were shocked to learn the man arrested was Davonte’ Neal.

According to court documents, the cause of the shooting may have been Neal’s expressed jealousy over his ex-girlfriend being in a relationship with Burns.

Those who know Neal’s story also knew the athlete took his relationship seriously. He and Marie Burton had dated since seventh grade, according to his dad, and in 2013 the couple had a baby girl together.

Shortly after starting college that same year with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team in South Bend, Indiana, Neal decided to leave Notre Dame after just 13 games and move back to Arizona, specifically to be closer to Burton and their daughter.

But the relationship didn’t last. In the

court documents, Burton told investigators that she and Neal had split up three years before the shooting and that Neal was “upset she had moved on from their relationship” and had taken up with Burns.

Four days after the shooting, Neal tweeted another comment — which, like his others, has yet to be deleted: “Eventually you realize that the rose you once maintained turned out to be a snake.”

WAITING FOR ANSWERS It’s easier to piece together a cohesive story from the events around November 2017 than it is to make sense of the long timeline between the shooting and the arrest.

Jonathan McCall, a reporter and anchor for 12 News (KPNX) in Phoenix, says he’s been trying for weeks to learn why it took the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office nearly five years to arrest Neal even though they had uncovered several pieces of convincing evidence early on in the case. (Tucson Weekly has also submitted multiple records requests that have so far gone unanswered.)

“I am still waiting to get an answer,” McCall says via text. “I had to dig pretty deep to get more details. It’s pretty crazy.”

McCall obtained court documents that showed early evidence the MCSO had gathered indicating Neal’s possible involvement in the shooting. According to the documents, Burton told authorities that about 30 minutes before the time of the drive-by, Neal texted her asking if she had gotten home. A short while later, she received a call from Burns telling her that someone in “a gray or silver car” was following him.

Investigators determined that immediately before the shooting, Burns’ car was sideswiped by the other driver. A witness at the scene provided detectives a license plate they matched to a 2010 Honda Accord registered to one of Neal’s sisters.

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DaVonte’ Neal, a two-time All-American while at Chaparral in Scottsdale, yearned to make a positive impact on Higley High players where he was a coach. He’s shown here with coach Eddy Zubey.

When they located the car they found contact damage to the front passenger-side door and fender consistent with a sideswipe crash. Additionally, Phoenix Police inspected the car and found gunshot residue inside.

The reports show that four days after Burns’ murder, Neal was taken into custody and questioned by investigators.

When asked about his whereabouts on the night of the shooting, Neal told detectives that he had been at an Applebee’s until around 9 p.m. before returning to his home in Scottsdale. During questioning, Neal also stated that he did not own a gun.

However, phone records obtained by detectives included a text message between Neal and a family member just four months before Burns’ murder where Neal professed that he did, in fact, own a gun. Just hours after the time of the shooting, Neal received a text message from a family member suggesting he get rid of the gun and delete the message (apparently the message was still viewable in the phone records).

Despite all this evidence, Neal was released after questioning by detectives and the incident appeared to be filed away. The one-time NFL hopeful went on to hold assistant coaching positions

at two high schools in the Phoenix area, Dobson and Higley, before joining the staff at Idaho State, where he was able to pass a criminal background check prior to employment. “Neal’s background check was clear and he was approved for work when hired in January,” said University President Kevin Satterlee in a statement.

A brother of Bryan Burns recalled running into Neal about eight months after the shooting, walking through the Arizona Mills mall in Tempe.

“At that time when I’d seen him, I was in shock,” Brandon Burns recently told reporter Greg Woods of the Idaho State Journal. “I’m seeing the person that took (Bryan’s) life right here in front of me, walking around. That was kind of hard for me to deal with.”

The brother told Woods that he had approached Neal to ask him some questions but that Neal “tried to lie” about who he was. “At that time, he looked like he was going through a lot of stress,” Burns said.

“He didn’t look like the person he looks like now. Now he looks like he’s been carefree . . . like he got away with whatever he did at that time.”

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hosted by Natrell Curtis, an old family friend of Neal’s who now works as a substitute teacher in the Phoenix area, Neal recounted why he came back to Arizona Make a lifelong after just starting his college football friend from abroad. years at Notre Dame.

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Belgium, France, Germany, Neal recalled telling Indiana coach Ukraine, Scandinavia, Spain, Brian Kelly his reasons for leaving, which Japan, Italy or other countries.

Kelly supported, even securing Neal a Single parents, as well as Hanna from Germany, 17 yrs.

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American high school. to select your student. need to handle my business. I’m the one (Toll Free) that did it, I gotta go handle that.’”

Over the course of the nearly twohour conversation between the longtime host.asse.com or email info@asse.com friends, Neal comes across as an exemplary family man and mentor, discussing the gratification he received from Founded in 1976 passing on to younger generations all ASSE International Student Exchange Program is a Public Benefit, Non-Profit Organization.

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Davonte’ Neal was arrested in Idaho in June 2022 for the 2017 murder of 25-yearold Bryan Burns

years earlier, was hauled into questioning and considered the most likely suspect in a fatal drive-by shooting.

It’s likely Neal’s lawyers will play up that incongruity and insist he couldn’t have been the one to fire the shots that killed Bryan Burns. According to the Maricopa County Superior Court website, Neal’s lawyers on July 12 challenged the grand jury proceedings. For now, Neal is being held on a $1 million bond, and no one connected with him, it seems, is talking.

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CURRENTS Health department announces its first monkeypox case

By Katya Mendoza Tucson Local Media

County,” said Arizona Department of Health Services statement.

Maricopa, Coconino and Pima counties will become “hubs” for monkeypox vaccine distribution.

Pima County will receive about 100 vaccines for monkeypox treatment by Thursday, July 14. The vaccines are a two-dose series and individuals who consider themselves at risk can enroll on a Pima County website. The website will ask for demographic information, and a county representative will call to assess if the individual is at risk and requires a vaccine.

Those who share sheets, towels or unwashed clothing with those who have been infected are at risk. There is a slight chance of contact with prolonged respiratory secretions and face-to-face contact over four to six hours, Cullen said.

Men who have sex with men have been found to be the highest risk group for monkeypox, but not all cases that have been identified as such.

Although no one in the United States has died from monkeypox, a few individuals have been hospitalized primarily due to side effects such as secondary skin infection.

Individuals who believe they are at risk for monkeypox should reach out to their primary care providers or epidemiologists at the northside Pima County Public Health Clinic. For more informa-

CORONAVIRUS IN PIMA COUNTY Coronavirus is in a stage of accelerated transmission.

“The vast majority of our COVID right now is the BA.5 variant,” Cullen said. “We are seeing a resurgence of respiratory symptoms.”

Reported cases fluctuate between BA.4 and BA.5 variants, the BA.5 being more predominant.

Pima County recommends vaccinations and two booster shots. Officials also said to wear masks in public or social settings.

Individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 are eligible to receive treatment at the Pima County Health Department’s Test To Treat program located at its East Clinic, 6920 E. Broadway Boulevard. The program launched over two and a half weeks ago in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and provides testing and access to antiviral medications for COVID-19 at no cost. Health insurance is not required.

The oral medications, Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s Lagevrio, are available and effective against COVID-19.

For more information about the coronavirus, monkey pox or the Pima County Health Department Test to Treat program visit, pima.gov. Visit pima.gov/ covid19testing to find testing locations in Pima County.

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INFECTION DETECTION THE PIMA COUNTY HEALTH Department announced its first probable case of monkeypox during a July 12 press conference. Arizona’s first reported case was reported more than a month ago in Maricopa County.

Pima County Health Department Director Dr. Theresa Cullen said the infected person has been isolated and Pima County epidemiological staff are working on contact tracing.

The case is still under review by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is believed to be considered low risk to the general population.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends watching for early monkeypox symptoms such as fever, chills, headache, swollen lymph nodes, muscle aches and/or exhaustion.

A rash or sores can also appear before, after or during symptoms. Antiviral treatment is available upon infection. Consultation with a health care provider is recommended if early monkeypox symptoms are exhibited.

“The most common route of transmission is skin to skin,” Cullen said. “You can transmit monkeypox by having direct skin to skin contact with a lesion.”

Until lesions are 100% scabbed, which takes between 14 and 21 days, people are infectious. Cullen said the chances of an individual becoming infected with monkeypox without having direct contact with an infected person are miniscule.

“Arizona has one confirmed and seven other probable cases pending confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, all of them in Maricopa

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Unsearched U.S. Coin Bags full of Morgan Silver Dollars go to AZ residents State zip codes used to determine who gets valuable Morgan Silver Dollars issued by the U.S. Gov’t over 100 years ago and sealed away in three pound U.S. Coin Bags that have never been searched Who gets the Morgan Silver Dollars: Only AZ residents who find their zip code listed on the Distribution List below are getting the Gov’t issued coins. If you find your zip code listed below call: 1-800-867-0152 UMD644

“The vaults at Federated Mint are going empty,” said Laura A. Lynne, U.S. Coin and Currency Director for Federated Mint.

That’s because a decision by Federated Mint to release rarely seen U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars, some worth up to 100 times their face value, means unsearched Bank Bags loaded with U. S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars dating back to the 1800’s are now being handed over to U.S. residents who finds the first three digits of their zip code listed in today’s publication.

“But don’t thank the Government.

As U.S. Coin and Currency Director for Federated Mint I get paid to inform and educate the general public regarding U.S. coins. Ever since the decision by Federated Mint to release rarely seen U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars to the general public – I’m being asked, how much are the unsearched Bank Bags worth? The answer is, there’s no way to tell. Coin values always fluctuate and there are never any guarantees, but we do know this. Each unsearched bag weighs nearly 3 pounds and contains 50 Morgan Silver Dollars and just one coin alone, could be worth $40 - $100 in collector value according to The Official Red Book, A Guide Book of United States Coins . So, there’s no telling what you’ll find until you search through all the coins.

But you better believe at just $2900 these unsearched Bank Bags are a steal since everyone who misses the deadline must pay $4000 for each bag,” said Lynne.

“These are not ordinary coins you find in your pocket change. These are rarely seen Morgan Silver Dollars some dating back to the 1800’s so we won’t be surprised if thousands of U.S. residents claim as many as they can get their hands on. That’s because after the bags were loaded with 50 U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars, each verified to meet a minimum collector grade quality of very good or above, the dates and mint marks were never searched to determine collector values and the bags were securely sealed. That means there’s no telling what you’ll find until you search all the coins,” said Lynne.

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■ SNEAK PEAK INSIDE VAULT: The phone lines will be ringing off the hook beginning at 8:30 AM this morning when the vaults open for Arizona residents to claim unsearched Bank Bags. It’s hard to tell how much these unsearched bags loaded with Morgan Silver Dollars issued by the Gov’t over 100 years ago could be worth someday. That’s because each Bank Bag contains 50 Morgan Silver Dollars some dating clear back to the 1800’s. And here’s the best part. After the deadline each Bank Bag fee is set for $4000, but Arizona residents who find their zip code listed in today’s publication and beat the deadline cover just $2900 which is a real steal for these unsearched Bank Bags.

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their zip code printed in today’s publication need to do is call the National Coin Claim Hotline before the 48-hour deadline ends.

This is very important. The Vault Bag fee has been set for $4000 for residents who miss the deadline, but for those Arizona residents who beat the 48-hour deadline the Bank Bag fee is just $2900 as long as they call the National Coin Claim Hotline before the deadline ends.

“R emember th is , we ca n not stop collectors from buying up all the unsearched bags of coins they can get in this special advertising announcement. And you better believe with each bag being loaded with 50 U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars we’re guessing they’re going to go quick,” said Lynne.

The phone lines will be ringing off the hook beginning at precisely 8:30 AM this morning. That’s because each unsearched Bank Bag is loaded with nothing but U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars some dating clear back to the 1800’s.

“With all these collectible U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars up for grabs we’re going to do our best to answer all the calls,” said Lynne.

Thousands of U.S. residents stand to miss the deadline to claim the Unsearched Bank Bags. That means U.S. residents who finds the first three digits of their zip code listed in today’s publication can claim the unsearched bags of money for themselves and keep all the U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars found inside.

Just be sure to call before the 48-hour deadline ends. ■

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The only thing residents need to do is find their zip code on the Distribution List above and beat the 48-hour deadline. The Bank Bag fee has been set at $4000 for residents who miss the deadline, but for those Arizona residents who beat the deadline the Bank Bag fee is just $2900 as long as they call the National Coin Claim Hotline before the deadline ends.

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Soul Food Wednesdays BLAX Friday is a community culture initiative spotlighting Black businesses in partnership with the MSA Annex. In this series, they’re featuring incredible soul food on the last Wednesday of every month throughout the year. To the organizers, “soul food” is grub that’s multicultural and a celebration of life — and, of course, warms the soul. Come get a plate from Black Vibez, Off the Hook Seafood and Dre’s Seafood & BBQ. Westbound will also have drink specials.

Various times Wednesday, July 27, MSA Annex, 267 S. Avenida del Convento, free.

Movies in the Park: ‘Luca’ There’s nothing like an outdoor movie on a summer night. Throw in a popsicle, food trucks and a session for running barefoot in the grass and you’ve got yourself a whole evening of childhood nostalgia. Cox Communications is hosting this free summer series at Reid Park. Watch this beloved Disney film set in a town on the Italian Riviera and fantasize about a life where you are wiling away your days living in Europe.

7:45 p.m. Friday, July 22, Reid Park DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center, 900 S. Randolph Way, free admission.

Cool Summer Nights Get ready to bug out this weekend at the Desert Museum, where its Saturday event is all about insects and arthropods.

Did you know that there are a million species of arthropods in the Sonoran Desert? That is horrifying, but also amazing! Learn about bugs, try a local beer or specialty June Bug cocktail, experience a live animal encounter, and pet a stingray in the relative cool of the evening. Live music by Mr. Nature’s Music Garden.

6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 23, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road, $24.95 general admission, $22.95 seniors, $21.95 military and Arizona/Sonora residents, $13.95 youth aged 3 to 12, free for kids and members. Other discounts available.

Tony Frank & Friends play Tony Bennett & Frank Sinatra Have you made it over to the Century Room yet? The Downtown jazz club is full of good entertainment this summer, including jazz jams on Sundays, cocktail hours with piano soloists on Thurs-

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days and Saturdays, a vinyl DJ on Friday nights, a singalong piano bar on Wednesdays and wine and mezcal tasting events.

This week don’t miss an homage to two of jazz’s most legendary vocalists. The night will focus on the albums “Tony Bennett/Bill Evans” and “Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Obim,” from 1975 and 1967, respectively.

Shows at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday, July 22, The Century Room in Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress Street, entrance at Fifth and Congress, $15 to $20.

Movies at the Fox Tucson Theatre: ‘The Breakfast Club’

Maybe we, as a country, would get our act together if we were forced to spend one Saturday in detention and ultimately reconcile our differences for the greater good.

At the very least, maybe we, as a country, should all sit down together and watch “The Breakfast Club,” the 1985 classic featuring “a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal.” The Fox Tucson Theatre is showing it this weekend, and anyone who’s not a Neo-Maxi Zoon dweebie is gonna be there. VIP doors open at 5:30 p.m., GA doors at 6:30 and film starts at 7:30. Ticket prices include movie, popcorn, soda and takeaway breakfast supplies.

7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 23, Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress Street, tickets start at $25 general admission, $10 students with ID, $100 VIP, foxtucson.com

Swap & Shop with the Ninth House & Cero Tucson A magical swap, in my opinion, is the best kind of swap. So, if you have some gently used tarot decks, crystals or related literature, bring them by this event to see if you can swap for something that suits you better. That’s on the Ninth House end of things. Cero will host a clothing swap for those looking to update their wardrobe or accessory rack. Ready, set, swap!

6 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 22, The Ninth House, 2569 E. Fort Lowell Road, free admission.

Summer Safari Nights: ‘Hoofin’ It’

Visit some of Reid Park Zoo’s most iconic creatures, including giraffes, rhinos and zebras, who have beautiful hooves ready to receive your admiration. Wear your best walking shoes for a night exploring the zoo, talking with docents, grabbing a bite to eat and riding the carousel.

5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 23, Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court, $10.50 adults, $8.50 seniors, $6.50 kids to 14, free for members and kids under 2.

Chair Yoga in the Gardens Doing yoga in a garden always sounds really pleasant, but what if you’re new to yoga, struggle with balance or have difficulty with all those wacky-looking floor poses? This class at Tohono Chul, led by certified yoga teacher and yoga therapist Mary Carhuff, might be for you. It uses seated yoga and standing poses during which a chair is used for balance. Everyone is encouraged to go at their own pace, and Carhuff will demonstrate modifications. Bring a water bottle and a hat!

8:45 to 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 26, Tohono Chul Performance Garden, 7366 Paseo del Norte, $10 for the class, plus the cost of admission.

Harry Potter (Books) Trivia Night Are you the type of person who’s deep into Harry Potter lore? Who walks around talking about characters like Ludo Bagman and Katie Bell while others only remember Harry, Hermione and Ron? This is your night to shine. Pablo Sandoval is hosting this trivia night at Crooked Tooth Brewing, where you can compete to win a $10, $15 or even $35 gift card to this beloved local brewery. Teams max out at five people but can be as small as one. Event begins at 7 p.m. but they suggest arriving around 6 p.m. to secure a spot.

7 p.m. Tuesday, July 26. Crooked Tooth, 228 E. Sixth Street, free, food purchase suggested.

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TOP 10 REASONS TO HAVE DENTAL CARE IN MEXICO

By Coyote Dental WHY ARE MORE ARIZONANS choosing Mexico for their dental care?

The top 10 reasons may surprise you.

• Huge savings — Patients are saving up to 70% more than in U.S. dentist offices.

A $300 filling here may only cost $55 in Mexico. A $5,000 implant in the States may only cost $1,350 or less in Mexico.

With prices rising everywhere, it is a deal that cannot be beat.

• Amazing technology — The technology in many Mexican dental offices far exceeds what you’ll find in the States.

The labs are completely state-of-theart, leading to faster recovery times and

higher success rates.

• Compassionate care — Mexican dentists have a reputation for putting the patient first. No upselling or unnecessary treatments. They care about you, your smile and your pocketbook!

• Cleanliness — Dental offices in Mexico have the same level of cleanliness you would expect in a U.S. office.

• Safe and secure — The border towns offer safe, tourist-friendly streets. Plus, if you’re still uneasy your first time going, many offices will offer to have a staff member meet you at the border and escort you to their office. You’ll quickly discover you do not need the help.

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• Dental insurance coverage — Check your plan. Your dental insurance might just cover part of your care. Even in Mexico! You may have to submit the claim yourself, but it will help make your already-massive savings even better.

• Speaking Spanish is not required — The dental office staff is fluent in English.

Even when a word gets lost in translation, there is always a dental assistant nearby to help. Plus, there’s not a lot of talking when someone has their hands in your mouth.

• No passport, no problem — Americans walk across the border to such places as Nogales and Los Algodones every day.

Many do so with only a government issued photo ID (i.e., enhanced driver’s license or passport) or only a copy of your birth certificate if under the age of 16. This has been confirmed with the customs border patrol. They’ll have

no issues getting across the border or coming back.

• You don’t have to do hours of research to find the best dentist — Believe it or not, there are U.S. dentists who will refer you to the best dental offices in Mexico. Companies, such as Coyote Dental in Tucson, have actual U.S. dentists vetting the dental offices for you. They make recommendations based on your individual needs and best of all, they are a completely free service!

• Tacos, tequila, pharmacy and fun — Inexpensive prescriptions, fun shops, outstanding food and even a little alcohol, if you’d like. The border towns are tourist attractions for a reason. They are fun places to spend a day!

Get answers to your questions and discover whether dentistry in Mexico is right for you, visit coyotedental.com or call 520-355-4800.

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Each Watermark community in Tucson is a welcoming neighborhood, where you can live the way you want among friends who feel like family (favorite relatives only!). Unwind by the pool, explore a desert trail, or meet friends for dinner while we take care of all the rest. Farewell to dirty dishes and household chores; your time is all yours!

So what appeals to you? The equine program at The Hacienda at the River will soothe your spirit and open your mind. At The Hacienda at the Canyon, you could join the bocce ball team – no experience needed – and become a Senior Olympian. A movie buff? Catch your favorite films in the private theater at The Watermark at Oro Valley, or bask in the beauty of Pusch Ridge. Stay as active or chill as you like while enjoying the many amenities and exciting events at The Watermark at Continental Ranch. Discover new opportunities and interests every day at our flagship community, The Fountains at La Cholla.

A Time for Growth Your world expands when you live in a community that appreciates and cheers for you. Suddenly it’s easy to get involved in classes, meet new people, and feel connected again. Your old friends are still nearby and new ones are just down the hall, in the dining room, or at tai chi class. Frequent excursions and transportation services give you access to everything you need and enjoy around town.

Most of all, being part of a Watermark community means you can spend time with others or be on your own as much you like. You’ll meet people you never would have met before, and you’ll make each other’s lives better.

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BROADWAY ROYALTY ‘Pretty Woman’ brings Adam Pascal to Tucson

By Bridgette Redman ADAM PASCAL IS PRETTY PRAGMATIC about what he does in musical theater.

Pascal, who has played some of the more iconic leading men of modern musical theater, is in Tucson with the touring cast of “Pretty Woman: The Musical.”

He played Roger in “Rent,” Radames in “Aida,” Huey in “Memphis,” and Shakespeare in “Something Rotten.” Now, he is playing Edward in the musical based on the 1990 film in which a wealthy businessman hires as an escort — the free-wheeling prostitute, Vivian.

The show runs at Centennial Hall via Broadway in Tucson through Sunday, July 24.

When asked what drew him to the role, Pascal responded, “I would love to give you some sort of artistic, creative answer, like well, I’m drawn to the character for blah, blah, blah. But the real answer is, it’s a job. You know?”

Still, he enjoys the tour and hopes people will see it.

“Some of the things that are so fun about playing him is that he’s so unlike me and his background is so unlike who I am,” Pascal says.

“That’s what’s so much fun about being an actor. You step into the shoes of these people that are very unlike you. The more unlike me a character is, the more fun it is for me. I’m very much somebody who likes to disappear.”

The show is a romantic fairy tale, one which has a slightly more modern twist than the original movie, Pascal says.

“It’s very much a Cinderella-esque type of story,” Pascal says. “In our version, it’s also very much a female empowerment kind of story. It isn’t the film to a certain degree. They’ve taken steps to sort of amplify that aspect of her character and her character’s journey, to really make it a story in which she saves herself with a little help from him, as opposed to he saves her with a little help from her. I think it works much better that way.”

While the musical does still have Roy Orbison and Bill Dee’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” song in it, the rest of the music was

created for the musical by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, the wellknown singer-songwriter duo.

Pascal says this is a show where people have permission to laugh and to feel happy. He describes the show as a fun evening where everyone leaves smiling.

“It’s not a Mamet play, it’s not Shakespeare,” Pascal says. “You don’t need to be an English Lit major to appreciate what we’re doing.

It’s fun, simple storytelling for the masses.”

Vivian is played by Olivia Valli, who understudied Elphaba during “Wicked’s” second national tour and who also got to play her own grandmother in “Jersey Boys” on New World Stages. Valli is the granddaughter of Frankie and Mary Valli. Her grandfather was the lead singer for The Four Seasons.

Pascal says the show works so well is because he and Valli are friends off-stage and have a solid relationship and chemistry that they bring to the stage. He says it’s easy to forget her famous family lineage.

“She and I have, luckily enough, become really good friends,” Pascal says. “We have a similar sensibility. We come from similar areas — she’s from Jersey and I’m from Long Island. We hit it off and we get each other’s sense of humor. That translates onto the stage. That’s what makes the relationship between those two characters work — she and I are really good friends.

“We got lucky that we both really liked each other and we’re friends. You’re out here on tour and you support each other through your ups and downs. She and I both have significant others who we are separated from, so we bonded over the difficulty of missing our partners and being lonely and yearning for them.”

Pascal describes the touring show as being funnier than the movie and the Broadway show. He credits Valli as being the reason for that.

“That has a lot to do with her — she’s really funny,” Pascal says. “She brings out that element of the character.”

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(Above) Olivia Valli stars as the prostitute with a heart of gold in “Pretty Woman.” ( Left) Adam Pascal and Olivia Valli play Edward and Vivian as they make a magical connection at the opera.

No stranger to unusual costumes and ever-changing looks, Pascal says his costumes for this show has been integral to getting into character.

“It’s all about the suit,” Pascal says. “His power suits that he wears inform to a great extent who he is, where he comes from. I’m not somebody who spends a lot of time in a suit, so it took me some time to get comfortable with the feeling of being in a suit and how to wear it. It’s definitely helped me find the character.”

He encourages fans of the film to come to the musical, even while stressing that it is different.

“It’s the adaptation of the film to the best of our ability with some refreshed re-imagining of a couple different characters,” Pascal says.

“Also, this incredible music by Bryan Adams. That’s the biggest difference from the film. We’re telling this story with this great original score by this incredible rock/pop composer that has had so many hits.”

They’re the kind of earworms that people won’t be able to get out of their head.

“People should expect to have a lot of fun and have a lot of laughs,” Pascal promises.

“Pretty Woman: The Musical” WHEN: Various times through Sunday, July 24 WHERE: Broadway in Tucson, Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Boulevard, Tucson COST: Tickets start at $35 INFO: broadwayintucson.com, ticketmaster.com

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REBECCA FOX, WITH HER HUSBAND, Paul Fox, hosts another in her fourth-Tuesday comedy show series, “Blazed and Amused,” on Tuesday, July 28, at 420-friendly Arte Bella.

The series is the latest waystation in Rebecca’s comedy journey. You could say she’s been to the mountain, looked around, and decided, for now, to settle in the foothills.

She might have abandoned her quest when Oxygen canceled Chelsea Handler’s series, “Girls Behaving Badly.”

Handler had personally chosen Rebecca out of a cattle call audition for the show.

After featuring in two episodes, Rebecca packed up her whole life in New York City and moved it to LA. The Handler show made her feel like she’d finally arrived. But another two episodes later, it was over.

Rebecca already had drifted away from the NYC comedy scene when friends tipped her off to the Handler audition.

She’d had an existential crisis common to almost every comic: “Where can I go from here?” she thought.” The laughs are heady, but is this all there is?” The Handler spot had given her hope again.

Rebecca had arrived in NYC with an acting degree from Emerson University.

She had always been funny, she said, but she thought acting had made her too serious. So, she took improv classes. “Letting go of control was really hard for me,” she said, “but here were funny people around and I wanted to be funny.”

While studying at Upright Citizens Brigade, she joined a popular, all-female ensemble called Ms. Jackson. “Lucy Gosen was in it,” Rebecca said. “She’s Becky on Roseanne.” Fatefully, she also took a standup class. “When I did my first show, it fit like a glove,” she said.

“This is it! I was better at standup than I’d been at anything else I’d ever done.”

She started doing booked shows almost immediately.

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“One of the greatest periods of my life was after I did an open mic at The Duplex Piano Bar (in NYC). Poppi Kramer was the bartender and she hosted from the bar.” A comedian and actor, Kramer was in the inner circle of NYC’s comedy scene. She is best known, though, as the winner of “The Biggest Loser,” season three’s at-home competition. She lost half her body weight.

Kramer started including Rebecca in her own circle of friends. “We did tons of shows and we always worked together,” Rebecca said. “Being part of a group really worked for me.”

Until it didn’t.

“I’d gotten pretty good,” Rebecca said, “but I got to a point where I just wasn’t sure how to go further.”

Now, the Handler opportunity that had given her dreams a second life, now left her in malaise. Rebecca reached out to her NYC posse to commiserate. Then came another break. Kramer was able to connect her to a job L.A.’s legendary Comedy Store.

The next four years were a comedy im-

mersion experience.

“You meet a ton of people, and you watch a ton of shows and we all talked comedy all the time,” Rebecca said. “The ideology of the place is you have to go internal to really get to the truth and accept yourself onstage. Then from there, you can make jokes.”

She loved it, but reality eventually struck again. “I realized that if I do this, I will have nothing else. I’m good at this. I had the respect of my peers and I would get booked on shows, but then what?

“At the time, there was zero chance that you could get married, have a baby and still be at The Comedy Store every night slugging it out, competing for your spot.”

At last, she walked away from the grind into everything else. “It was all at once,” she said. “I went to grad school, I got a degree, I had a baby, got married, got divorced and moved to Tucson.”

She was excited about a chance to work for a doctorate in rhetoric at the UA. When that opportunity fizzled, she again found she’d moved her life for a lost cause, but she said, “Once I had my kiddo, I wasn’t sure I wanted to be in LA, anyway.”

She did miss performing, though. “I really didn’t do any comedy all that time,” she said, “but I will tell you that I could not stop thinking about it.”

So she started turning up at Laff’s Thursday open mics, and local producers soon began inviting her into their lineups. Eventually she started her own show on the prestigious Club Congress stage. The show, “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby”, featured a novel format. A panel of four comedians bantered around performances by two or three special guests.

Club Congress suggested she might also be interested in their legendary monthly Retro Game Show, and she soon won a spot in that cast too.

When COVID-19 restrictions began to lift, Catalina Comedy producer Kenny Schied tipped Rebecca off that Arte Bella (340 N. Fourth Avenue) was interested in having an open mic. Rebecca answered the call. She and her husband Paul now host the Home Room open mic there every Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Their booked show, “Blazed and Amused,” is at 7 p.m. every fourth Tuesday. Doors are at 6:30 p.m.

The lineup for July 28 includes, besides Rebecca, one of Tucson’s favorite Phoenix comics, Leslie Barton as well as

Paul Fox, Kristofer Royer, John Redding, Anthony Jenkins and Andrea Carmichael. Musical interludes are provided by keyboard artist Lew Lepley. Tickets are $10 at the door or at blazedandamusedcomedy.com.

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CARCAJADAS GARANTIZADAS (LAUGHS GUARANTEED) Best known for his extravagant ponytail, Teo Gonzalez delivers hilarity, in Spanish and English, throughout the United States and South America. He will perform, in English, with Rogelio Ramos at 8 p.m. Friday, July 22, at the Rialto Theater, 318 E. Congress Street. Tickets are $49 to $129 via Ticketmaster.

Gonzalea started scoring laughs as a goalkeeper in a First Division Mexican Soccer League team. On a night out, his teammates coaxed him to take the stage with jokes he’d shared in the locker room.

The club’s owner later hired him as the house comic, and Gonzalea gave up soccer to perform full time.

What’s followed has been more than 30 years of TV shows, comedy competitions, festivals and even a children’s show. Gonzalez represented Mexico in the International Humor festival in Bogotá, Colombia, six years in a row and has headlined a dozen comedy shows on Mexican nationLAUGHING STOCK

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS… THURSDAY, JULY 21 From the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation in the Four Corners region, country singer Dirt Rhodes carries on the deeply rooted tradition of Diné storytelling on “Navajo Country Music,” his latest release.

Together with country and western psychedelic-rocker Jim McGuinn — grandson of Roger McGuinn of The Byrds — they saddle up to ride one more time “Til the Sun Comes Up” at Club Congress. … Influenced by Wes Montgomery, one of the most important figures in jazz guitar history, guitarist Ricardo Garcia leads his quartet — featuring tenor saxophonist Kevin Ravellette, bassist Colin McIlrath and trapsman Kenji Lancaster — into the Late Night at The Century Room … The latest installment of Piano Bar takes place at Owls Club. Esteemed pianist Elliot Jones presides … Virginia Cannon’s Thursday Night Live: A monthly singer-songwriter showcase returns at Monterey Court …

Playing his first gig at age 15, seasoned piano man Bob Duquesne entertains during Cocktail Hour at The Century Room. Requests accepted … The Touchy DJs spin italo-disco vinyl at Spaghetti Club.

FRIDAY, JULY 22 During the hair metal zeitgeist of the late 1980s, masters of metallic mayhem like Skid Row, Warrant and Quiet Riot strutted like colorfully plumed peacocks down the fabled Sunset Strip, lording over all that they surveyed. The three, along with New York City-bred Winger, apply the Aqua Net and

kohl eyeliner one more time for the Live to Rock Tour. They make a stop at the AVA Amphitheater … Synth-loving indie poppers Chateau Chateau are equal parts glitter and gloom. “We’re a bunch of introverts who dress up like extroverts and get up on stage and dance around,” says vocalist Bleu.

On the heels of the release of their debut album “Grow Up,” Chateau Chateau will transform things that are “traditionally ugly, abstract and leftover” into something shiny, new and special at Club Congress … Paying homage to the masterful work of Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra, vocalist/trumpeter Tony Frank & Friends — pianist Rob Boone, guitarist Jose Martin Marquez, bassist Alan Lewine and percussionist Danny Brito — offer their take on timeless tunes like “My Foolish Heart,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” “The Girl From Ipanema” and more at The Century Room … Covering a wide spectrum of jazz, Late Night Lounge finds DJ Ambent digging deep into a crate full of modern and classic vinyl at The Century Room … The Vision of the Vibe is a photographic exhibit showcasing Tucson musicians captured in flagrante by some of Tucson’s finest shutterbugs. This installment shines the spotlight on Miss Olivia Trio with a live performance. At Revel … DJ Humblelianess — La Reina of Tucson’s legendary Latinx dance party Sin Fronteras — presides over El Tambó at Hotel Congress Plaza …

Bearers of light, the Hump House crew bring the dancefloor to life indoors at Club Congress … Led by two-time Grammy nominee Amo “Chip” Dabney, The AmoSphere perform R&B, soul, New Orleans, Latin jazz y mas at Monterey Court … Avant-Goth Night finds DJs Vi-

olet & RX spinning slabs of psych and synth at Spaghetti Club …

Incorporating elements of blues, alt-country and Southern rock to weave a colorful musical tapestry, Craig Green Band perform tracks from “Southland,” their latest album, at St. Charles Tavern … Honky-Tonkin’ Friday Night showcases rising young country singer Mark Miller and his band at Whiskey Roads … Presenting sounds as old as the mountains in a new way, Uncommon Crossroads perform a blend of folk music at the Jackrabbit Lounge… Led by vocalist Amy Virnelson, Soul Essentials performs classic and modern R&B and soul al fresco at St. Philip’s Plaza…

Play That Funky Music Dance Party features OnesAll — a family of musicians who specialize in funk, rock and pop hits — at the Gaslight Music Hall … Pete Swan Productions presents jazz vocalist Joe Bourne accompanied by pianist Sly Slipetsky at Pastiche Modern Eatery …

Zona Libre’s fiery repertoire draws from salsa, merengue and bachata musical traditions. They keep the dance floor lit at Brother John’s Beer, Bourbon & BBQ … “The drink will flow and blood will spill. And if the boys wanna fight, you better let ‘em.” Lenguas Largas, Mute Swan and the Sunnyslope Bullets will surely embrace the revolutionary spirit at Che’s Lounge.

SATURDAY, JULY 23 Armed and dangerous. Wielding vintage musical instruments, bang-on makeup and costumes, the KISS Army capture the essence of classic 1970s KISS sound and style at the Rialto Theater. Local AC/DC tribute band The Jack add appreciably to the experience … Bringing that kinetic Norteño sound that was made for boot scootin’, Bronco and Ramon Ayala wheel the steel horse into the AVA Amphitheater for the Se Soltaron Los Caballos Tour …

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XOXO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 band. Singer-songwriter S. Carey presents “Break Me Open,” his fourth studio album, at Club Congress. With support from folk artist Courtney Hartman … Recently nominated for a Grammy award for the 2021 album “The Garden,” “polymath, Renaissance woman, jack of all trades,” acclaimed pianist Rachel Eckroth tickles the ivories during Cocktail Hour at The Century Room … Led by the lyric-driven original material of country-crooner David Bryan, Loveland is a Tucson collective comprised of a who’swho cast of hired guns, specializing in Americana, folk rock and classic country renditions. They convene on a mission to warm hearts at MotoSonora Brewing Co … With a repertoire that ostensibly “oozes the Southwest,” the acclaimed John Coinman Trio — featuring bassist Blair Forward and drummer Larry Cobb — perform as part of the Tucson Troubadour Concert Series at Tucson Presidio…

Performing a sultry mix of blues and jazz, the Paul Green Quartet returns to The Century Room … Heavy metalists Lethal Injecktion, Her Name Echoes and Syk circle the wagons to celebrate the life of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, who died by suicide in 2017. At Encore … DJs Bex & Halsero curate the hottest jams outdoors at Hotel Congress Plaza … The brass-laden sound of The Coolers keeps things chill on a hot summer night at Monterey Court… DJ Nada serves up Disco Al Dente at Spaghetti Club … Turntablists Posi & Walters the Don spin dance hits at Club Congress.

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After occupying the airwaves during the 1960s with bona fide smash hits “She’s Not There” and “Tell Her No,” iconic English psychedelic pop rockers The Zombies, still in a state of constant flux, bring the “Life is a Merry-Go-Round Tour” to the Rialto Theater. Singer-songwriter Bruce Sudano lends support …

Traditional folk song structures and field recordings of the desert meld together with the cacophony of the city to provide a strangely thrilling framework for Karima Walker’s uncanny America-

na. Experimental musician Walker performs at The Century Room with Chicago composer Matt Bachmann … Out on a “Joyride,” from Newark, New Jersey, The Jack Moves offers throwback R&B, classic soul, hip-hop and funk that can be easily envisioned billowing out from a boombox placed on an inner-city windowsill or a lowrider during a backseat make-out session. They take to the Club Congress stage with support from WOMC and Seanloui.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27 The longtime dream of vocalist Stephanie Bergara incarnate, Austin’s first all-star Selena tribute Bidi Bidi Banda keeps the Tejano superstar’s spirit alive at the Hotel Congress Plaza … Their sound draws heavily from hip-hop, noise and sludge. New York punks Show Me the Body take ferociously to the Club Congress stage with support from Soul Glo, WiFiGawd and Bat Population …

Filled with ghosts, killers, cruel lovers, the occasional UFO cult or false messiah, Seattle singer-songwriter Damien Jurado employs found sound and field recording techniques to add dimensionality and bring the dire circumstances of his songs to life. He performs at The Century Room. Genderqueer acoustic folk artist Chris Pureka opens the show … In a truly gilded celebration, Don Armstrong & The Whiskeypalians — Liz Cerepanya, Peter Dalton Ronstadt, Gary Mackender, Alvin Blaine and Slim Rost — gather to commemorate Armstrong and his wife Victoria’s 50th Anniversary at Monterey Court.

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By Jordan Rogers SWEET DREAMS VINEYARD, AND founder Bill Gibbs, have brought a cutting-edge product to the cannabis industry.

As of early 2021, the company released a nonalcoholic, THC-infused red wine and margarita, dubbed “Cannabernet” and “Marijuarita,” respectively.

Both products are sold to anyone over the age 21 at Herbal Wellness Centers, as well as a growing number of dispensaries around the Valley.

The cost is in the low to high teens

for the 187mL bottle of either Cannabernet or Marijuarita and in the low to high $30s for a 750mL bottle of Cannabernet, depending on the strength. As they are both essentially juices, both products must be refrigerated after opening.

“The impetus for this is I’m older, and I love to drink alcohol, but it’s just getting harder and harder for me to do,” Gibbs says. “But I love the social experience of being around people. So that was kind of the impetus about why I did it, it was selfish on my part. I wanted to drink less

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alcohol, but I didn’t want to change my lifestyle at all.”

These beverages also offer fast-acting effects similar to that of an alcohol-based beverage without the hangover. By using nano-emulsification technology, which makes the THC water soluble, the effects are felt in as little as 15 minutes.

Cannabernet has half the calories of

traditional wine per serving, and the Marijaurita only has 45 calories, which is far fewer than the traditional version of a margarita. Gibbs says keeping his products healthy was at the top of his list for things to accomplish.

“People are more health conscious

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No stranger to the marijuana industry, in 2012, Gibbs founded a dispensary called Urban Greenhouse Dispensary in Phoenix and served as its CEO until he later sold the company to Harvest Health and Recreation.

While he was with the company, Gibbs was at a marijuana convention in 2016 when, for fun, he threw a cannabis label on a bottle of wine.

“Just out of a lark, I took a bottle of wine and put a cannabis label on it,” Gibbs says. “I got calls from – and of that convention attracts an international crowd – all over the world, from people going, ‘We’re going to get the wine in my location.’ That was kind of an amazing response. I also literally got probably around 100 emails from people.”

After selling that dispensary in 2019, Gibbs took a break from the industry.

When he decided to get back into it, he followed up on that response he received at that convention.

“I thought there would be a million products out there by that time because at that time, nobody had done it,” he says.

“I was surprised to see that there was virtually none. There were plenty of people that I saw websites for where they said they were going to do it, but they never did. So basically, I just started investigating that and I thought it would be rela-

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tively easy.

“You know, we’re close to California. I thought I’d get some (nonalcoholic) wine and put THC in it. There you go; there’s the product.”

What Gibbs hadn’t realized is that non-alcoholic wine is not exactly fruitful in the taste department.

“It’s not just awful; it’s incredibly terrible,” he says. “You would never want to have it by the glass. I don’t know exactly what causes that, but without the alcohol in there, it really is bad.

Nobody would ever want to drink that.

It was like, ‘Oh, man, that’s not going to work.’”

From there, Gibbs hired a sommelier and purchased “every kind of juice known to man.” The two of them, Gibbs says, sat in his kitchen to try and figure out the juice combination that would best mimic the taste of a glass of red wine.

After finding the correct combination, Gibbs wasn’t exactly done with the beta stage. He said the “edible experience” is something he did not want his cannabis-infused beverages to mimic, as edibles can be unpredictable and take a long time to take effect.

“When I was able to do some research,

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I realized that this was an issue that the pharmaceutical companies had solved a long time ago to be able to have the active ingredients enter the bloodstream at a much quicker rate,” Gibbs says. “Then, I just went about trying to figure out how to do that.”

Gibbs wanted his product to have the

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quicker response time that alcohol has – roughly 15 minutes.

He says it would be his “holy grail” if he could figure out a way to achieve that, but that as well would not be an easy task.

“With cannabis, it’s been illegal for so long, so there’s no manual,” Gibbs says.

“Nobody writes any of this stuff down; it’s not like almost any other industry. If you go into any other industry, there’s long (SUBMITTED PHOTO) legions of people that have done stuff before. Well, this had never been done.”

After learning about nano-emulsifying technology, he was able to figure out how to correctly utilize it, and he had his finished product. In this case, nano-emulsification converted the THC into some-

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ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) You are entering the Season of Love’s Renewal. To celebrate, I offer you a poem by eighth-century Tamil poet Andal. Whatever gender you may be, I invite you to visualize yourself as the “Snakewaist woman” she addresses. Here’s Andal, bringing a fiery splash of exclamation points: “Arouse, Snakewaist woman!

Strut your enchantment! Swoop your mirth and leap your spiral reverence! As wild peacocks shimmer and ramble and entice the lightning-nerved air! Summon thunderheads of your love! Command the sentient wind! Resurrect the flavor of eternal birth!”

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) Tips to get the most out of the next three weeks: 1. Work harder, last longer, and finish with more grace than everyone else.

2. Be in love with beauty. Crave it, surround yourself with it, and create it. Be especially enamored of beautiful things that are also useful. 3. Taste the mist, smell the clouds, kiss the music, praise the earth, and listen to the moon in the daytime sky. 4. Never stop building!

Keep building and building and building: your joy, your security, your love, your beauty, your stamina, your sense of wonder.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) Gemini astrologer Astrolocherry says that while Geminis “can appear naive and air-headed to onlookers, their minds usually operate at light speed. They naturally absorb every surrounding particle of intellectual stimuli. They constantly observe their interactions for opportunities to grow their knowledge.”

I believe these qualities will function at peak intensity during the next four weeks, Gemini—maybe even beyond peak intensity. Please try to enjoy the hell out of this phase without becoming manic or overwrought. If all goes well, you could learn more in the next four weeks than most people learn in four months.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) Naeem Callaway founded Get Out The Box, an organization that mentors at-risk

youth in low-income and rural communities. Here’s one of his central teachings: “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step.” Even if you don’t fit the profile of the people Callaway serves, his advice is perfect for you right now. For the time being, I urge you to shelve any plans you might have for grandiose actions. Focus on just one of the many possible tasks you could pursue and carry it out with determined focus.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) A Leo astrologer I’ve known for years told me, “Here’s a secret about us Lions. No matter what happens, despite any pitfalls and pratfalls, my ego will stay intact. It ain’t gonna crack. You can hurl five lightning bolts’ worth of insults at my skull, and I will walk away without even a hint of a concussion. I believe in myself and worship myself, but even more importantly: I trust my own self-coherence like I trust the sun to shine.” Wow! That’s quite a testimony. I’m not sure I fully buy it, though. I have known a few Leos whose confidence wavered in the wake of a minor misstep. But here’s the point of my horoscope: I encourage you to allow a slight ego deflation in the coming days.

If you do, I believe it will generate a major blossoming of your ego by August.

And that would be a very good thing.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) Virgo poet Claude de Burine described how one night when she was three years old, she sneaked out of the house with her parents’ champagne bucket so she could fill it up with moonlight. I think activities like this will be a worthy pursuit for you in the coming days. You’re entering a favorable phase to go in quest of lyrical, fanciful experiences. I hope you will make yourself available for marvels and curiosities and fun surprises.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) There is a distinction between being nice and being kind. Being nice is often motivated by mechanical politeness, by a habit-bound drive to appear pleasant.

It may be rooted more in a desire to be liked than in an authentic urge to bestow blessings. On the other hand, being kind is a sincere expression of care and concern for another. It fosters genuine intimacy. I bring these thoughts to your attention because I think that one of Libra’s life-long tasks is to master the art of being kind rather than merely nice. And right now is an especially favorable phase for you to refine your practice.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) You sometimes feel you have to tone down your smoldering intensity, avert your dark-star gazes, conceal your sultry charisma, dumb down your persuasive speech, pretend you don’t have so much stamina, disguise your awareness of supernatural connections, act less like a saint and martyr in your zealous devotions, and refrain from revealing your skill at reading between the lines. But none of that avoidance stuff usually works very well. The Real You leaks out into view. In the coming weeks, I hope you won’t engage in any of the hiding behavior I described. It’s a favorable time to freely pour forth your Scorpionic blessings.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) There could be interesting and important events happening while you sleep in the coming nights. If a butterfly lands on you in a dream, it may mean you’re prepping for a spiritual transformation in waking life. It could be a sign you’re receptive to a breakthrough insight you weren’t previously open to. If you dream of a baby animal, it might signify you’re ready to welcome a rebirth of a part of you that has been dormant or sluggish or unavailable. Dreams in which you’re

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) How to be the best Capricorn you can be in the coming weeks and months: 1. Develop a disciplined, well-planned strategy to achieve more freedom. 2. Keep clambering upwards even if you have no competitors and there’s no one else at the top. 3. Loosen your firm grasp and steely resolve just enough so you can allow the world to enjoy you. 4. Don’t let the people you love ever think you take them for granted. 5. Be younger today than you were yesterday.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) In the next seven to eight weeks, I’d love for you to embody an attitude about intimacy articulated by author Hélène Cixous.

Here’s her aspiration: “I want to love a person freely, including all her secrets.

I want to love in this person someone she doesn’t know. I want to love without judgment, without fault. Without false, without true. I want to meet her between the words, beneath language.”

And yes, dear Aquarius, I know this is a monumental undertaking. If it appeals to you at all, just do the best you can to incorporate it. Perfection isn’t required.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) I periodically consult a doctor of Chinese Medicine who tells me that one of the best things I can do for my health is to walk barefoot—EVERYWHERE! On the sidewalk, through buildings, and especially in the woods and natural areas. He says that being in direct contact with our beloved earth can provide me with energetic nourishment not possible any other way. I have resisted the doc’s advice so far. It would take the soles of my feet a while to get accustomed to the wear and tear of barefoot walking. I bring this up, Pisces, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to try what I haven’t yet. In fact, anything you do to deepen your connection with the earth will be extra healing. I invite you to lie in the sand, hug trees, converse with birds, shout prayers to mountains, and bathe in rivers or lakes.

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In addition, the cannabis can’t be tasted in either Cannabernet or Marijuarita. Gibbs said the flavor the of the juices serve as a blocker to the bitter taste cannabis brings.

Gibbs, however, says he doesn’t want people to expect a perfect flavor profile to a classic Cabernet.

“You’re never going to drink that and go, ‘That’s the best Cabernet I’ve ever had,’” he says. “You’re going to say, ‘It’s wine like, and it tastes good.’”

Gibbs says his products are in about a half a dozen dispensaries around the Valley and is looking to be in 25 by the end of the year.

He’s cautious about growing too quickly, however.

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