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Spring Arts 2022

Your comprehensive cultural compendium!

By Margaret Regan and Emily Dieckman

TUCSON SALVAGE: Remembrance of Homes Past

SONORAN EXPLORIN’: Sweetwater and Saguaros

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A dog-friendly hike, a word of advice, and a middle school memory

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SPECIAL SECTION

Spring Arts 2022! Theatre, dance, museums and galleries around town

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

EDITOR’S NOTE

Jaime Hood, General Manager, jaime@tucsonlocalmedia.com

Get Culture!

Tyler Vondrak, Associate Publisher, tyler@tucsonlocalmedia.com Claudine Sowards, Accounting, claudine@tucsonlocalmedia.com Sheryl Kocher, Receptionist, sheryl@tucsonlocalmedia.com

AS I READ OVER THIS YEAR’S SPRING Arts preview, I was struck by how fortunate we are to live in a community with such a thriving arts scene. Sure, the pandemic took its toll on local arts venues and organizations, but they are bouncing back strong. Our museums and galleries are back to hosting dazzling and challenging shows, our theater troupes are back on stage with comedies, dramas and everything in-between, and our dancers are once again gracefully leaping into action. Longtime arts writer Margaret Regan, calendar editor Emily Dieckman and UA School of Journalism intern Allison Fagan round up all the opportunities in our 24-page Spring Arts Preview.

Elsewhere in the book this week: Emily Dieckman does double-duty as she tries to take her dog for a walk in her new Sonoran Explorin’ column; Tucson Salvage columnist Brian Smith takes a trip down memory lane; UA intern Jillian Bartsch looks at a new art project designed to inspire new weather proverbs by visitors

to Tumamoc Hill; staff reporter Alexandra Pere previews this weekend’s wine festival in Oro Valley; XOXO columnist Xavier Omar Otero fills you in on all the music performances you can catch this week, including appearances from the likes of Storm Large & Le Bongeur, the Oak Ridge Boys, Leo Kottke and Insane Clown Posse; Tucson Weedly columnist David Abbott looks at a controversy over Delta 8, a hemp-derived cannabis cousin; and, of course, we’ve got our calendar, horoscope, sex column, cartoons and so much more to keep you flipping through our pages.

Get out and enjoy some arts, willya?

Jim Nintzel Executive Editor Hear Nintz talk about all the fun you can have in this burg at 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays during the world-famous Frank Show on KLPX, 96.1 FM.

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the next Picasso. I was being lazy, trying to recreate the photo without really looking at it. I felt like I already knew what a saguaro looked like, from cartoons and pop culture and the Discovery Channel: a big tall stick with two arms waving hello.

A dog-friendly hike, a word of advice and a middle school memory Mr. Gregory took me back to the photo and tried to show me how to notice. The arms of the saguaro weren’t uniform sizes. sure you search for Sweetwater Preserve,

By Emily Dieckman The spines were barely visible, unlike the big not Sweetwater Wetlands—which looked tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com black thorns I had tried to paint. The sun had beautiful in pictures but is emphatically not a distinct ring of orange around it I hadn’t dog friendly. I’m almost certainly not the first I GOOGLED “DOG FRIENDLY HIKES noticed before. person to make this mistake, but hopefully in Tucson” last weekend and set off to one This would be a more inspiring story if I of the listed destinations. When our German I’ll be the last. Please tell your friends. had grown up to be an artist or something, Sweetwater Preserve was only about 15 Shepherd mix, Zelda, and I arrived at the but, nope: Still bad at art. But I think about minutes away. The trailhead parking lot was trailhead, we were greeted by a comically his lesson with the cactus sometimes anyfull of cars with bumper stickers that said large NO DOGS ALLOWED sign. way. Before, it felt like a lesson about paying things like “I Love My Pitbull” and “Life’s Maybe… we could… do it anyway? My better attention. Now that I am grown up Better With a Dog,” so we knew we were in mind started a feeble line of argument that and live in the Land of Saguaros, thinking the right place. The preserve is an 880ishit already knew I wasn’t pursuing. The “no of art class reminds me to let attention turn acre area just west of the I-10, with around dogs” signs (and there were several) were to appreciation, especially for wherever I almost as big as my 65-pound dog. Running 15 miles of trails. It’s a big, beautiful sea of happen to be. Right now, that’s Tucson. saguaros out there. into someone on the trail and telling them, We are all so used to saguaros it’s hard to On saguaros: I took an art class in middle “Oh, I didn’t realize!” was not going to be see them sometimes. They wave at us from feasible. I tried to get a picture of my dog in school where I grew up in California, in street medians and shopping centers and which one of our assignments was to find a front of the sign to capture how silly I felt. our own backyards. And they’ve become photograph in a magazine and then try to But then I saw some people coming and their own aesthetic, with people buying recreate it. I chose a saguaro at sunset. My worried they might be upset with me for saguaro-patterned notebooks, punny T-shirts mocking the laws of nature (well, the laws of teacher, an elderly hippie with an enormous and mass-produced art prints romanticizing gray beard, was not impressed. this particular nature), so we left. the Southwest.

“That doesn’t look like a cactus,” he said.

I don’t hike enough to be the sort of perBut, oh, how neat they are! They are son you should take hiking advice from, but “That looks like what you think a cactus homes and perches for birds, their fruit is I do have one important suggestion to share. looks like.” food for mammals, and their woody ribs can Maybe it sounds like he was squashing my If you Google “dog-friendly hikes in Tucson,” be construction materials. Also, while there artistic sensibility, but he was right. I wasn’t Sweetwater Preserve Trailhead will come are certainly saguaros that look just like the trying to do an impressionistic piece or be up. When you look up the directions, make

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ones in cartoons, there is a much wider and more whimsical variety of saguaro poses than I ever expected. Some are just starting to grow arms that look like cute little pom poms. Some have no arms. Some have up to 25! Some look like hands, or tridents, or ballerinas, or octopi.

Every time I go hiking, I think about how I should do it more often. Sometimes the value of a hike is seeing something new: a snow-topped mountain, a serene and isolated lake, a sea of new colors. But there’s also value in going to whatever nature you happen to have handy and just being in it, maybe with a dog who can really model the joy of living in the moment. Leaving your to-do list and your laundry list and your listlessness at home to wander around and wave to the saguaros. Just make sure you type the right location into your GPS. ■

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SEE YOU IN COURT!

Legislative bill adds ‘teeth’ to parents’ bill of rights, paving the way for lawsuits against teachers

It also empowers the attorney general to take schools to court and could result in fines for up to $5,000.

The proposal comes amid conservative TEACHERS COULD FACE LAWSUITS backlash against public schools over maskfrom parents and potential criminal charges ing policies and allegations that “critical under proposed legislation that adds penal- race theory” is being taught, although this ties to violations of Arizona’s parents’ bill of bill doesn’t actually ban either. What it does do is add legal deterrents to already agreed rights. on violations like performing surgery on State law already protects the rights of parents to raise their children, but it doesn’t children without parental consent or denying records releases. The rights to make include recourse for parents who feel their decisions about the moral, educational and rights have been violated. That would change if Senate Bill 1049 becomes law. The health care needs of children are all generally protected, unless other laws overrule measure would give parents the ability to sue teachers and school districts for alleged them, as in the case of mask mandates.

Speaking Feb. 10 at a meeting of the violations, and anyone found in violation Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Kelwould face a class 2 misdemeanor.

By Gloria Gomez UA Don Bolles Fellow

ly Townsend, R-Mesa, said that without penalties her bill provides, parental rights exist in name only. She rejected an attempt

by Committee Chairman Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, to remove the criminal penalties to help boost support for the bill in the full Senate, saying teachers and schools should be held accountable.

“Without teeth, it’s just a suggestion,” she said, before adding that she was open to discussing the issue further at a later date.

Dana Allmond, a mother of four and a Democratic candidate for state representative, said she is worried that the specter of criminal charges and lawsuits against teachers will harm education in Arizona.

Teachers are already overstretched enough, Allmond said.

“My children’s teachers have been pushing themselves to the point of fatigue and burnout,” she said. ‘I’m worried about (their) health and wellness and how that will affect my kids.”

In an email to the Arizona Mirror, an Arizona Department of Education spokeswoman said the department is opposed to bills that create financial or criminal penalties for teachers and schools, and that there are already avenues in place to address parent

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concerns.

“We know parents and teachers share the same goal of helping their students learn and grow. That goal is best met by building stronger, trusting relationships instead of accusatory rhetoric and burdensome policy proposals,” Morgan Dick said.

Michelle Dillard, a mother and leader in the conservative Purple for Parents movement, told the committee she supports taking a more active enforcement approach to protecting the bill of rights.

“Arizona has more respect for traffic laws than the constitutional and state statutory rights of parents. If you’re found to be speeding, you’ll get a ticket. It’s both a punishment and a deterrent. But you violate parent’s rights and nothing,” she said.

In Troxel v. Granville (2000), the Supreme Court ruled that parents have a fundamental right to make decisions about their children’s care.

Steve Daniels, chairman of the right-wing Patriot Party, spoke in support of the bill, saying it would ensure the “agenda (schools) are pushing” would be eliminated. Daniels has a history of disrupting school board meetings to protest mask requirements and CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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curriculum about race. He has no children and was arrested last year for trespassing at a Chandler school district office.

“The districts and individual teachers need accountability if they’re blatantly violating parents’ rights,” he said.

Supporters of the legislation called the current parent’s bill of rights a “so what” law, meaning there’s no way to enforce it if a violation occurs. Anna Van Hoek said she was frustrated by this, and claimed parental rights had been violated since the start of the pandemic nearly two years ago.

“Kids in Tucson are still in masks, even without a state mandate,” she complained.

Tucson Unified School District has kept its mask mandate in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among its student body since the courts last year found that a prohibition on mask mandates approved by GOP lawmakers and Gov. Doug Ducey was unconstitutional. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supports the use of masks in schools to reduce the transmission of COVID-19.

The bill passed 5-3 along party lines, with Republicans supporting it and Democrats in opposition, and will next be discussed by CLAYTOONZ

the full Senate.

Sen. Sonny Borelli, R-Lake Havasu City, said adding penalties is a necessary step to ensure that things like sex education stay out of non-sex education designated classes.

“We put laws on the books and we need to ensure compliance,” he said.

Sen. Martin Quezada, a Glendale Democrat, said criminalizing teachers and schools is the wrong way to resolve parent frustrations. He also serves on the Pendergast Elementary School District governing board, which he said was successful in calming tempers just by sitting down and talking with angry people in “purple shirts” — a reference to Purple for Parents. Quezada said this legislation encourages adversarial interactions between parents which would ultimately harm students.

“Nobody is out to violate parent’s rights.

We’re out to serve your kids,” he said. ■ Gloria Gomez is a senior at the University of Arizona and the 2022 UA School of Journalism’s Don Bolles Fellow. The UA School of Journalism started the fellowship in 1977 to honor Don Bolles, an Arizona Republic reporter killed in a 1976 car bombing. This article originally appeared in the Arizona Mirror, an online nonprofit news agency.

Find more at azmirror.com.

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Story & photos by Brian Smith

This Old House THE OLD HOUSE ON SOUTH Kenyon Drive in Tucson, where I spent the first eight years of my life. I am standing outside of it on a chilly sunset with my wife and daughters, two-year-old Rickie and 9-month old Zuzu. I am here because I can’t stop thinking of beginnings, now relative to my own children, how personal narratives coalesce like genetic codes. The melancholy swells and my patient wife listens. The old house is a foundation, a springboard of longing, of nostalgia, of euphoric and despairing recall, and therefore a teacher. How love can never be implied, or beaten into you, how silence can never be a thing.

The first memory: The smell of my mother’s cigarettes, her white bathrobe, night slippers, and the little blue spider veins webbing on her lower legs, and my three-year-old self in that kitchen attempting to articulate the sadness, those imprecise ways of seeing the world in embryonic logic, purely visceral, unformed words and twirling fingers to communicate some unperceivable frequency. How the light slanting into the kitchen from the window looking out at the carport deepened the sadness.

She was so pretty to me, the shyness I felt in her presence. I thought she would go on a TV variety show with Vickie Lawrence and then come home and make us dinner.

It is even in the steps, haunted strides over exact spots. We step around the block to the arroyo that still divides the alley behind our old house. The ever-tempting, dad-forbidden playground where my big brother slipped and dropped a boulder on my five-year-old head and split it open.

The blood poured over my forehead

and blinded me, drenching my shirt and pooling on the ground. We made it back to the house to my mom’s horrified expression and shriek. You can’t forget that look and sound from your mother. To me there was sweetness in it, no resistance, implying more; affection over intolerance, a love. The hospital rush, the stitches. I had thought the stitches kept the gunk inside my head from rising out and splitting two. I can caress that scar on my head now until it hurts, until it feels like a wound.

I hear my mother’s hisses directed at my father. My father disseminated them into rages and his hands grew big, like they belonged to a beast in charge of a cave. I do something wrong and dad would snap a switch off a backyard tree, yank my pants down and give it to me hard in front of a friend or sibling. The screams and paralysis, the bruises, my desperate hands attempting to block the whips on my behind, pissing the ground in front of me, in shame.

I shudder at any ugly whispers of my future outbursts at Rickie, Zuzu and son Reece.

More beginnings. The silences.

Silent, alone in the passenger seat of my Dad’s pickup truck heading out to cut dead mesquite trees for firewood with his chainsaw, somewhere toward Patagonia. The assiduousness in his tasks, and therefore mine, in lieu of laughter or storytelling, a resounding nervous silence the bond between us.

It lasted decades. That silence had to connect us, had to show an unspoken, implicit love. Did he forget what it meant to be a boy? His father died before I was born and my father died before my children were born. I will never know.

He’d laugh hard at Foster Brooks and Red Skelton, I knew even then it was somehow a backside to a fierce if stoic intelligence. How he knew origins of anything, Mark Twain, Gibson guitars, electromagnetic radiations.

I barely knew his fascinations in

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a wonder. He’d laugh on days-away mountain camping trips with all five kids. Stored Pabst in the cold running creek, cooking on the Coleman, sleeping in the tent. The air prickly of pine trees, campfire and exploration.

A surge of sudden, honest affection: My dad’s love shone in kind of strict, militaristic ways, he served in the Air Force, and I know in dad’s mind it was as big as the Christmas Trees he planted in the front yard after my big sister’s first Christmases here. Those trees grew four stories high, tallest damn trees on the street, in the world. The tender way he nurtured our family dog Samantha, and the kisses at bedtime on his thorny, five-o-’clock-shadowed cheek. How when he died several years ago he was my favorite human, I’d long ago lost any fear of him, whatever leftover rubble was mine to deal with.

My parents met and fell in love when they’d both worked at KOPO radio in Tucson. Maybe they shouldn’t have married. My mother later moved on after her infidelities. Things that were never talked about. The rape my mother suffered before they were together.

The three-bedroom, one-bath house met the more-than-modest standards of tract housing built for working-class families in the mid-1950s, mowed over creosote bush and prickly pear, Christian families settling in for work at Hughes Aircraft missile plant (now Raytheon) or Davis Monthan Air Force base, or in my father’s case, cameraman and then chief engineer at KOLD-TV, channel 13, who raised five children here on that salary. How ours was built for safety, cared for that way, and protection. My parents were the first owners, proud, and you can see it in the eyes of my father in a black and white photo standing outside of the house with his father, when the construction was just completed. I was the fourth born here of five children, arrived home from St. Joseph’s hospital in the 1960s.

In the 8mm home movies my father shot of all of us growing up on Kenyon

Drive, the grainy vérité reveals awkward, deceptively elated worlds beyond the known ones, Easter dresses and first communions, camping trips and a sparkly bike beside the Christmas tree for my big brother who wept in joy. Showed parents doing what they knew, likely what their parents taught them. So much of it a kind of DNA to unlearn.

The early dark nights in a dark neighborhood and the big-kids down the street with long hair and The Rolling Stones, banned aliens to my father. Their stories of mythical murderers, “The Pied Piper of Tucson is coming to get you! Charles Manson is coming to get you!” would terrify me at night in our room, on the bunk bed with my big brother on top and my little brother on the rollout bed beneath mine. But I knew this house was my fortress, my father my protector, those big mean hands could take on anyone.

I’d go into the darkness, finally. The whir of the swamp cooler, the damp air of indoor summer nights, lulling seven sets of eyes to sleep.

I lived in this house the first eight years of my life, we moved at my son’s age to a bigger home further east, where things fell apart.

I wish to tell the current owners of the Kenyon house I’m grateful for their obvious love of this sturdy red-brick home. It is well kept; gravel, cacti and concrete in place of lawns my big sister would trim along the sidewalk with hand shears. The Christmas trees are long gone. But the curb on which we sat waiting in burning sun for the icecream man, its rounded-top concrete, is the same.

Back in front of the house, two-yearold Rickie is running around in the yard, the exact spaces I played in at her age, laughing in her bumble-bee suit.

The melancholy and old-world memory debris recedes, something else takes its place.

Rickie somehow knows she is trespassing, such mischievousness, and from old home movies I can see my big sisters in her. This is not our home, but I swear she senses a connection. ■

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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.

The Third Man. Showing as part of the Screening Room’s film noir series, this film features Orson Welles out of the director’s chair and acting in a small but central role as Harry Lime. When a struggling novelist heads to Vienna, where he’s been promised a job by his friend Lime, he finds Lime has just died.

But the more he learns about the situation, and about his friend, the weirder things get. Roger Ebert said, “Of all the movies I’ve seen, this one most completely embodies the romance of going to the movies.” And if that’s not a good endorsement, I don’t know what is. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17. The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress St. $5.

Action Week Book Drive. The Assistance League of Tucson has been strengthening community and bettering lives here in the Old Pueblo since 1959. This is an easy, pleasant way to support their mission. Throughout the week, they’ll be accepting donations of NEW books for all ages at the following locations: Mildred and Dildred, 1725 N. Swan Road; Mostly Books, 6208 E. Speedway Blvd.; and Barnes & Noble East, 5130 E. Broadway Blvd. They will also have a donation drop off box at their thrift store, 1307 Alvernon Way. A wonderful way to share your favorite book with someone. The book drive lasts from Tuesday, Feb. 22, to Wednesday, March 2.

Cruise, BBQ & Blues. At SAACA’s annual classic car show, the local arts organization brings it all together: the science, art and mechanics of a good car; the perfect selection of oldies that make a good setlist; and the delicious selections of meat that make a good barbecue plate. (There are also other food vendors, though, if barbecue isn’t your thing.) There are several bands, more than 40 classes of prizes for the car show, and endless fun to be had.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19. Oro

Valley Market Place, 12155 N. Oracle Road. $5 GA, free for kids 10 and under and a $1 discount for veterans & active duty military.

Interpretations. The current group show over at the Wilde Meyer Gallery is a lovely mix of pieces, from pure abstract work to artistic interpretations of landscapes, humans and animals. While they’re on display through the month, come see them at this special reception this weekend, featuring live entertainment by harpist Vanessa Myers. I’m particularly excited about the colorful, layered work by artists Greg Dye and Judy Choate, and the surrealist work by Timothy Chapman.

But the whole show is truly a treat. 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18. Wilde Meyer Gallery, 2890 E. Skyline Drive.

Free.

by Emily Dieckman Howard Alden Trio at the Century Room. Have you been down to the Tucson’s only dedicated jazz club yet? It opened just this month at Hotel Congress, and it’s the cat’s meow, with intimate performances, fantastic acoustics and a beautiful bar with an extensive drink selection. This week, hear from Howard Alden, a world-renowned guitarist from NYC who recently moved to Phoenix. He’s played with everyone from Benny Carter to Dizzy Gillespie, and he’ll be playing some of his favorites at this show. He also recorded the soundtrack for Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown.”

Doors at 7 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18.

Century Club, 311 E. Congress St. $15, plus a one-item minimum.

Friends of Pima Library Community Book Sale. If you missed the library’s members-only book sale last weekend, here’s your chance to snag some good reads (and more!) This month’s theme is “tiny books,” making it a great chance to pick up some gifts for loved ones. A tiny book of cake recipes or knock-knock jokes is a much less intimidating gift than, like, The Brothers Karamazov. They’ve also got newly added sections, including the Storytime Shelf, with copies of the children’s books read on the library YouTube channel. Sale is 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18, to Monday, Feb. 21.

Regular prices Friday, 25% discount for 55+ on Saturday, half off on Sunday and $10 library bags on Monday.

One Night of Queen. You might have seen Freddy Mercury impersonators before, but have you seen Gary Mullen, the winner of the British TV talent show Stars in Your Eyes? He received more than 800,000 votes from all over the world for his Freddy Mercury performance. Since then, he and his team have performed sold-out engagements all over the world, including twice at the BBC Broadcast Proms in the Park. Better get those vocal chords warmed up so you can give into the irresistible human instinct to sing along with “Bohemian Rhapsody.” 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22.

The Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St. $30 to $70.

British Invasion & Beyond. Honestly, I think Mondays would be a lot easier to get through if we knew there was a British rock ’n’ roll concert waiting for us at the end of each one. This concert at the Gaslight Theatre goes beyond the Beatles to celebrate some of the most iconic hit-makers from across the pond, including Herman’s Hermits, The Animals, the Dave Clark Five and the Rolling Stones. We’ll see you blokes there. 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 21. Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. $27 GA, $25 student/senior/military, $15 kids 2 to 12.

SpeedQuizzing Trivia at Casa Video.

Sometimes you just need to unwind at the end of a Tuesday by rounding up some friends, sipping on a beer, and screaming movie facts at the top of your lungs. Which makes this Tuesday, 2/22 (happy Two-sday!) event the perfect way to spend an evening. It’s free to play, there’s 50 bucks worth of prizes to be won, and You Sly Dog is going to be there serving up hotdogs. As you know, it’s important to be properly fueled up on Sonoran hotdogs when you are diving into a trivia night. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22. Casa Video and Film Bar, 2905 E. Speedway Blvd.

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MOUNTAIN MAXIMS

Tumamoc Hill art installation asks the community to create new weather proverbs

By Jillian Bartsch tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com “WHEN THE SUN BURNS, we remember these tales about the light...”

A new art installation on Tumamoc Hill invites the community to create weather proverbs as a meditation on the changing climate. The project, “Future Climate Proverbs,” is hosted by the University of Arizona’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and is collaborating with the UA Poetry Center.

According to Ben Wilder, the Desert Laboratory director, the project encourages people to slow down and make observations of the world around them.

“Long held understandings of weather and climate have been preserved in sayings and proverbs, like ‘red sky at night, sailors delight’, that in the English language has centuries of background, but in other cultures is very prominent as well,” Wilder said.

The goal of the project is to recognize that these long-held understandings of weather are changing along with the climate, according to Wilder.

The art installation includes four slates along the hike on Tumamoc Hill for walkers to respond to a proverb prompt using chalk.

The slates have prompts written in English, Spanish and O’odham languages. One prompt in O’odham translates to, “when the moon is half full and stands upright it will…” A prompt in Spanish translates to “when the light heals we remember this on behalf of the sun…”

“We can have a proactive role in the change around us and try to inflict posi-

tivity in what can be an overriding fearbased response to the climatic change,” Wilder said.

Arts philosopher Jonathon Keats led the project, and also composed the prompts along with local poets Raquel Gutiérrez and Ofelia Zepeda.

Keats was interested in thinking about rhyme and repetition and also about weather signs that are indicative of Tucson and the Sonoran Desert.

“I was particularly interested in looking at the differences of the summer and winter rain, and the conditions that tend to foretell those,” Keats said.

Keats wrote the two English prompts: “When the heat of summer is struck with thunder”… and “if winter storm clouds coolly gather…”

The slates can be found at the bottom of Tumamoc Hill near the boathouse, midway up the hill in front of the agave garden, near the middle gate and at the top of the hill.

Wilder related the responses on the slates to the New Yorker, which has a cartoon section where captions are left blank to prompt readers around the world to fill in their own responses.

“People’s creativity is incredible and that is what we are seeing here,” Wilder said.

Another goal with the project is to help people who visit Tumamoc Hill see the intersecting cultures and geographies that exist around the location.

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OLD-SCHOOL COOL Old Pueblo Cellars embraces classic wine making

By Alexandra Pere apere@tucsonlocalmedia.com NEWLY OPENED OLD PUEBLO Cellars Winery will make its festival debut at Off The Vine, bringing organic wines made with traditional techniques.

Although Old Pueblo Cellars recently opened on Oasis Road, owner Roger Pelton has been interested in winemaking since the 1970s.

“We became accidental vintners,” Pelton said.

Pelton bought a large ranch in the fertile area of Mariposa, California in the early ’70s. Pelton’s boys discovered grapes on the property one summer. He asked his sons to show him where they found grapes.

“It was a vineyard that had been planted probably around the turn of the century, maybe close to 100 years, 80 years before that, and hadn’t been cared for because it was isolated,” he said.

Older neighbors taught Pelton how to make wine based on traditional techniques like slow fermentation. Pelton made wine from his grapes and gave bottles to his neighbors. “Everybody thought it was just delicious,” he said Pelton had to take a step away from winemaking when he moved to Texas in the ’90s. Yet, he came back to his beloved hobby in 2008 after purchasing land in Tucson. Pelton asked University of Arizona experts to analyze the soil for grape growing potential. They gave Pelton six varieties that could survive the heat.

“These were heat-loving grapes and

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“We don’t filter, we use cold fermentation, and we don’t use any pesticides or herbicides other than organic,” Roger Pelton said.

they flourished, they just went crazy,” he said with a laugh. “You know what they call wine: liquid sunshine.”

Using those old-fashioned techniques

taught to him decades before, Old Pueblo Cellars has produced two white wine and four red wine varieties. White varieties are left in a wood barrel for about a year and

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a half. Reds absorb flavors from the wood barrel for three to four years. All of Old Pueblo Cellars’ wines will be available at Off The Vine Wine Festival.

“There are three major things we don’t really do,” he said. “We don’t filter, we [don’t use heated] fermentation, and we don’t use any pesticides or herbicides other than organic.”

Cold fermentation can be a long process for winemaking and Pelton says this technique is rarely used by large-scale wineries. Heated fermentation is quicker for mass production purposes, but Pelton says this leads to less complex flavors.

The winery does not blend its wines and Pelton avoids sulfites because he is among those who suffer from headaches when they drink wine that contains sulfites, which wineries often use to enhance taste and preservation. Besides headaches, a small number of people experience side effects such as heavy breathing and digestive problems after ingesting sulfites.

“They add things to try to make it better, and they always make it worse,” Pelton said.

Old Pueblo Cellars’ varieties include:

• Viognier (white), full flavor of almonds and peaches with the creamiest finish of Old Pueblo’s wines.

• Malvasia (white), enhanced with floral notes. Tropical fruits such as guava and mango are highlighted by lychee.

• Sangiovese (red), an incredible tomato top herbal at the finish with a full-bodied taste of red cherries and holiday spice at first sip.

• Malbec (red) is a fruity and acidic variety that derives complexity from blueberries, pomegranates, herbs and violets.

• Petite Sirah (red) is high in tannins with the unique taste of cooked blackberries and mint.

• Tempranillo (red), is a warm blend of tobacco, leather, spice, and plum that makes this wine a revelation on the palette. ■

OFF THE VINE WINE FESTIVAL ORO VALLEY’S PURPLE mountains will be the complimentary treat to go along with this year’s range of locally sourced pours of red and white wines at this year’s 8th annual Off The Vine Arizona Wine Festival.

Hosted by the Arizona Wine Growers Association (AWGA), the Steam Pump Ranch will bring together 26 Arizona wineries, live music, and food trucks from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19.

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“I think people are very excited to be able to attend festivals again and are really looking forward to this event,” AWGA spokesperson Hillary Rusk said. “It’s been a long time coming.”

Non-alcoholic drinks will be provided to children, and designated drivers are welcome to attend at no cost. Drinking tickets are available online for $30 or at the door for $35. The ticket purchase includes a commemorative wineglass and eight wine tasting tickets.

Old Pueblo Cellars tasting room is now open for limited capacity at noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. seven days a week. Contact Roger Pelton at (520) 551-1011 or email him at info@oldpueblocellars.com to make a reservation.

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

At 191 Toole… Slumber drunk, inspired by grunge, these 20-something alternative rockers drip with ‘90s angst and sheets of sopping guitars. Droll make a big noise.

At Club Congress. With Space Junk and Deep Stay… 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)… Purveyors of the blues, The Porch Rockers do just that.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 18 Yum Yum Bedlam. With lyrics that center on the mythology of the Dark Carnival—a metaphoric limbo where the dead are judged by entities—in 1989, the ICP emerged from the darkest depths of the Dertroit underground to a world that had yet to imagine the impact that hardcore hip-hop would come to bear on pop culture. Shunned by MTV and banned from radio airwaves, their would-be career was seemingly beset by doom. Haloed in the uneven light of excess and sheer chaos, Insane Clown Posse present Big Hair Hard Rock Heavy Metal Head Bang. Tucson may never be the same. At Rialto Theater…

In an interview with Fifteen Questions, Los Angeles-based DJ/producer Noizu recalls his humble beginnings. “My first studio was pretty basic, I had an iMac with Pro Tools and a bunch of plugins. It was nothing special, but was perfect for what I needed starting out.” After being asked by DJ Snake to remix his smash “A Different Way,” in 2017, Noizu’s career has springboarded. Noizu brings his latest house banger “Mi Corazon” to Gentle Ben’s. With locals Low Audio, Lunarfluxx, and Travatli… HipHop Jazz Fusion Night features wordsmiths Aske, Cash Lansky and Pheo delivering their stylized rhymes with live backing from the Freddy Walker Jazz Band. At Thunder Canyon Brewery (downtown)… Maestro José Luis Gomez introduces the music of Ulysses Kay. The nephew of New Orleans jazz trumpeter King Oliver, Kay was born in Tucson in 1917. A prodigy, he studied piano, violin, and saxophone at the University of Arizona and the Eastman School of Music before finishing his education in Rome after receiving a Fulbright Scholarship, the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. Kay is recognized as one of the leading black composers of classical music in the 20th century. In a program featuring works by J. Strauss, R. Strauss, Ravel, Ellington, and Kay, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra presents Duke Ellington Harlem. The first of two performances. At Tucson Music Hall…

Jensen (Berlin), Interceptor, Baseck (Los Angeles) and Mr. & Mrs. Ambiance (Mexico) drop distorted rave beats and electro to shake your electric derrieres. At The Rock… Led by his seven-string guitar,

the Howard Alden Trio perform jazz and swing. At Hotel Congress (The Century Room)… Speakeasy features the music of The Senators and the artwork of Margarita Brosova. At Habitation Realty… Beautiful Strangers, Liz & Pete explore Americana both old and new. At Westward Look Resort… The George Howard Motown & Soul Review. Music for the Soul Dance Party. At The Gaslight Music Hall (Oro Valley)...

SATURDAY, FEB. 19 Founded in the late 1940s as a gospel quartet, The Oak Ridge Boys’ signature four-part harmonies have spawned dozens of country, gospel and crossover hits. By the late ’60s, more than 30 members had come and gone. Even now their enthusiasm hasn’t waned. “When I go on stage, I get the same feeling I had the first time I sang with [the] boys,” says lead singer Duane Allen.

A turning point came in 1975, when the Oaks were opening for Roy Clark. Despite their gospel sound having a distinct pop edge it ruffled some purist’s feathers. In a statement, tenor Joe Bonsall recalls Clark’s manager coming backstage. “He told us we were three-and-a-half minutes away from being a major act. But we had to start singing country songs.” They took his advice. Thirty-one studio albums and 56 singles later, the Oak Ridge Boys present Front Porch Singin’ (2021). At Fox Tucson Theatre… Ready for round No. 2? Ardent defenders of a cult. In 2020, as the pandemic spread, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope reached a painstaking decision. Refusing to risk “even one Juggalo life,” they canceled the Gathering Of The Juggalos, their annual family reunion. Now, the Insane Clown Posse return to working that Old School Heat. At Rialto Theater… Manifesting one of “the most heartfelt and evocative sounds imaginable,” according to Roots World magazine, Small Island Big Song is a live music/film project. Featuring over 100 artists, elders, and grassroots musicians from 16 island nations—recorded in nature, using traditional instruments and native languages—to create a contemporary musical statement of regions on the frontline of cultural and environmental challenges. Yoyo Tuki (musician) reflects: “In our globalized, computerized world, music can bring us awareness of who we are, our history, our values, and our

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connection to nature. I bring what my grandfather poured into me.” Small Island Big Song reunites distant yet interconnected musical traditions. At Centennial Hall… Over the course of his life, guitarist Leo Kottke overcame a series of personal obstacles—including partial loss of hearing resulting from a mishap with a firecracker and a prolonged bout with hand tendinitis caused by his aggressive picking style— that nearly ended his musical career, only to emerge as a celebrated virtuoso on his instrument. The New York Times says of Kottke, “His fingerpicking [is] a beautiful machine, full of syncopation, sliding and open-string voicings, with small dissonances and backward-sounding phrases.”

His latest studio album Noon (2020), is a collaboration with bassist Mike Gordon of Phish. Leo Kottke gets Peculiaroso. At Berger Performing Arts Center… Rising like a thorny peyote cactus in the arid sand, Los Esplifs’ debut album Estraik Back (2021) stays true to the weather-beaten spirit of the desert Southwest, with a psychedelic bent.

Percussionist Caleb Michel recalls a moment when the doors of perception opened wide. During a performance at Phoenix’s

Rebel Lounge the concept of unity in diversity manifested. “Saul [Milan] and I are brown, the rest of our band is whiter, and we’re playing this super Afro-Latin music [sung in Spanish] to a predominantly white audience. To his elation, “everyone was dancing hard to our music, getting down, and really enjoying it.” That’s the takeaway.

Michel explains, “What matters most is inclusiveness.” Los Esplifs pound out lo-fi techno-cumbia. At Club Congress. With Los Velvets and Earthsurfaceopen. At Club Congress… Recognized for his superb musicianship—having been honored in numerous international competitions, including the Andrés Segovia Competition, the José Ramírez Competition, and Spain’s prestigious Francisco Tárrega Competition—this Grammy-winning classical guitarist was inducted into the Guitar Foundation of America’s Hall of Fame in 2018. Tucson Guitar Society presents David Russell. In the first of two performances. At Holsclaw Hall… Experimental fusion band Aztral Folk meld everything from gypsy jazz to Mexican folk. At Lost Barrio Woodshop… With a long shared history, Americana duo Barnaby & The Butcher play both

originals and classic covers. At MotoSonora Brewing Company… Something young, something old. Tucson reggae institution Neon Prophet and newcomers ZeeCeeKeely pop things off. At Chicago Bar… Insomniac? Resident DJs spin EDM from midnight until 5 a.m. Galactic Knights. At Solar Culture Gallery…

SUNDAY, FEB. 20 They are a rarity whose music is able to cross genres. The band settled on the name Coheed and Cambria during a 1998 trip to Paris. Co-opted from the pages of The Amory Wars, a science fiction series written by frontman Claudio Sanchez, whose storyline forms the basis for the group’s albums. The Unheavenly Creatures Coheed & Cambria bring The Great Destroyer Tour to the Rialto Theater… David Huckfelt presents Pale Horse & Rider Hootenanny. With Billy Sedlmayr and Howe Gelb. At Che’s Lounge… Featuring vocalist Julie Buck, the Wholly Cats Swing Band perform music from the Great Swing Era. At Monterey Court… Playing classic

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and modern country crafted especially for western dancing, Mamma Coal—backed by Alvin Blaine, Steff Koeppen, Arthur Vint, and Thoger Lund on bass—kick-up a dust.

At The Maverick… Bad News Blues Band stoke the fire. Congress Cookout. At Hotel Congress (plaza stage)… From Albuquerque, psychedelic, heavy desert rock trio Red Mesa is on The Path to the Deathless. At Club Congress…

MONDAY, FEB. 21 From Denver, indie-pop rocker Paul Dehaven dons his Pink Kimono. Sci-Fi Country and Abe’s Bones share the stage.

At Club Congress…

TUESDAY, FEB. 22 Dubbed “masters of soulful folk” by Paste magazine, brothers Chris and Oliver Wood pursued separate musical careers for 15 years before forming The Wood Brothers.

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antennas on top of the hill transmitting across the city on top of archeological ruins,” Wilder said. “There are so many things that call us here.”

The project held its kickoff event on Jan. 29. During the kickoff event there was a live silkscreen printing of t-shirts which included sayings such as, “the weather has habits remembered in the rhythms of proverbs.” The t-shirts were printed in the same three languages featured on the proverb prompts.

The event also included a weather proverb drop-in workshop hosted by Keats. During the workshop, participants created their own log books to take home and continue to write down their observations, according to Wilder.

“We don’t have a huge staff here, we don’t have a huge capacity to do this, but when we do open up these spaces and allow people to go into these buildings that they have been walking

past for years and not known what they are or what they look like inside or what we do here, it is so great to be able to connect with the community that way,” Wilder said.

The kickoff event was originally intended to be in November when they had their first workshop. However, they decided to do the slates three weeks before the workshop so they had pushed it back to January, according to Wilder.

One of Wilder’s goals is to expand the project into other regions and eventually gain momentum to expand on a global level.

The other element of the art installation is through social media. Using #FutureClimateProverbs, people can take pictures of responses that inspired them or create their own using social media.

“The idea is that we are creating an archive of the community’s responses that we can all engage with,” Wilder said. ■

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XOXO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 to this band from the blues and gospel world, and my history was all over the map with jazz and R&B,” says bassist Chris Wood, who first rose to fame with Medeski Martin & Wood. “The idea for this group has always been to imagine what might happen if Robert Johnson and Charles Mingus had started a band.” During the recording of Kingdom In My Mind (2020), they were looking for a philanthropic organization to support. “We came across this group called Thistle Farms, which was based just down the street from our studio,” says Oliver. “Their goal is to help women who have been victims of sex trafficking or prostitution or addiction to get off the street and into safe housing where they can participate in therapy and job training.” The work they were doing was so inspiring. We teamed up with them to donate a portion of ticket sales from all our shows. It’s our way of using what we’ve got to do whatever good we can in the world.” The Wood Brothers pay it back. At Rialto Theater… Recreating the sound and flamboyance of the late Freddie Mercury, Brian May of Queen says Gary Mullen bears “more than a likeness.”

Gary Mullen & The Works present One Night of Queen. At Fox Tucson Theatre…

Telling stories full of heart, humor, and hope, it’s David Wilcox’s authenticity and humanity that critics praise. “I started to write songs because I wanted to find a way to make my life feel as good as I felt when I heard a great song. I don’t think I’d be alive now if it had not been for music.”

Rhythm & Roots presents singer-songwriter David Wilcox. At Hotel Congress (plaza stage)…

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by Schubert, Mozart and Dvorák. Arizona Friends of Chamber Music presents the Goldmund Quartet. At Leo Rich Theater…

Midwest indie-rockers, Motherfolk perform “serious songs from goofy people.” At Club Congress. With Wheelwright… Roman Catholics are not the only denomination razzed about tipping the chalice. Nationally acclaimed folk singer-songwriter Don

Armstrong & The Whiskeypalians like their folk music straight with no chaser. At Monterey Court… For those who feed off of the night. Last Night’s Makeup presents Crush: An evening of house and disco. At The Jackrabbit Lounge…

THURSDAY, FEB. 24 In 2015, the handwritten manuscript containing the lyrics to “American Pie” was auctioned at Christie’s for $1.2 million.

“Bye, Bye Miss American Pie.” Legendary singer-songwriter Don McLean drives his “Chevy to the levy” one more time. With special guest multi-platinum British folk rocker Al Stewart. At The Fox Theatre…

Rejecting the idea of conformity. In a mashup of sweaty-palmed teen angst and slinky R&B, Belaganas (Phoenix) + No Suits (L.A.) are making their own lanes. At 191 Toole…

In their debut performance, The Morpholinos—Nick Augustine, Karl Hoffmann, Gary Mackender and Neil MaCallion—present “An evening of Tallsome Tales.” With an opening set by Don Armstrong, Liz Cerepanya, Petie Ronstadt, and Dan Davis. At Monterey Court… Nanda Zip, Anchorbaby, CLASS, and CMG do unspeakable things.

At Hotel Congress (plaza stage)… Reggae rockers Desert Fish are at Chicago Bar… Since the Tucson Rodeo’s inception in 1925, this annual celebration of cowboy culture has been an eagerly anticipated event. After the last bull bucks, the Billy Shaw Jr. Band will take you on a wild ride. La Fiesta de los Vaqueros. Feb 24-27. At Tucson Rodeo Grounds…

On the horizon: Created by surfers during the 1950s who wanted something to do during the downtime when the waves were low, skateboarding emerged as a truly American cultural phenomenon. Along with skate legends and pros, contests, vendors, food trucks, and rad shit popping off everywhere, Teenage Bottlerocket, Dead Fucking Last, Urethane, Go Betty Go, Change Today and many others provide the banging musical soundtrack for this annual festival in honor of the skateboard.

Drop into the bowl for SkaterCon 6. Saturday, Feb. 26. At Santa Rita Skatepark…

Until next week, XOXO…

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ADA-backed bill could have profound influence on hemp-derived products and businesses

By David Abbott tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com WHILE PROHIBITIONISTS’ HAIR is on fire about most aspects of the cannabis industry, a regulatory struggle is brewing about hemp-derived Delta 8 and when the smoke clears, some producers in the state might be forced to alter their business models.

SB1715 would ban “hemp-derived manufactured psychotropic cannabinoids,” including Delta-8, which has become a popular, unregulated medicinal alternative for patients who

need large doses to get through the day, but need to be able to function without a heavy buzz.

The cannabinoid is closely related to Delta-9, which is generally what’s referred to when we think of THC in cannabis. Delta-8 is purported to be 55% to 75% as potent and has become available from unregulated outlets throughout the U.S—think CBD stores and quick marts.

While cannabis is one of the most regulated substances in the U.S., hemp containing less than .03% THC has been removed from the federal

definition of marijuana through the 2018 Agriculture Improvement Act, which has left the door open for a proliferation of hemp products.

Claire Levenberg, director of development at Downtown Dispensary, explains that hemp contains minute amounts of the Delta-8 cannabinoid compared to what is contained in cannabis, largely achieved through selective breeding by humans.

“Based on what we’ve artificially selected for between the two species, hemp has shifted differently than medical cannabis,” she said. “I like to compare it to broccoli and Brussels sprouts: It’s the same plant but because it’s been artificially selected for (by humans) again and again and again, you have something that looks completely different, but it’s still the same species.”

The science behind it is complex— Delta-8 differs in structure from Delta-9 THC in the placement of a double bond between carbon atoms 8 and 9 rather than carbon atoms 9 and 10, for our chemistry-minded readers—but the message for those in favor of banning hemp-derived Del-

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ta-8 is simple: It should be regulated out of existence.

Up until now, Delta-8 has existed in a gray area between CBD and marijuana and has been available outside of the regulated market. But that may be about to change, as regulators take a closer look and dispensary owners seek clarification in the laws surrounding cannabis products.

“When we went to the voters in 2010 and 2020, we signed a social contract that said the marijuana consumed in Arizona would be produced from marijuana cultivated and manufactured in Arizona,” said Arizona Dispensary Association director Sam Richard. “What has happened is many unscrupulous operators are exploiting perceived loopholes in the 2018 Farm Bill to process hemp and, through very dangerous and potentially harmful chemical compounding and processing, are creating bio-identical forms of THC.” The ADA has joined the U.S. Cannabis Council to fight what is described as “a rapidly expanding CONTINUED ON PAGE 18

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crisis” surrounding Delta-8.

While Delta-8 can be derived from hemp, it can also be manufactured from Delta-9 THC, but that requires access to locally grown marijuana at greater cost to producers.

The only way to access the quantities of raw material needed for the process is to legally grow cannabis, have a relationship with certified growers within the state or obtain sufficient amounts of hemp, which is generally imported from outside the state.

“I would say that 95% of the hemp that is converted into psychotropic substances in Arizona isn’t even grown in Arizona,” Richard said. “It’s coming from Kentucky, it’s coming from Puerto Rico, it’s coming from Belize, because it’s very affordable to grow hemp.”

According to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM International), the synthetic cannabinoid market is expected to be a $10

billion industry by 2025. Since the market is unregulated, the legality and safety of products is questionable.

Hemp-derived Delta-8 has no testing requirements like those associated with the regulated cannabis market, and there is no product tracking as there is with legal cannabis. But now that it has become so popular, there is increased scrutiny and many states are attempting to enact similar bans.

In August 2020, the DEA determined that hemp-derived THC products were not legalized by the 2018 Farm Bill, according to the USCC. Most state regulators are taking a hands-off approach until there is either more specific guidance from the feds or legislation at the state level.

Sam Solsburg, co-founder of Delta 8 Oils in Camp Verde, said his hemp-derived product serves a significant segment of medical marijuana patients, from veterans with PTSD to those suffering with various debilitating illnesses. He also works with naturopathic doctors to help get his

product to a wider patient base.

Solsburg believes SB1715 is an attempt by the cannabis industry to freeze out companies like his, despite his company’s manufacturing standards.

“What this is really all about, in our opinion, is the marijuana industry wanting to close the loop,” Solsburg said. “Get us out of their system, ultimately, and keep the profits internal.”

Solsburg said that his products are rigorously tested and he has had good relations with his distributors until recently, when word of the bill started getting out.

He also believes the bill is going to send customers and manufacturers to the black market.

“It’s a blanket prohibition that is going to hurt more than it helps,” he said. “It doesn’t help them eradicate illegal Delta-8, it just removes the legal and safe option from the market.”

Should the bill pass and Solsburg has to switch from hemp to marijuana to make his product, his costs would go up substantially. That is, even if he could find a source of legal cannabis,

which is not likely given the self-contained Arizona market.

Solsburg is advocating for a carveout for businesses like his, but can only watch as the process plays out.

Richard says the ADA’s support of SB1715 is not about a competitive advantage for the established cannabis market, but about leveling the playing field for everyone.

“We don’t think we’re forging new ground here, what we are doing is clarifying our understanding of current federal law at the state level to provide clarity to the marketplace,” Richard said. “Right now, we have operators not understanding what they can and can’t buy, but it has always been our contention that the conversion of hemp is not legal.”

SB1715 was sponsored by Sen. David Gowan and co-sponsored by Sens.

Sonny Borelli (R-LD5) and Rebecca Rios (D-LD27). There has been no recent action since the bill was introduced. ■

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the chances of us dating the same person seems likely, which makes me feel icky. I even matched with my sister on a dating app! That experience prompted me to take a break from dating while I sort out a better strategy. I’ve been dipping my toes in the water of more national queer communities and want to attend The Dinah in the fall to connect with other womxn from outside our area. I don’t want to hold back but getting too close to my sibling’s sex life just feels gross. Any guidance?

—Looking Everywhere Since Bursting Out

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I’m a very sexual cis male in his thirties.

Three years ago, I met this woman who just blew me away. She is eight years older, extremely beautiful, intelligent, and funny. I came onto her early on and she told me straight up that she was asexual. She likes kissing, cuddling, and solo masturbation, but that’s it. She says intercourse doesn’t do anything for her. To keep a relationship alive in the past, she would go through the motions, but she has no interest in doing that anymore, so I moved on. Since then, we got to know each other better and I have fallen in love with her. Last night we had dinner and I started thinking aloud how we might make a relationship work. I suggested that I could watch her masturbate, and maybe we could have an open relationship.

She said it was out of the question. She admitted that when she first met me, she liked me, but now she loves me as a friend. She says there’s no chance that this could work, and we should keep things platonic. She doesn’t even want to kiss and cuddle me, as she fears I would get “worked up” and she would have to reject me. We got into an argument, and she got angry with me. I love her. I want to spend every moment with her.

I sincerely believe we could make this work.

How can I convince her?

—Sexual Man Into Loving Ecstasy You already have your answer, SMILE, and that answer—her answer—is “no.”

I’m a horny divorced bisexual male. Can you help me find females for regular phone sex? I masturbate every night and enjoy it much more if I hear a sweet voice on the other end of the line. I live in North Carolina, and I am usually freshly showered, naked, and erect between 11 PM and midnight.

I time my orgasms for precisely midnight.

Please help and find me a female to have erotic discussions with!

—Jerking About Conversations Kept Sensuous Sir, this is a Wendy’s. (Full disclosure: this isn’t a Wendy’s. This is a sex-advice column, JACKS, and sex-advice columnists are not match-makers. So, you’ll have to find and/or hire a phone sex provider on your own.)

I’m not having sex with my best friend’s husband, but we’re doing something my best friend would probably find objectionable: I’m letting his husband drink my piss.

The first time it just kind of happened. We’re able to rationalize what we’re doing—my

best friend isn’t into piss and I’m a “safe” person to do it with in that I’m not going to ask him for more—but it does involve putting my dick in the mouth of my best friend’s husband. I was the best man at their wedding, and I feel guilty about this.

I’m also married, but my husband and I have an agreement about outside games.

Maybe I just need you to tell me to stop.

—Gay Urinal Is Lying To Spouse First, the obvious answer: Stop.

Second, the obvious follow-up question: How’d that happen, GUILTS? Unless your best friend’s husband was wearing a ridiculously convincing urinal costume at a Halloween party and you were on mushrooms, it didn’t just happen. You did it. Even if he was in a convincing urinal costume and you ate all the mushrooms, you did it. You won’t be able to stop doing this if you can’t be honest about how you started.

My friend started dating a girl eight years ago in college and broke up with her a year later. They have no relationship at all now.

They don’t even converse. I have been in love with the girl in question since the first day I met her. I was going to ask her out years ago but before I could she was dating my friend. I recently asked her out and we are now dating but none of our friends from back then know. I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I vibe with her like no one else. Do you think it’s right to be with her?

Or am I doing wrong to my friend?

—The Bad Friend Your friend broke up with this woman—the woman you want to spend the rest of your life with—seven years ago. He doesn’t own her, he doesn’t have eternal dibs, and if he can’t be happy for you, he’s not your friend.

And if you’re feeling like a bad friend, maybe backing up and re-reading GUILTS’ letter will make you feel better.

My partner of 20 years and I recently agreed to open our relationship. There’s an acquaintance I’ve had a crush on since high school. I don’t know his situation—if he’s partnered, monogamous, whatever—but we’re in touch now and I have permission to approach him. But I’m nervous his answer will be no, and my fun fantasies—fantasies I’ve enjoyed about him all my adult life—will be tainted by embarrassment. The reward would be great, but the risk is huge. The possibility of a hookup with him IRL has been fueling my desire, which my partner has benefitted from, and I’d hate to lose

that. What do you think?

—Reliable Orgasms At Risk Sexual fantasies are perfect, sexual realities are messy. So, even if your high school crush is available and interested, ROAR, there’s no way IRL sex with him is going to live up to your fantasies. But hitting on him (risky!) and/or getting with him (could still be great!) will make some space in your erotic imagination for other fantasies—fantasies you can enjoy during solo masturbation, fantasies that will continue to fuel your desire for and/or during sex with your husband.

During a recent Sack Lunch you spoke of a “zone of erotic autonomy” that we are all entitled to, even partnered people. I think that should be a term: ZOEA. It’s already a legal Scrabble word, as I’m sure you’re aware, and I think ZOEA would be as useful as DTMFA or GGG. Here’s an example of it being used in a sentence: Husband: “Do you think of me when you masturbate?” Wife: “Mind your own ZOEA.” —Neologism Now Needed Zoea is already a word—and, therefore, fair game in Scrabble (“a free-swimming planktonic larval form of many decapod crustaceans and especially crabs [with] fringed antennae and mouthparts”)—but words can have more than one meaning, and I think ZOEA (pronounced “zo-EEah”) is a nice addition to my collection of initialisms.

I’m a late-to-come-out lesbian and so is my sister. We both live in the same moderate-sized city in the Pacific Northwest and are currently both on the dating market.

The trouble I’m having is that the pool of eligible women in our city is small and

Get over it, LESBO. It’s a small world, the lesbian world is smaller still, and even if you restrict yourself to long-distance relationships, you’re probably gonna wind up dating someone your sister dated at some point. Hell, your chances of meeting a woman your sister dated at The Dinah are about as good as meeting a woman your sister dated on a dating app. Acknowledge the awkwardness, don’t be paralyzed by it, and block each other on dating apps.

I’m a straight 30-year-old guy. I live with my girlfriend of three years, we love and respect each other, and have very good sex. Unfortunately, sex is very satisfying for me until I have an orgasm. My orgasms start well, but they fade out toward the end, leaving me disappointed, because I consistently have better ones during masturbation. I have a plausible explanation: when I orgasm, I become very sensitive, and I cannot “spot-reduce” the stimulation very easily during intercourse. I’ve tried thrusting less, coming outside, breathing to stay relaxed, with and without condoms, etc., but the end result is always the same. I still enjoy my sex life but I’d like to be able to have my best orgasms while I’m with my girlfriend. Do you have any advice for me?

—Climaxes Underwhelming My Senses Stop masturbating for a bit and see if that doesn’t improve things during partnered sex. But if that doesn’t work, CUMS, you might wanna incorporate masturbation into your regular sex sessions with your girlfriend—not masturbation as foreplay, not mutual masturbation, but you-do-youwhile-she-does-her and you watch each other. Having some of your “best” orgasms when you’re with her, even if you’re not touching her, may help you get to a point where you can have those orgasms when you’re inside her. questions@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage!

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re slipping into a phase when stuff that has been invisible will become visible, at least to you.

You will have extra power to peer beneath the surfaces and discern the hidden agendas and study the deeper workings. Your interest in trivia and distractions will dissipate, and you’ll feel intensified yearnings to home in on core truths. Here’s your guiding principle during this time: Favor the interests of the soul over those of the ego. And for inspiration, have fun with this quote by religious scholar Huston Smith: “The Transcendent was my morning meal, we had the Eternal at lunch, and I ate a slice of the Infinite at dinner.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “You cannot have fun with anything that you don’t love or admire or respect,” declared comedian Mel Brooks. I agree! The joyous release that comes through playful amusement is most likely to unfold when you’re in the presence of influences you are fond of. The good news, Taurus, is that in the coming weeks, you will have a special inclination and knack for hanging around people and influences like that. Therefore, you will have an enhanced capacity for mirth and delight and pleasure. Take full advantage, please!

As much as possible, gravitate toward what you love and admire and respect.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else,” says Gemini author Vikram Seth. I bring this truth to your attention because I believe you will soon be the beneficiary of steady, strong waves of inspiration. I also predict that these waves will transport you away from minor irritations that are best left alone for now. Be alert and ever-ready to spring into action, my dear, so that as the inspirational surges flow, you will harvest the maximum rewards from their gifts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The advice that Reb Nachman of Breslov offered two centuries ago is just right for you now: “Never ask directions from someone who knows the way, or you will never be able to get lost.” In the coming weeks, you will attract tricky but palpable blessings from meandering around without knowing exactly where you are. It’s time for you to find out what you don’t even realize you need to know; to stumble upon quiet little wonders and marvels that will ultimately prove to be guideposts for your holy quests in the future. Yes, I understand that being in unknown territory without a reliable map isn’t usually a pleasure, but I believe it will be for you. PS: Our fellow Cancerian, author Rebecca Solnit, wrote a book entitled A Field Guide to Getting Lost. It

might be helpful during your wanderings.

Read a summary of it here: tinyurl.com/ GuideToGettingLost LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “You face your greatest opposition when you’re closest to your biggest miracle,” wrote author and filmmaker T. D. Jakes. According to my analysis of upcoming astrological omens, that’s good advice for you. I suspect that the problems you encounter will be among your best and most useful ever. With the right attitude, you will harness the challenges to generate magnificent breakthroughs. And what’s the right attitude?

Proceed with the hypothesis that life is now conspiring to bring your soul exactly what your soul needs to express its ripest beauty.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Always remember this,” said actor Hattie McDaniel (1893–1952). “There are only 18 inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.” Metaphorically speaking, I believe her advice will be useful for you in the coming days. Lately, you’ve had to deal with too many experiences and influences akin to kicks in the rump. But now that will change. Soon there’ll be a surge of experiences and influences that resemble pats on the back. In my estimation, you have finished paying your dues and making course corrections. Now it’s time for you to receive meaningful appreciation and constructive approval.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Author Gayle Forman offers a set of truths that I suspect will be useful for you in the coming weeks. They may even be inspirational and motivational. Forman writes, “Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open, and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.” Are you ready for the challenge, Libra? I think you are. Do whatever you must do to go through the doorways you want and need to go through.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Singersongwriter Rosanne Cash described her process. “I dream of songs,” she began. “I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.” Scorpio, I would love for you to explore comparable approaches to getting the creative ideas you need to live your best life possible. I would love for you to draw freely from sources beyond your conscious ego—including your ancestors,

the people you were in previous incarnations, gods and spirits, heroes and allies, the intelligence of animals, and the wisdom of nature. The coming months will be a favorable time to expand your access. Start boosting the signals now!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Madeleine Thien has lived in Vancouver, Montreal, and Iowa City, and has taught at schools in Hong Kong and Brooklyn. Her father was born and raised in Malaysia and her mother in Hong Kong. She has a rich array of different roots. Not surprisingly, then, she has said, “I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.”

That’s an excellent meditation for you right now, Sagittarius. And it will continue to be worthy of your ruminations for another four months. What’s the next step you could take to feel comfortable and secure and at peace?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fastest animal on earth is the peregrine falcon, which can reach speeds of 200 miles per hour when it dives from a great height.

The seventh-fastest creature is the humble pigeon. Having been clocked at 92.5 miles per hour, the bird outpaces the cheetah, which is the fastest land animal. I propose we make the pigeon your spirit creature for the coming weeks. On the one hand, you may seem mild and modest to casual observers. On the other hand, you will in fact be sleek, quick, and agile. Like the pigeon, you will also be highly adaptable, able to thrive in a variety of situations.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion,” wrote Aquarian author W. Somerset Maugham. Yes! I agree! And that’s the perfect message for you to hear right now. If you choose to take advantage of the potentials that life is offering you, you will explore and experiment with the mysteries of self-discipline and self-command. You’ll be a trailblazer of discernment and poise. You will indulge in and enjoy the pleasures of self-regulation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1961, Piscean cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the Earth in a spacecraft. As his feat neared its end, Gagarin left the capsule at 20,000 feet above the ground and parachuted the rest of the way. He arrived in a turnip field where a girl and her grandmother were working. They provided him with a horse and cart so he could travel to the nearest telephone and make a call to get picked up and brought back to headquarters. I foresee a metaphorically comparable series of events transpiring in your life, Pisces. Be flexible and adaptable as you adjust to changing conditions with changing strategies. Your exceptional and illustrious activities may require the assistance of humble influences.

Homework: Name the three things most worthy of celebrating right now. Then celebrate them!

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