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MARCH 8-14, 2012 VOL. 29, NO. 3

OPINION Tom Danehy 4 What does the former UA library head think about the future of books?

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Renée Downing 6 Jim Hightower 6 Guest Commentary 8 Mailbag 8

CURRENTS The Skinny 9 Overlay Approved 9

By Tim Vanderpool

The City Council bends to developers, upsets residents Media Watch 10 Capitol Chatter 11

By Jim Nintzel

The Legislature wants to end Project White House and stop voters from hiking taxes Weekly Wide Web 12 Police Dispatch 12 Coverage Confusion 13

By Mari Herreras

County retirees keep working to get back promised benefits

A conscientious objector in the war on contraception.

Gonzales Beats Roemer! 14

By Jim Nintzel

PWH’s winner comes in sixth in Arizona’s primary Celebration Gone Wrong 14

By Brian J. Pedersen

Despite dozens of witnesses, nobody is charged with the death of Fernando Lara The Literary Issue 15

By Weekly staff and contributors

Our annual look at the literature of Southern Arizona

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Patterson Should Resign It’s time for State Rep. Daniel Patterson to resign.

In last week’s issue (see “Domestic Unrest,” The Skinny, March 1), we reported on an incident involving Patterson and his then-live-in girlfriend/campaign manager, Georgette Escobar. I won’t repeat all the he-said, shesaid details, but everyone can agree that what happened between Patterson and Escobar was ugly and unfortunate.

Since then, things have gotten uglier and more unfortunate.

The final straw, as far as I am concerned, came last week, when Patterson and his attorney slung a big, heaping pile of mud by releasing the details of an investigation into Escobar’s not-so-clean past. As you can read about in The Skinny this week, Patterson justified the release of the information as being “relevant to the credibility of my accuser.”

A couple of days later, Patterson sent a tweet implying he’d pull a Scott Bundgaard and claim legislative immunity to avoid arrest, if necessary, during the 2012 session. How charming.

Look, I don’t know what happened for sure between Patterson and Escobar (although Patterson is coming off as far from blameless). I don’t know if anything he did rises to the level of a crime. However, I do know that Patterson’s actions since the primary domestic incident—which have largely consisted of justifying his actions by slamming Escobar—have been disgraceful, pure and simple.

As we reported last week, Patterson told the Weekly that he was not going to resign, despite calls from his fellow legislative Democrats (and many others) to do so. “This is the lynch-mob type of politics that we see from Phoenix, and I’m not going to listen to these cutthroat, throw-’emunder-the-bus politicians from Phoenix,” he said. “I’m responsive to my constituents in Tucson, period.”

Well, Mr. Patterson, I am one of your constituents in Legislative District 29. Please be responsive to this: It’s time to resign. You’re embarrassing yourself and your district.

JIMMY BOEGLE, Editor jboegle@tucsonweekly.com COVER DESIGN BY ANDREW ARTHUR

CULTURE

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City Week 26 Our picks for the week

A True Gastropub 46

TQ&A 28 Norma Gonzalez, teacher

PERFORMING ARTS A Sweet Show 34

By Margaret Regan

Two Tudor works star in Dance and Dessert

By Jacqueline Kuder

Southern/Creole food at The Parish should not be missed Noshing Around 46

By Adam Borowitz

MUSIC Love of Rock ’n’ Roll 51

By Eric Swedlund

Two local music festivals!

Gory, Sexy Spectacle 36

Soundbites 51

By Laura C.J. Owen

By Stephen Seigel

The UA’s Arizona Repertory Theatre does a fine job with Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Stylish but Hollow 37

By Sherilyn Forrester

ATC mounts an impressive production of Gatsby—but the story does not resonate

VISUAL ARTS

Don’t Think, Just Do 54

By Gene Armstrong

Brian Lopez’s solo debut Club Listings 56 Nine Questions 57 Live 59

City Week listings 38

Rhythm & Views 61

BOOKS

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City Week listings/Top Ten 39

Acceptible Green 62

CINEMA

A collective has promise—but prices, selection could improve

Boobs on Shaky Cam! 41

By J.M. Smith

By Bob Grimm

CLASSIFIEDS

The found-footage movie craze has moved to a high school party—with tediously unfunny results

Comix 63-54 Free Will Astrology 63 ¡Ask a Mexican! 64 Savage Love 65 Personals 68 Employment 69 News of the Weird 70 Real Estate 70 Rentals 70 Mind, Body and Spirit 71 Crossword 71 *Adult Content 57-60

Film Times 42 Misstep on Mars 43

By Colin Boyd

A lead-actor dud dooms the epic John Carter to failure Now Showing at Home 44

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Forget the primary; the retirement of Vern Friedli was last week’s big news story

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EDITORIAL Jimmy Boegle Editor Jim Nintzel Senior Writer Irene Messina Assistant Editor Mari Herreras Staff Writer Linda Ray City Week Listings Dan Gibson Web Producer Margaret Regan Arts Editor Stephen Seigel Music Editor Bill Clemens Copy Editor Tom Danehy, Renée Downing, Ryn Gargulinski, Randy Serraglio, J.M. Smith Columnists Colin Boyd, Bob Grimm Cinema Writers Adam Borowitz, Rita Connelly, Jacqueline Kuder Chow Writers Ryan Kelly, David Mendez, Alexandra Newman, Michelle Weiss Editorial Interns Zachary Vito Photography Intern Sherilyn Forrester, Laura C.J. Owen Theater Writers Contributors Jacquie Allen, Gustavo Arellano, Gene Armstrong, Rob Brezsny, Max Cannon, Rand Carlson, Michael Grimm, Matt Groening, Jim Hightower, Jarret Keene, David Kish, Molly McKasson, Tom Miller, Anna Mirocha, Andy Mosier, Kristine Peashock, Brian J. Pedersen, Dan Perkins, Michael Petitti, Brad Poole, Ted Rall, Dan Savage, John Schuster, Chuck Shepherd, Hank Stephenson, Eric Swedlund, Tim Vanderpool

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realize that Arizona had a Republican primary, and that the Tucson City Council managed to anger the entire West University Neighborhood with its vote in favor of the urban-overlay district, but by far, the most-significant news event last week was the retirement of longtime Amphitheater High School football coach Vern Friedli.

In a city and state increasingly known for cranks and crooks and freaks and morons, Vern Friedli was a towering figure, a living testament to what could be accomplished through hard work and discipline.

I only had to see a Vern Friedli team play once, and I was hooked. They played football the way it’s supposed to be played—with purpose, precision and passion.

I have followed his teams for more than 30 years, watching the marvelous Bates brothers—Marion, Michael and Mario—and Jon Volpe, who later starred at Stanford University and in the Canadian Football League, and who now owns Nova Home Loans. During that stretch, several Amphi teams made good runs at state, but, most disconcertingly, the 1979 Panthers team remains the last local squad to win a big-school state title.

So dominant were Friedli’s teams that Amphi once went to state in football 20 consecutive years. That’s an entire generation. Then, things began to change. Catalina Foothills High School opened, and foothills-area kids who had gone to Amphi or Catalina or Sabino now had their own school to attend. Later, as demographics began to shift, the whiteflight trickle toward Canyon del Oro High farther north in the Amphitheater School District turned into a torrent when snazzy new Ironwood Ridge High opened.

My wife and I sent our daughter to Amphi, mostly because of the Honors Academy, a University High-like school-within-a-school for high academic achievers. While there, she also became the only kid in Arizona history (that I know of) to letter in five varsity sports. Later, our son also went to the Honors Academy, but he had the added benefit of getting to play football for Vern Friedli. I believe in my soul that my son is a better person for having done so.

Friedli never spoke about winning, which puts him on a higher plane of consciousness than just about every other coach on the face of the earth. (While I consider myself to be relatively level-headed as a coach, I talk about winning all the damn time.) Perhaps the fact that his teams won so often allowed him to break free of the mere-mortal constraints. He retires with 331 coaching victories, far and away the most in Arizona history, and an average of nine per season. (A high

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school regular season consists of 10 games.) His teams went to state 28 times in 36 years, and a third of his squads won 10 or more games in a season. Those are scary numbers.

Starting in the late 1990s, Amphi High’s enrollment numbers began to plummet, as did the number of kids going out for Friedli’s football team. Yet, his squads continued to win. (His 1997 team reached the state championship game.)

However, several years ago, it got so bad that Amphi went 0-10 one season, and everyone thought that Friedli was done. But he kept at it, doing things the way he always had, and suddenly, Amphi was back in the playoffs. Two years ago, the Panthers went 11-2.

Then came the stroke.

Friedli, rail-thin and wiry, had always been a fitness nut, running bleachers in the gym and lifting weights. But he was in his mid-70s, and I guess a stroke can hit anyone. He rehabbed as best he could, but last season, he was confined to a scooter on the sidelines. It wasn’t the same, not being able to stand on his feet and demonstrate techniques, and he knew it. Last week, he retired, as did defensive coordinator Ed Roman, who had spent every one of the past 36 years working with Friedli.

I was a Vern Friedli fan for nearly 20 years before I got to meet the man. He turned out to be even cooler than I had imagined—plain-spoken, quick-witted and sarcastic as all hell. He’s a voracious reader of nonfiction; I gave him a copy of my all-time favorite book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and he loved it.

A few years ago, the Amphi Athletic Hall of Fame finally got around to inducting Friedli and Roman. My daughter was inducted that same night. Instead of being thrilled with being the first-ever female athlete in the hall, she gushed, “I’m in the same Hall of Fame with Vern Friedli. That’s the coolest thing ever!”

For the past 15 years, I’ve been spending five or more autumn evenings a season in the sweltering press box overlooking Amphi’s Friedli Field, running the scoreboard for Panthers varsity games. And believe me, I don’t do it for the $9 an hour that it pays. I’ve done it so that I could be a tiny part of something great, something pure and positive, something enduring. (I’ll keep doing it, but it won’t be the same.)

I guess I knew it wouldn’t last forever. I had once hoped that Matt Johnson (who played for and coached with Friedli) would take over, but Johnson is safely ensconced at Ironwood Ridge, with its gaudy facilities and rabid booster club.

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It’s March, and the whang of the woodpecker is heard in our land HIGHTOWER

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THE KEYSTONE XL FLIM FLAM

BY RENÉE DOWNING, rdowning@tucsonweekly.com

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he winter is past. The rain is over and gone. Amen.

It’s been full-on spring, by my count, for about 10 days. The mockingbirds and thrashers have been winding up for a while; the globe mallows have been blooming in the sunniest spots; and the fairy duster’s gone all pink, but it wasn’t definite that winter was over until I heard a Gila woodpecker hammering on the metal skin of a street light. Just as the high, strange whirr of cicadas means that summer has absolutely arrived, the sound of a woodpecker whanging on aluminum sheeting is incontrovertible evidence of the Sonoran spring.

Contrary to popular belief, woodpeckers do not make this racket looking for food—no bird is naïve enough to think that succulent insects lurk inside your swamp cooler or downspout. The woodpecker, in particular, is no fool—he’s not scavenging, but announcing his lordship over the widest possible territory. He’s simply taking advantage of the amplification that certain human artifacts provide.

For Rep. Allen West, the skyrocketing price of gasoline is a personal pocketbook issue. The Florida Tea Party Republican (who blames President Obama for the price increase) recently wailed on Facebook that it’s now costing him $70 to fill his Hummer.

It’s hard to feel the pain of a whining, $174,000-a-year, Hummer-driving Congress critter, but millions of regular Americans really are feeling pain at the pump. It’s an especially cynical political stunt, then, for Gila woodpeckers are all-around great birds—sleek, Republicans and their chorus of right-wing handsome, shrewd and strong, with a bouncy way of flymouthpieces to use gas-price pain as a ing and an arrogant habit of command. Short of the hawks whip for lashing Obama’s January decision and ravens, they’re the avian kings of the desert. The mob to reject the infamous Keystone XL pipeof smaller birds around my feeders disperses immediately line. when the woodpeckers show up, and if some spaced-out “Outrageous!” they cried, asserting that member of the sparrow/finch/warbler crowd—or, more Keystone would bring 700,000 barrels of likely, an insubordinate cactus wren—fails to leave fast Canadian “tar sands crude” per day through enough, all it takes is a quick woodpecker head fake to clear its 2,000-mile-long pipeline to refineries him off. That heavy, shiny black bill, propelled by those on the Texas Gulf Coast. “More gasoline for neck and shoulder muscles, is nothing you’d want to see America,” they shout, with “lower prices for coming at you. consumers. What’s not to like?”

So it’s a testament to matrimony when two woodpeckWell, aside from inevitable environmeners dine together at the suet cage, attacking the cake from tal damage from pipeline leaks, being lied opposite sides with jackhammer ferocity and never a slipto is one thing we don’t like. Their claim up. You see the same thing with thrashers—there’s nothing that this Canadian crude would be refined like a pair of crazy-eyed curve-billed thrashers stabbing and into fuel for our vehicles is a lie. Instead, the refiners intend to export it to Europe, Latin THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow America and China. The dirty little secret that Keystone backers never mention is that building it would not shave even a penny off the price we pay at the pump.

Meanwhile, financial speculators and supply manipulators— who are artificially causing our gasoline prices to rise—escape scrutiny, while politicians (tanked up on campaign cash from Big Oil and Wall Street) divert attention to the bugaboo of Obama’s pipeline decision. And, yet again, our nation postpones the necessary investments in conservation, alternative fuels and mass transit that will actually solve the gasgouging problem.

What’s not to like?

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scrabbling their way through a pile of leaf litter, flinging trash furiously through the air, their bills flashing just inches apart. No one else would dare come within three feet.

In other news of the season, the colony of round-tailed ground squirrels outside the building is up and doing.

Winter hibernators, they started appearing a couple of weeks ago, thin and blinking and wreathed in ratty halos of white fuzz. Those of us who follow the colony’s fortunes were pleased to see that several recognizable individuals— the one with the truncated tail, and the little lame one for whom we had no hope—made it through the dark months.

At first, they all seemed still to be half asleep—they’d sit unmoving, staring into space outside the entrances to their burrows and possibly rethinking the whole getting-up impulse. Lately, though, they’ve shaken off the hangover and thrown themselves into their agenda for the next six months: fattening up, fighting, mating, raising the kids, keeping watch for hawks and snakes, hiding from the hawks and trying to drive the snakes away by waving their tails and drumming their feet (it never works), fighting and fattening up some more. Then, right at Labor Day, within about a week, they’ll all disappear again underground, as if everyone got the same memo.

For now, everyone’s cranking up for the busy season—the land-grabbing, nest- and baby-making fat time of the year.

Last summer’s decent monsoon and the good fall rains have given us a verdant if not spectacular spring—the trees will bloom and leaf and bear fruit; the bugs will appear; all will be well.

The dark and cold of winter—a relatively mild season, maybe, but hard enough for those who live out in it—is over, and the rising energy infuses the scene outside my window not just with sound and motion, but with flashes of color as well. The leggy little yellow-rumped warblers, down from Mount Lemmon for the season, are coloring up, their yellow patches brighter and their gray streaks darker all the time. True snowbirds, they’ll soon be clearing out and heading back to their warming pine woods. A young broadbilled hummingbird male that’s frequented my feeder for months has more blue and green feathers every day—the gorgeous malachite coloring started coming in on his head and is now down to mid-breast, with patches on his abdomen and sides, as his mature plumage clothes him like a suit of chain mail.

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OPINION

Should a Mine Be Using CAP Water, Anyway?

As a long time Tucson resident, I deplore the possibility of another copper mine in Southern Arizona that would be so close to Tucson, Green Valley, Sahuarita, Sonoita, etc. (“Stop This Mine,” Feb. 23).

This specific area of the Santa Ritas is home to numerous wildlife, waterways, birds and even hunting. I have hiked Mount Wrightson and picnicked in Madera Canyon. I have seen coatimundi in the area.

I have driven to Sonoita to see the vineyards, fished in Parker Canyon Lake, watched the rodeo and picnicked at Patagonia Lake.

Has anyone thought to contact the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy? The reason I bring this up is because our most esteemed congressman Mo Udall was a staunch environmentalist, was against strip-mining and was the main force in getting the Central Arizona Project completed. In numerous articles about the mine, it has been stated that Rosemont Copper will divert CAP water to the mine.

I believe the CAP is to provide water for municipalities and agricultural use, not strip-mining.

Sandra G. Larriva

Thanks for Sensitive Coverage of Vazquez Matter Congratulations to John Schuster on a very professional and sensitive report on Martha Vazquez’s recent arrest and resignation form KVOA Channel 4 (Media Watch, Feb. 23). I was honored to be an on-air co-worker with Martha during the KOLD Channel 13 portion of her career in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and she was a fantastic teammate and friend in an otherwise dissention-filled newsroom. She was our “Miss Congeniality” with her contagious smiles and laughs.

Congratulations also to Channel 13 and KGUN Channel 9 for not being vultures on the story just for a ratings gain, even though it was during the February ratings sweeps.

Keep up the great reporting, Schu, and thanks also to Tom Danehy for his thought-provoking columns.

Bill Roemer

With the Tucson City Council, neighborhoods take one step forward—and then one step back

BY MOLLY MCKASSON

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he Tucson City Council recently approved a minuscule but important “clarification” in the landuse code that hopefully puts an end to the mini-dorm bonanza that has plagued neighborhoods around the university for 12 years.

From now on, a residence with four or more people living together who are not related to each other will be defined as a “group dwelling”—an illegal use in neighborhoods zoned for single-family residential (aka R-1 zoning). Developers will no longer be able reconfigure and bulldoze homes to ram 10 to 17 students into single-family lots, turning whole blocks into Party Central.

Thanks to the City Council, in particular Councilwoman Karin Uhlich, for voting in favor of quality of life and historic preservation for the inner city.

Unfortunately for the Jefferson Park and Feldman’s neighborhoods (north of the UA), the numerous alreadyconstructed minidorms will remain.

It could have been different: What if our elected officials had adopted a vision for inner-city preservation a decade ago?

Bob Schlanger and I recently talked about such possibilities over coffee at the Hot Rod Café on North Stone Avenue. We sat near a window, and I could see Bob’s automotive business across the street. To the south, I could see the Paul Bunyan statue that’s been a landmark since I was in high school. (A crew from Bob’s shop recently donated a new paint job for Tucson’s favorite lumberjack.) Bob lives in Jefferson Park and serves on the neighborhood association board. For 12 years, he told me, residents argued that minidorms were a violation of R-1 zoning and a threat to the neighborhood’s residential viability. In the fall of 2010, as a last resort, residents hired a lawyer and filed a request for the city’s zoning administrator to rule on the issue.

Bob took a bite of his pastry and smiled. Then he told me the story of how the clarification to the land-use code came about.

First off, it took dozens of residents like Bob, Diana Lett and Joan Hall volunteering hundreds of hours to stop the minidorm feeding frenzy in Feldman’s and Jefferson Park.

“Seeing what was happening in Feldman’s 10 years ago,” Bob said, “our association started pushing for a clearer definition of single-family dwelling.” While the city agreed that students renting space in minidorms were not people who traditionally lived together and shared common cooking facilities (the code definition of single-family), the city ignored their complaints.

Bob shook his head. The city staff and council, he told me, were sympathetic but concerned about lawsuits because

of Proposition 207 (a property-rights law favoring large landowners). Before the residents took legal action, only Kathleen Dunbar, the Ward 3 council representative before Karin Uhlich, was able to take action. She forced city staff to craft an R-1 parking code that slowed things down— until the developers figured out they could bulldoze homes to create on-site parking and keep building dorms.

Bob shook his head again. “This could’ve been solved through our zoning complaint,” he said.

He then explained how Uhlich was sympathetic in her first term, but couldn’t get much help from staff or the rest of the council. In her second term, she started pushing the city attorney to come up with a way to protect the intent of R-1 zoning in Jefferson Park, which led to the neighborhood association filing a “request for determination” with Craig Gross, the city’s zoning administrator. Gross determined finally that the neighborhood was right about minidorms, which led to mediation.

Bob was perplexed that the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce had opposed them for so long. “This wedge that gets driven between business and neighborhoods drives me nuts,” he said. After he made an effort to stay in touch with chamber officials, the chamber dropped its opposition.

As we parted, Bob told me that City Councilman Steve Kozachik had just nixed a rezoning for a mega-gas station in Feldman’s. Things seemed to be looking better. Wrong.

Fast-forward to the Feb. 28 council meeting, where Kozachik made a motion to approve an urban-overlay zone that thumbs its nose at residents in the historic West University neighborhood and OKs 14-story buildings next to bungalows. (Councilwoman Uhlich was the lone “no” vote.)

So much for a neighborhood-friendly vision.

For the good of the community, the council needs to reconsider this shortsighted vote.

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ABUSIVE POLITICS

Overlay Approved

BY TIM VANDERPOOL, tvanderpool@tucsonweekly.com

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And ultimately, that well-heeled juggernaut could rip through the very soul of Tucson’s downtown communities.

The latest pit stop was the night of Tuesday, Feb. 28, at City Hall, where members of the Tucson City Council prepared to rubber-stamp a massive rezoning, thereby rendering the eastern fringe of West University amenable to at least two high-rise student apartment buildings.

Near the planned streetcar route, and reaching up to 14 stories, those edifices could overshadow and most likely doom historic properties strung along North Euclid Avenue that vary from pristine to decrepit.

The move has sparked fierce opposition from many neighborhood residents, who saw it as a done deal long before they were brought to the table—one orchestrated by city officials listening to developers’ promises, and panicky that the streetcar project could become a $300 million flop.

West University residents consider this only the latest in a series of rapid-fire rezonings that treat neighborhood concerns as an unwanted stepchild. The city is considering at least four special districts in the downtown area, each offering development sweeteners that range from tax waivers and eased zoning to slashed planning fees.

City Hall is also revamping its land-use code, a Byzantine document decried by business as overly cumbersome. But neighborhood leaders fear the revised document could contain few protections for historic properties, paving the way for demolition whenever preservation clashes with development. In West University alone, the city’s own historic-preservation officer has predicted that dozens of historic structures could fall, threatening the neighborhood’s status as a nationally registered historic district.

All of which accounts for the bristling crowd in the council chambers as Ernie Duarte, director of the city’s Planning and Development Services Department, breezed through a rundown of zoning changes slated for the area, largely commercial, buffering the UA from West University homes. The rezoning would amend the existing West University Neighborhood Plan in this “transition area” by drastically boosting allowed heights and densities, even as it loosens restrictions on the use of historic properties.

“The Main Gate Urban Overlay District has been designed to create an urban neighborhood … with multi-modal options,” Duarte told the

council. It will “use best practices for design and pedestrian comfort, encourage mixed uses by diverse populations, encourage restoration of historic buildings when possible, and create a streamlined development-review process for transit-oriented development.”

Much of the audience offered a loud moan when city planner Jim Mazzocco unveiled drawings of the massive towers planned by Chicagobased developer Campus Acquisitions.

Demion Clinco is president of the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation, and a member of the Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission. Contacted shortly before the Feb. 28 meeting, he described a topsy-turvy planning process in which historic concerns were raised only at an 11th-hour meeting with Mazzocco and a Campus Acquisitions consultant.

“This never had anything to do with historic preservation when it started off,” Clinco said. “So suddenly, historic preservation had to be injected into it. It became this really difficult scramble to try to fit the historic-preservation language around the goals of this developer.

Mazzocco concedes that the Historical Commission was brought into the process late.

But he says the City Council had directed his staff to work closely with the West University Neighborhood in finding a balance between preservation and development. He also claims that the rezoning overlay contained preservation incentives from the get-go. “And after we talked with the Historical Commission, we cleared up some things. They used certain terminology that we weren’t using. We changed that terminology and clarified it.”

As a result, says Mazzocco, the plan now contains several enticements for readapting historic properties rather than tearing them down.

Those carrots include relaxed parking requirements and a 50 percent reduction in development-review fees. In addition, he says, demolition permits for historic structures now require several new layers of review.

Richard Mayers is vice president of the West University Neighborhood Association. Although area residents were able to wrest some preservation concessions, he says they never harbored illusions about the battle at hand. “The city wanted an outcome, and this process was tailored to achieve that outcome.”

If so, that preordination was brought to bear on Feb. 28, when the council approved the rezoning overlay. But in so doing, it may have invigorated a pushback from newly energized inner-city neighborhoods. Three days after that vote, West University residents unleashed a referendum drive to overturn the new ordinance,

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ou could hear a rumbling in the West University Neighborhood last week. It was the sound of a streetcar named big

Karin Uhlich: “The process did not bring people together to come up with the best solutuion.” and called for assistance from its counterparts throughout the downtown area.

Ward 1 Councilwoman Regina Romero was among those who backed the rezoning. She describes trying to find balance between fiercely competing interests. “I wanted to avoid the perception that we are only serving a couple of developers,” she says, “and start everyone on a level playing field, and include the areas that I believe need redevelopment and reinvestment.

“So we said, ‘OK, let’s try and work this urban overlay so that we can encourage infill development, (and) we can encourage infill development and density.’”

While still torn over the issue, Romero applauds the goal of concentrated student housing. “I don’t want to see more minidorms going into neighborhoods or along the streetcar line,” she says. “And I do see the need for growing up (with high-rises). I felt this was a perfect area to go up.”

Representing Ward 3, Councilwoman Karin Uhlich was alone in opposing the rezoning, after trying—and failing—to exempt a particularly sensitive historic area. If you need evidence of a lousy planning process, she suggests, you need to look no further than the acrimony of that night’s meeting.

Uhlich notes confusion about which areas would be included in the rezoning overlay. She says some affected property owners in the Main Gate commercial area didn’t even know changes were afoot. “That does not bode well for the process, to have a lack of understanding among the key players even about what area is to be examined.

“What I saw,” she says of the Feb. 28 meeting, “just continued to reflect what I feel is a really fragmented plan. … The process did not bring people together to come up with the best solution. I just think we could have done better.”

Tim Vanderpool is a member of the Armory Park Neighborhood Association board of directors.

As you may recall from last week’s column, state Rep. Daniel Patterson’s political career is crashing and burning following allegations by his (now ex-)girlfriend that he physically abused her and took her dog.

Patterson, who has rubbed even his Democratic colleagues the wrong way at times, soon found he had few friends at the Capitol or here in Tucson. His fellow Democrats in the House called on him to resign and asked for an ethics investigation. The executive director of the Arizona Democratic Party, Luis Heredia, demanded that the two-term lawmaker step down. The local Latina group Las Adelitas said it was time for him to go.

Patterson, however, appears determined to hang on to his job, at least until voters have their say.

Officers from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department were finally able to serve Patterson with two orders of protection last Friday, March 2.

Shortly after the Tucson Weekly reported that service online, Patterson e-mailed us to let us know that we only got the story half-right. He suggested we call his attorney, Joe St. Louis.

One of the protection orders was filed by his ex-girlfriend and former campaign manger, Georgette Escobar, who claims Patterson assaulted her.

The other protection order is from his ex-wife, Jeneiene Schaffer, who accused Patterson of abuse during their divorce, although charges were never filed.

On Monday, March 5, the Weekly called St. Louis’ office twice, but we didn’t hear back from him by our press time on Tuesday.

Perhaps Patterson was hoping his attorney would unveil the investigation he released to the Arizona Capitol Times on Thursday, March 1. (In that story, Patterson was quick to point out that his attorney hired an investigator without his knowledge.) The investigation focused on Escobar’s past, ranging from a California State Bar disbarment to domestic-violence charges, car theft and drug-possession convictions.

Patterson said getting the investigation out to the press was “relevant to the credibility of my accuser.”

State Rep. Katie Hobbs, who was one of the first Democratic lawmakers to call for his resignation, said the investigation doesn’t pardon Patterson from any wrongdoing. Hobbs told the Weekly that Patterson has an opportunity to consider the calls for his resignation, “which I am sure he’s doing. I am not aware of the timeframe on that.”

If you take a look at Patterson’s own tweets after the Friday, Feb. 24, fight that started this mess, it appears he already knew about Escobar’s past.

On Feb. 27, Patterson tweeted: “Allegations are lies from person with bad mental problems & violent criminal history trying to blackmail me. I will not resign.”

On Feb. 29: “False accuser Georgette Escobar, under a former

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BODFIELD LEAVING â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;STARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rhonda Bodfieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long stint as a newspaper journalist in Tucson appears to be coming to an end: Bodfield has accepted a position with the communications staff at the Tucson Medical Center.

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Bodfield has reported on political happenings at the city, county and state levels.

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BY JIM NINTZEL, jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com roject White House candidates set out to change America by running for president.

Instead, it appears as if they’re on the verge of changing state law—to ensure that frivolous candidates never again darken the Arizona presidential-preference ballot.

House Bill 2379 sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee on an 8-0 vote on Monday, March 5. The legislation, which includes a variety of changes to election law, includes a requirement that any candidate seeking to run in Arizona’s presidential primary get at least 1,000 signatures on nominating petitions, be on the ballot in at least 20 other states, or be qualified for federal matching funds for presidential campaigns.

Under current law, candidates merely have to fill out a two-page form and have it notarized in order to appear on the ballot, which inspired the Tucson Weekly to sponsor Project White House, a Reality Journalism competition for lesserknown presidential candidates. (For more on Project White House, see “Gonzales Beats Roemer,” Page 14.)

As a result of Project White House, Republicans had to sort through 23 candidates during last month’s presidential primary. In 2008, the first year of Project White House, there were 24 candidates each on the Democratic and Republican ballots.

Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much, but they do agree on one thing: The Tucson Weekly and its fringe candidates must be stopped. HB 2379 has already passed the House of Representatives on a 48-3 vote.

Most of Monday’s committee hearing focused on a provision in the bill that would allow the Arizona Secretary of State to hire his own attorneys rather than work with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office staff.

But state Sen. Steve Gallardo (D-Phoenix) did mention that he “kinda likes the idea” of requiring 1,000 signatures.

Amy Chan, the state election director, told Gallardo that the changes were in response to “a lot of complaints from voters” about the crowded ballot. She said the new requirements would create “more of a pool that voters would be familiar with and comfortable with and more informed on.”

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett supports the change. He told the Weekly outside of the CNN presidential debate in Phoenix that he didn’t want to have any more candidates showing up at his office to participate in official ballot-related ceremonies with bunny hand-puppets, as Green Party presidential candidate

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Arizona lawmakers to Project White House presidential candidates: Never again!

Richard Grayson did in January.

But we’re not sure that Bennett realized exactly where the inspiration came from. When we asked him if the bill would mean the end of Project White House, he asked us: “Project what?”

n other legislative news: • The Arizona Senate approved a bill to require people who are laid off and request unemployment benefits to undergo a drug test before they can receive payments from the insurance program. People would be required to cover the cost of their own drug test.

Senate Bill 1495 passed the Senate on an 18-10 vote on Monday, March 5.

• HB 2563, which would allow schools to offer elective classes on the Bible’s influence on culture, passed the Senate Education Committee last week on a 6-2 vote. The legislation, which already passed the full House on a 42-15 vote, is now headed for the Senate Rules Committee.

• HB 2789, which gives the Arizona Legislature and the governor veto power over rule-making decisions by the Arizona Corporation Commission, passed the House of Representatives 31-27 on Monday, March 5. The bill, which is aimed at stopping the ACC from enacting energy-efficiency mandates (as it did in recent years), is now headed to the Senate.

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• The House of Representatives passed legislation to ask voters to approve a proposition on the November ballot that would require any future proposition that increases taxes to pass with 60 percent of the vote. House Concurrent Resolution 2043 passed on a 32-26 vote on Monday, March 5, and now goes to the Senate.

• HB 2780, which would exempt ranch dogs from animal-cruelty laws, passed the House Rules Committee on Tuesday, Feb. 28, and was nearing a final House vote as of press time.

• HB 2586, which would require the Arizona Department of Homeland Security to issue warnings about whether it was safe to travel in Southern Arizona, passed the House Rules Committee on Monday, Feb. 27, and was nearing a final House vote as of press time. The bill was opposed by Arizona Department of Homeland Security, the very agency tasked with implementing it.

• A bill to require students to pay at least $2,000 a year toward their college education unless they were on a full academic or athletic scholarship died when its sponsor, Rep. John Kavanagh, said he would no longer pursue HB 2675. (For details on the legislation, see “Skin in the Game,” March 1.)

To contact your lawmakers about any of these bills (or to learn more about them), visit www.azleg.gov, or call (800) 352-8404.

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name, was convicted of domestic violence spousal battery in California.”

Patterson’s latest tweet addressed the call for his resignation, as well as a possible legislative ethics hearing, just like the one former State Rep. Scott Bundgaard went through after roughing up his ex-girlfriend.

On March 3: “Art. 4 Pt. 2 Sec. 6 of #Arizona Constitution exists so lawmakers can do our jobs for people without harassment during session.”

Patterson was referencing the language in the state Constitution that offers lawmakers immunity if facing criminal charges during the legislative session—a legal maneuver Patterson could use if charged, but not to avoid being served.

Rumors began circulating last week that Patterson could face domestic-violence misdemeanor charges based on a Tucson Police Department investigation. However, Tucson City Prosecutor Baird Greene told the Weekly that charges have not been filed, and his office is waiting for the police department to complete its investigation.

The day Patterson was served, his attorney filed a petition for a restraining order against Escobar to prevent her from entering Patterson’s home, saying that the city court had no jurisdiction to provide Escobar with an order allowing her access to the residence.

The evidence in Patterson’s petition states that Escobar stole Patterson’s passport and legal documents, and that she was emotionally unstable and suicidal—details he never mentioned in a missing-persons report he filed regarding Escobar with TPD last month.

Escobar told the Weekly in response to Patterson’s investigation that she feels like she is in more danger than ever before. The documents released

by St. Louis use her real name—a name she claims she legally changed when she went into a domestic-violence shelter in an effort to escape an abusive husband who was stalking her after she left him.

With her real name released, Escobar said she has no choice but to go back into hiding, and that we will likely never hear from her again.

Escobar told The Skinny that she’s probably not the first person involved in local or state politics to have an arrest record or a troubled past. But at this moment, because she’s worked hard to be clean and sober, she’s proud of the person she’s become, not the person she was back then, she said.

She claims documents regarding her name change are sealed, but that Patterson knew about them, which is how his attorney’s investigation was able to find the records on her disbarment and criminal history.

“He beat me for days and chained me to the bed and furniture,” Escobar said about what she experienced with her estranged husband before finally escaping. “I don’t think people really understand what abuse victims go through.

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POLICE DISPATCH

BY ANNA MIROCHA mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

THE RIGHT TO YELL WEST CALLE LOMAS DE MAÑANA FEB. 13, 12:31 P.M.

A man accused of screaming at his neighbor and repeatedly kicking his own car helpfully gave deputies a demonstration of his behavior, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report.

A deputy, responding to a call about the man, found the subject—described as “dirty and grungy”—sitting on a bicycle.

He soon dismounted, yelling, “This is bullshit!” The man, whose speech was slurred, then asked the deputy why law enforcement was there. When told of the complaints about his behavior, the man asked, “Is it against the law to scream?”

He then approached one of the three vehicles in his yard, yelling, “This is how I was kicking my car!”

He proceeded to kick the driver’s side door of one vehicle while also screaming.

After the deputy told the man that he was familiar with how someone kicks a car, the subject walked over to the deputy, held out his hands and asked, “Am I under arrest?”

The subject was subsequently arrested for disorderly conduct.

As he was being forced into the patrol car, he broke one of its windows (either with his head or by kicking it, according to the report), all the while yelling profanities at the top of his lungs.

PEEPING FIDO? WEST WESLEYAN DRIVE FEB. 13, 11:52 A.M.

A man said he was verbally abused after lingering behind a woman’s house while walking his dog, a PCSD report stated.

The man told deputies that he regularly walked his dog past the woman’s backyard as he and his canine companion made their way down a neighborhood alley.

When he’d done so that day, he said, the woman told him to “get the fuck out of here” and rattled off other profanities.

When a deputy interviewed the woman in question, she confirmed that the man often walked his dog in the alley, but said that when he got to her house, he tended to linger, brushing his dog for up to 15 minutes. She said that the man’s actions riled up her own dog and disturbed her two young daughters, who found his behavior “creepy.”

The woman admitted having words with the man that day, but said hers were civil, while his were obscene; she claims he told her, “You’re a fucking bitch.”

Neither the man nor the woman was arrested.

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Forthcoming on Facebook t some point in the next few weeks, when you head to the Tucson Weekly Facebook page (and we hope you join your 7,517 best friends on there, because it is awesome), you’ll notice that Mark Zuckerberg and company will have imposed their Timeline will on our once quaint and largely readable Facebook spot.

Right now, we’re tinkering with the layout tools to try to make our page as user-friendly as possible, but the first time I logged in to preview the Timelineenhanced page, a story popped up on the top of the page from 2007, which isn’t exactly helpful.

Apparently, each user will see a personalized version of the Weekly page, including what your friends are saying about us (hopefully nice things, but you never know), so it’ll be a little bit of a challenge for us to manage the experience.

There will be a few nice elements, like the ability for us to “pin” a post to the top (like a current contest or an important ongoing story), as well as a message center that will provide a new way for you to get in touch with someone here.

On the other hand, will we go back and add past pre-Facebook events (our first paper, etc.) to the Timeline? Probably not. And we’re wondering: Is the giant Timeline image good for the user, or for us, since we get to show off our brand a bit?

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THE WEEK ON THE RANGE We updated the latest news on Rep. Daniel Patterson, who was served by the Pima County Sheriff ’s Department on Friday, March 2; announced Steve Farley’s bid to serve in the new 2nd Congressional District; watched a strange campaign ad from Herman Cain, who we thought wasn’t campaigning anymore; talked to Sarah Gonzales about her sixth-place finish in the Arizona Republican presidential primary; tried to figure out what the post office is thinking by closing down the Cherrybell center; grimaced at Rush Limbaugh’s latest debacle; attempted to make sense of Joe Arpaio’s quest to expose President Obama as a Kenyan citizen; and discussed the highlights of this week’s political events with Trent Humphries and Rodd McLeod on Arizona Illustrated’s Political Roundtable, with your host, Jim Nintzel.

We let you know that you can have food from some of Tucson’s local restaurants delivered to you (assuming you live in the university area); ate our way through the cuisine of other countries at the Turkish Cultural Center; let you know that more teas from around the world are now in town; and learned a little bit about sustainable fishing, courtesy of a Portland, Ore., sushi restaurant.

We noted a daredevil whose world-record attempt went wrong; gave away tickets to Boz Scaggs and Steve Aoki; shared photos of Thierry Henry and David Beckham at the Desert Diamond Cup, and Merle Haggard at the Fox; discussed zeppelins, Mitt Romney and soccer with John Hodgman; listened to Amos Lee’s show on PBS, and John Legend’s Bruce Springsteen cover on Jimmy Fallon’s show; let you know that O’Brother isn’t a country band; wished the One Million Moms would just go away already; asked you to consider adopting our Critter of the Week; bought our tickets for Piranha 3DD; and started stocking up on sun block for when the sun decides to destroy us.

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Coverage Confusion

Actually, after going through this right now, I don’t think they really care.”

GREEN SCHEME

BY MARI HERRERAS, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com

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out retirees. Humphrey and others started the Pima County Retirees Association (www. pimacountyretirees.org) and reached out to affected retirees to pressure the Democratic supervisors who voted to eliminate their county insurance—Richard Elías, Sharon Bronson and Ramón Valadez—but to no avail.

County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry said it was a necessary cost-cutting measure to keep insurance affordable for the county’s current employees, and that offering those retirees insurance through the plan sponsored by the Arizona State Retirement System gave them comparable coverage. Retirees countered that the county had a budget surplus at the time, and that going to the state insurance plan increased retiree out-of-pocket costs from the existing $112 per month to more than $900 for some retirees.

Huckelberry was not available for comment by the Weekly’s press time.

Allyn Bulzomi, director of the county’s human resources department, requested that questions be emailed to him. In response to our questions about the decision to stay with UnitedHealthcare, Bulzomi wrote: The (healthinsurance committee) is an advisory committee to the county administrator. The committee took action, based on staff ’s recommendation to the committee, to recommend to the county administrator to renew with UHC. … During the spring of 2011, the county conducted a limited procurement solicitation. Based on this process, the decision was made to continue with UHC. Bulzomi referred to an April 12, 2011, memo from Huckelberry reporting that the solicitation process asked other insurance carriers to match the county’s current plan, but “the resulting actual costs were not significantly reduced as we had hoped.”

Last year, retirees charged that the county was using questionable data to claim that retirees were pushing up costs. Research by Trozzi showed a list of 30 claimants, with only one retiree involved in the five most-expensive claims in 2009 and 2010.

But in May 2011, Huckelberry told the Weekly that “the highest-cost claims are not the measure of retiree cost. It is total claims paid versus total premiums paid. The data, in all cases, indicates the total claims paid for retirees are almost twice those of regular employees.”

Trozzi is still waiting to receive information on retiree health-care costs through a publicrecords request she filed last year. She said that figures comparing retiree costs to the costs of current employees have never been produced,

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lthough it’s been almost two years since the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted to stop insuring preMedicare-age retirees, Mike Humphrey still hopes the county will reconsider.

When Humphrey and fellow retiree Linda Trozzi discovered the county was forming a health-insurance committee, they invited themselves to the table in December, hoping their presence would get the committee to re-examine why 670 retirees lost their benefits in 2010.

(See “Health Matters,” March 17, 2011.)

“We were hoping that after two years, the county would be willing to finally look at health insurance differently,” Humphrey said.

But after the most-recent monthly healthinsurance committee meeting, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, Humphrey told the Tucson Weekly that he was amazed to discover that Pima County would not be issuing a request for proposals from other companies, and instead would keep the current plan with UnitedHealthcare.

“Here we were, thinking that the county would have an opportunity to look at alternative plans, but no—all along, the county has been planning to continue with UnitedHealthcare,” he said.

Still, Humphrey was encouraged by a discussion about returning the health-insurance benefit to pre-Medicare-age retirees. An attempt was made to dismiss the proposal, but Humphrey said representatives from the Service Employees International Union requested that the county crunch the numbers and present cost estimates at the next meeting, on March 27.

Maya Castillo, president of the Pima County SEIU chapter, confirmed that the organization asked the county for a review.

“It wasn’t right to vote to not put (early retirees) back on the health insurance when we didn’t know enough to make an educated decision,” Castillo said.

While the support from SEIU is heartening, Humphrey said he and other retirees were disappointed in 2010 when the insurance benefit ended, and the union didn’t speak up for retired union members.

Castillo said she understands why they were disappointed, but said that back then, everyone regretted the county’s decision.

“UnitedHealthcare really had us over a barrel,” she said. The insurer’s stance was: “Get rid of these retirees, or your health insurance is going to go up,” Castillo said. “It was a painful decision for the board, and it was really painful for current employees, and is still a sore spot.”

That original vote was 3-2, with Republicans Ray Carroll and Ann Day voting against cutting

Attorney Bill Risner has filed a lawsuit to knock Green Party candidate Charles Manolakis off the ballot in the Congressional District 8 special election on June 12 to complete the term of Gabrielle Giffords, who stepped down from Congress in January.

Risner filed court case on behalf of Luke Knipe, a Democratic Party activist who reportedly noticed that Manolakis is a registered Democrat, not a member of the Green Party.

If Manolakis is kicked off the ballot, there would be no third-party candidate on the ballot when Democrat Ron Barber, a longtime aide to Giffords, faces the winner of the April 17 Republican Party primary.

A hearing has been set for March 12, according to a court document.

Mike Humphrey: “We were hoping that after two years, the county would be willing to finally look at health insurance differently.” and are needed to have “an honest discussion on health care for Pima County employees.”

Castillo said that making these decisions about health care continues to put everyone involved in between “a rock and hard place.

What we’re being told is if we add (retirees), current employees will have to pay significantly more. As the elected president (of SEIU), I am authorized to speak on behalf of those current employees. I can’t have that happen.

“On the other hand, I have been working for the Pima County Public Library for 14 years.

What am I going to do when I am ready to retire? … Should I have to wait to do 50 years of service before I can retire?”

Bulzomi said that decisions about the county’s request-for-proposal process for healthinsurance coverage would have to be made by the Board of Supervisors. However, Castillo said she understood that a decision was already made before the health-insurance committee began meeting in December.

“I tend to think, and tend to hope, that this is the last year of this contract. This is me being optimistic that the county is investigating and looking at possible self-insurance in future years. I asked way back in December for those costs. It’s disappointing we can’t see other ways to go and check into all options,” Castillo said.

Castillo, who has three dependents on her insurance plan, said she would like to see options different from the insurance she currently carries, which has a $4,000 deductible.

“Because I’m working, and I have a great job, and my husband is working, we’re both really lucky,” Castillo said. “There are others who are in much-worse situations. In the meantime, the reality is that we’re just barely middle-class.”

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Speaking of the CD 8 primary between state Sen. Frank Antenori, 2010 GOP congressional nominee Jesse Kelly, broadcaster and businessman Dave Sitton and former Air Force fighter pilot Martha McSally: You can catch all four candidates in two debates next week.

The first one will take place up in SaddleBrooke, which is state Sen. Al Melvin’s stronghold. Melvin supported Kelly in the 2010 election, but has switched allegiances to Antenori this year.

The Battle-Brooke of SaddleBrooke is from 3:45 to 5:45 on Wednesday, March 14, at the Mountain View Clubhouse, 38759 S. Mountain View Blvd.

The next night, the four candidates will meet again as the Sabino Teenage Republicans host a debate. The STARSpangled Tangle will feature moderators from the real alternative media in this town: the right-wing radio guys, including Jon Justice, Emil Franzi and Joe Higgins. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the debate is from 6:30 to 8:30 on Thursday, March 15, at Sabino High School, 5000 N. Bowes Road.

By Mari Herreras and Jim Nintzel Find early and late-breaking Skinny at The Range, our daily dispatch, at daily. tucsonweekly.com.

Jim Nintzel hosts the Political Roundtable every Friday on Arizona Illustrated, airing at 6:30 p.m. on KUAT Channel 6. The program repeats on 12:30 a.m., Saturday. Nintzel also talks politics with radio talk-show host John C. Scott on Thursday afternoons.

Scott’s show airs from 4 to 5 p.m., weekdays, on KVOI AM 1030.

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Despite dozens of witnesses, nobody is charged with the death of Fernando Lara after almost two years

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ernando Lara didn’t have much going for him when he moved to Tucson in 2009.

Kicked out of his Safford home by his parents, who had tired of his wild behavior and drug use, Lara was taken in by an uncle who hoped a fresh locale and some new guidance would help turn things around.

“When he came to me, he was down on his luck, and I cleaned him up,” recalled Clarence Lara, a retired federal employee whose caring but firm supervision enabled Fernando to acquire his GED in April 2010. “He passed with flying colors.”

The plan was for Fernando to go to school to Sarah Gonzales learn to be an electrician or plumber, Clarence realm.

Lara said. First, though, Fernando wanted to cele“I’m not cut out for politics,” Perry said. “The brate his recent educational success, so plans were people have spoken.” made to meet up with his brother and two female The tally for some of the other Project White friends on April 8, 2010, for a night of dancing at House candidates: Maloney’s, a popular Fourth Avenue bar.

Cesar Cisneros, who apologized to his fellow “That night, when he left, I had him promise Americans in the first Project White House me he wouldn’t get into trouble,” Clarence Lara debate when it collapsed in disarray over the said. “No fights, no drinking. Just walk away.” outing of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu: 416 At some point that evening, though, a group votes. of five men at a nearby table began harassing Mark Callahan, who didn’t participate much Fernando and his party. Crude comments were outside of filling out the Project White House made toward the women, which resulted in questionnaire: 357 votes.

Fernando attempting to quell the incident, to no Michael Levinson, who promised to “change avail. the course of human history on our water plan“Fernando told them he didn’t want (anyet” if he were allowed to make a globalized thing), but they kept causing trouble,” Clarence speech to mankind (“I speak, I win”): 216 votes. Lara said. “They were trying to cause trouble Ronald Zack, who confessed right away that with Fernando and the girl he was with. They his “main purpose in running is to enrich myself kept on instigating him until they jumped him.” and some of my friends, legally through collatThe fight broke out in the middle of the bar eral benefits of the office, and to have the after 1 a.m. on a busy Thursday night/Friday opportunity for unlimited travel with members morning, prime time for a college crowd. When of my extended family”: 153 votes. the dust settled, Fernando had been stabbed Charles Skelley, the semiretired engineer with multiple times. He was pronounced dead at a zeal for restoring Adam Smith’s invisible hand University Medical Center. He was 22. of the marketplace: 57 votes.

Tucson police initially identified three susPeter “Simon” Bollander, who laid out his pects in connection with the stabbing, one of plans to change America in an ambitious 10-star whom—25-year-old Nicholas Taylor—was program: 54 votes. arrested three weeks later. He was indicted on a Among the Green Party members on the bal- charge of first-degree murder soon afterward. lot, our endorsement could not put Richard But documents filed in Pima County Grayson ahead of the campaign juggernaut of Superior Court by Taylor’s attorney stated that a Tucsonan Michael Oatman among Project key witness in the case, a bouncer at Maloney’s, White House candidates. Oatman and Grayson mistakenly identified Taylor as being involved tied at 39 votes apiece. in the fight. The documents claim the fight Gary Swing, the Colorado cinnamon-roll afi- involved only four people: Fernando, his brother cionado, won 30 votes.

Jorge “Albert” Rodriguez, and two other men the All three candidates finished just behind Kent Weekly is not identifying, because they have not Mesplay of San Diego, who is one of two Green been arrested or charged with any crimes.

Party candidates competing in other states for the This revelation led the Pima County Green Party nomination. Mesplay got only 48 Attorney’s Office in December 2010 to dismiss votes, losing to Jill Stein, who got 381 votes. the murder charge against Taylor, saying “fur-

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epublican Sarah Gonzales, who earned the Tucson Weekly’s endorsement by winning our Project White House competition, finished sixth in Arizona’s Republican presidential primary.

Gonzales had 1,538 votes as of noon on Monday, March 5. She clobbered former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, who got only 689 votes, and trailed Texas Gov. Rick Perry by just 473 votes.

Gonzales, who described her unexpectedly strong showing as “crazy,” suggested that, as the only woman on the GOP ballot, she was an attractive candidate to Republicans who are unhappy with the discussion of women’s rights by the four GOP front-runners—and their surrogates, such as Rush Limbaugh, who made headlines last week for referring to a woman who testified before Congress about contraception as a “slut” and a “prostitute.”

“I think Republican women and some Republicans in general are tired of extremist views, but there are no other options for them,” Gonzales says. “So me just existing—I don’t think they knew my opinions or my views— gave them an option. With women’s bodies right now, it’s so crazy. It’s a battleground. There’s a war being waged on women.”

Despite coming in sixth on the Arizona ballot, Gonzales was leaning toward suspending her campaign for the presidency rather than taking it to the convention later this year.

“Somebody asked me if I was going to be Mitt Romney’s running mate, but I thought it was a ploy to get me to self-deport, so I said no,” said Gonzales, who told the Weekly that she intends to remain a Republican for the time being to see how it works out.

Gonzales was one of a dozen Republicans who participated in the Weekly’s Project White House competition, which encouraged ordinary citizens to seek the U.S. presidency, as well as the Weekly endorsement.

Local musician Al “Dick” Perry—who enjoyed a hot streak out of the gate with mentions on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show, the Talking Points Memo website and Texas Monthly—racked up just 310 votes, including family members throughout the state.

Perry suggested his placement in the No. 4 spot on the ballot cost him votes, because many of his supporters may have been looking for his name at the bottom of the ballot, and therefore inadvertently voted for Rick Perry, whose name was 17th on the ballot. “I think Rick Perry stole a lot of votes away from me,” Perry said.

He added that we won’t have Al “Dick” Perry to kick around anymore, at least in the political

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Clarence Lara holds a picture of his nephew Fernando. ther investigation is necessary,” but the office left the door open to refile the charge.

Through a department spokesperson, Tucson Police Det. William Hanson said the case is being reviewed, and the intention is to bring it back to the county attorney soon for another grand-jury presentation.

Clarence Lara said he is certain that Taylor was involved with his nephew’s death, as were the other men, one of whom Lara believes was an active military member who was on leave at the time of the stabbing. The uncle said he cannot believe someone else from the crowded bar hasn’t come forward to give an eyewitness account in order to help police make further arrests.

“There were 63 witnesses inside the bar who saw what happened,” Clarence Lara said. “I don’t understand why it’s taken them so long … to get these people.”

Pima County Chief Deputy Attorney Kellie Johnson said the availability of so many witnesses can often cause as many issues as solutions, especially if people weren’t aware of what was going on.

“There were a lot of people present,” Johnson said. “But how many people actually noticed something was happening until it was over? Not too many.”

Nearly two years after the incident, Clarence Lara says he somehow feels responsible for his nephew’s death, because he’d made it his mission to set Fernando straight.

“I brought this kid over here to help straighten him out … and he was doing all of that,” he said. “He was looking forward to a new future, and they cut it short. I feel guilty, because it was on my time.”

Anyone with information connected to this case is encouraged to call 911 or 88-CRIME.

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Western Mexican Cook Book,

by Alfonso C. Pain, 1959 This pamphlet was self-published and came with a variety of covers. In some editions, Joe Carithers is listed as a co-author. The artwork is minimal, but Pain includes 16 hints to help the home cook achieve authenticity.

Francisca’s Mexican Cookbook, by Charles J. Merchant, 1966 Another self-published book, it honors the recipes of someone named Francisca who created recipes cooked by someone named Lloyd.

A survey of cookbooks that came from Tucson kitchens

Old Tucson Mexican Plaza Cookbook,

by Alfonso C. Pain, 1971 This is basically the Western Mexican Cook Book kicked up a notch. The introduction is the same, and those 16 hints are there, but there are more recipes included, and the cover photo shows Old Tucson.

Fruits of the Desert, by Sandal English, Arizona Daily Star, 1981 Sandal English was one of the city’s first real food writers. The Arizona Daily Star wanted to produce a book that highlighted the fruits of the desert—and Sandal, with her love of the Sonoran Desert and her professionalism, was the ideal person to write it.

She put out a call for recipes. Mary Gekas, owner of the Palomino restaurant, sent her a recipe for Greek olives. Carolyn Niethammer (who later wrote several desert-related cookbooks of her own) contributed pomegranate-sauced chicken.

Other recipes came from everyday home cooks. There are recipes for loquats and lemons, prickly pear and persimmons, agave and apples—more than 350 recipes in all.

Information on plants is also included. This book shows off locavorism long before the culinary term was ever imagined.

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Janos: Recipes and Tales From a Southwest Restaurant, by Janos Wilder, 1989 Janos Wilder’s original eponymously named restaurant downtown was groundbreaking when it opened in 1983, and most of the recipes here emerged from that kitchen on the grounds of the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block.

This book is a wonderful read. Both memoir and cookbook, it demonstrates that Janos is as creative with a pen as he is with a knife.

“Whether it is a cilantro aioli swirled over pan-fried sweetbreads, a hearty puree of peppers spread under grilled beef tenderloin, or a suave buerre blanc infused with lobster stock and served under grilled king salmon, sauces always add an element of enchantment and sophistication,” he writes.

The book kicks off with the restaurant’s opening night and all the emotions that come with such a monumental undertaking. Then, chapter by chapter, you learn how the restaurant grew from idea to reality. Full kudos are

given to the remarkable team the Wilders put together.

A chapter is dedicated to the story of Hiram Stevens, the early mover and shaker whose home became the restaurant: “Yet as we entered Hiram Stevens’ house, I sensed immediately that we had found our location: This fine old structure, with its high ceilings and array of simple, intimate spaces, seemed to invite an enterprise that would once again welcome people within its walls and reintroduce a spirit of gracious living. I knew instinctively that our guests would feel welcome here.”

The graphics add to the chic but earthy vibe—and the recipes are amazing.

Padre Kino’s Favorite Meatloaf—And Other Recipes From Baja Arizona: A Tucson Community Food Bank Cookbook,

by Bonnie Henry and Dave Fitzsimmons (illustrator), 1991 The contributors to this cookbook run the gamut from Sen. John McCain (barbeque sauce for chicken) to Barbara Kingsolver (pizza Odysseus).

The recipes are arranged alphabetically by contributor, so Punch Wood’s white ribbon biscuits are next to Dave Yetman’s chocolate mousse.

Fitz’s drawings are classic, and Henry’s blurbs are clever. Her description of former Mayor Lew Murphy: “A big enchilada around these parts ever since he first blew into town sometime back in the ’50s, Lew now spends his days spreading rumors that Santa Fe, read backwards, spells Taco Bell.”

Even Fitz contributes a recipe (convenience store Coney Island surprise). It involves a Twinkie, a Slim Jim, a ball-peen hammer and goggles. He swears it’s an original.

And, yes, there actually is a recipe for Padre Kino’s favorite meatloaf, channeled by Gloria Alvarez and Ted Earle, with a healthy nod to Julia Child.

Contemporary Southwest: The Café Terra Cotta Cookbook, by Donna Nordin, 1995 Like its author, chef Donna Nordin, this book is stylish, smart and chock-full of creative recipes. Nordin and her husband, Don Luria, were the creative force behind the iconic restaurant, which opened in 1986.

Nordin offers recipes that made dinners at the restaurant so memorable. She begins the book with a chapter she calls “The Basics,” giving readers insight into her favorite ingredients. She devotes more than two pages to chiles alone.

Nordin’s definition of Southwestern cuisine rings true with today’s trends: “First, it would be based on the fundamental ingredients native to the American Southwest and northern Mexico—chiles, corn, tomatoes, squash and beans. Second, it would reach deeper into Mexico, especially to the Yucatan, central Mexico and Oaxaca, where the sauces are more robust, complex and balanced. Third, it would combine classical French and contemporary cooking techniques and presentation styles with an emphasis on absolutely fresh ingredients.” continued on next page

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continued from Page 17 Ever the teacher, Nordin imparts her kitchen wisdom: “Keep in mind that hat every cook has a personal idea of what is meant by ‘oil,’ ‘butter,’ ‘pinch,’ ‘dash,’ even eggs when reading and producing a recipe.

That’s the reason it is very difficult to replicate precisely a dish you ate at a friend’s house or at your favorite restau-rant.”

Terra Cotta closed d in 2009, but for anyone one who ever enjoyed a meal there, these recipes cipes are like being let in on a wonderful secret.

Tucson Cooks! An n Extraordinary Culinary Adventure, Primavera Foundation, 2005 The book is filled with information on Tucson Originals restaurants and the recipes they prepared at the annual Primavera Cooks! series— but reading it is bittersweet.

While many Originals are still going strong, and Primavera Cooks! is still a successful series

of events, many of the restaurants featured here have closed: Fuego, Bistro Zin, Cuvée World Bistro, Roma Caffe, Barrio Food and Drink, Intermezzo, Livorno, Terra Cotta, Papagayo and Elle.

No author auth is listed, but Pat Connors of Pastiche and Holly Lachowicz of the Primavera Foundation were responsible for gathering the recipes and the restaurants’ stories. Diza Sauers polished the text. Photos of events over ov the years are also included.

Rumor Rumo has it that another book is in the planning plannin stages.

The G Great Chiles Rellenos Book,

by Janos Wilder, 2008 Ja This b book is smaller than Janos’ first cookbook, but the chef ’s passion and cook creativity continue to ring true in this crea paean pae to chile rellenos.

“In “ the end, it wasn’t enough for me to know how to make a great typical chile ch relleno—I wanted to know how to make a great relleno, period,” he writes. w Indeed, Janos includes a chapter on chiles that has just about everything you need ne to know: history, flavors, methods of roasting and preparation. He includes batters, breadings and crusts. There are recipes for basic rellenos and unusual rellenos. Janos stuffs chiles with lobster, blue cheese, black beans, lamb barbacoa and more. His creativity shines: “Sometimes, it’s fun (and tasty) to combine elegant, luxurious ingredients with those that might be considered more humble.”

OVER AT EL CHARRO The Tucson institution has issued some of the city’s can’tmiss cookbooks In El Charro Café’s 90-year history, five cookbooks have been associated with the restaurant. We spoke with Carlotta Flores, owner and grandniece of founder Monica Flin, about them.

Western Mexican Cook Book: El Charro Café and Cocktail Lounge, by Alfonso C. Pain, 1959 This book is almost impossible to find.

Carlotta doesn’t even have a copy.

“I’ve seen this one, and apparently, this book must’ve been something my aunt gave this man permission to do,” Flores said.

Favorite Recipes: El Charro Café and the Story of its Colorful Past, by Carlotta Flores, 1989 This spiral-bound publication is Carlotta’s first cookbook.

“This is really a tribute to my family.”

Flores said, “I wanted them to have a story of ‘A’ Mountain. I wanted them to have a story of Jules (Monica’s father), who was a stonemason. I wanted them to know a little about the heritage of the

French (Jules came from France), and how all of them were such wonderful cooks.”

El Charro Café: The Tastes and Traditions of Tucson, by Carlotta Flores, 1998 This book was published locally by Fisher Books.

“They were customers of mine … and thought we could do something,” Flores said.

This book is a tribute to Monica.

Colorful artwork and photos of the El Charro dishes create a real Tucson feel.

Carlotta notes that the photo spread on pages 112-113 is a reflection of Monica’s spirit. ¡Toma! Margaritas! The Original Guide to Margaritas and Tequila, by Robert Plotkin and Ray Flores, 1999 This brightly colored book has 125 recipes for margaritas. El Charro’s margaritas have won numerous Tucson Weekly Best of Tucson® awards.

The Flores Family’s El Charro Café Cookbook, by Jane and Michael Stern, with recipes by Carlotta Flores, 2002 This book was part of a series of cookbooks that the Sterns did on regional, iconic restaurants.

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ancy Turner still seems a little uncomfortable wearing the mantle she crafted from a rich family history, a roving imagination and a way with words.

“It took about 10 years, I guess, from when my first book came out before I could call myself a writer with a straight face,” said a smiling Turner, who is working northwest-side home on rewrites of what will be her in her nor novel. fifth published publi Turner started her first book—a sensitive yet gritty tale of Arizona p pioneer life loosely based on her ancestors—in the mid-1990s mid-1990 as a Pima Community College fiction assignment.

She decided decid to keep going, and These Is My Words was published in 1998. The book, written as the diary of a young pioneer woman, was a success here and in Europe. It has sold w more than 120,000 copies and offered Turner a chance to travel across acro the U.S. and to Europe for speaking engagements and bookbook-signings.

Since th then, Turner has published two sequels—Sarah’s Quilt and The St Star Garden. All three books are fictional accounts of the life o of Turner’s great-grandmother Sarah Agnes Prine, who died in i Texas in the 1960s. The series was inspired by a handwritten handwritte 1920s memoir of Sarah’s brother, Henry Prine, who came to Arizona in the 1870s as a teen.

The Prines Prin came from Oregon to trade horses and settled near Presc Prescott after a journey of more than a year. In the 1880s, they moved move to Texas. Then, some eventually returned to Arizona to settle between Benson and Douglas. She doesn’t know exactly exact where they settled.

Turner herself was born near Dallas and grew up mostly h in Santa Ana, An Calif. She came to Tucson in 1992, for her husband’s job j with the state Department of Public Safety. Now 58, the form former cake decorator didn’t start writing until she was in her midmid-40s.

“I was a late l bloomer, but I bloomed. You know, Erma Bombeck didn’t start writing until she was 40. There comes a d time for everyone.

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continued from Page 19 These Is My Words is her most-successful book by far. Although she has made money from her novels, there are no private jets for travel and no Ferrari in Turner’s driveway.

“It’s been a little sobering in that respect,” she said with a chuckle.

But she is clearly doing OK—she has sold more than 150,000 books, all told, and sold the film rights to These Is My Words. She has a Hollywood agent, though no one has yet started to make the film. Ron Howard reportedly said it would be tough to make, because it is such an internal story. (A lot of it takes place in Sarah’s head.) Turner thinks others might have declined to make the movie because of the cost of period films.

“I get approached by people all the time who say, ‘Hey, I want to write your story into a screenplay,’” she said. But so far, no one has.

After These Is My Words, Turner didn’t want to continue the Sarah Prine series. In 2001, The Water and the Blood, a coming-of-age story set in the 1940s, was published. Once that was out of her system, she penned the second Sarah Prine book.

“Once that came out, I almost couldn’t stop,” she said.

Turner’s latest book is set during the American Revolution. The novel, with the working title My Name Is Resolute, is about a young woman in New England. Like her other period books, it’s based loosely on her own family. That book is currently in rewrites—a process that usually takes at least five exchanges with publishers and editors. She isn’t sure when

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For most writers, getting a novel out involves hard work tinged with pain. There is a lot of self-doubt, but also a lot of gratification. Turner doesn’t attribute her success entirely to skills with grammar and the nuances of character development. With so many good writers out there, it’s about timing as much as anything, she said.

“The humility is never very far from the pride,” she said.

In any event, she has had a lot of fun connecting with distant relatives across the nation while researching her novels. She has many new Facebook friends.

Turner plans to keep writing—she has written seven of the 10 books on her bucket list. People have asked for more Sarah Prine books, but Turner hesitates to continue a series based on her own family too far into the 20th century, because “once you get into the 1920s, you start getting into people who are still alive.” She has two unpublished manuscripts, including a mystery novel she spent two years crafting.

“They’re still sitting in the piano bench, keeping warm,” she said.

Turner will be a member of three panel discussions during the Tucson Festival of Books: “Piecing Together History,” at 11:30 a.m., Saturday, March 10, in a UA Mall tent; “Early American Story and History,” at 10 a.m., Sunday, March 11, in Integrated Learning Center Room 120; and “History Through Women’s Eyes,” at 1 p.m., Sunday, March 11, in the UA Student Union’s South Ballroom. For more information about Nancy Turner, visit www.nancyeturner.net.

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How long should I mourn?

Let me ask you, my son.

How long would you wish it?

—from David Ray’s poem “The Question”

Despite a life wracked by abuse and loss, a Tucson author heals others through his writing

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n his small, bookcrammed, two-bedroom house in the Sam Hughes Neighborhood, David Ray stops typing, swivels toward me and thinks aloud. His thoughts drift to the morbid side.

Right now, he’s obsessed with the suicide potential of Grand Canyon Skywalk, a glass-bridge walkway at the West Rim that allows visitors to stand 4,000 feet over the canyon floor.

But in Ray’s mind, this architectural triumph of tourist-pleasing energy is an obvious recipe for self-obliteration en masse. A diving board for gloomy lemmings.

He’s so concerned about this possibility that he’s writing an article.

“When I first read about the Skywalk, I thought, ‘Well, it will certainly compete with the Golden Gate Bridge,’” he says, referring to the modern wonder of the world’s notoriety as a popular suicide spot. “The Skywalk only offers a four-foot railing, you know. So I got in touch with the people who run it and asked if they have any insurance. Of course, they do, says the PR person.

She faxes me the documentation.

“Turns out the employees and related staff at Skywalk are insured, but not visitors,” Ray says, shaking his head. “See anything wrong with this?”

“Wait,” I say. “Which magazine are you writing this for?”

Pause. “Well, I don’t know,” he says, chuckling.

“I realize it’s a total diversion, but I feel it’s necessary.” He shrugs. “I’ll place it after it’s written.”

He turns back to his computer.

That’s the flip side, or optimistic half, of Ray talking. Despite his crankiness and his deep pessimistic streak, he believes that greater literary success lies ahead. He lives for the chance to write a book that will reach more people, touch more lives, and have more of a positive impact on those who have endured what he endured—parental abandonment, child abuse, the loss of a child.

Ray’s buoyancy on writing-related matters is justified. In terms of publishing, things go his way.

An essay he spontaneously wrote on solving the problem of America’s RV glut—basically, donating unused campers to the homeless, as he did with his own unused Winnebago—ran in The Christian Science Monitor a couple of years ago.

A three-part series of memoir-ticles he penned ended up in New York magazine in the late ’90s, which led to his harrowing 2003 memoir, The Endless Search, released by edgy, New York Citybased Soft Skull—a press that writers a third of his age would kill to publish with.

“Box-office poison,” Ray says of his memoir. “It got two reviews. People prefer junk like (Augusten Burroughs’ simultaneously released) Running With Scissors.”

Despite his advanced age (80) and reputation as a lone wolf of contemporary letters, Ray has a lengthy, growing list of commercial bylines to his credit.

Poet David Ray pulls out a poetry book from his collection inside his Tucson home.

For years, I knew Ray as a local bard whose indie-published verse I reviewed in this paper. I’d vaguely heard of his tenure as editor of New Letters literary magazine at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and his co-editorship (with Robert “Iron John” Bly) of landmark anthology A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War. I knew of the honors (five PEN awards, two Williams Carlos Williams Awards from the Poetry Society of America) and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. But I had no idea until recently about his connections to nearly every corner of the literary pantheon.

From getting drunk and almost brawling with beatnik pioneer Allen Ginsberg in Chicago, to hosting Ken Kesey’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, to firing shotguns with junkie experimentalist William Burroughs, to discovering AfricanAmerican modernist poet Melvin Tolson by publishing his verse posthumously in New Letters, Ray has a story about, and less than a degree of separation from, just about every famous 20th-century author. His second wife is Robert Bly’s current wife.

“All the literary types jumped on the beatnik bandwagon,” Ray recalls. “I didn’t climb aboard.

I somewhat regret that now.”

His poetry took a worldly, social-justiceoriented path until the ’80s, when life-shattering events, including his son Sam’s drinking-related death at college, pushed him to the forefront of Grief Verse. His 1988 Sam’s Book, which won the Maurice English Poetry Award and which The New York Times called “heartbreaking,” resonates in the field of the Literature of Sorrow.

Ray, who retired from UMKC and moved to Tucson in 1997, is now a Healing Poet. He’s prolific, averaging a book a year. He continues to conduct workshops and readings across the country.

He shows me a letter that arrived last month from a woman in Scotland, thanking him for writing Sam’s Book and lamenting that it was out of print. The day the letter arrived, Ray says, Wesleyan University Press announced a Kindle version of the book. (I immediately downloaded it; you should, too.) Like I said, literary success rolls in his direction. When it doesn’t, Ray works harder.

Like this morning: Ray sits at his computer with a cup of tea, tinkering with a longer nonfiction manuscript, a sequel to The Endless Search, which details a dark, dismal, Depression-era childhood in Oklahoma.

“We lived in a shack with a dirt floor on the edge of a hill,” he says. “At one point, my father went into town to be a barber, and failed at that, too.”

Ray’s sharecropper father disappointed on every level. After his dad abandoned the family by hopping on a watermelon truck, Ray and his sister ended up at the mercy of relatives, foster families and a state orphanage in Tulsa. For Ray, life got worse.

Searching for a father figure as a teen, Ray was adopted by a sadistic Oro Valley rancher who abused him for several years, all of it brutally chronicled in The Endless Search.

Alcoholism followed, with Ray eventually finding help through Alcoholics Anonymous.

“My writing isn’t charming,” he says. “I deal with issues that turn people off. Hurt. Anguish.

Damage.”

For people who’ve experienced what Ray has, he’s a voice of comfort, a lifeline. He shows me another email, from a couple in Florida who lost a son and read Sam’s Book. “If we had not found your book,” they write, “we would have killed ourselves.”

Moving back here with his wife, Judy (also a writer), to the place where he was tormented wasn’t difficult. Ray has fond memories of Tucson High School, which helped him secure college scholarships, opportunities to escape his abuser and travel the world.

“Tucson is about as good as it gets, except for the government,” he says. “There’s always something new and crony-istic to read about in the paper.”

Ray can’t chat now. He’s late for a Quaker meeting.

“I don’t have much faith,” he says. “But I like to sit next to people who do. I follow where the spirit leads.”

David Ray’s Sam’s Book can be ordered via Amazon or www.wesleyan.edu/wespress in hardback, paperback and e-book formats. For more information, visit www.davidraypoet.com.

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Southern Arizona library expert David Laird contemplates the future of reading

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clear-eyed view of technology and its impact on the written word. Not surprisingly, those effects first took root in libraries some 50 years ago, says Laird, when the Rand Corporation pioneered new methods for accessing information. One initial breakthrough was an enormous, automated device thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;armed with a retrieval numberâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;could pluck documents from the shelf and dispatch them to readers by conveyor belt.

For its time, the system was a marvel.

But even then, not everyone felt that embracing the future meant tossing out the past. Lawrence Clark Powell was among the techno-skeptics, says Laird. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He saw literature and libraries as a process rather than a product. And as he saw that process, it needed to move forward in a steady way. From his point of view, bringing a bunch of electronics in with a bang wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the way to get there.â&#x20AC;?

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ot long ago, retail giant Barnes and Noble was demonized for stomping out independent booksellers all across America.

Today, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the last great hope for print publishing, according to a recent story in The New York Times. So perhaps my meeting with David Laird outside the retailerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s midtown w Tucson store is quite appropriate. I contemplate this T aas I grab a stinging-hot cup of joe and sit down with tthe pithy and prominent longtime librarian.

David Lairdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad was a heavy-equipment operattor, gainfully employed by drifting with road crews aacross the wind-tousled Midwest. The family lived in a 45-foot travel trailer. And at every layover in every town, his momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first priority was getting her kids a checkout card at the local library.

You might say the lesson stuck. After leaving the Navy in 1959, Laird was to spend the rest of his life reading books, reviewing books, selling books and running major libraries. Early on, he was mentored at UCLA by venerable Southwestern writer and pioneering librarian Lawrence Clark Powell. Laird went on to work in acquisitions at the University of Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s library, ending his stint there as acting head librarian. His next stop was the University of Arizona. It was the early 1970s; Powell was serving as library adviser to then-UA President John Schaefer, and David Laird was emerging as a prodigy.

Barely six years out of college, he was tapped to head the UAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new library before that library was even built. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have done it if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been older,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because I would have known I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it. I was young enough and riding high. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only reason I think it worked.â&#x20AC;?

Work, it did: Laird ran the institution for the next 18 years, until his retirement in 1990.

After that, he began dealing in rare and collectible books. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a veteran contributor to the influential Southwest Books of the Year, published by the Pima County Public Library.

Throughout those decades in the stacks, Laird has watched the quality of literature ebb and flow, and seen libraries morph from book repositories into digital-information hubs. Over that time, of course, dusty tomes have also been increasingly replaced by ethereal e-books.

For the record, David Laird owns an e-reader and an iPad. He also savors the venerable joy of opening a time-worn hardback. A good hardback, that is.

So a Luddite, he is not. But he also takes a

wave of the future,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; he recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And they booed me, because they were book people, and they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to have to think in those terms.â&#x20AC;?

How does that wave appear today, within the long lens of hindsight? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Personally, I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changed things for the better,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;as long as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a democrat with a small â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;d.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

In other words, libraries are now easily available to more people than ever before. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a time when we thought libraries were open to the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and they wereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but access was a bear unless you had an education. Now, people can access libraries from their own homesâ&#x20AC;? by going online.

But with that shift comes caveats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Librarians have primarily become information specialists,â&#x20AC;? Laird says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meant there are fewer spots for them. And because everything can be done electronically, the old guard have become teachersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;teaching people how to use a libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;while the new guard is a much smaller and fairly elite group with access specialties of various kinds.â&#x20AC;?

Is that information revolution also reflected in the literature of our time? To answer, librarian David Laird dons the hat of David Laird, literary critic. And the literary critic contends that the past few years have been disappointing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I can almost see a legitimate reason for that,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the good, big stuff, Cormac McCarthy and the great writers, also had great publishers like Scribner and Random House. But those publishers canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep existing if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t also publish the stuff thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to sell, at least to some extent. They need to have dollar income. As a result, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re publishing lesser-quality work in order to keep income flowing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The replacement for the publishing they used to do is self-publishing, whichâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;because anybody whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got $100 can do itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;means the quantity of that stuff has mushroomed like crazy. How do you find a really great piece of literature in there?â&#x20AC;?

The self-publishing industry is plagued by books featuring all the hallmarks of bad or nonexistent editing, a trend Laird sees growing only worse as projects go straight from manuscript to e-book. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even hit that interim stage of being on paper, when somebody might look at,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Hmm. We both sip our coffee in silence. Then we turn to glance through those windows, at row after row of books filling the Barnes and Noble shelves.

Will they be here if we return next year?

David Laird will participate in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arizona 100â&#x20AC;? panel at the Tucson Festival of Books at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 11, in the Tucson Room in the UA Student Union.

Tucson’s James M. Deem turns dead bodies and history into well-received children’s books

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ucson author James M. Deem is a quick-witted, silver-haired writer of children’s books whose work goes beyond your average hungry caterpillar or pokey little puppy.

He writes about dead bodies.

Bodies From the Ice, Bodies From the Ash and Bodies From the Bog feature bodies found in glaciers, buried in Pompeii after the eruption of Vesuvius, and mummified in swamplands, respectively. Auschwitz and Kristallnacht examine the Holocaust.

His upcoming Faces From the Past: Forgotten People of North America focuses on facial reconstructions of ancient remains discovered throughout the continent.

Although his books are riddled with death, their goal is to bring history to life. The victims have a story to tell, and Deem, 62, is a mesmerizing messenger.

Born in West Virginia, Deem lived in Tucson as a kid from 1961 to 1965; he moved here for good in 2004. He taught high school English and French in Kansas and Michigan, and moved on to the college level after obtaining his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan. He spent the final 19 years of his teaching career at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

Kids, as well as adults, are enamored of his works, especially when he brings his books to classrooms to offer lessons on the topics. He makes such onerous subjects work through his extensive teaching background.

He also leaves out the gore.

“I present factual descriptions,” Deem says. His books are highly compatible with subjects such as archaeology and history.

“The topics can be woven into the lessons,” Deem says. “We can ask how they died, what they ate before they died. Kids and teachers are so spellbound by the subjects, especially with the Holocaust. They say, ‘I can’t believe this happened.’”

His two Holocaust books, Auschwitz: schwitz: Voices From the Death Camp and Kristallnacht: allnacht: The Nazi Terror That Began the Holocaust, caust, are closer to textbooks than his earlier works, but aren’t as kid-unfriendly dly as the texts Deem recalls from his youth.

He particularly remembers an oldldschool science text with moundss of print, a few tedious line drawingss and the ability to make even the most fascinating science lessons as exciting citing as a chip of paint.

His Holocaust books relate thee stories of the victims through thee victims’ own words. Deem did his is research through letters, newspaper aper articles, books, museums and a visit to Auschwitz.

“I owed it to the victims to walk alk through Auschwitz,” Deem says. “It would d have been dishonest if I had not been there..”

His honesty paid off, not only with a detailed look into what it was like ike to experience the terror of the times, mes, but also with a letter from a survivor. vivor Kristallnacht opens with a glimpse into the life of 12-year-old Francis Schott, whose family’s apartment was stormed by Nazis on the first night of Kristallnacht. Schott wrote Deem to say he was moved by the book. He is not the only one.

“Often, when I speak about Auschwitz, some kids are moved to tears,” Deem says. “I think it is important to tell the story of the Holocaust so that it has an emotional impact upon the students.

“Many of the teachers know the history quite well and are happy to have a guest speaker reinforce what they are teaching. Others who don’t have a background in history are just as surprised as the students when they learn the details. I often hear, ‘I didn’t know that. I’m really surprised.’ Then I know I’ve done my job.”

For Deem, the research itself is often fascinating. On one of his treks, to a museum

“They looked like some kind of lo monster tracks—and I knew just what kind: Space aliens had made k them after their spaceship had crash-landed in our woods,” cra he explains on his website, h jamesmdeem.com. j “I had a really weird imagination,” he adds.

James M. Deem His earliest books were rife with ghosts and UFOs, and included both fiction and nonfiction. Titles include How to Find a Ghost, How to Make a Mummy Talk, H 3 NBs of Julian Drew (NB is his abbreviation for notebook) and abb How tto Read Your Mother’s Mind.

I’ve gotten, the more “The older o I am interested interes in history,” Deem says.

“The past is very important, and I take it as a challenge to write about historical events in a I SK IN UL way children.” to interest chil G AR NG It’s a challenge well-met, based on the reaction w RY he receives and the speaking gigs that keep coming. Although 62, he swears he’s really only featuring Egyptian mummies, a museum official 17—and he has the enthusiasm to match. took him to a back room to show him some “Doing research for nonfiction books is truly fascinating mummies. Actually, they were like hunting for treasure. It is so exciting to be mummy parts stored in various cardboard searching for information or a good, true story, boxes. The official reached into one of them, and suddenly find it. Eureka! That is truly fun,” about the size of a cake box, and pulled out an Deem says. “Writing fiction, on the other hand, ancient mummy skull. is fun in that I get to use my imagination, bigAlthough Deem declined the man’s offer to time. It’s very rewarding to just let my brain go hold the decapitated head next to his own as he wandering when I am working on a novel.” smiled for a camera, he learned a great lesson Although his enthusiasm plays a huge part, about doing research in museums.

Deem insists the real key to his success comes “Always ask, ‘What’s in the back room no from three main points that any author or one is supposed to know about?’ There were would-be author can relate to: “Persistence. lots of dead bodies back there. And interesting Luck. And I’m not dead.” postcard collections, too.”

As much as he enjoyed teaching—he retired James Deem will participate in the “Confronting in 2003—Deem always knew his true calling Difficult Life Events Through Story” panel at the was writing. He started writing his first story in Tucson Festival of Books at 1 p.m., Sunday, March the fifth-grade, after he saw strange tracks in the 11, in Room 353 of the Education Building. snow in the woods behind his house.

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moved west to escape the East. I stayed west to inform the East.

This took place in the late 1960s, when the anti-war movement and its cultural twin were both flowering. There’s that window of opportunity we all have in our early 20s when there’s nothing—love, family, job, mortgage, school—to in batten us down. ba “Arizona,” someone suggested with a nod and a wink. “Arizona.” I knew nothing no about the youngest of the lower 48, except ab that Barry Goldwater and marijuana both th came from there, and I thought that any ca place where those two elements are both at pla

Cananea, Walsenburg (Colorado, but who’s counting), El Paso-Juárez, Morenci, Cd. Chihuahua, Douglas-Agua Prieta—many of these towns with huge mining and smelting operations. They were more than just colorful destinations on the map.

I cannot explain why I am attracted to mining camps and their stories. Traveling through the towns where copper, zinc and coal rise to the surface and get processed, I’ve found a genuine kinship with miners and their families. Certainly it cannot be envy: I have no desire to descend hundreds of feet underground and extract ore or calibrate explosives in a shaft, nor do I want to drive mammoth yellow equipment pitched on tires three times the size of a pickup truck. It cannot be common background, either—the mining communities and I have no shared past. Still, time and again, I have been invited into miners’ homes and felt privileged to listen to family histories and collective memories, to hear cherished songs explained and to read unpublished letters. It’s been an honor—one-sided, as far as I can determine—and I’ve benefited by it enormously.

Back in the late 1970s, the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border was a warm and inviting place (and still is, to a certain extent, though no one believes me anymore). I traveled that Third Country sandwiched between two large powers, listening to fronterizos and writing down my impressions. Only one other writer was traveling the frontier at the time, a fellow from The New York Times who invited me to contribute to his newspaper. And so I wrote about the American West for people back East—very part-time, nothing more than a stringer, but in a region full of life and rough edges.

They asked me to report conventional stories such as court cases, regional angles on national trends, and curious university research, but what assignment editors valued most was stories pitched from the field—all the more so, I discovered, if they evoked the Old West with dirt roads, dusty boots and barbed wire. Their notion of the Southwest was matched by my compulsive attempts to fulfill it, and soon, in deference to my editors, I put a sign over my typewriter: REMEMBER: COWBOYS AMBLE, BUSINESSMEN STRIDE, MARIACHIS STROLL. One day, I learned about a Yaqui judge who helped a Jewish retirees’ club unearth the old Hebrew graveyard at Tombstone’s Boothill Graveyard. The rededication ceremony was to take place later that week. This Old West story linked Jews, cowboys and Indians—a threefer! I breathlessly called the National Desk. Instead of the usual follow-up questions, I was immediately green-lighted with an open-ended word count and a photographer.

Interpreting the Southwest for the East, I tried to give an accurate picture, though my credibility only went so far. To file a story, we’d type or handwrite our copy, then read it over long distance to the recording room in the bowels of the old Times building on West 43rd Street. A battery of transcribers would monitor our calls as we dictated our stories into their machines. We e-nun-ci-a-ted each word, especially names, which we’d spell out, and always spoke dis-tinc-t-ly, even giving punctuation commands. The transcribers would call back if they had any questions, period, paragraph.

In one story from the frontier’s smallest border town, Antelope Wells, N.M. (population: 2), I wrote about the annual cattle crossing that attracted cowboys, livestock brokers, Department of Agriculture inspectors, ranchers and customs officials from both countries. On my way to file from the nearest pay phone five miles away, I colored the story, describing the strong chuckwagon coffee served to gathering vaqueros at daybreak by “a few Mexican cooks.” The next day, I was chagrined to read in the Times that the event attracted “a few Mexican crooks.”

The life of a writer in the Southwest of the 1960s and ’70s

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play is worth investigating. I jumped through that window of opportunity and landed in Tucson.

Tuc A squat two-bedroom adobe in a workingclass neighborhood full of similar houses rented clas for $$150 monthly. A friend and I took the place.

My bedroom window looked out on a couple lonely saguaro, and every morning, I awoke of lo to a Western B-movie set. An active anti-war movement was in place, and I found a freelancer mov oasis—a fertile town with no one else writing for oasis press or sea-level magazines the underground u such as Crawdaddy!, Fusion or 2-year old Rolling Stone. I could take part in affairs that mattered and Stone write about Southwestern mythology at the same time. time For Crawdaddy! I wrote about the real Rosa’s Fo Cantina in El Paso and the copper-smelter workCant who sipped away their afternoons at its bar. For ers w Fusion, about the acid cowboys of northern New Fusio Mexico. And the bi-weekly Rolling Stone? They put Mexi on retainer, sending me $50 an issue simply to me o be on call and give them first dibs on story ideas. arranged for a hipster country band to play for I arra imprisoned draft resisters at a minimum-security impr federal prison, then wrote it up for the Stone. Like feder that.

The people, the issues, the land, the air, the Th music and, yes, the language. All these ingredients mus constructed my new West. I grabbed a picket sign cons march for farm workers in front of Safeway. I to m joined another demonstration against a university’s join Mormon beliefs of racial inequality. (That was at Mor a co college basketball game. Boy, were we popular.)

Late one night, I ran with a secretive group called Eco-Raiders and wrote up their efforts to comthe E bat urban sprawl. The war against Vietnam was a constant reminder of global issues, while the desert cons Southwest taught me the fragility and permanence of Sout the lland. had not just moved to the American West. I had Ih moved to a region with an odd-angled line running mov through it—the international boundary. The north of throu Sonora and Chihuahua had much in common with Sonor Mexico and “dry-faced Arizona,” as Jack Kerouac New M called it. Mexico, too, became part of my faculty, and of its pupils. I spent time in Bisbee, Silver City, I, one o

I liked interpreting the West for the East, and in chitchat with an editor one warm day, he asked about the racket in the background. “Oh, that’s the swamp cooler,” I replied, as matter-of-factly as if I had said it was my dog barking. “The what?” I explained that a swamp cooler worked on the principle of a cool damp towel tossed over the metal grill of an electric fan. This led to a major conference among editors, all of whom were intrigued with this exotic contraption—should they assign a piece on the poor man’s air conditioner? (They did, but not until much later, and then to another contributor.)

One story I wrote included the word campesinos. A copy editor called back, insisting that I blend a translation into the article. I blanketed my exasperation and asked if he would agree that campesino is one of those foreign words that has been absorbed into contemporary English.

The line went silent for a moment. “I’ll tell you what,” he finally said. “I’ll learn Spanish if they’ll learn Yiddish.”

Touché.

One morning, the phone rang at 7 o’clock, usually a warning that someone on the East Coast didn’t understand time zones. It was an editor at Esquire who, after describing a story he wanted pursued in Texas, asked if I would, and I believe these were his exact words, “mosey on over to Houston.” I informed him that if we both started moseying at the same time, he’d likely mosey into Houston before me.

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he rhythm of the Southwest, its natural continuity and occasional brute force— I suppose that’s what keeps me here. I tried to move away. Twice: once to the San Francisco Bay area, and another time to Austin, Texas. Neither venture lasted more than six months. Both times, I maintained my post office box in Tucson. I knew.

Thornton Wilder lived in Southern Arizona at various stages of his life, once in Tucson in the mid-1930s, just weeks after Our Town had opened on Broadway.

One early summer day, he was asked how he liked his temporary home. “I like it very much,” he answered, then tempered his reply. “There are three disadvantages, two of which would be curable. I miss a great library to browse in. I miss great music. And I came at the wrong time of year.”

The library problem and lack of great music have both been cured, but not Wilder’s third disadvantage. In more than four decades of living here, from my first arrival one August, I’ve never grown accustomed to the unrelenting heat of the summer, never liked it, and annually grumble that this summer will be the last one I spend here. The sun bores a hole through your skull until it singes the synapses in your brain and renders you powerless and stupid. Like Thornton Wilder, I came at the wrong time of the year.

The rest of the year, I need the desert. Not all the time, please, but inhaling a good whiff of it now and then keeps the lungs satisfied and reminds me that I’m not too far from the dread unknown. I need the border for its anarchic sense of reality. I need Bisbee, population 6,800, for the stumbling satisfaction it conveys. I’d like a good river and more green, but then it wouldn’t be the desert Southwest.

Tom Miller’s books include Revenge of the Saguaro: Offbeat Travels Through America’s Southwest, On the Border and The Panama Hat Trail. At 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 11, he will be interviewing Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana in the UA Student Union’s South Ballroom as part of the Tucson Festival of Books. This piece appears in West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West (University of Texas Press).

SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION See these ‘Weekly’ scribes at the Tucson Festival of Books Jim Nintzel Senior writer Jim Nintzel will moderate “Spinning Politics: Then and Now,” a panel with authors Rick Perlstein (Nixonland, Before the Storm), Tom Zoellner (A Safeway in Arizona; What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America) and Chris Mooney (The Republican War on Science, The Republican Brain) at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, March 10. The panel will focus on the increasing distance between political rhetoric and reality; it will air live on C-SPAN’s Book TV. Nintzel will also talk about the history of the Tucson Weekly and the future of political reporting, from 4 to 5 p.m., Saturday March 10, at the UA School of Journalism tent.

Margaret Regan Margaret will present her The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories From the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands at the “Struggles Along the Border” panel at 1 p.m., Saturday, March 10, in the UA Student Union’s Kachina Room. It will be filmed and televised by C-SPAN’s Book TV. The panel will be moderated by veteran journalist and UA journalism professor Mort Rosenblum. The other author will be Peter Laufer (Calexico: True Lives of the Borderlands).

She will moderate the panel “A Line in the Sand: Mexico’s Drug Wars Collide With True Lives in the Borderlands” at 4 p.m., Saturday, March 10, at the UA Student Union’s Gallagher Theater. It will be also filmed and televised by C-SPAN’s Book TV. Participating authors are Laufer, Sylvia Longmire (Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico’s Drug Wars) and Philip Caputo (Crossers).

She will also moderate the panel “Borderlands” at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 11, in the UA Mall Tent. The authors are Luis Alberto Urrea (Into the Beautiful North, Queen of America, The Devil’s Highway), Sebastian Rotella (Triple Crossing) and T. Jefferson Parker (The Jaguar).

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MARCH 8-14, 2012 OUR TOP PICKS OF WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO DO IT

BY RYAN KELLY, DAVID MENDEZ AND MICHELLE A. WEISS

The ’80s Reborn

Green With Culinary Delight

PICK OF THE WEEK

The musical Rock of Ages is not for prudes; after all, at one point, the lead female character ends up giving a lap dance to a fading rock legend at a Los Angeles strip club.

However, Rock of Ages is definitely for music fans: The book is based on classic-rock hits of the ’80s.

The show, which comes to the Tucson Convention Center Music Hall next week, was nominated for five Tony Awards. It tells the story of Drew, a big-city dreamer who falls in love with Sherrie, a small-town girl, on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip in 1987.

Both have big dreams: He wants to become a rock star, and she wants to become an actress. But things go horribly wrong, and their dreams don’t come true as they’d hoped.

As they struggle for success, another issue arises: A developer wants to tear down the Bourbon Room, the bar where they met. (Drew is a busboy, and Sherrie is a waitress.) To save the bar, the owner tries to get Stacee Jaxx, the lead singer of the band Arsenal, to play the group’s farewell concert at the Bourbon Room.

Complications ensue when Sherrie, thinking that Drew no longer cares for her, has a quickie with Jaxx in the bar’s men’s room. Things get even more dicey when Sherrie takes a job at the Venus Club and is nce to a drunken Jaxx. forced to give a lap dance As the plot thickens, the action moves along to tunes made famous by ’80s bands like Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Whitesnake, Twisted Sister, Poison and Asia. A total of 28 classic rock songs are featured, including “Don’t Stop Believin’,’ “Harden My Heart” and “I Want to Know What Love Is.” The musical premiered in Los Angeles in 2005, and moved to Broadway in 2009. The Tucson show is part of the musical’s second national tour. A movie version, slated for release this summer, features Tom Cruise as Jaxx, and Alec Baldwin as the owner of the Bourbon Room.

“We were lucky to get Rock of Ages in its West Coast stride,” said Mario Di Vetta, marketing and sales manager for Broadway in Tucson, which brings about Love, hair bands and the Sunset Strip in Rock of Ages. a half-dozen Broadway shows to Tucson each season.

5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Di Vetta said he saw the show in San Francisco about a year ago. “I Ryan Kelly, had the best time in the theater that I had in a long time,” he said. mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

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Rock of Ages doesn’t take itself too seriously, and that is exactly why it works, Di Vetta said. “It is a great show to see with a bunch of friends.”

Because it’s not a traditional musical, it will appeal to people who might not normally think of themselves as fans of the genre, Di Vetta said.

“I want people who are not used to musical theater to come to this show,” he said. “They will fall in love.”

Rock of Ages is performed at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 13, through Thursday, March 15; 8 p.m., Friday, March 16; 2 and 8 p.m., Saturday, March 17; and 1 and 6:30 p.m., Sunday, March 18. All shows are at the Tucson Convention Center Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. Tickets start at $26. For tickets, visit broadwayintucson.com; call (800) 745-3000; or head to the Tucson Convention Center box office from 10:30 a.m. to

The Fourth Annual Tucson Great Irish Cook-Off 2 to 5 p.m., Sunday, March 11 O’Malley’s 247 N. Fourth Ave. tucsonstpatricksday.com

For the fourth straight year, a cook-off to raise funds for Tucson’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival will serve up a bit of Ireland to Southern Arizonans. But this year, it’s happening at a new location.

The 2012 Great Irish Cook-Off will be held at O’Malley’s on Fourth, as a result of the event’s growing popularity, said parade chairwoman Deborah Kelly.

The cook-off previously was held on the patio of Maynards Market and Kitchen.

Four traditional Irish staples make up the categories in which a number of local restaurants and foodies will compete: corned beef and cabbage; stew; soda bread; and Irish desserts, a broad category that ranges from Irish lace cookies to bread pudding.

Among the contestants at this year’s cook-off will be chefs from Kingfisher Bar and Grill, Hotel Congress’ Cup Café, Café à la C’Art, Frankie’s South Philly Cheesesteaks and Sandwiches, and The Parish Gastropub.

As in previous years, the audience will choose the winners. Attendees will be given ballots to mark up as they taste-test the foods from each booth.

Ballots will be counted at 4:30 p.m., which gives attendees more than two hours to sample the cook-off entries and enjoy the tunes of Celtic musician Margy Eller, who will perform throughout the event.

“We expect the event to be a very fast and fulfilling two hours,” Kelly said.

Winners will receive trophies and a featured slot in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 17.

Admission is $10, which helps support the St. Patrick’s Day activities.

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Susan Clark

Christine Vivona

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One Woman’s Saga

Not Your Typical Harpist

Finishing With a Flourish

A Woman of Independent Means

Christine Vivona’s Harp Ensemble

34th Annual AzJazz Week

8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10; 3 p.m., Sunday, March 11

3 p.m., Saturday, March 10

7:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday, March 8 and 9

Invisible Theatre 1400 N. First Ave. 882-9721; www.invisibletheatre.com

Emmy Award-winning actress Susan Clark returns to Tucson this weekend to bring to life A Woman of Independent Means.

The one-person play began as a 1978 novel by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, which was inspired by Hailey’s grandmother. Hailey and her playwright husband, Oliver Hailey, adapted it for the stage in 1983. The story is told through letters written by Hailey’s grandmother.

“What I like about the character is that it encompasses a woman’s life from the age of 10 to the age of 80,” Clark said.

Originally from Canada, Clark began her career onstage and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She won an Emmy Award for her role in the 1975 TV movie Babe, in which she played Olympic gold medalist Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Clark said she was last in Tucson for an episode of the 1980s sitcom Webster that was shot at Tanque Verde Ranch.

Clark said the title of the Hailey play comes from an expression that refers to a woman who has inherited her wealth, owns property and has stature in the community.

Throughout the performance, the audience will recognize mothers, daughters, grandmothers, neighbors, wives and aunts, she said. The show is “funny, and it’s sad, and you’re going to laugh and cry and hopefully have a great time.”

Clark said there’s always something to learn in theater, because “you learn to listen to the audience.”

The audience experiences “an emotional, intellectual ride with someone’s life,” Clark said. “This is a place where there’s nothing to buy except a good time. There’s no product. You don’t go home with anything except your experience and how you feel.”

Tickets are $30. —M.W.

Rincon Congregational Church 122 N. Craycroft Road 745-6237; christinevivona.com

Christine Vivona isn’t a typical harpist. In addition to performing classical music, she plays jazz, blues and rock.

“I love playing jazz standards and playing pieces that people don’t think of being connected with harp,” she said.

“You can play chromatic music, but it’s hard to play jazz on the harp because of the pedals. That’s why there just aren’t that many jazz harpists.”

Vivona grew up in New York and started playing the harp at the age of 11, right after her older sister stopped.

“It just sort of happened since we had the harp in the house,” she said.

“So my father jumped on the opportunity, bought the harp, and I was playing.”

For inspiration, Vivona listens to Diana Krall, Benny Carter and harpist Nancy Allen. The latter was one of her teachers at Julliard.

“She’s phenomenal and very much a quiet player, meaning there’s not a lot of buzzing, and not a lot of pedal noise,” Vivona said.

Vivona completed her undergraduate degree in music at the UA, went to Julliard for her master’s degree, and came back to Arizona for her doctorate in 1986, she said. Vivona also taught harp at Arizona State University for nine years.

With 38 years of experience, Vivona also performs in concerts with her family. One of her sons is a drummer, and another is a bassist. Her husband plays jazz piano and trombone.

On Saturday, Vivona will play in a harp trio. The other two harpists are students from a harp camp she holds each June. The program includes some Vivaldi, Santana’s “Oye Como Va” and the Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.” Admission is $15, or free for those 18 and younger, and students with an ID. —M.W.

UA Crowder Hall 1017 E. Olive Road 621-1162; arizona.tix.com

The UA School of Music’s annual AzJazz Week is coming to a close with a flourish of talent.

The John Denman Memorial Concert features visiting artist Dave Bennett.

Backing him will be the Jeff Haskell Trio, with UA Studio Jazz Ensemble director Jeff Haskell on piano, Jack Wood on bass and Fred Hayes on drums.

Denman taught at the University of Arizona from 1976 to 1984 after emigrating from his native England. He was the principal clarinetist at the Tucson Symphony Orchestra until 1999, two years before his death.

According to Haskell, Denman was a “musician’s musician.”

“He called himself a ‘crossover’ artist, because he was successful both in classical and jazz styles,” Haskell said.

Bennett, 27, a clarinet prodigy at age 14, was self-taught, which is rare in clarinet circles because of the degree of difficulty.

Friday’s concert features jazz legend Sue Raney, a songstress who’s been wowing jazz musicians and fans for six decades.

“Not everybody in the public knows her name, but everyone in the musical community knows her,” Haskell said. That’s not an overstatement: During her career, she’s shared the stage with Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Johnny Carson and Julie Andrews.

Raney will sing with both the UA Studio Jazz Ensemble and the Arizona Symphony Orchestra, giving her backing that’s going to be “all Hollywood,” Haskell said.

Tickets for Thursday’s concert are $5 to $9. Tickets for Friday are $10 to $15. —D.M.

John Denman

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Norma Gonzalez

2ND SATURDAY DOWNTOWN Free events take place throughout downtown from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m., Saturday, March 10. A “Southwest Soul Circuit Playground” in the patio behind the Rialto Building features Kevin and Tanisha Hamilton and special guests including Crystal Stark. Special admission packages are available at the Mars and Beyond exhibit and the Children’s Museum Tucson. A stage on Scott Street just south of Congress Street features Up With People, the Cornerstone Band, the Guilty Bystanders and Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios. Foxtails Brigade performs in the Hotel Congress patio, 311 E. Congress St., at 8 p.m. FC Tucson plays five-on-five soccer and offers open-play opportunities in the MLK Apartments parking lot at Fifth and Toole avenues. The Screening Room at 127 E. Congress St. features an open house with independent Arizona short films screening at 6, 7 and 8 p.m. A kids’ area next to the Chase Bank building at 2 E. Congress St. features a jumping castle and a screening of West Side Story. Five-Way Street performs classic rock at the Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St., at 7 p.m.; free. La Cocina Restaurant and Cantina at Old Town Artisans, 201 N. Court Ave., hosts a CD-release party for Way Out West. Activities along the street include buskers, stilt-walkers, classic cars and lowriders, living statues and food trucks. Visit 2ndsaturdays. com for more information.

Norma Gonzalez has taught in the Tucson Unified School District for almost 20 years, and until recently taught middle school and high school students in the district’s Mexican-American studies program. The school board voted 4-1 on Jan. 10 to end the classes. As a result, books used in the program were pulled from classrooms and stored in a warehouse. Gonzales started a petition on change.org to bring back the books. She had hoped to get 1,000 signatures—and nearly 16,000 people had signed the petition as of March 5. Gonzales has reset the goal to 25,000 signatures. The petition is at www.change.org/petitions/tucson-school-boarddont-lock-up-knowledge-return-books-to-studentsnow. Mari Herreras, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com What was your motivation to start the petition?

I feel that if people found out what the district was doing— banning books—that’s not going to be seen as favorable by anyone. That was one of the reasons to do the petition, to let it be known nationally that our own district is making irrational decisions, which is counter to what we are supposed to be doing as educators.

How long did it take for you to realize this petition was going to be bigger than you first thought?

Within two to three days.

My initial goal was 1,000 signatures, and we surpassed that in a couple of days.

People really disagreed with what this district chose to do as a reaction to the state’s decision (to withhold millions of dollars from the district if the program wasn’t suspended). … Our goal now is 25,000 signatures.

Why did you deliver a copy of the petition to the district on Feb. 9?

Every time someone signed it, the district got an email.

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almost a whole ream of paper, because I had not received any kind of response. I wanted to make sure they had them.

Were you surprised the district didn’t respond?

You have a whole bunch of people concerned with their decision and (the lack of) response. But I am not surprised, because of the character of their support—which is anti-student, anti-what’s right for students, anti-what’s right for the community, anti-local control.

So how is the rest of this semester going for you?

It’s been very difficult to come to work, just because there is no direction, no certainty. I am censored. I’ve been told that any minute, the district (or state) could walk into the classroom and evaluate me (and say) that I am out of compliance. I am not supposed to be teaching anything that has to do with Mexican-American culture or history, and can’t use any of the pedagogy associated with our curriculum.

Sometimes it seems unbelievable.

On one hand, we believe it, because we know what we are dealing with. On the other hand, we are supposed to be trusting our own district to do what is right and fight against the state, but they turned their backs on

us and on a pedagogy that has proven effective.

Are you ever concerned about retaliation?

Fear always exists about what they will come out with next.

I haven’t heard or suffered from any retaliation. But I want them to know how I feel. … I have been working in this district for 20 years now, and … I know what is effective. The books are a big part of what makes this program effective.

How long will you keep the petition up?

We will take it down sometime in April, and we’ll see if I get a response from the district. I doubt it, but I am still going to share with them how the nation feels.

What this district is doing is a disgrace.

It must feel good to know people across the country have your back.

Right, and that’s what makes it a little easier, I suppose: People are watching. People are supporting us, and like you say, they have our backs.

And we know we are on the right side of history, so we’re going to continue for our community. This is Mexican American studies, but people have to remember that these classes aren’t just for Mexican Americans. All students in our program have excelled.

FLUXX STUDIO AND GALLERY FIRST ANNIVERSARY OPEN HOUSE AND CELEBRATION Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242.

An open house from noon to 6 p.m., Saturday, March 10, is followed by a reception for artists who have exhibited at the gallery over its first year. A performance follows at 8 p.m.; freewill donation.

GLAM-ROCK DANCE PARTY F.O.E. Eagles No. 180 Lounge. 1530 N. Stone Ave. 624-2461. A set by Silver Fox is the centerpiece of a dance party that includes a wine-tasting presented by Kenny Stewart, and Carl “Glammy” Hanni spinning dance music by Bowie, Roxy Music, Prince, Grace Jones, T-Rex, the Rolling Stones and others; $5 cover, $5 wine-tasting, no-host full bar. Silver Fox is David Slutes, Clif Taylor, Duane Hollis and James Peters.

Email carlmodmedia@gmail.com for more information.

GREAT IRISH COOK-OFF O’Malley’s. 247 N. Fourth Ave. 623-8600. Live music and spirits accompany a cook-off featuring amateur and professional chefs competing to make the best corned beef, soda bread, Irish stew and Irish-themed desserts, from 2 to 5 p.m., Sunday, March 11; $10. Proceeds benefit the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

RAILS IN THE GARDEN TOUR A self-guided tour of eight garden railways, including the railroad at the Tucson Botanical Gardens, takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, March 10 and 11; $5. Highlights are a 4,000-square-foot oldArizona themed railroad, an Old West-themed layout, a railway depicting the owner’s early life in the Midwest, and a Western narrow-gauge line that includes a mining area, an industrial scene with a brewery and a lot of visual humor. Call 820-0886, or visit tucsongrs.org for information, ticket locations or a form to order tickets by mail.

‘TROTTIN’ INTO SPRING’ ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL La Posada Lodge and Casitas. 5900 N. Oracle Road.

887-4800. Therapeutic Riding of Tucson benefits from the sale of items created by local artists in a range of media from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 10; free admission. Donate a pack of mini-snacks or juice boxes to participate in a raffle. Call 797-1751 for more information.

TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS UA Mall. 1303 E. University Drive. Authors, publishers and the reading public gather in a family-friendly community event featuring hundreds of exhibits, panels, presentations, signings and hands-on activities to benefit literacy programs in Southern Arizona, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, March 10 and 11; free. Visit tucsonfestivalofbooks.org for more info.

OUT OF TOWN INTERNATIONAL ANZA CONFERENCE Wyndham Canoa Ranch Resort. 5775 S. Camino del Sol. Green Valley. 382-0450. Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail scholars, regional historians, enthusiasts, genealogists and others gather for talks, field trips and entertainment, from Thursday, March 8, through Sunday, March 11; $35 to $180. Call 7971340, or visit anzasociety.org for more information.

UPCOMING ARIZONA IS UP WITH PEOPLE UA Student Union Grand Ballroom. 1303 E. University Blvd. A gala dinner features entertainment by the international cast of Up With People and special guest performers from 6 to 9:30 p.m., Friday, March 16; $125.

Proceeds benefit the UA Libraries’ new Up With People Archive Project. Call 621-6431 for reservations or more information.

THE HAVEN’S ANNUAL AWARDS LUNCHEON Arizona Inn. 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. A facility for women in recovery from substance abuse, The Haven honors Betty and J. Blanton Belk, founders of Up With People, with its Chrysalis Award at a luncheon at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, March 15; $65. Call 299-8199, or email toolsachievers@q.com for reservations or more information.

I STAND WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD Doubletree Hotel. 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200.

A fundraising luncheon for Planned Parenthood takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Friday, March 16; $85. Cecile Richards, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, speaks at the event, which honors Pamela H. Grissom for her role in getting pro-choice candidates elected and pays tribute to Gabrielle Giffords’ support of women’s health rights. Call 784-5810 for reservations.

ORO VALLEY FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS Oro Valley Marketplace. Oracle and Tangerine roads. Oro Valley. Close to 100 artisans in a wide range of media, food vendors, live music and family arts activities are featured from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 17; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 18; free. Visit orovalleyfestival.org for more information.

THE WATER FESTIVAL Armory Park Center. 220 S. Fifth Ave. 791-4865.

Exhibitors, theater and dance performances, panel discussions, speakers, workshops, films, music, children’s entertainers, water science and water-centered spiritual practices comprise The Water Festival: Synergy of Art, Science and Community, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 18; free. Call 791-9359, or visit waterfestivaltucson.org to register as a volunteer, artist, performer, speaker, workshop leader or exhibitor, and for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS EARTH DAY: CALL FOR EXHIBITORS AND PARADE ENTRANTS Reid Park. Broadway Boulevard and Alvernon Way. Exhibits related to environment-friendly products, household waste management, water conservation, water quality, air quality, alternative fuels, solar energy, sustainability and other eco-friendly products and services are solicited for the Earth Day Festival and Parade at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 21. The deadline for registration is Friday, March 30. Call 206-8814, or visit tucsonearthday.org to register or for more information.

TREASURES FOR TIHAN Doubletree Hotel. 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200.

Antiques, unique gifts, gift certificates, trips, jewelry, rugs, textiles, ceramics, event tickets, hotel and condo or bed-and-breakfast stays are among hundreds of potential bargains available at the Treasures for TIHAN benefit auction, Saturday, May 5. Sponsorships and donations of valuable auction items are encouraged through Sunday, April 15. Proceeds benefit the Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network. Call 299-6647.

BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK ART IN THE PARK Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455.

A guided tour of the 1937 adobe home on the grounds examines the changing art and cultural exhibits that feature work by local and Southwest artists. The tour takes place at 11 a.m., every Tuesday and Thursday. A one-hour walking tour of the nature trails takes place at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Free with admission: $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park.

Visit tohonochulpark.org for more information.

COUPONING SECRETS REVEALED New Life Bible Fellowship Church. 4900 W. Cortaro Farms Road. 887-6447. A presentation about how to find, understand and use coupons for meal-planning and free food, and how to use rain-checks, e-coupons and online coupons, takes place from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, March 8; free.

DIVORCE RECOVERY 1 St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Trained volunteers lead a nonsectarian support group from 7 to 8:30 p.m., every Wednesday, through May 9; freewill donation. The group is closed after March 14. Call 495-0704, or visit divorcerecovery.net for more information.

PASSPORT DAY IN THE USA For the convenience of people who can’t get away from work during the week, local passport offices open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 10; fees vary. All required forms are available online or at post offices and should be completed and notarized in advance to deliver, with a photo and the fee, to the passport office.

Visit travel.state.gov/passport for fee information and additional Arizona locations. Tucson locations are the University of Arizona, 935 N. Tyndall Ave.; and Western Passport Center, 7373 E. Rosewood St. Call 733-8255.

QIGONG AND CHINESE CULTURE Himmel Branch, Pima County Public Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. Seniors learn techniques for improving balance, coordination and flexibility with instructor Sifu Aaron Williams from 2 to 3 p.m., Friday, March 9; free. Registration is required; call 594-5305, ext. 3, to register.

RICHIE RAMONE OF THE RAMONES HOSTS FUNDRAISERS Richie Ramone and his wife, Tiffany, host two fundraising events: Thursday, March 8, at 9 p.m., they help raise money and awareness for Planned Parenthood at the Surly Wench Pub, 424 N. Fourth Ave.; on Saturday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m., at the Runway Bar and Grill, 2101 S. Alvernon Way, they promote korylaos.com, a project to promote safe BMX cycling.

SEW ... IT’S ART! Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 939 W. Chapala Drive. 577-7076. An art show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 10, features wall-hangings made from donated table napkins. The works will brighten the rooms of children in orphanages worldwide through a project of the Relief Society Organization of the Church Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Visit sewitsart.com for more information.

TANGERINE CROSSING ART FESTIVAL The Shoppes at Tangerine Crossing. 12100 N. Thornydale Road. 401-1290. Thirty arts and crafts booths sell paintings, sculpture, glass, photography, jewelry, fiber, wood, ceramics and more from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 10; and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 11; free. Email matt@ bowmanproductionsaz.com for more information.

TUCSON BRANCH, AAUW Manning House. 450 W. Paseo Redondo. 770-0714.

Wildlife-refuge biologists Chris Lohrengel and Leslie Canyon present “National Wildlife Refuges of Cochise County” at a meeting of the American Association of University Women from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, March 10; $21. Reservations are requested. Call 6220905 for reservations and more information.

WINE-TASTING FOR HOPE ANIMAL SHELTER CataVinos. 3063 N. Alvernon Way. 323-3063. Tucson’s only no-kill shelter for both cats and dogs benefits from a tasting from 4 to 6 p.m., Sunday, March 11; $20 for six wines.

OUT OF TOWN DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF THE SANTA RITA AREA Green Valley Democratic Headquarters. 260 W. Continental Road. Green Valley. 838-0590. Current events are discussed from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., every Wednesday; free. Email acalkins10@aol.com, or visit gvdemocrats.org for more information.

UPCOMING QUILTING TRUNK SHOW AND BROWN-BAG LUNCH Singing Wind Bookshop. 700 W. Singing Wind Road.

Benson. (520) 586-2425. Visitors are invited to bring lunch for a film about the history of Arizona quilting and a trunk show of quilts at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 17; free. Desserts, coffee and tea are provided.

SEASON OF TRADITION: O’ODHAM CULTURE Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. 10 Organ Pipe Drive. Ajo. (520) 387-6849. Members of the Tohono O’odham Nation demonstrate their crafts and traditions from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Kris Eggle Visitor Center; free. Saturday, March 17: traditional basketry.

Saturday, March 24: traditional and horsehair basketry.

Wednesday, March 28: Native plant use, traditional basketry, pottery.

TOUR OF BUFFALO SOLDIER HISTORIC SITES Sierra Vista Public Library. 2600 E. Tacoma St. Sierra Vista. (520) 458-4225. A tour of Fort Huachuca highlights the history of the Buffalo Soldiers, especially their

role in the Indian Wars, at 1 p.m., Saturday, March 17; $15, free age 12 or younger. Everyone older than 13 requires ID. Reservations are required; call 803-6713 for reservations or more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 24-HOUR CRISIS LINE: 624-0348, (800) 553-9387 Wingspan. 430 E. Seventh St. 624-1779. Report a violent or discriminatory action against you or someone you know by calling the 24-hour bilingual crisis line at 6240348 or (800) 553-9387. If it’s an emergency, please first call 911. All services are available in English and Spanish.

BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK BUST THROUGH THE OVERWHELM Union Public House. 4340 N. Campbell Ave., No. 103. 329-8575. Lisa Rehurek tells how women business owners can identify distracting barriers and focus energy on their most valuable activities, at a luncheon of the eWomenNetwork from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 14; $55; $12 to $22 less with reservations by Friday, March 9. Call (480) 382-1317 for reservations or more information.

CREATING A SECURE FINANCIAL FUTURE Raskob/Kambourian Financial Advisors. 4100 N. First Ave. 690-1999. A seminar on creating a secure financial future in uncertain economic times takes place from 1 to 2 p.m., Friday, March 9; free. Call for reservations.

FREE TAX HELP Seniors, disabled people, people for whom English is a second language and any individual who earns less than $50,000 annually may get free tax help at several times and locations throughout Southern Arizona. For the nearest location and hours of operation, call (800) 9069887; seniors call (888) 227-7669. Visit irs.gov.

GRANTS DATABASES OPEN LAB Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Volunteers, staff and board members of nonprofit and community organizations research private grantmakers with the help of a librarian from 2 to 4 p.m., the second Friday of every month; free. Seating is firstcome, first-served. Call 791-4010 for more information.

causes that are important to you, and creates a legacy.

Local attorneys discuss writing wills and answer questions from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Saturday, March 17; free.

Call 628-7223, or email irodriguez@saaf.org by Monday, March 12, to register or for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS DROP-IN JOB HELP Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A computer instructor provides one-on-one job help, including preparing a resume, researching careers and networking and job-search skills, from noon to 3 p.m., each Monday; and from 9 a.m. to noon, each Thursday, in the second-floor Catalina Room; free. Walkins are welcome. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov to register or for more info.

JOB-SEEKERS’ GATHERING Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Former executive recruiter Beth Cole facilitates a gathering for adult job-seekers from 3 to 4 p.m., every Friday; free.

SCORE BUSINESS COUNSELING Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Experienced executives give individualized advice about starting or building a business, from 3 to 5 p.m., every Tuesday; and from 9 a.m. to noon, every Saturday; free. Call for an appointment.

TPAC SEEKS NOMINATIONS FOR ‘LUMIES’ The Tucson Pima Arts Council welcomes nominations for its 2012 awards to arts groups and business organizations that support and promote the arts in Tucson.

Nominations are due by midnight, Thursday, April 12.

Visit tucsonpimaartscouncil.org for nomination guidelines and more information.

YWCA: VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE YWCA Frances McClelland Leadership Center. 525 N. Bonita Ave. 884-7810. IRS-certified volunteer taxpreparers provide free tax-preparation and electronic filing from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, through Thursday, April 19. Call 884-7810, ext. 113, or email lrabago@ ywcatucson.org for more information.

YWORKS EMPLOYMENT TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR WOMEN YWCA Frances McClelland Leadership Center. 525 N. Bonita Ave. 884-7810. Employment-training and development workshops for women who are unemployed, underemployed or transitioning in the workforce take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., the second and third Tuesday of each month. Computer-skills help is available from noon to 5 p.m., the second and third Wednesday of each month. Each workshop is $25; scholarships and internships are available. Call 884-7810, ext. 102, to register or for more information.

UPCOMING WRITE-A-WILL WORKSHOP SAAF. 375 S. Euclid Ave. 628-7223. Writing a will makes your wishes known, provides for people and

FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515.

Stand by Me plays at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 9; and 2 p.m., Sunday, March 11; $5 to $7. Visit foxtucsontheatre.org for tickets or more information.

LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Visit loftcinema.com for a complete list of forthcoming films and to reserve tickets. Saturday, March 10, at 7 p.m.: The Totally Awesome ’80s Sing-Along: Hard Rockin’ HairBand Edition, with an air-guitar contest, hair-band music, videos and prizes; $8, $6 member. Tuesday, March 13, at 7 p.m.: Presumed Guilty, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival; free. Wednesday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m.: Finding Joe, One Hit Wonders; $9, $5 member.

Thursday, March 15, at 7 p.m.: Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, Hollywod Hellraisers; $9, $5 member.

REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR Free screenings of Revenge of the Electric Car, a documentary about new interest in electric cars, take place from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, March 12, at Himmel Park Library, 1035 N. Treat Ave.; and Wednesday, March 14, at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave. Call 791-4010 for more information.

UPCOMING FOOD STAMPED: A DOCUMENTARY Jewish Community Center. 3800 E. River Road. 2993000. A film promoting awareness of poverty and hunger screens at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 15; free with two cans of food for the Community Food Bank. Call 577-9393, ext. 114, or email jscott@jfsa.org to RSVP or for more information.

LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Visit loftcinema.com for a complete list of forthcoming films and to reserve tickets. Sunday, March 18, at 11 a.m.; and Tuesday, March 20, at 7 p.m.: Solaris; $5 suggested donation.

FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK DUDE, WHERE’S MY JOB? Salt of the Earth Labor College. 1902 E. Irene Vista.

235-0694. A documentary about where U.S. labor’s jobs have gone and how to get them back is screened at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 10; $3. Following the film is a

OUT IN THE SILENCE Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 2331 E. Adams St. 327-6857. Part of the Human Rights Watch Film

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MASTERPATH

INDIVIDUAL JOB COUNSELING Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A job counselor from Career Services Unlimited provides free one-on-one career counseling about resume-writing; choosing a career; and updating interviewing, networking and job-search skills, from noon to 3 p.m., Monday, through March 19, in the second-floor Santa Rita Room; free. No appointment is needed, but sessions are limited to 30 minutes. Call 791-4010.

WRITE-A-WILL SEMINAR Free seminars cover the importance of having a will, legal aspects of the will and giving opportunities through a will. Monday, March 12, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.: El Dorado Health Campus, 1400 N. Wilmot Road. Friday, March 16, from 10:30 a.m. to noon: Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. Thursday, March 22, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.: San Miguel High School, 6601 S. San Fernando Road. Monday, March 26, Tucson Botanical Gardens. Call 326-9686, ext. 15, or email execdirector@tucsonbotanical.org for reservations.

presentation and discussion with Andrea White, author of Connect the Dots USA.

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THE TEACHINGS OF LIGHT AND SOUND

The conventional approach to spirituality instructs us to search for God and truth outside ourselves (exoteric), whereas the Light and Sound approach instructs us to search for God and truth within ourselves (esoteric). There is a vast difference between the two, of which greater numbers are growing increasingly aware.

–– Sri Gary Olsen Sri Gary Olsen Spiritual Leader of MasterPath

ESOTERIC APPROACH

EXOTERIC APPROACH

Search for God in temples or scriptures . . . . . . . . . . . . . God, Soul, and Spirit exist inside the body Born in imperfection, forgiving of sin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Born in perfection, resolving of karma Only one incarnation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Multiple incarnations External worship of Saints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Attaining your own Self and God Realization Mind is the disciple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soul is the disciple Morality, forced abstinence and denial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moderation and balance in all things Hope of heavenly reward in afterlife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heavenly state attained while living Ascended Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Living Master

Saturday, March 17th — 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Pima Community College - Downtown Campus, Amethyst Room 1255 N. Stone Ave., Tucson, AZ 85709 1:00 - 2:30 pm Introductory Talk (includes video presentation) To receive a free copy of the book Soul’s Divine Journey by Sri Gary Olsen, please visit our website at www.masterpath.org or write to P.O. Box 9035, Temecula, CA 92589-9035 USA MARCH 8 – 14, 2012

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GARDENING EVENTS THIS WEEK THE GREAT XERISCAPE Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center. 1660 W. Ruthrauff Road. 887-9786. Representatives of Tohono Chul Park discuss how the principles of xeriscape gardening are not limited to gravel and cacti, at 3 p.m., Wedensday, March 14; free.

TUCSON AFRICAN VIOLET SOCIETY The East Side Night Meeting of the Tucson African Violet Society gathers from 7 to 9 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades, 201 N. Jessica Ave. The East Side Day Meeting takes place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., the second Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades. The Northwest Day Meeting takes place from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the second Thursday of every month, at The Inn at the Fountains at La Cholla, 2001 W. Rudasill Road.

UPCOMING THE GREAT XERISCAPE Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. A presentation and tour about how to use native and arid-adapted plants in water-saving landscapes take place at 10 a.m., the third Saturday of every month; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Artisans Market March 16, 17, and 18, 2012 Friday, Saturday, and Sunday • 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Welcome in the new season with some spring shopping at the Tucson Museum of Art's 20th Annual Spring Artisans Market!

Featuring more than 140 of the Southwest's finest artisans, there is something for everyone. Enjoy food, music, and a children's area, including a jumping castle!

FREE ADMISSION TO THE MUSEUM AND MARKET!

www.TucsonMuseumofArt.org

BUTTERFLY MAGIC Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Butterflies from farms in tropical regions make their homes in Tucson through Monday, April 30.

They may be viewed from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., daily, except holidays; $13, $7.50 age 13 or younger, free infant, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.

CLASSES AT TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. The gardens frequently offer classes on a wide range of gardening and related topics, including photography, painting and fauna that frequent Tucson gardens; $10 to $35, or free with admission. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.

GARDENING CLASSES AT THE LIBRARY Master Gardeners from the Pima County Cooperative Extension Service conduct free classes the first Saturday of every month, at 10:30 a.m., Mission Branch, 3770 S. Mission Road; every Friday through April 27, at 1 p.m., Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive; and every Wednesday at 1 p.m., at the Murphy-Wilmot Branch, 530 N. Wilmot Road. Visit ag.arizona.edu.

GUIDED TOURS OF TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Plant trivia, history of the gardens and introductions to native flora are featured on a guided tour at 10 a.m., every Friday, through May 25; $8, $4 age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for info.

ORGANIC GARDENERS COMPOSTING EXHIBIT Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Tucson Organic Gardeners members answer questions in the composting-demonstration area from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., every Saturday, through May 26; $8, $4 age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.

PLANT LOW-COST TREES FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY Customers of Tucson Electric Power Company qualify for native shade trees to plant within 15 feet of their homes

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TUCSON ORGANIC GARDENERS’ FREE CLASSES St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church. 3809 E. Third St. 3251001. Free classes are offered from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 10: how to create compost. March 17: steps to a productive garden in the Sonoran Desert.

Email brene33@gmail.com for more information.

5441 E. 22nd St., Ste 125 Tucson, AZ 85711

on the west, south or east side. Trees are $8 including delivery. Call 791-3109, or visit tucsonaz.gov/tcb/tft for more information.

BE A LIFESAVER TUCSON UA Sarver Heart Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 6266332. A citywide drive designed to teach Tucsonans how to do chest-compression-only CPR, a method developed at Sarver Heart Center, continues through Sunday, March 25, at sites all over town. Visit bealifesavertucson.com for schedules and locations.

PUTTING LYME BEHIND YOU Dusenberry River Branch, Tucson-Pima Public Library.

5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. A screening of Part 3 of the DVD Putting Lyme Behind You, followed by a Q&A with a panel of physicians who specialize in Lyme disease, takes place from 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 10; free. A time for support and personal sharing follows from 3 to 4 p.m. Call 529-0221, or visit azlyme.org for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT GROUPS All meetings are free; call for reservations. Family members and others caring for people with dementia gather for discussion, education and support from 1:30 to 3 p.m., the first and third Tuesday of every month, at the Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive, 2295300. An Alzheimer’s Association Support Group meets at 4:30 p.m., the second Monday of every month, at Santa Catalina Villas retirement community, 7500 N. Calle Sin Envidia, 730-3132. An Alzheimer’s caregiver support group and concurrent activity group for those with the disease meet from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., the second and fourth Tuesday every month, at TMC’s El Dorado Campus, 1400 N. Wilmot Road, 324-1960. A second Alzheimer’s caregiver group meets there from 10:30 to noon, the first and third Thursday.

CURVES LAUGHTER YOG-HA CLUB Curves. 2816 N. Campbell Ave. 326-1251. Men, women and children laugh for well-being from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., every Sunday; freewill donation. Call Judy at 822-8278, or visit laughteryogawithgita.com for more information.

HIV TESTING The Centers for Disease Control recommend HIV testing for all people ages 13 through 64. Visit napwa.org for more information on AIDS testing and its benefits.

Testing hours at SAAF, 375 S. Euclid Ave., are from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., every Monday and Wednesday; and 1 to 8 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. Walk-in testing is also available at COPE, 101 S. Stone Ave., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. All testing is confidential; results are available in about 15 minutes; and counseling is available. Call for an appointment and more information.

MEDITATION FOR HEALTH ENHANCEMENT TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. A class on meditation for health takes place from 11 a.m. to noon, the second Thursday of every month; free. Pre-registration is required. Call 324-4345 to register or for more information.

PCAP: AFFORDABLE MEDICAL SOLUTIONS FOR PIMA COUNTY RESIDENTS A representative from the Pima Community Access Program, a service that links uninsured Pima County residents with an affordable and comprehensive network of health-care providers, is available by appointment to enroll members of the community and give a free assessment. Call 309-2931, or email susa@mypcap.org for information or an appointment.

KIDS & FAMILIES EVENTS THIS WEEK ALL TOGETHER THEATRE Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Original adaptations of popular children’s stories are presented at 1 p.m., Sunday; $5 to $8. Goldilocks and the Three Bears continues through April 1. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for reservations and more information.

ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL ART INVITATIONAL Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. An exhibit of works juried by art and photography

teachers in Pima County continues through Friday, March 30; free. An artists’ reception takes place from 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 24. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday. Call 791-4010 for more information.

and Val Verde take place on Saturday and Sunday, March 10 and 11; free. Encampments are a living history of military service for the respective armies, including foods, medical and surgical traditions, armaments, children’s toys, and men’s and women’s clothing and accessories. Visit azstateparks.com for campground reservations, more information and photos of previous years’ re-enactments.

CHILDREN OF DIVORCE, CHANGING FAMILIES St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Two concurrent eight-week support groups meet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., every Monday, from March 12 through April 23; freewill donation. The groups close March 19. Age-appropriate activities are provided in a group for children ages 3 to 18. Family members, including never-married parents, get support for forming a step-family. Call 495-0704, or visit divorcerecovery.net for reservations and more information.

FRONTIER PRINTING PRESS DEMONSTRATIONS Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac.

398-2252. Arizona’s first newspaper, The Weekly Arizonan, was published in Tubac on March 3, 1859.

In honor of that event, James Pagels demonstrates the press on which it was printed and talks about the history of newspapers in Arizona, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Thursday, March 8; Tuesday, March 13; and Thursday, March 15; $4, $2 youth age 7 to 13, free child, includes admission to the park.

HAWK HAPPENING Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Kathie Schroeder shares secrets in the lives of the Southwest’s Harris hawks, in the children’s ramada, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the second and fourth Wednesday of every month; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5; includes admission.

MY HEART CHANGES: YOUTH ART EXHIBIT Central School Project. 43 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 255-3008. An exhibit of art created by students from rural schools in Cochise and Graham counties continues through Sunday, March 18. The works include animal masks, drawings, nature photographs and portraits of Apache community members and elders. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday through Sunday; free. Call or email info@centralschoolproject.org for more info.

PACK NIGHT: BATS! International Wildlife Museum. 4800 W. Gates Pass Road. 629-0100. A program about bats, including a talk by Ronnie Sidner, a batty craft and a screening of Stellaluna, takes place from 6 to 8 p.m., Saturday, March 10; $8, $3 ages 4 to 12, free younger child or member, $6 senior, student or military. Visit thewildlifemuseum.org for more information.

SCHOOL DAYS OUT Jewish Community Center. 3800 E. River Road. 2993000. Day care is provided for school-age children from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on days that school isn’t in session; $40 to $57 per day. The program includes field trips, sports, art, cooking and swimming in season. Lunch is provided, except by request. Pre-care is offered from 7 to 9 a.m.; and post-care is from 4 to 6 p.m.; $5 each.

Advance registration is requested. Visit tucsonjcc.org for School Days Out dates and more information.

SONORAN DESERT KIDS CLUB: JAMMIN’ WITH NATURE Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road.

877-6000. Kids ages 8 to 12 and their families view a multimedia presentation about how people, animals and birds communicate with sound, and then use simple musical instruments to re-create sounds from nature, from 9:30 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 10; free.

Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

SUNNYSIDE FOUNDATION YOUTH ARTIST RECEPTION The Source Salon and Spa. 3382 E. Speedway Blvd.

323-1300. An exhibit of student art opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., Saturday, March 10, and continues through Saturday, April 14; free. Light hors d’oeuvres are served. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday; 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday; 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday; and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday.

TUCSON’S RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND TRAVELING EXHIBIT Valencia Branch, Tucson-Pima Public Library. 202 W. Valencia Road. 594-5390. This exhibit of art and writing expressing local children’s understanding of watersheds and the natural world continues through Sunday, March 18. Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

WALK THE WATERSHED TOUR A two-hour guided walk explores how and where water flows in urban Tucson, highlighting local wildlife, from 1 to 3 p.m., Sunday, March 11, at Navajo Wash, 1300 E. Navajo Road; free. The event is co-hosted by Eric Dhruv of the Ironwood Tree Experience and NEW ARTiculations dancers. Call 270-4352 for more information.

WII FOR TWEENS Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Tweens have a wide choice of Wii games and sports to play from 3:30 to 5 p.m., the second Friday of every month, except holidays; free.

OUT OF TOWN CIVIL WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST Picacho Peak State Park. Exit 219 off Interstate 10.

Picacho. Re-enactments of the Civil War skirmish at Picacho Peak and the New Mexico battles of Glorieta

UPCOMING CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER PCC Proscenium Theatre. Pima Community College West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6986. CYT presents Disney’s Alice in Wonderland Jr. at 7 p.m., Thursday and Friday, March 15 and 16; and 2 and 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, March 17 and 18; $10.

Call 370-4000, or visit cyttucson.org for tickets and more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS FREE GUITAR LESSONS 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext.

7147. Free beginner guitar lessons are offered every Thursday from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. for ages 6 to 12, and from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. for age 13 and older. Visit seventeenthstreetmarket.com for more information.

READ TO A DOG Murphy-Wilmot Branch, Tucson-Pima Public Library.

530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. Kids ages 2 to 12 improve their reading skills by reading to a therapy dog from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., every Wednesday; free.

SCRABBLE AND BANANAGRAMS CLUB Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Bring lunch and play Scrabble or Bananagrams from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., every Thursday; free. Call 7914010 for more information.

STORIES IN THE GARDEN Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Kids and their parents listen to traditional and original stories about the desert and its creatures in the Garden for Children at 10 a.m., every Tuesday. A one-hour walking tour of the nature trails takes place at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark. org for more information.

TOGETHER WE THRIVE MURAL PROJECT Peter Howell Elementary School. 401 N. Irving Ave. 232-7200. Kids are invited to work on a mural with a “Together We Thrive” theme from 3 to 5 p.m., every Tuesday, through April 17. Visit tucsonartsbrigade.org for more information.

THE CREATIVE SPACE Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333.

An interactive space in the lobby provides materials and activities to encourage families to create museuminspired artwork; free with admission. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; $8, $6 senior or veteran, $3 student with ID, free younger than 13 and everyone the first Sunday of every month.

OUTDOORS EVENTS THIS WEEK HISTORICAL TOUR OF AGUA CALIENTE PARK Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road.

877-6000. All ages enjoy a guided tour of the park’s historic structures, and learn about its farming and

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Flynn guides a walk to spot Gambelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quail, verdins, gnatcatchers and other birds common to the Southwest desert from 8 to 10 a.m., Saturday, March 10; free. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

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ranching history, from 11 a.m. to noon, Sunday, March 11 free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or info.

ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT 75TH ANNIVERSARY Ajo Chamber of Commerce. 400 E. Taladro Ave. Ajo. (520) 387-7742. Park rangers guide a tour of the historic Bates Well Ranch and its structures while relating the ranching history of the monument, at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 10; free, including van transportation from the Chamber of Commerce, if desired. The tour lasts about an hour, not including transportation.

Reservations are required; call (520) 387-6849, ext.

7302, for reserations; visit nps.gov/orpi for more info.

SONORAN DESERT WEEDWACKERS Tucson Mountain Park. 2020 N. Kinney Road. 8776000. Volunteers age 12 and older help remove buffelgrass and fountain grass from 7 to 10 a.m., every second and fourth Wednesday; and every third Saturday; free. Work may require hiking and working on steep slopes. Meeting locations are in Tucson Mountain Park.

Details are given with RSVP, which is required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov to RSVP or for more information.

SAN PEDRO RIVER WALK San Pedro House. 9800 Highway 90. Sierra Vista.

(520) 508-4445. A 2-mile interpretive walk in the rich wildlife habitat along the San Pedro River takes place at 9 a.m., every Saturday in March; freewill donation. Visit sanpedroriver.org for more information.

TWILIGHT NATURE WALK Feliz Paseos Park. 1600 W. Camino de Oeste. 8776000. A naturalist guides a leisurely stroll to see how seasonal changes affect local plants and animals, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Friday, March 9; free. Reservations are required; call 615-7855, or email eeducation@ pima.gov for reservations and more information.

TOURS OF MISSIONS AROUND TUMACĂ CORI TumacĂĄcori National Historical Park. 1891 E. Frontage Road. TumacĂĄcori. 398-2341. Guided tours to the fragile ruins of the historic mission sites of Los Santos Ă ngeles de Guevavi and San Cayetano de Calabazas take place at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, through March 27; $20 includes transportation and admission to the TumacĂĄcori mission and national park. Visit nps.gov/tuma, or call (520) 398-2341, ext. 0, for reservations or more info.

WILDFLOWER HIKES Wildflower expert Meg Quinn leads ages 12 and older on a free, 3-to-4-mile hike from 8 a.m. to noon, Friday, March 9, at Sweetwater Preserve, 4000 N. Tortolita Road; and Saturday, March 10, at Wild Burro Canyon, 15000 N. Secret Springs Drive. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

OUT OF TOWN

BEGINNER BIRD WALK Mason Audubon Center. 8751 N. Thornydale Road.

744-0004. The Tucson Audubon Society hosts an introduction to birdwatching for all ages with a casual, guided stroll through the saguaro-ironwood desert at 8 a.m., every Saturday; free. Call 629-0510, ext. 7011 for more information.

FORT BOWIE 150TH ANNIVERSARY Fort Bowie Visitors Center. 3327 Old Fort Bowie Road.

Bowie. (520) 847-2500, ext. 1. A park ranger guides hikes focusing on the chronology of events that led to the establishment of the fort, including the Bascom Affair and the Battle of Apache Pass, at 10 a.m., every Sunday in March; free. The 3-mile round-trip hike begins at the Fort Bowie trailhead off Apache Pass Road near Willcox.

BOYCE THOMPSON ARBORETUM MAIN TRAIL TOURS Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Highway 60. Superior.

(520) 689-2811. Guided tours of the main trail take place at 11 a.m., daily, through Monday, April 30; free with admission. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $9,

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$4.50 ages 5 through 12, free younger child. Visit azstateparks.com for a video tour and more information.

MOUNT LEMMON SKYCENTER SKYNIGHTS PROGRAM Mount Lemmon SkyCenter. 9800 Ski Run Road. 6268122. A peek through the largest public viewing telescope in the Southwest is just part of a five-hour tour of the universe from 3 to 8 p.m., nightly; $48 Monday through Thursday, $60 Friday through Sunday, $30 student. Reservations are required. Visit skycenter.arizona. edu for reservations. Search Facebook for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mt. Lemmon SkyCenterâ&#x20AC;? for daily photo updates about current events in the universe.

RAMSEY CANYON PRESERVE WALKS Ramsey Canyon Preserve. 27 Ramsey Canyon Road.

Miracle Valley. (520) 378-2785. Nature Conservancy docents give guided walks through the habitats of more than 170 bird species and a wide range of wildlife at 9 a.m., every Monday, Thursday and Saturday; $5, $3 member or Cochise County resident, free younger than 16, admission is good for a week. Pets are not allowed.

SABINO CANYON HIKES Sabino Canyon Visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Center. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 749-8700. Hikes led by Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists start at 8:30 a.m., every Friday. Hikes range from easy to medium-difficulty and last from two to four hours. Most are free and depart from the visitor center.

Some require an $8 tram ride. Visit scvntucson.org for details.

SABINO CANYON WALKS Sabino Canyon Visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Center. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 749-8700. Volunteer Naturalists lead walks in Lower Sabino Canyon every Monday through Thursday, through Thursday, April 26; free. Parking is $5 per day or $20 per year. Children younger than 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Monday, 2 to 4 p.m.: Secrets of Sabino Revealed. Tuesday, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.: plant and bird walk with photography tips. Wednesday, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.: nature walk with photography tips for insects and rock formations. Thursday, 8:30 to 11 a.m.: Gneiss Walk, a 2.5 hour walk looking at geology. Call or visit scvntucson.org for more information.

TOHONO CHUL GUIDED BIRD AND NATURE WALKS Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Birders at any level of expertise tour the nature trails and gardens of 49-acre Tohono Chul Park and learn to identify some of the 27 resident bird species

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at 8:30 a.m., every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. A one-hour walking tour of the nature trails takes place at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark. org for more information.

SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK ANANDA CENTER OF TUCSON Ananda Tucson. 1002 E. Prince Road. 299-9309. A four-week study group based on How to Have Courage, Calmness and Confidence by Paramhansa Yogananda, takes place Monday, March 12 and 26, and April 9 and 23; free. Visit anandaarizona.org for more information.

ANOTHER LOOK AT THOSE CRAZY MYSTICS St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Brad Stroup facilitates a series of seminars about prominent male mystics at 7 p.m., every Wednesday, through April 4. March 14: Hadewijch of Antwerp, 1250 A.D. March 21: Meister Eckhart, 1260 to 1328 A.D. March 28: Nicolas of Cusa, 1401 to 1464 A.D. April 4: the pre-Christian Sidhartha Gautama, 563 to 483 B.C., on the Buddhaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fire Sermon.â&#x20AC;?

DHARMA SALON Three Jewels. 314 E. Sixth St. 303-6648. Poep Sa Frank Jude Boddio leads a discussion about the message of Gotama Buddha and the earliest interpretations, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Friday, March 9; $4. Visit 3jewelstucson.com for more information.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Walking the Mournerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Path, a grief support group, meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, through April 25, in the Desert Sage Room in La Parroquia, the small building south of the main church; $75 covers the cost of materials.

TIES SPEAKER SERIES Unity of Tucson. 3617 N. Camino Blanco. 577-3300.

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WHAT’S UP WITH 2012 Bio-Touch Center. 5634 E. Pima St. 323-7951. A panel of astrologers discusses the astrological aspects having the most influence over 2012, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Friday, March 9; freewill donation. Call 625-5762, or visit tucsonastrologersguild.org for more information.

SPORTS

UA MEN’S TENNIS LaNelle Robson Tennis Center. 900 N. Martin Ave. 6219902. Matches are free to spectators. Saturday, March 10, at noon: San Diego State. Monday, March 12, at 10 a.m.: New Mexico State. Visit arizonawildcats.com for more information.

WINTER CIRCUIT HUNTER/JUMPER HORSE SHOWS Pima County Fairgrounds. 11500 S. Houghton Road.

762-3247. Hunting, jumping and equitation events take place in five show rings and several schooling rings from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., through Sunday, March 11; free spectator. Winners of Sunday events compete for a slot in a $1 million Grand Prix in New York in September. Visit www.hitsshows.com for more information.

EVENTS THIS WEEK AZ BLISTER KICKBALL Joaquin Murrieta Park. 1400 N. Silverbell Road. 7914752. League play continues at 7 p.m., every Thursday, through April 19. Visit kickball.com to register and for more information.

AN EVENING WITH SCOUT BASSETT TriSports Store Tucson. 4495 S. Coach Drive. 8848743. Challenged athlete and spokesperson for the Challenged Athletes Foundation Scout Bassett shares her journey from a Chinese orphanage to the ITU Triathlon World Championships, at 7 p.m., Monday, March 12; free. Visit shop.trisports.com for more info.

MIDTOWN SERTOMA 5K RUN AND WALK FOR BETTER HEARING Arizona State School for the Deaf and Blind. 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. 770-3468. A walk and run on the flat ground of the school track and football field, and the Santa Cruz River trail, get under way at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, March 10; $25 to $30. Free Mexican breakfast, awards and music follow. Proceeds support audiology scholarships and the Adult Loss of Hearing Association in Tucson. Call 797-7867 for more info.

MONSTER JAM Tucson Convention Center. 260 S. Church Ave. 7914101. Six of the world’s most-popular monster trucks compete in speed, racing and destruction from Friday through Sunday, March 9 through 11. Highlights include a 30th anniversary appearance by Grave Digger, and Tucson driver Rod Wood driving World Finals champion Monster Mutt and the Felon. Hours are 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 9; 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., pit party, and 2 and 7:30 p.m., shows, Saturday, March 10; and 2 p.m., Sunday, March 11; $22 to $37 adult, $12 kids, $2 less advance. Call (800) 745-3000, or visit ticketmaster.com.

SOUTHWESTERN INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY Southwestern International Raceway. 11300 S. Houghton Road. 762-9700. A Bikers Against Child Abuse Charity Event with a 50/50 Gambler and Bike Rodeo Charity Run starts at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, March 10; $20 single rider, $30 double, free spectator.

Activities include breakfast, vendors, poker, a bike and car show, a blessing of the bikes, side-by-side races for cash prizes and a test-and-tune on the drag strip. Call 300-0500, or email bacapoisonivy@gmail.com for more information. Team 2 of the IHRA Summit Super Series starts racing at 10 a.m., Sunday, March 11; prices vary.

Email office@sirace.com, or visit sirace.com for more information.

UA BASEBALL Hi Corbett Field. 3400 E. Camino Campestre. 3279467. Tickets are $8, $5 youth or senior. Visit azwildcats.com for more information. Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, at 6 p.m.; and Sunday, March 11 at 11 a.m.: Eastern Michigan.

UPCOMING GREEN ISLE MILE AND RUNNING WITH THE IRISH 5K Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A 5k race starts at 7:30 a.m., and a 1-mile race kicks off the St. Patrick’s Day Parade at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 17, in the library plaza; $25 each race, $35 both races. Visit taggrun.com to register and for more information.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium. 2500 E. Ajo Way. 434-1021. Gates open at 11:30 a.m., and game time is 1:05 p.m.; $6 to $20. Friday, March 16: Milwaukee Brewers vs. Seattle Mariners. Sunday, March 18: San Diego Padres vs. Colorado Rockies. Friday, March 23: Chicago White Sox vs. Los Angeles Dodgers in a benefit game for the Christina-Taylor Green Memorial Foundation. Visit kinosportscomplex.com for more information.

UA GYMNASTICS UA McKale Memorial Center. 1721 E. Enke Drive. The UA hosts U.S. Air Force, Bridgeport, and Utah State at 6 p.m., Friday, March 16; $8, $5 senior or child, 15 percent discount to active-duty military with ID. Visit arizonawildcats.com for tickets or more information.

UA MEN’S GOLF Arizona National Golf Club. 9777 E. Sabino Greens Drive. 749-3636. UA hosts the National Invitational Tournament on Friday and Saturday, March 16 and 17; free spectator, no carts. Visit arizonawildcats.com for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS RAINBOW RIDERS CYCLING GROUP A group of LGBTA cyclists dedicated to the enjoyment of all types of bicycling meets every Sunday, and other occasions at the suggestion of members; free. Times vary. All levels of riders are welcome. E-mail nursewratchet@yahoo.com, or visit health.groups.yahoo. com/group/wingspan_fun2bhealthy/messages for more information.

TUCSON FRONTRUNNERS LGBT people and family, friends and straight allies of all ability levels run or walk at their own pace. At 5:30 p.m., every Monday, they participate in Meet Me at Maynards, 311 E. Congress St. At 5:30 p.m., each Wednesday, they climb Tumamoc Hill, just west of the intersection of Silverbell Road and Anklam Road. At 7:30 p.m., every Saturday, they walk Reid Park from the parking lot of Hi Corbett Field, 3400 E. Camino Campestre. An hour later, they meet for brunch. Visit tucsonfrontrunners.org for more information.

Art Galleries Gone to Pieces Mosaic Design and Artwork.

Classes coming in the SPRING. Watch for class times and details.

MERCHANTS of Monterey Court

505 W. Miracle Mile www.MontereyCourtAZ.com 520-207-2429

The Quantum Art Gallery HIDDEN AGENDAS features the striking artwork of Devin Kelly and Citizen Zane.

Show runs March 2 thru May 27 www.thequantumartgallery.com

Shop by Moonlight!

Shops and galleries open ‘til 8pm every Friday!

Enjoy live music and our patio bar!

Retail Shops Blue Dog Confectionery & Gallery

Healthy treats for your dog, even gluten-free.

Victorian West

New, gothic and vampire art tiles, and unique vampire velvet chokers

Hacienda Bellas Artes

See our expanded selections of art, jewelry, talavera pottery, unique collectibles, antique mirrors, stained glass and old pawn jewelry.

Also, beautiful Southwestern leatherwork.

Velvet Rags & Mercantile Stop by for a sneak preview!

Grand Opening coming soon!

Dragon’s Spark Urban Boutique

Handmade, Recycled and Vintage Fashions. www.dragons-spark.com

Small Miracle Craft Mall

Where you will find things you didn’t know you needed and now desperately want.

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PERFORMING ARTS Two Tudor works star in Ballet et Tucson’s annual ‘Dance and Dessert’ essert’

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The dance about the conflicted “Katie” is a modern piece, one of many non-ballet offerings that Ballet Tucson is serving up—along with chocolates and other sweets—in its eclectic Dance and Dessert concert this weekend.

With works by eight choreographers in a wide range of styles, from modern to contemporary to jazz to—naturally—ballet, “This a great show for the audience,” says the troupe’s artistic director, Mary Beth Cabana. “And it’s great for the dancers.”

The dances are short and mostly fast-paced, making for a small-plate menu that gives the regular corps dancers more chances to dance, Cabana says, while the variety of dance styles pushes all of the performers to ramp up their skills.

In the favored medium of ballet, a doubleportion of Antony Tudor makes for a hefty entrée. An excerpt from “The Leaves Are Falling” by the legendary choreographer gets its first Ballet Tucson outing, reconstructed by Amanda McKerrow and John Gardner, dancers who worked with the late Tudor at American Ballet Theatre. The two lead the company through another Tudor gem, “Continuo,” for the second time.

Then there are the literal gourmet desserts donated by local restaurants, served up free under the stars, after the show. “What’s not to like?” Cabana asks.

“Katie Feels Guilty About Library Fines” has been danced in Iowa, the Dominican Republic and Los Angeles, but its roots are in Tucson.

Choreographed by Charlotte Adams, who cofounded Tucson’s now-defunct 10th Street Danceworks in 1984, “Katie” debuted in a NEW ARTiculations concert in Tucson in 2009.

“I had the dancers write sentences,” says Adams, now a dance professor at the University of Iowa. The NEW ARTers filled in the blanks of a statement that began, “I feel guilty when …”

Katie Rutterer, NEW ART co-artistic director, came up with the library line, and Adams liked it so much that she created the duet around it.

The humorous dance features two women burdened with three layers of petticoats, representing “three layers of guilt,” as Adams puts it.

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Michelle Sigl in “Masquerade.” intrigued by the idea of putting ballerinas in the ultra-modern “Katie.”

“It’s a real modern vocabulary,” Adams says, “but I have two great dancers dancing it (Deanna Doncsecz and Michelle Sigl) and two great understudies. They have gorgeous lines, and they jump like gazelles.”

Another guest choreographer from the world of modern dance, Kim Robards, who runs Kim Robards Dance in Colorado, contributes the athletic “Cascades.” Ballet Tucson last danced the piece four years ago, so Robards arrived in January to teach it to the current batch of dancers. After a post-Nutcracker hiatus, the dancers used it to get back in shape.

“It’s a very aerobic piece, really hard,” Cabana says.

Inspired by a spring hike Robards took in the Rockies when the ice was melting, “Cascades” mimics the movement of rushing water. The 16 dancers are dressed in silvery costumes, evoking ice and snowmelt.

The concert’s Asian course comes courtesy of Chieko Imada, Ballet Tucson’s artistic associate, who draws on her Japanese heritage in “Faith and Sorrow.” Last performed by the company a dozen years ago, the dance tells of a “warrior whose life is torn between his duty in war and his devotion to his love,” Cabana says.

In the jazz division, Sam Watson, an artist in residence at the UA School of Dance and a former dancer with Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, delivers two humorous works. “Pitter Patter Pulse (The Rhythm of the Rain)” has four dancers dressed in classic ’50s duds dancing to Duke Ellington. “Sleazeball Duet,” set in the ’70s, features a “greasy guy in a leisure suit,” danced by Daniel Precup, and a “repressed

schoolmarm,” played by the company’s prima ballerina, Jenna Johnson.

“It’s so opposite of what we usually see Jenna in,” Cabana says with delight. “This will get her out of the tutu.”

Johnson gets back into that tutu in “The Dying Swan,” a 1905 ballet classic choreographed by Mikhail Fokine. The melancholy solo, depicting a swan’s last moments, has “very artistic, difficult movements.”

Precup, now the company ballet master, debuts his “Bolero,” a neoclassical ballet set to the familiar music of Ravel. Danced by the full company of 26 dancers, with Johnson in the featured role, it opens the show.

The closer is “Masquerade,” a reprise of a Cabana-Chieko ballet. Danced by the whole troupe to music by Shostakovich, it begins with the dancers in heavy headdresses and costumes, and in elaborate masks designed by June Mullin. As the dance goes on, the costumes “deconstruct” and release the dancers within, Cabana says. “It’s about baring the soul.”

But the concert’s pièces de résistance are unquestionably the Tudor ballets. McKerrow and Gardner, now artistic associates of Ballet Tucson, travel the nation—and sometimes the world—setting Tudor’s pieces on ballet troupes.

They’ve been in New Zealand for the last six weeks, working with their old colleague Ethan Stiefel, the ABT star who’s now director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

In November, they began training the Ballet Tucson dancers in the two Tudor works to be danced this weekend. They’ve staged the fourth pas de deux from the 1975 work, “The Leaves Are Falling.” A premiere for Ballet Tucson, the excerpt will be danced by two alternating casts,

Dance and Dessert XV Presented by Ballet Tucson 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 9; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 10; 1 and 5 p.m., Sunday, March 11 UA Stevie Eller Dance Theatre 1713 E. University Blvd. $27; $20 for groups of 10 or more 903-1445; ballettucson.org Also: The Tucson Festival of Books takes place on Saturday and Sunday at the UA, so concertgoers are advised to arrive early; parking garages are free during the weekend

Stuart Lauer and Megan Terry, and Benjamin Tucker and Michelle Sigl. Set to music by Dvořák, the duet is “about young, swelling love,” Cabana says, “about young couples moving into their future together.”

“Continuo,” which the company has performed before, has six dancers paired off into three couples. They dance the 1971 work to the familiar Pachelbel’s Canon in D. “It has gentle, wafting movement that goes into lifts in the Tudor style,” Cabana says. “They don’t look difficult, but they’re just killer.”

The dance is double-cast, with the two sets of dancers alternating over the five weekend concerts. Between the two pieces, at least 14 Ballet Tucson dancers are performing Tudor, and many more are learning the Tudor vocabulary. That’s by design.

“Everyone has a chance to do it,” Cabana says. “That’s to prepare for a larger Tudor piece” the company hopes to tackle one day.

And when that day comes, Tucson can expect a ballet banquet.

DANCE

Friday, March 9. All performances are in Crowder Hall; $5 to $9 Thursday, $10 to $15 Friday. Call 621-1162, or visit arizona.tix.com for tickets or more information.

Saturday, March 17; and 3 p.m., Sunday, March 18; $10. Call (520) 432-7217, or visit artentree.net/ fortheloveofmusic for reservations or more information

EVENTS THIS WEEK

PCC MUSIC PCC Center for the Arts. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 2066986. Tickets are $6. Visit pima.edu/cfa for details.

Thursday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m.: Wind Ensemble, Proscenium Theatre.

FOX THEATRE CONCERTS Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515.

Sunday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m.: The Manhattan Transfer; $35 to $94. Tuesday, March 20, at 2 and 7 p.m.: In the Mood Big Band Revue; $20 to $42. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for tickets or more information.

SHOPPING & ENTERTAINMENT DESTINATION!

JAVARITA COFFEE HOUSE Javarita Coffee House (The Good Shepherd United Church of Christ). 17750 S. La Cañada Drive.

Sahuarita. 625-1375. Rick Nestler performs sea chanties, folk and Irish music at 7 p.m., Friday, March 16; $10. Visit thegoodshepherducc.org for more information

LIVE MUSIC & PATIO BAR ON WEEKENDS

BALLET TUCSON UA Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. 1713 E. University Blvd.

621-4698. Dance and Dessert XV features a program emphasizing the company’s artistic range and desserts prepared by some of Tucson’s best-known chefs; $27.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 9; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 10; and 1 and 5 p.m., Sunday, March 11. Visit ballettucson.org, or call 903-1445 for tickets or more information.

NAHUI OLLIN AZTEC DANCERS La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar. 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. The Nahui Ollin Aztec Dancers perform a ceremonial dance in honor of the Aztec calendar, Tonalpohualli, at 1 and 3 p.m., Saturday, March 10; and noon and 2 p.m., Sunday, March 11; free. Call 623-5787, or e-mail equetzal@aol.com.

TUCSON TANGO FESTIVAL Holiday Inn. 4550 S. Palo Verde Road. 746-1161.

Milongas (dances), tango classes for all skill levels, private lessons and more fill six days and nights from Thursday, March 15, to Monday, March 19. Spectators are welcome at performances; $5. Call 468-5536, or visit tucsontango.com for complete schedules, registration fees and more info.

MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK ANSELMO VALENCIA TORI AMPHITHEATER Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheater. Casino del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. Friday, March 9, at 9 p.m.: Boz Scaggs; $22.50 to $50. Events are for age 21 and older. Visit casinodelsol.com for tickets or more information.

ARIZONA CHORAL SOCIETY Catalina United Methodist Church. 2700 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-4296. A mixed-voice ensemble presents a program of French choral music at 3:30 p.m., Sunday, March 11; $15, $12 advance. Call 579-5331, or visit azchoral.org for reservations or more information.

CHRISTINE VIVONA’S HARP ENSEMBLE Rincon Congregational Church. 122 N. Craycroft Road.

745-6237. Christine Vivona and her ensemble perform music in a range of genres from classical to jazz at 3 p.m., Saturday, March 10; $15, free student with ID or younger than 18.

THE CIVIC ORCHESTRA OF TUCSON Piano soloist Jose Solórzano is featured in a program of works by Spanish composers at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 10, Vail Theatre of the Arts, 10701 E. Mary Ann Cleveland Way; and at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 11, Crowder Hall, UA School of Music, 1017 N. Olive Road; free. Visit cotmusic.org for more information.

GASLIGHT THEATRE FAMILY CONCERTS The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Concerts are at 7 p.m., Monday; $12 to $22.

March 12: Big Band Express. March 19: Manhattan Dolls, Rockin’ With the Dolls: A ‘50s/’60s Revue. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com for tickets and more information.

LAVA MUSIC Abounding Grace Church. 2450 S. Kolb Road. 7473745. Doors are at 6:30 p.m.; shows are 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday; $20, $15 advance unless otherwise noted.

March 10: Sabra Faulk and the Angel Band. March 24: Bill and Kate Isles. March 31: Bright and Childers and Ice-9; $15, $10 advance. April 7: Salty Suites with Peter McLaughlin. Email bonnie@lavamusic.org, or visit lavamusic.org for tickets or more information.

RHYTHM AND ROOTS CONCERTS Suite 147 at Plaza Palomino. 2970 N. Swan Road, No. 147. 440-4455. Saturday, March 10, at 8 p.m.: Janiva Magness’ Stronger for It CD-release party; $23, $20 advance. Friday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m.: Johnny Rawls; $18, $15 advance, $10 student. Friday, March 30, at 8 p.m.: Jessica Fichot; $20, $18 advance, $10 student.

Call (800) 594-8499, or visit rhythmandroots.org for tickets. Call 319-9966 for more information.

TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101.

Friday, March 9, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, March 11, at 2 p.m.: Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, with the TSO Chorus. Saturday, March 10, at 8 p.m.: Live and Let Die: A Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney, featuring guest conductor Martin Herman. Tickets range from $25 to $78. Call 882-8585, or visit tucsonsymphony.org for tickets or more information.

UAPRESENTS UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. Sunday, March 11, at 7 p.m.: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir; $36 to $69. Call or visit uapresents.org for tickets or more information.

WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Leo Rich Theater. 260 S. Church Ave. 791-4101.

Chamber-music concerts continue through Sunday, March 11; $26, $12 student for each concert. A gala dinner and concert take place from 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, March 10, at the Arizona Inn, 2200 E. Elm St.; $150. Proceeds benefit the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. Open dress rehearsals are from 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, March 9; and Sunday, March 11; free.

A youth concert takes place from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Thursday, March 8; free. Master classes are conducted by cellist Steve Doane from 3 to 4 p.m., and horn player William Purvis from 4 to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 10; free. Visit arizonachambermusic.org for a schedule of guest artists and tickets for the concerts and gala.

OUT OF TOWN ARIZONA FOLKLORE PRESERVE Arizona Folklore Preserve. 44 Ramsey Canyon Road.

Hereford. 378-6165. Performers of traditional music are featured at 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $15, $6 younger than 17. March 10 and 11: Gary McMahan.

March 17 and 18: Call of the West. Visit arizonafolklore. com for reservations, information about the folklore preserve and a schedule of upcoming performances.

DESERT VIEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Desert View Performing Arts Center. 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. Friday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m.: Skins and Steel, the UA Percussion Studio’s Rosewood Marimba Band, UA Steel Drums, World Music Gang and CrossTalk electronic percussion group; $23, $20 advance. Saturday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m.: Kenny and Friends with Richard Hampton as Kenny Rogers; $25, $23 advance. Visit tickets. saddlebrooketwo.com for tickets or more information.

SHOPPES AT LA POSADA Shoppes at La Posada. 665 S. Park Centre Ave. Green Valley. 648-7870. Concerts take place from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., every Saturday, through March 17; freewill donation. Proceeds benefit Valley Assistance Services.

March 10: The Ed DeLucia Trio, guitar jazz. March 17: Crystal Ridge Bluegrass Band.

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LENTEN RECITAL SERIES St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Concerts are from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m., every Thursday, through March 29; freewill donation. March 8: Pete Fine, original works for 12-string guitar. March 15: Victor Valenzuela, horn.

March 22: Lisa Spurlin, soprano. March 29: Mitchell Sturges, tenor.

AWENRISING Christ Presbyterian Church. 6565 E. Broadway Blvd.

886-5535. Acoustic chamber ensemble AwenRising presents A Celtic Celebration of Song and Sound, a program of Celtic favorites and a new work by Tucson composer Robert Hanshaw, at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 18; $15. Call 344-2936, or email awenrising@gmail. com for more information.

MUSIC AT THE UA UA School of Music. 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655.

Daily through Friday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m.: 34th Annual Arizona Jazz Week. Highlights are the John Denman Memorial Concert with guest artist Dave Bennett, clarinet, and the Jeff Haskell Trio with Jack Wood, bass, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 8; and Studio Jazz Ensemble with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and jazz singer Sue Rainey at 7:30 p.m.,

DESERT VIEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Desert View Performing Arts Center. 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. Thursday, March 15, at 4 and 7:30 p.m.: How Great Thou Art; $30, $20 advance. Visit tickets.saddlebrooketwo.com for tickets or more information.

FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC Bisbee Women’s Club. 7 Ledge Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-3204. The Mosaic Harp Trio performs at 8 p.m.,

KARAN CASEY, JOHN DOYLE AND JOHN WILLIAMS Berger Performing Arts Center. 1200 W. Speedway Blvd.

770-3762. An Irish-music power trio performs at 8 p.m., Friday, March 16; $23 to $25. Visit inconcerttucson.com for tickets or more information.

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The legendary ’60s folk trio performs at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, March 20 and 21; $40 to $57. Call or visit arizonatheatre.org for tickets or more information.

ORO VALLEY MARKETPLACE Oro Valley Marketplace. Oracle and Tangerine roads.

Oro Valley. Jazz and R&B group Shaky Bones performs in the Century Theatres Courtyard at 6 p.m., Thursday, March 15; free. Call 797-3959 for more information.

PLAYING FOR UNITY IN DIVERSITY Old Tucson Studios. 201 S. Kinney Road. 883-0100.

Musicians from a wide range of cultures and genres perform in the spirit of bringing people together through music at a festival from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, March 17; $16.95, $10.95 child age 4 through 11, free younger child, includes admission to the park.

Email annick@playingforunityindiversity.com, or visit playingforunityindiversity.com for details.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS TUCSON WOMEN’S CHORUS Enrollment for new members is ongoing; no auditions, sight-reading or experience are required; $75 adults, free for girls with a singing adult, free for first-time guests, scholarships available. Rehearsals are at 7 p.m., every Monday, at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church, 3809 E. Third Street; and every Thursday, at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northwest Tucson, 3601 W. Cromwell Drive. Call 743-0991, or visit tucsonwomenschorus.org for more information.

THEATER OPENING THIS WEEK ARIZONA ROSE THEATRE COMPANY Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown opens Saturday, March 10, and continues through Sunday, March 18. Showtimes are 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $17, $15 senior or military, $10 age 8 and younger, $2 less advance. Call 8880509, or visit arizonarosetheatre.com for tickets.

BROADWAY IN TUCSON Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. The ‘80s arena-rock love story Rock of Ages opens Tuesday, March 13, and continues through Sunday, March 18.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; 8 p.m., Friday; 2 and 8 p.m., Saturday; and 1 and 6:30 p.m., Sunday; $56 to $76.35, plus $14.20 if purchased online. Visit broadwayintucson.com for tickets.

CAFÉ BOHEMIA Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875.

Playwrights workshop new works in readings in the lounge; $5. Saturday, March 10, at 10:30 p.m., Larissa FastHorse reads Hunka, depicting a reunion between a recovering drug addict and her child.

THE CAPITOL STEPS UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. Former congressional staffers and comedians offer timely ensemble satire and musical mockery leaving no political viewpoint or politician’s antic unskewered, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 14; $180 includes a $100 tax-deductible donation to the Hillel Foundation at the UA. Call 624-6561, or visit uahillel.org for tickets.

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COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442.

The Comedy Genius of G.K. Chesterton, a compendium from his humorous essays and witticisms, opens Friday, March 9, and runs through Sunday, March 18.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $12, $10 senior and student. Call or visit thecomedyplayhouse.com for tickets or more info.

FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515.

Thursday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m.: Ed Asner performs a one-man show as FDR; $25 to $48. Saturday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m.: Women Fully Clothed features comediennes from popular TV shows; $20 to $50. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for tickets or more information.

INVISIBLE THEATRE Invisible Theatre. 1400 N. First Ave. 882-9721.

Susan Clark portrays Bess Steed Garner in A Woman of Independent Means at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10; and 3 p.m., Sunday, March 11; $30.

Call or visit invisibletheatre.com for more information.

CONTINUING ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby continues through Saturday, March 17. Showtimes vary; $31 to $56 plus fees, $10 student with ID. Call or visit arizonatheatre. org for tickets or more information.

LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Shirley Valentine continues through Sunday, March 18. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 student, senior or military. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for tickets and more information.

RED BARN THEATRE Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. Oliver! continues through Sunday, March 25. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $16, $10 Friday, $13 senior, student or military. Call or visit theredbarntheater.com for more information.

THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Two Amigos, the comic adventures of circus performers Reynaldo and Paco, continues through Sunday, March 25. Showtimes are 7 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; 6 and 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 and 7 p.m., Sunday; $17.95, $7.95 child age 12 and younger, $15.95 student, military and senior. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com for reservations or more info.

UA THEATRE UA Marroney Theatre. 1025 N. Olive Road. 621-1162.

Julius Caesar and continues through Sunday, March 25. Dates and times vary; $17 to $28. Visit arizona.tix. com for tickets; see cfa.arizona.edu for more information about the plays.

LAST CHANCE ETCETERA Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Margaret Edson’s Wit closes Saturday, March 10.

Showtimes are 10:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; $10.

Visit etceteralatenight.com for more information.

THE ROGUE THEATRE The Rogue Theatre. 300 E. University Blvd. 5512053. The New Electric Ballroom closes Sunday, March 11. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $30, $15 Thursday. Visit theroguetheatre.org for tickets and more information.

UPCOMING BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. Radium Girls opens with a preview Thursday, March 15, and continues through Sunday, April 8.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m., Sunday; $21, $15 preview. Call or visit beowulfalley.org for tickets and more information.

UAPRESENTS UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. Thursday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m.: Wait Wait ...

Don’t Tell Me!; $36 to $69. Sunday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m.: Shirley MacLaine. Tuesday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m.: Larry King; $27 to $104. Call or visit uapresents. org for tickets or more information.

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PERFORMING ARTS The UA’s Arizona Repertory Theatre heatre does a fine job with Shakespeare’s ‘Julius ulius Caesar’

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BY LAURA C.J. OWEN, lowen@tucsonweekly.com hough it’s a theatrical mainstay, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar isn’t performed as often as, say, Hamlet.

Everyone knows “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,” and, “Et tu, Brute?” but the structure of the play is not burned into our collective consciousness in the way that Romeo and Juliet is.

Or when I say “our collective consciousness,” perhaps I simply mean “my memory.”

For instance, the famous lines that I quoted above, and the assassination of Caesar himself: Did you remember that all of that happens before Act 3 closes? In the Arizona Repertory Theatre’s current production at the UA (cut down from the full script), this means that the title character is dead before intermission.

Yes, Julius Caesar is largely a supporting character in his own play. Instead, the play is focused on Caesar’s protégée, Brutus (played by James Conway). In the beginning of the play, savvy Cassius (Joe Hubbard) convinces Brutus that Caesar is well on his way to becoming a dictator, and prevails upon Brutus to join an assassination conspiracy.

After the bloody deed is done, Brutus and Cassius must deal with the fallout from their actions, as charismatic Mark Antony (Robert Don Mower) persuades the Romans to riot.

As Julius Caesar, Aaron Blanco spends more time as a corpse then he does alive. In fact, his role in this production seems to be that of a dramatic body. In one of his few speaking scenes, Blanco is nearly naked, doing his best to imitate an impressive marble statue as a slave girl wipes him down. Then, after he is killed, he spends a long time lying on the stage in a pool of blood as the others declaim over his body.

He spends an even longer time under a blanket as Antony speaks to the Roman people, before Antony dramatically reveals Caesar’s corpse.

(Impressively, not once did I notice the blanket moving with the actor’s breath.) Finally, Blanco makes one more bloody, semi-naked appearance in the second act, appearing as a reproachful ghost. (Here, Blanco rises from below the stage, a neat theatrical effect.)

I had the notion walking in that the play was all about Brutus’ decision to murder Caesar.

But because we see very little of Caesar as a leader, and none of Brutus and Caesar’s relationship, this dilemma isn’t actually at the heart of the play. Rather, the main themes are opportunism and guilt: Who’s going to take best advantage of this turbulent political moment?

Brutus makes several bad calls, including underestimating Antony. And Brutus and Cassius struggle with the guilt of their actions,

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James Conway and Joe Hubbard in Julius Caesar. allowing their conflicted feelings to tear them apart. In the end, the question of whether or not Caesar was a budding dictator is beside the point; what matters is how the survivors cope with and spin the assassination.

This ART production has two smart and capable actors at its center: As Brutus and Cassius, Conway and Hubbard give intelligent, confident performances. Conway’s Brutus evolves from an insecure young man into a tragic hero, while Hubbard’s Cassius devolves from a conniving politician into a tortured sad-sack.

Additionally, voice and text coach Dianne J. Winslow’s work is evident in the cast’s musical delivery of the language; the actors’ speech captures the rhythm of the text, while communicating each line’s meaning clearly. Often, in Shakespearean productions, you get the sense that the actors are working against the language, trying to find humor or meaning in their delivery while barely conscious of what the words actually mean. In this production, you believe each actor actually knows what it is he is saying.

A few of the actors do end up skirting that line between clear enunciation and a quasiBritish accent. As Mark Antony, Mower unfortunately succumbs to semi-British-ism. Still, he does an excellent job of conveying Antony’s charisma in his crucial crowd scene, even earning a wry chuckle from the audience with his hypocritical line, “Sweet friends, let me not stir you up.”

The production’s director, Brent Gibbs, is also its fight director; in a play that is full of murders, suicides, crowd scenes and battles, it’s crucial that you have someone at the helm who knows how to get actors to credibly move, and Gibbs does excellent work here. The stabbings are both intimate and intense; the deaths are visceral and fairly realistic. (“That’s so gross,” I heard an audi-

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ence member say as the conspirators dipped their hands in Caesar’s blood. In a world of graphic movie violence, it’s nice to know that old-fashioned stage work can still make people uncomfortable.)

Costume designer Patrick Holt earned my undying love for putting the actors in multicolored togas, rather than the historically inaccurate pure white. Another nice realistic touch: Not everyone’s armor is shiny. The big shots like Caesar and Octavius have decorative, polished breastplates, but everyone else’s armor is rusty and dirty.

The whole play takes place in the same semicircular set. As we progress, the set is taken apart; tiles are ripped up; and pillars fall (quite dramatically), visually illustrating the destruction of Rome.

In fact, with its bloody deaths, partial nudity and special effects, this production reminds you that in its day, Julius Caesar was the equivalent of current television shows like Spartacus: a gory, sexy spectacle. But as a bonus, you leave ART’s production with the beautiful rhythms of some of Shakespeare’s best speeches echoing in your ears.

PERFORMING ARTS ATC mounts an impressive production oduction of ‘The Great Gatsby’—but the story does oes not resonate onstage

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BY SHERILYN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com nweekly.com he Great American Novel has not become the Great American Play.

Arizona Theatre Company has undertaken the rather daunting task of mounting Simon Levy’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby, the novel considered by many to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s defining work and the prime candidate for that rather outsized designation as the Great American Novel. It’s a sparkling, sprawling presentation, largely true to Fitzgerald’s story, set in those Roaring ’20s several years before the Great Depression.

Although great care has been taken by both the adapter and the theater, the effect is a beautiful impression that glides across the stage— quite literally, considering the use of a revolving stage—and retells a story that doesn’t benefit in a substantive way from the transfer from one medium to another. It disappoints in leaving a lasting dramatic footprint.

The admirable intention of most adaptations is to give us an opportunity to take in the original work’s story, its characters and its themes in a way that might make them more accessible, or, in the best of circumstances, illuminate them in such a manner that we can discover the work in a fresh or even surprisingly different way. But it’s tricky business, because each medium has its own way of making its point and delivering its impact—and its own expectations of those who take it in.

Fitzgerald’s story takes on the troubling trend toward money, glitz and glamour in post-World War I America. After victory in the war to end all wars, how could there be anything standing in the way of a world of privilege and prosperity if one were willing to work hard and, perhaps, from time to time, bend the rules a bit?

The story actually belongs to Nick Carraway (Zachary Ford). He’s a smart, openhearted young man from the Midwest who has enjoyed the benefits of a good upbringing, a Yale education and surviving a dangerous coming-of-age as a soldier. He is our narrator, and Ford skillfully provides the engine that drives this production. Articulate, observant and curious, he is in his own way determined to carve out for himself a life of stability, respect and wealth.

Moving to Long Island for a summer to learn the bond business, he rents a small cottage next to the property of Jay Gatsby (David Andrew Macdonald). It’s a sprawling landscape with an almost comically ostentatious manor, owned by a man cloaked in mystery. Rumors fly about his origins, his business and his lifestyle, and he seems to enjoy the anonymity of his oversized but oddly thin presence in the seaside community.

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Monette Magrath and David Andrew Macdonald in Arizona Theatre Company’s The Great Gatsby. a first-rate cast. The actors do a skillful job of Carraway has a distant cousin, Daisy The Great Gatsby creating these familiar characters, and our lack (Monette Magrath), who lives across the Sound Presented by the Arizona Theatre Company of emotional attachment with them is not realwith her wealthy husband, Tom Buchanan ly the actors’ fault. In the need to get this com(William Peden), a “hulking” athletic man who 7:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday, March 8 and 9; 4 and 8 p.m., Saturday, March 10; 2 p.m., Sunday, plicated story told, they are required to deliver was Nick’s classmate at school. Daisy has decidMarch 11; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Wednesday and characters who reveal their essence in a ed their friend, professional golfer Jordan Thursday, March 14 and 15; 7:30 p.m., Friday, moment, which they actually do fairly well. But March 16; 2 and 8 p.m., Saturday, March 17 Baker (Sofia Jean Gomez), would be a good in brief and episodic scenes, there is little summer match for Nick. He, however, is out of Temple of Music and Art opportunity for the kind of development his league in their world of old money and the 330 S. Scott Ave. required for us to understand them, to hate excesses of easy wealth, which includes Tom’s $35 to $56 them, to have sympathy for them. Even with open, but mostly overlooked, attachment to a Runs two hours and 15 minutes, Ford’s charm and sincerity, Nick’s story of rather classless paramour. with one intermission coming of age in this peculiar set of circumThe plot thickens when Gatsby confides in 622-2823; stances doesn’t sink into our hearts.

Nick that he has been in love with Daisy since www.aztheatreco.org Still, this is an impressive production. Yoon before he went to war, and is sure that she is in Bae’s multiple settings evoke the period and love with him. He believes his wealth will now the social class, and the complex transitions are amazing array of period opulence, and they be the key to winning her away from Tom, and absolutely help us know who these characters well-orchestrated. There are some questionable he enlists Nick to help arrange a meeting in are. It’s a great achievement—but it’s definitely choices, however. The production style sugwhich Gatsby will reveal himself and his love. not a director’s dream to have technical craftsgests theatrical realism, complete with the It seems that Gatsby’s dream scenario will manship trump a show’s dramatic impact. appearance of a bright-yellow roadster. But come to pass—but dreams are often ill-fated, There are many commendable aspects of when Nick and Gatsby board a hydroplane, even great American ones.

ATC’s production, but the dangers of adapting two women hold aloft large blocklike pieces In this theatrical version of this tale of misa novel—an American classic, no less—to live that become the wings of the plane, and in a guided dreams and the empty allure of wealth, and breathe effectively within the very differmoment are transformed into the chassis of a we watch the story, but we don’t feel it. There ent demands of telling stories onstage are all taxicab. It’s quite a clever effect, but it doesn’t doesn’t seem to be enough time to develop too obvious. In the end, the story feels as keep with the rest of the production style. these characters so that we feel for them. empty as the stylish but hollow lives of its Perhaps the real star of the show is David Without this attachment, their tragedy is hollow. characters.

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OPENING THIS WEEK DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN LITTLE GALLERY DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun Little Gallery. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9191. The Dancing Saguaro, with more than 30 watercolor paintings by Brian Hill, opens with a reception from noon to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 11, and continues through Friday, March 23. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; free. Visit degrazia.org for more information.

DELECTABLES Delectables Restaurant and Catering. 533 N. Fourth Ave. 884-9289. Divine Providence, an exhibit of paintings and prints by Wil Taylor, opens with a reception from 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, March 10, and continues through Saturday, March 31. The reception features live music by Dylan Charles. Hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 884-9289, or visit wiltaylor.com for more information.

JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY Joseph Gross Gallery. 1031 N. Olive Road, No. 108.

626-4215. Apariciones Apparitions, an exhibit of paintings by Adriana Gallego and Claudio Dicochea reflecting traditional casta styles and women’s roles in resistance and war, opens with a reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 8, and continues through Monday, April 2. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and noon to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday.

TOHONO CHUL PARK Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. An exhibit of gourds carved and painted by local artists opens Thursday, March 8, and continues through Sunday, May 6, in the gallery. A gourd festival takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, March 15 through 17; free with admission.

The event features thousands of decorated, altered and adapted gourds for sale, as well as classes and workshops about how to select and prepare gourds for crafts. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org.

TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. A reception for In the Gardens: An Exhibition of Student Work, a collection of photography from a class at the gardens, takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, March 9. The show continues through Sunday, March 11; free with admission. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $8, $4 age 4 to 12, free member and younger child. Call or visit tucsonbotanical. org for more information.

TUCSON CONTEMPORARY ARTS Tucson Contemporary Arts. 439 N. Sixth Ave., No. 171.

622-8997. Infuse, a program in which UA graduate students in visual arts and creative writing collaborate on new work, meets from 7 to 9 p.m., the second Thursday of every month, through May 10; free.

CONTINUING ARIZONA HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY Arizona Health Sciences Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 626-7301. Travels in Medicine: Exploring the Global Health Community, an exhibit of photographs depicting UA students, faculty and staff participating in health initiatives outside the U.S., continues in the library, Room 2101, through Saturday, April 21. Hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., daily; free. Call for information.

ARTSEYE GALLERY ArtsEye. 3550 E. Grant Road. 325-0260. Please Don’t Tell, an exhibit of Chris Gall’s comic-book-inspired illus-

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trations for a cocktail book by mixologist Jim Meehan, closes with a reception and book-signing from 5:30 to 8 p.m., Friday, March 16. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; free. Visit artseye.com for more information.

ATLAS FINE ART SERVICES Atlas Fine Art Services. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 622-2139. An exhibit of works on paper continues through Saturday, March 24. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; free.

BEMINE: WRITERS AND ARTISTS COLLABORATE UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765.

Curated pairs of Tucson writers, visual artists and musicians collaborate to re-invent the valentine in BeMine, an exhibit that continues through Friday, March 30. Visit poetry.arizona.edu for more information. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; free.

BENTLEY’S HOUSE OF COFFEE AND TEA Bentley’s House of Coffee and Tea. 1730 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-0338. An exhibit of new work by painter and printmaker Wil Taylor continues through Thursday, March 15. Hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit wiltaylor.com for more information.

CONRAD WILDE GALLERY Conrad Wilde Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., Suite 195.

622-8997. The Seventh Annual Encaustic Invitational continues through Saturday, March 31. Hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; free. Visit conradwildegallery.com for more information.

CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557.

Hackneyed Taboos and Tin Ears Too, an exhibit of Gary Aagaard’s paintings interpreting socio-political concerns, continues through Saturday, March 31. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Visit contrerashousefineart.com for more information.

GEORGE STRASBURGER ART GALLERY George Strasburger Art Gallery. 172 N. Toole Ave. 8822160. People and Places, an exhibit of paintings by George Strasburger and photographs by Alfonso Elia, continues through Saturday, March 31. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Saturday. Visit georgestrasburger.com for more information.

INDUSTRIA STUDIOS Industria Studios. 1441 E. 17th St. 235-0797. The Artists of Industria, featuring paintings and sculpture

by Marc David Leviton and fusion modeling by Brian Carlton, continues through Sunday, March 25; free.

Hours 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, or by appointment.

LA PILITA MUSEUM La Pilita Museum. 420 S. Main Ave. 882-7454. An exhibit of barrio scenes painted by members of the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild continues through Friday, March 30. A reception including wine and music takes place from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 10.

Regular hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and 5 to 7 p.m., the second Saturday of every month; $2 suggested donation.

MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101.

615-3001. Diana Madaras’ “Flowers for Susan” and other floral paintings are featured through Thursday, March 15. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday. Visit madaras.com for more information.

PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY AND STUDIO Philabaum Glass Gallery and Studio. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Glass 30-40-50, an exhibit celebrating the 30th anniversary of Philabaum Glass Gallery, the 40 years the gallery’s exhibiting artists have worked in glass, and the 50th anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement, continues through Saturday, April 28.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit philabaumglass.com for more info.

DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY Davis Dominguez Gallery. 154 E. Sixth St. 629-9759.

Into a Large Place: Paintings of the National Parks, an exhibit of plein-air paintings by Duncan Martin; and The End of Time, abstract sculpture by Barbara Jo McLaughlin, continue through Saturday, March 17.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit davisdominguez.com for more information.

PIMA AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM Pima Air and Space Museum. 6000 E. Valencia Road.

574-0462. Round Trip: Art From the Boneyard, an exhibit of military airplanes and parts recycled into art works, continues through Thursday, May 31. Round Trip features works by more than 30 artists from around the world, including popular graffiti and street artists, and Tucsonan Daniel Martin Diaz. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last admittance, 4 p.m.), daily; $15.50, $9 ages 7 to 12, free younger child, $12.75 senior, military, Pima County resident and AAA member. Visit pimaair.org.

DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. 6300 N. Swan Road.

299-9191. Portraits of DeGrazia, an exhibit of photographs and paintings of Ted DeGrazia, including works

by Louise Serpa and Thomas Hart Benton, continues through Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Ted DeGrazia Depicts the Life of Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino: 20 Oil Paintings is on permanent display. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; free. Call or visit degrazia.org for info.

PORTER HALL GALLERY Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Barbara Smith: Landforms and Lepidoptera, an exhibition of colorful nature paintings, continues through Sunday, April 8. Gallery admission is free with paid admission to the gardens. Regular hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., every day; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.

DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road.

722-4412. Painted Spring, an exhibit of pieces in a range of media by a variety of local artists and artisans, continues through Sunday, June 3. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sunday. Visit desertartisansgallery.com for info.

THE PROCESS MUSEUM The Process Museum. 8000 S. Kolb Road. (646) 7139793. David A. Clark: The Point, featuring the artist’s newest series of monoprint encaustic paintings, continues through Wednesday, April 18. Hours are from 10 a.m. to noon, every Tuesday and Thursday. Visit processmuseum.org for more information.

DETAILS ART AND DESIGN GALLERY Details Art and Design. 3001 E. Skyline Drive, No. 139.

577-1995. The Purse Museum, an exhibit of antique to contemporary purses and handbags that represent unique styles and designs, continues through Friday, April 20; free. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday. Visit thepursemuseum.com for more information.

RAICES TALLER 222 GALLERY Raices Taller 222 Gallery. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335.

Indian Born, American Made, an exhibit of traditional and contemporary artwork by invited Native American artists representing more than 20 North American tribes, continues through Saturday, April 14. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday, or by appointment; free. Call or visit raicestaller222.webs.com for info.

THE DRAWING STUDIO The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947.

Arizona Encaustics 2012, a juried show representing artists throughout the state, continues through Saturday, March 31. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit thedrawingstudio.com.

SOUTHERN ARIZONA ARTS GUILD Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 3236262. An art show juried by SAAG members continues through Monday, April 30. The exhibit is always open; free. Visit southernazartsguild.org for more information.

ETHERTON GALLERY Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Don’t Look Now: Craig Cully, Chris Rush and James Reed, an exhibit of painting and mixed media highlighting the way the ordinary is made exotic, continues through Tuesday, March 27. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and by appointment; free.

Visit ethertongallery.com for more information.

FLORENCE QUATER GALLERY Southwest University of Visual Arts’ Florence Quater Gallery. 2538 N. Country Club Road. 325-0123.

Transmission, an exhibit of diverse approaches to the video medium, continues through Thursday, March 22.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free.

SOUTHERN ARIZONA WATERCOLOR GUILD Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Gallery. 5605 E. River Road, Suite 131. Simply Art, an exhibit of members’ works submitted for judging, continues through Sunday, April 1; free. An awards reception is held from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, March 16. Visit watercolor-sawg.org.

TEMPLE GALLERY Temple Gallery. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. Dirk Arnold: Endangered, an exhibit of framed shadowboxes featuring iconic Tucson buildings including Little Poca Cosa, Loft Cinema, Lucky Wishbone and Rainbo Bakery, continues through Tuesday, April 3. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and before Arizona Theatre Company performances on Saturday and Sunday; free. Call 6222823, or e-mail info@ethertongallery.com for info.

THE STUDENT ADDY EXHIBITION Art Institute of Tucson. 5099 E. Grant Road. 3182700. An exhibition of work that students submitted to the Tucson Advertising Federation’s Annual Addy Awards competition continues through Saturday, March 24.

Hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday; free.

TOHONO CHUL PARK Tohono Chul Exhibit Hall. Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Arizona Centennial Exhibit continues through Sunday, April 22. The exhibit features works highlighting the landscapes, historic locations, culture and wildlife of our region. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5. Visit tohonochulpark.org.

TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport Gallery. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. Journey West: Elliptical Stories, Tom Kiefer’s exhibit of black-and-white photographs of Arizona road scapes, continues through Saturday, March 31, in the Main Gallery between the Southwest and Delta Airlines ticket counters. TIA galleries are open 24 hours, daily; free. Visit flytucsonairport.com for more information.

TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL Tucson Pima Arts Council. 100 N. Stone Ave., No. 303.

624-0595. An exhibition of mixed-media paintings by Barbara Brandel and Lorrie Parsell continues in the lobby through Wednesday, March 28. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. An exhibit of works in oil and collage by David Rowland Zaher and Lisa Scadron continues through Sunday, April 1. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, and Tuesday through Friday.

ZOË BOUTIQUE Zoë Boutique. 735 N. Fourth Ave. 740-1201. Peep Show, an exhibit of paintings and drawings by local artists employing diverse media and techniques, continues through Monday, April 30; free.

LAST CHANCE BLUE RAVEN GALLERY AND GIFTS Blue Raven Gallery and Gifts. 3054 N. First Ave., No. 4. 623-1003. Crazy for Color, an exhibit of works in a range of media by local artists, closes Saturday, March 10. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; noon to 5 p.m., Friday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; or by appointment; free. Visit blueravengalleryandgifts.com for more information.

CAMPUS CHRISTIAN CENTER ART GALLERY Campus Christian Center Art Gallery. 715 N. Park Ave. 623-7575. A Shared Passion for Color, an exhibit of mixed-media works by Santy Brittain and Carol Chambers, closes Friday, March 9; free.

LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery. PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6942. East/Pacific/West: Confluence, featuring works by Claire Campbell Park, Nancy Tokar Miller and Mary Babcock, closes Friday, March 9. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday and Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday; and before most evening performances in the Center for the Arts.

Visit pima.edu/cfa for more information.

OUT OF TOWN VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS GALLERY Ventana Medical Systems Gallery. 1910 E. Innovation Park Drive, Building No. 2. Oro Valley. 887-2155. An exhibit of works by Eric Galbreath, Roberta Lewis and Sherry Tolman continues through Friday, March 30.

An artists’ reception takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, March 8; free. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the first and third Saturday every month; free.

Reservations are required 48 hours in advance; call 797-3959 for reservations or more information.

MUSEUMS EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. An exhibit of 20 Hopi quilts continues through Monday, Aug. 20. Many Mexicos: Vistas de la Frontera

continues through Friday, Nov. 30. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, free youth younger than 18, active-duty military and their families, people with business in the building and everyone for public events. Visit statemuseum.arizona.edu for info.

MINI-TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. Shaping Arizona Statehood: The George Stuart Historical Figures of the Movement West, an exhibit celebrating the state’s centennial, continues through Saturday, April 14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; $7, $6 senior or military, $5 age 4 to 17, free younger child.

Visit theminitimemachine.org for more information.

MOCA MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Writer and social critic Joan Juliet Buck shares a series of performative monologues from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 8 and April 12; $10, $5 member. Legislate Crazy, an exhibit of work by MOCA artist-in-residence Armando Miguelez, continues through Friday, March 30. As part of the exhibit, museum visitors of all ages are invited to interact and have their photo taken with a sign from Legislate Crazy. The photos will be installed as part of the exhibit. Camp Bosworth’s Plata o Plomo, which interprets the Marfa artist’s perceptions of gangster culture in the Americas, also runs through Friday, March 30. Hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; $8, free member, child younger than 17, veteran, active military and public-safety officers, and everyone the first Sunday of each month. Call or visit moca-tucson.org for more information.

RAPTOR FREE-FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road.

883-2702. Free-flight demonstrations showcase the natural behavior of native birds of prey at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., daily, through Sunday, April 15, weather permitting; $13, $4.25 ages 6 to 12, free child younger than 6, includes admission to the museum. Visit desertmuseum.org for more information.

RODEO PARADE MUSEUM Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum. 4823 S. Sixth Ave. 294-3636. A large collection of coaches, carriages, wagons and other vehicles, as well artifacts from Tucson’s aviation history, are exhibited from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, through Saturday, April 7; $10, $8 senior, $2 child, 50 percent off for military personnel and their family with military ID. Call or visit tucsonrodeoparade.org for more info.

TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333.

Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray, photographs by Kahlo’s longtime lover and friend; Frida’s Style: Traditional Women’s Costume From Mexico; and Tesoros del Pueblo: Latin American Folk Art, featuring many items from the museum’s permanent collection, continue through Sunday, June 3. (con)text, an exhibit of works from the permanent collection that examine the impact of text in contemporary art, continues through Saturday, June 30. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; $8, $6 senior and veteran, $3 student with ID, free younger than 13, free the first Sunday every month.

UA MUSEUM OF ART UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567.

The Border Project: Soundscapes, Landscapes and Lifescapes closes Sunday, March 11. This exhibit is the centerpiece of many events, symposia and related exhibits. The closing event features tours, contests and discussions at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 8; free. Visit artmuseum.arizona.edu for details of related activities.

Paseo de Humanidad, a 13-piece installation of life-size migrant figures and Mayan and Aztec codices, closes Sunday, March 11. The Samuel H. Kress Collection and the altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo are on display until further notice. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and noon to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $5, free member, student, child, faculty and staff with ID. Call or visit artmuseum.arizona.edu.

UA SCIENCE: FLANDRAU UA Science: Flandrau. 1601 E. University Blvd. 6217827. Biters, Hiders, Stinkers and Stingers, an exhibit about poisonous animals and the good they do, continues through Thursday, May 31. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday; 6 to 9 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday; $7.50, $5 age 4 to 15, free younger child, $2 Arizona college student with ID, $2 discount to CatCard holders.

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LITERATURE EVENTS THIS WEEK BARBARA LEFF: AND GOD SAID The Jewish History Museum. 564 S. Stone Ave. 6709073. Openly gay, Barbara Leff interprets stories from Genesis in poetry reflecting contemporary understanding, at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 11; freewill donation. The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona LGBTQ Inclusion Project co-sponsors.

A CLOSER LOOK BOOK CLUB UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. George Saunders’ Pastoralia is discussed at 6 p.m., Thursday, March 8; free. Anyone who has read the book is invited to participate with Poetry Center staff and faculty. Email knowles@email.arizona.edu for more information.

JOANNE BODIN: WALKING FISH Bookmans. 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-9555. Joanne Bodin signs her new novel about finding ways to adapt, from 4 to 6 p.m., Friday, March 9; free.

VOICES FROM ARIZONA’S PAST UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. In tribute to Arizona’s centennial, Voices From Arizona’s Past: Sharlot Hall and Hattie Lockett, an exhibit of manuscripts and materials from the lives of pioneer poets, continues through Saturday, March 31. Exhibit hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; free. Visit az100.arizona.edu for more info about UA tributes to Arizona’s centennial.

UPCOMING JEFF WHEELWRIGHT: THE WANDERING GENE AND THE INDIAN PRINCESS Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Jeff Wheelwright discusses his book The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion and DNA, a theory about why a gene marking Jewish descent is also present in Hispanic communities, at 7 p.m., Friday, March 16; free. A Q&A and refreshments follow. Visit antigonebooks.com for more information.

JIM TURNER: ARIZONA: A CELEBRATION OF THE GRAND CANYON STATE Tumacácori National Historical Park. 1891 E. Frontage Road. Tumacácori. 398-2341. Jim Turner discusses and signs his book celebrating Arizona’s centennial, at 2 p.m., Friday, March 16; $3 includes admission to the park. Visit nps.gov/tuma for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BOOKWORMS Bookmans. 1930 E. Grant Road. 325-5767. This book club meets from 7 to 8 p.m., on the second Wednesday of every month; free. The March 14 title is Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Urrea.

CONTEMPORARY FICTION BOOK CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Current literary fiction is the topic from 10 a.m. to noon, on the second Thursday of every month; free.

Call or visit orovalleyaz.gov for more information.

OMNIVOROUS READERS Sahuarita Branch, Pima County Public Library. 725 W. Via Rancho Sahuarita. Sahuarita. 594-5490. Maurynne Maxwell leads discussions of a mix of contemporary fiction and nonfiction from 10 a.m. to noon, the second Saturday of every month; free.

LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK ART LECTURES AT DUSENBERRY LIBRARY Dusenberry River Branch, Tucson-Pima Public Library.

5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. Docents from the UA Museum of Art and the Tucson Museum of Art give talks from 2 to 3 p.m., Tuesday; free. March 13: Francis Chen, “Power and Humility.” March 27: Sandy Cord, “Louis Comfort Tiffany: Intriguing Life in Glass.”

B’NAI B’RITH INTERNATIONAL, SAHUARO LODGE #763 B’nai B’rith Covenant House. 4414 E. Second St. 3274006. Nonmembers are invited to attend a presentation

by Pima Council on Aging ombudsman Stewart Grabel about how elderly people can avoid abuse and scams, at 9:30 a.m., Sunday, March 11; free. A breakfast of lox, bagels, juice, coffee and cake is $5. Call 529-1830.

CARLOS MARTÍN BERISTAIN: REPARATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA UA Integrated Learning Center, Room 141. 1500 E. University Blvd. 621-2211. Carlos Martín Beristain, professor of psycho-social health at the Universidad de Duesto, Spain, and a veteran of human rights and victims’ movements in Central and South America, presents “Truth, Justice and Human Rights Reparations in Latin America” from 3:30 to 4:30, Thursday, March 8; free.

EDDIE JONES: THE POETICS OF INFLUENCE MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Phoenix-based architect Eddie Jones tells how contemporary art and artists influence his practice, from 5 to 6 p.m., Saturday, March 10; $10, $5 MOCA member.

GO PLAY OUTSIDE: CREATING FUN, YET PRACTICAL, OUTDOOR SPACES Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455.

Landscape-designer and sculptor Greg Corman discusses ways to create outdoor living spaces in home gardens, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., Saturday, March 10; $8, $4 member. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org.

GORDON MCCALL: MAYA AND MORE Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Gordon McCall presents a two-part DVD overview of Mayan civilization and its current influences, from 2 to 4 p.m., Wednesday; free. March 14: The Ancient Maya. March 21: The Maya and Central America Today.

JEFF SCHLEGAL: ENERGY CONSERVATION IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona. 924 N. Alvernon Way. 881-3300. Jeff Schlegal of the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project describes energy-efficiency programs available to customers of TEP and Southwest Gas, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, March 8; free. Call 326-7883.

MONDAYS AT THE MUSEUM Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333.

Seminars featuring food and wine pairings and guided tours of the museum take place at 3 p.m., Monday; $50.

March 12: Tesoros del Pueblo: Latin American Folk Art; wine by Alliance Beverage Distributing; food by Lodge on the Desert. March 26: Han and Beyond: The Renaissance of China; food and spirits by Pei Wei Asian Diner.

Wendy Moore, assistant professor of insect systematics, UA Department of Entomology, presents “Defensive Mechanisms in Beetles: Explosive Chemistry and Scalding Sprays” at Western National Parks Association, 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive; call 626-4559 for info.

OUT OF TOWN DENI SEYMOUR: CORONADO’S EXPEDITION North County Facility. 50 Bridge Road. Tubac. (520) 398-1800. Archaeologist Deni Seymour presents “New Understandings of Coronado’s Route Through Arizona and East to Quivira” to an open meeting of the Santa Cruz Valley Chapter of the American Archaeological Society at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 8; free. Call 2077151, or visit azarchsoc.org for more information.

WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION BOOKSTORE Western National Parks Association Bookstore. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Gary Somers, retired superintendent of the Nez Pearce National Historic Park, presents “The Nez Pearce War of 1877” at noon and 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 14; free.

Reservations are required; call between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for directions or info.

UPCOMING ALLEN DART: ARCHAEOLOGY’S DEEP TIME PERSPECTIVE ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY Dragon View. 400 N. Bonita Ave. 623-9855.

Archaeologist Allen Dart discusses the perspective archaeology provides on natural hazards, environmental change and human adaptation, at a Third Thursday Food for Thought dinner from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, March 15; free. Dinner is from the menu. Reservations are required by 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 14. Call 798-1201 or email info@oldueblo.org for more info.

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OF HUME AND BONDAGE Sheraton Four Points. 1900 E. Speedway Blvd. 3277341. The Tucson Philosophy Group discusses the views of 16th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume at 7 p.m., Monday, March 12; free. Call 298-1486 for info.

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PLANS TO CHANGE ‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’ IN TUCSON Manning House. 450 W. Paseo Redondo. 770-0714.

Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild speaks at a luncheon meeting of the National Association of Women Business Owners from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 13; $45 nonmember as space is available, $40 member, $15 less for RSVP and online payment by Thursday, March 8. Call 326-2926 for reservations or more info.

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SECRET LIFE OF QUAIL RiverPark Inn. 350 S. Freeway Blvd. 239-2300. Kirby Bristow, a research biologist with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, discusses the productivity, behavior and habitat of quail, at 7 p.m., Monday, March 12; free.

Call 629-0510, ext. 7011 for more information.

Suzanne Collins, Scholastic ($8.99)

2. The Glamour of Being Real Joanna Frueh, ErneRené ($10)

3. Running the Rift Naomi Benaron, Algonquin ($24.95)

4. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs, Quirk ($17.99)

SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY: OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE SAME COIN Villa Hermosa. 6300 E. Speedway Blvd. 298-6400.

Oasis instructor Lawrence Quilici discusses the who, what, where and why of intimacy from 1 to 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 13; $9. Call 322-5607 to register.

5. The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel

SIMULATED ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION EXPERIENCE FOR TEACHERS Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. 2201 W. 44th St. 7981201. Teachers experience how hands-on archaeology in the OPEN3 Program helps students learn and apply many Arizona curriculum standards, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 14; free. Visit oldpueblo.org/ assets/open3_flyer.pdf for a complete description of the experience. Reservations are required; call 798-1201.

Pamela Hale, Through a Different Lens ($19.95)

UA SCIENCE CAFÉ UA Science presents a series of free lectures for all ages at 6 p.m., unless otherwise indicated. Thursday, March 8: Regents professor of psychology and director of the cognition and neural systems program, UA Department of Psychology, Lynn Nadel presents “Memory: How It Works, or Doesn’t” at Mountain View Country Club Ballroom, 38759 S. Mountain View Blvd.; call 6265888 for more information. Tuesday, March 13: UA assistant professor of exoplanetary systems, Daniel Apai presents “The Hunt for Other Earths: Searching for Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone” at Cushing Street Bar and Restaurant, 198 W. Cushing St.; call 621-7827 for more information. Wednesday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m.:

Tea Obreht, Random House ($15)

6. Flying Lessons: How to Be the Pilot of Your Own Life

7. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain, Crown ($26)

8. Catching Fire Suzanne Collins, Scholastic ($17.99)

9. Arizona: A History (Revised Edition) Thomas E. Sheridan, University of Arizona ($26.95)

10. The Wolf Gift Anne Rice, Knopf ($25.95)

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CINEMA The found-footage movie craze has moved to a high school party—with tediously unfunny results

Boobs on Shaky Cam!

TOP TEN Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending Feb. 26, 2012

BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com few weeks ago, I complained that it seemed like I was reviewing “foundfootage” movies all the time.

Well, this trend doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon. It has embedded itself into the heads of Hollywood executives like bastard deer ticks given the gift of immortality. The continued financial success of junk like the Paranormal movies, the shaky-cam exorcism movies and Chronicle has studio heads at this very moment looking at rejected scripts and reconsidering them as future “found-footage” extravaganzas. Cut that budget; employ the shaky cam; and watch the dollars roll in!

The latest offender is Project X, produced

by The Hangover’s Todd Phillips and directed

by Nima Nourizadeh. The film is another unoriginal R-rated teen comedy about a really, really big party—except this time, the whole thing is being presented under the pretense that it’s being filmed by some weirdo for his AV class.

I was a little less annoyed by a person filming supposedly funny things, as opposed to a person holding on to a camera while being attacked by monsters and maniacs. It would be quite easy to film partying topless women in a bounce house without pissing your pants, dropping the camera and running away screaming in fear. It’s just a theory of mine.

That said, the script for this movie is no better than one of the American Pie direct-tovideo sequels. While a bunch of teens getting together and throwing a wild party has been funny in the past, and will most assuredly be funny in the future, it is not funny with Project X, thanks to an unmemorable cast.

In the role of the normal teen who becomes a rebel by the film’s end, there’s Thomas Mann as Thomas, the birthday boy for whom the giant party is being thrown.

The party is being orchestrated by Costa (Oliver Cooper), and he’s using Thomas’ house, because Costa’s parents are away, and he wouldn’t dare do anything this potentially destructive at his own place. Throw in Jonathan Daniel Brown as the fat guy trying to get laid, and you have your basic blueprint for a high school sex comedy.

The party starts slowly, but once it gets rolling, a “no people in the house” rule goes out the window, and things eventually start breaking and catching fire. Automobiles wind up in pools, and dudes show up with flamethrowers. It’s your standard Saturday-night kegger gone awry—except this time, it’s all shaky, and Nourizadeh seems more concerned with escalating chaos than actual comedy.

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1. Hugo Paramount

2. Tower Heist Universal

3. The Rum Diary FilmDistrict

4. J. Edgar Warner Bros.

5. The Way Arc

6. Puss in Boots DreamWorks

7. London Boulevard Sony

8. Take Shelter Sony

9. Martha Marcy May Marlene 20th Century Fox

Revelers hit the pool during the never-ending party of Project X. Most of the gags are variations on the same old jokes we’ve seen before. A little man punches people in the junk. A dog humps things. A guy finds a dildo and waves it around. I’m surprised nobody screwed a pie or shot a load into a beer glass.

I did get a good laugh out of one sequence: When a neighbor becomes fed up with the noise, he shows up on the porch and demands silence. The situation escalates until people get Tasered, and adults start punching adolescents in the face. It’s the one true moment in the film that is shocking and original enough to garner real laughs. Unfortunately, Project X needed at least another 15 moments like that.

To pad things out, the director offers numerous montages of sweaty teens dancing, swimming and jumping. It’s like they edited things together, came up with a 60-minute film, and realized they needed more, so they threw a lot of tits at the camera. For those of you who like tits over all else—and I know a bunch of you are out there—go ahead, and have at it.

How is it that moviegoers are flocking en masse to dreck like this? What’s next? Will they do a found-footage remake of Titanic in which Jack just happens to have a prototype movie camera in his bag courtesy of a curious Thomas Edison? Or a John F. Kennedy found-footage film, courtesy of a small 8-millimeter camera

10. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 Summit

Project X Rated R Starring Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper and Jonathan Daniel Brown Directed by Nima Nourizadeh Warner Bros., 88 minutes

Sacha Baron Cohen in Hugo.

Now playing at AMC Loews Foothills 15 (888262-4386), Century El Con 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 903), Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace (800-326-3264, ext. 899), Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 (806-4275) and Tower Theaters at Arizona Pavilions (579-0500).

planted by the CIA in Jackie O.’s pillbox hat?

That way, we could see the assassination up-close and in our face! It would make the Zapruder film look like Dumbo. While they’re at it, they could jump on another trend and make it a 3-D JFK assassination film. Why not? They’re going 3-D with Titanic!

The found-footage phenomenon is like an aggressive cinematic virus released in a film studio by one of those crazy bad-virus monkeys. And nobody—not Dustin Hoffman, not Matt Damon—will be able to stop it.

In fact, I hear Dustin Hoffman is hard at work on a found-footage remake of Tootsie.

Should be a real gas! And shaky!

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Act of Valor (R) Thu 11:50, 2:40, 4:05, 5:20, 7, 8:05, 10:45; Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:15, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 The Artist (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 1:50, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35; Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:30 Chronicle (PG-13) Thu 5:40, 7:55; Fri-Wed 8:30, 10:45 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) Thu 11:45, 2, 4:15, 6:30, 8:40, 10:50; FriSun 10, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15; Mon-Wed 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 11, 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) ends Thu 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 Friends With Kids (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (PG-13) ends Thu 2:25, 7:25 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D (PG-13) ends Thu 11:50, 5, 9:45 Gone (PG-13) ends Thu 11:20, 1:40, 9:40 John Carter (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 2, 8 John Carter 3D (PG-13) Fri-Wed 11, 5, 11 John Carter: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sun 10, 1, 4, 7:15, 10:15; MonWed 1, 4, 7:15, 10:15 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) ends Thu 2:05, 7:10 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Thu 11:30, 4:40, 9:40; Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:05, 3:35, 6; Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:35, 6 Project X (R) Thu 12:55, 3:15, 5:30, 8, 10:15; FriSun 10:15, 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55; MonWed 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Safe House (R) Thu 11:15, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30; Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:25, 5, 7:40, 10:25 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) ends Thu 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 Silent House (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:20 Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) ends Thu 11:35, 2:35 This Means War (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:30, 5:05,

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7:35, 10:10; Fri-Wed 11:20, 2, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 A Thousand Words (PG13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; FriSun 10:30, 12:55, 3:10, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05; MonWed 12:55, 3:10, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13) ends Thu 11:05, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 The Vow (PG-13) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40; Fri 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45; Sat 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45; Sun 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45; Mon-Wed 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45 Wanderlust (R) Thu 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:50, 10:25; Fri-Wed 11:35, 2:05, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35

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Act of Valor (R) Thu 11:30, 12:45, 2:15, 3:30, 5, 6:20, 7:55, 9:15, 10:35; Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:55, 10:35 The Artist (PG-13) ThuWed 11:45, 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 Chronicle (PG-13) ends Thu 7:45, 10:05 The Descendants (R) ends Thu 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) Thu-Wed 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:15, 2:50, 3:35, 5:10, 5:55, 7:30, 8:15, 9:50; Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:15, 2:50, 3:35, 5:10, 5:55, 7:40, 8:15, 10, 10:30 Friends With Kids (R) FriWed 11:45, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:30 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D (PG-13) Thu 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:25; Fri-Wed 11:35, 4:50, 10:25 Gone (PG-13) ends Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:35, 10 The Iron Lady (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:10; Fri-Wed 1:55, 6:50 John Carter (PG-13) FriWed 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:45 John Carter 3D (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:15, 1:10, 2:25, 4:20, 5:35, 7:30, 8:45, 10:40 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Thu 11:40, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30; Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:15, 4:40 The Metropolitan Opera: Ernani—Encore (Not Rated) Wed 6:30 Project X (R) Thu 12:15, 1:25, 2:35, 3:45, 4:55, 6, 7:15, 8:20, 9:35, 10:45; Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 8:20, 9:35, 10:45 Rampart (R) Fri-Wed 12, 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:40 Safe House (R) Thu 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:50, 10:40; Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) ends Thu 12, 2:25, 4:55, 7:15, 9:40

Silent House (R) Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30 Thin Ice (R) Thu 11:30, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10; Fri-Wed 11:30, 4:30, 9:20 This Means War (PG-13) Thu 11:35, 2, 4:35, 7:05, 9:40; Fri-Tue 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:40; Wed 11:35, 2:05 A Thousand Words (PG13) Fri-Wed 11:25, 2, 4:20, 7, 9:30 Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13) Thu 11:35, 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20; FriWed 2:10, 7:35 The Vow (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45; Fri-Wed 11:25, 2, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Wanderlust (R) Thu 11:20, 1:55, 4:25, 7, 9:25; Fri-Wed 11:20, 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25

3, 5:25, 7:40 Red Tails (PG-13) Thu 12:35, 3:40, 6:50; FriSat 12:35, 3:40, 6:55, 9:40; Sun-Mon 12:35, 3:40, 6:55; Tue 12:35, 3:40, 6:55, 9:40; Wed 12:35, 3:40, 6:55 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13) Thu 12:25, 3:55, 7; Fri-Sat 12:25, 3:55, 7, 10; SunMon 12:25, 3:55, 7; Tue 12:25, 3:55, 7, 10; Wed 12:25, 3:55, 7 War Horse (PG-13) Thu 12:05, 3:15, 6:35; FriSat 12:05, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50; Sun-Mon 12:05, 3:20, 6:40; Tue 12:05, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50; Wed 12:05, 3:20, 6:40 We Bought a Zoo (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:05, 7:05; Fri-Sat 3:45, 9:45; SunMon 3:45; Tue 3:45, 9:45; Wed 3:45

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The Adventures of Tintin (PG) Thu 2:30, 7:35; FriWed 12, 2:30, 5 The Adventures of Tintin 3D (PG) ends Thu 12, 5 Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) Thu 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:15; Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35; SunMon 12:15, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20; Tue 12:15, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35; Wed 12:15, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20 Big Miracle (PG) Thu 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30; Fri-Wed 12:50, 7:10 Contraband (R) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45; Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; SunMon 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50; Tue 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50 The Descendants (R) FriSat 12:55, 4:10, 7:25, 10:05; Sun-Mon 12:55, 4:10, 7:25; Tue 12:55, 4:10, 7:25, 10:05; Wed 12:55, 4:10, 7:25 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu 12:40, 4, 7:10; Fri-Sat 7:30, 10:20; Sun-Mon 7:30; Tue 7:30, 10:20; Wed 7:30 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R) Thu 11:55, 3:20, 6:55; Fri-Wed 11:55, 3:25, 7:05 Haywire (R) ends Thu 7:25 Joyful Noise (PG-13) ends Thu 12:30, 4:10 Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10; SunMon 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45; Tue 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10; Wed 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45 Mission: Impossible— Ghost Protocol (PG-13) Fri-Sat 12:40, 4, 7:15, 10:15; Sun-Mon 12:40, 4, 7:15; Tue 12:40, 4, 7:15, 10:15; Wed 12:40, 4, 7:15 The Muppets (PG) ends Thu 12:55, 3:50, 7:20 One for the Money (PG13) Fri-Sat 12:45, 3, 5:25, 7:40, 9:55; SunMon 12:45, 3, 5:25, 7:40; Tue 12:45, 3, 5:25, 7:40, 9:55; Wed 12:45,

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800-326-3264, ext. 903.

Call for Fri-Wed film times Act of Valor (R) Thu 11:20, 12:45, 2:10, 3:35, 5, 6:25, 7:50, 9:15, 10:30 Chronicle (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) Thu 11, 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (PG) Thu 11:50, 12:40, 2:15, 3:05, 4:40, 5:30, 7:05, 7:55, 9:30, 10:20 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D (PG-13) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Gone (PG-13) ends Thu 11:55, 2:25, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55 John Carter 3D (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Tue 1, 4, 7, 10 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Thu 12:45, 5:55 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Thu 11:25, 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 The Metropolitan Opera: Ernani—Encore (Not Rated) Wed 6:30 Project X (R) Thu 11:30, 12:40, 1:50, 3, 4:10, 5:20, 6:30, 7:40, 8:50, 10 Safe House (R) Thu 11:10, 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:25 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) Thu 11:35, 2, 4:30, 6:55, 9:20 Silent House (R) opens Fri Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:45, 7, 10:10 This Means War (PG-13) Thu 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 A Thousand Words (PG13) opens Fri Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13) ends Thu 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 The Vow (PG-13) Thu 11:15, 1:55, 3:15, 4:35, 7:20, 8:35, 10 Wanderlust (R) Thu 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 The Woman in Black (PG13) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:35, 8, 10:30

Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace 12155 N. Oracle Road.

800-326-3264, ext. 899.

Call for Sat-Wed film times Act of Valor (R) Thu 10:50, 1:30, 4:20, 7, 9:45; Fri 10:50, 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 The Artist (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:40; Fri 11:10, 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:45 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) Thu-Fri 10:45, 3:25, 8:05 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (PG) Thu-Fri 11:55, 1:05, 2:15, 4:35, 5:45, 6:55, 9:15, 10:20 Gone (PG-13) ends Thu 2:45, 7:50 The Iron Lady (PG-13) ends Thu 11:30, 2:05 John Carter (PG-13) Fri 11, 5:20 John Carter 3D (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri 12:35, 2:10, 3:45, 7, 8:30, 10:10; Sat-Wed 12:35, 3:45, 7, 10:10 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Thu 11:35, 2, 4:25, 7:10, 9:35; Fri 11:35, 2, 4:25, 7:15, 9:50 The Metropolitan Opera: Ernani—Encore (Not Rated) Wed 6:30 Project X (R) Thu 11:25, 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30; Fri 11:25, 1:55, 4:20, 7:10, 9:30 Safe House (R) Thu 11, 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15; Fri 11:05, 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 A Separation (PG-13) Fri 10:40, 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Thin Ice (R) Thu-Fri 12:05, 2:35, 5, 7:30, 10 This Means War (PG-13) ends Thu 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13) ends Thu 12, 5:10, 10:10 The Vow (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05; Fri 11:20, 2:05, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Wanderlust (R) ends Thu 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:20, 9:55

Cinema La Placita La Placita Village, Broadway Boulevard and Church Avenue.

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West Side Story (Not Rated) Sat 6:30

Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road.

327-7067.

Call for Fri-Wed film times * Reel Arts 6 film The Adventures of Tintin (PG) Thu 11:20, 4:35 Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) Thu 2:25 * Amigo (R) Fri-Sun 11, 4:20 7; Mon 11, 4:20; Tues-Wed 11, 4:20, 7 Contraband (R) Thu 10 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu 11:40, 4:30, 7:15

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R) Thu 11:30, 2:45, 6, 9:15 Joyful Noise (PG-13) Thu 11, 4:25 Red Tails (PG-13) Thu 1:50, 7:05, 9:50 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13) Thu 1:40, 7, 9:45 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R) Thu 10:50, 6:55 War Horse (PG-13) Thu 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:20 The Way (PG-13) Thu 4:15, 9:40 We Bought a Zoo (PG) Thu 1:35

Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515.

Stand by Me (R) Fri 7:30

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626-0370.

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A lead-actor dud dooms the epic ‘John Carter’ to failure

Misstep on Mars

BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com his year is the centennial of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars.

It wasn’t the first book about visitors to or from the angry red planet; that was probably Two Planets by Kurd Lasswitz, published in 1888. And it probably isn’t the first Mars novel most people can name; that would be H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, released in 1898. But Burroughs’ book plays an important role in the fictionalization of Mars, and in science fiction more generally.

Given its pedigree, it is surprising that this is the first time Hollywood has endeavored to bring the story to the silver screen. Well, real Hollywood, anyway: In anticipation of this release, the schlock-meisters at The Asylum put out a direct-to-DVD telling of A Princess of Mars starring Antonio Sabato Jr. and Traci Lords. It’s the same company responsible for Snakes on a Train and Transmorphers, for whatever that’s worth.

Retitled John Carter, the 3-D space epic begins in sunny Arizona. That’s where Civil War veteran Carter (Taylor Kitsch) has migrated to search for gold in the 1870s.

In the cave where he believes he’ll find his mother lode, he encounters and shoots an odd, bald being who speaks a funny language and wears a glowing medallion, which Carter instinctively grabs before the room goes blindingly bright. The next thing he knows, Carter wakes up in the desert—but not the one he was just in. He can jump tens if not hundreds of feet in the air. And he sees tall, green people.

A curiosity to the tribe at first, he eventually wins the Tharks over with his acrobatic fight maneuvers. (Carter’s leaping ability has something to do with gravity and bone density.)

Along the way, he rescues a princess of Mars, Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins), and finds himself in the middle of a turf war between her people and some heavily armed marauders.

This film is the live-action debut of director Andrew Stanton, one of Pixar’s golden boys. It would seem like a great experiment for someone with his background, because his imagination has quite a bit of room to explore. The Mars he creates—Barsoom, to the locals—is believable enough. We know it doesn’t really look like a desert in the American Southwest, but it works for the story. The Tharks are the next step in Avatar computer animation; the eyes are becoming a little more believable every year, and that’s the key to creatures like this. The battles are a little more Michael Bay than they need to be, but they’re not so jarring that they don’t belong.

Reviews by Jacquie Allen, Colin Boyd and Bob Grimm.

attention to Greenpeace; and Danson’s character wants to improve his dickhead, oil-tycoon persona.

The movie is a who’s-who of has-beens and soon-tobe has-beens. The film flopped at the box office, which is no surprise; it lacks a passion for its subject matter, and comes off as disingenuous. Allen

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Joel Torre stars as Rafael, the head of a Filipino barrio occupied by American forces during the Philippine-American War in the early 1900s. He is torn between helping the U.S. troops combat guerilla fighters, and helping his brother, Simon (Ronnie Lazaro)—who just so happens to be the leader of a group of guerillas. Written and directed by John Sayles, the film gets almost everything right on a production level: The direction is flawless; the setting is gorgeous; the acting is decent. However, the content is not very interesting. There are too many subplots that lead nowhere, as well as numerous long, boring conversations. There’s no real character development, and people come off merely as shells for the actors to fill. Everyone puts as much into it as they can, but the script is far too lacking for them to save it. The film and its location are amazing to look at, however, and the good moments here and there make it bearable. Allen CRAZY HORSE

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Peeling back the curtain (and, obviously, the costumes) to reveal life behind the scenes at one of the world’s most-famous burlesque houses, Crazy Horse can’t quite brings Paris’ famed attraction to life. It’s far too clinical for the subject matter, and the fun is stripped away (that pun is free of charge) as we go through rehearsal after rehearsal after rehearsal. This documentary lacks a clear direction, and the racy dance scenes are interminably long in spots. Frankly, that’s an unpleasant surprise; you’d figure the skin, at the very least, would help pass the time. Crazy Horse would be a lot more grounded if, instead of apparently eavesdropping on the club’s creative team, it threw in some commentary or interviews. As it stands, this looks more like the stuff they cut out of a good documentary about the Crazy Horse. Boyd

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SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN

Starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and Willem Dafoe

More than being really good or really bad, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is really unusual—in the sense that there’s nothing cinematic about the story, and no obvious reason it needs to exist. Ewan McGregor plays a fishing expert for the British government whose services are acquired by a Yemeni sheik; the sheik wants to, as the title suggests, fish for salmon in the desert. Impossible! McGregor’s bureaucrat strikes up a relationship with the sheik’s emissary, played by Emily Blunt, even though on the surface, that seems like a bigger upstream swim than exporting Atlantic salmon. This film was written by Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) and directed by Lasse Hallström, neither of whom, despite their impressive résumés, apparently had better stories to tell. Boyd

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Casting for this movie, however, was a problem. Collins is serviceable as Dejah Thoris.

She looks great, but doesn’t burn with that fire the role demands, given the consequences if anything should happen to the princess. Kitsch, even in 3-D, is a terribly one-dimensional actor.

He’s flat-out wrong here. He’s hard enough to buy as a Civil War soldier, but as the savior of Mars? Forget it.

Remember that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indy Jones runs through the bazaar in Egypt, and he’s too winded to fight the guy twirling his scimitar, so he just pulls out his revolver and shoots him? You could believe a guy like Harrison Ford doing that in a moment.

Nothing at all about Kitsch says he’s the right guy for this job. He doesn’t have the stature, the charisma or the physical tools. Dwayne Johnson, maybe, but not Kitsch.

The supporting cast, oddly enough, is pretty good. Dominic West, the ever-brilliant Mark Strong and Ciarán Hinds give the film a gravity it lacks with Kitsch, regardless of his bone density. But anytime you’re looking to the supporting cast to lead, you know something’s askew.

And with Taylor Kitsch as John Carter, Mars is definitely off its axis.

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Navy SEALS go on a couple of missions involving kidnap victims, drug lords and terrorists. The film’s big draw is the real military types who are cast in major roles. Many of them look the part, but they have flat line deliveries. Still, that would be forgivable had directors Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh possessed the abilities to put together a decent action scene and find themselves an acceptable plot. This is a mess of a movie, yet it made a ton of money in its first weekend. Shows you what I know.

Grimm THE ARTIST

It is hard to discuss The Artist without acknowledging how special it is. A black-and-white silent movie from out of nowhere, this is not the sort of film Hollywood bets on—which is why Hollywood loses so much money on remakes of Conan the Barbarian. A very simple story set at the pivot point when silent movies gave way to talkies, The Artist shows two careers at the crossroads. As George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) fades away, Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) becomes America’s first sweetheart of the sound era.

This is a beautiful film start to finish, one of the very few movies from 2011 you’ll remember just as fondly in, say, 2013. Boyd

There are purists who rankle at the very notion of a Best Animated Feature award at the Oscars—an award born because the cartoons nominated for Best Picture could be counted on one finger prior to 2001. But without it, we very likely wouldn’t have a chance to see Chico and Rita, a beautiful, jazz-loving piece of hand-drawn Spanish animation that charts two star-crossed lovers through Cuba and New York City in the decade before the Castro revolution.

Directors Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba have created a stirring film about a young piano player and a singer, and the music that moves through their lives. The story is not terribly unique, but the infusion of Cuban jazz and the sublime animation makes Chico and Rita a great film— one that’s better off with the attention that comes from an Oscar nomination. Boyd CHRONICLE

There’s a good movie and a great idea buried in the stagey muck that clogs up Chronicle, the latest entry in the found-footage craze. A film about three high school kids finding some kind of meteor and absorbing a strange energy that gives them telekinetic superpowers is a magnificent idea. But hampering the movie with the idiotic premise that everything is being filmed by the characters—an attempt for a new twist on the now-tiresome fake-documentary gimmick—is a terrible mistake. There are moments of brilliance, making this a near-miss; the foundfootage gimmick is so tired and strained that it kills the film. That said, the finale is a real winner. Sneak in for the last 15 minutes. Grimm DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX

It’s not as entertaining as the last Dr. Seuss movie, Horton Hears a Who!, but Dr. Suess’ The Lorax is still miles beyond The Cat in the Hat, so that’s something. The book includes an environmental message that has sparked controversy several times over the years, and thanks to the Fox Business Channel, the movie now stands accused of “indoctrinating” children to all things green. The film doesn’t

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quite go that far; the Once-ler, never seen in the book outside of his arms, is a pretty sympathetic character here (and is voiced quite ably by Ed Helms). Danny DeVito portrays the Lorax, who speaks for the trees, but he’s more of a supporting character. Not short on songs, but short on good ones, The Lorax doesn’t feel thoroughly consistent and may be trying to do a little too much. Boyd

quite simply, a performance that can be stacked up against any other. Yes, the film glosses over a lot of the political aspects that made Thatcher controversial (although it does spend some decent time on the Falklands War). It focuses mainly on Thatcher’s relationship with her husband (played in later years

by Jim Broadbent), and her psychological and emotional difficulties in her elder years. This film is all about Streep and an actress showing the world how this sort of thing is done. Grimm

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JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

Since 2007, writer-director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer, Wanderlust) has been producing this very funny Web series, and this disc covers seasons one through four. It’s as funny as anything you are going to find on TV or at the movies.

The show, for the most part, chronicles Wain’s strange (and fictional) dating experiences, which include an accidental trip inside a giant’s butthole (Wain was led to believe it was a Barry Manilow concert) and lots of making out with the likes of Elizabeth Banks. (Lucky bastard!) Best running gag in the show: Wain randomly knocking people down in the street for no reason.

Wain often directs, but pals like Michael Ian Black and A.D. Miles also take over the helm. Other highlights include gloriously weird appearances by Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Amanda Peet, many of his The State co-stars and others.

Have I mentioned lately how in love I am with Amanda Peet? It’s off the subject, but I just feel I have to get it out there.

Season 5 is currently up at WainyDays.com. I suggest you view it.

SPECIAL FEATURE: You may be thinking, “Hey, this stuff is on the Web, so I ain’t buying it on DVD, and screw you while I’m at it!” Well, just know that the DVD has stuff you won’t find on your computer thing. There are episode commentaries with many guest visitors (Banks, Ken Marino, Rashida Jones and others). There’s also some commentary with Wain’s wife, Zandy Hartig, which is cute.

You also get outtakes, and some of Wain’s short student films, including one about how to use a bank. I am not exaggerating when I tell you

Nicolas Cage returns as Johnny Blaze, a cartoon character who is having a very hard time translating to the big screen. The first film was an origin story, establishing the fact that Blaze sold his soul to the devil. This one picks up a few years down the road with Blaze not adjusting well to the life of a guy whose head occasionally explodes into flames. He’s hiding out in Eastern Europe, has let his hair grow out and—because he is being played by Nicolas Cage—suffers from crazy mood swings. This time out, it’s as if directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor realized they had a dud on their hands and told Cage to go into psycho mode to attract his diehard fans. This results in random scenes of Cage doing his patented cuckoo act, something that can be amusing on some levels, but seems odd and out of place when poorly directed. This time out, it’s odd and out of place. Grimm

Josh Hutcherson returns as Sean for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, a sequel to 2008’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson takes over yet another franchise from Brendan Fraser, this time playing Sean’s new stepfather, Hank. Sean and Hank figure out that three classic books—The Mysterious Island, Treasure Island and Gulliver’s Travels—are all about the same place, and that Sean’s grandfather (Michael Caine) has found it.

They set off to locate the island, and in doing so team up with tourist pilot Gabato (Luis Guzmán) and his daughter, Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens). This is moderately entertaining kiddie fare, with some decent chuckles, mostly provided by Johnson and Guzmán. Why Michael Caine decided to give it a go is beyond me; I can only guess it was to get the cash to build an extension on the house he constructed with the money he got from Jaws: The Revenge.

Either way, this film is decent throw-away material for a February matinee with the kids. Allen

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Though it isn’t quite yet time for a career intervention, Amanda Seyfried is driving the treacherous road toward Kate Hudson country. She’s a budding starlet, but can you name any good movie she’s done? Gone is one of those rote psychological thrillers that Hollywood pumps out as “star vehicles,” because the only thing that could possibly propel them is the face on the movie poster. Seyfried plays Jill, a recovering kidnapping victim whose sister gets abducted about a year after her own escape from captivity. What are the chances? The cops think Jill is goofy, so she begins her own investigation into her sister’s disappearance. The movie seemingly leans its case one way, so it can take a sharp left turn in the end, which is a pointless exercise built around trying to outwit the audience instead of entertaining them. Boyd HAYWIRE

While Gina Carano might not be the best with line deliveries, she kicks some major ass as Mallory, a gun-for-hire who finds herself getting double-crossed by the boss (Ewan McGregor). When Carano is handling a dramatic scene, the film falls flat, but she and director Steven Soderbergh do some pretty amazing stuff when Mallory flies into physical action—she’s a sleek badass. Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas and a healthy-looking Michael Douglas show up in supporting roles, with each of them doing a great job. The plot itself offers enough twists and turns to keep you involved. And, yes, this is the umpteenth movie in a year to co-star Michael Fassbender. Does that man ever rest? Grimm THE IRON LADY

Meryl Streep is my pick for 2011’s best actress for her incredible, uncanny, Oscar-winning work as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in director Phyllida Lloyd’s engaging biopic. Streep disappears into the role. Yes, it’s in part due to excellent makeup work, but it’s mostly due to Streep’s beautifully nuanced performance. She plays Thatcher at many ages, including Thatcher’s recent declining years—and Streep is spot-on. Her accent is natural, and her physicality is perfection; this is,

Ryan Reynolds plays Matt Weston, a CIA operative who has spent a year sitting in a safe house, bouncing a ball against a wall and listening to tunes. He longs for a big assignment in the field, but the organization seems content to keep him out of the way and performing menial tasks. Things change when Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) is brought to his house for some questioning—and some good oldfashioned waterboarding. Frost is a former agent gone rogue who has been selling secrets to enemy countries. He’s also a dangerous, murderous son of a bitch. Throw into the mix that he’s also virtuous, and you have a typically complicated Washington character. Reynolds and Washington complement each other well in this action thriller. Grimm THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY

The animated films of Hayao Miyazaki have been successful in limited runs in the U.S. Even though the great director almost certainly doesn’t consider American audiences when he begins to work, Spirited Away won an Oscar, and he has devotees all over the map. The Secret World of Arrietty provides Miyazaki a broader reach, since the film is based on the popular children’s book The Borrowers. The legendary filmmaker is in the background this time around, though, passing the baton to his protégé, rookie director Hiromasa Yonebayashi. The story about little people who live in the walls of homes, borrowing from humans those things they need to survive, takes on a fairy-tale quality thanks to the dreamlike animation of Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli.

There is a message underneath it all, but it’s not necessary to enjoy the simple story. Boyd A SEPARATION

There’s not much of a case that can be made for keeping A Separation out of the Best Picture race when so many inferior but more heavily-marketed movies made the cut. It’s distasteful, actually. This film did wind up on the Foreign Language list (coming from Iran, that alone is quite an achievement), and the screenplay was rightly nominated … but are there nine movies better than this from last year?

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This is regarded as a courtroom classic, and was a controversial film when it came out—not only for its subject matter, but also for the use of certain words and phrases that weren’t frequently used by cinema stars at the time (1959).

However, I don’t believe this film has stood the test of time as well as other courtroom dramas (like To Kill a Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men).

Still, it’s fronted by James Stewart, who is as good as he always was as small-town lawyer Paul Biegler, hired to represent a military man (the recently deceased Ben Gazzara) in a rape trial. As the victim, Lee Remick also provides a good reason to take this one in.

The film explores the idea of pleading insanity in a murder case, a plea that Stewart’s lawyer uses as a final option.

In a way, the film is quite cynical about the judicial system. Stewart’s lawyer is kind of a shifty jerk.

Director Otto Preminger, who courted controversy for much of his career, brought this one in at an overripe 160 minutes. It could’ve been 70 minutes shorter and still gotten its point across just fine.

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It’s no surprise that this great film from Martin Scorsese took home a bag of technical Oscars this year. It’s a wonderful movie for all of your senses, and one of the most-delightful films to look at in the last 10 years.

While I caught the film in theaters in 3-D, I watched it at home in normal 2-D. It doesn’t hurt the experience.

In fact, Scorsese shot the film in such a brilliant way that it still has a deep, 3-D look to it without the funny glasses.

I was most struck by the performance of Ben Kingsley, who is positively heartbreaking as forgotten filmmaker Georges Méliès, living his later years in a toy shop after the destruction of his film studio. I must once again give kudos to Chloë Grace Moretz, who has a fake English accent that would make the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Anne Hathaway drool.

I like the second half of this film much more than the first half. The first half is fine, but things go into magical territories once George’s true identity is revealed. And it was a master stroke getting Sacha Baron Cohen to play the station inspector.

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No. Ostensibly a domestic drama about the difficulties of a couple on the outs, A Separation details in a beautiful way the cultural challenges of an Iran crawling inch by inch out of its pit of fundamentalism. The film’s complexity extends to society, religious mores, gender roles and, as it happens, filmmaking. A quiet masterpiece, and a film that deserves more attention. Boyd TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, the funny duo behind the show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, bring their disgusting, sloppy humor to the big screen with mixed results. They play two Hollywood losers who make a very bad film for a billion dollars, upsetting the guy who gave them the money (Robert Loggia). When their movie fails, they agree to take over a deteriorating shopping mall owned by Will Ferrell, or at least a guy played by Will Ferrell. The movie has plenty of good laughs and will more than likely result in fun for fans of the duo. However, the uninitiated will probably fail to see the humor, and might even chuck footwear at the screen.

Appearances by Jeff Goldblum, Zach Galifianakis and especially John C. Reilly are fun. Grimm TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

I remember the stunts in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, probably because there aren’t any. As espionage flicks go, this one is really low-key. It gets that somber streak from its protagonist, semi-retired MI6 officer George Smiley (Gary Oldman), who is investigating a Soviet plot to infiltrate British intelligence. The “action,” such as it is, comes from watching Oldman’s mind work out all the details, and then watching the other agents under his magnifying glass start to squirm. Oldman is utterly fantastic here, never forcing so much as a syllable or a raised eyebrow. The rest of the cast—uniformly good but reduced to small speaking parts in comparison to Oldman—are almost at his mercy. Which is kind of the point. Bonus points for making a Julio Iglesias cover of Bobby Darin’s “Beyond the Sea” work far better than it probably does on its own. Boyd TYLER PERRY’S GOOD DEEDS

Well, I’ll be goddamned: Tyler Perry finally made a decent movie. In Good Deeds, Perry stars as Wesley

Deeds, a seemingly mild-mannered dope who has a beautiful fiancée, Natalie (Gabrielle Union), and a great job running the company started by his deceased father. His life, by all accounts, is perfect, but he merely goes through the motions. This life of monotonous privilege is shaken up after he meets widowed-mother Lindsey (Thandie Newton). She is angry at the world, but she and Deeds strike up an unlikely friendship. After Wesley finds out about her homelessness and sees the pain and suffering she goes through while trying to make a decent life for her daughter, he decides to help her. While the story is by-the-book, the acting by Perry and Newton is good enough to keep the film from sinking. The gorgeous San Francisco setting certainly helps things, and the movie looks amazing, as captured by cinematographer Alexander Gruszynski. Now, Perry needs to make sure he continues to keep that damn Madea out of his films. Allen

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Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams star as a young married couple that is befallen by tragedy: The two are in a car accident that puts Paige (McAdams) into a coma. When she awakens, she has no memory of her life with Leo (Tatum). The two drift apart, with Leo constantly trying to remind Paige of their love for one another. This is a tearjerker, and both Tatum and McAdams prove they have the formula down pat. However, the movie focuses far too much on Leo’s emotional pain, rather than what would be the more-traumatic situation—Paige’s loss of several years of memory. That’s truly frightening and heartbreaking, but it’s an aspect that’s only briefly touched upon. Allen

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A True Gastropub

New: Fini’s Landing There’s a boat-shaped bar at the new Fini’s Landing at 5689 N. Swan Road, and when the wind blows through the nearby windows, you almost expect a seagull or two to fly by. The new restaurant is hitting the beachside theme hard, with everything from flip-flop-shaped door handles to porthole windows, and a variety of seafood and other dishes to go with it. A temporary menu of fish tacos and appetizers was available on a recent afternoon, but we hear that a full menu—including burgers and all sorts of other things—is on deck. Barrio Brewing Company has even brewed a signature beer for the restaurant called Beached Ale, and it’s quite good. Call 299-1010, or visit finislanding.com for more information.

BY JACQUELINE KUDER, jkuder@tucsonweekly.com kly.com oth Southern food and gastropubs have enjoyed rises in popularity, and on the northwest side, there’s a contingent of old-school Tucson talent at The Parish that is combining the two trends.

Travis Peters and Steve Dunn, formerly of the Cup Café at Hotel Congress, and Bryce Zeagler, of the French Quarter restaurant, teamed up to open the Southern-fusion gastropub in the space once occupied by Chuy’s and Game On Sports Grille at Oracle and Orange Grove roads.

The menu is relatively small, and leans more toward the Cajun/Creole side, featuring mostly sharable appetizers (“noshes”) and sandwiches.

The restaurant seats about 50, and it’s a clean, modern space, albeit a bit dark, and probably gets quite boisterous when busy.

Of course, having a pleasant ambiance and lots of culinary talent are all well and good, but if you’re advertising as a gastropub, the food and drinks had better be up to par.

Luckily, The Parish delivers.

The beer selection is modest but well-chosen, highlighting a dozen or so microbrews from across the country; the cocktail menu features some inventive drinks, as well as the classic New Orleans drink, the Sazerac. Ted and I had pints of the Abita Amber, from Louisiana, and the somewhat-local Sleepy Dog Red Rover Irish Ale, out of Tempe (both $4), on our first visit to The Parish.

Bacon seems to be a common ingredient on the menu, as it should be at any proper drinking establishment. The frog legs ($8) were a particular delight, tightly wrapped from end to end in crispy bacon, sealing the juicy, tender meat inside. I wasn’t especially impressed with the remoulade they were served with, but the frog legs were so wellprepared that they didn’t need any sauce.

The bacon popcorn ($4) is the perfect accompaniment to a nice, cold beer. The popcorn was salty, buttery and not overly bacony; we soon polished off the whole bowl without even a second glance.

As I mentioned, the “noshes” on the menu are large, sharable appetizers, and the crawfish hushpuppies ($8) is definitely one of the dishes to order … and to share. The big, dense balls of deep-fried goodness could be a meal in themselves, and the salty crawfish flavors paired perfectly with the syrupy-sweet green onion dip. The pretzel bits ($7) are similarly paired—dense, salty and delicious, and served with a spicy cheese dip.

The entrées are just as impressive as the smaller plates. I opted for the Haitian pork

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Open daily, 11 a.m. to midnight

A second Oregano’s Pizza Bistro is under construction in Plaza Del Oro, at the corner of Orange Grove and Oracle roads. The other Tucson location is at 4900 E. Speedway Blvd. The first Oregano’s opened in 1993 in Scottsdale, but there are now locations across the state. There is no word yet on when the new Oregano’s will open.

Pluses: Bold flavors; friendly service; well-executed food and drinks

New: Brewd

The Haitian pulled-pork sandwich with gumbo from The Parish. sandwich, a spicy mess of pulled pork on a bun with coleslaw ($9), with a side of gumbo ($2).

The pork was almost too moist—it soaked the bottom bun before I even had a chance to pick up the sandwich—and it was seriously spicy. By the last third of the sandwich, I could no longer feel my lips. This sandwich is delicious, but not for the faint of heart. The gumbo was quite delicious as well, at least as far as I could tell through the afterburn.

Ted decided to try the lamb flatbread ($12), one of the more unique-looking dishes on the menu. It was a pizza-like toasted flatbread topped with ground lamb chorizo sausage, a kalamata olive tapenade, and heaps of gooey goat cheese. It was really tasty, though at $12, seemed disproportionately priced for the portion, compared to my sandwich at $9.

On the subsequent visit, the entrées were again fabulous. My fish and chips ($10), which is noted as the “world’s crispiest” on the menu, was indeed the crispiest fish and chips I’ve ever had, and ensconced in all that crispiness was sweet, tender, fresh white fish. The fries are also killer.

The menu says that they’re seasoned with spicy saffron and charred onions; I couldn’t pick out

There’s a sign in the window of what used to be A Steak in the Neighborhood at 135 E. Congress St. announcing that a new restaurant called Elliott’s on Congress is opening there.

The sign also says the place will feature a vodka bar when it opens in March. When A Steak in the Neighborhood folded last fall, the word was that owner Luke Cusack was going to try a new concept there. We haven’t been able to verify whether Cusack is involved in the new venture.

The Parish 6453 N Oracle Road 797-1233; theparishtucson.com

Minuses: Spicy is too much for most people to handle; too far away to stumble home

those flavors specifically, but they were very, very tasty.

Ted’s oyster po’ boy ($10) was massive, and was one of the better po’ boy sandwiches I’ve had in Tucson. The oysters were battered and fried crisp without the tender meat being overcooked, and each bite was punctuated by that lovely salty, briny, ocean flavor.

In short, The Parish lives up to its claim as a true gastropub, with house-infused liquors and tasty, inventive twists on traditional cocktails, as well as a nicely varied beer selection. The food is delightfully bold and robust, prepared with attention to detail, and can really only be described as such: damn good drinkin’ grub.

A coffee lounge called Brewd has opened at 39 N. Sixth Ave., right across the street from the Ronstadt Transit Center. Phil Bryson says he opened the place with his wife, Kate Preble, about six weeks ago to “have a place that would help bring community together” through coffee and conversation. Brewd serves coffee from local roaster Adventure Coffee Roasting and tea from local vendor Maya Tea Co. Food is limited to breads, muffins, cookies and cakes for the time being, but they’re working on adding salads and sandwiches. There’s also a private room for group meetings or events. Call 623-2336, or visit www.brewd.co.

Chow Scan is the Weekly’s selective guide to Tucson restaurants. Only restaurants that our reviewers recommend are included. Complete reviews are online at www.tucsonweekly.com. Dates of reviews from August 1999 to the present are included in Chow Scan. Send comments and updates to: Chow, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726. These listings have no connection with Weekly advertising.

KEY PRICE RANGES $ $8 or less $ $ $8-$15 $ $ $ $15-$25 $ $ $ $ $25 and up.

Prices are based on menu entrée selections, and exclude alcoholic beverages.

FORMS OF PAYMENT V Visa MC Mastercard AMEX American Express DIS Discover DC Diner’s Club checks local checks with guarantee card and ID only debit debit cards CatCard University of Arizona CatCard.

TYPE OF SERVICE Counter Quick or fast-food service, usually includes take-out.

Diner Minimal table service.

Café Your server is most likely working solo.

Bistro Professional servers, with assistants bussing tables.

Full Cover Multiple servers, with the table likely well set.

Full Bar Separate bar space for drinks before and after dinner.

RESTAURANT LOCATION C Central North to River Road, east to Alvernon Way, west to

Granada Avenue downtown, and south to 22nd Street.

NW Northwest North of River Road, west of Campbell Avenue.

NE Northeast North of River Road, east of Campbell

Avenue.

E East East of Alvernon Way, south of River Road.

S South South of 22nd Street.

W West West of Granada Avenue, south of River Road.

GLASS ONION CAFE NW 1990 W. River Road, Suite 100. 293-6050.

Open Saturday-Monday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday 7 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday 7 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Good coffee, tasty sandwiches, sumptuous desserts and a comfortable atmosphere constitute this charming little Beatles-themed café. The service is warm and friendly, and Friday nights bring live music.

The addition of green chiles makes the “Lonely Hearts Club” tastier than a run-of-the-mill club sandwich. (1127-08) $-$$ JASPER NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANT AND BAR NE 6370 N. Campbell Ave., No. 160. 577-0326. Open Tuesday-Thursday 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; and Sunday and Monday 7 a.m.-2 p.m.

Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Jasper, now in its third iteration, is a chic hangout spot for cocktails and tapas with a Peruvian twist. With delicious and shareable dishes like the piquillo rellenos or the escabeche de pescado, be sure to bring a few friends along. The breakfast and lunch offerings are nice, too. (7-14-11) $$-$$$ JOEL’S BISTRO C 806 E. University Blvd. 529-7277. Open daily 8

a.m.-3 p.m.; Tuesday-Saturday 5-8 p.m. Summer hours:

SOMETHING SWEET DESSERT LOUNGE E 5319 E. Speedway Blvd. 881-7735. Open Monday and Tuesday 5 p.m.-midnight; Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday 11 a.m.-midnight; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Featuring dozens of desserts, late-night hours for the allages crowd, free wireless Internet and a book-exchange program, Something Sweet is carving out a new niche in Tucson. The colossal carrot cake is a wonder to behold.

(1-22-04) $ SON’S BAKERY CAFÉ E 5683 E. Speedway Blvd. 885-0806. Open Monday and Tuesday 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Wednesday-Saturday 7 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol.

MC, V. Son’s is an absolute gem, featuring amazing sandwiches and salads, and wonderful homemade desserts and pastries. Son, the proprietor, makes all the breads and baked goods himself, and he is a master.

With the prices low and the service so welcoming and enthusiastic, Son’s is a delight in almost every way.

(4-8-04) $ SUNNY DAZE CAFÉ S 4980 S. Campbell Ave. 295-0300. Open SundayTuesday 6 a.m.-3 p.m.; Wednesday-Saturday 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Tasty, inexpensive food can be found in abundance at Sunny Daze—but what really sets this southside café apart is its clean, tropical-themed décor. The small, square room is decorated to the hilt, and definitely worth checking out. (11-6-08) $-$$ TOOLEY’S COFFEE SHOP C 299 S. Park Ave. No Phone. Open daily 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. Cash only. Simple, honest food makes this café worthy of repeat visits. Breakfast is big, but the lunches are also quite satisfying. Coffee and teas are plentiful, and the vibe is kicked-back and cool. The décor is especially charming, with a patio that is ideal for alfresco dining. Be warned: Hours seem to change on a whim. It’s that laid-back. (3-26-09) $ WILKO C 943 E. University Blvd. 792-6684. Open MondaySaturday 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/ Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. This gastropub is a wonderful addition to the university area; in fact, it’s a plus for the entire city. Artisan cheeses and meats are a big part of the menu. The Sonoran hot dog becomes the Sonoran bratwurst, locally made and topped with guindilla relish.

Other entrées include delicious pasta and a wonderful tilapia. Desserts are top-notch, which is no surprise, since they’re made by the folks at The B Line. (8-1111) $$

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Order a pot of tea and a Japanese pastry, take in the calm elegance and forget that the outside world exists for an hour or two. (9-2-04) $-$$

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Bistro/BYO. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Quiches, hot sandwiches, salads and a handful of regular entrées are all worth eating at Joel’s Bistro, but the star of the show is the crepes. It’s a beautiful thing to dine on sweet, succulent fruit crepes on a gorgeous day in the university area. (3-31-05) $-$$

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CHINESE BA-DAR CHINESE RESTAURANT E 7321 E. Broadway Blvd. 296-8888. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The range of flavors is not especially broad or intense, but with that caveat, the mix of Mandarin, Szechuan and Cantonese cuisine can be quite satisfying, with a particular variety of fish and seafood dishes. (10-30-08) $-$$

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C. I. CHU’S MONGOLIAN BARBECUE E 4540 E. Broadway Blvd. 881-4798. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Diner/Beer and Sake. MC, V. Also at 7039 E. Tanque Verde Road (886-8619). C.I. Chu’s does Mongolian barbecue right. While the do-it-(mostly)yourself experience can be a bit confusing for first-time diners, this is a place to go for a relatively fast, affordable, uncomplicated and tasty bit of Asian food. (8-1204) $-$$ CHINA BOY C 1800 E. Fort Lowell Road, No. 136A. 867-8470.

Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. At this tiny midtown spot, the flavors are fresh and bright; the prices are reasonable; the portions are huge; and they pack up everything in those charming little white boxes.

The family dinners offer a nice assortment of choices, and the lunch specials do, too. The Mongolian beef pops with flavor, and the orange chicken is a great version of this standby. The crystal shrimp could be addicting—and the restaurant delivers, too! (10-20-11) $-$$ CHINA PHOENIX NW 7090 N. Oracle Road, Suite 172. 531-0658. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. MC, V. If you have a taste for dim sum on the weekend, you’re in for a cultural treat. The procuring of dumplings from pushcarts is a noisy business, but if you are hard up for dim sum, it will get you by. Dim sum is served on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (10-17-02) $-$$ DRAGON VIEW W 400 N. Bonita Ave. 623-9855. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 4-8:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday noon-3 p.m. and 4-9:30 p.m.; Sunday noon3 p.m. and 4-8:30 p.m. Bistro/Beer and Wine. MC, V. Since original owner Harry Gee regained control of this secluded westside restaurant (it’s on a street that winds along the west side of the Santa Cruz between St. Mary’s Road and Congress Street), the fare is once again some of the best Chinese food in town. The duck, for one thing, is excellent, and the greens are also terrific if you let the staff guide your choice. (4-2-09) $-$$

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DRAGON VILLAGE RESTAURANT NW 12152 N. Rancho Vistoso Blvd., No. 180. 2290388. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday noon-9 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. While not matching the level of Bay Area Chinese restaurants, the crowded Dragon Village is perfectly fine by Tucson standards, with remarkable walnut shrimp and a good way with broccoli. (4-10-08) $ GOLDEN PHOENIX C 2854 E. 22nd St. 327-8008. Open daily 11 a.m.9:30 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. MC, V. The food here is consistently as good as what you’d find in San Francisco or Hong Kong. Austere atmosphere, but when the kitchen is on, this place is it. $-$$ GREAT WALL CHINA S 2445 S. Craycroft Road. 514-8888. Open daily 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Great

Wall China’s original owner, Mr. An, is back, and so is this Davis-Monthan-area favorite. The service is quick and friendly; the décor is clean and welcoming. And the food? It’s consistently tasty, although the vegetarian offerings could use a boost. The pan-fried noodles are worth checking out, as is the not-too-sweet sesame chicken. Great Wall deserves to be part of the conversation when discussing Tucson’s top Chinese restaurants.

(1-31-08) $$-$$$$ GUILIN CHINESE RESTAURANT C 3250 E. Speedway Blvd. 320-7768. Open Sunday 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Hold on to your hats! With this venue, Tucson can boast it’s home to honest-to-goodness Chinese food, full of the bright tastes and textures for which the cuisine is renowned everywhere but here in the Old Pueblo. Tons of vegetarian options and daily lunch specials make Guilin a must-stop. $-$$ HARVEST MOON NW 12125 N. Oracle Road, Suite D5. 825-5351. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday noon-9 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. Folks in Oro Valley can rejoice in the fact that they’ve got one of the best Chinese restaurants in the area right in their backyard. Wonderful starters include the crab puffs, foilwrapped chicken and pot stickers. Can’t-miss entrées include the crispy duck and the scrumptious crispy shrimp with spicy salt. Soups are yummy, too! (12-3109) $$ IMPRESS HOT POT C 2610 N. First Ave. 882-3059. Open daily 11:30

a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Bistro/No Alcohol.

AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Impress Hot Pot is Tucson’s first Chinese hot-pot restaurant, and this do-it-yourself place is definitely worth a stop. Authentic Chinese flavors abound; try one of the many unique dishes like jellyfish, chicken feet or preserved eggs. Customize your own tasty hot pot with a plethora of ingredients and sauce options—and be sure to bring friends to share. (11-311) $$ P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO NW 1805 E. River Road. 615-8788. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. It may be more L.A. than Tucson, but there’s no denying that this hip chain is one of Tucson’s most popular places to be seen and dine. Diners are rewarded with commendable fare and a chic, eclectic ambience. Servers are intimately familiar with the menu, so by all means, take their advice. You won’t be sorry. (8-3-00) $$ PANDA BUFFET AND SUSHI C 2419 E. Broadway Blvd. 620-6688. Open Sunday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Buffet/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This place takes the standard Chinese-food buffet formula and kicks it up a notch, offering a small but decent sushi selection, about three dozen dishes, and even eight varieties of scoop-it-yourself ice cream.

However, Panda Buffet really shines when it breaks out the seafood buffet (on Sunday). Offerings include huge snails, oysters on the half-shell, several crab and shrimp creations, clams, crawfish and all sorts of other stuff.

Not all of the dishes succeed, but enough of them do.

(1-20-11) $-$$ PANDA HOUSE STIR-FRY NW 3725 W. Ina Road. 744-6200. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-8 p.m. Counter/ Diner/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Featuring buildyour-own stir fry and all-you-can-eat lunch Monday through Friday for less than $8. $-$$ PANDA VILLAGE E 6546 E. Tanque Verde Road. 296-6159. Open

Monday-Thursday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.; Sunday 4-10 p.m. Diner/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. We’ve had some extraordinary dinners at this Chinese venue. The kuo tieh, flavorful pork-filled dumplings lightly seared, are served with sauce of perfect fragrance and bite. $$ PEKING PALACE E 6970 E. 22nd St. 750-9614. Open daily 11 a.m.-9

p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Bright, fresh renditions of Chinese classics. The hot and sour soup, Peking duck and stir-fried shrimp and scallops are often worth the trip. $$-$$$

COFFEE HOUSES BENTLEY’S HOUSE OF COFFEE AND TEA C 1730 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-0338. Open MondaySaturday 7 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-11 p.m.

Summer hours: Monday-Saturday 7 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Café/Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Delightful desserts, coffee you can get your hands around, and lip-smacking fresh salads and sandwiches make this standard a good choice.

(4-19-01) $ IKE’S COFFEE AND TEA C 3400 E. Speedway Blvd. 323-7205. Open daily 6

a.m.-midnight. Café/No Alcohol. MC, V. Also at 100 N. Stone Ave. (792-1800). Ike’s does it right, with fresh ingredients in their salads and sandwiches, good coffee and a modern but mellow atmosphere. Try dessert, too; you won’t be disappointed. (7-10-03) $ LE BUZZ CAFFE AND NEWS E 9121 E. Tanque Verde Road, Suite 125. 749-3903.

Open daily 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine.

AMEX, MC, V, Checks. A pretty, warm, friendly neighborhood hangout with full espresso-bar offerings and a good bakery. Excellent service and a great location—the northeast corner of Tanque Verde Road and Catalina Highway—make Le Buzz a local favorite. (9-12-02) $ SPARKROOT C 245 E. Congress St. 272-8949. Open Monday-Friday

7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Sparkroot is the only coffeehouse in the state that serves marvelous Blue Bottle Coffee. The granola is a great way to start your day, and the dark-chocolate plate is a great way to finish it. In between, there are pressed-cheese sandwiches, salads and other bites that satisfy. All of this is offered in a space with a chic, big-city feel. (12-29-11) $

DELI BISON WITCHES BAR AND DELI C 326 N. Fourth Ave. 740-1541. Open daily 11 a.m.midnight (bar open until 2 a.m.). Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This college hangout earns its popularity with fresh sandwiches, tasty bread-bowl soups and enormous trays of nachos. A nice selection of beers and other alcohol add to the place’s appeal. (3-10-05) $ FIFTH STREET DELI AND MARKET E 5071 E. Fifth St. 325-3354. Open Monday-Thursday

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Counter/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. This is exactly what a neighborhood market/deli should be: small, cozy and nothing fancy, with friendly service. The food is pretty good, too; the noodle kugel is a real winner, and the brisket is better than homemade. Corned beef comes in extra-lean and regular varieties, and the soups are popular. Whether you stop to get a meal to-go or dine in, this deli should be on your list of regular dining spots.

(12-25-08) $-$$ SHLOMO AND VITO’S NEW YORK DELICATESSEN NW 2870 E. Skyline Drive. 529-3354. Open Sunday-

Thursday 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Where do you go in the Sonoran Desert for smoked whitefish or matzo brei? Head on over to Shlomo and Vito’s, which is more of a restaurant than a true deli; there’s a full dinner menu in addition to an assortment of deli offerings.

Desserts are made in-house. The portions are huge, and the patio offers views you can’t get in the Big Apple.

TONYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ITALIAN DELI E 6219 E. 22nd St. 747-0070. Open Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-8 p.m. CafĂŠ/Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. With the feel of New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Little Italy, Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is the place to go for cozy, welcoming food and warm hospitality. Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the generous sandwiches, the pasta or the pizza that keeps you coming back, everyone in the family is sure to find something to please their individual tastes. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeding a crowd at home, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to pick up one of Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s buckets of spaghetti. $

fresh ingredients and create something truly special. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt that the tiny restaurant shares space with La Baguette, one of the most popular bakeries in town.

Pick up a fresh baguette and some croissants while youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there. $ LE RENDEZ-VOUS C 3844 E. Fort Lowell Road. 323-7373. Open TuesdayFriday 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5:30-11 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 5:30-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V, Checks. The deft touch of chef Jean-Claude Berger makes for a sumptuous lunch or dinner of simple dishes, like cabrilla in capers and lemon, done splendidly. $$-$$$

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AMBER RESTAURANT AND GALLERY NE 7000 E. Tanque Verde Road. 296-9759. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-1 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Amber offers just what this town needs: good, hardy Eastern European food in a thoroughly modern setting. Potato pancakes, kielbasa, goulash, schnitzel and other oldworld dishes are made from scratch and served with a smile. While the prices are a tad high, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be taking home a doggie bag or two to enjoy the next day. (8-2009) $$$-$$$$

ATHENS ON FOURTH AVENUE C 500 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6886. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V, Checks. To sup with the gods, one needs to stroll no farther than up Fourth Avenue to Athens on Fourth. A small restaurant where Andreas Delfakis has quietly been serving the best authentic Greek cuisine in Tucson for years. (3-7-02) $-$$

ETHIOPIAN CAFĂ&#x2030; DESTA C 758 S. Stone Ave. 370-7000. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/BYO. MC, V. CafĂŠ Desta is more than just a place to grab some grubâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shared dining experience. With more-than-generous portion sizes and flavorful traditional Ethiopian dishes, the cafĂŠ is livening up the south-of-downtown scene, filling a small void in an area lacking restaurants. (5-12-11) $$ ZEMAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S C 2731 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-9928. Open Tuesday-

Sunday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 4:30-9:30 p.m. CafĂŠ/ BYO. MC, V, Checks. For a quick transport to North Africa, try Zemamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and savor the complex and spicy regional fare. Served with the traditional bread called injera, the food at Zemamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is a delightful excuse to eat with your hands, get sloppy and have good fun. (11-0200) $-$$

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Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This tiny midtown spot is like a little slice of Poland.

It offers your pierogi, your bigos, your kielbasa, your stuffed cabbage and your borschtâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;home-style food just like your babica made. The beer list is long, and of course, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vodka. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stick-to-the-ribs stuff. (1-1912) $

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AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also located at 994 E. University Blvd. (206-0246). Both locations of this locally owned Tucson restaurant serve up great Greek food, fast, with a smile. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss one of Tucsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tastiest gyros, but also consider trying one of the lesser-known specialties.

Inexpensive and delicious. (11-5-09) $-$$ FRONIMOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GREEK CAFĂ&#x2030; C 3242 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-8321. Open daily 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This unpretentious but attractive family-owned spot provides quick service of the Greek basics, plus burgers and gyros. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very good Greek food at equally good prices. (2-28-08) $-$$ ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GREEK TO ME NW 15920 N. Oracle Road. 825-4199. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. From luscious appetizers like the rich taramosalata, to savory entrĂŠes like the pastitsio and the lamb shank, and concluding with a heavenly honey cake or lovely baklava for dessert, the food at this Greek joint sings. These are the same people who run the wonderful Athens on Fourth Avenue, so you know the foodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to impress. The atmosphere is casual, and the service is sincere and friendly. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lucky, George, the chef and owner, will come out to share a glass of wine or a little insight on how he prepared your dinner. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth the drive to Catalina. (11-17-11) $$-$$$ MY BIG FAT GREEK RESTAURANT E 7131 E. Broadway Blvd. 722-6000. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 7265 N. La Cholla Blvd. (797-7444). This Phoenix-based chain offers delicious food at extremely reasonable prices. The souvlaki is moist and marinated perfectly; the spanakopita is a spinach-and-feta delight.

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With no green room or backstage, the line between audience and band gets blurred, and the other activities—like a slam-dunk contest—add to the fun. With so many bands, especially ones new to Tucson, Greene has simple advice for anyone who’s curious about Bröötal Sun. “Pick a band, and just take five minutes, and look up a song on YouTube,” Greene says. “If people spend a little bit of time doing research, they’ll be hooked. It’s not everybody’s thing, but those who could be interested should check out some of the bands.”

he Burger Records Showcase at La Cocina comes from Isaac Reyes of Lenguas Largas and Shark Pants.

More than a decade ago, Reyes met like-minded touring musicians Sean Bohrman and Lee Noise, who would later form Thee Makeout Party and start Burger Records.

“Every time a band from Southern California came to town, they’d always tag along,” Reyes says. “They’ve always had a good thing with us, because we’re the same, basically.

It’s just a love of rock ’n’ roll.”

Fullerton, Calif.-based-Burger Records started in 2007 as a way for Bohrman and Noise to release tapes of the bands they like. But the label grew and grew, releasing cassettes of bands like the Black Lips, Nobunny, Harlem, Hunx and His Punx, Ty Segall, La Sera and Mikal Cronin.

“They’re so well-loved as people wherever they go that whenever they ask me to do something, I’ll do it,” Reyes says.

Now, Lenguas Largas is joining the fold, with a cassette of the band’s 2011 debut LP coming out on Burger Records, with two bonus songs.

“All of my bands, we’ve always been with Burger, before it was even a label,” Reyes says.

“Now they’re kind of blowing up, and it’s a good feeling.”

The Burger Records Showcase triples as a Lenguas Largas release party, a long-awaited return performance by the Resonars (a Tucson power-pop band with albums being reissued by Burger Records) and a pre-SXSW tuneup for the Burger bands. Oh, and it’s a great party, too.

Friday’s lineup features Lenguas Largas, Otherly Love, Pangea, Audacity, Lowly Bad Things and Salsa Chips. Saturday’s bands are the Resonars, Acorn Bcorn, Cosmonauts, Feeding People, Tomorrows Tulips and Sam Flax. The bands will be set up on two stages to minimize the break times.

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he third annual Bröötal Sun Fest and a showcase from Burger Records converge on Tucson this weekend, with 65 local and national bands crammed into four days and nights of shows, most of them downtown.

Logan Greene, the self-described “main instigator” of Bröötal Sun, says the all-ages festival is tailored to be a tight-knit gathering between bands and fans, with fun and goofy interludes throughout.

“We were trying to create a festival that’s allages, not-for-profit and a fun event that brings together a lot of talented bands from around the country,” Greene says. “We’re really excited to create something that’s totally our thing, and we don’t need to have a big-name band as a solid headliner.”

Touring with his band Doctor Dinosaur in 2009, Greene played the Crucial Fun Fest in Lexington, Ky., and borrowed the format for Tucson. The comfortable, friendly vibe of a smaller, all-ages event is a draw in itself for the bands.

“With bands I’ve been in, it’s our goal to play festivals like this,” he says. “For a lot of these bands, they’re on the DIY ethic and really want a smaller, closer audience. We’d rather sell out a small venue than do a medium-sized show at a larger venue.”

With about two-thirds of the festival’s bands coming from out of town, Bröötal Sun manages to capture a lot of bands that are heading to Austin’s SXSW festival. While the first two years featured bands that Greene or one of the other organizers know personally, the word has spread enough that this year, the members of several bands that will be playing have never met the Bröötal Sun team.

“We’re excited to bring out some new people and let them experience our community and our scene here,” Greene says. “We know what we want and had to figure out how to make it work. It seems like a success now.”

Though Bröötal Sun is put together as an egalitarian festival without “headliners,” Greene says several bigger names will help boost the crowd for all the bands. Among the bands he’s most excited about are the David Liebe Hart Band (from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), TS and the Past Haunts (featuring Travis Shettel of the SideOneDummy band Piebald), Seth Olinsky of Akron/Family, Treasure Mammal, and Rafter (on Asthmatic Kitty Records).

“It’s a really mixed bag, from really dance-y bands, to really ambient bands, to really weird bands, to everything in between,” Greene says.

“If you don’t feel fatigued, we didn’t do our job.”

Organizers of the Bröötal Sun Fest (left to right): Logan Greene, Mullarkey, Matt Milner and Tim Milner.

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Lately, it seems as though I tell you every week that this is one of the busiest music weeks of the year—and then the next week comes, and it seems to be even busier.

This one is no exception: We’ve got the longawaited release of Brian Lopez’s debut solo album (see Gene Armstrong’s feature article), as well as a release party for Way Out West’s new CD; two incredible music festivals (see Eric Swedlund’s feature); a few benefit shows; and a slew of bands passing through on their way to SXSW. Be sure to check out our listings to get the bigger picture, as we only have space to touch on a few things here.

WANTED: GAS MONEY While we’re on the subject of SXSW and benefit shows, here’s an event that combines the two.

With gas prices being what they are, transportation to Austin won’t be cheap, so Marianne Dissard and Blind Divine, both of whom are making the trip, have teamed up for a gas-money fundraiser at 9 p.m., Saturday, March 10, at Sky Bar, 536 N. Fourth Ave. The following night at the same time and venue, Blind Divine will perform along with Los Angeles’ Black Party Politics for the same purpose. Since admission to shows at Sky Bar is always free, the fundraising element will be voluntary. But we did mention that gas is crazy expensive, right? For more information, call 622-4300.

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Richie Ramone, who played drums for the Ramones from 1982 to 1987 and penned some of the band’s songs, including “Somebody Put Something in My Drink,” will be in town doing some recording this week, and while here, he’ll be lending his name to a couple good causes.

Much to the chagrin of folks like Rush Limbaugh, tonight, Thursday, March 8, Ramone will appear for a meet-and-greet at Surly Wench Pub, 424 N. Fourth Ave., for a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood. DJ Dewtron (aka Weekly contributor Casey Dewey) will be spinning punk and garage tunes all night, and Ramone will be available for autographs. Doors open at 9 p.m., and admission is $5, a portion of which will be donated to Planned Parenthood. For more info, call 882-0009.

On Saturday, March 10, Ramone will be the special guest at a punk-rock benefit show for the Kory Laos Foundation. Laos was an avid BMX cyclist who lost his life at age 14 in 2007 after being in a hit-and-run accident. The foundation is raising money to complete a BMX bike park in order to give cyclists a safe place to ride; the grand opening of the first section of the park occurred in October. The event will include performances by Raven, Jumper, Drizzle, Conversation Suicide and The Gunrunners, and starts at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Runway Bar

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Rendon, will return to perform, with Burger reissues of Bright and Dark and That Evil Drone sparking a renewed interest in the band.

Rendon recently estimated that the Resonars haven’t performed live in 16 years.

“The Burger dudes really love Matt. As a treat for them, I called Matt and asked if he would be interested in doing a Resonars set,” Reyes says. “It’s like a new beginning.”

Reyes says he’s thrilled to strengthen his band’s and Tucson’s alignment with Burger Records, which has a purity of interest and a track record of great releases that have drawn the eye of larger labels like Hardly Art and Sub Pop. “Their taste in music is so good, whenever something is on Burger, I know it’s going to be awesome. They’re like a scout label, and they’ve been doing it forever,” Reyes says.

“They’re not just limited by what’s cool or hip at the moment. It’s just their love of rock ’n’ roll.”

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SUPPORTING SOCCER One last fundraiser worth mentioning: When I was a kid playing (poorly) in sports leagues, we had to sell candy bars and other stuff no one really wanted in order to raise money to fund our teams. But, then, none of my teammates had a rock-star father.

The Tucson Aztecs U-13 soccer team, currently ranked No. 1 in their Tucson bracket and No. 9 in the state, has won back-to-back competitions in the Fort Lowell Shootout in Tucson and Phoenix’s Barcelona Cup Tournament. The Aztecs, which include Luka Gelb, son of Howe Gelb, will soon be headed up to Phoenix again to represent Tucson in the Presidents Cup soccer tournament. To raise funds, Howe Gelb and Band will perform a special show at 8 p.m., Sunday, March 11, on the rooftop at Playground Bar and Lounge, 278 E. Congress St. Admission is a $5 donation, and Playground will be matching all the funds raised. It’s a family-friendly event with free admission for the kiddies. For further details, call 396-3691.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT THE EAGLES LODGE …

The Saturnalia team—certified sommelier Kenny Stewart and DJ Carl Hanni (a Weekly contributor)—has held groovy wine tastings at odd venues all over town. This week, the two are throwing their most-ambitious event yet, at the most-unlikely location yet.

Stewart, it seems, is a member in good standing at the Eagles Lodge (F.O.E.), which entitles him to put on events there, and he and Hanni are taking advantage of that privilege. At what is planned to be the first in a series of events under the banner Dancehall Nights, Saturnalia will be throwing a combination glam-rock dance party—with live music provided by Silverfox (singer David Slutes, guitarist Clif Taylor, bassist Duane Hollis [a Weekly employee] and drummer James Peters), as well as glam tunes spun by DJ Carl Glammy (Hanni’s moniker for the event)—and winetasting. (To boot, it triples as a birthday celebration for drummer Brad Denboer, aka Thermos Malling, of Doo Rag and Coin fame, and Glen Stosius, owner of the soon-to-beopened Agustin Brasserie at the Mercado San Agustín.)

The inaugural Dancehall Nights event begins at 9 p.m., Friday, March 9, at the Eagles Lodge (F.O.E.), 1530 N. Stone Ave. Cover is $5, and the optional wine-tasting is an additional $5. The Eagles Lodge also has a full bar and, for those who still engage in such activities, allows smoking, as it’s a private club.

Questions? Ring ’em up at 624-2461.

SHORT TAKES Los Angeles power-pop gods Peter Case and Paul Collins, both formerly of The Nerves, and later, respectively, of The Plimsouls and The Beat, will team up to perform tunes by all of those bands at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., at 8 p.m., Sunday, March 11.

Summer Twins open the show, and admission is $15. Call 622-8848 for more info.

With a soulful blues voice that lays bare her troubled upbringing (both of her parents com-

GRRRRR...FUNNY! mitted suicide; she was a teenage mother who had to give up her baby daughter for adoption), onetime Phoenix resident Janiva Magness has taken that pain and spun it into gold. She’s won armfuls of awards over the years, the most prestigious being the 2009 Blues Music Award for B.B. King Entertainer of the Year—she’s only the second woman to win the award, the first being Koko Taylor—and this week, she releases a new album, Stronger for It, on Alligator Records. Magness will celebrate the new release with a performance at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 10, at Suite 147 in Plaza Palomino, 2970 N. Swan Road. Tickets are $20 in advance, or $23 at the door. For more information, head to rhythmandroots.org, or call 319-9966.

ON THE BANDWAGON Way Out West CD-release party for Saddle Sore Blues at La Cocina on Saturday, March 10; Blitzen Trapper and the Parson Red Heads at Club Congress on Monday, March 12; Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Rocco DeLuca at the Rialto Theatre next Thursday, March 15; the Mynabirds and Big Harp at Solar Culture Gallery on Tuesday, March 13; Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk and the AmoSphere at Club Congress on Wednesday, March 14; Saviours, Holy Grail and North at Plush on Monday, March 12; Asking Alexandria with Trivium and others at the Rialto Theatre on Sunday, March 11; B. Bravo and the Starship Connection, Crime, Zackey Force Funk and Isaiah Toothtaker at Club Congress on Friday, March 9; Tatsuya Nakatani (experimental percussion from Japan) at Solar Culture Gallery on Friday, March 9; Boz Scaggs at the Event Center at Casino del Sol on Friday, March 9; George Thorogood and the Destroyers at the Diamond Center at Desert Diamond Casino on Sunday, March 11; Rehab at The Rock on Wednesday, March 14; Rags and Ribbons at The Hut on Friday, March 9.

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R.I.P. Finally, we were saddened to hear that after an 18-month battle with a rare form of cancer (cholangiocarcinoma), local musician Jim Gyuro passed away on Thursday, March 1, at age 41.

Most people in Tucson probably remember Gyuro as the guy with the giant pompadour playing guitar in a TV commercial for Casino del Sol, but to those of us who follow local music, he was a member of such beloved pop/ surf/rockabilly bands as Zuzu’s Petals, Lucy Chair, and Fukuisan Go! In the late 2000s, shortly before his daughter Presley was born, he created the alter ego Mr. Mocos and began writing and performing children’s music, releasing the album You Can Pick Your Friends in 2008.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to: The Presley Jane Gyuro Educational Fund, Alliance Bank of Arizona, 4703 E. Camp Lowell Drive, Tucson, AZ 85712.

For a loving tribute to Gyuro written by his friend Chris Patyk, head to our blog, The Range, at daily.tucsonweekly.com.

We offer our sincerest condolences to Jim’s friends and family.

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MUSIC Tucson native Brian Lopez puts his varied life experiences into his solo debut album

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BY GENE ARMSTRONG, garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com ad he grown a few more inches, Tucson rocker Brian Lopez might have pursued a college career in basketball.

Who knows? Maybe he could have gone pro.

“But I’d be fibbing a little if I said I was 6 foot,” Lopez says with a chuckle.

Luckily for music fans, Lopez was offered a classical guitar scholarship at the University of Arizona, which further cemented his dedication to music.

“That was kind of where the train got derailed a little bit,” he says over a bagel at a Fourth Avenue bistro on a recent Saturday morning.

A little more than 10 years and a few bands later, Lopez is releasing his first full-length solo album, Ultra, an art-rock excursion that is both aggressive and supple, velvety and muscular, blessed with rippling guitars, strings, beautiful songwriting and Lopez’s pure, chiming voice.

He and his band will celebrate the release of the album with a gig on Friday, March 9, at Plush, with opening act What Laura Says.

Lopez’s core group features drummer Jack Sterbis, cellist Mona Chambers, violinist Vicki Brown and current bassist Gabriel Sullivan.

Founding bassist Sean Rogers still plays with Lopez when his other obligations allow.

Lopez says his new music is an attempt to “filter everything I have learned through my own whatever-the-hell-I-am: my love of rock ’n’ roll and the academic music training, and the string players I have been lucky enough to play with. And all the members of my band. They all inspire me.”

Born in Tucson 29 years ago, Lopez grew up in a basketball-playing household (his dad coached at Pima Community College), although he also fell in love with the guitar when he was 12.

He remembers vividly when he started playing in a middle school music class. “There was one drum kit and a lot of really crappy nylonstring guitars. I went right over to the guitars and found out I could play right away. I could play ‘Tequila,’ which was really cool to show off for friends. I used to buy tablature books, and was really into Nirvana and Pearl Jam and that grunge scene.”

In high school, he took music theory and played in advanced guitar class, which basically consisted of a series of pickup groups organized by functions like homecoming and the Tucson Blues Heritage Festival. “I kind of got my first taste of being a showman. I also had various outside bands when I was growing up.

None of them were good.”

While studying music in high school and at the UA, he wondered if all the theory was

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1. Adele 21 (XL/Columbia)

2. Tyga Careless World: Rise of the Last King (Universal Republic)

3. WZRD WZRD (Universal Republic)

4. Too Short No Trespassing (Dangerous)

5. Fun. Some Nights (Fueled by Ramen)

6. Pink Floyd The Wall (Capitol)

7. Skrillex Bangarang EP (Big Beat/Atlantic)

8. Puss in Boots (DVD) DreamWorks

9. Gotye Making Mirrors (Universal Republic)

10. Drake necessary. “All that musical training that I did, I thought was so tedious; it was like math or something. I didn’t think it was that important at the time. But, man, it’s all coming back around now. I can see now how if I didn’t take that stuff, I would’ve hit a plateau and wouldn’t be where I am right now.”

When Lopez graduated from the UA in 2006—after six months of living in Barcelona, Spain—he started Mostly Bears with bassist Geoff Hidalgo and drummer Nick Wantland, a group that won considerable acclaim in Tucson for several years, and released two CDs along the way.

Lopez appreciates the time he spent in Mostly Bears, in large part because it helped instill in him a work ethic. “It’s not like we were the best band or anything. We were just practicing every day—put your head down, and get to work. That’s kind of been my mantra in my career. Don’t think about it, just do.”

He also got an education of another sort while working for nine years at the local independent label Funzalo Records, which also provides management and publishing services.

Funzalo is releasing Ultra in the United States, and the record has come out via Le Pop Muzik in Europe.

“I got an awesome tutorial about the music

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business. I know a lot more about what goes on behind the scenes in the music scene than maybe 90 percent of my musical peers. I learned a lot more there than in music school about what you actually need to survive in the music industry.”

Over the years, Lopez has played with lots of Tucson acts—Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta, Marianne Dissard, Salvador Duran, Giant Sand—and he believes the musical community itself has been an inspiration.

“I think the musicianship here is remarkable, but more so the camaraderie. The culture within the music community here is really special, and you can’t really find anything like it anywhere else. I’ve been fortunate to have grown up here, in the Tucson melting pot, so to speak. I only recently realized how much it has brought me to where I am now.”

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CLUB LIST Here is a list of venues that offer live music, dancing, DJ music, karaoke or comedy in the Tucson area. We recommend that you call and confirm all events.

AMADO TERRITORY STEAKHOUSE 3001 E. Frontage Road. Amado.

398-2651.

ARIZONA INN 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541.

ARMITAGE WINE LOUNGE AND CAFÉ 2905 E. Skyline Drive, No. 168. 682-9740.

THE AULD DUBLINER 800 E. University Blvd. 206-0323.

AZUL RESTAURANT LOUNGE Westin La Paloma, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. 742-6000.

THE BAMBOO CLUB 5870 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 524.

514-9665.

BARRIO BREWING COMPANY 800 E. 16th St. 791-2739.

THE BASHFUL BANDIT 3686 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-8996.

BEAU BRUMMEL CLUB 1148 N. Main Ave. 622-9673.

BEDROXX 4385 W. Ina Road.

744-7655.

BEST WESTERN ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871.

BLUEFIN SEAFOOD BISTRO 7053 N. Oracle Road.

531-8500.

BOJANGLES SALOON 5244 S. Nogales Highway. 889-6161.

BOONDOCKS LOUNGE 3306 N. First Ave. 690-0991.

BORDERLANDS BREWING COMPANY 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773.

BRATS 5975 W. Western Way Circle. 578-0341.

BRODIE’S TAVERN 2449 N. Stone Ave. 622-0447.

BUFFALO WILD WINGS 68 N. Harrison Road. 296-8409.

CACTUS MOON 5470 E. Broadway Blvd. 748-0049.

CAFÉ PASSÉ 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411.

CAFE TREMOLO 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd., No. 152.

742-2999.

THE CANYON’S CROWN RESTAURANT AND PUB 6958 E. Tanque Verde Road.

885-8277.

CASA VICENTE RESTAURANTE ESPAÑOL 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253.

CASCADE LOUNGE Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive. 615-5495.

CHICAGO BAR 5954 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-8169.

CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848.

LA COCINA RESTAURANT, CANTINA AND COFFEE BAR 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351.

COPPER QUEEN HOTEL 11 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-2216.

COW PALACE 28802 S. Nogales Highway. Amado. (520) 398-1999.

COW PONY BAR AND GRILL 6510 E. Tanque Verde Road.

721-2781.

CUSHING STREET RESTAURANT AND BAR 198 W. Cushing St. 622-7984.

DAKOTA CAFE AND CATERING CO. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road.

298-7188.

DELECTABLES RESTAURANT AND CATERING 533 N. Fourth Ave. 884-9289.

THE DEPOT SPORTS BAR 3501 E. Fort Lowell Road.

795-8110.

DESERT DIAMOND CASINO MONSOON NIGHTCLUB 7350 S. Nogales Highway. 294-7777.

DIABLOS SPORTS BAR AND GRILL 2545 S. Craycroft Road.

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DRIFTWOOD RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE 2001 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4317.

DV8 5851 E. Speedway Blvd.

885-3030.

EAGLES LODGE 1530 N. Stone Ave. 571-8384.

ECLIPSE AT COLLEGE PLACE 1601 N. Oracle Road.

209-2121.

EDDIES COCKTAILS 8510 E. Broadway Blvd. 290-8750.

EL CHARRO CAFÉ SAHUARITA 15920 S. Rancho Sahuarita.

Sahuarita. 325-1922.

EL CHARRO CAFÉ ON BROADWAY 6310 E. Broadway Blvd. 745-1922.

EL MEZÓN DEL COBRE 2960 N. First Ave. 791-0977.

EL PARADOR 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. 881-2744.

ELBOW ROOM 1145 W. Prince Road. 690-1011.

FAMOUS SAM’S BROADWAY 1830 E. Broadway Blvd.

884-0119.

FAMOUS SAM’S E. GOLF LINKS 7129 E. Golf Links Road.

296-1245.

FAMOUS SAM’S SILVERBELL 2320 N. Silverbell Road.

884-7267.

FAMOUS SAM’S VALENCIA 3010 W. Valencia Road. 8838888.

FAMOUS SAM’S W. RUTHRAUFF 2480 W. Ruthrauff Road. 292-0492.

FAMOUS SAM’S IRVINGTON 2048 E. Irvington Road.

889-6007.

FAMOUS SAM’S ORACLE 8058 N. Oracle Road. 531-9464.

FAMOUS SAM’S PIMA 3933 E. Pima St. 323-1880.

FLYING V BAR AND GRILL Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive.

299-2020.

FOX AND HOUND SMOKEHOUSE AND TAVERN Foothills Mall, 7625 N. La Cholla Blvd. 575-1980.

FROG AND FIRKIN 874 E. University Blvd. 623-7507.

LA FUENTE 1749 N. Oracle Road. 623-8659.

FUKU SUSHI 940 E. University Blvd. 798-3858.

GENTLE BEN’S BREWING COMPANY 865 E. University Blvd. 624-4177.

GILLIGAN’S PUB 1308 W. Glenn St. 623-3999.

GLASS ONION CAFE 1990 W. River Road, Suite 100.

293-6050.

GOLD Westward Look Resort, 245 E. Ina Road. 917-2930, ext. 474.

GOLDEN PIN LANES 1010 W. Miracle Mile. 888-4272.

THE GRILL AT QUAIL CREEK 1490 Quail Range Loop. Green Valley. 393-5806.

GUADALAJARA GRILL EAST 750 N. Kolb Road. 296-1122.

GUADALAJARA GRILL WEST 1220 E. Prince Road.

323-1022.

HANGOVER’S BAR AND GRILL 1310 S. Alvernon Way. 326-2310.

HIDEOUT BAR AND GRILL 1110 S. Sherwood Village Drive.

751-2222.

THE HIDEOUT 3000 S. Mission Road. 791-0515.

HILDA’S SPORTS BAR 1120 Circulo Mercado. Rio Rico. (520) 281-9440.

THE HOG PIT SMOKEHOUSE BAR AND GRILL 6910 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4302.

HOTEL CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848.

THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200.

IBT’S 616 N. Fourth Ave. 882-3053.

IGUANA CAFE 210 E. Congress St. 882-5140.

JASPER NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANT AND BAR 6370 N. Campbell Ave., No. 160.

577-0326.

JAVELINA CANTINA 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200, ext.

5373.

JEFF’S PUB 112 S. Camino Seco Road. 886-1001.

KINGFISHER BAR AND GRILL 2564 E. Grant Road. 323-7739.

KON TIKI 4625 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-7193.

LAFFS COMEDY CAFFÉ 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-8669.

LAS CAZUELITAS 1365 W. Grant Road. 206-0405.

LEVEL BAR LOUNGE 4280 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 37.

615-3835.

LI’L ABNER’S STEAKHOUSE 8500 N. Silverbell Road.

744-2800.

LINDY’S AT REDLINE SPORTS GRILL 445 W. Wetmore Road.

888-8084.

LOOKOUT BAR AND GRILLE AT WESTWARD LOOK RESORT 245 E. Ina Road. 297-1151.

THE LOOP TASTE OF CHICAGO 10180 N. Oracle Road.

878-0222.

LUNA BELLA ITALIAN CUISINE AND CATERING 2990 N. Swan Road, No. 145.

325-3895.

M&L AIRPORT INN BAR AND GRILL 2303 E. Valencia Road.

294-1612.

MALIBU YOGURT AND ICE CREAM 825 E. University Blvd.

903-2340.

MARGARITA BAY 7415 E. 22nd St. 290-8977.

MAVERICK 6622 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-0430.

MAYNARDS MARKET AND KITCHEN 400 N. Toole Ave. 545-0577.

MCMAHON’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE 2959 N. Swan Road. 327-7463.

MIDTOWN BAR AND GRILL 4915 E. Speedway Blvd.

327-2011.

MINT COCKTAILS 3540 E. Grant Road. 881-9169.

MR. AN’S TEPPAN STEAK AND SUSHI 6091 N. Oracle Road.

797-0888.

MR. HEAD’S ART GALLERY AND BAR 513 N. Fourth Ave. 792-2710.

MUSIC BOX 6951 E. 22nd St. 747-1421.

NEVADA SMITH’S 1175 W. Miracle Mile. 622-9064.

NIMBUS BREWING COMPANY TAPROOM 3850 E. 44th St. 745-9175.

NORTH 2995 E. Skyline Drive.

299-1600.

O’MALLEY’S 247 N. Fourth Ave. 623-8600.

OLD FATHER INN 4080 W. Ina Road. Marana. 744-1200.

OLD PUEBLO GRILLE 60 N. Alvernon Way. 326-6000.

OLD TUBAC INN RESTAURANT AND SALOON 7 Plaza Road.

Tubac. (520) 398-3161.

ON A ROLL 63 E. Congress St. 622-7655.

THE ONYX ROOM 106 W. Drachman St. 620-6699.

ORACLE INN 305 E. American Ave. Oracle. 896-3333.

O’SHAUGHNESSY’S 2200 N. Camino Principal. 296-7464.

PAPPY’S DINER 1300 W. Prince Road. 408-5262.

PARADISO BAR AND LOUNGE Casino Del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435.

LA PARRILLA SUIZA 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300.

PEARSON’S PUB 1120 S. Wilmot Road. 747-2181.

PLAYGROUND BAR AND LOUNGE 278 E. Congress St. 396-3691.

PLUSH 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298.

PUTNEY’S 6090 N. Oracle Road. 575-1767.

RPM NIGHTCLUB 445 W. Wetmore Road. 869-6098.

RA SUSHI BAR RESTAURANT 2905 E. Skyline Drive.

615-3970.

RAGING SAGE COFFEE ROASTERS 2458 N. Campbell Ave. 320-5203.

RED SKY NEW AMERICAN CUISINE AND CATERING 2990 N. Swan Road. 326-5454.

LE RENDEZ-VOUS 3844 E. Fort Lowell Road. 323-7373.

RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000.

RIC’S CAFE/RESTAURANT 5605 E. River Road. 577-7272.

RIVER’S EDGE LOUNGE 4635 N. Flowing Wells Road.

887-9027.

RJ’S REPLAYS SPORTS PUB AND GRUB 5769 E. Speedway Blvd. 495-5136.

THE ROCK 136 N. Park Ave. 629-9211.

ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871.

RUNWAY BAR AND GRILL 2101 S. Alvernon Way. 790-6788.

RUSTY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILLE 2075 W. Grant Road.

623-3363.

SAKURA 6534 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-7777.

SALTY DAWG II 6121 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 106.

790-3294.

SAM HUGHES PLACE CHAMPIONSHIP DINING 446 N. Campbell Ave. 747-5223.

SAPPHIRE LOUNGE 61 E. Congress St. 624-9100.

SHARKS 256 E. Congress St. 791-9869.

SHERATON HOTEL AND SUITES 5151 E. Grant Road.

323-6262.

SHOOTERS STEAKHOUSE AND SALOON 3115 E. Prince Road.

322-0779.

SHOT IN THE DARK CAFÉ 121 E. Broadway Blvd. 882-5544.

SINBAD’S FINE MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE 810 E. University Ave. 623-4010.

SKRAPPY’S 191 E. Toole Ave. 358-4287.

SKY BAR 536 N. Fourth Ave. 622-4300.

THE SKYBOX RESTAURANT AND SPORTS BAR 5605 E. River Road. 529-7180.

SOLAR CULTURE 31 E. Toole Ave. 884-0874.

STADIUM GRILL 3682 W. Orange Grove Road. Marana..

877-8100.

STOCKMEN’S LOUNGE 1368 W. Roger Road. 887-2529.

SULLIVAN’S STEAK HOUSE 1785 E. River Road. 299-4275.

SURLY WENCH PUB 424 N. Fourth Ave. 882-0009.

TANQUE VERDE RANCH 14301 E. Speedway Blvd.

296-6275.

TANQUE VERDE SWAP MEET 4100 S. Palo Verde Road.

294-4252.

TERRY AND ZEKE’S 4603 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-3555.

TWELVE TRIBES REGGAE SHOP 345 N. Fifth Ave. 620-1810.

UNICORN SPORTS LOUNGE 8060 E. 22nd St., No. 118.

722-6900.

V FINE THAI 9 E. Congress St. 882-8143.

VAUDEVILLE 110 E. Congress St. 622-3535.

VERONA ITALIAN RESTAURANT 120 S. Houghton Road. 722-2722.

VOYAGER RV RESORT 8701 S. Kolb Road. 574-5000.

WHISKEY TANGO 140 S. Kolb Road. 344-8843.

WILD BILL’S STEAKHOUSE AND SALOON 5910 N. Oracle Road. 887-6161.

WILDCAT HOUSE 1801 N. Stone Ave. 622-1302.

WINGS-PIZZA-N-THINGS 8838 E. Broadway Blvd. 722-9663.

WISDOM’S CAFÉ 1931 E. Frontage Road. Tumacacori.

398-2397.

WOODEN NICKEL 1908 S. Country Club Road. 323-8830.

WOODY’S 3710 N. Oracle Road.

292-6702.

WORLD FAMOUS GOLDEN NUGGET 2617 N. First Ave. 622-9202.

ZEN ROCK 121 E. Congress St. 624-9100.

THU MAR 8 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch The Auld Dubliner Live local music Beer Belly’s Pub Open jam Boondocks Lounge Grams and Krieger Café Passé Jeff Grubic and Naim Amor Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Live classical guitar Cascade Lounge Doug Martin Chicago Bar Neon Prophet La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Stefan George Eddies Cocktails Cass Preston and His Band La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live mariachi music Las Cazuelitas Live music McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Susan Artemis O’Malley’s Live music On a Roll Live music The Onyx Room Larry Loud and George Howard O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge B/S (AC/DC tribute) Plush Katie Haverly RPM Nightclub 80’s and Gentlemen Rialto Theatre Deadmeat Tour With Steve Aoki, Datsik The Rock Attaloss, Sail Away December, Blow Up the Sky, Ben Michaels, Lunar Housing Sheraton Hotel and Suites Prime Example Sky Bar Mustanatas, John Gimmler Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Surly Wench Pub Richie Ramone of the Ramones Fundraiser for Planned Parenthood Vaudeville Jumper Wild Bill’s Steakhouse and Saloon Wild Oats

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC The Bamboo Club Karaoke with DJ Tony G Bedroxx Karaoke with DJ Chubbz Bojangles Saloon Buffalo Wild Wings Tucson’s Most Wanted Entertainment with KJ Sean The Depot Sports Bar Karaoke with DJ Brandon El Charro Café Sahuarita Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star karaoke Famous Sam’s Valencia Gilligan’s Pub Glass Onion Cafe Open mic Golden Pin Lanes Karaoke and music videos with DJ Adonis Hilda’s Sports Bar The Hog Pit Smokehouse Bar and Grill Steve Morningwood acoustic open-mic night Margarita Bay Mooney’s Pub Open mic Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Cutthroat Karaoke Music Box Karaoke with AJ River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke with KJ David Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Stadium Grill Karaoke, dance music and music videos with DJ Tigger Voyager RV Resort Karaoke with the Tucson Twosome

DANCE/DJ Azul Restaurant Lounge DJ spins music Club Congress Opti Club: Anoraak Diablos Sports Bar and Grill XLevel DJs Eclipse at College Place DJ spins music Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company DJ spins music The Hideout Fiesta DJs IBT’s DJ spins music Javelina Cantina DJ M. M&L Airport Inn Bar and Grill DJ 520 Rocka Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge Salsa night Sharks DJ Aspen Unicorn Sports Lounge Y Not Entertainment Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz

COMEDY Laffs Comedy Caffé Open mic

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If you would like your band, club or solo act to be listed, send all pertinent times, dates, prices and places to: Club Listings, Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726. Fax listings to 792-2096. Or e-mail us at clubs@tucsonweekly.com. Deadline to receive listings information is noon on Friday, seven days before the Thursday publication date. For display advertising information, call 294-1200.

NINE QUESTIONS Spyder Rhodes Spyder Rhodes is a Tucson club and radio disc jockey, mixologist, programmer and musicologist. He has played drums with The Host, the Zsa Zsas and The Watch. He presently is the drummer for local alt-country band Silverbell. Kristine Peashock, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com What was the first concert you ever saw?

Alice Cooper’s Madhouse Rock tour, with Cheap Trick opening. Alice’s stage show blew my mind. Cheap Trick gave the best rock performance I have seen to this day.

What are you listening to these days?

My taste is broad: from bleeding-edge indie to nostalgia, Brit pop, rock, Americana and electronica. A few artists that have commanded my attention: Surface of Atlantic, Arcade Fire, Other Lives, The Faint, Gorillaz, The Dears and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

What was the first album you owned?

At age 9, I began raiding my brother’s record collection, which was mostly composed of ’60s and ’70s rock ’n’ roll. When I finally made my own first record purchase, I chose The Cars’ debut record. I purchased Candy-O immediately after. Those records inspired me to play the drums.

What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone seem to love, but you just don’t get?

Dubstep. As a DJ and drummer, it doesn’t make rhythmic sense to me.

What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live?

Arcade Fire. That has to be an epic show.

Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure?

Adam Lambert. The song “Soaked” from For Your Entertainment is one of my favorite songs of all time. It has a very larger-than-life feel, much like his voice.

What song would you like to have played at your funeral?

“Forbidden Colours” by David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

What band or artist changed your life, and how?

Around 1983, I heard The Church, Séance, for the first time in a trendy Fourth Avenue hair salon. I was instantly mesmerized. The Church has an uncanny way of taking you to a completely different, magical place.

Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time?

The Church, Remote Luxury.

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FRI MAR 9 LIVE MUSIC Amado Territory Steakhouse Becky Reyes featuring Scott Muhleman Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bamboo Club Live music The Bashful Bandit Live music Bluefin Seafood Bistro George Howard Duo Bojangles Saloon Live music Boondocks Lounge Neon Prophet Borderlands Brewing Company Marvin and the Cloud Wall Cactus Moon Jack Bishop Cafe Tremolo PB&J The Canyon’s Crown Restaurant and Pub Live music Cascade Lounge Doug Martin Chicago Bar The AmoSphere Club Congress Patio: Duo Vibrato: Inside: The Pretty Reckless, The Parlor Mob, The Hollywood Kills, B Bravo, The Starship Connection La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Greg Morton Dakota Cafe and Catering Co. Howard Wooten Delectables Restaurant and Catering Live music Eagles Lodge Dancehall Nights: Silverfox, DJ Carl Glammy Eclipse at College Place Live music Eddies Cocktails Dust Devils El Mezón del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Shell Shock La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Glass Onion Cafe Duke and Cat Show, Gaia Sound with Chris Krantz The Grill at Quail Creek Paul McGuffin Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music The Hideout Martin Baca and Solitario Norte Hotel Congress Patio Show: dUO VibrAtO The Hut No Kind of Rider, Rags and Ribbons Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar The Just Intervals Las Cazuelitas Mariachis Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Lindy’s at Redline Sports Grill Giant Blue Luna Bella Italian Cuisine and Catering Holmes and Levinson Maverick Flipside McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky Mint Cocktails Live music Mr. An’s Teppan Steak and Sushi Los Cubanos Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Collin Shook Trio Old Father Inn Live music Oracle Inn Gone Country Band O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Sol Down La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Plush Brian Lopez CD-release, What Laura Says; Lounge: Shrimp Chaperone Red Sky New American Cuisine and Catering Holmes and Levinson Ric’s Cafe/Restaurant Live music RJ’s Replays Sports Pub and Grub Crosscut Saw The Rock The Dangerous Summer War Paint Tour: Divided by Friday, Ten Second Epic, Secret Tunnel Storyline, Deceptively Innocent Shot in the Dark Café Mark Bockel Skrappy’s Bröötal Sun Fest Sky Bar Elemental Artistry Fire Dancing The Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar 80’s and Gentlemen Solar Culture Tatsuya Nakatani Stadium Grill Live music Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Surly Wench Pub Sunny Italy, John Wayne Bro, Amigo the Devil Tanque Verde Swap Meet Live music Twelve Tribes Reggae Shop Uproots Reggae Band, Planet Jam V Fine Thai Phony Bennett Whiskey Tango Vintage Sugar Wild Bill’s Steakhouse and Saloon Beau Renfro and Clear Country Wisdom’s Café Amber Norgaard Woody’s Susan Artemis

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KARAOKE/OPEN MIC Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Karaoke with DJ Richard Brats Brodie’s Tavern Cow Palace Karaoke with DJ Famous Sam’s W. Ruthrauff Famous Sam’s Oracle Chubb Rock with Ray Brennan Famous Sam’s Pima Iguana Cafe Jeff’s Pub Kustom Karaoke Margarita Bay

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MERLE HAGGARD FOX TUCSON THEATRE Tuesday, Feb. 28 â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wrote most of these songs in my 20s,â&#x20AC;? Merle Haggard said in the midst of his hit-filled set. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here I am in my 40s, still trying to sing them.â&#x20AC;?

The hoots and whistles that greeted Haggard all night surged again at the introduction to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Footlights,â&#x20AC;? about an aging musician with that very perspective whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to keep his performances lively and interesting.

Now 74 and another generation into his Country Music Hall of Fame career, Haggard has no trouble dragging a nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of fun out of his decades-old hits.

After a short opening set by his son Noel, the Strangers hit the stage, warming up the crowd before Haggard strolled out, tipped his black hat to the crowd and picked up his signature Telecaster.

Haggard opened with a relatively new song, 2003â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the News,â&#x20AC;? which called out the national news media for keeping the cost of the war in Iraq out of sight.

A rush of hitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pancho and Lefty,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silver Wings,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Just Stay Here and Drinkâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Starâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;followed.

Then, with a shout-out to Johnny Cash, Haggard and the Strangers lit into â&#x20AC;&#x153;Folsom Prison Blues,â&#x20AC;? with Haggard joking afterward that being released from his recent stint in the hospital felt like getting out of prison.

In his first performance since being hospitalized for double pneumonia in January (and after postponing several shows), Haggard was spry and sang in a clear, strong voice. The Strangers showed the fruits of longtime collaboration, with Haggard sharing leads all around.

The quick-paced 20-song set had plenty more hits, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mama Tried,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I Could Only Fly,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today I Started Loving You Again,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man),â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are the Good Times Really Overâ&#x20AC;? and the title song from last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Working in Tennessee, with Haggard switching from guitar to fiddle.

Cowboy hats dotted the appreciative crowd, which heartily joined in singing the nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closer, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Okie From Muskogee.â&#x20AC;?

An icon and still-hard-working legend whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s earned countless accolades, Haggard might not exactly strike with the same force as he did in his 20-something outlaw days, but his old glory keeps shining brightly.

Eric Swedlund mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

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Shifting from a quartet to a trio, Scottish rockers the Twilight Sad also took a detour from their typical skyscraping sounds for this arresting collection of postpunk. In the wake of two impressive releases of visceral shoegaze, the Twilight Sadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No One Can Ever Know comes as an unexpected and bracing release. As an album, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a spiritual descendent of the work of groups like Suicide and Magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a dour collection of looping keyboards, austere electronics and frontman James Grahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guttural howls.

Grahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lyricsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;delivered in his inscrutable brogueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; remain wedded to the miserablist school, but are wellserved by the abrasive, bleak musical support throughout.

For instance, Grahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swooning chant on the chorus of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alphabetâ&#x20AC;? is perfectly buoyed by the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wheezing electronic pulses, while the flittering keyboards, propulsive drums and Grahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s violent incantations of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kill It in the Morningâ&#x20AC;? build to a stunning, rattling frenzy for the songâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coda.

No One Can Ever Know is such an entrancing work that even its sole misfireâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the droning, aimless dirge â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not Sleepingâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;can sound captivating on certain listens. Still, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the unhinged throttle of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Look at Me,â&#x20AC;? the manic vamping on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dead Cityâ&#x20AC;? and the swelling menace of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nilâ&#x20AC;? that demand repetition.

Perhaps most impressive is the way this album nods to the touchstones of post-punk (difficult rhythms; impenetrable, cold lyrics) without coming off as sycophantic. Something like the patient unfurling of what becomes a slight, dense keyboard whine on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sickâ&#x20AC;? transcends mere homage, revealing a sharper, more-insidious side to The Twilight Sad. Michael Petitti

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something reassuring about the traditional musical valuesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;catchy vocal melodies, bright hooks, bouncy beatsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that Nashville tunesmith Madi Diaz applies to her chosen form, which is hard to call anything but power-pop. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice to know this brand of chiming-guitar rock is still being made, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all the more fulfilling that Diaz and her band do it so well.

Diazâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winsome vocals add to the earnestness of such irresistible tunes as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gimme a Kiss,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Johnny,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing at Allâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Know,â&#x20AC;? all of which faithfully re-create that shiny â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s-by-way-of-the-lateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s vibe that bridged the eras of the Beatles and Aimee Mann. Drums slap 4/4 dance rhythms while Diaz and cowriter/performing partner Kyle Ryan pile infectious riffs and enchanting choruses into miniature pop cathedralsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and if you wait until the final (bonus) track, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find dreamy pop nirvana in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Call It the Same.â&#x20AC;?

Diaz also is known as an Americana artist, and it takes a while for her country and folk influences to emerge here. Her roots show best on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Time,â&#x20AC;? which would nestle well between songs by Shawn Colvin and Patty Griffin, and on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heavy Heart,â&#x20AC;? which balances sweet guitar architecture with country-style vocals on which Diaz sounds like all the Dixie Chicks at once. The sound is even more homegrown (but never roughhewn) on the mostly acoustic front-porch reflection â&#x20AC;&#x153;If You Only Knew,â&#x20AC;? which benefits from some elegant fiddleplaying.

Gene Armstrong

The sometimes off-kilter and wholly adorable indie-rock songs of this Vancouver, British Columbia-based band are nothing short of effervescent. On its third full-length album, the tunes are like scrubbing bubbles for brains numbed by modern irony, depression and negativity.

Resounding acoustic-guitar-bashing, rumbling drums, piano filigrees, loud-soft dynamics and warm harmonies imbue â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Sky, MTâ&#x20AC;? with a charming expansiveness that underlines its multigenerational lesson about bedrock values, including, â&#x20AC;&#x153;My grandfather taught me that picking flowers was worthwhile when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it for your true love.â&#x20AC;?

And how you can resist a song such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;O Alexandra,â&#x20AC;? in which the protagonist falls in love with his partner all over again each morning?

The singing voices of founding members Ben Worcester and Tyler Bancroft, who both also play guitar, twine into lush, expert harmonies, most notably on tracks like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Wave Goodbye,â&#x20AC;? a love letter to their hometown. Often incorporating female backing voices, they frequently rival such acts as Fleet Foxes, the New Pornographers and, well, Fleetwood Mac for vocal artistry.

Slightly more ominous new-wave-style songs such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heavy Ceilingâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Luckyâ&#x20AC;? are no less appealing, but somewhat darker, thanks to a solid, slinking low end. I also like the play on words in the title of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Loveless,â&#x20AC;? which refers to the refrain: â&#x20AC;&#x153;How could I love you less, now that I know you more?â&#x20AC;?

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The space was still being worked on when I went there during the ďŹ rst week of operation, so there were bits and pieces of construction material lying around. The decor is kind of light industrial warehouse, but nice enough for the purpose.

The collective, which owner Ken Sobel eventually wants to turn into a dispensary, is in a warehouse on North Freeway, in front of Sobel RV Storage on the west side of Interstate 10. Getting there is a bit of a pain if you come up westbound I-10, which makes leaving a pain if you are westbound. Either way, exit at Prince Road, and head south on the west I-10 access road. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about a half-mile south of Prince.

The tanned, shorts-and-ďŹ&#x201A;ip-ďŹ&#x201A;ops-clad attendant was waiting outside the door when I walked up. He was cheerful and helpful, though he seemed a little unfamiliar with the strain list and cash register. The arrangements are a bit in disorderâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they had no table to ďŹ ll out the ďŹ ve or six standard forms. (I got a chair and a clipboard.) Technically, the forms call for members to contribute to the collective with volunteer time, meds or other services, but they had plenty of spare meds for drop-in patients.

They had 12 strains available, vacuumpacked in plastic and all locally grown. They ranged from heavily indica to heavily sativa, including Granddaddy Purple (anxiety, pain, cancer and chemo side eďŹ&#x20AC;ects, depression), Sour Diesel (pain, depression, nausea), and Bubba Kush (anxiety, wasting syndrome, pain, glaucoma). For now, Green Halo has only meds that one can smoke, but the people there promise tinctures, drinks and other edibles soon.

For a $20 annual membership fee, Green Halo gives new patients 2 grams of what they called â&#x20AC;&#x153;mid-grade meds.â&#x20AC;? I picked Purple Haze, a sativa-dominant strain that the menu says relieves pain, anxiety and migraines.

For another $60 donation, I got 4 grams of L.A. ConďŹ dential, a higher-grade indica medication that Green Halo says helps anxiety and insomnia, but which I know is also good for pain relief. I was not disappointed. The L.A. ConďŹ dential virtually erased my neck pain, which has been ďŹ&#x201A;aring up lately, possibly because of anxiety, which it also smoothed.

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donation for a gram, $40 to $60 for 4 grams, $70 to $110 for a quarter-ounce, and $130 to $200 for an ounce.

Green Halo is planning at least three dispensaries around town, according to Sobel.

One will be near 29th Street and Craycroft Road, which would eliminate the cross-town trek for eastside patients. The collective membership card will be good at any of the dispensaries. Sobel, a lawyer who is vice president of the emerging Arizona Cannabis Chamber of Commerce, plans to apply for a dispensary license when the state Department of Health Services starts taking applications in April.

In the meantime, the collective seems like a viable option, although I was disappointed by the prices, especially since I had to drive across town. I hope that once dispensaries open, there will be a price dropâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;unless MMJ dispensaries manage prices the way gas stations do. It remains to be seen whether competition will drive prices down, or collusion will keep them up.

Overall, I was satisďŹ ed by Green Halo. The folks on hand were friendly, and they oďŹ&#x20AC;er medical information about their strains. The warehouse locationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which, again, had been open just a couple of days when I wentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; makes the place seem industrial. But as I said about the last collective I visited, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go there to hang out. I went for meds, and they had what I needed. The biggest downsides were prices and a lack of edibles (which they promise are coming).

Mr. Smith approves, but just barely.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Controlled hysteria is what is required,” said playwright Arthur Miller while speaking about his creative process. “To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It’s agony.

But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.” I hope this little outburst inspires you, Aries. It’s an excellent time for you to harness your hysteria and instruct your agony in the fine art of singing. To boost your chances of success in pulling off this dicey feat, use every means at your disposal to have fun and stay amused.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Cherokee Heritage website wants people to know that not all Native American tribes have the same traditions. In the Cherokee belief system, it’s Grandmother Sun and Grandfather Moon, which is the opposite of most tribes. There are no Cherokee shamans, only medicine men and women, and adawehis, or religious leaders. They don’t have “pipe carriers,” don’t do the Sun Dance, and don’t walk the “Good Red Road.” In fact, they walk the White Path, have a purification ceremony called “Going to Water,” and perform the Green Corn ceremony as a ritual renewal of life. I suggest you do a similar clarification for the group you’re part of and the traditions you hold dear, Taurus. Ponder your tribe’s unique truths and ways. Identify them and declare them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the coming weeks, the activity going on inside your mind and heart will be especially intense and influential—even if you don’t explicitly express it. When you speak your thoughts and feelings out loud, they will have unusual power to change people’s minds and rearrange their moods. When you keep your thoughts and feelings to yourself, they will still leak all over everything, bending and shaping the energy field around you. That’s why I urge you to take extra care as you manage what’s going on within you. Make sure the effect you’re having is the effect you want to have.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Artist Richard Kehl tells the story of a teenage girl who got the chance to ask a question of the eminent psychologist Carl Jung.

“Professor, you are so clever. Could you please tell me the shortest path to my

life’s goal?” Without a moment’s hesitation, Jung replied, “The detour!” I invite you to consider the possibility that Jung’s answer might be meaningful to you right now, Cancerian. Have you been churning out overcomplicated thoughts about your mission? Are you at risk of getting a bit too grandiose in your plans? Maybe you should at least dream about taking a shortcut that looks like a detour, or a detour that looks like a shortcut.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): An old Chinese proverb says: “My barn having burned to the ground, I can see the moon.” The speaker of those words was making an effort to redefine a total loss as a partial gain. The building may have been gone, but as a result, he or she had a better view of a natural wonder that was previously difficult to observe. I don’t foresee any of your barns going down in flames, Leo, so I don’t expect you’ll have to make a similar redefinition under duress. However, you have certainly experienced events like that in the past. And now would be an excellent time to revise your thinking about their meaning.

Are you brave enough and ingenious enough to reinterpret your history? It’s findthe-redemption week.

you have been expending on closed-down people and moldering systems. Instead, work on the unfinished beauty of what lies closest at hand: yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In this passage from the novel Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins provides a hot tip you should keep in mind. “There are essential and inessential insanities.

Inessential insanities are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression and preadolescent anxiety—garbage that should have been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo.”

I’ll add this, Scorpio: Be crazily wise and wisely crazy in the coming weeks. It will be healthy for you. Honor the wild ideas that bring you joy, and the odd desires that remind you of your core truths.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I don’t think you will need literal medicine this week. Your physical vigor should be good.

But I’m hoping you will seek out some spirit medicine—healing agents that fortify the secret and subtle parts of your psyche.

Where do you find spirit medicine? Well,

the search itself will provide the initial dose. Here are some further ideas: Expose yourself to stirring art and music and films; have conversations with empathic friends and the spirits of dead loved ones; spend time in the presence of a natural wonder; fantasize about a thrilling adventure you will have one day; and imagine who you want to be three years from now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Each of us is the star of our own movie. There are a few other lead and supporting actors who round out the cast, but everyone else in the world is an extra. Now and then, though, people whom we regard as minor characters suddenly rise to prominence and play a pivotal role in our unfolding drama. I expect this phenomenon is now occurring or will soon occur for you, Capricorn. So please be willing to depart from the script. Open yourself to the possibility of improvisation. People who have been playing bit parts may have more to contribute than you imagine.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The “cocktail party effect” refers to your ability to hear your name being spoken while in the midst of a social gathering’s cacophony.

This is an example of an important practice, which is how to discern truly meaningful signals embedded in the noise of all the irrelevant information that surrounds you.

You should be especially skilled at doing this in the coming weeks, Aquarius—and it will be crucial that you make abundant use of your skill. As you navigate your way through the clutter of symbols and the overload of data, be alert for the few key messages that are highly useful.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Shunryu Suzuki was a Zen master whose books helped popularize Zen Buddhism in America. A student once asked him, “How much ego do you need?” His austere reply was, “Just enough so that you don’t step in front of a bus.” While I sympathize with the value of humility, I wouldn’t go quite that far. I think that a slightly heftier ego, if offered up as a work of art, can be a gift to the world. What do you think, Pisces? How much ego is good? To what degree can you create your ego so that it’s a beautiful and dynamic source of power for you and an inspiration for other people rather than a greedy, needy parasite that distorts the truth? This is an excellent time to ruminate on such matters.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

Numerous websites on the Internet allege that Greek philosopher Plato made this statement, which I regard as highly unlikely. But in any case, the thought itself has some merit, and in accordance with your current astrological omens, I will make it your motto for the week. This is an excellent time to learn more about and become closer to the people you care for, and nothing would help you accomplish that better than getting together for intensive interludes of fooling around, messing around and horsing around.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves,” said Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl. His advice might be just what you need to hear right now, Libra. Have you struggled, mostly fruitlessly, to change a stagnant situation that has resisted your best efforts?

Is there a locked door you’ve been banging on, to no avail? If so, I invite you to redirect your attention. Reclaim the energy

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¡ASK A MEXICAN!

BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net can.net Dear Mexican: I’m so perplexed by my Mexican neighbor. For one, he already has four girls, and I just saw his wife—and looks like she’s pregnant AGAIN! What really bothers me is that I live in an affordable-housing unit. The rent is cheap and based on our income. He has a new Ford F150 truck, and his wife drives an older-model BMW. Well, what bugs the hell out of me is that he digs in the apartment complex trashcans every freakin’ day. I live in a large complex where there are about six trash bins. Every morning, before he takes his girls to school, he digs in all of them for recyclables.

I wonder if I’m just jealous, because he must make like $300 a week on all the stuff he recycles, but it really bugs me. If he’s so freakin’ poor and digging in the trash for an occupation, why must he still continue to bring more children into the world? The city I live in has a “no scavenging” law. I really want to report him, but I feel guilty. I feel like I should let him keep digging in the trash, since he has a family to feed. Also, I guess I’m nosey, too, ’cause I wonder if the mother and/or father work. I don’t think they do, and I wonder if they’re abusing welfare. And I wonder how many freakin’ girls he’s going to have before he gives up his dream on having a son.

OK, well, I hope you can help me with this issue. Am I evil? Should I care less? Help.

Pocha Cabrona in Chino Dear Pocha: You’re not evil, chula, just pendeja.

You—an assimilated Mexican American— still have to live in affordable housing? So much for breaking the stereotypes of Mexicans as lazy peons. Meanwhile, that wab who bugs you so much is hustling, digging through garbage for a couple of extra bucks—and it’s obviously working out, since he’s living a better life than your floja ass.

Who cares if he wants to have more kids?

That’s his decision, not yours. Maybe you’d be better off in life if you picked through trash— but I’m sure you think that’s beneath you.

Meanwhile, you’re wondering if your Mexican neighbor is on welfare when YOU are on the government queso. My immigrant parents, who always scrimped and saved—and bought massive trucks and SUVs, because no honorable

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hombre should ever leave home without one— never took a government dime; that is beneath them, since that’s such an American thing to do.

If ever there were a case for Mexicans to not allow their children to assimilate, you’d be the poster niña, pendeja.

I got asked to participate in an Internet radio show where I, as an alleged (mostly by me) Mexican comedian, will be asked questions like, “Why are Mexicans so funny?” Since I’m as Mexican as a Del Taco stand, I defer to you for some insight and wisdom that I can share to the show’s four audience members.

Tommy Milagro Dear Wab: Have you talked to our pocho cousins? There’s a veritable Comstock lode of material for ridicule there!

PREORDER TACO USA! Gentle cabrones: My much-promised Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America will finally hit bookstores April 10, but that doesn’t mean you can’t already order it. Place your order with your favorite local bookstore, your finer online retailers or your craftier piratas, but place it: My libro editor has already promised to deport me from the publishing industry if we don’t sell enough copies! And stay tuned for book-signing info!

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BY DAN SAVAGE, mail@savagelove.net

I’m a gay man in my late 20s who has been trying to deal with an attraction to young boys since I hit puberty. I know that what I feel is wrong and wish to Christ that I could have a normally wired brain.

I have never abused a child; I do not look at child pornography. But I need to speak to a therapist, because I can’t get through this on my own.

Bottom line is I’m afraid. Seriously afraid. I don’t know what my legal rights are, and I don’t know how to go about getting more information without incriminating myself. I’m sure there are more people than just me who need to talk about this. My problem is that I’m not financially stable enough to afford seeing someone for more than a few sessions. I just can’t keep saying I’m fine, and I can’t let healthy relationships fall apart because I’m unable to talk to anyone about my problem.

Can’t Wish It Away I shared your letter with Dr. James Cantor, a psychologist, associate professor at the University of Toronto, and editor in chief of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. (Follow Dr. Cantor on Twitter @JamesCantorPhD.) The first thing he said, CWIA, was that you deserved praise—he called you “an ace”—for making it this far without having committed an offense.

But accessing the support you need to get through the next six or seven decades of life without sexually abusing a child—support the culture should provide to men and women like you in order to protect children—isn’t going to be easy, Dr. Cantor said, particularly if you live in the United States.

“Other countries have created programs to help people like CWIA,” said Dr. Cantor. “Germany has Prevention Project Dunkelfeld, which includes a hospital-based clinic and anonymous hotlines that people who are attracted to children can call when they need to talk to someone, vent or debrief.

In Canada, we have the Circles of Support and Accountability—groups of volunteers who provide assistance and social support, and who, in turn, receive support and supervision from professionals.”

But Canada funds these programs only for people who committed a sexual offense. The Circles program isn’t open to “gold-star pedophiles,” my term for men and women who have successfully struggled against their attraction to children without any support or credit. (Yes, credit.

Someone who is burdened with an attraction to children—no one chooses to be sexually attracted to children—and has successfully battled that attraction all of his adult life deserves credit for his strength, self-control and moral sense.)

Sadly, in the United States, we’ve taken steps that make it harder for pedophiles to get the support they need to avoid offending.

“One of the recent regulations in the United States is mandatory reporting,” said Dr. Cantor.

“These regulations vary by region, but in general, if a client has children or provides care to children and admits experiencing sexual attraction to children—any children—the therapist is required to report the client to the authorities, regardless of whether any abuse was actually occurring.”

The goal is to protect children, of course, and that is a goal I fully support as a parent and a human being. But broad mandatory reporting policies have an unintended consequence: People like CWIA—people who need help to avoid acting on their attraction to children—are cut off from mental-health professionals who can give them the tools, insight and support they need. Mandatory reporting policies, designed to protect children, may be making children less safe.

“The situation is not completely hopeless, however,” said Dr. Cantor. “Therapists with training and experience working with people attracted to children are keenly aware of the delicate legal situation that both they and their clients are in. A good therapist—a licensed therapist, please—will begin the very first session by outlining exactly what they must report and what they may not report.”

So long as there is no specific child in specific danger—so long as you don’t have children (please don’t), CWIA, and don’t work with children (please don’t)—your therapist is required to keep whatever information you share confidential.

“CWIA should ask questions about confidentiality before disclosing anything to a therapist,” said Dr. Cantor. “He can ask these questions over the phone before making an appointment or even revealing his name.”

To find a therapist, CWIA, you can contact— anonymously—the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (atsa.com/request-referral).

“Although that group is primarily about services to persons who have already committed an offense,” said Dr. Cantor, “the professionals in their referral network are able and willing to help people in CWIA’s situation as well.”

Even the few sessions you can afford will help, CWIA. I’m a happy 50-something straight female sub in a D/s relationship. My Dom is my boyfriend; we present as a regular couple. We decided to take a break for several months because of some trust issues. We are now back together. While we were on our break, my adult daughter from my first marriage told me that she was happy we split up, because she viewed his behavior toward me as abusive. She based this on my generally deferring to his wishes. In other words, I was behaving as his sub. She believes that I am a brainwashed, abused woman who cannot break free of her abuser. She won’t have anything to do with him, believing that he is not a good man. If I want to see her and the grandkids, I visit alone.

There is no way I am going to tell her that we are D/s, because my private life is none of her business.

Also, I don’t think that picturing Grandma getting spanked with a leather belt is an image she would want seared in her brain. What can I say to her to reassure her that I am happy and not being abused?

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Only Kinky Sorry, OK, but you made your private life your daughter’s business.

You don’t have to tell your daughter the whole truth (leave out the leather belt), but you will have to tell her that what she witnessed—you behaving as your boyfriend’s sub—was consensual role-play, not abuse. Tell her that it was never your intent to involve her or anyone else in your sex play; you thought your role-play was so subtle that no one else would ever pick up on it, and you’re sorry to have to burden her with this info. But you’re in a consensual D/s relationship, and what she has interpreted as abuse is just an elaborate, consensual game that you both enjoy. Promise to dial it way, way back from now on.

But you will have to come clean with, and come out to, your daughter—if only to exonerate your boyfriend, who isn’t an abuser and shouldn’t have to live with that stigma.

Awesome advice to Heartbroken, the woman who agreed to have a MFF threesome on the condition that her husband not engage in PIV intercourse with their third: You told her husband that his inability to respect his wife’s ground rules had probably screwed him out of any opportunity to have PIV sex with other women in the future. I’m in a nonmonogamous marriage. We started off with MFF threesomes, but I gave my husband the “no penis in her vagina” rule. He followed it to a T until I gave him the go-ahead. Now we both screw other people. If my husband had messed up the first time, though, we never would have gotten this far.

Woman Over Wisconsin Thanks for sharing, WOW. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage, and follow me @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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