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DANEHY: HOW MOUNT LEMMON’S GORDON HIRABAYASHI CAMPGROUND GOT ITS NAME

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Arizona Beer Week Is Proof That God Loves Us

By Jeff Gardner and Nicole Feltman

MUSIC: New Jazz Club at Hotel Congress

XOXO: Here Comes the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

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Hip-hop author visiting UA Poetry Center to talk about music’s impact on Black Southern culture

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Beer Week! Borderlands Brewing, MotoSonora Brewing, Maynards, Crooked Tooth and more

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Hotel Congress opens jazz club The Century Room

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ADMINISTRATION Steve T. Strickbine, Publisher Michael Hiatt, Vice President

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TUCSON’S LOCAL CRAFT BREWERY scene is a marvel to behold: We have more than a dozen breweries, all making their own beers that range from lagers to sours to stouts and everything in-between.

Arizona Beer Week is a celebration of these scrappy locals.

There’s a lot going on starting next week, both here in Tucson and across the state. Managing editor Jeff Gardner tells you what’s happening at Borderlands, MotoSonora and Tap & Bottle these days; staff reporter Nicole Feltman explores the mystic properties of Crooked Tooth’s lunar beers; and guest contributor Matt Russell previews how Maynards is teaming up with Flagstaff’s Mother Road Brewing Company for a Beer Week dinner.

Elsewhere in the book this week: Columnist Tom Danehy tells us how Mount Lemmon’s Gordon Hirabayashi Campground got its name; UA School of Journalism in-

tern Jake O’Rourke takes us inside Copper Hall, the new jazz venue at Hotel Congress; XOXO columnist Xavier Omar Otero tells you about the great live music on the horizon, including the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Storm Large and others; Tucson Weedly columnist David Abbott catches up with the latest cannabis bills at the Arizona Legislature; calendar editor Emily Dieckman lets you know where to have some fun this week; and there’s more to enjoy in our pages, so get yourself a cold craft beer and enjoy.

Jim Nintzel Executive Editor Hear Nintz talk about how to have some fun in this burg at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday mornings during the world-famous Frank Show on KLPX, 96.1 FM.

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REMEMBERING HOW GORDON HIRABAYASHI CAME TO HELP BUILD THE MOUNT LEMMON HIGHWAY

By Tom Danehy, tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com JUST OFF THE CATALINA HIGHWAY, to the west of the Molino Basin Trailhead and just south of the Bug Springs Trailhead, lies the Gordon Hirabayashi Campground.

Officially, it’s on Prison Camp Road, and therein lies a story.

Gordon Hirabayashi was born in Seattle in 1918, which should have been an important fact in his life, but, sadly, for a long time, it wasn’t. He graduated from high school and then got a degree in sociology from the University of Washington. When World War II broke out, Japanese-Americans were rounded up and herded into internment camps, the third gem in the Triple Crown of Official American Racism that also includes slavery and the attempted genocide of Native Americans.

Hirabayashi originally considered going to one of the camps, but as a pacifist, he decided to become a conscientious objector and refused to cooperate. (What happened next would be hilarious if it weren’t so horrible.) He turned himself in to the FBI, who had no idea what to do with him. He insisted on being arrested so that his case could make its way through the courts.

He was finally convicted of a curfew vio-

lation and sentenced to 90 days in jail. But, he wouldn’t be allowed to serve his time in the nearby federal work camp in Tacoma because that facility was in the Exclusion Zone, one of the areas set up by the federal government in which the only place Japanese-Americans were allowed were in the internment camps. So, he could go to one of the camps (which he had already refused to do), but not to prison.

He presented his dilemma to the agents assigned to his case. They also had no idea what to do with him, so he suggested that he do his 90 days in the federal work camp in Tucson. The agents agreed but refused to pay his way, so they just released him after he promised to hitchhike and/or walk from Washington state to Tucson in the late summer. No, really! (As it turns out, Tucson was within the Southern Exclusion Zone, but absolutely nobody involved in the case happened to know that.)

After two weeks of meandering through Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, and Utah, he finally arrived in Tucson. He presented himself to the U.S. Marshal, who told him that there was no paperwork on him, so he should just go back whence he had come. Hirabayashi

said that by the time he got back to Washington, the paperwork would probably be found and he would just have to make the trip all over again. He suggested that the Marshal make some phone calls. The Marshal told the convicted criminal to just come back later that day. So Hirabayashi found an air-conditioned movie theater and spent the afternoon watching a film.

When he returned to the office, the Marshal agreed to incarcerate him and had a deputy drive him up to the Catalina Federal Honor Camp, just east of Sabino Canyon.

Once there, Hirabayashi joined an odd assortment of inmates. There were different types of conscientious objectors—Mennonites, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and several college students from Southern California.

There were also Mexicans who had crossed into America illegally, as well as other criminals—bank robbers, con men, and petty thieves—of all different races.

They would spend their days building what is now the Catalina Highway up to Mount Lemmon. At night, they would retire to strictly segregated barracks. There was one for white Americans, another for Mexican nationals, and a third for Americans classified as “colored,” which included Americans who were either Native, Black, or Hispanic.

He was put in the white barracks, but he wasn’t sure why. Maybe it was supposed to be some kind of privilege, but he would question the warden and the guards as to why he would be convicted of curfew because he was Asian, but then assigned

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to the white barracks. He led a protest in which many of the white inmates demanded that the white and “colored” barracks be integrated.

He and other inmates then began to question many of the ways in which the camp was run, leading to one of the wardens to lament, “I want this war to end so I can settle down to the good old murderers and kidnappers…They’re not trying to change the system.”

In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the appeal of Hirabayashi v. United States and ruled unanimously against him. In 1987, nearly a half-century later, his conviction was overturned by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Late in his one term as President, Jimmy Carter opened the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Three years later, the commission released its report, entitled “Personal Justice Denied.”

The report offered a scathing rebuke of what had been done to American citizens of Japanese origin, concluding that the government’s actions were based on “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.”

In 1999, the Coronado National Forest renamed the one-time Catalina Federal Honor Camp for Gordon Hirabayashi.

I know this is Black History Month, but I felt the need to get this story out before the Arizona Legislature makes it illegal to talk about such things, lest it hurt someone’s feelings. ■

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ON BEAT WITH BRADLEY

Hip hop author visiting UA Poetry Center to talk about music’s impact on Black Southern culture

REGINA BRADLEY IS A HIP-HOP scholar who teaches at Kennesaw State University. She’s also the author of the books Chronicling Stankonia and Boondock Kollage and cohosts a podcast, Bottom of the Map. She will be in Tucson to discuss Southern hip hop in a talk at the UA Poetry Center presented by the College of Humanities, Africana Studies and AZ Humanities. The free talk, “Sitting on Zora’s Porch: Notes from a Black Girl in the Hip Hop South,” is at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15 at the UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St.

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You’re coming to the UA Poetry Center. What will you be talking about?

I’ll be reading excerpts from my current book-in-progress Sitting on Zora’s Porch and talking about the significant impact of hip-hop on understanding contemporary southern Black life and culture in the United States.

There’s so much uproar in Republican politics over critical race theory and efforts to ban teaching it. What do you think when you hear politicians talking about CRT? Honestly, I wish they would take the time to understand what it is and not use it to derail necessary conversations about race and identity in the U.S. Ignoring race

Your podcast Bottom of the Map (which is so clever and freaking cool!) promotes raw and unfiltered content. In your TED Talk, “The Mountaintop Ain’t Flat,” you talk about the antebellum era and how it romanticized the South with narratives similar to Gone With the Wind. What do many people misunderstand about that antebellum era?

Thanks for your kind words about the podcast! Southern hip-hop is raw and unfiltered, our podcast tries to mirror that same tradition. As far as the interest in antebellum culture: The beauty of big houses, well-manicured grounds, and even fashion that draw people to plantations to celebrate their milestone events does not outshine the ugliness of the labor behind why plantations and antebellum culture lure in an audience in the first place. The misunderstanding is, “How can a place this beautiful still hold so much pain?” Because aesthetic appreciation does not outweigh historical truths and people don’t want to hold slavery and antiquated Southern beauty in tandem.

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It is clear that your passion is to speak your truth through creative outlets like Bottom of the Map, “The Mountaintop Ain’t Flat,” your published work like Chronicling Stankonia and Boondock Kollage. What inspired you to pursue this path and what challenges did you face?

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The path chose me! I was made increasingly aware that there were few discussions of region in research areas that I love: hiphop studies and pop culture studies. I was reading books and articles and opinions of people who tried to use their non-Southern experiences to contextualize the South and there was a glaring disconnect. I grew increasingly frustrated that the American South, especially Black communities in it, were altogether erased or underappreciated from conversations about modern American life and culture. I wanted to highlight the complexity of race and region outside of people’s comfort zones and expectations of what southernness can and should look like and sound like.

Black female hip-hop artists have a platform to speak their reality through lyrics and rap in 2022. What is your take on women rappers and women hip-hop artists from the South in 2022’s music industry, including Meg, Big Latto, Renni Rucci, and Lizzo? What kinds of feminist messages are coming across from these women?

I love it. I absolutely love it. They are forcing people to have more real and lessthan-polite conversations about sexual agency, self-autonomy and Black women.

They are pushing back against the comfort of conservative sexual respectability that dictates definitions of Southern black womanhood and girlhood. For real. I’m here for it.

What does moving through history in hip-hop look like for the South? How can it bridge the American Black South to the present?

In my book Chronicling Stankonia, I talk about how younger generations of Black southerners use hip-hop to move away from the lore of the Civil Rights Movement. What I mean here is that hip-hop makes room for us to acknowledge the efforts and work of previous generations of southern Black folks while not pretending that everything idealistically worked out. Southern hiphop doesn’t shy away from questions of class and upward mobility. It doesn’t shy away from questions of literacy. I say that Southern hip-hop recognizes that Dr. King’s dream is real but the “mountaintop ain’t

flat.” Young Southerners are still figuring out what “making it” means in the shadow of the Civil Rights Movement and hip-hop is the soundtrack and blueprint.

You’re from Georgia. Can you tell me a few major ways Atlanta has changed from 1995 to 2022 in regards to the music industry? How do you see the Southern music industry moving forward from here?

In 1995, Atlanta was on the cusp of becoming an internationally recognized Olympic city and its culture scene was equally ready to explode. I want to point out that Atlanta has always had a strong music scene, especially in the 1970s and 1980s with funk music. When OutKast comes out with Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik in 1994, they showed Atlanta’s potential as a hip-hop city. It was fertile ground for experimentation with musical genres and production.

Further, with the success of multiple genres of artists—from Usher and TLC to OutKast at LaFace Records and Jermaine Dupri’s slate of artists at So So Def—Atlanta was open for business as a music powerhouse.

While I am hesitant to speak authoritatively on more current music, I can say that you cannot address the direction of Atlanta’s music industry without recognizing social media and digital media’s influence. The internet has completely changed the game for who and what can be considered “Southern” rap. I also think that there is a more relaxed expectation of having to represent the South than there was 20-30 years ago because of the immediate access to music content we have with the internet. It’s more of a performance choice than a distinctive feature of a hip-hop identity.

You’ve said OutKast’s phrase “The South got somethin to say” has stayed close to you for years. What does it mean for you today?

Three Stacks’ phrase resonates today because there is a kind of southern Black renaissance taking place in pop culture—Southerners are telling their stories, unapologetically calling the South home, and stepping away from stereotypical representations of southernness. I think we’re in the next phase of the original rallying cry: the south STILL got something to say. We are starting to control our own narrative. Get with it or get left behind!

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Do you feel your Twitter and Instagram accounts benefit your push towards truth more than lessen the opportunity for truth?

They are a benefit because social media puts me in community with folks having similar conversations. Truth and change doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

You were on fellowship as an assistant professor at Harvard in spring 2016, which is when Beyoncé performed at the Super Bowl. Can you describe how you felt this year in terms of growth and being a successful woman?

Beyoncé got a fan in me in 2016 because she used her platform to bring attention to her evolving voice, her Blackness, and her womanhood that people couldn’t strip away from the performance itself. Beyoncé impacted me in a profound way to be willing to stand in my truth as a Southern Black womanhood and use my creativity to do so.

What made you want to teach?

I come from a family of educators, so I guess teaching has always been in my blood.

I knew I wanted to teach when I was a teach-

ing assistant in graduate school back in 2006.

I loved steering conversations about Black culture with students and engaging with their thoughts and experiences. I still hold to that passion in how I manage my classroom at KSU—so many of those students remind me of myself when I was in undergrad at Albany State University. It is a privilege to help students, especially Black students, recognize their voices and encourage them to ask questions about the world around them.

Fun question: What are your favorite artists, groups and bands of all time? What are your favorite artist, group, and band today? Why? Believe it or not, I am a HUGE R&B fan!

Dru Hill and 112 are my favorite R&B groups ever. I also loved Ginuwine, Usher, Ideal, Brandy, Total, and TLC. Still working my way through a lot of today’s R&B artists, but I really rock with Giveon, DVSN, Miguel and what I joke is the R&B pronouns: H.E.R., Sir, and They. My godson is a big R&B fan, so he tells me who to listen to, LOL. Some of my all-time hip-hop favorites are Missy Elliott, Jeezy, DMX, and Jay-Z. Current hip hop artists I love are Big K.R.I.T., A$AP Ferg, Freddie Gibbs, Meghan Thee Stallion, Yo Gotti and 2 Chainz. ■

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CROSS CULTURE CRAFTS

Borderlands Brewing drafts up new beers and collaborations for Arizona Beer Week

By Jeff Gardner jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE IN business, downtown’s Borderlands Brewing Company is still coming up with new ways to up the Tucson beer game.

For Arizona Beer Week, which runs from Thursday, Feb. 17 through Sunday, Feb. 27, Borderlands Brewing is unveiling some brand new brews, and re-releasing some classics.

First up, Borderlands is releasing a new blonde-style watermelon ale that

is made with real watermelon. Coming in at 5.5%, it fits nicely into Borderlands’ roster of beers that manage to pack in plenty of flavor, but don’t come off as overbearing. The ale still contains a nice wheat foundation, with a watermelon flavor that lingers. As head brewer Ayla Kapahi explains, it’s perfect for relaxing on a warm day — which is perfect considering Tucson gets those even in the middle of winter.

“It’s made with real watermelon, but we try not to make it too sweet,” Kapahi said. “And that can be tricky, because we have to balance the fruit flavor, and

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make sure it isn’t sugary.”

Borderlands also has an upcoming collaborative brew with State 48 Brewery out of Phoenix. Although full details for the beer haven’t been released, the collaboration will be an “experimental kettle sour” beer that neither brewery has made before. It will be available at both Borderlands and State 48.

Also new to Borderlands for Arizona Beer Week is a series of re-releases in 12-oz cans. Borderlands typically only works with 16-oz cans, and for the occasion, they’re selling two fan favorites in 12-oz six-pack options: the Prickly Pear Wheat Ale and the Horchata Cream Ale. At 6% ABV, the Prickly Pear ale is a German-American wheat beer made with local organic prickly pear juice.

While prickly pears do have a distinct sourness, this ale is far from the tart sours you may find at certain craft breweries. It is an easy-drinking and light beer with a color to match the flavor.

The 5.5% Horchata Cream Ale is a Borderlands Brewing standby, with notes of cinnamon and vanilla. True to their borderlands spirit, the flavorful ale is inspired by the Mexican rice drink with a fittingly sweet kick. Both beers in 12-oz six-packs can only be purchased at Borderlands Brewing Co. As their name suggests, Borderlands

Brewing frequently sources ingredients from throughout the Sonoran Desert, and on both sides of the border. In Tucson, they work with Arizona Cactus Ranch and Cheri’s Desert Harvest, and have also traveled through Hermosillo and San Carlos.

In early 2020, Borderlands even released an international collaboration: the Las Hermanas IPA. This was announced as the “first all-female binational” beer, and brewed with Turulata Brewing Company from Mexico.

This women-working-with-women style extends into Borderlands’ own business, as the brewery now has an all-female production team, from brewing to packaging to administration. Kapahi herself is the first and only female head brewer in Tucson.

“It’s something that happened organically. One day I looked around and realized that. It’s something we’re very proud of and have become a leader in Southern Arizona, advocating for women and minorities in craft beers, especially in production,” Kapahi said. “When I started in Tucson craft beer seven years ago, there was only one other woman in back-of-house production. And present day we probably have 15-plus throughout Tucson.”

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A RELATIVELY NEW KID ON THE block, MotoSonora Brewing Company on Tucson’s south side has already made a name for itself thanks to a large outdoor performance space and a close connection with automobiles.

MotoSonora, which opened in early 2020, is the brainchild of Tucson brothers passionate about beers and cars. So the story goes, during a road trip through Africa, Jeff and Jeremy DeConcini discussed the merits of both the vehicles and drinks on their trip, and realized “it was indisputable that the beers were as integral to the overland experience as were the Land Rovers and motorcycles.”

In this fashion, MotoSonora is bringing back an old favorite for Arizona Beer Week, which runs from Thursday, Feb. 17 through Sunday, Feb. 27. “Racing Slicks” is a specialty dry Irish stout with a dark European taste, but remains smooth thanks to a nitro infusion.

Made in homage to Irish beers, Racing Slicks has a signature roasty flavor, but enough different that it should appeal to traditional beer drinkers and craft aficionados alike. Throughout Arizona Beer Week, MotoSonora is offering $2 off pints and $1 off other pours of the 4.2% ABV stout.

“In college, I studied in Dublin and drank quite a lot of Guinness. So, it’s a specialty beer that is close to my heart,” said MotoSonora co-founder Jeremy DeConcini.

MotoSonora brewed the beer when they first opened, but haven’t brewed it since. Because it’s a nitro beer, Jeremy says it’s not as well suited for packag-

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ing, meaning customers will have to come down to the brewery to enjoy it.

“It’s one of my favorite beers, but it has a limited commercial appeal outside of the taproom. So we hope it will get people in, which is what Arizona Beer Week is about anyway,” Jeremy said. “We want people to come in and meet the people who are making their beer.”

Jeremy says MotoSonora is currently going through their cellar to select other special beers for release during Arizona Beer Week, however, their full roster is not yet announced.

Only about two years old, MotoSonora entered at a time when the Tucson brewing community was already quite active. As such, there were a few elements they wanted to focus on to stand out.

“There were a couple things we wanted to do to differentiate ourselves.

One was that we wanted a big outdoor space,” Jeremy said. “We wanted to create an outdoor environment that would fit Tucson’s good weather. A lot of breweries might not have that option, and lucky for us we were able to. The other thing is that Tucson has notoriously hard water, so we wanted to have a pretty solid water treatment system at our facility that would allow us to make a wider variety of styles, and control the mineral content. And that’s not to say you can’t make good beer with Tucson’s water, but we didn’t want to be limited.”

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POPPING OFF

Tap & Bottle serves as a crossroads of brewing from Tucson and beyond

By Jeff Gardner jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com ONE OF THE BIGGEST SUPPORTERS of the Tucson brewing scene doesn’t produce any craft beer at all. Tap & Bottle serves as a hub for all things alcohol in Southern Arizona, and that includes hosting multiple events for Arizona Beer Week. Tap & Bottle has two official locations in north and downtown Tucson—as well as an affiliate location at the MSA annex—offering everything from wine to spirits to mixers. But the core of their business remains beer, in as many varieties as local brewers can dream up.

“We’ve always wanted to champion and focus on craft beer,” said Tap & Bottle co-founder Rebecca Safford.

“We’re not brewers ourselves, but we’ve always traveled to visit breweries and appreciate the craft. So we see our place as a hub for craft beer. Oftentimes local brewers will come over and say something like, ‘We’re brewing a beer with banana, and we want to get some samples of other beers with bananas to get ideas.’

We have hundreds of different beers, so we really are a resource.”

Tap & Bottle is using Arizona Beer Week as an opportunity to support other craft breweries. Throughout the week, they’re hosting events in partnership

with breweries from Tucson, Phoenix and beyond. In light of the pandemic’s toll on the restaurant and serving industry, the week is a way to show support.

And with that in mind, many of Tap & Bottle’s events are outdoors.

“We’ve been doing Arizona Beer Week for a long time, and we focus on supporting local, but we also have some really good relationships with breweries from outside of the state that come to town for Beer Week. So we want to do a balance of everyone,” Safford said.

“Really, we just want to plan fun events with our friends.”

The week kicks off on Thursday, Feb. 17, at Tap & Bottle’s north location with special tappings from Bottle Logic Brewing out of Anaheim, California. There will also be team trivia featuring some special beer-themed questions.

On Saturday, Feb. 19, Tap & Bottle’s downtown location will host a three- to five-mile fun run led by The Running

Shop, touring by the many murals of downtown Tucson. After the run, guests can stop by to check out beers by Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company out of Gilbert.

On Sunday, Feb. 20, at Westbound in the MSA Annex, Tap & Bottle is hosting a special “This Is Not A Race” Bikes & Beer Crawl between Pueblo Vida, Westbound and Dragoon brewing. Safford says the trio originally hosted a similar event last Halloween, and it was such a hit they’re bringing it back.

“The locations aren’t too far from each other, so it’s a nice loop. And we had a great turnout for the first one, so we wanted to bring it back,” Safford said.

“What’s really nice is that it’s self guided, so that’s why we’re calling it ‘Not a Race.’

It’s very casual, and you can start at any location. All of our locations are pretty close, so it encourages people to get out and enjoy a beer at one, two or three places.”

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Each location will give participants a map with tips on the easiest ways to get around, and every stop will offer $1-off coupons for drinks.

On Wednesday, Feb. 23, Tap & Bottle’s north location is partnering with Phoenix-based Wren House Brewing and chef Maria Mazon of Boca Tacos for a special beer and salsa pairing day.

On Thursday, Feb. 24, Tap & Bottle’s downtown location is hosting a Pizza Port Party with special taps and swag.

They will be pairing San Diego-based Pizza Port beers with wood-fired pizza by Family Joint Pizzeria. Tucson folk rock band Golden Boots will be masquerading as Tropical Boots to play some special vacation vibes.

Finally, the week will conclude on Sunday, Feb. 27, at Westbound. Tap & Bottle will host a Beer Mile with Firestone Walker Brewing. This ticketed and timed event challenges participants to

“take on the greatest feat: to drink four beers, and run four laps.” That’s a serious challenge, and a wild way to end Arizona Beer Week.

“One of the things we talk about a lot is how collaborative Tucson is.

There doesn’t seem to be a competitive feeling,” Safford said. “Everyone is supportive of each other and of the entire community. And because we’re a City of Gastronomy, there’s also a focus on ingredients and where people get those ingredients. So, not only will it taste special, but it will utilize ingredients special to Tucson. There’s some really fun stuff going on.” ■

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John Hawk plays on Saturday, Feb. 26.

“When I grew up in Tucson there were zero craft breweries. And I think we’re now getting to that critical mass in Tucson of breweries and brewing talent where people can feed off of each other and influence each other.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” Jeremy said. “I have people in my taproom who never originally thought of beer as a career, but with this many breweries in town, making beer is starting to look like a noble profession.” ■

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offered support when COVID hit during their very early days. In particular, he says Tucson mainstay Barrio Brewing helped out during COVID by delivering food for MotoSonora’s customers, as they do not have a kitchen.

“To be honest, we were just excited to be part of the Tucson beer scene,” Jeremy said. “The community and people are amazing. We probably would not be open if not for the brewing community. From a purely collaborative aspect, the Tucson beer scene has been amazing and we would not have made it without their support.”

Looking ahead, MotoSonora plans to expand their role in the community by working with more local food trucks and hosting more Tucson songwriters in the large patio. In the next few weeks, Tucson folk singer Leila Lopez will perform on Saturday, Feb. 12, local roots rock band Barnaby & the Butcher plays on Saturday, Feb. 19, and blues singer

Tap & Bottle Downtown is located at 403 N. Sixth Ave., #135. Tap & Bottle North is located at 7254 N. Oracle Road.

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MotoSonora Brewing Company is located at 1015 S. Park Ave. For more information, visit motosonora.com

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Maynards teams up with Flagstaff brewery for Arizona Beer Week

By Matt Russell tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com IF TOOLE AVENUE AND ROUTE 66 intersected, it would likely be at Maynards Kitchen during Arizona Beer Week when these two storied roadways will virtually connect.

On February 23, Maynards will team up with Flagstaff’s Mother Road Brewing Company, which sits on the original 1926 alignment of Route 66, for a pairing dinner at Tucson’s iconic train depot.

“I have a deep love for the Old Pueblo, and that our beers are meant to be paired with great food means this dinner, in the heart of downtown Tucson, will be right on theme,” said Stephanie Henderson, craft consultant with Mother Road Brewing Company.

Chef Brian Smith agrees, with a multicourse menu that he built from beginning to end with beer in hand.

“My biggest inspiration for this menu was working with the kinds of flavors I enjoy when I’m drinking beer,” said Smith, executive chef/partner at Maynards Kitchen, 400 N. Toole Avenue.

The evening will begin with chef-driven deviled eggs and other snacks from Smith’s kitchen to prepare his guests for the adventure ahead.

“The first beer will be our Daily Driver, a lower-alcohol pale ale that delivers beautifully amped-up and juicy hops which challenges the assumption that flavor is sacrificed with an easy-drinking, session-style beer,” said Henderson.

Next up will be a sourdough pretzel with beer mustard and Teleggio cheese.

“What’s exciting about this course is that we’re matching the quintessential beer food with our Great Commotion, a German-style, sweet, and malty bock that was created in collaboration with women from more than 25 breweries across Arizona,” said Henderson. She believes the malty sweetness will balance the salt from the pretzel, the fat from the cheese, and the nuttiness from the mustard.

A warm cabbage salad will follow, with house-cured bacon, dates, pecans, and a French Mimolette cheese.

“We’re serving our Conserve & Protect Golden Ale with this one, a bready and biscuity beer with floral notes that will lift up and enhance the delicate flavors in this beautiful salad,” said Henderson.

Smith will then plate up a rump heart, a relatively unknown cut of beef that has absolutely no association with a cow’s cardiovascular system as its name may suggest.

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Crooked Tooth brews up something spiritual when the full moon comes out

By Nicole Feltman nfeltman@tucsonlocalmedia.com CROOKED TOOTH’S BEER WEEK contribution has been a long time coming.

The downtown brewery has been crafting some special sours for nearly three years.

Sours have become something of a specialty for Crooked Tooth, which has a large Sonoran Sour Series available in house. It’s an area where they don’t see too much competition.

“Sours aren’t something people make a whole lot of,” said Max Houghton, a brewer at Crooked Tooth.

Thanks to their barrel aging program, these sours can be produced with fresh local ingredients to create what Crooked Tooth manager Danielle Blackwell calls “wild flavors.”

Crooked Tooth will be featuring a list of sours, including a blackberry cardamom sour called Crime in the City, a barrel-aged jamaica with coconut and hibiscus, and a barrel-aged passionfruit sour with Presta Coffee’s roasted passionfruit beans. They will also be re-releasing Cloud People, a tamarind brown sour and Tucson favorite.

Houghton said the partnership with Presta was only natural because the Crooked Tooth crew are big fans of the coffee shop.

“That’s like generally the stop before you head to work in the morning,” he says. “You swing by Presta.”

Crooked Tooth is also collaborating with Pueblo Vida for beer week with a joint tart IPA set to be released on Feb. 17, the first day of Beer Week.

“They’re great people over there, they make really good beer, so it’s really fun to see that two breweries can come together,” said Houghton.

The brewery will also feature Cheat Codes, a double dry hot hazy IPA, and release Snow Moon, a spruce-tip red ale with hints of pine and malty notes, a day before beer week as a part of their Full Moon Beer Week Series. Every full moon, Crooked Tooth brews a new beer and releases a new beer, a ritual they’ve practiced since their opening in 2016. On the morning of the full moon, the staff comes in early to perform a ceremony before brewing the beer. Each full moon beer is paired with a stone that’s infused with the spiritual energy of the full moon

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before being infused into the beer itself.

Blackwell calls it “an intentional offering for the community.”

Full moon rituals are performed to honor the process of brewing beer a thousand years ago, which was by women in small villages who would use local herbs and positive energy to produce beer with medicinal properties.

Beertender Megan Freeman, who sees beer as medicine, called Crooked Tooth a “portal for spirituality and the good things that happen. There is spirituality and camaraderie found within sharing a beer with someone.” ■

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“This cut is from the center section of the rump, with the flavor of a top sirloin and the tenderness of a filet,” said Smith.

The steak will be served with sweet potatoes, black garlic, and Swiss chard.

“In Brian Smith we trust,” noted Henderson, who confessed having little knowledge about the cut.

“We’re going with our Tower Station IPA here, as the earthy sweetness from the potatoes should complement the piney notes from the hops,” she said. “It’s a malty beer, with some grapefruit, tangerine, and pineapple profiles that together make it big enough to stand up to the other robust flavors on the plate.”

A smoked chocolate tart will cap the evening, with a salty mushroom caramel, wild rice ice cream, and wild rice brittle.

Dessert will be paired with the Limited Visibility Hazy IPA, which Henderson

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Beer Week! predicts will be another “opposites attract situation.”

“The smoke and earth profiles in the dish should work nicely with the beer’s tropical, citrus, and stone fruit finish,” she said. “These fruity flavors will wrap around those smokey notes like a hug.”

Priced at $80 per person plus tax and gratuity, the Mother Road Beer Dinner at Maynards Kitchen will be on February 23 at 7:00 pm. Reservations can be made by calling 545-0577, or online at www.hotelcongress.com/family/maynards.

Get hip to my timely tip and plan to join me at this Arizona Beer Week dinner! ■ 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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In 2020, Borderlands also partnered with Firetruck Brewing to establish a collaborative brewing facility in the downtown warehouse district titled Voltron Brewing. The facility contains brew houses and fermentation tanks as a way to share resources and reduce costs.

Kapahi believes more independent breweries will likely adapt this model.

“One thing that I think is happening with smaller breweries, especially with COVID, is they’re trying to figure out how to keep their businesses going and growing. And I’m seeing other breweries go toward a more collaborative model,” Kapahi said. “In the last two years, we’ve faced everything from aluminum shortages to grain shortages to the restaurant and serving industry being hit. So that’s why I think you’ll see more

breweries going in on hop or grain contracts together, so that they can have the power of a larger macro facility.”

But even when they’re not sharing facilities, Tucson breweries have formed a tight-knit community and support structure.

“The Tucson brewing community is very friendly and collaborative. If one of us has a canning line issue or supply issue, we’ll even text each other for advice.

And it really makes Tucson unique,” Kapahi said. “Because we’ve worked on collaborations outside of Arizona, and maybe I’m biased, but the community here really has been the most collaborative and transparent.” ■ Borderlands Brewing Co. is located at 119 E. Toole Ave. For more information, visit borderlandsbrewing.com.

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Hotel Congress to open jazz club ‘The Century Room’

By Jake O’Rourke tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com OVER THE LAST 100 YEARS OR SO, Hotel Congress has survived structural fires, seen prohibition come and go, and hosted everyone from U.S. senators to John Dillinger and his criminal gang.

Now, a new addition to the historic landmark fuses a New York night club with a borderlands mezcal bar.

Shana Oseran, who owns Hotel Congress with her husband, Richard Oseran, and music programmer Arthur Vint are teaming up to open a jazz club in the hotel’s former Copper Hall space. The Century Room, with a grand opening planned in March, will host weekly jazz performances, serve local mezcals, beers and wines, and offer a step back in time.

“We have the plaza and Club Congress, which is the impetus for everything, and now to evolve into this third genre, it’s really exciting,” Oseran said.

“Where in town, or anywhere, can you

find a place that has three different music venues?”

The Copper Hall was a banquet hall along the southwest portion of the building with windows looking out to the hubbub of Congress Street. With a reduction in banquets and similar events due to the pandemic, Oseran was searching for a new concept to fill the vacant hall when she started talking with Vint.

“While there are lots of great jazz musicians and great jazz performances in Tucson, there hasn’t been a singular home to host concerts or touring acts,” Vint said. “There are lots of musicians who tour around the country, and these bands usually stop their tours in Phoenix and go home. By building a club and a stage that is world class, we’re hoping to get people to come down to Tucson on their West Coast tours.”

Vint grew up in Tucson and graduated from Rincon High School.

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Editor’s Note: While we are delighted to see Tucsonans once again gathering for fun events, we are also aware that variants are in widespread circulation.

Please consider getting vaccinated against COVID if you haven’t yet.

Spinning Wheels Outdoor Roller Disco.

Tucson is great in a lot of ways, but let’s talk about the elephant in the room: Until now, we haven’t had a regular roller disco, and that’s not acceptable.

So, thank goodness the MSA Annex is premiering this one, just in time for Valentine’s Day! DJ Herm will be spinning Boogie Nights throwbacks and old school tunes at this all-ages event. Bring your own skates! Bring your kids! Bring your date! And obviously, bring your best moves. Doors open 6:30, event 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12. MSA Annex Festival Grounds, 267 S. Avenida del Convento. $10.

Steve McCurry: Its Own Place and Feeling. Steve McCurry has built a decades-long photography career capturing the unique character of people and places all over the world. His 1984 photo “Afghan Girl” is one of the most famous images in the world. In this exhibit at the Etherton Gallery, he’ll be opening up for the first time about the stories behind his iconic images. An opening reception is 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12. Etherton Gallery, 340 S. Convent Ave. In addition, The Loft Cinema will be screening McCurry, The Pursuit of Color, on Sunday, Feb. 13, at 6 p.m., with an introduction by Terry Etherton. Admission is free.

Black Renaissance and the & Gallery: A Spoken Word Event. In honor of Black History Month, this series of events will be highlighting Black artists and their influence on mainstream culture. This week, Zora Thomas, Ms Redd and Larry Moore will be sharing spoken word art, which has been used by the Black community to express life, death, love and joy. It’s a chance to enjoy good art, and, if you’re new to the world of spoken word, to learn about a new art form. And it’s free! Space is limited, so keep in mind it’s first-come, first-serve. 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12. & Gallery, 419 N. Fourth Ave. Free.

Wayne Gudmonson’s “What Place Is This” and Perla Segovia’s “Threads of Immigration.” The Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery on the PCC campus launched a combined exhibition at the close of January that you don’t want to miss.

Internationally known photographer Gudmonson’s pieces are inspired by 21 events that took place in or around Tucson, from battle scenes on the southern border to Picacho Peak. And installation artist Segovia is presenting embroidered canvas shoes to represent children whose lives have been lost in custody or after being detained by federal immigration agencies at the border. Reception is 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 10. Gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Fridays, through March 11. Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Free.

by Emily Dieckman The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas in Mardi Gras Mambo. The members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band are pioneers of the modern New Orleans brass band movement, recognized globally since 1977 as an unstoppable music machine. They’ve worked with artists ranging from Elvis Costello to Modest Mouse to the Dave Matthews Band. So get ready to get jazzy in a big night out at the Fox Theatre. Like, the kind of jazz that makes you want to sing and dance and shout and quit your job to focus full-time on learning the trumpet.

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12. Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St. $27.50 to $57.50.

Friends of Pima Library Members-Only Book Sale. What better way to spend a Saturday than by stopping by a used book sale? It’s also a good place to pick up a Valentine’s Day gift, or—better yet—to take your Valentine to stroll through the tomes with you. Though this event is members-only, you can literally snag a membership on your way in for just 20 bucks. A bargain, considering it’ll allow you to access these book sales throughout the year. This month’s display is focused on tiny books, which are easy to mail and make wonderful gifts. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 12. 2230 N. Country Club Road.

Jurassic Quest. Ever wish you could take a stroll through the Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic Periods to experience life among the dinosaurs? Well, technically, you can’t! But with Jurassic Quest, which is North America’s largest and most realistic dinosaur event, you can come the closest you’re ever gonna get. These folks collaborated with leading paleontologists to recreate life-size replicas of dinosaurs with painstaking detail. Come dig up fossils, watch walking dinosaur and baby dinosaur shows, and RIDE A LIFE-SIZED DINOSAUR!!!

1 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11. 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 12. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13. Pima County Fairgrounds, 11400 S. Houghton Road. $36 for unlimited kids ride, $22 standard kids or adult tickets. $19 seniors.

Southern Arizona Clay Artists Ceramics Sale. Ooh, we love a good ceramics sale. It’s always fun to support local makers, and ceramics have the added benefit of often being functional, so they make great gifts for even your most practical and minimalist friends. I mean, what beats a gorgeous handmade mug or bowl in your kitchen? This event features more than 25 ceramic artists from Southern Arizona Clay Artists offering up quality, functional and decorative ceramics. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, and Saturday, Feb. 12. Tohono Chul, 7366 Paseo del Norte. $15 GA, $13 senior/military/student, $6 kids 5 to 12.

Mercado Flea. Another month, another flea! This is a great time of year to go to this open-air market because our desert-acclimated bodies think 55 degrees is cold. So, it gives us a chance to stroll through the vendor booths clutching steaming cups of locally brewed coffee like we’re in some sort of snowy Hallmark movie. Of course, regardless of weather, it’s always a good time to go to the flea, where there are dozens of local vendors selling antique, vintage and many other used and collectible items.

See you there, and stay warm out there! 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13. Parking lots and sidewalks on Avenida Del Convento between Congress and Cushing streets in the Mercado District.

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He also worked at Hotel Congress as a desk clerk for the night shifts before obtaining a bachelor’s degree in jazz performance from William Paterson University in New Jersey and a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. From there, Vint established a career as a freelance drummer, composer and bandleader throughout New York starting in 2007.

Vint says he plays everything from jazz and salsa to pop and rock, and has performed in some of the world’s most renowned venues and appears on numerous albums. He has also performed on screen in Boardwalk Empire, The Knick and John Wick.

After performing on the plaza in April 2021, Vint brought up the idea of turning The Copper Hall into a space inspired by the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York, where Vint worked as head bartender.

Now, after 15 years in New York, and the last year and a half bouncing between New York and Tucson, Vint is returning to his desert home full-time to teach jazz at the University of Arizona and work with Oseran as the music programmer for The Century Room.

“The Vanguard is kind of the Mecca of jazz clubs, and all other jazz clubs point to The Vanguard,” Vint said. “That was a point of reference in the design stages, but we did a lot of detail work to make the space feel as though it has been there for 100 years. The name is a nod to the fact that Hotel Congress just celebrated its 100th anniversary. It is also referencing the century plant — we’re an agave bar with over 40 agave spirits — and we are also hoping it will be there for 100 years. When you walk in, it feels like it has always been there.”

The former foyer to The Copper Hall is now a soundproofed stage. The new entrance is through 100-year-old vestibule doors on the corner of Congress St. and Fifth Ave. The doors open to the bar on the left and wooden shutters along the south windows facing Congress St. There are booths, bar stools and table seating for 75 with a clear line of sight

to the stage bookending the far-right corner of the room.

“You feel like you’ve arrived at this beautiful and important space,” Vint said. “I always like bars and venues where you walk in and feel like you have to lower your voice a little bit out of respect, and I feel that this may have that effect on people.”

Although the space as a whole is new, elements of the past are laced throughout the interior.

“All those brown, chocolate, yummy drapes that were around the whole banquet facility are now reconfigured as the backdrops for the stage on all three sides,” Oseran said. “We are going to be open this Friday and Saturday to start but plan to expand our days and hours as we get a sense for how it’s going to fit.”

The grand opening is scheduled for the first weekend in March. Until then, they began hosting preview concerts every week Friday, Feb. 4. The first show sold out, so they added a second seating, a frequent practice for New York nightclubs. The first seating is at 7:30 p.m. and the second seating is at 9 p.m.

The first to perform in this new space was the Homero Cerón Latin Jazz Quartet on Friday, Feb. 4. Cerón spent more than 40 years as the principal percussionist for the Tucson Symphony, and is planning to play a mix of originals and Latin classics. Cerón also happens to have been Vint’s first drum teacher.

On Friday, Feb. 11, Susan Artemis and her quartet are playing “Love Songs from the Dark Side of the Lounge” for a special Valentine’s weekend concert.

The Howard Alden Trio is taking over the stage on Friday, Feb. 18, to perform Alden’s favorite compositions throughout his career. Alden is a world-renowned guitarist from New York City who recently relocated to Phoenix.

“I look forward to having a dedicated room that elevates jazz in Tucson,” Vint said. “Local and world-renowned jazz musicians now have a space where they can perform original music and special projects…the drinks are going to be great, too.” ■

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“Street of Vegas.” With guitar wielding reggae rocker O.G. Clinto and local support from Smoking Runners. At Chicago Bar…

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Star-crossed lovers or strangers in the night, let XOXO guide you through the “Burning Ring O’ Fire” as we descend towards V-Day. This week: Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Aziz Gibson, Storm Large, Poulenc Trio, Fenne Lily, Koffin Kats, Cursive, Liliac, y un chingo mas.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS… THURSDAY, FEB. 10 Recognized as one of the best steel drum programs in the nation, inspiring and captivating audiences with the vibrant sound of the Caribbean. As part of the Oro Valley Second Thursdays Concert Series, the award-winning Jovert Steel Drum Band from Tucson High Magnet School will keep you dancing all night long. At Oro Valley Marketplace… As a youth, in Cananea, Sonora, unhappy with the socio-economic and political circumstances in his country, this artist/musician found a way to vent through art. With a guitar in hand, a harmonica around his neck and stomping box under foot, Mexican gypsy troubadour Salvador Duran sings his paintings and paints his music. At Hotel Congress (plaza)… Reggae practitioners Mojo Reggae bring their hard-hitting sound from the

FRIDAY, FEB. 11 Adopting the name Liliac (which means vampire bat in Romanian) to honor their parents’ Transylvania heritage, this band was the brainchild of the siblings’ father Florin Cristea, a music producer originally from Romania. Cristea gave each of his kids an instrument and encouraged them to play. The family moved to California in 2008, after filing for bankruptcy, to start life anew. Cristea began taking the fledgling band (now ages 13-22) to the Santa Monica Pier to busk. In 2018, a BBC documentary film crew captured legendary rocker Stewart Copeland (The Police) jamming with Liliac to Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.’’

The video went viral. “The First Family of Rock,” Liliac perform original material from Queen of Hearts (2020), their fulllength album debut. At House of Bards…

Vox Urbana, Gabriel Naïm Amor, and Freddy Parish & The Oldtime String Band circle the wagons for the Tucson Folk Festival Fundraiser. At Monterey Court…

DJ Humblelianess presides over Tucson’s hottest Latin dance party. El Tambó. At Hotel Congress (plaza)… The battle for the galaxy intensifies as the Tucson Symphony Orchestra presents Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – In Concert. Nicholas Hirsch conducts the orchestra through every note of John Williams’ original score as the film is projected on a giant backdrop.

In the first of two performances. At Tucson

Music Hall… Taking a deep pull on 2018’s “American Spirits,” L.A.-based indie rockers Inner Wave puff out familiar tropes as they attempt to breathe new life into their storyline with Apoptosis (2021). Vocalist Pablo Sotello adds, “This album has a lot of recurring themes about rebirth, longing for others, nature and love.” At Club Congress. With Divino Niño… Extending a stiff digitus medius at predetermination, post-hardcore/metalists Escape The Fate return with Chemical Warfare (2021), their seventh studio album. At The Rock. With special guests Pyrotechnia… Jazz pianist/ vocalist Susan Artemis performs love songs from the dark side of the lounge in The Century Room (Tucson’s new and only dedicated jazz club) at Hotel Congress…

Arizona Opera in partnership with the Tucson Desert Song Festival present mezzo soprano Susan Graham accompanied by pianist Christopher Cano in a recital featuring Les Nuits d’été by Berlioz and a grand buffet of American standards by Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe. At Holsclaw Hall… The Tucson Vibe presents Drummers Are Your Darlings. A continuing series highlighting Tucson musicians who double as visual artists. Featuring artwork by Dimitri Manos, Gary Mackender, Maggie Rickard, Pete Connolly and Todd Getzelman. The Griffin Law Trio make their performance debut. At Revel…

SATURDAY, FEB. 12 Since their formation in 1977—emerging from the renowned Fairview Baptist Church

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youth music program—the Dirty Dozen have revolutionized the New Orleans brass band style. Their innovative collaborations with Modest Mouse, Widespread Panic, and Norah Jones have fused funk and bebop with traditional New Orleans jazz, inspiring a resurgence of interest in New Orleans’ brass band music. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band join forces with Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas to present Mardi Gras Mambo. At Fox Tucson Theatre…

Spending the better part of his young life in flux as a military brat, Azizi Gibson settled in L.A. in 2010 after dropping out of college.

As fate would have it, Gibson met famed producer, DJ, and rapper Flying Lotus.

After passing along a copy of his mixtape, Gibson eventually signed with Lotus’ Brainfeeder label. Azizi Gibson brings his latest, This is not an Album. This is a Killer Playlist Vol.1. (2021). At 191 Toole. $onoma and Tommy Will open… Detonating napalm bombs of bass for your dancing pleasure, DJs Bex & Halsero uphold their Saturday night residency. At Hotel Congress (plaza)… This publication’s readers have voted singer-songwriter Leila Lopez as Tucson’s Best Folk Artist several years over. Lopez, accompanied by a full band, performs signature jazzy folk at MotoSonora Brewing Company… Soul/blues singer and violinist Heather “Lil Mama” Hardy presents Lovefest: A pre-Valentine’s Day celebration.

At Monterey Court… Delivering rock ’n’ roll with a velvety wistfulness reminiscent of Christine McVie starkly juxtaposed with the unrepentant snarl of The Pretenders, Weekend Lovers perform on the patio.

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At Owls Club. With Abe’s Bones… DJs MIJITO + E_Rupt beat mix pop, alternative, R&B, and electronic. XOXO: A 90s [ vs ] 00s Dance Party. At The Royal Room…

With a repertoire that ranges from ’70s and ’80s to jazz, Gigi & The Glow deliver a high energy show. At St. Philip’s Plaza…

Like diamonds, disco is forever. Last Night’s Makeup Party crew—hot leather disco, pc party, alice.km—present Double Diamond Disco: The Tucson Gem Show Edition.

With a live disco set by After Hours. At The Jackrabbit Lounge… Spoken word as an art form has long been used in the Black community to express life, death, love and joy. Celebrating Black History month, Black Renaissance presents A Spoken Word Event. Acclaimed author Zora Thomas headlines. At The & Gallery…

SUNDAY, FEB. 13 Arizona Friends of Chamber Music present The Poulenc Trio. One of the most active touring piano-wind chamber music ensembles in the world, they will perform an

intriguingly beautiful program featuring works by Viet Cuong, Dmitri Shostakovich, James Lee III, André Previn, Charles Triébert & Eugène Jancourt, and Francis Poulenc. At Leo Rich Theater… Heather Hardy & the Dusty City Blues Band stoke the fire. Congress Cookout. At Hotel Congress (plaza)…

MONDAY, FEB. 14 After what Pitchfork considers her heavy-hearted indie folk debut, 2018’s On Hold, U.K. singer-songwriter Fenne Lily returns with BREACH (2020). Lily says the record, written during a period of self-imposed isolation, is “kind of like writing a letter, and leaving it in a book that you know you’ll get out when you’re sad.” The record’s lyrics read like diary entries that chronicle the plight of being twenty-something. “I think this record is proof that I can be emotionally stable, even if right now I feel a little bit up and down,” Lily says.

“There’s the ability to find clarity in that.

It’s sobering, weirdly.” Fenne Lily intimates what it’s like “To Be a Woman.” With the Illuminati Hotties. At 191 Toole…

TUESDAY, FEB. 15 From Albany, Indiana, alternative blues rockers Houndmouth are out on the road promoting Good For You (2021), the band’s fourth studio album. At Hotel Congress (plaza)…

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16 Over the past two decades, Cursive’s frontman Tim Kasher’s incisive songwriting has focused an unflinching gaze on harrowing (and very personal) themes with brutal honesty, artfully strangling audiences with a penchant for wallowing in heartbreak.

The band’s latest album, Get Fixed (2019), is a collection songs recorded at the same time as 2018’s Vitriola. Kasher says that while the two albums “may forever be considered companion pieces,” Get Fixed “feels as though it’s been emancipated from the session. The extra care and attention it received has helped it develop an identity very much its own. These songs feel more poignant to us now. We’re thrilled to finally introduce them to our world.” Emo pioneers Cursive descend into a “Black Hole Town.”

With support from The Appleseed Cast. At Club Congress…

THURSDAY, FEB. 17 Storm Large has the word “lover” emblazoned across her back in big, gangland-style lettering. When asked why, in an

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interview with Philadelphia Magazine, the six-foot blonde says, “It’s rough looking.

But inside I’m all mushiness and the most sentimental, sweet, sad little thing. So it’s a perfect metaphor.” Full of punk rage and mischievous banter, this tempestuous chanteuse made her mark as co-lead vocalist with Pink Martini. Now, fronting a rockribbed new band, Large rips out pages from the American songbook to set them on fire, writing new anthems as a soul-stirring rock goddess. Storm Large & Le Bonheur. At Fox Tucson Theatre… Obsessed with horror and science fiction, the Koffin Kats’ early songs began to coalesce in the dankness of their parent’s basements. Like many bands that came before, their salad days were spent playing gigs for beer or gas money in local bars, dreaming of life on the road.

Eventually, hard work paid dividends as they clawed their way out of the Midwest.

Following “A Path to Wickedness,” Detroit psychobilly trio the Koffin Kats declare that it’s officially Party Time in the End Times (2017). The Reztones (local rockabilly outfit with Native American roots) open the show.

At 191 Toole… Accompanied by a gathering of angels—Joe Novelli, Sara Louise Mohr, Ely Llyan, Thøger Tetens Lund, Daniel Thomas, and Bill Hustad—“Sinner,” Joe Peña supplicates with St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. With special guest Little Cat. At Tap & Bottle (downtown)…

Until next week, XOXO…

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PERPETUAL CHANGE

Legislative session gets rolling with six proposed weed bills

By David Abbott tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com AS THE 2022 ARIZONA legislative session winds up its first month, cannabis “ambassadors” have spent the better part of this week taking arguments to legislators. Cannabis bills that were introduced are making their way to various committees to be tweaked or gutted depending on the moods of lawmakers.

For the cannabis world, that means the Arizona branch of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is conducting its second COVID-inspired lobby week, which (thanks to the pandemic) has replaced lobby day for the consumer advocacy organization.

“NORML’s role continues to be fighting for good legislation on behalf of Arizona’s cannabis consumers,” said Arizona NORML’s political director Jon Udell.

“When it comes to the cannabis law, the dispensaries have the ADA to look out for them, but who does the consumer have? They’ve got really nobody except for NORML. So we tried to speak their voice down at the Capitol to policymakers to make sure that they’re apprised of the consequences all their cannabis bills will have on consumers.”

The Arizona Dispensary Association is not the only other group watching the process. Some individual marijuana business owners are hiring their own lobbyists, and others, such as operators of testing labs, are keeping an eye out for their own self-interests as well.

For the past few months, NORML has reached out to the cannabis community in an effort to train citizens on the intricacies of the legislative process and navigating the azleg.gov website.

This week, efforts have been focused on 48 meetings scheduled with legislators of both parties who have proposed bills so far in this session. Not nearly as many MJ bills have dropped this year as last year, perhaps because Republican lawmakers are busy restricting voting rights, undermining public education and trying to make abortion illegal. But the six that have

been proposed will continue to shape the way Prop 207 is enforced.

Back in late-January, the Weedly introduced its readers to three bills that dropped early in the session, but since then, three more have been proposed.

Surprisingly, not all of them are bad.

WHAT’S DROPPED SINCE OUR LAST REPORT SB1402, SPONSORED BY SEN.

David Gowan (R-LD14), allows the 13 rural dispensary licenses awarded last April to become dual-use licenses.

Way, way back in April 2021, the Arizona Department of Health Services, which oversees both the medical and adult-use marijuana programs, created 13 new licenses to be assigned to counties that did not have dispensaries in order to increase access for residents in rural parts of the state.

The licenses are for adult-use “establishments” only, which means that medical marijuana patients in those counties would still have to drive many miles to get their medical-grade gummies—i.e. high potency—or resort to the “unregulated” market.

Additionally, patients in those communities would have to pay more for their medicine, given the 16% state tax and whatever local taxes are added to recreational purchases.

“You can’t get high-potency edibles and you can’t buy products without the excise tax,” Udell said. “That’s not good for patients and it’s also not good for the license holders who are being treated as a second class tier of licenses.”

Udell said that the way things are now, dual-license dispensaries in a town with one of the “backfill” licenses have a competitive advantage because of that dynamic and that it will also affect the forthcoming social equity licenses.

“This bill doesn’t expressly cover social equity licenses but there should be an amendment or another bill that does because a lot of the same issues are in place with those as well,” he said. “As a patient,

it’s in my rational economic self-interest to drive the extra distance right past the social equity dispensary to the MMJ dispensary to avoid taxes and get high potency edibles: You’re going to be really screwing social equity dispensaries out of the 300,000 medical marijuana patients in Arizona.”

The bill passed the Senate Health and Human Services committee on Feb. 2 with a 6-2 vote.

HB2007 was introduced by Rep. Rodriguez (D-LD27) who has since resigned his position in the legislature to run for state attorney general.

The bill would allow school administrators to refer students with violations of drug–free school zones to attend an alternate program for at-risk students rather than reporting them to law enforcement.

“There is good intention behind this bill in attempting to keep students from being referred to law enforcement regarding drug violations,” Arizona NORML director Mike Robinette wrote in an email.

“We support this bill but it has not been assigned to committee yet.”

SB1715 is a big one that could have a profound effect on both the cannabis and CBD markets. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Gowan and co-sponsored by Sens.

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(D-LD27), would ban hemp-derived Delta 8, Delta 10 and a variety of other hemp derived cannabinoids, possibly putting legitimate commercial outlets out of business.

Delta 8 is something of a hybrid of CBD and the Delta 9 cannabinoid that has a mild psychoactive effect on patients who use it.

“In theory, for patients, it could be something that helps them reap the medical relief for their body without having the kind of a head high that could stop them from really performing their job at a high level or just doing whatever they’re doing in their daily life,” Udell said.

The bill is receiving a lot of attention from the bigger players in the weed industry who want to keep non-cannabis products out of the market as a matter of self-interest.

Should it pass, manufacturers of hemp products would likely be put out of business due to cost increases for cannabis raw materials. Hemp-derived products are not subjected to testing that is done in the marijuana industry.

Arizona NORML has not taken an official position on this one.

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REMINDERS THOSE BILLS JOINED THE THREE previously reported on in the Weedly, which we reiterate here.

HB2082, sponsored by Joanne Osborne (R-LD13), would not allow dispensaries to offer samples to customers, but also brings back an unpopular attempt to stifle dispensary advertising. It can be seen as another effort to continue to stigmatize legitimate cannabis businesses.

It would not allow the distribution of free samples at dispensaries or the sale of weed to anyone who appears to be intoxicated.

Those against the bill say that it could unfairly target patients with conditions that might be seen as intoxication, who would then not be able to purchase needed medicine.

“We certainly don’t want to see any patient denied their medicine over this clause,” Robinette stated. “We also don’t agree with the bill only allowing the sponsorship of events that are attended by those 21 years old and older. This type of restriction certainly doesn’t apply to events with alcohol sponsorship so we don’t feel that marijuana sponsorship should be any different.”

The bill passed the Health and Human Services Committee on Jan. 24 by a 6-3 margin and also passed the Rules Committee 5-3 on Jan. 31.

HB2545, introduced by Representatives Kevin Payne (R-LD21) and David Cook (R-LD8), attempts to prohibit recipients of social equity licenses to sell the license within 10 years. If they do, the license would have to go to another individual who qualifies for the program.

“NORML has concerns about this bill and the unintended consequences that could have on social equity applicants’ abilities to obtain capital and eventually retire,” Udell said.

HB2260, introduced by Representatives Espinoza (D-LD19) and Andrea Dalessandro (D-LD2), seeks to add autism spectrum disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder for veterans as qualifying conditions for an Arizona medical cannabis certification.

This bill is a reprise of HB2154, which died in the 2021 session.

“We fully support the addition of Autism Spectrum Disorder and PTSD for veterans to the list of qualifying conditions,” Robinette stated. “However, there is language [in] this bill relative to physicians

recommending the potency, frequency and quantity of marijuana use for patients under 18 years of age that we cannot support. Furthermore, this language puts an unreasonable burden on parents in that a physician must assess a qualified patient on a monthly basis until it is determined that the patient is taking a stable dose.”

This bill has not been assigned to committee yet.

Lobby week will be nearing an end by the time this edition of Weedly hits the (real and virtual) stands, but the legislative session will continue for several more months before it finally grinds to the end.

No one knows how things will shake out, but as consumers and voters, it is important for our elected leaders to hear our voices.

There are many ways to do this, from checking the daily legislative agendas as azleg.gov to signing up for the request to speak (RTS) system that allows a simple up or down vote the bill’s sponsor can see as a way of gauging public support for proposed legislation.

Arizona NORML can offer assistance through its website, at arizonanorml.org or Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ NORML2.0.

“We encourage our volunteers to continue to make their voices heard on bills through RTS ,” Robinette said. “We will also use letter campaigns when needed to emphasize support or opposition of bills with legislators. People can also contact legislators in their district directly through email or phone calls. This is particularly powerful in that the legislators would be hearing from actual constituents in their district.”

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SAVAGE LOVE DRINKING GAMES

By Dan Savage, mail@savagelove.net

I’m a 40-year-old bi guy, and I’m really into drinking cum. I say “drinking” and not “swallowing” because I’m talking about glassfuls. I make and sell videos of me drinking large amounts of cum. Since I don’t have a stable of guys to supply me, I use frozen cum. It used to just be my own that I saved up over time, but I met a guy online a couple years ago that’s into feeding his cum to people like myself. I have some health concerns about it. First, could STIs survive the freezing-and-thawing process? I’ve already had a few glasses of his cum, so the boat has sailed regarding my current “cumbull,” as they’re known in my niche sexual community, but I’m looking at getting more donors. Second question, how much cum is safe to drink? And digest? It does give me an upset stomach, but I can usually handle that. But am I damaging myself by not taking my body’s prompt to throw it up? From the research I’ve done, it seems the zinc in cum is the biggest worry. Just 100 mls or so contains your daily required intake of zinc and too much zinc can have some negative health effects. I’m aiming to drink at least a liter in one video and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my doctor. Could you contact a doctor for me?

—Canadian Cumsumer P.S. I would’ve called into the podcast, but my sister is a listener, and I would rather not share this info with her.

Before anyone can jump in the comments and post “FAKE” in all caps, CC enclosed his Twitter handle in a post-post-script, which allowed me to verify that he’s for real. What’s more, a quick scroll through CC’s Twitter revealed that he’s not the only person out there methodically acquiring and chugging enormous amounts of semen. As it turns out, there’s a thriving community of “cumbulls” online who enjoy supplying, and even more cumguzzlers like CC who enjoy imbibing. (Sadly, CC asked me not to publish his Twitter handle, so you’ll just have to trust me: This letter is not a fake.)

Now, before I bring in the medical expert you hoped to hear from, CC, I wanna say this to my other readers: Nothing about CC’s kink appeals to me personally—it looks like way too much of a good thing— but CC and his cumbulls aren’t hurting anyone. Indeed, the world would be a better place if it had more Canadians like CC in it and fewer Canadians like those fascist assholes in trucks currently blocking border crossings.

Okay! Let’s meet this week’s guest expert!

“It seems like there are two questions here,” said Dr. Josh Trebach, an emergency medicine physician and a medical toxicology

fellow in New York City. “The first question is the risk of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), the second is, ‘How much is too much?’ Is it safe to drink large volumes of semen?”

Dr. Trebach looked at the medical literature, CC, but found it “extremely lacking” for individuals who freeze, thaw, and drink large amounts of semen. Yours is an underserved (except when you’re being overserved) and unrepresented (except on Twitter) population.

“But we do know that sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can be transmitted from performing oral sex,” said Dr. Trebach.

“This includes syphilis, herpes, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV. And while it’s tempting to assume the freezing and thawing process would create a less welcoming environment for STIs, there’s evidence to suggest some STIs survive the freezing process quite well. Gonorrhea can survive temperatures lower than -300 degrees Fahrenheit for over a year. Chlamydia has also been able to survive after being frozen.’’

Now, STIs are not spontaneously generated when semen comes into contact with saliva, of course, nor are they spontaneously generated when someone packs their cum in dry ice and ships it off to a stranger they met on the Internet. “But given the lack of data for those that freeze, thaw, then drink semen, I would encourage anyone doing this to err on the side of caution and assume practically the same risks as performing oral sex,” said Dr. Trebach.

“This means knowing the STI status of you and your partner(s) and engaging in appropriate prevention strategies, e.g., PrEP, and frequent STI testing.”

So, let’s say your cumbull has been tested and is currently STI-free and in a monogamous relationship with someone who has also been tested. Or tested, STI-free, and supplying his semen to men and women like you is his sole sexual outlet. If that’s the case, CC, you shouldn’t let an exaggerated fear of contracting an STI stop you from pursuing this pleasure. That said, CC, the more cumbulls you add to your herd, the greater your risk for contracting an STI becomes. Obviously. So, for safety’s sake where STIs are concerned, you should stick with your trusted supplier, even if that means longer waits between shoots.

As for your plan to drink an entire liter of cum in one video…

“So, how much is too much?” said Dr. Trebach. “In toxicology, we use a concept called the ‘median lethal dose,’ or ‘LD50,’ to describe how toxic a given substance is. The LD50 is, basically, the quantity of a substance that would kill 50% of people

who were exposed to it—or in CC’s case, ingested it. It would be theoretically possible to extrapolate from human or animal data on the lethal dose of each individual ingredient (such as zinc) to come up with the LD50 of semen, but this would be theoretical and imprecise.”

And now a little science, a little math, and a little guesswork (from me, not Dr. Trebach): Zinc is a trace element that’s important for our immune systems, metabolic functions, our body’s ability to heal wounds, and the production of important enzymes. Adult males should ingest about 11 milligrams of zinc daily, a single teaspoon of semen contains about 3% of that, and there are 203 teaspoons in a liter. So, if you were to drink an entire liter of semen, CC, you would be ingesting roughly six times your daily recommended allowance of zinc, or 66 milligrams. Assuming you don’t have some other, undiagnosed health condition, that’s probably not enough zinc (or semen) to kill you, but it is enough to make you puke.

“My opinion is that if you’re drinking so much of anything that you feel like you’re going to vomit, you should probably cut back, as that may be your body’s way of telling you something is wrong or that there is too much of something present,” said Dr. Trebach. “And continuous irritation to your gastrointestinal tract through direct injury, distension, and repeated exposure is not advised.”

And even if there might not be enough zinc in a liter of semen to kill you—or enough citric acid or fructose or potassium or cooties—that doesn’t mean it’s safe to quickly ingest a liter of it.

“An age-old adage in the world of toxicology is that the dose makes the poison,” said Dr. Trebach. “Even things that may seem benign—water, candy, semen—can be deadly with a high enough dose, and you can have ‘toxic’ effects well below a lethal dose. In one liter of semen there’s enough

sodium to surpass the recommended daily intake of sodium, and that’s just not really healthy.”

People have actually died from drinking too much water, CC. It’s rare, but it happens. And it stands to reason that if a person can die after drinking 3-4 liters of water over the course of a few hours— which, again, has happened—it wouldn’t surprise anyone to learn a person died after drinking an entire liter of semen over 140 seconds, i.e., the maximum length of a video clip posted to Twitter. You say you don’t want your sister finding out about your kink after hearing your voice on my podcast, CC, and I have to assume you don’t want your sister—or the rest of your family—finding out about your kink after hearing from the coroner.

I have a lot of mottos, CC, and one of them is, “Moderation in all things—including moderation.” Your kink is not my kink, CC, but your kink is okay, as the saying goes, and your kink is about the consumption of immoderate amounts of semen. But I would advise you, as I have advised many others, to be moderate about how often you’re immoderate. In your case, that means carefully choosing your cumbulls, puking when your body tells you to puke, and cutting back on the semen if your body needs to puke each time you do this.

Otherwise, enjoy.

But the final word goes to Dr. Trebach, who wanted to add a quick disclaimer: he hasn’t examined you or taken a full history and physical, CC, so he doesn’t want you to think this is true medical advice. “And I know talking with a doctor about some of these issues is hard, but I like to think things are getting better. Today’s new doctors are, in my opinion, much more comfortable and open when answering questions about sexual health. Although some questions may be niche, we physicians owe our patients respect and confidentiality as we are here to help them, not make judgments. Please find a doctor that you can discuss these questions with, so they can give you the best possibly recommendations.”

Follow Dr. Josh Trebach on Twitter @ jtrebach.

P.S. Good news, everybody! Just as I was wrapping up this column, CC responded to my email asking if he would reconsider and allow me to share his Twitter handle here. And he said yes! So, if there’s anyone out there who still thinks this letter is a fake, go have a look at @zoesixxx on Twitter. Be warned: you’ll never order the chowder again. questions@savagelovecast.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY HOROSCOPE 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700 $1.99 per minute. 18 and over. Touchtone phone required.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Real love is a pilgrimage,” declared author Anita Brookner. “It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.” That’s the bad news, Aries. The good news is that you have more potential than ever before to free your love of strategic maneuvering and manipulation. For the foreseeable future, I invite you to drop all romantic agendas and simply make yourself extra receptive to love’s teachings. Are you ready to learn what you don’t even realize you need to know?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the near future, I’ll be pleased if you dole out lavish praise to allies who enchant you. I will celebrate if you deliver loving inspirations and lush invitations to those who help you fulfill your reasons for being here on the planet. To get you in the mood, here are some suggested provocations. 1. “Your body makes mine into a shrine; holy, divine, godtouched.” —Ramona Meisel. 2.

“Your luster opens glories on my glowing face.” —Federico García Lorca. 3. “All night long if you want. We’ll tell our secrets to the dark.” —Gayle Forman. 4. “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.” —Bob Dylan. 5. “We are each other’s harvest. We are each other’s business. We are each other’s magnitude and bond.” —Gwendolyn Brooks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Gemini author Orhan Pamuk’s novel Snow, the main character Ka asks a woman named Ipek, “What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?”

Ipek’s answer: “Be yourself.” In the coming days, Gemini, I would love you to engage in similar exchanges with those you care for. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, now is a favorable time for you and your best allies to shed all fakery and pretense so that you may be soulfully authentic with each other—and encourage each other to express what’s most raw and genuine.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are you in the mood to make extravagant gestures in behalf of love? Are you feeling an urge to move beyond your habitual approaches to intimate togetherness as you dare to engage in fun experiments? Now is a good time for such behavior with allies you trust. To spur your imagination, immerse yourself in the spirit of this poem by Nizar Qabbani: “I abandon my dictionaries to the flames, / And ordain you my language. / I fling my passport beneath the waves, / And christen you my country.” Your homework: Dream up and carry out a playful and audacious venture that will energize one of your close relationships.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I’ve created a list of splashy titles for stories or poems or songs or artworks or dances that you could compose for beloved allies or people you want to be beloved allies. I hope my list inspires you to get gushy and lyrical. I hope you’ll be creative and marvelous as you express your passionate appreciation.

Here are the titles: 1. Glistening Passion. 2.

Incandescent Rapture. 3. Succulent Dazzle.

4. Molten Luminosity. 5. Splashy Fire Bliss.

6. Shimmering Joy Beams. 7. Opulent Delirium. 8. Wild Soul Synergy. 9. Sublime Friction. 10. Fluidic Gleam Blessings. 11.

Throbbing Reverence. 12. Sacred Heart Salvation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Author Eve Ensler tells us, “You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.” This is perfect counsel for you to carry out in the coming weeks, Virgo. Life will conspire to help you heal yourself, in dramatic and even semi-miraculous ways, as you offer the people and animals you care for the same blessings that you crave to receive. I foresee an influx of restorative karma flowing in your direction. I predict the fixing of at least some of your broken parts.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In Michael Chabon’s novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, the character named Arthur says to the character named Cleveland, “Love is like falconry. Don’t you think that’s true?” Cleveland replies, “Never say love is like anything. It isn’t.” I propose we make that your meditation during this Valentine season, Libra. In accordance with astrological omens, you will be wise to purge all your preconceptions about love. Use your ingenuity to revive your innocence about the subject. Cultivate a sense of wonder as you let your imagination run wild and free in its fantasies about love and sex and intimacy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’ll love it if sometime soon you create a situation in which you tell an ally words similar to what author Jamaica Kincaid spoke to her lover: “To behold the startling truths of your naked body frees me to remember the song I was born from.” Do you think you can make that happen, Scorpio? The astrological indicators at play in your life suggest that it would be right and sacred for you to do so. And if there is no such ally, then I hope you will deliver the same message to your naked self. And by the way, what is the song you were born from? (PS: There has never been a better time than now to learn treasured truths about yourself through your connections with others.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m afraid I must be downright practical and mundane in my oracle for you. Don’t hate me! I’m only reporting what the planetary omens are telling me. They say that now is a favorable time for you to practice, practice and practice some more the fine arts hinted at by author Ivan Goncharov: “A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: It requires a great deal of experience of life, logic and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.” Be diligently positive, Sagittarius, as you work through the demanding daily trials of togetherness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’ll offer you a radical idea about love from author Hélène Cixous. Although it’s not always true for everyone, it will have special meaning for you in the coming months. She wrote, “It is easy to love and sing one’s love. That is something I am extremely good at doing.

But to be loved, that is true greatness.

Being loved, letting oneself be loved, entering the magic and dreadful circle of generosity, receiving gifts, finding the right thank-you’s, that is love’s real work.” How about it, Capricorn? Are you up for the challenge? Are you willing to expand your capacity to welcome the care and benevolence and inspiration coming your way from others?

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Actor Leelee Sobieski was mourning her romantic adventures—or rather the lack of romantic adventures. She said, “If only I could find a guy who wasn’t in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I’d be madly in love.”

The good news is that Sobieski knows precisely what she wants, and it’s not all that complicated. The bad news is that there are few men near her own age (38) who enjoy discussing the fine points of the endangered bird species known as the white crane. I bring her predicament to your attention, Aquarius, in the hope that you’ll be inspired to be as exact and lucid as she is in identifying what you want—even as you cheat just a bit in the direction of wanting what is actually available.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’ve never offered you the wisdom of actor Natalie Portman, but her idealistic attitude about relationships is exactly what I think you should aspire to in the coming months.

She said, “I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn’t comfortable for them to do just to please me? And the answer is no.” What do you think, Pisces? Do you suspect it might be interesting to apply that principle to your closest alliances? I hope so. If you do, the planetary energies will conspire to deepen your intimate bonds.

What love goal would you like to accomplish between now and February 2023?

Write it down, stating it as an intention and vow. Share? Frewillstrology.com

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