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Honestly, what’s more psychedelic than a saguaro? They’re so wacky—all stretched out and groovy looking, holding their arms out ready to hug everyone.

In honor of this vibe, the local and Lazaret is performing a psychedelic setlist among the saguaros at Catalina State Park. Lazaret likes to blend classic psychedelic rock with blues music and a bit of experimentation and improvisation. Pack a picnic and settle in for an evening at the foot of the beautiful Santa Catalinas. Nothing like an evening spent soaking up the music and scenery that make Tucson so great.

6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 7.

Catalina State Park, 11570 N. Oracle Road.

Kingfisher Bar & Grill Road Trip. One of the most whimsical parts of summer here in Tucson, if you ask us, is taking part in the Kingfisher’s “road trip” menu. They offer a different specialty menu at different times throughout the summer so you can feel like you’re eating specialty cuisine from different areas

of the U.S. The Back East menu, offered through Aug. 7, includes lobster tails, crab salad, baked scrod and apple-dried cranberry slab pie. Then they’ll switch to their California/Hawaii menu from Aug. 10 to 21 and the Down South menu from Aug. 24 to Sept. 4.

The Road Trip menu is offered along with the regular menu for both lunch and dinner, so you can bring a friend or partner even if they aren’t as adventurous about food as you are.

Kingfisher hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for lunch and 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. for dinner. Reservations are required for dinner. Located at 2465 E Grant Road.

The Big Dipper: Calendar, Compass and Clock.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out a show over at Red Herring Puppets yet, you’re missing out on a chance to be seriously blown away by just how much puppets can be works of art. This show explores both the science and folklore of the big dipper, pulling from the tales of ancient

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Greece, China and Nova Scotia. This award-winning professional puppet company located in the Tucson Mall is such a gem, and this show will delight kids and adults alike. 2 and 4 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 14, 21 and 28. Red Herring Puppets, 4500 N. Oracle Road, Suite 421. Only $8!

St. Philip’s Plaza Market.

Even on the hottest days of summer, some things are worth going outside for.

The St. Philip’s Plaza Market is one of them. Strolling beneath the trees, past fountains and beautiful works of art, is nothing less than idyllic. Are you looking for handwoven socks?

Incredible Greek or Turkish cuisine? Some new plants to spruce up your home or garden? A beautiful pair of handmade earrings?

They’ve got you covered. It’s a lovely experience even if you don’t buy anything, but if you do, you get to carry around that warm “I supported local business” feeling for the rest of the day.

8 a.m. to noon on Fridays and Saturdays at St. Philip’s Plaza, 4280 N. Campbell.

On the cover: “Double Jeopardy,” 2017, by Willie Bonner. Image courtesy Tucson Museum of Art

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COVID cases on the rise as students return to the classroom Christina Duran Tucson Local Media

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ima County Health Department Director Dr. Theresa Cullen told the press last week that there have been eight outbreaks in schools and 56 school cases reported in the seven days following July 19, but there were no outbreaks in the summer. She said they have closed one school classroom in the last five days and expected more cases to be reported on the horizon The cases are primarily from a school district that is already back in session and some of the outbreaks are in schools and others are from school related activities, like football, cheerleading or freshman orientations, Cullen said.

“We are now seeing this increase as students go back to school,” said Cullen. “We anticipate that approximately 5% to 10% of the cases we are seeing right now will be due to school as opposed to a maximum of 4% last year.”

Although several studies conducted early during the COVID-19 pandemic suggested children have lower incidence rates than adults, this may be partly due to children having fewer opportunities for exposure and a lower probability of being tested, CDC officials warned in an updated July 9 brief.

They noted that studies that systematically tested children and adolescents, irrespective of symptoms, for COVID-19 infection or prior infection found “their rates of infection can be comparable, and in some settings higher, than in adults.”

Cullen said pediatricians, primarily working in hospitals, “are seeing increased admissions and increased severity of illness, including

ICU admission.”

Currently, younger children are not eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine (only those 12 to 17 can receive the Pfizer vaccine), which are highly effective against hospitalization and death for all COVID-19 variants. In a late July briefing, ADHS Director Dr. Cara Christ (who recently announced she was leaving her job) reported that nearly 32% of 12 to 17 year olds have been vaccinated with at least one dose of vaccine.

The expected rise in school-related cases comes as the U.S. faces another wave of COVID-19 and the increased prevalence of the Delta variant.

As of last week, the CDC reported Arizona has a high rate of transmission with 132.6 cases in the last seven days per 100,000 individuals.

In Arizona, the Delta variant accounts for about 75% of all cases, said Dr. Joe Gerald, epidemiologist at the University of Arizona, in a July 23 COVID-19 report.

Emerging data suggests lower effectiveness of the vaccine against confirmed infection and symptomatic disease caused by the Delta variant, according to the CDC’s brief on vaccinations updated on Tuesday.

The CDC reports the Delta variant is “more than two times as transmissible as the original strains circulating at the start of the pandemic and is causing large, rapid increases in infections.”

As of last week, Pima County remained at a substantial rate of transmission at about 65 cases in seven days per 100,000 individuals, about half the state’s transmission rate. Cullen notes that until July 19, when the county received increased reports of school COVID-19 cases and outbreaks,

the county was in moderate transmission.

“If we continue to see the increases that we have seen in the last week in our caseload, it is very possible that we will get to high transmission,” said Cullen. “The reason why we don’t separate out kids cases from adult cases, from elderly cases, and it’s all one, is because the belief is that that reflects what’s going on in the community at large. So, there is potential for a very significant impact on the community at large because of the school base cases.”

Cullen said the health department is increasing their school team, because they believe “there will be an increasing number of outbreaks unless we have further mitigation.”

However, new state law prohibits schools from mandating masks and requiring students and teachers get vaccinated. Schools in Arizona also faced backlash from Governor Doug Ducey’s office for using language from the CDC, which states vaccinated individuals do not have to quarantine.

The Pima County Health Department is responsible for assessing vaccination status and determining the recommendation for isolation and quarantine, while school districts report positive cases, said Cullen.

“From the school district perspective, our goal is to say this is a Pima County Health Department prerogative, responsibility to keep the county safe and it falls within the purview of our authority to follow up on this,” said Cullen. “We are cognizant of what the Governor has stated.

We believe that our approach to this takes the onus off the school, and basically says the follow up is due to us.”

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Cullen emphasized that the county is “doing everything [they] can to keep kids in school.”

The Pima County Health Department updated its Public Health Advisory to match the new CDC guidelines released last week. The CDC updated their guidance, recommending fully vaccinated individuals in areas with high or substantial rates of transmission should also wear a mask in public indoor settings because of the new evidence on the Delta variant.

Matching CDC language, they will be “strongly recommending all teachers, staff and students, visitors to K-12 schools wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status.” Cullen hopes school superintendents will elect to push out the same recommendation and language.

Catalina Foothills School District and Tucson Unified School have opted to post signage around schools to encourage masking and the Catalina Foothills School District has updated their mitigation plan to match the new CDC guidelines.

According to a statement from TUSD, “The Tucson Unified School District Administration strongly recommends universal mask wearing for all students and staff. Per House Bill 2898, we are unable to mandate mask wearing. TUSD supports Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman’s recommendation to have all students and staff wear masks when on school campuses.”

The Arizona Department of Health Services will also be updating their public health recommendations to the CDC recommendations, according to Communications Director Steve Elliot. While it will take a few days to update, Elliot said the headlines would include: “Everyone, those who are vaccinated in addition to those who aren’t vaccinated, should wear masks and distance in indoor settings where they are around people they don’t live with. In schools, everyone should wear masks regardless of whether they are vaccinated. This includes students, teachers, staff and visitors.

Previous CDC guidance recommended masks only for those who weren’t vaccinated.” It also notes that state law prohibits mask mandates.

In the updated July 9 brief on transmission in schools, the CDC notes that when a combination of effective mitigation strategies, like masking and social distancing, are implemented and “strictly adhered to in the K-12 in-person learning environment, the risk of transmission in the school setting appears to be lower than or equivalent to the transmission risk in other community settings.”

“Schools have done an amazing job, they have all worked with us for the past months, over the last year to ensure that they have layered mitigation,” said Cullen. “However, they have limited ability to do certain things and that’s why we believe it is our responsibility to do the recommendation, the strong recommendation about masking.”

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Local mayors support Amtrak’s proposal for a passenger rail connecting Tucson and Phoenix, as well as towns in between Christina Duran Tucson Local Media

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n July 13, 11 mayors, including mayors from Sahuarta, Oro Valley and Marana, led by Tucson City Mayor Regina Romero and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, sent a letter to Arizona congressional leaders, supporting Amtrak’s proposal for a passenger rail that would not only connect Tucson and Phoenix, but other towns like Marana, Coolidge and Goodyear.

On July 13, 11 mayors, including mayors from Sahuarta, Oro Valley and Marana, led by Tucson City Mayor Regina Romero and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, sent a letter to Arizona congressional leaders, supporting Amtrak’s proposal for a passenger rail that would not only connect Tucson and Phoenix, but other towns like Marana, Coolidge and Goodyear.

“It’s about a regional approach to economic development because what’s good for Tucson is good for the region,” said Romero in a media roundtable with Amtrak and city leaders on Tuesday. “It really is about offering an opportunity to all of our residents, including those that live south of Tucson in Nogales and Rio Rico, to connect even tourists that are coming in from Sonora, Mexico, which is our number one trading partner in Arizona, to Tucson.”

The passenger rail would be an alternative to driving, with a five-minute shorter travel time than the peak

two-hours-and-30-minute commute from Tucson to Phoenix, said Amtrak President Stephen Gardner.

The rail would offer three daily round trips from Tucson, Phoenix and Buckeye, and one daily trip from Tucson to Los Angeles. The proposed line is part of Amtrak’s Corridor Vision Plan to expand low carbon intercity passenger rail service to 160 communities across the nation over the next 15 years.

“We have a global climate crisis. In part congestions on the road and really in the air feed some of that.

We have a history of some structural inequality in society but particularly in transportation as well,” said Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn.

“We believe that one way to rise and address these challenges that our country confronts is through expanding intercity passenger rail service, putting in place a system that offers frequent reliable, sustainable and equitable alternatives to driving and flying.”

Flynn said the rail could address long-term congestion issues in the corridor, as Tucson commuters are estimated to spend about 90% more time in traffic than elsewhere and large city commuters may be experiencing as much as 62 hours of congestion delay, estimated to cost about $1,000 a year.

The passenger rail would require an investment of about $925 million and take about three years of construction to put the service in place, said Gardner.

Amtrak estimates the

service would generate roughly 200,000 riders annually, producing $77.7 million a year and generate about $2.3 billion in economic activity created from one-time capital investments.

Mayor Ed Honea of Marana, who signed the letter of support, said his constituents would be able to visit their families or travel for work, like his own family has using Amtrak’s existing line to travel from San Diego to Los Angeles. He also noted the area around the Marana stop has multiple hotel and motel complexes for people to stay in for business.

Beyond the leisure traveller, Visit Phoenix CEO Ron Price added that by connecting these cities it would increase interest in the region.

“How much more attractive are we going to become to be landing the next corporate headquarters, the regional offices?” asked Price.

Amtrak would use and build on existing lines, and use their new diesel multipl-unit train, which Gardner said is a “very effective train set.” While the train is not electric, he said Amtrak is looking at different alternatives to provide the “lowest carbon service that we can.”

When asked why Amtrak considered a passenger rail versus a high speed rail, Flynn noted the time and investment a high speed rail would take, but would be considered in the future once there’s an existing line.

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“High speed rail from start to finish, usually is a 15-plus-year project, and it is something that I think that we look at once there’s an existing corridor, and there’s existing volumes,” said Flynn. “The approach here is to build out the service, build out the ridership and then explore what other future opportunities are for services.”

At the moment Amtrak hopes to secure the federal funding necessary to

begin the investments to start operations, including the agreements with host railroads, like Union Pacific to develop the rights to operate. Gardner said they proposed a “bold plan for federal investment” to Congress to help cover up to all of the initial capital costs and a portion of the early operational costs.

They also advocated that Congress provide additional funds to increase operation of the trains, includ-

ing the two they currently have, in their long distance network from tri-weekly to daily.

Part of the proposal also includes transitioning the operating funding requirement to the state after a period of time, according to Flynn.

“The state of Arizona has an incredible opportunity to lead on this particular type of investment that other states, by the way, already do,” said Romero.

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El Charro’s summer shrimp specials offer a jumbo bargain

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ccording to her great, great nephew, Monica Flinn likely spent the first summer at her new El Charro Café making pots of stew and tortillas to feed local construction workers. That was 99 years ago, and summer survival continues to be the hallmark of the season at each of El Charro’s Tucson locations.

“Tia Monica was a fierce and feisty frontier woman, someone who could probably chew tobacco, spit in a spittoon and come back and make your meal,” said Ray Flores, Flinn’s great, great nephew and president of Flores Concepts which owns and operates El Charro Café.

“But at the end of the day she was all about service, to her family, extended family and community.”

It’s in that spirit that El Charro reveals its summer menu that Flores says is a symbol of survival.

“Our summer menu is kind of like a summer survival guide, providing extra value at the time of year when we’re all hurting the most and giving our guests a reason to come out to dinner on the hottest of days and nights,” said Flores.

Taking center stage on this year’s summer menu is shrimp, sourced from sustainable farms and served in three dishes that showcase the restaurant’s creativity with camarones.

The Shrimp Poblano Enchilada Elegante features grilled shrimp, peppers, and bacon in twice-rolled corn tortillas, baked in a poblano crema with queso Oaxaca, avocado salsa, and marinated pink onion. Flores notes that this is “meatier and thicker” than the restaurant’s standard enchilada.

Those grilled shrimp and peppers also anchor the Fajita Lettuce Cups, with queso cotija, chipotle crema, avocado salsa and a margarita lime vinaigrette. This dish has reportedly been popular

with guests who’ve adopted low-carb and keto nutritional lifestyles.

Third in the summer menu lineup is the Mojo de Ajo Shrimp Tamal, a handmade corn tamal topped with grilled garlic chimichurri shrimp, tomatillo sauce and queso Oaxaca.

Flores prefers his tamales with toppers, and he suggests the shrimp and sauce on this dish is an epicurean expression of awesome.

With each of these dishes priced under $10, this menu, which runs through Aug. 15, makes surviving the summer a little easier.

Flores has also introduced four signature summer margaritas, for less than $6 each, which include mango and jalapeno, coconut and pineapple, watermelon and mint, and tamarind and citrus varieties.

When asked which of these cocktails would appeal most to Tia Monica, Flores replied honestly. “Probably none of them,” he said. “She was a woman who preferred to drink martinis out of teacups.”

Summer is also being celebrated at Flores’ other local restaurants, Charro Steak & Del Rey and Charro Vida, with upgraded happy hours.

“Coming out of the pandemic and moving into the summer, we really wanted to have a strong happy hour, so all of our stores have focused on greater and bigger offerings.”

I’ll drink to that.

“The fact that we’ve made it through 99 summers, or even one summer at all, is a testament to a restaurant’s grit,” said Flores. “Tucson has its own challenges every summer that we as businesses endure, and we know that

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El Charro’s mojo del ajo shrimp tamal being all in it together is what helps us get through.”

Togetherness.

Family.

Service. Guiding principles forged nearly a century ago by a woman who stood out

among her contemporaries. Flores’ team appears to feed their community with the same affection that Flinn fed hers – minus the spittoon, of course

– and in the brutal months of summer, that’s something from which we can all benefit.

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new device at the Kitt Peak National Observatory west of Tucson recently began its mission to discover planets outside of our solar system, after passing operational readiness review by NASA and the National Science Foundation.

The NEID Spectrograph is dedicated to high-precision Doppler observations and is used in conjunction with a 3.5 meter telescope at the observatory. According to the University of Arizona, university researchers have led instrument commissioning and demonstrated that the spectrometer meets the tech-

nical and scientific requirements for operation. The university also serves as the hub for NEID’s software pipeline, which “translates subtle shifts in the spectrum of starlight into data that tell astronomers about any planets orbiting a star that would be impossible to observe directly.”

“The instrument is performing exceptionally well, more than beating our precision requirement, and we believe it is sensitive to planets only slightly larger than the Earth,” said Chad Bender, NEID’s instrument scientist and an associate astronomer at UA’s Steward Observatory.

“We can use observations of the sun to better understand

stellar activity and then apply that knowledge to other stars that are similar to the sun, where we are looking for Earth-like planets.”

For centuries, planets orbiting the stars outside of our solar system were hypothesized. However, it wasn’t until 1992 that the existence of an exoplanet was confirmed.

Since then, nearly 5,000 exoplanets in 3,500 solar systems have been detected thanks to rapidly increasing astronomical technology and effort.

The name NEID (NASA/ NSF-explore Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler spectroscopy) is also derived from the Tohono O’odham word “ñeid” meaning “to see.”

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Fantastic Four

TMA’s summer exhibition features a quartet of solo shows by artists in distinct cultural communities Margaret Regan Tucson Local Media

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hen I walked into the paintings of Willie J. Bonner at the Tucson Museum of Art last week, I couldn’t help myself. I had to share my delight.

“They’re so pretty,” I blurted out to the security guard, someone I had never met.

He smiled.

“Yeah,” he said. “The colors are really nice.”

Make that gorgeous.

Thanks to Bonner and 36 of his paintings, one of the museum’s biggest galleries is a brilliant blaze of color.

The large-scale 2020 painting “The Invisible Man,” just for instance, is a jazzy confection of lemon yellow, sky blue, royal blue, pink, lavender, ochre, brown, dark green and black.

“Hours After,” from 2021, boasts orange, gold, white, twilight blue and burnt sienna.

Bonner’s paintings, both big and small, are semi-abstract, filled with lively geometric shapes and diagonals and lines zipping across the canvases.

The artist lives in Tucson, but he grew up in Cleveland, listening to jazz, an art form inspired in part by African rhythms. In turn those rhythms have shaped his en-

ergetic paintings.

But his works also reflect “what it means to be Black” in America, as a museum note puts it. If you take a closer and longer look at these joyful works, you’ll find some bitter-sweet narratives among the pretty colors.

The 2012 painting “Taking a Chance on Chance” (colors: black, blue, green, gold and white) has a lovely blue sky and puffy white clouds above the sea. But a palm tree below is disconcertingly black. And it you look closely at the water, you’ll see a big catfish—and what looks like a slave ship carrying a crowd of Black people destined for bondage.

Over the bout Bonner has painted the word “Americ,” an incomplete word that suggests America is not yet complete.

“The Invisible Man,” painted in the year of the murder of George Floyd, is filled with sweet pastel colors, but the more you look at it, the more unnerving it gets. Is that a man hiding—or hanging— on the pink doorway? Is the brown orb below the head of a man?

Sometimes, Bonner goes right to the chase. In “The Night of the Purple Moon,” a swirl of yellow, pink, blue and black, he paints words that conjure up a history of injustices against African Americans. He covers wrongs both old and new. He references

Clotilda, the “last American slaver,” and today’s Black Lives Matter movement; and the African Kingdom of Dahomey, which sold Africans as slaves and the “birther” lie that Obama was not born in the U.S., and so on.

Bonner, now in his late 60s, has the unusual ability both to paint beautifully and to denounce the wrongs of the world. Wrenching as some of his pieces are, Bonner is at heart an optimist. He loves to paint human hands of all colors, reaching out one to another, finding justice.

Bonner’s wonderful show is part of a clever summer exhibition at the museum. 4X4 created four separate solo shows for four very different local artists, each of them hailing from a distinct cultural community. Aside from Bonner, the artists are young, all in their 30s.

Anh-Thuy Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American, now the head of the photography program at Pima Community College, was born in 1983 in Vietnam. Her poetic photographs embody the longing for home and the difficulties immigrants have “living between two cultures,” as the museum notes say.

Her luminous installation “The Boat Journey” series, hangs at the entrance of the whole show. It’s the first thing visitors see. (and should be)

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Willie J. Bonner The work has four enigmatic photos arranged in a square.

The colors of these large images are delicate and muted—black, blue, white—and they’re printed onto aluminum.

Each one shows the same dreamlike woman in traditional Vietnamese dress. She’s in different positions in every picture; she sits high on hill looking to the valley below, walks across a stone street, holds a tiny boat close, seeks refuge in an Asian tree. We never see her face but her yearnings for her lost home are palpable. Nearby, a small flotilla of small boats that

Nguyen crafted out of leather sits on shelf, a poignant memory of the journey.

The woman, notes say, is a semi-autobiographical character named Thuy that Nguyen invented years ago almost as a stand-in for herself.

So Nguyen is both the photographer and subject.

Another series, “Thuy and Sand,” shows the woman struggling across a white sea of sand, dragging an old-time carpet bag. The three lovely photos, glistening in the whiteness, take her farther and farther away until she nearly disappears.

Not all of Nguyen’s works

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are poignant. Some are about discrimination. In the wake of the violence against Asians in America, a video has Thuy screaming with rage.

Like Nguyen, artist Alejandro Macias navigates two different cultures. The difference is that he’s an American citizen, born and raised in Brownsville, Texas. He’s enmeshed in both the Mexicano culture of the Rio Grande Valley and American popular culture, but he identifies as Mexican American. His bright paintings of Latinx people aim in part to counteract the push toward assimilation.

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“Where It Takes Root,” an oil and acrylic on canvas, pictures a young Mexican-American dressed in bright colors. But we don’t see the top of his head. It’s covered by a tangle of roots, slithering their way down into the boy’s brain, delivering the traditions and wisdom of the forebears. “Hidden in Plain Sight” shows the opposite. A young man seen from the back looks up at southwest mountain range and a deep blue sky.

But the man can’t see anything. Bands of color are wound around him, covering his eyes, silencing his voice.

Macias has drawn an elegant black and white self-portrait that highlights his own divide. The landscape serves as a metaphor for his dual life. In one of the two portraits, he stands in front of his beloved Rio

“Double Jeopardy,” 2017, by Willie Bonner, is part of 4X4, continuing through Sept. 26 at the Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Ave. Grand River. In the other, he’s below some mountains, perhaps in Arizona. In trading a river for a moun-

tain, he adds one more divide. And in each of the two pictures, there are two Macias, one there in the flesh,

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and one in ghostly memory.

Interestingly, Nazafarin Lotfi, born in Iran, is showing art that she made

in Tucson during the pandemic. (Some of the pieces were created earlier at Artpace in San Antonio.)

There’s a lonely feel to this ecological work, with the solitary artist photographing outdoors in a world where people were hiding indoors. In two brightly colored photo works called “All Things that Grow,” a figure—Lofti herself?—is nearly invisible. The artist has made artificial rocks out of papier-maché and placed them in a grassy countryside. In one image you can see the figure’s hair and one leg. In the other, the rock is next to a dead tree trunk, and only one arm of the figure is visible. In any case, the human is dwarfed by nature.

Even more interesting, three of the human-made rocks are right inside the gallery. Called “Traces,”

these sculptures take many forms. One, to me, looks like a mountain, but another, as the museum notes suggest, conjures up a shrouded figure and death.

But the final work in this installation, brings us back to the light: it’s a large color photo on cotton sateen, swaying in the breezes, and picturing sun, sky and water—and another big rock.

Four contemporary solo shows at Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Ave. Through Sept. 26 Thursday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Reserve a time slot online at tucsonmuseumofart.org $12 adults, $10 seniors 65 and up, $7 college students and children 13 to 17, free for members, kids 12 and under, veterans and active military.

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Sophia Rankin stretches beyond her folk roots on ‘Too Close to the Riptide’

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ike many other musicians, Sophia Rankin had more time alone than she knew what to do with in 2020. But rather than spiraling inward, the Tucson-based singer/songwriter used the isolation as an opportunity to finish half-written songs and tell the stories of others. The result: Too Close to the Riptide, Rankin’s third album and the first with a full band. As the title implies, the album sees Rankin leaving her folky comfort zone and exploring the depths of rock, pop, country and electronic music, all while maintaining a core of poignant storytelling.

“When I first started writing the album, it was just little tidbits of my life. And with COVID, you know

you’re stuck in your room and the safest place you can go is your own four walls.

So immediately I knew the songs needed to be finished,” Rankin said. “A lot of them were started out unfinished, and it felt like everything was crashing down around us, and suddenly it felt like I understood them better because of what the world was going through.”

Born and raised in Tucson, Rankin released her first two solo albums while attending the University of Arizona’s School of Music.

They’re intimate recordings similar to the music she’s performed at the Tucson Folk Festival. The title of her second album, Solace, was thought up as an answer to when her mom asked her why she wrote music. However, with this latest album, released by Sophia Rankin

& The Sound, she says she learned how to make her music more personal, but not just about herself.

“I wanted the songs to feel like stories, whether they were first-person or about someone else. So I think half of the album is self-reflective,” Rankin said. “I sat down and realized I am a folk singer through-and-through, but it just comes out in pop or blues or rock. Folk music in its essence is storytelling, whether it be about myself or someone else.”

The songs range from “Starting to Pray,” a deeply personal story about the role of the singer, to “The People I Have Known,” explicitly about others and their moving, if brief, stories. Although from opposite perspectives, both tracks center on Rankin’s smooth vocals, spiritual delivery and delicate

guitar playing.

“During the year of COVID, as we so endearingly remember it, I had a friend who passed away from COVID before he turned 21, and another friend who passed away by accident. And I was sitting there thinking that these are stories that need to be told,” Rankin said. “It’s not that you need to know where they came from and where they went, but just that they were beautiful people and I wanted to remember them somehow.”

One such story involved a man who approached Rankin after a performance and asked her if she’d play at his funeral, because hers was the kind of music he’d like to go to heaven to. She was so touched by the sentiment, and when her friends later passed, she realized she wanted to sing about other

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“It’s how I knew this was going to be an album and that would be the song to end the album, because the whole thing was a story about what I went through, what my friends went through, what these strangers went through, and how we all came out of it at the end,” Rankin said.

Leaving it there would make for a fine folk album, but a variety of influences and a full band further develop the album’s sound. Eli Leki-Albano (bass and vocals), Connor Rankin (drums and percussion) and Noah Weig-Pickering (lead electric and acoustic guitar) form a cohesive sound, and produc-

tion from local electronic musician Nocturnal Theory results in a melding of styles.

For instance, “Moon Song” opens with some quiet piano and vocals before whirring electronics and programmed drums give the atmosphere a distinctively modern feel. “Metal and Wine” dissolves with unexpected bass and a breakdown in the second half, and “The Fray” opens with some suspenseful lead guitar in a Tejano style that is replicated and replaced with electric guitar.

Rankin first collaborated with Nocturnal Theory on a single “When You’re High” in 2020. She enjoyed his production so much, he soon asked if he’d be up to work on a full album.

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wanted him to put his influence into the songs, but rein it in if it’s too much of him and not enough of me…

So for a track like “Moon Song,” I came to him with just me and a piano, and I wanted him to make it not just me and a piano. And he said ‘I’m going to take it and run with it, and you tell me when to stop.’”

Ultimately, she says multiple songs took her out of her comfort zone, especially more synthetic tracks like “Moon Song.” However, Rankin says during the recording process, she says she learned how production can be an artform itself, rather than simply capturing the acoustic performance of a folk musician.

“But it’s weird saying it’s out of my comfort zone, because it also sounds right,” Rankin said. “When I recorded my first two albums,

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But when I was working with him, I realized I was looking at recording all wrong. I was looking at it like a live performance, but recording is a little space where you get to explore new things, maybe things that you intentionally can’t do live.”

Sophia Rankin & The Sound ‘Too Close to the Riptide’ Album release show Sunday, Aug. 18, Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress St. sophiarankin.com

(Left to right) Eli Leki-Albano (bass and vocals), Connor Rankin (drums and percussion), Sophia Rankin (vocals, rhythm acoustic and electric guitar), and Noah Weig-Pickering (lead electric and acoustic guitar).

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). While irrational cheerfulness is unattractive to you, using optimism as a pragmatic strategy will be the most effective route to a fulfilling week. Your energy level is higher because you raise the ceiling on it with your winning attitude. So much more is possible because you choose to believe it is.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Expectations will often go unstated or be indirectly alluded to, and yet, you’ll pick up on it all. While it may not be appropriate or timely to hash out exact agreements, privately make note of what’s being exchanged. Awareness lends an advantage.

It’s powerful to be conscious of the unconscious behaviors of others.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You have something important to impart this week. To be heard, keep it brief. Short messages travel far, ring true, land easy and carry well. They also can take a while to craft. Do your prep work so you can say more with less. As Mark Twain said, “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”

CANCER (June 22-July 22). This week, maybe it’s too much to ask yourself to be fearless, as in -- one who has no fear. But you’ll certainly find it’s within your realm to literally fear less, as in -- face one small fear and, in doing so, possibly overcome it, enlarging your circle of possibility and capability.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You set out with every intention of doing what you love and loving what you do, but unless you take precautions to barricade and sanctify your focused time, you will be kept from this purpose. Don’t leave yourself open! Distraction comes in forms irresistible, especially the form of people involving you in their problems.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Over-ambition and unrealistic expectation is a set-up for failure disguised as optimism -- what a sneaky form of self-sabotage! But it’s a trap you can avoid (and often do) with pragmatism. Mix that with your penchant for planning and this week will be a success you can enjoy, duplicate and build upon.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’re creative and you want to make something different of your life than you’ve seen others do. This drive sets you apart from the crowd. Can you get comfortable with it? It doesn’t mean you can’t be close to people -- it just means you have to figure out the connections. Does it help to know you’re an inspiration?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The ego would have us believe that we deserve the good that comes to us, but often, forces like synchronicity, felicity and angelic favor are as impersonal as gravity. That’s the way it is this week. You’ll figure out what to do, how to do it, and then you’ll get to work. Luck is of no help. This is just cause and effect.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your creative life is accomplished with proactive moves. Don’t allow yourself to act reflexively because reaction isn’t nearly as inspired as action. You get ahead of this when you make a plan and become involved with it, thus occupying yourself in such a way as to be impervious to unimportant distractions.

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