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By Tom Danehy

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ONE OF THE MANY THINGS ABOUT our beloved Arizona that make little or no sense is the fact that our political primaries are held in August — the nastiest month of the year. It’s not the hottest (it trails July and June, respectively), but it’s the most uncomfortable, what with the humidity that has been around for weeks and the heat that has been around for months. Plus, football is still a month away. If T.S. Eliot had been a Tucsonan, August would have been the cruelest month.

And so it was when I went to vote last Tuesday. Two hundred degrees, 140 percent humidity. It was a short walk from my car to the polling place, but by the time I reached the building, I was sweating like a hooker in church.

There was a young guy there wearing a badge that identified him as an observer for the Republican Party. I asked him if he wanted to watch me vote. Maybe the felt-tip marker I was using on my Dem-

ocratic ballot might bleed over and taint thousands of Republican ballots, thereby stealing the election as, apparently, often happens. He appeared to think about my offer for a second. At least I think he was thinking; maybe he just had gas.

Donald Trump isn’t on the ballot this year, but his vulgar vanity and incredible stupidity are. Any candidate who says that Donald Trump really won the 2020 election is not to be taken seriously.

They’re either an idiot or a liar. Or maybe a lying idiot.

Trump’s false claims are weak and pathetic, but not nearly as pathetic as people who are trying to get elected, not on the content of their character or any substantial personal achievements, but rather on their willingness to pass along the Big Lie. As I write this a couple days after the primary, the race for the Republican nomination for governor still hasn’t been officially called, nor should it have been.

Trump sycophant Kari Lake is leading Karrin Taylor Robson by about 10,000 votes, but there are still about 150,000 votes to be counted. It’s unlikely that Lake will lose the race, but I would think that someone for whom the word “fraud” constitutes half of her vocabulary would want all of the votes to be counted.

She took a cue from her Lord and Master and prematurely declared victory.

Then she got her crackpot-radio suckups to falsely claim that Taylor Robson had conceded. Then — and this is classic — she took to Twitter to claim that her “victory” was a “landslide.” That would mark the first time that a landslide win went to someone who got less than half of the votes that were cast and held a tiny 2 percentage point lead over her closest competitor.

Still on a high, Lake held a press conference the next day and said that she had in her possession evidence of widespread fraud, but she wasn’t going to share it with the media. In her other hand, she had a list of 50 known Communists who are working for the state department. Just like Tail-Gunner Joe, she has no shame — or credibility.

If (when) Taylor Robson loses, she’s going to be driven crazy by the fact that Matt Salmon, who had dropped out of the race and thrown his support to her, still got over 25,000 votes. Those votes

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would have given Taylor Robson a comfortable win.

In the race for the U.S. Senate, it’s too bad that Martha McSally has stopped running for the office, because she’s really good at losing to Democrats. Incumbent Mark Kelly will be the Democratic nominee. He’s got a spectacular resume — Navy pilot, astronaut, great husband.

In November, Kelly will face Blake Masters, who talks and acts like he was built in a lab run by the Red Skull (although he occasionally seems quite lifelike). Actually, I’ve known Blake since he was in high school. I coached the Green Fields girls’ basketball team when Blake was a member of the boys’ team. The girls always had a better record. He was one of those guys who convinced themselves that the record discrepancy was due to the “fact” that every school had a good boys’ team but a crappy girls’ team.

That should have been a sign.

Blake always seemed like a very smart, very serious guy with a bright future. But now when I hear him talk, I feel that attacking him would be like picking on the handicapped.

Richard Pryor used to do a bit where he played a wino watching a drug addict walking down the street. The wino says, “Lookit that boy; he used to be a genius!

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DANEHY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 He could book the numbers, didn’t need paper or pencil. Now the fool don’t know who he is!”

Unless he has suffered irreversible brain damage recently, there is no way that Blake can possibly believe that the election was stolen, so he’s just lying.

And ever since growing up in the civil

rights era, I have always wondered what a politician’s kids think when they hear their dad spout blatantly racist language.

Racists aren’t born; they’re taught. And right now, Daddy Blake is doing the teaching.

Sadly, when I see Blake, I hear the Klondike jingle, slightly modified. “What would you do-oo-oo, for a Senate seat?”

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SON OF LEGENDS WHO DIED I STEP ON GRAVEL AROUND several off-road cars and a homemade-looking camper thing to the white, sort of modern ranch house. I am here to talk to the son of two people who recently died, whom I loved and held in the highest esteem. The merciless sun makes everything in the desert look either dead or emaciated, yet orange esperanza flowers bloom in the front yard. Esperanza can translate to “hope” in Spanish.

I remember meeting Dillon Christian one night outside a Tucson bookstore in 1991, he was riding in a stroller pushed

by Van, his dad, and he hadn’t yet turned two years old.

He opens the door and I am greeted with his mother’s eyes, those expansive beautiful things that inspired calm, and his old man’s countenance and guffaw, which could command a room. Dark hair, dark beard, he welcomes, he laughs.

Soon it is like conversing with both parents at once, the same uniform intelligence too, emotional and otherwise. Four mixed-breed dogs of various sizes bark and a pool table dominates the front room. His dad’s 1986 Naked Prey album “Under a Blue Marlon” leans against the stereo there.

Dillon shares the roomy house with girlfriend Linda Acuña. The inside deflects the sun well, so cozy and cool as to feel like a giant sleep chamber. He sparks a bong and leans back on a sofa in the living room. A giant TV runs some Netflix lumberjack show on mute. The spare furnishings could be called utilitarian but the art is something else, collectable glass-blown figures and bongs, and beautiful, strident Shepard Fairey street art hangs on various walls.

Dillon’s eyes well up a number of times in hours of conversation and in those

moments, I wonder if anything helps. But more often his voice cackles in self-deprecatory cheer, or on a peculiar joy he finds in stories and reminiscences of his parents, and their close friends and bandmates, good, bad, funny, indifferent.

Dillon sides with humor, and self-deprecation. He is so his father’s son. He wears a black T-shirt emblazoned with a hair straightener and clamp illustration, a joke on hash production. There is open, deep kindness about him, and an innocence.

Dillon talks music and his preferences

Young Dillon and his dad Van Christian.

(COURTESY OF DILLON CHRISTIAN)

run wide. Dillon’s boyhood Backstreet Boys phase made his mother downright angry, but dad understood. He got into lots of EDM, hip hop, “way less rock ’n’ roll, my dad was into that so I wasn’t, of course. He’d hate on rap but gave it a

Young Dillon and JoAnn Tamez. (COURTESY OF DILLON CHRISTIAN)

chance and saw the good.” His dad turned him on to hillbilly and country and especially Townes Van Zandt. “I tried to listen to Townes the other day, and I had to turn it off, I was too overwhelmed with sadness.”

We talk Van’s music, how it earned a wide European fanbase, tours in buses, how it lasts because it was more than right-time-right-place.

His dad’s songs seemed to originate, more or less, from some impulsive wager, usually about nailing a feeling. Often hastily rehearsed and recorded, a heart thumped hard beneath the surface, which kept the thundering train from veering off the rails. Beyond the touchstones, early Alice Cooper, Neil Young, Townes Van Zandt, the music existed because it had too, which made it authentic rock ’n’ roll. Like any songwriter worth his salt, you hear Van’s music, that voice, those words, that guitar chug, you hear the man, all the conflict and precociousness, all the restlessness and tender insecurities, sometimes wrapped in painfully witty or fictional narratives. He never compromised in life or in song, and you can hear it. Overall, the sonic sum is more than simple wit and smirks set to melody and power, and the passage of time does not diminish such sway.

In his way, Van, and particularly his ’80s and ’90s band Naked Prey, which featured all great musicians, represent-

ed a folklore of outlaw Tucson, a disorder and autonomy. Mainly on a trio of albums released by indie giants Enigma and Frontier, the pull of collective sentiments rose from the ground his future wife help set in place through a cowboy bar (Tumbleweeds) and a record store (Record Room) on Tucson’s Fourth Avenue when the street was mostly filled of failure and biker crank, die-hard hippies and rednecks.

A recording of Van’s last song, “Middle of the Road,” features Van’s voice, now a more hushed talky croon and softer, deeper than ever, on a spare ballad upheld on a pair of acoustic guitars. It is a moving, fragile confessional, and in context with his death, Van sounds almost at ease telling us there is no painless way to say goodbye. The opening line: “It used to be that you could find me/Frantically chasing down my dreams/But my life seemed to confine me/And I would go to extremes.” The song is a beautiful tough listen and will be featured on Van’s posthumous final album, “Downhill Racer,” coming soon.

If you want to know Van Christian, listen to his music, all of it, from Naked Prey to his solo stuff to his songs with Friends of Dean Martinez.

That lawlessness. Van did time for a prodigious amount of weed. Things were different then.

Sure, some hard drugs. Van was no

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SALVAGE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 stranger. Things drifted free of time for many of us, and the desire to bail on podunk Tucson, where lives just seemed to exist in circles, was so easy. Self-destruction could be ingrained into such sensations, came on like a slumping fuck-you figure dressed as a saint.

I envied Van since we first met in the late 1970s, I was younger and it seemed to me he’d discovered in life what mattered to him, and he never capitulated.

When life doesn’t agree that can be defenseless and tragic. He stepped away from an upper-class upbringing (his dad a prominent gynecologist), and never looked back, his sense of self steadfast. I was amazed he abandoned the Green on Red drumstool to reinvent himself as a singer-songwriter. Took guts. Later, when Dillon was born, his son was everything.

I explain to Dillon how Van’s easy generosity was almost biblical; he fed me personally when I was hungry, gave me drink when I was thirsty, in Tucson and Los Angeles, when he likely had but two nickels in his pocket. His humor so scathing, he could mock me down with six words and I’d have zero retort. Mostly because he was right. The many stories of Van, great, hilarious or tragic, or all three at once, can be so muted as to be spun from something to nothing, secrets on lips of others. It is easy when friends die to create rigid narratives from ambiguous, personal affairs.

Dillon remembers dad helping many.

One example: he spent his last five bucks feeding a homeless person, saying, “It’s OK, Dillon, we have food at home to eat.”

Or joke, “Look, they’re sharing a spoon but they don’t have any cereal!”

Dillon didn’t know this one. Van literally saved a mutual friend, guitarist Robin Johnson from my old bands Pills/Gentlemen Afterdark. (Robin happens to share Van’s July 4 birthday.) On one Christmas Eve, Robin was visiting Tucson from Los Angeles around 2007 and stayed at Van’s.

He snuck drugs in and OD’d, out cold, in a backroom. Van heard noises, kicked down the door, dragged him out of there, inadvertently breaking Robin’s finger in the process, saved his life and called 911.

Two years later on Christmas Eve, Robin receives a random text from Van, something to the effect of “Feeling sleepy, Robbie?” His humor knew few limits.

Dad was Dillon’s best buddy, taught

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ley Cats, and Rank and File, and many others. It wasn’t just booking, she helped get some on the radio, KWFM, which was unheard of. There was nowhere else these bands could play or be heard. She believed in the music, in the against-allodds success of it. The challenge was part of who she was.

JoAnn brought warmth and balance to the otherwise imbalanced and a true scene emerged under her wing.

(A constant former thought: how did Richard Ramone get her? In 1986, when she married Van: That makes sense.)

Dillon chuckles a lot, nods his head at the familiars he’d picked up from others with similar stories. Picks up the mom memories. “She was always a den mother, taking in a runaway or caring for Afghan refugee families, feeding homeless at Armory Park with sandwiches, just doing her thing, the giver of the ninth chance.

“She had an extremely hard childhood, there was abuse and abandonment, which is probably why she was so empathetic with other kids.” Tells of a trip to a local mosque after 9/11, because “people were

him how to ride a bike, camp out, play basketball, tell stories, gave him guitar or drum lessons, never pushed him hard. A

tender closeness cultivated from day one, bonds built on mutual trust.

“My dad never let me know or see if he was hav- Linda Acuña and Dillon Christian at home. ing a bad time, I never knew when we were broke. When we hung out it was JoAnn believed. She cheered us on. only about me. He instilled good values It was the little stuff, making sure my in me. And he was like smoke weed, don’t out-of-control teen self would get home do the hard stuff. After I learned about safely after shows she booked at Tumhis addictions, I knew he was right.” bleweeds with my later band, The Pills.

Dillon would fall asleep on the couch She worked tirelessly for everyone, so in the recording studio when dad was many of the shows standing-room-only, making a record. On the ’95 Naked Prey established a Tucson foothold for bands album, “And Then I Shot Everyone,” like Van’s early Serfers (Green on Red), the final song “Dillonious Skunk” is all Giant Sandworms, Z-9, Phantom Limbs, SALVAGE CONTINUES ON PAGE 8 6-year-old Dillon, bits and pieces of his and Cali bands like X, The Weirdos, Alplayful tinkering looped and strung together.

I tell Dillon a few early memories of his mother, JoAnn Tamez, who died last year. The obvious, like how she was den mother to naïve misfits and chose to see the good in everyone. Before I was even in a band, I’d skip school and ride the bus down to the Record Room from Tucson’s far eastside to get Sex Pistols bootlegs and Generation X singles, stuff you couldn’t find anywhere else. She and partner Richard Ramone ran the place, a small, rectangle room with record bins lining the edges. She would emerge through a tapestry from the back room, where the two lived, and float around the store, dark eyes, dark hair, and perfect dark Mexican skin, some strange angel, - Brittany this older, accidental cultivator of boyhood crushes, so droll and smart. I was terrified in her presence. There was ranDrug & alcohol treatment • No judgment • We believe in you dom wisdom about her, a life lived far beyond my reach, mysterious tentacles touching far-off cities, and a crossing of Walk-in or Call 24/7 dry, scorching emotional borders. Made 380 E. Ft. Lowell • 520-202-1792 her untouchable.

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SALVAGE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 hating on Muslims,” and her work at a Methodist church, though she was raised Catholic. It was to bring that warmth and balance to the needy. “Even my dad was there at the church a few times,” he laughs. “A paid gig playing drums.”

Dillon had great parents, says so often and apologizes for the cliché, though they split-up, when he was around 9 years old, and never officially divorced. He remembers some tension, a little sadness and anger there, and his dad joking, “Yeah, she finally locked the door when I came home.”

The irony is Van’s son works in weed.

After high school he was so into “computers, nerd stuff and video games” and studied graphic design in college. Classic stoner stuff, he’ll say, and bailed on studies because it got in the way of his selling hash, which he did to a select few, and he made some headway as a glass-blower.

LINDA STEPS INTO THE LIVING room. She has long corkscrew hair, she is half-Korean (mom), and half Mexican (dad), a first-generation American and very alert, intelligent, in her work, her description of work, and in her life. She is the outwardly confident kind of person who can map out her current and future existence, keep it organized and have plenty of leftover time. She amazes Dillon. She made all the funeral arrangements for JoAnn, whom she loved.

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Dillon and Linda had the same group of friends in high school, Linda a year younger. After graduation, Linda bailed on nursing school to work on a weed farm in California, but returned to Tucson, her siblings and dad are here. She hooked up with Dillion as pals, would get-together at his place, share food, weed, watch movies, listen to music. Seven years ago, one thing led to another. Now they share this house and talk about having a kid, a conversation Dillon’s dad was privy too, was excited by. Dillon adds, “The hard part is my parents would’ve made great grandparents.”

With weed, Dillon turned an obsession and dealing into an above-board franchise. “Dad got arrested for weed, it was hard for him to say ‘stop selling weed.’ It’s bullshit people are still in jail for selling weed and people out here are making millions on the stuff.”

The pair co-founded a successful weed concentration and extraction company called IoExtracts and just sold all but a seven-percent share. They have enough money they don’t worry about much at the moment. Linda works another gig, the director of compliance for Nature Med dispensaries, but they’re launching their own cannabis wholesaler, Hashbelly.

They explain the ins and outs of the new enterprise, the intricacies and fluidness of the marijuana laws, the hoops the city and state make one jump through, lawyers they keep to stay atop it all, down to the design, which Dillon creates. They’ve

built key alliances in cannabis, and it is no stretch to see the couple become wildly successful.

The tenderness between the two is wholly apparent and the moment Dillon talks of his mother and begins to falter, Linda caresses his hand, and he’s OK. He talks of his dad and falters, she caresses his hand and he’s OK.

BLOOD CANCER, MDS, KILLED JoAnn. She blamed a famous guitar store in Tucson, where she had worked for years, inhaling the chemicals and lacquers of new guitar finishes, though nothing ever came of it.

JoAnn’s partner after Van, Peter Holpert, who Dillon adores, cared for JoAnn. She suffered through chemo, went in for an ulcer, and a stroke got her.

Dillon was visiting San Diego. He rushed home and she’d waited for him on life-support. They felt one another in a lifetime-lasting way, “it was the last time I’d feel my mom’s hand,” he says. Dillon, her only child, made the decision to let her go off life-support.

“After seeing what my dad went through,” he says, “I felt blessed my mom went in an instant, relatively.”

Dillon’s father’s health deteriorated slowly. His income background was classic musician: music, landscaping and cooking jobs. There is no social security, he wasn’t 65, so no Medicare. A decade ago he’d had a heart attack. In the weeks leading up to Van’s death on July 5th, a day after his 62nd birthday, painful hours of incongruity sled into realms of chaos, hospitals, hospice and some misdiagnoses. The pain unimaginable for Dillon, and Van’s partner of nearly a decade, artist Sarah Hamilton, as well as Van’s friends and two siblings. One can only imagine what roams Sarah’s mind now, as both she and Van loved each other hard, each said as much, often. Sarah dedicated her life to Van. Now Van needs her still, to orchestrate and promote his music and final album, posthumously.

Dillon tells of Sarah suffering insane bureaucratic negotiations of health care on behalf of her partner.

“Sarah kept Van alive. She would fight and fight and fight for him. Do everything seven times just to get denied, to be told ‘he doesn’t qualify.’ She would do things like sit down at AHCCCS offices and not leave until she got some help. She nursed him and it was “the most brutal nurse

work, I’ve ever saw. I couldn’t have done what she did.”

Van was horribly mistreated at a care facility. “One time they lost him and we found him crying in the lobby, just lost,” Dillon says. “I never saw him cry before except when my mother died.”

Van asked permission to die, gave a little speech, said he wanted Dillon and Sarah to live their lives. “He said to me, ‘Ok, if I give up?’”

Ammonia polluted his blood, toxins invaded his brain, already suffocating from lack of oxygen. He stopped recognizing Dillon.

“It was so brutal. At one point he couldn’t walk. At another he had no idea where he was. That wasn’t living for him.

At the end they chalked it up to congestive heart failure, but they later discovered his liver wasn’t working.

“From my perspective, he had every will to live. Van always said he was the man he wanted to be. He did love himself.” He adds, “Everybody’s parents die, and so many people have much harder situations. I had my parents. With my dad there is the music, so there is a legacy.”

DILLON TAKES ME INTO HIS closed garage and the room is filled with boxes and things that belonged to JoAnn; Christmas tree decorations from his childhood, including some, he says, from Van’s youth; flowers from mom’s funeral. He has reached a point where memories are not so pregnant with sadness and yearning; whatever sensation of grief or powerlessness is giving way to what is contained in the remnants of lives lived. He calls them happy.

Yes, Van and JoAnn showed Dillon how to live a life of empathy, and to be true to self. In their lives and in their deaths. That is the greatest parental teaching one can absorb. He knows this.

He is grateful.

The afternoon descends and the three of us step outside the house to the yard with the cars and trucks and that camper, all beat things, off-road things, in which the couple, Dillon particularly, love storming around.

Pleasure rises in us with the surprise of a dark sky and thunderstorm. It has been a brutally hot day in Tucson. Dillon whispers thanks, and I swear it was not to me or Linda, but to whatever power that cast such lovely rainy light.

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THE CENTURY ROOM Feeling jazzy? There are plenty of options this month at this new Downtown location. At 7 p.m. Wednesdays, enjoy an open mic roundup of standards, musical theater and opera hosted by pianist Elliot Jones. At 9 p.m. Sundays, multi-instrumentalist Max Goldschmid hosts the Century Room Jazz Jam. On Thursdays and Saturdays from 6 to 8 p.m., their cocktail hour solo piano session includes rotating pianists like Sly Slipetsky, Susan Artemis and Nick Stanley. All of these have no cover! For a cover, they also have late gigs at 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. every Thursday and Saturday, plus sets at 7 and 9 p.m. this Friday, Aug. 12, by Angelo Versace, director of jazz studies at the University of Arizona. Various times and days, Century Room, 311 E. Congress Street, various pricing, hotelcongress.com.

CHILLIN’ AT THE CHUL Well, have you chilled at the Chul yet this summer? This free evening series at Tohono Chul features refreshing drinks, light snacks and live music. And you can enjoy it all from the shade of their big ol’ trees, where things will feel about 10 degrees cooler. The Children’s Museum of Oro Valley is providing entertainment for the kids, so you can focus on your street mesquites and your prickly pear mimosa (or lemonade). Also on the menu: Sonoran hot dogs, a Chillin’ Chul cocktail, Tajin watermelon and mint, and gelato. Diluvio provides music Friday, Aug. 12 and Sophia Rankin and the Sound are playing Saturday, Aug. 13, 5 to 8 p.m. both days Tohono Chul, 7366 Paseo del Norte, free, tohonochul.org.

SECOND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN: MOVIE AND MUSIC AT THE FOX The Fox is starting a new double feature series, pairing a performance by a local musician with a music-themed film.

This month, the duo Liz and Pete (Liz Cerepanya and Peter Dalton Ronstadt) are bringing their acoustic melodies to the stage. The film is “The Sound of My Voice,” the acclaimed 2019 documentary about legendary singer Linda Ronstadt.

7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, The Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress Street, $12.50 for adults and $10.50 for kids, foxtucson. com.

by Emily Dieckman

EMERGENCE: ANTI-MARKET + OPEN MIC NIGHT I know we can always rely on Tucson to offer an abundance of local open-air and makers markets. But, somehow, it also feels very on brand for Tucson to be home to an event called an anti-market. It’s still an evening at which you can support local artists and vendors, but rather than paying them with money, you’ll engage in a barter and donation-based market open to all. Bring an item you’d like to share or trade, or sign up for potential skill-share opportunities in this vent co-hosted by Pidgin Palace Arts and Hamsters Without Wheels. There’s also an open mic at which individuals can share their voices starting at 7 p.m.

5:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14, Pidgin Palace Arts, 1110 S. Sixth Avenue, free, pidginpalacearts.com.

‘DJ IN ONEDERLAND’ The next show on the Children’s Theatre Stage at Live Theatre Workshop is the modern musical “DJ in Onederland,” which follows DJ who, in preparation for high school, feels compelled to let go of all the fun stuff, like childhood and imagination. They end up on a journey through the technicolor world of Onederland, where they meet a cast of characters who help them learn the true meaning of growing up. Written and directed by Gretchen Wirges, with original music by Michael Martinez, Richard Gremel and David Ragland.

Saturday, Aug. 13 to Sunday, Aug. 28, 5 p.m. Saturdays, 1 p.m. Sundays, Live Theatre Workshop, 3322 E. Fort Lowell Road, $10 kids and $12 adults, livetheatreworkshop.org.

SUMMER SAFARI NIGHTS: SOCIAL NETWORKING IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM Can you believe this is the final event in the zoo’s annual summer series? Don’t miss your final chance to learn about the social habits of all your favorite animals — and see which animal has the social habits most like yours. Children’s book author Teydon Rae will be signing copies of “Kami the Koala Makes a Decision” and Broadway in Tucson will be there with activities related to its upcoming production of “The Lion King.” You could even win tickets to the performance. As usual, food and drinks abound, and this week’s live music is by OnesAll. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, 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.

KINGFISHER SUMMER ROAD TRIP Every summer, Kingfisher takes guests on a culinary road trip across the United States. This week, they’re taking us back east. The official menu isn’t out, but last year’s featured treats like lobster tails, smoked salmon scotch eggs, baked scrod and an apple and dried cranberry slab pie.

4 to 9 p.m. through Saturday, Aug. 20 (except Sunday and Monday, when Kingfisher is closed), Kingfisher Bar & Grill, 2564 E. Grant Road, kingfishertucson.com.

COOL SUMMER NIGHTS ALL ABOUT ART The Desert Museum is so wonderfully versatile. Where else can you pet a stingray, play on a playground, see a coatimundi and even enjoy local art?

At this week’s iteration of their summer series, they’re focusing on art.

Kids can enjoy an art scavenger hunt around the museum and take home a coloring book to kick off their own art careers. There are also live demos from plein air painters and a film screening of desert photography. They also have their usual art galleries open, face painting sessions and live music

by Jacob Acosta.

5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road, $24.95 GA, $22.95 seniors, $13.95 youth 3 to 12, free for members and kids under 3. Other discounts available, desertmuseum. org.

CRITTER NIGHT AT MISSION GARDEN We all know the evenings — especially after, or even during, a monsoon — are the best times to go outside during the summer. And desert wildlife knows this too. Frogs in the canal, nighthawks in the sky, bats around neighborhoods.

Each August, Mission Garden brings together wildlife agencies, nonprofits and the UA to teach the public about wildlife. Some of them even bring live animals and activities for kids! (There will also be Lahaina Shave Ice!) Bring a flashlight and a water bottle.

6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, Mission Garden: Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace, 946 W. Mission Lane, free, missiongarden.org.

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LAUGHING STOCK L

Screening Room sparks comedy creativity

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By Linda Ray

Tucson Local Media

THE STORY SO FAR… In the Aug. 4 column, we explored the beginnings of Tucson’s popular quarterly comedy variety show, Keep Tucson Sketchy (KTS). That showcase of live-sketches, videos, music and standup comedy is set for two shows, 6:30 and 9 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 13, at The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress Street.

Tickets are $10 via eventbrite.com; $15 at the door if available. The show almost always sells out.

KTS’ origins started in the rubble of the Federal Trade Commission 1970s effort to liberate the tools of broadcasting into the hands of ordinary people.

Tucson’s outlet was first Tucson 20, then Access Tucson 12. As that project faded, Brink Media reimagined and revived it as Creative Tucson.

A fun show emerged from the project: The Scorcher Report. A news show parody that included skits, on-location videos and jokes about Tucson News, it gave a klatsch of Tucson comedians, actors and writers a creative nexus they were unwilling to give up when the channel’s grant ended.

They regrouped and created the multimedia leviathan called Keep Tucson Sketchy. KTS landed at The Screening Room when their ambition leveraged a fairy-godmother-like connection.

David Pike has managed the 92-person capacity Screening Room for more than a decade. A former journalist covering music and movies, Pike also has written and produced independent films. He owns and runs the Arizona Underground Film Festival and Tucson Terror Fest. Now he also provides nationwide and international distribution for indie films, including films from South by Southwest (SXSW) and the Sundance Film Festival, through the Brink Media affiliate, BrinkVision, lessee of The Screening Room.

Around 2018, as KTS was gearing up in Pike’s peripheral vision at Brink,

Chris Quinn was bringing a jolt of fresh ambition to Tucson’s live comedy scene.

Like dozens of other current Tucson comics, Quinn took the stage first at Roxy Merari’s Monday open mic at The Surly Wench. That experience introduced him to the Tucson comedy circuit.

“I went to all the mics that were going on then,” Quinn said, “The Wench, Café Passe, Laff’s.” Now Quinn performs in showcases around town and even hosts at Laff’s from time to time. But in 2019, he was still a newcomer.

“I started an open mic very quickly for how little I had been doing standup,” he said, but Pike encouraged him from the time they first met. Quinn had gone with friends to a performance of REEL Tucson, a short-lived series that mixed drag and videos. The organizers wanted to include a standup element.

REEL Tucson folded, but Quinn and Pike kept talking. Pike was eager to bring comedy into the theater; Quinn staged a modestly successful showcase, then suggested a Wednesday open mic.

“It was an open night,” Quinn said. “I knew from hearing older comedians say, to get better, you have to get as much stage time as you can. Hosting will give you that because you literally have to do it for however long. So that was really my goal, to get better at comedy.

“With David’s support it really took off,” Quinn said, “and before the pandemic, we were one of the most rocking open mics out there. I didn’t know if it was going to come back. So now looking at how many great shows we’ve had recently, and we have coming up, it is so exciting!” The Screening Room’s open mic is every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Signups are at 6:30 p.m.

While the mic returned successfully, the number and quality of the venue’s booked shows came on like a monsoon rain. “Since I reopened from COVID in May 2021,” Pike said, “I decided that comedy shows were very im-

Jose “Polar Bear” Gonzalez brings his Whispanic Causing Panic show to The Screening Room at 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13.

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portant for the community. Comedians have been producing their own shows, late night comedy (a Chris Quinn project), women’s showcase comedy (LadyBits, produced by Jen Blanco), Chicano Comedy (produced by Jesus Otamendi) and touring comedy.

“I’m just a venue. I had this idea of of having comedians produce certain shows on their own. Chris could help as much or as little as they wanted. Chris took off with it. It’s phenomenal what he’s done with it.”

Quinn said, “I feel like the comics had good ideas for shows but didn’t really have a venue that wanted to take a chance on them. That’s what The Screening Room has been doing.”

“Maybe it’s how things are in the world, but people need to laugh.” Pike said.

BLOCKBUSTER WEEKEND AT THE SCREENING ROOM On Friday, Aug. 12 at 10 p.m., Jen Blanco spreads her wings as a producer and host, staging John, Jenn and Friends, a showcase featuring Los Angeles comedians John Brickley and Jenn Gonzalez. Tickets are $10 via Eventbrite. com.

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Gonzales was the 2019 winner of the U.S. Comedy Contest, a legendary annual event hosted at Hollywood’s Comedy Chateau by Golden Artists Entertainment. Brickley is a podcast regular who opens for national headliners in clubs throughout the U. S. The lineup also includes Tucson’s Kyle Veville, Morgan and Victor G. Blanco’s semi-monthly Lady Bits show is a blue-ribbon model of The Screening Room’s incubator programming. With a lineup comprising, exclusively, comics who identify as women, Lady Bits has been packing the house to overflowing almost from the beginning.

On Saturday, Aug. 13, following two Keep Tucson Sketchy shows at 6:30 and 9 p.m. (see eventbrite for tickets), Chris Quinn produces a late-night laughathon for deep-cut comedy hipsters and fans of Chicano comedy. At 11 p.m., viral underground wonder Jon “Polar Bear” Gonzalez presents his Whispanic Causing Panic Comedy Tour.

Gonzalez holds forth regularly on TikTok and broadcasts a weekly show on both Facebook and YouTube. Tickets are $29, $39 for preferred seating, via eventbrite.

COMEDY ELSEWHERE Laff’s Comedy Cafe, 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. (presales, reservations and performer details are at laffstucson. com) $15, $20 preferred seating. Friday, Aug. 12, and Saturday, Aug. 13, 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., featuring Justin Berkman, Dry Bar’s “Kosher Ham,” and former Daily Show writer, Jimmy Earl.

Tucson Improv Movement/TIM Comedy Theatre, 414 E. Ninth Street (presales at tucsonimprov.com). Thursday, Aug. 11, $7, 7:30 p.m., Harold Night with Harold teams Epsilon and Zeta; $7, 8:30 p.m. standup open mic; Friday, Aug. 12, free, 6:30 p.m., improv jam. 7:30 p.m., $7, The Soapbox with Alana Wiesling; 9 p.m., $7, Stand Up Showcase. Saturday, Aug. 13, $7, 7:30 p.m., Your Favorite Movie Improvised; 9 p.m., $7 The Dirty Tees.

Unscrewed Theater, 4500 E. Speedway Boulevard. (presales at unscrewedtheatre.org), $5 kids, $8, live or remote; Friday, Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m., Family Friendly Improv Comedy; 9 p.m., Fridays After Dark; Saturday, Aug. 13, 7:30 p.m., Family Friendly Improv Comedy; 9 p.m., Uncensored Improv Comedy with NBOJU and The Big Daddies.

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ARTS

BELOVED TUCSON ARTIST BAILEY DOOGAN DIES

By Margaret Regan Tucson Local Media

IN 1981, TERRY ETHERTON KNEW exactly what he wanted his new art gallery to be: a showcase for the burgeoning medium of photography. Photographs were finally coming into their own as fine art. And he decided to show them exclusively.

Then in 1983, he saw the work of Bailey Doogan. She had made small monotypes of a kind he’d never seen before. They were so stunning he voided his rule and invited her in.

“She was the first nonphotographer that we showed,” he recalls. “We’ve had many incredible shows of hers since those early days. I think we had about 12 shows with Peggy over the years.”

Doogan was earning a national reputation, particularly for her challenging paintings of women. Among her art works was a provocative oil painting of a naked woman who replaces the risen Christ of Catholicism, and she made a massive charcoal work that honors an Irish activist murdered by the British during the Troubles. The piece, “The Hard Place (For Mairead Farrell),” is in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.

As the years went on, she created difficult images of women’s aging bodies, often her own. In 2005, she told me, “I deal with the real body. Our bodies are diaries of our experience. Whatever happens to us is recorded there: wrinkles, scars, the way we stand. That specificity fascinates me. I think it’s beautiful.”

Margaret Mary Bailey Doogan died on July 4 at age 80, leaving behind her daughter, Moira Doogan and her son-inlaw of Oregon, a raft of friends — both artists and art lovers — and many fans, myself included. As an art professor at the University of Arizona, she was known on campus as a wonderful teacher and generations of her students will remember her.

Doogan — “Peggy” to her friends — was a hometown favorite. Apart from her national exhibitions, she showed her art all over Tucson: at the Tucson Museum of Art, the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Dinnerware, Etherton Gallery, Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery at Pima Community College West, and Davis Dominguez Gallery.

I wrote about her art for the Weekly

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for the first time in the early 1990s. I was struck by her oil painting, “Mea Corpa,” in which a glorious nude woman appears to be dispensing Christ-like grace.

In 1998, she had a one-person show of startling charcoal figures at the UAMA, so great that I named it “the best of the year.” Twenty-years later, I was still excited by her work. In 2018, the Bernal Gallery featured her with four other prominent Tucson artists and I chose her work to write about — a semi-comical series of Peggy making faces in a mirror. What turned out to be her final show was at Davis Dominguez Gallery with two other women artists in 2020.

Sadly, the gallery was shut down by the pandemic and the exhibition only last a week or so.

When I first met Peggy, we were floored to find that we were both born and raised in Philadelphia, grew up in devout Irish

Catholic families, and were taught by nuns from first grade all the way through high school. We even both took Latin.

Peggy was happy that I understood the Catholic references in her art and I was happy to meet someone who had the same memories.

In 2005, Peggy scored a giant two-part retrospective at Etherton and the Tucson Museum of Art, with both venues filled with her oil paintings, pastels, charcoals, and mixed media. To honor the occasion, I wrote “A Life Lived,” a long cover story about Peggy’s work and her life, including tales of her raucous Irish relatives and her sexist colleagues in her early days of teaching.

What a storyteller she was. She had plenty to say about everything under the sun. Fifteen years on, I am sharing the piece to let her words ring out once again: https://bit.ly/BaileyDoogan

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By Xavier Otero

Tucson Local Media

MARK YOUR CALENDARS… THURSDAY, AUG. 11 Owing largely to the strength of their live show — a sweat-drenched spectacle that taps into everything from Southern rock and stoner metal to Latin hip-hop and musica norteña — Giovannie and the Hired Guns have racked up millions of streams primarily through word-ofmouth. Front man Giovannie Yanez describes his band, “Some of our songs are pure fun. And some will hit you in the gut and make you cry. It all depends on what is in my heart at that moment.” Giovannie and the Hired Guns at 191 Toole.

Drew Cooper presents his unique brand of workingman’s Americana first up on stage… Hailing from the Lower 9th Ward — a place that still bears the indelible cicatrices of Hurricane Katrina’s fury — this trumpeter/vocalist and his ace band are the embodiment of New Orleans. Stepping up on the frontline, Shamarr Allen & The Underdawgs’ fiery concoction of jazz and hip-hop, funk and blues, rock and country keep the party lit all night long at Hotel Congress Plaza…

FRIDAY, AUG. 12 Influenced by Celtic, bluegrass and old-time music, Matt Rolland and Rebekah Sandoval Rolland comprise the husband-and-wife acoustic duo RISO. Matt’s nimble melodic lines — chops honed as a contest fiddler — coupled with Rebekah’s speech-driven, “crooked” rhythms and evocative phrasing create a compelling push/pull dynamic.

This interplay is in full effect on “New Eyes.” Like a caterpillar be-

coming a butterfly, the duo’s latest album transmogrifies centuries old traditions into something new. In the studio the Rolland’s enlisted the help of several notables: drummer Arthur Vint, guitarist Ryan David Green, keyboardist Steff Koeppen, bassist Thøger Lund, violinist Ben Plotnick and cellist Kaitlyn Raitz.

With a repertoire of songs capable of breaking one’s heart and mending it anew, RISO fête the release of “New Eyes” with “a slice of folk perfection” at 191 Toole. Singersongwriter Ryan David Green of Ryanhood kicks off the shindig…

Led by pianist Dr. Angelo Versace — director of jazz studies at the UA — the Angelo Versace Trio pay homage to the late, great pianist Mulgrew Miller. They perform Miller’s compositions and arrangements in a special program, One For ‘Grew, at The Century Room…

During the heady days of the mid1990s, Memphis rap pioneer King Skinny Pimp never quite matched the success of his peers: 8ball & MJG, Three 6 Mafia and Tela. “I feel like I’m the dopest MC that’s unknown.” Pimp said. Despite that, he is now enjoying a resurgence thanks in part to TikTok. Songs sampling Kingpin Skinny Pimp’s oeuvre have been igniting into flame around the world. Kingpin Skinny Pimp brings “Spider,” his latest full-length album, to the Club Congress stage. Get A Grip, Psypiritual and Sex Prisoner share the bill…

SATURDAY, AUG. 13 Most musicians won’t hit the road without a travel comfort item or two — an eye mask for sleeping, a neck pillow, and a pair of noise-canceling headphones. When country music superstar Brad Paisley an-

nounced that he was embarking on World Tour 2022, he already had something special in mind. Paisley will travel coast-to-coast with a semi-truck carrying 90 barrels of bourbon — his American Highway Reserve, a Kentucky whiskey aged in barrels that roll along with the country singer tossing and turning on the open road. It’s a method not unlike liquors aged centuries ago on boats at sea. “Plus, a little live music doesn’t hurt, either,” Paisley adds. Truly a “Whiskey Lullaby.”

Paisley rides his steel horse, and a few barrels of bourbon, into the AVA Amphitheater… John Moreland said his new album, “Birds in the Ceiling,” captures the thoughts and sounds swimming around in his head. “I think most of the album lyrically is about alienation and isolation,” he said. “Colored through this terrifying, dystopian lens.” Like “Cheap Idols Dressed in Expensive Garbage,” a song Moreland wrote after a friend introduced him to a social media account that highlights pastors wearing designer clothes, while parishioners toil.

“It feels like things just continue to get harder for working people,” he said, contemplatively. “It’s hard to afford life these days.” Moreland breaks hearts sweetly at 191 Toole. S.G. Goodman opens the show… Steve Von Till dreams of trees. He has made a life’s work out of seeking the elemental. On “A Deep Voiceless Wilderness” — an achingly beautiful work with ambient, neo-classical leanings — Von Till ruminates on our disconnect from the natural world, each other, and ultimately ourselves. “This is how I originally heard this piece of music,” he said. “Without the voice as an anchor or earthbound narrative. These pieces have a broader wingspan.” They allow the listener to imagine their own story. Musician/poet Von Till shares the Club Congress stage with Chicago-based rock cellist/composer Helen Money… Baptized in mezcal, Los Nawdy Dawgs serve “south of the border, Pulp Fiction-esque, Latin blues-rock,” having gotten

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Los Nawdy Dawgs provide the musical soundtrack for Dia de las Luchas while Spandex-clad luchadores grapple at the Rialto Theater… KMKR 99.9 FM presents Kulululu, Piramides, DimitriAM and BugClub performing an outdoor benefit concert to help raise funds to upgrade the sound system and facilities for the Scott J. Kerr Memorial Stage at Steinfeld Warehouse Community Arts Center…

SUNDAY, AUG. 14 In 2001, after landing two tracks on the blockbuster “The Fast and the Furious” motion picture soundtrack — with singles “Click Click Boom” and “Superstar” receiving significant airplay on rock radio — Tennessee’s Saliva was propelled into mainstream popularity. The Grammy-nominated nu metallists return talking “Some Sh*t About Love,” off their most recent studio album, “10 Lives.”

They make a stop at The Rock. Local pop punks Hell Doubt and hard rockers Cranberry Suit help to raise some dust… Now years in development, “The Mariachi Miracle” is the passion project of filmmaker Daniel Buckley. It is a thoroughly American story with a Mexican sound. “It’s the best story that I am ever going to get to tell, bar none,” Buckley offered without hesitation. “Wherever there are farm workers there are mariachi programs to help lift those families out of poverty and give a new trajectory in life. That’s what ‘The Mariachi Miracle’ is about.” A tireless advocate for the Mexican-American community, Buckley reflects, “If I were to die tomorrow, the Mariachi community would know that they did something truly transforma-

tional for their community, their state and their country.” Something truly miraculous. A sneak peek preview of Buckley’s long-awaited documentary film “The Mariachi Miracle” will be screened — along with live performances by some of the best young mariachi and folklórico performers in Tucson today — at the Fox Tucson Theatre… A hurricane is coming your way. Featuring saxophonist “Hurricane” Carla Brownlee and Arizona Blues Hall of Famer Mike Blommer on guitar, Tucson blues institution Bad News Blues make landfall at Hotel Congress Plaza for the latest installment of the Congress Cookout… Led by Avery Leigh Draut, principal songwriter, lyricist and chamber orchestra arranger, Night Palace’s debut album “Diving Rings’’ is awash in reverb-drenched atmospherics, orchestral flourishes and the wispy ASMR quality of Draut’s voice that acts as the stimulus from where technicolor dreamscapes can manifest in the mind’s eye. Draut reflects on the inner conflict she faced while recording the album.

“Sometimes I was sure that I wanted to make a pop gem, sometimes a cosmic folk record and sometimes I would want to throw out everything except seventeen layers of vocals.” New York City via Athens, Georgia, orchestral indie-poppers Night Palace are joined by Tucson’s Hannah Yeun at Club Congress…

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Special guests Dead Rabbits and AZ The World Burnz lead the rampage…… With a name that evokes imagery of detritus one would find in an urban public works department, on their seventh full-length effort, “Electrified Brain,” Richmond, Virginia’s Municipal Waste continue to carry the thrash-punk torch forward. Drain, Intoxicated and 200 Stab Wounds help to solidify a hard-hitting lineup at the Rialto Theater… Florist is a friendship project that coalesced in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York in 2013.

The quartet’s self-titled album — commingling improvisation, loops, found sounds and field recordings — functions as a folk album and audio documentary.

Lead vocalist Emily Sprague reflects on the challenge of being a lyricist. “Language just scratches the surface of what

we experience,” she ruminates. “I’m interested in words being more like a sentence saying a hundred emotions, yet being only five words long.” Indie folksters Florist share the Club Congress stage with Marc Merza and Imogen Rose…

TUESDAY, AUG. 16 An offshoot from the same tree of life that sprouted crossover artists like Dwight Yoakam, Alejandro Rose-Garcia, aka Shakey Graves, is a little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n’ roll. The Austin, Texas native’s debut “Roll the Bones” was released into the world without a lick of advance promotion. Wallowing in the self-doubt that can accompany an artist’s first record, Rose-Garcia considered the possibility that, upon its release, “Roll the Bones” may only be received by a handful of listeners. Of course, that’s far from what happened, selling more than 100,000 units and remaining in Bandcamp’s top-selling folk albums. A decade later — preparing to release “Roll the Bones: Ten Year Special Edition’’ — Rose-Garcia reflected on his alter ego. “I hear someone who felt really trapped,” he revealed. “My first serious relationship had fallen apart and I was wanting to run away, be transient, and figure out who I was in the world.” Rose-Garcia expands, “I can hear myself blaming the girl and trying to support myself, saying to myself like maybe it’s okay to be dirty and crazy and have blinders on. Then, at the end, everything zooming back in and I’m saying ‘I guess I just got hurt and I’m in pain, but you know, it’s going to be okay.’” Shakey Graves returns to the Rialto Theater with Nigerian-Greek singer-songwriter Abraham Alexander…

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BUDTENDER Q&A

Desert Bloom’s Michelle Montejano takes us on her journey

By Hope Peters

Tucson Local Media

SINCE ARIZONA VOTERS PASSED Proposition 207 in November 2020, legalizing recreational marijuana, dispensaries have established themselves throughout Tucson. Arizona dispensaries began selling recreational marijuana in January 2021. Now, Tucson has 17 locations dispensing marijuana.

In a new feature, budtenders will discuss their experiences working in the rapidly growing industry. This week’s budtender is Michelle Montejano, man-

ager and budtender at Desert Bloom Releaf Center: Tell us about your career in the cannabis industry.

I’ve been in this industry for just about six years now and I’ve gotten a front row seat to the madness. I got my start in extraction, then packaging, from there I moved on to wholesale sales, budtending and onto retail management. I networked, learned as much as I could and

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worked hard to apply it to my everyday tasks in order to turn a passion into a career.

This industry is ever changing and the comparison of products from then to now is surreal; regulations and laws included, but through all of it the one goal that remains is creating products consumers can trust. Budtending is the epitome of this, building a connection with those in your community and ensuring that they are leaving with safe and secure medicine.

What types of cannabis products do you specialize in? (Such as flower, prerolls, vaporizers, concentrates, edibles, tinctures, etc.)

As a budtender I specialize in all types of cannabis, it is my job to educate and offer the consumer a variety of products as well as methods

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WEEDLY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 of use to better fit their needs. Personally, I enjoy edibles and can give more of an insight to what they may be like for the consumer based on personal use, but I make it a point to familiarize myself with all products to recommend exactly what they are asking for.

What are your favorite memories being behind the counter?

Definitely the connections you are able to make with people within your own community. Essentially, they are coming to you in hopes of feeling better; physically, mentally or just trying to turn a bad day into a good one. Being a part of that for so many people really makes it all worth it.

What is the oddest request for a product or oddest infused flavor for an edible you have had?

Oddest request for a product would probably be an aphrodisiac. Although we might not carry everything that comes to mind, if you can think of it, it probably exists somewhere in the cannabis industry.

What does ordering a hybrid, indica, or sativa say about a person?

That’s tricky because they really don’t determine much about a person, more so what kind of day they are looking to have.

For example, someone with a busy day ahead of them might be more inclined to purchase a sativa or hybrid for the start of their day because of the option to medicate and manage pain without feeling mentally and physically bogged down, and lean more towards indica at the end of their day to take advantage of the relaxing, sedative and calming effects indicas have to offer at home in a more comfortable setting.

What is the difference between, hybrid, indica and sativa?

Typically, sativa strains are used throughout the day, in more energetic settings, to enhance creativity and boost your mood. Indicas produce more calming effects, used to treat things such as severe or chronic pain, anxiety and insomnia. Perfect for evening use and activities that don’t require physical activity. Lastly, hybrids are known as the best

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What’s your best piece of advice for people wanting to get into the business?

For anyone looking to get into this industry, the only piece of advice I can offer is get your foot in the door any way you can, and work hard. Assert yourself, network and do your research. Really ed-

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Exercise your willpower at random moments just to keep it limber. 2. Be adept at fulfilling your own hype. 3. Argue for fun. Be playful and frisky as you banter.

Disagree for the sport of it, without feeling attached to being right or needing the last word. 4. Be unable to understand how anyone can resist you or not find you alluring. 5. Declare yourself President of Everything, then stage a coup d’état. 6. Smile often when you have no reason to. 7. If you come upon a “square peg, round hole” situation, change the shape of the hole.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): If I had to choose a mythic deity to be your symbolic helper, I would pick Venus. The planet Venus is ruler of your sign, and the goddess Venus is the maven of beauty and love, which are key to your happiness. But I would also assign Hephaestus to you Tauruses. He was the Greek god of the metalworking forge. He created Zeus’s thunderbolts, Hermes’ winged helmet, Aphrodite’s magic bra, Achilles’ armor, Eros’ bow and arrows, and the thrones for all the deities in Olympus.

The things he made were elegant and useful. I nominate him to be your spirit guide during the next ten months. May he inspire you to be a generous source of practical beauty.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): To be a true Gemini, you must yearn for knowledge— whether it’s about coral reefs, ancient maps of Sumer, sex among jellyfish, mini-black holes, your friends’ secrets, or celebrity gossip. You need to be an eternal student who craves education.

Are some things more important to learn than others? Of course, but that gauge is not always apparent in the present. A seemingly minor clue or trick you glean today may become unexpectedly helpful a month from now. With that perspective in mind, I encourage you to be promiscuous in your lust for new information and teachings in the coming weeks.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): Canceri-

an drummer Ringo Starr is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Though he has received less acclaim than his fellow Beatles, many critics recognize him as a skillful and original drummer. How did he get started? At age 13, he contracted tuberculosis and lived in a sanatorium for two years. The medical staff encouraged him to join the hospital band, hoping it would stimulate his motor skills and alleviate boredom. Ringo used a makeshift mallet to bang the cabinet near his bed. Good practice! That’s how his misfortune led to his joy and success.

Is there an equivalent story in your life, Cancerian? The coming months will be a good time to take that story to its next level.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): One of the inspiring experiments I hope you will attempt in the coming months is to work on loving another person as wildly and deeply and smartly as you love yourself.

In urging you to try this exercise, I don’t mean to imply that I have a problem with you loving yourself wildly and deeply and smartly. I endorse your efforts to keep increasing the intensity and ingenuity with which you adore and care for yourself. But here’s a secret: Learning to summon a monumental passion for another soul may have the magic power of enhancing your love for yourself.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): Musician Viv Albertine has recorded four albums and played guitar for the Slits, a famous punk band. She has also written two books and worked as a TV director for 20 years. Her accomplishments are impressive. Yet she also acknowledges that she has spent a lot of time in bed for many reasons: needing to rest, seeking refuge to think and meditate, recovering from illness, feeling overwhelmed or lonely or sad. She admiringly cites other creative people who, like her, have worked in their beds: Emily Dickinson, Patti Smith, Edith Sitwell, and Frida Kahlo. I mention this, Virgo, because the coming days will be an excellent time for you to seek sanctuary and healing and creativity in bed.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): Libran author Katherine Mansfield wrote, “The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, and a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of.” Be inspired by her in the coming weeks, Libra. I suspect you will flourish if you give yourself the luxury of exploring your untamed side. The time is ripe to wander in nature and commune with exciting influences outside your comfort zone.

What uncharted frontier would you enjoy visiting?

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): When you are functioning at your best, you Scorpios crave only the finest, top-quality highs. You embrace joys and pleasures that generate epiphanies and vitalizing transformations. Mediocre varieties of fun don’t interest you. You avoid debilitating indulgences that provide brief excitement but spawn long-term problems. In the coming weeks, dear Scorpio, I hope you will embody these descriptions. It’s crucial that you seek gratifications and delectations that uplift you, ennoble you, and bless your future.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): “Wish on everything,” advises Sagittarian author Francesca Lia Block. “Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.” Your homework during the next two weeks, Sagittarius, is to build a list of further marvels that you will wish on.

It’s the Magic Wish season of the year for you: a time when you’re more likely

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): Author Aldous Huxley wrote, “That people do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most important lesson that history has to teach.” While his observation is true much of the time, I don’t think it will be so for you in the coming weeks. I suspect you will triumph over past patterns that have repeated and repeated themselves. You will study your life story and figure out what you must do to graduate from lessons you have finally, completely learned.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): In the film “I Origins,” a scientist says this to a lover: “When the Big Bang happened, all the atoms in the universe were smashed together into one little dot that exploded outward. So my atoms and your atoms were together then . . . my atoms have always known your atoms.” Although this sounds poetic, it’s true in a literal sense: The atoms that compose you and me and everyone else were originally all squeezed together in a tiny space. We knew each other intimately! The coming days will be an excellent time to celebrate your fundamental link with the rest of the universe. You’ll be extra receptive to feeling connection. You’ll be especially adept at fitting your energy together with others’. You’ll love the sensation of being united, merged, blended.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): My Piscean friend Luna sent me a message that sums up how I feel about you these days. I’ll repeat it here in the hope it will inspire you to be perfectly yourself.

Luna said, “Every time I meet someone who was born within like two weeks of my birthday, I end up with the impression that they are the loopiest and wisest person I’ve met in a long time. They are totally ridiculous and worthy of profound respect. They are unhinged and brilliantly focused. They are fuzzy-headed dreamers who couldn’t possibly ever get anything practical accomplished and they are lyrical thinkers who charm me with their attunement to the world’s beauty and impress me with their understanding of how the world works. Hahahahaha. Luckily for me, I know the fool is sacred.”

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