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This lawmaker should not be Arizona’s next Secretary of State By Jake Dean

THEATER: Gaslight’s Holiday Cheer

ARTS: Injustice on Display at Bernal Gallery

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CONTENTS

CURRENTS

Talonya Adams verdict looms over Hobbs, governor’s race

TUCSON SALVAGE

An ex-con finds redemption as a cook

FEATURE

Mark Finchem’s scary past and dangerous future

ARTS & CULTURE

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

EDITOR’S NOTE

Jaime Hood, General Manager, jaime@tucsonlocalmedia.com

Simply the Worst

WHILE HE’S SKILLED AT OLD WEST cosplay, State Rep. Mark Finchem is a terrible lawmaker. He indulges in nutty conspiracies, he spreads lies, he embraces fringe legal theories and he has little respect for the basic institutions of government—such as the separation of powers in the three branches of government—unless they suit his purposes. It’s bad enough he serves in the Arizona Legislature. But now Finchem—who has been peddling bogus election fraud BS since the 2020 election—wants to run our elections as Arizona Secretary of State (which would also put him next in line as governor of Arizona). There’s zero chance that Finchem—whether he’s delusional or just willing to lie in support of the Big Lie—would administer elections fairly. Contributor Jake Dean lays out the case against Finchem in this week’s cover story. It’s a disturbing read when you realize just out of touch with reality the Oro Valley lawmaker is. Elsewhere in the book this week: Tucson Salvage columnist Brian Smith talks with chef who has pulled his life together after a few prison stints; staff reporter Alexandra Pere gives you some ideas about how you can help needy families out during the holiday season; Jeremy Duda of the Arizona Mirror

Tyler Vondrak, Associate Publisher, tyler@tucsonlocalmedia.com Claudine Sowards, Accounting, claudine@tucsonlocalmedia.com

looks at the trouble facing Secretary of State Katie Hobbs as she seeks the Democratic nomination for governor in 2022; Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick calls on Republicans to join with Democrats on good-faith budget negotiations; columnist Tom Danehy recalls some of his favorite short stories and muses about whether kids should be reading The Bible in public schools; calendar editor Emily Dieckman celebrates Gaslight Theatre’s holiday production of Elf’d; arts writer Margaret Regan takes in an exploration of injustice now on display at PCC’s Bernal Gallery; XOXO columnist Xavier Otero tells you about all the live music you can hear this week, including holiday concerts, Lindsey Buckingham, Tito Puente Jr and a few holiday concerts; and there’s plenty more in our pages, so dig in and give us a read. Jim Nintzel Executive Editor Hear Nintz talk about all things Tucson Weekly at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday mornings on the world-famous Frank Show on KLPX, 96.1 FM.

RANDOM SHOTS By Rand Carlson

A pair of artists explore America’s suffering in a show at Bernal Gallery

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GUEST COMMENTARY

REPUBLICANS MUST COME TO THE TABLE, OTHERWISE WE ALL LOSE By U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick COMPROMISE IS KEY TO THE WORK

we do in Congress. Every year, we have the immense responsibility of creating, negotiating, and passing the annual federal budget. The deadline to keep the government running is upon us, yet Republicans refuse to complete negotiations for the Fiscal Year 2022 budget. Instead, they state their preference for a year-long Continuing Resolution, a “CR.” House Democrats worked to pass our budget over the summer, and our Senate counterparts also published a strong proposal. When Republicans refuse to join us at the negotiating table, they blatantly ignore the needs and wellbeing of their constituents. The stakes of not passing a federal budget are too high for these reprehensible political games. I take my responsibility as Arizona’s appropriator seriously and I spend countless hours working with our community to ensure Arizonans’ priorities are included in the budget. EDUCATION THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC highlighted the need for serious investments in our education infrastructure. Arizonans understand the devastating consequences Republican education policies have had on our education system at the state level—we cannot allow failed ideas and inaction to prevent critical investments in our students. Our budget includes significant investments in Title I schools, ensuring all students have access to quality education, regardless of zip code. We include funding increases for special education, early childhood development, childcare for low-income families, and Tribal Colleges and Universities. A CR will halt the necessary investments needed to make our education system competitive again on a global stage.

CHILDREN IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST prosperous nations, no child should go hungry. At the pandemic’s start, our decades-long progress in combating food insecurity was wiped away in months. Over six million children lived in food-insecure households, and nearly 15% of households with children had trouble finding enough food to meet everyone’s needs. Our budget expands access to fresh produce to 6.4 million people through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Furthermore, it ensures 45 million eligible people in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program get the benefits they need and guarantees that SNAP will stay solvent. NATIONAL DEFENSE, MILITARY FAMILIES, AND VETERANS IF WE MAINTAIN A YEAR-LONG CR, as Republicans hope to do, we will freeze programs at last year’s funding levels, and the Department of Defense (DoD) will be unable to shift funding towards defense and national security priorities that have since changed. An overdue pay raise for our troops and civilian personnel are set to take effect on January 1, 2022. Our troops and civilian personnel rightfully deserve this pay raise. If we maintain a CR, the DoD will likely need to lay off personnel to pay for the raise. Our budget contains $845 million for Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities that make our borders safe; these programs will not be funded at this level under a CR. Our budget adds $562.5 million for cancer research directly affecting servicemembers and their families. This lifesaving cancer research into breast, ovarian, prostate, lung, kidney, and pan-

creatic cancers impacts every family in America. This research is in jeopardy if we settle with a CR. Our budget includes total funding for the South Wilmot gate at Davis-Monthan. The city of Tucson and Pima County have invested significantly in expanding roadways in anticipation of this funding. A delay in federal funding continues safety concerns at the base and impacts surrounding traffic. Our budget significantly invests in remediation and clean-up efforts of the toxic chemical PFAS, another major priority for the city of Tucson and Arizona. This funding will not be realized in a CR. Our budget provides a record $97.6 billion for Veterans’ medical care and enhances the VA’s ability to reach homeless veterans with $2.2 billion for homeless assistance programs. A CR prevents us from increasing veteran care. HOUSING SOUTHERN ARIZONANS KNOW first-hand how fast the cost of living has risen in the last decade. Our budget includes increases to Homelessness Assistance Grants and tenant-based Section 8 vouchers to combat homelessness. We also include funds to construct, maintain and improve homes for low-income families. GETTING ARIZONANS BACK TO WORK ONE OF THE TOP ISSUES I HEAR from community members is the simultaneous need for good-paying jobs and the staffing shortages facing many industries, especially healthcare facilities. Our budget includes investments in job training, apprentice programs, and worker protection programs. A CR will prevent these programs and others from helping Arizonans get back on their feet. I also secured direct funding for specific projects in Southern Arizona. These Community Projects are entirely at risk without a final budget deal. I included funds for a flood control project in the City of Douglas, which will bring a significant portion of the Douglas population out of the floodplain,

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improving the livelihood of families and businesses in our border communities. I included funds for two of our community health centers—one in Tucson and one in Bisbee—to expand their capabilities, both to treat patients and train rural health care workers. I included funds to improve 8 affordable housing units in Tucson, along with funds to fully furnish Pima Community College’s Flexible Industry Training Lab—which will focus on training our high-skilled manufacturing workforce of the future. These projects benefit all of us, Democrats and Republicans alike, and none will see funding if Republicans don’t come to the table and negotiate a final budget deal. We cannot afford to see these opportunities slip away. President Biden once said, “show me your budget, and I will tell you what you value.” Our budget prioritizes working families, veterans and advances the U.S. on a global scale. Compromise has always been crucial to our work in Congress. We have done this before, and we must do it again. Republicans must come to the table and negotiate this budget in good faith—we will all benefit from it. My colleagues and I stand ready to get this budget across the finish line. The question is, where are the Republicans? ■ Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick represents Arizona’s Second Congressional District.

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CURRENTS

LEGAL PERIL

Talonya Adams verdict looms over Hobbs, governor’s race

In 2019, a jury in federal court agreed with Adams, a Black woman who argued that she was underpaid in the Senate as a result of racial and gender JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO, things were coming together for Katie discrimination. And a jury sided with Adams again earlier this month when Hobbs in a way that few Democratic it found that she was fired for comgubernatorial candidates in Arizona plaining about that discriminatory pay. could ever say. Now, many Democrats worry about Buoyed by the so-called “audit” of what the verdicts mean for the guberthe 2020 election in Maricopa Counnatorial race. ty, a widely mocked affair conducted Hobbs “is treating this issue with by conspiracy theorists who reached the utmost seriousness and takes a series of dubious conclusions after responsibility for her role, and is months of work, Hobbs, who as seccontinuing to learn how to be a better retary of state serves as Arizona’s top ally. The verdict remains the same as elections official, was secure in her in 2019, which shows the facts haven’t status as the Democratic frontrunner. changed—in fact, these systemic ineqHer frequent appearances on national uities still exist in the state legislature. cable television programs boosted her fundraising and name recognition Katie will continue to do what is necessary to address these systemic issues,” to the point that most observers had her campaign said in a statement to simply penciled her in for the general election, despite having two opponents the Arizona Mirror. In a recent interview with the Mirror, in the Democratic primary. Hobbs noted that the firing was nearly The dynamics of the Hobbs camseven years ago and the first trial was paign and the governor’s race changed two years ago. It’s “not a new issue,” dramatically this month when a federal she said. jury found in favor of Talonya Adams, However, many political observers who was fired from her job as a policy expect the jury decision for Adams, advisor for the Senate Democrats in and the underlying issues behind it, to 2015, when Hobbs was the chamber’s be a problem for her in both the primaminority leader. By Jeremy Duda AZ Mirror

ry and general elections. Equitable pay across racial and gender lines is a core issue for the Democratic base. The finding that Hobbs acted in a discriminatory manner has led to an outpouring of criticism. A group of African-American leaders penned a letter urging people of color to “reconsider” their support for her. Adams has said Hobbs is “unfit” to serve as governor. Hobbs’ response to the verdict has fanned the flames. She defended Adams’ firing as not discriminatory and not a result of her race or gender, saying there were problems with her performance, including some that she alleges weren’t disclosed during the four-year federal court battle. “I don’t think Democrats can afford to have any candidate who is under a cloud to start off,” said Ann Wallack, a former chairwoman of the Maricopa County Democratic Party. Wallack said she’s been supporting Hobbs, and wants to continue doing so. But she also wants to be responsive to the feelings of the African-American community and other minority groups. If they think Hobbs is untenable as a candidate, Wallack said that’s of great concern to her. Roy Herrera, a prominent Democratic campaign attorney, said Hobbs’ explanation for the firing doesn’t square with what the jury found. And her claim that there were other, undisclosed issues that led to Adams’ firing is problematic as well, he said. The issue won’t go away, he said, unless she’s able to more satisfactorily answer some of these questions. A little contrition for her role in the firing, an acknowledgement of Adams’ pain and suffering, could have gone a long way, Herrera said. “I didn’t read anything in that response or explanation … that let us know how she would address this problem going forward. What is her plan for ensuring that this kind of thing wouldn’t happen again or wouldn’t happen to anyone else ever again?” he said. Aaron Lieberman, a recently resigned state legislator who is challenging Hobbs in the Democratic

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Secretary of State Katie Hobbs faces a bump on the campaign trail after a federal jury found in favor of a fired policy advisor.

primary, said the issues surrounding the verdicts in the Adams case simply aren’t going to go away. Republicans are already looking at the verdict as something they can use in the general election to suppress Black voter turnout and use against Hobbs, if she’s the Democratic nominee, he said. “I think the biggest concern is that Republicans will drive a truck through this in the general election. That’s just the reality of the situation,” Lieberman said. There’s no doubt that Republicans have keyed in on the issue. Daniel Scarpinato, a GOP political operative and former chief of staff to Gov. Doug Ducey, said he’ll be shocked if the Adams verdict doesn’t become a focal point of the Republicans’ campaign against Hobbs next fall. Between the Republican nominee and the outside groups that run ads to support them, a lot of money goes into gubernatorial races, Scarpinato said. And that money will be used to hammer Hobbs with the discrimination verdict, including Adams’ searing indictment of Hobbs. “These are races that a lot of money gets put into, and we can all picture that in the Phoenix media market with a thousand points a week behind it,” Scarpinato said. “If I’m her campaign, I would just assume that this is going to have a lot of weight and a lot of money and a lot of energy behind it.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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The Black leaders who signed the letter warning against support for Hobbs weren’t swayed by her explanation. One, former lawmaker Art Hamilton, has since endorsed Marco Lopez, one of her opponents in the Democratic primary. Others have yet to announce support for any candidate. But whatever happens, it’s clear that their support won’t go to Hobbs. Cloves Campbell, a former legislator, said he wanted to hear an admission of wrongdoing from Hobbs, and wanted her to say what she’ll do to fix those problems. If she’s not going to do that, he said, Black leaders and voters can support someone else. “African-American communities are tired of hearing people say things about us and do things against us and then expect us to turn the other cheek,” Campbell said. “We’ve run out

of cheeks and we’re not going to put up with it anymore.” Another African-American leader who signed the letter, Warren Stewart Sr., a pastor who has been on the front lines of Arizona’s civil rights battles since the 1980s, said Hobbs’ response to the verdict was too little, too late. Asked if he wants to hear an apology from her, Stewart told the Mirror, “I don’t want to hear anything from Katie Hobbs.” Hobbs needs to reach out to the African-American community and offer a heartfelt apology, said Mario Diaz, a lobbyist and longtime Democratic operative. “The courts have spoken and she needs to apologize to community leaders,” Diaz said. “Whether she did anything, quote, wrong or not, the perception and the legal judgment was that there was bias towards a person of color. And the buck stops at the leadership position.” Still, most observers expect Hobbs to win the Democratic nomination, at

least against the current field. That could change if another major candidate joins the race. Herrera said someone who can raise money and has significant support within the party would have a shot at wresting the nomination from her. But for now, Hobbs, though weakened, maintains her role as the frontrunner in the Democratic primary. “My guess is that she still wins the primary, that despite this she still is the nominee. And then she goes into the general election with this as a liability,” Herrera said. “I don’t think it’s over. I don’t think she’s sunk necessarily at this point. But whether she is or not really depends on … whether she’s able to answer these questions in a satisfactory way.” Exactly what effect the Adams verdict will have on Hobbs in the general election, if she makes it there, remains to be seen. Though Republicans are sure to make a major issue of it, Diaz said attacks from the GOP will ring hollow on matters of race relations.

If Hobbs makes it out of the primary, that likely means she still has a significant amount of support, Campbell said, though that doesn’t diminish what happened with Adams. Whether Hobbs can get support from Black voters in the general election will depend on what she does moving forward. Campbell said she’ll have to be sure to include African Americans in her campaign if she gets that far. Campbell didn’t doubt that Republicans will use the Adams situation against Hobbs and that’ll make it harder for her to win. “That’s what the Republicans do,” he said. “At the same time, what are the Republicans doing to garner the African-American vote? It works on both sides of the fence. Just because we’re upset with her doesn’t mean we’re going to automatically give our votes to them.” ■ This article originally ran in the Arizona Mirror, a nonprofit online news agency.

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TOM MUSES ON HIS FAVORITE SHORT STORIES ALONG WITH ALL THE SEX AND VIOLENCE IN THE BIBLE By Tom Danehy, tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com EARLY ON IN MY HIGH SCHOOL years, I had a class in which we read nothing but short stories. No novels, just spectacular short stories (and a few duds). “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Leaf” by O. Henry; lots of Edgar Allan Poe’s stuff; Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”; and the greatest short story of all time, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” Before I go on, there’s something crazy about “The Most Dangerous Game,” which was written in 1924. It’s a story about a bored big game hunter who lures people to his secluded island and then hunts the people as sport. If they can elude him for three days, they are set free. No one has ever done it before when another big-game hunter named Rainsford becomes the prey. I won’t ruin the ending; if you haven’t read it before, you should. Anyway, in 1981, three guys were sitting around talking about the safari that one of them had gone on and the subject of “The Most Dangerous Game” came up. By the end of that night, those three guys had created paintball. One of the stories that had an impact

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on me was Anton Chekhov’s “The Bet.” In the story, a wealthy banker and a lawyer are discussing the death penalty. The banker argues that the death penalty is preferable to life in prison. The lawyer disagrees and they make a bet. If the lawyer can remain in total isolation for 15 years, the banker will pay him the huge sum of two million rubles. There’s a double-twist ending to it and, to this day, I’m still not sure which twist is more infuriating. One thing that stuck with me was that after the 10th year of isolation, he began studying The Bible. He studied it for years. By that point in my life, I knew that there were people who devoted their lives to reading the Scriptures. I also knew that that wasn’t going to be me. But I also thought, “How hard would it be to read that book once so I could always say that I had?” I had heard the story about the time someone saw the notorious W.C. Fields sitting in a car on Hollywood Boulevard, reading the Bible. When someone asked why he was doing so, he replied, “I’m look-

ing for loopholes.” So I read it and it was like, “Holy Porn, Batman!” (As a matter of fact, that was a very common phrase among guys my age back then after seeing Julie Newmar in her Catwoman suit.) All that begattin’ came to mind the other day when I was watching something on the news about all the book banning that’s going on in what used to be referred to as The Bible Belt. MAGA moms are showing up at school board meetings, mostly screaming about mask mandates and vaccines, but also making sure that their kids don’t have to read any books written by Black people and they definitely don’t want their children to hear the fake stories about how there used to be slavery in the United States. So, this one woman got up and said that she didn’t want her children reading filth and that she thought that public-school kids should be reading The Bible. I sorta agree. Maybe they should read 1 Samuel 18: 20-30, which says, “When Saul’s servants told him what David had said, Saul replied, ‘Say to David, The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.’” Quite the dowry. Or, they could find out what Lot was up to after his wife was turned to salt. Lot moved into a cave with his daughters, who took turns employing a Biblical roofie. In Genesis 19:30, one of Lot’s daughters says, “Our father is old, and there is no

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man around here to give us children — as is the custom all over the earth. Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.” They each had a kid by their dad and one kid was named Moab. Why people in ultra-religious Utah would name a town after a kid born from drunken incest is beyond my scope of understanding. And, of course, there’s not just perversion. There’s lots and lots AND LOTS of violence, as in 2 Kings 2: 23-24, which tells us: From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, bald man!” they said. He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.” Just think what would have happened if those kids had thrown a snowball or something. But MAGA Mom’s kid would probably get bored with all the violence and head back to the sex, closing with Ezekial 23: 20-21. “There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.” Amen, Brother! ■

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The Cook ALLAN MALOY SR. SWEATS OVER multiple burners at the end of long tables covered in white linen and a buffet of meats and fruits. His feet soft-shoe in tight, front-to-back rhythms, and keep time with his enormous hands working hot pans. He wipes, flips, sautés and poaches, while balancing his chops and preps—mushrooms, peppers, ham, eggs, tomatoes etc. Orders transfer from his head to his fingertips in a poise so practiced he could be humming Drake’s “God’s Plan” and folding laundry. It’s almost theater, the care, the grace. It’s a pleasure to observe anyone who has perfected their craft, whether boxing or bus driving, drinking or teaching; the craft itself is irrelevant, the minutes, hours and decades of practice are what matter, as the skills appear on the surface. A handful of drowsy-shaped Sunday brunchers, just off the golf course, or out of church, noses pricking from the breakfast smells, eye Maloy like museumgoers while awaiting their orders. One elderly lady in line chirps, “I wish I could do that.” Maloy today works in a cavernous downstairs area of the Skyline Country Club, the modernist glass and concrete clubhouse stretched against the Catalina Foothills, a historic Tucson landmark still lovely in so much round-edged symmetry. It’s a strange room because it feels like it’s elevated outdoors, all Tucson stretched out at its bottom edge, the blue Sunday sky nurtured by cool clouds. Such wide morning light all but kills the ghosts of Broadway Joe and Sinatra, their decades-ago toasts around the nearby circular bar. Such mental footnotes get smaller and smaller. Today Maloy talks often of his love

of cooking. And he knows there are much worse places for him to apply his culinary skills, like inside prison kitchens. HE TELLS A STORY. ABOUT A BOY rejecting hellfire, slogging door-todoor preaching to glorify God, handing out copies of The Watchtower, news of how the earth will transform into paradise. A boy born and raised in Phoenix, the oldest sibling to three others, a Jehovah’s Witness family, except for the concrete-laying stepdad who the boy called daddy since he was 3 years old. Daddy carried a gun, drank and gambled. And can you imagine the family dynamic? He remembers daddy taking him to the gambling hideaway hidden behind a billiard hall on Buckeye Road in Phoenix. “He was my father. That was the man we looked up to,” Maloy says, pauses. “He took care of my mama.” The cook’s story continues. A Jehovah’s Witness wasn’t like other kids in the neighborhood and school, there is no standing for the “Pledge of Allegiance” in class, for example, and, to add to the embarrassment and so much ammunition for the cruel ones, the diminutive boy stuttered, and kids hurled insults at him like “Big Head” until a speech coach and a high-school growth spurt intervened. He’d watch other kids on new bikes at Christmas. Nothing for him. The boy began to not believe in Jehovah (“We thought the world would end by 1976!”), and the congregational discipline was too forbidding; beyond the “serious sins” of oral sex, gambling, tobacco and homosexuality, there was no fun for a kid; no basketball (his love), no Halloween, no holiday sea-

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sons, no birthday celebrations. The boy impregnates another teenager and for that he gets kicked out of Kingdom Hall, and good riddance. Yes, the boy believed in a God, but not that God. He quits high school, gets a GED, and moves out for good around 17. “Even when I was down and out I never went home.” Pride kept him away from there, and a fear of daddy, the man he loved, admired, and respected: Maloy says, “If he would’ve told me not to quit high school I wouldn’t have quit high school. But he didn’t say that.” (The boy’s biological father is a mystery-turned-lifelong search inside a secret kept by his mother. Maloy is close with her, but some secrets are sacred.)

MALOY IS COMPACT, PIERCING brown eyes, shaved head, belly pushing against a new Jordan T-shirt, and he wears a crucifix-and-anchor gold chain and wrist watch. The earthtoned condo in midtown Tucson he shares with his wife and daughter is set way off the street, and he’s surrounded by friends, long-term Bosnian neighbors there, Mexican family next door. The living-room TV shows NBA and walls are filled with framed photos, family mostly, and some heroes, Obama, Martin Luther King, Venus and Serena Williams, Dallas Cowboys, athletic awards to a daughter. The kitchen is stocked, big island for cooking. It’s home, comfort. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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THE STORY RESUMES. He got hired at a Jack in the Box, and soon oversaw the kitchen. That led to Denny’s, IHOP and good hotels, one in Seattle for a spell. He picked up mad skills from chefs running kitchens. He married a couple times and had long-term girlfriends, and over the years sired a boy and four girls. He lost one 3-month-old child, Allan Jr., to crib death years ago. The inconceivable sadness fortified a jadedness with the world. Drugs ruled too and crack won streets in the late ’80s. Maloy began selling it, learned the graft from a cousin who sold angel dust. He fell in and sold on the Phoenix avenues and in the Avondale suburb. “There were Mexican projects and black projects there, once they started smoking crack, oh my God.” But he worked in kitchens sometimes too, when he had to, between months of homelessness, sleeping in

He speaks in machine-gun sentences, punchy consonants; he’s indiscreet, yet says only what’s necessary and keeps emotional stories impartial with an it-is-what-it-is realism. You could imagine never saying he’s sorry for anything, even after he does. A grin off him feels like a reward, and trust. Or maybe he got so used to not smiling because his teeth were so bad. Most were busted and sore, until recently when he had them yanked in favor of dentures, which still assign him pain, physical and financial. His energy would hardly be subsumed into theatrics of any conversation that didn’t have a point. If someone’s an asshole, they’re an asshole. If someone is on the level, they’re on the level, and worth his time. He’s quickly likable, one reason is because he shoots straight. Yet it is hard to tell when he’s pleased, like it’s some burden borne out of desperation from years ago,

drug houses, or finding a bed at the YMCA. “You can always get work at Denny’s.” By then even low expectations weren’t met, relationships fizzled, and he landed in state prison around ’91 on drug-related charges. There was little in place to counter a depressing repetition of mistakes. What could jar the inviolate safety grid of family for really shitty reasons? He’d get out of jail, go back into the life, and head back to the clink. Before his third and last stint, he enjoyed a total of six days of freedom. Still, he ran the prison kitchen at times, and cooked. “Like any kitchen, you had a full staff,” he says. He took the work seriously. Later he worked in a prison law library because he could type (his mother told him young to learn that skill). Maybe there is a freedom in prison, where Maloy spent nearly all of the 1990s, because no one expects much from you. It’s like he gave up as a fuckup. “Looking back I was depressed, man,” he says. “And black people don’t get depressed, at least they don’t admit it.”

Allan Maloy at the country club, “Man I just love to cook.”

Turns out, the final three-year stint was the ticket. Salvation arrived in Cheryl, a state-prison guard in Florence. For Maloy, Cheryl was proof God exists. It started like this: He was looking for drugs inside, and no way she’d do that. But she began

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By Jake Dean tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com ORO VALLEY IS PROBABLY NOT THE first place you would envision a threat to Arizona democracy rising quickly from the desert sand. Alas, a threat is out there slowly rattling his tail. As I recently detailed for the Weekly (“Ballot Box BS,” Oct. 28), it is from there that Arizona State Rep. Mark Finchem is becoming a rising player in Trumpian efforts to subvert the rightful results of the 2020 election. Unfortunately for his constituents and the entire state, this is just one act in a laundry list of bad decisions Finchem has made in his time in Arizona politics. So, given his announcement of a run for Secretary of State as one four current GOP candidates, it is critical to take a look back at the history and résumé of Trump’s preferred pick for one Arizona’s highest ranking politicians. (Finchem declined to be interviewed for this article, saying he was traveling and unavailable for a phone call.) Before digging deep into Finchem’s political past, let us briefly get to know him. According to his own campaign page, Finchem was born in Detroit and served over 20 years in the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety—in roles from enforcement to firefighting. Upon his retirement, he moved to Tucson and worked in software and real estate. Then in 2019, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Government with an emphasis in State and Local Public Policy from Grand Canyon University. However, his political career (and interest in politics) had begun years prior when he won the 2014 General Election to serve as a State Representative for Arizona’s District 11—which currently spans from Oro Valley to the Town of Maricopa. Through that political career, it seems that GCU’s curriculum and the classes he currently takes in his Master of Legal Studies program at the University of Arizona (where he has previously lied about being a “Legislative Fellow in Residence”) have failed to teach

him much about the law, the truth or good governance. So while the effort at recalling him from his seat as a state representative failed this past summer, Finchem cannot be allowed to take charge of elections in our state. To understand why, let us delve into Finchem’s behavior, legislative history, and conspiracy consumption. CONSPIRACIES, MILITIAS, THE FAR-RIGHT AND FINCHEM FINCHEM IS NO STRANGER TO conspiracies and the far-right. In fact, before heading to the Arizona Legislature, he had already joined the Oath Keepers—who played a leading role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the militia group is “founded on the belief that the federal government is part of an evil conspiracy intent on stripping Americans of their natural rights and freedoms.” Its members have encouraged violence in opposition. The founder of Oath Keepers has previously encouraged the murder of elected officials, including in 2015 openly calling for the late Sen. John McCain to be put to death by hanging. And Finchem’s concerning far-right, conspiracy-laden ties only grow from there. He previously served as the Arizona coordinator for the Coalition of Western States—a group of legislators and activists who supported the armed occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. He also signed a letter of support to pardon arsonists who burned federal government land. It was their initial arrest that eventually led to tensions at Malheur. Following the horrific events of the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, Finchem denied any far-right involvement in the event—claiming that mainstream media was lying and that it was a Deep State PSYOP to construct a political narrative for Democrats. It was not. He also falsely accused contemporary Democrats

as being the true members of the Ku Klux Klan who joined the rally. Not only have members of the alt-right pleaded guilty as to their role in the event, but it was also promoted by a plethora of far-right figures from Azzmador to the founder of The Daily Stormer. It is almost unfathomable to have to say this, but “Unite the Right” rally was in fact a political event of the political right. No, Rep. Finchem, calls for a race war in Charlottesville were not a coordinated liberal operation—but rather the actions of your own political allies. Mark Finchem also parrots far-right conspiracies on vaccines. Sure, Finchem got COVID-19 himself. And yes, his mother lost her decades long battle with cancer soon after contracting the virus. But on his official Twitter in July, he warned President Joe Biden to take his “tweet as Arizona’s statewide ‘no trespassing sign.’ You and your vaccine henchmen have been forewarned.” I am unsure what exactly he is threatening here, but I believe you can read between the lines. Finchem’s supply of money also comes from the right-wing extremists. One of his leading campaign funders is Daniel Brophy, a Wyoming-based political megadonor and brother of former State Sen. Kate Brophy McGee of Phoenix. According to a local legal group, Sen. McGee herself once described her brother as having alt-right political views after he gave money to her political rival. When a woman who has proudly touted her anti-LGBTQ+ bonafides and was painted as a bygone example of the Arizona GOP by English newspaper The Guardian calls you alt-right, I am going to have to take her word for it. Rep. Finchem also attended the premiere of a “documentary” called The Deep Rig about an alleged conspiracy in the 2020 election. The film featured Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan (who confirmed himself as “Anon” in the movie), former Secretary of State Ken Bennett, and other leaders of election conspiracies in Arizona. Finchem supported the film despite the fact that its director has a history of baseless conspiracies—including the dedication of an entire film to the argument that extraterrestrials were the cause of the Sep. 11 attacks on the Twin Towers. Just to be clear, they were not. I do not want my possible Secretary of State being tied to any of this. And I am venturing a guess that you do not believe in alien terrorist theories either. Not to

mention that supporting The Deep Rig alone is concerning for anyone attempting to run elections in Arizona. Yet, it gets worse still. Trump’s re-election committee paid thousands of dollars to a business owned by Rep. Finchem as he launched efforts to overturn Arizona’s election results. Now, Finchem spends his time parroting election fraud claims on QAnon, far-right radio shows. AZ Mirror reported in April that Finchem had scheduled an appearance on “RedPill78,” a conspiracy channel on YouTube whose host—Zak Paine—has been repeatedly removed from the platform. He also appeared in a video with Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai—going as far as promoting it on his official campaign page. Dr. Shiva, while called as an expert witness before the State Senate, has repeatedly failed to understand state election procedures, been paid by partisan activists to make fraud claims, voiced anti-vaccine perspectives at schools, and dubiously claimed to have invented email. (He likely did not.) In September, Finchem continued his anti-democratic campaign as he tried to request “all hard drive images of tabulation machines used in the 2020 General Election” (amidst multiple following grammar errors) from the Pima County government. As I type this, the home page of Finchem’s campaign website still claims that votes were reallocated in real time on national television during Nov. 3, 2020. That’s false. That’s a delusion. That did not happen. Given his evident belief in the conspiracies of the far-right, of course Finchem was at the insurrection on Jan. 6 himself. Despite claiming that he never made it closer than 500 yards to the Capitol building, footage of the event clearly shows the politician in attendance himself. He also tweeted in praise of the insurrectionists. Plus, the prominent “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander identified Finchem as the starting point of the anti-democratic movement in Arizona. Not only was he there, but he then spread more conspiracies after the fact. In his newsletter following the attack in D.C., he claimed (falsely) that facial recognition technology had identified masses of leftist activists in the crowd. He also accused Antifa of responsibility for violence at the Capitol building, despite having no evidence for such claims. Further, even in the face of proof of him attending the event, he has repeatedly threatened to sue anybody attempting to connect him to the events at the Capitol.

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Given all of this, it is no surprise that Finchem was endorsed by Trump. In mid-September, the former President released a statement calling the state representative a “true warrior” with the courage to say what others will not. If that’s baseless conspiracy theories, it seems Trump is at least right about one thing. Finchem is now taking these baseless conspiracies on the road to stump for the former President too. CONCERNING POLITICAL PRIORITIES & LEGISLATIVE HISTORY HOWEVER, EVEN LOOKING BACK at Finchem’s legislative actions and priorities should give Arizona voters reasons for pause. Let us look back at some of Finchem’s “greatest” legislative hits. In late 2018, Finchem introduced HB 2002 to create an educator code of ethics. At first, a code of ethics does not sound so bad. That is likely to change once you learn that Finchem’s recommendations were a near word-for-word copy of those proposed by the “Stop K-12 Indoctrination” campaign of the David Horowitz Freedom Center—an openly far-right, anti-Muslim organization. They intended to silence any form of political statements by teachers. The campaign included fights against racial justice and equity trainings, and curriculum teaching students about the religion of Islam. Because nothing says anti-indoctrination like mandatory ethics pledges. In support of the bill, Finchem continued to display a tenuous relationship with the truth. While he claimed tons of parents angrily contacted him about the issue, it turns out that simply was not the case. Instead, many considered the proposal of the bill to be retribution for the #RedForEd movement. Finchem also introduced a bill in the

2016 legislative session that would give Arizona’s government the power to ignore executive orders, federal actions and Supreme Court rulings that Congress found to be unconstitutional. Finchem argued that Supreme Court rulings should not be called rulings—according to him, the decisions are not even worthy of being called case law. (I wonder if his University of Ariona professors in the law school would agree?) “The court can pass an opinion all day long,” he told Capital Media Services reporter Howard Fischer. “But until that opinion goes back to Congress and becomes an enactment, and is signed into law, a statute, by the president, it’s not operable.” The legality of circumventing the decisions of two of the three branches of federal government is suspect at best, and I mean at best. Finchem also has a tortured history of land ownership arguments. Not only has he argued lower-case ‘r’ republican government cannot exist if a state owns less than 51% of its land (I am unsure if he understands the definition of republican government), he supported legislation that would force private property owners to receive approval from the state before selling their lands to the federal government. Rep. Finchem was also responsible for a bill which would direct Arizona’s attorney general to join a lawsuit to wrestle away control of federal lands to ‘fund education.’ This was despite significant criticism from organizations including the Arizona Wildlife Federation that the state could not afford to take ownership of the land. Not to mention that Arizona voters had also rejected a proposition seeking to do exactly this in 2012—so much for listening to the people, I guess. The concerning political history manages to continue on further yet. In committee, Finchem voted no on a bill (2018’s SB1431) to create a memorial for Arizona

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SEASON OF GIVING Here are some local charities than can use your support during the holidays

By Alexandra Pere apere@tucsonlocalmedia.com WHILE MANY OF US ARE FOCUSED on celebrating the holidays, it’s a time when others are struggling to make ends meet. According to Feeding America, more than 60 million people went to food banks and community programs to keep their bellies full in 2020. The pandemic has exacerbated hardships for many, but if you are one of the lucky few who can share your gratitude for surviving another year, consider donating to these local food and gift drives this holiday season to make the holiday bright for a stranger. SEASON 4 HOPE FOOD DRIVE News 4 Tucson has partnered up with local sponsors to donate toys, food, and diapers to the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, Toys for Tots, and the Diaper Bank of Southern Arizona. Drop off toys, food, and diaper donations from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at: CDTFD Station #181, 99 E. Tallahassee Drive. (Through Dec. 6) TFD Station #20, 4798 N. First Ave. (Through Dec. 13) KVOA Studios, 209 W. Elm St. (Through Dec. 20) YOUTH EDUCATION SUPPORTERS HOLIDAY DRIVE Youth Education Supporters (aka YES) is a group that supports families in the Marana Unified School District. The group, which supplied more than 1,200 kids in the district with backpacks earlier this year, is now raising funds for holiday meals and gifts for Marana students. Contact Pat Johnson at bayesnana@gmail. com for details on how you can help.

GAP MINISTRIES SANTA’S HELPER Donate new, unwrapped toys and stocking stuffers to GAP ministries, 2861 N Flowing Wells Road, by Dec. 10. GAP Ministries is open from 9 am to 5 pm. DOLLAR TREE OPERATION HOMEFRONT TOY DRIVE Purchase a toy and donate it to the Dollar Tree’s donation boxes until Dec. 2. Donation boxes can be identified with a “Holiday Toy Drive” poster. TUCSON TOYS FOR TOTS Donate toys to locations all over Tucson by visiting the Tucson Toys for Tots website at https://tinyurl.com/3e89mp9k. Search by zip code to find the closest donation site. Hours, days, and addresses are available on their website. In 2020, Tucson Toys for Tots supported 38,998 children and 40,513 toys were distributed. SALVATION ARMY CHRISTMAS ANGEL TREE Donate in-person or online to the Salvation Army’s Christmas Angel Tree toy drive through Dec. 24. Don’t want to leave the house? No problem! Visit their wish list website to donate from your laptop. In-person locations include: Foothills Mall (7401 N La Cholla Blvd.), La Encantada Mall (2905 E Skyline Drive), Park Place Mall (5870 E Broadway Blvd.) and Tucson Mall (4500 N Oracle Road). The Salvation Army Hospitality House, 1002 N. Main Avenue, is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Editor’s Note: While we are delighted to see Tucsonans once again gathering for fun events, we are also aware that the Delta variant is in widespread circulation. 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. Oro Valley Festival of the Arts & Holiday Tree Lighting. We’ve made it to the point in the year where most people won’t gripe at you for putting your Christmas tree up too early, which means that many of the fancy, official trees in the area are starting to go up too. Up in Oro Valley, they’re going all out with more than 100 artists and exhibitors, over 30 live performances, arts and crafts activities, food vendors and plenty of other fun. The art festival is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5. Tree lighting festivities are 2 to 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, with the actual lighting around 6 p.m. Michael O’Neill, On Yoga: The Architecture of Peace. Do you ever wish you could just spend a decade photographing yoga gurus, meditating with monks in the Tibetan Plateau and living with ascetics at the Kumbh Mela—but you just can’t find the time to do it? Fear not! Michael O’Neill, who spent nearly 50 years working as a portrait photographer for pubs like Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, did it for you, and his work is about to be on display at the Etherton Gallery. The gorgeous shots are on display until February, but come see them at the reception, 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4. Etherton Gallery, 340 S. Convent Ave. Free. A documentary about the project will also be shown at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 5, at the Screening Room, 127 E. Congress St. 40th Annual Nordic Fair. If you’ve never been to this event, hosted by the Nordic Guild of Tucson, you might not understand why I eagerly await it every year. Taking place at the Streams in the Desert Lutheran Church, it’s just the epitome of charming. You’ll find Scandinavian crafts and collectibles to fill your home and give as gifts. You can enjoy ethnic foods and baked goods that will warm your tummy and your heart. And you can enjoy performances by folk musicians and dancers. It’s just the best, and I hope everybody goes. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4. 5360 E. Pima St. Free entry.

Tea Ceremony Demonstration at Yume Gardens. This Japanese tea ceremony is also known as chanoyu, which translates literally to “hot water for tea.” It’s a fascinating and pleasant series of rituals to prepare stylized green tea, and your hosts, wearing traditional Japanese kimonos, will talk you through the whole thing. They’ll demonstrate how the tea has been prepared, served and enjoyed in Japan for many centuries. Unfortunately, they won’t be serving the tea due to COVID-19 restrictions, but it’s still a beautiful and soothing process to watch. 1 and 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4. Yume Gardens, 2130 N. Alvernon Way. $20 per person includes garden admission.

by Emily Dieckman were-:Nenentech Forums.This is a group exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, presented both at MOCA and the UA’s Joseph Gross Gallery. Both projects, developed by L.A.-based artists rafa esparza and Timo Fahler, are centered around the process of creating and building with adobe bricks. They aim to reframe institutional spaces as being about earth, collective labor, astronomy and Indigenous cultures. This weekend features several ways to enjoy the exhibit: an Exo Exhibition Tour with MOCA assistant curator Alexis Wilkinson at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4. (free with museum admission), and a performance by Maria Maea and Micaela Tobin at 5 p.m. on the same day ($10). 264 S. Church Ave. Everybody. Have you heard about the Next Performance Collective? It’s a new initiative out of the UA School of Theatre, Film and Television housing outstanding student pieces, works by emerging playwrights and experimental texts. The first in the series is Everybody, a play by Branden Jacob Jenkins which was short-listed for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The UA’s version will be co-directed by famed mime artist and choreographer Rick Wamer and dramaturg Roweena Mackay. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, and Saturday, Dec. 4. 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, and Sunday, Dec. 5. Tornabene Theatre, 1025 N. Olive Road. $15 GA, $10 students.

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Miracle on Congress Street. I know the downtown area of every city probably feels all magical and wonderful during the holidays, but it’s hard not to feel like ours is the twinkliest and best. On Fridays and weekends throughout December, kids can meet Santa and enjoy a scoop of Candy Cane ice cream from HUB’s vintage ice cream truck for free! Then adults can head over to the HUB for holiday cocktails like Winter Sangria and Santa’s Peanut Butter Cookies. At the HUB Ice Cream Parlor, holiday flavors include Egg Nog, Lump of Coal, Mexican Hot Chocolate and Sparkling Mimosa. 4 to 6:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. on Sundays through Dec. 19. Playground Bar & Lounge, 278 E. Congress St. Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree: A Christmas Sing-a-Long. Live Theatre Workshop’s holiday production is back! Come follow along with the adventures of Snowflake and the band of misfit reindeer and elves to get the Cheer Squad together before the Christmas Extravaganza begins. Will they have enough cheer and determination to stop the coal industry magnate J.P. Coalson? Will we get to meet Santa? One thing is for certain: This sweet and silly holiday production will lift your spirits up. Showing 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays through Dec. 19. Live Theatre Workshop, 3322 E. Fort Lowell Blvd. $12, or $10 for kids. BrewLights. Zoo Lights, the Reid Park Zoo’s special holiday event, is here! This event is kicking things off by bringing together local breweries and entertainment for a very hoppy holiday season. Premium tickets come with eight tastings of your choice of local craft beer and a souvenir cup, along with access to Zoo Lights. Tickets for kids and designated drivers get you access to Zoo Lights, which includes carousel rides, more than a million twinkling lights, hot chocolate and FALLING SNOW. By attending this magical event, you are also saving the animals, which is a great gift to the animals and to your own heart. 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3. $35 for premium tickets, $11 GA for adults not participating in beer tasting, $9 for seniors not participating and $7 for kids 2 to 14.

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American Renaissance Exhibition of work by Alanna Airitam and Wayne Martin Belger Through Dec. 10 Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery at Pima College West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday. Free Masks required inside campus buildings www.pima.edu/cfa-gallery; 520-206-6942

make art celebrating Blackness…” New York City has plenty of artworks from Holland’s Golden Age—Vermeer at the Met, Rembrandt at the Met and the Morgan Library—and Airitam boldly uses their gorgeous colors and light. Still, the Dutch paintings that she loves rarely featured Black people. Some Amsterdam artists of the Golden Age in that era made paintings of Africans— Rembrandt alone painted or drew some 26 images of Black people, most of them workers in his neighborhood. Yet there were few paintings of Blacks in the fine clothes COURTESY PHOTO “Queen Mary” by Alanna Airitam and feathered hats of the rich; works that did include them often fostered demeaning stereotypes. Airitam, placing her present-day models in the past, has aimed to create images of Blacks as “beautiful, powerful people A pair of artists explore America’s suffering in a show at Bernal Gallery who belonged.” Among her “Golden Age” portraits are “Saint Nicolas,” a wonderful picture of a boy By Margaret Regan “Queen Mary.” wearing an antique red coat, as proud as a tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com Over at the Tucson Museum of Art, king’s son, and “Saint Sugar Hill,” a woman another of Airitam’s beautifully colored reclining in white silk. photographs is in the still life show “Still Though Airitam borrows techniques UNTIL A FEW MONTHS AGO, I HAD Here.” Her piece, “Weekend at Nana’s,” with never heard of Alanna Airitam. its silver pitcher, flowers and grapes, is remi- from centuries ago, her works are contemporary; they are sophisticated photos, But now she’s like a comet soaring over niscent of Dutch still lifes. not paintings. And she’s devised her own Tucson, introducing her work in multiple And in April, the Center for Creative venues. Photography plans a solo show of 10 of her techniques to get the results she wants: minimal lighting and hand varnishing to get A Black women who recently moved to “Golden Age’” portrait works, including a “painterly quality.” the Old Pueblo, she has 10 stunning works “Queen Mary” and others now at Pima. For a second series, “Crossroads,” a darker at Pima Colleges’s Bernal Gallery. The Needless to say, getting that solo exhibition look at Black lives today, she uses resin, two-person show also features artist Wayne at CCP is no small thing for an artist. metals, varnish and gold leaf on the photos; Martin Belger. Airitam’s has been better known out“the weight of metal frames speaks to the Many of Airitam’s pieces are richly colside Tucson; last year, she was one of four ored photos of present-day African Amerwinners of the San Diego Art Prize. And she constraints people of color live with,” she icans—but these portrait works look more has shown her work at a gallery in Chicago, writes. In these moody images, lit by a soft Rembrandt light, African Americans face like Renaissance paintings than photos. In and gotten media attention from the BBC away from the camera and look toward an fact, many of the works are inspired by the and others. uncertain future with some hope. paintings of the Golden Age of Art in the Born in Queens, N.Y., Airitam is a selfA horrifying piece about the 1963 BirNetherlands of the 17th century. taught artist who learned her trade in the mingham bombing in Alabama pictures The most extraordinary piece is an image museums of New York City. the four young Black young girls who were of a magisterial Black woman in a bountiful “Art museums were my classrooms,” killed by white supremacists in an Alacrown of flowers and a dress of yellow satin. she writes, “and Renaissance painters with She confidentially holds a key in her hand, their masterful rendering of light (were) my bama Church on a Sunday morning. Their as if she had the keys to the castle. Her title? teachers. Their works were my inspiration to murderers walked free for many years before

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they were finally convicted. The artist brings a stark title to this mournful work: “What if we could do 1963 all over again?” “White Privilege,” a challenging new piece created during the pandemic, is a sequel of sorts to the photo of the murdered girls. A triptych of three photos made in tribute to three murdered Black people, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. But the photos picture an actual dead pig surrounded by rotting food—a typical symbol in Golden Age art that reminds us that one day we all will die. Clumps of raw cotton scattered about remind us of slavery and sharecropping. The pig itself is a symbol of the greed of the wealthy, and three candles flickering represent the African American dying and the dead, “smothered and unable to breath.” Like Airitam, Wayne Martin Belger cries for justice. A well-known photographer, Belger has traveled to Lesbos to volunteer and take pictures of their suffering; he has also worked in Chiapas, Mexico, photographing the Zapatista, and at Standing Rock, the Middle East and many other sites of conflict. His current work is closer to home. “The Beauty of Decay,” about a dying homestead, is one of one of his two massive installations in the American Renaissance exhibition at Bernal Gallery. The piece is lyrical and lonely, with pictures of dusty land and lost belongings. “The Second Amendment Photo Project” brings Belger to gun-loving parts of the United States. An entire wall is filled with U.S. flags, real guns and photo portraits of gun owners proudly embracing their huge automatic weapons in their arms. The work also digs into the connection between devout Evangelicals and devout gun owners. Belger, who frequently handmakes his own elaborate cameras, uses that 3D skill to create an elaborate shrine with real pistols that decorate a Jesus-on-thecross statue. Tiny flags flank the dead Jesus and automatic rifles hang below him. A sign reads: In God We Trust. Tucked inside his homemade camera, now part of the installation, are chambers of dirt that Belger retrieved from a few killing grounds with the intention to mourn those murdered by guns. He has dirt from Methodist Episcopal, a Black church in South Carolina where nine church members were shot to death. And he has soil from schools where children were mercilessly shot down by gunmen: Columbine (12 students, one teacher) and Parkland (14 students, three staff,) both high schools, and Sandy Hook Elementary, where six school workers and 20 first-graders lost their lives to guns. ■

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supply. Dudley has gathered up all his favorite things about Christmas, all those that bring him the most holiday cheer, and put them into a bottle which Santa can use as fuel. But when Wally the greedy elf (Jacob Brown) gets ahold of it and flees to New York, there’s trouble: Wally wants to work with a giant, money-hungry toy manufacturer to get Santa’s workshop shut down and replaced with a corporate toy factory. It wouldn’t be a classic Christmas tale without the forces of capitalism lurking, would it? Wally wears a pointy green elf hat, which, in order to blend in in NYC, he later replaces with a fedora and a green blazer. His color scheme, combined with his obsession with a secret formula in a little bottle and general shrillness, make his character reminiscent of Plankton, owner of the Chum Bucket in Spongebob Squarepants. His “grumpy wumpy grouchy pants” vibe makes a great counter to Dudley’s never-wavering, Spongebob-like cheer. Armed with the knowledge that he’s not the elf he COURTESY PHOTO thought he was, but still dressed in full elf garb, Dudley (L to R) Heather Stricker, Mike Yarema, Jake Chapman and follows Wally to New York via beluga whale, where he Jacob Brown are a jolly cast of characters in Gaslight’s attempts to get back his magic Christmas potion and to eat Elf’d (except for one Scrooge). pieces of candy he finds on the sidewalk. On his journey, he encounters wacky characters that range from a Salvation Army Santa Claus to a woman also dressed as an elf to a cleaning lady with a big secret. Heather Stricker and Erin Thompson were both particularly funny in their roles Gaslight Theatre serves up holiday magic with Elf’d as two women trying their best to keep all of this chaos organized. As usual, the musical numbers throughout the show By Emily Dieckman don’t disappoint, surely thanks to musical direction by Lintucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com da Ackerman and choreography by Katherine Byrnes. I had to laugh when they did their own version of “Christmas Is All Around,” the song Bill Nighy’s rockstar character sings WEARING A SANTA CLAUS OUTFIT AND A SMILE in the film “Love, Actually.” And when they did a version so big and sincere that we could see it through her mask, of “YMCA” called “SANTA,” even the teenage boy at the our waitress at the Gaslight Theatre asked us if we were table next to us was laughing and clapping along. Do you celebrating anything special this evening. know how hard it is to get a teenage boy to exhibit enthu“Just Christmas!” I exclaimed, probably obnoxiously but siasm? Leave it to the Gaslight to make true holiday magic definitely in the spirit of the Gaslight Theatre, where Christhappen. ■ mas is in full swing. And thank goodness. I think we could use as much holiday cheer as we can get, this year. Dudley the Elf, the protagonist of The Gaslight Theatre’s current show, “Elf’d,” would almost certainly agree with me. No one, we are reminded throughout the show, has as much Christmas spirit as Dudley. This parody is based on the beloved Christmas movie Elf, which tells the story of a human raised by elves who must learn to navigate the mean streets and brightly lit shopping malls of New York City. With a new plot and its own special Gaslight Theatre twist, this show—written by Peter Van Slyke and directed by Katherine Byrnes—brings the characters and the spirit of the original film to life. As Dudley, actor Jake Chapman brings all the naïve enthusiasm we know and love from the movie, and ALMOST brings back some of its most memorable phrases. When he’s frustrated with himself, he calls himself a “fluffer nutter noodle noggin.” When he’s trying to save Christmas, he reminds himself of one of elfhood’s most important rules: “If you want to spread Yuletide spirit, say ‘Merry Christmas!’ for all to hear it.” As the show begins, Santa explains he is concerned about being able to fly his sleigh this year, because it’s powered by Christmas spirit—a commodity in increasingly short

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By Xavier Omar Otero tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com Where blissed-out partakers enter into an ecstatic union with their divine selves. Lindsey Buckingham, Bartess Strange, Kim Wilson, Ekali, Shawn Colvin, Marc Cohn, Sara Watkins, Tito Puente Jr., SNBRN, and Kid Congo perform at a venue near you. Read more.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS… THURSDAY, DEC. 2 Blurring the line between organic instrumentation and synthesis, The Senators’ sophomore album, Wild Wide Open (2020), lays hold of the expansiveness of the desert Southwest they call home. These Phoenix electric folksters are “Harsher than Whiskey” and “Sweeter than Wine.” At Hotel Congress (plaza). With RISO and Danielle Durack... Swathed in the Yuletide spirit, Marie Osmond beams, “It’s truly the most wonderful time of the year. Let’s celebrate the holidays with music guaranteed to put you in the

Christmas spirit. With as many instruments we can fit on stage.” Marie Osmond presents a Symphonic Christmas. At Casino Del Sol Event Center. With David Osmond and Daniel Emmett...

FRIDAY, DEC. 3 Kim Wilson is perhaps best known for his 30-year tenure as the leader of the Fabulous Thunderbirds; they landed in the upper echelons of the Billboard Top 100 with “Tuff Enuff” and “Wrap It Up” in 1986. Possessing one of the “great blues voices,” Wilson’s pipes and hard-driving harmonica have appeared on albums by Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, James Cotton and others. Not content to revel in old glories, Wilson released his eighth solo album, Take Me Back, in 2020. Intermixing deeper cuts from the Jimmy Rogers catalog along with Wilson-penned originals, The Alternate Root proclaimed that Take Me Back “bleeds blues authenticity.” Recorded in mono while the band chased a vintage sound by playing live in the studio, Wilson delivers a 16-song set of gut-wrenching blues in the same fashion that his musical heroes did during the zeitgeist of the 1950s. Kim Wilson and his Blues All-Stars—Billy Flynn

(guitar), Bob Welsh (guitar/keys), Kedar Roy (bass) and Marty Dodson (drums)—headline Southern Arizona Blues Heritage Foundation’s Wintertime Blues Bash at the historic El Casino Ballroom. With Arizona Blues Hall-of-Famer Michael P. & The Gullywashers... Having spent much of his musical life ignoring boundaries, Washington D.C. producer and songwriter Bartees Strange reflects, “When I played in hardcore bands, I remember throwing in these R&B sections... and people would be like, ‘Bro, what are you doing? This is a hardcore band.’ And I’d be like, ‘You’re right, I’m an idiot.’ But those were things that always felt natural to [me].” Born in Ipswitch, England to “super-Christian” parents—his mother sang opera, his father a military man—the family traveled widely for their jobs (Germany, Greenland, and a number of U.S. states) before settling in Mustang, Oklahoma, “an overwhelmingly white and racist sundown town.” Growing up in suburbia, he often felt that he wore a target on his back. Strange adds, “I didn’t let myself be seen. I held myself down [to] make people feel more comfortable around me.” Tapping into difficult emotions, on “Mustang” he sings, “I came with a mouthful of blood, I’m hurt, ’cause no-one can see me.” In the South, everything felt like a threat. “There is some-

thing so grim and beautiful about the joy and sadness of the Black community in rural areas.” Conflicted, Strange reflects, “We have a whole lot of fun, we eat good food, and we have a good fuckin’ time. But, we do it with this understanding that we could all lose it so quickly.” Reconciling his upbringing, on his wildly eclectic debut studio album, Live Forever (2020), Bartees Strange carves out his own path. At 191 Toole. With Chateau Chateau... Covering hits from storied songwriters: Carole King, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel, John Lennon and others. Placing her unique mark on the pages of a treasured songbook, Tony-nominated actress, singer, and songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway Sings the 70s. At Fox Tucson Theatre. With special guest Liz Callaway... Kicking off a three-night stint, Reveille Men’s Chorus presents A Very Merry, Mary! “The spirits of the holidays have never been so fabulous.” At Leo Rich Theater... Promoting multiculturalism in its portrayal of diversity in America, The New York Times says of Hamilton, “This theatrical landmark has transformed theater and the way we think about history.” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s sung-and-rapped-through musical Hamilton continues (through Dec. 5). At Centennial Hall... Intermixing elements of deep house,

indie dance, and nu disco, producer/musician Kevin Chapman (aka SNBRN) has popularized a sub-genre: Sunset House. “It’s 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. summer sunset on the beach with all your friends’ kind of music.” SNBRN drops tracks from Solé (2019), his debut album. At Gentle Ben’s...

SATURDAY, DEC. 4 Sharing songs and telling stories, three Grammy award-winning songwriters take to the stage. Shawn Colvin, Marc Cohn, Sara Watkins: Together in Concert. At Fox Tucson Theatre... Complete with coyotes, cavalry, and rattlesnakes, this live orchestra/ classical ballet production transports the traditional Nutcracker to Tucson in the 1880s. In the first of two performances, Tucson Symphony Orchestra presents A Southwest Nutcracker. At Tucson Music Hall... Over the years, this alt-folk duo have won more than a dozen Best Of distinctions, including “Best Folk Band” and “Best Rock Band.” Performing in the starlight, Ryanhood present their holiday themed show, A Winter’s Evening. At Hotel Congress (plaza)... The Pork Torta supply the rough-and-tumble rock ’n’ roll for briny, spandex-clad wrestlers for Dia de las Luchas. At Rialto Theater... Coming together in a tribute band extravaganza, The Iron Maidens, The Jack and AZ-Z Top interpret the music of Iron Maiden, AC-DC, and ZZ Top. At Encore... Born out of a longing to live by the sea, progressive reggae rockers Desert Fish toast the release of Chill Pill Vol. 1. At The Rock. With The Riddims, The Resinators, and ZeeCeeKeely... Giving rise to “mind stimulation and heart activation, in a fresh blend of synthetic and organic sound manipulation,” electronic musician Soulular headlines Communiverse. At Solar Culture Gallery. With Subulae, Persephone, Chris Tiano and others... Slightly off the well-trodden path. This eclectic musical mash-up—exemplary of an eclecticism that may only be found in the sun-scorched Old Pueblo—features Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds, The Ritchie White Orchestra and Angie Bowie + Chick Cashman. At Habitation Realty...

SUNDAY, DEC. 5 After long-standing tensions with Stevie Nicks reached a roiling boil—who cited a disagreement over tour planning as reason—Lindsey Buckingham was fired from Fleetwood Mac in 2018. Lawsuits ensued, followed by emergency triple bypass surgery in early 2019 and a divorce filing by his wife of 21 years in summer 2021. Turning the page to the next episode, Buckingham released

his self-titled seventh solo album. Written, produced and recorded at his home studio in L.A., Lindsey Buckingham (2021) is a blend of “sunny power-pop and partly cloudy ballads.” Buckingham noted that the album’s reference points date back to Rumours (1977), Fleetwood Mac’s tempestuous magnus opus. Striking a balance, Buckingham sees this collection of 10 songs as being about how “joy and pain have to coexist side by side.” Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer Lindsey Buckingham will “never, never give in to the house of blue light.” At Fox Tucson Theatre... Ekali is the alter ego for Canadian DJ/producer Nathan Shaw. In an era of computerized precision, Ekali’s tracks—which range from aggressive trap bangers to sorrowful downtempo strains—resonate defiantly with analog-era warmth and texture seldom seen in modern beats. He has collabed with Drake, Denzel Curry, ZHU, and Illenium. On his latest release Ekali stands A World Away (2020). At Gentle Ben’s. With RemK...

TUESDAY, DEC. 7 What started as a 14-year-old aimlessly tinkering with GarageBand on his iPhone—by melding the innocence of the first crush with dreamy retro synth-pop—soon blossomed into the soundtrack for proms and homecoming dances. Latin Tejanos Luna Luna make slow-burning indie-pop For Lovers Only. At Club Congress. With BOYO and Estereomance...

Drive features War Prison, Psypiritual, Trailz, Blue Haven and Hotblack. At Club Congress... Building upon distinguished international careers, pianist Fabio Bidini, violist Margaret Batjer and cellist Andrew Shulman deftly transport audiences with their inventive interpretations, technical prowess and musical passion. Los Angeles Piano Trio present a program featuring works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Chausson. At Leo Rich Theater...

THURSDAY, DEC. 9 “A conversation with the gods,” is the meaning of the word mambo, as well as the name of a voodoo priestess. Tito Puente Jr.’s father, who tapped into something larger than himself, was a pioneering force in mambo. Popularized in Cuba during the 1930s by Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Perez Prado and Tito Puente & His Orchestra, mambo is a potent cross fertilization of Afro-Caribbean and Latin rhythms whose roots are inextricably traced to voodoo drumming that evolved in the New World from the 6,000-year-old West African religion Vodun, the religion of many slaves brought from West Africa to the Americas and the Caribbean. Brutally repressed by slave-owners, these primal, hypnotic rhythms—the same ones that

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compel blissed-out partakers to enter into an ecstatic union with their divine selves— not only withstood the inhumanity of their forced transplantation to the New World, but eventually thrived by seeping into Western culture and music. “The Devil’s music,” soul, R&B, rave, trance, and EDM all owe a debt. Now, assuming the mantle, with his own high-voltage fusion of jazz, salsa, merengue and mambo, the undisputed prince, Tito Puente Jr. Latin Jazz Ensemble present The King and I (2021), a tribute to the music of his father. At Rialto Theater... In a program that evinces bittersweet romance and humor, led by fifth-generation Mariachi musician Jóse Hernàndez, Mariachi Sol de México celebrate a Merry-Achi Christmas. At Fox Tucson Theatre... Phoenix-born, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Kristina Moore (aka Koleżanka) writes songs about placelessness—what French philosopher Henri Lefebvre referred to as “the misery of everyday life”—a state of being, Moore asserts is understood all too well by truckers, deckhands, flight attendants, and touring musicians. Illuminated under the yellow glow of headlights, Koleżanka provides the soundtrack for a late-night drive through a desert nightscape. At Club Congress... Until next week, XOXO...

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8 After having toured the world, amassing a legion of followers and numerous accolades, this veteran bluesman—a Canned Heat and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers alumnus—was forced to step down. While touring Germany in 2013, Walter Trout’s health began to deteriorate. Diagnosed with cirrhosis and Hepatitis C, he would require a liver transplant within 90 days if he was to survive. Following the transplant, Trout spent eight months in a hospital bed in recovery, during which time he suffered from brain damage. He lost the ability to speak, play the guitar, and even to recognize his loved ones. He also lost the use of his legs during this time, due to being bedridden. Rehabilitation was prolonged, spending the better part of a year relearning how to speak, walk and play the guitar. He chronicled the harrowing experience in Rescued From Reality (2014), a biography co-written with British music journalist Henry Yates. Blues survivor Walter Trout descends into Ordinary Madness (2020). At Rialto Theater. With Miss Olivia and the Interlopers... Tucson Holiday Toy

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RSO DEDICATION OGeez! honors late founder with new RSO gummy By Alexandra Pere apere@timespublications.com OGEEZ! BRANDS IS HONORING its late founder Peggy Noonan with the release of Peg’s Raspberry Orange RSO gummies, a never-before-seen product in the Arizona cannabis market. Before succumbing to her battle with acute myeloid leukemia in April at the age of 73, Noonan was a pioneer in the early cannabis industry in Arizona. She formed her own company called Copia Infusions. Copia was one of the first handmade cannabis infusions company in Arizona and its most popular brand of products is OGeez! Gummies. (Copia Infusions is now fully rebranded to OGeez! Brands with the new

slogan, “Flavoring Life.”) Noonan had 40 years of experience in the cannabis industry and advocated for the standardization of cannabis products in Arizona. She served on the Labeling and Packaging Committee with the Arizona State Department of Health Services for best practices in dosage, safety labeling and packaging. She was also known to regularly educate staff on dosing and medical marijuana information. “She was a highly driven, motivated, inspired kind of person,” said Peggy’s son and company CEO Bran Noonan. “This was not just about making money, she truly believed in the benefits of cannabis.” Noonan continued to work on research after her diagnosis of cancer to create edibles that achieved great flavor with no marijuana pungency. Fans say they are dangerously delicious and depart from classic edibles that have an overwhelming aftertaste of cannabis. Now, OGeez! combines its popular

raspberry orange flavor with the potency of RSO oil in honor of Noonan’s battle with cancer. Peg’s Raspberry Orange RSO gummies are widely available in Arizona dispensaries for recreational and medical customers. Since its release on Oct. 14, Noonan said it is OGeez! best-selling gummy. RSO, or Rick Simpson Oil, is a highly concentrated indica cannabis resin created by Canadian cannabis activist Rick Simpson. Simpson started developing the oil in the early 2000s for his skin cancer and claims it successfully treated his condition. Simpson made his oil-producing process publicly available online and recommends the oil for people with chronic illnesses, cancer, and people going through chemotherapy. “During her (Peggy) treatment, that was something that she advocated for us as part of her own treatment,” Noonan said. There is no medical research to suggest RSO can cure cancer, but its highly potent indica characteristics can alleviate physical pain. Indica cannabis strains are considered “chill” strains, inducing sleepiness and relaxation. “It would be for inflammation, arthritis, used for symptoms of cancer patients, MS patients PTSD—it’s used for all-over wellness,” OGeez! brand ambassador Tamara Myers said.

The RSO extraction process uses the entire cannabis flower to achieve high potency from multiple cannabinoids, leaving behind a sticky amber resin. This makes RSO more potent than standard concentrates. Concentrates usually contain THC or CBD. By extracting from the entire plant, RSO contains up to 90% THC, CBD, fats, lipids, a range of cannabinoids, and chlorophyll. However, RSO is typically sold in syringes from dispensaries without specific dosing directions. Peg’s Raspberry Orange RSO gummies not only mask the taste of RSO but give more precise dosing power to the consumer. Peg’s RSO gummies are available in Arizona dispensaries in 100-milligram packages of 10 gummies. Fans of the RSO gummies say it induces a stronger body high than traditional edibles, tastes fantastic, and mellows anxiety (because we all need that right now). They also recommend eating a quarter of one gummy to test tolerance and build up from there. “Not only would my mom have been cheerleading for these changes, but she would also have been a huge fan and user of Peg’s Raspberry Orange RSO,” said Noonan. “As the steward of her vision, my goal at the company has been simple—to expand on her mission and carry on her legacy.” ■

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By Dan Savage, mail@savagelove.net

So, my husband (42-year-old straight male) and I (38-year-old bi female) have had a closed relationship so far, but we have an active fantasy life. We’ve been together for about four years, and we both had our fair share of partners (casual and serious) before that. We like to talk about fantasies involving other people during sex, be they actual (past partners) or imagined (my beautiful surfing instructor on a trip). Once while he ate my pussy, I asked him about all the pussies he’s enjoyed in the past and he brought up one of his exes—a relationship that ended 10 years before we met—and he said he sometimes thought about her when he went down on and/or fucked subsequent partners, including me. This turned me on. A lot. I started bringing her up every now and then while we fucked, I asked him more about her, I fantasized about meeting her and eating the pussy he enjoyed so much. Like other past partners, she became part of the mental/verbal porn reel we sometimes enjoy during sex. Then one day, in an unrelated conversation, it came out that he’d been engaged to her, that the reason they broke up was because they couldn’t make a long-distance relationship work after he moved to the country where we live, and that it took him years to get over her. This killed it for me. Not only that, but I also now feel weird about all of the times we fantasized about her in the past. It’s not like he did anything wrong—I never specifically asked how serious the relationship was or why it ended—but I can’t shake the irrational feeling there was an omission. I sometimes think about past experiences during masturbation or sex, but never about serious partners—never about men I’ve lived with, been married to, or had a child with. Those experiences are too emotionally loaded to mix in with my current sex life in a healthy, detached way. I know my husband may process/feel things differently, but I can’t help but equate what he was doing to me fantasizing about my ex-husband during sex, which I haven’t done and would feel weird as fuck even contemplating. I don’t see her as a threat—they’re not in touch and she lives in another hemisphere—and I

believe him when he says he has no significant baggage about any of his exes, including her. But knowing she was one of the most significant relationships in his life makes fantasizing about her— out loud, with me—feel “off.” I don’t just have this feeling just about her now, but about his past overall. How do I shake this? Thoughts? —Turned On Turns Into Turn Off If thinking and talking about your husband’s past doesn’t turn you on anymore, TOTITO, stop thinking and talking about your husband’s past. But if you want to get back to enjoying these fantasies with your husband— dirty talk about your previous sex partners—you’re going to need to reason with yourself. Let’s give it a whirl… So, your husband was engaged to this woman and presumably lived with her for a time, but your husband’s relationship with this woman nevertheless meets just one of your three somewhat arbitrary criteria for “pussy it’s not OK to think about during sex with a current partner.” Yes, it was a serious relationship, but they never married or had kids. And if they had wanted to be together, they would’ve found a way to make it work despite the distance. If she had wanted to be with your husband more than she wanted to remain where she was living when they broke it off, she could’ve married him and emigrated. Likewise, if your husband had wanted to be with this woman more than he wanted to remain where he was living when they broke it off, he could’ve married her and emigrated. Neither made that choice, TOTITO, and I’m guessing neither made that choice because the serious wasn’t as serious as the “engaged” thing makes it sound. Yeah, yeah: someone proposed (most likely your husband), someone said yes (most likely his ex). But words are cheap and “engaged” is a just a word. It’s a promise and a serious one, TOTITO, but in the end it’s just air. And now, since I’m feeling daring, I’m going risk doing some math … You say been with your 42-year-old husband for four years. His relationship with his former fiancée ended

ten years before you two met. So, that means your husband was at most 28 years old when he broke off his engagement with his ex and assuming they’d been dating for a few years, he was what? In his mid-twenties when they met? That means his prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain involved in executive functions like decision making, long-term planning, and higher reasoning, wasn’t even fully formed when he proposed to this woman. So, you have a choice. You can attach a lot of significance to the fact that they were engaged or you can look at the other facts in evidence—that they both chose the place where they lived over the relationship, how old they were at the time they got engaged—and see the relationship as far less significant than the “engaged” label makes it sound. All that said, if hearing about the pussies in your husband’s past isn’t doing anything for your pussy right now, tell your husband you don’t want to hear about them for the moment. If you miss dirty talk during sex, instead of talking about hot sex you’ve both had in the past, TOTITO, try talking about all the hot sex you’re going to have in the future.

For the past few months, I’ve been hooking up a lot with my coworker (I’m a bi woman, he’s a straight man). Things are going well, we really like each other (we’ve even said “I love you” to each other), but there are a couple of problems. First, I’m 23 and he’s 40. The age difference doesn’t really bother

me if I don’t think about it too much, but it matters to a lot of my loved ones. Second, I’m not looking for a serious relationship, as I haven’t been single in a while and am kind of going through my “ho phase,” but it seems like he wants to be exclusive. I’ve tried to break things off or slow things down, but he’s going through horrible shit right now and needs me. I have improved his life, and he has improved my mental state, but he’s also kind of a bad influence and has gotten me back into bad habits. To make matters worse, the new guy at our work seems to be into me and he’s cute and way closer to my age, and we get along really well, so I might want to give that a shot. I don’t know whether to end things, or even how to end it if I wanted to. Any advice on how to get out of this gracefully? —Pretty Horrible At Something Easy When you say you want to get out of this “gracefully,” what you mean is you want the impossible from me. You want me to tell you how to end this relationship so subtly that the guy you dumped doesn’t even notice or get upset. Sorry, PHASE, but there’s no way to end things with the coworker you’re currently fucking so you can start fucking the coworker you’d rather be fucking without the coworker you’re currently fucking finding out you dumped him so you could start fucking a different coworker. If it was just your family that objected to the relationship because of the age difference, I would urge you to stay in it. But you want out and the relationship isn’t healthy. (You don’t mention the bad habits he’s gotten you back into, PHASE, but I’m going to assume it’s not double parking and public grooming.) You can’t stay just because he needs you. P.S. I’m supposed to tell you not to sleep with coworkers—it’s right here in my dogeared copy of the Writing Advice Columns For Dummies—but I’m going to set that aside, seeing as that ship has already sailed, struck an iceberg, and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. questions@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage. Savage Lovecast, books, merch, and more at www.savage.love!

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s a favorable time to get excited about your long-range future—and to entertain possibilities that have previously been on the edges of your awareness. I’d love to see you open your heart to the sweet dark feelings you’ve been sensing, and open your mind to the disruptive but nourishing ideas you need, and open your gut to the rumbling hunches that are available. Be brave, Aries! Strike up conversations with the unexpected, the unknown, and the undiscovered. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A Tumblr blogger named Evan (lotad.tumblr.com) addressed a potential love interest. “Do you like sleeping, because so do I,” he wrote. “We should do it together sometime.” You might want to extend a similar invitation, Taurus. Now is a ripe time for you to interweave your subconscious mind with the subconscious mind of an ally you trust. The two of you could generate extraordinary healing energy for each other as you lie together, dozing in the darkness. Other recommended activities: meditating together; fantasizing together; singing together; making spiritual love together. (PS: If you have no such human ally, sleep and meditate with a beloved animal or imaginary friend.) GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini author Chuck Klosterman writes, “It’s far easier to write why something is terrible than why it’s good.” That seems to be true for many writers. However, my life’s work is in part a rebellion against doing what’s easy. I don’t want to chronically focus on what’s bad and sick and desolate. Instead, I aspire to devote more of my energy to doing what Klosterman implies is hard, which is to write sincerely (but not naively) about the many things that are good and redemptive and uplifting. In light of your current astrological omens, Gemini, I urge you to adopt my perspective for your own use in the next three weeks. Keep in mind what philosopher Robert Anton Wilson said: “An optimistic mindset finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.” CANCER (June 21-July 22): An organization in Turkey decided to construct a new building to house its workers. The Saruhanbey Knowledge, Culture, and Education Foundation chose a plot in the city of Manisa. But there was a problem. A three-centuries-old pine tree stood on the land. Local authorities would not permit it to be cut down. So architects designed a building with spaces and holes that fully accommodated the tree. I recommend you regard this marvel as a source of personal inspiration in the coming weeks and

months. How could you work gracefully with nature as you craft your future masterpiece or labor of love? How might you work around limitations to create useful, unusual beauty? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Melissa Broder wrote a preposterous essay in which she ruminated, “Is fake love better than real love? Real love is responsibility, compromise, selflessness, being present, and all that shit. Fake love is magic, excitement, false hope, infatuation, and getting high off the potential that another person is going to save you from yourself.” I will propose, Leo, that you bypass such ridiculous thinking about love in the coming weeks and months. Here’s why: There’s a strong chance that the real love at play in your life will feature magic and excitement, even as it requires responsibility, compromise, selflessness, and being present. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo author Andre Dubus III describes times when “I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable—like I’m about to cry any second—and wrong.” That sounds dreadful, right? But it’s not dreadful for him. Just the opposite. “I’ve found that when that happens,” he concludes, “it usually means I’m writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.” I trust you will entertain a comparable state sometime soon, Virgo. Even if you’re not a writer, the bounty and fertility that emerge from this immersion in vulnerability will invigorate you beyond what you can imagine. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get 22.” Author Dashiell Hammett said that, and now I’m passing it on to you—just in time for a phase of your cycle when putting two and two together will probably not bring four, but rather 22 or some other irregularity. I’m hoping that since I’ve given you a heads-up, it won’t be a problem. On the contrary. You will be prepared and will adjust faster than anyone else—thereby generating a dose of exotic good fortune. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her poem “Is/ Not,” Scorpio poet Margaret Atwood tells a lover, “You are not my doctor, you are not my cure, nobody has that power, you are merely a fellow traveler.” I applaud her for stating an axiom I’m fond of, which is that no one, not even the person who loves you best, can ever be totally responsible for fixing everything wrong in your life. However, I do think Atwood goes too far. On some occasions, certain people can indeed provide us with a measure of healing. And we must be receptive to that possibility.

We shouldn’t be so pathologically self-sufficient that we close ourselves off from tender help. One more thing: Just because that help may be imperfect doesn’t mean it’s useless and should be rejected. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path,” wrote Norwegian-Danish novelist Sigrid Undset. I think she succeeded in doing both. She won a Nobel Prize for Literature. Her trilogy about a 14th-century Norwegian woman was translated into 80 languages. I conclude that for her—as well as for you in the coming weeks and months—traveling the right road and taking your own errant path will be the same thing. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Susan Sontag unleashed a bizarre boast, writing, “One of the healthiest things about me—my capacity to survive, to bounce back, to prosper—is intimately connected with my biggest neurotic liability: my facility in disconnecting from my feelings.” Everything about her statement makes me scream NO! I mean, I believe this coping mechanism worked for her; I don’t begrudge her that. But as a student of psychology and spirituality, I know that disconnecting from feelings is, for most of us, the worst possible strategy if we want to be healthy and sane. And I will advise you to do the opposite of Sontag in the coming weeks. December is Stay Intimately Connected with Your Feelings Month.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In some small towns in the Philippines, people can be punished and fined for gossiping. Some locals have become reluctant to exchange tales about the sneaky, sexy, highly entertaining things their neighbors are doing. They complain that their freedom of speech has been curtailed. If you lived in one of those towns, I’d advise you to break the law in the coming weeks. In my astrological opinion, dynamic gossip should be one of your assets. Staying well-informed about the human comedy will be key for your ability to thrive. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Originality consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people,” wrote Piscean author James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–1894). Another way to say it: Being rebellious is not inherently creative. If you primarily define yourself by rejecting and reacting against someone’s ideas, you are being controlled by those ideas. Please keep this in mind, dear Pisces. I want you to take full advantage of your astrological potential during the next 12 months, which is to be absolutely original. Your perceptions and insights will be unusually lucid if you protect yourself from both groupthink and a compulsive repudiation of groupthink. ■ Homework: I invite you to send me your holiday wish list. What do you want? What do you need? https://Newsletter. FreeWillAstrology.com

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