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September 2021

Volume 34 • Number 9

Family Business

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INSIDE

FALL ARTS

Board Notes

The arts are back! Read about all the upcoming shows at local galleries, museums and theatres in our annual fall arts preview. We’ve got info on everything from downtown concerts to new plays from independent theatres.

Read more inside.

Growing the local economy | Page 7

For those about to rock

COVID rules at local venues | Page 8

Painting by Jack Busby at Gallery 2 Sun

Supervisors vote to oppose west side highway Alexandra Pere Tucson Local Media

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iting environmental impacts and effects to Tucson’s existing I-10 businesses, the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted to oppose the route of a possible new interstate highway west of Tucson that would pass through Avra Valley.

The board passed a resolution

on Aug. 16 stating opposition to the proposed Interstate 11 linking Nogales to Wickenburg. The resolution passed in a 4-1 vote, with Supervisor Steve Christy opposed.

The resolution follows the release of the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement on July 16 for the west route and several alternative routes. ADOT’s preferred choice is the western

option, which would create irreversible changes to the landscape by cutting through Avra Valley.

Water, soil, and air pollution are predicted to be a direct consequence of building a new highway in the Avra Valley and Picture Rocks area, the Board of Supervisors said in its statement of opposition.

“The benefits don’t outweigh the damage that can’t be undone,”

Dice are tumbling at Casino del Sol Austin Counts

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new age of legal gaming has come to fruition for Southern Arizona casinos as Pascua Yaqui Chairman Peter Yucupicio symbolically shot the first round of dice on Casino Del Sol’s new craps table at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 11, five days after Gila River’s Wild Horse Pass Casino in Phoenix was the first in the state to offer Las Vegas-style games.

While the chairman shot a nine on his come-out roll, he threw the dice off the table during his second turn, causing the stickman to check the bones once retrieved from the casino floor. Yucupicio said while he had not shot craps before that moment, he plans to learn and play the beloved game of chance more often now that it’s available in the state.

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Hot Picks Reptile Ramble. I’m going to be honest. For living in the desert, and for how much I love seeing little lizards scurrying around, I know an embarrassingly little amount about reptiles. If you too suffer from a deficit of reptile knowledge, this Friday event at Tohono Chul just might help you get to where you need to be. Learn how to identify local Sonoran reptiles, get the answers to burning questions like, “Why is that lizard doing a push-up?” and even meet some new reptile pals. 10 a.m. on Fridays from Aug. 27 to Nov. 12 at Tohono Chul, 7366 Paseo del Norte. Admission is $15 general, $13 for seniors, military and students, $6 for kids 5 to 12, and free for members and kids under 5.

Princess Mononoke. The Loft Cinema, Tucson’s favorite art house movie theatre, is screening one of the grandest animated movies ever released from Japan. From the director of Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke shows a fantastical, medieval world caught up in the struggles between humans, gods and nature. It’s got most everything you’d want in a movie: thrilling action sequences, beautiful watercolor backgrounds, a soaring musical score, and a girl who was raised by wolves. Basically, if you know the director Hayao Miyazaki or his longtime studio partner Studio Ghibli, you know the type of magical animation you’re in for. 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 3 and 4. 2 p.m. on Sunday and Monday, Sept. 5 and 6. $8 general admission. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd.

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The Conundrum at Camp Catalina. Have you had a chance to catch any of the shows in Live Theatre Workshop’s Mini Summer Season?

This children’s theatre show, written by Tyler West and directed by Amanda Gremel, with music by David Ragland, is a great one to see with the kids. You’ll join the group over at Camp Catalina for the first-ever Woodland Games.

They’ll be competing in a series of woodland skills, like tentmaking, knot tying, crafting and (perhaps most critically) s’more eating. But don’t worry. There will be plenty of drama and mysteries along the way. Runs Sundays through Sept. 26 at 1 p.m.

Children’s Theatre on the Live Theatre Workshop Campus, 3322 E. Fort Lowell Road. $10 kids and $12 adults.

Wrapped in Color: Legacies of the Mexican Serape. The Arizona State Museum is finally reopening!

And their first exhibit tells the story of the iconic textiles of historic and contemporary Indigenous, Mexican and New Mexican cultures. The show’s guest curator and featured weaver is renowned Zapotec textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez, whose designs draw on both cultural legacies and personal experiences.

While the show features actual serapes, photographs, illustrations and videos, it also aims to teach about the spiritual significance, history and artistic traditions that underly the art. Opened Tuesday, Aug. 24. Museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Arizona State Museum, 1013 E. University Blvd. $8 adults, free for 17 and under.

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I-11: “The benefits don’t outweigh the damage” Continued from P1

Supervisor Adelita Grijalva of District 5 said.

Grijalva said she is opposed to all proposed routes for I-11 for environmental protection. The western route would impact popular tourist destinations in Tucson such as the Saguaro National Park, Ironwood National Monument, and Tucson Mountain Park. The board’s statement says the new highway would be close enough to hear and see cars from these protected areas.

ADOT’s statement shows the western route would also cut through the Bureau of Reclamation’s Tucson Mitigation Corridor. This corridor is reserved for wildlife movement across the Central Arizona Project aqueduct. Placing a highway there would shrink

available land for wildlife movement.

“They keep coming up with different ways to try to configure this I-11 route and there isn’t any way to do it without devastating communities and our environment,” Grijalva said.

Grijalva is also concerned with lasting community effects.

“I think we need to learn from history,” Grijalva continued. “Where the I-10 is now, we had bustling communities there that were predominantly Latino and Mexican American, that (I-10) devastated that area.”

The board’s resolution said a new highway would divert potential customers from Tucson businesses along existing highways and suggested the state should save money by expanding current roads.

Supervisor Steve Christy of District 4 was the

only board member to show support for the I-11 west route. As the former chair of the Arizona State Transportation Board, he is adamant to keep Tucson in the loop on new transportation plans.

“We are losing a lot of business from Mexico to ports of entry in Texas, I wanted to give us a seat at the table,” Christy said.

Christy worries that continuing to vote against new highways may lead to Pima County’s exclusion from state transportation plans. Christy said he helped lobby for Southern Arizona to be included in the new border-to-border highway plans.

Although this highway would create a new route for cross-border trade, the COVID pandemic has slowed those efforts.

“The holdup right now has nothing to do with access, it has to do with en-

suring that both our border communities are safe,” Grijalva said.

Few community members agreed with Christy.

Grijalva said the board received more than 100 community letters reiterating opposition to the west route during the public comment period.

One of these letters came from the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, a local nonprofit organization focused on Sonoran desert conservation.

“I don’t necessarily buy that there is a need for it,” Executive Director Carolyn Campbell said. Campbell said ADOT did not provide a direct response to the Coalition’s question on need.

Among many of the issues outlined in the Coalition’s letter were climate change and water conservation. “The United Nations climate change re-

port just came out a couple of weeks ago and it says it’s worse than we thought, it’s red alert time,” said Campbell.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report on Aug. 9 showing an unprecedented change in climate worldwide due to sustained greenhouse gas emissions. The report recommends a rapid reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to stabilize global temperatures.

Campbell said that a new highway would increase carbon emissions, contributing to climate change.

“If we’re going to keep it to the one-degree difference in warming, then we have to make some radical changes to carbon emissions, like driving,” Campbell said.

Campbell and Grijalva both said there are better

options available.

“This is one of those things that we really have to balance smart and strategic growth versus sprawl, and I don’t want Tucson to become another Phoenix or another big metropolitan city,” said Grijalva.

Campbell said the preferred alternative east option is the only viable option. The eastern route would co-locate I-11 with I-10 and I-19. Campbell said they could tunnel I-11 underground to connect communities on top.

“They did that in Phoenix with a park on the top when they tunneled under Phoenix, kind of making up for the sins of the past when they built the freeway in the ’60s, which is bisecting barrios, and neighborhoods, particularly of poor people,” Campbell said. www.tucsonlocalmedia.com Your online source for news in the Northwest

Gambling Continued from P1 In April, Governor Doug Ducey signed the amended Tribal-State Gaming Compact which allows table games usually seen in Las Vegas like craps, roulette and mini-baccarat. The governor also signed House Bill 2772 into law, opening the door for sports gambling to start in September. While it only took a few months for all parties to agree on the compact’s details, numerous Arizona tribes like the Pascua Yaqui, Tohono O’odham Nation and Gila River Indian Community have been working toward the goal of gaming expansion for several years, said Yucupicio.

“All the [Arizona] tribes started about this about six or seven years ago trying to figure out what we needed to do,” Yucupicio said. “Once all the tribes sat down with the governor and hammered out all the benefits, not only to us but to the state, the process went pretty quickly.”

The amended compact continues to follow the same profit-sharing model em-

ployed by earlier versions of the agreement, but the state is betting they’ll increase their revenue from tribal gaming if these table games are a hit with casino patrons.

Under the compact, tribes operating casinos are on a sliding scale of 1 to 8% of their yearly gaming revenue to be shared with the state and surrounding municipalities, according to the Arizona Department of Gaming.

Around 12% of that revenue goes to community service and public safety programs of cities and towns chosen by individual tribes, while the other 88% goes into the Arizona Benefits Fund.

In addition to a new craps table, Casino Del Sol also added a new roulette table and two mini-baccarat tables to their gaming floor. Yucupicio said he did not know off-hand what the estimated yearly revenue gaming tables could generate for his tribe, but said he believes the new games will benefit not only the Pascua Yaqui community but other tribes in the state and the nation trying to expand gaming operations.

“We are hoping this is very successful and helps our tribe and all of the other

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tribes throughout the country who are doing this now or are trying to. We fought for our right to have table games,” Yucupicio said. “I think people don’t understand a lot of this benefits our people. We can educate more and help seniors who suffered through the pandemic. I think it’s a blessing how we can provide more.”

The chairman said there’s a good chance Casino Del Sol will add more craps, roulette and mini-baccarat tables in the future if they prove popular with the public.

Desert Diamond Casinos also opened a mini-baccarat table at their Sahuarita location on Monday and expects to open a second table at their Tucson location in the near future, according to Treena Parvello, director of government and public relations for the Tohono O’odham Gaming Enterprise. That casino is in the process of expanding its facilities statewide to make room for more tables and machines while it finalizes tests for craps and roulette, said Parvello.

“At our Tucson and Sahuarita properties, 70 brand-new gaming machines have already been

Casino del Sol now has craps, roulette and mini-baccarat. installed and more than 140 additional gaming machines are coming, including many that will only be found in our casinos in Arizona,” Parvello said. “To accommodate all the new options coming to Tucson, we have completely converted our Monsoon Nightclub into a gaming area.”

Fry’s Food and Drug employee John Taylor was Casino Del Sol’s first pa-

tron to shoot craps at their new table. Taylor and his spouse typically enjoy rolling the dice while vacationing in Las Vegas, but now they won’t have to travel so far to try their luck.

“This has been a long time coming. I’m excited about it,” Taylor said. “I’ve been playing craps for many years. We used to play in casinos in California, but they use cards. This is actual dice.”

Photo courtesy Casino del Sol

Taylor said they don’t often make the trip out to the casino on Valencia Road unless there is a show at AVA Amphitheater that catches the couple’s eye. However, he said he expects to be a regular at Casino Del Sol now that one of his favorite games of chance is open for business.

By the end of his inaugural run on the new craps table, Taylor was up by $40.

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Economy is growing, but we still have more work to do Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson Special to Tucson Local Media

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s we approach Labor Day, I believe the residents of Pima County deserve to breathe a sigh of relief. Though the COVID-19 pandemic continues to maintain something of a grip on our community and its economy, I say with crossed fingers that I believe the worst will soon be over and we can get fully back to business.

Compared with this time last year, much of our community has gotten back to work. I and my colleagues on the Pima County Board of Supervisors will do everything in our power to make sure this upward trajectory in employment continues and that the businesses and residents of Pima County continue to thrive. And if they’re not thriving yet, we hope to implement policies that will make that possible.

You can help that effort by getting vaccinated.

The current spike in cases is overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated, about 95 cases out of every 100. Our economy will continue to see setbacks until most of the roughly 300,000 unvaccinated adults in Pima County get the COVID shot.

Still, even with the spike, our economy is recovering.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from June 2020 to June 2021, the last quarter for which data was available, the unemployment rate in Pima County fell from 10.6 percent to 7.4 percent. Hopefully, we’ll see continued improvement in that number when third-quarter figures are released after September.

For the Tucson metro area, which comprises the vast population of Pima County, nonfarming jobs grew by nearly 10,000 over that same period of time, a growth rate of 2.8 percent.

I’m pleased to see that over the past year leisure and hospitality employment grew at 15.1 percent.

This industry was among the hardest hit in 2020 and it is heartening to see it making such a strong comeback.

There are lives behind these numbers. This growth in employment means more Pima County families can put food on the table; pay their rents, mortgages and utility bills; buy school supplies and clothing for their children; and increase their overall involvement in the economy.

Yet, though more people are working, we still have work to do. An unemployment rate of 7.4 percent in the county is still too high.

One concrete step we have taken to help make

more members of our community employable is to increase funding for JobPath, a nonprofit agency that provides financial assistance to people seeking two-year associate’s degrees or industry certifications.

In July, the Board of Supervisors voted to increase Pima County’s contribution to JobPath from $750,000 per year to $1,750,000 annually. For the time being, the additional $1 million will come from the American Rescue Plan, which was signed into law by President Biden earlier this year to promote economic recovery from the pandemic.

With the extra funding, JobPath, which has a 23-year-long track record of producing valued workers for Tucson employers, will be able to add staff and increase the number of students in its program from 378 to 670 per year. The long-term goal is to send 1,000 individuals a year through the program.

Although JobPath aims to put people into jobs paying an average hourly rate of $16 an hour, the program exceeds that mark.

Of the 95 individuals who graduated from JobPath in the last fiscal year, the average wage at their new jobs was $24.72, according to the agency’s most recent economic report.

The effort to fortify JobPath is in addition to board’s longstanding support of the Pima County One-Stop Center, which is part of the Community & Workforce Development Department. Through a wide variety of services, the One-Stop Center helps unemployed, homeless and young workers find rewarding jobs. The OneStop Center also assists veterans transitioning out of military service and into the workforce.

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port programs like JobPath and the One-Stop Center that will make the best use of the federal dollars we receive and have the biggest economic effect on our community.

Also, while we are out and about on Labor Day Weekend, let’s remember that it’s not a time of rest for everyone. If there’s one true thing about our modern economy, it’s that someone is always working somewhere. With that in mind, let’s be extra generous with the baristas, the

servers, the nurses, the guards, the cashiers and anyone else who is working on Labor Day. Sharon Bronson is chair of the Pima County Board of Supervisors.

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number of local music venues will be requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to attend shows starting next month.

The Rialto Theatre, Club Congress, 191 Toole and the Fox Theatre announced Monday that they were part of a group of Arizona venues that would take the step by Sept. 20.

All four venues are in the process of reopening and will require patrons to wear masks at upcoming indoor shows before the vaccination policy kicks into place.

“The Rialto Theatre Foundation is extremely excited for our incredible lineup of shows,” said Cathy Rivers, executive director of the Rialto Theatre Foundation. “But with that

said, we feel it’s important to be a part of keeping our community safe. Those of us who can get vaccinated should, so we protect those in our community who cannot. We hope to see you at a show enjoying live music again while also taking safety measures to look out for all of our community.”

She added that people should be careful about carrying about their vaccine card.

“I personally recommend people don’t carry around their vaccine card,” Rivers said. “I would take a picture of it, put it in your wallet app on your phone, or make a photocopy of the card and keep that in your wallet.”

The Rialto has a wide range of performances in the coming weeks such as Gogol Bordello returning on Saturday, Sept. 4; Modest Mouse comes to town on Monday, Sept. 20; Jack Rus-

sell’s Great White is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 24; and hometown favorite Calexico will perform on Saturday, Sept. 25.

In addition, 191 Toole—a smaller warehouse venue that is also managed by the Rialto Theater Foundation—will be presenting performances by Together Pangea (Saturday, Sept. 4); the Tucson Reggae Festival Concert Series (Friday, Sept. 10); and John Craigie (Thursday, Sept. 16).

Dave Slutes, entertainment director at Hotel Congress, said concert goers would have to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to attend shows inside the legendary Club Congress, but not for shows on the outdoor patio.

Slutes said Hotel Congress will continue to follow CDC guidance, as well as honoring artist requests regarding COVID protocol.

Slutes said there has been a lot of interest in the return of live music. Upcoming acts include James McMurtry (Sunday, Sept. 5), Perfume Genius (Thursday, Sept. 16) and a host of local acts.

“COVID aside, the artists have been eager to get back out there, tickets have been selling like hotcakes, people have been very eager to see live music again,” he said.

But he said there have been unexpected challenges, from the Delta wave to technical issues.

“Did you know that disco lights go bad if you don’t use them for 18 months?” Slutes said.

Fox Executive Director Bonnie Schock said the Fox decided to require proof of vaccination or a negative test because so many other venues are moving in that direction.

“Partly what triggered it at this exact moment is it’s a changing time in the industry,” Schock said. “AEG, Live Nation, and Broadway League have all put out this basic policy over the last week. AEG and Live Nation are major players in the national concert industry and we work with many of their artists. It’s important for all of us to cooperate for the industry to work.”

The Fox has a packed fall season which includes Big Bad Voodoo Daddy on Sept.

11, Chris Issak on Sept. 25, Rickie Lee Jones on Sept. 26, Pat Metheny with James Francies & Joe Dyson on Oct. 5, Asleep at the Wheel on Oct. 8, Amy Grant on Oct. 24, Paula Poundstone on Oct. 28, Atlanta Rhythm Section and Firefall on Nov. 5, Tommy Emmanuel on Nov. 6 and Boney James on Nov. 7.

Schock says she’s “excited to get the venue sparkling and shining again, but at the same time we have some worry because we don’t have any control over what happens next.”

Fox staff and volunteers are required to be vaccinated and Schock urged audience members to get vaccinated before shows.

Schock said Tucson has a hunger for live music, adding this season’s sales are breaking records, which is welcome news for Schock after 18 months of zero revenue. The live entertainment industry was one of the hardest hit by COVID and Fox, Rialto and Hotel Congress had to lay off most of its operational staff.

The Fox and the Rialto are reopening with help from the Shuttered Venue Operations Grant from the Small Business Administration.

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“Evening Storm,” by Martha Saudek, 1995, oil on linen, is on display at the Tucson Museum of Art through Aug. 21, 2022.

The Arts are Back!

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s we move into our second pandemic autumn, the big news on the cultural calendar is that that nearly every arts enterprise is open. Galleries are swinging their doors wide, theaters are pulling up their curtains, and ballerinas are preparing to dance once more.

Some groups went back to business eons ago. The Tucson Museum, for one, re-opened in the summer of

2020 and seems to have done well with timed tickets, limited entry, required masks and social distancing. Others opened up bit by bit. And, this spring, as millions got their shots and Covid waned, arts groups of all sorts cheerfully planned for normal fall seasons.

Now, of course, the nation – and Tucson – are struggling against the Delta variant, which has pushed the death toll to terrifying new heights. If you’re going out to shows, follow the venue’s COVID protocols and if you

haven’t yet been vaccinated, consider getting your shot to protect yourself and others.

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES Here are some tips for safely visiting galleries and museum. Call before you go. Wash your hands. Wear your mask. Not all of the venues require masks, but wear yours. You don’t want to spread anything, right?

Most of the arts spaces are not crowded. But if See Visual Arts, P5

On the Cover: “Queen Mary,” photograph by Alanna Airitam, will be part of American Renaissance, opening Oct. 25 at Pima Community College’s Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery.

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there’s a bottleneck in front of, say, an Olivier Mosset painting, step aside and return to the canvas when the coast is clear.

And keep in mind that the pandemic could easily quash another season of the arts if the variants get even worse. Curators are already considering virtual alternatives in the event of more shutdowns. Virtual art, anyone?

ART MUSEUMS In happy news in the museum world, the UA has reopened two of its excellent museums. The Arizona State Museum and the Center for Crea-

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tive Photography came out of their long moratoriums in late August, 18 months since the pandemic hit.

The University of Arizona Museum of Art will follow suit, opening in late October.

The opening show at the Arizona State Museum dazzles with the hues of the Mexican Saltillo sarape.

The brilliant textiles in Wrapped in Color: Legacies of the Mexican Sarape are outright joyful.

Woven in red, orange, black, yellow and white, the sarape shawl “expresses Indigenous, Spanish, Mexican history, traditions and textile techniques.” Curated jointly by museum staff and Zapotec textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez, the show exhibits historic pieces as well as the work of a new generation

of weavers like Gutiérrez.

He created six new serapes for the show. Through July 2022. statemuseum. arizona.edu Also on view is Pahko’ora/Pahko’ola: Mayo and Yaqui Masks from the James S. Griffith Collection.

The show began before the pandemic and has been extended so fans can still these marvelous Indigenous masks. While the U.S. rages over wearing fabric on the face, visitors will see how other cultures revere the mask and its power.

And don’t miss the collection’s Indigenous clay pots and woven baskets from the U.S. southwest and northwest Mexico. Statemuseum. arizona.edu The Center for Creative Photography, a jewel in the campus crown, is a treasure trove of some

90,000 photographs. Now, after a long wait, the reopening show examines Journalism 20/20: A Think Tank for an Unimaginable Present. The exhibition occupies the CCP’s brand new Alice Chaiten Baker Interdisciplinary Gallery, a space that housed the photography library years ago. The new show is up through January 2022.

An open house on Thurs., Sept. 23, with extended hours from noon to 7 p.m., promises “pop-up installations, art making, food, music and more.” ccp. arizona.edu The University of Arizona Museum of Art will be closed for another two months, while a construction project in the School of Art finishes up. But when is does open on Oct. 24, it will host an

enticing exhibition on the intersection of food and art. Borrowed entirely from the private collection of Jorden D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, the show features 37 artists and 109 artworks from the 20th century to the present day.

Look for Andy Warhol’s big yellow banana, native artist Neal Ambrose-Smiths’ critiques of Monsanto’s seed ownership and the gorgeous colors of Katherine Ace’s combos of lush fabric and food.

A community opening on Oct. 24 will feature poetry, music and—of course—food.

Through March 22. Lectures will be held throughout the fall.

Artmuseum.arizona.edu The Tucson Museum of Art’s big fall show, Olivier Mosset, runs Oct. 14 to Feb. 27. Mosset, Swiss-

born and Tucson based, is known internationally for his conceptual abstractions and large-scale shaped paintings.

A second major exhibition, Patrick Martinez: Look What You Created, runs Nov. 4 to April 4. An LA artist, born in 1980, Martinez “uses mixed media works, neon signs and cake paintings to explore discrimination and loss in communities of color.”

You can still catch 4x4, the great summer show that highlights four artists in four different cultural communities in Tucson.

Don’t miss Willie Bonner’s color-drenched paintings that honor “what it means to be Black in America.”

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the city’s longtime contemporary museum, Olivier Mosset has another show, The Things We Keep. The painter displays works from his art archive along with his books and ephemera.

But hurry. The show ends soon, on Sept. 5.

Moca’s Pia Camil: Three Works will also shut down soon, on Sept. 19. The Mexican artist has hung discarded T-shirts from the ceiling of the Great Hall to highlight the problems of out-of-control consumerism. Visitors are invited to donate their own worn clothes and get the chance to see them blowing in the breeze outside.

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Resistance in the Time of COVID-19 opens Sept.

18 in Moca’s small East Gallery and runs through January 30. Two women’s collectives, one in the U.S. and the other in Agua Prieta, Sonora, joined forces to “interrogate” the militarized border that separates them. With an emphasis on food insecurity, they cultivate communal gardens, raise livestock, make clothing and construct adobe building bricks. mocatucson.org The Tucson Desert Art Museum, on the East Side, took a break over the summer and plans to go back to work Sept. 18.

Three shows that were still up in the spring have had their runs extended. The Dirty Thirties: New Deal Photography Frames the Migrants’ Stories is a riveting

look at the impoverished Dust Bowl farming families who temporarily stopped to work in Arizona on their way to California. The show uses extraordinary photos by the likes of Dorothea Lang to illustrate the horrors they met in in the Arizona cotton fields.

All the Single Ladies: Women Pioneers of the American West is a refreshing look at the feisty unmarried women who found their own way on the frontier. Their lives as entrepreneurs, teachers, waiters and madams are remembered in news clips and photos. Buffalo Soldiers: The 10th Cavalry Regiment Told Through the Art of David Laughlin (1928 - 2020) also resurrects forgotten western denizens.

The so-called Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served

in the West after the Civil War. Their story is told in deft paintings, drawings and prints by Laughlin, who died last year. tucsondart.org GALLERIES Etherton Gallery has a host of things to celebrate this fall: a cool new gallery space in Barrio Viejo, a major retrospective exhibition of the revered photographer Joel-Peter Witkin and the 40th anniversary of the gallery.

Over those four decades, from his original digs on Fourth Ave., to the Odd Fellows Hall downtown and now in the Barrio, gallerist Terry Etherton has stayed in the urban core and helped the city revive. Now known internationally in the photo world, Etherton

opens up his third chapter with the retrospective show Joel-Peter Witkin: Journeys of the Soul. Witkin, a revered photographer now in his eighties, is known for his elaborate tableaux of people of all kinds, including the disabled and transexuals, the nude and the dressed, the living and the dead.

The new gallery is at 341 S. Convent Ave. Opening day is scheduled to be Sept.

14. Call before you go. 6247370. The Witkin show opens with a reception on Sat., Sept. 18, 7 to 10 p.m.

Witkin himself makes an appearance. The exhibition runs through Nov. 27. ethertongallery.com.

On Sunday, Sept. 19th, at 2 p.m., the film Witkin & Witkin will be screened at The Loft Cinema. The film chronicles the lives the identical Witkin twins,

photographer Joel-Peter and figurative painter Jerome.

Etherton is not the only gallery that has decamped to Barrio Viejo. A second photography enterprise, Andrew Smith Gallery, is setting up shop right next door to Etherton, perhaps fomenting an art explosion in the neighborhood.

Smith moved from the Arts Warehouse district to a historic adobe at the corner of Convent and W. Simpson.

The high end gallery trades in works of the 19th century West; the photos of renowned 20th century photogs like Laura Gilpin and Ansel Adams; and plenty of contemporary artists. andrewsmithgallery.com Philabaum Glass Gallery is just a few blocks to the southwest of what we can now call See VISUAL, P8

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the new photography district. Alison Harvey, the longtime manager of the gallery, and her husband, Dylan Harvey, bought the business last year. Like the former owners, glass artist Tom Philabaum and Dabney Philabaum, the young couple offers up glowing glass works made by more than 50 artists from around the country.

They boast that the gallery is the only all-glass gallery in southern Arizona.

Philabaumglass.com Up in the Arts Warehouse District around Sixth Ave. and Sixth St., some feisty small galleries are keeping art alive. If you visit, keep in mind that major

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roadwork there is ongoing.

Untitled Gallery, an artist-run enterprise, was closed for the summer but will reopen Saturday Sept.

4, with a new show that you can see from 4 to 9 p.m. The exhibition, Reflections, will highlight three new members as well as the galleries founding crew, Inna Rohr, Jessie Shinn, Momoko Okada and Nicola Marshall.

Here’s a look at the newbies: Russell Recchion is an award-winning portrait painter who also takes on plein air landscapes. Katrina Lasko uses recycled materials, paint and plaster to make contemporary work that “often merges social, psychological and/or political observations.” Thaddeus Camp’s art is “heavily influenced by nature… as either an overwhelming presence or an aching absence.” Untitledgallery

tucson.com.

Contreras Gallery opened up this summer after a long pandemic closure.

Its first in-person show in a year and a half, Chicharra, is running through Sept.

25. The nine Tucson artists, all women, include Carolyn King and Neda Contreras.

Michael Contreras also is showing, as always, his extraordary handmade silver and turquoise jewelry. Contrerashousefineart.com Athena A. Roesler, proprietor of Gallery 2 Sun, next door to Contreras on Sixth St., experimented opening the gallery earlier this year, but with little traffic shut down again when the summer hit. But fans can still see her cache of artists, ranging from the likes of abstract expressionist Robert Motherwell to modernist Tucson artists like Howard Kline and

Jack Busby. Roseler invites visitors to call for an appointment. 520-360-8074. gallery2sun.com Raices Taller Gallery has been closed to visitors since March 2020, and gallery operator John Saldado has become a master of virtual exhibitions. Next up is All Things Paper, running from Sept. 4 to Oct. 16, online at the gallery’s website.

Dozens of artists will present works on paper, one of the world’s oldest and most versatile art materials, using it for drawings, paintings, prints, photos, sculptures and mixed media.

Saldado is hoping that

by November, Covid 19 will be on the wane and he’ll be able to stage the annual Día de los Muertos in person.

May the sprits make it so.

Raicestaller222.com The arts at Pima College West have mostly

A painting by Jack Busby at Gallery 2 Sun.

been dark since Covid hit, but a recent press release from the community college trumpeted in big letters: Live Performances

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college’s respected Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery.

Curator David Andres created some excellent virtual shows during the interlude, especially the one on the work of Allison Miller, but now he’s concocted a whole season of in-person exhibitions.

First up is Egress -Works on Paper, coincidentally complementing Raices’s virtual paper show. The artists are three young London painters, Alice Browne, Anthony Banks and George Little, who have exhibited in the UK, Europe and the US. The show runs through Oct. 8. (It opens Sept. 1, before the article is published,) Reception 5 to 7 on Thurs. Sept 9.

Tucson photographers Alanna Airitam and Wayne Martin Belger, will show their internation-

al work in American Renaissance, opening Oct. 25. Airitam, an African American artist, creates portraits and still lives that reflect the black experience. Belger specializes in political documentation; he has covered the battle of Standing Rock, Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico, and refugee camps in Lesbos, Greece.

A reception will be on Nov. 4, from 5 to 7; a lecture in the nearby CFA Recital Hall will be held Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. The show ends Dec. 10.

Up in the Northwest, Tohono Chul is hosting Visionary Revisions, a show of local artists whose art, is, well, visionary. Royce Davenport, formerly with the Tucson Weekly, Patrick Hynes, Ed Larson, Ralph Prata and the late Mary Bohan, all have the “spark of

intuition.” Using reclaimed, repurposed and recycled materials, they make work reminiscent of outsider and folk art. Through Nov. 7.

The annual Día de los Muertos exhibition, honoring the Mexican festival that remembers love ones who have passed, begins on Sept. 9. Manuel Fontes, an Arizona anthropologist and artist, this year joined the Tohono Chul’s curatorial team to select artworks for the show. Growing up with the holiday and celebrating it with family, he makes work focusing on the lifeways of the Hispanic southwest. Besides Fontes, some 42 other artists contribute imaginative pieces inspired by the traditional altars, saints and sugar skulls. tohonochul.org Down in Nogales, AZ., at Hilltop Gallery, 730 Hilltop Dr., an exhi-

bition of 12 artists from both sides of the border examine the tragedy of migrant deaths. Called Donde mueren los sueños/ Where dreams die, the show will feature painting, sculpture, photography, textiles, mixed media and narrative poetry.

It opens on Sunday, Sept. 12, from noon to 4 p.m. For the reception, Pablo Peregrina will perform music and song.

Speakers include activist artist Alvaro Enciso, and authors Todd Miller and Margaret Regan (yours truly), who will read from their books. Organizer and artist Michele Maggiora reads poetry. Beverage and botanas provided.

The show runs until Oct. 14, 12:30 to 430, Tues. to Sat. 520-287-5515.

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cine Man Gallery features “cowboy and western imagery by historical and contemporary artists.”

Sublette has created a museum within the gallery housing a treasure trove of work by the late, great Maynard Dixon (18751946). Inside the museum, you can see 150 pieces of his art and ephemera.

The gallery also deals in Native artists. Currently, among other pieces, Sublette has an extraordinary 1890’s Zuni Redware pot, and a cache of 1960s Navajo paintings. medicinemngallery.com

The long-running Jane Hamilton Fine Art venue in Plaza Colonial specializes in southwest, western and contemporary art.

Hamilton has some 45 artists on her roster, and the space is always bursting with artworks. Right now, the gallery is featuring landscape paintings by Greg Heil. A reception on Sept. 25 from 4 to 7 will honor the work of a number of local artists. With the benefit of an outdoor space adjacent to the gallery, proprietor Hamilton Settlers West Fine can extend the opening into outdoors. janehamil- American Art represents dozens of artists tonfineart.com who make fine realist Mark Sublette Medi- and romantic paintings

and sculptures of the old and new west. When you walk in the door, you’ll find the gallery filled with works picturing cowboys, native people, landscapes, animals and more. settlerswest.com Diane Madaras, owner of the eponymous Madaras Gallery, always displays her own brightly colored desert paintings.

But she also shows are plenty of work by other artists. Tucson’s Chuck Albanese is showing his cool paintings of old trucks. “End of the Trail” pictures an old jalopy stuck in a lovely patch of pale green desert, below a lavender-tinted mountain and a big blue western sky. madaras.com

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Stepping Up: Dance companies are back on their feet Margaret Regan

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e have fewer dance companies than before the pandemic, but Ballet Tucson, Tucson Regional Ballet and Dancing in the Streets all have shows planned this fall.

Ballet Tucson reNEW Fall Concert October 22-24, Leo Rich Theater Amazingly, after a year away from the stage, Ballet Tucson opens the new season with the beautiful and difficult Concerto Barocco by the eminent

Balanchine. Set to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, the piece was originally to be performed in March 2020. But the troupe danced it only once before COVID shut it down. Now the dancers will perform the lovely 1948 work three times over the weekend.

The concert includes three more dances. A Piece in P_I_E_C_E_S, choreographed by Kiyon C. Ross of Pacific Northwest Ballet, is a dynamic work for 10 dancers.

Sleeping Beauty Grand Pas de Deux, choreographed after Petipa by Ballet Tucson’s assistant director Chieko Imada, is a classical pas de deux

drawn from the third act The Nutcracker of The Sleeping Beauty. For December 23-26, the finale, Masquerade, a Tucson Music Hall light-hearted work by artistic director Mary Beth CaThe much-missed Nutbana and Imada, welcomes cracker makes a triumphal dance back to its rightful return to the stage, after place. a year when the beloved ballet went dark. Now fans Footprints at the Fox can delight once more in New Works Concert swirling snow, a magical Nov. 14 at the Fox tree and a young girl who journeys to the Kingdom This fun annual show of Sweets, not to mention gives the young dancers of the Tchaikovsky score and the company the chance the dancers performing the to choreograph their own gorgeous classical ballet. original work—and have their colleagues dance it.

Tucson Regional Ballet Audience members vote A Southwest Nutcracker for their favorite pieces and Dec. 4-5, Music Hall winners get a cash prize.

A local favorite is coming back to the stage this year.

Set in 19th century Tucson, the charming Southwest Nutcracker has coyotes taking the place of mice, a family rancho instead of a city house, and a Zorro replacing Drosselmeyer. The Tucson Symphony will play Tchaikovsky’s music live.

The dancers range from little kids to advanced teenagers, and guest pros handle many of the top roles.

Ballet Tucson Dancing in the Streets The Nutcracker Leo Rich, Dec. 2021, date to come The popular school and performing group in South Tucson brings ballet to many kids for the first time.

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The troupe’s Nutcracker is blessed each year by live music courtesy of the Civic Orchestra of Tucson. The company is mostly made up of teens and children; guest artists will perform the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Cavalier.

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Acting Up: The post-pandemic curtain rises Emily Dieckman

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hh, there’s really nothing like a live theater show, is there? If you’re a theater fan who’s been itching to watch a curtain go up and transport you to another world, then to feel all blissed out and grateful for artists in general for several hours afterward, then get excited! The Tucson theater community is delivering this year. This by-no-means-exhaustive list of fall shows is a good place to start, whether you’re looking for a way to

spend a couple of nights out this fall or hoping to fill every weekend with live theater.

Arizona Theatre Company ATC shows are performed in the Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend. ATC is starting off this season with a musical!

This story is about what happens when a Broadway actress in her twenties crosses paths with a classically-minded man in his eighties. Hint: It is charming. And it’s also based on

the true story of Broadway performer Charissa Bertels (who also stars in this production)! Winner of the Kleban award for best new libretto, this show is an absolute pleasure. Previews are Sept.25 to Sept.

30, and the show runs from Oct. 1 to Oct. 16.

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly. FINALLY. A sequel to Pride and Prejudice, and for the stage, no less! Truly a perfect gift for the holiday season, this show picks up two years after the close of the book.

When the family gets together for Christmas at Pemberly, Mary Bennet, who is still unmarried and

After much delay, Hamilton is set to premiere at Broadway in Tucson on Nov. 17

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kind of sick of being the Nov. 6 through Dec. 4. goody-two-shoes middle Babel. Did someone say sister, connects with an Scoundrel and Scamp dark sci-fi comedy starunexpected guest. This Scoundrel and Scamp ring a man-sized stork show is full of energy, wit is located at the Historic Y, with a cigar? Sign us up. and enchantment. Runs 738 N. Fifth Ave. See Theatre, P14

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This play by Jacqueline Goldfinger, set in the near future, is the winner of the 2018 Generations Award and the 2017 Smith Prize for Political Theatre. And it’s absolutely fascinating, telling the story of the lengths two couples go to in order to get pregnant and raising questions about eugenics, the social value of a child and the risks people are willing to take for love. Sept. 16 through Oct. 3.

Mary’s Wedding. The night before her wedding in 1914, Mary has a dream about a thunderstorm, and about meeting Charlie, a man taking

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shelter in a barn with his horse. They fall in love, but the world around them is erupting into war.

Epic, hopeful and romantic, this show won the Alberta Literary Award for Drama in 2003, the Alberta Playwrighting Competition 2000, and the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Play in 2002. Showing Oct. 21 through Nov. 7.

A Sonoran Desert Carol. So, we’re all a little bit tired of the classic rendition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, right?

This one will redeem your weary theatergoing eyes!

Adapted by the Scoundrel and Scamp’s associate artistic director Claire Marie Mannle, this rendition has a borderlands twist, complete with Mexican

hot cocoa! Settle in for a night of delightful physical theater with this show.

Shows Dec. 9 through Dec. 19.

Broadway in Tucson Hamilton. You might not have heard of this li’l ol’ play, written by an obscure playwright, but it’s worth at least giving a hopeful artist a chance, right? Just kidding, of course. Hamilton is only one of the most popular pieces of media to come out in the last 10 years or so. So it’s really exciting that, after being delayed

by COVID-19, this show is finally coming to Tucson! It’s won a million awards, it’s about Alexander Hamilton, you probably already know the

*Entrance to the exhibit is included in museum admission or memberships.

entire plot, so we’ll just leave it at that. Plays Nov. 17 through Dec. 5 (but get your tickets ASAP!) Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd.

The Gaslight Theatre The Gaslight Theatre is located at 7010 E. Broadway Blvd.

Frankenstein. Frankenstein is one of those shows the Gaslight likes to bring back every few years, because it’s just that fun. The silliness and excitement of the Halloween season, sprinkled with just a little bit of spookiness, sets the mood perfectly for a trip to the Gaslight. Come scream and laugh your way through this show.

Showing Sept. 2 through Nov. 7.

Elf ’d. This hilarious parody of a holiday movie with a remarkably similar name is sure to get you in the holiday spirit. Join

Dudley the Elf as he journeys from the North Pole all the way to New York City in search of some Christmas spirit—which,

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as we all know, makes the world go ’round. Runs Nov. 17 through Jan. 1, so if you’re the kind of person who likes to make Christmas last into the following year, the Gaslight has got you covered.

Invisible Theatre The Invisible Theatre is located at 1400 N. First Ave. Looped! If you haven’t heard of Tallulah Bankhead, the Hollywood Golden Age actress, you’re in for a treat with this show. If you have heard of her, it just might be because you heard the story about how it once took her EIGHT HOURS to record a single line of dialogue.

The whole show, which had a Broadway run in

2010, is based around this scene, and around Bankhead’s enormous personality. You’ll be cracking up at this portrayal of an infamous Hollywood incident. Showing Sept. 15 to Sept. 26.

50th Anniversary Retro-Spectacular Cabaret.

The Invisible Theatre is celebrating 50 years this year! Come party with them at this show, featuring some of your favorite stars from over the years, from Randy “Cher” Roberts and Richard Glazier to Crystal Stark, Samantha Cormier and Will Clipman. Directed by Betsy Kruse Craig, the show runs only on Oct. 30-31, at the Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway.

Pima Arts (Pima Community College) Little Shop of Horrors.

Did you know that Alan Menken did the music for this beautifully bizarre show, featuring a human-eating plant, an evil dentist and some totally sick harmonizing? I mean, Alan Menken did the scores for The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Tangled. The range! In the Pima Theatre adaptation, Arts Division Dean Steven James Higginbotham is making his directorial debut and telling the story to the lens of a 1960s comic book. You’ll be singing, laughing, and screaming in terror along throughout this show

about Seymour, Audrey and the bloodthirsty Audrey II. Showing Nov. 11 to Nov. 21.

Elf Elegies: Essential Workers of the North Pole.

The pandemic had us all thinking a lot about the people who keep our world running. Like, the people who stock grocery stores. What would we do without them? Retail workers?

Maintenance people? Holding this place together! One group we might not have thought of were Santa’s elves. This show, written and performed by PCC students, tells the story of the North Pole elves who actually DON’T specialize in making toys. Come see a holiday show told through the eyes of an essential elf. Dec. 4-5. Free, but

donations accepted!

Live Theatre Workshop Live Theatre Workshop is located at 3322 E. Fort Lowell Road.

Bloomsday. This sweet, extremely Irish story tells the story of Robbie and Caithleen, who fell in love many years ago during a James Joyce literary tour in Dublin. (Told you it was extremely Irish).

When they reunite after 35 years apart, they travel back in time to relive the unlikely, unstoppable events that brought them together. This show is by Steven Dietz, one of America’s most prolific playwrights. Showing Thursdays through Sundays from Sept. 2 to Oct. 9

Southern Arizona Performing Arts Company Nunsense. This hilarious show is about the misadventures of five nuns— Sister Leo, Sister Robert Anne, Sister Mary Amnesia, Mother Superior Sister Regina, and Mary Hubert. Tragically, it is the story of ONLY five nuns, because the rest of the sisterhood died after eating poisoned vichyssoise prepared by Sister Julia Child of God. And so, they are left to stage a talent show to raise the money needed to bury the dearly departed. This show runs Sept. 24 through Oct. 3 at Desert View High School, 4101 E. Valencia Road.

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• Catch a performance of the time-traveling Irish love story Bloomsday dancing backwards through time as an older couple retraces their steps to discover their younger selves. Details: 7:30 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday; Live Theatre Workshop, 3322 E. Fort Lowell Rd.; $15-$20; 327-4242.

WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, SEPT. 2NOV. 7

• Comedy comes alive at the new spoof Frankenstein as a storm rages outside the castle and a scientist works feverishly in his laboratory to bring his experiment to life and find out if he has created a man or a monster. Details: 7 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 6 and 8:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 and 6 p.m. Sunday; Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. Broadway Blvd.; $21.95-$23.95; $13.95 children; 886-9428 or thegaslighttheatre.com.

MUSIC FRIDAY, SEPT. 3

• Friday Night Concerts are back on the lawn at Steam Pump Ranch with hits from the 50’s-90’s performed by Final Approach. Details: 7-9:30 p.m.; 10901 N. Oracle Road; free; orovalleyaz.gov.

• Don your dancin’shoes at the Music for the Soul Dance Party with the George Howard Band. Details: 7-9:30 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $20; 529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

• Listen to celebrated music icon and

Grammy Award-winning Chaka Khan with special guest Sheila E. live at the AVA Amphitheater. Details: 8 p.m.; Casino del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road; $15-$85; 800-344-9435.

children, military; 886-9428 or thegaslighttheatre.com.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 10

• Don’t miss a chance to dance the night away with the recently reunited oldies rock band Heartbeat at the Old Time SATURDAY, SEPT. 4 • Enjoy Your Cheatin’ Heart, A Tribute Rock & Roll Dance Party. Details: to Hank Williams & Patsy Cline with 7 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. old favorites like “Jambalaya”and “Crazy” Oracle Road; $20; 529-1000 or gaslightand many more. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight musichall.com.

Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $31; 529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 11 • Enjoy the Just One Look Tribute to Linda Ronstadt featuring her greatest SUNDAY, SEPT. 5 hits performed by niece Mindy Ronstadt • Enjoy Classic Jazz with the Wildcat Jazz Band featuring their unique blend and the Tributaries. Details: 6 p.m.; of impeccable musicianship, traditional Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com. music and slapstick humor. Details: • Take a Trip to the Decade of Disco 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 529-1000 or gaslight- - The 1970s at Studio 54 Explosion with world class singers and musicians musichall.com.

• Listen to the Tucson Pops Orchestra performing the greatest hits of the decade from the Bee Gees to Donna fall concert series featuring conductor László Veres and guest artist vocalist Jack Summer and many more. Details: 7:30 p.m.; DesertView Performing Arts Neubeck. Details: 7 p.m.; DeMeester Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive; $30; Outdoor Performance Center, 1100 825-2818.

S. Randolph Way; free; 722-5853 or • Don’t miss the Chasing Rainbows Gala tucsonpops.org.

• Don’t miss Austin musician James Mc- featuring Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Murtry bringing his rock-style roots to with their vibrant fusion of classic Amerthe Plaza stage. Details: 7 p.m.; Outdoor ican jazz, swing and Dixieland who have energized the Fox stage many times and Plaza, Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress appeared in films and television shows.

St.; $20; 622-8848 or eventbrite.com.

Details: 7:30 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $28-$89; foxtucson.com.

MONDAY, SEPT. 6 • Listen to the rap and hip-hop of • Listen to Country Classics award-winning musician Ice Cube. performed by Kevin Sterner and the Details: 8 p.m.; Casino del Sol AVA Strait Country Band. Details: 6 p.m.; Amphitheater, 5655 W. Valencia Road; Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. Broad$28-$75; 800-344-9435. way Blvd.; $25-$27, $15 seniors,

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Road; $27; 529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 11 • Listen to Grammy Award-winning • Indulge in nostalgia of days past at Rock singer-songwriter Peter Rowan with and Roll Sahuarita featuring the music, a career spanning over five decades cars and dance of the time with live music from his early years playing under

by OnesAll and kids’activities. Details: 5-8 the tutelage of bluegrass veteran Bill p.m.; Quail Creek - Veterans Municipal Monroe to breakout as a solo musician Park, 1905 N. Old Nogales Hwy.; free and bandleader. Details: 7:30 p.m.; Hotel admission; 797-3959 or saaca.org.

Congress, 311 E. Congress St.; $25-$35; 622-8848 or eventbrite.com.

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• Spend An Evening with Jackson Browne performing some of his most popular songs that made him a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer as well as Songwriters Hall of Famer. Details: 8 p.m.; Tucson Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave.; $35$125; ticketmaster.com.

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• Enjoy timeless stories addressing bullying, selfishness, competition, ingenuity and affirmations at Aesop’s Fables Puppet Show by the award-winning Red Herring Puppets. Details: 2 and 4 p.m.; Tucson Mall, 4500 N. Oracle Rd.; $8; 635-6535 redherringpuppets.com.

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• Bring the kids for the Woodland Games fun competition testing their outdoor THURSDAY, SEPT. 9 • Join entomologist Dr. Art Evans for an knowledge and solving a mystery at The introduction to his latest book Beetles Conundrum at Camp Catalina at the of Western North America, the only Children’s Theatre. Details: 1 p.m. Sunday; color photographic guide to the beetles Live Theatre Workshop, 3322 E. Fort west of the Continental Divide presented Lowell Rd.; $10, $7 children; 327-4242. online by the Tucson Audubon Society.

Details: 1-2 p.m.; tucsonaudubon.org.

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• Explore a unique selection of rough stones, gem stones and collectibles at the JOGS Gem & Jewelry Show open to the public and wholesale. Details: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Tucson Expo Center, 3750 E. Irvington Rd.; 303-9780 or jogsshow.com.

• Get out, get active and give back at the family-friendly HungerWalk to raise awareness for the Community Food Bank. Details: 8-11 a.m.; $10-$25; communityfoodbank.org/hungerwalk.

• Don your running shoes for the 50th Annual Saguaro National Park Labor Day 8-Miler looping through a cactus forest in the Rincon Mountains.

Details: 5:15-6 a.m. registration; Saguaro National Park East, 3693 S. Old Spanish Trail; $60; 991-0733 or azroadrunners.org.

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Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Friday; Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Pima Community College, 2202 W. Anklam Rd.; free admission; 206-6942.

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Local lifeguard wins second pro MMA bout Austin Counts

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local lifeguard is building a name for himself in the mixed martial arts community after winning his second professional match in the first minute of the opening round while fighting for an international MMA promotions company.

Professional lightweight MMA fighter Levi Escobar (2-0-0) submitted his opponent, Mario Lopez (0-1-0), by rear naked choke in 1:01 minutes of Round 1 during Univision’s Combate Global on Aug. 8. The 25-year-old said he was surprised by the quick finish, but his years of training Brazilian jiu-jitsu, boxing and other martial arts disciplines allow him to see his opponent’s weaknesses within seconds after the opening bell.

“In the moment it was surprising. I got up and was like ‘Man, did that just happen?’ But honestly, I was ready for a first-round finish because that’s the level we’ve been training at,” Escobar said. “I knew that if I pushed myself and stayed sharp, I would get a quick finish.”

The Brazilian jiu-jitsu black-belt said he was hoping the fight would’ve lasted longer so he could practice the striking techniques he’s been working on for five years with legendary local MMA coach Chris Valdez.

“I didn’t even get to do any ground-and-pound and I was really ready to let

some shots go,” Escobar said.

“But it was all jiu-jitsu on the ground because I started passing his guard right away.

Then he tried to turn away from me and gave me his back. That was his mistake and all I could think is, ‘It’s time to go.’”

Valdez said he felt very good about his student’s “quick, decisive victory,” despite not having a chance to use the striking strategies they have drilled over the years. The coach believes Escobar is reaching an elite level of MMA, but still needs a little more experience and bigger fights before he’ll realize his goal of fighting in the UFC. “The experience will come. Right now I just want him [Escobar] to get very technical. Get his kicking and punches up to a high-level professional,” Valdez said.

“He can always get better with his striking and kicking, but he’s focusing on how to be a complete martial artist.”

The fighter’s father, Martin Escobar, is also his head trainer. The elder Escobar began practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu in the 1990s and is the owner/founder of one of Tucson’s first jiu-jitsu studios—DeBrazil Jiu-Jitsu Academy. He said he was surprised by the fast win, but also happy that his son did not have to take much physical punishment to get the victory. “[The fight] was really, really good. Levi had prepared for a war and that’s how we prepare every single time,”

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Martin Escobar said. “I was quite surprised with the finish, but I knew if the fight hit the ground...Levi has got so much experience down there I knew he would finish it and that’s exactly what happened.”

Levi Escobar made his professional MMA debut in 2018, but a back injury coupled with pandemic restrictions sidelined the fighter for a couple years. He took time away from MMA to rehabilitate a herniated disc in his back through yoga and swimming, which ultimately led to his position as a lifeguard at the Oro Valley Aquatic center, he said.

“I got a herniated disc after a weight lifting accident at 21 years old and it was a tough thing to deal with,” Escobar said. “But I do yoga, get chiropractic care, massages and use swimming as a part of my training regimen and that really helps with my movement. So I’ve been able to overcome it.”

His father was concerned the inactivity may work against Levi during his last bout against Lopez, he said.

“It has been almost a two year layoff for him and I expected a lot of ring-rust,”

Marin Escobar said. “But Levi had been practicing really hard, putting in the time and effort with his kicking, punching and grappling. I know because I get to roll with him every day he is in class.”

The elder Escobar said he started exposing his son to jiu-jitsu techniques at age of 2 and began training him at his academy by 7 years old. In the early years, Levi lost many of his competitive matches, his father said, but turned a corner with his training around 12 or 13 years old. That’s when he knew his son could really grow to be an excellent martial artist, he said.

“When he was young he would lose a lot of matches. But the thing with Levi is he wouldn’t get bummed out and upset about it. He would ask when he was going to go again and I would have to tell him that he’s out of the tournament,” Martin Escobar said. “So he learned if you want to stay in the tournament, you have to win. I felt sorry for the kids when he faced them a second time because he just turned it on.”

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Your prep sports preseason guide: big dates on the horizon Tom Danehy

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he Get Behind Me, COVID prep sports season is about to get underway. Here are just some of the can’t-miss dates that are circled on our calendar.

Sept. 2: Flowing Wells @ Amphi (football). Two schools, two different districts, two miles apart. Both schools have won state championships, but it’s been a while since either made any real noise, statewide.

The Amphi players have been champing at the bit since last Thanksgiving, when the Pima County Health Department put an end to the football season.

The Panthers, who, like just about everybody else, started the season late in hopes that COVID would be gone, were 4-0 and absolutely rolling.

This game is being played on a Thursday to give peo-

ple a head start on the Labor Day Weekend.

Sept. 3: Marana @ Mountain View and Glendale Ironwood @ Ironwood Ridge (football). A great doubleheader, only a few miles apart. (Maybe you could watch the first half of one and catch the second half of the other.)

Because of the pandemic, Ironwood Ridge didn’t have a season last year, while Glendale Ironwood made it all the way to the 4A State Championship game.

Meanwhile, Marana has a new coach and a lineup tantalizingly sprinkled with talented freshmen, while Mountain View has Coach Matt Johnson, who guided Ironwood Ridge to a state title a few years back. This once-slumbering rivalry should be heating up in the next few years.

Sept. 9: Mountain View and Ironwood Ridge @ Marana (boys’ and girls’ swim-

ming). At this time of year, the fans are going to want to jump in the pool with the competitors. This three-way meet should give us an idea as to the front-runner for the unofficial title of Best in the Northwest.

Sept. 9: Flowing Wells and Marana @ Mountain View (boys’ and girls’ cross country). While the aforementioned schools with be lounging by (and competing in) the pool, these six squads will be running through the desert…in Tucson…in the summer. Cross country, as a sport, occupies the lunatic fringe of the athletic world—running up hills and through sandy washes in 100-degree heat. But it did spawn a surprisingly good movie (“McFarland, USA.”) Fortunately for the competitors who gather at Crooked Tree Golf Course near Arthur Pack Regional Park, the first race doesn’t start until 4:30. Of course,

sunset for that date is still 6:37, but hey.

Sept. 16: Pusch Ridge @ Safford (girls’ volleyball). Every athlete, coach, and fan should experience a game at one of the Graham County schools (Safford, Thatcher or Pima) at least once. It’s amazing. The local fans show up in droves.

They’re polite and kinda’ quiet…UNTIL THEY’RE NOT! It’s like something out of a movie. Or two movies—“Pleasantville” meets “World War Z.” Sept. 30: Amphi @ Douglas and Catalina Foothills @ Ironwood Ridge (girls’ volleyball). A big night for volleyball. The 4A Gila Division includes Amphi and Douglas, along with Sahuarita, Walden Grove, Rio Rico and the new school in the Vail District, Mica Mountain. Of those six schools, only Amphi made it to state last year and should be the favorite for

the region crown. But that three-hour trip to Douglas can be daunting, hard on the legs and the focus. This game should go a long way toward determining Gila supremacy.

Back here in Tucson, look for a titanic clash in the Nighthawk gym. Both Ironwood Ridge and Foothills made it to state last year and both were ranked in the Top 10. But Foothills had to forfeit due to COVID and Ironwood Ridge got upset, 3-2 in the second round of state.

This should be a monster.

Oct. 1: Ironwood Ridge @ Canyon Del Oro (football). Bragging rights for Amphitheater District gridiron supremacy would be on the line here except for the fact that neither of these two schools will play Amphi this year.

Oct. 6: Amphi and Ironwood Ridge @ Canyon Del Oro (boys’ golf).

Here’s one where the district

title can be determined. The edge should probably go to Ironwood Ridge, seeing as how they finished eighth in the state last year, they sent several individuals to state, and they even had a kid named Ben Hogan. Not too much pressure, right?

Nov. 1-2: Division II State Championship (girls’ golf). Well, let’s see here.

The Ironwood Ridge girls’ golf team won the State championship last year AND THEY HAVE THEIR ENTIRE TEAM BACK! Of course, they are highschool kids and they may experience an inordinate amount of pressure, seeing as how they are the prohibitive favorites to win the state crown. What, then, could be done to take some of that pressure off ? Oh, I know.

Let’s have the state championship tournament at Omni National in Tucson, about a 10-minute drive from the Ironwood Ridge campus.

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CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your eye for details is honed, and you’ll get granular in your analysis of what matters to you. This specificity will serve you well, though not everyone will have the patience and understanding you’d like them to have. That’s just a sign to find “your people”: The ones who get you, challenge you and support you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). A project begins with inspiration or, more likely, jealousy.

Envy is so important to pay attention to. It is among the best indicators of which direction in life would most please you, and therefore it is invaluable in its ability to inform your decisions. Whatever you are jealous of, start creating it in your life this lucky week.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The way things look and function is very important to you and your sophistication on the matter will rub off on others. You’re sold on elegance, swayed by beauty and willing to pay for superior design.

Your affinity for lovely things will guide you to interesting places and people. Your conversations will be most enlightening.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Ingenious leadership is sometimes undetectable. You create systems that work and then you establish an atmosphere in which people can execute those systems with focus and ease. You encourage at strategic marks along the way. Ultimately, much is accomplished without your constant guidance.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Anyone can complain, but some will take it further and describe a problem to the people who can help. You’re in that rare category of fixers. You’ll think over the issues, brainstorm possible fixes and bounce your ideas off people until you have a solid proposition. Then you’ll gain cooperation and solve the thing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Rarely do fully formed ideas land on you, causing you to know exactly what to do next. If such a thing did happen, it would rob you of the most pleasurable parts of the problem-solving process.

Prepare to exercise your imagination. Delight in the bad ideas, which come first; press on to the good ones.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your mood is even;

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This elegant ideal is attainable to you this week because you’re willing to work for it.

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ima Animal Care Center is looking to pair furry friends with loving humans during a month of “Clear the Shelters” events.

PACC is offering an adoption promotion every week through Sept. 19 to free space at the shelter.

“We are very excited to have this adoption event happening at PACC!” said Monica Dangler, Director of Animal Services. “This event couldn’t come at a better time with the shelter being so full.”

Pima’s shelter is filled to the brim with new dogs due to monsoon weather and specific needs for large

dogs. The shelter hopes these events will encourage adopters and fosters to help clear space for animals that can’t be adopted right away.

Promotions throughout the month will be announced on PACC’s social media accounts every Monday.

The shelter is hosting several events in their multi-purpose room this month:

food trucks are available to attendees.

Take a look at available pets before heading to the shelter at pima.gov/animalcare. You can also find more information about the “Clear the Shelters” event at cleartheshelters.com.

PACC is located at 4000 N Silverbell Road, open Monday to Friday, noon to 7 p.m., and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

• Long Stay Lounge on Sept. 4 and Sept. 5, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Foster Fair on Sept. 12, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The main event will be a “Party at PACC” on Sept.

19. Giveaways, prizes, and

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