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Tucson Troubadours

Craig Green Band traverse the Sonoran Desert and personal stories on new album ‘Southland’ | Page 16

INSIDE

Oro Valley Spring Arts Fest returns this weekend

Your Turn

Reader photo of the week | Page 8

Health & Wellness

Nicole Feltman Tucson Local Media

G UA scientists contribute to new international Courtesy photo

The importance of dreaming | Page 10

climate report

Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

Obituary

Remembering Tony Burgess | Page 14

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et creative and support your local and sustainable artists this weekend at the Oro Valley Spring Arts Festival.

The festival, which was downsized to an art sale last year, is returning with a full schedule of musical performances, food trucks and other fun for adults and children alike alongside displays of fashion, home goods and visual arts.

The free event is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 26, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 27, at the Oro Valley Marketplace, 12155 N. Oracle Road.

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Oro Valley Spring Festival of the Arts. Southern Arizona sure does love a good art festival. And this open-air artisan market is a good one! Come check out dozens of independently owned, small businesses and artists who make and sell home goods, fine art, fashion, food and more.

There will be plenty of popup music performances and food trucks to keep you energized throughout all the browsing and shopping. This is also a really cool chance to hear directly from artists about the processes behind their work. Thank you, SAACA! 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 26 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 27.

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Spring Arts Fest Continued from P1

The art festival is hosted by the Southern Arts & Cultural Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, creating, and advancing art in Tucson.

More than 45 artisans will be on site to share their art.

Among the artists who will be on hand: Alix Alejandro will be sharing her unique fabric pillows inspired by the colors of the natural world. Nancy Biggins will be showcasing her bee-proof, dripfree hummingbird feeders made primarily of cooper.

Karin Frye will be on site

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If you bring the kids, they will be able to create their own work at a free arts and crafts section or enjoy a performance by Stephen the Spectacular, who will be performing close-up magic and illusions on both days of the event. They can also do balloon art, visit a face-painting booth or get a look at their future courtesy of Fortunetelling

by Leza. The Comic Bookmobile, which will accept donations of old comics, will be parked on site for kids of all ages to enjoy games and live cartooning demonstrations.

Musical acts such as Mark Willis, Sandy Hathaway and Tucson acoustic duo Febbo & Fuentes will perform a mixture of country, R&B, folk and blues and Spanish guitar music.

Food trucks will be onsite to provide quick eats like kettle corn, mini doughnuts and freshly squeezed lemonade. There will also be meals provided by Ricuras de Venezuela, Fruitshack Smoothies & Yogurt, and Jackie’s Food Court.

Sign up online if you want to join the volunteer team that makes the event possible.

You can find more indepth information about each artist and musician performing on the website at saaca.org.

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Climate: ‘There’s this multi-pronged approach we need’ Continued from P1

Carolyn Enquist, an adjunct faculty member with the UA’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment, is a lead author for the North America chapter of the report. Her work focuses on climate change’s impact on ecosystems and adaptation.

Enquist said the goal of the report is not to conduct new research, but to provide an update and expert assessment of new information available since the last report.

“In terms of impact, our work focused on the rapid transformation of ecosystems. We’re seeing die-back and loss of regeneration in some places, like forests. What has really accelerated are these large, high-severity wildfires that have accelerated the transformation of ecosystems that were already underway,” Enquist said.

“Last report, we saw numerous mortality events in our forests linked to drought stress, pests and pathogens overwhelming species’ innate capacity to adapt. And this time, we’re seeing that, with these wildfires, particularly in the Western U.S. and Western Canada.”

The report states with high confidence that in the Sonoran Desert, there will be further reduced vegetation and rainfall alongside increased temperatures and wildfires.

For instance, Enquist said 2020’s Bighorn Fire was an example of these dangerous changes coming together. The Bighorn Fire burned more than 100,000 acres across the Catalina Mountains, fueled by drought, invasive grasses and build-up of fuels from fire suppression.

“It’s really unprecedented in some ways. These extreme fires are not what we’re prepared to fight, so it puts a lot of lives, property and ecosystems at risk,” Enquist said. “So you have this vicious circle that we’re seeing now, with multiple synergistic events that really challenge our ability to adapt effectively.

So we’re looking at adaptation in conjunction with mitigation. We need the two, because we can only adapt so much to climate change that is already in the system. There’s this multi-pronged approach we need.”

The report also states that climate change impacts and risks are becoming increasingly complex and more difficult to manage. Multiple climate hazards will occur simultaneously, and multiple risks will interact, resulting in compounding overall risk and risks cascading across sectors and regions.

The 3,000+ page report discusses much more than the blunt facts of increased temperatures and environmental stress.

Chapters also cover the changing culture around

climate action, the inequality of climate change impacts, developing human systems for a more resilient climate and more.

“What we really found was that the federal government started to step back, and the cities have really stepped up. There’s lots of action and activity in cities across North America, leading the charge on climate adaptation in recent years,” Enquist said. “This report also finally acknowledged the contribution of Indigenous knowledge to climate adaptation, and what we as Western scientists can learn and share with our Indigenous partners… We have such a rich cultural heritage in the Southwest with Indigenous knowledge, and we need to bring all our tools, not only for survival, but to thrive.”

UA Regents Professor in the School of Geography, Development and Environment Diana Liverman served as a review editor for the report’s final chapter on climate resilience development.

“This report confirms that even at the 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) global warming already observed, we are seeing dangerous impacts on lives and ecosystems, with increasing losses of life and species projected if we continue to heat the planet,” Liverman said in a prepared statement. “These impacts are

exacerbated by poverty, land use change and oppressions that make many people and places more vulnerable.”

Anthropogenic climate change remains a needlessly political topic in the face of evidence. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the warmest six years on record have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 being the top three. NASA, the American Chemical Society, the American Medical Association, the Geological Society of America and many more agree that “human activities are the primary cause of the observed climate-warming trend over the past century.”

“The jury is no longer out on the human role in climate change,” Enquist said. “Our conclusion was that we need all hands on deck and we need to be moving from an incremental approach to adaptation, to something that looks more transitional, that we can do faster and more efficiently. Individuals play a role, but governments absolutely do. People do have power to affect what’s going on around them. Numbers can make a difference. We should all be working together as North Americans and bringing different things to the table. No one entity can do it alone.”

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MARANA POLICE DONATE $17K TO SCHOOL DISTRICT The Marana Police Department partnered with the Marana Police Volunteer Foundation to present a check of $17,588 to Marana Unified School District’s Success of Student’s (S.O.S.) Fund on Feb 28th.

The District’s S.O.S. fund was created to support Marana students who may need financial assistance to afford items that help them progress in school. Anything from backpacks, school lunches, personal hygiene products, caps, gowns, class fees, and even shoes can be covered by the fund.

The Marana Police Volunteer Foundation sponsored the 6th First Responders Golf Tournament to provide the Marana Police Department first responders with a “day away from the office”. Although unexpected, the extra profits made from the golf tournament were set aside to go back to the

Marana community. The extra profit of $17,588 from the golf tournament was donated to the S.O.S Fund.

“The Youth Education Supporters in coordination with the Marana Unified School District appreciate the work and time of these volunteers organizing the tournament and raising a significant amount of money for these students,” Patricia Johnson, a member of Youth Education Supporters wrote in a press release.

Johnson also wrote that historical MUSD data shows 47% of students are on free or reduced breakfast and lunches. The S.O.S. fund assists with the costs of meals for students.

To donate to the S.O.S. fund in person or mail a check or money order, go to MUSD Student Services, 7651 N. Oldfather Road, Tucson, AZ 85741.

The donation is payable to Marana Unified School District —S.O.S Fund.

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After being shut down in early February, the JDK park is reopening with new equipment and features.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS Your dreams may be trying to tell you something important Mia Smitt

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ow many of us have awakened suddenly from sleep with the memory of a vivid dream? These dreams can feel so real and cause us to question what the dream might have meant. Just what are dreams?

The study of dreams is called oneirology, from the Greek words oneiros (dream) and logia (study).

Some refer to them as hallucinations that occur in

sleep. Others define dreams as a collection of thoughts, sounds, feelings, and images that float through our minds while we sleep.

Most dreams last between five and 20 minutes and while they can occur at any time during sleep, they most often occur during REM sleep (rapid eye movement) when the brain is most active. Can dreams offer a clue about our health?

Can they help us to pursue good health?

Everyone dreams, whether the dreams are remembered or not. An Egyptian

papyrus, one of the world’s oldest written documents, actually contained dream interpretations.

Ancient Greek manuscripts show that dreams were used for healing rituals and for inspiration. Many ancient and primitive cultures believed that the gods or departed spirits communicated to the living through their dreams.

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Deirdre Barrett, a psychology lecturer in the Department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, wrote a 2001 book, The Committee of Sleep (2001), that noted that REM sleep cycles approximately every 90 minutes, so most people will have four or five dreams if they sleep a typical eight hours.

“Most dreams occur during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which replenishes certain neurotransmitters,” she wrote.

“Interfering with REM, and thus dreaming, interferes with creativity, problem solving capability, memory, and in extreme situations, even immune functioning and body temperature.”

Barrett is a past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), a multidisciplinary organization of scholars, researchers and practitioners who have a serious interest in learning about and working with dreams. (The IASD is holding its 39th annual Dream Conference in Tucson July 17-21.)

Certain psychiatric illnesses can be helped through understanding what dreams might mean.

Anxiety is a common theme in many dreams. Many people have experienced a dream in which they are be-

ing chased or falling from a great height or just being in the wrong social situation.

The dream can help to identify causes of stress.

Some people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have found relief through their dreams.

The nightmares can replay the traumatic event over and over, but by consciously redirecting the dream to a more positive outcome, the terror can subside. This is a daily exercise of strong self suggestion that works also for anyone who may have a recurring unpleasant dream.

Rosalind Cartwright was known as the Queen of Dreams. She lead a research study at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago and found that people who dream earlier in their sleep cycles and for longer periods recovered more quickly from emotional crises. Inner conflicts and distress are addressed in our dreams and conflicts are then more easily addressed while awake.

Sometimes a person’s body may send a message through dreams.

Since Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine,” and through the ages, there have been treatises on the subconscious mind and its impact on the conscious mind and the physical body.

There have been many examples of this “early warning system.” Dr. Bernie Siegel is the author of several books on body-mind communica-

tion, including “Love, Medicine & Miracles” and “Peace, Love & Healing.” In a lecture several years ago, he spoke of a woman who had a recurring dream about a person named Dana. She did not know anyone named Dana but over the course of several months, she found that she had cancer and her dreams were telling her to go to the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in Boston.

She heeded this inner guidance, went to this medical center, was diagnosed with cancer and treated.

Dr. Shanee Stepakoff is a clinical psychologist in New York City who has been a member of the IASD since 1989.

“I believe that the psyche gives us messages when there is something important that we need to pay attention to – it could be about our health, but it could also be about a relationship, a person in our lives, or a job situation,” Stepakoff said in an interview.

“Dreams That Can Save Your Life,” by Larry Burk and Kathleen O’Keefe-Kavanos, has compelling stories of people whose dreams actually helped to diagnose illness and helped with healing. This is pretty fascinating stuff.

Heed your dreams. They may be sending you healing messages.

Mia Smitt is a nurse practitioner with a specialty in family practice. She recently retired and settled in Marana.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 24

• Enjoy the music of one of the all-time great music supergroups, with the Gaslight Music Hall celebrating The Traveling Wilburys. Gaslight favorites Mike Hebert, Derek Norman, Todd Thompson, and Mike Yarema are performing the music of the Traveling Wilburys, along with a mix of the solo hits of Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and George Harrison.

6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road #165; $27; gaslightmusichall.com • Singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer extraordinaire Chuck Prophet performs live outdoors at the Hotel Congress Plaza stage. If the best parts of your classic British Invasion, 50s country, 60s pop, and pure rock ’n’ roll records could be transformed into a person, they might look and sound a lot like Chuck Prophet. 7 p.m. Hotel Congress Plaza, 311 E. Congress St. $17. Hotelcongress.com

FRIDAY, MARCH 25

• Local jazz pianist and singer Rachel Eckroth performs with Tim Lefebvre on bass and Gary

Novak on drums to cover the music of Duke Ellington’s “Money Jungle.” The performance is at Hotel Congress’ new jazz club, The Century Room. The trio is performing two sets this night, one at 7 p.m. and one at 9 p.m. The Century Room, 311 E. Congress St. $15 in advance and $18 at the door. There is a one item minimum for all guests in the showroom. Hotelcongress. com

SATURDAY, MARCH 26

• The award-winning brass band The LoBros are playing at the Gaslight Music Hall. They are performing another Horn Band Legends Tribute Show where they’re playing all the hits from legendary acts such as: Chicago, Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder and more. 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road #165; $27; gaslightmusichall.com

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30

• Relive the music of the ‘60s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary at the Gaslight Music Hall’s MacDougal Street West, A Peter Paul and Mary Experience. MacDougal Street West is a four-piece cover band that helps you recall the magic and experience the acoustic music and harmonies of Peter, Paul and Mary that changed the world. 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road #165; $27; gaslightmusichall.com

SPECIAL EVENTS SATURDAY, MARCH 26

THROUGH SUNDAY, MARCH 27

• The Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance is hosting one of its largest events of the year: the Oro Valley Spring Festival of the Arts. The two-day outdoor artisan market in Oro Valley showcases some of the Southwest’s finest artisans in fashion, food, home goods, painting, and visual arts. In addition, pop up music performances and food trucks will be onsite for attendees to enjoy. Shop with the makers themselves, and learn how they make their unique works of art. Support small, local and sustainable. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday. At the Oro Valley Marketplace, 12155 N. Oracle Road. saaca.org/orovalleyspringfestivalofthearts.html • See the Artists for Conservation at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. This 2021 exhibit is on tour from Vancouver, Canada. Artists for Conservation’s annual exhibit is the world’s top conservation-themed art show and has become one of the most highly anticipated annual events among the nature-inspired art genres. The goal of the exhibit is to support conservation through art sales and education, showcase the extraordinary pool of artistic talent within AFC; and share the nature-inspired art genre with new audiences.

Noon to 5 p.m. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. www.desertmuseum. org/arts/

SUNDAY, MARCH 27

• Enjoy a special Italian Wine Dinner at downtown’s Maynards Market & Kitchen.

This five-course artisan dinner comes paired with wines hand selected by Maynards wine director. Foods include potato gnocchi, chicken milanese, prosecco granita and calabrian chili.

Wines include 2018 Scarpetta Pinot Grigio, 17 Scaia Garganega/Chardonnay, and 2014 Baracchi Trebbiano Millesima Brut. 7 p.m. $100, plus tax and gratuity. Maynards Market and Kitchen, 400 N. Toole Ave.

CLASSES & PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

• Learn about a unique medium at Botanical Art in

Watercolor: Herbs at an online Tucson Botanical Gardens class with illustrator Adela Antoinette. Details: 5:30-7 p.m.; Zoom link provided; $30, discount for members; tucsonbotanical.org.

THURSDAYS THROUGH APR. 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 on Gems and Planetary Evolution by Ananya Mallik. 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.

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RIP Tony Burgess: Helped shape Biosphere 2 Ford Burkhart

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ony Burgess’s world was one of fungi, flowers, saguaros and century plants.

He left a legacy of ideas for saving them and the rest of desert life, stretching from his research at the Desert Laboratory west of downtown to helping design Biosphere 2.

As a scholar in rainbow-colored suspenders, he was known as a friend to the Sonoran Desert’s packrats, lizards, button cacti and agaves, seasonal grasses and meadows of poppies.

As a UA student, his friends were the sort who kept snakes or turtles in their dorm rooms.

He was at home in Tucson circles where guitars and banjos appeared along with his accordion, and his tenor voice singing “The West Texas Waltz.”

He died January 21 at 73, after a long battle with multiple cancers brought on by Agent Orange exposure during U.S. Army service in Vietnam.

Burgess was born in Fort Worth, which played a key role in his career. In 1983, he helped design the rooftop of the landmark Caravan of Dreams arts

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center in the city’s historic downtown, financed by oil heir Ed Bass. It featured an interpretive garden of succulents under a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome, with a dramatic terrace garden of giant yuccas.

In 1984, a spin-off organization, the Institute of Ecotechnics, including Bass, purchased a ranch in Oracle, Arizona, for a sealed microcosm model of Earth’s complexity, anticipating space travel and Mars settlement. Burgess helped envision the project, along with top scientists from NASA, the Jet Propulsion Lab and the UA’s Environmental

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Research Lab. The venture became Biosphere 2.

It aimed to mimic Earth, seen as Biosphere 1.

Into the 1990s, his work with Space Biospheres Ventures led to creation of several “biomes”—zones with certain creatures, soil and climate—within the glass dome of Biosphere 2. Its biomes included a rainforest, ocean and coral reef, mangrove wetland, desert, and agriculture.

Burgess, as site naturalist and biome management coordinator, led expeditions into Sonora, Baja California and Florida, collecting seeds, soil samples and plant materials for the simulated biomes.

Columbia University took over in 1998, and built a campus for 300 students. Burgess, by then on the faculty of the Columbia’s Biosphere 2 Center, helped design its landmark Earth Semester course.

In 2003, the UA began running Biosphere 2.

Back in 1966, Tony had left Texas to study biology at the UA and fell in love with the Sonoran Desert plants and wildlife. He was curator of the UA mammalogy collection in the Biology Department, managing the “bug room” where the flesh-eating beetles known as dermestids nibbled carcasses of dead specimens down to bones and teeth to be used for study or display.

After Vietnam, he

Tony Burgess portrait by Ann Mayo in 2013

went to Texas Tech for a master’s in ecological sciences, specializing in agaves and other flora of the Guadalupe Mountains. There he discovered an unknown-to-science composite flower on the salt flats west of the Guadalupes, later named for him as Lepidospartum burgessii, the Burgess broomscale.

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Burgess was born June 5, 1948, in Fort Worth, son of John Jarvis Burgess, co-founder of the Carter & Burgess Inc. engineering firm.

His love of nature started early on his grandfather’s ranch near Azle, Texas, and from exploring the creeks, woods and prairie of the Trinity River drainage around Fort Worth.

In 1979 in Tucson he married Martha Hyde Ames, a dendrochronologist, ethnobotanist and desert educator who founded the outdoor expedition program at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Tony joined in as field instructor on expeditions into the desert.

They were married for 20 years.

Burgess was a botanist with the U.S. Geological Survey at its Water Resources Division Ecohydrology Project for 14 years, working in its office on Tumamoc Hill, adjacent to the Desert Laboratory. Along the way, Burgess earned a PhD from the UA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He co-wrote

the classic “Sonoran Desert Plants: An Ecological Atlas” (UA Press, 1995) with Raymond Turner and Janice Bowers.

He was program coordinator at the Desert Laboratory, working with top scientists including Paul S. Martin, Thomas Van Devender and Julio Betancourt.

His published research documented saguaro growth, invasive species, climate impact and desert grasslands.

Around 1990, Tony was asked to guide a group of international desert ecologists, including some from China and Russia, on a whirlwind tour of the Four Deserts of North America. This trip with “Desert Rat Tony,” is reported in author Gary Nabhan’s book “The Nature of Desert Nature” (UA Press, 2021).

In 1991 Burgess went to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia with a Friends of the Earth team to document Gulf War ecological damages.

At Tucson’s Mission Garden, Burgess helped plan native garden plots.

A velvet mesquite tree there is now dedicated to his memory.

Burgess was as a controversial yet beloved professor of ecological systems at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, from 2004 to 2013.

Upon retirement, Burgess moved to Homer, Alaska, to be with his son, Beau, and to take up volunteer work in the boreal ecosystem, advising gardeners, farmers and conservationists about resilient planting for climate change that is happening extremely fast in high latitudes.

“Tony Burgess’ guiding principle was inhabitation,” said Martha Burgess, “to understand every facet of how we, as individuals and as communities, might live truly sustainably in deserts.”

Ever the environmentalist, Burgess’ last wish was that his body be composted. And it was.

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Craig Green Band traverse Tucson and personal stories on ‘Southland’ Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

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t doesn’t take a lifelong Tucsonan to fully appreciate and understand the Sonoran Desert—20 years should do that just fine. On the new album “Southland,” the Craig Green Band explores the views, people and stories of Tucson through country and rock.

“Southland” is the seventh album Green has released, and contains the largest scope of any project, with dense instrumentals and guest musicians from multiple local songwriter circles. The Craig Green Band is hosting an album release party at Monterey Court Studios on Friday, March 25.

Despite the album’s title, geography never takes a front seat on “Southland.”

Green explains that his songs are always driven by his own experiences, and often focus on relationships and indi-

viduals. However, songs like “Driftwood,” “Pinetop” and “Hermosillo” are rich with borderlands influence and imagery, helping flesh out the world of “Southland.”

Craig Green Band’s last album, “Flyboy Serenade,” released in 2019 and it’s safe to say much has changed since then. For the band, this resulted in a larger lineup and more intricate songwriting than previous records.

“Flyboy Serenade was a simpler record in a lot of ways, and this record just has a lot more going on. There’s more orchestration to the songs, and it’s more ambitious instrumentally, and there’s more musicians involved,” said Green, who explains that “Southland” may have released a year earlier if not for the pandemic. “I couldn’t do a big album release at the time, and it took the wind out of my sails to do a quiet release. Because I love the process, as a celebration of finishing a record.

It makes sense to me to have a party.”

Aside from Green on vocals and rhythm guitar, Southland features Rachel Okpisz on vocals, Chris Allison on lead guitar, Stefan Jöckel on bass, T Greg Squires on drums and multi-instrumentalist Mike Sadler. There are also a handful of local guest musicians featured on individual tracks.

Green says the band has gradually grown over the years, and this naturally led to a fuller sound and more complex instrumentals.

A shift from his roots, the songs on “Southland” now feature warm layers of guitar, Hammond organ, banjo, trumpet, lap steel and more.

But perhaps the most important change from his earlier albums are Green’s vocal exchanges with Okpisz, present on nearly every song.

“She and I developed a special chemistry on the last record. She’s a crucial part

of the band and such a great singer,” Green said. “We’ve gotten to where live, we’ll have seven or eight people up there, and that’s always fun to be a kind of wall of sound. So we’ve definitely grown in that direction over time.”

Although “Southland” is mostly filled with energetic country rock ballads, there’s enough change to keep it from being homogenous.

The song “Madness” is an optimistic look at the pandemic, “Atlantic City” is a Bruce Springsteen cover, and “Hermosillo” blooms with sudden horns.

“I do love Tucson so much, and can’t imagine living anywhere else now. The record’s definitely got a lot of references to my life here.

The record is reflective of our experiences here. Except for Rachel, we’re all from elsewhere, which I guess is not atypical. But we’ve all embraced this place,” Green said. “The imagery of this

area is certainly reflected.

Everything we experience here in Southern Arizona and into Mexico has an impact. But hearing local bands has definitely influenced me.

People like Joe Peña and Stefan George show how talented folks here can be.”

One of the album’s standouts, “Lit the Gasoline,” is a ballad filled with personal visions of rosaries, car crashes and cliffs, which Green explains is about a breakup.

“At this point, all my songs are my experiences,” Green said. “And this song is about the two sides of a breakup, how each party feels slighted and upset. So that’s why the verses trade off, to share their own perspective. And it’s not assigning right or wrong to any party, but just showing how each party feels their own way.”

Craig Green Band will celebrate the album’s release at Monterey Court Studios and Café, a music venue

Craig Green Band “Southland”release show 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, March 25 Monterey Court Studios and Café 505 W. Miracle Mile $8 craiggreenband.com

with a strong community of local blues, rock and country acts. Green and his band are regular performers at Monterey Court, and he says the associated bands often support and inspire each other.

“We’ve had so many great shows with people over there, and they were especially helpful during the pandemic being an outdoor venue,” Green said.

“We all go so well together and collaborate. There’s a lot of cross-pollination that happens.”

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You have an enhanced ability to make accurate projections and calculations. This will allow you to formulate some big plans. Your instructions will serve as a guide. Reality will flesh it out as you direct. You’re like a computer programmer, and reality is your servant, fleshing out the details.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Get into the driver’s seat. Steer your own vessel. You know enough about the world to choose the best destinations and avoid the worst. You don’t always turn the right way, but better to be wrong and in charge than wrong because you let someone else drive your vehicle.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your attitude will keep you in perfect readiness to receive good fortune. When this good fortune will actually drop into your world is the question. Until this felicitous moment, don’t worry or obsess. Focus on following your curiosities and allowing your attractions to lead you down interesting paths.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). When you feel like you’re out on a limb, return to the routines, habits and traditions that stood you in good stead. Eventually, you will develop new ways of doing things. Time rolls forward, and you will roll with it. But there is comfort, strength and value in honoring what has always worked for you.

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After that, you’ll raise the bar.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll take back bits of power you accidentally gave away. Instead of waiting and reacting, you will decide what you want to happen and you’ll get to work. While you can’t change other people, you’ll focus on working on yourself and your own life. You’ll seek guidance from external sources.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll repeat comfortable patterns, especially in the realm of media. You may read the same book, see the same movie or replay a song a dozen times. There’s a reason you return to these certain works. There’s soul nutrition here, themes that feed you in mysterious ways.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Instead of trying to fix what’s broken or turn a disaster around, focus on making good things great.

There’s a playful energy in the middle of the week. Opportunities open. Daring action will stir things up. Keep in mind: Feelings are a neutral form of information. There is nothing right or wrong about a feeling.

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You’ll prove far more capable than you might imagine. More importantly, you won’t know what you don’t know until you’re in a position to come up with it!

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Most service advertisers have an ROC# or “Not a licensed contractor” in their ad, this is in accordance to the AZ state law.

Arizona Registrar of Contractors (ROC): The advertising requirements of the statute does not prevent anyone from placing an ad in the yellow pages, on business cards, or on flyers.

What it does require under A.R.S. §32-1121A14(c) www. azleg.gov/ars/ 32/01165.htm is that the advertising party, if not properly licensed as a contractor, disclose that fact on any form of advertising to the public by including the words “not a licensed contractor” in the advertisement.

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Marvin Lyle Bates, 83, passed away March 14, 2022 in No. Ogden, UT. He was born August 18, 1938 in Driggs, ID to Ernest George Bates and Sarah Louise Butler.

Marvin served in the Army National Guard and attended Guadalajara Medical School in Mexico where he earned his medical degree. He practiced medicine in Williams, AZ. Marvin married Shirley Green on May 24, 1962 in the Salt Lake Temple. He was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as Bishop, in the High Council and as a Medical Director in the Asia Area Mission.

He enjoyed hunting, golfing, wood working, skiing, and the outdoors. Marvin’s life was dedicated to service and was devoted to his wife and family.

He is survived by his children Krista, Jeff (Lanette) and Brian (Rana); ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren; siblings Gwenith, Darold, Twila and Carol. He is preceded in death by his wife, parents, son-in-law David, siblings Hyrum, Leonora, Merill, June, Orrin, Irvin, Neva, Steven, Velda, Wanda, Laura, and Cloyd.

Funeral Services will be Friday, March 18, 2022, 2:00 pm at North Ogden 12th Ward, 1791 N. 600 E, No. Ogden, UT. A viewing will be held prior to services from 12:45 – 1:45 pm.

Interment will be Saturday, March 18, 2022, 1:00 pm at Wilford Cemetery, 2540 E. 225 N. Rd, St Anthony, ID. Marvin’s services will be livestreamed. To watch scroll to the bottom of his obituary at www.myers-mortuary.com at 2:00 pm on Friday, March 18, 2022. If unable to watch at this time the services will be on the website indefinitely.

Services entrusted to Myers Mortuary, 845 Washington Blvd., Ogden, UT.

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