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Where to howl, Wildcats! 50 things to do before you graduate

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Gamers might like Free Guy, but it’s a slog for everyone else

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Welcome, Wildcats!

IN JUST A FEW DAYS, CLASSES will begin for fall semester at the University of Arizona. We’d like to offer a warm welcome and best wishes to all these Wildcats, as well as a list of milestones all students ought to do before they graduate.

In addition, staff reporter Christina Duran lays out the efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus on campus; longtime columnist Tom Danehy shares the key things you need to know about Wildcat sports; and Tucson Weedly columnist David Abbott lays out the ins and outs of cannabis on campus.

Elsewhere in the book: contributor Austin Counts was on the scene when the dice started tumbling at Casino of the Sun last week as the gambling palace opened craps and roulette tables; movie critic Bob Grimm tells us that gamers might get a kick out of Free Guy but most of us won’t; Matt King talks to John Paul Pitts of Surfer Blood ahead of this weekend’s show at Hotel Congress; staff reporter Alexandra Pere finds out how Rialto, Fox,

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Club Congress and 191 Toole are handling COVID mitigation as they once again open their doors to rock ’n’ roll (spoiler warning: Bring your vax card or a negative COVID test); calendar editor Emily Dieckman checks out where to have fun this week; and we’ve got sex advice from Dan Savage, astrological omens from Rob Brezsny, cartoons from the usual gang of idiots and all the other usual features that keep you turning our pages each week.

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badly written that what they’ve done is find a clever way to accomplish what they want to and not violate the law,” said Humble.

The law states: “The Arizona Board of Regents, a public university or a community college may not require that a student obtain University officials are requiring masks but health experts say it’s vital for a COVID-19 vaccination or show proof of receiving a COVID-19 vaccination or place any students to get vaccinated conditions on attendance or participation we cannot do here because of state law,” said in classes or academic activities, including

By Christina Duran Robbins on Monday, Aug. 9. mandatory testing or face covering usage.” christinad@tucsonlocalmedia.com According to UA Vice President of ComThe law reflects the core elements of munications Holly Jensen, the university had Gov. Doug Ducey’s executive order passed been working with their university counterTHE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on June 15, in response to Arizona State will require masks in all indoor spaces where parts and the Arizona Board of Regents to University’s vaccination expectations for the it is not possible to maintain social distance, reach a consensus on “mitigation efforts that coming school year, which stated unvaccinatfit within the Governor’s executive order and ed individuals or those who did not disclose President Robert C. Robbins said last week the laws passed by the legislature.” after ASU and NAU officials made similar their vaccination status would be required to In a statement released on Thursday, announcements. participate in daily health checks, participate Robbins said the decision is based on “the ABOR Chair Lydel Manson said the universi- in up to two weekly COVID-19 tests, and ties were following state law. current health conditions and aligned with wear masks. The law, like the executive order, “The steps taken by our universities com- focuses on the disparate treatments between CDC guidance as well as our commitment to deliver in-person learning at the University of ply with the executive order related to univer- vaccinated and unvaccinated students. sity COVID-19 actions and state law, and the Arizona.”

However, with rising COVID cases and board supports our university presidents for the prevalence of the Delta variant, the CDC Robbins’ announcement was an abouttaking measures they believe are necessary face from the position he had announced at updated their mask guidelines on July 27, recto minimize risk of COVID-19 transmission a press briefing earlier in the week, when he ommending individuals mask when indoors, had said the university would obey state law on campus.” regardless of vaccination.

Will Humble, executive director for Arizoand not require masks, but would strongly “Now, universities are like, well now we can na Public Health Association, believes the encourage the use of masks when indoors. follow the CDC guidance, we’re not treating “The ideal would be that we could require universities took a political risk by requiring vaccinated and unvaccinated students differmasks, but are within the law to do so. everyone to be vaccinated, we could require ently and we can still get masking and better “They’re right square on, because the law everyone to cover their face, we could require protection in the classrooms,” said Humble. that was in that university budget bill is so many things that other places are doing but Humble had not expected the universities

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to implement a mask requirement, he “felt like the university presidents would be unwilling to challenge the governor, given what kind of financial implications that could lead to next year.”

He believes the support from the Arizona Board of Regents and other state universities was important so Robbins would not be singled out. Pima Community College announced on Thursday they would also require masks in all indoor spaces beginning Monday, Aug. 16.

Despite mask requirements, health experts expect outbreaks to occur on university campuses, but masks in combination with other mitigation strategies will slow the spread of the virus.

“Masking in the class is not going to stop transmission on campus but if you combine masking in class with other behaviors we can slow it,” said Dr. Joe Gerald, epidemiologist with the UA Zuckerman School of Public Health. “And recognize there are going to be outbreaks. They’re just unavoidable in this particular setting.”

Early in fall 2020, Gerald noted the large outbreaks on campus related to social activities, like the Greek system, dormitories and socialization outside of the classroom space.

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Casino del Sol now has craps, roulette and mini-baccarat.

BETTOR DAYS Dice are tumbling at Casino del Sol

By Austin Counts tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com

A NEW AGE OF LEGAL GAMING has come to fruition for Southern Arizona casinos as Pascua Yaqui Chairman Peter Yucupicio symbolically shot the first round of dice on Casino Del Sol’s new craps table at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 11, five days after Gila River’s Wild Horse Pass Casino in Phoenix was the first in the state to offer Las Vegas-style games.

While the chairman shot a nine on his come-out roll, he threw the dice off the table during his second turn, causing the stickman to check the bones once retrieved from the casino floor. Yucupicio said while he had not shot craps before that moment, he plans to learn and play the beloved game of chance more often now that it’s available in the state.

In April, Governor Doug Ducey signed the amended Tribal-State Gaming Compact which allows table games usually seen in Las Vegas like craps, roulette and mini-baccarat. The governor also signed House Bill 2772 into law, opening the door for sports gambling to start in September. While it

individual tribes, while the other 88% goes into the Arizona Benefits Fund.

In addition to a new craps table, Casino Del Sol also added a new roulette table and two mini-baccarat tables to their gaming floor. Yucupicio said he did not know offhand what the estimated yearly revenue gaming tables could generate for his tribe, but said he believes the new games will benefit not only the Pascua Yaqui community but other tribes in the state and the nation trying to expand gaming operations.

“We are hoping this is very successful and helps our tribe and all of the other tribes throughout the country who are doing this now or are trying to. We fought for our right to have table games,” Yucupicio said. “I think people don’t understand a lot of this benefits our people. We can educate more and help seniors who suffered through the pandemic. I think it’s a blessing how we can provide more.”

The chairman said there’s a good chance Casino Del Sol will add more craps, roulette and mini-baccarat tables in the future if they prove popular with the public.

Desert Diamond Casinos also opened a mini-baccarat table at their Sahuarita location on Monday and expects to open a second table at their Tucson location in the near future, according to Treena Parvello, director of government and public relations for the Tohono O’odham Gaming Enterprise. That casino is in the process of

only took a few months for all parties to agree on the compact’s details, numerous Arizona tribes like the Pascua Yaqui, Tohono CLAYTOONZ O’odham Nation and Gila River Indian Community have been working toward the goal of gaming expansion for several years, said Yucupicio.

“All the [Arizona] tribes started about this about six or seven years ago trying to figure out what we needed to do,” Yucupicio said.

“Once all the tribes sat down with the governor and hammered out all the benefits, not only to us but to the state, the process went pretty quickly.”

The amended compact continues to follow the same profit-sharing model employed by earlier versions of the agreement, but the state is betting they’ll increase their revenue from tribal gaming if these table games are a hit with casino patrons.

Under the compact, tribes operating casinos are on a sliding scale of 1 to 8% of their yearly gaming revenue to be shared with the state and surrounding municipalities, according to the Arizona Department of Gaming. Around 12% of that revenue goes to community service and public safety programs of cities and towns chosen by

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expanding its facilities statewide to make room for more tables and machines while it finalizes tests for craps and roulette, said Parvello.

“At our Tucson and Sahuarita properties, 70 brand-new gaming machines have already been installed and more than 140 additional gaming machines are coming, including many that will only be found in our casinos in Arizona,” Parvello said. “To accommodate all the new options coming to Tucson, we have completely converted our Monsoon Nightclub into a gaming area.”

Fry’s Food and Drug employee John Taylor was Casino Del Sol’s first patron to shoot craps at their new table. Taylor and his spouse typically enjoy rolling the dice while vacationing in Las Vegas, but now they won’t have to travel so far to try their luck.

“This has been a long time coming. I’m excited about it,” Taylor said. “I’ve been playing craps for many years. We used to play in casinos in California, but they use cards.

This is actual dice.”

Taylor said they don’t often make the trip out to the casino on Valencia Road unless there is a show at AVA Amphitheater that catches the couple’s eye. However, he said he expects to be a regular at Casino Del Sol now that one of his favorite games of chance is open for business.

By the end of his inaugural run on the new craps table, Taylor was up by $40. ■

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BUGGING OUT

As Delta wave builds, school districts are requiring masks while the city and county work to mitigate spread, increase vaccination rate

By Christina Duran christinad@tucsonlocalmedia.com AS THE THIRD WAVE OF COVID WASHES

over Arizona, local governments are debating vaccine requirements, schools are instituting mask mandates and Gov. Doug Ducey is issuing executive orders to try to block mitigation efforts.

In the last couple of weeks: • The Pima County Board of Supervisors has met twice, debating and rejecting a number of measures, including declaring a health emergency, requiring masks in school, requiring county staff to be vaccinated and requiring all healthcare workers in the county to be vaccinated. The board eventually settled on offering a $300 bonus and extra sick time to vaccinated employees.

• The Amphi and Catalina Foothills school districts have implemented mask requirements for indoor instruction and other activity on their campuses, following a Maricopa County Superior Court ruling that the law banning mask mandates does not take effect until Sept. 29, 90 days after the end of the legislative session. The Tucson Unified School District Governing Board voted to require masks in early August, one day before the start of the school year.

• The Tucson City Council voted to require all employees to be vaccinated by Aug. 24.

• Arizona’s public universities, along with some community colleges, announced they would require masks indoors for all, believing the rule is in line with state law. (See “Big Bug on Campus,” Page 4) These actions follow nine weeks of exponential growth in COVID-19 cases, with public health experts predicting the surge would likely exceed cases and hospitalizations seen last summer 2020.

In his latest COVID-19 forecast updated Aug. 14, Dr. Joe Gerald, an epidemiologist with the UA Zuckerman School of Public Health, reported Arizona has a rate of

transmission of 255 cases per 100,000 individuals per week as of Aug. 8 and would likely soon exceed the rates seen during the summer of 2020, of 409 cases per 100,000 residents.

“While I am hopeful we will not reach the levels seen in the winter of 2021, the experience of other states (e.g., Louisiana) combined with inaction of our local and state officials suggests this may be wishful thinking,” said Gerald. “Another wave of cases and hospitalizations caused by the Delta variant is now certain; the only question remaining is just how big.”

Last winter, Arizona saw case rates as high as 915 cases per 100,000 residents, according to Gerald. With the surge in cases, Gerald warns of the strain of hospital capacity and staffing.

He reports an increase in hospital COVID-19 occupancy and said it will likely exceed 20% of all beds in the general ward and 25% of beds in the ICU for many weeks. Gerald expects delays in elective procedures to occur and some medically necessary procedures to likely be postponed and rescheduled over the coming weeks to make room for critically ill COVID-19 patients. He noted hospitals should prepare for the surge to strain staffing in critical care areas and lead to shortages. Further those seeking care, may find hospitals limiting care to the sickest patients.

“Even if you are vaccinated, the COVID-19 surge can impact your health should you become ill and require hospital care. In essence, care will become increasingly more rationed over the coming weeks with only the sickest of the sick being able to access critical care services,” Gerald predicted.

While the vaccination effort continues and Arizona has fully vaccinated almost half of the state’s population, “in the face of the Delta variant, this is wholly insufficient,” Gerald said.

He reports Arizona is experiencing more than 100 deaths per week and expects it would increase in the coming weeks, almost certainly reaching 300

deaths per week by the end of August.

“At this point, only individual and community non-pharmacologic interventions like mask mandates, limiting gathering sizes, and targeted business mitigations can stave off another substantial surge,” advised Gerald.

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BY STATE LAW HOWEVER, THE ARIZONA Legislature and Gov. Doug Ducey have limited the communities ability to respond to the pandemic. One recently passed law prohibits local jurisdictions from issuing any order “related to mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic that impacts private businesses, schools, churches or other private entities, including an order, rule, ordinance or regulation that mandates the use of face coverings, requires closing a business or imposes a curfew.”

Last week, the Pima County Board of Supervisors shot down several motions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the majority of county supervisors believing the county would have no way of enforcing the proposed resolutions. But in a meeting this week, the supervisors voted to offer employees who get vaccinated a $300 bonus as well as three extra days off.

(Employees who are already vaccinated are also eligible for the bonus pay and time off.)

Over the past month Pima County’s level of transmission changed from moderate to high, with a rate of 120 cases per 100,000 individuals in the last seven days reported on Aug. 9, which has since increased to another 25 cases per 100,000 individuals as of Monday, according to data from the CDC. Meanwhile, at a special meeting on Friday, Aug. 13 the Tucson City Council voted to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for all city employees, requiring they get vaccinated by Aug. 24.

On Monday, Gov. Doug Ducey issued an executive order to block actions like the ones taken by Tucson..

“We encourage all Arizonans to get the vaccine — it’s safe, effective and free,” Ducey said. “But getting it is a personal choice, and we will not allow discrimination based on vaccination status. Today’s order builds on our efforts to protect Arizonans from excessive mandates that hinder their freedom to choose what’s best for their health.”

Ducey’s executive order states that city officials who implement a vaccine mandate could be charged with a class 3 misdemeanor and that cities must provide sick leave for their employees who come down with COVID. City Attorney Mike Rankin said the executive order has “no effect on the actions taken by the Mayor and Council on Friday.” He noted previous executive orders by Ducey “lacked the authority to override the prior Pima County mask requirements” and these orders are the same.

Mayor Regina Romero criticized Ducey for prioritizing his political aspirations over the health and well-being of Arizonans “Gov. Ducey is paving the way for COVID-19 to spread uncontrollably throughout our state, and attempting to impede those of us who believe in science-based solutions at the local level,” said Romero. “We have seen the deadly repercussions of similar approaches by the governors of Texas and Florida, yet Gov. Ducey is consciously deciding to head down the same path knowing full well what the consequences are. Gov. Ducey is playing a deadly game of one-upmanship that will lead to preventable hospitalizations and deaths.”

MORE SCHOOL DISTRICTS REQUIRE MASKS THE CATALINA FOOTHILLS AND Amphitheater school districts began requiring universal use of masks indoors effective Tuesday.

The district informed families and staff in an email sent on Monday afternoon that they would require masking indoors, regardless of vaccination status, because of the ruling in the case against Phoenix Union High School District’s mask mandate.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Randall Warner ruled that the district did not violate state law prohibiting schools from mandating masks, since it does not go into effect until Sept 29, 90 days after the legislative session adjourns.

Catalina Foothills School District updated their mitigation plan and said “it is aligned with federal, state and county public health guidance.”

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Homeowners can save money by switching to solar, but be sure to shine some sunlight on the details

Austin Counts Tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com

AS THE AVERAGE ELECTRIC BILL in Pima County increases each passing year, many Tucsonans wonder whether solar power would be a benefit to their home or business.

Living in a city that receives more than 300 days of sunshine each year lends itself to generating copious amounts of solar power, which is cheaper to produce and deliver to the customer than typical coal energy sources. Homeowners with a photovoltaic system (PV) tend to save money on their electric bill each month while increasing their home’s value, according to research conducted by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. A PV system transforms the energy produced by sunlight into electricity by utilizing a network of solar panels, cables and energy converters.

Technicians For Sustainability co-owner Brian Park said home and business owners can enjoy numerous environmental and economic benefits by retrofitting their property with a PV system. For instance, homes equipped with solar power typically produce 80% fewer carbon emissions than fossil fuels, according to a University of California—Berkeley study. Park also notes using solar power reduces the amount of water needed to produce energy as compared to fossil fuels.

“Another interesting thing comes from data we’ve gotten from TEP [Tucson Electric Power]. For every kilowatt-hour of solar produced, it needs about a half-gallon less water than typical energy generation,” Park said. “Considering we live in a desert that gets less water than other places in the country, I think that’s a pretty great environmental benefit to [using]

solar, as well.”

A kilowatt-hour is equivalent to the power consumption of 1,000 watts per hour.

On average, a home PV system can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $35,000 or more, depending on the size of the home and the energy needs of the resident. For businesses, the price could range anywhere from $25,000 to upwards of $700,000, said Park. However, there are considerable federal and state tax credits available to lower the price of a PV system.

The federal government’s Investment Tax Credit can reduce the cost of a PV system for home or business use by 26%. Homeowners can take an extra 25% off of their personal income tax filed the year the PV system was installed—up to $1,000— with the Residential Arizona Solar Tax Credit. The state tax credit for solar is not available for business owners.

Park estimates a standard seven-kilowatt PV system with about 18 to 20 solar panels would cost approximately $18,500 if purchased and installed by Technicians For Sustainability. The federal government’s tax credit would lower that cost by more than $4,800, bringing the total to around $13,700. A homeowner could drop that price down to around $12,700 by using the state’s tax credit. Arizona also waives sales tax on residential PV systems with the Solar Equipment Sales Tax Exemption and homeowners don’t have to pay additional property taxes should the PV system increase the home’s value, thanks to the state’s Energy Equipment Property Tax Exemption.

TEP customers who use solar power also receive a monetary credit to their monthly bill of 8.6 cents per kilowatt-hour of unused energy that is returned to their power grid. Trico Electric customers in Marana and

Photo courtesy Technicians for Sustainability

unincorporated Pima County could expect a 5-cent credit for each kilowatt-hour returned to Trico’s power grid.

Although many companies offer lease or finance deals while purchasing a PV system, TFS customers typically buy the system outright, said Park. His company works with a credit union to secure loans for his customers who would rather finance. Other solar companies like Tesla lease PV systems to customers who would like to use solar power but are not looking for a longterm commitment.

Tucson resident Richard Stanley chose to lease his Tesla PV system for his midtown home instead of purchasing it. The 65-year-old said he is approaching retirement and did not want to invest upwards of $20,000 in solar for his home while preparing to live on a fixed income.

“I wish I could afford to own them, but I can’t,” Stanley said. “The lease deal was favorable for me and my situation.”

Stanley said while he does see savings on his monthly electric bill, it isn’t as significant as some companies promise—and he is OK with it. He still pays less each month than he did before owning a PV system, he said.

“The bottom line is people think they’re going to save thousands of dollars. They’re not,” Stanley said. “But, I’m saving hundreds of dollars and that’s still savings. It isn’t what some people might expect but it still adds up on a calculator.”

While solar may be the perfect choice for many Old Pueblo dwellers, Park said interested homeowners should consider what their energy needs are, make sure their home is able to handle a PV system and research the company they plan to use for installation. Two of the most common repairs homeowners face are roof repairs and electrical panel upgrades, according to Park.

“Part of our process is that we check things out, get on the roof and measure, and do all of our due diligence on the design,” Park said. “If we flag something that isn’t in the best shape, the homeowner would have to call a roofer to find out what’s going on. It really depends on the condition of the home.”

Sales staff for numerous solar installation companies use gimmicks and high-pressure sales tactics to get potential customers to sign because their income is commission-based, according to Park. However, the customer soon finds out they are paying the same amount for electricity—or more—as they were before installing solar, said the TFS co-owner.

“You do need to be a responsible consumer and do some due diligence.

If it looks too good to be true, then it is,” Park said. “I think there are a lot of unrealistic scenarios people are presented with when checking out solar. ” Park said people need to watch out for claims that the local energy provider is going to significantly increase the cost per kilowatt-hour by 6% to 8%

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when in reality Tucson Electric Power averages about a 1% to 2% increase annually. Another unsavory sales tactic some companies use involves offering an extremely low-interest rate to finance a PV system and then tacking on extra fees that were not previously discussed.

“They’re advertising a very low-interest rate but then put together a loan proposal $10,000 to $15,000 more than if they [the customer] would have bought the system outright,” Park said. “It’s the same system, the same number of panels, same technology, same installation.

These companies are able to advertise that low interest because they’re adding all these fees to it.”

Homeowner Deborah Partiz and her partner, Rocky recently purchased a larger house to accommodate their growing family. After Partiz received her first TEP bill for around $500 at the family’s new home, she said she started looking at solar power to reduce their energy cost. She ended up going with a national company that was able to help the family secure a loan for the system. In the end, Partiz purchased a large 44-panel PV system to help reduce her monthly energy bill.

However, she said she is not pleased with the system’s results after the first two months of use. While the PV system has lowered her TEP bill by an average of $50 a month, the cost of the loan—at around $175 a month—far outweighs the savings she is receiving. She said she contacted her company to audit her system and make sure it was working correctly. They told her to give the system a year to see if it improves, said Partiz. Her loan terms state she needs to pay nearly a quarter of the loan amount within the first 18 months or her monthly payments will rise to $225 a month.

“I’ll give it a year, but in hindsight, I wish I would have gone with a local company, done a little better vetting and gotten a more concrete idea of exactly what I would need to actually get rid of the entire energy bill,” Partiz said. “I mean...44 panels is a lot. It’s a heavy-duty system and everybody that’s checked it out tells me it’s huge. But it’s a drop in the bucket because it’s not doing too much for me.” ■

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CREATURE COMFORT Cathey’s Sewing Drive Supports Humane Society

pets... The people who participated in thought this was a good way to keep Cathey’s event really got to customize people engaged. And connecting it to the bandanas with whatever embroia charity is a good way to give back. dery they wanted. They say really Tucson’s been exceptionally good to MORE THAN A HUNDRED SHELTER my family, and we have a responsibility adorable things like ‘ready to go home.’ animals awaiting adoption are now a Others have cute patterns, suns and to give back.” little more comfortable — and stylish glitter.”

Cathey says the idea for the Christ— thanks to a donation from Cathey’s Other phrases on the pet bandanas mas-In-July event came from him and Sewing & Vacuum to the Humane Socihis wife, and they’ve been hosting it for include “Ready to be rescued,” “Take ety of Southern Arizona. more than 20 years. They started tying me home,” “I heart to chew toys” and The donations are part of Cathey’s it to local nonprofits 10 years ago. They “Looking for my forever home.” annual Christmas-In-July sewing The Humane Society will not be select nonprofits by asking their staff event, where customers and staff create selling the donated bandanas and crate and customers for a list of potential specialized items for local nonprofits. beds. Instead, they will give the items charities to support, then select ones In addition, Cathey’s also raises funds to the animals in their shelter, who will they can connect with a sewing chalfor the selected nonprofit from raffles lenge. Previous charities include Aviva be able to keep them even when they’re and events. This year, the Humane Soadopted.

Children’s Services, as well as initiaciety of Southern Arizona received 165 “This really touched our hearts for tives for breast cancer awareness. pet bandanas, 85 cat beds and $3,250. a number of reasons,” Hall said. “The “We are over the moon about the “Every year we try to choose a transition to a home for a shelter pet funds, because it will help us save different nonprofit, as locally oriented can be really difficult. Switching from a lot of homeless pets,” said HSSA as possible, with a sewing challenge environment to environment can be spokesperson Camille Hall. “Genwe can connect them to,” said ownvery stressful for a pet, and having a erally, the money goes wherever we er Donny Cathey. “Often it’s not too familiar item, like a bandana for dogs need it. We never know what case will difficult to come up with something for come through our door next, so we put or a crate pad for cats, can really make a charity… Animals touch everyone’s that transition easier.” ■ that money wherever we can to help lives, so to support a charity that helps house and support animals is always worthwhile.” The sewing takes place during Cathey’s Saturday classes, and culminates in awards given to the volunteers who are most artistic and go above-and-beyond. During the finale, attendees vote on their favorites and the best use of embroidery to decide the winners. Award categories include “Pawsome Embroidery,” “The Cat’s Meow,” and best of show. In addition, above-and-beyond awards went to Rita Morrow, who created 19 cat crate beds, and Rosalee Zipp, who created 30 pet bandanas. Rewards for award-winners include gift cards for customers, or a paid day off for employees.

“We see some unbelievable examples of creativity from our staff and comPHOTO BY GAVIN DUNHAM/HSSA. munity,” Cathey said. “It’s a hot time (L to R) Andy Cathey, Donny Cathey and Carly Timpf. of year, and there’s not a lot of events going on in July in Tucson. So we

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Police Department established to respond to reports of parties and gatherings that violate city ordinances and undermine health and safety guidelines. He said CART would be another possible measure to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

“As long as the community is going to allow people to go out and go to bars, I think you’re gonna see our students doing that,” said Robbins.

Under an emergency proclamation passed last March and rescinded in July, the Pima County Board of Supervisors had limited occupancy levels, required masks and other mitigation strategies.

However, a new state law prohibits local jurisdictions from issuing any order “related to mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic that impacts private businesses, schools, churches or other private entities, including an order, rule, ordinance or regulation that mandates the use of face coverings, requires closing a business or imposes a curfew.”

In order to prepare for students in classrooms, the university will supply masks to every classroom and cleaning supplies.

They also installed 8000 MERV-13 filters in classrooms and other office spaces throughout the campus to capture airborne particles of the size that usually transport the COVID virus.

The university will continue to offer COVID-19 tests to the campus community, and tests are available in the Catalina room at the Student Union. On Aug. 16, the site will transition to provide rapid antigen testing. The testing location is for asymptomatic individuals and an appointment is required.

Symptomatic individuals can make an appointment with Campus Health for a test.

Students who test positive will be required to isolate. As they did last year, the university will provide rooms in separate dorms and students have the option to isolate off campus. According to Jensen, the university has 150 beds available in one of their dorms and they will also be working with community partners if additional beds are needed However, given the current conditions, Gerald recommends “not starting with full operations with no restrictions on classroom size or gatherings in other places.”

As of Friday, Arizona has a high rate of transmission of 245 cases per 100,000 individuals over the last seven days. According to Gerald, Arizona is halfway to summer 2020 peak levels, when the county hit a high of over 5,000 cases in a day in June.

“We’re starting this fall in a much worse position than last fall because there are higher levels of community transmission and there are fewer state and community policies in place to slow spread,” said Gerald.

“Bringing students back to class, under normal operations, whether it’s university

students or K-12, is recklessly throwing fuel on the fire, to make our current situation even worse.”

Gerald said there are pretty good odds the university might have to go to some form of hybrid instruction or walk back to a lower stage of operation, with zero being fully online.

“Nothing is gonna be enough to have a normal semester. There’s going to be infections that happen,” said Humble. “The two things that matter the most are: number one, getting more students vaccinated, and I think that’s more important than masks, and number two would be masking indoors.”

Robbins said he expects everyone on campus to get vaccinated, as the vaccine lowered the risk of contracting the virus and the risk of severe disease or death. Campus Health offers the Pfizer vaccine for students and staff and they plan to stand several mobile units in the coming weeks as students prepare to return to class on Aug. 23, according to Jensen.

“With vaccination on students, it needs to be free, but it also needs to be easy and convenient,” said Humble, approving of the university’s efforts to vaccinate students.

As of Monday, Robbins said about half of students have been vaccinated, but according to Gerald this would not be enough to reduce the chances of an outbreak.

“If that number is really, really high, above 85%, then we’re going to be in a much better

position. It’s much less likely that we’ll have a major outbreak, but if we come back at 50% or 60%, then yes, we could have an outbreak this fall, as large or larger than the one we had last fall,” Gerald said.

Gerald notes the individual risk at the university is lower as the majority of students are young and healthy and would experience a relatively mild illness if they became sick.

“From that perspective at the individual level, a large outbreak, if it were just contained within our community of students, might not have dire implications,” said Gerald. Since students work in the community as servers in restaurants, health aides in long-term care facilities and childcare settings, Gerald notes a high degree of transmission within our student community can leak over into the community.

“It’s important in a situation like this to think not only what risk is posed to the individual, but what larger risk exists to the community for engaging in some type of behavior,” said Gerald.

While Robbins believes they can return to campus in-person, they will continue to monitor cases on a daily basis and make adjustments as needed, whether that means considering returning to hybrid or full remote learning.

“I do anticipate we’re going to have cases, there’s no question about it,” said Robbins.

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DANEHY IF YOU’RE AN INCOMING FRESHMAN, HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT UA SPORTS

By Tom Danehy, tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com DEAR INCOMING FRESHMAN: Welcome to the University of Arizona, the greatest university in Arizona and almost-certainly in the entire Mountain Time Zone.

You’re going to love it here. For those who want to get the most out of their college experience and maximize their post-college opportunities, there are a few common-sense rules to follow. Stuff like: go to class; try not to change your major more than three times in the first two years; ask the person working at Starbucks what he/she majored in at college; avoid the Greek system (it’s always been stupid); and become a Wildcat fan.

You can root for the home teams from the first day of school in August until (sometimes) a month after Graduation Day. Arizona is good in a whole lot of things. Last school year, the UA was the only school in the entire country to have teams in both the baseball and the softball College World Series. The women’s basketball team played for the national championship. Men’s tennis became a national power and women’s golf reached the national semifinals. But all that is for later in the year.

Right now, the Fall sports would appreciate

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your attention.

Here are five suggestions to help you in this endeavor: Join the Zona Zoo. At the University of Iowa, at the end of the first quarter, the students stand and wave to the kids who are in the Iowa Children’s Hospital, directly adjacent to Kinnick Stadium.

At Wisconsin, they blast House of Pain’s “Jump Around” and tens of thousands of people…well, jump around. (I’ve always wondered whether they bleep out the part about “If your girl steps up, I’m smackin’ the hoe…”)

The University of Arizona used to have a killer tradition. It was called The Zona Zoo. Students would show up by the thousands to crowd into a small area right behind the Wildcat sideline. Guys would paint their bare chests while the young women would cover theirs via creative uses of the free Zona Zoo T-shirts that were given out.

Until recently, the Zoo was still a thing. But then, as Mayer Hawthorne would sing, “But Sumlin was the end of the story and everything went wrong, And we’ll return it to its former glory but it

just takes so long.”

By the 2019 season, the Zona Zoo “tradition” had degenerated to a few hundred students showing up late, ignoring what was going on out on the field, and then leaving by halftime.

In 2020, when no one was allowed into the stadium, it didn’t seem much different.

Back when I was the Sports Editor of the Daily Wildcat, I used to plead with the student body to vote for an increase in student fees that would fund the building of an on-campus rec center. The main opposition complaint was that students would be paying for something that wouldn’t be built until after they had graduated, so they would never get to use it.

Likewise, it may be a while before the Zona Zoo is back where it was and belongs. But you can always say that you were there at the start of The Resurgence.

Know where the line is drawn. You never, never, EVER root for Arizona State. Ever.

They’re evil. If somebody suggests that you should always root for a Pac-12 team if it is playing a school from another conference, that statement is ten-elevenths true. We all rooted for Oregon State basketball when it made that crazy run to the Elite Eight last year. We’re generally pleased when Stanford adds to its impressive total of national championships in rich white-people sports. (Do you know that they have multiple national titles in Coed Sailing?)

But we don’t want ASU to win anything. We want them to finish dead last in every sport, every year. However, to balance things out, it’s

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usually OK to root for Northern Arizona. NAU is like that dorky kid brother that always wants to tag along…but can’t because he’s trapped in a frozen wasteland with bears and hippies.

Don’t try to see everything. If you are actually thinking of going to watch a cross country meet—in Tucson, in September—the University has some kind of counseling available for that. Go to a volleyball game instead. They’re supposed to be really good this year. Of course, they play in the Pac-12, where everybody is really good, so a great season might mean a fifth-place Conference finish.

Avoid obvious pitfalls. For the next couple years, don’t watch the movie Speed. There’s a pivotal scene in there when Keanu Reeves learns that Sandra Bullock goes to the UA. He sees the block “A” on her shirt and says, “Arizona Wildcats? Good football team.”

You can’t watch that scene without a voice screaming in your head, “How freakin’ old is this movie?!”

Be hopeful. Know your history. Arizona has been good in football for two- or three-year stretches at least once in each of the past five decades. In the late ’90s, the UA finished fourth in the country (but still missed out on the Rose Bowl). In the Aughts, they lost in double-overtime to Oregon for the Pac-10 title.

In 2014, Arizona actually won the Pac-12 South title.

So there are nine years left in this decade.

It’s probably going to happen (or maybe not). ■

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Back to School: College Edition WHERE TO HOWL, WILDCATS! 50 things to do before you graduate

1. See a concert! In the Before Times, Tucson had a rich music scene of both talented locals and touring bands both big and small. You’ll see the bigger acts at downtown Rialto and Fox Theaters or at the local casinos, while you can catch up-and-comers and old veterans playing at smaller venues such as Club Congress (which now has an outdoor plaza that features live music many nights of the week) and 191 Toole, a warehouse turned concert hall.

2. Cool off with an eegee. What the heck

is an eegee? For those from out of town, Tucson’s very own fast food chain serves up specialty slushies with bits of fruit inside, making for a perfect way to cool off from the summer heat. And their rotating flavor of the month means there’s always something new to try. Multiple locations.

3. Attend the Loft Film Fest. The Loft Cinema’s annual film fest brings bigname filmmakers to town as well as some of the best flicks on the festival circuit in a celebration of the movies you won’t find anywhere else. And if you can’t attend the festival, there’s always something interest-

5. Go Dutch. The Dutch Eatery & Refuge ing happening at the Loft with art house offers both Dutch options such as kroket cinema, cult movies and all manner of special screenings. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. and duck, and non-Dutch options such as elote avocado toast. Come for brunch, comfort food or an elegant dinner. Locat4. Spend the night at Hotel Congress.

Built in 1919, its rooms are styled with vin- ed right in Main Gate Square, you won’t have to go far to enjoy their unique food. tage iron bed frames, rotary dial phones, and radios. Just below your room is Club 943 E. University Blvd.

Congress and Cup Cafe. Discover new 6. Get lost at Bookmans. If you’re not musical artists from every genre at Club from Arizona, you don’t know the wonders Congress and cure your morning hangof Bookmans Entertainment Exchange, over with the Cup Cafe’s cast iron eggs.

311 E. Congress Street.

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which sells new and used books, movies, video games, instruments, antiques and more. Just one store is enough to spend a whole day in, but Tucson has three! 3330 E. Speedway Blvd., 6230 E. Speedway Blvd., and 3733 W. Ina Road.

7. Join the Beer Club at Frog & Firkin.

Frog’s patio makes it one of the best places to people-watch on University Boulevard. If you’re here with a crowd, share one of their not-technically-deepdish-but-still-really-thick pizzas. Join their beer club to win special memorabilia as you make your way through nearly 200 beers. 874 E. University Blvd.

8. Go for pho at Miss Saigon. Perhaps Tucson’s most popular Vietnamese restaurant, Miss Saigon has filled countless bellies one bowl of pho at a time.

But don’t forget about their spring rolls, noodle dishes and other Vietnamese specialties. 1072 N. Campbell Ave., plus other locations around town.

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9. Take a hike! (up Tumamoc Hill). If there’s one hike that makes you a Tucsonan, it’s Tumamoc Hill. At three miles roundtrip on a paved trail, it’s not too difficult, but the elevation gain is definitely enough to make you break a sweat.

The commanding view of the entire Tucson valley from the top makes it clear why this is one of the most popular hikes around town. Tumamoc Hill Road.

10. Get a cup of tea at Scented Leaf Tea House & Lounge. Scented Tea offers a laid back environment to enjoy fine looseleaf tea in delicious combinations such as Banana Chocolate Cake Rooibos and

Ginseng Oolong. 943 E. University Blvd.

11. Eat a late-night burrito at Taco Shop Co. Taco Shop is one of Tucson’s few 24hour joints, so it might be busier at 3 a.m. than it is at lunch. Whenever you go, you can expect exceptional breakfast burritos and more. 1350 E. Broadway.

12. Rent a movie from Casa Video. Yes, Tucson has a video store! And it’s actually awesome. They show movie screenings, pour local craft beer, host food trucks, and have such a wide variety of movies this might be the only place you can catch some obscure flicks during your artsy college phase. 2905 E. Speedway Blvd.

13. Shop at Time Market. An easy walk off campus, Time Market offers cheap large slices of pizza, an array of specialty grocery options, pastries, solid cups of coffee and tea, a diverse happy hour—the list goes on and on. Last but not least, they bake some of the best loaves of artisanal bread in Tucson. 444 E. University Blvd.

14. Watch a game at Trident Grill.

Trident Grill offers consistently solid bar food and seafood in a sports bar just east of campus. It’s a fun place to meet up with friends for wings or oysters while you catch the Wildcats. 2033 E. Speedway.

15. Take a wok on the wild side at Wok Fire & Grill. Perfectly located for Eller students, Wok Fire & Grill offers a wide range of customizable Chinese and Vietnamese dishes. Service can slow down when it’s packed, so consider ordering online. 1135 N. Park Ave.

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16. Have a sandwich at Fourth Ave. Deli.

This tiny slice of heaven stands out with its affordable sandwiches and hot dogs. And the fact they’re right on famous Fourth Ave. makes them a great place to grab a bite (we especially enjoy their variety of BLTs) and continue exploring. 425 N. Fourth Ave. 17. Take a drive up Mount Lemmon.

Would you ever guess an alpine forest is only a few miles outside of town? Your first drive up to Mount Lemmon is a magical experience as you rise from the desert floor, through grasslands, oak forests and finally conifers. Mount Lemmon makes for a rejuvenating escape from the Tucson heat and you can listen to a app that explains the ecology of the mountain via the UA College of Science. Thanks sky islands! Mount Lemmon Highway.

18. Check out Tucson’s most famous painter at DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. Even if you don’t know the name Ted DeGrazia, you’ve surely seen his impressionistic depictions of life in the desert Southwest.

While this is called a gallery, it’s much more of a living art space, as DeGrazia spent his life constructing it and adding art to every nook and cranny. 6300 N. Swan Road.

19. Eat an exotic taco at Boca Tacos y Tequila. Taco queen Maria Mazon relocated BOCA to the space that formerly housed Delectables. The larger kitchen expands BOCA’s repertoire with more weekly specials and the constantly changing Guacamole Duo. Chef Maria Mazon has even appeared on Food Network to discuss her specialty Southwestern style. 533 N. Fourth Ave.

20. Have a slice at Brooklyn Pizza Company. A perennial Best of Tucson® winner, Brooklyn Pizza Company offers handmade pizza by the slice or pie alongside sandwiches, pasta and wings, gelato and Italian ice. Guests can pick up, dine in, or have pizza (or beer and wine) delivered. 534 N. Fourth Ave.

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21. Learn about our landscape at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. With our sky islands and monsoon rainfall, the Sonoran Desert is one of the most biodiverse deserts in the world. Get an overview of all the critters and plants here with a stop at the Desert Museum, which also has an aviary, aquarium, gallery, zoo and more. 2021 N. Kinney Road.

22. Noodle around at China Pasta House. Many of China Pasta House’s meals hover around $7.99, but some don’t even break a dollar. You can even order a variety of appetizers à la carte without reaching $8. It’s dumpling and noodle heaven for a broke college student. 430 N. Park Ave. 23. Spend the night at Hotel McCoy. With all the time trapped at home, we’re all dying to get out. But why go to a regular hotel when you can go to Tucson’s very own “art hotel”? McCoy features rooms specially designed by local artists, as well as craft beer, food, music — and did we mention art? 720 W. Silverlake Road.

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24. Find a groovy accessory at Tucson Thrift Shop. Tucson Thrift Shop offers a myriad of vintage clothing to spice up your wardrobe. We recommend sifting through the Shop’s offerings during the fall to find a unique Halloween costume.

319 N. 4th Ave. 25. Get bookish at Antigone Books.

This unique bookstore is known for its indie book collection. Antigone curates their bookshelves with literature on female empowerment, Southwestern culture and the LGBTQ experience. 411 N. 4th Ave. 26. Grab a bowl at Raijin Ramen. There are plenty of great noodle shops around Tucson, but few are beloved as Raijin Ramen, known for their huge Japanese-style bowl with pork, roasted garlic, curry noodles and veggies. And they have plenty of sake and beer to go with it.

2955 E. Speedway Blvd.

27. Smoke a hookah and see some art at Espresso Art Cafe. Espresso Art is a cozy place to study with a cup of coffee, but if you’re feeling sinful, you’ll find hookahs and a little speakeasy in the back for cocktails. 942 E. University Blvd.

28. Wander around the Botanical Gardens. It might sound counterintuitive for a desert city to have beloved gardens, but the Tucson Botanical Gardens are truly an oasis. Part gallery, part gardens, part event space, TBG is a beautiful spot of green in the middle of town. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 29. Get Sichuan food at Panda House.

When it comes to Sichuan cuisine, Panda House is the best option around the university. If you’re not adventurous enough for the Sichuan menu, even their lo mein stands out with house-made noodles.

Bonus: They’ve opened up a coffee and tea house next door. 1118 E. Sixth St.

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30. Mash some buttons at Cobra Arcade Bar. College is definitely a transitional period. So why not head to downtown’s destination that is part arcade, part bar? Cobra has all the classic arcade cabinets, as well as pinball, music, and plenty of drinks themed after your favorite video game characters. 63 E. Congress St.

TEAholic features tea (with boba options) in a plush environment with Prince levels of purple. They also offer a small selection of rice bowls: Mongolian beef, house-fried rice (shrimp, chicken and beef) and braised beef. 1031 N. Park Ave. 32. Eat some wings at ATL Wings. The Chandler-based traditional wings spot offers some of the crunchiest in town. Out of the flavors we’ve tried so far, Spicy ATL dry rub is by far the favorite. 802 N. Fourth Ave.

31. Develop a habit at TEAholic.

33. Relax on the Cafe Passe patio. There are plenty of great restaurants and cafes on Fourth Ave., but none have a back patio quite like Cafe Passe. Shaded, full of plants, and with plenty of room to meet with friends, Cafe Passe is a hip, quiet nook to enjoy some food and drinks — and maybe even get some work done. 415 N. 4th Ave. 34. Get a cup of coffee at Bentley’s House of Coffee and Tea. Bentley’s has been serving coffee since before coffee was cool. This campus institution is a popular study spot that also serves up

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Japanese Gardens reopen from their annual summer closure on October 1. 2130 N. Alvernon Way. 38. Cool off at Tanque Verde Falls.

Believe it or not, there are water falls just outside of Tucson (depending on the season). Tanque Verde Falls are a wonderful hike through the cool desert canyons that culminate in a swimming hole and waterfall perfect for a break from the heat.

But due to the desert’s potential for flash flooding, please use caution before your hike out!

39. Drink a beer at 1702. With 30 rotating drafts, 1702 has one of the largest tap selections of craft beer in town—and there’s more in the fridge. Plus, great pizza to have alongside your frosty cold refreshment. 1702 E. Speedway.

40. Enjoy the Christmas lights in Winterhaven. If you’re stuck in town away from your family for winter break, there’s really no better way for a college student to regain that holiday glee than taking a trip through the Winterhaven Festival of Lights. This neighborhood is famous for its extravagant Christmas light displays, and with food carts and events around, there’s more to do than just look at lights. Christmas Ave.

41. Watch the Sunset at Gates Pass.

Gates Pass Road is a scenic ride towards Old Tucson, the Saguaro National Forest, and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

Take your sweetie to Gates Pass Scenic Outlook to watch our iconic pink, orange and purple sunsets. Alternatively, set up your telescope at Gates Pass trailhead to view Venus at dusk until December 31.

46. Scarf down the brisket at Kiss of Smoke. A perennial placer on our Best of Tucson, and for good reason! Kiss of Smoke serves up award-winning barbecue like brisket, pulled pork and sausage, as well as other southern classics like fried okra, slaw and beans. And if you want it to-go, they also cater by the pound. 663 S. Plumer Ave.

42. Have a cup of joe at Caffe Luce.

Caffe Luce is one of the best coffee roasters to visit in the campus area, with a shaded patio that’s perfect for studying and light people-watching. 943 E. University Blvd.

47. Look at the stars at Sky Bar. Sky Bar is exactly what you want from a Fourth Ave. bar: plenty of custom cocktails, food options, a variety of events, and generally just a nice place to hang out. But what sets them apart is their astronomy theme, with telescopes available on their patio every night. Sky Bar asks the important question: where else in the galaxy can you get solar powered drinks and take pictures of the Orion Nebula? 536 N. 4th Ave. 48. Pick your own six-pack at Tap & Bottle. While Tap & Bottle doesn’t brew their own beers, they serve as beloved curators for the local drinking scene.

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This is the perfect place to find out just how much specialty alcohol is made throughout Arizona. Multiple locations.

49. Check out the UA Museum of Art and Center for Creative Photography.

There’s plenty to do all throughout Tucson, but don’t forget the galleries on your own campus. The UA Museum of Art (reopening October 24 after a facelift) and Center for Creative Photography showcase a variety of art from Tucson and around the world, and host speaker series from acclaimed professionals. 1031 N. Olive Road 50. Get a crash course on craft beer at Barrio Brewing. Arizona’s oldest and first employee-owned brewery, Barrio Brewing is one of Tucson’s most famous for good reason. Their ales and IPAs are especially brewed for desert drinking, and enjoyed nationwide. Brews like the Barrio Blonde and Barrio Rojo are some of the finest craft beers one can find in the Tucson scene. 800 E. 16th St. ■

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The School of Theatre, Film & Television recently announced its 2021 & 2022 season, which will comprise four shows produced by the Arizona Repertory Theatre and two productions by the student-devised Next Performance Collective, including a brand new festival.

“Top of mind was coming back and providing performance and production opportunities for our acting & musical theatre students, our theatre students, and our design and tech productions students in an ethical and robust way,” said Hank Stratton, UA assistant professor and artistic director of the Arizona Repertory Theatre. “So much has happened in the last 18 months. There’s

of equity for the entire school, I wanted to make sure there were more theatre students that were given access to main stage experiences. Giving them visibility is really important, and it’s important to honor theatre-making on every level.”

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by Stephen Sondheim, running from Oct. 10 to Oct. 24, and a new version of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” running from Nov. 7 to Nov. 21.

“The first show we’re doing is ‘Into the Woods,’ which is not necessarily a new opportunity, but it seemed like a fantastical and lyrical way to invite the patrons, audience and campus back to the theatre. I feel the mix of whimsy and menace that it holds matches the moment we’re in,” Stratton said.

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‘Three Sisters’ that I had been dying to produce, and this seems like the perfect time. We have a lot of strong women right now, and I wanted to represent them.”

The Next Performance Collective, a UA initiative for works by emerging playwrights, will then take the stage with “Everybody” running from Dec. 3 through Dec. 5. This show by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins examines “the meaning of life and the mystery of death” with a lottery twist.

Arizona Repertory Theatre will return with “Living Dead in Denmark,” by Qiu Nguyen running from Feb. 27 to March 20, 2022. This sequel to Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is part adventure, part horror set five years after the original, when the undead rise from the grave, and resurrects many of Shakespeare’s great female characters.

This is followed by an Arizona Repertory Theatre performance of the rock-and-roll musical “High Fidelity” from April 10 to April 24.

Based on the book by David Lindsay-Abaire, with music by Tom Kitt and lyrics by Amanda Green, the show centers around a record store owner whose life takes a musical turn when he’s unexpectedly dumped.

Finally, the season will conclude with the

New Directions Festival from April 29 to May 1, which features a variety of original plays from UA students.

“The New Directions Festival is sort of an amalgamation of a one-act festival we did a couple of years ago,” Stratton said. “It was a huge success and a gain for our students. The New Directions Festival in the spring will be curated pieces and original one-acts that are all student-generated. They will be receiving production support from our design and tech division, but the actual content is original and directed by students. We are really proud we have representative voices. It was top of mind when we were choosing our programming.”

All shows will take place at the Tornabene Theatre, except for “High Fidelity” on the School of Theatre, Film & Television’s Outdoor Stage, because the UA’s Marroney Theatre is undergoing renovation.

Due to the relatively unpredictable nature of COVID, safety precautions are still in the works for the upcoming season, but Stratton says they will likely align with broader University recommendations.

“With this season we look forward to amplifying under-represented voices, and to providing students across the School with an opportunity to work on a broad range of classical, contemporary and self-devised work,” says TFTV director Andy Belser. ■

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Surfer Blood is set to perform at Club Congress on Sunday, Aug. 22. Worn-Tin and The They will open.

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play a bunch of shows.”

The month-long tour will comprise the band’s first live shows in front of audiences since Surfer Blood released its newest album, Carefree Theatre, last September.

“We expected to be touring it back in May 2020—and that obviously didn’t happen,” Pitts said. “This is the first time we’re going to be playing these songs on the road, so I’m super-excited.”

The band members are hopeful that the new tracks will quickly come back to memory.

“We’re now shaking the rust off, but I’m sure two or three shows in, it’ll all fall off,” Pitts said. “That’s the way it usually works, right? A show on the road is worth five practices. Don’t see our first show, because we’re going to be garbage.”

The pandemic didn’t cause the band to completely step away from performances. A glance at Surfer Blood’s YouTube channel reveals some quarantine covers and revisits, as well as a few in-person live sessions.

“I always want to stay busy,” Pitts said.

“We’ve done some web concerts, which are fun, but they’re kind of hard to do. You have to get really good at video editing and mixing and stuff, as opposed to when there’s a show, and you just have to show up with your equipment. We edit and mix everything ourselves. But there’s nothing like playing to a crowd, and getting that energy off of people, you know?”

Pitts said he learned some new skills during the shutdown—and he’s looking forward to not using those new skills for a while.

“You naturally get better at things like video editing, for example,” said Pitts. “It’s something that I’ve never really cared for that I’m now kind of good at. But … just not the same, so I’m super-excited to get back on the road and play for people in real time.”

Carefree Theatre marks a stark contrast when compared to the sounds Surfer Blood

explored previously.

“The new record is like, if I had to compare it to our other records, a lot more up front and a lot more poppy,” said Pitts.

“It’s just short, compact, two-minute songs, which I’m really excited to play live, because it’s just very immediate.

“I feel like you’re always reacting to the last thing you did, which in our case was a record called Snowdonia, where all the songs were, like, 7 1/2 minutes. I love that record, and I’m really proud of it. It was an album like Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth, and the newest one is more like Alien Lanes by Guided by Voices.”

Pitts said the variance in the band’s albums offers him some perspective.

“Every night, when we lay out the seven different full-length vinyls on the merch table, I’m like, ‘Wow, it’s been a crazy time,’” Pitts said. “It’s a different chapter in the life of the band, and I’m excited for people to hear some extremely punchy music.”

I was curious if the experimentation between the different albums had anything to do with the longevity of the band, which released its first music in 2009.

“Never let yourself get bored—I think that’s the most important thing,” Pitts said.

“We’ve made five or six records that all sound radically different from each other.

This way, you never have to go back in time. … You can’t make the same record over and over again, because it’s boring for you, and it’s boring for your audience.”

Most fans agree that despite the changes in sound, every release from Surfer Blood still somehow sounds like Surfer Blood.

“I think that part is unconscious,” Pitts said. “You put your fingerprint on every record, whether you know you’re doing it or not. I love that. It doesn’t matter how much I’ve tried to defy what Surfer Blood’s sound is; people recognize it. That’s how it goes.

You can’t help it, as much as you would love to break outside of that box. At this point, the Surfer Blood sound is something that we can’t escape. I’m sure it serves as a negative somehow, but I wouldn’t really worry about it. What we do, we’re really good at, and we love it. It brings us a lot of joy, and apparently, people aren’t that sick of it.”

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The Fox will present The Mavericks on Thursday, Aug. 19, with the genre-bending band with country and Mexican influences performing their new album, En Español.

If you wanna rock, you’ll have to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test “We certainly chose the Mavericks very intentionally,” Schock said. “They’ve got ties to the Tucson community and the Sept. 25. bassist is from here.”

In addition, 191 Toole—a smaller The Mavericks show kicks a packed fall

By Alexandra Pere warehouse venue that is also managed season for The Fox which includes Big apere@timespublications.com by the Rialto Theater Foundation—will be Bad Voodoo Daddy on Sept. 11, Chris Ispresenting performances by Black Joe sak on Sept. 25, Rickie Lee Jones on Sept.

Lewis and the Honeybears (Friday, Aug. 26, Pat Metheny with James Francies & A NUMBER OF LOCAL MUSIC 20), Sian (Saturday, Aug. 21) and Nanpa Joe Dyson on Oct. 5, Asleep at the Wheel venues will be requiring proof of vaccina- Básico (Friday, Aug. 27). on Oct. 8, Amy Grant on Oct. 24, Paula tion or a negative COVID test to attend Dave Slutes, entertainment director at Pounstone on Oct. 28, Atlanta Rhythm shows starting next month.

Hotel Congress, said concert goers would Section and Firefall on Nov. 5, Tommy The Rialto Theatre, Club Congress, 191 have to provide proof of vaccination or a Emmanuel on Nov. 6 and Boney James Toole and the Fox Theatre announced negative COVID test to attend shows inon Nov. 7.

Monday that they were part of a group of side the legendary Club Congress, but not Schock says she’s “excited to get the Arizona venues that would take the step for shows on the outdoor patio. Slutes said venue sparkling and shining again, but

by Sept. 20.

Hotel Congress will continue to follow at the same time we have some worry All four venues are in the process of re- CDC guidance, as well as honoring artist because we don’t have any control over opening and will require patrons to wear requests regarding COVID protocol. what happens next.” masks at upcoming indoor shows before Slutes said there has been a lot of interFox staff and volunteers are required to the vaccination policy kicks into place. est in the return of live music. Upcoming be vaccinated and Schock urged audi“The Rialto Theatre Foundation is exacts include Surfer Blood (Sunday, Aug. ence members to get vaccinated before tremely excited for our incredible lineup 22), James McMurtry (Sunday, Sept. 5), of shows,” said Cathy Rivers, executive Perfume Genius (Thursday, Sept. 16) and director of the Rialto Theatre Foundation. a host of local acts.

“But with that said, we feel it’s important “COVID aside, the artists have been to be a part of keeping our community eager to get back out there, tickets have safe. Those of us who can get vaccinated been selling like hotcakes, people have should, so we protect those in our commu- been very eager to see live music again,” nity who cannot. We hope to see you at a he said. show enjoying live music again while also But he said there have been unexpected taking safety measures to look out for all challenges, from the Delta wave to techniof our community.” cal issues.

She added that people should be careful “Did you know that disco lights go bad about carrying about their vaccine card. if you don’t use them for 18 months?”

“I personally recommend people don’t Slutes said. carry around their vaccine card,” Rivers Fox Executive Director Bonnie Schock said. “I would take a picture of it, put it in said the Fox decided to require proof of your wallet app on your phone, or make vaccination or a negative test because so a photocopy of the card and keep that in many other venues are moving in that your wallet.” direction.

The Rialto has a wide range of perfor“Partly what triggered it at this exact mances in the coming weeks such as moment is it’s a changing time in the Amigo the Devil (Friday, Aug. 20), Neko industry,” Schock said. “AEG, Live Nation, Case (Monday, Aug. 23), and the Flaming and Broadway League have all put out Lips (Tuesday, Aug. 24). Gogol Bordelthis basic policy over the last week. AEG lo returns on Saturday Sept. 4; Modest and Live Nation are major players in the Mouse comes to town on Monday, Sept. national concert industry and we work 20; Jack Russell’s Great White is schedwith many of their artists. It’s important uled for Friday, Sept. 24; and hometown for all of us to cooperate for the industry favorite Calexico will perform on Saturday, to work.”

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The CDC recently urged vaccinated and unvaccinated people to wear masks indoors in public spaces because the Delta variant is highly contagious. COVID is making a comeback here in Pima County, which recently moved into the “high transmission” category, according to the CDC. Schock said Tucson has a hunger for live music, adding this season’s sales are breaking records, which is welcome news for Schock after 18 months of zero revenue. The live entertainment industry was one of the hardest hit by COVID and Fox, Rialto and Hotel Congress had to lay off most of its operational staff.

The Fox and the Rialto are reopening with help from the Shuttered Venue Operations Grant from the Small Business Administration.

“I mean we wouldn’t have been able to consider reopening with the number of shows that we put on sale at this point with zero revenue,” Schock said. “It was absolutely essential to our ability to book artists and to prepare the venue.” ■

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VIRTUAL MESS Gamers might like Free Guy, but it’s a slog for everyone else

By Bob Grimm tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com

RYAN REYNOLDS GRINDS A BIT on the tolerance nerve in Free Guy, a mundane movie made for gamers that will leave you non-gamers feeling left out of the party.

Some up front honesty: I have a PlayStation 4 that I haven’t plugged in for more than three years. The last game I played was some Star Wars thing that kept my interest for about two sessions before I decided to

use my time wisely and watch Breaking Bad from start to finish again. I do know enough about gaming to say that the plot and visuals of Free Guy seem to rip-off the Grand Theft Auto and Crazy Taxi games. See, I just dated myself by referencing Crazy Taxi. Not a gamer.

Reynolds does his normally likeable but this time a little tedious super happy guy shtick as Guy, a background character in a popular video game that features car chases, bank robberies and deaths by train.

Guy wants a girlfriend, and when he sees Millie the superhero (Jodie Comer) walking around, he falls in love and it “awakens” something within. He swipes some superhero sunglasses, and then starts seeing all of the fun ways to get strength and make money. He’s on his way to being a real player.

As for the real-world players of the game, Millie is guided by the real-life Millie, a programmer who plays the game in an attempt to prove its core processing was stolen from her and Keys (Joe Keery), an employee of the game’s maker, a company led by the wisecracking Antoine (a surprisingly unfunny Taika Waititi).

Director Shawn Levy directs all of the proceedings with a flat journeyman director approach to comedy and action reminiscent of crap like the Night at the Museum

movies, which makes sense because he’s the director of the Night at the Museum movies.

The attempts at laugher are lacking in wit, and the action sequences feel drawn out and repetitive. There’s a whole lot of Ryan Reynolds jumping around and flying through the air and throwing punches with no real sense of purpose.

At almost two hours, it feels like four, with a screenplay that seems confused about what exactly it is trying to do. There’s a strange element where the real-life Millie starts to actually fall in love with game character Guy. Rather than play this for outlandish laughs, Levy and crew take the love story element seriously, and it just feels kind of creepy and diminishes the Millie character’s credibility. Again, this kind of goofy love story angle could come off just fine in the hands of a competent director but, as we mentioned before, Levy is the director of the Night at the Museum movies. (OK…I went back and looked, and I actually sort of liked the third Night at the Museum movie a little bit after hating the first two, so I am officially extending 1/3 of an apology to Mr. Levy.)

The film contains a long line of cameos, including Channing Tatum. Not giving too much away there in that Tatum shows up immediately in the movie, so there you go. If you like Channing Tatum, have at it. There

are also plenty of voice cameos I will not give away, and lots of cameos by gaming culture celebrities. I figured out they were streamer celebrities because a large swath of the audience cheered when they popped on doing gamer commentary. Like I said earlier, this movie is for the gamers and has a better chance of being enjoyed by gamers.

Comer is actually pretty good in the movie, even if her character’s arc goes in some ridiculously handled directions. Waititi just sort of goes through the motions, seemingly improvising lines that just don’t land in a funny place and looking even a little frustrated with his lack of success. Tatum, in his extended cameo, actually has what is easily the best moments in the film, so good that you sort of wish the whole movie was just about his guy. Reynolds gets a second role in the movie in a move that feels an awful lot like his doubling as Juggernaut in Deadpool 2.

As somebody who usually enjoys Reynolds, I was surprised by just how much I wanted him to shut up and go away in Free Guy. This movie was definitely not made for the likes of me, and if your house lacks a videogame console and a general appreciation for gaming culture combined with an affinity for all things Ryan Reynolds, it’s probably not for you, either. ■

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location. Pitts, who has lived in both California and Florida, said he looks forward to traveling again.

“I can’t think about how different Carefree Theatre, the newest record (made in Florida), sounds compared to 1000 Palms, or Pythons, records made while I was living in L.A.,” he said. “I think these things get inside of you, and again, are out of your control.

“I’m super-grateful that I was able to travel all around the world in my 20s, with my best friends, with Thomas (Fekete, who passed away after a bout with cancer in 2016), with the band, with Mikey (McCleary) and Lindsey (Mills). I wouldn’t trade that for anything. There’s something different about traveling and meeting people who are fans of your band, who will talk to you about their actual lives instead of just viewing you as a tourist. It’s opened my mind to a lot of shit.

“I’m just excited that it’s all happening again. It’s been a year since we played a show. It’s not optimal.” ■

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“Every night, when we lay out the seven different full-length vinyls on the merch table, I’m like, ‘Wow, it’s been a crazy time,’” Pitts said. “It’s a different chapter in the life of the band, and I’m excited for people to hear some extremely punchy music.”

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that Roses and More, the local florist at the corner of Speedway and Craycroft, moved down the road to another shopping center. Opening in their old spot is this new drive through specializing in healthier fast food. They’ve got house-made dressings, all-natural ingredients, and low prices thanks in part to their drive-thru/walkup only model. They’ve also got breakfast burritos, organic teas and cold brew. For their grand opening event, purchase any $2.99 breakfast burrito and get a free salad or wrap.

6:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 20. Salad and Go, 5501 E. Speedway Blvd.

by Emily Dieckman Editor’s Note: While we are delighted to see Tucsonans once again gathering for fun events, we are also aware that the new Delta variant is circulating and case counts in Arizona are on the rise. Please consider getting vaccinated against COVID if you haven’t yet and following CDC guidance, which includes wearing masks at crowded indoor events. Keep yourself and others safe—the pandemic isn’t over yet.

Anna Valenzuela at the Wench. Get yourself over to a live comedy show this week! And preferably, get yourself over to this one! Anna Valenzuela has a warm nature that is a strangely perfect complement to her dark material, and she’s in high demand in the LA comedy scene and beyond. She has the lovely and rare ability to roast audiences, other comedians and herself with equal vigor, so that no one ever gets left out. She even earned a spot on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle.

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God, imagine having the ability to make beautiful paper flowers. You could just buy some paper and then be set on what to get people for their birthdays for the rest of their lives. You could turn your home into a beautiful, everlasting arboretum. It just seems like such a sweet, useful skill. So, not to be dramatic, but this class with Luna’s Paper Designs could be the first day of the rest of your life. Pop in to make some colorful crepe paper flowers over at the Tucson Mall. 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21. Catalyst in the Tucson Mall, 4500 N. Oracle Road #110. $10 for drop-in classes.

Dance Party at the Annex. Let’s get ready to ruuuuuumble! Well, actually, let’s get ready to cumbia and salsa. This weekend, the Tucson International Mariachi Conference presents Santa Pachita, playing an outdoor show over at the MSA Annex festival grounds. Their mix of cumbia, salsa, ska and rock will make it pretty much impossible for you not to dance the night away. There’s nothing like live music, and this night also benefits local cultural education, so you’ll be dancing for a cause. Doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21. MSA Annex, 26 S. Avenida del Convento. $12 in advance or $15 at the door.

The Conundrum at Camp Catalina. Have you had a chance to catch any of the shows in Live Theatre Workshop’s Mini Summer Season? This children’s

theatre show, written by Tyler West and directed by Amanda Gremel, with music by David Ragland, is a great one to see with the kids. You’ll join the group over at Camp Catalina for the first-ever Woodland Games. They’ll be competing in a series of woodland skills, like tentmaking, knot tying, crafting and (perhaps most critically) s’more eating. But don’t worry.

There will be plenty of drama and mysteries along the way. Runs Sunday, Aug. 22 through Sunday, Sept. 26 at 1 p.m. Children’s Theatre on the Live Theatre Workshop Campus, 3322 E. Fort Lowell Road. $10 kids and $12 adults.

Super Small Works Show. This month’s show at the Wilde Meyer Gallery features works that are all on the small side, like a gorgeous 6 in x 6 in portrait of a dog

by Connie R. Townsend, or a lovely 8 in x 4 in landscape

by Debbie Carroll. This night is hosted by the gallery, Jane Hamilton Fine Art, and Sunset Interiors as part of the Sizzling Summer Night Series. Come enjoy the details of these pieces in person, while also enjoying refreshments and live entertainment by harpist Vanessa Myers. 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21. Wilde Meyer Gallery, 2890 E. Skyline Drive, Ste. 170.

Wrapped in Color: Legacies of the Mexican Serape.

The Arizona State Museum is finally reopening! And their first exhibit tells the story of the iconic textiles of historic and contemporary Indigenous, Mexican and New Mexican cultures. The show’s guest curator and featured weaver is renowned Zapotec textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez, whose designs draw on both cultural legacies and personal experiences. While the show features actual serapes, photographs, illustrations and videos, it also aims to teach about the spiritual significance, history and artistic traditions that underly the art. Opens Tuesday, Aug. 24. Museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Arizona State Museum, 1013 E. University Blvd. $8 adults, free for 17 and under.

Salad and Go Grand Opening. You may have noticed

Trivia Night at Caps and Corks. Join Team Trivia of Tucson for a night full of fun facts and healthy competition. Get ready to show what you know, or maybe find out how much you don’t know! You know the drill. Bring a team of the smartest people you know (we want diverse kinds of intelligence – like, bring your sports friend AND your history buff friend), grab a few drinks and mad dog the other teams to earn your way to the top. There are prizes for the winners! And you can sit either outside or inside. Plus, the host will pick up answers from your tables to limit movement throughout the building. 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25. Caps & Corks, 3830 W. River Road. Free to play.

HUB a la Road. The HUB has been taking their vintage ice cream truck on the road to local breweries all summer, and this is the last event of the series! Why not pair beer and ice cream together, you know? So, head on over to Borderlands Brewing Company for a carefully curated flight of four 4-oz. pours and ice creams. You’ll try the Noche Dulce Vanilla Porter, the Strawberry Wheat Ale, the Tangerine Sour, and the Horchata Cream Ale. Honestly, that sounds like a treat in and of itself, but throwing ice cream into the mix too? Don’t miss it. 6 to 8 p.m.

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The Amphi school district began requiring staff and students, regardless of vaccination status, to wear masks while indoors on school district property and on district buses, as of Tuesday. Superintendent Todd Jaeger notified parents and staff of the new policy through a letter sent out on Monday afternoon.

Jaeger cited the recommendation of health officials that students should wear masks in schools, including guidance from the CDC, the Arizona Department of Health Services, the Pima County Health Department, and the American Association of Pediatrics. He also noted the increase in COVID-19 cases, particularly outbreaks in their schools. On Monday, one school in the district had 23% of the student body absent due to illness, reported Jaeger.

As of Monday, the Pima County Health Department reported 489 COVID cases in schools and 25 outbreaks since July 20.

At Monday’s Board of Supervisor meeting, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francisco Garcia said they have had to close 15 classrooms

as a result of an outbreak.

On Aug. 5, the Tucson Unified School District Board voted unanimously to require masks indoors before the start of the school year with rising cases of COVID-19 and outbreaks in schools since they reopened.

Marana Unified School District staff and governing board members were discussing a mask requirement with their legal team as of the Weekly’s print deadline.

But the legal battle against a ban on mask mandates continues. Last week the Arizona Education Association, Arizona School Boards Association and a coalition of education organizations and supporters filed a lawsuit against the state over the constitutionality of the ban on K-12 mask mandates.

They argued the provisions included in the K-12 budget bill, prohibiting school districts from requiring masks and the COVID-19 vaccine for students and staff are unconstitutional, as they are unrelated to the budget.

According to the lawsuit filed by AEA, the law violates the single subject and title requirements for legislation and equal protection grounds as set forth in the Arizona

Constitution.

“Gov. Ducey and the GOP legislative leadership are putting our children in harm’s way and our communities at risk,” says AEA President Joe Thomas. “Their actions are reckless and abusive. By tying the hands of our local school board leaders, lawmakers are preventing them from making decisions to keep our students safe.”

Ducey spokesman C.J. Karamargin said the governor’s team was “confident the legislation we signed is completely constitutional.”

Gerald predicted more outbreaks in K-12 schools and universities with in-person instruction and said it would contribute to accelerating community transmission.

“The availability of effective vaccines combined with an early summer reprieve provided a false sense of security that the Delta variant has now shattered,” said Gerald. “We relaxed our mitigation efforts too quickly and have been too slow to reinstitute them. Hundreds, if not thousands, of Arizonans will now pay the ultimate price for this hubris.”

Gerald called the Governor’s law “inane and constitutionally circumspect prohibition of mask mandates,” and warned that

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“while mask mandates are necessary, they will not be sufficient to slow transmission without other layered protections throughout the community.”

Gerald said vaccine and mask mandates along with weekly surveillance testing, adequate ventilation, and physical distancing “is required to stave-off a worst-case scenario in schools reopenings.”

Through American Rescue Plan funding, the Biden Administration allocated $10 billion to support COVID-19 screen testing for schools to help in reopening.

Will Humble, executive director for Arizona Public Health Association, urged schools to participate in the program, since routine testing “would identify COVID cases and remove infected kids and their unvaccinated close contacts can prevent cascades of classroom cases and improve the chances for in-person school.”

Like Gerald, Humble said masking would not be enough to have a normal school semester and emphasized vaccinations as more important than masks.

“I think the mask is a patch. We have a solution,” said Humble. “Masks are not a solution. They assist, but they’re not the solutions. Vaccines are the solution.” ■

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Weed is legal for adult recreational users in Arizona. Here’s what you need to know.

By David Abbott tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com LOCAL INSTITUTIONS OF higher learning are about to start the first fall semester since the advent of legal adult-use, recreational cannabis in the state of Arizona.

But don’t break out the party bowls just yet, as there are still prohibitions related to possession and use on campus because of conflicting state and federal laws.

“What students should probably understand is that, yes, you’re allowed to grow a few plants, but you’re probably not allowed to do it in a dorm,” Downtown and D2 dispensaries owner Moe Asnani said. “They might think, ‘It sounds like I can grow some plants.’ Yes, but not on a federally funded school property. It’s the little things like that, I think, that’s important for them to understand.”

IS IT LEGAL? Despite legalization for medical uses in 36 states and for adult-use recreational in 18 (plus the District of Columbia), weed is still listed as a Schedule I narcotic by the U.S. government, meaning it has no “currently accepted medical use in the United States, a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision, and a high potential for abuse.” Other drugs on that list include heroin, LSD, peyote, methaqualone and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy, or MDMA).

The University of Arizona student code of conduct defines “controlled substance” as a “drug or substance whose use, possession, or distribution is controlled under state or federal law.”

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As a university that accepts federal funding, UA follows federal guidelines and prohibits “the unauthorized use, sale, possession or distribution of any controlled substance or illegal drug or possession of drug paraphernalia that would violate the law.”

Students caught with the drug are subject to sanctions “intended to be educational in nature, protective of the community, and relevant to the case.”

Punishment for a first-time violation can include parental notification, a “personal responsibility” education course, “personal reflection or community service, and deferred eviction for students living on campus,” and remains on the student’s education record for five years or until graduation.

Further punishment may include suspension from the college, expulsion, degree revocations or “other sanctions permissible under existing university rules.”

Pima Community College has its own rules prohibiting pot, outlined in its 2020-2021 Drug- and Alcohol-Free Environment Notification that complies with federal regulations in the Workplace Act of 1988 and the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act. Violations of those laws can lead to “imprisonment, fine, probation, and/or assigned community service. Students convicted of a drug- and/or alcohol-related offense will be ineligible to receive federally funded or subsidized grants, loans, scholarships, or employment.”

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are trumped by federal regulation.

While the 2010 Arizona Medical Marijuana Act authorizes possession and use for qualified patients, AMMA also “expressly prohibits the use or possession of marijuana on the campus of any public university, college, or community college, even by registered medical marijuana cardholders.”

“Federal law requires us to prohibit possession on campus and supersedes state law,” PCC spokesperson Libby Howell said. “If our campus police caught someone in violation, [the student] would be referred for a Student Code of Conduct violation.”

For small violations, students would face “disciplinary sanctions and possible criminal action even if they are registered medical marijuana cardholders,” according to policy, but Howell said actions such as arrest or expulsion are reserved for acts of violence or repeated offenses.

“Realistically, we’d only know [if a student possessed cannabis] if they were showing signs of impairment” she said.

On the bright side, because of an Arizona Supreme Court decision in 2018, students would not face immediate felony prosecution and the schools would deal with low-level offenses internally if a student with a valid medical card was caught with a reasonable amount of weed and no extenuating circumstances.

The case leading to the Court came about in 2015, when ASU student Andre Maestas was arrested for unusual behavior on campus. He was sitting in the middle of the road in a “disoriented” state, according to arresting officers.

Maestas had a valid MMJ card, which led to a search of his dorm room that uncovered about a joint’s worth of cannabis in his possession. The student was charged with a felony under a 2012 law that made it a felony to possess any amount of cannabis on a college campus.

A lower court determined that the 2012 state statute, signed into law by former governor Jan Brewer, violated the Voter Protection Act of 1998, which requires a three-quarters legislative vote to change a voter initiative and only if it “furthers the intent of the law.” In 2018 the Arizona

Supreme Court determined the law did not further the intent and upheld the prior decision.

The felony was reduced to a misdemeanor, and eventually dropped, but because Maestas took a stand to defend himself, possession does not automatically mean arrests and legal hassles for pot-loving students.

Patients cannot consume cannabis in private or public on campus though, and students are expected to follow the Arizona Board of Regents code of conduct, which includes prohibitions against possession and use of controlled substances.

Maestas eventually graduated with a 3.13 GPA and took his diploma into a high-tech programming job, according to contemporary reports.

THE ADVANTAGES OF MEDICAL CERTIFICATION The AMMA was passed by Arizona voters in 2010 and offers significant advantages over adult-use recreational pot.

There are anti-discrimination provision to protect employees, renters and homeowners, as well as students, and cardholders can possess larger quantities of weed.

Plus—and this is an important loophole for college students—a medical marijuana card allows you to purchase cannabis if you’re between the ages of 18 and 21.

Arizona cannabis attorney Tom Dean says college students, especially those who live in dorms, are among the three categories of Arizona residents who may want to consider keeping their MMJ cards. (The other two categories are employees subject to drug testing and parents of minor children.)

MMJ patients can possess up to 2.5 ounces of leaf and unlimited edibles with no limit on THC content. They can also grow up to 12 plants if they live more than 25 miles from the nearest dispensary.

The tax rate on medical cannabis includes a 6% sales tax along with a 2% to 3% local sales tax, depending on municipality.

Prop 207, which passed in November 2020, legalizes possession of up to an ounce for adults over the age of 21 and allows growing up to six plants and possession of up to five grams of concentrates at any one time. It also places a limit on the THC content of edibles of 10mg per piece

and 100mg per package.

Additionally, there is a 16% sales tax on recreational weed along with local taxes, so you get a big tax break if you invest in a medical card.

“If patients go to www.drreeferalz.com they can find an app on our site to calculate how much they purchase in a month, and it’ll show what a recreational customer would pay [versus] what a medical patient would pay,” Dr. Reeferalz Arizona Operating Manager Taryn Tia said. “It puts things in perspective, because you can save a lot by just having a medical card.”

Dr. Reeferalz has five certification clinics in the Phoenix area and one in Tucson, located at 4120 E. Speedway Blvd.

The medical referral business has been rocked in the past year, in the wake of the state of Arizona extending the life of a MMJ certification to two years. While the advent of legal weed has not helped, a kind of equilibrium is coming in the industry as marijuana users who qualify as patients learn the advantages of the medical program.

“When you have a medical card, you’re protected,” Tia said. “You never know what could end up transpiring, so there’s a lot of benefits. The medical side is definitely a really good side of it.”

Dr. Reeferalz offers discounts to veterans, seniors and students. The state fee for a cannabis card is $150 for two years and there is a $50 examination cost, but in the long run—particularly for heavy cannabis users—the economics favor the MMJ side.

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ijuana laws, the industry has seen huge increases in economic activity and tax revenue generation, despite legitimate marijuana businesses not having full access to banking services, funding sources or markets in other states.

The war on drugs continues to hamper economic growth, as Reagan-era tax laws have put the cannabis industry at a disadvantage through draconian tax laws that don’t allow business some of the advantages other sectors enjoy. The cannabis industry is also trapped by state boundaries that preclude interstate commerce and hamper economics of scale that could cut operational costs.

The Arizona Department of Revenue collected $74,386,952 in total marijuana tax revenue between the advent of adultuse recreational sales in January to the end of June, according to the Arizona Department of Revenue. That breaks down to nearly $25 million from medical card holders and roughly $49.5 million from recreational sales.

The state is poised to collect more than $150 million in taxes from an industry that is on track to sell more than $1 billion worth of cannabis in 2021, with the new adult-use market doubling sales around the state. That adds up to an average of $120 million in monthly sales of cannabis, both medicinal and recreational.

The market will likely top $2 billion annually after the recreational program reaches maturity in about three years. At that point, the state is expected to rake in approximately $183 million annually from taxes on legal pot sales, according to the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit fiscal analysis organization.

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have increased dramatically, given the wave of legalization in what is now a majority of states.

In 2020, Americans spent $18 billion on legal weed and the industry is on pace to reach $25 billion to $26 billion in sales by the end of this year, an increase of roughly 35%.

Cannabis is the nation’s fastest-growing industry, given that in 2020 sales revenue increased roughly 60% over 2019.

TUCSON MARIJUANA BUSINESSES CASH IN The local pot business, like most other businesses in the Tucson area, has been gearing up for the return of both college students and winter visitors (AKA snowbirds), particularly after the economic ravages of the pandemic.

“We are much busier during the months when the university is in session, including the community colleges,” Downtown’s Asnani said. “But it’s not just students, it’s also staff and faculty and everything else that comes with the administration of an entity like a university.”

This year is especially auspicious for Downtown Dispensary, as Aug. 20 will be the eighth anniversary of the opening of the business. There will be in-house specials and Asnani plans the gradual rollout of several new lines of products, including quality chocolates created with equipment imported from Europe.

“We have a ton of new products coming out, such as iLava Molecular, which is our live resin line of cartridges,” he said. “We’re going to have about 16 of them launching in September with multiple vape products as well as gummies that have CBD, CBC, CBG, CBN as well as Delta 9 THC.” Downtown and D2 have a 10% discount for customers with valid student IDs, as well as for veterans and seniors over the age of 65.

“Obviously, this is only for individuals aged 21 and over,” Asnani said. “If you’re a graduate student, or later in your undergrad career, and you’re over 21, in the past, you had to have a medical marijuana card.”

He added that his dispensaries are not specifically targeting students, but offering discounts to customers from the neighborhood.

“Any time of the year, if somebody has a student ID they get 10% off as long as it’s an active student ID card,” Asnani said. “We do it for the students that are enrolled at either UA or Pima. Of course, if it’s somebody from ASU, we’ll still give it to them, but the most important thing for your readers to know is, you can walk in with an ID that proves 21 and over and legally buy.” ■ Former cannabis columnist Nick Meyers contributed to this report.

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“When you have a medical card, you’re protected,” Dr. Reeferalz Arizona Operating Manager Taryn Tia said.

“You never know what could end up transpiring, so there’s a lot of benefits. The medical side is definitely a really good side of it.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): A blogger who calls herself TheSaddestChorusGirlInTheWorld writes, “Having sex with someone is a big deal and involves a ton of vulnerability. And I think it’s troubling and gross and unhealthy and, yes, dangerous that we pretend otherwise and encourage people to ‘be mature’ by compartmentalizing or completely eliminating their deeper emotions from their sexuality. And even worse, any other view is dismissed as prudish and invalid and unenlightened and restrictive.” You may agree with everything TheSaddestChorusGirl says here. But if you haven’t arrived at her conclusions, now is a good time to meditate on them. Why? Because your assignment in the coming weeks is to deepen and refine your relationship with your sexuality. Be extra reverent about your sensual longings. Ensure that your erotic activities serve your highest ideals and noblest goals.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The popular American TV sitcom 30 Rock produced 138 episodes in seven seasons. At the height of its success, it crammed an average of 9.57 jokes into every minute. Its comic richness derived in large part from multi-talented Taurus star Tina Fey, who created the show and played one of its main characters.

She was also a writer and executive producer. I propose we make her your role model in the coming weeks. According to my projections, you’re entering a charismatic, ebullient, and creative phase of your astrological cycle. It’s time to be generous to the parts of your life that need big happy doses of release and liberation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I got an email from a Gemini reader named Jaylah. She wrote, “Hi, not sure if you remember me, but in our past lives, you and I used to write sacred cuneiform texts on clay tablets while sitting across from each other in a cave in Mesopotamia 4,910 years ago. Your

name was Nabu. Mine was Tashmetu. I was always a little jealous because you earned more money than I, but it didn’t get in the way of our friendship.

Anyway, if you ever want to catch up about the old days, give me a holler.” I loved receiving this inquiry from a soul I may have known in a previous incarnation. And what she did by reaching out to me happens to be the perfect type of activity for you Geminis right now. Secrets of your history may be more available than usual. The past may have new stories to tell. A resource from yesteryear could prove valuable in the future.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian-born Franz Kafka was an interesting writer and a master of language. But even for him, it could be a challenge to convey what he really meant. He said, “I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.” Now here’s the good news, as far as you’re concerned, Cancerian: I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will have more power than usual to do exactly what Kafka aspired to do. You will be able to summon extra ease and grace in expressing your truths. I invite you to be a connoisseur of deep conversations.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If we wait until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of our lives,” declared novelist Lemony Snicket. This is good advice for you to heed right now. I really hope you avoid the temptation to wait around for the perfect moment before you begin. In my vision of your best approach, you will dive into the future without trying to have all your plans finalized and all your assets gathered. I expect you will acquire the rest of what you need once the process is underway.

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By Dan Savage, mail@savagelove.net

Is it ever ok to stop being GGG? I’ve been with my husband for 26 years. Shortly after we got together, my husband disclosed a major kink: MFM threesomes. I was young and a virgin and up for anything then, but we didn’t start hooking up with other men until around year six of our relationship. Over the last 20 years, we’ve been on-and-off with this.

We had children, we took a break, and we found the time to go wild now and then.

My husband’s interests expanded into dominance play—owning me and sharing me—but I’m in my late forties now and my husband is in his fifties. I’m approaching menopause and my sex drive

has decreased. There were also instances where I was basically sexually assaulted—or at the very least, my boundaries were not respected on more than one occasion. Long story short, I want to be done being kinky. I want my body to be mine. My husband and I have been having other marital problems, and he thinks my rejection of his kinkiness is a rejection of him. I’ve told him I’m still interested in sex, I’m just tired of being GGG. He says he isn’t interested in vanilla sex with me because he is “disappointed.” When I told him to outsource his kink, he said, “Good luck finding that as a married man.” Am I ever allowed to retire from his

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Author Katherine Mansfield once told her friend Virginia Woolf, “You put me in touch with my own soul.” I’m sorry Mansfield didn’t previously have that precious connection, but I’m elated that Woolf helped her make it. In the coming weeks, I expect you will encounter an abundance of influences like Woolf: people and animals and places and experiences that can bring you into more intimate contact with your soul. I hope you take full advantage.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): At the age of 70, Libran novelist Magda Szabó mused, “I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.” In that spirit, Libra, and in accordance with astrological omens, I authorize you to express affection in lively, unruly, demonstrative ways. Give yourself permission to be playfully imaginative, exuberantly revelatory, and vivaciously animated as you show the people and animals you cherish the nature of your feelings for them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Do you Scorpios lie to yourselves more than the other signs lie to themselves? Are you especially prone to undermine yourselves through self-deception? I don’t think so. However, you might be among the signs most likely to mislead or beguile other people. (But here’s a caveat: On some occasions, your trickery is in a good cause, because it serves the needs of the many, not just yourself.) In any case, dear Scorpio, I will ask you to minimize all such behavior during the next five weeks. I think your success will depend on you being exceptionally honest and genuine—both to yourself and to others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I like being broken,” says Sagittarius actor Jamie Campbell Bower.

“It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.” I guess that when he feels down, he gives himself special permission to enjoy extra treats and privileges. According to my assessment of the astrological omens, you now have the right to give yourself similar permission—even though I don’t expect you’ll be broken or feeling down. Think of it as a

kink? Am I the asshole here?

—My Years Being Obedient Done First and most importantly, if your husband stood by and did nothing while your boundaries were violated in front of him—or if he violated your boundaries himself—then there’s an asshole in this marriage, MYBOD, and it ain’t you. But seeing as you’re still with your husband and still interested in having vanilla sex with him, I’m gonna assume your husband recognized how he failed you on those occasions when you were violated and that he’s shown remorse, apologized specifically and profusely, and made whatever changes he needed to make for you to feel safe with him. If he’s done none of those things—if he hasn’t done all of those things—you should leave him.

reward for the brave work you’ve been doing lately.

Enjoy this chocolatey grace period!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) was a Jewish theologian born under the sign of Capricorn. He wrote, “Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.” That’s a different definition of sin from what we’re used to! To be a moral person, Heschel believed, you must be in “radical amazement” about the glories of creation. I hope you will cultivate such an attitude in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It would be a mistake for you to numbly take things for granted. I dare you to cultivate as much awe, reverence, and adoration as you can muster.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A blogger who calls herself Hopeful Melancholy wrote a message to her lover. She said, “My favorite sexual position is the one where you work on your paintings and I work on my book, but we’re in the same room and occasionally smile at each other.” You might want to consider trying experiments comparable to that one in the coming weeks, Aquarius. The time will be fertile for you and your dear allies to work sideby-side; to cheer each other on and lift each other up; to explore new ways of cultivating companionship and caring for each other.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dick Dudley was a 17th-century swindler. Among his many victims was the Pope. Dudley offered an item for sale that he claimed was a divine relic: a piece of the beard of St. Peter, founder of the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope paid Dudley a small fortune for the treasure, and kissed it copiously. Only later did the full story emerge: The so-called beard was in fact a sex worker’s pubic wig. I hope you don’t get involved in switcheroos like that anytime soon, Pisces. Make sure that the goods or services you’re receiving—and offering, for that matter—are exactly what they’re supposed to be. ■ Homework: Describe what you’re ever so thankful for. Newsletter@FreeWillAstrology.com

Zooming out for new readers: GGG stands for “good, giving, game.” As in, “good in bed, giving of pleasure, and game for anything—within reason.”

I believe we should be GGG for our partners and that our partners should be GGG for us. Being GGG, however, does not mean doing whatever your partner wants. That’s why the final G has always come with that italicized-for-emphasis qualifier: “game for anything—within reason.” Being game means recognizing your partner will have sexual interests that you don’t share and being up for giving those things a try—so long as they’re reasonable. “Reasonable” is a subjective standard, of course, and we all get to decide for ourselves what may or may not be reasonable.

Back to you, MYBOD. A kink for MFM threesomes is not a thing for feet or

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light spanking. It’s a big ask. And if your husband knew he needed MFM threesomes to feel sexually fulfilled, sharing that when he did—early in the relationship—was the right thing for him to do. He laid his kink cards on the table before you got married, before you had kids, and when you could easily walk away. You didn’t walk away. You told him you were open to the idea—you told him you were one of those rare “up for anything” virgins— and he didn’t rush you into anything.

Six years went by before you had your first threesome. And while MFM threesomes probably aren’t something you would’ve sought out on your own, MYBOD, I’m hoping you enjoyed some of them—you know, the ones that didn’t involve boundary violations so egregious that you experienced them not as sexual adventures you were having with your husband, but as sexual assaults your husband participated in and Jesus Fucking Christ on the Cross.

In all honesty, MYBOD, I’m having a hard time getting past those boundary violations. But seeing as you got past them—seeing as you’re still interested in being with your husband—I’m going to continue to assume he somehow made things right and advise you accordingly.

If he didn’t make things right, disregard my advice and divorce the motherfucker already.

Alright, you asked me if you can stop being GGG, MYBOD, and my answer is no.

I think you should continue being GGG. That doesn’t mean you have to continue having MFM threesomes with your husband. You can decide you’re done with that—you can take them from the menu permanently—while still being GGG in other ways. You’re also allowed to be done with Dom/sub play. (Your husband never owned you and your body was never his to share. That was naughty dirty talk you indulged in, not a deed of sale you have to honor.) And doing what you’re doing—giving your partner permission to get a specific sexual need

met elsewhere—is one way a person can be GGG. There’s this need, this kink of his, that’s important to him—so important he brought up early on—and you met that need for a long time but can’t meet it anymore. But you’re good enough, giving enough, and game enough to give him your blessing to get his kink on with other people.

So you haven’t stopped being GGG. You’re being GGG in a different way now.

And just as you’re not obligated to have kinky sex with your husband, MYBOD, your husband is not obligated to have vanilla sex with you. If you think he’s withholding sex right now because he’d disappointed, well, maybe you can see how it might be disappointing and give him a little time to get over it. But if, on the other hand, you think he’s withholding sex to manipulate you into having threesomes again, MYBOD, that’s a deeply shitty thing to do and you should leave him.

P.S. Please show this to your husband, MYBOD: Dude. GET OVER YOUR DISAPPOINTMENT ALREADY. You had good run. I hope you’re grateful and I hope found some way to make up for boundary violations. Assuming you did: The sooner you stop fucking sulking and start fucking looking, the sooner you’ll find couples seeking male thirds. And you know those couples are out there because you and your wife used to be one of those couples. And far from being a stumbling block, the fact that you’re married is a selling point for many couples seeking thirds. (A married or partnered man is seen as less threatening for obvious reasons.) And I don’t know if you’ve been online recently, but hot daddies are very much in demand these days, and dominant daddies get a lot of play. Your wife isn’t taking your kink from you. She’s telling you to get this need met elsewhere. You are not being wronged. Stop being a baby and an ingrate. Jesus!

I’m freshly out of a relationship and new to Grindr and I’m realizing that for me to get hard, I need slow kissing, I need to vibe to music, and especially need a soft touch on my dick. Too many guys pull on it with no lube and that makes me go soft. Slowly kissing to a chill song is my jam. Also, my dick is sensitive near the bottom of the shaft and I need wet fingers to go all the way down to the base of my dick in order to come. Is there a quicker way to describe this? Is low-on-the-shaft stimulation called something? Is there a term for this or a name for me? Or do I need to send a paragraph to all the tricks I message?

—Very Into Being Erect That’s called the way you like it, VIBE. Alternately, it’s called what works for you, what makes your dick hard, and what gets you off. The precise way you like it—the kissing that works for you, the music that puts you in the mood, the spot on your dick that puts you over the edge—doesn’t have name, VIBE, and it doesn’t need one. But who knows? By this time next week, the way you like it could have a name and a pride flag and a bunch of online cis het allies ready to shout down anyone who isn’t convinced the slow-kiss-me-vibe-to-chill-music-

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touch-the-base-of-my-lubed-up-cock community needed a name and its own float in the pride parade.

But just as you don’t really need a pride flag, VIBE, you don’t need to send a FAQ and an NDA to each potential trick you message on Grindr. All you gotta do is tell the guy who shows up at your apartment that you’re into soft kissing—the music you like can already be playing—and then show him how you like your dick stroked. The guys yanking your dick without lube aren’t trying to make you go soft. They’re making their best guess about what might work you, a guess most likely informed by what works for them and other guys. I promise you, VIBE, the guys from Grindr aren’t pulling on your dick maliciously.

Quite to the contrary, VIBE, your gentleman callers are pulling on you dick with the best of intentions. Offer those gentlemen some cheerful, constructive feedback in the moment, VIBE, and most will start stroking your dick just the way you like it. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage.savagelovecast.com

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