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Tribute shows at the Gaslight Music Hall. The Gaslight Music Hall in Oro Valley has a series of shows coming up where you can see (the next best thing to) multiple music legends in a variety of styles. Up first, Tucson band Shell Shock is performing classic rock from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. They cover the music of The Beatles, The Doors, The Monkees, Deep Purple, Led Zepplin, Dwight Yoakam, Stevie Ray Vaughan and more. 7 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, March 11.

Next, Chuck Moses is performing the songs of Frank Sinatra accompanied by a six-piece band. Hear the favorites such as “My Way,” “The Way You Look Tonight,” “New York, New York,” and many more, the way they were meant to be sung. 6 p.m. Saturday, March 12. And finally, the Strait Country Band & Jack Bishop are covering the music of country legend George Strait. The band

aims to re-create the exact arrangements from Strait’s albums and in his concert performances prominently featuring pedal steel guitar and fiddle. 6 p.m. Sunday, March 13. The Gaslight Music Hall does not require vaccines or masks at this time, but suggests the wearing of masks when not eating or drinking and when walking around the theater. 13005 N. Oracle Road #165. gaslightmusichall.com WineDown with Wildlife. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is hosting their second annual wine festival, where the community can support animals while enjoying the best local and regional wines in the Southwest. Activities at the event include live music from Tucson indie rock and folk band Little Cloud, stargazing, enjoying food from food trucks, and going on night hikes.

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tivities at the event include bobcats, ocelots, gray foxes and Mexican gray wolves.

6 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19. 2021 N. Kinney Road. desertmuseum.org Marana Bluegrass Festival. The Desert Bluegrass Association is hosting the Marana Bluegrass Festival at Gladden Farms Park over three days. There are more than a dozen musicians performing, including Kentucky Sky, Dan Levenson and the Cat Mountain Rounders, Ocotillo Rain, the Hard Road Trio and many more.

In addition, there are also workshops and band jams.

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Delayed by COVID,‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ makes triumphant return Jillian Bartsch

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rizona Onstage productions will be presenting Hedwig and the Angry Inch from March 18 to March 27. This production comes almost exactly two years after it originally closed after opening night due to COVID-19.

Kevin Johnson, the artistic director of Arizona Onstage, explained they were told right before the show opened in 2020 by the owners of the theater that it would be their first and their last show.

“It was really kind of heartbreaking, like with every other theater company in the United States, in the world even,” Johnson said.

They had rehearsed for months and after closing they thought they would be able to return after a few weeks, but it turned into months and then years.

Everyone who was a part

of the musical two years ago kept in contact with each other, so when the time came to reopen Hedwig, everyone was able to pull together like a tight family, according to Johnson.

This performance of Hedwig will include the same cast and band that performed two years ago. Jordon Ross Seibert will be performing as Hedwig and Liz Cracchiolo will be performing as Yitzhak.

“We’re all really excited to be able to do this again, and I think that that’s really going to come across in the performance,” Seibert said.

Seibert previously performed as Hedwig in Baltimore and won the Baltimore Sun’s best actor in a musical for his portrayal.

When Seibert got the role of Hedwig in Baltimore, he first read through the script and realized that the only characters were Hedwig, Yitzhak and the band, and that it was very different from the movie in the sense

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of characters.

Seibert explained that the musical is inspired by Plato’s Symposium. Plato’s Symposium includes a number of stories, including a legend of primal times when there were people with doubled bodies and three genders: male, female and androgynous, which was half-male, half female. As the story goes, after they challenged Zeus, he split them in half so they spent the remainder of their life looking for their other half.

The musical is about a character named Hedwig who is a queer rock singer who is following a rock star who she is in love with. It takes place in West Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Hedwig is with a United States officer. Since Hedwig was a male and the officer was a male, the officer could not bring Hedwig back to the U.S. as his bride unless a sex-change operation was done.

The operation was done on Hedwig, but her husband leaves her so she is now left to explore life on her own as a person of split gender with a huge heart.

“It’s about a botched sexchange, it’s about being left by your husband, it’s about not knowing who you are in the world, it’s about being divided and becoming whole again, it’s about discovering that you are actually the one that completes you,”

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Seibert said.

Hedwig shares her life story throughout this 90-minute musical with no intermission.

According to Johnson, the audience should expect raw honesty and amazing vocals from both Hedwig and the other lead, Cracchiolo.

“It is a heartfelt story that anybody can relate to,” Johnson said. “They could be gay, bisexual, transgender, or straight and relate to the story because it is a story about being human and a human who needs love in her life.”

The reason Johnson followed the show for so many years was because of its message that every person deserves to be listened to, every

person has a story and every person deserves to be able to tell their story.

“It does not matter the denomination, it does not matter the gender or gender identity of those in the audience, the fact is love is love and that is what proves again and again, it’s very positive,” Johnson said.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened in 1998 and won many awards. In 2014 it went to Broadway where it won multiple Tony Awards.

Arizona Onstage has been around since 2003 and they aim to bring shows, especially musicals, to Tucson that otherwise might not get produced, according to Johnson.

“We present musicals and non-musicals that tend to be off the normal realm of what people think of as a musical,” Johnson said. “We like to do things a little more edgy.”

Tickets for Hedwig and the Angry Inch can be purchased at arizonaonstage. org. Prices range from $20 to $25 and it will be held at the Cabaret Space.

The cast and crew are fully vaccinated and boostered, and there will be cross ventilation of fresh air throughout the theater to provide safety for COVID-19. Anyone attending the musical must provide proof of double vaccination and wear a mask inside the theater.

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OOROO Auto offering ‘Happy Car Club’ Jake O’Rourke

Special to Tucson Local Media

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e all know the dread that ensues once service lights illuminate the dashboard. Dealing with that stress and time led one local business to reimagine what an auto shop can be.

And after nearly a decade in business, they’re still thinking of new ways to keep the community rolling.

OOROO is a full-service car care company founded in May 2014 by Jeff Artzi, who is also the CEO. The idea behind the company is to bring auto repair directly to the customer. With a call, a visit to the website or by using the

mobile app, mechanics come to customers’ work, home or wherever is most convenient if the customer is unable to make it to one of the OOROO auto shops.

“OOROO is a reimagining of what an auto care experience should be,” Artzi said. “I tried to think about how we would do this if we did it from scratch—how we would rebuild the automotive experience both internally and, of course, for the consumer. The reviews that we’ve received on our website, the awards we’ve received, and the recognition are testament to the fact that we’re really making this happen. The whole experience is very different than you can find elsewhere.”

After opening their first location in Oro Valley, they expanded a second location to Green Valley in August 2020, a third to Vail in February 2022, and have offered the Happy Car Club since December 2021.

The Happy Car Club is a monthly subscription that covers oil changes, towing up to 10 miles, safety inspections, fluid changes and other yearly routine maintenances, making it convenient for drivers to know when their car needs servicing. From there, an appointment is scheduled to either have a mechanic go to the customer or for the customer to go to one of the OOROO auto shops.

“It offers all these awe-

some yearly routine maintenances that you should be doing on your vehicle anyway but just in a more convenient way so there’s no excuse, and it’s providing that ease and experience that we bring through the mobile services too,” said Savannah Ellwood, community ambassador for OOROO. While the car club fits into OOROO’s larger mission, it is also in line with the growing “subscription economy” of the digital age. As such, the Happy Car Club also comes with a smartphone app.

However, the company strives to make sure OOROO doesn’t become just another one of many subscriptions clouding the bank statement.

“A lot of times, people sign

up for subscriptions and then they don’t end up using the services they’ve signed up for,” said Lindsey Wiederstein, chief of staff for OOROO. “We’re really focused on reminding people to try and make it as easy as possible for them to utilize the service.”

Being locally owned, OOROO works with the Tucson community. They give back to the community and their customers through various programs, loyalty rewards, and community partnerships.

Joy Ride is one of the ways OOROO gives back.

Started in 2016, the program involves community members nominating someone in need of car care who may be down on their luck or experiencing financial instability.

A couple of winners are se-

lected every December, and OOROO fixes as much as they can within their budget to support those individuals and get them back on the road safely. In addition to this program, OOROO Cares and OOROO Gives Back are programs that partner with companies to give OOROO services to their employees.

“We really are committed to Tucson,” Artzi said. “We want to have a fourth store in Tucson and become even more engaged in the community. It’s all about giving back however we can, whether that means our breadand-butter business of taking care of people in their cars or doing great work in the community.”

Visit oorooauto.com to learn more about their services, programs, and subscription options.

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UA researchers’ startup uses artificial intelligence to detect the ‘fingerprints of disease’ Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

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hen cells in the body become diseased, their signals and molecules change, sometimes long before symptoms emerge.

New technology out of the University of Arizona aims to detect these metabolic changes with machine learning to hopefully catch diseases sooner and expedite the healing process.

A new startup company co-founded by two UA researchers uses artificial intelligence to identify these “fingerprints of disease,” possibly before the issue is detectable through other means. Ruslan Rafikov and Olga Rafikova, both associate professors in the UA College of Medicine, launched MetFora with help from Tech Launch Arizona, the UA office that commercializes inventions from university research.

While the research that led to MetFora originally focused on the lungs, this technology has the potential to detect diseases in a wide variety of organs.

“The idea came from our animal research on pulmonary hypertension. We found that if we induce pulmonary hypertension in animals, before they produce any physiological effects in the lungs, they are changing their metabolic profile

very quickly. It can be after only three days. That gave us the idea that we check these same changes in a patient’s blood,” Rafikov said.

“This is important because people usually struggle to get a diagnosis. They can spend years from the first symptoms to get a correct diagnosis. If we can detect it as soon as possible, it will be a more impactful treatment.”

While human researchers may manually monitor the molecules, Rafikov describes it as a very complex process involving more than a dozen metabolites.

“It’s so complex that in our finding, training AI is more important than finding a way to train a physician to find these tiny metabolites,” said Rafikov, who is an affiliate of the American Thoracic Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “Each disease affects different organs, and within the organs, each disease can affect different types of cells. And once the cells are affected, they change their fine-tuned metabolic fluxes in and out of the cell. Using this knowledge, we think we can determine the exact problem in each organ.”

The process involves a blood draw that is then tested with mass spectrometry.

However, because of the complicated nature of the test, it would not be able to be conducted in-hospital,

and the blood would need to be shipped to MetFora’s lab for testing through an AI statistical analysis.

“The model for most diagnostics is some sort of kit or instrument that the hospital has, but this would not be that. The most natural way to bring it to market is through a lab developed test,” said MetFora CEO Martin Fuchs. “The test time isn’t long at all. It’s really about getting the sample to us in our lab and getting the results back. And we see that taking about two to four days.”

Fuchs was introduced to the researchers through Arizona FORGE, an office under the same umbrella as Tech Launch Arizona that helps foster entrepreneurship across the university campus.

“One of the things that caught my eye is that it has applicability to a broad range of diseases,” said Fuchs, who has launched two other technology companies. “We really see this as something everyone can get during their annual doctor’s visit.

Because it’s a simple blood draw, I feel like it could become a standard of care.”

Although Tech Launch Arizona does not create the startups themselves, they help researchers through the process and work to negotiate licenses.

Doug Hockstad, assistant vice president for TLA, says the university system

Lung cells under a microscope, one of the inspirations for the startup MetFora. has 250 to 300 inventions disclosed every year. For researchers and their inventions, TLA assigns licensing managers to help them through the process of commercialization.

“They do a market analysis to see what companies are operating in a particular space, and a patent landscape analysis to see what patents are out there in the same area. That information is taken back to the inventor, and we more or less jointly come up with a plan on whether or not we’re going to target this invention to an existing company or target this to create a startup company around the technology,” Hockstad said.

“Technologies coming out of universities are at a very early stage. Often, much too

early for an existing company to be interested. So with a lot of technologies, the right way to go is to create a startup around it.”

Hockstad says the market analysis will sometimes discover that there is no market for the product, or that it’s too heavily patented already.

“We try not to pick and choose ‘winners.’ At the stage these are at, it’s very hard to foresee what is going to be successful or not,” Hockstad said.

TLA has helped organize more than 100 startups since 2013, with more than 19 startups in fiscal year 2020 alone. According to a report from the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the UA’s Eller College of Management, startups associated with TLA have gener-

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ated more than $25 million in state and local taxes and more than 5,000 new jobs.

“We do everything from software to curriculum to therapeutic compounds to medical devices,” Hockstad said. “It runs the gamut.”

Most recently, MetFora was one of four medical technology companies that participated in the startup competition Venture Madness in Phoenix on March 2 and 3.

“We are very grateful to TLA for the support. They helped with patents and regulatory analysis and mentoring. We’ve even had seasoned executives from area companies help us through this process,” Fuchs said.

“They really provided the impetus to get the company started.”

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University of Arizona researcher wins Health Champion award Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

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ealthcare workers and researchers of nearly every discipline worked overtime during the pandemic to ensure patients were cared for, hospitals ran smoothly, and vaccines were administered. However, a certain group of workers took an overhead view to better understand how systems operated and the most help was delivered to the most people.

In early February, the All of Us research program, a collaboration between the University of Arizona and Banner Health, hon-

ored assistant professor of family and community medicine Karen Lutrick with the inaugural Arizona Health Champion award.

The recognition is for Lutrick’s research to better understand COVID-19 infection and reinfection rates, and vaccine efficacy.

Lutrick works with the Arizona Healthcare, Emergency and Other Essential Workers Surveillance (AZ HEROES) study, which examines infection rates among first-responders and essential workers to better protect them and the community. The UA-Banner All of Us program which awarded Lutrick shares a similar goal of speeding up healthcare

by building “the largest most diverse database of health information of its kind that researchers can use to study health and illness.”

“Our missions definitely align. We have similar philosophies when it comes to research and representation. It’s a natural partnership,” Lutrick said. “I’ve had a lot of roles at the University of Arizona, but most recently I worked in clinical research operations and managing ICU studies. In addition to Latinx health, one of the areas I also study is emergency preparedness and disaster medicine research, such as how institutions like hospitals can

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respond to public health emergencies.”

Lutrick explains her research in ICU and critical care as using the seasonal flu as a proxy for a public health emergency. Every year the flu happens, but we don’t know how bad it will be or which strains it may produce. In addition to evaluating how the flu impacts individuals, researchers can evaluate how it impacts entire institutions.

“Obviously you can imagine there are some parallels between influenza and COVID,” Lutrick said. “And there have been a handful of us working on these types of public health emergencies, such as a natural disaster, train derailment or pandemic. So when the pandemic finally did hit, we were well-positioned to jump in and be ready for all the new folks entering this space, because their research got shut down or they wanted to help out. We were able to be there and do some big COVID in-patient, out-patient community surveillance and research.”

AZ HEROES is a twoyear research project funded by the CDC. Their research team is working with roughly 4,000 health care workers, first responders, frontline workers and other essential workers throughout Arizona, half of whom have been infected by COVID. The study has three objectives: assess the in-

cidence of asymptomatic and symptomatic re-infection in frontline workers, identify patterns of COVID-19 immunity, and evaluate the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.

“Before COVID hit, I was still doing public health emergency research, but it was less about a specific disease,” Lutrick said.

“It was more about the infrastructure approach: how do we think about research in a way that allows us to be responsive as things change and evolve?

Even if you’re thinking about something more tangible like a train derailment, there are still phases.

There’s the immediate, the long term, the environmental. We think about systematic approaches that can evolve and respond to the needs of the community.”

As part of the AZ HEROES study, she specifically helps with daily operations and the process of the research. This aligns with her other pre-pandemic research on health disparities and wellness in the Hispanic community.

“I also help make sure we’re not unintentionally alienating individuals or avoiding bias that would keep us from seeing the full impact on certain communities,” Lutrick said. “As we designed these studies, I wanted to make sure we’re as inclusive as possible.

Because there are groups of individuals that are traditionally less included in

research, so we’re making sure the surveys are in multiple languages and that the staff can establish rapport with communities, that we’re not just going to the places we always go.”

Early AZ HEROES results published by the CDC found that first-responders who were fully vaccinated were 90% less likely to get infected with COVID. “There are still so many questions you can continue to ask after the fact, such as about vaccine effectiveness or lasting immunity, that can influence policy,” Lutrick said. “But then there’s secondary questions that allow you to understand how things work, like detectable amounts of antibodies in the blood.

And once we have more time, we can look beyond that, such as the types of antibodies.”

The Arizona Health Champion recognition is planned to be a series of awards honoring the work of health care heroes throughout the state.

“I’m obviously incredibly honored, but at the same time, I worked alongside so many brilliant and dedicated people. This work has to be a full-on village,” Lutrick said. “There are hundreds of people working all day every day at this, who I’ve learned so much from. I think people may not realize just how collaborative this work is.

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UA science lecture series puts minerals under a microscope Cameron Jobson

Special to Tucson Local Media

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he University of Arizona College of Science is hosting its 17th annual lecture series, exploring the significance of minerals in mankind and our daily lives. Over the next five weeks, distinguished UA faculty members will present on a variety of topics, from their cosmic origins to their function in smartphones.

Each year, the series is centered around a unique theme that attracts a couple thousand people to Centennial Hall. Southern Arizona has a large community that is interested in the sciences, and with the recent Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, this year’s topic is expected to bring in crowds.

“This year’s topic plays very hand-in-hand with the mineral show,” Scott Coleman, the college’s marketing and communications director said. “So anyone that is interested can come on by and learn a few things.”

The lectures are free to the public and open to everyone. But if attending in-person doesn’t work, the college will be livestreaming the presentations on their YouTube channel, with closed captioned Spanish subtitles available.

The college is constantly looking to engage more viewers and highlight diverse topics in science.

“It’s a great opportunity for the college to have some outreach,” Coleman said. “And hopefully visitors will learn and enjoy the presentations.”

Carmie Garzione, the new dean of the college, played a big role in choosing this year’s topic. She is an esteemed earth scientist, and earned her doctorate in geosciences from the University of Arizona. She thought minerals would be a great fit to make her first year memorable.

Bob Downs kicked off the series on March 3, as he talked about the vital role of minerals in our daily lives. He summarized a timeline of minerals, starting from their origin and worked his way through their evolution on the geologic time scale.

Then on March 10, Mauricio Ibañez-Mejia will tackle the question that has been researched for centuries: How old is the earth? He will explore how minerals can act as time capsules that are rich in history and can be dated to reconstruct the chronology of our planet. They are storytellers that give insight into terrestrial and cosmic evolution.

Ananya Mallik will follow up on March 17, discussing how gems provide even more understanding into the planet’s inner layers and the history. Aside from the natural beauty of gems, diamonds, and rubies, they can also be studied in depth to understand the evolution of earth and the formation of landforms.

On March 31, Isabel Barton will center her presentation on Arizona, bringing local interest to minerals. She will talk about the abundance of copper, along with other critical minerals that have been found in Arizona.

Metals and minerals are the backbone of technology and are needed to support the constant advancements. Copper is used in wiring electronics and batteries, creating a high demand.

To wrap up the lecture series, Raina Maier will touch on the future of mining on April 7. She will underline the importance of “mining in a greener future,” explaining environmentally friendly approaches that are more sustainable and manageable in the long run.

Our dependence on metals and minerals is essentially inevitable. With the latest TVs, phone updates and expanding roads, the demand is always growing. Mining minerals Minerals at the UA’s new Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum downtown. provides the resources that make our computers, cars, roads, furniture, electronics and even toothpaste.

They play a huge role in our daily lives and are responsible for power growth and energy generation.

“When people first think of minerals, their mind goes to pretty gems and rubies,” Coleman said.

“But minerals are more than just pretty things to look at. They are the foundational part of civilization.”

Coleman hopes that the five lectures will resonate with Southern Arizonans.

Along with a small committee in the college, the five faculty members created a complete story line throughout the presentations. As experts in their field, they will display both the history and the future of minerals.

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by Whose Blues presented by the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance. Details: 6-7:30 p.m.; Oro Valley MarketPlace; free; saaca.org.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11

• Dance the night away to the hits of the 60’s to the 80’s at the Vintage Rock Dance Party with Shell Shock Band. Details: 7 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $20; 520529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

• Listen to the classic jazz of internationally acclaimed The Hot Sardines making old sounds new again and bringing people together. Details: 7:30 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $35-$70; foxtucson.com.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12

• Enjoy the Gabriel Ayala Concert for Healing presented by the Amerind Museum featuring the composer and classical guitarist along with his quintet Ayala 5Tet performing his newest work composed during the pandemic quarantine. Details: 3 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $30; foxtucson.com.

• Enjoy an intimate evening with the many hit songs of Frank Sinatra featuring Chuck Moses at The Songs of Sinatra. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 520-529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

• Enjoy the country music of Platinum-selling entertainer Justin Moore with special guests Heath Sanders and Stephen Paul. Details: 7:30 p.m.; Tucson Arena, 260 S. Church Ave.; $43-$53; ticketmaster. com.

SATURDAY TO SUNDAY, MARCH 12-13

• Enjoy a performance of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra featuring Flying High with Holland, Stravinsky, Gershwin and talented youth. Details: 7:30 p.m. Saturday; DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive; $30; dvpac.net; or 3 p.m. Sunday; St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7575 N. Paseo del Norte, $25; sasomusic. org.

• Listen to the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s concert of Tchaikovsky and Nielsen. Details: 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; Tucson Symphony Center, 2175 N. 6th Ave.;

$16; tucsonsymphony.org.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 13

SUNDAYS THROUGH MARCH 20

• Listen to a Tribute to George Strait by the Strait Country Band starring Jack Bishop re-creating the signature sound prominently featuring the pedal steel guitar and fiddle. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 520-529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

SUNDAY TO FRIDAY, MARCH 13-20

• Enjoy the Winter Chamber Musical Festival presented by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music featuring a dynamic array of the best artists including the Dover Quartet, Lowell Liebermann’s String Quartet and many others. Details: 3 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; Leo Rich Theater, 260 S. Church Ave.; $32, $10 students; (also available on-demand); 520-5773769 or arizonachambermusic.org.

MONDAY, MARCH 14

• Sip wine while you listen to Sundays in the Garden Spring Concert Series featuring the Oro Valley Jazz Band this week. Details: 1:30-3 p.m.; Tohono Chul Park, 7366 N. Paseo del Norte; included with park admission $13-$15, $6 children; 520-742-6455.

SPECIAL EVENTS FRIDAY TO SUNDAY, MARCH 11-13

• Browse the works of local artists and artisans featuring unique crafts, artwork, pottery, glass, jewelry, gift items and more at the Tucson Museum of Art Annual Spring Artisans Market fundraiser. Details: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; 140 N. Main Ave.; free admission; 520-624-2333 or tucsonmuseumofart.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12

• Groove to 1970s folk rock with a tribute to the best songs and performers of a generation at You’ve Got a Friend with the Tributaries. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 520-529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

• Bring the entire family to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival with races, an Irish punk band and more.

Details: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Armory Park, 220 S. Sixth Ave.; free; tucsonstpatricksday.com.

TUESDAY, MARCH 15

SATURDAY TO SUNDAY, MARCH 12-13

• Come enjoy your favorite tunes at Hot Blues in Concert featuring Mr. Boogie Woogie and the Bad News Blues Band. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 520-529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

• Listen to the legendary Taj Mahal Sextet whose music has transcended genres for six decades. Details: 7:30 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $28-$73; foxtucson.com.

SATURDAY, MARCH 19

• Don’t miss The Marshall Tucker Band 50th Anniversary Tour with Dave Mason featuring their mighty music catalog and multi-platinum hits. Details: 8 p.m.; Tucson Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave.; $35-$95;

• Meet your favorite authors, discover new publishing companies and resources and enjoy entertainment and family activities at the Tucson Festival of Books. Details: 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; University of Arizona Mall, 1209 E. University Blvd.; free admission but some author events require advance tickets; tucsonfestivalofbooks.org.

SUNDAY, MARCH 13

• Take an inside look at the groundbreaking science of whale culture and its startlingly human parallels across four different species with celebrated National Geographic explorer and photographer Brian Skerry – Secrets of the Whales.

Details: 6:30 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $25-$53; foxtucson. com.

CLASSES & PROGRAMS THURSDAYS, MARCH 10APR. 7

• Explore the origins of minerals, the stories they tell and the future of critical minerals in society at the University of Arizona College of Science Lecture Series with this week’s presentation by Mauricio Ibañez-Mejia. Details: 7 p.m.; UA Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd.; or livestreamed on the College of Science’s YouTube channel; free; science.arizona.edu.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11

• Learn everything you need to know about Growing Citrus in the Desert Garden from “AZ Plant Lady” Noelle Johnson at this Tucson Botanical Gardens online class. Details: 10 a.m.-noon; Zoom link provided; $30, discount for members; tucsonbotanical.org.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16

• Capture the beauty of some of nature’s most conspicuous creatures with step-by-step drawing instructions from illustrator and artist Devon Meyer at the online Tucson Botanical Gardens class Watercolor Butterflies. Details: 2-3:30 p.m.; Zoom link provided; $30, discount for members; tucsonbotanical.org.

CHILDREN SATURDAY, MARCH 12

• Bring the kids for a one-of-a kind superhero adaptive fun run for anyone who is ready to conquer our course of inclusive obstacles at the Cape Chase Superhero Adaptive Race. Details: 6:30-11 a.m.; Ora Mae Harn Park, 13250 N. Lon Adams Road; $25, $15 in advance; 520-3823494 or maranaaz.gov.

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Tech Talk: Tucson helps NASA with ‘Spacecraft Swarms’ Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

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ith a major research university right in our backyard, a strong military presence and innovative companies throughout the metro region, there’s often a plethora of interesting science, medical and technology news to be found in Southern Arizona. Here’s a breakdown of the most interesting recent developments.

Spacecraft Swarm. Faculty at the University of Arizona are part of a new NASA mission seeking to better understand one of the most common, yet mysterious, forms of matter in the universe. NASA’s new “HelioSwarm” mission aims to use a group of nine spacecraft to monitor plasma ejections, or “solar wind” from the sun.

UA assistant professor of planetary sciences Kristopher Klein will serve as the mission’s deputy principal investigator. In this role, Klein will “ensure that the science questions can be answered with the instruments onboard the HelioSwarm spacecraft.”

Research indicates plasma makes up more than 90% of the visible universe, comprising everything from lightning to the sun’s rays to interstellar space.

The HelioSwarm mission will send nine spacecraft to orbit the Earth, studying the frequency and turbulence of solar wind for a better understanding of the Sun-Earth connection, and the constantly changing space environment.

“Studying the interaction between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field is important from a basic physics perspective, and it’s also important to understand how

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“And during periods of heightened solar activity, these processes also affect things like global positioning and communications satellites, other spacecraft and astronauts.”

According to NASA, the mission will consist of one hub spacecraft and eight co-orbiting small satellites that range in distance from each other and the hub spacecraft. The hub spacecraft will maintain radio contact with each small satellite. All radio contact between the swarm and Earth will be conducted through the hub spacecraft.

“Think about the solar wind like a waterfall,” Klein said. “If you want to understand a waterfall, you have to measure at multiple points throughout its flow.

There have been previous missions that have had a few spacecrafts providing multipoint measurement, but the dream is to have a set of spacecrafts that will be separated in such a way that some of them will be relatively close and others far. By doing that, we can measure both large- and small-scale physics at the same time and get a better understanding of how energy flows and evolves as it moves through the solar system.”

The $250 million mission is set to launch in 2028.

“The technical innovation of HelioSwarm’s small satellites operating together as a constellation pro-

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NASA announced a new mission with a University of Arizona astronomer that will seek to better understand solar winds.

vides the unique ability to investigate turbulence and its evolution in the solar wind,” said Peg Luce, deputy director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division.

Aiming High.

Students at Pima Community College can soon begin learning how to test and maintain aircraft parts thanks to a federal grant. A nearly half-million dollar grant from the Federal Aviation Administration has created a new certificate option within PCC’s Aviation Technology Program.

The 42-credit course in “Nondestructive Testing”

for aircraft maintenance inspections will be offered starting in Fall 2023 and may be completed in two semesters.

Program director Jason Bowersock said most of the federal grant will pay for equipment and supplies for the training, which will teach the “most-asked-for aviation inspection techniques in the industry”: visual testing; penetrant testing; magnetic particle testing; electromagnetic testing; ultrasonic testing; and radiographic testing.

Courses will meet the Level I and Level II academic requirements of the American Society for

Nondestructive Testing (ASNT). Level II handson work will be conducted in a lab at Pima’s Aviation Technology Center, as well as through apprenticeships at local partner locations.

PCC was one of 15 Aviation Maintenance Technical Workers Workforce Development Grant recipients from around the country. The FAA grant program aims to “help educate the next generation of aviation professionals across the United States in rural, suburban, and urban areas.” PCC received one of the largest grants in the nation.

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READER PHOTO OF THE WEEK Reader Katel Lingerlonger captured these saguaros taking in the sunset rays while on a hike in west Tucson. Send your photos to readerphotos@tucsonlocalmedia.com. Include your name, contact information and details about the photo, including who took it, where it was taken and the subject. Not all photos can be printed. See other photos online at www.tucsonlocalmedia.com.

BRIEFLY EPA GRANTS TOWN OF MARANA WATER TREATMENT AWARDS On February 16, the EPA presented the Town of Marana with the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund 2021 Aquarius Recognition Award for the Picture Rocks & Airline Lambert Water Treatment Campus Projects. The award recognizes projects that demonstrate “Excellence in Community Engagement”, which occurs when the community is involved in all aspects of a project.

In August 2018, the Marana Town Council voted to pursue the design and construction of a treatment facility for each of the two impacted water systems in Marana Water found to contain PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances).

These compounds are used in everything from adhesives to non-stick cooking surfaces, and significant ingestion can result in an increased risk of cancer, decreases in infant birth weights, and more.

Constructing water treatment facilities in each of the impacted systems was considered to be the most

effective solution to providing safe, clean drinking water now and for future development.

Construction of both Water Treatment Campuses (Picture Rocks – Continental Reserve Area, & Airline/Lambert – Saguaro Bloom Area) commenced in January 2020, and operational status was reached on March 12, 2021. Sampling results of the water being introduced into the respective systems from both treatment facilities continue to show successful removal of both of these non-regulated compounds (PFOS & 1,4-dioxane).

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Tucson restaurants continue experiencing the Fieri bump Matt Russell

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can always tell when the Food Network rebroadcasts a particular episode of Diners, DriveIns, and Dives when texts from my friends across the country start blowing up my phone.

In early 2018, against the backdrop of bright lights, cameras, and other production gadgetry that transformed Inca’s Peruvian Cuisine into a makeshift soundstage, the show’s producers selected my wife and I to share our thoughts about the dinner we were enjoying with host Guy Fieri. The episode aired several months later, com-

mencing a series of “was that you?” inquiries that I get to this day whenever that old episode slides into prime time.

Curious to know if the restaurant experiences a boom in business tied to the re-runs, years after the episode first aired, I turned to proprietor Fatima Campos for her insights.

“We always know when that show airs because customers come in the next day and tell their servers,” said Campos, owner of Inca’s Peruvian Cuisine, 6878 E. Sunrise Drive. “We also see fans of the program across the nation come in who are on a Triple D Road Show and want to eat here,” she continued. “It was such

an honor to be part of the show; it was a pivotal moment in our business.”

Though there are many fan favorites on her menu, Campos and her crew have gotten used to a higher-volume level of production that’s required to meet the demands of those who want to eat exactly what Fieri ate.

In that episode, Fieri enjoyed the Seco de Carne, Angus beef and canary beans braised in a Peruvian sauce, and the Lomo Saltado, Angus beef marinated in Peruvian spices with tomatoes, onions, and potatoes.

“Guy loved the beans with the Seco and that’s Inca’s Peruvian Cuisine’s Fatima Campos and Guy Fieri. what my servers recommend,” concluded Campos.

At Rocco’s Little Chicago, owner Rocco DiGrazia sees a similar boost whenever the network rebroadcasts the show when Fieri’s 1968 Camaro pulled into the pizzeria’s parking lot at 2707 E. Broadway Boulevard.

DiGrazia tells me that he typically gets a 10-20% bump in business whenever that episode airs.

“It’s been said that restaurants may see up to a 40% bump, but I can’t fit an additional 40% in my restaurant,” he said.

To maximize his ability to meet growing demand, DiGrazia has since installed a double-stack oven in his kitchen and will soon announce that Rocco’s will be open seven days a week.

He regularly rolls out big numbers of those dish-

es that Fieri took down on that show, including the Spicy Hot Sticks, his Award-Winning Chicken Wings, and the Deep-Dish Kitchen Sink Pizza with pepperoni, sausage, green peppers, mushrooms, and red onions.

Like Campos, DiGrazia also welcomes what he calls “Food Network tourists,” those loyalists who travel the country in search of Triple D destinations.

As he observes, “They all come in with their spiked hair and Guy Fieri visors and want to eat what Guy ate.”

Though I don’t have much hair left to spike, I do have something new to add to my retirement list.

“I’d like to think that this episode is in permanent syndication,” said DiGrazia. “It’s a vastly popu-

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It’s nice to see these locally owned restaurants, and all the others which Fieri hit while he was in town, filling their dining rooms with each rebroadcast of these aging episodes. It’s also a reminder that I’d probably have a hard time finding a table at Inca’s the next time people ask if that was me they just saw, for three seconds, on national TV. Contact Matt Russell, whose day job is CEO of Russell Public Communications, at mrussell@ russellpublic.com. Russell is also the publisher of OnTheMenuLive.com as well as the host of the Friday Weekend Watch segment on the “Buckmaster Show” on KVOI 1030 AM.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You appreciate how things come together because you realize just how much can go into even the simplest of plans. A series of events and responses will unfold wondrously for you this week, involving instinct, thought, input and physicality, each gear turning the next in an interplay akin to a finely tuned machine.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Even though you can be exceptionally gifted at the art of compartmentalization, events echo one another. Every experience is still in you somewhere and has bearing on the other experiences. Your existence plays multiple notes at once. To harmonize them, you have to be willing to listen to all the parts of you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). When is it time to retire an interest? When it’s no longer interesting, of course! Feelings around letting go -- guilt, sentimentality, fear -- can be sticky, but that’s not an upbeat reason to continue. When you finish with an endeavor, this will free you of a related clutter of material possessions, liberating new energy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). What you read, watch and listen to matters. It’s not because others base their opinions of you on it -- they do, but that’s beside the point.

While it doesn’t define you, media influences your thoughts, molds your mindset and messes with your appetites. You’ll choose your entertainment with great care.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). There are some things you might prefer to do for free because it takes the pressure off. But even if you still think of yourself as an amateur, you should charge or at least trade something for your work. It makes the experience better for both parties. People will value what they pay for even if they pay very little.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). No one is born knowing. Awkward stages are an inevitability of growth. Of course, if you’re going to feel inadequate, you’d prefer to feel it alone.

Learning before an audience adds uncomfortable intensity. When it’s unavoidable, take heart. On the bright side, such an experience is a mighty strong bonding agent.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Persistence and perseverance are more valuable commodities than talent. You want to work and play with people who can commit, follow through and stick with the mission. The attitude of determination is like a varnish that makes natural aptitudes shiny and tough.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It may feel as though you are not moving very quickly through a pursuit, but this is actually perfect. You are accumulating a knowledge base. Later, some event or new piece of information will trigger the light switch, and you’ll see how it all fits together. Until that time, enjoy yourself. Learning is a pleasure.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The people who want you to buy their products are constantly advertising to you. Why let them have all the attention? Use the power of marketing to sway your own choices. You’ll love what happens when you surround yourself with symbols and messages that encourage you to choose what’s best for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Feeling drawn to someone doesn’t always mean that the person will be good for you. You learned this lesson through experience and now need only to remind yourself. Meanwhile, what starts as a mild attraction has potential to grow into something brilliant, strong and healthy.

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Summer is just around the corner and you can bet camps will fill up quickly this summer as parents are looking for ways to keep their kids active and engaged this summer. We will highlight both day and overnight camps in these issues. This will be a one-stop shop for parents to plan their children’s summer. This is your opportunity to reach out to parents in communities all over The Valley and share details, pricing, testimonials and schedules about your camp.

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