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NOVEMBER 15-21, 2012 VOL. 29, NO. 39

OPINION Could the new 007 film be the best Bond flick ever?

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Tom Danehy 4 Irene Messina 6 Jim Hightower 6 Guest Commentary 8 Mailbag 8

CURRENTS The Skinny 9 By Jim Nintzel and Gabriel Romero

A Virtual Tie 9 By Jim Nintzel

The race between Barber and McSally is too close to call Media Watch 10 By John Schuster

Dream On 11 By Tim Vanderpool

Brewer tells young immigrants to take a hike—literally Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by David Mendez

Police Dispatch 12 By Mariana Dale

Special Delivery 13

A journal of unskewed reality.

By Mari Herreras

TUSD’s new desegregation plan is here—and MexicanAmerican studies is part of it The $9.5 Million Contest 14 By Mariana Dale

Kirkpatrick beats Paton in the most expensive congressional race in the state Football Night in Arizona 15 By Tom Danehy

Four small-town high schools within about 20 miles play games at the same time

Democracy Debacle Last week in this space, I wrote: “Now that the election is over (at least I hope it’s over by the time you read this) …” Well, as we all know, my hopes were dashed. Who knew that in 2012, the state of Arizona would have such problems counting freaking ballots? The election of 2012 has been an utter debacle. And it continues to be a debacle. As I write this late Tuesday afternoon, the Secretary of State’s Office just updated the results for the Congressional District 2 race, and now shows Rep. Ron Barber leading Martha McSally by 829 votes. Around the same time, the office released what it says are the updated numbers of ballots left to be counted statewide: 146,843 early ballots, and 177,519 provisional ballots, for a total—a week after Election Day—of 324,362. That’s bad enough. But it gets worse. The numbers sheet from the SOS office includes a “status updated” field. What exactly this means, I don’t know, but I presume it has to do with the various counties reporting, in a timely manner, their ballot numbers. And eight counties, of 15, have “no” next to them. That’s really bad. But it gets even worse. We have been baffled by the fact that the number of Cochise County ballots—which is important, since those ballots will help decide the Barber-McSally race—has not decreased all that much within the last day or two. Well, we’re now hearing from sources that, in fact, the number of uncounted ballots in Cochise County is much smaller than the numbers (6,795 early; 2,326 provisional) reported by the Secretary of State. Even though the Secretary of State has “yes” next to Cochise County in the “status updated” field. Sigh. Keep following The Range, our daily dispatch, at daily. TucsonWeekly.com, as we continue to sort out this mess. JIMMY BOEGLE, Editor jboegle@tucsonweekly.com COVER DESIGN BY ANDREW ARTHUR

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CULTURE

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City Week 18 Our picks for the week

Pizza With Promise 35

TQ&A 20 Teresa Hewitt, Once More With Feeling

PERFORMING ARTS

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Reilly has the potential for greatness, despite some issues Noshing Around 35 By Adam Borowitz

MUSIC

Bah, Humbug 24

Things as They Are 41

By Laura C.J. Owen

By Gene Armstrong

Inspecting Carol is a funny but mean-spirited parody of community theater

Saint Maybe releases an album three years in the making

Collaborators and Creativity 25 By Sherilyn Forrester

UA students show off some brand-new theater—and then Broadway in Tucson brings to town an old-school classic

VISUAL ARTS City Week listings 27

BOOKS Miracle Metal 30 By Jon Shumaker

Soundbites 41 By Stephen Seigel

The Family Business 44 By Gene Armstrong

Music has always been part of the life of singer Mary Black Club Listings 45 Nine Questions 48 Live 49 Rhythm & Views 50

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A story that began in earnest on Nov. 6, 2012

Bond Is a Badass 31 By Bob Grimm

Skyfall may be the best 007 film of all time Film Times 32 Another Oscar 33 By Colin Boyd

In Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis somehow exceeds sky-high expectations Now Showing at Home 34

An Election Allegory 51 By J.M. Smith

CLASSIFIEDS Comix 52-53 Free Will Astrology 52 ¡Ask a Mexican! 53 Savage Love 54 Personals 56 Employment 61 News of the Weird 62 Real Estate/Rentals 62 Mind, Body and Spirit 63 Crossword 63 *Adult Content 54-56

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he day before the election, a friend of mine who owes me a sum of money for services rendered emailed me and asked if I wanted to go double or nothing on the presidential-election results. I was sorely tempted to take the bet for a couple of reasons. One, never having had the money he owed me, it wasn’t as though I would actually be losing anything. And second, being a devotee of Nate Silver and his FiveThirtyEight blog with The New York Times, I had, at that moment, a 90.9 percent feeling that President Obama would win. Alas, as a matter of personal policy, I never bet on anything other than myself. I’ll make a friendly wager on a tennis match, a game of chess or a free-throw contest, but I don’t bet on sports or elections. Being a rather compulsive person, I see that behavior as leading one down a one-way, deadend street. (I have a friend who retired a millionaire. After the inevitable boredom of retirement set in, he took to day-trading by computer. He’s no longer a millionaire.) I also don’t gamble in Las Vegas, because the greedy bastards who run the place won’t let me use all of my brain. When I told my friend that I wouldn’t take the bet, he snapped, “Why? Are you afraid your guy isn’t going to win?” As mentioned, I was very confident that the president would be re-elected. I had been following Silver’s blog for months and was impressed with his method, the clever use of algorithms and his track record. (He had correctly called 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 election.) I even ordered his book and read it. He knows of which he writes. The mere mention of Silver’s name causes a paroxysm among many people on the right. First, Bill Clinton lectures them about math, and now this guy? According to Silver, Mitt Romney’s chances of being elected were never better than around 1 in 4. As the days ticked down toward the election, Obama’s chances went from the high 70s to the 80s and finally into the 90s. Silver may have been taken aback by the vitriolic nature of the attacks against him from bloggers and columnists on the right. But then he checked his figures again—and doubled down. Of course, the use of probability is an automatic admission that, under certain circumstances, the other thing could happen. It’s just that it’s not likely to. Silver had indeed called 49 of 50 states correctly in 2008, but that election wasn’t nearly as close as the 2012 one would be. There were at least nine states, and maybe more, that could conceivably go either way. But Silver never flinched. After making a last-minute switch to put Florida into the Obama column, he finished a perfect 50-for-50. That’s godlike stuff. On election night, I plopped in front of the TV, remote in

RANDOM SHOTS By Rand Carlson

hand, and set out a-chortling. By sheer luck, I was actually watching Fox News when Karl Rove tried unsuccessfully to use his mere presence to reverse the call of Ohio going to the president. It had to be the most uncomfortable moment on Fox since they kept the camera on Mitt Romney the entire time he sang that patriotic song. The next morning, I had to take my wife to the airport for a business trip. After I dropped her off, I just drove around for a while, listening to the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the two local right-wing talk-show guys. I have to admit: I absolutely loved it. Both .1 guys (that’s not their ratings or their IQs, but the last digit in their respective FM-radio frequencies) were wildly entertaining and informative. For example, I learned that my having voted for President Obama meant that I was unintelligent and uninformed, and that I had helped sign America’s death warrant. That’s good to know. The rest of that day, I got to watch conservative know-italls try to explain what in the hell had happened. I got to see political skank Ann Coulter get all choked up when she talked about whether America had hit the tipping point. I don’t know about politics, but the tipping point for miniskirts and go-go boots was 1972. This past week has been a mixed bag. Rush Limbaugh, who had sworn that all of the pre-election polls were skewed, said on his show that, as it turns out, the polls had been dead-on. Sean Hannity started nibbling around the edges of market-based immigration reform. And Speaker of the House John Boehner talked about tax increases without starting to cry. Hopeful signs, all. There’s no time to gloat here, although some of the jackasses on the other side certainly deserve it. There’s a lot of work to be done, and it’s Grown Folks’ Work. I’m praying that the president and everybody else concerned are up to it. After Obama won the presidency in 2008, the satirical publication The Onion ran this headline: “Black Man Given Worst Job in America.” This time, they’ll probably say that it’s even worser. But I’ll tell you what: From where I’m sitting, it’s infinitely better than the alternative.

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Michael Howell is ready to perform a deathdefying stunt for the sake of rescued animals HIGHTOWER BY JIM HIGHTOWER

VOTING: A PAIN AND A BOTHER?

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n Saturday, Nov. 17, Michael Howell will voluntarily put himself in a precarious situation: Shackled from hand to foot, Howell will be enclosed in a coffin and buried. He’ll scramble to escape before time—and luck—run out. This stunt, and much of what Howell does as an illusionist and magician, is to help raise funds for Rose Ranch Animal Rescue in rural Marana. The rescue is located on 12 acres of a 30-acre family property. The drive to the place is scenic, with cotton fields and broad vistas along the way. Once on the dirt road leading to the ranch, I passed pedestrians and a man on a tractor. They all waved. It was a nice respite from the busy streets of Tucson.

Two heroes emerged at the polls this year, and neither was named Barack or Mitt. Their names are Galicia and Ken— ordinary Americans with extraordinary civic spirit. While about 40 percent of eligible voters didn’t bother to cast ballots this year, these two demonstrated that our right to vote is not something to take lightly—especially at a time when Republican officials in Howell gave me a tour of the rescue and introduced me several states are going to extremes to deny to the various animals. I saw roaming donkeys Dolly, Molly millions of citizens that right. and Georgia. Beans, the potbellied pig, snorted a greeting, Galicia Malone, 21, was making an and two peacocks strutted in their enclosure. I saw chickens, urgent trip to the hospital Tuesday morning, doves, horses and baby goats. The atmosphere was peaceful, because she was about to give birth to her and even the animals seemed relaxed. first child. Her water had broken, and her Howell said he’s been running the rescue for eight years contractions were five minutes apart, so on his own and takes in only what he can handle. With there was no time to waste. But Galicia $2,000 a month spent on food, and another $1,500 on points out that the opportunity to vote also medicine, vet bills and supplies, it is a big undertaking. ought not be wasted—so, contractions be His buried-alive stunt is one way to raise money and damned, she stopped at her polling place in attention for the animals. a Chicago suburb and patiently went down “I was thinking, ‘What would be a good way to get known the entire ballot, determined to be counted in the community and nationally?’ If someone at this level in her first election. in my career can pull off an event like this, people will think, Ignoring her pains, Galicia says, “I was ‘What can he do next?’ The more I am known, the more just trying to read and breathe. This is my people will come to my shows, so I can support the rescue,” first baby, a girl, and I wanted to make a Howell said. good impression. I want to have a story to Howell started performing at the age of 2 in his family’s tell her.” Having proudly delivered her vote, Arizona Rose Theatre Company. As a toddler, he was she then drove herself to the hospital and delivered her baby. Now that’s a story! THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow Ken Knight of Buda, Texas, is another die-hard voter. Literally. Sadly, Ken died from cancer the morning of Election Day. The previous Friday, on the last day of early voting, his wife and several friends lifted him, his wheelchair and two tanks of oxygen into a van and drove him to City Hall. He was “hell-bent on voting,” Amy Knight says of her husband. “It was a driving force for him.” Her only regret was that she forgot to get an “I voted” sticker for Ken’s ride home. So spare me any whines about voting being a pain or too much of a bother for you.

mesmerized by magic and even mimicked a trick he witnessed. At 15, he entered his first magic contest and placed second in the Arizona Stage Magician of the Year competition. Now, at 23, he has a busy schedule. “I perform my tush off. I did more than 30 shows in October. Birthdays, bar mitzvahs, corporate events—you name it, I do it,” he said. Howell also teaches magic to kids three times a week at Twin Peaks Elementary and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton schools. Howell’s most-dangerous stunt to date was Harry Houdini’s Chinese water-torture cell. With shackles around him, he was lowered into a glass tank of water—and he escaped. While his passion is magic, Howell realizes that stunts like that sell tickets. And ticket sales help support the rescue. When asked why animals are so important to him, Howell looked at the big picture. “Animals have a purpose in life. … These animals are put here to balance the world. … I believe animals are here to help people, and in return, people help animals. It’s a give and take. “These animals are very healing. I take them to hospitals so people can pet them. You see a lot of smiles on faces. They feel love from the animals. … It’s all about energy and healing.” While friends and family think Howell is “crazy” for doing the buried-alive stunt, he said, “The operative word is ‘believe.’ With the power of belief, I’ve been able to do so many things.” He reflected back on his escape from the water-torture cell, and on other trying circumstances. In all instances, he believed in a positive outcome. He will no doubt use this mindset to help him escape his burial. When we spoke, Howell said he was preparing for the event and felt confident about it. “I’m very happy to have the ability to believe and have faith. The power of believing makes everything happen.” The Rose Ranch Animal Rescue Fundraiser takes place starting at 10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, at 9062 N. Ghost Ranch Road in Marana. Signs with directions will be posted. Activities include live bands, a petting zoo, games, facepainting, balloon animals, fire-dancing, magic acts, food and more. Admission is $8, and cash is preferred; children younger than 10 are admitted for free. The buried-alive stunt will take place between 7 and 8 p.m. For more information, search for Rose Ranch Animal Rescue on Facebook, or visit illusionistmichaelhowell.com. For photos and video of Rose Ranch Animal Rescue, visit this column at TucsonWeekly.com.

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OPINION

A Muslim with a sense of humor discovers ignorance at a supermarket

Prop 121, Which Was Defeated, Deserved Voter Support

BY MARYAM MIR

Tom Danehy’s fear that passing Proposition 121 would have only allowed moderates to win elections, and therefore would have precluded great leaders in the molds of Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson from being elected, is based on his false assumption that these men were not moderates (Oct. 25). Teddy Roosevelt received $150,000 from J.P. Morgan along with funds from other tycoons, as well as the support of progressives in his campaign of 1904. Lyndon Johnson was clearly perceived as a moderate in his decisive drubbing of “shoot first and then maybe think latter� Barry Goldwater in 1964. And Abraham Lincoln was the moderate alternative to Sen. William Seward at the 1860 Republican convention. Furthermore, Lincoln had assured the South he would respect slavery where it existed. Contrary to Danehy’s claim that he was willing “to squoosh half the country� to end slavery, Lincoln was obsessed with preventing the breakup of the union, and not with ending slavery. Proposition 121 was opposed by all of the political parties and numerous special interests. For some voters, that may have been a good enough reason to vote FOR it. An open-primary system that lets everyone vote to place the top two winners in the general election, regardless of party, had only been around for one full election in California, so it is difficult to draw any conclusions. Given the large number of independent registered voters, now almost equaling either Democrats or Republicans, it is time to let them in on the full voting process. Prop 121 would have accomplished that, and it would have potentially culled out those fringe elements which routinely make Arizona’s Legislature the laughingstock of the country. Doug Koppinger

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funny thing happened to me on my way to Tucson Meet Yourself: I chose to wear a specific T-shirt for the purpose of education and to exhibit the fact that Muslims do have a sense of humor. But, as my mother used to tell me, it takes all kinds of people to make the world. And not all kinds see the value in education, nor do they appreciate a sarcastic Muslim. I had stopped at the Fry’s at 22nd Street and Harrison Road for flowers and candy for the booth at which I was volunteering. A woman with a young child smirked at me and said, “Seriously?� I shot her a smile and a ‘Yup.’

A few minutes later, I stood behind her in the checkout line. She glared my way. I didn’t say a word. I only smiled. Then she unleashed a barrage of verbal abuse, remarking on my choice of what I was wearing as an attention-getter. (Well, that was the point ‌ education.) I asked her if she did not believe in the freedom of speech. She answered that she did. (In her mind, freedom of speech includes hate speech.) It was around that time that I told her she did not believe in good manners or setting a good example for her grandchild. At first, I jokingly told the cashier to call security. But as this uneducated, ill-mannered and frustrated customer continued to spew her hate speech, I asked the cashier: “Really, call security now. No joke.â€? The woman became flustered, dropping her ID as well as all evidence of intelligence and respect. Then she delivered her final spark of ignorance: “Well, then, I’d better hurry up and leave before the bomb goes off.â€? I’ve experienced some challenges in my life as an American Muslim. Lots of them. Like the time in the early ’90s when back-to-school shopping was on my agenda. Before we left the house, I gave my young children a heads-up, because earlier that week, a tragic event had happened that could have proven challenging for us in public. I reminded my kids to watch their p’s and q’s and not to say a thing to anyone who might direct negative remarks our way. As we made our way through the crowded aisles of a Walmart on the southwest side, we heard the loud, boisterous voice of a woman yelling at us. “Hey, you! Hey, you funny-looking people! Look at me! I’m talking to you! Look at me when I’m talking to you!â€? My sons turned to me with questioning eyes. My daugh-

ter, the youngest at 6, could not resist the urge to peek. As she turned to see who was hollering at us, one of my boys said, “Mom, look! It’s Aunt Kathy!â€? There was my sister Kathy, grinning at us while my preteen niece Yvette rolled her eyes. If you think my Baptist sister Kathy is funny, you should hear my Jewish brother Jim’s comedy routine in Los Angeles. As I thought of my family, I remembered as a little girl my mother soothing me with her sage Irish wisdom, passed down from generation to generation among the Conleys. While taking a drag off of her Winston, then sipping from her cup of MJB coffee, she’d advise me of the different kinds of people in the world. She limited it to two kinds: those who know, and those who don’t. “Don’t know what, Mama?â€? I’d ask. “Those who don’t know their shit stinks. Those are the ones to avoid.â€? But back to the woman at Fry’s. Her lack of education did not surprise me. Her lack of respect did not, either. Not in this political and religious climate of intolerance. What surprised me, though, were my reactions. Was I, an Irish-American convert of 33 years, finally growing up? Was I abandoning my heritage? Had I lost my mother’s Irish touch of verbal blows? It’s possible. But then again, maybe not. I didn’t cuss her out ‌ there. Oh, and my T-shirt? It said, “Go ahead, profile me.â€? Maryam Mir is a member of the Islamic Center of Tucson. She has been involved in various outreach and community services. Recently, as co-founder of Muslims Care Too!, she helped raise a donation for the Pima Meals on Wheels program. She can be reached at flunkedhomeec@yahoo.com.

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A week after the election, the race between Ron Barber and Martha McSally remains too close to call

PROVISIONAL PROBLEMS

A Virtual Tie n a race that remained too close to call a week after the Nov. 6 election, Congressman Ron Barber was leading GOP challenger Martha McSally by just hundreds of votes as the Weekly went to press. With tens of thousands of Pima County provisional ballots left to be counted, Barber led McSally by 829 votes early in the evening of Tuesday, Nov. 13. Barber had 136,785 votes, or 50.06 percent; McSally had 135,956 votes, or 49.76 percent. The close race spilled over into a courtroom on Tuesday morning as GOP attorneys went to a Cochise County judge to try to halt the counting of provisional ballots from some Latinoheavy precincts. Barber’s campaign manager, Jessica Floyd, said it was an effort by Team McSally to disenfranchise Cochise County voters. “We respect the ballot-counting process currently taking place and want to see it move forward,” Floyd said in a statement. “The request for a temporary restraining order filed today is an active attempt by Martha McSally’s attorneys to disenfranchise voters in Cochise County. Throwing away the votes of Southern Arizonans is wrong and unacceptable.” National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Daniel Scarpinato emailed this statement: “We believe that every voter has the right to an election that is free of fraud and ballot-tampering. Southern Arizonans expect that their will is not diluted by fraudulent ballots. We want to make sure the law is followed, and the rights of legal voters are preserved.” In a brief filed with the court, attorneys Eric H. Spencer and Michael Liburdi of the Snell and Wilmer law firm claim that approximately 130 provisional ballots should not be counted, because they “have been spoiled because they were not sealed, as required, when they were transported from the Castro Park, Ramsey and Hopi Precinct polling locations to the Cochise County Elections Department and Recorder’s Office.” The lawyers asked for a temporary restraining order to keep the Cochise County Division of Elections from counting the ballots. But attorneys Paul F. Eckstein, Dan Barr and David Gaona of the Perkins Coie law firm, which is representing Barber, said that Judge Wallace R. Hoggatt should reject the request for a temporary restraining order, because Spencer and Liburdi “simply cannot point to anything … which would require that provisional ballots be sealed when presented to election officials for verification.” Additionally, Barber’s attorneys argue that “above all, the public interest does not favor casting aside 135 valid provisional ballots as a

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result of an invented technicality that has no basis in Arizona law.” However, on Tuesday afternoon, both parties reached a mutual agreement to allow the count to move forward. The court action came after days of ballotcounting that saw the CD 2 race swing back and forth between Barber and McSally as votes were tallied in Pima and Cochise counties. On Tuesday, as many as 6,700 early votes and about 2,000 provisional votes remained to be counted in Cochise County, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, although other sources told the Weekly those numbers were much lower. Pima County had an estimated 4,000 early ballots and 27,000 provisional ballots left to count. Barber started out with a lead as the first ballots were counted on Election Day, but he fell behind as the night wore on. By the time he addressed the crowd at the Marriott University Park toward the end of the Democrats’ celebrations, he was trailing by more than 1,000 votes. “It feels like 2010 all over again,” Barber wryly noted. That year, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was narrowly ahead of Republican challenger Jesse Kelly. As more early ballots were counted in the days after the election, however, Giffords extended in her lead. This year, the lead was traded back and forth between McSally and Barber, a former aide to Giffords who won the seat in a June special election after Giffords resigned in January to focus on her recovery. As Pima County tabulated ballots, Barber would take the lead. As Cochise County tabulated its ballots, McSally would take the lead. On Sunday, Nov. 11, Barber moved into the lead and hadn’t surrendered it again by press time. McSally held a press conference on the morning after the election to say that she was going to let the process unfold. “We feel good; we’re optimistic; we’re a little sleep-deprived, but we’re going to let the process work itself out,” said McSally, a former Air Force pilot who returned to Southern Arizona to run for Congress after Giffords’ resignation. Barber released a statement on Wednesday, Nov. 7, saying that “representing Southern Arizona has been the honor of my life.” “While we don’t yet know the outcome of this election, I want to say how grateful I am to all those who have stood alongside me—and stood up for what’s important to Southern Arizona,” Barber said. “We’ll continue to watch the results over the next few days, and whatever happens, we will trust the people of Southern Arizona—

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Martha McSally: “We feel good; we’re optimistic; we’re a little sleep-deprived, but we’re going to let the process work itself out.” as I always have and always will.” The CD 2 race ended up being the closest congressional race in the state, even after most political observers, including national congressional forecasters such as Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenberg, gave the edge in the race to Barber. The National Republican Congressional Committee spent considerably less money supporting McSally than it did in other competitive congressional races in Arizona. And the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee pulled back on some of its spending, because polling showed Barber with what seemed like a safe margin. But in the final weeks leading up to the election, the race began to tighten, according to partisans on both sides. Throughout the vote tally, Barber has had the edge in Pima County; as of our press deadline, he led here by 4 percentage points. That was due to his strength among early voters, which he won by more than 12,000 votes. On the day of the election, however, McSally actually outpolled Barber by more than 3,000 votes (not counting provisional ballots). McSally has dominated in Cochise County, which she won by a 60-40 margin. But Cochise County voters only make up about 20 percent of the district. The mystery yet to be unveiled is what kinds of voters cast provisional ballots in Pima County, since no one has a list of who they are. If they behave like early voters, it will be good for Barber; if they behave like day-of-election voters, it will be good for McSally. On the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 13, NRCC spokesman Daniel Scarpinato said that McSally “remains in a solid position to carry the district given the votes that remain, and our projections indicate she will win. It’s vital that all legally cast ballots are counted, and that the process in place is completed.” Meanwhile, Barber campaign manager Jessica Floyd said that she was optimistic that “there’s still more for us than for her in what’s left to count.” Mariana Dale contributed to this story.

The Skinny heard a lot of complaints on and after Election Day that people who showed up to vote were told they were not on the rolls at their polling place. In some cases, it was because they had moved and had not updated their addresses; in others, it was because there were fewer polling places as a side effect of early voting; and in other cases, voters were told they had to cast a provisional ballot because they had been mailed an early ballot, so the provisional ballot ensured that county officials would have a chance to make sure they had not voted twice. But in some particularly troubling cases, voters had to cast provisional ballots—or, in some cases, no ballot at all—because, as the result of some kind of computer bug, county Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez’s system printed out the names of people who registered to vote on Oct. 9—the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 6 election—in the wrong place on the lists that went out to the precincts. There was a second screw-up for people who had changed their address on the last day to register. Rodriguez explained in a press release that she didn’t believe the problem was widespread, because the 26,194 provisional ballots in this election was close to the number of provisional ballots cast in the 2008 presidential election. Rodriguez is in the process of determining how many voters may have been affected by the glitch. As of Friday, Nov. 9, she said she had determined that a check of 782 provisional ballots showed that 34 of them were due to the anomaly. She also apologized for the mix-up in a lengthy press release last week with this statement: “The recorder takes full responsibility for the overall operations for the Pima County Recorder’s Office. Ms. Rodriguez apologizes to any voter (who) was impacted on Election Day due to these issues. Ms. Rodriguez is taking steps to ensure this does not happen again.” We’ll have more to say about Pima County’s vote tabulation in next week’s Skinny, once (if?) all the votes have been counted.

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For Jimmy Boegle, opportunity has come knocking again. After nearly 10 years as editor of the Tucson Weekly, Boegle has decided it’s time to pursue a venture of his own: He’s launching an alternative news source in Southern California’s Coachella Valley. “There are more than 400,000 people in the Coachella Valley,� Boegle said. “There are seven, eight or nine different municipalities. It has this weird, segregated diversity, which isn’t unlike Tucson in some ways. Palm Springs is very gay. Cathedral City and Palm Desert are more working-class. Indio and Coachella have a lot of Hispanic folks. The area is urban; it’s a couple of hours from L.A. But the real attraction for me is, I’m a news guy. And when I look at the news products right now in the Coachella ValleyPalm Springs area, there’s really nothing in print or online I’ve found, outside of the notvery-good Gannett daily, doing honest-togoodness ethical (journalism). “(Some) other publications sell their coverage. You can pay to get a story done about you, and that’s wrong and unethical. I want to go in, and I want to do it right. I’ve seen what good, ethical publications can do for a community in terms of letting people know

Boegle will stay at the ‘Weekly’ until the end of the year to help ease the transition to a new editor. about the art and the food and culture, and the bad things going on as well. I can do that with the Coachella Valley Independent.� Boegle, 37, has seen the impact of altweeklies, both while growing up and working in his hometown of Reno, Nev., and during his 10-year stint with the Weekly, a publication he argues has played a significant role in Tucson’s arts community since its launch in 1984. He hopes the Coachella Valley Independent will be the publication that helps spark a similar blossoming there. “The area doesn’t have a true weekly like the Tucson Weekly,� said Boegle, who has been considering the venture for the past five years. He said he had been holding off largely because of the uncertain state of the industry and the economy. “I’ve decided I’m going to jump and do my own thing. It’s online (cvindependent. com) in beta right now, but will be more ready to go in January when I’m doing it full time,� he said. “The goal is to do online, get an audience, show people what we can do, and eventually transition to a print product, hopefully in the fall of 2013.� Boegle will stay at the Weekly until the end of the year to help ease the transition to a new editor. He said he picked this week to announce he was leaving because it is a comparatively quiet time at the paper. “It’s after the election. It’s before Best of TucsonŽ (the Weekly’s signature publication which comes out in September, although

preparations begin months in advance). We’re going into, editorial-wise, at least, our slowest period of the year,� Boegle said. “The Weekly and Wick (Communications, owner of the Weekly) have been great to me. It’s just time to move on. It’s very tough to leave. I put in 50 to 60 hours a week for 10 years, and so much of my time and identity have been wrapped up in the Tucson Weekly. Realizing it’s not going to be part of my life has been emotionally taxing for me at times.� In a memo to staff members and contributors, Boegle called this the “toughest professional decision I’ve ever made.� There’s no denying he’s proud of the product—and he should be: He oversaw a paper that showed a willingness to embrace technological changes during a time when the very future of the industry was in doubt. Boegle is quick to note that Weekly staff members played an enormous role in how the publication has evolved. “I think the Weekly (became) a better paper over the last 10 years,� Boegle said. “I really think the Weekly has taken off with its online presence. We’re putting out basically the same print size we did 10 years ago, and I think we’ve improved the quality of that due to the work of Jim Nintzel and Irene Messina and Mari Herreras, (former web producer) Dan Gibson, David Mendez, Linda Ray, Tim Vanderpool and all these people. Online, we’re doing eight to 15 stories a day on The Range (the Weekly’s website publication). There’s a lot of political coverage you don’t get anywhere else. In terms of what we put out, and the amount of good content, it’s gone way up. The evolution of the Weekly as a print newspaper, an online presence and through social media has been one of the most gratifying things to see develop.� Boegle is especially proud of how the Weekly’s staff dealt with the mass shooting on Jan. 8, 2011, which left six dead and 13 wounded, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. “We ended up mobilizing and having some of the best day-of coverage,� Boegle said. “I still don’t know how, with the small staff we have—two staff writers, interns, readers sending in stuff—that we were able to get the great stuff we did. And our former Web guy, Dan Gibson, broke so much of the Jared Loughner stuff. He was the first I know of to find some of (Loughner’s) weird stuff online on YouTube and MySpace. That’s one of the most amazing stories we’ve done. “I think the Weekly has a vibrant future,� Boegle said. “After 10 years, it’s time for me to move on to something else and pursue the opportunity I see in the Coachella Valley. The new editor will have one of the best jobs in journalism in terms of what we’re allowed to do, the staff, the city, the coverage we have. But it’s going to be a lot of work. I’m leaving because it’s a good time for the Weekly, and a good time for me.�

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the Tucson Unified School District might have to close between 13 and 31 schools as a result of the defeat. But Tucson voters were less dismissive of Proposition 409, the city’s proposal to sell bonds to repair roads. Prop 409 remained too close to call as of press time on Tuesday evening. With the most-recent ballot count from Pima County, it was passing by a mere 70 votes. The tally stood at yes: 66,785; no: 66,715.

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The Deferred Action program, she says, obviously gives people like Guerrero a lawful presence in the United States. But according to Brewer spokesman Matthew Benson, the governor believes her order to be completely legal and fully justified. Deferred Action recipients “don’t have lawful presence,” he says. “Basically, the federal government has deferred prosecution of them. But they have not been granted any legal status or presence here in the country. … It does not give them access to public benefits or driver’s licenses.” This cynicism exacts a price from people like Leslie Barraza, who was brought to the U.S. as a toddler and nearly became homeless when her mother was deported. Barraza’s deferred-action application has been approved, meaning she was able to land seasonal work at HoneyBaked Ham on Tucson’s eastside. But getting to that job will now be a hassle for the 18-year-old, who wants to save money for graphic-design school. “I’ll either buy a bike if I have to go somewhere close,” she says, “or if I have to visit my sister, I’ll go on the bus.” It does not appear that Brewer will soften her position, nor offer any of her own ideas for helping these DREAMers, thought to number roughly 1.4 million across the country. “Going forward, the governor believes that securing the border is the first step that needs to be accomplished,” Benson says. “And once that’s done, then we can address the issue of individuals brought here as children, and all the other individuals who have come to this country—who have lived here for who knows how many years—just working and staying out of trouble and trying to support their families. There’s going to be a solution there to those issues. But you really have to secure the border, first and foremost.” Exactly what the withholding of driving privileges has to do with securing the border remains a tad murky. Then comes the question of when, exactly, conservatives such as the governor will deem America’s southern boundary sufficiently impermeable. Not soon, it seems, since citing the supposedly “insecure border” has become a favored escape route for right-wingers faced with tough immigration questions. Regardless, the facts suggest that our border already is secure. According to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, in fiscal year 2010, the Department of Homeland Security spent roughly $3 billion on security efforts along the U.S.-Mexico border. Over that time, the Border Patrol attained full operational control for 873 miles of the 2,000-mile Southwest border. Meanwhile, immigrant advocates are watching

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arla Guerrero will no doubt make a fine nurse someday—if she can ever make it to work. Guerrero’s parents brought her to this country without immigration papers as an infant. And in the 25 years that have followed, she’s never been able to legally hold a job—until June, that is, when the Obama administration outflanked anti-immigration Republicans by announcing that young people like her could apply for renewable, two-year residency and employment permits. Beginning in August, the administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program finally provided breathing room for undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children. It also offered hope for Guerrero, who recently completed her studies at Pima Community College to become a registered nurse, but had been barred from working in her field. This being Arizona, however, Gov. Jan Brewer quickly announced that not only would these so-called “DREAMers”—named for DREAM Act legislation that has yet to pass Congress—be denied public benefits, but they’d also remain prohibited from obtaining driver’s licenses. Yet there’s a catch here: Arizona Department of Transportation policy states that licenses are available to anyone bearing a federal employment authorization document—such as the one provided through the president’s new Deferred Action program. In response, ADOT quickly cobbled together this addendum: “An Employment Authorization Document resulting from a Deferred Action Childhood Arrival is not acceptable.” Asked about their freshly minted caveat, ADOT’s PR folks sent me a statement. Numerous federal agencies, it read, “have determined that individuals who receive Deferred Action are not considered to be lawfully present or have any legal status. This conclusion is consistent with the Governor’s Executive Order …” So DREAMers will have work permits, temporary residency and even Social Security cards. But in the governor’s alternate reality, they still won’t have legal status. It’s hardly surprising that critics not only see Gov. Brewer’s latest move as purely spiteful— given her public disdain for President Obama— but also as a sop to her far-right, anti-immigration fan club. Regardless, legal watchers expect the governor’s executive order to ultimately tumble in court. “It violates the plain language of the law,” says Phoenix immigration attorney Regina Jefferies. “The law is very clear, and it’s very clear that her executive order violates that plain language.”

Karla Guerrero: “To tell you the truth, it is like a huge load off of your back. But at the same time, it’s just a little work permit.” Deferred Action closely, gauging it against the snail’s-pace progress of a similar federal program called Prosecutorial Discretion. Initiated in 2011, that measure allows some undocumented immigrants to have their deportation cases administratively closed—meaning U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will no longer be actively trying to boot them from the country. The idea was to instead focus resources on criminal immigrants. But several months into the program, only a fraction of the roughly 300,000 deportation cases under review had been closed. Activists and the legal community are now waiting to see if Deferred Action fares any better. “We haven’t had any problems yet,” says Doralina Skidmore, an immigration attorney who represented Leslie Barraza with her application. “That isn’t to say it’s going to be a smooth ride. We think there was a strong push to do several approvals at the beginning, and now it’s going to slow down a little bit.” Another possible reason for that opening burst, Skidmore says, is that federal officials “expected way more applications than they got. There’s still a lot of fear, a lot of mistrust of the government. People are still concerned that if they get denied, they are going to be deported, or ICE is going to come knocking on their door.” That’s not surprising, given the continuing rancor from conservative leaders such as Gov. Brewer. And all for a payoff that can seem meager, even for those who do step forward. “To tell you the truth, it is like a huge load off of your back,” says Karla Guerrero. “But at the same time, it’s just a little work permit. I’m thankful. But I’ve been here my whole life, and I kind of deserve more than that.”

After defeating Republican challenger Tanner Bell in last week’s election, Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson told The Skinny that her victory “repudiates dark money,” in reference to the independent campaign committee Restoring Pride in Pima County, and the nonprofit business league that supported it, Arizonans for a Brighter Future. While post-election campaignSHARON finance reports are not due until Dec. 6, the most-recent report showed that Restoring Pride in Pima County spent more than $128,000 on Pima County campaigns, with a big chunk of that targeted on Bronson’s race. As the Weekly has reported in recent weeks, Bronson filed a complaint alleging numerous violations of the law by both Bell’s campaign and the independent-campaign efforts. One key point: The identities of contributors to Arizonans for a Brighter Future are not publicly disclosed, because the nonprofit organization is not obligated to release that information—hence the term “dark money.” Bell has denied wrong-doing, as has business investor Michael Farley, who headed up both Arizonans for a Brighter Future and Restoring Pride in Pima County. Bronson said she’d be pursuing the complaint, which is now in the hands of County Attorney Barbara LaWall, “to the fullest extent allowed by law.” Bronson said she’d also be reaching out to Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett’s office, because she believes that Bennett did not fully review her complaint. “We probably aren’t going to get rid of dark money, but maybe we can at least make it transparent,” Bronson said. “The money may still be there, but at least we can understand who has the ability to make those kinds of contributions.” Bell did not return an email from the Weekly, but on his Facebook page, he vowed to not concede the race until every vote was counted. “With the amount of ballots that remain uncounted in Pima County, specifically my area, I am not willing to disenfranchise one single voter,” Bell wrote last Friday, Nov. 9. “Therefore, I will not concede this election until the last vote has been counted, and

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BEER BURGLAR CATALINA FOOTHILLS OCT. 24, 12:58 P.M.

A woman reported that three beers were missing from her outdoor refrigerator, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. When deputies arrived, the woman told them there were three beers in her porch fridge the previous evening, but that they had disappeared overnight. Deputies explored the area behind the woman’s home and found three empty bottles (two Newcastle, and one Blue Moon) near the backyard wall. The deputies gave the woman a victim’s-rights pamphlet and took the bottles as evidence.

BIKE-CUSTODY BATTLE NORTHWEST SIDE OCT. 22, 9:07 P.M.

A woman claimed her ex-boyfriend stole her bike after they broke up, according to a PCSD report. The woman called deputies after she went to her ex’s house to reclaim her bike, which he was supposed to fix. He was riding it down the street when she grabbed the handlebars and asked him to give the bike back. He quickly twisted the handlebars, knocking her to the ground, and then pedaled away while shouting and cursing, the woman said. She told deputies she didn’t know where he was going, but she was afraid that he wouldn’t give the bike back. A deputy went to the ex-boyfriend’s home, but he wasn’t there. A woman answered the door and confirmed what happened, but she said she didn’t know whether the bike belonged to the first woman. Deputies took photos of what the first woman said were injuries from being knocked down by her ex. The case remained open.

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A man attempted to steal a lighter from a store—and asked the manager if he could roll a joint, according to a PCSD report. When deputies arrived, they could tell the man in question was “visually impaired on something.” One deputy noticed a lighter missing from the counter display and later found a similar lighter in one of the subject’s pockets. The clerk said the man had not purchased anything. The clerk also said the man had tried to “pick up” an attractive young woman in the store, and asked if he could “roll a joint” inside the establishment. The clerk told the man to leave. He did, but returned five minutes later. He then made inappropriate comments to a second group of females, began “acting irrational” and refused to leave, according to the clerk. The man was booked on charges of shoplifting and criminal trespass. 12 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

Fleeing Obama ’ve heard it countless times since 2004: If (insert candidate name here) wins, I’m getting the hell out of here. I’ve even said it myself, and considered getting on the first bus to California if Joe Arpaio won re-election to the Maricopa County Sheriff ’s Office (which it appears that he just did). When Barack Obama won re-election, many folks promised to move elsewhere rather than face the prospect of living under the torturous, socialist regime that the white-hating, Muslim-in-secret black man will inflict upon us during the coming four years (or more, if his plan to become American Dictator for Life comes to fruition). With that said, here’s a short, handy guide to the places that God-fearing, capitalistic and not-at-all reactionary folks can consider: • Australia: An 18-year-old girl from Georgia (in the Southern U.S., not the former Soviet state) declared in a tweet that, upon Obama’s re-election, she wanted to move to Australia, because “their president is a Christian and actually supports what he says.” Sure, she’s completely wrong—Australia’s prime minister is a female atheist—but she’s got the right idea in her heart. After all, any country that produced Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin can’t be that bad, right? • Canada: America’s hat has all sorts of great things going for it—decent (if cold) weather; loads of ice hockey; poutine; a Tim Hortons on every corner; and a stereotypically friendly populace. You just have to watch out for those pesky gun-control laws, universal health care, taxes and the potential for the Buffalo Bills to move to Toronto. • China: Oh, I know, they’re Godless Commies, just like the people taking over here. But they’ve got so much more going for them—namely, the growth of glorious, glorious capitalism! Companies there are free to reverse-engineer products from freer Western companies (their knock-off car market is incredible), and there’s no better place to find cheap sweatshop labor. Sure, there are so many more options—but screw it! There’s nothing more American than blindly choosing a place to jet off to without research. After all, anything’s got to be better than life under a man who is the living embodiment of the goddamn American dream, right?

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BY MARI HERRERAS, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com round 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9—after almost 10 months of meetings, negotiations and extensions—the long-awaited new desegregation plan for the Tucson Unified School District was finally made public. In the last federal desegregation plan, Mexican-American studies was featured prominently, as was a road map for how to expand the program throughout the district. Of course, that was before Tom Horne helped write an anti-Mexican-American studies law when he was state superintendent of public instruction; before he fought to uphold the law as Arizona’s attorney general; and before the TUSD governing board voted 4-1 to dismantle MAS on Jan. 10, 2012. However, court-appointed desegregation special master Willis Hawley wants MAS back in TUSD classrooms for the 2013-2014 school year. The program and its implementation will depend on a public-comment process, as well as any objections filed by the involved parties, including Horne. In an interview on Monday, Nov. 12, with attorney Nancy Ramirez and Sylvia Campoy from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF, Ramirez said they’re unable to discuss or provide background on the desegregation negotiations. All the parties involved—MALDEF, on behalf of the Mendoza plaintiffs representing Latino students; Tucson attorney Rubin Salter, on behalf of the Fisher plaintiffs representing African-American students; TUSD; and the U.S. Department of Justice—remain under an order from U.S. District Court Judge David C. Bury that prevents them from discussing negotiations. “We can say we are pleased with the outcome of this draft plan,” Ramirez said. “It is comprehensive and an ambitious one. … There are lots of tools and strategies that will benefit Latino students and all parties.” Ramirez described Hawley as the architect of most of the provisions, with the school district, plaintiffs and the DOJ providing input. She added that the proposal includes a thorough plan for enforcement and monitoring. “There are also a few objections (from each of the parties),” she said, “because we worked out most of them while we were drafting it. With just a few (objections), there is more buy-in in this plan,” making it more likely that much of what is presented to the public will be implemented. The 84-page document begins with the history of the desegregation case, which began in 1974. The plan focuses on more than a dozen areas, including student assignment, transporta-

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tion, administration and certified staff, professional development, quality of education, discipline, family and community engagement, extracurricular activities, facilities and technology, and accountability and transparency, as well as budgeting, monitoring, reporting and deadlines. The objections noted in the plan will be taken into consideration by Bury. Horne, who tried to prevent Mexican-American studies classes from being part of the desegregation planning, has until Nov. 28 to file any objections. In June, Bury issued an order preventing Horne from intervening, but allowed him to file objections at the end of the process. The plan is being made available for public review at each TUSD school and online at tucsonusp.com. Public forums are from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 26, at Tucson Magnet High School; Tuesday, Nov. 27, at El Pueblo Regional Center; and Wednesday, Nov. 28, at Palo Verde High School. The public comment period closes Nov. 28. A revised plan with any changes will be filed with the court by Hawley on Dec. 10, and all parties involved in the negotiations have until Dec. 14 to file any objections to the changes. In the last desegregation plan, the TUSD governing board approved expanding MAS. The last plan also referred to specific class titles, such as American history/Chicano perspectives, American government/social justice education, and English/Latino literature—classes that were targeted by Horne and dismantled in January. In the new plan, a multicultural curriculum is offered as a way to engage Latino and AfricanAmerican students; such a program is currently being developed by TUSD and was first touted as a replacement for the MAS curriculum. “The multicultural curriculum shall provide students with a range of opportunities to conduct research and improve critical thinking and learning skills, create a positive and inclusive climate in classes and schools that builds respect and understanding among students from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, and promote and develop a sense of civic responsibility among all students,” the new plan states. “The courses shall be offered commencing in the 2013-2014 school year.” It states that in the next school year, the district will also develop courses and instruction relevant to “the history, experiences, and culture of African-American and Latino communities. Core courses of instruction shall be developed in social studies and literature and shall be offered at all feasible grade levels in all high schools across the district, subject to the district’s minimum enrollment guidelines.”

Nancy Ramirez: “With just a few (objections), there is more buy-in in this plan.” It also includes expanding those classes to sixth- and eighth-graders in 2014-2015 as core or elective courses, and throughout the K-12 curriculum in 2015-2016. Noted in the proposal is TUSD’s objection “to these courses being offered as core courses.” Ramirez said that another area of the plan related to MAS is the creation and hiring of a coordinator for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Instruction. It may not mean hiring a new person, but instead designating someone to be in this position and other positions that are part of the plan. The CRPI coordinator will supervise the implementation of classes that focus “on the cultural and historical experiences and perspectives of African-American and Latino communities.” Ramirez said Hawley will not be involved in any of the hires. Those will be made by TUSD Superintendent John Pedicone and the governing board. The district’s new academic-service departments for Latino; African-American; Native American; and Asian-American/Pacific Islander students will remain in place, and the CRPI coordinator will work with the directors of those departments. Native American and Asian students are not in the desegregation plan, Ramirez said, because they were not plaintiffs represented during the negotiations. TUSD is under a hiring and curriculum timeline according to the plan—classes, curriculum and the training of teachers have to be in place by July 1. Ramirez said MALDEF objected to that date, because it wanted the deadline moved up to April. Campoy emphasized the importance of the comment period. “The special master will be present at all of the public forums to hear the comments from the public,” Campoy said. “The special master will take those comments, as well as those submitted by email or mail, if he chooses to, and make changes to the plan based on those comments.”

From the “Math You Do as a Republican to Make Yourself Feel Better” Desk: Republican Gabby Mercer fired off a press release two days after the election declaring that she would not concede in her race against Congressman Raúl Grijalva, because she only trailed him by 1,117 votes. Here’s a verbatim paragraph from the press release: “‘This was my first “rodeo” but it will not be my last,’ Gabriela Saucedo Mercer remarked in reference to the fact RAÚL that she is currently down 1,117 votes in Congressional District 3. ‘With such a tight race, and several thousand ballots yet to count, we are waiting until all the provisional and mail-in ballots are counted before we decide what we will do next.’” We’re not sure how they add things up in Mercerland, but when we received the press release, Mercer was trailing Grijalva by 24,865 votes. Grijalva had 57 percent of the vote, compared to Mercer’s 38 percent. The Range reached out to Team Mercer for clarification, and Carole V. Bartholomeaux said she’d doublecheck the numbers and get back to us. That was the last we heard from her. We suppose it’s possible that Team Mercer was just looking at the Congressional District 3 returns from the small slice of the district in Maricopa County, where Grijalva’s lead was a mere 1,553 votes around the same time that we got the press release. But since only 36,820 of the 132,333 votes that had been counted as of Friday morning in the CD 3 race were in Maricopa County, we don’t think that’s a winning strategy. Maybe Mercer figures that if she prevails in Maricopa, she can run some kind of congressional-office-in-exile up north of the Gila. By Jim Nintzel and Gabriel Romero 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. Follow the Skinny scribe on Twitter: @nintzel.

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LIVE MUSIC The $9.5 Million Contest BY MARIANA DALE, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com m emocrat Ann Kirkpatrick prevailed over Southern Arizona Republican Jonathan Paton—and in the process, their congressional race broke spending records. On election night, Republicans at the Sheraton Tucson were jubilant about the Congressional District 1 race, because following the initially released results, Paton had significant leads in Pima and Graham counties, and had captured 6,000 more early votes than Kirkpatrick in the sprawling district that stretches from Paton’s home in Marana to Kirkpatrick’s home in Flagstaff. Though he stopped short of declaring victory, Paton was ready to take on the mantle of being Southern Arizona’s conservative voice. “Keep your faith; keep your head up,” Paton said to a crowd of supporters. “The sun is going to come up tomorrow, and I believe we will have conservative representation from Southern Arizona in Washington, D.C.” But when the sun came up on Wednesday, Nov. 7, Kirkpatrick was winning the race by about 6,000 votes. By midday, when the Navajo Nation and Apache County had delivered their votes, Kirkpatrick had a commanding lead of more than 7,000 votes. Although thousands of early and provisional votes remain uncounted, The Associated Press has deemed the difference large enough to declare Kirkpatrick the winner. Kirkpatrick said she was not surprised by the turnaround and didn’t lose any sleep over the race after early results showed her trailing. She waited in her Flagstaff office for a reputable news source to call the race before claiming victory with a statement on the afternoon of Wednesday. Nov. 7. “The voters of District 1 have spoken, and I will never forget that they are the reason I am returning to Congress,” said Kirkpatrick, who represented parts of the area for one term in Congress before losing in 2010. “I will be deeply honored to represent them again. There are few districts in our nation quite like CD 1, and its diversity and complexities are not always understood by outsiders. But the voters of this district ultimately decide who represents them, and their voice has been heard.” Kirkpatrick touched on a crucial point about the recently redistricted CD 1: At about 55,000 square miles, it’s the largest congressional district in the state. The district grazes the Utah border to the north and the edge of Cochise County to the south, incorporating Tucson suburbs such as Marana and Oro Valley, as well as the Grand Canyon and a dozen Native American reservations. Kirkpatrick also thanked Paton for his “spirit-

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U.S. Highway 70 starts in North Carolina and runs west for a couple of thousand miles along the southern part of the United States until it ends just outside of Globe, Ariz. Not far from that terminus, on the east side of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Graham County, is a stretch of about 20 miles that, on balmy early-autumn nights, is home to an American ritual that is both anachronistic and exhilarating. Along that Highway 70 corridor are four high schools. The biggest one, Safford, is relatively small as Arizona high schools go. Heading west and then north along the highway, the following three—Thatcher, then Pima, and then Fort Thomas—are progressively smaller still. The four communities have stark differences: Safford is the county seat; contiguous to Safford, Thatcher is a Mormon community built around Eastern Arizona College; separated from Thatcher by 5 miles of cotton fields is the farming community of Pima; and a few more miles up the road is Fort Thomas, which sits at the far southeast corner of the sprawling San Carlos reservation. They’re all quite different, but at least one night a week every fall, they’re remarkably similar, because Friday night is Football Night in small-town Arizona. Actually, Friday night is Football Night everywhere in Arizona, but in the metro areas, it’s not like it was in the old days. Thirty or 40 years ago, in Tucson and Phoenix, just about every high school football game drew a crowd of 1,000 or more. Big games drew several thousand, and the occasional Monster Game—a late-season affair pitting, by grace of the schedule, two undefeated teams—would be played in Arizona Stadium and draw close to 20,000 people. While a handful of Tucson-area teams (Ironwood Ridge on the northwest side, Cienega in Vail, and Sunnyside on the southside) still draw relatively large crowds, other schools in town might only pull in a few hundred fans, if they’re lucky—even with a winning team. There are football factories in the Phoenix area that try to fashion themselves after the Texas high school football grotesqueries first popularized (or, more correctly, exposed) in the book and movie (but not the television series) Friday Night Lights. (Just this year, the people of Allen, Texas—an upscale suburb of Dallas—unveiled their new high school football stadium, which seats 18,000 people and cost $60 million.) However, while a few Phoenix-area schools are going big and enjoying success on the field and at the gate, many big-city schools are seeing declines as intense competition for fan interest and entertainment dollars eat into their turnout numbers. These declines have not reached rural Arizona. All over the state, small schools along the Mexican border, up in the White Mountains, along the Colorado River and scattered throughout the Navajo Nation are packing them in on Friday nights. In these towns and villages, the local high school football field is a gathering spot, a place of unity, energy and community.

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On this October night, all four schools in the Gila Valley are playing home football games, a rare occurrence that, mathematically speaking, should only happen five times in a decade. As game time nears, traffic along Highway 70 is especially light for a Friday night. The restaurants along the road through Thatcher and Safford are mostly empty, and there are plenty of seats available at the cineplex, even for the movies that are opening that night. Enthusiasm is high at three of the schools, but not so much at Safford. Toward the start of the season, the Bulldogs enjoyed a win over much-bigger Douglas, but had lost two of their next three heading into Safford’s annual rivalry game with Thatcher. In a game played at Safford before a reported crowd of around 8,000, the Thatcher Eagles pounded the Bulldogs, 51-7, with the final Eagles touchdown bringing about the ultimate indignity, the triggering of the “mercy rule”: In Arizona prep football, if a team gets a lead of at least 42 points, the clock runs nonstop so as not to prolong the agony. (It’s actually a stupid rule, as it has more to do with stigma than mercy.) It should be noted that a measure of enthusiasm—across the board and around the entire state—has been eliminated by a wrenching reorganization plan instituted by the Arizona Interscholastic Association, which governs high school sports in the state. For decades, the state’s schools were divided according to enrollment figures into classes, and then subdivided into conferences. It worked out perfectly in the Gila Valley. Safford was 3A; Thatcher was 2A; and Pima and Fort Thomas were 1A. Every year, it was possible (and often probable) that three of the schools would win their respective conference titles. However, the AIA eliminated all of that and replaced it with an unfathomable system of divisions and sections. It did away with conference and region championships. Last year, the AIA was blasted for using a flawed mathematical formula to determine which teams got to go to the state playoffs. This year, it’s been replaced with another formula, the particulars of which are being kept secret. On this Friday night, Safford is hosting smaller-school Benson, but things won’t get much better than the previous week. (After absorbing that pasting at the hands of Thatcher, Safford would not win another game and would finish the year at 2-8.) At the other end of the corridor, Fort Thomas is celebrating its homecoming game. Homecoming floats, mostly consisting of brightly decorated flatbed and pickup trucks, are lined up on the track, just north of the football field. A crown awaiting this year’s queen rests on a velvet pillow near the field. While Fort Thomas is best known for its girls’ and boys’ basketball teams, the football stadium is packed, and the crowd is raucous. The cheerleaders, eschewing the big-city fashion trend toward hoochie, are demurely dressed in shorts, T-shirts and long socks. In a phenomenon that is apparently universal from Pop Warner up through high school,

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The Fort Thomas cheerleaders in decidedly nontraditional outfits.

Guard Cardon Jones (66) leads Glen Tavesi (28) on a long run in Pima’s 68-0 won over Bowie/San Simon.

Scott Alder, ditch boss for the Gila Valley Irrigation District by day, stands on the sideline and does stats for the Pima High football team.

college and into the NFL, the cheerleaders are almost completely ignored by the people in the stands. On the field, things are going quite well for the Apaches. (Yes, the Apaches. Apparently, it’s OK, even in this day and age, to call your sports teams the Apaches if you are, indeed … Apaches.) They’re putting the hammer down on Patagonia, and this game is heading for an early invoking of the mercy rule. Because of small enrollment numbers and subsequent small rosters, the smallest schools in Arizona have always played eight-man football, with five linemen and three backs instead of the traditional seven-and-four arrangement. The eight-man game, which is played on a smaller, 80-yard field, is a wide-open affair. Leads can evaporate, and scores can get out of hand in a hurry. It’s not uncommon to see scores in the range of 72-48, and close games are rare. Fort Thomas comes into the game with a record of 3-3. Two of its wins are by 40 and 38 points, but its three losses are by six, four and six points. “It’s been a tough season,” says Lee Haws, who is the school’s girls’ basketball coach and athletic director. “All three of those games went right down to the wire. We could be having one of the best seasons ever, but instead, we won’t even make the playoffs.” One team that will make the playoffs is Pima, which is rolling through an undefeated regular season. Pima is one of the largest schools that play eight-man football. Its roster is almost as big as the entire enrollment of one of the two schools against which it is competing tonight. (Bowie and San Simon high schools are just a few miles apart on Interstate 10 near the New Mexico state line. Their individual enrollments are so small that the AIA allows them to join forces in a single, more-competitive squad.) That’s not going to help against Pima. The Roughriders’ closest game of the year to that point was a 44-12 win over Chandler Prep in the season opener. Since that relative squeaker, Pima had won five more games by an average score of 59-12. Against Bowie/San Simon, it’s already 52-0 by halftime. The Roughriders are being led by a kid whose moniker gives him instant entry into the Cool Sports Names Hall of Fame—senior running back Jhett Judd. Standing along the Pima sideline with a big ol’ cowboy hat on is Scott Alder. By day, he is a ditch boss for the Gila Valley Irrigation District. By (Friday) night, he is Stat Man. His wife, Joyce, a retired teacher who taught English at Pima Junior High, shouts out the yards and jersey numbers. Weird fact: They live on Alder Lane. Weirder fact: There is a small residential street that runs along the north side of the football field. On the far side of the street are houses, but on the side of the street next to the school fence is a long stretch of dirt on which, someday, a sidewalk might be built. People actually park along the fence and sit in the beds of their pickup trucks or on lawn chairs to watch the game from really bad end-zone seats, rather than spend the few bucks it costs to get in the game. I didn’t catch the name of the street, but I’m guessing it’s something like Cheapskate Road. When the Roughriders host a state playoff game, the AIA (which collects and keeps the gate receipts from all state tournament games

The Fort Thomas Homecoming floats await the arrival of royalty at halftime.

and meets) has that fence covered so no one can watch the game for free. The chain gang (the people who man the first-down sticks and yard markers) consists of Carol Anne Weech; her cousin Daryl; her father, Rodell; and another cousin, Darwin. The Weech family has been doing the sticks at Pima games for as long as anyone can remember, probably more than 50 years. Some time back, Daryl replaced his father, Bulan, and Rodell replaced his father, Bertrell. The joke is that Carol Anne was added to the crew to satisfy some Title IX requirements. Daryl likes to tell the officiating crew that the chain gang has a combined 90 years of experience. One last thing on that: No one in the Weech family has ever taken a penny for doing the sticks, meaning that over the past half-century, they’re probably saved the school district something like $20,000. It’s Senior Night at Pima, so all the seniors who participated in fall sports activities (that includes members of the marching band and cheerleaders, as well as football and volleyball players) will be introduced at halftime. Each kid is flanked by parents, and they walk out to the center of the field to polite applause. After having watched, for many years, crime reports on the local TV news, and/or college football games, I’m constantly amazed at how many young people don’t share a last name with their respective mothers. I’m not sure whether it’s a cause or an effect. But watching the steady stream of people on the Pima football field was jarring. Every kid had the same last name as the parents (and every kid had parents). It was disconcerting; how is that even possible?

After the Senior Night stuff is all done comes the highlight of the evening: Taking the field for halftime festivities is the Pima High School Marching Band. There are a few kids in band uniforms, a couple of flag girls and, carrying a tuba the size of a Mini Cooper, the football team’s starting middle linebacker, William Hemphill. While his teammates make their way to the locker room, he has removed his helmet, shoulder pads and jersey, and he has joined the band. The theme of the night is James Bond music. (Hey, that means that the Weech family was doing the sticks when Dr. No came out!) Lugging the tuba, Hemphill marches up and back, hitting every note and almost every mark. It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen on a football field. It’s guaranteed that you’re not going to see something like that in a big city. What’s sad is that, in previous years, several members of the football team and even a couple of cheerleaders had played in the marching band. This year, an odd breeze of Too Cool-ism wafted through town, and all of the other footballer/band geeks opted out. Some even tried to talk Hemphill out of staying with it, but he had made a commitment, and that was that. As soon as the band is done, Hemphill sets the instrument aside, puts his pads and jersey back on, straps on his helmet, and is ready for the second half.

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previous week against Safford. Whatever the case, the thousands of Thatcher faithful who have shown up at John Mickelson Field on the campus of Eastern Arizona College are getting restless. (Thatcher High School doesn’t have a football stadium. It has practice fields, but uses the EAC facility for home games.) It turns out that Willcox is good. The Cowboys came to town with a gaudy 5-1 record, the same mark as Thatcher. The two teams trade turnovers early in the third quarter, but then Thatcher mounts a long drive. The Eagles quarterback is senior Presley Motes (not a shoo-in for that Name Hall of Fame, but certainly a nominee). Motes engineers a scoring drive, and the Eagles hold on for a 27-13 win. (Both Thatcher, 9-1, and Willcox, 7-3, will reach the state playoffs.) After all the games are over, the Gila Valley squads have gone 3-1 on the night. Surely, the celebrating must follow. In better days, the Safford faithful would take over the Sonic, park their trucks, blast their music and consume their weight in tater tots. However, the Sonic is pretty dead on this night. The visiting teams hit the McDonald’s or the Burger King on their way out of town. After Fort Thomas dispatches Patagonia, most of the players and cheerleaders catch a bus back to Bylas, where most of them live. There’s no party, not even a fast-food place at which to hang out. The Thatcher crowd hits a couple of fast-food joints along Highway 70, but nothing special. And the members of the squad from Pima, the team that would go on to play in the state championship game (a loss to Desert Christian)? They go to Denny’s. NOVEMBER 15 - 21, 2012

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Society has evolved in various aspects, but many people still lack an open mind when it comes to understanding and embracing the various gender identities that surround us. Members of the transgendered and transsexual community face a constant struggle for equal rights and acceptance. Although there are more educational resources available nowadays, discrimination is still very much alive. Seven years ago, Wingspan’s Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, the University of Arizona’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs and the ASUA Pride Alliance, among other LGBTQ organizations, created Trans Awareness Week. The purpose is to celebrate trans people, bring attention to the discrimination and violence they encounter, and provide spaces where people can come together and learn more about “the trans identities in the gender galaxy.” Events like this have given Tucson the reputation of being a safer place—with loads of helpful resources—for the trans community.

GARDENING Mesquite, Munchies and Music Desert Harvesters’ 10th Annual Mesquite Milling and Bake Sale Fiesta 9 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; milling starts at 8 a.m. Dunbar/Spring Community Garden University Boulevard and 11th Avenue Desertharvesters.org

Tucson may be in a desert, but when it comes to living off the land, there’s more abundance here than most people think, said Desert Harvester Kimi Eisele. In fact, those crinkly pods that drop from mesquite trees found throughout the city can be ground into a nutritious, sweet and gluten-free flour, with the right equipment. Desert Harvesters is a nonprofit that has provided information about growing and harvesting native plants, like those mesquite pods, since 1995. The fiesta is in its 10th year of celebrating all there is to love about desert eats. Both seasoned harvesters and nativefood novices will be on hand to mill mesquite pods, listen to music and enter raffles. There also will be short lectures that explain how to harvest the pods. “We’re hoping that will also inspire people to keep harvesting or start harvesting,” Eisele said. Hundreds of people have attended the event in past years. This year, three hammer mills will be in use to help reduce the wait. The pancake breakfast featured in earlier years has been replaced by a cash-only bake sale that showcases a variety of mesquite-based and other local foods. “It was more of a way of celebrating the diversity of foods and involving more community members,” Eisele said. Mesquite flour can be substituted in almost anything that is made with regular flour, such as Eisele’s favorite, lemon-ginger cupcakes. The Brambleberries, a bluegrassinfluenced band, will provide musical entertainment for the millers. “It’ll be kind of like this down-home, Tucson-favorite celebration,” Eisele said. Attendance is free. Milling costs $2 per gallon of pods, with a $5 minimum. —M.D.

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Left: The UA Dance Ensemble in Douglas Nielsen’s “Quadance.”

THEATER

DANCE

SPECIAL EVENTS

Masked in Silence

Spontaneous Movement

Desserts for a Cause

Mummenschanz

Seasonal Treasures

Sweet Charity

8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17

7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, 1:30 p.m., Sunday, through Sunday, Dec. 2; no shows Thanksgiving week

6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16

UA Centennial Hall 1020 E. University Blvd. 621-3341; uapresents.org

Mummenschanz turns 40 this year, but the eccentric theatrical show is far from being over the hill. The name combines the German word for mimicking or disguising, and the French word for chance, said founding member Floriana Frassetto. “It’s fantastic how we made it with such a horrible title, because it almost sounds like a medicine,” Frassetto said. Frassetto was a classically trained actress who had practiced dance and mime while at school. She collaborated with two Swiss clowns to launch Mummenschanz in 1972. The nonverbal show features performers in masks and unconventional costumes, some made of everyday objects like toilet paper and tubing. The Tucson show will feature 30 sketches that highlight three distinctive styles from the group’s four decades. In the 1970s, the group started out with masks and smaller costumes. A popular favorite were clay masks that the performers manipulate onstage to comedic affect. “We wanted to bring a message—a creative and evocative and stimulating message—to our audience,” Frassetto said. During the ’80s, hair got bigger, and so did the group’s costumes, as they incorporated inflatable elements. Then, in the 2000s, the group started using handheld props. Throughout, Mummenschanz sought to provide a show that was unique and playful. The show has traveled around the world, and members have appeared on The Muppet Show. “We never imagined or pretended that it would last so long or that we would be accepted and loved all over the world, but that has occurred,” Frassetto said. “Every day, it’s very emotional and very touching for us.” Tickets range from $25 to $50, with discounts available. —M.D.

Stevie Eller Dance Theatre 1713 E. University Blvd. 621-1162; tickets.arizona.edu

“I don’t want to wake up and know exactly what’s going to happen,” said choreographer and UA dance professor Douglas Nielsen. “I look for the surprise.” With that premise, it’s easier to understand his newest work, “Quadance,” one segment of the Seasonal Treasures show. The piece is a collaboration with the UA School of Music and celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage with a performance of four Cage compositions. Because Cage was fascinated by the element of chance, an audience member will determine the sequence of the music and the choreography each night before the dance is performed. The dance consists of 25 individual sections. The piece incorporates a touch of theater: At one point, two male dancers shout at each other onstage. Other dancers whisk large wooden boards on and off the stage. At times, it’s chaotic. “I wanted a little danger,” Nielsen said. “It created this wonderful spatial awareness and also a danger, a risk. Sometimes, dances are all so choreographed, it looks like there is no possibility for an accident.” Nielsen lives by the rule that an interruption is only part of the process. “As soon as you put people together, we’re working together,” Nielsen said. Other pieces in the show include “A Soldier’s Tale,” which will return to the stage after debuting at the local Stravinsky festival. Students will also show off their own choreography in a faculty-curated segment of the show. “The student work in itself is marvelous,” Nielsen said. “The students here are so imaginative and creative in their concepts.” Tickets are $25 for adults; $23 for seniors, military and UA employees; and $12 for students. —M.D.

Plaza Colonial Shopping Center 2870 E. Skyline Drive 797-3959; www.saaca.org

Reality TV is flooded with cooking-competition shows. Now, the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance is hosting its own cook-off—and it’s perfect for people with a sweet tooth. Sweet Charity is a dessert competition benefiting local charities with ties to the arts. “We wanted Tucson to experience the local culinary arts through dessert,” said Chelsey Killebrew, communications specialist at SAACA. “At the same time, they’ll be supporting arts-education programs and therapeutic arts programs.” SAACA is a nonprofit whose goal is to engage people in arts and culture. Members believe arts education is important to creating a well-rounded community, and they focus on making sure that art classes both in and outside of schools stay alive. “When children have art in their lives from an early age, they usually do better in all other subjects,” Killebrew said. “Then, as adults, their minds open up in all sorts of different ways because of that first exposure to artistic freedom.” The dessert competition has drawn some of Tucsonans’ favorite restaurants and bakeries, as well as students from the Art Institute of Tucson’s culinary-arts program. Among those participating are Trucking Good Cupcakes, Mimi’s Café, Old Pueblo Grill and Campus Candy. Attendees will be able to sample desserts ranging from cookies to cupcakes to cakes and mousses, along with sweet cocktails and wines, and then vote for their favorite desserts. Categories include Best Presentation, Most Creative and Sweetest of the Sweet. “We hope everyone who comes leaves knowing that it is important to support the arts, whether it’s fashion or culinary,” Killebrew said. “Art is a constant component in our lives, and we wanted to showcase that at this event.” Admission is $55. —I.T.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

TQ&A

EVENTS THIS WEEK

Teresa Hewitt

BREATH OF LIFE GALA Loews Ventana Canyon Resort. 7000 N. Resort Drive. 299-2020. “Bollywood Bash” is the theme of a formal gala to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, at 6 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; $150. Visit CFF.org for more information.

If you’re a geek, you’ll understand the attraction of Once More With Feeling, the local shadowcast troupe (a group that lip-syncs along with movies or musical performances) that performs at Valley of the Moon, the Zombie Walk and other venues for charity. After talking with its director, Teresa Hewitt, we realized it’s about celebrating a special type of geekdom—theater geek, musical geek, gamer geek— combined with a love for everything Joss Whedon, zombie and more. To find out about the group’s next season, or to receive more information, visit www.facebook.com/OnceMoreWithFeelingTucson.

MARI HERRERAS

CHASING RAINBOWS GALA WITH STEVE WINWOOD Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. A gala evening re-creates the glamor and excitement of opening night at the Fox in 1930, when guests enjoyed the MGM musical Chasing Rainbows starring Jack Benny and introducing the song “Happy Days Are Here Again,” at 6 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $75 to $150. Proceeds benefit the Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation. Visit foxtucsontheatre.com for tickets and more info.

Mari Herreras, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com

How long ago did you start? It started about four years ago, although for the first couple (of performances), we were called Vampire Bunny Slayers in homage to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Joss Whedon. Where do you perform most often? Well, we started off doing pre-shows … and grew to performing at different charity events. Really, now everything ends up for charity, which is awesome. You’ve been performing regularly at Valley of the Moon. Will that continue? Absolutely, and we love performing there. They are so nice to us, and they’ve provided us a regular place to do what we love, and it’s a great space. What is it that people love about shadowcasting? I think it starts a great deal from kids who do drama. … I feel like our group is more than just the shows. We’ve become this wonderful cohesive family that’s chosen to put on these performances. My mom calls it taking in all the strays. We have people from all ages, all backgrounds: people who do theater, don’t do theater, high school students, college students. But as far as shadowcasting goes, it’s an opportunity for someone to be able to participate in a role or a movie that they really love, and pay homage to it somehow. 20 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

What are you planning for next season? Just over this last year, we actually broadened our scope. Now we want to do Once More With Feeling presents Geek Cabaret. We want to try to expand our horizons (and) do a bunch of dance numbers that pay homage to the geekier side of life: video games, going to conferences, things like that—doing what we love for other people who love the same things we love. I think the show has a cool Comic-Con vibe to it. Does that make sense? Yes. And actually, this past year, for the first time, we performed at Phoenix Comicon. How did that happen? It fell into our laps, to be honest. Some of the shows we’ve done lately have been like that—I know this person who knows this person—a lot of networking. A lot of us go to the conferences anyway. It was really fun, and it seemed like our audience was really into it. What else have you done that was new this past season? We started performing at the Tucson Zombie Walk, which is also for charity, benefiting the Community Food Bank. We did a show to pay tribute to another online show, like Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog show. This one is called Rigamortis: A Zombie Love Story. We asked permission, and they were really excited.

We’re expanding our repertoire. We also did three short versions of Dr. Horrible for the Zombie Walk. How do you figure out your material? I’d love to tell you that there is some brilliant creative process that happens, but, really, we start with the things we love, like Dr. Horrible and Joss Whedon. We often just get together and start brainstorming. There’s always an electricity, and we know we’re doing the right thing. I’m so proud I get to work with these guys, some great creative minds. I love my cast. I would be nothing without all of them. How large is the cast? It’s between 20 to 25 right now. I’ve got a waiting list. A few people drift in and out. A lot of times, I try to bring people into the cast who need to be here. We’ve become a huge family, and I’ve discovered that people come here and grow and find new aspects of themselves. We happen to have this awesome thing we all love to do. So when does your next season start? We haven’t scheduled our next Valley of the Moon show, but we will probably be back in February or March. We’ll hold auditions and figure out what cast members are going to play what, and start putting together our Geek Cabaret. But we’ll be back, and we want to do more shows for anyone who wants us.

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PRESENTS DRALION TCC Arena. 260 S. Church Ave. Cirque du Soleil presents the touring production of Dralion. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 21, and Thursday, Nov. 22; 3:30 and 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 23, and Saturday, Nov. 24; 1 and 5 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 25. $35 to $75 adults, $28 to $61 children 12 and younger, $31.50 to $63 military, seniors and students. Visit cirquedusoleil. com/dralion for information. CYCLOVIA INFORMATION NIGHT Ward 3 Council Office. 1510 E. Grant Road. 791-4711. Learn about Cyclovia Tucson, including dates for two events and a new route for 2013, and sign up for volunteer opportunities, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15. Visit cycloviatucson.org for more information. SWEET CHARITY DESSERT Plaza Colonial Shopping Center. 2870 E. Skyline Drive. 299-0494. More than a dozen restaurants create desserts and cocktails for judging by attendees at an event to support arts in the schools, from 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; $45. Visit saaca.org for reservations and more information. TAKE A HIKE FOR BAG IT Loews Ventana Canyon Resort. 7000 N. Resort Drive. 299-2020. A hike and brunch from 7 a.m. to noon, Sunday, Nov. 18, benefits benefit Bag It, an organization that provides useful information and support for cancer patients; $80. The event also includes an auction and raffle. TRANS AWARENESS WEEK Activities taking place through Tuesday, Nov. 20, include a resource fair; poetry readings and performance art; workshops about supporting transgender kids, and about medical and legal professionals’ responses to trans issues; opportunities to ask a transgender person anything; film screenings; and a day of remembrance, including a vigil and procession. The program is a collaboration of the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance and the ASUA Pride Alliance. The week celebrates people who identify as transsexual, transgender, gender queer, masculine-of-center, feminine-of-center, two-spirit, butch, femme, gender-fluid and other trans identities. Email rstrozzo@wingspan.org, or visit sagatucson.org.

OUT OF TOWN ROSE RANCH ANIMAL RESCUE FUNDRAISER Rose Ranch Animal Rescue. 9004 N. Ghost Ranch Trail. Marana. 258-9600. Bands include DeGrazia, Finding Clarity, Top Dead Center, El Loco, Heart 2 Heart, D2D, Trinity and Gods of Wrath at a benefit for Rose Ranch Animal Rescue from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; $8, free child younger than 10. Daytime events include a petting zoo, games, a jumping castle, face-painting, arts and crafts, balloon sculpture magic acts and food vendors. Evening activities include fire dance by Lunasong and a “Buried Alive Escape” by illusionist Michael Howell. Call 258-9600, or email illusionistmichaelhowell@gmail.com for more info.

UPCOMING HOLIDAY NIGHTS Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Stroll through the park with Frosty the Snowperson and enjoy live performances at various locations, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 23 and 24, and Nov. 30 and Dec. 1; $2 to $15. Visit tohonochulpark. org for reservations and more information. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 23 and 24: classical guitarist Gabriel Ayala, blues and jazz singer Joe Bourne, the Tucson Women’s Chorus, the Maderas Strings, and Ballet Tucson performing Nutcracker in a Nutshell. Nov. 30 and Dec. 1: Guitarists Domingo Degrazia, Way Out West, Desert Melodies and a piano sing-along with Kyle Bronson.

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE SOCIAL AND INDIAN CRAFT MARKET Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 323-6262. The culture and history of several Native American nations is represented with crafts, demonstrations, dancing, song and living history from Friday, Nov. 23, through Sunday, Nov. 25; free admission. Hours are noon to 5:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and noon to 6 p.m., Sunday. Call 622-4900, or visit usaindianinfo. com for more information. OLD PEARCE HERITAGE DAYS Old Pearce Store. 905 Ghost Town Trail. Pearce. (520) 826-3588. The ghost town of Pearce comes alive with a gem and mineral show, an operating blacksmith shop and a collection of antiques and oddities at Old Pearce Mercantile, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 23 and 24; free admission and parking. A vintage car show, an art show and sale and a tour of the town’s original buildings are also featured. Call (520) 507-5487, or email oldpearcepottery@vtc.net for more information.

BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK ADOPT-A-PARK CEREMONY Keeling Desert Park. 245 E. Glenn St. Members of the Keeling Neighborhood Association are recognized for their volunteer stewardship of the park at a ceremony at 10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free. Through the Adopt-APark program, neighbors have kept the park litter-free and reported maintenance needs to Tucson Clean and Beautiful. Visit tucsoncleanandbeautiful.org, or call 791-3109 for more information about the program. ADOPT-A-STREET CEREMONY Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. 2600 S. Craycroft Road. 228-1110. Members of the U.S. Air Force 355 Logistics Readiness Squadron from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base are being honored for their ongoing volunteer work cleaning up litter along Kolb Road from Irvington Road to Valencia Road, at 2 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15, in building No. 4859; free. Visit tucsoncleanandbeautiful. org, or call 791-3109 for more information about the Adopt-a-Street program. CARS FOR HOMES BUILD DAY People who donate or have donated cars, trucks and boats to enable Habitat for Humanity to raise funds for building homes are celebrated from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15, at 7114 S. Vuelta de Tranquilidad; free. COMPUTER WORKSHOPS AT THE LIBRARY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Classes are free, but reservations are required. Get one-on-one help in understanding free digital downloads, and download eBooks, audiobooks and videos to your device, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15 and 29; and from 2 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, through Wednesday, Nov. 28. Bring your device and your library card or PIN. Learn about useful and fun features of Google, including news, maps, videos, calendars, financial information and Google Earth, in two sessions, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 20 and 27; free. Learn more about Microsoft Word 2010 in an intermediate workshop covering styles, themes, tables, SmartArt graphics, templates and mail-merge, in two sessions, from 10 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, Nov. 21 and 28. DESERT HARVESTERS MESQUITE MILLING Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market. 100 S. Avenida del Convento. 882-3304. Desert Harvesters mill your mesquite beans on Thursday, Nov. 15, from 3 to 6 p.m.; $2 per gallon of whole pods, $5 minimum. Free samples are offered from a demonstration using Barbara Rose’s Cooking With Mesquite cookbook. Visit desertharvesters. org for more information. FINAL EXIT NETWORK St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church. 602 N. Wilmot Road. 886-7292. A discussion about “What Is a Good Death?: The Right to Die With Dignity” takes place from 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free. Call 2355646, or email jlavet@earthlink.net for more info. FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY Bookmans. 1930 E. Grant Road. 325-5767. A dozen local food trucks gather, and a silent film is screened, from 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; free. HEALTHY FITNESS AT THE LIBRARY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Brandon Lyons of Pima Community College offers personal training from 3 to 4 p.m., and beginning fitness from 4 to 5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; and he leads an aerobics session from 7 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 20; free. Call for a reservation.

HERMITAGE BAKE SALE AND CRAFT FAIR Hermitage Cat Shelter. 5278 E. 21st St. Baked goods and handmade crafts are sold to benefit the Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; free. Anyone interested in having a booth or donating baked goods should email jennifer@hermitage catshelter.org. HOLIDAY INSPIRATIONS Many Hands Courtyard. 3054 N. First Ave. 419-7191. Artists and artisans sell their arts and crafts from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free admission. A holiday artisans’ market takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., every Friday and Saturday, from Friday, Nov. 23, through Saturday, Dec. 1; free. An artists’ reception with refreshments, and live music by Don East, takes place from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2; free. IMMIGRATION: A HUMAN RIGHT? A POLICY MATTER? Friends of the Pima County Public Library. 2230 N. Country Club Road. 795-3763. A Quaker meeting invites community members with all points of view for a discussion about issues related to immigration and the Quaker practice of caring for migrants and refugees, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free. Immigration attorney Margaret Cowan, retired Southside Presbyterian Church pastor John Fife and author Byrd Baylor are featured presenters. Park in the back of the meeting house, on Arizona Avenue, between First and Second streets. Email pimamm@gmail.com. JUSTICE: WHAT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO? Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Discussion about critically considering moral decisions in our everyday lives follows a DVD screening featuring Harvard professor Michael Sandel, from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; free. OCCUPY TUCSON Historic YWCA. 738 N. Fifth Ave. 622-4700. Occupy Tucson supporters watch a live stream from New York of The People’s Bailout, a variety show and telethon, from 5 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15. Participants are encouraged to bring food or non-alcoholic beverages. Call 3996324 for more information. PAWS FOR GRATITUDE WINE TASTING CataVinos. 3063 N. Alvernon Way. 323-3063. A silent auction, appetizers and tastings of six wines are featured at a benefit for PAWSitively Cats No Kill Shelter from 4 to 6 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $20. PIZZA, PAWS AND PAMPERING Mama’s Pizza. 4500 E. Speedway Blvd. 319-8856. Southern Arizona Greyhound Rescue benefits from a pizza party that includes opportunities for nail-trimming for dogs larger than 50 pounds, from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; $8 admission, $20 nail-trimming. PUBLIC INPUT NEEDED ON THE STATEWIDE OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE PROGRAM Arizona Game and Fish Building. 555 N. Greasewood Road. 628-5376. A workshop is designed to gather information, identify key issues and consider all stakeholder perspectives related to managing off-highwayvehicle recreation in state parks, at 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; free. PUBLIC MEETING RE: WALKING AND CYCLING AT RIO RICO The first of two public meetings to recommend bicycle and pedestrian improvement projects for 5, 10 and 20-year timeframes takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15, at Calabasas Middle School, 131 Camino Maricopa, Rio Rico; free. Visit azdot.gov, or call (602)712-6196 for more information. SAGUARO EASTSIDE DEMOCRATS New Spirit Lutheran Church. 8701 E. Old Spanish Trail. 296-2461. Saguaro Eastside Democrats meet at 6:30 p.m., the third Monday of every month; free. SALPOINTE SPAGHETTI DINNER AND BONE-MARROW DRIVE Salpointe High School. 1545 E. Copper St. 327-6581. Families, friends and alumni enjoy games, inflatable attractions, Salpointe club booths, performances by Salpointe students inside and outside, a basket raffle, a bakery booth and a spaghetti dinner from 2 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $12, $8 student. Call 547-9365, or email pgessner@salpointe.org for more information. SHOPPING TO BENEFIT EDUCATION Hitchcock Pavilion. 3705 Old Sabino Canyon Road. Gift items from around the world are sold to benefit Voices for Education, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free admission. SOUTHWEST SPIRIT SUMMIT Casino del Sol. 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 3449435. Mixology seminars, cocktail-making demonstratons and a tasting floor exhibiting more than 100 fine spirits are featured from noon to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 17 and 18; $40 each day. Seminar top-

ics include “Understanding Agave,” “Women Behind Bars,” “American Tiki,” and “Making Great Cocktails at Home.” From 4 to 5:15 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, Tony Abou-Ganim gives a women-only presentation about what to stock in the home bar, including tools of the trade and how to use them, and demonstrations of how to make popular cocktails; $70. From 3 to 7 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18, women bartenders compete in a cocktail-making contest to benefit breast-cancer research; $20 includes snacks. From 6 to 8 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18, mixologist and author Dale DeGroff presents an evening of cocktails inspired by music and storytelling; $40 includes paired appetizers. Call 318-9445. SPIRIT OF GIVING ARTS AND CRAFTS SHOW Hilton East Hotel. 7600 E. Broadway Blvd. 721-5600. More than 35 Tucson artists offer original, hand-made items in a wide range of media from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17. Bring a can of food for the Community Food Bank and receive a ticket for a raffle of items donated by members of the Tucson Arts and Crafts Association. Call 797-1751 for more information. THAI FOOD COMMUNITY BUFFET FUNDRAISER Wat Buddhametta: Tucson Buddhist Meditation Center. 1133 S. Swan Road. 745-4624. All-you-can-eat pad Thai, egg rolls, chicken curry, vegetarian curry, desserts and more are served from 5 to 7 p.m., the third Saturday of every month; $10, free child younger than 10. Proceeds help support free classes at the center. THANKSGIVING FOOD DRIVE Caliber Collision collects nonperishable food items for the Community Food Bank from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., through Friday, Nov. 16. Visit calibercollision.com for locations; free. ‘THANKSGIVING ON THE MAYFLOWER’ FOOD DRIVE Sprouts Market. 4282 N. First Ave. 407-5132. Help fill a Mayflower moving van with nonperishable food for the Community Food Bank, from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; free. Cash donations are also welcome. Radio station 94.9 MIX FM broadcasts live from the site throughout the day. TURKEY GIVEAWAYS AND SUPER SUNDAY SWAP MEET Tanque Verde Swap Meet. 4100 S. Palo Verde Road. 294-4252. Tanque Verde Swap Meet gives away turkeys periodically, from 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; noon to 9 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; and noon to 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18. An open-air market on Sunday features entertainment, carnival rides, face-painting, cash drawings, popcorn, balloon hats, international food trucks, keg-beer golf carts and fresh churro stands, and food giveaways every hour, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The first carnival ride is free; the rest are $1. Visit tanqueverdeswapmeet.com for more information. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. Quilts by the UU Quilters continues through Sunday, Dec. 2. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday through Friday; and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday; free. WILL’S AUTO REPAIR ANNIVERSARY Will’s Auto Repair. 4734 E. Speedway Blvd. 881-0407. Will’s Auto Repair celebrates it’s eighth anniversary with food, beverages, a car show, live music and prizes from 5 to 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; free. WRITING AND LIVING AN ETHICAL WILL Congregation Chaverim. 5901 E. Second St. 320-1015. Rabbi Stephanie Aaron and Deborah Mayaan lead a workshop called “Ethical Will: Embodying Positive Values Handed Down in Our Families,” from 10 a.m. to noon, Sunday, Nov. 18; free. Bring your own materials.

OUT OF TOWN WALKING TOURS OF OLD TOWN TUBAC Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Alice Keene leads a tour of the original adobe buildings and discusses the history of Arizona’s first European settlement, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, every Friday, through Nov. 30; $7.50 includes admission to the park.

from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24 and 25; free. Food and beverages are available for sale. VAIL VIGILANTES RAISE FUNDS FOR THE ARIZONA CANCER CENTER An organization that fields teams for charity sporting events is raising $10,000 to enter 50 participants in the Kiss Me Dirty Mud Run that takes place on Sunday, March 17. The effort benefits from Chuy’s discounts on food and beverages from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and a taco-eating contest at 4:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 23, at two locations: 7101 E. 22nd St., and 7585 S. Houghton Road; $25, $20 advance. Visit vailvigilantes.com.

ANNOUNCEMENTS FARMERS’ MARKETS Alan Ward Downtown Mercado: south lawn of the Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, October through May; 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, June through September (339-4008). Arivaca Farmers’ Market: 16800 Arivaca Road, Arivaca, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday. Bear Canyon Open Air Market: northwest corner of Tanque Verde Road and the Catalina Highway, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (982-2645). Bisbee Farmers’ Market: Vista Park in the Warren section, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520227-5060). Community Food Bank: 3003 S. Country Club Road, 8 a.m. to noon, Tuesday (622-0525). Corona de Tucson Farmers’ Market: 15921 S. Houghton Road, Vail, 8 a.m. to noon, Friday (870-1106). Douglas Farmers’ Market: Raul Castro Park, between D and E avenues, downtown Douglas, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday (520-805-5938 or 520-805-0086). El Presidio Plaza Park Mercado: 115 N. Church Ave., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday (339-4008). El Pueblo Farmers’ Market: El Pueblo Neighborhood Center parking lot, SW corner of Irvington Road and Sixth Avenue, 8 to 11 a.m., Saturday (882-3304). Elgin Farmers’ Market: Kief-Joshua Vineyards, 370 Elgin Road, Elgin, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, May through October (520-455-5582). Farmers’ Markets at La Posada Green Valley: 665 S. Park Centre Ave., Green Valley, is 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Monday (603-8116). Farmers’ Market at Voyager RV Resort: 8701 S. Kolb Road, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday (603-8116). Friday Farmers’ Market at Broadway Village: 2926 E. Broadway Blvd., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday (603-8116). Green Valley Village Farmers’ Market: 101 S. La Cañada Drive, Green Valley, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday (490-3315). Marana Farmers’ Market: 13395 N. Marana Main Street, Marana, 3 to 6 p.m., Tuesday (882-3313). Metal Arts Village Saturday Morning Market: 3230 N. Dodge Blvd., 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday (3265657). Oracle Farmers’ Market: 2805 N. Triangle L Ranch Road, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday (896-2123). Oro Valley Farmers’ Market: Town Hall at the corner of La Cañada Drive and Naranja Road, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (882-2157). Plaza Palomino: 2970 N. Swan Road, winter: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; summer: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (plazapalomino.com). Rincon Valley Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market: 12500 E. Old Spanish Trail, winter: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; summer: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (591-2276). St. David Farmers’ Market: St. David High School, 70 E. Patton St., St. David, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May through October (520-221-1074). St. Philip’s Plaza Saturday Farmers’ Market: St. Philip’s Plaza, southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (603-8116). Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market: Mercado San Agustín, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday (622-0525). San Manuel Farmers’ Market: 801 McNab Parkway, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-212-2337). Sierra Vista Farmers’ Market: corner of Carmichael Avenue and Willcox Drive, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday; and corner of Charleston Road and Highway 90 bypass, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday (520678-2638). Sunsites Farmers’ Market: Shadow Mountain Golf Course, 1105 Irene St., Sunsites, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-826-1250). Tucson Farmers’ Market: St. Philip’s Plaza, southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue, winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Sunday (882-2157). Tucson Farmers’ Market at Jesse Owens Park: Jesse Owens Park, 400 S. Sarnoff Drive, winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Friday (918-9811). Tucson Farmers’ Market at Maynards: Maynards Market and Kitchen, 400 N. Toole Ave., winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (545-0577). Tucson’s Green Art and Farmers’ Market: 8995 E. Tanque Verde Road, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (982-2645). Ventana Plaza Farmers’ Market: 5455 N. Kolb Road, 3 to 7 p.m., Tuesday (603-8116).

UPCOMING HOLIDAY ART FIESTA Painted Gourds and Masks Art Studio. 4802 W. Paseo de las Colinas. 465-7298. Twenty Tucson artists present fine art, folk art, masks, batiks, jewelry, garden art, gourd art, silkscreen, pottery, enameling, handmade soaps, fiber art, woodworking, photography, drums and holiday ornaments for sale from 10 a.m to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24 and 25; free admission. Cans of food are collected for the Community Food Bank. HOLIDAY ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. 1100 S. Randolph Way. More than 100 artisans from throughout the Western U.S. display and sell handcrafted items

BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEEKS PROSPECTIVE HOMEOWNERS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Habitat for Humanity hosts a free information session for anyone interested in owning new and refurbished homes in the Tucson area, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Nov. 17; free. Applicants are chosen based on need, ability to pay and willingness to partner.

Call 326-1217, ext. 212, for more information. 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 counseling about choosing a career, resume-writing, interview skills, networking and job-search skills from 9 a.m. to noon, Thursday, Nov. 15; and from noon to 3 p.m., Monday, Nov. 19 and 26; free. No appointment is needed; sessions are limited to 30 minutes. Call 791-4010 for more information. IRS SEEKS VOLUNTEERS Volunteers are needed to provide four to five hours a week of free tax-preparation services to low-to-moderateincome residents of Green Valley and the Tucson metropolitan area. No prior experience is needed. Spanishspeaking volunteers are also needed as interpreters. Email taxvolunteer@irs.gov with your contact information to learn more. JOB SEARCH STRAGEGIES FOR TODAY’S ECONOMY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 229-5300. Learn how to identify a prospective employer’s needs and highlight ways you exceed a position’s requirements in a workshop facilitated by John Shattuck, from 3 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 20; free. The workshop also covers how to identify weaknesses and take action to correct them. Call to register. NETWORKING FOR NONPROFITS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Bring business cards, brochures and promotional material to share with other professionals from nonprofit organizations, from noon to 12:45 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; free, but registration is required. Call 791-4010 to register and for more information. REAL ESTATE WEALTH PLAN Keller Williams Realty. 1745 E. River Road. 615-8400. An investing workshop takes place from 6 to 7 p.m., the third Thursday of every month. Call 909-9375 for more information. SCORE BUSINESS COUNSELING Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Experienced executives give individualized advice about starting or building a business, from 9 a.m. to noon, every Monday and Saturday; and 3 to 5 p.m., every Tuesday; free by appointment. SOCIAL-MEDIA STRATEGIES FOR NONPROFITS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Learn how nonprofits can use social media to raise critical funding and support their organization’s mission, from 9:30 a.m. to noon, Friday, Nov. 16. Registration is required; free. Call 791-4010 to register and for more information. TUCSON PRESIDIO ROTARY CLUB Hotel Tucson City Center. 475 N. Granada Ave. 6232000. Lunch is open to the public at noon every Wednesday; $15. Call 909-9375 for reservations. UPDATE ON TUCSON-MEXICO TRADE INITIATIVES Viscount Suite Hotel. 4855 E. Broadway Blvd. 7456500. Mayor Jonathan Rothschild gives an update on Tucson-Mexico trade initiatives at a joint dinner meeting of the Sunbelt World Trade Association and the Southern Arizona Logistics Education Organization, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; $30, $25 member and first-time visitor. Reservations are requested. Call 977-3626.

FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK AUTHENTIC PRODUCTIONS SCREENING Grand Cinemas Crossroads 6. 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. Authentic Productions screens a selection of films it produced in 2012, following a red-carpet reception at 9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; $7. Comedy, cooking and horror are among themes featured in short films; the evening’s feature film is Sportscasters: Out to Lunch. Visit authenticproductionsllc.com, or email authenticproductions@live.com for more information. ‘BAG IT!’ IS YOUR LIFE TOO PLASTIC? Prescott College/Tucson Center. 2233 E. Speedway Blvd. 319-9868. Bag It!, a documentary that focuses on the politics of plastic bags, waste, recycling and the health of our waterways, screens at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; free. Reservations are requested by Thursday, Nov. 15. Call 319-9868 for reservations and more info. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Pee Wee undertakes a nationwide quest for his stolen bike in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, which is screened twice for Tour de Tucson, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15, and

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LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. David Lynch’s controversial Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me screens at 10 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; $6, $5 member. Visit loftcinema.com for details.

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LOFT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. A showcase of one-time screenings of festival favorites from Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, Telluride and others; Q&A sessions with filmmakers and actors; retrospective screenings; international films; edgy late-night movies; and provocative shorts concludes Thursday, Nov. 15. Visit loftcinema.com for tickets, schedules.

HONORING AUTHORS AND EDITORS FROM THE ARIZONA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER Arizona Health Sciences Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 626-7301. An exhibit of the 135 books published by current and former AHSC staff since 2005 continues through Friday, Nov. 30, in the Java City coffee bar, Room 2102, of the Arizona Health Sciences Library. Hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday through Thursday; free admission, $1.50 per hour parking. Visit ahsl. arizona.edu for more information.

MOVIE-OKIE MEETS ‘GLEE’ Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Oliver Peaches hosts a special edition of Movie-Okie for Trans Awareness Week, at 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; $5. Choose from more than 30 movie musicals, and sing along as the movie plays on the big screen. Prizes are awarded for the best performances, and food and drinks are available. Visit fluxxproductions.com. NOW SHOWING AT YOUR LIBRARY: SOLAR MAMAS Himmel Branch Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. Solar Mamas, a PBS Independent Lens documentary about a 30-year-old Jordanian mother of four who travels from her village to India’s Barefoot College to learn usable skills, screens from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, Nov. 19. Free. Call for more information. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. The Rocky Horror Picture Show screens at midnight on the third Saturday of every month with Heavy Petting as the shadow cast; $10, $8 member. The film deals with mature subject matter and is not recommended for the easily offended. No one under 17 is admitted; ID is required; no alcohol is served.

GARDENING EVENTS THIS WEEK BUTTERFLY MAGIC Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Walk through a greenhouse full of beautiful and rare butterflies from 11 countries, through April 30, 2013. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., daily; $13, $7.50 ages 4 through 12, $12 student, senior or military, includes admission to the gardens. THE GREAT XERISCAPE Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. A presentation and tour exploring 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. MESQUITE MILLING AND FIESTA Dunbar/Spring Community Garden. Northwest corner of University Boulevard and 11th Avenue. Mesquite milling, where anyone can grind their own mesquite pods into flour, takes place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and a bake sale takes place from 9 a.m. to noon, Sunday, Nov. 18; free admission, fees for milling and baked goods. The event also features short workshops, sales of the Eat Mesquite! cookbook, organic coffee and native teas, a raffle of Desert Harvesters’ products and roving entertainers. Visit desertharvesters.org for more information.

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Organic Gardeners meet at 7 p.m., the third Tuesday of every month. Free literature, refreshments and a minimarket are available. Call 670-9158, or visit tucsonorganicgardeners.org for more information.

NATIVE SEEDS/SEARCH SALON Native Seeds/SEARCH Retail Store. 3061 N. Campbell Ave. 622-5561. A gathering of gardeners and cooks takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., the third Monday of every month; free, including recipes and samples. Oct. 15: Jaime de Zubeldia from ReZoNation Farm discusses “Natural Beekeeping.” Visit nativeseeds.org . 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., the first and third Saturday of every month, through May 18, 2013; $13, $4 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org. TUCSON ORGANIC GARDENERS St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church. 3809 E. Third St. 3251001. Members and prospective members of Tucson

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SYMPOSIUM ON HEREDITARY CANCER RISKS Arizona Cancer Center, Kiewit Auditorium. 1515 N. Campbell Ave. 694-7236. “Breast, Colon and Beyond: Answering Questions About Hereditary Cancer” covers genetic counseling, screening for breast cancer, gynecologic cancer risk-assessment and management, colon cancer risk-assessment and management, and questions from the audience, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free. Preregistration is required via azcc. arizona.edu, or 626-0950. TMC SENIOR SERVICES TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. Classes and events are free, but advance registration is required; call 324-4345 to register. Thursday, Nov. 15, from 9 to 10 a.m.: “Stress, Depression and Anxiety,” a discussion for people living with chronic illnesses. Wednesday, Nov. 21, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.: Be With Me Today, Alzheimer’s film. Monday, Nov. 26, from 2 to 3:30 p.m.: “Brain Fitness,” excercizes to help keep the brain growing.

KIDS & FAMILIES EVENTS THIS WEEK AUDITIONS FOR MIXED-ABILITY YOUTH DANCE ENSEMBLE Arts for All Inc. 2520 N. Oracle Road. 622-4100. Auditions take place by appointment on Friday, Nov. 16, for an ensemble that rehearses and performs throughout the year. Call 622-4100, ext. 203 or 205, for an appointment and more information. DESERT CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA Leo Rich Theater. 260 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Guys and Dolls is staged at 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 15 through 17; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $20 and $25. Visit desertchristian.org for tickets and more information. EON THANKSGIVING DINNER Eon Youth Lounge. 430 E. Seventh St. 624-1779. PFLAG, Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays provide Thanksgiving dinner for Wingspan’s youth group at 5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; free. Call 360-3795, or email pflagtuc@pflagtucson.org for more information. FAMILY FESTIVAL IN THE PARK (AND FLASH MOB!) Reid Park. Broadway Boulevard and Alvernon Way. Stage entertainment, carnival games, inflatables, crafts, a golf clinic, tennis games and demonstrations of pottery and drawing are featured from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and a flash mob takes place at 1 p.m., on Saturday, Nov. 17; free. In addition, admission is free to the Reid Park Zoo all day, and to the Edith Ball Adaptive Recreation Center from noon to 4 p.m. Donations of nonperishable food are requested for the Community Food Bank. Visit youtube.com/tucsonparksrecdept to learn the choreography for the flash mob. GARDEN RAILWAY OPEN HOUSE A large model-train layout with rock formations modeled after those in Sedona, and structures representing residential and industrial areas, is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, at Eagle Mountain Garden Railway, 4625 E. Cerro de Aguila; free. HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC FESTIVAL Eastpointe High Charter School. 8495 E. Broadway Blvd. 731-8180. Local bands perform and attendees learn about a pilot course in rock ’n’ roll, from 5 to 9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; free. ‘MARIO KART 64’ CHALLENGE Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Ages 14 and older compete for a top prize of $60 in store credit at 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free. Ages 13 and younger

compete for $50 in store credit, at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; free. Registration starts at 2 p.m. each day; the first 32 to register will play. NATURE STORIES AT AGUA CALIENTE PARK Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. A story-reading and craft activity about the natural world take place from 11 a.m. to noon, Friday, Nov. 16; free. Reservations are not required. Call 6157855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more info. NOCHE DE AGUILITAS/ MARIACHI UNDER THE STARS Davis Bilingual Elementary School. 500 W. St. Mary’s Road. A mini-mariachi conference with multiple mariachi groups, food vendors, carnival-style games, prizes and a silent auction are featured to benefit the school’s mariachi and arts programs, from 5 to 9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; free admission. Call 225-1400. OUTDOOR FAMILY DAY: DESERT HOLES AND LIFE UNDERGROUND Feliz Paseos Park. 1600 W. Camino de Oeste. 8776000. Naturalist Doris Evans discusses tarantulas, desert tortoises and other inhabitants of desert holes, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free. This event is for families with children ages 5 through 12. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations and more info. RINCON-UNIVERSITY HIGH FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT Rincon/University High School Auditorium. 421 N. Arcadia Drive. 440-5661. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is staged at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16 and 17; $8, $5 student with ID or child age 13 and younger. A French bistro dinner is available at 5:30 p.m.; $25. Proceeds support the drama group’s participation in the Edinburg Fringe Festival. ROCKET LAUNCH Tucson International Modelplex Association Complex. 3250 N. Reservation Road. Spectators watch and learn about model rocketry from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $5 launch, free spectator and younger than 18. Rental rockets with motors are available for $2 per launch. The club has a waiver for rockets to fly up to 4,500 feet. Visit sararocketry.org for more information. SONORAN DESERT KIDS CLUB: NATURE DISCOVERY TOOLS Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. Families with children ages 8 through 12 explore nature and learn about the diversity of wildlife at the park through self-guided activities and tools included in the park’s nature packs, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free. The packs are available to families and youth groups. Reservations are not required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov. TEEN ADVISORY BOARD Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. TAB, the teen advisory board, shares ideas and plans teen events for the library, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., the third Saturday of every month, except holidays; free. TEEN MUSIC Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Teens invite friends to hang out and listen to

favorite CDs in surround sound from 6:30 to 8 p.m., the third Tuesday every month; free. TUCSON HIGH MAGNET SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS Tucson High Little Theater. 400 N. Second Ave. 9 to 5: The Musical continues at 7 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 15 through 17; $10. Call 225-5326, or email arthur.almquist@tusd1.org for reservations. TUCSON WALDORF SCHOOL Tucson Waldorf School River Bend Campus. 3605 E. River Road. 529-1032. A reception for anyone interested in learning about the school and its approach takes place from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; free. Call or email enrollment@tucsonwaldorf.org. TUCSON YOUTH POETRY SLAM Bentley’s House of Coffee and Tea. 1730 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-0338. A spoken-word competition judged by the audience takes place the third Saturday of every month, beginning with a poetry slam workshop at 5 p.m., and continuing with the slam at 7 p.m.; freewill donation. First-timers are especially welcome. Only original work may be spoken, but it may be in any style or language. Each event also includes a reading by a nationally known poet. TUCSON’S RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELING EXHIBIT Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. An exhibit of children’s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds continues through Thursday, Nov. 29; free. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through 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 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov. UA POETRY CENTER FAMILY DAYS UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. An open house for kids and families takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17 and Dec. 1; free. Poetry Joeys workshops for children ages 4 through 10 take place from 10 to 11 a.m., and the center’s poetry collection is open to youth for writing projects. Other activities include yoga, multilingual story time and Book Club 11+, which features a different title each Family Day. Visit poetry.arizona.edu for each day’s schedule. THE YOUTH THEATRE OF STUDIO CONNECTIONS Studio Connections Theater at St. Francis in the Foothills. 4625 E. River Road. 731-1559. Into the Woods, Jr. is staged at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; and 2 and 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; $8. Call 270-7049, or visit studioconnections.net for tickets and more info.

EVENTS THIS WEEK BIRDING AT SWEETWATER WETLANDS Sweetwater Wetlands. 2667 W. Sweetwater Drive. 7914331. Birding expert Mary Ellen Flynn leads a walk for ages 12 and older to see a variety of wintering and migrating birds and raptors along easy trails, from 8 to

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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 ranching history, from 11 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Nov. 17; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more information. SABINO CANYON FALL HIKE Sabino Canyon Visitors’ Center. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 749-8700. A medium-difficulty hike to Hutch’s Pool, for six hours over 8.2 miles with an 800-foot elevation, begins at 8:45 a.m., Friday, Nov. 16; free. An $8 ticket for the 9 a.m. tram is required for anyone who doesn’t want to walk an additional 7.4 miles round trip from the visitor center to the end of the tram road. Children younger than 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Call 429-4492 for reservations and information about what to bring. Visit sabinonaturalists.org for information about other, regularly scheduled Sabino Canyon hikes. TUCSON AUDUBON’S WHITEWATER, WILLCOX AND WINE Carpool from the intersection of Houghton Road and Interstate 10, at 6 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, to look for sandhill cranes and wintering raptors, and to sample the products of Willcox’s growing wine industry; $7 per tasting. Reservations are requested; call 577-8778 for reservations and more information.

OUT OF TOWN HONEY BEE CANYON PARK BIRDING WALK Honey Bee Canyon Park. 13880 N. Rancho Vistoso Blvd. Oro Valley. 877-6000. A guided bird walk for ages 12 and older leads to Gambel’s quail, verdins, gnatcatchers and other birds of the Southwest desert, from 8 to 10 a.m., Friday, Nov. 16; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK BRUNO GROENING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS University of Arizona Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. The community meets to discuss teachings of Bruno Groening from 3 to 4:30 p.m., selected Saturdays, in Room E of the cafeteria; freewill donation. Dates are Nov. 17, Dec. 8 and 29. Call 904-4801, or visit www.bruno-groening.org/english for more info.

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DANCING WITH THE KNOWER AND THE UNKNOWABLE Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Heart-rhythm meditation teacher Puran Bair lectures on the nature of the self, self-knowledge and spiritual illumination in the modern world, from 7 to 9 p.m.,

Thursday, Nov. 15; Dec. 6; and Jan. 17; $15 each lecture. Call 299-2170 for more information. DARREL RAY: SEX AND THE GOD VIRUS DuVal Auditorium, UA Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. Darrel Ray, author of Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality presents “Why Is Religion So Consumed With Sex?� at 10 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; freewill donation. An open discussion precedes the presentation at 8 a.m. Visit freethoughtaz.org for more information. LEARN ABOUT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Third Church of Christ, Scientist. 7355 N. Paseo del Norte. 297-6779. A free lecture introduces and gives examples of the healing principles of Christian Science from 2 to 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; free. PSYCHIC FAIR Church of Mankind. 1231 S. Van Buren Ave. 7907374. Readings via crystal ball, Tarot, sea shells, abstract art, psychometry, spiritual practice and tea take place from 2 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; $20 per 15-minute reading; free admission. Call 461-2910 for more information. URBAN RETREAT Kadampa Meditation Center, Arizona. 1701 E. Miles St. 296-8626. Guided meditations focuses on relaxing and inner contentment, at 2, 3:30 and 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; $12, or $5 per session. Visit meditationintucson.org for more information.

SPORTS EVENTS THIS WEEK AZ BLISTER WAKA KICKBALL Joaquin Murrieta Park. 1400 N. Silverbell Road. 7914752. The fall season continues every Thursday through Nov. 29. Three games take place each week, starting at 6:30 p.m. A playoff tournament and end-of-season party take place Saturday, Dec. 8. Visit kickball.com for more information. UA MEN’S BASKETBALL UA McKale Memorial Center. 1721 E. Enke Drive. Thursday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m.: UTEP. Monday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m.: Long Beach State. Tickets are $20 to $115. Visit arizonawildcats.com/sports for tickets and more information. UA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL UA McKale Memorial Center. 1721 E. Enke Drive. Saturday, Nov. 17, at 1 p.m.: Cal State Northridge. Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 11 a.m.: BYU. Tickets are $3 to $8. Visit arizonawildcats.com for tickets and more information. UA WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL UA McKale Memorial Center. 1721 E. Enke Drive. Friday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m.: Colorado. Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m.: Utah. Tickets are $7 to $12. Visit arizonawildcats.com for more information.

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PERFORMING ARTS Arizona Rep’s ‘Inspecting Carol’ is a funny but mean-spirited parody of community theater

Bah, Humbug BY LAURA C.J. OWEN, lowen@tucsonweekly.com ucson audiences can count on Arizona Repertory Theatre for some of the most solidly produced shows around town. ART’s latest, Daniel J. Sullivan’s farce Inspecting Carol, is no exception. It’s an entertaining night of theatrical comedy that pokes fun at theater itself. David Morden’s direction is tight; the technical elements are professionalquality; and the student actors are lively professionals in training. The reason these student productions are of such consistent quality? Certainly, many talented people are involved in each show. But ART also has regular funding and paid professionals—as part of the University of Arizona, the company has full-time theater faculty working on the shows with the students. This is not to suggest that the university is flush—the UA has suffered many budget cuts of late. Still, compared to struggling independent theater companies around town, ART’s resources seem positively gargantuan. One cannot help but think about this while watching Inspecting Carol. Sullivan’s play is set inside the Soapbox Playhouse, a struggling theater in a “mid-sized city in the Midwest.� It’s December 1992 (around the time the play was written), and the Soapbox is putting on its annual version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This holiday classic is a rare moneymaker for the company, and this year, the Soapbox desperately needs a success. Early on, managing director Kevin (Sean Meshew) tells artistic director Zorah (Georgia Harrison) some bad news: The National Endowment for the Arts has suspended the theater’s annual grant, pending an “artistic review.� This throws the playhouse into a tizzy. And when an aspiring actor, Wayne (Cody Davis),

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wanders in hoping for an audition, he is mistaken for an undercover NEA inspector. This means that Wayne—not, shall we say, the most skilled of actors—is welcomed into the company, and even allowed to make changes to the script. We watch rehearsals of A Christmas Carol evolve from mediocre to awful. Everything is primed for disaster when the real NEA inspector (Kate Nienhauser) shows up. Much of this is very, very funny. The cast does excellent work portraying a range of characters, from child-star Luther (Paul Thomson), who is getting too big to play Tiny Tim, to an eccentric elderly couple, Dorothy and Sidney (Brenna Wagner and Frank Camp), who lead the actors in strange warm-up exercises. (“Pretend to squeeze a lemon between your buttocks ‌â€?) Still, there’s something uncomfortable about watching student actors mocking struggling theater professionals. It comes across as a little mean, almost bullying, for a slick, well-funded production to mock a broke, ramshackle effort. The satire starts to be too grim as the show goes on. And go on, it does—the play is four acts long. This is not to say that the mockery isn’t often hilarious. The play’s climax is a horrendous run-through of A Christmas Carol. As an audience, we get to see only highlights—the best (i.e., the worst) moments. There’s an art to performing something that’s meant to be terrible. Everything needs to be on point, or the production risks making the same kinds of mistakes it is mocking. So praise is due not only to the cast, but also to the technical staff, including scenic designer Peter Beudert and technical director Sarah Schniepp, for making all of the “mistakesâ€? play flawlessly—the scenery falls apart, and techni-

Jordan Letson, Kendrick Stallings and Georgia Harrison in Arizona Repertory Theatre’s Inspecting Carol. cal effects happen at the wrong time. In fact, Inspecting Carol Inspecting Carol is a bit of an ode to those who Presented by Arizona Repertory Theatre toil, often unappreciated, behind the scenes. 7:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Nov. 15 and 16; 1:30 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; 1:30 p.m., Playwright Sullivan drew on several sources Sunday, Nov. 18; 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, for the play, including his own experiences in Nov. 30 and Dec. 1; 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2 the theater. He spent much of his career as artisUA Tornabene Theatre tic director of Seattle Repertory Theatre, and he 1025 N. Olive Road also served on an NEA grant-application panel. adults; $26 UA employees, So when managing-director Kevin finally breaks $28 seniors and military; $19 students and screams at pretentious lead-actor Larry Runs two hours and 15 (Robert Don Mower), it feels like a fantasy minutes, with one intermission moment for theater managers everywhere. 621-1162; The play is also loosely inspired by Nikolai tftv.arizona.edu/season/event/160 Gogol’s 1836 play, The Government Inspector. In this dark Russian farce, corrupt local officorrect endeavors rather than quality art. cials mistake a newcomer in town for a govSullivan obviously means all of this mockery ernment inspector. But the targets in Gogol’s in a good humor. In fact, dramaturg Jessica play are crooked politicians. The targets of Stennett writes in the program that “Inspecting Inspecting Carol’s satire are well-meaning Carol became a vehicle for arts advocacy and regional theater folk, as well as the NEA. Not awareness.� That’s a nice thought—but it’s not exactly terrible villains, unless you are in favor the only way Inspecting Carol can be interpreted. of cutting public support for the arts. If Sullivan had balanced his critiques with So the unrelenting mockery gets strained. some moments of humanity or reflections on Surely any play that satirizes theater should the value of art, this positive interpretation also make some acknowledgement of theater’s might be more viable. Instead, the show runs value. But no such moment ever comes. The the risk of coming off as a mean-spirited intheater professionals are all deluded, incompejoke. And ART’s production—funny as it is— tent or selfish, and the NEA is a laughable often plays that way. institution that awards money to politically

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Matt Walley

UA students show off some brand-new theater—and then Broadway in Tucson brings to town an old-school classic

Collaborators and Creativity BY SHERILYN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com hen second-year University of Arizona instructor Matt Walley submitted a proposal to produce a show for the theater program’s Studio Series, he had a vague sense of what the piece might be. But because it was to be a student-developed original and collaborative work, he knew that what he would really need to do was shepherd his students as they sought what they wanted to do—what subjects and themes to explore, and how they could negotiate working as collaborators. “I am drawn to stories about the apocalypse, so I proposed that we would develop something with that starting point,” Walley said. “But I discovered that the word ‘apocalypse’ was from the Greek and meant something more like an unveiling of the truth, or the unknown. So my idea evolved to something less about the end of days, and more about the unveiling of the truth. And I thought, ‘That’s exactly what theater is.’” Walley and his students discovered that the ancient symbol of the Ouroboros— traditionally illustrated as a serpent eating its own tail—was a symbol of wholeness, of the circle of life, and was frequently associated with creativity. So the Ouroboros became the foundation for their process as well as the title of the piece they would create. Five students were selected at auditions to work as collaborators. They agreed that the symbol suggested the life cycle, so each performer took one phase of that cycle—birth, adolescence, adulthood, old age and death— and through both physical and textual improvisation, they developed the piece, which will be presented this weekend. Walley, who works with students who are not necessarily theater majors, said he felt that his job as director was to support his actors’ vision. “Usually, actors are called on to support the director’s vision. This process was different,” he said. “In our first meetings, we discussed how they could each develop their own point of view (while) working as an ensemble as well. So we developed some rules to work by. We decided how, as a group, decisions would be made; this is critical for collaborators. And then I helped them develop a mission statement—what and why they were doing what they had chosen. As the director, I felt my job was to help support their vision, to mediate, and to help keep them on track for their mission, to keep them true to that.” Walley, who is a member of the acting company at the Rogue Theatre and is a creative director for Theatre 3, which is a part of Live

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Theatre Workshop’s more-experimental arm known as Etcetera, said he is impressed with the “really mature and refreshing ideas” his actors have developed, and which they offer with great honesty. “It’s really compelling. They have definitely created a piece which is more than the sum of its parts,” he said.

“In olden days, a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking. But now, God knows, Anything goes.” ow things do change. We can only guess what Cole Porter, who wrote those lyrics for the 1934 musical Anything Goes, would think of what has become not so shocking 78 years later. But we do know that the musical has endured as morethan-delightful entertainment. As recently as 2011, it was revived on Broadway, by the Roundabout Theater Company, with direction and choreography by Kathleen Marshall. The touring version of this production will sail into town next week, brought to us by Broadway in Tucson. The show has just begun a national tour and will play in more than 20 major cities. It’s sort of a silly story involving disguises, misguided love, an evangelist-turned-nightclub singer, and a gangster of indifferent notoriety— all aboard an ocean liner headed from the U.S. to London. The things that makes Anything

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Goes, well, go, are the musical numbers, which include some of Porter’s most famous and beloved songs: “You’re the Top,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “It’s De-Lovely,” “You’d Be So Easy to Love” and, of course, the title song, “Anything Goes.” The book has been tweaked a number of times over the years, with songs shifted around, but it obviously still works. It won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical in 2011, as well as the Tony for Best Choreography, for Kathleen Marshall. Sutton Foster won the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Reno Sweeney, the leading lady. And a plum role, it is. Just ask young Mackenzie Warren, who in her second year out of college has not only landed a place in the ensemble of the touring show, but is also the understudy for the role of Reno, played by Rachel York in this production. “It’s a little daunting to be covering Rachel York. She is such a star. It’s a thrill to work with her and watch her every day,” Warren said. “So even if I go on for only one performance, it would be so thrilling.” And guess what? It’s rumored that she will be given that chance for at least one performance in Tucson. Originally from Lexington, S.C., Warren graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in musical theater in 2010. She then moved to New York. “This is such a big step and so exciting,” she said. “And I have packing down to a science.” And to think that about this time a year ago, she was working as a “Bloom-ette,” a dancing

Ouroboros Original works by School of Theatre, Film and TV Students 8 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 15 through Nov. 17; 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18 (Sunday show sold out) Harold Dixon Directing Studio Room 116 in the UA Drama Building 1025 N. Olive Road $7 Runs 40 minutes, with no intermission; followed by post-show discussion 621-1162; tickets.arizona.edu

Anything Goes Presented by Broadway in Tucson 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 20, and Wednesday, Nov. 21; 2 and 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 23, and Saturday, Nov. 24; 1 and 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 25 Tucson Convention Center Music Hall 260 S. Church Ave. $29 to $75 Runs two hours and 45 minutes, with one intermission (800) 745-3000; www.broadwayintucson.com

shopping bag at Bloomingdale’s. “It was a riot, one of the most fun things I’d done in New York,” she said. “I’m really excited to be coming to Tucson,” Warren said. Because of the opportunity to appear as Reno? “There’s that,” she said sheepishly. “And I’ve never been west of Oklahoma!” NOVEMBER 15 - 21, 2012

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DANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK ECSTATIC DANCE TUCSON Rhythm Industry Performance Factory. 1013 S. Tyndall Ave. 481-8003. Participants express themselves with dance, and have fun in an alcohol-, drug- and judgment-free environment, at 7:30 p.m., the third Saturday of every month; $7 suggested donation, free child. Call 229-6247 for more information. SALSA LESSONS FOR VETERANS Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Soulseros offers free salsa Latin-dance lessons to military veterans from 6 to 6:30 p.m., Mondays, through Nov. 26. UA DANCE UA Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. 1737 E. University Blvd. 621-4698. Seasonal Treasures, a program featuring faculty and student choreography, and a new work in honor of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, opens Thursday, Nov. 15, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 2. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; and 1:30 p.m., Sunday; $25, $12 student, $23 senior, military and UA employee. Call 621-1162, or visit dance.arizona.edu for tickets and more info.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTRA DANCING First United Methodist Church. 915 E. Fourth St. 6226481. Live music, callers and an alcohol- and smokefree environment are provided for contra dancing at 7 p.m., the first, third and fourth Saturday each month; $8, $7 member of Tucson Friends of Traditional Music, $6 student. An introductory lesson takes place at 6:30 p.m.; dancing begins at 7 p.m. Call 325-1902, or visit tftm.org for more information. FREE TANGO LESSONS AND DANCE Casa Vicente Restaurante Español. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. A free class for beginners (no partner necessary) takes place from 7 to 8 p.m., each Wednesday; and tango-dancing continues from 8 to 10 p.m.; free. Call 245-6158 for information. FREE ZUMBA CLASS Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Instructor Leslie Lundquist leads a workout for all skill levels, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., every Thursday; free. SOCIAL MODERN SQUARE DANCING Old Pueblo Square Dance Center. 613 E. Delano St. 620-1566. All genres of music and steps ranging beyond traditional square-dance form are incorporated into social dance at 7:30 p.m., every Friday and Saturday; and 6 p.m., every Sunday; $5. No partner or dance experience are required. Call 429-0409 for more information.

MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK 17TH STREET MUSIC 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 7147. The Desert Bluegrass Association hosts a workshop on songwriting from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m.: Irish folk-singer and multi-platinum artist Mary Black; $25 to $60. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for more information. INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL Holsclaw Hall. UA School of Music, 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1162. Carlos Peréz of Chile, the 2006 winner of the Joaquin Rodrigo Competition, performs at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $25, $20 TGS member, $15 student. Call 342-0022, or visit tucsonguitarsociety.org for reservations and more info. KINGFISHER STRING QUARTET Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 2331 E. Adams St. 327-6857. The quartet performs works by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Ravel, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; $10. All proceeds benefit the church’s food bank. Call 904-9298 for more information. LAVA MUSIC Abounding Grace Church. 2450 S. Kolb Road. 747-3745. Shows are from 7 to 9 p.m. on selected Saturdays; $20, $15 advance. Visit lavamusic.org for tickets and more information. Nov. 17: Ted Ramirez.

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PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE MUSIC PCC Center for the Arts. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 2066986. Unless otherwise noted, performances are in the Proscenium Theatre; $6. Call or visit pima.edu/ cfa for tickets and more information. Sunday, Nov. 18, at 3 p.m.: Rodriguez and Keepe Duo, saxophone and piano. Monday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m.: Jazz Improv Combo. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 7:30 p.m.: Jazz Ensemble. Thursday, Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m.: Wind Ensemble with the UA Wind Ensemble. Saturday, Dec. 1, at 3 p.m.: Orchestra Concert. Sunday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m.: the Chorale and College Singers. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m.: Musical Theatre Workshop in the Recital Hall. SHOWCASE ORGAN RECITAL Northminster Presbyterian Church. 2450 E. Fort Lowell Road. 327-7121. The three-manual, 46-rank Quimby pipe organ is the centerpiece for a concert by organists Noreene Walters, Chris Fresolone and Fern Hieb, at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $10 suggested donation. Call for more information. SOUTHERN ARIZONA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The symphony performs works by Brian Godal, De Falla, Sibelius and Debussy with guest-conductor Orhan Salliel, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, at DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive; and 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18, at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7575 N. Paseo del Norte. Tickets at DesertView are $23, $21 advance; tickets at St. Andrew’s are $20, free age 17 and younger. Visit sasomusic.org for tickets and more information. ‘STILL FALLS THE RAIN’: SONGS OF LOVE, LOSS AND WAR UA Student Union Bookstore. 1209 E. University Blvd. 621-2426. Professor of English Peter E. Medine introduces lyric meditations on the devastating effects of World Wars I and II, and individual efforts to come to terms with those effects, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17. Baritone Seth Kershisnik, tenor Dennis Tamblyn and horn-player Daniel Katzen explore the concepts musically. TSO CLASSIC Unless otherwise noted, performances are at 8 p.m. Friday, and 2 p.m., Sunday, at Tucson Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave.; $26 to $79. Call 882-8585 or visit tucsonsymphonyorchestra.org for tickets and more information. Nov. 16 and 18: Divine Dvorák with guest conductor Mei-Ann Chen and trumpeter David Cohen. TUCSON MASTERWORKS CHORALE Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 2331 E. Adams St. 327-6857. Looking East, a concert of works by Eastern European composers including Dvorák, Bartók and Kodaly, takes place at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $18, $15 advance. Visit tucsonmasterworkschorale.com for tickets and more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BLUEGRASS MUSIC JAM SESSIONS The Desert Bluegrass Association hosts free public jam sessions monthly. The first Sunday, 3 to 5 p.m.: Udall Recreation Center, 7200 E. Tanque Verde Road, 2961231. The first Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m.: Rincon Market, 2315 E. Sixth St., 296-1231. The third Sunday, 3 to 5 p.m.: Music and Arts Center, 8320 N. Thornydale Road, No. 150-170, 579-2299. The third Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m.: Pinnacle Peak Restaurant, 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road, 296-0911. The fourth Sunday, from 4 to 6 p.m.: Thirsty’s Neighborhood Grill, 2422 N. Pantano Road, 885-6585. Call the phone number provided for each venue for more information.

THEATER OPENING THIS WEEK BROADWAY IN TUCSON Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Anything Goes opens Tuesday, Nov. 20, and continues through Sunday, Nov. 25. 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; $20 to $65 plus fees. Visit broadwayintucson.com for tickets. THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Scrooge: A Gaslight Musical opens Thursday, Nov. 15, and runs through Sunday, Jan. 6. 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. Showtimes are subject to change. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com for reservations. UAPRESENTS UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. Call 621-3341, or visit uapresents.org for tickets and more information. Saturday, Nov. 17, at 8 p.m.: Mummenschanz, on the patio; $15 to $45. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 7:30 p.m.: David Sedaris; $15 to $45. UA SCHOOL OF THEATRE, FILM AND TELEVISION UA College of Fine Arts Drama Building. 1025 N. Olive Road. 621-7008. Ouroboros, a collection of original student works, is staged at 8 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 15 through 17; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; free. Expect adult themes and profanity. Visit tickets.arizona.edu for tickets and more information.

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TUCSON PHILHARMONIA Catalina Foothills High School Auditorium. 4300 E. Sunrise Drive. 577-5090. The 107-member youth symphony Tucson Philharmonia performs an eclectic mix of orchestral pieces from film, opera and symphonic repertoire, at 7 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $14, $7 senior or student. Call 623-1500 for reservations and more information.

ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE UA Tornabene Theatre. 1303 E. University Blvd. 6211162. Inspecting Carol, a farce about a production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, continues through Sunday, Dec. 2. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., weeknights and Saturday; and 1:30 p.m., Sunday; dates may vary; $20 to $31. Call 621-1162, or visit arizona.tix.com for tickets; see cfa.arizona.edu for more information.

UA MUSIC UA School of Music. 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655. Concerts are free unless otherwise noted. Visit music. arizona.edu, or call 621-1162 for reservations or more information. Sunday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m.: UA Chamber Players, Holsclaw Hall. Monday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m.: UA Studio Jazz Ensemble and Combo, Crowder Hall; $5. Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m., the Rosewood Marimba Band, Holsclaw Hall, $5; and at 7:30 p.m.: graduate choral conductors’ recital with the Honor Choir, Kantorei, Recital Choir and University Singers, Crowder Hall.

COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. The Lighter Side of Chekov continues through Sunday, Nov. 25. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, discounts available. Call or visit thecomedyplayhouse.com for tickets or more info.

UA OPERA UA School of Music. 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655. Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata is staged at 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 15 through 17; and 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $10 to $15. Visit music. arizona.edu, or call 621-1162 for reservations or more information.

OUT OF TOWN BISBEE MUSIC FESTIVAL Bisbee is the site of a three-day independent music festival featuring bands from throughout the state, from Friday through Sunday, Nov. 16 through 18. Hours are 7 to midnight, Friday; noon to midnight Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday. Venues include The Screaming Banshee, the Bisbee Grand Saloon, Poco, The Copper Queen, The Old Bisbee Brewing Company and St. Elmo Bar. A cover charge applies for some shows. For performers, schedules and other info, visit sideponyexpressmusicfestival.com.

INVISIBLE THEATRE Invisible Theatre. 1400 N. First Ave. 882-9721. Mesa, a comedy about a road-trip to an Arizona retirement home, continues through Sunday, Dec. 2. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Tuesday preview; 7:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $28, $18 preview. An additional 3 p.m. show takes place Saturday, Nov. 24. Call or visit invisibletheatre.com for tickets and more information. Rush tickets are available at half price, one half-hour before each performance. RED BARN THEATRE Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. The Unsinkable Molly Brown continues through Sunday, Nov. 25. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $10. Call 887-6239 for reservations.

LAST CHANCE BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 882-0555. David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross closes Sunday, Nov. 18. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m., Sunday; $8 to $20. A complementary comedy, Hungry Hill Estates, about a pair of real-estate salesmen, is staged at 12:15 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16 and Nov. 17; $5, $14

includes lunch. Call or visit beowulfalley.org for tickets and more info. LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels closes Sunday, Nov. 18. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 senior, military or student. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for tickets and more information. PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE THEATRE ARTS PCC Center for the Arts. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 2066986. Wait Until Dark closes Sunday, Nov. 18, in the Black Box Theatre. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $15. ASL interpreters are provided for the performance at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15. Discounts are available for all shows. Call or visit pima.edu/cfa for tickets and information. THE ROGUE THEATRE The Rogue Theatre. 300 E. University Blvd. 551-2053. The Night Heron closes Sunday, Nov. 18. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday. Tickets are $30. Visit theroguetheatre.org for tickets and more information.

UPCOMING RETRO GAME SHOW NIGHT Hotel Congress. 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. Tempest DuJour hosts a round of The Match Game at Retro Game Show Night, an event that engages audience members in satirizing legendary TV game shows, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 24; $5, ages 21 and older. Visit hotelcongress.com/club for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR ACTORS Male and female entertainers, with big voices and bigger personalities, are sought for semimonthly comedy shows by the under-rehearsed and over-dramatic Musical Mayhem troupe. Send email to musicalmayhem@yahoo. com with a head shot and resume, if you have them, or information about your performance experience. Familiarity with Broadway musicals is helpful. Prepare 32 bars of two contrasting songs; a CD player is available. Visit musicalmayhemtucson.weebly.com for info. CALL FOR ACTORS Community Performing Arts Center. 1250 W. Continental Road. Green Valley. 399-1750. The Santa Cruz Shoestring Players hold auditions for Arsenic and Old Lace, at 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; free. The show requires 11 male and three female actors. For more information, call 625-7242, or visit santacruzshoestringplayers.com. CALL FOR PERFORMERS Friday, Nov. 16, is the deadline for applications to perform in the Fringe Theater Festival, Friday through Sunday, March 1 through 3, at Hotel Congress. The festival features unrestricted artistic freedom in performance, art and theater. The Triple Threats are cornerstone performers, featured each day. One and Done events allow individual artists to perform just once. Performers can apply for one or both of Cornerstone or One and Done performance types. Call 261-4851, or visit tucsonfringe.org for more information. CARNIVAL OF ILLUSION Doubletree by Hilton Hotel. 445 S. Alvernon Way. 8814200. Award-winning illusionists Roland Sarlot and Susan Eyed present Carnival of Illusion: An Evening of Intimate Magical Wonders at 6 and 8:30 p.m., every Friday and Saturday, through Saturday, Dec. 15; $29 to $40. Audience limited to 35. Call 615-5299, or visit carnivalofillusion.com for tickets and more information. MAGICAL MYSTERY DINNER THEATER Magical Mystery Dinner Theater. 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. 624-0172. Murder at the Vampire’s Wedding, a 2 1/2-hour, interactive comedy whodunit that includes a three-course dinner, takes place most Fridays and Saturdays; $29 to $42, includes dinner. Doors open at 7 p.m. Call for reservations or more information. NOT BURNT OUT JUST UNSCREWED A comedy troupe performs family-friendly improv for freewill donations at 7:30 p.m., the first Friday of every month, at Revolutionary Grounds Coffee House, 616 N. Fourth Ave.; and the third Friday of every month, at Rock N Java, 7555 W. Twin Peaks Road, Marana. Call 861-2986, or visit unscrewedcomedy.com for info.

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OPENING THIS WEEK HOLIDAY ARTISANS’ MARKET Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. An artisans’ market features food trucks, family activities, crafts, face-painting, live entertainment and more than 100 vendors of unique gifts, arts and crafts, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Nov. 16 through 18; free admission. A beer garden is available Saturday and Sunday. Call or visit tucsonmuseumofart. org for more information. MARK SUBLETTE MEDICINE MAN GALLERY Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery. 6872 E. Sunrise Drive. 722-7798. Mell Modern, an exhibit of modernist work by painter and sculptor Ed Mell, opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16, and continues through Friday, Dec. 14. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit medicinemangallery.com for more information. TOHONO CHUL PARK Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Holiday for the Park, a fundraiser featuring ornaments created by local artists, opens Thursday, Nov. 15, and continues through Tuesday, Dec. 11. Gallery hours are 9 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 for more information. TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. 573-8100. An exhibit of works by Cima Bozorgmehr, Betina Fink, Katya Micklewight, Barbara Strelke and Dee Transu opens with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, and continues through Saturday, Feb. 2, in the Lower Link Gallery; free. The gallery is open 24 hours every day.

CONTINUING AGUA CALIENTE PARK RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Desert Visions, featuring impressionistic landscapes by Phyllis Magrane, continues through Wednesday, Dec. 5. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information. ART INSTITUTE OF TUCSON Art Institute of Tucson. 5099 E. Grant Road. 3182700. Mostly Magic, an exhibit of paintings by Al Tucci, former director of the UA School of Theatre Arts, continues through Friday, Jan. 11. Hours are from 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. ATLAS FINE ART SERVICES Atlas Fine Art Services. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 622-2139. Mission Digits, a performance by quasi Cum Aluminum dance, features a solo performance by Brandon Kodama, at 8 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; $10. THE ORIGIN OF VISION by means of naturally descriptive line and/or the preservation of the favoured mark within the creative process, VOLUME 1: DRAWING, an exhibit of works on paper by Karine Falleni, Jerry Jacobson and Andrew Polk, continues through Saturday, Nov. 24. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and by appointment Monday and Tuesday; free. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PAVILION GALLERY UA Medical Center South Campus. 2800 E. Ajo Way. 874-2000. Meditations, a series of large-scale abstract photographic works by Tucsonan Pete Trexler, continues through Monday, Nov. 26. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1:30 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free.

BRIDGE GALLERY Bridge Gallery. 5425 N. Kolb Road, No. 113. 5774537. A group show continues through Friday, Nov. 30. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit bridgegallery.net for more information. CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557. The End of Days?, an exhibit of works by artist and muralist David Tineo, continues through Saturday, Nov. 24. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY Davis Dominguez Gallery. 154 E. Sixth St. 629-9759. An exhibit of Josh Goldberg’s abstract paintings and works on paper, and Sabino Canyon, a joint exhibit of paintings by James Cook and bronzes by Mark Rossi, continue through Saturday, Dec. 29. 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.

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, where the gallery is housed; free. Visit pima.edu/cfa for more information. MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101. 615-3001. Tucson Homes and Gardens, an exhibit of paintings by Diana Madaras, continues through Friday, Nov. 30. A calendar show and signing takes place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 25. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit madaras.com for more information. MURPHEY GALLERY Murphey Gallery. St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Inspirations by the Abstract 5 continues through Tuesday, Dec. 4. Hours are 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday; free.

DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Desert Hues of Autumn, an exhibit of work by local artists, continues through Sunday, Nov. 25. 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 more information.

OBSIDIAN GALLERY Obsidian Gallery. 410 N. Toole Ave., No. 120. 5773598. Faces Down the Tracks, an exhibit of works in a range of media by four artists from the Citizens Artists Collective, continues through Sunday, Nov. 25. Hours are 11 a.m to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit obsidian-gallery.com for more information.

DRAGONFLY GALLERY Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Gallery. 146 E. Broadway Blvd. 628-3164. The Divine Feminine: A Three-Woman Exhibition continues from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, through Thursday, Jan. 10; free.

OLLI-UA FINE ART GALLERY University Services Annex Building. 220 W. Sixth St. 626-9039. Transforming Wilderness: Wildflower Portraiture by Roxanne Duke continues through Friday, Dec. 14. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free.

THE DRAWING STUDIO The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947. Small Wonders, a collection of affordable, original jewelry and works in two and three dimensions by faculty, associates, students and other artist friends, continues through Saturday, Dec. 15. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Proceeds benefit the studio’s youth, senior and scholarship programs. ETHERTON GALLERY Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. An exhibit of photographs by John Loengard, Ralph Gibson and Harry Callahan continues through Saturday, Jan. 5. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and by appointment; free. Visit ethertongallery.com for more information. THE IMAGE COLLECTOR GALLERY The Image Collector Gallery. 417 N. Fourth Ave. 9770267. A Glimpse Of Cuba, a collection of images taken by David Scott Moyer in four Cuban cities last April, continues from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., daily, through Monday, Dec. 31; free. The reception features Cuban music by Aaron Gilmartin and his Trio Guaguajiro. Visit “A Glimpse of Cuba” on Facebook for more information. JOEL D. VALDEZ MAIN LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Exhibits of Mel Dominguez’s paintings, the Quilters’ Guild Quilt Show and Thomas McDonnell’s mixed-media works continue through Friday, Nov. 30. Models That Tell a Story: The Art of Dioramas and Vignettes, an exhibit of various types of models, runs through Thursday, May 30, 2013. Library 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; free. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov for more information. JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY Joseph Gross Gallery. 1031 N. Olive Road, No. 108. 626-4215. Cheryl Molnar’s Subdivision #3, an installation exploring the paradox of suburban living, continues through Wednesday, Jan. 9. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Visit cfa.arizona.edu/ galleries for more information. KIRK-BEAR CANYON BRANCH LIBRARY Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. My Beautiful World: The Art of Jennifer Carr continues through Friday, Nov. 30; free. 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. KRIKAWA JEWELRY DESIGNS Krikawa Jewelry Designs. 4280 N. Campbell Ave., No. 107. 322-6090. A juried exhibition of one-of-a-kind jewelry by Tucson jewelry artists continues through Thursday, Jan. 31. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; free. LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery. PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6942. P.O.V.: Interpreting the Human Figure continues through Friday, Dec. 7. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday and Wednesday;

PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY AND STUDIO Philabaum Glass Gallery and Studio. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. The gallery celebrates the 50th anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement with Glass Pioneers, an exhibit of works by Micheal Nourot and Cynthia Miller, continuing through Friday, Nov. 30. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit philabaumglass.com for more info. QUANTUM ART GALLERY Quantum Art Gallery. 505 W. Miracle Mile, No. 2. 9077644. In Finem in Principio, an exhibit of works exploring the past and future by Nicole Carter and Clayton Schwarder, continues through Thursday, Nov. 29. Hours are 3 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. SHERATON HOTEL AND SUITES Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 3236262. Fall/Winter Fine Art Exhibit, featuring works by members of the Southern Arizona Arts Guild, continues through Sunday, April 7, 2013. The exhibit is open 24 hours, daily, on the first and second floors; free. TEMPLE GALLERY Temple Gallery. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. Toshi Ueshina: Photographs of the All Souls Procession continues through Tuesday, Nov. 27. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Call 622-2823, or e-mail info@ethertongallery.com for more information. THEE COLLECTION AGENCY Thee Collection Agency. 657 W. St. Mary’s Road, No. 6. (213) 453-2637. An exhibit of large-scale, abstractmodern collage works by Adam Rodriguez is displayed for sale through Friday, Nov. 30. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; free. TOHONO CHUL PARK Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Horse Country: Horses in the Southwest, depicting the role of horses in Southwestern history, and an exhibit of work by Tucsonan Wil Taylor run through Sunday, Jan. 20. The Mayan Calendar continues through Saturday, Feb. 9. Gallery hours are 9 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 for more information. TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL Pioneer Building. 100 N. Stone Ave. 207-5182. Navigations, an exhibition of work that engages the eye in visual exploration, closes Thursday, Jan. 10. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Call 624-0595, ext. 10, for more information. UA POETRY CENTER UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. From Here and Far Away: Artist’s Books, Pages and Paintings, a one-woman show featuring the work of Beata Wehr, continues through Friday, Dec. 7. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday and Thursday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit poetrycenter.arizona.edu for more information.

VELOCIPRINTS: BICYCLE-INSPIRED FINE ART Borderlands Brewing Company. 119 E. Toole Ave. 2618773. The Velociprint Show, a showcase of work by 25 artists who love cycling and the cycling lifestyle, continues through Friday, Nov. 30; free. Each print sells for $40. Also featured is Artheadz, an exhibit of artist-decorated bike helmets. A portion of all sales benefits nonprofit groups that promote cycling, including BICAS and El Grupo Youth Cycling. Regular hours are 4 to 7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday; and noon to 7 p.m., Saturday. Visit borderlandsbrewing.com for more information. WEE GALLERY Wee Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., No. 171. 360-6024. Big Appetites, an exhibit of new work by Mykl Wells, continues through Saturday, Nov. 24. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; free. WOMANKRAFT WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. The Holiday Bazaar continues through Saturday, Dec. 22. A reception takes place from 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1. Regular hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; free.

LAST CHANCE CONTENTS INTERIORS’ INVITATIONAL ART SHOW Contents Interiors. 3401 E. Fort Lowell Road. 8816900. An exhibit including work by Monte Surret, Perdita Andrews, Karen Phillips and several others including sculptors from the Metal Arts Village closes Friday, Nov. 16. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., daily. Visit contentsinteriors.com for more information. DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN LITTLE GALLERY DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun Little Gallery. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9191. Arizona: My Perspective, Contemporary and Vibrant, an exhibit of paintings by Tucson artist Alexandra Winslow, closes Friday, Nov. 16. She will be painting onsite daily. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; free. visit degrazia.org for more information. FLORENCE QUATER GALLERY Southwest University of Visual Arts Florence Quater Gallery. 2538 N. Country Club Road. 325-0123. Michael Cajero: Black Sites, an exhibit of sculpture inspired by the treatment of prisoners detained at secret sites in foreign countries, closes Wednesday, Nov. 21. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Visit suva.edu for more information. RAICES TALLER 222 ART GALLERY AND WORKSHOP Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335. Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead, an exhibit of personal tributes inspired by tradition, closes Saturday, Nov. 17. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday, and by appointment; free.

OUT OF TOWN BIOSPHERE 2 CENTER Biosphere 2 Center. 32540 S. Biosphere 2 Road. Oracle. 838-6200. The Art of All Possibilities opens with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, and continues through Thursday, Feb. 28. Reservations are requested for the reception; email rrp.artlab@gmail. com, and include the names of everyone in your party. The Art of All Possibilities is an interdisciplinary exhibition in which art relates to the scientific research, architecture and culture of Biosphere 2. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; $10 to $20. BISBEE CENTRAL SCHOOL PROJECT Bisbee Central School Project. 43 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-5347. Parallel Visions 1980 to 2012, a joint retrospective of Boyd Nicholl’s silver prints and Laurie Kintzele’s drawings, closes Sunday, Nov. 18. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday through Sunday; free. DOUGLAS ART GALLERY Douglas Art Gallery. 625 10th St. Douglas. (520) 364-6410. An exhibit of fiber works by members of the Bisbee Fiber Arts Guild continues through Friday, Nov. 30. Regular hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. PAINT OUT IN THE PARK Cienega Creek Natural Preserve. 16000 E. Marsh Station Road. Vail. Russ Recchion of the Tucson Plein Air Painters Society shares techniques for painting landscape scenes with artists age 12 and older, from 8 to 11 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima. gov for reservations and more information. SAM POE GALLERY Sam Poe Gallery. 24 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-5338. The Inside Outside Home and Garden Show, opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, and continues through Saturday, Dec. 15. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; free.

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SUBWAY GALLERY Subway Gallery. 30 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 4329143. Prints and Watercolor Landscapes, an exhibit of works by Pamela Blunt and Monte Surratt, continues through Thursday, Dec. 6. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday through Sunday; free. Visit subwaygallerybisbee.com for more information. TUBAC CENTER OF THE ARTS Tubac Center of the Arts. 9 Plaza Road. Tubac. (520) 398-2371. A juried exhibit of work by members of the center and a holiday art market open with a reception from 6 to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16, and continue through Sunday, Jan. 6. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and noon to 4:30 p.m., Sunday; free. TUBAC CENTER OF THE ARTS WORKSHOP Tubac Golf Resort and Spa. 1 Otero Road. Tubac. 3982211. Roberta Rogers leads a workshop, “Watercolor for Everyone,” from 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, Nov. 16; free. Call 398-2371 for more information. VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS GALLERY Ventana Medical Systems Gallery. 1910 E. Innovation Park Drive, Building No. 2. Oro Valley. 887-2155. An exhibit of two-dimensional work in a range of media, representing artists who are, or are inspired by, cancer survivors, continues through Friday, Jan. 4. Hours are by appointment. WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION KIVA GALLERY Western National Parks Association Kiva Gallery. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Southwestern-Flavored Art, an exhibit of prints of original works by Christiana Morgan, Eric Jabloner and Linda Ahearn, continues through Friday, Nov. 30. An artists’ reception takes place from 3:40 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 24. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except when lectures are being given; free. The gallery is closed for lectures from noon to 1 p.m., and from 2 to 3 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR ARTISTS BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. Submissions of art, jewelry or functional objects referencing bicycle-related topics or created from recycled bicycle parts and cycling gear are sought for ongoing commission-sales in the BICAS gallery. Work received by Monday, Nov. 26, is included in a benefit art auction Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1 and 2. Art should be ready to install, and may be dropped off at BICAS during business hours, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. CALL FOR ARTISTS Tucson Arts Brigade seeks artists to create work on 22-by-30-inch high-quality paper that will be provided. The finished works will be included in a traveling artshow fundraiser, and auctioned sometime in 2013. Artists receive promotion, plus 30 percent of the auction amount for their work. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Nov. 30. Email curator@tucsonartsbrigade.org, or visit tucsonartsbrigade.org for more guidelines and information. CALL FOR ARTISTS WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Submissions are sought for several upcoming exhibits. Deadlines are Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, for Scenes From the Trails We Travel, Saturday, Feb. 2, through Saturday, March 30, 2013; March 23, 2013, for Drawing Down the Muse, works by women, Saturday, April 6, through Saturday, May 25, 2013; and Saturday, June 22, 2013, for It’s All About the Buildings, Saturday, July 6, through Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Call for more information. DONATE ART SUPPLIES TO EMERGE! CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. In collaboration with Paperworks, BICAS collects card stock, plain and decorative papers, strong glue, markers, paints, brushes, rubber stamps and ink, stencils, scissors, embellishments, ribbons, buttons, stickers and anything else that would be good collage material for use by mothers and children at Emerge!, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. SOUTHWESTERN LEAGUE OF FINE ARTISTS Ward 6 City Council Office. 3202 E. First St. 791-4601. Speakers, demonstrations and conversations among artists are featured at meetings from 1 to 3 p.m., the third Monday of every month. Members’ works are exhibited at the Old Pueblo Grille and at other sites throughout the year. Any artist is welcome to join the group.

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ARIZONA HISTORY MUSEUM Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. 100 Years: 100 Quilts continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. The quilts, created for the state’s centennial, depict Arizona landscapes, cultures, historical places and unique events. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, $4 senior or age 12 through 18, free younger child. Visit arizonahistoricalsociety.org for more information.

ARIZONA 100: ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR THE CENTENNIAL UA Library Special Collections. 1510 E. University Blvd. 621-6423. Inspired by the state’s centennial, Arizona 100: Essential Books for the Centennial showcases 100 books that define the cultural, historical, environmental and political landscape of Arizona, from the Spanish Colonial era to the present, through Friday, Dec. 14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; free.

CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. An exhibit for the Arizona Centennial, Made in Arizona: Photographs From the Collection, which showcases 20th-century photographs, continues through Sunday, Nov. 25. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. Visit centerforcreativephotography.org.

AUTHORS’ EVENTS Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. Dawn Obrecht discusses and signs her book about recovery from addiction, From the Edge of the Cliff, from 4 to 5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16. Geoff Rod signs his mystery novel Denver Nights, from noon to 1 p.m.; Donna Grisanti signs her book Wandering Hearts from 1 to 2 p.m.; and Deborah Knox discusses and signs her Put Your Spirit to Work from 1 to 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free.

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. 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 more information. MINI-TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. Holiday decorations throughout the museum are unveiled on Tuesday, Nov. 20, and continue through Sunday, Jan. 6. Decor includes more than a dozen miniatures depicting holiday traditions, through history and around the world. Holiday musical performances and craft projects are also featured. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday; $9, $8 senior or military, $6 age 4 to 17, $6 adults Thursday through Dec. 27, free younger child. Visit theminitimemachine. org for more information. MOCA MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Vinjon Global Corp: Quietly Taking Over the World, featuring works by Hunter Jonakin and Jordan Vinyard, runs through Sunday, Dec. 2. An exhibit of Peter Young’s large-scale abstract paintings from the 1960s to the present continues through Sunday, Jan. 13. Regular gallery 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 . TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. The traditional holiday exhibit, El Nacimiento, opens Saturday, Nov. 17, and continues through Saturday, June 1, 2013, in the Casa Cordova. The Shape of Things: Four Decades of Paintings and Sculpture opens Saturday, Nov. 17, and continues through Sunday, Jan 6. Barbara Rogers: The Imperative of Beauty, a 50-year Retrospective runs through Sunday, Jan. 13. Henri Matisse: The Pasiphaé Series and Other Works on Paper runs through Sunday, Jan. 20. Art + the Machine runs through Sunday, July 14, 2013. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday; noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday; $10, $8 senior, $5 college student with ID, free age 18 or younger, active military or veteran with ID, and TMA members; free the first Sunday of every month. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org for more information.Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday; noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday; $10, $8 senior, $5 college student with ID, free age 18 or younger, active military or veteran with ID, and TMA members; free the first Sunday of every month. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org for more information. UA MUSEUM OF ART UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567. Broken Desert: Land and Sea, work by Heather Green, Greg Lindquist and Chris McGinnis that explores human impact on nature, continues through Sunday, March 3. An exhibit of drawings and prints from the UA Museum of Art’s permanent collection runs through Sunday, Jan. 6. In Relief: German Op-Art Ceramics continues through Sunday, Jan. 27. 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. Visit artmuseum.arizona.edu.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER: FLIGHT BEHAVIOR Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Barbara Kingsolver reads from her new novel, Flight Behavior, which addresses issues of social justice and demonstrates the impact of culture and politics on human relationships, at 7 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $20, $17.50 advance at inconcerttucson.com. Call 7923715, or email debbie@antigonebooks.com BILL CARTER: BOOM, BUST, BOOM MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Journalist and filmmaker Bill Carter discusses and signs his book Boom, Bust, Boom, about Arizona’s copper industry and its global effects, at 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; free. GECKO GALS SIGNING St. Francis Cabrini Church. 3201 E. Presidio Road. 326-7670. Carol Costa, Mary Ann Hutchison, Jude Johnson and Ashleen O’Gaea sign their latest books from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 17 and 18; free. Call 293-6373 for more information. GLORIA MCMILLAN: THE BLUE MAROON MURDER Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center. 1660 W. Ruthrauff Road. 887-9786. Gloria McMillan, who teaches at Pima Community College, discusses her mystery novel from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; free. LEVI FALLAVOLLITA: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE BULLIES Bookmans. 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-9555. Teenage author and activist Levi Fallavollita, author of Why a Boy Should Marry His Dog, signs his new book from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17. Sales from his previous book benefit Golden Retriever Rescue of Southern Arizona. LOCAL AUTHORS’ BOOK-SIGNING EVENT Cat Mountain Station. 2740 S. Kinney Road. 5788795. William Ascarza, Craig Suter, Jane McCuthein, Betty Johnson, Nancy Sousa and Jo Duncan sign their books from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; free. POG: POETRY IN ACTION The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947. POG presents a poetry reading by Kristi Maxwell of Tucson, Jennifer Bartlett of Oregon and New York, and Robert Grenier of Vermont, from 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; $5, $3 student. Call 615-7803 for more info. RICHARD FIELDS: A YEAR OF LIVING MINDFULLY Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Richard Fields discusses his book A Year of Living Mindfully: 52 Quotes and Weekly Mindfulness Practices at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; free. A Q&A and refreshments follow. SISTERS IN CRIME Viscount Suite Hotel. 4855 E. Broadway Blvd. 7456500. Susan Cummins Miller presents a workshop entitled Act II: Into the Belly of the Beast, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; $50, $45 member, includes lunch. Visit tucsonsistersincrime.org to register and for more information. THIRD WEDNESDAY FICTION GROUP Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. A group meets to discuss a work of fiction at 7 p.m., the third Wednesday of every month; free.

OUT OF TOWN THANKSGIVING FIESTA AND AUTHORS EVENT Singing Wind Bookshop. 700 W. Singing Wind Road. Benson. (520) 586-2425. Arizona authors, including Carolina C. Butler, author of the just-released Oral History of the Yavapai, are featured at an event including live music and refreshments, at 1 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; free. TUBAC PRESIDIO STATE HISTORIC PARK Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Talks take place at 2 p.m., Saturday; $7.50, $4.50 child age 7 through 13, free younger child, includes admission to the park. Nov. 17: Colleen MiniukSperry and Paul Gill give an illustrated presentation about their book Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers. Call or visit tubacpresidiopark.com. THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN ARIZONA Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Jennifer J. Stewart and Lynne Avril discuss how they created the picture book The Twelve Days of Christmas in Arizona, from concept to publication, at noon and 2 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 21; free. Reservations are required, but must be made no earlier than one week in advance; 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.

ANNOUNCEMENTS ABBETT BOOK CHOICES Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch Library. 7800 N. Schisler Drive. 594-5200. Members meet to discuss popular titles recommended by other group members, at 2 p.m., the third Wednesday of every month; free. CALL FOR WRITERS Submissions are sought for the 2013 Short Fiction Award offered by Kore Press. The winner receives a $1,000 cash prize and publication by Kore Press. Friday, Nov. 30, is the deadline for submission. Call 327-2127, or visit korepress.org for more guidelines. CALL FOR WRITERS The deadline is Saturday, Dec. 1, for a writing competition that offers cash prizes and scholarships to a March 2013 workshop on the UA campus. Authors of fiction, nonfiction and poetry compete for prizes of $250 to $1,000; all winners receive scholarships. Visit tucsonfestivalofbooksliteraryawards.submittable.com/ submit. GREAT LITERATURE OF ALL TIMES Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. A reading and discussion group meets from 10 a.m. to noon, on the third Thursday of every month; free. Information about each month’s selection is available at www.orovalleylib.com. Pick up the handout at the library in advance. MAIN LIBRARY BOOK CLUB Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. This group meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month; free. The selection for Nov. 15 is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Copies of each month’s reading selection are available at the first-floor information desk. Parking for two hours is validated for the lot below the library. Participants bring lunch. Call 791-4010 for more information. OMNIVOROUS READERS Sahuarita Branch Library. 725 W. Via Rancho Sahuarita. Sahuarita. 594-5490. Author Maurynne Maxwell leads a discussion on a mix of contemporary fiction and nonfiction at 10 a.m., on the third Saturday of every month; free. RIVER READERS BOOK CLUB Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. Adults read and discuss popular fiction titles recommended by group members at 6:30 p.m., on the third Tuesday of every month; free. SUMMER RESIDENCY AT THE POETRY CENTER UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Poets and prose-writers are invited to apply for a residency of two to four weeks between Saturday, June 1, and Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, in order to develop their work. Two residencies will be awarded, one in poetry, and one in prose. Writers stay in a guest house near the library and receive a stipend of $150 weekly. Guidelines for submissions are at poetry.arizona.edu.

UA POETRY CENTER READING UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. G.C. Waldrep reads poetry at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; free. Visit poetry.arizona.edu for more information.

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This volume on copper may be the most important book you’ll read all year

Miracle Metal BY JON SHUMAKER, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com oom, Bust, Boom: A Story About Copper, the Metal That Runs the World emerged from one of those “A ha!” moments, when you wake up one day and suddenly smell the coffee. Bill Carter is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer and journalist. Author of the extraordinary book Fools Rush In and producer of the heart-wrenching film Miss Sarajevo, he travels to some of the more hellish corners of the planet for his job. To stay grounded, he plants a garden in Bisbee, where he lives with his pregnant wife and small daughter. The garden is a tiny miracle of life. He and his daughter nurture the baby green plants to adulthood. It is a teaching moment, a chance to show the kid that all food doesn’t come from Safeway. His wife, skeptical in the manner of pregnant women, won’t touch the fresh produce. She doesn’t trust the dirt. And his daughter doesn’t like eating vegetables, just growing them. So Carter makes a salad and eats it. For two weeks, he scarfs down fistfuls of veggies, made all the better because they represent the honest work of his own two hands. One evening, he gets a headache and nausea. It worsens the next day. Soon, as he bends over with severe cramps, the diarrhea comes. He vomits over and over for a week. He forgets the garden, worrying instead about not having health insurance. Not long before, mining-giant Freeport-McMoRan had bought the assets of Phelps Dodge Corp., the one-time king of copper in Arizona, for $25 billion. The transaction included Bisbee’s Copper Queen Mine, 2,700 miles of underground tunnels beneath Bisbee and much of the land north and south of town. As part of the deal, Freeport McMoRan agreed to test and reclaim all of the contaminated soil in Bisbee. Months before, Carter had requested that his soil be tested—then promptly forgot about it. That is, until the results came in the mail while he recovered from his violent illness: The yard and its little garden patch were full of hazardous amounts of lead and arsenic. He had poisoned himself through healthy eating—eating local, as it were. Carter was aware that smelting had gone on just a quarter-mile from his house, bathing the entire town in toxic smoke for years—but the facility had shut down in

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2. I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats

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3. Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life With the Tree-Planting Tribe

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Charlotte Gill, Greystone ($16.95)

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4. The Best American Short Stories 2012

1908. Because he couldn’t actually see the poisons, he had allowed himself to believe that they simply weren’t there anymore. There is talk of Freeport McMoRan reopening the mine. Such a move would dramatically alter Bisbee’s ecological, cultural and geological landscape. Carter suddenly realizes there is much he doesn’t know about his town, about copper mining and how mining impacts mining communities. More troubling, he worries about his young family, and whether the place they had chosen to put down roots might ultimately sicken or even kill them. From all of this comes perhaps the most important book you will read this year—an intensely readable and fascinating biography of copper and the world it has created, for better and for worse. Copper is a magical metal. It has an array of physical properties that make it incredibly useful and vital to human commerce and society. It is a key element in our various technologies. Carter becomes a copper fanatic, an obsessive. He is our tour guide, walking us through history and around the world to bring us the story of this most important of metals. But he wraps the bigger tale around his own personal story and that of Arizona. Not a dull academic book, it is a personal journey through a copper-tinged landscape, with a narrative that shines like a new penny. The smallest details are fascinating. Copper looms large in the history of Arizona, and it plays a key role in the world economy. It affects all of us daily. This metal is perhaps the one mineral responsible for what we call civilization. Yet looming behind all our shiny electronic baubles is environmental devastation on a massive scale. Rosemont will indeed destroy the Santa Ritas—but are you willing to give up your iPhone? Your plasma TV? Air conditioning? Every day, we are faced with this dilemma: We love where we live, yet we kill the places we love in order to support the way we live. Copper is the perfect metal. Bill Carter has told a perfect story. If you want to understand the big fuss about copper mining, read this book.

Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle ($12.95)

Edited by Tom Perrotta, Mariner ($14.95)

5. The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, Haymarket ($16)

6. The Best American Comics 2012 Edited by Françoise Mouly, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($25)

7. Illusionology Albert D. Schafer, Candlewick ($19.99)

8. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 Edited by Dave Eggers, Mariner ($14.95)

9. Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story About Copper, the Metal That Runs the World Bill Carter, Scribner ($26)

10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky, MTV ($14)

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‘DISCOVER ART’ LECTURE SERIES Woods Memorial Branch Library. 3455 N. First Ave. 5945445. Docents from the UA Museum of Art lecture from 2 to 3 p.m., the third Friday of every month; free. Nov. 16: “The Retablo of Ciudad Rodrigo,” Johanna Stein. ‘KNOWLEDGE IS POWER’ SEMINARS Pima County Tucson Women’s Commission. 240 N. Court Ave. 624-8318. The Tucson Women’s Commission hosts free workshops from 7 to 8 p.m., Thursday. Nov. 15: “Know Your U.S. Constitution: Our Founding Documents, Our First Words,” Bunny Davis, attorney, and Women’s Commission chair Alison Hughes. Dec. 6: “How to Start Your Own Small Business,” Lucinda Hughes-Juan, specialist in business development and cultural dynamics. Call 881-0917 to register. STEVE HAYDEN: DIGGING KEET SEEL La Parilla Suiza. 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300. Steve Hayden presents “Digging Keet Seel: Julian Hayden’s 1934 Diary,” about the excavation of an Anasazi cliff village, at a no-host dinner from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; free presentation. The event is part of the lecture series, Third Thursday Food for Thought, hosted by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. TERRIL SHORB: HEALING THE WHOLE WORLD Prescott College/Tucson Center. 2233 E. Speedway Blvd. 319-9868. Terril Shorb, founder of Prescott College’s Sustainable Community Development Program, and research partner Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb discuss apparent healing effects of even small doses of nature in urban settings, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; free. RSVP is requested. Call to RSVP and for more information. TOM MCDONALD: LIFE, DEATH AND REDEMPTION IN THE GRAND CANYON Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Tom McDonald, docent instructor at Tohono Chul Park and adjunct instructor in physiology at Pima Community College, discusses his hike along the treacherous Lava Falls route, and his two days stranded at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; free.

OUT OF TOWN DR. JOHN COBB: AUDITORY DEPRIVATION The Olive Bistro. 514 E. Madera Canyon Drive, No. 100. Green Valley. 393-3431. Dr. John Cobb discusses how hearing loss erodes quality of life and undermines family relations, and he offers suggestions to help prevent gradual loss of the brain’s ability to process auditory information, from 9 to 11 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; free. Call 648-3277 for more information. DRAGOON BUTTERFIELD STATE STATION AND COCHISE STRONGHOLD TOUR Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Popular lecturer Jack Lasseter conducts a tour of key sites in the history of Apaches under Cochise, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; $150, $135 member of the Western National Parks Association. Call to reserve a space. Reservations are required, but must be made no earlier than one week in advance; 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 a schedule of talks, directions or more info. JACK LASSETER: THE COMING OF THE SPANISH Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Jack Lasseter tells the story of the Spanish presidio system on the northern frontier of New Spain, including the Presidio de Tubac, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; $25 includes wine and hors d’oeuvres. Proceeds benefit Save the Presidio. Call for reservations. LIFE AND TIMES OF WALTER VAIL Empire Ranch. Highway 83 between mileposts 39 and 40, north of Sonoita. Van Fowers tells the story of the short, eventful life of Walter Vail, one of the original owners of the vast Empire Ranch in Southern Arizona, from 1 to 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; free, but reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations and more info. WENDELL WILSON: THE HISTORY OF MINERAL ART Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Tucson scientist and artist Wendell Wilson gives an illustrated presentation including photographs of famous mineral specimens and of his art work and mining artifacts, at 1 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; $10, $5 member of the Tubac Historical Society. Call 398-2020, or email info@ths-tubac.org for reservations and info.

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JAR OF RAW HONEY FROM HOLLY’S LITTLE FARM Available at Rincon Market, Aqua Vita and Caravan Foods 461-3632; hollyslittlefarm.com If you haven’t experienced raw honey before, the time has come. Holly’s Little Farm makes some excellent honey, and it’s way more natural and a lot better for you than the store-bought variety. Raw honey is the concentrated nectar of flowers. It’s honey as it is found in the beehive, or as it is obtained through extraction. Basically, it’s as natural as natural gets. GG2 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

The types of honey available from HLF depend on the time of year. There is a desert blend and a mesquite blend, as well as spring and summer honeys. Raw honey is great for baking (which is a big deal this time of year), for use as a spread, or as a sweetener in coffee or tea. It’s also naturally great for digestion. So if you eat too much stuffing, try a little bit of honey and ginger. Just sayin’. This year, send a little love from the Arizona bees. SHARE LOVE GIFT BASKET Kuumba Made 410 E. Fort Lowell Road 881-5550; kuumbamade.com Kuumba Made products are so cool that they’re sold nationally—but did you know they are actually made in Tucson? The location on Fort Lowell is not only the packaging facility, but also a retail outlet. You can buy a whole range of Kuumba Made products there, including lotions, fragrances and other treats. Kuumba Made merchandise is all-natural. When you buy something from Kuumba Made, you’re not buying artificial colors and scents; you’re buying products made from ingredients that actually come from the planet. Kuumba Made uses a variety of herbs, plant extracts, resins and oils in its merchandise. Because it has so many great products, we recommend putting together a Share Love gift basket. You can call to order, or head down to the store in person to pick the items for your personalized basket. If you are going to buy a

Share Love basket, though, know that something like this will take a bit longer to put together. So plan ahead if you need it by a certain date. Kuumba Made exemplifies the kind of quality you expect from Tucson-produced goodies.

SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE COFFEE BEANS eXo Roast Co. 403 N. Sixth Ave. 777-4709; www.exocoffee.com eXo Roast Co. recently opened its doors at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Seventh Street, but the company is already making a name for itself by roasting some of the best coffee in town. These folks don’t fool around when it comes to java; they roast their beans in small batches in a gas-heated, cast-iron roaster to bring out a lot of flavor. eXo buys high-quality beans from growers around the world, but social responsibility comes first and foremost. eXo wants to be sure it is supporting growers that have environmentally friendly practices and fair-trade ethics. The roasts represent different coffeegrowing regions of the world, from Ethiopia to Guatemala. The beans available for purchase change on a weekly basis. eXo’s most-exclusive roast features beans from Kenya. The beans come from a farmer who is fastidious when it comes to quality control. Consequently, the yields from his farm are small, and sell for a higher price. Any coffee connoisseur would love to receive a bag o’ beans for the holidays. And what’s better

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BUILD YOUR OWN CANDLE BASKET Rustic Candle Co. 324 N. Fourth Ave. 623-2880; www.rusticcandle.net The Rustic Candle Co. has been offering lovely handcrafted scented candles to the masses for years. In fact, it’s a purveyor of fine scents in general: The store also carries incense and sage. Gift baskets are available, and there’s free wrapping, so why not have fun choosing a basket full of glorious aromas? With scents like “Heartthrob” and “Boyfriend’s Jacket,” you could even get a theme going. All the candles are hand-poured and made in small batches, so each one is a unique creation with a handsome, homemade look. Plus, they’ll probably make your house smell better than a can of air freshener would. Rustic Candle also has candle holders, plates, incense burners and wall sconces. When it gets chilly outside, there’s nothing quite like lighting some candles and relaxing in their glow. NOT SO GRINGO SALSA Available at Food Conspiracy Co-op, Rincon Market, and Dickman’s Meat and Deli 624-4821 (Food Conspiracy) Fair warning: Be wary of this salsa. During the first few bites, it seems sweet, tangy, salty and downright pleasant. It lulls you into a false sense of security: It will burn your tongue and make

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THE TIME HAS COME AGAIN TO review some of the most-promising CD boxed sets hitting the shelves. The cynics among us decry the act of repackaging old music in pretty new boxes, while music buffs drool over rarities, outtakes and remastered classic albums. That said, here is simply a sampling of the best new boxed sets on the market. Whatever your tastes, you’re likely to find something out there. Get ready, get set and shop for the best deals. While some of these collections have hefty price tags, if you search for the right deals online, you might discover some ridiculously low sale prices. Most of the prices shown are taken from Amazon.com as of our press deadline. Let’s dispense with the prosaic intro—and get to the goodies.

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VIRGIN; 18 CDs, 3 DVDs; $175.70

LEGACY; 63 CDs; $255.99

If you’re surprised that this ’90s Britpop band has enough material for 18 CDs, you’re not alone. But just in time for the 21st anniversary of the release of their debut, Leisure, here it is: all seven studio albums, as well as more than five hours of previously unreleased material, three DVDs and a collectible book. There’s even a limited-edition, 7-inch vinyl single with a song that the band recorded under its original name, Seymour. It’s actually too much to list. Bandleader Damon Albarn has gone on to form such interesting groups as Gorillaz; Mali Music; The Good, the Bad and the Queen; and, most recently, Rocketjuice and the Moon. But here, you can hear his not-too-shabby beginnings.

This massive boxed set includes the Man in Black’s complete recorded output for Columbia Records, from 1958’s The Fabulous Johnny Cash, which featured his first No. 1 single, “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town,� to Highwayman 2 (released in 1990), his second collaboration with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. Naturally, there’s

a big ol’ color booklet with meticulous documentation and liner notes, but the emphasis here is on Cash’s music: from country and Western, gospel, blues and rockabilly, to folk and traditional ballads. Also included are two new singles compilations: the 28-song album Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar, and the 55-track The Singles, Plus. Cash may have recorded some weaker material at certain points in his career, but as a body of work, this is the latest Holy Grail in recorded music.

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Pendergrass, the Jacksons, Lou Rawls and many others. The package includes a 60-page booklet with sleeve notes and track details by archivist Ralph Tee. There’s a reason why an entire genre has been called Philly soul, and the music here constitutes Exhibit A. Initial reviews say this boxed set tops previous similar collections for sheer volume.

ously unavailable on CD. Audiophiles will want to know that these versions used flat transfers from the original analog master tapes rather than the 1999 digital re-masters. Sounding as much like the original LPs as possible, this set will allow you to imagine how shockingly new Roxy’s music must have sounded in the context of pop music 40 years ago.

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SMITHSONIAN/FOLKWAYS; 3 CDs; $63.98

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SONY LEGACY; 1 CD, 1 DVD; $16.08

Maybe you heard about this set from the flood of publicity that heralded its release last summer to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the folk legend’s birth. This 57-song set documents the work of one of the most important and influential singersongwriters of the last century (he died in 1967), touching just the tip of a 3,000-song iceberg. The beautifully bound, 154-page book features art essays. The music includes some of his earliest recordings, some rare radio shows, 21 previously unreleased performances and six never-beforeheard original songs. Many kids learn “This Land Is Your Land” in school, but Guthrie was way more than that. Folk music—indeed, all music—would not have been what it is today without him.

Can any of us really imagine Paul Ryan getting into “Killing in the Name” or “Take the Power Back” from Rage’s amazing, incendiary debut album? Released in 1992, this exclamatory album showed Rage to be among the pioneers in blending hip-hop, hard rock and protest music in one package, which, by the way, sounds as dynamic and innovative as it did 20 years ago. It has been preserved in all its “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” glory on this new set, which features a remastered edition of the original, commercial version of the album, a CD with the original demos for the album, two live DVDs, and an audiophile’s wet dream of a 180-gram vinyl version of it. If your pocketbook can’t handle the price tag, scaled-down versions are available.

The unprecedented meeting of Simon’s ageless pop and the sounds of South African musicians such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo (not to forget a guest appearance by Tucson homegirl Linda Ronstadt) yielded this Grammy-winning

ska will come flooding back. A total of 79 tracks are spread across these five discs. Included are remasters and expanded versions of the band’s three studio albums, two extras discs full of 12-inch mixes and dubs, some Peel Sessions, and four cuts recorded live in Boston in November 1982.

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Heart Strange Euphoria EPIC LEGACY; 4 CDs, 1 DVD; $34.99

Ann and Nancy Wilson, rock ’n’ roll’s best sister act—who released a brand-new album this year as well—may have experienced ups and downs throughout their 36-year career, but enjoying the highs always has been worth enduring the lows. This boxed set is way more than simply a repackaging of the hits: It’s the first multi-label, career-spanning compendium for the band, jam-packed with album and demo versions of familiar hits (so you can compare and contrast), rarities, live tracks and outtakes. The DVD is a 55-minute live performance of the young band in 1976 (around the time I developed a crush on both sisters). There are tracks representing the preHeart group Ann Wilson and the Daybreaks, and the Wilsons’ late-period side project, the Lovemongers. The fourth CD is an EP compiling Heart’s uncanny Led Zeppelin covers.

1986 album. Here is a remastered version of the album, which includes such unforgettable hits as “The Boy in the Bubble,” “You Can Call Me Al,” “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” and the title track. Also included is a DVD of the documentary Under African Skies, directed by Joe Berlinger, about the making-of and the controversy surrounding the album. You can also buy assorted, more-elaborate editions with more C CDs, more DVDs, more booklets and vinyl. This one’s a d deal, though.

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TOP TEN Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending Nov. 11, 2012

BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com kyfall is my all-time-favorite Bond movie. Mind you, this is coming from a guy who didn’t really get it when it came to James Bond. I’ve warmed up to him over the years, but I used to hate him. The first time I witnessed Bond in action was as a boy, seeing Sean Connery use a bikini top to choke her in Diamonds Are Forever. This act scared the shit out of me, and made me think Bond was some sort of bad guy. (I had similar childbrain confusion with Robert Shaw’s Quint in Jaws … he was just so mean.) When I was “coming of age,” so to speak, Bond got silly, with Roger Moore and stuff like Moonraker and Octopussy. I turned my adolescent attention to the likes of Star Wars, Rocky and The Pink Panther movies. It wasn’t until Pierce Brosnan took over the franchise that I started to think the enterprise was OK. Then, I went back and watched the Sean Connery films, and realized those were actually a lot of fun. Sean Connery’s Bond was a misogynist, but he wasn’t a bad guy. Which brings me to Daniel Craig (after skipping over George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton … hey, I have a limited word count). Craig IS James Bond to me at this point. He’s made three Bonds in a row that I can tolerate—and Skyfall is a showstopper. It has a Bond villain that I count as the most memorable since, say, the goofy Jaws guy with the teeth from the Moore era. Javier Bardem plays Silva, a former agent who has a major bug up his ass regarding M (the awesome Judi Dench). His first meeting with a tied-up Bond is perhaps Bond’s best meeting ever with one of his adversaries. It’s also perhaps the most erotic, which took me a bit by surprise. Bardem relishes a good bad-guy role, as he proved in his Oscar-winning turn in No Country for Old Men. He’s a genuinely funny and nasty creep. Skyfall has stunts and chases that had me fully engaged. When Bond faces off with an assassin atop a moving train crossing over a series of bridges and going through tunnels, it amounts to the year’s best action sequence … and that’s before the opening credits. Those credits, by the way, are a series of astonishing visuals set to a beautiful Bond song—the title track delivered by Adele. As the opening credits played out, I was hooked already, and it only got better from there. This one comes courtesy of director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road), and it’s clear that he has a tremendous amount of love and respect for the icon.

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9. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted Paramount Daniel Craig in Skyfall. While the movie gives us an older and arguably dated Bond, it also shows us that a man who is good with a gun and popular with the ladies might win out over megabytes after all. As for the ladies, there are a few, and they don’t register as much as past Bond women. Naomie Harris is on hand as Eve, a fellow agent and sharpshooter. Harris is fine, and she shares an interesting shaving sequence with Bond, but she doesn’t make an indelible impression. Maybe it’s because she should’ve been called Serenity Bottoms or some other naughty name. Those tend to stick. Bérénice Marlohe plays Sévérine, a girl with a tough past—and an even tougher future. She’s fine, but again, she doesn’t truly register. The one lady who makes a big impression this time out is Dench’s M, who shares a funny, sometimes caustic and somehow sweet, motherly relationship with Bond. This movie pulls her into the plot more than past efforts (including those with Brosnan; she’s been around for a while). Mendes offers some great odes to past Bonds, including a sweet Aston Martin and some funny wordplay. By the time Bond faces off with Silva in the film’s finale, we get a true sense of vintage Bond as much as future Bond. There’s also some typical product placement, including pitches for Cadillac, Heineken and, surprisingly, Sony VAIO. The film’s new and

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Rated PG-13 Starring Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris and Judi Dench

Michelle Williams in Take This Waltz.

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much-younger Q (Ben Whishaw) is seen prominently using a Sony laptop. I found this relatively implausible. Those things freeze up way too much for a high-level British agent to be utilizing one during a tense good-versus-evil showdown. I had one once, and it met its demise by being smashed on the corner of my coffee table after one too many blue screens of death. This dark, brooding and somewhat deep Bond is a Bond I’m more interested in as a moviegoer. No more choking girls with a bikini top unless they’re brandishing a broken bottle as a weapon or something! Bond has evolved over the years, while staying true to his origins. In Skyfall, he’s actually at his most mature … and his most badass. NOVEMBER 15 - 21, 2012

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FILM TIMES Film times reflect the most current listings available as of Tuesday evening, with screenings beginning on Friday for most opening titles. As schedules at individual theaters frequently change post-press, we recommend calling ahead to avoid any inconvenience.

AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. Call for Wed film times Argo (R) Thu 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20; Fri-Tue 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Chasing Mavericks (PG) ends Thu 1:30, 7:05 Cloud Atlas (R) Thu 4:35, 8:15; Fri-Tue 5:45, 9:30 Flight (R) Thu 11:15, 1:30, 2:30, 4:35, 5:35, 7:55, 11; Fri-Tue 10:05, 11:45, 1:10, 3:25, 4:15, 6:30, 7:30, 9:40, 10:35 Here Comes the Boom (PG) ends Thu 2:10 Hotel Transylvania (PG) Thu 2:30; Fri-Tue 1:15, 3:30 Hotel Transylvania 3D (PG) ends Thu 12:15, 4:45 Life of Pi (PG) Wed 12:01 a.m. Life of Pi 3D (PG) Wed 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Lincoln (PG-13) Fri-Wed 10, 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 11 The Man With the Iron Fists (R) Thu 1, 3:25, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30; FriTue 10:25, 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Paranormal Activity 4 (R) ends Thu 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 Pitch Perfect (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40; Fri-Tue 10:55, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Red Dawn (PG-13) Wed 12:01 a.m.; Wed 10:15, 12:40, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:25 Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (R) Thu 7 Silver Linings Playbook (R) Wed 12:01 a.m.; Wed 10:20, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10 Sinister (R) ends Thu 4:25, 9:50 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 3:15, 6:30; FriSat 10:45, 1:55, 5:05, 8:15, 11:30; Sun-Mon 10:45, 1:55, 5:05, 8:15; Tue 10:45, 1:55, 5:05, 8:15, 11:30 Skyfall: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 11; FriTue 9:45, 12:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 Taken 2 (PG-13) Thu 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15; Fri-Mon 10:15, 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55; Tue 10:15, 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35 Twilight Saga Marathon (Not Rated) ends Thu 11:30 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12:01, 12:15, 12:45; Fri-Sat 10, 10:30, 11, 11:55, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11:45; Sun-Mon 10, 10:30, 11,

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11:55, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Tue 10, 10:30, 11, 11:55, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; Wed 10, 1, 4, 7, 10 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11:35, 2:10, 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:25, 9:05, 10:15; Fri-Sat 10:30, 11:30, 2:10, 3:40, 4:45, 7:25, 8:50, 10, 11:30; Sun-Tue 10:30, 11:30, 2:10, 3:40, 4:45, 7:25, 8:50, 10 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (PG) Thu 1:10; Fri-Tue 1:05, 6:15

Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 902. Call for Wed film times Argo (R) Thu 11:15, 2, 4:50, 7:35; Fri-Tue 11:15, 2, 4:45, 7:30, 10:25 Cloud Atlas (R) Thu 11:35, 3:15, 6:55; FriTue 11:35, 3:15, 6:55, 9:30 Double Feature: The Twilight Saga (Not Rated) ends Thu 7:30 Flight (R) Thu 11:20, 12:30, 2:30, 3:45, 7, 10:15; Fri-Tue 12:10, 3:45, 7:05, 10:10 Hotel Transylvania (PG) ends Thu 11:50 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu 12:01; Fri-Tue 11:15, 12:20, 2:35, 3:40, 5:55, 7:10, 9:20, 10:30; Wed 12:20, 3:40, 7:10, 10:30 Looper (R) Thu 11:25, 2:15, 5; Fri 11:25, 5, 10:25; Sat 11:25, 5; Sun-Tue 11:25, 5, 10:25 The Man With the Iron Fists (R) Thu 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30; Fri-Tue 10:40 The Perks of Being a Wallflower (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35; Fri-Tue 11:55, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Pitch Perfect (PG-13) Thu 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50; Fri-Tue 11:50, 2:30, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 The Sessions (R) Thu 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 7:15; Fri-Tue 11:20, 1:55, 4:20, 7:15, 9:45 Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (R) ends Thu 11:40, 2, 4:30, 6:55 Sinister (R) Thu 2:25, 5:10; Fri 2:25, 7:45; Sat 2:25; Sun-Tue 2:25, 7:45 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6, 7, 9:15, 10:15; Fri-Sun 10:20, 11:20, 12:30, 1:30, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6, 7, 8, 9:15, 10:15; Mon-Tue 11:20, 12:30, 1:30, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6, 7, 8, 9:15, 10:15; Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:15 Taken 2 (PG-13) ends Thu 11:45, 2:10, 4:40 To Kill a Mockingbird (Not Rated) Thu 2, 7 Twilight Saga Marathon (Not Rated) ends Thu 12 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 10, 10:15, 10:30, 10:45, 11, 11:15, 11:30, 11:45, 12:01; Fri-Sat 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12, 12:40, 1:20, 1:50, 2:20, 2:50, 3:30, 4:10, 4:40, 5:10, 5:40, 6:20, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:10, 9:50, 10:20, 10:50, 11, 11:10, 11:20;

Sun 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12, 12:40, 1:20, 1:50, 2:20, 2:50, 3:30, 4:10, 4:40, 5:10, 5:40, 6:20, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:10, 9:50, 10:20, 10:50; Mon-Tue 11, 11:30, 12, 12:40, 1:20, 1:50, 2:20, 2:50, 3:30, 4:10, 4:40, 5:10, 5:40, 6:20, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:10, 9:50, 10:20, 10:50; Wed 11, 12, 1:20, 1:50, 2:50, 4:10, 4:40, 5:40, 7, 7:30, 8:30, 9:50, 10:20 UFC 154: St-Pierre vs. Condit (Not Rated) Sat 8 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11:30, 12:20, 1:20, 2:10, 4, 4:50, 5:40, 6:40, 7:25, 9:20; Fri-Sun 10:35, 11:25, 12:20, 1:15, 2:10, 4, 4:50, 5:45, 6:40, 7:25, 10; Mon-Tue 11:25, 12:20, 1:15, 2:10, 4, 4:50, 5:45, 6:40, 7:25, 10; Wed 11:25, 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (PG) Thu 3; Fri-Tue 3, 8:20

Century Gateway 12 770 N. Kolb Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 962. Call for Tues and Wed film times Alex Cross (PG-13) FriSat 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05; Sun-Mon 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:45; Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40; SunMon 12:50, 3:45, 6:45 Brave (PG) Thu 12, 2:30, 7:25; Fri-Sat 12, 2:30, 7:25, 10; Sun-Mon 12, 2:30, 7:25 Brave 3D (PG) Thu-Mon 4:55 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu-Mon 12:10, 3:35, 7 End of Watch (R) Thu 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45; Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; SunMon 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 12:30, 3, 5:25, 7:50; Fri-Sat 12:30, 5:20, 10:10; Sun-Mon 12:30, 5:20 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30; Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:35, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55; Sun-Mon 12:15, 2:35, 5:10, 7:30 House at the End of the Street (PG-13) ends Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:40, 7:15; Fri-Sat 12:25, 2:40, 7:15, 9:30; SunMon 12:25, 2:40, 7:15 Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D (PG) Thu-Mon 5 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20; Fri-Sat 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45; Sun-Mon 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 12:05, 2:20, 7:10; FriSat 12:05, 2:20, 7:10, 9:35; Sun-Mon 12:05, 2:20, 7:10 ParaNorman 3D (PG) ThuMon 4:45 The Possession (PG-13) ends Thu 2:55 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Thu 12:35, 7:35; Fri-

Mon 3, 7:50 Resident Evil: Retribution 3D (R) ends Thu 5:10 Seven Psychopaths (R) Fri-Sat 12, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05; Sun-Mon 12, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35 Trouble With the Curve (PG-13) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 7:05; Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:50, 7:05, 9:50; SunMon 12:45, 3:50, 7:05

Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Call for Tues and Wed film times Argo (R) Thu 11:05, 1:55, 4:50, 7:40; Fri-Mon 10:20, 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Cloud Atlas (R) Thu 12, 3:50, 7:30; Fri-Mon 10:10, 4:50 Double Feature: The Twilight Saga (Not Rated) ends Thu 7:30 Flight (R) Thu 1, 4:20, 7:35; Fri-Mon 10:15, 1:25, 4:40, 7:50 Fun Size (PG-13) ends Thu 12:25 Here Comes the Boom (PG) Thu 11:20, 2; FriMon 11:05, 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Hotel Transylvania (PG) Thu 11:30, 2:05, 4:30; Fri-Mon 12, 2:30, 5:05 Life of Pi 3D (PG) Wed 12:01 a.m. Lincoln (PG-13) Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:35, 6:55, 10:15; Mon 11, 12:15, 3:35, 6:55, 10:15 The Man With the Iron Fists (R) Thu 11:35, 12:50, 2:10, 3:25, 4:45, 5:55, 7:20; Fri-Mon 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Paranormal Activity 4 (R) ends Thu 2:55, 5:20, 7:50 Pitch Perfect (PG-13) Thu 1:50; Fri 10:50, 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05; Sat 10:50, 1:40, 5:15; Sun 10:50, 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05; Mon 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 Red Dawn (PG-13) Wed 12:01 a.m. Rise of the Guardians (PG) Wed 12:01 a.m. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (R) ends Thu 5:35 Silver Linings Playbook (R) Wed 12:01 a.m. Sinister (R) ends Thu 11:10 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 11, 11:50, 12:40, 1:30, 2:25, 3:15, 4:05, 4:55, 5:50, 6:40, 7:30, 8:20, 9:15, 10:05; Fri-Mon 10:45, 11:35, 12:25, 1:15, 2:05, 2:55, 3:45, 4:35, 5:25, 6:15, 7:10, 7:55, 8:45, 9:35, 10:25 Taken 2 (PG-13) Thu 11:40, 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45; Fri-Mon 11:25, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:15 To Kill a Mockingbird (Not Rated) Thu 2 Twilight Saga Marathon (Not Rated) ends Thu 12 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 10, 10:15, 10:30, 10:45, 11, 11:15, 11:30, 11:45, 12:01; Fri-Sat 10, 10:30, 11, 11:40, 12:20, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:40, 3:20, 4, 4:30, 5, 5:40, 6:20, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:40, 9:20, 10, 10:30,

11; Sun-Mon 10, 10:30, 11, 11:40, 12:20, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:40, 3:20, 4, 4:30, 5, 5:40, 6:20, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:40, 9:20, 10, 10:30; Tue 10, 1, 4, 7; Wed 10, 1, 4, 7, 10 UFC 154: St-Pierre vs. Condit (Not Rated) Sat 8 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11:15, 12:35, 1:55, 3:20, 4:35, 6, 7:15; FriMon 10:55, 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (PG) Thu 11:55, 1:25, 2:35, 4:15, 5:15, 7, 7:55, 9:40; Fri-Mon 10:05, 12:55, 2:10, 3:40, 6:35, 8:50, 9:25

Brave (PG) Thu 11:40, 2 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 9:10 End of Watch (R) Thu 11:45, 2:15, 7:10, 9:40 Farewell, My Queen (R) Thu 2:25, 7:20 Hope Springs (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 1:50, 7 House at the End of the Street (PG-13) Thu 9:35 The Intouchables (R) Thu 4:50 Killer Joe (Not Rated) Thu 4:20, 6:45, 9:20 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 4:40 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 12:10 Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Thu 9:55 Trouble With the Curve (PG-13) Thu 12, 2:35, 5, 7:30

Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Fox Tucson Marketplace 12155 N. Oracle Road. Theatre 800-326-3264, ext. 899. Call for Wed film times Alex Cross (PG-13) ends Thu 11:20, 2:05, 4:45, 7:15 Argo (R) Thu 10:45, 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15; Fri-Tue 10:45, 1:35, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Cloud Atlas (R) Thu 11:10, 3, 6:50; Fri-Tue 11:10, 3, 6:45, 10:30 Double Feature: The Twilight Saga (Not Rated) ends Thu 7:30 Flight (R) Thu-Tue 12:40, 3:55, 7:10, 10:25 Here Comes the Boom (PG) Thu 11, 3:40; FriTue 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Lincoln (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Tue 12:05, 3:30, 6:50, 10:20 The Man With the Iron Fists (R) ends Thu 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45 The Sessions (R) Fri-Tue 12, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 10:40, 12:20, 2, 3:40, 5:20, 7, 8:40, 10:20; Fri-Tue 10:40, 12:20, 2, 3:40, 5:20, 7, 8:40, 10:15 Taken 2 (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:30, 4:55; Fri 11:50, 2:30, 4:55, 7:15, 9:50; Sat 11:50, 2:30; Sun-Tue 11:50, 2:30, 4:55, 7:15, 9:50 To Kill a Mockingbird (Not Rated) Thu 2, 7 Twilight Saga Marathon (Not Rated) ends Thu 12 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 10, 10:30, 11:30, 12:01; Fri-Tue 10:30, 11:55, 1:30, 2:55, 4:30, 5:55, 7:30, 8:55, 10:25 UFC 154: St-Pierre vs. Condit (Not Rated) Sat 8 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11:05, 1:55, 4:40, 10:05; Fri-Tue 11:05, 4:40, 10 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (PG) Thu 7:30; Fri-Tue 1:55, 7:20

Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. Call for Fri-Wed film times Arbitrage (R) Thu 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 4:10, 9:30

17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (PG) Fri-Sat 7:30

Gallagher Theater UA Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd. 626-0370. Call for films and times

Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 806-4275. Call for Wed film times Argo (R) Thu 10:30, 1:20, 4; Fri-Tue 10:20, 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Cloud Atlas (R) ends Thu 11:20, 3:20, 7:10 Flight (R) Thu 11:35, 12:35, 2:55, 3:55, 6:05, 9:15; Fri-Sat 12:10, 3:45, 7:10, 10:45; SunTue 12:10, 3:45, 7:10, 10:40 Frankenweenie (PG) ends Thu 11:30, 4:10 Fun Size (PG-13) Thu 1:50, 6:30; Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:10, 5:40 Here Comes the Boom (PG) Thu 11:15, 1:45, 4:15; Fri-Mon 11:40, 2:20, 5:10, 7:50; Tue 10:10, 1:15, 4:10 Hotel Transylvania (PG) Thu 11:45, 2:10, 4:40, 7:15; Fri-Tue 10:15, 12:45, 3:15 Lincoln (PG-13) Fri-Sat 11:50, 3:20, 6:50, 10:20; Sun-Tue 11:50, 3:20, 6:50, 10:15 Little Red Wagon (Not Rated) ends Thu 3:45 The Man With the Iron Fists (R) Thu 10:55, 1:25, 4:05, 6:40, 9:10; Fri-Tue 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:05 Paranormal Activity 4 (R) Thu 1:30, 8:30; Fri-Tue 8:10, 10:35 Planes, Trains and Automobiles (R) Tue 7 Silent Hill: Revelation (R) Fri-Sat 10:25; Sun-Tue 10:20 Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (R) ends Thu 11:40, 2, 4:20 Sinister (R) Thu 11, 1:40; Fri-Tue 6:10, 9:10 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 12:45, 3, 3:50, 6:15, 9:30; Fri-Sat 9:35, 11:20, 12:20, 2:50, 3:50, 6:20, 7:20, 9:50,

10:50; Sun 9:35, 11:20, 12:20, 2:50, 3:50, 6:20, 7:20, 9:50, 10:45; MonTue 11:20, 12:20, 2:50, 3:50, 6:20, 7:20, 9:50, 10:45 Taken 2 (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 6:20; Fri-Sat 9:45, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Sun 9:45, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05; Mon-Tue 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 Twilight Breaking Dawn Marathon (Not Rated) ends Thu 7 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 10; Fri-Sat 9:30, 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6:05, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30, 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30; Sun 9:30, 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6:05, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30, 10, 10:30; Mon-Tue 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6:05, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30, 10, 10:30 Ultimate Twilight Marathon (Not Rated) ends Thu 10:45 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11:05, 12:50, 1:35, 3:30, 4:25, 6:10, 9; FriSat 9:40, 10:40, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:40; Sun 9:40, 10:40, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:25; Mon-Tue 10:40, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:25 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50; Fri-Tue 12:40, 6:40

The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility ALPS (Not Rated) Thu 7 Barbara (PG-13) Thu 8 Decoding Deepak (Not Rated) Thu 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15 The Flat (Not Rated) Fri-Sat 12:45, 3, 5:30, 7:45; Sun 3, 5:30, 7:45; Mon 12:45, 3, 5:30; Tue 12:45, 3, 5:30, 7:45; Wed 5:30, 7:45 The Goonies (PG) Fri 10; Sat-Sun 10, 10; MonWed 10 Head Games (PG-13) Tue 7:30 Keep the Lights On (Not Rated) Thu 12:15, 4:45 A Liar’s Autobiography— The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman 3D (R) Fri-Sat 1, 3:15, 7:15, 9:30; Sun 1, 7:15, 9:30; Mon 1, 3:15, 7:15, 9:30; Tue 1, 3:15, 9:30; Wed 1, 5:15, 10:15 Miami Connection (R) Fri-Sat 5:15, 10; Sun 10; Mon-Tue 5:15, 10; Wed 3, 10 NT Live: Timon of Athens (Not Rated) Sun 12; Tue 7 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Not Rated) Sat 12 A Royal Affair (R) Wed 11:30, 2:15, 7 Searching for Sugar Man (PG-13) Thu 2:30, 4:30,

9:45; Fri 12:15, 5; Sat 10, 12:15, 5; Sun 10:15, 12:15, 5; Mon-Wed 12:15, 5 Step Up to the Plate (Not Rated) Thu 12:30, 2:45 Sweet Sugar (R) Mon 8 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (R) Thu 10 Wuthering Heights (Not Rated) Fri 2:15, 7; Sat 10:15, 2:15, 7; Sun 4, 7; Mon 2:15, 7; Tue 2:15; Wed 2:45, 7:15

Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. Call for Fri-Wed film times The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) Thu 3:20 The Bourne Legacy (PG13) Thu 12:20, 6:30, 9:30 Brave (PG) Thu 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7 The Campaign (R) Thu 5:30, 9:55 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) Thu 1:05, 4:30, 7:55 The Expendables 2 (R) Thu 7:20, 9:45 Lawless (R) Thu 9:20 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 12:40, 2:50, 5:10 Premium Rush (PG-13) Thu 9:40 Trouble With the Curve (PG-13) Thu 12:30, 3, 7:30

The Screening Room 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Call for films and times

Tower Theatres at Arizona Pavilions 8031 N. Business Park Drive. 579-0500. Call for Fri-Wed film times Alex Cross (PG-13) Thu 2:15 Argo (R) Thu 10:50, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Cloud Atlas (R) Thu 11:15, 2:45 Flight (R) Thu 10:30, 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Here Comes the Boom (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 The Man With the Iron Fists (R) Thu 10:45, 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Sinister (R) Thu 11:45, 4:35 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10 Taken 2 (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 1:15, 3:25, 5:35 Twilight Saga Marathon (Not Rated) Thu 12 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (PG-13) Thu 7:30 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 10, 12 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 10:45, 12, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45

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Trust me when I tell you this: You do not want to see lots of scenes featuring Russell Crowe licking people. It’s traumatizing. This is a “Quentin Tarantino Presents� feature, meaning they put his name on it, so people will shell out dough because they think he directed it (he didn’t)—and they wind up witnessing a complete piece of shit. Grimm

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

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An unusual take on Emily BrontÍ’s classic novel, this new Wuthering Heights is primarily shot with handheld cameras; meanwhile, director Andrea Arnold relies on mostly untested actors. Perhaps the mostinteresting development is the casting of Heathcliff, described in the book as a dark-skinned gypsy. Whereas previous performances include Ralph Fiennes, Laurence Olivier, Charlton Heston and Richard Burton, this appears to be the first time “dark-skinnedâ€? has warranted an actor of color. Strange, that. Because of the story structure, Heathcliff is shown as a teenager and then a grown man, played by Solomon Glave (younger and not so good) and James Howson (more, please). The cruelties of the novel are ever-present, and Arnold gets a B+ for effort with some of her innovations, but the film doesn’t fully come together as well as it needs to. Boyd

Like a lot of us, Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes) has trouble with the ladies. Unlike a lot of us, Mark survived severe polio that left him confined to a bed, a stretcher or his iron lung. But he still wants a woman’s touch. In the surprisingly funny The Sessions, Mark finds Cheryl (Helen Hunt), a sex therapist who will help him through the obviously delicate arrangement. Based on a true story—including O’Brien’s own journalistic account of it—The Sessions avoids the common pitfalls of movies that feature the disabled, movies that are eyed more cynically during Oscar season because of the degree of difficulty found in many of the performances. Hawkes does enter the Best Actor discussion here, although his portrayal is not as pained and morose as you’d expect. Indeed, it’s Mark’s liveliness and good humor that makes Hawkes worthy of the talk. Boyd

Reviews by Colin Boyd and Bob Grimm.

In ‘Lincoln,’ Daniel Day-Lewis somehow exceeds sky-high expectations

Another Oscar? BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com t says a lot about the performance of Daniel Day-Lewis that Lincoln—an otherwise perfectly fine but unimpressive film—could be about 40 percent worse and still be worth seeing. It arrives at the time of the year when performances are supposed to stand out, and Day-Lewis will likely stand out the most. There’s a short list of actors who are generally considered among the best in the world, and the two-time Oscar winner (My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood) can be found at or near the top of it. If you’re an actor with a conscience, bringing any historical figure to life onscreen has inherent responsibilities. In American history, nobody else quite rises to the level of Lincoln. That raises the stakes, and Day-Lewis, by virtue of his pristine track record, raises the expectations. Amazingly enough, he manages to quietly surpass them. Steven Spielberg’s film is taken from the pages of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, and it has had a long gestation. Spielberg committed to the project in 1999; DreamWorks bought the rights in 2001 (long before Goodwin’s book was completed); Liam Neeson was confirmed to play Lincoln for the better part of decade while Spielberg worked on other projects; and replacement screenwriter Tony Kushner adapted a dense story into a script. (At one point, the screenplay reached 500 pages.) Finally, in 2010, Day-Lewis signed on, and production slowly began. Appropriate for the current political climate, Lincoln is long on gridlock and grind. The film begins in what we would now call the lame-duck session, after his 1864 re-election, with Lincoln hatching a plan to outlaw slavery once and for all. His Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order freeing current slaves in seceded states, but the Thirteenth Amendment would be the final word. And Lincoln used the North’s momentum in the bloody Civil War as a tool to leverage the legislation. It may have been the biggest political risk in U.S. history—keeping up the fighting until the amendment would pass instead of negotiating an earlier peace—and it certainly had very little support beyond Lincoln’s closest allies. As a film device, this may rub audiences the wrong way, dealing as it does with negotiations and tactics more than the life and personal struggles of our tragic 16th president. Spielberg does not present a timeline or even a biography. This is instead evidence of Abraham Lincoln’s character through a par-

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Lincoln Rated PG-13 Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and David Strathairn Directed by Steven Spielberg DreamWorks/Touchstone, 149 minutes Opens Friday, Nov. 16, at AMC Loews Foothills 15 (888-262-4386), Century El Con 20 (800-3263264, ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800326-3264, 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).

ticularly trying time, even by the standards of his particularly trying presidency. Much of the screenplay seems like recitations of speeches or diary entries, and while that gives Lincoln some historical credibility, it also leads to some very long monologues. Some are fantastic, and others are just long. The film’s primary drawback is its pacing and tone, and those speeches are a big reason why. However, Lincoln also goes for laughs at strange times (just look for James Spader), and occasionally offsets the president’s somber nature with boisterous scenes that don’t play well. There are too many characters. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, playing Lincoln’s eldest son, is adrift. Congressmen come and go with blinding frequency. And while those people may have been important, they are not as important to the film and only take away from what is important—namely, that central performance. Tommy Lee Jones (as Rep. Thaddeus Stevens) and Sally Field (as Lincoln’s wife) will get a modicum of Oscar talk, but the only real achievement is by Daniel Day-Lewis. He not only captures what we know about Lincoln, but also illustrates those things we don’t. His performance goes beyond technical proficiency into immersion, and does so without ever sliding into mimicry. This is one of the extremely rare portrayals that redefines a character from our shared history, like DeNiro’s Jake LaMotta. Lincoln will never look or sound exactly the same again thanks to Daniel Day-Lewis.

Sports movies by and large are metaphors. Their function is to tell you to go for your dreams—after all, this guy didn’t give up on his. They’re formulaic, but the good ones rise above that. Chasing Mavericks does not rise above it, although there is something rather unrefined and great about Gerard Butler’s portrayal of Frosty, kind of Mr. Miyagi of bigwave surfing. His neighbor Jay (Jonny Weston) wants to surf Mavericks, a point along the coast in Northern California that is unlike any other surfing area in the world: bigger and more dangerous—you get the picture. And so Frosty teaches the kid and dispenses life lessons along the way. The surfing is pretty tame, thereby matching the script. But, again, Butler is worth watching. Hard to believe this movie required two multiple-award-winning directors (Curtis Hanson and Michael Apted) and still washed ashore so average. Boyd CLOUD ATLAS

Apparently, we’re all connected. Not just now, but for (and through) all time. That’s the premise of David Mitchell’s award-winning novel, Cloud Atlas, and of the movie it inspired. However, the film lacks cohesion, despite the fact that the same actors— including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess and Hugo Weaving—appear in many of the movie’s six distinct stories. A couple of these interconnected chapters have a lot of potential, but the finished product is a mess. A dystopian Neo Seoul of the near future plays the best, which is not surprising given that the film was co-directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). That should have been the whole movie, frankly. Juggling all of it at once, even over nearly three hours, is too cumbersome to enjoy or fully appreciate. Boyd FLIGHT

Denzel Washington stars and Robert Zemeckis directs this uneven film about an airline pilot with mad flying skills—and a mad problem with alcohol and drugs. Washington is Whip, a man who ties one on the night before a flight that first requires him to pilot through a horrible storm, and then results in a spectacular crash. Whip performs miraculous feats— despite an alcohol level off the charts. Washington is typically great in the role, keeping the movie worth watching even when it gets a bit trite. The first half hour of this movie is a powerhouse. The remaining time is OK, but there’s nothing like the punch of that flight sequence. Nonetheless, this performance is sure to score Washington an Oscar nomination. This marks a decent return to live action for Zemeckis, who had gotten all caught up in those creepy motion-capture animation films like The Polar Express. Grimm THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS

Hip-hop star RZA co-writes (with Eli Roth), directs and stars in this total waste of time. This is some sort of martial-arts/spaghetti-Western mash-up that features a whole lot of people chopping each other up. Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu and others star along with RZA, who plays the blacksmith who eventually winds up with the weapons named in the movie’s title. There’s some sort of war going on, but I had a hard time determining who was fighting whom. I do know that a bunch of lethal hookers came on the scene near the film’s end and started kicking ass; I have no idea why. There are lots of bad wigs, plus gushing blood and dismembered limbs, along with disgusting scenes of Russell Crowe licking people.

In 2006, Disney acquired Pixar and rebranded its own cobwebbed animation house as the Walt Disney Animation Co. Toy Story creator John Lasseter runs both. But Disney Animation hadn’t done much— Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, Tangled—before Wreck-It Ralph, which is a beautiful synthesis of Disney storytelling and Pixar imagination. Chronicling one videogame villain’s journey to change his stripes and become a good guy, Wreck-It Ralph stars John C. Reilly as an oafish bad guy who just wants to be loved. To really find himself, he jumps from his video game, Fix-it Felix Jr., to Sugar Rush, a Japanese race-cart game. That’s where the real fun, both in the story and in the animation, truly begins. Meshing looks from 30 years of video games, playing it for big laughs and succeeding, and pushing the envelope like its younger corporate cousin, Disney has really accomplished something here. Boyd

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They Live: Collector’s Edition (Blu-ray) SHOUT! FACTORY MOVIE C+ SPECIAL FEATURES BBLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 5.25 (OUT OF 10)

Horrordirector John Carpenter went sci-fi for this Reaganera thriller about aliens among us. Wrestler Roddy Piper plays a drifter who puts on a pair of sunglasses and discovers that society is under a state of mind control—and skullfaced aliens are looking to take us down. The movie hasn’t aged well, and Carpenter draws a rather bad performance out of Meg Foster, as well as Piper, who should have stuck to wrestling. Still, it’s worth watching for the Roddy Piper-Keith David smackdown that goes on forever. The fight seems to never end, yet it’s awesome. This was a grand idea hampered by a relatively low budget. Still, some of the political viewpoints here remain relevant today.

Oscar nominations. They took seriously dramatic approaches to their roles, and those performances contained some career-best comedic flourishes. Martin’s rental-car tirade is the stuff of cinematic legend, and Candy’s “Mess Around” dance while driving remains hilariously precious. SPECIAL FEATURES: There are some great new features on Hughes, including archival interviews and new sit-downs with Lea Thompson, Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck. You also get some vintage footage of a glowing Martin promoting the film, and praising his co-star and director in a way that lets you know he was very proud of the movie.

Rosemary’s Baby CRITERION COLLECTION MOVIE ASPECIAL FEATURES B BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 8 (OUT OF 10)

Roman Polanski’s American debut comes to Blu-ray, and Rosemary’s Baby remains a creepy classic. It has demon SPECIAL FEATURES: babies, Ruth Gordon eating Highlights include a spirited cake voraciously, and that commentary from Carpenter crazy pixie haircut by Vidal and Piper, along with a new Sassoon. Carpenter interview. Mia Farrow, who had been making waves in television, Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Blu-ray) got perhaps the best role of PARAMOUNT her career as Rosemary, a MOVIE A Manhattan apartment-dwellSPECIAL FEATURES BBLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 8 er and wife to perhaps the (OUT OF 10) biggest dickhead husband John Hughes, that cinema has ever known king of the (played sleazily by John teen movie, Cassavetes). made his best Polanski figured out, as film when he Hitchcock did a few years went back to earlier with Norman Bates in adults and Psycho, that the scariest vilcast Steve lains are the ones who seem Martin and John Candy normal. Rosemary’s neightogether. This “hell on the bors (played by Oscar winner road” movie about a guy Gordon and Sidney (Martin) trying to get home Blackmer) seem like a kooky for Thanksgiving with the old couple, but there sure are unhelpful help of a showerstrange chants coming curtain-ring-salesman through the apartment wall. (Candy) is a comedy classic. Rosemary’s husband, a It’s been a quarter-century washed-up actor reduced to since Martin first got picked motorcycle commercials, up by his testicles, and Candy seems to like the kooky set a rental car on fire. One neighbors a whole lot—percould’ve made an argument haps a little too much. for both of these guys getting Farrow plays a great characBY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com

ter, emaciated and dazed as something grows inside of her. In any list of the greatest finales of all time, “Hail Satan!” would have to rank high. SPECIAL FEATURES: Not a whole lot of stuff, but new interviews with Farrow, producer Robert Evans and Polanski get a high grade.

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I used to eat this show up on Saturday mornings. It featured a young man named Billy (Michael Gray) and his mentor (Les Tremayne) traveling around the countryside in a cumbersome RV, fighting crime and teaching kids valuable life lessons. When things would get really bad, Billy would yell: “Shazam!” This would result in him being struck by lightning and transforming into the superhero Captain Marvel. Watching it as an adult, I can see that the show wasn’t very good. Billy’s talks with The Elders (Greek gods, one of them voiced by Adam West) were a mixture of animation and live action that was just silly. The life lessons were hilariously simple (“Don’t steal cars and go joyriding, kids!”), and the acting was truly bad. I was shocked to see how prominent Captain Marvel’s junk is through his costume. Holy crap—didn’t they know kids were watching this shit? Even though it was a bad show, it made me totally want to get hit by lightning when I was a kid. SPECIAL FEATURES: You have the option of watching the “Morals” feature, a weekly wrap-up segment in which Captain Marvel would recap the episode’s life lesson. Strangely enough, the lesson was never, “Hey, kids, if a strange dude always wearing the same clothes and an old man offer you a ride in their RV, run like hell!” The two were always offering kids rides 30 seconds after they met. Creepy.

CHOW Thanks to an urban vibe and some great food, Reilly has the potential for greatness, despite staffing issues

NOSHING AROUND BY ADAM BOROWITZ noshing@tucsonweekly.com

Pizza With Promise

New: NRG Blends A new smoothie shop has opened across the street from the University of Arizona, ostensibly to take advantage of foot traffic to the college’s nearby fitness center. NRG Blends, 1122 E. Sixth St., sells healthy concoctions in a variety of flavors, with drinks tailored to various workouts or weight-loss plans. The store also carries a large selection of supplements ranging from pre-workout protein-blasters to testosterone-boosters. Visit nrgblends.com for more information.

BY JIMMY BOEGLE, jboegle@tucsonweekly.com t’s been fun watching downtown fill itself in with various restaurant types over the years. Burgers? Check! Thai food? Check! Pizza? French? You got it! Well, now we’ve moved on to the stage of downtown redevelopment where restaurants are starting to overlap a bit more. For example, even though there’s already a good pizza joint downtown in the form of Empire Pizza and Pub, we now also have Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink. Whereas Empire goes for a more New Yorkstyle vibe and pie, Reilly is a comfy, chic place serving artisan, individual-sized pizzas as well as intriguing cocktails, appetizers, salads, meat-and-cheese boards, and either sandwiches (for lunch) or pasta entrées (for dinner). Reilly sits in one of the most charming spaces downtown: the old Reilly Funeral Home, across the street from Café Poca Cosa on Pennington Street. Featuring brick walls, arches, a chalkboard above the open pizza oven and a cute bar with TVs, it’s all urban, hip and fun. (I would like to tell you more about the décor, but I can’t, because I had the misfortune of being seated at arguably the worst table in the place during both visits—a two-top along the eastern wall, stuck between the bar and another wall. I didn’t get to sit in the big, open main area either time. Karma was kicking my ass for some minor wrongdoing, perhaps?) Along with that charm, Reilly offers some fine, if at times flawed, food. The pizzas are the star here, as they should be, since they’re given top billing in the restaurant’s name. A well-made margherita pizza, in my humble opinion, is the perfect food: When good dough, excellent sauce, great mozzarella and fresh basil come together in the right proportions, it’s nirvana. Reilly’s version ($11) was close, but oh-so-far away from nirvana: The crust, while a bit too chewy, was fine; the sauce was adequate; and the mozzarella was nice and fresh. But the basil … it was poorly distributed, with large pieces here and there, making it so that I got a LOT of basil in one out of every three bites, and none in the other two. I asked our server to bring more basil, and I added it to the pizza myself. If the folks in Reilly’s kitchen can fix the selfmade Great Basil Shortage of 2012, they’ll be on to something. However, I had no complaints about the speck-and-egg pizza with mozzarella and fontina cheeses ($12). Some folks may balk at the thought of egg—especially a runny,

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The margherita pizza from Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink. yolky egg—on a pizza, but trust me: It’s amazing. The server recommended breaking the yolk and spreading it over the rest of the pizza. The richness of that yolk, mixed with the saltiness of the speck (ham) and the savory flavors of the cheese, was stunningly good. As my lunch companion, Michael Luria, noted: While the other items we had will not prompt a trip back to Reilly to have them again, this pizza will. As for those other lunch items, they were OK, if not spectacular. The meatball sandwich ($9) featured a nice blend of meatballs, cheese and sauce, but the chewy toughness of the bread—it was pizza dough sliced open like pita bread—contrasted strangely with the softness of the ingredients inside. The risotto ($7) is billed as featuring sweet corn and pancetta, but I did not detect a lot of sweetness in the reddish concoction; instead, I detected salt, and lots of it. On our dinner visit, Garrett decided to try the cavatelli ($14), one of the five pastas available in the evening hours. The mixture of pasta, braised kale and fennel sausage was tasty, but it was missing something; thankfully, the subtle sweetness of Parmesan cheese brightened it up. Overall, he enjoyed the dish. We also enjoyed the two appetizers. The fried squash blossoms ($9) were surprisingly light, thanks to the tempura-like batter and the lovely herbed-ricotta filling. The perfectly crispy crostini ($6) were topped with lemon-scented goat cheese and dozens of tiny pieces of roasted asparagus, and we approved. For dessert, we tried the chocolate polenta soufflé with salted-caramel gelato ($6) and the butterscotch budino ($6). The soufflé was a rich, delicious bit of heaven—the pieces of

Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink 101 E. Pennington St. 882-5550; reillypizza.com Open Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to midnight

The La Mesa Tortillas at 2112 W. Grant Road, which had been turning out great tortillas and a limited lunch menu for several years, has closed. The business still has locations at 7823 E. Broadway Blvd. and 3923 E. Pima St. The space next door to the vacated La Mesa spot on Grant will soon be home to a Papa Murphy’s Pizza.

Closed: My Big Fat Greek Restaurant The My Big Fat Greek Restaurant at 7265 N. La Cholla Blvd., at Foothills Mall, has closed, according to a sign in the window. The eastside location, at 7131 E. Broadway Blvd., remains open. We’ve heard rumors that a well-known Mexican restaurant is considering taking over the Foothills Mall spot, but nothing has been finalized.

Pluses: Fun vibe; revelatory speck-and-egg pizza

Smashburger Is Almost Here

Minuses: Understaffed; some items need refinement

Tucson’s first Smashburger opens Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 4821 E. Grant Road. The restaurant is said to turn out respectable hamburgers made with good ingredients, and the menu for the Tucson store will have several items made with jalapeños, habañeros and other ingredients intended to impart a Southwestern flavor. Smashburger hopes to have four Tucson locations by 2014.

caramel popcorn were a nice touch—while the budino was basically slightly gritty pudding, and nothing more. One area in which Reilly needs some work involves staffing. During both visits, we overheard servers telling customers that the restaurant was understaffed. At our dinner visit—on the night of the All Souls Procession—the restaurant was clearly not prepared for the onslaught of dressed-up customers. As a result, we suffered through delays, empty water glasses and other issues. During our lunch visit, the hostess was telling people they’d have to wait for a table, even though there were tables open. In the end, our lunch almost took an hour— which won’t cut it in the business world. Don’t get me wrong; our servers were working their butts off on both visits. They just didn’t have enough help. With the fun vibe and delicious items like the speck-and-egg pizza, Reilly is on the road to becoming a truly special restaurant. A slight staffing boost and some refinement in the kitchen would help them get further down that figurative road.

Have a Meatless Thanksgiving If you’re looking for something a little different this Thanksgiving, consider checking out Govinda’s annual meatless holiday feast. The food is vegetarian and outstanding; the atmosphere is festive and pleasant; and the live turkey roaming among the tables will make for an experience you won’t soon forget. The all-you-can-eat event is from noon to 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22. Prices are $14.95 for adults; $6.95 for ages 9 to 12; $5.95 for ages 4 to 8; and free for kids younger than 3. Govinda’s is at 711 E. Blacklidge Drive. There’s more information at www.govindasoftucson.com. Lovin’ Spoonfuls, 2990 N. Campbell Ave., is also offering a meatless feast on Thanksgiving Day. It costs $25.95 per person, and reservations are required; www.lovinspoonfuls.com.

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CHOW SCAN Chow Scan is the Weekly’s selective guide to Tucson restaurants. Only restaurants that our reviewers recommend are included. Complete reviews are online at tucsonweekly.com. Chow Scan includes reviews from August 1999 to the present. Send comments and updates to: mailbag@tucsonweekly.com; fax to 792-2096; or mail to Tucson Weekly/Chow, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726. These listings have no connection with Weekly advertising.

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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

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Thursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2:30 a.m.; Sunday noon-10 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. There may be nothing gourmet or innovatively outrageous about Brooklyn Pizza, but if you like your pie with a crunchy, handtossed crust, a savory simmered tomato sauce, lots of gooey mozzarella cheese and the traditional toppings of your choice, you’ve come to the right place. Sandwiches also reflect attention to the “only best ingredients” philosophy. There’s nothing here that will disappoint. $ BZ’S PIZZA E 9431 E. 22nd St., No. 137. 546-1402. Open

Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. Eastsiders have a nifty little pizza joint that puts out some great gourmet pies. The crust is light and chewy; the sauce is smooth and rich; and if you can’t find a topping you like, you should just stay home. Nightly pasta specials, great salads and sandwiches are on the menu. The vibe is family-friendly, although BZ’s is also a great place to meet friends for a glass of wine and a couple of pizzas. (7-7-11) $-$$ EMPIRE PIZZA AND PUB C 137 E. Congress St. 882-7499. Open Sunday-

Wednesday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Counter/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Empire Pizza and Pub has injected a new kind of life into downtown Tucson, serving up big New York-style pizza by the slice (or whole), along with some salads and Italian sandwiches. The small patio offers views of the craziness on Congress Street, while the back bar area offers a couple of TVs featuring whatever game happens to be on. (2-3-11) $

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THAI CHINA BISTRO E 5121 E. Grant Road. 325-5185. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. MC, V. What a nice little find! As the name indicates, there is both Thai and Chinese food here. There’s also sushi, with a bit of Korean thrown in for good measure. The pad Thai is tangy and tender, and the squid salad is a winner— loaded not just with tender squid, but also fresh greens and other vegetables in a soy-based sauce. The service

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PIZZA 1702 C 1702 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-1702. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This little university-area pizza joint has friendly service and pizza slices bigger than your head. With an ever-changing 50-plus beers on tap, there’s something for everyone. If that’s not enough, generous salads and delicious wings will keep you coming back for more. (3-13-08) $$

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WEI ASIAN CAFÉ E 9450 E. Golf Links Road. 722-1119. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday noon-9 p.m. Café/ Beer and Wine. MC, V. The far eastside’s restaurant scene is looking a bit better thanks to Wei. The café aspires to be truly pan-Asian, featuring a huge menu of dishes attributed to China, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. The food is reasonably priced and consistently decent to excellent. Give the sesame chicken a shot if you’re unsure what to try. (10-20-05) $-$$

Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Diner/No Alcohol. MC, V. Also at 7878 E. Wrightstown Road (886-4461). Brought to you by the folks at the Gaslight Theatre, these are hand-tossed pies with a round edge and real mozzarella. The favorites are the ham and pineapple or the mushroom and sausage. For the same lowish price, you can also order any combination of toppings. $-$$

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GRIMALDI’S C 446 N. Campbell Ave., No. 100. 882-6100. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. One of New York City’s highest-rated pizza joints is serving some of the best pizza in Tucson. You’ll pay more here for your coal brick-oven pie, but it’s worth it. We recommend sitting in the bar area while you munch on your pizza or calzone, so you can watch the doughthrowing and pizza-baking show. All three sauces (red, white and pesto) are tasty; just be careful while selecting the often-pricey toppings. (9-25-08) $$-$$$ LA MADRINA NW 7872 N. Oracle Road. 742-2111. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday noon-8 p.m. Summer hours: Closed Monday. Counter/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. This tiny joint offers up good pizza, decent sandwiches, nice salads and a most-interesting cheesecake, all wrapped up in an unpretentious setting. Tucked away in a corner of the Trader Joe’s plaza on North Oracle Road, La Madrina has been in business since the mid-’80s. Pizzas come in four sizes with a wide assortment of toppings, including anchovies and shrimp. And the “best cheesecake ever� is pretty darn good. (8-16-12) $-$$ MAGPIES GOURMET PIZZA E 105 S. Houghton Road. 751-9949. Open Monday-

Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 605 N. Fourth Ave. (628-1661) and 7315 N. Oracle Road (297-2712). Only the Fourth Avenue location serves beer and wine. This local chain brags about serving the best pizza in town—and to a large extent, they back up that brag. Fresh ingredients and lots of them highlight their diverse selection of pies. (6-12-03) $-$$ MARCO’S PIZZA

NEW YORK PIZZA DEPARTMENT E 1521 N. Wilmot Road. 207-7667. Open Sunday-Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. New York Pizza Department offers some of Tucson’s best thin-crust pies, both whole and by the slice. The ingredients make the pizzas so great—yes, that’s real ham, not lunchmeat, on your meat-lover pizza. Calzones, panini, stromboli, subs both hot and cold, Italian bombers, wings, salads and several entrÊes round out the sizable menu. (12-22-11) $-$$ NO ANCHOVIES C 870 E. University Blvd. 623-3333. Open daily 11 a.m.-midnight or later. Counter/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Gourmet pizzas find dizzying combinations of fresh and unusual ingredients. Catering to signature creations or simply celebrating pizza, No Anchovies puts a new spin on the old pie. (8-2-01) $-$$ OREGANO’S E 4900 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-8955. Open daily 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Diner. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. A 1950s-style pizza joint, Oregano’s is sure to please on every level. From handmade stuffed pizzas and enormous bowls of pastas to salads and Italian favorites (lasagna, sausage sandwiches, ravioli), Oregano’s has it all. Be sure to call ahead to see how long the line is, since the wait can easily be an hour. (1-3-02) $-$$ RENEE’S ORGANIC OVEN E 7065 E. Tanque Verde Road. 886-0484. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. CafÊ/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Folks on the eastside have reason to celebrate. This little gem of a pizzeria offers up pizzas, pastas, sandwiches and salads using fresh and often organic ingredients. A nice little wine list is available. This is a familyfriendly place that rivals other upscale pizza joints in town. (3-23-06) $-$$

toes and a blend of four cheeses make Rocco’s pizza a hit in any form. $-$$ SAUCE NW 7117 N. Oracle Road. 297-8575. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.10 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 5285 E. Broadway Blvd. (514-1122) and 2990 N. Campbell Ave. (795-0344). Whippet-thin specialty pizzas and tasty salads dominate the menu at Sauce, a fast-casual restaurant owned by the folks behind Wildflower and NoRTH. A trendy, bright atmosphere and a large outdoor dining area provide ample reasons for you to eat out, although to-go orders for those who want to dine at home are welcomed. (12-25-03) $-$$ TINO’S PIZZA E 6610 E. Tanque Verde Road. 296-9656. Open

Monday-Thursday 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 10:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sunday 3-9 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. You can’t argue with the success of Tino’s; the place has been around since the mid-’80s. The pies here will satisfy any pizza craving; they’re hot, cheesy and just plain good! Sandwiches, salads, calzones and sides round out the menu. This is an all-American pizzeria. (2-4-10) $-$$

The only pizza joint in town that’s certified as following the rigid guidelines of pizza from the old country, Vero Amore serves great pies. A couple of pasta dishes and salads round out the menu. The atmosphere is warm and cozy, and the service is sincere. The wine list is just right. This little pizza joint is a nice addition to the myriad restaurants in the Swan/Fort Lowell roads area. (8-24-06) $$

SANDWICHES BEYOND BREAD C 3026 N. Campbell Ave. 322-9965. Open MondayFriday 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday 7 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, MC, V. Also at 6260 E. Speedway Blvd. (747-7477) and 421 W. Ina Road (461-1111). Voted best bread in Tucson ever since it opened, Beyond Bread specializes in reviving the art of artisan bread, with its small batches and hand-formed loaves. Monstrous sandwiches, excellent pastries and swift service have earned this venue its status as one of the best places in Tucson to grab a quick bite to eat. (2-5-01) $ THE DAGGWOOD CAFÉ C 736 E. Fort Lowell Road. 903-9663. Summer hours:

VERO AMORE E 3305 N. Swan Road, No. 105. 325-4122. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 12130 N. Dove Mountain Blvd., No. 104 (579-2292). The Dove Mountain location has a full bar.

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ROCCO’S LITTLE CHICAGO C 2707 E. Broadway Blvd. 321-1860. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Diner/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This Windy City-style pizzeria has made a big splash in the Old Pueblo with its tasty square-cut, thin-crust and oversized stuffed pizza. Mushroom mania (the Fungus Humongous) and hot-and-spicy chiles and sausage (the Great Chicago Fire) are just two of the specialty pizzas that await your pleasure, or you can mix and match ingredients to create something uniquely your own. Little touches like ripe, red, sliced roma toma-

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EAST COAST SUPER SUBS C 187 N. Park Ave. 882-4005. Open daily 11 a.m.8 p.m. Counter/Diner/Beer and Wine. AMEX, MC, V. A slice of the turnpike right here in our own back yard, East Coast Super Subs will make transplanted Easterners weep with joy. The cheesesteaks are unparalleled—great rolls, tender sliced beef, sautÊed sweet onions, melted provolone and a red-pepper relish to die for. Super Subs come in sizes up to 16 inches. Without a doubt, a complete meal in a bun. (9-9-99) $-$$ FRANKIE’S SOUTH PHILLY CHEESESTEAKS C 2574 N. Campbell Ave. 795-2665. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. If you’re looking for an authentic Philly cheesesteak or a hoagie made from fresh ingredients, Frankie’s is the place to go. Fresh Amoroso rolls are flown in, and the meats come from Italy via Philadelphia. The Philly wings will give Buffalo-style a run for the money. Prices are more than fair. Service is upfront and friendly. A great place to eat in, take out or call for delivery. (3-24-05) $ LUKE’S ITALIAN BEEF C 1615 S. Alvernon Way. 747-8399. Open MondaySaturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Counter/Beer Only. DIS, MC, V. Also at 101 E. Fort Lowell Road (888-8066), 4444 E. Grant Road (3219236), 6741 N. Thornydale Road (877-7897) and 2645 E. Speedway Blvd. (795-6060). These sandwiches are big and beefy, and the dogs snap when you bite. They come in wrappers filled with crisp, hot, crinkle-cut fries. Italian sausage and pizza are also first-rate. $ MELT E 5056 E. Broadway Blvd. 326-6358. Open MondaySaturday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. It’s a sandwich shop! It’s a cupcake store! It’s two eateries in one! At Melt, all of the sandwiches are named after American cities. Whether you prefer your sandwiches hot or cold, you’re bound to find something you’ll like. Salads and sides are available, and if you’re craving a fried-egg sandwich on your way to work in the morning, stop by. Of course, then there are all those cupcakes from 2 Cupcakes, which shares the building (www.2cupcakes.com). They are as tasty as they are pretty. (9-8-11) $ PJ SUBS T6 FILLING STATION C 2500 E. Sixth St. 326-9500. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. CafÊ/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Want a tasty sandwich, some well-prepared fries and wings, and a cocktail, all while watching the game? PJ/T6 may just be the place for you. There’s nothing here on the menu that’s particularly noteworthy, but they do what they do well. (9-24-09) $-$$ WHICH WICH? C 943 E. University Blvd., Suite 125. 884-0081. Open Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday-Sunday 10

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SEAFOOD BLUEFIN SEAFOOD BISTRO NW 7053 N. Oracle Road. 531-8500. Open MondayThursday 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/ Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Kingfisher’s sister restaurant is making a name for itself on the northwest side. Delicious seafood dishes for both lunch and dinner are the star attractions, but you’ll also be wowed by the comfortable, industrial-chic dÊcor, the quaint outside patio and the large, welcoming bar. (10-13-05) $$$-$$$$ LA COSTA BRAVA S 3541 S. 12th Ave. 623-1931. Open Monday-

Saturday 11 a.m.-7 p.m. CafÊ/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. A well-kept secret, La Costa Brava offers up a down-anddirty deal on some of the freshest fish in town. Local distributor Rodriguez Seafood serves fresh catches in a simple yet satisfying fashion. The real deal. (1-31-02) $-$$ KINGFISHER BAR AND GRILL C 2564 E. Grant Road. 323-7739. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-midnight; Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m.-midnight. Bar is open Monday-Saturday to 1 a.m.; Sunday to midnight. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. This venue’s strength is the creative talent of its kitchen and innovative renditions from the American regional repertoire. The late-night bar menu is deservedly popular. Award-winning wine selections. (3-27-03) $$-$$$ RESTAURANT SINALOA W 1020 W. Prince Road. 887-1161. Open Sunday-

Thursday 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 9 a.m.11 p.m. CafÊ/Full Bar. AMES, DIS, MC, V. Restaurant Sinaloa should be Tucson’s new hotspot for freshly prepared, affordable seafood of every sort. Shrimp is the specialty, and with more than 20 different shrimp preparations on the menu, there is something for every palate. Service is quick and friendly. Be sure to branch out and try the smoked-marlin taco. (10-6-11) $-$$$

SOUTHWEST AGAVE S 1100 W. Pima Mine Road. 342-2328. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Off Interstate 19 on the way to Green Valley, Agave is a gem in the desert, well worth the drive. Featuring a menu heavy on steak and seafood, along with delightful service and an upscale, earth-tones decor, it’s easy to forget you’re dining on the grounds of a casino. The prices are reasonable, too. (2-5-04) $$-$$$ FIRE + SPICE E Sheraton Hotel and Suites, 5151 E. Grant Road 3236262. Open Monday-Friday 6 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 6 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC and V. Hidden next to the pool at the Sheraton is Fire + Spice, a restaurant that shows a ton of potential. Southwest-inspired appetizers like nachos, quesadillas and jalapeùo snake bites are a delight, and the service and dÊcor are friendly and welcoming. The kitchen occasionally skimps on ingredients or otherwise loses focus, but the quality of the menu is undeniable. (6-11-09) $$ FLYING V BAR AND GRILL NE Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive. 299-2020. Open Sunday-Thursday 5:30-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 5:30-10 p.m. Full Cover/ Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Overlooking a golf course and Tucson’s city lights, Ventana Canyon’s Flying V has one of the nicest atmospheres of any local restaurant. Featuring salads, fish and meats, the restaurant’s fare is consistently delicious. The prices are a bit steep, but the view is worth the extra money. Sit on the wooden deck next to the large fountain if you can. (7-22-04) $$$-$$$$ HIFALUTIN RAPID FIRE WESTERN GRILL NW 6780 N. Oracle Road. 297-0518. Open Sunday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Servers are dressed in Western wear and topped with cowboy hats at this warm and cozy restaurant. The open kitchen gives you the opportunity to see the cooks in action. The general’s favorite chicken and margaritas are standouts. (11-28-02) $-$$

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Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Another installment in the successful and popular Metro Restaurant empire, Old Pueblo Grille specializes in quality food with a decisively desert flair. Chiles show up in everything from mashed potatoes to ice cream, and a menu of specialty margaritas and 101 tequilas dominates the list of libations. A lovely patio and a charming Southwestern motif add ambiance. (4-27-00) $$ SIGNATURE GRILL W 3800 W. Starr Pass Blvd. inside the J.W. Marriott

Starr Pass Resort and Spa. 791-6064. Open daily 6:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Some of the town’s best views can be found at the Signature Grill—and you can enjoy them for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Southwestern favorites such as tableside guacamole and rock-shrimp ceviche are always enjoyable. Weather permitting, the outdoor patio may just be the perfect place for a date. (4-2-09) $$$-$$$$

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TRIDENT GRILL C 2033 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-5755. Open TuesdaySaturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sunday and Monday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. While Trident Grill is a popular UA-area sports bar, its menu takes diners above and beyond the usual sports-bar fare. All the requisite appetizers, sandwiches and burgers are joined by an impressive menu of seafood offerings. The comfortable décor shows management’s love of the Navy SEALS and the Washington Redskins, and the service is friendly and efficient. A place to kick back, watch the game and eat some shellfish. (9-28-06) $$-$$$ WORLD SPORTS GRILLE NW 2290 W. Ina Road. 229-0011. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-midnight; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Consider this the Super Bowl of sports bars, with big TVs everywhere, a large menu, cold beer and enough video games to keep the kiddies busy for hours. The food includes the usual sports-bar fare—like burgers, sandwiches and salads—but then goes beyond with pizza, tagine noodle bowls and more. Prices are reasonable. (1-15-09) $$

EL CORRAL NE 2201 E. River Road. 299-6092. Open MondayThursday 5-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 4:30-10 p.m.; Sunday 4:30-9 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V, Checks. For a serious no-frills steak dinner, you can’t beat the ambiance of this older ranch house-turnedsteakhouse. Featuring the house specialty of prime rib, this is a Tucson favorite for all sorts of family affairs. Large servings, low prices, big fun. (2-28-02) $-$$ FLEMING’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE AND WINE BAR NE 6360 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 180. 529-5017. Open Sunday-Thursday 5-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 5-10:30 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Featuring more than 100 wines by the glass and some of the best cuts of meat you’ll find anywhere, the Tucson location of the Fleming’s chain is a great place for an upscale dinner—if money is no object. The steaks are prepared exactly how you order them, and the atmosphere is elegant, if a bit noisy. Just make sure you bring a lot of cash (or credit)—Fleming’s à la carte-style menu is far from cheap. (12-16-04) $$$$ LITTLE MEXICO STEAKHOUSE S 2851 W. Valencia Road. 578-8852. Open Sunday,

STEAKHOUSE COLT’S TASTE OF TEXAS STEAKHOUSE NW 8310 N. Thornydale Road. 572-5968. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Right out of a Larry McMurtry novel, the hoe-down atmosphere at Colt’s is a perfect backdrop for some of the tastiest steak dinners in town. Although chicken and fish are also offered, stick with the restaurant’s namesake, and you’ll never be disappointed. $$-$$$

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Things as They Are BY GENE ARMSTRONG, garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com Saint Maybe t might seem to casual listeners as if the new album by Tucson rock-band Saint Maybe is appearing overnight— but it’s been three years in the making. And bandleader Oliver Ray’s path to the first album of his songs is a long and colorful one. Ray, who plays guitar, sings and writes the songs, is a natural-born rock star: a disheveledlooking poet who is a great storyteller and an explosive talent. His band, which includes primary members Chris Sauer on guitar and Winston Watson on drums, is one of the most exciting to emerge in Tucson in recent memory. Saint Maybe’s terrific debut, Things as They Are, will be released Tuesday, Nov. 20, by Fort Lowell Records. James Tritten, the guitarist for and husband of local rocker Tracy Shedd, operates Fort Lowell primarily as a showcase for vinyl records, but its music also is available via digital download. Things as They Are is a meditation on the relationship between earthly concerns and spiritual transcendence. The album comes on like a ritual for transformation, a portrait of an artist in the act of becoming. Filled with epics drawing from garage, psychedelic, folk, blues and alt-country, it just plain rocks. “I am a firm believer in the dynamic of the sacred and profane,” Ray said recently. “A lot of it, for me, is about the tension and beauty of rock ’n’ roll, and how, through this form, we can perceive the supernatural and arrive at this transcendent plane.” As long as humans have played music, it has been a vehicle for sacred ceremonies, and that’s often the case with the best rock ’n’ roll music. “Well, I hope that’s the case with mine,” Ray said. “It’s still too new to tell. I mean, this is the first record I ever put out on my own, and it’s really hard to know how it’s going to be perceived.” Ray was born in Boston 39 years ago, and his family moved around a bit when he was young, from Virginia to the Bahamas, before settling in New York City in 1980. “The ’80s in New York, it wasn’t as cleaned up as it is now, and for me, it was a little scary at first. But I realized it was a fun place to grow up in. I was obsessed with poetry at a young age, and around the ninth-grade started hanging out at St. Mark’s Church, where they would have poetry readings by Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and people like that.” For Ray, like so many before him, threads of music and poetry ran through his life in parallel lines that often crossed. “I’ve always been a huge music fan. But my first major obsession was with the Doors and Jim Morrison, and through him, I learned of

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the symbolist poets.” Ray had “messed around” with guitars since he was about 13, but didn’t start playing and writing music seriously until he was about 22. A circuitous route led to him playing with Patti Smith, the legendary rock ’n’ roll poet, for about 10 years. “I ended up going to Guatemala for a little while, and there, I fell off a cliff, and got a compound fracture in my femur. I had to be medevaced to the U.S., and they put a metal rod in my femur,” he said. Ray was working for a small book publisher at the time, and met Smith at a publishing event. “She had just started performing again after the death of her husband. We became fast friends, and she heard this song I was writing and asked if she could record it on her next album. “Fireflies,” about Ray’s fall off the cliff, ended up on Smith’s 1996 comeback album Gone Again, on which he also played guitar, sharing duties with the likes of Tom Verlaine and Lenny Kaye. Ray joined Smith’s band, playing on subsequent albums such as Peace and Noise, Gung Ho and Trampin’. On the road, Smith’s band opened a concert tour for Bob Dylan. In the mid-1990s, Ray first encountered Tucson-born drummer Watson, then a member of Dylan’s band and a veteran of gigs with a wide variety of top-tier artists. “We didn’t hang out a lot, but as the young guys in both bands, Winston and I spent a little time together on the road,” Ray said. And he didn’t know Watson was from Tucson until Ray arrived here in 2008. “I credit Winston with hooking me up with a lot of Tucson musicians since then. And he also introduced me to Craig Schumacher, which was really helpful.” Schumacher is a producer, engineer, mixer and utility player behind many great albums recorded at his much-respected Wavelab Studio. With engineer Chris Schultz, Schumacher helmed most of the sessions for

Things as They Are. (A couple of the tracks came together at Jim Waters’ Waterworks Studio.) Other than Saint Maybe, the only other band in Tucson that Ray has played with is Greyhound Soul, which often features Watson on drums. Ray’s other Saint Maybe mainstay is Sauer; the two grew up together in New York. Because they’ve been playing together for so long, they can communicate musical ideas without speaking, Ray said. “He’s a great guitar-player, but he has this really very selfless style and is often willing to be in the background.” Saint Maybe has been seeking a full-time bass player, and Ray said he’s finally settled on Los Angeles transplant Boyd Peterson. He and his girlfriend, Leslie Wood, run the vintage shop Thee Collection Agency. Things as They Are also features an all-star lineup of Tucson musicians, including Fen Ikner, Michael P. Nordberg, Naïm Amor, Connor Gallaher, Chris Giambelluca, Kevin Pate, Tommy Larkins, Thøger Lund, Laura Kepner-Adney and the aforementioned Schumacher and Shedd. Although Ray may not stay in Tucson forever, he’s happy here. “I love Tucson; it’s a funky, weird kind of town. My favorite parts are the old areas where things have kind of been left the same, like South Sixth. I feel at home there.” That’s where Ray decided to locate his coffeeroasting business, Café Aqui. He got into roasting and selling coffee while living in Guatemala. The café, at 1317 S. Sixth Ave., is generally open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Ray has strived to make his place unique, avoiding “that kind of super-uptight vibe. I just wanted it to feel like your home, you know, sitting in the living room.” A record-release party hasn’t been planned, but Saint Maybe’s next performance will be at Plush on Thursday, Dec. 13, as part of the 15th annual Great Cover-Up.

Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday of all, is just around the corner. The day connotes a sense of community and sharing unlike any other, and there are plenty of people these days who rely on that sense of community and sharing (about 47 percent of us, apparently). To that end, there are two annual benefits this week that make it easy to be a dogooder while enjoying some tasty tunes. For the last 10 years (he claims it is 11, but he’s got a few years on me, so I’m sticking with my story), Sand Rubies and Luminarios singerguitarist Rich Hopkins has staged his annual Casa Maria Thanksgiving Benefit, with all proceeds donated to the titular beneficiary. As I’ve written in previous columns: “For more than 25 years, Casa Maria, a soup kitchen located at 401 E. 26th St., has provided free meals to the poor and homeless from 8 a.m. to noon, 365 days a year. No one in need is ever turned away, and remarkably, Casa Maria receives no funding from any government agency; every penny comes from private donations. “Hopkins met Casa Maria founder Brian Flagg more than a decade ago when he was searching for a location to shoot a video for his song ‘Tender Mercies,’ about the plight of the homeless community. He was so impressed with the soup kitchen that he began volunteering there; he’s also released a pair of compilation albums to benefit Casa Maria.” Hopkins has recently been spending more time in Texas with his girlfriend, singer-songwriter Lisa Novak, but he’ll be back in town for this week’s benefit, which will be held at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., on Tuesday, Nov. 20. Performing will be Greyhound Soul, Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios, Gabriel Sullivan, Blind Divine and The Gunrunners. The event kicks off at 8 p.m., and admission is a donation of $7, as well as a suggested donation of canned-food items. For more information, head to hotelcongress.com, or call 622-8848. A few miles north on the following night, Wednesday, Nov. 21, Boondocks Lounge will throw its annual Thanksgiving bash to benefit the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona. This year’s featured band is the local R&B combo Zo Carroll and the Soul Breakers, and the music runs from 7 to 11 p.m. Admission is a $5 donation, or $3 with two nonperishable food items. Boondocks Lounge is located at 3306 N. First Ave., and you can hit up boondockslounge.com, or call 690-0991 for more info.

STEVE IS CHASING RAINBOWS For those who grew up during the 1980s, Steve Winwood may signify an era of feel-good soulful pop songs with dated keyboards and compressed production. And if you only knew songs like

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“Higher Love,” “Back in the High Life Again” and “Roll With It,” it would be hard to argue with you. But the Brit has had so many phases of his career that the ’80s are a mere footnote on his CV. Winwood’s powerful vocal style developed early in his life: He joined the Spencer Davis Group, which scored mega-hit singles like “Gimme Some Lovin’” and “I’m a Man,” when he was only 15. But Winwood, a multi-instrumentalist—he’s proficient on guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, violin and mandolin, among others—who had roots in jazz, began to tire of the three-minute pop-soul format and decided to form a band in which the tunes could stretch out a little bit. In 1967, a year in which both British and American bands began getting more experimental, he formed Traffic with a trio of musicians: guitarist Dave Mason, drummer Jim Capaldi and horn-player Chris Wood. Initially, the group combined everything from British folk to psychedelic jazz, R&B rave-ups to British Invasion pop. Eventually, Winwood’s love of psych-jazz jams and Capaldi’s penchant for the folkier stuff clashed, and the band broke up in 1974, having left behind a string of classic albums including The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys and Mr. Fantasy, as well as FM-radio fodder such as “Feelin’ Alright” and “Dear Mr. Fantasy.” It was enough for Traffic to gain entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Along the way, in 1969, Winwood teamed up with the guitarist and drummer for Cream— Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker, respectively— and Ric Grech to form Blind Faith, which is widely regarded as the very first rock “supergroup.” The band only released one self-titled album, which basically sounds like a merger of the Traffic and Cream sounds—the soulful folk jams of the former, and the bombastic blues riffing of the latter—but it remains a classic. After Traffic called it quits in ’74, Winwood laid low for a few years, performing a bit as a session musician and collaborating with a Japanese percussionist on a jazz-fusion album. In 1977, Winwood finally released his selftitled solo debut, which had the Winwood sound, but a dearth of memorable songs. But in 1980, after a lot of people had written him off, Winwood returned with the fantastic Arc of a Diver, over which he had complete creative control, and on which he played all of the instruments. With hit singles like the title track and “While You See a Chance,” not to mention songs like “Spanish Dancer,” which transports the listener to a languid otherworld, the album kick-started a hugely successful solo career that endures today, even if it represents his most commercially viable (read: safe) material. At 6 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18, the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St., will present the Chasing Rainbows Gala, a fundraiser for the Fox during which guests can, according to a press release, “relive the glamour and excitement of opening night in 1930 when guests enjoyed the MGM musical Chasing Rainbows starring Jack Benny.” The film also introduced the classic song “Happy Days Are Here Again.” The very special musical guest for the evening is none other than Steve Winwood, who will perform a solo set. Advance tickets are $75, and VIP tickets are $150. For more information, head to foxtucsontheatre.org, or call 547-3040.

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Performing Nov 15 Nov 16 Nob 17 Nov 18 ing the release of their fifth album, 5, on Saturday, Nov. 17, at Boondocks Lounge, 3306 N. First Ave. Unfortunately, Hurricane Sandy held up the manufacturing and shipping of the CDs, so we didn’t get a chance to hear it in advance. We’ll be reviewing the album in an upcoming issue, and y’all know to expect quality from these guys by now, right? Kyle Bronsdon will perform a brief opening set on piano at 8 p.m., and then Grams and Krieger, plus special guest Nancy McCallion (and likely Bronsdon, too), will perform until midnight. Cover is $7, and CDs will be available for $10—$5 off the regular selling price. For more info, check out boondockslounge. com, or call 690-0991. In addition to the pair of albums the group has released, the latest being Trigger and Scythe in January, the gorgeous harmonies of the Silver Thread Trio have graced and abetted performances by everyone from Calexico to Ryanhood, Amos Lee to Brian Lopez. But unless I’m forgetting something, those lovely voices and the women behind them have never collaborated with Howe Gelb, who recently toured Europe and the U.S. in support of his band Giant Giant Sand’s fantastic rock opera, Tucson. That all changes this week as the two pair up for an early show at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., on Saturday, Nov. 17. The evening begins with a set by Gelb, who will be joined on some songs by the ST3, who will then close out the night with a set of their own. Doors open at 7 p.m., and admission is $7. For further details, check out hotelcongress.com, or call 622-8848. Finally, Tucson’s longest-running punk band, Bloodspasm (aka the band from which we stole the name of our music blog, We Got Cactus … actually, Bob Spasm kindly granted us permission to use it; it just sounds more punk rock to say we stole it), will celebrate its 27th year of pumping out true hard-core punk with a headlining slot at the Surly Wench Pub, 424 N. Fourth Ave., on Saturday, Nov. 17. The show begins around 9 p.m. with opening sets by The Besmirchers and Pop Gestapo. Cover is $3, and you can head to surlywenchpub.com, or call 882-0009 for more info.

ON THE BANDWAGON Be sure to check out our listings section and our music blog, We Got Cactus, for more great stuff headed our way this week, including: Generationals and Races at Club Congress on Sunday, Nov. 18; Jake Shimabukuro at the Rialto Theatre on Friday, Nov. 16; Twizted and (hed) p.e. at The Rock on Saturday, Nov. 17; Young Hunter tour sendoff with The Pharmacy and Golden Boots at La Cocina on Wednesday, Nov. 24; and lots more.

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BY GENE ARMSTRONG, garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com or Irish singer Mary Black, music is inextricably intertwined with family. Her parents were musicians, as were her siblings, and now two of her children carry on the tradition. “Sometimes, you’re not even aware of it, because everyone always has music around, but, yeah, I guess it is a legacy, of sorts,” she said last week via phone. Black called from Portland, Maine, where she had a night off from her American concert tour. That night’s gig had been canceled because ice and snow from an extreme storm made the local roads impassable. She probably won’t experience such conditions when she and her band play on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at the Fox Tucson Theatre. Although she grew up around traditional Irish music, Black is no purist. She has never limited herself to performing what she calls “trad.” She’s built her career on singing a contemporary combination of blues, rock, jazz, country and soul. Black’s father, who came from a remote village in the north of Ireland, played traditional mandolin and fiddle, and her Dublin-born mother sang more modern material. “Between them, they passed on the love and passion for music that I have.” Sunday afternoons in the Black household were a time for the family and various relatives to gather and share songs. “As a child, I thought every family had this sort of weekly music party,” Black said. There was even a family band when she was young. “With my three brothers and one sister, we played local pubs and made three albums as the Black Family.” In the late 1970s, Black also sang with a small folk band, General Humbert. She saw the release of her debut album in

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1983, and has recorded regularly since. During the mid-1980s, she also sang on two albums by the trad Irish band De Dannan. Her most recent release, her 12th album overall, is Stories From the Steeples, which was released last year in the United Kingdom and earlier this year in the United States. Black always has sought out the best songs from her favorite songwriters, and the new album includes three compositions by her son, Danny O’Reilly, who is in the popular Irish rock band the Coronas. “I told him to concentrate more on his songwriting, because that’s where the money is,” she said. And Black’s daughter, who performs as Róisín O, recently saw the release of her debut album, The Secret Life of Blue. (Read more in this week’s Rhythm & Views, Page 50.) Even better, Róisín O is on tour with her mom. “She opens the show and does her own songs for 15 minutes, then I go onstage, and she will do some backing vocals with me. Then she comes back out and joins me at the end on some duets,” Black said. “It’s just lovely to have her along.” With her five-piece band—guitar, double bass, piano, drums and saxophone—Black hopes to re-create some of the rich arrangements from her albums. Black has seen many changes in the music business, with the most dramatic ones coming in recent years. “People have different ways of getting music, don’t they? By downloading it, legally or illegally. Many record companies have ceased to exist, which makes it a lot harder for a new artist coming out than it does for me.” One benefit of progress in the music industry, however, has been recording equipment that is more portable than ever. “We even

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recorded some of the new album in my home in Dublin. The rest was made in my engineer’s studio on Donegal, which is called Steeples Studio, which is where the name of the album comes from.” Black, 57, became a grandmother for the first time three weeks ago. She said she’s starting to consider the various aspects of growing older, and she can’t think of any negatives. She doesn’t even mind when writers or promoters use the word “legendary” to describe her. “That makes me laugh, because I always thought that was a polite way of saying someone was old. But I know people always mean it in a very complimentary way.” A little age and perspective can give a person remarkable confidence, she said. “I have nothing really to prove anymore. I always want to do my best, certainly, but I take more pleasure from what I do, and I trust myself that it will just happen. I don’t feel any pressure anymore when making music. It’s about being happy in your own skin.”

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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. APPLEBEE’S ON GRANT 4625 E. Grant Road. 319-0544. 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. 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. BIG WILLY’S RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILL 1118 E. Sixth St. 882-2121. THE BISBEE ROYALE 94 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-6750. BLUEFIN SEAFOOD BISTRO 7053 N. Oracle Road. 531-8500. THE BONE-IN STEAKHOUSE 5400 S. Old Spanish Trail. 885-4600. BOONDOCKS LOUNGE 3306 N. First Ave. 690-0991. BRATS 5975 W. Western Way Circle. 578-0341. THE BREEZE PATIO BAR AND GRILL Radisson Suites. 6555 E. Speedway Blvd. 731-1414. BRODIE’S TAVERN 2449 N. Stone Ave. 622-0447. BUFFALO WILD WINGS 68 N. Harrison Road. 296-8409. BUMSTED’S 500 N. Fourth Ave. 622-1413. CAFÉ PASSÉ 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. 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. CHUY’S MESQUITE BROILER 22ND STREET 7101 E. 22nd St. 722-5117. CIRCLE S SALOON 16001 W. El Tiro Road. Marana. 682-5377. CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. LA COCINA RESTAURANT, CANTINA AND COFFEE BAR 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. COLT’S TASTE OF TEXAS STEAKHOUSE 8310 N. Thornydale Road. 572-5968. COPPER QUEEN HOTEL 11 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-2216. COW PALACE 28802 S. Nogales Highway. Amado. (520) 398-8000. 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. DESERT DIAMOND CASINO SPORTS BAR Interstate 19 and Pima Mine Road. 294-7777. DIABLOS SPORTS BAR AND GRILL 2545 S. Craycroft Road. 514-9202. THE DISTRICT 260 E. Congress St. 792-0081. DON’S BAYOU CAJUN COOKIN’ 8991 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-4410. DRIFTWOOD BAR 2001 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4317. DRY RIVER COMPANY 800 N. Kolb Road. 298-5555. 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. ELLIOTT’S ON CONGRESS 135 E. Congress St. 622-5500. ENOTECA PIZZERIA WINE BAR 58 W. Congress St. 623-0744. 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. 883-8888. 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. 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. GOLD Westward Look Resort, 245 E. Ina Road. 917-2930, ext. 474. 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. HACIENDA DEL SOL 5601 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. 299-1501. 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 TUCSON CITY CENTER 475 N. Granada Ave. 623-2000. THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200. IBT’S 616 N. Fourth Ave. 882-3053. IGUANA CAFE 210 E. Congress St. 882-5140. IRISH PUB 9155 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-2299. 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. KNOW WHERE II 1308 W. Glenn St. 623-3999. KON TIKI 4625 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-7193. LAFFS COMEDY CAFFÉ 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-8669. LAS CAZUELITAS EVENT CENTER 1365 W. Grant Road. 206-0405. LI’L ABNER’S STEAKHOUSE 8500 N. Silverbell Road. 744-2800. LB SALOON 6925 E. Broadway Blvd. 886-8118. LOOKOUT BAR AND GRILLE AT WESTWARD LOOK RESORT 245 E. Ina Road. 297-1151. LOTUS GARDEN RESTAURANT 5975 E. Speedway Blvd. 298-3351. 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. MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFÉ 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. 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. NEW MOON TUCSON 915 W. Prince Road. 293-7339. NIMBUS BISTRO AND BREWERY 6464 E. Tanque Verde Road. 733-1111. 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. ORACLE INN 305 E. American Ave. Oracle. 896-3333. O’SHAUGHNESSY’S 2200 N. Camino Principal. 296-7464. OUTLAW SALOON 1302 W. Roger Road. 888-3910. PAPPY’S DINER 1300 W. Prince Road. 408-5262. PARADISO BAR AND LOUNGE Casino Del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. THE PARISH 6453 N. Oracle Road. 797-1233. LA PARRILLA SUIZA 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300. PEARSON’S PUB 1120 S. Wilmot Road. 747-2181. PINNACLE PEAK 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 296-0911. PLAYGROUND BAR AND LOUNGE 278 E. Congress St. 396-3691. PLUSH 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298. PURGATORY 1310 S. Alvernon Way. 795-1996. 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. REDLINE SPORTS GRILL 445 W. Wetmore Road. 888-8084. RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000. RIC’S CAFE/RESTAURANT 5605 E. River Road. 577-7272. RILEY’S IRISH TAVERN 5140 N. La Cholla Blvd. 408-0507. 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. RUSTY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILLE 2075 W. Grant Road. 623-3363. 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. 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. SIR VEZA’S TACO GARAGE WETMORE 220 W. Wetmore Road. 888-8226. 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. THE STATION PUB AND GRILL 8235 N. Silverbell Road. 789-7040. 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. THIRSTY’S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILL 2422 N. Pantano Road. 885-6585. TRIDENT GRILL 2033 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-5755. TUCSON LIVE MUSIC SPACE 125 W. Ventura St. UNICORN SPORTS LOUNGE 8060 E. 22nd St., No. 118. 722-6900. V FINE THAI 9 E. Congress St. 882-8143. WHISKEY TANGO 140 S. Kolb Road. 344-8843. 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 NOV 15 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch The Bisbee Royale Palabra Andante hosted by Logan Phillips Boondocks Lounge Ed DeLucia Trio The Breeze Patio Bar and Grill Live music Café Passé The John Einweck Jazz Quartet Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Live classical guitar Chicago Bar Neon Prophet La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Stefan George, The Rosano Brothers Virtual Quartet Elliott’s on Congress The Kachina Speakeasy Review La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live mariachi music Hacienda del Sol Aaron Gilmartin Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar The Bluerays Las Cazuelitas Event Center Live music Maverick Jack Bishop Band McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Susan Artemis Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Kevin Pakulis, Coyote Supper Club O’Malley’s Live music On a Roll Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Five Way Street (Crosby, Stills and Nash tribute) Pinnacle Peak Bluegrass Music Jam RPM Nightclub 80’s and Gentlemen Sheraton Hotel and Suites Prime Example Sky Bar Live music Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Whiskey Tango Live music

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC The Bamboo Club Karaoke with DJ Tony G Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y-Not Karaoke Buffalo Wild Wings Y-Not Karaoke Driftwood Bar El Charro Café Sahuarita Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star karaoke Famous Sam’s Valencia Hilda’s Sports Bar The Hog Pit Smokehouse Bar and Grill Steve Morningwood acoustic open-mic night Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Open mic with Bob Paluzzi Know Where II New Star Karaoke Margarita Bay Outlaw Saloon Chubbrock Entertainment Pappy’s Diner Open mic River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke with KJ David Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Stadium Grill Chubbrock Entertainment Thirsty’s Neighborhood Grill

DANCE/DJ Big Willy’s Restaurant and Sports Grill DJ Hurricane and Project Benny Blanco Diablos Sports Bar and Grill Bikini bash with DJ Mike Lopez Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company DJ spins music The Hideout Fiesta DJs The Hut DJ MGM IBT’s DJ spins music Javelina Cantina DJ M. Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar DJ Bonus Pearson’s Pub DJ Wild Wes RJ’s Replays Sports Pub and Grub DJ M. Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge Salsa night Sir Veza’s Taco Garage Wetmore DJ Riviera Surly Wench Pub Jump Jive Thursday with DJ Ribz Unicorn Sports Lounge Y Not Entertainment V Fine Thai Foundation Thursdays: DJs spin music, art show, wine tasting Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz

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TUE NOV 20 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Live classical guitar Chicago Bar Jive Bombers Club Congress Casa Maria Thanksgiving benefit: Greyhound Soul, Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios, Gabriel Sullivan, Blind Divine, The Gunrunners Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live mariachi music Hacienda del Sol Aaron Gilmartin The Hut Igor and the Red Elvises Las Cazuelitas Event Center Live music Maverick Jack Bishop Band McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Susan Artemis Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Erik Truelove, The Wyatts Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar The Jeff McKinney Band Plush Love Mound, Black Pussy Sheraton Hotel and Suites Arizona Roadrunners Sky Bar Collin Shook Trio Stadium Grill Open jam Sullivan’s Steak House Live music

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WED NOV 21 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch The Bamboo Club Melody Louise The Bisbee Royale Amy Ross Boondocks Lounge Community Food Bank fundraiser: Zo Carroll and the Soul Breakers Café Passé Glen Gross Quartet Chicago Bar Bad News Blues Band La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Elephant Head, Young Hunter, The Pharmacy, Golden Boots Copper Queen Hotel Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl, Amy Ross Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music Hacienda del Sol Aaron Gilmartin Las Cazuelitas Event Center Live music Maverick Jack Bishop Band McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Susan Artemis Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Live music Mr. An’s Teppan Steak and Sushi Edna and Ely with Malik Alkabir, Nonoy Alovera O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Raging Sage Coffee Roasters Paul Oman Shot in the Dark Café Open mic Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Tanque Verde Ranch Live music Thirsty’s Neighborhood Grill Andy Hersey

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC Brats Diablos Sports Bar and Grill Tequila DJ karaoke show Famous Sam’s Broadway Famous Sam’s W. Ruthrauff Famous Sam’s Irvington Famous Sam’s Oracle Chubbrock Entertainment Fox and Hound Smokehouse and Tavern Karaoke, dance music and music videos with DJ Tony G Frog and Firkin Sing’n with Scotty P. Hideout Bar and Grill Old Skool DJ, Karaoke with DJ Tigger Jeff’s Pub Kustom Karaoke Margarita Bay Mint Cocktails Karaoke with Rosemary Mooney’s Pub Music Box Karaoke with AJ On a Roll Pappy’s Diner Open mic Pearson’s Pub Putney’s Karaoke with DJ Soup River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke with KJ David Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon Sky Bar Open mic Stadium Grill Chubbrock Entertainment Whiskey Tango Open mic with Mark Lopez

DANCE/DJ Big Willy’s Restaurant and Sports Grill DJ White Shadow Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Tango classes and dancing Driftwood Bar DJ spins dance music The Hideout Fiesta DJs IBT’s DJ spins music RJ’s Replays Sports Pub and Grub Drew Cooper Matthew Mezza Rusty’s Family Restaurant and Sports Grille Sid the Kid Sinbad’s Fine Mediterranean Cuisine DJ Spencer Thomas and friends

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Ed Nossem has played guitar and bass in a variety of Tucson bands since 1990, including Grimble Wedge, Worm, and the Distortionists. He is currently playing with Fish Karma, who is releasing a new 7-inch at 9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16, at the District Tavern, 260 E. Congress St. Admission is free. Joshua Levine, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

What is the first concert you attended? Santana, the Caravanserai tour. Greg Rollie and Neal Schon had just left the band to form Journey, and Santana hadn’t replaced them yet, so the entire concert was all instrumental. What are you listening to these days? Whatever music I’m working on; CheerAccident, a wonderful music ensemble based in Chicago; the Swigs; the Mission Creeps’ new CD; Todd Rundgren concert videos; Bukka White; the Residents; Steely Dan; Frank Zappa; classical music on KUAT (FM 90.5) radio, and KXCI (FM 91.3) radio in general. Kidd Squidd has the best radio show on the planet. What was the first album you owned? The Beatles’ Yesterday and Today. That’s the one where they replaced the original butcher cover image and had to glue a different picture on the existing product due to public outrage. What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone seem to love, but you just don’t get? I can’t relate to what is passed off as country music these days. Give me George Jones, Johnny Cash or the first Hank Williams any day! What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live? It would be a real treat to relive the experience of seeing Genesis with Peter Gabriel perform The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure? Blue Öyster Cult. What song would you like to have played at your funeral? That’s easy—“Die Like a Dog” by Fish Karma! Or if anyone wanted to get more maudlin about it, they could always play “Turn of the Century” by Yes. What band or artist changed your life, and how? The Beatles. They permeated my existence as a child, and still do.

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It’s understandable that this promising young Irish vocalist’s publicity downplays the fact that she is the daughter of the great singer Mary Black. However, RĂłisĂ­n O (born O’Reilly) has a rich, lovely instrument, and her full-length debut album is a radiant burst of modern energy. She is a talent to be reckoned with. The album kicks off with “Here We Go,â€? a deviously catchy and upbeat meld of folk and modern rock. Moving on, listeners won’t be disappointed. The mellow introspective “Synchronicityâ€? builds to a swelling, string-laden emotional peak that wouldn’t feel out of place on an album by Florence and the Machine. Elsewhere, O’Reilly reaches dizzying vocal heights that equal those of the Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan, challenges the conventions of traditional Celtic folk (not unlike maverick Eliza Carthy) and, on several tunes, channels the spirit of Kate Bush, especially the lush, haunting “Climb Highâ€? and spiritual love song “Filled With Snow.â€? A slightly gothic flavor (more BrontĂŤ than Bauhaus) imbues “Hold Onâ€? as it rises in intensity, while the jangling folk of “Let’s Find Some Peopleâ€? sounds invitingly loose and informal. The amazing “You Owe Me a Drinkâ€? sounds heavily inspired by Joni Mitchell, mixing breezy guitar-strumming and electric piano filigrees with an altcountry, road-song bounce. On it, O’Reilly shows off her singing range with quasi-jazzinflected vocals. Gene Armstrong

When Toronto musician John O’Regan transformed himself from punk-band frontman to glam-rock diva on 2010’s Special Affections, the results were a wonderful and skeletal album of electro-glam. Though the Diamond Rings persona seemed a far cry from O’Regan’s previous incarnation in the D’Urbervilles, Special Affections still played like an indie record, a bit too spare and moody to work as a real pop album. Free Dimensional, Rings’ sophomore effort, commits totally to pop divadom. It’s Britney Spears by way of Stephin Merritt. While Diamond Rings’ vocal delivery and pop songcraft on Free Dimensional is much more Merritt-esque, he doesn’t have Merritt’s verbal acumen or biting wit. If Merritt is the child from an Edward Gorey illustration come to life, Diamond Rings is someone from Jem and the Holograms. Songs like “A to Z� are unapologetically upbeat and full of pop fervor, and wouldn’t sound out of place between songs by Ellie Goulding and Robyn in the dance club. “Stand My Ground,� one of the best songs, feels like a lost Magnetic Fields track produced by Stargate. If that doesn’t sound delightful, then Free Dimensional may well be lost on you, because the album dishes up song after song that fits exactly that description: “All the Time,� “Hand Over My Heart� and so on. The album’s other mode is turbo-charged T. Rex-style garage glam on tracks like “Runaway Love� and “Put Me On.� It’s got more joie de vivre than Special Affections, and is a perfect celebration record for the current moment. Sean Bottai

Boston’s Mean Creek play a bold and exciting guitar rock that recalls both ’90s alternative and ’80s post-punk. The band—Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian on both vocals and guitar, Erik Wormwood on bass, and Mikey Holland on drums— has been around since 2006, winning best-of-Boston awards regularly, with an energy and edginess that leans toward big hooks and the dual vocalist style of the Pixies. Youth Companion, the band’s third album, wears its heart on its sleeve. It not only celebrates youth, but also casts a wise eye toward its quick passing. In the back-toback “Young and Wild� and “Indian Summer,� the message becomes forcefully clear: The songs are romantic and nostalgic odes to adventure and discovery. “Come on, Before It’s Gone� takes the same tack, weaving terrific guitar solos with that sing-along “come on� chorus. It’s a little of the Replacements tied to a bit of the New Jersey rock of the Gaslight Anthem or Springsteen. “Evel Knievel� is another winner, the driving bass line setting the stage before giving way to a wall of echoing guitars. And in equating youth to the urges of a daredevil, Keene’s soaring vocals make those teenage years seem noble and brave. Youth Companion wouldn’t have sounded out of place 25 years ago, yet it brings a fresh new voice to alternative rock. It’s time for Boston to share. Eric Swedlund

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY HOROSCOPE 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700 $1.99 per minute. 18 and over. Touchtone phone required. ARIES (March 21-April 19): In old Christian and Islamic lore, the dove was a symbol of the Holy Spirit. The bird was considered so pure and sacred that the devil, who was an expert shape-shifter, could not take on its form. The dove had a different meaning in other traditions, however. Among the ancient Greeks, it had a special relationship with Aphrodite, the goddess of love. In Rome, its eggs were regarded as aphrodisiacs. Drawing on all of these meanings, I’m nominating the dove to be your power animal in the coming week. You will have an excellent chance to intensify your connection with divine truths through the power of love and eros—and vice versa. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your next assignment is to deepen and refine your relationship with your temptations. That doesn’t mean you should shed all caution and simply give in to them. Rather, I’m suggesting you escape the bind that makes you feel like you have to either ruthlessly repress your complicated longings, or thoroughly express them. Is there an inbetween position you can find? A way you can appreciate the mysterious gift that the temptations confer and not be miserably obsessed by them? A perspective in which you’re neither tormented by guilt nor driven to compromise your integrity? GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re a bit like a professional jet pilot who is operating the pirate-ship ride at an amusement park. You have resemblances to a top chef who’s shopping for gourmet ingredients in a seedy convenience store. In other words, Gemini, you may feel slightly off-kilter or dispossessed, even though you have a lot going for you. Here’s the best possible thing you could do while you wait for the fates to show you how to make a correction: Make it your intention to feel centered, poised and at peace exactly as you are right now. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is currently enough food available to feed everyone on the planet. The problem is, it’s not distributed efficiently. Some people get far more food than they need, and even waste a lot of it, while less-fortunate folks go hungry. I invite you to think about whether you might have a metaphorically comparable

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situation in your own life, Cancerian. Is there a part of your psyche that’s well-nurtured, but a different part that receives meager shares of love and support? Are you overstuffed in one way, but starved in another? The coming weeks would be an excellent time to correct such an imbalance. (More on food: tinyurl.com/ HungryWorld.) LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This horoscope is not an advertisement for ceremonial shovels. I am receiving no payment from a ceremonial-shovel company for suggesting that you procure a customized engraved gold digging tool for your own personal use. And I will feel fine if you don’t actually get a real one, but instead merely imagine yourself wielding a pretend version. The fact is, Leo, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to do a groundbreaking ritual: to dig up the first scoop of metaphorical dirt in the place where you will build your future dream house, masterpiece or labor of love. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I don’t think you’re fully aware of the game you’ve been immersed in. You may even be in denial that you’re playing it. If I’m right about this, please make it a priority to acknowledge what’s going on and identify the exact nature of the game. You can’t afford to be innocent about the subterranean forces that are in motion. It’s especially important not to be too nice and polite to see the complicated truth. Please note: There’s no need to be a cynical shark—that would be as inappropriate of a response as being a sweet little lamb. But you should definitely activate your jungle senses. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): On Reddit. com, someone asked members of the community the following: What is your best unanswerable question? Among the more serious offerings: “What is love?” “What is magic?” “Why is there something as opposed to nothing?” “What is the meaning of life?” Then there were more avant-garde possibilities: “Where do squirrels go during hurricanes?” “Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?” And: “If I asked you to sleep with me, would your answer be the same as the answer to this question?” After evaluating the current astrological omens, Libra, I urge you to pose your own

best riddle—a query that will provide maximum stimulation as you meditate on it during the next four months. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): An environmental organization in New Zealand found that the local fishing industry wastes about 70 percent of its haul. In contrast, Iceland manages to use 96 percent of every fish caught. For example, New Zealand companies throw away most of the liver, roe and heads of the fish, while Iceland has come up with ways to take advantage of all that stuff. Judging from your current astrological omens, Scorpio, I conclude that it’s crucial for you to take your cue from Iceland rather than New Zealand in the coming weeks. Be inventive, efficient and thorough in harnessing the power of all your raw materials. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “They will say you are on the wrong road,” said poet Antonio Porchia, “if it is your own.” I suspect you may have to deal with wrongheaded badgering like that in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. In fact, you could experience a surge of discouraging words and bad advice that tries to shoo you away

from the path with heart. Some of the push may come from enemies, some from friends or loved ones, and some from deluded little voices in your own head. I hope you won’t be demoralized by the onslaught, but will instead respond like a brave hero who uses adversity as a motivating force. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m sure you’ve got thousands of practical details to attend to. Your schedule may be as busy as it has been in months. But I hope you will find time to do what I consider essential to your well-being, and that is to wander and wonder. In fact, let’s make that your motto: to wander and wonder. Even if it’s just for a few stolen moments between your serious appointments, allow yourself to meander off into the unknown and marvel at all of the curious things you find. Be on the lookout for high strangeness that thrills your imagination, for exotic pleasures that titillate your lust for novelty, and for fertile chaos that blows your mind in all the right ways. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): James Joyce was a great novelist, but not much

of a fighter. He picked a more imposing and athletic buddy to go drinking with, though: Ernest Hemingway. If the two men encountered any alcohol-induced trouble, Joyce would slink behind his friend and yell, “Deal with him, Hemingway, deal with him!” I don’t anticipate that you’ll be in the vicinity of any bar scuffles in the coming week, Aquarius. But I do think you would benefit from having a potent and persuasive ally on your side. It’s time to add some heft and clout to your arsenal of resources. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Is it possible that you have been too receptive and empathetic for your own good lately? I mean, I love how attuned you are to the ebb and flow of subtle energies—it’s one of your most winsome and powerful qualities—but I fear you may be going too far. As heroic as it might seem to be the most sensitive and responsive person in a 10-mile radius, I’d rather see you work on being more self-contained right now. That’s why, for a limited time only, I’m recommending that you turn the full force of your touchy-feely solicitude on yourself.

¡ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net Dear Mexican: Lately, I’ve noticed that a few bands, como Voodoo Glow Skulls, have embraced ska music, both at home and in Mexico. I was curious what the appeal is for Mexicans to ska music. Also, if you had to turn people to Mexican ska, what would be your top five recommendations? Tommy Milagros Dear Wab: You just noticed Voodoo Glow Skulls? While cool, they’re SO 1990s. In fact, the ska tendencies in Mexico go back to the early days of ska itself—like the Cuban mambo, danzón and cha-cha-cha, Jamaican music has always had a vibrant home in Mexico due to our shared Afro-Caribbean influences. Like all popular Mexican music forms, ska is endlessly danceable, upbeat even in its darkest moments, perpetually customizable, and a DJ’s dream—sonidero is really just cumbia mixed through a Studio One dub sound system. But Mexican ska’s greatest contribution to the form is the mixing of punk attitude and political commentary, à la 2 Tone ska, making it a genre that never gets tiresome. As for my top five Mexican ska groups: The late Tijuana No! is sorely missed; Maldita Vecindad still blasts their chilango stew; and Los Angeles’ own Viernes 13 are chingones with horns. I’ll also give a shout-out to Inspector, although their ska is a bit too clean for my tastes. But the supreme masters are Panteón Rococo—their jittery, angry, anti-globalization “La Carencia” could be the anthem of the Occupy movement, if only those occupiers ever bothered to reach out to Mexicans. I lived in San Diego for about three years, but only got down to Tijuana once. The thing that struck me the most was that it seemed all the women who were begging were Indian. (I’m not going to try any Spanish spelling, since I spoke español with a terrible New Zealand-Korean accent when I first arrived—don’t ask.) Why is this? Linda en Fuego Dear Chinita on Fire: Because the poverty rates of the indigenous in Mexico are atrocious: A 2010 study by CONEVAL (the acronym for

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Disgraced but Not Contrite The former police chief of Bell, Calif., Randy Adams, had resigned in disgrace after prosecutors charged eight other city officials with looting the municipal budget. Adams had been recruited by the alleged miscreants (at a sweetheart salary twice what he made as the police chief of much-larger Glendale), and his resignation left him with a generous state pension of $240,000 per year. Rather than quietly accept the payout, Adams immediately appealed to a state pension panel, claiming that his one inexplicably rich year in Bell had actually upped his pension to $510,000 a year. In September, with a straight face, Adams pleaded his case to the panel, but 20 times during the questioning invoked his right not to incriminate himself. The Continuing Crisis • Doctors just want to have fun: (1) Navy medical examiner Dr. Mark Shelly was notified of disciplinary action in July after admitting that he let his children handle a brain (and pose for photos with it) that he was transporting for autopsy to Portsmouth, Va. (2) A 15-year-old Swedish student, working at Malmo University Hospital on a “practical work-life” internship, was allowed by a doctor to make part of the incision for a Caesareansection childbirth and to examine the patient vaginally. One alarmed Caesarean patient alerted news media after reading about the orientation program in May and wondering if she had been a “hands-on” patient. • IRS agents, investigating tax-fraud suspect Rashia Wilson, 26, turned up “thousands” of identification numbers in a September home search in Tampa, Fla. Wilson had already laid down a challenge in May, when she wrote on Facebook: “I’m Rashia, the queen of IRS tax fraud. (I’m) a millionaire, for the record. So if you think that indicting me will be easy, it won’t. I promise you. I won’t do no time, dumb (expletive unpublished).” The search also turned up a handgun, and since Wilson is a convicted felon (with 40 arrests), she was jailed—and denied bail, in part, because of the Facebook post. • Many visitors to San Francisco’s historic Castro neighborhood are shocked at the city’s culture of street nudism. Only if the display is “lewd and lascivious” (with the purpose to arouse) is it illegal, but a September report in SF Weekly suggests that the nudity must be total—that calling any attention at all to the genitals may suggest lewdness, such as by rings worn around the scrotum. Bright Ideas Way too many apps: (1) The Swiss company Blacksocks offers an iPhone app that utilizes radio-frequency identification chips inserted into socks so they can be automatically sorted. (2) The iPoo app, reported Wired magazine in November, “lets you chat with your fellow defecators from the comfort of your own toilet.” (3) “In development” now, according to Harvard freshman Olenka Polak, is a “Code 58 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

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