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Making Science Accessible UA community and school garden program uses plant sciences to empower students

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Salpointe Fire Update: Man arrested for arson

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COMMUNITY GARDEN

UA program combines plant science, education and social justice.

FEATURE

CURRENTS BACK TO SCHOOL

DISTRICTS PREPARE FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR ... 5

CITY WEEK

7 Tucson Ninja Warrior: Izabella Adkins makes it to finals

WEEKLY CALENDAR............................11 SPORTS TAILGATING BURGER COMPETITION.............12 FLYING COLORS AVIAN ART EXHIBITION ..............................14

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EXTRAS ASTROLOGY ..........................................21 CLASSIFIEDS ........................................22

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CURRENTS

MAN ARRESTED FOR ARSON IN CONNECTION TO THE SALPOINTE FIRE

By Katya Mendoza Tucson Local Media

Harris to the fire, according to Sergeant Richard Gradillas, spokesman for TPD. “Our investigators did a lot of work to identify various ignition sources and sent off samples to labs to analyze where that fire might have started,” Michael Colaianni, spokesman for TPD said. Investigators handed over evidence and samples to TPD’s arson investigator who was able to make the arrest, Colaianni said.

The fire, which began in the attic space in the 700 English wing on the southeast corner of campus, destroyed six classrooms and will have to be rebuilt.

On July 21, school officials announced in a press release the first day of school

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(Above) The two-alarm fire that occurred at Salpointe Catholic High School on Sunday, July 17, destroyed six classrooms in the 700 English wing. The classrooms will be temporarily replaced by high-quality modular units when school resumes on Tuesday, Aug. 15. (Left) TPD officials identified 26-year-old Forrest Harris as responsible for starting the fire at Salpointe Catholic High School on Sunday, July 17. Harris was also charged with third degree burglary and criminal damage.

would be postponed by one week “in order to guarantee a safe and fully operational campus.”

“When the students come back on Aug. 15, all of the classrooms will be functional, with the exception of six classrooms and held in high quality modular units that will (temporarily) work as our classrooms,”

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THE TUCSON POLICE DEPARTMENT announced an arrest over the weekend of 26-year-old Forrest Harris in connection to the Salpointe Catholic Fire that occurred on Sunday, July 17.

TPD responded to a call on Saturday, July 30, related to a dispute about a dog near North Country Club Road and East Grant Road. Police were able to identify and locate Harris due to an internal “stop and arrest.” A “stop and arrest” means there is enough probable cause to make an arrest.

After interviews, TPD found further probable cause to arrest Harris. Officials charged him with arson of an occupied structure and booked him into the Pima County Jail. He was also charged with third degree burglary and criminal damage.

Based on forensic evidence collected

by Tucson Fire Department investigators at the fire scene, blood DNA connected

said Jennifer Harris, director of advancement at Salpointe Catholic High School.

The high school is going through the restoration process of smoke, water and electrical damages found throughout the 300 and 400 wings on the northeast side of campus and estimates the damages to be in the millions of dollars.

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CURRENTS

DISTRICTS PREPARE FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR WITH NEW SECURITY

By Alexandra Pere Tucson Local Media

TUCSON SCHOOLS PREPARE TO open their doors the first week of August for K-12 students.

With heightened fears after the Robb Elementary School massacre in May, parents expressed concern to school districts about safety procedures.

The Amphitheater Unified School District governing board members said they hired an external independent school safety expert to conduct safety assessments of schools in the district during a meeting on Tuesday, July 26. They said the expert is a former law enforcement officer and they will be presenting their findings to the public this week.

Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) Superintendent Gabriel Trujillo held a press conference on Wednesday, July 20, to announce safety developments, staffing shortages and a minimum wage increase for TUSD employees.

TUSD schools and Amphitheater schools are back in session starting Thursday, Aug. 4.

“Our operations team, working with our school safety team, are doing a very thorough assessment of each campus’s security and safety infrastructure capacity specifically around fencing, gates, doors, locks, keyless entry systems,” Trujillo said. “We’re going to be coming to the governing board with a comprehensive package to make improvements and investments in those areas.”

Trujillo said they won’t have the budget to address every safety issue in the district, but certain changes will be prioritized. The district will prioritize funding for campuses that don’t have exterior fencing, surveillance systems, and campuses that need exterior fences replaced or fixed.

Trujillo said the district will also be announcing a new visitor procedure in response to an incident that occurred last May at Tucson High when a fight broke out between a parent and a student on

campus.

“Coming into a school there’s going to be strict, designated places where they’ll (parents) have to check in and visits will largely be supervised and that they can expect that they’ll probably end up being escorted from place to place, depending on what their business is on the campus,” Trujillo said.

Trujillo reported TUSD is experiencing teacher and bus driver shortages. The district is looking to fill 25 middle school and high school math teacher positions, 50 vacancies for a variety of special education positions and 55 bus driver positions. Trujillo said the bus driver vacancies have improved from the vacancies the district endured the year before.

The district has 300 substitute teachers available to fill positions but Trujillo admitted those numbers haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels, when the district had 800 substitute teachers.

Even with subs, Trujillo said the district will have to go in and reassess class sizes to dissolve some of those vacancies.

“The goal is never going over,” Trujillo said. “Targeted class sizes are laid out in the TUSD TEA (Tucson Education Association) consensus agreement and we try to hit those.”

The TUSD TEA consensus agreement sets limits to the number of students in specific classroom settings, like 24 students in a high school classroom or 12 autistic students to one special education teacher.

The TUSD board voted during its Tuesday, July 12, meeting to raise the internal minimum wage to $15 an hour with the approval of TUSD’s Fiscal Year 20222023 Expenditure Budget.

“We were able to make that happen and bring the entire workforce into TUSD to the minimum level of $15 an hour,” Trujillo said. “We will be coming back in No-

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SCHOOL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 vember to be addressing any related salary compression issues that have emerged as a result of this internal movement.”

In regards to COVID-19 safety precautions, Trujillo said the district adjusts its COVID-19 restrictions in accordance with Pima County transmission levels.

During the press conference, COVID-19 transmission was low. Trujillo said low County transmission would result in a mask-optional policy.

“We are still keeping up with our COVID protocols with regard to cleanliness, with regard to having hand sanitizer present in every office in every classroom, with having masks available for those that request them, committing to deep cleaning our buses, in our cafeterias and our classrooms,” Trujillo said.

In a statement to Tucson Local Media, Flowing Wells Unified School District Superintendent Kevin Stoltzfus said the district has evaluated every school site and is working on upgrading safety measures like fencing and door locks for campuses in need.

“Additionally, we are integrating a new

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emergency notification system that will empower employees to initiate crisis alerts much more quickly, with the goal of mass notification in just a few seconds from the time a dangerous individual is first identified on campus,” Stoltzfus said.

The first day of school for the Flowing Wells District is Thursday, Aug. 4.

Stoltzfus said the district has four teacher vacancies, but their pool of sub-

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stitute teachers has grown in comparison to last school year.

Stoltzfus said parents and students can look forward to progress on two buildings, the Community Learning Center and Early Childhood Center. Both buildings will be finished in the spring and will provide two new early childhood classrooms.

“Additionally, the bond-funded construction at Laguna Elementary School on Shannon Road will create new classrooms, office space, and outdoor play and learning areas,” Stoltzfus said.

Julie Farbarik, director of alumni and community relations for Catalina Foothills Unified School District, said in a statement to Tucson Local Media the district conducted thorough safety assessments over the summer. She said they won’t be sharing specifics to the public due to security reasons.

“This year, we hired 55 new certified staff members, which includes teachers and counselors,” Farbarik said. “We are

still looking for two fifth-grade teachers (one is in our Spanish immersion program), an elementary P.E. teacher and a middle school Spanish teacher.”

First day of school for Catalina Foothills District and Marana Unified School District is Monday, Aug. 8.

Sunnyside Unified School District (SUSD) Superintendent Jose Gastelum said the district had a safety town hall meeting for the community on Thursday, July 7.

“Our goal was to bring comfort to them in terms of letting them know that this is a priority, the safety of our students has always been our top priority,” Gastelum said.

Gastelum said there were safety audits conducted over the summer at district schools. The first day of school for SUSD is Wednesday, Aug. 3.

“All of our schools have wrought iron gates, our middle and high schools have security guard shacks as you enter the property,” Gastelum said. “Also, all of our elementaries have caged controlled entry and exit areas so if you come in somebody has to buzz you in to come in.”

SUSD school employees have access to radios with frequencies set to communicate with law enforcement. Campuses are also equipped with security cameras and a district security team. Additionally, students have access to a new “See Something, Say Something” anonymous reporting system on their electronic devices.

“If there’s a message to our parents, it’s that we’re paying close attention to it (safety), it’s a priority of ours and we want to really provide their children a great school experience; it should be an experience where they can come and enjoy school,” Gastelum said.

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TUCSON’S IZABELLA ADKINS CLIMBS TO THE FINALS ON SEASON 14 OF ‘AMERICAN NINJA WARRIORS’

NAU student Izabella Adkins advances to the ANW finals in Vegas.

By Hope Peters

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TUCSON NATIVE AND CURRENT Northern Arizona University (NAU) Sophomore, Izabella Adkins, could not believe she was selected for season 14 of the American Ninja Warriors (ANW) competition show.

“It felt unreal,” Adkins said about the casting call she received in February. “I was just walking to class (at NAU) when I saw some random number calling me.

I answered and they said I was selected.”

She said it felt like a dream up until she was in San Antonio, Texas, for the qualifiers in March. She had applied for it in

November of last year, once she turned 18.

“The most elite athletes in the country are back for NBC’s American Ninja Warrior season 14, airing Mondays,” Caitlin Jaynes, senior account executive with MPRM Communications, said in a statement. “The new season marks the return of the lowered age requirement, which opens the door to a new era of competitors as young as 15.”

A “superfan,” Adkins said she’s been watching ANW since she was 13.

“It was super cool,” she said of the show.

“And I thought this would be cool to do

one day.”

Adkins, 19, who will graduate from NAU in Spring 2025, said she was inspired by her father to do her best and work toward her dreams.

“He is in a wheelchair,” she said of her dad. He suffered a traumatic brain injury before she was born. “That is how I have always known him, he said to keep pushing yourself.”

With her heart set on American Ninja Warriors, Adkins said she started wall climbing and sport climbing with a climbing team at Rocks and Ropes in downtown Tucson when she was 10, but aged-out at 18. She said she could only do wall climb-

ing in Tucson because there are no ninja warrior gyms in town. However, she said there were a few of those gyms in Phoenix she would visit to practice.

Due to the lack of obstacle style training gyms in town, she set up her backyard to train. Adkins said she added obstacles such as a salmon ladder and other climbing obstacles to help her perform well.

When she moved up to Flagstaff for NAU, she found a ninja warrior gym, Summit Ninja Warrior, where she works, trains others and perfects her craft.

In San Antonio, Adkins placed second

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MAKING SCIENCE MORE ACCESSIBLE UA community and school garden program uses plant science to empower students

By Katya Mendoza Tucson Local Media

NESTLED IN THE HISTORIC Barrio Hollywood neighborhood is Ricardo Manzo Elementary School. The campus, which resembles a little oasis amid the beating summer heat, is the “greenest elementary school on the planet.”

Manzo, which is a designated flagship school with the University of Arizona Community and School Garden Program (CSGP), is a national model for an ecological-focused curriculum. The school has served as a Biosphere 2 research site since 2018, allowing scientists and educators to study the effects between solar technology and plant and ecosystem functions.

“What we’re trying to do here is show that you can have both (food and energy) and that it is beneficial for both,” said Greg Barron-Gafford, biogeographer and associate director of CSGP. Barron-Gafford and his research group have been building the field of agrivoltaics, or the symbiotic relationship between solar panels and crops, for the past eight years. Food grown beneath the shade of a solar panel gets the benefit of water de-

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posits staying in soil longer, as well as the added benefit of consistent “diffuse light,” or indirect sunlight.

In addition to teaching students how to produce food, they learn how plants adapt to different environments or beneath the shade of an overhead solar panel.

SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH GARDENING The Manzo school garden program is the first of its kind.

As a Title 1 school, Manzo implements hands-on learning in a different way. Its curriculum works to empower its students and staff through project-based learning.

Manzo math and science initiatives teach students how to become critical thinkers and problem solvers by involving them in gardening, rainwater harvesting and animal care.

The purpose is to demonstrate the importance of real-world applications such as the science behind sustainability or the importance of our food.

“There’s also a strong social justice

component with what we do thinking about food access, closing the achievement gap (and) responding to pandemic trauma,” said Moses Thompson, director of CSGP. “We target the schools that are most under-resourced.”

In TUSD alone, Stacy Evans asks students to identify differences between produce there are over 70 before sampling them at Manzo Elementary School in Tucson. Evans school gardens is an ecology and food literacy program coordinator for the UA or “well-spring” CSGP. (KATYA MENDOZA) gardens.

Increased demand for the program shows in the region. The almanacs are printed a larger movement within education in- in English, Spanish and will soon include vestments. the Tohono O’odham language in the “In response to COVID-19, we feel like 2023 edition. school gardens are really significant right Thompson said the program seeks to now,” Thompson said. “They connect kids have kids see themselves and their famwith the way that they feel, help them ilies in big projects like the School Garemotionally regulate, and connect them dener’s Almanac to create a sense of culwith the natural world.” tural empowerment.

Hired as a school counselor in 2005, Thompson started gardening with stu- CONNECTING COMMUNITIES “It was an opportunity for me to condents and parents to connect deeper with the surrounding community. The goal nect with my family who lives in Nogales, was to tap into the neighborhood’s cul- Sonora, from talking about recipes for meals that they typically eat to the medicture and heritage.

The UA CSGP and TUSD partnership inal uses of nopales or other ingredients not only provides school garden enrich- (from) my culture and my upbringing,” ment across the district, the programs said Selene Leyva, CSGP program coorare also culturally relevant to the broader dinator and food literacy coordinator.

Leyva’s work connects students with community. One of the ways the school garden program does this is through their food and culinary systems by using locommunity-sourced book of knowledge cally and school-grown produce. She runs and annual publication, the School Gar- field trips to the food literacy lab on camdener’s Almanac. The gardening hand- pus.

“The food literacy program is an avbook contains recipes, medicinal how-tos, information about growing food, planting enue that we can connect students to the things they’re growing, how they’re calendars and more.

With funding from the Sprouts Health growing it and how to prepare it,” Leyva Communities Foundation, the program said. “It’s important for the students to be pays for editorial contributions to of- self-sustainable and gain the skills necesfer the print project for free. Thompson sary to be able to create their own meals hopes to see different versions of these at home and share that knowledge with almanacs throughout the country, with the community they live with.”

Educators like Daniel Stoner, a fourthrespective land acknowledgements, food grade teacher at Manzo, said they believe heritage and regional plant gardening.

The bright pink and illustrated almanac school garden programs help students included a land acknowledgement to the practice mindfulness, learn about food ancestral lands of the Tohono O’odham supply and acquire the confidence to people and a map without geographical GARDENING CONTINUES ON PAGE 10 borders to teach students Tucson’s place

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The semi-finals recently aired Monday, July 25, and Adkins placed first of top three females advancing and 14 out of 15 overall. Due to her performance, Adkins is advancing to the finals in Las Vegas.

She said there are four stages with very difficult obstacle courses in which one must complete in order to win the grand prize of $1 million. Adkins said competitors must complete each stage to advance

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to the next. If all stages are completed, they win the grand prize. She said only two have made it to Stage 2, but didn’t complete it so they did not advance to Stage 3.

“But no woman has competed (in the four final stages),” she said. “No one has won the grand prize.”

She said they have a new prize for the last person standing at Stage 4. Adkins said she believes it would be $100,000.

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GARDENING CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 grow their own food.

Stoner said students can still have fresh produce grown in an apartment setting.

Topics such as food accessibility, climate change and impacts on food availability are discussed with students in connection to agriculture.

“We work hard for it to be inclusive and accessible and I think that that is one thing that is really important about our program, because as soon as you start getting these like over the top and really nice facilities, sometimes it makes it a little less accessible for people to understand how they can do that in their own classroom,” said Stacey Evans, ecology and food literacy program coordinator.

“We always coordinate with Stacey and Selene so that they have ways of harvesting and using it in the food literacy programs,” Barron-Gafford said.

The UA CSGP practices social and emotional learning in tandem with its “plant-based” curriculum. They place undergraduate and graduate students trained in sustainable agriculture practices with these underserved community and school gardens to bring generations together.

“That aspect of food just creates this magical experience surrounding your senses,” Leyva said.

“We talk a lot about recipes and recipe development and foods that we share with the community. We encourage our students to be in touch with their five senses, whether it’s making something or tasting the food that they created with their peers. I think that’s a special component of our program.”

Brittney Palomarez, program manager and lead field coordinator of CSGP, assists with the workshop and university class as a teacher’s aide. She said students are confident working in this space.

“On the first day of class we have them make seed germination soil blocks with us and it forces them to work with each other (and) get their hands dirty,” Palomarez said.

Palomarez is a westside Tucson native and attended private schools for early education. Based on her experience, she said she witnessed many cultural differences between private- and public-school education.

“The way that students feel when they see themselves in their curriculum is you

school funding, access to resources or socioeconomic factors could affect the outcome of such projects.

“We’re having to turn people away because a lot of people want to come to Manzo, a lot of it’s for the gardens. A lot of parents are seeing the value of that type of Montessori mixed in with traditional curriculum,” Stoner said.

“As long as neighborhoods are left behind, we can’t go and work for a year and (then) leave,” Thompson said. “School programs Moses Thompson, director of the University of Arizona like this can make kids feel Community and School Garden Program, helps a student connected to their schools rinse off a freshly picked cucumber at Manzo Elementary and regulate the way they School in Tucson. (KATYA MENDOZA) feel connected to other kids.”

Stoner suggested if the state was gocan see that spark happen and it’s so important for their confidence,” Palomarez ing to put more money into schools, they should invest in school gardens, hands-on said. “It just validates their existence.”

Gardening allowed Thompson to ush- and applied activities. The school’s agrier in a new relationship between families voltaics program might also have someand the school, incorporating their knowl- thing to do with the increased interest.

“I was talking with Moses about ways edge and expertise into the community of doing more citizen science and activschool and garden program.

“We’re trying not to be extractive, es- ists with the kids, bringing more science, pecially if we’re going into communities technology and math into the classroom,” that don’t have the same resources as we Barron-Gafford said.

Through a grant-funded project, CSGP do,” Thompson said. In their conscious efforts to not be one of those “outside” or- was able to get 10 teachers in Arizona to ganizations that provide community en- develop a curriculum around this techrichment then leaves, the CSGP’s meth- nology. Split into half primary and half secondary educators, the idea behind the odology is focused on the long-term. multi-year cohort model is to collaborate.

NATIONAL RECOGNITION No other community and school garOther programs and government agen- den programs are working with this techcies have started to take notice. The team nology yet. completed three statewide trainings over The UA CSGP is the first of its kind on the summer, including the 2022 Growing a global scale and every year shows imSchool Gardens Conference in Denver to provement. share their research and the School Gar“From the first year, kids were making dener’s Almanac. observations but we weren’t always good “There are people who are interested in at keeping track of them. They would take this work (and) providing outdoor learn- notes back to class, or they would go into ing spaces who maybe just don’t have the their backpack which is like a black hole,” tools yet but they can get on a workshop Barron-Gafford said. with us and see that here are some small The students get to participate in resteps you can take that might give them search by collecting data on tablets, using that foot in the door that they need to get scientific instruments to measure plants started,” Palomarez said. and solar panels.

Thompson has seen a rise in requests “We don’t teach measurement in the for partnerships, but doesn’t know how classroom, we have them come out here sustainable it can be in the long run. and do metric system conversions, use Things such as teacher turnover rate, temperature guns and understand the

safety behind using real scientific instruments,” Stoner said.

“It lets them be a part of some real science,” Palomarez said. Barron-Gafford credited the class he was working with on one of the agrivoltaics research projects he submitted.

Barron-Gafford and his team stress to the students they are setting researchers on their trajectory based on their own research and experiences at Manzo and Rincon High School, another agrivoltaic testing site.

“There’s multiple instances like that where the kids’ questions have changed the trajectory of what we’re doing at the university level,” Barron-Gafford said.

One of the kids’ questions led to a theory of changing the seasonality of food production, growing produce out of season.

The school, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, is looking at school gardens having a “buffering” effect against specific mental health impacts.

Different environmental factors such as poverty, lack of internet accessibility, and unemployed or sick family members can affect developmental milestones of students from preschool through high school.

“A lot of these communities have food deserts and even with the prices of what’s available (it) is not always the best and not everyone can get to someplace that has fresh gardening growing,” Stoner said. “To be able to grow your own food even as an adult is essential.”

Despite serious concerns and unfounded speculation surrounding agrivoltaics, the new technology is here to stay.

“This is the place we are connected to.

The biology, culture, people of the place,” Thompson said.

The UA community and school garden program received a grant on Monday, June 13, from the Community Finance Corporation to grow their regional, state and national footprint. The CSGP program will use the funds to hire a marketing and communications specialist to help establish a brand identity, market the work and develop a strategy for expanding their impacts beyond Tucson, Thompson said in an email.

“CSGP is already doing work on the national stage, but a funded position with a marketing and communications skillset, we’ll be able to further expand our reach,” Thompson said.

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KXCI’S NINTH ANNUAL HOUSE ROCKIN’ BLUES REVIEW Friday, Aug. 5 We’re up for any rockin’ blues review, but especially one hosted by this beloved local radio station and featuring killer artists like Aki Kumar, aka “The King of Bollywood Blues,” and opener Heather Hardy & The Dusty City Blues Band.

Allyn Haynes catering will sell food because the blues can burn some serious calories. Refueling is a must.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the show to follow at 7:30 p.m. at El Casino Ballroom, 437 E. 26th Street, $20 in advance for general admission, $18 in advance for KXCI and SABHF members, $25 day-of tickets, bit.ly/KXCIKumar.

ANIME ART EXHIBITION Throughout August The venue & Gallery likes to bill itself as “an art gallery for weirdos,” focusing on zines, comic art, designer toys, collectibles and other nontraditional work. Their anime exhibition last year was such a big success that they’re bringing it back. If you love anime, you’ll love this gallery exhibition, Chibi market and Otaku Nation pop-up shop. The show will be up throughout August, but make sure you get to the 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, opening reception. You can show up in cosplay if you want, and who wants to miss that?

6 p.m., 419 N. Avenue, free, andgallery. art. ’90S PARTY COSMIC BINGO Friday, Aug. 5 I think bingo is one of life’s simple pleasures and playing with friends is frankly underrated. This bingo sesh at Casino Del Sol takes things to the next level with a ’90s theme. Come dressed in your favorite flared leather pants and cropped tank. And men, we want to see that hair meticulously, ridiculously spiked. Kristine Levine of 96.1 KLPX’s The Frank Show is the night’s special guest host.

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10:30 p.m. Casino Del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road, casinodelsol.com “SHOOTING STAR” Thursday, Aug. 4, to Saturday, Sept. 3 There are a lot of good ways to set up a story, but I think “being snowed in at an airport with your long-lost college lover” sure is a good one. This show by Steven

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SUMMER SAFARI NIGHTS Saturday, Aug. 6 Summer is in full swing over at the Reid Park Zoo, where guests can enjoy this weekly event series in the cool of the evening. Great for kids and adults, these nights feature live music, games, keeper chats and other special activities. This week’s theme is “Positively Primates” and will have Rock Solid Climbing and Fitness teaching guests climbing exercises so they can learn how to brachiate like monkeys and apes. It sounds like it’s going be bananas.

5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court, $10.50 adults, $8.50 seniors, $6.50 kids 2 to 14 and free for kids under 2, reidparkzoo.org MOVIES IN THE PARK: “SING” Friday, Aug. 5 We love that there are so many wonderful ways to watch a movie. No, we’re not in “snuggle up with a blanket and hot cocoa” season, but we are in “sit outside in the park with snacks, a lawn chair and a giant screen” season, and we’re excited about that. Three cheers for Cox Communications, hosting this summer series at Reid Park’s Outdoor Performance Center.

Pack a picnic, venture out at dusk with the kids and enjoy the popular 2016 film “Sing.” The story of an animal singing competition, it features the voices of stars including Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Ariana Grande and Stevie Wonder. Food trucks available.

7:45 p.m., Reid Park DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center, 900 S. Randolph Way, free, coxmoviesinthepark.com WATER WEDNESDAY AT THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Wednesday, Aug. 3 There’s no better way to cool down than by running through water. The local children’s museum is really onto something with this event. Bring your kids for this hour full of splashing, soaking and playing in the courtyard, then dry off and go inside to check out the museum. The Bodyology exhibit is a classic; the electricity, gravity and hands-on exhibits are just a few great ways to get kids excited about STEM; and there’s plenty more for kiddos.

11 a.m. to noon, Children’s Museum Tucson, 200 S. Sixth Avenue, $11 with discounts available, childrensmuseumtucson.org

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Dietz, directed by Samantha Cormier and starring Shanna Brock and Stephen Frankenfield, starts this weekend at Live Theatre Workshop. It’s about college lovers Elena, ever the hippie, and Reed, who has become straitlaced and corporate.

When they find themselves stuck at an airport bar in a nightfall of reminiscing and alcohol, the night is full of laughter, nostalgia and surprises. Show runs Thursday, Aug. ,4 to Saturday, Sept.

3, with shows at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays (with a Saturday matinee on Sept. 3).

Various times, Live Theatre Workshop, 3322 E. Fort Lowell Road, $23 general admission, $21 military/seniors/ students, $17 Thursdays/previews, livetheatreworkshop.org

COOL SUMMER NIGHTS Saturday, Aug. 6 The Desert Museum’s summer series is back for another week, this time with the theme of “A MARVELous Evening.”

Dress up as your favorite superhero and learn about desert plants and animals’ superpowers. Pot a Groot-style plant to take home, vote for your favorite super animal, browse goodies from Bookmans, enjoy space-themed activities from the Planetary Science Institute and check out a live animal show. First 50 kids in line at 5 p.m. get reusable superhero straws, and adults can enjoy the specialty Gamora Cocktail while they watch the sunset.

5 to 9 p.m., Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road, $24.95 general admission, $22.95 seniors, $13.95 youth 3 to 12, free for members and kids under 3. Other discounts available, desertmuseum.org FAIRY TALES FREE FIRST SATURDAY EVENT Saturday, Aug. 6 Real-life live fairies (and/or people dressed as fairies) will be reading stories to kiddos. Kids can also do their own storybook craft and explore the Enchanted Fairy Land in the glow of all the twinkly lights.

6 to 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 6, Valley of the Moon Tucson, 2544 E. Allen Road, free, tucsonvalleyofthemoon. com

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CASINO DEL SOL’S TAILGATING BURGER CHAMPIONSHIP Submit your winning burger recipe to chef Ryan Clark from Casino Del Sol

By Hope Peters

Tucson Local Media

THINK YOU HAVE THE BEST HOME recipe burger in town? Submit your recipes to Casino Del Sol’s executive chef Ryan Clark for the upcoming Casino Del Sol Bowl Tailgate Championship.

Chef Clark will be judging and choosing the winning burger recipe each week prior to the University of Arizona men’s football first six home games played at the UA stadium.

“We have been doing this type of championship for about three years,” Clark said. “But this is the first time we have been doing the submissions prior to the games.”

He explained that in past years, he would go out to the tailgating section on the UA Main Campus mall lawn to try tailgate dishes. Clark would announce the winner by bringing them onto the football field. Then, he would make the burger live on the field. However, due to sound and video issues, they will do things differently this year.

“I can’t wait for this year’s Sol Bowl Tailgate Championship,” Clark said. “Each year we see so many creative and unique recipes. It’s so much fun to see what people come up with, and there’s no better way to celebrate the kickoff of the football season.”

Tailgate cooks can submit their burger recipes now through August 12, 2022 to compete in this year’s championship.

Each week, prior to the home game, Clark will choose a winning burger recipe from the submissions, recreate it and showcase it with an in-game presentation on the jumbotron screen.

Winners will be named the Sol Bowl tailgate champion weekly and receive an official Chef Works chef’s apron and $350 in gift cards from Casino Del Sol and local food purveyors, such as the Heirloom Farmers Market. Each weekly winner

will be entered to win the grand prize, a Komado Joe Charcoal Grill. In addition, the named Grand Champion will be invited to the Arizona versus Arizona State home football game on November 25. At the game, there will be an on-field presentation where the grand prize winner will be selected and crowned the 2022 Sol Bowl Tailgate champion.

“For the grand prize winner, at Arizona’s last home game,” Clark explained. “All the weekly winners will come on the field and they will announce the grand champion.”

When asked what would make a great burger, Clark said, “A fun, creative burger should have a great sauce.”

He said they had creative sauces made with more ethnic ingredients like yogurt, mint, or harissa seasoning. Clark did warn not to season the meat prior to mixing it together because it could be overworked, making a tough burger. However, he said to make sure to season the outside and be creative with the outside seasonings or rubs.

“Also, use high quality ingredients,” Clark said. “Fresh ingredients, so they are healthy and taste good.”

Tailgate cooks are encouraged to submit entries online beginning now through August 12 at www.casinodelsol.com/solbowl.

Entrants must be 21 or older, must submit an original tailgate burger recipe, use a charcoal grill, and the recipe must serve four.

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KEEP TUCSON SKETCHY GIVES PUBLIC ACCESS TO A FUN-FOR-ALL

By Linda Ray

Tucson Local Media

WE CAN THINK OF KEEP TUCSON Sketchy, Tucson comedy’s leviathan quarterly comedy variety show, as a lumpy, fun-loving rocket spawn of The Federal Trade Commission. That agency’s 1970-ish mandate for Public Access Television generated a constellation of random creative output and a handful of shooting stars, including cult favorite Mystery Science Theater (MST3K).

The late-stage evolution and ultimate collapse of Tucson’s own public access channel, Access Tucson 12, led to a new vision for public access to broadcasting technology. It was funded by the City of Tucson and managed under contract by Brink Media. Brink, which also broadcasts City Council meetings, re-imagined the channel, expanded its portfolio, and gave it a new name: Creative Tucson.

Brink is a long-time, local web development and strategic marketing company.

They’re active in Tucson’s visual arts and business communities, with a client list tilting toward the nonprofit sector.

Because their contract work and even experimental volunteer projects look good on a resume, Brink attracts creative people like horchata on a hot day.

One amiable gadfly about the place was Alex Kack, whom some readers may remember as “The Green Shirt Guy.” Around 2017 Kack was also a popular local standup comedian. One night at an open mic, he met Joel Foster, a writer, English teacher and recent Tucson transplant. Kack tipped him off that Brink was looking to add a writer. Foster got the gig.

Brink wanted to inspire more Tucsonans to create original programming for the Creative Tucson channel. One of its principals suggested Foster take a crack at producing a local news show along the lines of The Daily Show.

For that Foster would need a writer’s room, but as the new guy he hadn’t yet generated many contacts. Kack happily lent a hand, posting about the opportu-

nity for the many actors and comedians among his Facebook friends. A dozen or so responded but most eventually fell away. Two who stayed were improviser Rich Aguirre and actor Tom Cracovaner.

Aguirre was also an aspiring video tech, and Cracovaner had studied writing with widely respected Meg Files at Pima College. The two had become friends over two semesters of acting classes at Pima.

Cracovaner and Aguirre became the on-air talent of The Scorcher Report.

It started as an effort to report and satirize local news, but soon morphed into sketches, bits and parodies of “on-location” footage, interwoven with staged meetings of the Tucson City Council and meta jokes about reporting local news.

According to Cracovaner, “Joel wrote a lot of the city council sketches because he had to sit through a lot of those meetings.” Foster’s writing, he said, “helped us pick up on the (council members) personalities. Eli (Turner) does a really good job of Paul Cunningham.”

The ensemble forming around The Scorcher Report also included Tucson’s presiding funster Frank Powers. In addition to being a reliably energy-amping professional emcee for special events, Foster had run a downtown store called Constant Con. It traded in comic books and graphic novels but highlighted the work of local cartoon and anime artists.

Booths, video events, visiting characters and numerous special events created a perennially Comic Con ambiance.

Foster and Powers began working together on side projects, including a full-length feature film they debuted at The Screening Room downtown.

A super-low-budget, slightly campy, mind-bending and hilarious romp, the film, called “The Toot Toot Tucson Halloween EXTRA Special,” was an instant cult hit.

By that time, though, the public’s interest in televising their own programs was

waning. People who brought original content ideas to Creative Tucson often abandoned them when the level of commitment they would need became clear. Meanwhile the ease and ever-improving quality of online communication, publishing and video sharing was making it easier and cheaper to communicate directly, in real time and any other time.

After about a year, the City of Tucson discontinued its grant, and that was the end of Creative Tucson.

“We were all really just bummed out about that,” Cracovaner said. “We were meeting at least once a week writing a bunch of jokes. We’d record a live 30minute TV show. It was fun. It was a nice challenge. And then it was over.

“But we’re still funny. We can still do something. Maybe a sketch comedy show. Let’s have a writer’s meeting. We’ll see who’s interested. I asked a bunch of my acting friends and some writing friends. Rich posted to some comedy sites to get comedians there. Our first meeting was at Epic Café and, unfortunately, we scheduled it on an open mic night, and people were jumping up ‘Oh! I’m sorry, I gotta go do a set!’”

“I expected maybe three people to show up,” said Foster, laughing. “So seeing all those people, I was, like, ‘Okay! I guess we’re doing this thing.’”

Cracovaner had been impressed with the movie Foster and Powers made. “At the Screening room, you can interact with the audience in a theatrical way,” he said, “and they did that. At the end of the film, Frank was in character on stage.

“And just seeing that, thinking about the possibilities as an actor, to be able to act onstage with a video that you acted in is a really good opportunity.”

That insight inspired the innovative infrastructure around the Keep Tucson Sketchy hit multimedia comedy show. It alternates between live action and video to keep the audience engaged through scene changes and technological coordination.

“SNL has multiple stages,” said Foster.

They’ll have a sketch set up on one stage and then another on another, so they can rotate among them. But we film a lot of sketches on different locations and mix them in.”

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The videos alternate and even sometimes offer surreal commentary about what has happened or will happen onstage. In fact a favorite KTS motif is to write and perform self-referential sketches or sketches about the context of what’s happening in the show.

By far the strongest feature of Keep Tucson Sketchy is its ensemble character. This crew respects and enjoys the heck out of each other. Having multiplied out from the original Creative Tucson bunch, the company now includes stage tech wizard Collin Chomiak; local standup great Allana Erickson-Lopez, who is KTS house manager; Chicano Comedy Show host Jesus Otamendi; TIM comedy teacher and popular standup comic Rory Monserat; and a score of others who are always welcome in and out.

Foster stressed, though, “It really doesn’t do justice to try to give everybody job definitions. Allana’s written some of the funniest sketches in our group. Eli’s not an actor, but he’s performed some of the best roles. So many people that you might never think of as being major players are major players in our group. Rory, in my opinion, is the best actor in the group.”

“What I’ve seen in this group” Foster said, “is that people rise to fulfill something that’s beyond them.”

Cracovaner added, “We’re better than the sum of our parts. I would say that in the beginning Joel and I kind of set the bar, and then everyone else raised the bar, and I’m going to have to grow to just stay with it, man. These people are freaking good.”

Keep Tucson Sketchy presents their annual Best of KTS show at 6:30 and 9 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13 at The Screen-

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FLYING COLORS

Birds fly into the Ironwood Gallery as part of a traveling exhibition

By Bridgette M. Redman Tucson Local Media

THE 46TH ANNUAL JURIED Exhibition by Woodson Art Museum is at the Ironwood Gallery in the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute.

A museum committed to conservation, Curator Jennifer Lindquist said this traveling exhibition, different every year, is a favorite of museum goers due to the breadth of artists capturing images of birds in ever-new creative ways.

The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin has organized a juried art show on contemporary artistic interpretations of avian themes every year since 1976. The 46th art show is traveling the country and includes 50 original paintings and works on paper, plus 10 sculptures. All works had to be created within the past three years and included works in watercolor, oil, linocut and scratchboard, and they used acrylic, wood, wire and bronze.

Lindquist said they will host the exhibit again in 2024.

“At our museum, we’re all bird freaks,” Lindquist said. “Our patrons love them.

This is one of their favorite shows. The show that the Woodson hosts really is considered one of the best in the world.”

She said it would be difficult to curate so many different artists individually. While artists are allowed to submit multiple works, only one can be in the exhibit on any given year, so each work represents a different artist.

“Each artist has such a unique interpretation of their avian theme, of their particular bird or bird habitat,” Lindquist said. “Each one has got something really unique about it in terms of how that artist sees their subject and how they interpret it through their medium. It just makes it really special.”

Lindquist encourages people to take their time at the exhibit. It opened June 25 and she’s observed most people take a half hour to an hour to go through it.

“We have it laid out in a really nice way,” Lindquist said. “The building lends itself to a kind of natural walking through it. For the viewer who is coming to the museum and walks into this gallery, the

Kent Ullberg’s bronze statue stands more than a foot long and wide. “Bluebird Sings” is one of several sculptures in the Birds in Art traveling exhibition.

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number one thing is really just taking the time. It’s just standing in front of the piece and asking yourself questions about it. Am I familiar with this bird? Do I know what they are doing in this painting or sculpture? What is the artist trying to say here with this arrangement, this composition before me? It’s like when you are doing active engagement with reading. There’s a kind of visual literacy that goes with viewing art that I think is smart for taking in a show like this.”

She said there is a catalog that goes with the show for anyone who wants more information on each piece. There is information on their website and at the Woodson’s website, depending on how deeply a person wants to learn about any given artist.

Sometimes, Lindquist said, especially this time of year, people come in just to escape the heat and enjoy the air conditioning.

“People come in with a red face and they just need a breather,” Lindquist said.

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By Xavier Otero

Tucson Local Media

MARK YOUR CALENDARS… THURSDAY, AUG. 4 A veritable pop punk panacea, the Back For The Attack Tour pairs kings of the downside Less Than Jake and bold-as-brass pop punks Bowling For Soup at the Rialto Theatre. With special guests Doll Skin and Cliffdiver. As body temperature gradually creeps up with the gloaming, Night Fever adds fuel to a slow-burning fire. DJ Hot Leather Disco spins rare disco cuts and spicy Italo-disco at Spaghetti Club.

A local musical institution that has seen many incarnations over the years, Wayback & Friends travel through time at Tap & Bottle Downtown.

FRIDAY, AUG. 5 Born in Mumbai, India, Aki Kumar’s music-loving parents weaned their son on a regular diet of rock ‘n’ roll, pop, Indian classical and Bollywood film scores. As a young boy, Kumar’s father gave him his first harmonica. In 1998 Kumar left his native homeland for the United States, enrolling at San Jose State University. It was there, while hanging out in nightclubs and bars by night, that he became enamored with the blues. After earning his degree, he settled into a comfortable career in Silicon Valley as a software engineer, until kismet intervened.

Kumar dedicated himself to music after an unanticipated round of layoffs claimed his job in 2013. Initially, when he began performing he was inspired by Little Walter’s Chicago-style blues so Kumar played it straight. Even so, unable to leave

his Indian roots behind, eventually he began to incorporate his native sounds into his oeuvre. The result was magnificent. Kumar’s 2016 release “Aki Goes To Bollywood” and 2018’s “Hindi Man Blues” are considered ground-breaking albums, garnering critical acclaim. KXCI 91.3 FM presents the 9th Annual House Rockin’ Blues Review, an annual fundraising event, featuring The King of Bollywood Blues Aki Kumar at El Casino Ballroom. Kumar is joined by very special guests Heather Hardy & The Dusty City Blues Band. This Los Angeles EDM producer and DJ quickly gained recognition in 2016 for his unique house style when he won Insomniac’s Discovery Project by submitting a mix and his original track “Claude von Deeper.” Bringing you the world’s most forward-thinking producers and DJs, Relentless Beats presents Kyle Walker at Gentle Ben’s. Ekonovah provides support.

The release of 2020’s “A Lot of Livin’ to Do,” an album DownBeat magazine hailed “as a distinct statement in the jazz world,” secured Benny Benack’s international reputation as a swaggering young talent with the voice and musical chops to back up the hype. In the first of a two-night engagement, Postmodern Jukebox crooner, New York City jazz trumpeter and vocalist Benny Benack III reunites with renowned trapsman Arthur Vint at The Century Room.

Spinning vinyl platters from across the jazz spectrum, DJ Ambient calls the tunes for Late Night Lounge at The Century Room. From the border metropolis of Tijuana, the progeny of pianists, at 8 years old Vanessa Zamora began studying piano; adding guitar and drums to her class schedule by age 9. Later, while attending Universidad Autóno-

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ma de Guadalajara her avocation became a career path. With songs about psilocybin, bad friendships, transcendence and fantasy, velvety-voiced Mexican singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Vanessa Zamora rides a countercurrent of quirky, melancholic pop. She makes landfall at Club Congress with backing from Tucson dreampopper CAZO and Polaco. DJ Humblelianess, La Reina of Tucson’s legendary Latinx dance party sin fronteras, presides over El Tambó. At Hotel Congress Plaza. Chasing the ephemeral, that inner spark generated by infectious rhythmic patterns that inform the way your body interprets beats, DJ Groovehaus lords over Disco Night at Spaghetti Club.

Despite the naysayers, who over the years have heralded rock ‘n’ roll is dead, Rock Revival 2022 sees Method to Madness, Love Elixir, MJM Rhythm Junkies and In Certain Truth attempting to resuscitate the hypoxic body of rock ‘n’ roll back to life at Chicago Bar. On the heels of their debut release, purveyors of fine roots rock and Americana, Barnaby and the Butcher perform selections from “Boilermaker” at R Bar. Resident DJ HumpHouse leads generation cool with an old school twist at Club Congress. Camp Groundworks, an all-ages festival, features performances by Sundressed, Commoner, Cherry Avenue, C U

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XOXO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 Soon, The Reverent Marigold, Gnoolie, Ricky Truly, Finn Thompson, Treasure Mammal, Bat Population, Closet Goth, Kulululu, Los Velvets, Coffin Hotbox, Noface and more. This annual fundraising event takes place Aug. 5 and 6 at Groundworks.

SATURDAY, AUG. 6 Showcasing some of the Old Pueblo’s country music notables, Country Fest finds The Bayou Bandits, Andrew Deering, The County Line and Billy Gunz circling the wagons to make common cause at the Rialto Theater. Forged in fire, Friends in Hell began to coalesce in 2019 after a period of strife where every member of the band was seemingly passing through their own personal hellfire. These hip-hop tinged metalcore mavens released their debut EP “They Follow Me” in 2020. Together with By The Gods, Headhunt and Adan Robledo they form an impenetrable phalanx at 191 Toole. Taking listeners on a journey of heartache and hope, with plenty of hot guitar picking to spare, country-tinged rockers Armando Moreno & The Revival join forces with OnesAll, a family of musicians who specialize in funk, rock and pop hits at Club Congress. Having cut their teeth playing clubs on the Sunset Strip, Hollywood’s Falling Doves are on a mission to single-handedly revive rock ‘n’ roll. Equal parts glam and garage, these leather jacket clad rockers put forward their latest release “Here we F*#!!@ ng Go” at Monterey Court. Alt-rocker Courtney McKenna rounds out the lineup. New York City jazz trumpeter and post-Sinatra crooner Benny Benack III returns for the second of a two-night engagement at The Century Room. DJ

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Nada serves saucy platters of Disco Al Dente at Spaghetti Club. For your listening and dancing pleasure, Zona Libre perform on the outdoor stage at St. Philip’s Plaza. Like a diamond in the rough, folk singer-songwriter Stephanie Farney retells stories old and new at MotoSonora Brewing Co. Cuing up today’s hottest jams, turntablists Bex & Halsero drop incendiary napalm bombs on the dance floor. Embrace the heat at Hotel Congress Plaza. A night of hard-hitting and heavy covers is set to unroll when Drop D — with special guests The Crown Syndicate and State of Mind — take to the stage at Encore. Resident DJ Posi plays all the latest jams at Club Congress. Reflecting the cultural amalgamation that takes place in the borderlands, Rastas presents Noche de Crossover, a bilingual evening of Rock en Español and classic rock, at Brother John’s Beer, Bourbon & BBQ.

SUNDAY, AUG. 7 Borrowing heavily from isicathamiya — a traditional music born of suffering in the mines of South Africa where black workers toiled — Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s philosophy remains as much about preservation of musical heritage as it is about entertainment, same as it was in the early 1960s when the group was founded by Joseph Shambalala, then a young South African farm boy turned factory worker. Within the context of this music — brimming with rich harmonies and cadences — this critically acclaimed vocal group found a connecting thread and has manifested a transcendent musical spirit that resonates with audiences worldwide. Arizona Arts Live presents an evening with Ladysmith Black Mambazo at the Rialto Theater. NoethenButJazz

is a quartet that features Tucson jazz icon vocalist/trumpeter Cass Preston — recipient of Tucson Jazz Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award — and Mark Noethen on piano. Their repertoire encompasses everything from blues to zydeco.

They perform at Monterey Court. Southern Arizona Blues Heritage Foundation presents Znora. With a setlist overflowing with danceable covers and soulful original material they are next to stoke the fire for Congress Cookout at Hotel Congress Plaza.

MONDAY, AUG. 8 After years of session work and international touring with Al Stewart, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Steve Martin and others, saxophonist/flutist Bryan Savage is now climbing the national smooth jazz radio charts as a solo artist. Savage performs as part of the Friday Night Live concert series at Maingate Square.

TUESDAY, AUG. 9 Featuring keyboardist Andrew Hannon, bassist Cat Ripley and drummer Martin Tiernan, Beyond Words is a progressive fusion ensemble led by guitar virtuoso Pete Fine. They perform two sets at Hotel Congress Plaza.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10 In pursuit of redemption — or merely to cash in on the ten-cent container refund on a pile of beer cans amassed in the backyard — specialists in high octane countrified Americana and twang-pop Mark Insley and the Broken Angels spill out gut wrenching truths upon the threshing room floor at Monterey Court.

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ing Room, 127 E Congress Street. Featuring the best sketches from the past three years, the show will be threaded with live commentary about what sketches should have been chosen instead. We’ll see the KTS camaraderie unravel as they weave fresh magic from their past. KFMA’s Beef Vegan hosts; Rae L is the musical guest.

Tickets are $10 via eventbrite.com, $15 if available at the door. KTS shows often sell out.

LAUGHS TO LIGHTEN THE WEEKEND El Jefe Cat Lounge, 3025 N. Campbell Avenue, (presales at eljefecatlounge. com/reservations) $18, BYOB and snacks, 7 p.m., Kitty Ha Ha Comedy for Cats hosted by Lady Ha Ha Comedy.

Laff ’s Comedy Caffe, 2900 E. Broadway Boulevard. (presales, reservations and performer details are at laffstucson.com) $15, $20 preferred seating. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 5 and 6, 8 and 10:30 p.m., featuring Vince Morris’s candid comedy about race, family and relationships.

Tucson Improv Movement/TIM Comedy Theatre, 414 E. 9th Street. (presales at tucsonimprov.com) Thurs., Aug. 4, $7, 7:30 p.m., Power Throuple + Beefeaters + Don’t Vote for Us; 8:30 p.m., The Dirty Tees. Fri. Aug. 5, 6:30 p.m., free jam.

7:30pm, $7, The Soapbox with Jamie Marilyn Larson; 9:00 p.m., $7, Stand Up. Saturday, Aug. 6, $7, 7:30 p.m., Set Unlisted; 9 p.m., $7 The Dirty Tees.

Unscrewed Theater, 4500 E. Speedway Boulevard. (presales at unscrewedtheatre.org), $5 kids, $8, live or remote; Fri., Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m., From the Top musical improv; Saturday, Aug. 6, 7:30 p.m., Not Burnt Out Just Unscrewed.

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TUCKED AWAY ON THE WESTERN flank of the Santa Catalina Mountain Foothills, Christopher (CJ) Vincent and his partner MaryEllen started a journey 25 years ago to preserve desert wildlife and plants, while adding their own type of “mother nature” to the mix.

Vincent, a naturalist and medicinal cannabis expert, purchased the threeacre plot of land and turned the desert into a nonprofit oasis for bird watching,

photography, lodging and sitting back to enjoy some organically grown cannabis.

Wild Outdoor World (WOW) Arizona is a retreat with a plethora of colorful flora, fauna, birds and Vincent’s marijuana garden. He grows the legal amount of plants for his household size.

“We have 12 plants for two people, so that is the legal amount we can have,” Vincent said. “We cannot sell it, but we can give it away.”

Vincent said they prepare “Homeless Helpers,” or packages of cannabis treats they give to the homeless.

“I mean who needs it more than homeless people,” Vincent said of the packages.

WOW is a nonprofit retreat that supports wildlife through extensive habitat restoration. Vincent’s land provides nesting and shelter sites for desert wildlife.

Yet, with over 80 hummingbird, suet, thistle, black oil sunflower and mixed feeding stations in different zones, it takes a lot of money to keep the property running. WOW relies on tax deductible donations to keep the habitat alive and flourishing.

For Vincent, starting the rehabilitation of this land was to ensure the sanctity of the wildlife and its indigenous plants.

Now, it provides rehabilitation for humans too.

Both Vincent and MaryEllen suffer from chronic health issues and decided to add cannabis onto the property to help with their aches and pains. Vincent has narrow angle glaucoma and rheumatoid arthritis which leaves him with chronic pain as well as constant photophobia,

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or eye discomfort from bright light. He has been treating his pain with cannabis, which he said allows him to function.

Vincent wanted to impart his experience with cannabis healing onto others through the retreat. Vincent said a daughter once came to the retreat with her dad.

“The dad was dying from mesothelioma,” Vincent said. “His daughter asked for two cookies and gave them to him. He

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“He said, ‘I haven’t had this since Vietnam’,” Vincent said. The dad was a Vietnam vet who got mesothelioma from Agent Orange exposure.

Vincent explained the father was told he would die soon and was in and out of hospice. But once he started the cannabis regiment, Vincent said he lived for another seven years.

“We have a garden named after him, Pete’s Garden,” Vincent said.

MaryEllen’s sister experienced healing at the retreat as well. She was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

“We had the first of our ‘Farewell Tours,’” he said. MaryEllen’s sister took part in the cannabis care offered at the retreat during this first farewell tour.

“So she came back on the second Farewell Tour,” he said. “She is still alive! She can now see her grandkids going to college.”

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the Tucson area and spoke at a medical symposium at the University of Arizona three years ago.

“Whether a ‘how-to’ cook, extract, grow, a tour, birding or just casually watching the creatures, I am happy to share knowledge, company and our cannabis in our private, nature-filled setting,” Vincent noted on their website.

Participants and guests can go online to register for the Birdz & Budz tours.

Two are available, one at daybreak and a second at sunset. Guests must be 21 years or older and have their COVID-19 vaccination cards.

WOW offers lodging along with the Birdz & Budz tours. They have two rooms to rent, or you can book both rooms for a suite.

Participants of the Birdz & Budz tours can expect a coffee or tea infused with cannabis, or canna-lemonade. After the guided tour of the campus, participants will enter the hummingbird patios to partake in Vincent’s solvent-less rosin with a new electronic dab rig.

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“We offer world-class birdwatching and photography opportunities. Hiking or mountain biking,” Vincent said.

“True” smoking on the grounds is dependent on monsoon conditions. Smoking is allowed on patios. Guests are welcomed to bring their own consumption device.

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“But they end up walking out with an ‘aha’ expression on their face. There’s usually always something that takes people by surprise when they come to this exhibWHEN: Now through Aug. 21, it.”

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ical intelligence. Right? Well, it’s more complicated than that. Reasoning ability and problem-solving skills are key skills, but not as important as emotional intelligence: the power to understand and manage feelings. I mention this, Cancerian, because the coming months will be a favorable time to advance your ambitions by enhancing and expressing your emotional intelligence. Here’s some reading to foster your powers: 1. tinyurl.com/EmotionSmarts 2. tinyurl.com/SmartFeeler 3. tinyurl.com/WiseFeeler 4. tinyurl.com/BrightFeeler

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) Here’s my hope for you in the coming months: You will cultivate a specialty for connecting people and situations that need to be affiliated but aren’t yet. You will regard your flair for blending as a gift you offer generously. Can you picture yourself doing that? I think it will be fun and will also benefit you in unexpected ways. So here’s my proposed plan: Conspire to heal fragmentation and schisms. Unite heavenly and earthly things. Keep the far side and the near side in touch with each other. Never let the past forget about the future, and vice versa. One more thing, Taurus: Be gleefully imaginative as you mix and conjoin and combine.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) In the coming weeks, Leo, I urge you to always be confident that YOU ARE THE PARTY! Everywhere you go, bring the spirits of fun and revelry. Be educationally entertaining and entertainingly educational.

Amuse yourself by making life more interesting for everyone. At the same time, be kind and humble, never arrogant or insensitive. A vital part of your assignment is to nourish and inspire others with your radiance and charm. That formula will ensure you get everything you need. I foresee bounty flowing your way!

P.S.: Regularly reward your admirers and followers with your magnanimous Chesire-cat grin.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) In a play by Gemini philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, a character says, “Hell is other people.”

What did he mean by that? One interpretation is our fellow humans always judge us, and their judgments rarely align with who we really are and who we imagine ourselves to be. Here’s my solution for that problem: Choose allies and companions whose views of you match your own. Is that so hard? I suspect it will be easier than usual for you in the coming months, Gemini. Take advantage of life’s natural tendency to connect you with cohorts who appreciate you. Be picky as you avoid the hell of other people.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) In my Astrological Book of Life, here’s what I have inscribed about Virgos: You may not always find the perfect solution, but you are skilled at finding the best solution available. This will be an especially valuable knack in the coming weeks, both for yourself and others. I trust you will scan for practical but compassionate answers, even if they are partial. And I hope you will address at least some of everyone’s needs, even if no one is completely satisfied. You can be the master of creative compromise that we all need.

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CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) The people most likely to succeed as entrepreneurs are those with a high degree of analyt-

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Everyone knows “balance” is a keyword for you Librans. However, there are many interpretations of what balance entails.

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ceive messages like those, give the complainers a copy of this horoscope. It will tell them that YOU WILL NOT COMPLY WITH ANY INHIBITING DIRECTIVES. Your astrologer, me, authorizes you to be as vast and venturesome and enterprising and spontaneous as you dare. In doing so, I am speaking on behalf of the cosmic rhythms. Your plucky audacity has been heavenly ordained.

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ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) Aries poet Ada Limón advises us to notice and love “the music of the world.” She says that praising and giving attention to the good things “are as important and necessary as witnessing and naming and holding the grief and sorrow that comes with being alive.” This is always a crucial principle to keep in mind, but it will be extra essential for you in the coming weeks. Your ability to attract the influences and resources you need most will thrive if you focus on and celebrate the music of the world. P.S.: I encourage you to sing more than usual, too.

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Here’s how I define it for you during the coming weeks: 1. an openness to consider several different ways to capitalize on an opportunity, but to ultimately choose just one way; 2. the ability to see and understand all sides of every story, while also knowing for pragmatism’s sake you must endorse a single version of the story; 3. the capacity to be both constructively critical and supportively sympathetic; 4. the facility to be welcoming and inviting while still maintaining healthy boundaries.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) “Life is enchanting for me because I have so much control over what I think,” my Scorpio friend Daria told me. “If I decide to flatter myself with comments about how attractive I am, I can do just that. If I would like to imagine a good fairy visiting me while I sleep and giving me a dream of having an orgasm with my lover while we fly over the Serengeti Plains, I can.”

I asked her about the times when worries gush forth unbidden from her subconscious mind and disturb her joy. She said, “I simply picture myself shoving those worries in a hole in the ground and blowing them up with an exploding rose.” I bring Daria’s mind-management expertise to your attention, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to raise your mastery over what you think.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) People might impatiently advise you to relax and settle down. Others might tell you to stop dreaming such big visions and formulating such adventurous plans.

Still others might give you the side-eye because they imagine you are having too much fun and brainstorming too wildly and laughing too loudly. If you re-

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby authorize you to worry, worry, and worry some more. Stew and simmer and ferment as you weigh all the options and mull the correct actions. But when the time is right, end your fretting with crisp decisiveness. Shake off any residual doubt that still clings to you. And then undertake robust action to transform the situation that provoked your righteous brooding. In my astrological opinion, what I have just described is your best plan for success in the coming days.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) “I was looking for a love unlike my parents’ love or my sister’s love or the love on a foreign kitchen floor,” writes Rebecca Dinerstein Knight in her novel “The Sunlit Night.” “I wanted to forgive my mother and father for their misery and find myself a light man who lived buoyantly and to be both his light and his dark.” I offer you her thoughts, Aquarius, in the hope of inspiring you to expand and deepen your ideas about the love you want. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to revise and reinvigorate your definitions of intimacy and togetherness. You will have extra power to see new truths about how best to create maximum synergy and symbiosis.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) “Even raw and messy emotions can be understood as a form of light, crackling and bursting with energy,” writes Jungian psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés. For example, “We can use the light of rage in a positive way, in order to see into places we cannot usually see.” Likewise, confusion might be a healthy sign a long-held misunderstanding is dissolving. Disappointment may herald the demise of an unrealistic expectation. So let’s unleash a big cheer for raw and messy emotions, Pisces! I suspect they will soon be your gateway to clarity and renewal.

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