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couple of weekends ago, my basketball team was down in Cochise County for a tournament. Between games, I took the team to Bisbee to walk around and see the sights. Plastered on a wall were posters announcing the End of the World Party featuring Buzz and the Soul Senders that will be held at the Bisbee Grand Hotel. (Bisbee would not be a bad place to spend one’s last night on Earth.) One of my players (I won’t embarrass Riley by mentioning her name) was somewhat freaked out by the whole thing, saying, “How can they joke about it? What if it really is the end of the world?” If it is, the joke will certainly be on us.
This all revolves around the belief that the Mayan calendar ends tomorrow, Dec. 21, 2012. (Another time period is supposed to start Saturday; we’ll see.) I’m not at all sympathetic to the Mayans, who practiced human sacrifice and are at least partly responsible for that awful John Cusack disaster movie from last year. I’m trying to remember how many times I’ve been through this sort of thing in my lifetime. Back in the 1970s, there was a group of people here in Tucson who thought that they had correctly calculated the date of The Rapture. They sold their houses and all of their belongings and walked out into the desert, where they expected to be taken up bodily into heaven. It really sucks when your math is off on something like that. Then there were those knuckleheads who killed themselves so they could be gathered up and taken away in a spaceship. I don’t remember a whole lot about that one, but I think their leader looked like the delightfully over-the-top guy from Sweet Genius on The Food Network. I tried to calm Riley down by telling her a story. Right before the first atomic bomb was detonated in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, a significant number of Manhattan Project scientists thought that there was a chance that the nuclear explosion would be so intense that it would ignite Earth’s atmosphere and kill all life on the planet. They even placed bets on it, which is hilarious because that is the biggest sucker bet of all time. If you bet that the world is NOT going to be destroyed, all you can do is win. If Earth survives, you win, and if it’s destroyed, you don’t have to pay off. When that didn’t help, I told Riley that I had received an email from the Vatican Observatory telling me not to worry, that the world was not coming to an end. Think
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about that: Can you think of a two-word phrase with more non-sequitur words than “Vatican Observatory?” Personally, I’m pleasantly surprised that the Catholic Church even believes in astronomy. And I’m blown away by the fact that the Vatican operates an observatory in Arizona. Yes, on Mount Graham, near Safford, the Vatican operates two telescopes. Here’s the best part: Right next to the Vatican’s scopes on Mount Graham is something that goes by the cumbersome name of Large Binocular Telescope Near-Infrared Utility With Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research. It goes by the equally cumbersome acronym of Lucifer. Sharing a mountaintop in Southern Arizona are the Vatican and Lucifer. No one could make this stuff up. The funny thing about the Vatican operating an observatory dates back to what the church did to Galileo when the scientist put forth his heliocentric ideas (about Earth orbiting around the sun). If you want to read something absolutely hilarious, Google “Catholic Church Galileo.” One of the first things that comes up is on catholic.com, under Catholic Answers. They claim that the whole rebuke/torture/imprisonment thing concerning Galileo was just a big misunderstanding, like maybe a fraternity hazing gone awry. Still, it’s my church, so I get to poke fun at it. The other day, I got a scathing email from somebody who attacked my religion and then called me an anatomically impossible name that I cannot repeat here. (Plus, he misspelled it.) He was upset that I had claimed that it’s easier to reason with a racist than with a vegan. I stand by that assertion. Most racists were raised that way, so they always have a chance to mature and see things differently. Unless a kid is raised a vegan (a subtle yet heinous form of child abuse), that lifestyle was probably a choice one made later in life. And there’s no zealot like a convert. Seriously, who do you think would be easier to reason with—a racist or a vegan? (You have an equal opportunity to reason with both, seeing as how, actuarially speaking, the vegan isn’t going to outlive the other person. I love that fact!) Anyway, Riley is still wary of what might happen tomorrow. She takes her last final of the semester today, and then we have a game this afternoon. I told her that the team should have an End of the World slumber party at her house tomorrow night. She’s thinking about it. As for me, I’ve done a lot of what I wanted to do in my life. But between now and tomorrow, I have to find a mattress and tear the tag off.
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All he wants for Christmas is to never hear a car alarm again HIGHTOWER BY JIM HIGHTOWER
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inter holidays do weird things to my brain. I veer wildly between tearfully hugging Christmas trees and wishing that Santa would take a year off and drive the malls into bankruptcy. I know I’m not the only person who experiences ambivalence during this time of mandatory joy. After all, there’s no real timeout anymore, no collective deep breath, barely a hiccup in the relentless national noise machine. I suspect that most people wouldn’t even notice Christmas if there weren’t a million hucksters shouting it at them for the three months leading up to it. But I shouldn’t be so Scroogey in the face of a bona fide miracle. Outside of my little mancave, it’s pounding rain for the first time in three months, bathing our desperately dusty city in a winter sacrament. I swear I can feel the earth swelling in my backyard as the rain soaks into the flour-like substance that used to be dirt. It’s raining so hard, it’s almost loud enough to drown out the car alarm that’s raging a block or two away.
He did it. Unfortunately. Sadly. Disappointingly. President Obama, reversing his own honorable precedent for his first inaugural, has chosen this time to have corporations pay for his big hoo-rah. This multimillion-dollar infusion of corporate cash is a crass intrusion by favor-seeking private interests into what ought to be a purely public occasion. Why can’t we have even one corporatefree day in Washington every four years? Is that asking too much? Obama essentially admitted that allowing ALERT! VEHICLE UNDER ATTACK … by thousands of corporations to purchase the inaugural is small, liquid projectiles bearing three months of particulates. wrong when he tried to sugarcoat his deciThe other day, I was standing next to a friend in a parking sion by assuring us that every corporate lot as he locked his car. His horn honked—one of my pettiest, donor will be vetted by White House lawyers yet most profoundly annoying peeves. I asked him why the to make sure they have no conflicts of interhell his horn honked when he locked his car. He gave me the est. Does he think we have sucker wrappers answer I expected—it signified the alarm was armed. around our heads? As pointed out by the “Yes, but can’t you arm it silently?” I asked. He admitted vigilant watchdog group Public Citizen: “There’s no corporation which has no conhe didn’t know how, and then elaborated that it was kinda flict of interest.” reassuring to hear the sound. He also pointed out that if he Even as presidential staffers were publicforgets where he parked his car in a big lot, he just pushes ly pledging there would be no favoritism for the button and finds it. the corporate powers that write big checks, This pushed my button, of course, so I started squawking they were privately promising potential like … a car alarm. I launched into a familiar spiel about how donors that the three days of inaugural festhese infernal gadgets are a nuisance, don’t work, merely reptivities would include exclusive “benefactor brunches,” allowing the elite to hobnob with top THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow administration officials. Getting your ticket punched for a presidential brunch, you see, buys you a rich serving of political access. Incredibly, Obama is trying to cover over this special-access ugliness by declaring that the day before his official swearing-in will be a “national day of service.” How noble! As a symbol of America’s commitment to the common good, he’s calling on all of us to spend time serving meals to the homeless or picking up litter—except for check-writing corporate chieftains, who’ll be busy munching on eggs florentine, sipping from champagne flutes, and helping themselves to plates of power.
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resent the conquest of marketing and fear, etc. I railed against technology, and the way in which it fills people with a foolish sense of invincibility, how it enables and encourages irresponsibility and inconsideration in the process. He said he knows it works, because his car hasn’t been stolen. This is like saying you know your Supercharged Alien Repellent Ring really works because you haven’t been beamed up and probed lately. But, in the holiday spirit, I let it go. However, the encounter stuck with me. A few weeks earlier, our soon-to-be-erstwhile Weekly editor, Jimmy Boegle, had pled the same automotive protection impotence when I pitched him on the idea of kicking car alarms and their animators out of town for last week’s last-ever Get Out of Town issue. He, too, said he had no choice but to annoy his neighbors every time he locked his car. This didn’t sound right to me, so I called a series of helpful car alarm installers, all of whom told me that all aftermarket and most original equipment systems have a silent arming option. And the consensus was that even the few systems that could not readily be deployed silently could easily be altered to do so. Ha-HAH! Well, how about that, car-alarmers? There really is no reason to scare the shit out of me when I’m riding my bike past your parked car, and your horn suddenly goes off three feet away. And there certainly is no justification for wrenching me from a pleasantly saturated stupor when you roll up across the street at 3 a.m. after a holiday party. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not kicking anybody out of town here. Alas, that Tucson Weekly tradition has ended, after 10 glorious years. (I was hoping for at least another 10, thinking that if we kicked enough people out of town, our population explosion would stabilize or even shrink back to a tolerable level.) Besides, Jimmy is already leaving town, as you may know. He’s off to Palm Springs to enlighten the coiffed, golfing masses with alternative media. This sounds a lot like opening a lemonade stand on the sunny side of the planet Mercury, but, again, who am I to judge during this blessed season? I have to appreciate his courage, almost as much as I appreciate his holding this paper together for the last 10 years and giving me the chance to write for it. But—holiday sap and cheer notwithstanding—I swear on Saint Nick’s oily beard, if I hear him park his sleigh on my roof and toot that telltale horn before he comes sliding down the cooler vent, Christmas as we know it will come to an end.
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If there’s really a ‘War on Coal,’ it’s tough to actually spot BY JONATHAN THOMPSON
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n the day after Election Day, Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, the coal-mining company that owned the mine in Utah in which six miners and three rescuers were killed in a collapse in 2007, laid off 163 workers. The reason? President Obama’s “War on Coal.� This year, domestic coal production is expected to be down about 10 percent from the banner year of 2007, and Murray and other industry leaders blame the retirement of old coal plants resulting from Obama-era regulations. But they’re going after the wrong enemy.
It’s not regulations that are hurting coal so much as the market’s vagaries and the abundance of cheap natural gas from the drilling boom that began a decade ago. Coal has long been America’s favorite source of electricity, and regulations haven’t diminished that. The Clean Air Act of 1970 forced a few plants to clean up their stacks, but didn’t dampen demand. The 1990 amendments to that act clamped down more. Instead of hurting the coal industry, they just encouraged Eastern coal plants to start using low-sulfur coal—opening a huge market for coal from the West, which is rife with the stuff. By 2007, the United States was burning twice as much coal as it did in 1973. Yet changes were afoot. Natural-gas turbines were improved in the 1990s to become more efficient and cheaper to build, and between 2000 and 2010, natural-gas-generating capacity grew by 96 percent. In the meantime, the drilling boom, driven by new fracking and drilling technology, resulted in a glut of natural gas, dropping the price enough to be competitive with coal on a per-megawatt-hour basis—something to be used all the time, not just during times of peak power demand. Utilities that had natural-gas generators at their disposal started using them, reducing coal’s share of electricity generation to its lowest level in decades. Utilities faced with upgrading their old coal plants are choosing, instead, to replace them with natural-gas generators because it makes more economic sense to do so. Industry analysts predict that this will result in between 59 and 77 gigawatts of coal power going offline by 2016. Sure, pressure from environmentalists and the EPA contributed to the planned shutdown of five coal-fired units at power plants in northern New Mexico. The EPA’s mercury emissions limits were finally put in place after languishing for a decade, and a proposed carbon-dioxide-emissions cap would make it virtually impossible to build a new coal plant without carbon-capture technology. These regulations aren’t new. They are leftovers from previous administrations. Nor do they amount to a declaration of war. To the contrary, an op-ed by fellows at the lib-
ertarian Cato Institute declared that conservatives should be euphoric, since the administration could have enacted far-stricter regulations—targeting existing coal plants rather than just new ones. In fact, Obama has even handed the coal industry a few gifts. His Interior Department has opened more land to leasing, approved Oxbow Corp.’s exploratory work for a major expansion in Colorado and exempted some mines from that state’s version of the Clinton Roadless Rule. Obama delayed his own EPA’s smog rule, and the EPA continues to stall on coal-ashdisposal regulations that have been on the table since Clinton was in office. The big question is whether coal is really in decline. While earnings are down for some companies, the big ones in the West seem to be doing just fine. And while U.S. coal demand may be down, U.S. coal mines are shipping record amounts of it to Europe, China and Japan. Peabody Energy’s profits have done nothing but go up since Obama was first elected, even during the recession. Arch Coal isn’t quite as healthy, but it has posted profits, even during the so-called war on coal. And coal companies showed they had plenty of money to spend on politics. Peabody and Arch have spent $36 million on lobbying since 2008, and Oxbow, which belongs to Bill “the other brother� Koch, donated $3.75 million this year to the Restore Our Future super-PAC, a major source of funding for Mitt Romney’s campaign. As for Murray Energy, because it’s not a publicly traded company, its financials are kept under wraps. But it can’t be hurting too badly: In September, less than two months before laying off all those workers, it donated $100,000 to the American Crossroads PAC, while Bob Murray and his relatives gave nearly $200,000 more to various Republican candidates. Coal company executives may call it a war on coal, but when you look closely at the facts, it just seems like a publicity campaign. Jonathan Thompson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a senior editor of the magazine in Durango, Colo.
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Donation Denied t’s another hungry morning at the Casa Maria Free Kitchen on East 26th Street, where Brian Flagg watches groups of men lumbering along the sidewalk. Some clutch brown bags; others have already torn the bags open, gnawing quietly on bologna and cheese sandwiches. This Catholic-affiliated kitchen, managed for years by Flagg, is hardly an opulent affair. But it is a critical one. Situated in a nondescript block building on a dusty corner, the charity feeds up to 500 folks a day, along with providing clothes, sleeping bags and blankets. It sometimes helps people pay their rent and utilities. All of that happens on a meager budget of about $250,000 a year. So at Casa Maria, every dollar counts. That’s why more than a few eyebrows were raised recently when the nonprofit turned down a $2,000 donation from Walmart. Speaking to a local newspaper, Flagg called the gift “blood money.” But as it happens, that move came with a silver lining: According to Flagg, his stance against the giant retailer sparked a flood of fresh donations from like-minded people across the community. “We way more than recovered the $2,000 that we lost,” he says. He considers that an ethical victory. “We understand that (Walmart) has really low prices. But we also felt that they pay lousy wages; they’re anti-union; and they’re detrimental to the survival of small businesses in areas where they open supercenters. That’s why we felt we couldn’t take the $2,000.” As it happens, Walmart’s intended Casa Maria donation was among $15,000 distributed to local charities in celebration of a new Tucson supercenter near Kino Boulevard and 36th Street. Nor was the retailer easily dissuaded. Following Casa’s decision, Flagg says, “some guy from Walmart showed up and tried to give me $1,000.” Flagg says he thought hefty paperwork was required to get any Walmart donation—a notion the visitor scoffed at. “He said, ‘Nah, forget the paperwork; here’s a thousand bucks,’” Flagg recalls. Again, the money was refused. “I told him about the issues, and about how they pay lousy wages,” Flagg says. “And he said, ‘Lousy wages? What do you mean, man? Look out there, that’s my car.’” Flagg pauses. “I think it was a BMW,” he says. After we left a message on the Walmart media line seeking information about Flagg’s mysterious visitor, we received a call from the publicrelations firm R&R Partners. It appears that R&R then simply channeled our request back to
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Walmart, and that’s the last we heard from anyone. Nonetheless, rejecting money in tough times—even from Walmart—was not an easy decision, Flagg says. “We got a lot of calls from people who were really angry and even hateful about it, too. So you know, it goes both ways.” Indeed, an Arizona Daily Star story about Flagg’s decision was followed by vehement letters to the editor. “Flagg has no principles,” read one. “I hope the hungry of Tucson and Catholics are paying attention. So, for my part, I can forget about any future donation to a Catholic charity.” But some were supportive. “Walmart’s supposed low prices come at a high cost,” wrote one reader, “not only to its workers who have no health benefits, to our community where local stores and manufacturers are forced out of business, but also to the factory workers overseas who supply Wal-Mart [sic] with cheap goods by working in crowded, unhealthy and dangerous sweat-shop conditions. …Thanks, Brian, for refusing to let a giant corporation use Casa Maria to make them look good.” In the end, say experts, the polarity of these views highlights the risk nonprofits face by taking money from controversial sources. “Best practice is if they have a gift acceptance policy to fall back on,” says Michael Nilsen, spokesman for the Association of Fundraising Professionals in Arlington, Va. Beyond that, he says, there is no universally accepted standard. “It’s really based on the culture of the organization. …This isn’t necessarily a black and white issue.” Nor is accepting such money while claiming neutrality toward the donor. Consider the numerous organizations that accepted small donations or volunteer hours from Rosemont Copper, the subsidiary of a Canadian investment company hoping to dig an open pit mine in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson. Those recipients eventually found themselves listed under “partnerships” on the company’s website, alluding that they support the contentious project. Yet many of those so-called “partners” contacted by the Weekly hardly considered themselves to be partners of Rosemont. Instead, groups such as Tucson Values Teachers and Casa de Los Niños say they held no opinion on the mine. “We have a Rosemont executive on our board,” says Jacquelyn Jackson, executive director of Tucson Values Teachers, which lobbies for education support. “I wouldn’t call them a major funder, but they certainly contributed.” Still, “we haven’t taken a position on the actual (mine) issue,” Jackson says. “We’re kind of open
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Brian Flagg: “It’s part of doing business in America. You try to make yourself look good by giving out small amounts of money.” to all comers in the business community.” Other recipients of Rosemont donations, such as the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, see taking the money as sheer necessity. “When we accept donations from an organization, it doesn’t mean we support that organization’s business practices,” says Food Bank spokesman Jack Parris. “We don’t get into making judgments like that. …We need to feed hungry people in Southern Arizona.” Several attempts to get a full explanation from Rosemont about of how such donations translated into “partnerships” have been unsuccessful. Nonetheless, nonprofits do bear responsibility for how their names are used, Nilsen says, whether that includes being listed as a Rosemont “partner,” or trumpeted in newspaper stories about Walmart’s generosity. “Frankly, if I was the charity, I would be a little careful. ‘Donor recipients’ might be one term. But to me, ‘partners’ connotes a very different sort of relationship.” A nonprofit’s currency “isn’t necessarily money,” he adds. “Its currency is its reputation. That’s really what it has on the line. I think charities always need to look at how their names are being used if they are given a gift. Their due diligence doesn’t just stop with accepting the money.” Back at Casa Maria, Flagg tightens his sweatshirt against the December chill and glances at the dissipating lunch crowd. The way he sees it, even cash-strapped nonprofits can’t just take money from hot-button organizations—whether it’s Rosemont or Walmart—while claiming to be impartial. But he certainly knows the temptation. “Money is really, really tight,” he says, “and people are really, really poor. They have extreme needs, and so do the agencies trying to support them.” That distress is eagerly exploited by the Rosemonts and Walmarts of the world, he says. “It’s part of doing business in America. You try to make yourself look good by giving out small amounts of money.”
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Newtown, Conn., is a long way from Tucson, and too many people are already picking apart the particulars of that community’s horrific massacre. We don’t want to add to that, but we would like to say that our hearts are with those who lost so much last week at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The slaughter of so many children has reawakened the topic of gun control in Washington. President Barack Obama said in Newtown last week that “if there’s even one step we can take to save another child or another parent or another town from the grief that’s visited Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek and Newtown, and communities from Columbine to Blacksburg before that, then surely we have an obligation to try. In the coming weeks, I’ll use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens, from law enforcement, to mental health professionals, to parents and educators, in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this, because what choice do we have? We can’t accept events like this as routine.” Southern Arizona’s U.S. Rep. Ron Barber, who was nearly killed after he was shot in the face and leg during the Tucson shooting at Gabby Giffords’ Congress on Your Corner nearly two years ago, has generally steered clear of calls for new gun legislation, choosing to focus instead on the need for better treatment for the mentally ill. But Barber took to the pages of The Arizona Republic last Sunday, Dec. 17, to call for restrictions on automatic weapons and extended clips, such as the one that was used by the Tucson shooter. “I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms—but we must take action to deal with the easy availability of assault weapons and extended magazines,” Barber wrote. “We must take action to prevent people who are a danger to themselves and others from getting access to these weapons.” Barber emphasized that new gun laws were only part of any response, saying “we must also recognize that these issues are not the only pieces in a complex problem to which there is no single answer.” The answers aren’t easy, either. As of our deadline, the NRA had been silent on its social media in the wake of Sandy Hook and most Republican lawmakers were avoiding the question of whether to enact new gun restrictions. But you can bet, once the children have been buried, that we’ll hear a lot about how the real problem isn’t easy access to war-zone firearms, but the liberal culture, the lack of God in the classroom and the violence in video games.
UHLICH: STAYING OUT OF THE KITCHEN Outgoing state Sen. Frank Antenori took to the airwaves last week to start
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THE LEFT STILL WANTS ITS LIBERAL TALK, BUT CAN IT WORK IN TUCSON? A few years ago, I was sitting across from liberal talk show host Ed Schultz at a local restaurant. It was part of a station promotion for KJLL AM 1330. During our conversation, Schultz lamented the difficulty of getting liberal talk on good radio signals. The gist of his argument is a familiar liberal-talk spiel. Conservatives run big corporations, and therefore they want conservative talk on the prime talk stations. Never mind that Schultz was then negotiating with a big corporation to get a primetime TV spot. Regardless, he visited Tucson on behalf of 1330 AM, which, indeed, does not have a strong signal and got terrible ratings for its liberal-talk format. But it did have a loyal fan base, and it’s clear that the fan base feels disenfranchised since the market’s only liberal-talk outlet changed formats. So, can liberal talk similar to what was broadcast on KJLL (which has since flipped its call letters to KWFM) find a profitable niche in this market? It wouldn’t be easy, but the prevailing opinion from a couple local radio programmers is yes. Doug Martin and John C. Scott have been down this road. Martin is the general
“If someone put a liberal station on the air, they could make a lot of money at it.” — John C. Scott manager at conservative talker KVOI AM 1030, while Scott has transitioned his longrunning radio program to KVOI after he was ousted as the GM at KJLL during last year’s behind-the-scenes upheaval. KVOI is similar in many ways to 1330. While it has a significantly better signal, it’s independently operated and doesn’t deliver great ratings. It is in direct competition with two more established conservative formats: Clear Channel-owned KNST AM 790/FM 97.1 and Journal Broadcasting-owned KQTH 104.1 FM. Furthermore, KVOI has to deal with being on the AM dial, which is consistently losing favor with younger demographics. But the station turns a profit due to what Martin calls a partnership model, in which hosts purchase air time but then can split sales revenue. “I believe strongly in people being incentivized to do things,” Martin said. “I don’t think the old model works quite as well anymore. You have people not involved in the selling of what they’re doing, and they’re passive and don’t really care, but all of a sudden, the money’s not there, and they don’t have a job. That was the old way. You hire jockeys or air talent and a sales staff and the chips fall where they may. What I think is neat about this is people are directly tied and invested, and they’ll want the program to be successful, and that helps. It’s working for us, and I think the same could
be true for a liberal format.” While Schultz and other liberal talkers would argue that progressive talk radio struggles on an unfair playing field where conservative talk gets more established, and therefore more familiar, signals, Martin suggests NPR has at least as big an impact. “They may be listening to National Public Radio instead, which gets huge numbers,” Martin said. “You’d think in a market like Tucson, you could do pretty well, but (KJLL) was never able to really connect and get the listeners, and they should have been able to get a great deal of the listenership because there’s no real competition, aside from National Public Radio.” Scott believes connectivity is the bottom line. While 1330 has been saddled with a string of financial difficulties, the station turned a profit during Scott’s tenure as GM, paid off significant debt and made payroll on time, all on a struggling signal that rarely cracked 1.0 in the ratings. “There would always be a market for it because this is a university town; it’s a liberal town; and there’s a democratic majority of voters in Pima County,” Scott said. “They want a place to come hear what they want to hear that reinforces their liberal thought and belief. The idea you couldn’t make any money at it is ludicrous. Of course you could make money at it. If you pay attention to the community, you can program Yaqui Indian chants and still have an audience, and still be able to sell it. If you pay attention to the community, you have an involvement in the community, and that’s what the new management at KJLL never understood and has not done, ever.” After abandoning the liberal format in September, 1330 programmed all-Michael Jackson-all-the-time for a few weeks, then jettisoned that for holiday music. Who knows what the plan is for the beginning of the year? In its current format, with an all-but-nonexistent staff (a familiar refrain for much of music radio regardless of ownership status), 1330 is more or less a Pandora station without the ability to skip six songs an hour. And nearly all of its once-loyal listener base has likely skipped the frequency in search of other options, which at the moment don’t exist in a market with a voter registration that runs 3-2 Democrat. “If you pay attention to the community and realize the FCC gave you a license for one reason, to serve the convenience and necessity of the public, we did that, and we were able to make money,” Scott said. “Elevator Christmas music doesn’t serve the convenience and necessity of the public. It just doesn’t. You can get that in an elevator.” During Scott’s tenure at 1330, the station cut deals with 22 shows. That brokered approach brought revenue into the equation while giving the hosts an opportunity to use the radio waves for information and advertising purposes in a variety of areas of expertise. It was a hodgepodge in the midst of a liberal foundation, but a functional model that got the bills paid. “It worked, because we could sell it,” Scott said. “Yes, you can make it. Yes, you can build a great audience. If someone put a liberal station on the air, they could make a lot of money at it.”
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Cosmic Census BY JIM NINTZEL, jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com KARIN
hen UA professor Brant Robertson was an MIT Hubble fellow a few years ago, he was part of a team that came up with a plan to direct the Hubble Space Telescope to peer into a portion of space known as the Ultra Deep Field. Earlier this year, Robertson and his crew got a chance to put the plan into action with the Wide Field Camera 3, an infrared camera installed on Hubble by a NASA astronaut via a 2009 spacewalk. Last week, the team unveiled the results: images of galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago, from 380 million to 600 million years after the Big Bang.
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What do you learn from looking back toward the dawn of time? We’re learning how many of these early galaxies there were. Was it a single population? Were there more than one? We found six objects in the range of what we call redshift 8.5 to 10.5, and that’s roughly in the range of, say, 600 million years to 450 million years after the Big Bang. And then we found, to our surprise, the record-holder galaxy at redshift 12, which is only about 380 million years after the Big Bang. We’re learning a lot about these galaxies. They’re not the first generation of galaxies. We think they’ve been around a while. They’re forming stars quite prodigiously, so that’s important to understanding what happens to the universe as a whole. What is the “cosmic dawn,” and how does all this work relate to it? After the Big Bang, the universe is very hot and dense, but it expanded and cooled to the point where the free electrons in the universe—the negatively charged particles in the universe—
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You were able to use the Hubble Telescope to peer back in time 13.3 billion years. What did you see? We found a new population of galaxies that hadn’t been seen before. We’re always interested as astronomers to learn how the population of galaxies built up over time. One of the most important questions we can answer using something like the Hubble Space Telescope is: When did galaxies first start forming? Was there an immediate rapid rise in the galaxy population or was it a more measured increase in the number? The light from these galaxies are quite blue intrinsically; they emit a lot of ultraviolet radiation. And as that light is traveling from those distant objects to us in the present day, the universe is expanding and it stretches out the light, and it takes ultraviolet light and stretches it into the infrared. So we need infrared cameras to see these very distant galaxies.
Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012. could recombine on some protons to form hydrogen. That was first big event in the universe, this recombination. Afterwards, the universe was full of diverse, neutral gas and there weren’t any stars, there weren’t any galaxies, there weren’t any structures. And there wasn’t any light in the universe. We call that the “dark ages.” But eventually the first stars and galaxies could form and they were the first sources of light, and we call that “cosmic dawn.” These galaxies we found are more like midmorning—after your first cup of coffee or something. They’re just now abundant and bright enough to really have some influence on what’s going on in the universe.
The UA is also involved in building the James Webb Space Telescope. What’s that project all about and what do you hope to learn from that? That’s tremendously exciting. The James Webb Space Telescope is kind of Hubble’s big brother. The Hubble has been around for a long time and we’re really pushing it to the limits. JWST is a new telescope that’s much larger than Hubble and it looks primarily in the infrared. And some of those new infrared cameras are being built here in the UA, by Marcia and George Rieke. JWST will allow us to look even further back in time. It’s scheduled for launch in 2018.
a rumor that Tucson City Councilwoman Karin Uhlich is opening a restaurant in Louisiana. Appearing on the morning show of Garret Lewis, a poorly informed transplant who runs his mouth on one of Clear Channel’s numerous stations, Antenori mocked Uhlich for creating jobs in New Orleans while Tucson has such high unemployment. “I’m not opening a restaurant in New Orleans and I don’t live there or own any property there,” says Uhlich, whose second term on the City Council comes to an end in 2013. Uhlich, who has not yet said whether she’ll seek re-election to the Ward 3 seat, has been doing some work in the New Orleans area—but she says she has been doing that for years. Uhlich heads the Center for Economic Integrity, a nonprofit organization she founded after leaving her job running the Primavera Foundation, a local nonprofit dedicated to helping Pima County’s homeless. The Center for Economic Integrity’s work, which has included battling payday lenders, mostly occurs in the Southwest. But in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Uhlich was contacted by the philanthropic Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. “They wanted to come up with a strategy so that local people in the Gulf region were hired into jobs as the area rebuilt from the hurricane,” Uhlich says. “So I have been working in the Gulf region, under the auspices of the nonprofit, since 2005 or 2006.” Uhlich says the main thrust of her Louisiana work is creating nonprofit staffing organizations similar to Primavera Works, which is designed to find job placement for day laborers and other workers. Primavera Works was launched as an alternative to other staffing companies that were hiring people but then charging them fees and otherwise nickel-and-diming them before cashing their checks. “It’s a way to make sure that people who might otherwise not be able to get work can get past whatever barriers there are to get the job,” Uhlich says. “In New Orleans, there was real concern that Labor Ready and a lot of other organizations were opening up shop and it was not clear that it would be local residents who would benefit from all the jobs that resulted from the rebuilding.” Uhlich says she’s been working with three groups in the Gulf region and “the business that is opening is actually a couple of nonprofit staffing companies modeled after Primavera Works. The good news is that … they’ve been open for some time now to serve the disadvantaged workers in the region.” Uhlich was unsure where the rumor about opening a restaurant came from, but she says that one of the nonprofits she works with, Catholic Charities, has
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A person with a deep voice called a local resort 14 times in one day to ask receptionists such things as, “Do you want to hear me jack off?” and, “If I take off my underwear, will you sit in my lap?” according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Although the resort usually ignores the occasional crank call, the security manager decided to call deputies because of the frequency of the calls. When a deputy dialed the number the calls supposedly came from, he noticed the man who answered did not have the deep voice that the manager reported. The man told the deputy that he had not made the calls, but would ask his teenage sons about it, although he said he doubted they were involved. The man also is the co-owner of a chatline business, and he recently had a falling out with his partner, the report said. The man told the deputy that the partner had managed to clone his phone number and had been harassing him. The hotel resolved the issue by blocking the offending phone number.
DRUG DISGUISE NOV. 30, 10:30 P.M. THREE POINTS
Two supposed bales of marijuana left in the middle of the road turned out not to contain the type of bricks you would expect, according to a report from the PCSD. Someone called 911 to report the bales, which were covered with burlap. The caller also claimed to have seen a group of people hiding in the desert nearby. When a deputy arrived, he placed the bales in his vehicle, but found no one suspicious in the area. The contents were encased in plastic wrap beneath the burlap and each bale weighed almost 30 pounds. A few days later, deputies opened the packages for processing and discovered they actually contained concrete bricks covered with green carpeting. Deputies have no suspects. The fauxgrass was thrown away.
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A disgruntled juvenile threatened one of her peers and ran away during a school field trip, according to a University of Arizona Police Department report. The girl told another person on the trip that she was going to “punch that bitch in the face,” before saying she was headed home, a teacher’s aide said. Another teacher on the trip tried to keep the girl from leaving, but backed off when the girl became angry. The person in charge of the field trip said the girl was a “handful and a danger to herself and others.” Foster-care personnel later found the girl, and the Tucson Unified School District is handling the case, the police report said. 12 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
Responses to a Tragedy ast Friday, we learned that 26 people were murdered at the hands of a madman at a Connecticut elementary school. Twenty of them were children; most were as young as 6 years old. By the time you read this, the news cycle will have already rolled along—politicians and talking heads will be discussing the potential for gun-control policy changes while those who ask for a discussion on mental health in this country will likely have their pleas fall upon deaf ears. But the impact of the spree, as seen from the Internet, is fascinating even today. Take, for instance, the mobs that popped up once the name of the original supposed shooter, Ryan Lanza, was announced. Countless Facebook and Twitter accounts of folks who shared his name were descended upon by masses of social-media users, gaining followers and retweets aplenty from both regular folk and national personalities. Facebook accounts, dedicated to both tribute and vengeance, were opened. Yet, as the day wore on, the owner of the true Ryan Lanza account spoke up, claiming that he was at work, and that he wasn’t the shooter—which, we later found, was true. The account was very quickly deleted as his truthful claims of innocence were ignored. Or the work of oft-maligned hacker collective Anonymous, who seem to pendulate between seen as a force for the greater good or as vandals depending on the day, struck out against the hatemongers of the Westboro Baptist Church. The WBC, who pendulate between simply being terrible and being the worst people in existence, released a video claiming that “God sent the shooter” to Connecticut, and that he was intended “as a message.” In response, Anonymous published the personal information (including phone numbers and addresses) of many WBC members, explaining in a video: “We will not allow you to corrupt the minds of America with your seeds of hatred. …We will destroy you. We are coming.” And though nothing quite captured the despair of Friday like The Onion did in writing “Good God, if this is what the world is becoming, then how about we just pack it in and fucking give up, because this is no way to live,” local organization Ben’s Bells did something great: In quoting Mother Teresa, they offered words of peace and hope. From their Twitter account: “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Here’s to hoping that, this time, we won’t.
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COMMENT OF THE WEEK “Since when has Arizona had an .08 alcohol limit? This is a ‘zero tolerance’ state, and has been for some time. I know this from personal experience, having spent the night in Pima County jail for having a blood alcohol content of 0.40. —TucsonWeekly.com user “PVK” “Uhhh, I believe a BAC of 0.4 is legally dead” — TucsonWeekly.com user “W Corvi” “Uhh, I believe you’re correct. … Since I’m still alive to type that, I surmise that you knew that already. Thanks for the correction.” — “PVK” —Two Weekly readers discuss the difference between a night in jail, and a night in the morgue (Police Dispatch, Dec. 13).
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Confusion Contusion ou know that saying that’s meant to question our perceptions of reality, “If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” That’s kind of how it felt after a Tucson Unified School District governing board meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 11. On the agenda was a vote to approve or object to the latest version of the district’s desegregation plan, moving the district closer to ending an almost 40-year-old desegregation lawsuit, Fisher-Mendoza v. TUSD. However, many longtime observers were left confused when they were told the vote they observed was not really the vote they observed. As part of the legal procedures in the deseg process, U.S. District Judge David Bury assigned a desegregation specialist as a special master to work with all parties involved: the attorneys from MALDEF, the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, who represents the Mendoza plaintiffs; attorney Ruben Salter, representing the Fisher plaintiffs; TUSD, which is represented by the law firm DeConcini McDonald Yetwin and Lacy; and the U.S. Department of Justice. On Monday, Dec. 10, special master Willis Hawley released a final desegregation proposal for Bury. The following Friday was Bury’s deadline for all briefs and objections filed by the parties, which also included state Attorney General Tom Horne. So, the point of the governing board vote on Tuesday was to approve or object to the plan before it went to Bury. However, board member Adelita Grijalva said she would not be able to vote for the deseg plan if it included the district’s November objection to making the culturally relevant curriculum part of the district’s core classes. The curriculum is identified in the new deseg proposal as MexicanAmerican and African-American studies. “There are significant sections to the unitary plan that I support. And so if there is a way to separate out the culturally relevant courses from the rest of the document, then I would be able to support a vast majority of the unitary plan,” Grijalva said. “But if not, then I would have to vote no to the unitary plan. I don’t know how to do that.” As of last week, the district hadn’t posted the resolution it adopted Dec. 11 on the TUSD website or made one available when requested, but Stegeman read a staff-prepared statement to approve the desegregation plan noting two new objections—the hiring of professional development deadlines and the creation of a task force, as well as the objection to core classes. To appease Grijalva, board president Miguel Cuevas asked Stegeman if he was willing to sep-
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arate the objection to making the culturally relevant classes part of the core curriculum for a separate vote. Stegeman agreed, and the deseg resolution passed 5-0. Then the separate resolution objecting to the classes was defeated 3-2, with Grijalva, Cuevas and Alexandre Sugiyama voting no, and Michael Hicks and Stegeman voting yes. Sylvia Campoy, a Mendoza representative and former TUSD school board member told me that evening she was “floating” after watching the votes and was so overcome that she turned at the doors and said, “Thank you,” to the board. Campoy said what she understood had happened was the return of the Mexican-American Studies program in fall 2013. Other media coverage and Facebook was an interesting social gauge, with MAS supporters excitedly posting about the return of the program. What was confusing, and which only reinforced that belief, was what occurred later at the meeting. Stegeman asked for a five-minute break, and after it was over, asked if someone who voted with the majority on the second vote would be willing to bring it back for reconsideration. (For a play-by-play of the meeting, go to The Range at tucsonweekly.com and click on “Sunday Morning Primer: WTF Happened at the Tuesday TUSD Board Meeting?”). “We had a split vote earlier on my motion to object to one paragraph in the unitary plan. And I don’t want the board on record with split votes on this issue. So I would request that a member of the majority ask to reconsider, and then I would hope that we can vote that down unanimously to avoid a split vote,” Stegeman said. Although Grijalva questioned the move, Stegeman was basically asking that everyone vote to defeat his own motion. Hicks was visibly confused and asked the board to go into executive session to get a better understanding. When the board returned, the objection was defeated unanimously in a revote. But Grijalva was cautious and specifically asked TUSD attorney Martha Durkin exactly what her no vote meant. Durkin explained that voting yes supported the district’s objection to the core classes. “So a no vote would mean that we are removing the objection (to the core classes), the district’s previous objection,” Grijalva said. Cuevas interjected an explanation, “An additional objection that was submitted. That does not have anything to do with our original objections that were submitted in executive session.” After the revote, the meeting continued and didn’t end until after 11 p.m. For some MAS supporters, what did or did not take place that
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Mark Stegeman: “Simply voting down a motion—any motion—has no legal impact.” night wasn’t understood until Grijalva posted this on her Facebook page: “Unfortunately the TUSD board vote tonight regarding Culturally Relevant Courses only voted down an ADDITIONAL objection to CRCs as core classes. The initial objection filed by TUSD is still in effect. This issue will be rectified at 1st meeting with new board in January.” The next day, Cara Rene, TUSD’s communications and media relations director, issued a statement of clarification that the board approved the desegregation plan, but it was subject to objections, which includes objections filed in November, adding that in the first vote the board approved “two new objections in regards to hiring timelines of district personnel and the creation of a task force.” Grijalva told the Tucson Weekly she thought the second vote was a directive to withdraw TUSD’s objection to keeping the culturally relevant classes in the core curriculum, and she also thought that legal counsel understood this, too. Grijalva said her remedy is to bring the vote back before the board on Tuesday, Jan. 8, when newly elected board members Cam Juarez and Kristel Foster are seated. Both have said that they support the return of the MAS classes. While Stegeman was adamant about a revote, he told me by email it wasn’t really that big of a deal, “It was not critical to revote the second motion, which had already failed, but I thought that voting it down unanimously would at least clarify that the board was adopting a united position and that the second motion was substantively unimportant, even if it had passed.” Stegeman also wrote that if Grijalva’s goal was to reverse the district’s objection filed in November, that “would have required a motion to do that. Simply voting down a motion— any motion— has no legal impact.” We sent emails to Sugiyama, Hicks and Cuevas to get their views on the vote, but had not received any responses as of press time.
been running a nonprofit restaurant for some time. “I ain’t no chef, that’s for sure,” she says with a laugh. Antenori, who lost his bid for reelection last month after redistricting put him in a competitive district, started the restaurant rumor with a call to Lewis’ show. He said the call was inspired by hearing Lewis read the bios of council members on the air, including a reference to job creFRANK ation, “and I called in, jokingly, and said she’s doing such a good job of it, she decided to go open up a restaurant in New Orleans and is helping create jobs in New Orleans. It was a sarcastic comment. … He took it and ran with it and said she’s spending more time in New Orleans than in Tucson. She’s creating more jobs in New Orleans than she is in Tucson.” Uhlich expects that Lewis is attempting to portray her “as I don’t really live here and I’m missing a lot of meetings and not paying attention to Tucson.” Uhlich did miss a recent council meeting, but it was because she was visiting her father in Michigan. Ward 6 Councilman Steve Kozachik, a Republican who has clashed with Antenori in the past, says the outgoing state senator and morning-radio host are barking up the wrong tree in complaining that Uhlich has been missing council meetings. “Nobody on the council, including the mayor, has any problem at all with Karin’s attendance record,” STEVE Kozachik says. “Everybody has to miss a day from time to time and she is doing an exemplary job of being at the council meetings, participating and providing quality input. So whatever Mr. Lewis and Mr. Antenori are alleging are inventions of their alleged minds.” By Jim Nintzel Find early and late-breaking Skinny at The Range, our daily dispatch at daily. tucsonweekly.com Jim Nintzel hosts the Political Roundtable on Arizona Illustrated, airing at 6:30 p.m. Fridays on KUAT Channel 6. The program repeats at 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. on KVOI 1030 AM. Follow the Skinny scribe on Twitter: @nintzel.
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IT’S MIDMORNING ON A TUESDAY AT THE AMPHI CLOTHING BANK, BUT THE ACTIVITY LEVEL IS JUST THIS SIDE OF BLACK FRIDAY. Young mothers are walking between the racks of meticulously arranged and clearly labeled clothing, picking out a coat here and a pair of pants there. One mother is asking whether there are any shoes, while another asks whether she can get something for her kids who aren’t old enough to go to school. In the center of the beehive of activity is Susan Canty, ridiculously upbeat and cheerful despite (or perhaps because of) all that is going on around her. Susan and her husband, Mike, are the only ones working the bank that morning. There are only four volunteers, total, and that puts a strain on everybody. Mike and Susan, both retired, regularly put in 40-hour weeks. Mike neither looks nor feels well on this particular day. He starts off with “I’ve got this stomach thing …” But then he pulls off a spectacular, whiplash-inducing non-sequitur with “ … we just got done with Stuff the Bus. We got lots and lots of donations of stuffed animals for kids. And coming up, we’re going to have a special afternoon thing where high school girls can come in and get prom dresses for the winter formals that are coming up.” He actually sounded better after having gotten that out. The Amphi Clothing Bank, which serves any and all kids in the Amphitheater School District, is in a small warehouse just south of the main entrance to Amphi High, in an alley off Stone Avenue. It’s open for Amphi families on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. until noon, and on Wednesday afternoons from 3 to 6 p.m. Donations can be dropped off at any Amphi district school or at the Clothing Bank when it’s open. The clothing bank also takes cash donations, which are used to buy things like new underwear and socks for kids. (Having grown up in poverty myself, I know that even needy people draw the line at used underwear. My problem was more of the hand-me-down variety: I had six sisters and no brothers.) Mike and Susan are originally from Grand Island, N.Y. (between Buffalo and Niagara Falls). They fell in love back there and then jointly fell in love with Tucson and moved here in 1970. Except for a sevenyear stretch when they moved back East after Mike got a job with the Department of Energy, they’ve been Tucsonans ever since. Susan taught kindergarten and first grade at Donaldson Mike and Susan Canty Elementary in the Amphi district before retiring. She readily admits that she probably puts in more hours per week now than she did when she was teaching. But it is definitely a labor of love. “It’s just so rewarding to be able to help and to give back.” A meticulous record-keeper, Susan informs me that the young family that she is helping at that moment is the 253rd family the Clothing Bank has served this semester. There are usually rushes of activity right before school starts and then again when the weather starts turning cold. She echoes her husband and says that they certainly could use some more help. Even if people want to put in just a few hours per week, it would make a huge difference. One of the young mothers, on her way out, searched for the words and then told me, “It’s wonderful what they do. They’re like … angels.” — TOM DANEHY
Resurrected from Tucson’s dusty narrative, these lovely signs provide a colorful window into our not-so-distant, small-town past. They also offer glimpses into the vital, painstaking work of the Tucson Historic Preservation foundation. From helping to restore the adobe Matus/Meza house— one of the few surviving early 20th-century buildings in Tucson’s Old Pascua Yaqui neighborhood— to rescuing the circa 1951 screen from the Cactus Drive-in, the foundation has been fighting the good fight for more than 20 years. It has campaigned to save the historic Mountain View Officer’s Club, an African-American social site at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista. Foundation members have spent years trying to protect downtown’s two-story adobe Marist College. Members have spearheaded a book about early Tucson architect Josias Joesler, and another about midcentury Tucson architect Tom Gist. In November, the foundation hosted Tucson Modernism Week, highlighting distinctive, mid20th-century architecture that could face demolition because of a proposed widening of Broadway Boulevard. But just as history is a work in progress, preservation of the past is never finished. The fate of Broadway’s modernistic flourishes resides in the halls of bureaucracy. And any future for the Marist College lies in the mercurial hands of its owner, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson. The foundation is also working closely with city officials and property owners to streamline Tucson’s prohibitively cumbersome historic landmark ordinance. “As a result of the current process, which is pricey and onerous, there are only five city landmarks in Tucson,” says foundation president Demion Clinco. “And the last one—the El Con water tower—was created 20 years ago.” As Clinco sees it, a revamped ordinance could extend protection to countless properties around town and keep a bit more of our collective past alive. While most of these achievements are relatively recent, or slated for the immediate future, they belie one cardinal rule: Preservation is all about the long game. That’s why folks with the foundation just keep plugging along, sign by sign, building by building, ordinance by ordinance. Admittedly, that determined pace can give way to a fast trot. “This has been a very busy year for us,” Clinco says, ticking off the $100,000 sign-restoration project, the Marist, the landmark ordinance change and a half-dozen other projects now in the works. In terms of immediacy, completing the vintage-sign project was a big boost, he says. “They are a fragile resource. Unlike a building that takes quite a while to tear down—up to two weeks, during which people tend to notice—a sign can be gone in two hours. It just sort of vanishes from our collective memory. But I think there’s a value to these signs, in terms of how the community responds to them and loves them and photographs them.” The same goes for all history that falls prey to our future. But from Clinco’s perspective, the two are inextricably linked. “For me, it’s really about the future of our city,” he says. “When we’re competing to attract businesses to our city and we’re trying to retain a creative class here … if we don’t preserve and protect the places that make Tucson unique and special—if we don’t preserve these places that have a unique sense of Tucson—then we as a community will lose a competitive edge.” Now that’s a thought worth saving. — TIM VANDERPOOL TIM VANDERPOOL
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ENGEL INDO SITS IN HIS OFFICE AT THE NEWLY-OPENED KINO VETERANS’ WORKFORCE CENTER, HOLDING A HARLEY-DAVIDSON COFFEE MUG IN ONE HAND WHILE ANSWERING NONSTOP PHONE CALLS FROM PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY NEED HIS HELP. One caller asks if Indo can get a free pair of prescription glasses for a 90-something veteran who has lost his; another asks Indo to help raise money for a veteran’s funeral; and another wants to know if Indo had an extra TV at home that he could donate to an impoverished veteran who wants to start watching the news again. In the span of an hour, Indo has figured out how to help all of them. That’s how his days go since he became a volunteer for AmeriCorps VISTA a couple of months ago.
Indo is the veteran peer navigator at Rally Point Tucson, a new program that acts as a middleman between veterans and the world. The program has been active since September, after VISTA helped get a grant to fund it. Since then, thanks to volunteers like Indo, RPT has reached out to more than 70 veterans and their families. “A lot of these veterans are going through a very hard time emotionally and economically, so I try to help them in any way that I can,” Indo says. “I help them find a job, find scholarships to pay for school, and any other type of resources they need.” Indo was discharged from the military in 2008. As a veteran himself, he knew it was important to give back to that community. A friend approached him about the project and, although it was a full-time unpaid position, Indo immediately became involved. However, RPT isn’t Indo’s first experience with community work. Many people know Indo through the Latin rock band A Son y Sol. But his aspirations have always gone beyond performing. In the past couple of years, Indo has created various projects that benefit Tucson and communities south of the border, all the way to his hometown of Callao, Peru. In 2010, Indo created De La Perla a Las Estrellas (From La Perla to the Stars), a program that used music to teach English to children growing up in Callao’s La Perla district. It’s one of the poorest districts in Peru, and where Indo grew up. Earlier this year, Indo started Identificame/Identify Me, an organization that helps identify the remains of migrants who have died in the Sonoran desert and informs their families. And a couple of months ago, Indo founded Indo Cottons, a clothing company that uses Peruvian textiles. All proceeds from the sales go right back to Peru to help Engel Indo poor families pay for things such as medical bills and utilities, or to help them start a small business. However, Indo has had to put From La Perla to the Stars and Identify dentify Me on hold because there’s not enough money to fund them. “Everything I do is out of my own pocket,” Indo says. “So, unfortunately, that is also one of the things that holds me back from doing more: not having enough money. But as long as I have the will to help, and I keep trying, something good will come out of it.” Indo remembers that at age 14, he was already involved in helping his community. Growing up surrounded by poverty made him realize how important it is to create a sense of support in the community we live in. “If you don’t have a sense of community, then why the hell do you live in one?” Indo says. “It is hard for one person alone to get through hard situations. It is important to know that you can turn to your neighbor for help. It’s very easy to help.” — INÉS TARACENA
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A CHRISTMAS TREE SPARKLES IN ONE CORNER OF DOWNTOWN’S ARMORY PARK SENIOR CENTER AS ROBIN LANDERS HUSTLES PAST WITH AN ARMLOAD OF FILES, CELL PHONE PASTED TO HER EAR. I FOLLOW, FINDING MYSELF IN AN OFFICE THAT OVERFLOWS WITH MORE FILES, BOOKS, STUFFED TOYS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. You might call it ground zero. From this unpretentious room flows Landers’ passionate, 20-year crusade to better the lives of Armory Park’s very lucky seniors. eniors. But hers is also a mobile mission extending to any hub, such ass this, that brings people together rather than prying them apart. After all, she learned her chops at the Northwest Neighborhood Center, where in 1988, the surrounding, largely African-American enclave was hardly thrilled at having a white 26-year-old running their hard-won outpost. That acrimony almost landed her in court, before Landers began unearthing her own stubborn preconceptions. This journey was spurred by Baiza Muhammad, a former Tucson community activist who taught Landers that racism can just as easily emerge from context—one black neighborhood in a dominant white society—as from personal predilections. “That started me on a journey I never expected,” Landers says. “I really took it to heart.” She turned Muhammad’s message inward and dropped her own defenses. Soon, folks who bristled around her did the same. The result was remarkable: Before leaving the Northwest Center in 1993, Landers had earned the Tucson Human Robin Landers 18 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
Relations Commission’s coveted Make a Difference award, and had learned profound lessons about dignity and community and the process of simply listening. Those lessons quickly found a new home at the Armory Park center. Built alongside senior apartments, it had become family for those who had none. Landers set about nourishing that sense with a packed agenda of events, a popular meal program and the rich texture of camaraderie. Two decades later, she remains part social worker and part mother hen, and her spirit imbues this place. Today, Christmas music wafts past the pool tables where older men hover, brows furrowed in competitive concentration. It flows through the computer lab and the fitness center, and fills a broad lobby populated by deep couches and a bubbling aquarium. And some 20 years after coming to Armory, Landers still listens closely to that inner voice. Its message is particularly salient now, as her seniors undergo a trying transition to new quarters in the recently built Sentinel Plaza apartments, some 2 miles away. In fact, she was key to smoothing the logistics of their move, arranging for a small army of volunteers who helped pack decades of memories into big cardboard boxes. Not surprisingly, Landers is a beloved character. As we sit at her desk, a staffer brings in a huge teddy bear. It’s a gift from one of the center’s daily patrons. “You can see I have plenty of room for it,” she jokes, motioning me to a chair. According to Landers, the secret of her work inhabits that steep learning curve between how she started at Northwest and how she left. “That’s where I spend my life,” she says. “I came to understand that I was truly just a steward of that facility, and I had a responsibility to that community. “That first year was probably the toughest year of my life. The rest was the biggest blessing of my life, and I’ve met so many of the most amazing people.” And the lesson lives on. “We are in a unique position to make a difference in people’s lives every single day,” Landers says. “When somebody walks in that door, my staff knows their names. That’s a big deal, because first and foremost, they get that sense of belonging.” — TIM VANDERPOOL
Turning the walls of the Chinese Cultural Center into a history lesson WHEN THE PESQUEIRA BROTHERS RETIRED AND CLOSED THE EL GRANDE TORTILLA FACTORY, IT MARKED THE END OF AN ERA. THE TORTILLERIA WAS THE LAST WESTSIDE REMINDER OF THE 150 OR SO BARRIO-BASED CHINESE MARKETS THAT WERE ITS BEST CUSTOMERS. THOSE MARKETS HAD SHUTTERED DECADES AGO AS CUSTOMERS FLOCKED TO NEW SUPERMARKETS. THEIR OWNERS’ DESCENDANTS PURSUED OTHER FIELDS, AND THEIR HISTORY DISSIPATED WITH THEM. Longtime high-school volleyball coach Patsy Lee has worked to recapture that era’s unique sense of community and share it with future generations so they may learn their history—and also life lessons—from that now-invisible past. Lee grew up at her dad’s grocery in Barrio Hollywood. The Pesqueiras’ mom was among her mother’s best Patsy Lee friends. Under their tutelage, Mrs. Lee learned to speak both Spanish and English. Relationships like that played generations throughout the barrios. out for gener “We had a language barrier; they had a language barrier,” Lee says. “They also had financial h d a fi i l problem: They couldn’t walk into the bank and say, ‘Can I get a loan for $200?’ The banker would look at them all crazy.” But Chinese grocers gave them credit. “They could buy a whole week’s worth of groceries, and sign their name, and come back on a Friday with their paycheck.” As a longtime supporter and board member of the Chinese Cultural Center, and an educator for 38 years, Lee undertook an effort to make the structure’s walls a teaching tool. She put up a storyboard about her family’s history. At first, Lee says, “I could only talk about how I grew up, what my family did. But all my friends my age grew up the same way and brought their stories and old family photos.” Lee soon had storyboards for nearly all the stores in her parents’ generation. When she engaged a group of seniors for whom she hosts lunch at the center every Thursday, she really hit pay dirt. “Everybody got excited, so the stories on the boards started getting a little older. Some of my seniors grew up in Tucson in the 1910s and 20s!” Storyboards already lined two walls of the center when Lee asked the Pesqueiras—and other barrio residents past and present—to help find photos and addresses of long-lost groceries. “We involved the Latino community,” Lee says, “because they’re the ones who helped us achieve our financial success.” That project led to recording oral histories from the era, and last September, Lee took the show on the road. “We had a rolling history party,” she says. “We rented a bus and went to Barrio Hollywood, Barrio Anita and Barrio Viejo. We ended up with a party, and the mariachi kids did a Lion Dance with us.” Lee waxes nostalgic for the sense of community she enjoyed while growing up. “I thought I was Mexican,” she says. “I didn’t know I was Chinese.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 NOELLE HARO-GOMEZ
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issues to ending the death penalty. There was also a program called Alternatives to Violence, which provided conflict resolution workshops in prisons and the community. “‘Hey, intern, go do an AVP workshop,’” Isaacs recalled being told one day. “So, I walked in the federal men’s prison, medium security on Wilmot (Road), fearing for my life, thinking, ‘I am this young woman, going to the prison for a weekend.’ I was scared.’” It turned out to be life-changing instead of life-threatening. She met people she described as “some of the coolest, funniest and most interesting people—the prisoners.” A couple of the prisoners she met there educated her about “the prison industrial complex,” and she realized that everything she felt was wrong in the country, everything she wanted to fix, intersected with the prison system—racism and economic and social injustice. “Felons are the most discriminated against,” she says, “and they are also often people of color and poor people.” Isaacs became the AFSC’s Tucson office program coordinator in 2001 and was promoted to director in 2004. The office’s focus on prison reform includes fighting laws that benefit that industry, such as SB 1070, which has boosted the number of immigrants in detention. “We have three different campaigns or areas of work: sentencing reform, reducing the prison population, and the private prison industry,” Isaacs says. “But really they are entwined. … If you’re just fighting with one, the other is going to bite you. You have to take on the laws, too,” Isaacs says. In February, the AFSC’s Tucson office issued a report written by Isaacs that gets to the heart of her work—exposing the unethical connections between state government and private prison corporations such as Corrections Corporation of America. Although Arizona’s prisoner population is on the decline, the state continues to expand its prison system through private-prison contracts. One of the challenges of collecting information on the private prison system is the lack of transparency. Unlike state- or federal-run prisons, private prisons don’t have to respond to public-information requests. Isaacs’ report was based on months of research that allowed her to tell a story about an industry full of abuses and safety issues. To get the information used in the report, the AFSC had to sue to force the Arizona Department of Corrections to comply with a law that requires it to review private prisons. “Certainly in Arizona, the state Legislature is enamored with private prisons. They are also used for immigration detention. Because of SB 1070, we are at ground zero for that,” Isaacs says. The report has put the AFSC’s Tucson office and Isaacs on the map as an authority on the private-prison industry, which is growing across the country and internationally. Isaacs was invited to New Hampshire recently to speak about private prisons, and she gets calls from reporters in other countries seeking information about the industry. “This is what’s so crazy. You have these government entities that aren’t paying attention to the industry at all and are just handing out the money without doing any studies,” Isaacs says. Much work remains to be done in Arizona, Isaacs says. “We can put a Band-Aid on it, but if we want to fix it, we have to go to the source, which in Arizona is our crazy Legislature.” — MARI HERRERAS
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Her innovative thinking is changing science education and drug treatment for women WITH THE GUIDANCE OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SALLY STEVENS, THE SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN BRINGS IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN GRANTS EVERY YEAR. For instance, a $1.6 million grant jump-started a three-year substance-abuse-treatment program for working moms last January. In May, the National Science Foundation gave SIROW almost $1.2 million to establish i-STEM. The science-education and mentoring program targets students in two Tucson Unified School District schools near the Pascua Yaqui reservation. Stevens is the senior project adviser for the first program and directs the second—but she’s also working on programs that reach out to LGBT youth and investigate the juvenile-court system. “Her work ethic is simply unmatched,” said SIROW research professor Rosi Andrade. “She’s the hardest working woman I know.” But Stevens is quick to emphasize the work of her colleagues and the institution. “It really takes a village, if you will,” Stevens said. “We have a great team of writers and a variety of personnel at SIROW that is incredibly talented.” The University of Arizona institute was founded in 1979 to research issues that affect women and children. Federal grants give SIROW the luxury of conducting research that measures the impact of their programs in the long-term, Stevens said. Stevens joined SIROW in 1995 as a research professor and became executive director in 2004. Her involvement in women’s health issues is almost as extensive as her career in psychology. After graduating from the UA with a doctorate in educational psychology in 1987, Stevens worked for nonprofits. At the time, many drug treatment programs were one-sizefits-all. “Women are not just little men,” Stevens said. “We really need to be treated differently, looked at differently and perhaps have different interventions.” In the world of psychology, intervention is a term that can be used to describe various programs, from drug treatment to educational Sally Stevens outreach. In most places, women who sought substance abuse treatment were often separated from their children. “You could see the look of depression or of anxiety around not having their kids,” Stevens said. One of her first major projects investigated how women fared in treatment when they brought their kids with them. The result? Women and—surprisingly—men improved more than those treated while separated from their families. “That really inspired me to look at other groups, to look at other interventions and really think outside the box in terms of what people really need,” Stevens said. More often than not, the analysis of one project will lead to a new issue. After reviewing data from adult women in the late 1990s, researchers at SIROW realized that many of their substance abuse, self-esteem and mental-health problems began between the ages of 13 and 15. “Maybe if we began our work earlier, with groups of people who are younger, we can make a bigger difference,” Stevens recalls thinking. The period marked a shift in her career, as SIROW began to invest more time in youth-centered projects. Shortly after this epiphany, it applied for and received federal grants to expand existing programs to reach adolescents. Stevens talks about SIROW’s acronym-titled programs like they’re her children. “There are so many projects and they’re all very different and have their own personalities,” Stevens said. I-STEM, which just received the NSF grant, is in its “terrible twos,” Stevens joked. She’s in the midst of recruiting mentors, planning curriculum and coordinating field trips. But the process is cyclical: As the project matures, she’ll analyze results and eventually begin writing the next grant. “That’s what my love of life is all about,” Stevens said. “It’s really thinking creatively and innovatively about partnerships and interventions.” — MARIANA DALE CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 NOELLE HARO-GOMEZ
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HAILE THOMAS PROVES THAT AGE DOESN’T MATTER WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE. On a sunny Saturday morning, sixth-grader Haile Thomas is doling out fresh greens during the Tucson Village Farm’s Harvest Festival. Tomorrow, she’ll run in a 5k and give a presentation for a local health-related kids group. Typical 21st-century preteen? Probably not, but Haile is on a mission to give a voice to her generation about the benefits of healthy eating and ending childhood obesity. She believes kids have good ideas and that they should be heard. Haile’s mission started when she was “about 5 years old,” she says. She wanted to learn how to cook, and her mom, Charmaine, encouraged her. As she became more accomplished, she wanted to know more about the food she ate. And she wanted to make a difference. “I guess I give myself the title of health advocate for kids,” she says. Being a child of the digital age, she took videos of her cooking and then launched an online cooking show with her sister Nia called Kids Can Cook. Haile wanted to reach a larger audience. She discovered the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and its youth-advisory board. She began serving on the board in 2012. Then she heard about the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge, a recipe contest for kids sponsored by Epicurious, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Education and first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative. She entered her recipe for quinoa, black bean and corn salad and was floored when she won the right to represent Arizona in the challenge. The contest culminated in the Kid’s State Dinner at the White House. Her recipe was one of six on the menu. She met both Michelle Obama and the president when he “crashed” the lunch. Because of her work on the board, Haile was invited to give a speech at the Partnership for a Healthier America in Washington, D.C., last November. PHA describes itself as an “independent, nonpartisan organization” dedicated to bringing together the private and public sectors to fight the obesity epidemic. Its honorary chairwoman is the first lady. Haile told the audience of more than 700 people: “Kids have an important voice. We have great ideas. We can help adults make a positive change in our world.” She brought the crowd to its feet. She got to cook with Tom Colicchio, which she says was “a dream come true.” She also met White House assistant chef Sam Haile Thomas Kass, who invited her to the White House. There she met Michelle Obama for a second time. (Haile was also one of the kids who greeted the first lady when she visited Tucson last April.) Of Michelle Obama, Haile says, “She likes to give a lot of hugs, but she also l tries t i to t motivate kids to have a part in the community and to attack this childhood-obesity problem. She’s really active in the community, and I think she’s a great role model for everyone, even adults.” The speech also brought her to the attention of Hyatt Hotels, a PHA partner. “After giving that speech, a few months later, I got contacted by Hyatt to partner together to make a new menu for kids, “For Kid, By Kids. It’s a fun, fresh and flavorful kids menu.” Haile helped develop the menu, a process that allowed her to meet Chez Panisse chef Alice Waters, another of her role models. She has a second website called, ‘The Healthy Girls Adventures Club.’ “Basically, we motivate and inspire each other to get healthy. And its girls from all over just sharing their healthy adventures and all their experiences, their recipes, things like that.” She also started the Healthy Kids Club at her school, St Gregory’s Preparatory School. Club members promote healthy lifestyle choices through school and community projects. They’re also working on changing the food choices at St. Gregory’s. One requirement of the youth-advisory board for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is to carry out a service project on Global Youth Service Day. Haile’s project is called H.E.A.L (Healthy Eating, Active Lifestyle) Festival. Last year, she partnered with the Pivorotto Health and Wellness Center at the UA Medical Center and the Grow 2B Fit Foundation, a local health-awareness organization. She was able to obtain several grants and the support of a group of sponsors. Held at the medical center, the event included booths packed with nutritional information, cooking demonstrations from local restaurants and physical fitness activities. Haile is already hard at work organizing next year’s H.E.A.L. Festival and aims to make it bigger and better. — RITA CONNELLY
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Jazz Through the Lens of a Master
A decrepit loft building in New York’s wholesale flower district was once one of the most idolized venues in jazz. Referred to simply as “the loft,” it was an after-hours jazz heaven where artists—mainstream and underground alike— rehearsed and held endless, spontaneous jam sessions. It was also the home to many of these musicians. Then a new neighbor moved in: legendary photojournalist W. Eugene Smith. Between 1957 and 1965, Smith cut ties with his job and his marriage, and confined himself to the loft. He was looking for a cheap place to live and a refuge from family, economic and professional problems. Fate made him stumble into the largest body of work of his career: about 40,000 photos documenting his stay at the loft that would become The Jazz Loft Project.
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World War II that depicted the The loft, at 821 Sixth Ave., became a horrifying violence on islands such as musicians’ refuge after an artist bought Guam and Okinawa; the Minamata the building. He used one of the floors project, which showed the impact of as a painting studio, but had pianos mercury poisoning on residents of and drum sets installed in another. A Minamata, Japan; and Country Doctor, jazz aficionado, he encouraged in which Smith shadowed a general musicians to use the space for practitioner in a small town in Colorado. whatever they pleased. These The Jazz Loft Project is a big musicians needed a place away from departure from Smith’s earlier work. The residential areas, where they could liberating atmosphere he encountered practice from dusk until dawn without at the loft was something Smith had disturbing anyone. The loft became a W. Eugene Smith’s “Thelonious Monk and Town been seeking out for years. The limits on huge musical blessing. Hall Band in Rehearsal” from the W. Eugene Smith his artistic freedom while working for “It was a former industrial building Archive, at the Center for Creative Photography. Life pushed Smith to quit several times, that hadn’t been used for years. and he made the split permanent when he moved to the loft. Apparently, it had no heater and no running water,” said Cass Fey, “There was a simpatico there between Smith and the jazz curator of education at University of Arizona’s Center for Creative musicians, because they, too, were searching for artistic freedom,” Fey Photography, who recently finished her research on The Jazz Loft said. “At the loft, the musicians encountered a place with fewer Project. “But musicians and audiences were still loyal to the place, and limitations, away from the commercial world, where they could create still came to admire everything that took place there.” jazz in its rawest form.” Some of the most influential jazz musicians in the world walked on As he expected, the work Smith did at the loft had no outside the loft’s deteriorated, wooden floors. Pianist Thelonious Monk, funding, and he had to be creative in finding ways to cut costs. For bassist Charles Mingus and saxophonist Zoot Sims were among the example, when editing photos, he used bleach to bring out highlights regulars at the venue. These jazz legends attracted audiences from and contrasts. various backgrounds and from all over the world, including Spanish The Jazz Loft Project consists of Smith’s original prints and audio painter Salvador Dalí and photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, recordings. Writer Sam Stephenson discovered the material at the who appear in some of the photos now on display at the Center for Center for Creative Photography while doing research on another of Creative Photography. Smith’s photo essays. Stephenson put the exhibition together and gave But the loft wasn’t exclusively for mainstream musicians and bigit the title. And now, after touring since its successful debut in 2010, it shot artists. Lesser-known horn players, bassists, pianists and singers is returning to Arizona. also played a huge role in turning the loft into the music legend it has “The exhibition is a great learning experience of Smith’s techniques, become. as well as a great viewing experience of the photos he took at the loft,” The musicians knew of Smith’s past work with Life magazine and Fey said. “It has a lot of historical importance because of the time and his status as photojournalism royalty. He became a fly on the wall, place it documents. People have the opportunity to see the work of trusted and respected by the visiting musicians. After a few months of one of the greatest photojournalists of the era.” snapping photos, Smith installed microphones and began recording the conversations and music that radiated from the loft. The result The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene was about 4,000 hours of recordings. Smith, 1957-1965 is on display through March 2013 at the “The recordings added another dimension because, all of a sudden, University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. there was sound to pair up with the amazing photos,” Fey said. “And it Olive Road. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through just shows Smith’s extraordinary documentarian skills.” Friday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. For more Smith was among the first photojournalists to publish photo essays, information, call 621-7968. Admission is free. and is often credited with creating the concept. Inés Taracena Among Smith’s most memorable works are his photo essays from mailbag@tucsonweekly.com
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SPECIAL EVENTS History From the Crypt Jewish Pioneers of Southern Arizona Cemetery Tour 10 a.m., next Thursday, Dec. 27 Evergreen Cemetery 3015 N. Oracle Road 670-9073; jewishhistorymuseum.org
It’s not often that people look up at a street sign and wonder how the street got its name, or walk into a building and wonder who designed and built it. Sometimes the past is disregarded, and the minds and hands that shaped Tucson as we know it are ignored. This city was built by a mixture of cultures. And a tour of Evergreen Cemetery will focus on the influence of Jews in the making of Tucson. “Tucson is so multifaceted because the people who played a role in its modeling were multifaceted,” said Barry Friedman, a historian and president of Tucson’s Jewish History Museum. “History helps you understand why certain people are the way they are, and places look the way they look.” It is one thing to go to a museum and view artifacts, old clothing and vintage photos. But to stand in front of people’s graves while learning about their legacies makes history much more personal. “It is like their spirits are right there with us,” Friedman said. “The feeling is so different when you talk about them and they’re, if you may, right there with you.” Friedman has led the cemetery tour for the past couple of years. For about an hour, he takes people on a walk among the graves of Jewish pioneers and indulges them with stories. Among those whom Friedman will discuss are the city’s the first Jewish major, Charles Strauss; the Drachman family (yes, as in Drachman Street), and the people who helped bring the University of Arizona to Tucson. “I truly enjoy teaching people about our history,” Friedman said. “These are people that not many locals know about. This tour is about learning about each other, learning about our town, and learning about our diversity in a very interesting environment.” Admission is $10. —I.T.
Left: Anthony Dawson and Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder. The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd., screens Dial M for Murder in 3-D at 5 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21, through Thursday, Dec. 27. $9.25 general admission. Visit www.loftcinema.com for more info.
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Annual Poets’ Square Roof Top Santa Show
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Poets’ Square Neighborhood Fifth Street and Columbus Boulevard
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The residents of the Poets’ Square neighborhood grasp the concept of community. The neighborhood has been occupied by many of the same families for decades. Together, they have nurtured a holiday tradition that has been passed down from household to household. Twenty-four years ago, Dr. Donald Saelens, his wife, and another neighbor created the Roof Top Santa Neighborhood Show. They approached other neighbors with the idea, and more than 25 people agreed to participate. “Dr. Saelens headed the show for 12 years, and he then decided to pass the badge down to my husband,” said Susan Modisett, one of the organizers of the Poets’ Square Roof Top Santa Show. “The first year we ran it, we had it at our house, and we’ve moved it from house to house since then.” Despite changes among the organizers, the event remains true to the late Dr. Saelens’ vision. He would often talk about how his parents would drive him around Iowa, his home state, so he could look for Santa among the rooftops. So when Saelens created the Poets’ Square show, he wanted it to take place on a rooftop. The 30-minute musical skit begins with Santa singing on the roof, then sliding down the chimney into the house and acting out the Christmas story of Jesus’ birth. Afterward, children and their families can meet Santa, eat treats with him, snap photos and plead for what they want for Christmas. The neighborhood starts planning the show weeks in advance. Nearly everyone living in Poets’ Square has had a part in bringing the tradition to life. “It shows how neighbors can come together and work together to bring something good to our community,” Modisett said. The event is free, but visitors are encouraged to bring canned food for the Community Food Bank.—I.T.
The Tucson Jazz Institute has a lot to celebrate this year: Its TJI Ellington Big Band was named the top high school big band in the U.S., and the top community big band, by Downbeat magazine and Jazz at Lincoln Center. TJI bands have traveled around the country this year, performing before thousands in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. But now, the rehearsals are focused on the annual TJI Winter Concert. “These young musicians have accomplished a lot this year,” said Scott Black, co-founder and combo/ improvisation director of the Tucson Jazz Institute. “At this concert, we’ll be celebrating those accomplishments with Tucson, the community we represent everywhere we go.” TJI, formerly known as the Jazz Academy, has nurtured local jazz talent for the past 10 years and developed a national, as well as local, fan base. The musicians and singers at TJI range from middle school students to high school students. Many of them have been with the institute for years, with their lives revolving around jazz. TJI hosted its first winter concert the same year it opened its doors. It is one of the many ways the institute has found to showcase members’ talents. “We are constantly trying to figure out different ways to keep the momentum going, and keep our shows exciting,” Black said. This year’s winter concert will feature six big bands performing jazz from the 1930s to the 1960s. There’s also a jazz choir, and three smaller bands will perform jazz arrangements of holiday music. “Our winter concert and the other performances we have throughout the year has helped us gain a loyal fan base,” Black said. Admission is $15 to $20; and free for seniors and children younger than 12. —I.T.
SPECIAL EVENTS Tucson Reborn born Global Birth Day ay .m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Dec. 22 eester Reid Park Demeester mance Center Outdoor Performance ph Way 900 S. Randolph 0; (770) 330-6880; n.org birth2012tucson.org
Lots of people e have been wondering if oing to end on Friday, Dec. the world is going hat’s when the Mayan 21, because that’s posedly stops. calendar supposedly 012, a so-called “Global But Birth 2012, olds the opposite view. Birth Day,” holds “We’re rightt at that moment when lems that can apparently there are problems tire life-support system,” destroy our entire according to a video about the event from Barbara Marx Hubbard, a futurist, blic speaker who created author and public the concept off The Synergy Engine, a global online networking platform. “But there’s anotherr way of looking at the very same fact. … Joining together, we can th of a universal ni ersal h manit ‘gentle’ the birth humanity and guide our Earth community into its next evolutionary stage.” In other words, despite global warming, unsustainable human population growth and overconsumption, all hope is not lost. In the midst of such scary, world-altering phenomena, some folks—like the Rev. Angel, a protégée of Barbara Marx Hubbard—are creating a new, optimistic vision of our future. And they’re doing it here the very day after the infamous Dec. 21 with Birth Tucson 2012. “We are a movement committed to creating an evolutionary shift of consciousness,” the Rev. Angel said on the event’s website. Most of the activities in the daylong event will be housed in a huge and colorful “Wheel of Co-creation Tent.” The tent will feature exhibits and workshops, a performance stage featuring local bands, arts and crafts, healing sessions and more. The evening schedule includes performances by a children’s choir, Tohono O’odham dancers and a mariachi band, and a sacred hoop dance by Tony Redhouse. The event also includes a laser light show. The event is free and open to all. —A.M.
The UA Women’s Basketball team plays Longwood at 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 20, at UA McKale Memorial Center, 1721 E. Enke Drive. $3 to $8. Visit www.arizonawildcats.com for tickets and more info.
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HOLIDAYS AT THE CORBETT HOUSE Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. The historic mission-revival style Corbett House, which is included on the Tucson Museum of Art historic block, is decked out in holiday finery for tours at noon and 1 p.m., from Wednesday through Sunday, Dec. 26 through 29, and Wednesday through Friday, Jan. 2 through 4; $10, $8 senior, $5 college student with ID, free age 18 or younger, active military or veteran with ID, and TMA members. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org.
Sitting on the floor of the studio at Movement Shala, 435 E. Ninth St., Alok Appadurai describes how he and his life partner, Jade Beall, started Fed by Threads, a store that sells sustainable, made-inthe-U.S.A. clothing, with sales helping to support emergency meals for the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona and a nationwide hunger-relief organization. The clothing is available at the Ninth Street location and online. For more info, go to www.FedByThreads.com.
ROOFTOP SANTA SHOW Poets’ Square Neighborhood. Fifth Street and Columbus Boulevard. More than two dozen Poets’ Square neighbors continue a 24-year tradition of performing a 30-minute, rooftop musical skit that tells the Christmas story, at 6:30 and 8 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23; free. Members of the First Brethren Church provide pre-show entertainment. Treats and photos with Santa follow; free. Please bring canned food for the Community Food Bank.
Mari Herreras, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com
How did this start? I started out as a schoolteacher, but I always had an interest in entrepreneurship, especially social entrepreneurship. It’s in my blood. But after my mother died of breast cancer, I was in Brooklyn, N.Y., and my life was wide open. … I met Jade, and we hit it off, and a few months later, I sold everything and moved to Tucson. She’s become my partner and co-founder in everything. We’re parents together and creators together, and that led us on this road to this space. There are three main components here: the Movement Shala, which is a yoga and dance studio, and there is the community, and now Fed by Threads. How are classes offered? There’s a lot of different models with how studios work, and we’ve created one that we feel benefits teachers. … The point of the space is to be people-centered. We don’t care about the discipline. It could be tango classes or meditation, as long as it is communitycentered. We have a growing pride in the community of teachers here. … It’s a sacred space for people to take risks and enjoy themselves. And then Fed by Threads? Our community started asking for a community shirt for this space. Jade had identified a poem by Rumi about dance and life, and we said, “This will be on a rack.” At the same time, we got mail from the Food Bank with 26 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM
horrifying statistics on the depth of hunger in the United States. We said, “We’ve got to do something,” and we decided to reach out to the Food Bank and figured out how our community shirts could cover the cost of 12 emergency food boxes from the sale of each shirt. But now this is more than just a rack of community shirts? Yes, when people started asking us where we were getting the shirts manufactured, and with what fabrics, we started looking into this industry more. We realized that we could do more and make more designs. None of us come from this industry, fashion or retail. We’re more about walking a way in life that’s done in baby steps. It took eight months for us to get there. The project was born about December 2011. People thought we were crazy, because everyone looks at sustainable fabrics as frumpy. But we found a manufacturing relationship that seemed too good to be true. We got in our car with our baby for a very long drive to California and found a company that does small-batch production, no mass production. What are the clothes like? Hand-cut and hand-sewn, super-high quality, in our opinion. And we didn’t just jack up the price. When we started, I said, “I don’t want this to become a project for the elite and wealthy and those with discretionary income.” We continued to
drill down further, even looking at our shipping mailers, making sure we used biodegradable as opposed to the plastic bags that last in the landfill forever. How do you make a profit between the cost of business and donating to the Food Bank? The point is to make a profit, but … there is a world of entrepreneurs who are thinking about business differently. Basically, the premise is, can … I take care of my family and shake the trees? Do we hope it is successful? Yes. Do we intend to have a roof over our heads and feed our 10-month-old healthy food? Do we have confidence that we can do all these things? Yes. How much do your garments cost? Between $22 and $72, what we think an average American can easily spend on a quality piece of clothing. I would argue most stores offer clothing that is made overseas and generally made in mass production, with no humanitarian benefit. And they certainly don’t benefit the environment. So how does the humanitarian benefit work for your company? Every piece we sell provides 12 emergency meal boxes across the country. By the end of 2012, we should cross 15,000 emergency meal boxes. We started right here at the local Food Bank. They were thrilled. They don’t often have projects coming to their door.
WINTERHAVEN FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS Winterhaven Neighborhood. Fort Lowell Road between Country Club Road and Tucson Boulevard. The Winterhaven Neighborhood’s massive holiday light display continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. Hours are 5:30 to 10 p.m., daily; free. Donations of nonperishable food and money for the Tucson Community Food Bank are encouraged. Drive-through nights are Friday and Saturday, Dec. 28 and 29. Visit winterhavenfestival.org for more information.
OUT OF TOWN CANDLELIGHT IN THE CAVE Colossal Cave Mountain Park. 16721 E. Old Spanish Trail. Vail. 647-7275. Enjoy a candlelight tour of Colossal Cave followed by chili and cornbread, hot dogs, s’mores, hot chocolate and a no-host beer and wine bar featuring hot spiced wine, at 6 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Dec. 21 and 22; $30, $20 age 12 and younger.
UPCOMING HOTEL CONGRESS Hotel Congress. 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. The Studio 54 New Year’s Eve Bash features live music, DJ, dance floor, party favors, a champagne toast at midnight, and what’s purported to be the biggest disco ball in the Western Hemisphere, starting at 8 p.m., Monday, Dec. 31; $25. VIP tickets include private entertainment, front-of-line service, a hosted bar, passed hors d’oeuvres, appetizer stations and a free photo booth; $125. Visit hotelcongress.com/music for tickets and more information. NEON: ’80S AND ’90S VIDEO DANCE PARTY Rialto Theatre. 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000. Dress up for time travel to the neon haze of the ’80s and ’90s starting at 9 p.m., Monday, Dec. 31; $10, $35 VIP, includes noisemakers, glam party favors, confetti, balloons, and a free champagne toast at midnight. VIPs have exclusive access to the Rialto’s stage. Call for reservations and more information. NEW YEAR’S EVE GALA JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa. 3800 W. Starr Pass Blvd. 792-3500. A five-course meal is followed by music for dancing starting at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 31; $203 to $273 includes free champagne at midnight. Music is provided by jazz artist Rick Braun with Richard Elliot and Peter White, and the Tucson Jazz Institute’s Ellington Band. Proceeds from a silent auction benefit the Tucson Alliance for Autism, the National Autism Society and the Tucson Jazz Society’s youth music education program.
NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH THE TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Arizona Inn. 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. An evening featuring champagne cocktails and an open bar, dancing, a multi-course meal, wine-pairings, party favors and music by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra soloists, the TSO String Quartet and SwingN’ the New jazz band takes place at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 31; $225. Call 882-8585, or visit tucsonsymphony.org for tickets.
BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK CHINESE FOOD ON CHRISTMAS DAY Tucson Masonic Lodge No. 4. 3590 N. Country Club Road. 323-2821. The Jewish History Museum celebrates the Jewish tradition of having Chinese food on Christmas day with a choice of a vegetarian or chicken Chinese dinner from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 25; $20. A Jewish Arizona Trivia game follows. Reservations are requested by Sunday, Dec. 23. Call 670-9073. ELECTRIC HOLIDAY PARADE Tanque Verde Swap Meet. 4100 S. Palo Verde Road. 294-4252. A 110-foot long parade, with Santa and his reindeer atop a light-covered choo-choo, makes its way around the swap meet from 7:15 to 9:15 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Dec. 21 and 22; free ride for children with two cans of food or a freewill donation for local charities. FOURTH SATURDAY COURTYARD ARTISANS FAIR Old Town Artisans Courtyard. 201 N. Court Ave. 6236024. Tucson artists and craftspeople display and sell their work, and local authors discuss and sign their books, from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the fourth Saturday of every month through February; free admission. HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. An arts and crafts fair takes place around the Gaslight Theatre, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., every Saturday and Sunday, through Sunday, Dec. 23; free admission. HOLIDAY SHOPPING AND CHAMPAGNE PARTY Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. A free event features last-minute holiday shopping opportunities in a festive atmosphere in the museum lobby and store from 5 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 20; free. PLANT-BASED POTLUCK SUPPER Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church. 1200 N. Campbell Ave. 327-6521. Bring a low-fat, plant-based dish to feed about four people and share the recipe, including an ingredients list, for the benefit of anyone with a food sensitivity, at 5:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21; $1 plus lowfat, plant-based dish. Please provide your own plate, cutlery, napkin and drink. WANT TO BE IN OUR SPRING ARTS PREVIEW? We want to tell the world everything you’re doing in fine art, theater, music, literature, performance and the humanities, from Thursday, Jan. 24, through Wednesday, Aug. 14. Our deadline is Friday, Jan. 4. Just send the basics—title, date, time, place, ticket prices, contact info and website—to listings@tucsonweekly. com, and put “Spring Arts” in the subject line. We don’t even need complete sentences!
OUT OF TOWN COMPUTER WORKSHOPS AT THE LIBRARY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Oro Valley. 229-5300. Classes are free, but reservations are required two weeks before the class. Get one-onone help in understanding free digital downloads, and download eBooks, audiobooks and videos to your device, from 2 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 26; and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 27. Bring your device and your library card or PIN.
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UPCOMING HOLIDAY MODULAR MODEL-TRAIN LAYOUT Tucson VA Hospital. 3601 S. Sixth Ave. A model-train layout with a Christmas theme runs in the Lindsay Auditorium from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 27; and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday, Dec. 28; free. JEWISH PIONEERS OF ARIZONA CEMETERY TOUR Evergreen Cemetery. 3015 N. Oracle Road. 888-7470. Barry Friedman guides a tour presenting the legends and history of Tucson’s Jewish pioneers and explaining why they have no headstones, at 10 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 27; $10. Meet inside the cemetary gate. Call 6709073 for reservations and more information. MARKET ON THE MOVE Pueblo Magnet High School. 3500 S. 12th Ave. 2254300. For a $10 donation, shoppers get up to 60 pounds of fresh produce, from 8 to 11 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 29; free admission. For composting and animal feed, spoiled and damaged produce is also available. Call 225-4510, or email lourdes.rios@tusd1.org for more information or to volunteer to help with the distribution. Market on the Move rescues and distributes fresh fruits and vegetables free to food banks and families in need. RECYCLE THE CHRISTMAS TREE The city of Tucson provides no pickup service for Christmas trees. Homeowners may discard their
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ANNOUNCEMENTS CHRISTMAS IN NACO Donations are sought for the Bisbee Rotary Club’s annual Christmas in Naco. On Christmas day, the club delivers clothing, toys and items to keep kids and adults warm in winter. Call (520) 266-2194 for drop-off locations or to arrange a pick-up. 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 (520-227-5060). 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: KiefJoshua 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
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needed throughout the year to help with business, art and production projects. Visit fluxxproductionsstudioandgallery.tumblr.com for more information and details about upcoming events. Email joes@fluxxproductions. com for information about volunteering. FOUNTAIN FLYERS TOASTMASTERS Coco’s Bakery Restaurant. 7250 N. Oracle Road. 7422840. Participants learn and enhance speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment, from 6:30 to 7:45 a.m., Tuesday; free. Call 861-1160 for more information. GAM-ANON MEETING University of Arizona Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. A 12-step support group for families and friends of compulsive gamblers meets in dining room No. 2500D at 7 p.m., every Monday; free. Call 570-7879 for more information. INDOOR SWAP MEET Tu-Swap Indoor Swap Meet. 1301 E. Apache Park Place. 222-7927. An indoor swap meet is open daily for vendors, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday, Saturday and Sunday to the public; free. ITALIAN CONVERSATION Beyond Bread. 3026 N. Campbell Ave. 322-9965. All skill levels practice from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., every Tuesday; free. Call 624-9145 for more information. PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE A volunteer for the Pima Council on Aging provides information and answers questions about support available to seniors for caregiving, meals, housing, legal services and transportation; free: from 10 a.m. to noon, the second Tuesday of every month, at Sahuarita Branch Library, 725 W. Via Rancho Sahuarita; from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the second Tuesday of every month, at Oro Valley Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive; from 10 a.m. to noon, the second and fourth Wednesday, at Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center, 1660 W. Ruthrauff Road; from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the second and last Wednesday, at Quincie Douglas Senior Center, 1575 E. 36th St.; and from 10 a.m. to noon, the third and fourth Wednesday, at Freedom Park Recreation Center, 5000 E. 29th St. For more information, visit pcoa.org. THE ROADRUNNERS TOASTMASTERS Atria Bell Court Garden. 6653 E. Carondelet Drive. 8863600. The Roadrunners Toastmasters meet weekly from
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BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK 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. STATE OF THE CHAMBER LUNCHEON AND HOLIDAY EXPO Doubletree by Hilton Hotel. 445 S. Alvernon Way. 8814200. A luncheon celebrating Tucson’s nonprofit community, and the 2012 accomplishments of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, takes place from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 20; $35, $25 with prepaid reservation. Reservations are requested. Visit tucsonhispanicchamber.org for reservations and more information.
FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK HER JOURNEY REMEMBERED Congregation Young Israel. 2443 E. Fourth St. 8817956. Filmmaker Pamela Asherah premiers a biography about the life of Polish Holocaust survivor Chana Fels at 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23; free.
UPCOMING FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. The classic paranormal comedy Ghostbusters screens at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Dec. 28 and 29; $5 to $7. Visit foxtucsontheatre.org for tickets.
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. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Landscape designers and architects must apply by Friday, Jan. 4, to participate in a 3-day competition to transform an empty 15- by 20-foot lot into Tucson’s Best Pocket Garden. Visit tucsonbotanical.org to apply and for more information. Judging and awards take place on Sunday, March 24, at a luncheon featuring Mary Irish as keynote speaker. Gardens will remain on display through May 30 PLANT CLINIC WITH PAUL BESSEY AND ASSOCIATES Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Paul Bessey, retired UA plant sciences professor, answers questions about plant pests, disease and nutrient deficiencies from 10 a.m. to noon, every Wednesday, through June 26; $13, $7.50 ages 4 through 12, $12 student, senior or military, includes admission to the gardens.
HEALTH EVENTS THIS WEEK GROCERY TOUR AND HEALTHY-RECIPE SWAP Quality Strength Fitness Studio. 3870 W. River Road, No. 108. 891-9488. Fitness professionals provide recipes and shopping tips, then guide a tour through a nearby supermarket to illustrate ways to eat well on a budget, at 11 a.m., every Wednesday. Call 891-9488 for more information. ’TIS THE SEASON TO BE POISONED Arizona Health Sciences Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 626-7301. An exhibit of holiday hazards and related safety tips arranged around a parody of “A Visit From St. Nicholas” continues through Thursday, Jan. 10, in the library near the Java City coffee bar; free. Hours are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday; and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday. Holiday hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., through Friday, Dec. 21; and Wednesday through Friday, Dec. 26 through 28. The library is closed Saturday through Tuesday, Dec. 22 through 25; and Dec. 29 through Jan. 1. Call 626-6165, or email barta@pharmacy.arizona.edu,
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to amuse family whose TV is broken, is presented at 6 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21; and at 1 and 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; $7, free for children younger than 5 who sit on laps or on the floor in front of the stage. Proceeds benefit Ben’s Bells’ Kindness Program. CHRISTMAS SING-ALONG Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Raise holiday cheer on the “cheer-o-meter” at 1 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23; $8 to $10. Call for reservations; visit livetheatreworkshop.org for more information. DANCING IN THE STREETS Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Live music by the Civic Orchestra of Tucson is featured in this affordable, full-scale production of The Nutcracker Suite by local celebrities and a dance company known for its diversity, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; and 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23; $13. Call 867-8489, or visit ditsaz.org for tickets and more information.
OUT OF TOWN FAMILY FUN FOR THE HOLIDAYS El Rancho Robles. 1170 N. Rancho Robles Road. Oracle. 896-7651. Ornament-decorating, candy-cane hunts, hayrides and more take place in a turn-of-thecentury setting from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., every Saturday and Sunday, through Sunday, Dec. 30; free. Family photos or photos with Santa are $10 each. Email elranchorobles@gmail.com, or visit elranchorobles.com.
UPCOMING EGG NOG JOG Continental Reserve Park. 8568 N. Continental Reserve Loop 382-1900. A non-competitive 5k run, jog and walk get under way at 8 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 1; $15, $10 advance. Visit marana.com, or call 382-1950 to register and for more information.
FAMILY SOLSTICE CELEBRATION Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Families celebrate the solstice and the changing of the seasons with storytime and a craft that uses sunlight, from 10 to 11 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; $13, $7.50 ages 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior or military, includes admission to the park. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.
HOLIDAY KIDS’ DAY CAMP Rhythm Industry Performance Factory. 1013 S. Tyndall Ave. 481-8003. Tucson Circus Arts instructors teach aerial acrobatics, poi-spinning, globe-walking, tumbling, tight rope and more from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Dec. 27 and 28; $40 per day, $65 both days. Email tucsoncircusarts@gmail.com to register.
GINGERBREAD WORKSHOP Marco’s Patisserie. 3308 E. Grant Road. 292-8567. Families decorate gingerbread houses with their own designs from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Dec. 22; $38.95 per freshly made house includes all supplies, instruction, hot chocolate and cookies. Call for reservations.
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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, Sunday, Dec. 23 and 30; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more information.
CHRISTMAS EVE URBAN BIRDING Meet at the intersection of Tanque Verde Road and the Catalina Highway at 7:30 a.m., Monday, Dec. 24, for a Tucson Audubon Society birding trip to Tanque Verde Wash, Agua Caliente Park and Woodland Road; free. Call 647-3273, or email azcliffy@q.com to register.
HOLIDAY PET FOOD DRIVE Speedway Veterinary Hospital. 3736 E. Speedway Blvd. 321-4235. Pet food is collected for the Humane Society of Southern Arizona, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, through Monday, Dec. 31. NATURE STORIES Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. An art activity follows a story-reading from 11 a.m. to noon, Friday, Dec. 21; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information. TUCSON RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELING EXHIBIT Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch Library. 7800 N. Schisler Drive. 594-5200. An exhibit of children’s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds continues through Thursday, Jan. 31; 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. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@ pima.gov for more information. ZOOLIGHTS Reid Park Zoo. 1030 S. Randolph Way. 881-4753. Light displays, animal-themed light sculptures and thousands of sparkling bulbs are featured from 6 to 10 p.m., daily, through Sunday, Dec. 23; $6, $4 child, $1 member discount. Call or visit tucsonzoo.org for more information.
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PHONELINE TO HISTORIC TRAIL TO SABINO CREEK Sabino Canyon Visitors’ Center. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 749-8700. Sabino Canyon Naturalists lead an easy hike of 7 miles with a 600-foot elevation gain over 3.5 to 4 hours, at 8:30 a.m., Friday, Dec. 21; free. Children younger than 18 must be accompanied by an adult. SUNDAY HIKES Catalina State Park. Oracle Road, 5 miles north of Ina Road. 628-5798. A moderately paced hike of 7 to 9 miles over 400- to 1,400-foot elevations takes place at 7:30 a.m., every Sunday in December, weather permitting; $7 park entrance fee. Call 638-5404 for reservations by 4 p.m. Saturday.
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, Dec. 21; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information. PATAGONIA LAKE STATE PARK Patagonia Lake State Park. 400 Patagonia Lake Road. Patagonia. (520) 287-6965. Visitor center hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Avian tours take place on the pontoon boats at 9 a.m. and 10:15 a.m., daily. Pontoon boats depart for the Lake
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EVENTS THIS WEEK ALLEY CATS YOUTH THEATRE Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. The TV Is Broken, a collection of silly stories told
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Discovery Tour to the west end of the lake at 11:30 a.m., daily. A twilight pontoon tour takes place just before dark on Saturdays. Each boat trip is $5. Bird walks are held every Monday and Friday at 9 a.m.; walks are about three hours long; free. Park entrance fees are $10 vehicle, $17 non-electric camping sites, $25 electric sites. Visit azstateparks.com for more information. SANTA CRUZ RIVER WALKS Tumacácori National Historical Park. 1891 E. Frontage Road. Tumacácori. 398-2341. Guided walks of a halfmile along a level, unpaved trail through rare habitat for birds and wildlife take place at 10:30 a.m., every Wednesday, through April 24; free.
UPCOMING PONTATOC RIDGE TRAIL Sabino Canyon naturalists lead a medium-difficulty hike of 5 miles with a 1,200-foot elevation gain at 8:30 a.m., Friday, Dec. 28; free. The hike starts at the trailhead at the north end of Alvernon Way. Children younger than 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
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SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK BIRTH 2012 DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. 1100 S. Randolph Way. Exhibitors, vendors, prayer and meditation vigils, a laser-light show, performances by a children’s choir and youth-involvement activities take place to welcome the birth of a more creative and loving world, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; free. Performers include a children’s choir, Tohono O’odham Dancers, a mariachi band, and a hoop dance by Tony Redhouse. The event also is featured in a 30-hour live webcast of similar celebrations in several countries. Visit birth2012tucson.org for more info. CHRISTMAS EVE AT ST. MARKS St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church. 3809 E. Third St. 3251001. On Monday, Dec. 24, a family service features kids performing Las Posadas at 5:30 p.m.; and a service at 9:30 p.m. features carols, candlelight and scripture reading.
LONGEST NIGHT SERVICE St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. 545 S. Fifth Ave. 6228318. Music and meditations honor loss and grief for those in mourning in this festive season, at 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; free. PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN BOOK GROUP Rincon United Church of Christ. 122 N. Craycroft Road. Pastor Steve Van Kuiken leads an open book club at 4 p.m., the second and fourth Wednesday of every month; free. WALKING MEDITATION IN THE GARDEN Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. A guided walk facilitates mindful meditation to allow centering for the new year, quieting minds and opening to stillness and silence, from 8:30 to 9:15 a.m., Friday, Dec. 21; $13, $4 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel, includes admission to the park. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. A neo-pagan-style service focuses on the times in life when everything changes as participants light candles and bonfires to light the way forward, from 7 to 7:45 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21; free.
SPORTS EVENTS THIS WEEK UA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL UA McKale Memorial Center. 1721 E. Enke Drive. The UA meets Longwood at 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 20; $3 to $8. Visit arizonawildcats.com for tickets and more information.
UPCOMING RESOLUTION DAY 5K AND WELLNESS ACTIVITIES Cross Middle School. 1000 W. Chapala Drive 6965920. A wellness event includes a family fun run at 10:30 a.m., and a competitive 5k race at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 1; $5 fun run, $25 5k, $22 5k for members of Southern Arizona Roadrunners or Anytime Fitness. Visitors participate in a Zumbathon, a yoga session, and a pushup and planking contest, and find information about nutrition and childhood obesity, blood-pressure checks, body-fat tests and how to stop smoking, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST Desert Diamond Entertainment Center. 1100 W. Pima Mine Road. 294-7777. An Ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view fight features Dos Santos against Velasquez live from Las Vegas at 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 29; free.
PERFORMING ARTS Ballet Tucson’s large holiday production and Dancing in the Streets’ local celebrity-filled version hit the stage
The Nutcracking Continues BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com our weeks into Nutcracker season, Tucson still has two productions to go. And they’re scheduled all weekend long, so true fans of the Christmas ballet— fondly known at Nutters—can go to both. Ballet Tucson is dancing five shows at Centennial Hall Friday night through late Sunday afternoon. Dancing in the Streets Arizona is over at the Fox Theatre, dancing two shows, one on Saturday night and an afternoon matinee Sunday. At 125 dancers strong, Ballet Tucson’s Nutcracker is one of the biggest of the eight productions that have strutted on local stages in the last month. And apart from the Moscow Ballet touring company that hit the Fox earlier this week, Ballet Tucson is the only one that uses professional dancers. “This is our ninth professional season,” artistic director Mary Beth Cabana says proudly. The 30 paid members of the troupe share the stage with dozens of little mice and angels from the Ballet Arts school, along with the studio’s advanced teen dancers. The company’s traditional Victorian version—all velvets and glitter and falling snow— showcases a host of company stars, including the strong and lovely Jenna Johnson as the Sugar Plum Fairy. She’s partnered with Stuart Lauer as the Cavalier. Moved up from the ranks in the last year to become the troupe’s male lead, Lauer is a powerful dancer who easily convinces in romantic roles. Hadley Jalbert and Akari Manabe alternate the rigorous solo part of the Snow Queen. Benjamin Tucker is the Snow King. Cabana’s choreography for “Snow,” the dance that introduces the young Clara to a magical world, is gorgeous. Besides the challenging solos and duets for the queen and king, it deftly moves a stage full of young women—dancing as snowflakes—through intricate overlapping patterns. Ballet Tucson regulars will spot a much-taller Elias Frantziskonis taking on principal roles this time around. Now a teenager, Frantziskonis grew up in the company. This year, at 5-foot-9, he’ll do some challenging grown-up parts, including the Harlequin Doll and the Chinese Ribbon Dancer. “He’s a bright light on the horizon,” Cabana says. Even in a tight economy, the company has managed to refurbish some costumes, including the dresses for the “Waltz of the Flowers” dancers and the white suit of the young Nutcracker Prince. The music is taped, because money that would otherwise go to pay orchestra musicians
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goes instead to the pro dancers. Cabana would prefer live music but, given the choice, she’d rather spend the money on top-notch dancing. “I’m preserving jobs,” she says. he Nutcracker Ballet—El Cascanueces, staged by Dancing in the Streets Arizona, has grown rapidly since its first outing in 2008. That year, says Soleste Lupu, the company’s co-founder and co-artistic director, just 40 students from the southside studio ventured onstage. This year, in its fifth Nutcracker, “we have about 130 students, ages 3 to 23.” Two of those young students, Kaila Stoglin and Karen Garcia, alternate as Clara. And that number doesn’t count the grownup guest artists who take on the plum roles of Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier, or the local celebrities who play the adults in the party scene in Act 1. “We rewrote the storyline slightly,” Lupu says. “Clara’s parents are diplomats, and their guests represent mythical countries around the world.” The switch allows for some wildly colorful costumes. At the party, Tucson’s mayor, Jonathan Rothschild, “plays the mayor,” Lupu says with a chuckle. And his wife, Karen, plays the mayor’s wife. Arizona Daily Star cartoonist and comedian David Fitzsimmons dances at the party, and “he’ll do a surprise at the beginning,” Lupu promises. Local dance legend Thom Lewis, too little seen on Tucson stages lately, also dances in the
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party scene. Now an administrator and dance teacher in TUSD’s Opening Minds Through the Arts program, Lewis is a volunteer teacher at the Dancing in the Streets school. “He’s great with the kids,” Lupu says. Emily Rodgers, daughter of company cofounder and co-artistic director Joseph Rodgers, guest-stars once again as the Sugar Plum Fairy. A new dance graduate of Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Emily Rodgers arrives in town fresh from performing in a Nutcracker in Virginia. Her Cavalier will be danced by Mariano Albano, now back in his hometown of Phoenix after dancing with the Louisville Ballet. Joseph Rodgers takes on Drosselmeyer, the magician who weaves the Nutcracker spell. A native Tucsonan, Rodgers had a long dance career out of town, dancing with the Milwaukee Ballet, Ballet Chicago, Feld Ballet and others. He came back home and, with his wife, Lupu, founded the studio on Tucson’s southside in hopes of reaching kids who would never have thought of ballet otherwise. Rodgers is the primary choreographer, but Corinne Hobson, a NEW ART dancer in Tucson, contributed the Spanish number. Like Lewis, Hobson volunteers at the school, teaching modern dance to the ballet students. Despite its bilingual title, the production is a classical Victorian rendition of the story, Lupu says. The name (El Cascanueces means “nutcracker” in Spanish) “speaks of the diversity of our students.” Dancing in the Streets has been fortunate to enlist the volunteer services of the musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Tucson, who will play
The Nutcracker Presented by Ballet Tucson 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; and 1 and 5 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23 UA Centennial Hall 1020 E. University Blvd. $31 to $59 general; $27 to $41 students/ children/seniors; $20 to $32, groups of 10 or more Tickets at box office, 621-3341 (add a $10 fee for each phone order), and online at www.uapresents.org 903-1445; www.ballettucson.org
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the Tchaikovsky score live. Other treats, Lupu says, include the standard snowfall on stage and the Christmas tree that grows. And, she adds, “we have some surprise cannon stuff.” DECEMBER 20 - 26, 2012
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Anniversary in the Air BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com athan Dryden, one of the best aerial dancers Tucson has ever produced, returns to town this weekend to fly through the air in ZUZI’s 15th Anniversary Solstice Gala Performance. He’ll dance an aerial solo, “The Birds in Dreams Are Souls,” which he choreographed in 2007. Dryden will also do a dance on the ground, “Pros Do Not Leave Putting to Chance,” a structured improvisation with ZUZI dancer Carie Schneider. Now studying for an MFA in dance at the University of Utah, Dryden left town in 2006 to dance in Seattle. Before that, he danced with nearly every modern troupe in town, including NEW ARTiculations and the now-dormant O-T-O Theatre of Dance. He was a founding member of ZUZI! Dance Company, a big reason he’s been invited back to help celebrate the troupe’s 15th anniversary. The gala concert Friday night at the UA’s Stevie Eller Dance Theatre is a “huge statement for the arts, for dance in particular,” says a jubilant Nanette Robinson, artistic director, who co-founded the troupe with Nancy Mellan in the 1997-1998 season. “For ZUZI to have this longevity, to persist through all the struggles of a low-budget arts group, is amazing. There are so many dancers who have passed through these doors.” Dryden will not be the only guest artist returning to ZUZI for the milestone concert. Frequent guest Greg Colburn of Tucson will dance “The Last Dance,” a solo he choreographed to spoken word. Ekida Sarana Laurie, a company member who recently moved to Nebraska, comes back to town to reprise “Potato,” a quintet she composed for last year’s solstice concert. It’s inspired by the Millet painting “The Gleaners,” which depicts French peasants picking up scraps of wheat in the fields. “It’s a very sweet piece,” Robinson says. Lindianne Sarno, a musician and pianist who now lives in Alaska, returns to play once again for “Cocooned Light.” A former Tucson resident, Sarno composed the music for the Robinson dance eight years ago, and played it live. She’ll be joined by UA student Trevor Barroero on percussion. Barroero played marimbas in a ZUZI show as a child, Robinson says. The dance for five has Monica Boccio and Mechelle L. Tunstall gyrating on colorful aerial silks draped from the rafters at Eller. “It looks like a maypole,” Robinson says. “Cocooned Light” premiered in 2004, in the annual ZUZI solstice show. Each winter, the troupe marks the winter solstice—the shortest day and longest night of the calendar—with a
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BALLET TUCSON UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. The Nutcracker is staged Friday through Sunday, Dec. 21 through 23. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday; and 1 and 5 p.m., Sunday; $17 to $56. Visit uapresents.org, or call 621-3341. ZUZI! DANCE COMPANY UA Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. 1737 E. University Blvd. 621-4698. Winter Solstice Gala: Celebrating 15 Years of Dance features modern and aerial dance with special guest artists at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21; $25, $75 includes a reception with a silent auction and music by Pablo Peregrina and the Foileros. Call 629-0237, or email zuzisphere@gmail.com to reserve tickets. Visit zuzimoveit.org for tickets and more information.
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DECADES DANCE PARTY Desert Diamond Entertainment Center. 1100 W. Pima Mine Road. 294-7777. The band Decades rings in the new year with a ’70s and ’80s dance party, from 8 p.m. to midnight, Monday, Dec. 31; $25. Visit ddcaz.com on the Sahuarita tab for tickets and more information. HUITZILOPOCHTLI La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar. 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. A touring family performs traditional Aztec dances shared through generations, from 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 29; and from noon to 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 30; free.
ZUZI! Dance Company dancers in their 2011 Solstice concert, Sombra y Luz. joyous concert keyed in to light. This year’s Their 15th Anniversary edition is a retrospective, combining older Solstice Gala Performance pieces drawn from previous solstice shows and Presented by ZUZI! Dance Company other ZUZI concerts with new works. 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21 There are 16 modern dances in all, some UA Stevie Eller Dance Theatre aerial, some danced on the ground. The danc1737 E. University Blvd. ers will perform to recorded and live music, $25 concert only; $75 concert and reception with played by in-house guitarist/singer Pablo food, live music and silent auction following show. Peregrina and vocalist Sally Withers. 629-0237; Among the new works is Robinson’s “El www.zuzimoveit.org Triste” (The Sad One), a solo she dances to a song popularized by Mexican singer José José. recorded music. “It’s very slow, in Spanish. It’s about how sad Among the revived works are Robinson’s it was to say goodbye,” Robinson notes. aerial piece “Falling Angels and Broken Peregrina performs the song live. Wings.” Lucey dances the duet with Lee Another Robinson premiere, “Nocturne,” is a Rayment, an actor who dances with ZUZI for “structural improv” that developed out of a the first time. Other reprises are “Me and My class she teaches in Skinner releasing techDoll,” “Shoes” and “Evening Sky at Solstice.” nique. A multigenerational cast of 11 dancers To mark the anniversary, Robinson and and students performs to a recording by the company decided to perform the show in the Kronos Quartet. sleek Stevie Eller Dance Theatre instead of its Company member Tunstall debuts “40 own theater in the Historic YWCA. That Hillside Road.” With a title drawn from her 1930s theater is more workaday than the childhood address, the piece explores life’s glamorous Eller, but it’s part of ZUZI’s formula journeys, Robinson says. Tunstall dances, along for success. The company earns income by with fellow ZUZI-ites Lauryn Bianco and Kali running dance classes in the building and Lucey. renting out the theater for dance and music Tunstall also choreographed the concert’s concerts by outside groups. opening piece, the aerial work “A Memory of Another reason for the troupe’s longevity, Light,” to be danced by the troupe’s nine Robinson says, is the groundwork laid by coapprentices. founder Nancy Mellan. “It was her inspiration ZUZI dancers Melissa Buckheit and Sara and tenacity that brought this together in the Anderson Stewart both created new dances first place.” about women. Buckheit’s “All American Robinson and Mellan first met as dance Woman” is an aerial duet she performs with students at Temple University in Philadelphia. apprentice Molly Stack. With a video backdrop Years later, they both turned up in Tucson and by Noah Stack and a soundscape that’s mostly decided to form their own modern-dance spoken word by Buckheit, it “critiques the company, Robinson says. “If it weren’t for image of women in the media,” Robinson says. Nancy, it never would have happened.” Stewart’s quintet, “Harder Than It Needs to Be,” Mellan left after four years, but not before is “really fun—a fast dance to tango music” by giving the troupe its name. “Zuzi” is Hebrew Piazzolla. for “move it,” Robinson says, adding that the Schneider’s “Galactic Starlight” is a new dancers will keep on doing exactly that. work for the youth company, choreographed in “We still struggle financially, but we will collaboration with the young dancers to continue and grow every day.”
NEW YEAR’S EVE DANCE Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. The Tucson Friends of Traditional Music host a contra dance party featuring the Privy Tippers and a Cavalcade of Callers, from 8 p.m. to midnight, Monday, Dec. 31; $10 includes non-alcoholic champagne at midnight. Bring food to share and dress for the occasion.
MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK 17TH STREET MUSIC 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 7147. Stefan George sings the blues about Christmas from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; free. Call 6248821, ext. 7147, for more information. ST. PHILIP’S FRIENDS OF MUSIC CONCERTS St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. The combined adult choirs, soloists and orchestra present Franz Schubert’s Mass in G major D. 167 at 2 p.m., Monday, Dec. 24, in the sanctuary; freewill donation. Visit stphilipstucson.org. TSO POPS Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. TSO performs The Magic of Christmas with special guests the Tucson Regional Ballet, the Desert Bells International, the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus and Santa Claus at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23; $26 to $69. Call 882-8585 or visit tucsonsymphonyorchestra.org for tickets. TUCSON COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL WINTER CONCERT Berger Performing Arts Center. 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. 770-3762. Symphonic Winds, the Tucson Jazz Institute big bands, and vocal jazz ensembles perform at 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23; $20, $15 student or senior, free younger than 12. The TJI Ellington Big Band performs at the beginning and the end of the concert. TUCSON FLUTE CLUB Park Place Mall. 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 748-1222. The club performs adaptations and arrangements of familiar melodies and original compositions for flute choir, at 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; free. TUCSON GUITAR SOCIETY A UA School of Music Guitar Area recital takes place at 11 a.m., every Friday, while school is in session, at the UA Museum of Art, 1031 N. Olive Road; free. In addition, the following events are held in Holsclaw Hall, in the UA School of Music, 1017 N. Olive Road, on Sunday, Dec. 9; free: a commemorative concert in celebration of Michael Mensh, at 2:30 p.m.; and a masters recital by Thomas Viloteau at 7 p.m. Visit guitar.arizona. edu for more information.
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A Shepherds’ Tale BY LAURA C.J. OWEN, lowen@tucsonweekly.com m common image of the writer is that of a lonely figure who scribbles an original work of art in solitary genius. But when it comes to theater, this could not be further from the truth: The making of plays is all about community and collaboration. Nothing illustrates this more vividly than Borderlands’ annual A Tucson Pastorela, a contemporary variant on the medieval Christian shepherds’ play. A holiday celebration, the Pastorela tells the tale of a group of shepherds (or pastores) who receive word that Jesus will be born in Bethlehem. As they journey to see him, they must avoid three temptations along the way. Featuring a large cast of actors from the community, the play is a mix of music, theater, comedy and religious celebration. Seventeen years ago, when Borderlands first began producing the show, the company used a script by California writer Max Branscomb. Writing in rhyming couplets, Branscomb pioneered what would become the Pastorela format. He wrote a new script each year, shaping the traditional Christmas story around a different theme and incorporating humorous topical references. Over time, notes Eva Zorrilla Tessler, the associate artistic director, the troupe modified Branscomb’s scripts “more and more—so much so that now we have our own writers.” Borderlands tapped two local poets, Wendy Burk and Eric Magrane, who are now in their third year of Pastorela writing. Though writing poetry is usually thought of as a solitary act, Burk and Magrane often collaborate. A married couple, they’ve written poetry together, and they’ve worked with a composer on a choral song cycle. This collaborative work, as well as Burk’s translations of Mexican poet Tedi López Mills, brought the pair to the attention of Barclay Goldsmith, Borderlands’ producing director. “The most important thing for the playwrights to understand—and Eric and Wendy do understand this—is that the pastorela has its own historical structure,” Goldsmith says. Originally brought from Spain to colonial Mexico by missionary priests, a pastorela must always focus on the pastores and the three temptations, says Tessler, who directs the play. “It is basically a spiritual journey.” The writers had to learn that structure as they developed their first scripts, Burk says. “We talked with, and learned from, Eva and Barclay,” Burk says. “What are the elements that don’t change? What stays constant?” Poet Magrane chimes in: “There are certain
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David Felix, Camila Tessler and Bryan Blue in A Tucson Pastorela. tropes each year that come back, certain characters.” Some of those characters, such as Lucifer and the archangels Gabriel and Michael, are biblical, while others developed through centuries of cultural tradition. The mix of old and new keeps the process exciting. “Every year we get to make something new, using that same pattern,” Burk says. One key variation each year is a contemporary character, someone whose own journey relates to the year’s theme. To decide on the theme, Burk says, she and Magrane ask themselves, “What have been the big issues nationally, and the big issues in Tucson?” For 2012, they chose Pastorela de colores, or “rainbow pastorela,” about the bullying of queer youth. Climate change and environmental awareness are also woven into the story. Addressing community concerns is part of the long tradition of the pastorela, Tessler says. The local Catholic priest would be the director, and the people in the community would be the actors. The performance would serve as “a morality play, but also a forum to bring things that happened in the community throughout the year to the forefront,” Tessler says. “So in that sense, it is political.” If all this sounds rather serious, Magrane is quick to point out that the pastorela is at heart about fun. “We laugh a lot when we’re working on it.” The fact that the whole play must be in rhyming verse is one of the sources of humor. As poets, Burk and Magrane took naturally to rhyming, and Burk especially delights in the opportunities for comedy that rhyming word play affords. A Tucson Pastorela is also a musical spectacle. The writers work with Borderlands’ musical director Jim Klingenfus to discuss which traditional carols—in Spanish and English— will fit into the show, as well as what contemporary music might be incorporated.
A Tucson Pastorela Presented by Borderlands Theater Preview: 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 20 $12 general and senior; $6 students; free for children 12 and younger Opening Night Celebración: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21 $24 general and senior; $12 students; $7 children
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Live music is provided by Gertie Lopez and the T.O. Boys. They play waila, the social music of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Also known as “chicken scratch,” waila is the Tohono O’odham answer to polka. The accordion is crucial to the music, which also calls for guitar, bass and drums. Tessler says that waila suits the spirit of the show. A Tucson Pastorela has an “artisanal, earthy, very down-home feel to it,” she says. And waila is “very down-to-earth.” The look for the show, Tessler says, “is of street theater, because this is a street theater— normally, it’s done outdoors, outside the churches in Mexico.” Even though it is presented indoors, bringing the community together in a spirit of holiday festivity is still A Tucson Pastorela’s mission. Burk says collaboration is at its heart. “What I love about the pastorela is the chance to produce something that is about this community, with so many community members,” Burk says. But it always comes back to fun. “We ask ourselves, ‘What are the silliest things we can do?’” Tessler says. “And then we have piñatas at the end for the children.” DECEMBER 20 - 26, 2012
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TUCSON JAZZ INSTITUTE Berger Performing Arts Center. 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. 770-3762. A winter concert features six big bands, including the Basie Big Band, the Ellington Big Band, the vocal jazz choir and jazz combos playing holiday jazz arrangements from 3 to 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23; $20, $15 student, free for seniors and kids younger than 12. Call 971-6694 for reservations.
OUT OF TOWN SOUTHERN ARIZONA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DesertView Performing Arts Center. 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. The public is invited to the final dress rehearsal of a program the orchestra will perform on tour in China, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; $23, $21 advance. The program includes traditional Chinese music selections, as well as American and European favorites. Visit sasomusic.org for tickets.
UPCOMING 17TH STREET MUSIC 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 7147. Acoustic blues duo Grams and Krieger celebrate the release of their new CD, 5, from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 29. Call 624-8821, ext. 7147. CASINO DEL SOL Casino del Sol. 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 3449435. Party favors, a balloon drop and a champagne toast at midnight are included in a New Year’s Eve party featuring the Sensation Show Band at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 31, in the event center; $75. A Tejano New Year’s Eve Bash takes place in the Bingo Hall; free. Visit casinodelsol.com for tickets and more information. CLASSIC ROCK WEEKEND Casino del Sol Event Center. 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. Classic-rock all-star band World Classic Rockers, with former members of Journey, Boston, Santana, Steppenworf and Lynyrd Skynyrd, performs at 9 p.m., Friday, Dec. 28; $25 and $75. The Prince tribute show Purple Reign performs at 9 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 29; free. Visit casinodelsol.com. CONCERT FOR THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK Club Congress. 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. TAMMIES award winners the Bryan Dean Trio, Michael P, Chuck Wagon and the Wheelchairs, Leanne Savage and Top Dead Center are featured in a benefit for the Community Food Bank from 5 to 10 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 30; $5. Visit communityfoodbank.com. JESSE PETERS TRIO Green Valley Recreation West Center. 1111 Via Arco Iris. Green Valley. 625-0288. Jesse Peters performs jazz-edged soul, including many original songs, at a New Year’s celebration from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 31; $29. Hors d’oeuvres, wine and set-ups precede the concert. Call 625-3440 for reservations. KINGFISHER STRING QUARTET Dove of Peace Lutheran Church. 665 W. Roller Coaster Road. 887-5127. The quartet performs Music of Mozart, featuring TSO principal Emma Votapek and special guests, at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 1; freewill donation. Call or visit doveofpeacetucson.org. PLAYGROUND Playground Bar and Lounge. 278 E. Congress St. 3963691. A tribute to Daft Punk, an all-star DJ lineup and midnight champagne, on three floors ring in the new year starting at 7 p.m., Monday, Dec. 31; $20. Visit “Playground Bar and Lounge” on Facebook to pre-order. SCHOOLHOUSE CONCERT Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Artist-in-residence Ted Ramirez presents a concert of Irish music featuring Jamie O’Brien and Henry Koretzky at 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 29; $18, free child age 14 or younger. Reservations are advised. Call or visit tubacpresidiopark.com for more information. TUCSON REPERTORY ORCHESTRA Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 2331 E. Adams St. 327-6857. The orchestra, featuring conductor Toru Tagawa and cellist Theodore Bucholz, presents Music of the Masters, including works by Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Strauss, at 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 29; free.
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BORDERLANDS THEATER Leo Rich Theater. 260 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Music by a Waila band and Christmas carols in Spanish and English accompany an original adaptation of the nativity story with today’s news providing dramatic leitmotifs in A Tucson Pastorela, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 20 through 22; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23; $7 to $24. Desserts and a meet-andgreet are featured Friday, Dec. 21. The Sunday matinee includes a pre-play performance by Ballet Folklórico Tapatío. Call 882-7406, or visit borderlandstheater.org.
ART INSTITUTE OF TUCSON Art Institute of Tucson. 5099 E. Grant Road. 318-2700. 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.
CONTINUING COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol continues through Sunday, Dec. 30. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, discounts available. Call or visit thecomedyplayhouse.com for tickets. LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 senior, military or student. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for tickets and more information. PINNACLE PEAK PISTOLEROS Trail Dust Town. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 2964551. A holiday-themed Wild West stunt show, Santa’s Little Outlaws, continues through through Monday, Dec. 31. Showtimes are 7 and 8 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 6, 7 and 8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $4, $2 child younger than 12. Visit wildweststuntshow.com, or call 398-5618 for more information. THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Scrooge: A Gaslight Musical continues through Sunday, Jan. 6; $17.95, $7.95 child age 12 and younger, $15.95 student, military and senior. Dates and times vary. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com for showtimes.
LAST CHANCE ARIZONA ONSTAGE Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, featuring Tucson jazz singer Anna Anderson and pianist Collin Shook in a representation of a 1959 cabaret performance by Billie Holiday, is staged at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22. $20 to $37.50. Call (800) 8383006, or visit arizonaonstage.org for tickets. ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Jane Austen’s Emma closes Saturday, Dec. 22; $40 to $75. Showtimes vary. Call or visit arizonatheatre.org.
UPCOMING FOX TUCSON THEATRE 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Razor-sharp comedian Paula Poundstone, a regular guest on NPR’s weekly show, Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me, performs at 8 p.m., Monday, Dec. 31; $29.50 to $49. Visit foxtucsontheatre.org for tickets and more info. LAFFS COMEDY CAFFÉ 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-8669. Comic Scotty Blanco performs two shows on Tuesday, Dec. 31: a 7 p.m. early dinner show, and a 10:30 p.m., champagne breakfast show; $25 per person, each. Prize giveaways include free trips to Las Vegas. Visit laffstucson.com/ nye.html for reservations and more information. RETRO GAME SHOW NIGHT Hotel Congress. 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. Tempest DuJour hosts a round of The $9.95 Pyramid at Retro Game Show Night, an event that engages audience members in satirizing legendary TV game shows, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 29; $5, ages 21 and older. Visit hotelcongress.com/club for more information. TUCSON DINNER THEATRE Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 323-6262. A New Year’s Eve production of the interactive, full-length play Murder at the Vampire’s Wedding includes a candle-lit, three-course dinner, after-dinner dancing, party favors and a champagne toast at midnight, starting at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 31; $75. Visit tucsondinnertheatre.com for more information; call 624-0172 for reservations.
ARTHRITIS ASSOCIATES Arthritis Associates. 2101 N. Country Club Road, No. 3. 792-1265. An exhibit of oil paintings of horses and donkeys at work in the 19th century continues through Thursday, Feb. 7. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Wednesday and Friday; and 8 a.m. to noon, Thursday; free. ARTSEYE GALLERY ArtsEye Gallery. 3550 E. Grant Road. 325-0260. Landings, an exhibit of work by Stephen Strom and Stu Jenks, continues through Thursday, Feb. 14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; free. Visit artseye.com for more information. ATLAS FINE ART SERVICES Atlas Fine Art Services. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 622-2139. A group exhibition of works created on a small scale, smallWORKS, continues through Saturday, Jan. 19. 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. BLACK CROWN COFFEE CO. Black Crown Coffee. 4024 E. Speedway, Blvd. 2076473. An exhibit of brightly colored canvases by local artists continues through Monday, Dec. 31. Hours are 8 a.m. to noon, daily. BRIDGE GALLERY Bridge Gallery. 5425 N. Kolb Road, No. 113. 5774537. A group show, Christmas in the Desert, continues through Monday, Dec. 31. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday. Visit bridgegallery.net for more information. CONRAD WILDE GALLERY Conrad Wilde Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., Suite 195. 622-8997. Running Amok, an exhibit featuring the work of five women artists pushing the boundaries of process and materials in a range of media, continues through Saturday, Jan. 26; free. An artists’ reception takes place from from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 5. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free.
Dec. 31; free. Search for “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 paintings by Serena Tang and photography by Chris Brozek run through Monday, Dec. 31. A display featuring a snowy miniature village complete with a moving train continues through Sunday, Dec. 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. 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. All Over Everywhere: The Art of Joan LaRue and Jane Barton continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. 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. LIONEL ROMBACH GALLERY Lionel Rombach Gallery. 1031 N. Olive Road. 6264215. Advance, a showcase of work from the Fall 2012 advanced photography class taught by Joe Labate, continues through Wednesday, Jan. 16. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101. 615-3001. Desert Holiday, an exhibit of snow scenes and other Southwest holiday paintings by Diana Madaras, continues through Monday, Dec. 31. MARK SUBLETTE MEDICINE MAN GALLERY Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery. 6872 E. Sunrise Drive. 722-7798. An exhibit of Navajo blankets continues through Friday, Jan. 4. 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.
CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557. Reflections of the Sonoran Desert, an exhibit of works by six artists inspired by the Sonoran Desert and its history, continues until Saturday, Dec. 29. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free.
MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFÉ Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café. 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. Watercolor Images of an Impermanent World, an exhibit of work by Julia Graf, continues through Monday, Jan. 14; free. Visit montereycourtaz.com for more information.
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.
MURPHEY GALLERY Murphey Gallery. St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. The Tucson Pastel Society Holiday Charity Show continues through Thursday, Jan. 10. Sales proceeds benefit the Ronald McDonald House of Southern Arizona. Hours are 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday.
DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Art Gala continues through Sunday, Feb. 3. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sunday. Visit desertartisansgallery.com for more information. DRAGONFLY GALLERY Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Gallery. 146 E. Broadway Blvd. 628-3164. The Divine Feminine: A Three-Woman Exhibition continues through Thursday, Jan. 10. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday; free.
OBSIDIAN GALLERY Obsidian Gallery. 410 N. Toole Ave., No. 120. 5773598. Home for the Holidays, an exhibit of works by Rowena Brown, Lynn Cornelius and Robert Winokur, continues through Saturday, Jan. 5. Hours are 11 a.m to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit obsidian-gallery.com for more information. PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY AND STUDIO Philabaum Glass Gallery and Studio. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. The Ins and Outs, featuring work by Wes Hunting and Bob and Laurie Kliss, continues through Saturday, Jan. 26. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit philabaumglass.com for more information.
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.
PORTER HALL GALLERY Porter Hall Gallery. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Sonoran Inspired!, an exhibit of fiber art by Nancy Polster, continues through Monday, Jan. 14. Regular hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $13, $4 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel, includes admission to the park. Visit tucsonbotanical.org 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,
RAICES TALLER 222 ART GALLERY AND WORKSHOP Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335. Tesoros Pequeños (Little Treasures), an exhibit of affordable small works,
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continue through Sunday, Dec. 30. Hours are 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; free.
RITA WATTERS ART GALLERY AND CRAFTERS GIFT SHOP Rita Watters Art Gallery and Crafters Gift Shop. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road, No. 27. 777-7034. A collection of works suitable for gift-giving continues through Thursday, Jan. 3. Hours are 1 to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; free.
SUBWAY GALLERY Subway Gallery. 30 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-9143. Mug Shots, a collection of recent paintings by Paul and Steve Bovee, and a display of handmade knives and jewelry by Jonathan Wick, continue through Sunday, Jan. 6. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday through Sunday; free. Visit subwaygallerybisbee.com for more information.
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. An exhibit of illustrations by Valerie Galloway continues through Wednesday, Jan. 9. 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. 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 runs 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 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 continues through Saturday, Feb. 2, in the Lower Link Gallery; free. The gallery is open 24 hours every day. TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL Pioneer Building. 100 N. Stone Ave. 207-5182. Navigations, an exhibition of work that engages the eye in visual exploration, continues through Thursday, Jan. 10. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Call 624-0595, ext. 10, for more info. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. Paintings of Frances Dorr continues through Sunday, Jan. 6. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday through Friday; and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday; free. WEE GALLERY Wee Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., No. 171. 360-6024. Marcy Miranda Janes: New Works in Cut Paper continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; free. ZOË BOUTIQUE Zoë Boutique. 735 N. Fourth Ave. 740-1201. Art and ornaments by a dozen Tucson artists are featured for sale through Thursday, Jan. 31. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday; free admission.
LAST CHANCE WOMANKRAFT WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. The Holiday Bazaar closes Saturday, Dec. 22. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; free.
OUT OF TOWN ART AWAKENINGS-OLD BISBEE GALLERY Art Awakenings-Old Bisbee Gallery. 50 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-3765. An exhibit of Yanaba Paladin’s work interpreting Southwestern Indian designs continues through Friday, Jan. 11. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday, and Sunday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday; free. Visit artawakenings. org/bisbee-gallery for more information. BIOSPHERE 2 CENTER Biosphere 2 Center. 32540 S. Biosphere 2 Road. Oracle. 838-6200. The Art of All Possibilities, an interdisciplinary exhibition that relates art to the scientific research, architecture and culture of Biosphere 2, continues through Thursday, Feb. 28. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; $10 to $20. HILLTOP GALLERY Hilltop Gallery. 730 Hilltop Drive. Nogales. (520) 2875515. Exhibits of 40 velvet paintings of Jesus and Mary from the Velveteria, glass art by Madeline Thorpe, jewelry by Sally Hoffman and ceramics by Mike Garino
TUBAC PRESIDIO STATE HISTORIC PARK Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Southwestern Vistas, an exhibit of landscape paintings by Tubac artist Walter Blakelock Wilson, continues through Tuesday, April 30. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $5, $2 ages 7 through 13, free younger child. 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 with 48 hours notice. WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION KIVA GALLERY Western National Parks Association Kiva Gallery. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Scenes From the West, an exhibit of paintings by Dick Myers, continues through Saturday, Dec. 22; and from Wednesday, Dec. 26, through Saturday, Dec. 29. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; 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 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 Feb. 1, 2013. Phone 520-623-2119, email curator@ tucsonartsbrigade.org, or visit tucsonartsbrigade.com 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; Saturday, 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. CALL FOR ARTISTS Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Artists are sought to show their work for one of a series of four-week exhibitions planned for the calendar year 2014. Work must reflect nature, wildlife, landscapes, Southwestern themes or local cultures that are in keeping with the park’s setting. Thursday, Jan. 10, is the application deadline. Email aguacalientepark@pima.gov, or call 749-3718 for details. CALL FOR ARTISTS Contents Interiors. 3401 E. Fort Lowell Road. 8816900. Artisans who live and work in Tucson are asked to submit works for a juried art show of two- and threedimensional pieces, furniture and functional crafts. The deadline for submissions is 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 19. Call or e-mail tamara@contentsinteriors.com for complete entry information. CALL FOR CLOTHING DESIGNERS The deadline is Monday, Feb. 11, for applications to participate in Tucson Fashion Week in October. Visit tucsonfashionweek.com for an application; email tucsonfashionweek@gmail.com for more information. THE FIBER SHOP Bisbee Community Y. 26 Howell St. Bisbee. Works by members of the Bisbee Fiber Arts Guild are displayed for sale every Friday and Saturday through Friday, March 1, 2013. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; free admission.
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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. CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith, 1957 to 1965, a national touring exhibit of more than 200 vintage black and white prints and several hours of rare recordings, continues through Sunday, March 10. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. Photo Friday every week gives the public opportunities to review images from the archives based on a them. For December the theme is “A Sense of Place.” Visit centerforcreativephotography.org for more information. DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9191. The exhibit DeGrazia’s Unseen Treasures, a selection of paintings from a vault holding thousands of works by Ted DeGrazia, continues through Tuesday, Jan. 15. Portraits of DeGrazia, an exhibit of photographs and paintings of Ted DeGrazia, including works by Louise Serpa and Thomas Hart Benton, runs 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 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. An exhibit of Peter Young’s large-scale abstract paintings from the 1960s to the present continues through Sunday, March 31. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; $8, free member, child younger than 17, veteran, active military and publicsafety officers, and everyone the first Sunday of each month. Call or visit moca-tucson.org for more info. TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. The Shape of Things: Four Decades of Paintings and Sculpture 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. The traditional holiday exhibit, El Nacimiento, continues through Saturday, June 1, 2013, in the Casa Cordova. 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. UA MUSEUM OF ART UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567. An exhibit of drawings and prints from the UA Museum of Art’s permanent collection continues through Sunday, Jan. 6. In Relief: German Op-Art Ceramics continues through Sunday, Jan. 27. Broken Desert: Land and Sea, work by Heather Green, Greg Lindquist and Chris McGinnis that explores human impact on nature, runs through Sunday, March 3. 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 for more information.
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EVENTS THIS WEEK BOOK SIGNING AT BOOKMANS 1930 E. Grant Road. 325-5767. An authors’ signing for Ground/Water: The Art, Design and Science of a Dry River takes place from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; free. MICHAEL FRISSORE: PUPPET SHOWS Michael Frissore signs and sells his collection of short stories, Puppet Shows, from 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; free. SOUTHWEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A display celebrating the release of the guide, Southwest Books of the Year: Best Reading, the library’s guide to fiction and nonfiction books published in 2012 that feature a Southwestern setting or subject, continues through Monday, Dec. 31, in the art gallery. 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. UA POETRY CENTER UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Selections From the Permanent Collection: Big Books continues through Wednesday, Jan. 30. 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.
ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL TO SHORT-FICTION WRITERS Entries are due Tuesday, March 11, for the Kore Press 2012 short-fiction contest. Prizes are $1,000 and publication in a chapbook; $15 entry fee. Visit korepress.org for more information, and use the Kore Press submission manager to enter. CATALINA MYSTERY BOOK CLUB Dewhirst-Catalina Branch Library. 15631 N. Oracle Road, No. 199. Catalina. 594-5345. Members of an informal book club discuss the month’s mystery at 10:30 a.m., the fourth Tuesday of every month; free. Most go to lunch afterward. FOURTH WEDNESDAY MYSTERY BOOK GROUP Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. A mystery book club meets at 7 p.m., on the fourth Wednesday of every month; free. On Dec. 26, the topic is March Violets, a Bernie Gunther Novel by Philip Kerr. GREAT LITERATURE OF ALL TIMES Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Oro Valley. 229-5300. 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. 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. MURPHY-WILMOT BRANCH LIBRARY BOOK CLUB Murphy-Wilmot Branch Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. Readers share insights into a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction at 10 a.m., the fourth Saturday of every month; free.
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Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl are great partners, but they could use an outside editor
SCIENCE-FICTION BOOK CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Oro Valley. 229-5300. Science-fiction fans meet to discuss the month’s selection from 7 to 8 p.m., the fourth Tuesday of every month; free. Visit www.orovalleylib.com for a schedule of titles.
Celebrating Small Towns BY CHRISTINE WALD-HOPKINS, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com speranza women raise goats for goat cheese, beets for borscht, chickens for green eggs, and red and green chiles for enchiladas and burritos. They ride horses and are supported by fields of chiles and alfalfa. They throw regular craft parties where they and their girlfriends quilt, crochet and knit things to raise funds for a nuns’ charity. They’re 21st-century women keeping traditional practices alive in New Mexico. Much as their characters do, New Mexicans Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl get together and craft literary things. They do appealing work, but not without dropping a few too many stitches. A Growing Season is not Boggio and Pearl’s first collaboration. They’ve been writing buddies since they were 10-year-old schoolgirls in West Des Moines, Iowa. Now, both living in the Albuquerque area, they have revisited the setting—fictional Esperanza—and the characters of their first novel, Sunlight and Shadow. Their new novel, which takes place seven years after Sunlight and Shadow, tells two parallel family narratives, anchored by good friends Abby Silva and CeCe Vigil. Abby, now 37 and widowed for seven years, is beginning to anticipate a partially empty nest as her adopted son Santiago prepares to go off to college. She’s also ready for adult companionship. Sixty-yearold CeCe, on the other hand, is suddenly faced with more adult companionship than she’d choose at her stage in life: Her octogenarian parents—vociferously opposed to her marriage to MexicanAmerican Miguel—find themselves broke and in need of a place to live, and they land on her and Miguel. Complications arise in Abby’s family as the perfect Santiago, a newspaper editor as well as a student leader, starts to be seen in the company of gangster types that his father hung with in his abbreviated, violent life. Complications arise in CeCe’s family when her acid-tongued mother takes on her husband and friends. And her father, once remote and unknowable, now demands her hands-on help as he flashes back to the horrors of his Holocaust past. These issues are played out as Miguel’s livelihood as a chile farmer is threatened by drought. Evil developers are buying up farms; and cities, environmentalists and farmers are fighting over the Rio Grande’s rapidly shrinking water supply.
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WOODS MEMORIAL LIBRARY BOOK CLUB Woods Memorial Branch Library. 3455 N. First Ave. 594-5445. Adults read and discuss fiction and nonfiction titles at 1 p.m., the fourth Saturday of every month; free.
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Barbara Kingsolver, HarperCollins ($28.99)
2. Life of Pi Yann Martel, Mariner ($15.95) Boggio and Pearl address such problems as ethnic prejudice, parent-child relations and the effects of buried secrets. Basically, though, the characters are all just looking for love. The distinct advantage of working with a partner is that you’ve got someone else to blame. In publication, however, when grammar glitches appear, they’re as much your issue as your partner’s. Although they don’t present this book as literary fiction, one or the other of these writers (or their copy editor) should still honor a few grammatical and craft conventions: •Writers need to know the difference between the verbs “lie” and “lay.” If they don’t, they should probably avoid employing either. • Ditto for the pronouns “who” and “whom.” • Next, the only prose more cringe-worthy than awkward attempts to depict romantic sex in a family novel is attempts to depict children as endearing by writing them baby-talk dialogue. • And finally, there are more ways to create characters than to describe their hairstyles and what they choose to wear the day they show up for a scene. In this novel, hair is everywhere; it “dances,” it “cascades” and—Lord preserve us—as chest hair, it “curls” around a finger. The reader wants to pull it out in handfuls. That said, Boggio and Pearl have more to offer than poorly edited, cutesy prose. This is essentially a woman’s book, and scenes in which women interact are warmly drawn. Abby and CeCe’s friends are quirky and likable. Santiago is everyone’s (including the reader’s) favorite kid: handsome, smart and sensitive. But he’s also disturbed by an underlying anxiety. The writers clearly care about the region they live in and re-create. One strength of the novel is its affectionate rendering of the central and northern New Mexican landscape and back-to-nature lifestyle. And they clearly love their small-town folks, struggling to live traditional lives in spite of nature’s vicissitudes and larger society’s pressures. Despite the stylistic issues, Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl have succeeded in writing a smoothly integrated novel: The voice is unified and the parallel narratives balance each other nicely. Like a pleasing quilt, you don’t know where one’s stitches end and the other’s start. That’s promising for continued collaboration. Especially with a copy editor at the party.
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3. Mousetrontaut Mark Kelly, Simon and Schuster/ Paula Wiseman ($16.99)
4. The Fault in Our Stars John Green, Dutton ($17.99)
5. The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien, Ballantine ($8.99)
6. The Third Wheel: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 7 Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams ($13.95)
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky, MTV ($14)
8. Santa Is Coming to Arizona Steve Smallman, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky ($9.99)
LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK ART LECTURES AT DUSENBERRY LIBRARY Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. Docents from the UA Museum of Art and the Tucson Museum of Art give talks from 2 to 3 p.m., the second and fourth Tuesday of every month; free. ‘DISCOVER ART’ LECTURE SERIES Woods Memorial Branch Library. 3455 N. First Ave. 594-5445. Docents from the UA Museum of Art lecture from 2 to 3 p.m., the third Friday of every month; free. Dec. 21: “Summer in France,” Jacquelyn Feller. JESSE BALLENGER: FROM KILL SITES TO HUNTING GROUNDS La Parilla Suiza. 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300. Archaeologist Jesse Ballenger presents “From Kill Sites to Hunting Grounds: The Late Prehistoric Stone Architecture of the Two Medicine River Valley, Montana” from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 20, as part of Old Pueblo Archaeology’s Third Thursday Food for Thought series; freewill donation. No-host food and beverages are from the menu. Reservations are requested by 5 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 19. Call 798-1201, or email info@ oldpueblo.org for reservations and more information. TOUR OF LOS MORTEROS AND PICTURE ROCKS Archaeologist Allen Dart leads a winter solstice tour of Los Morteros, an ancient village with a Hohokam ball court, and other sites, from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Dec. 21; $15, $12 member of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center or Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary. The tour departs from the corner of Silverbell Road and Linda Vista Boulevard. Reservations are required. Call 7981201, or email info@oldpueblo.org for more information.
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9. The Light Between Oceans: A Novel M. L. Stedman, Scribner Book Company ($20, sale)
10. Notorious Nineteen Janet Evanovich, Bantam ($22.40, sale)
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GREEN VALLEY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY St. Francis in the Valley Episcopal Church. 600 N. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 625-1370. Clarice Bird presents “Understanding and Locating the Law in Family History Research,” from 1 to 3 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 20; free. A short show-and-tell program of family treasures follows. Send a one-paragraph description in advance to joannherbst@cox.net. Call 396-4630 for more information.
ANNOUNCEMENTS LECTURES AT THE WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION BOOKSTORE Western National Parks Association Bookstore. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Lectures on a wide range of historical, topographical, ecological and native-foods topics take place at noon and 2 p.m., every Wednesday and Saturday; free. Reservations are required, but must be made no earlier than one week in advance. Hours are 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 information.
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CINEMA The surprisingly long ‘This Is 40’ is one of the year’s best comedies, even with Megan Fox in the cast
Sort-of Sequel, Stellar Cast
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending Dec. 16, 2012
BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com epotism pays off in a big way as Leslie Mann stars in husband Judd Apatow’s hilarious This Is 40, reprising her role of Debbie from Apatow’s Knocked Up. Also returning are Paul Rudd as Debbie’s husband, Pete; Maude and Iris Apatow (Mann and Apatow’s kids) as Pete and Debbie’s daughters; and Jason Segel as, well, a strange variation on Jason Segel. Spinning off Knocked Up to further explore the characters of Debbie and Pete sounded like a strange enterprise. (Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl are nowhere to be seen.) Fear not, for This Is 40 is as smart and funny as the film that spawned it. And who needs Heigl, anyway? (As for Rogen, I can never get enough of the guy … was hoping for a cameo, but no dice.) The film opens with Debbie in denial of her 40th birthday, a worn-out movie cliché, for sure. No matter, because Apatow and Mann make it all fresh, funny and, at times, wonderfully vulgar. Debbie sneaks smokes, chastises her husband for taking Viagra and pretends she’s 38 on her 40th birthday. Mann just pulled down a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. (Rudd is nominated as well.) They both deserve the noms. And then there’s the ever-reliable Rudd. His Pete secretly devours cupcakes, tries to get his wife to like the Pixies, and steals private time with his iPad through extended, unnecessary bathroom breaks. He also attempts to revive Graham Parker’s fledgling music career with his small record company so he can make the mortgage payment. Rudd and Mann play a married couple with stunning reality, efficiency and humor. They throw lethal verbal daggers at one another, and even fantasize about each other dying. Yet, there seems to be a strange sort of everlasting love at play. Rudd is essentially channeling Apatow here, surely getting plenty of hints from his director on how to deal with the wife. Adding to the authenticity are Maude and Iris Apatow, realistically sparring with their real-life matriarch. Maude is especially good, capturing the shrieking frustration of a teen girl who is having her Wi-Fi restricted. One of the movie’s running gags is her obsession with watching Lost, a joke that is funnier than it sounds. Little Iris is obviously the daughter of Mann and Apatow; she possesses killer comic timing. As for supporting casts, you won’t find one much better in 2012. Albert Brooks plays Rudd’s dad, getting more laughs than he has in years. John Lithgow plays Mann’s pop, a
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9. The Odd Life of Timothy Green Disney Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd in This Is 40. stick-in-the-mud who has a moving change of heart by film’s end. There’s more! Megan Fox is actually really funny (something she proved when she hosted Saturday Night Live a couple of years back) as Debbie and Pete’s employee at their clothing boutique. She’s capable of playing more than Michael Bay eye candy, for sure. Chris O’Dowd, who got a lot of laughs playing Kristen Wiig’s love interest in Bridesmaids, gets many again as one of Pete’s record label employees. If that’s not enough for you, there’s Melissa McCarthy stealing her few scenes as a parent who gets into a feud with Debbie and Pete regarding their children. The aforementioned Segel shines as Debbie’s trainer, and Charlyne Yi is her usual deadpan funny as another of Debbie’s employees. The list goes on, but I’ll stop now. (Actually, I will tell you that Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day makes an awesome cameo.) Apatow seems to have carved out a nice niche for himself. He’s sort of like James L. Brooks at his best, with a little bit of Adam Sandler when he was good, finished off with just a pinch of Woody Allen from back when he didn’t suck. This is one of the year’s best comedies, featuring stellar, barnburning screen arguments. Mann and Rudd have fights for the cinematic ages on many occasions. They’re actually quite despicable, yet lovable at the same time. It should also be noted that when Rudd and McCarthy square
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Rated R Starring Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd and Jason Segal
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Directed by Judd Apatow Universal, 134 minutes Opens Friday, Dec. 21, 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).
off, you should hold on to your butts. Stick around for the credits for outtakes of McCarthy’s principal office meltdown. It is laugh-until-you-cough-up-blood funny. If there were an award for credit outtakes, McCarthy would win it without contest. Seeing Rudd and Mann unsuccessfully trying to keep a straight face while McCarthy goes off counts as a 2012 cinematic highlight for me. This Is 40 is a long one at an epic 133 minutes. (That’s just 25 minutes shorter than Les Miserables, and 33 minutes shorter than The Hobbit!) Trust me that this is time well spent. Apatow and company know how to put a comedy together, and Mann and Rudd are beyond competent at delivering it. DECEMBER 20 - 26, 2012
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AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. Django Unchained (R) Tue-Wed 9, 11:30, 3:15, 7:15, 10:50, 11:50 Flight (R) Thu 12, 3:05; Fri-Sat 9:30, 12:35, 3:40; Sun 8:40, 3; Mon 9:30, 12:35, 3:40 The Guilt Trip (PG-13) Thu 12:40, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:25; Fri-Wed 10:15, 12:40, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:25 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 11:55, 1, 4, 8, 9, 9:30; Fri-Sun 9, 10:40, 11:30, 2:45, 5, 6:45, 9, 10:25; Mon 9, 10:40, 11:30, 2:45, 5, 6:45, 10:25; Tue-Wed 9, 10:40, 2:45, 5, 6:45, 9, 10:25 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey—An IMAX 3D Experience (PG13) Thu 11, 3, 7, 11; FriSun 11:50, 3:45, 7:30, 11:15; Mon 11:50, 3:45, 7:30; Tue-Wed 11:50, 3:45, 7:30, 11:15 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D (PG-13) Thu 2, 5, 6, 10; Fri-Mon 10, 1, 2, 6, 10; Tue-Wed 1 Jack Reacher (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 10:05, 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Killing Them Softly (R) ends Thu 10:45 Life of Pi (PG) Thu-Mon 1:45, 7:40; Tue-Wed 3:20, 9:05 Life of Pi 3D (PG) Thu 10:55, 4:30, 10:30; Fri-Mon 10:55, 4:50, 10:30; TueWed 12:30, 6:15, 11:55 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu 12:45, 4:15, 6:30, 7:30, 10:45; Fri-Sat 9:30, 12:45, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45; Sun 9:30, 11:45, 12:45, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45; Mon-Wed 9:30, 12:45, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45 Les Misérables (PG-13) Mon 10; Tue-Wed 9:45, 11:55, 1:25, 3:30, 4:50, 7, 8:15, 10:30, 11:40 Monsters, Inc. 3D (G) Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30; Fri-Wed 9:15, 11:45, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 Parental Guidance (PG) Mon 10; Tue-Wed 10:10, 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 10 Playing for Keeps (PG-13) ends Thu 11:45, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Red Dawn (PG-13) Thu 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:35; Fri-Sun 9:05, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:35; Mon 9:05, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu 12:45, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15; Fri-Mon 10:25, 12:45, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15; Tue-Wed 9, 12:15, 2:35 Rise of the Guardians 3D (PG) Thu-Mon 3:05 Silver Linings Playbook (R) Tue-Wed 9:05, 11:15, 2:15, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45 38 WWW. WEEKLY.COM
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Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 902. Call for Tue and Wed film times Anna Karenina (R) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; Fri-Sun 10:10, 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20; Mon 10:10, 1:10, 4:10, 7:20 Argo (R) ends Thu 11:15, 2, 7:35, 10:25 Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Mon 2, 7 Django Unchained (R) Tue-Wed 11:30, 3:15, 7:10, 10:45 The Guilt Trip (PG-13) Thu-Sun 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Mon 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50 Hitchcock (PG-13) ThuSun 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35; Mon 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:05 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 12:15, 1, 2:45, 4, 4:45, 6, 6:30, 7:40, 8:30, 10:15, 11:15; Fri-Sun 10:30, 11, 12:15, 2:45, 4, 6, 6:30, 7:40, 10:15; Mon 10:30, 11, 12:15, 2:45, 4, 6, 6:30, 7:40 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:30, 2:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7, 9, 9:45, 10:45; Fri-Sun 11:30, 1, 2:15, 3:15, 4:45, 7, 8:30, 9:45, 10:45; Mon 11:30, 1, 2:15, 3:15, 4:45, 7 Jack Reacher (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sun 10:30, 12, 1:30, 3:10, 4:35, 6:20, 7:40, 9:30, 10, 10:45; Mon 10:30, 12, 1:30, 3:10, 4:35, 6:20, 7:40 Killing Them Softly (R) ends Thu 11:50, 2:25, 5, 7:25, 9:55 Life of Pi (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Fri-Mon 10:15, 1:15, 7:10 Life of Pi 3D (PG) Thu 11:45; Fri-Sun 4:15, 10:05; Mon 4:15 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu 11:15, 12:20, 2:35, 3:40, 5:55, 7:10, 9:20, 10:30; Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:40, 6:55, 10:10; Mon 12:20, 3:40, 6:55 Les Misérables (PG-13) Tue-Wed 12, 3:30, 7, 10:30 Monsters, Inc. 3D (G) Thu 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35; Fri-Sun 11:35, 11:55, 2:20, 4:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35; Mon 11:35, 11:55, 2:20, 4:30, 4:45, 7:10 Playing for Keeps (PG-13) Thu 12:20, 2:55, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45; Fri-Sun 4:15, 9:55; Mon 4:15 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:50,
7:15; Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40; Mon 11:45, 2:15, 4:50, 7:15 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 12:55, 4:10, 7:25, 9:40, 10:40; Fri-Sun 12:55, 4:10, 7:25, 10:40; Mon 12:55, 4:10, 7:25 This Is 40 (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sun 10:20, 11:50, 1:20, 2:55, 4:25, 6, 7:30, 9:10, 10:35; Mon 10:20, 11:50, 1:20, 2:55, 4:25, 6, 7:30 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45; Fri-Mon 10:35, 1:25, 6:55 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11:25, 2:05, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05; Fri-Sun 11:25, 2:05, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10; Mon 11:25, 2:05, 4:55, 7:35
Century Gateway 12 770 N. Kolb Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 962. Alex Cross (PG-13) ends Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 Cloud Atlas (R) Thu-Wed 11:55, 3:30, 7:05 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) ends Thu 12:10, 3:35, 7 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Thu 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30; FriWed 12:10, 2:40, 5:10 Frankenweenie (PG) Thu 12:35, 2:55, 7:25; FriSat 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:25, 9:50; Sun-Mon 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:25; Tue-Wed 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:25, 9:50 Frankenweenie 3D (PG) Thu 5:15; Fri-Wed 1:15 Here Comes the Boom (PG) Fri-Sat 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:55; SunMon 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15; Tue-Wed 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:55 Hotel Transylvania (PG) Fri-Sat 12:10, 12:55, 2:30, 3:35, 4:45, 6, 7:10, 8:30, 9:35; Sun-Mon 12:10, 12:55, 2:30, 3:35, 4:45, 6, 7:10; Tue-Wed 12:10, 12:55, 2:30, 3:35, 4:45, 6, 7:10, 8:30, 9:35 Hotel Transylvania 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 4, 6:30, 9; Sun-Mon 4, 6:30; TueWed 4, 6:30, 9 Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:15; Fri-Sat 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:40; SunMon 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20; Tue-Wed 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:40 Looper (R) Thu 12:40, 3:55, 7:10; Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:55, 7, 9:45; Sun-Mon 12:40, 3:55, 7; Tue-Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7, 9:45 Paranormal Activity 4 (R) Thu 12:50, 3, 5:25, 7:45 The Perks of Being a Wallflower (PG-13) FriWed 2:35, 7:30 Pitch Perfect (PG-13) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45; Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30; Sun-Mon 12:45, 3:45, 6:45; Tue-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 Seven Psychopaths (R) Thu 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35; Fri-Sat 12:05, 5, 10:05; Sun-Mon 12:05, 5; Tue-Wed 12:05, 5, 10:05 Sinister (R) Thu 12, 2:30, 5:10, 7:40; Fri-Sat 7:40, 10:10; Sun-Mon 7:40; Tue-Wed 7:40, 10:10 Taken 2 (PG-13) Thu 12:15, 2:40, 4:55, 7:20; Fri-Sat
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Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Call for Tue and Wed film times Argo (R) ends Thu 7:35, 10:25 Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Mon 11:35, 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:40 The Collection (R) ends Thu 8:45 Flight (R) ends Thu 10, 1:20, 4:45, 8 The Guilt Trip (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 2, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45; Fri-Mon 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG-13) Thu 10, 11:30, 1:50, 3:20, 4:05, 5:40, 7:10, 9:30; Fri-Mon 11:50, 1:20, 2:05, 3:30, 5:45, 7:15, 8:40, 9:25 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D (PG-13) Thu 10:45, 12:15, 1, 2:35, 4:50, 6:25, 7:55, 8:40, 10:15; Fri-Mon 11:05, 12:35, 2:45, 4:15, 5, 6:25, 7:55, 10:05 Jack Reacher (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Mon 11:15, 12:50, 2:25, 4, 5:35, 7:10, 8:45, 10:20 Killing Them Softly (R) ends Thu 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Life of Pi (PG) Fri-Mon 11:05, 12:40, 6:50 Life of Pi 3D (PG) Thu 11:40, 2:50, 6, 9:10; FriMon 3:45, 9:50 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu 12, 3:25, 6:50, 10:10; Fri-Mon 12, 3:20, 6:40, 10:10 Les Misérables (PG-13) Tue 11:55, 2:15, 3:35, 5:50, 7:15, 9:25; Wed 10:30, 11:50, 2:10, 3:30, 5:50, 7:10, 9:30 Monsters, Inc. 3D (G) Thu 10:05, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:25; Fri-Mon 11:20, 2, 4:40, 7:20, 10 Red Dawn (PG-13) Thu 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45; Fri-Mon 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu 11, 12:05, 1:30, 2:35, 4, 5:05, 6:30, 9; Fri-Mon 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:35 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 10:35, 12:20, 1:55, 3:40, 5:15, 7, 8:35, 10:20; FriMon 11:10, 12:55, 2:30, 4:15, 5:50, 7:35, 9:10 This Is 40 (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Mon 11:25, 1, 2:35, 4:10, 5:40, 7:25, 8:55, 10:30 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 10:15, 11:45, 1:10, 2:40, 4:10, 5:35, 7:05, 8:30, 10; FriMon 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 10 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 10:50, 12:10, 1:40, 3, 4:30, 5:50, 7:20, 10:15; Fri-Mon 11, 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55
Century Fox Tucson Theatres at the Theatre 17 W. Congress St. Oro Valley 624-1515. Marketplace No films this week 12155 N. Oracle Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 899. Call for Tue and Wed film times Anna Karenina (R) ThuSun 10:30, 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:30; Mon 10:30, 1:30, 4:35, 7:35 Flight (R) ends Thu 10:25 The Guilt Trip (PG-13) Thu-Sun 11:55, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; Mon 11:55, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG-13) Thu 10:30, 1, 2:15, 6, 8:30, 9:45; Fri-Sun 10:30, 1, 4:45, 6, 8:30, 9:45; Mon 10:30, 1, 4:45, 6 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 3:30, 4:45, 7:15; Fri-Mon 11:45, 2:15, 3:30, 7:15 Jack Reacher (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40; Mon 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40 Killing Them Softly (R) ends Thu 11:50, 2:20, 5, 7:30, 10:05 Life of Pi (PG) Thu-Mon 1:35, 7:25 Life of Pi 3D (PG) ThuSun 10:35, 4:30, 10:20; Mon 10:35, 4:30 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu-Sun 12:05, 3:25, 6:50, 10:15; Mon 12:05, 3:25, 6:50 Les Misérables (PG-13) TueWed 11:30, 3, 6:30, 10 Monsters, Inc. 3D (G) ThuSun 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Mon 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50; TueWed 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Playing for Keeps (PG-13) Thu-Sun 9:40 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu 11:10; Fri-Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:15, 6:55; Sun 6:55; Mon 11:10, 1:45, 4:15, 6:55 The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker (Not Rated) Sun 12 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu-Sun 12:20, 3:40, 7, 10:10; Mon 12:20, 3:40, 7 This Is 40 (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:55, 5:05, 8:15; Mon 10:45, 1:55, 5:05 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) ends Thu 11:05, 1:55, 4:40, 7:20
Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. Call for Fri-Wed film times Arbitrage (R) Thu 11:40 Cloud Atlas (R) Thu 11:30, 3, 6:40 End of Watch (R) Thu 4:50 Frankenweenie (PG) Thu 11:20, 1:20, 3:30 Looper (R) Thu 9:50 The Man With the Iron Fists (R) Thu 10:05 Paranormal Activity 4 (R) Thu 5:30, 7:40, 9:55 Pitch Perfect (PG-13) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 A Royal Affair (R) Thu 11:10, 2, 7 Searching for Sugar Man (PG-13) Thu 12:20, 5, 7:20 Seven Psychopaths (R) Thu 2:20, 9:30 Taken 2 (PG-13) Thu 11, 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:45
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. Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (PG) Tue-Wed 1:15 Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D (PG) Fri-Mon 12, 7; Tue-Wed 10:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 Django Unchained (R) TueWed 10:50, 11:50, 2:40, 3:40, 6:20, 7:20, 10, 11 Flight (R) Thu 11:45, 3, 6:20, 9:40; Fri-Sun 10:30, 2:20, 6:05, 9:15; Mon 10:30, 2:20, 6:05 The Guilt Trip (PG-13) Thu 9:45, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; FriSun 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 8, 10:50; Mon 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 8; Tue-Wed 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 8, 10:35 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG13) Thu-Sun 9:40, 11:40, 1:20, 3:20, 5, 7, 8:40, 10:40; Mon 9:40, 11:40, 1:20, 3:20, 5, 7; Tue-Wed 11:30, 12:30, 3:20, 4:20, 7:10, 8:10, 10:50 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D (PG-13) ThuSun 10:50, 12:30, 2:30, 4:10, 6:10, 7:50, 9:50; Mon 10:50, 12:30, 2:30, 4:10, 6:10; Tue-Wed 10:30, 2:20, 6:10, 9:50 Jack Reacher (PG-13) FriSun 10, 1:10, 2:40, 4:20, 7:30, 9:30, 10:45; Mon 10, 1:10, 2:40, 4:20, 7:30; Tue-Wed 10:10, 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:45 Killing Them Softly (R) ends Thu 11:10, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Life of Pi (PG) Thu 12:50, 7:15; Fri-Mon 11:45, 6:15; Tue-Wed 11:10, 6 Life of Pi 3D (PG) Thu 10, 4, 10:25; Fri-Sun 3, 9:45; Mon 3; Tue-Wed 2:45, 9 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu 12:20, 3:50, 7:10, 10:35; Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:40, 7:15, 10:35; Mon 12:20, 3:40, 7:15; Tue-Wed 11:20, 3, 6:30, 10:15 Monsters, Inc. (G) Thu 11:20, 2, 4:40, 7:20, 10; Fri-Sun 11:10, 1:50, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20; Mon 11:10, 1:50, 4:15, 6:50; Tue-Wed 2:10 Monsters, Inc. 3D (G) TueWed 11:40, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Parental Guidance (PG) Tue-Wed 10:20, 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:30 Playing for Keeps (PG-13) ends Thu 11:30, 2:20, 5:20, 8, 10:45 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu 9:50, 10:30, 12:15, 1, 2:45, 3:30, 5:15, 6:05, 7:45, 8:45, 10:15; FriSun 10:20, 11:20, 1, 2, 3:50, 4:50, 6:20, 7:20, 9, 10; Mon 10:20, 11:20, 1, 2, 3:50, 4:50, 6:20, 7:20; Tue-Wed 10:35, 11:45, 1:30, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15,
7:45, 10:20 Rise of the Guardians 3D (PG) ends Thu 11:15, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Silver Linings Playbook (R) Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30; Mon 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40; Tue-Wed 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:50, 10:55 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 11:50, 3:10, 6:40, 10:20; Fri-Sun 11:50, 3:10, 6:40, 10:10; Mon 11:50, 3:10, 6:40; Tue-Wed 6:45, 10:10 This Is 40 (R) Fri-Sun 9:50, 12:50, 4, 7:10, 10:20; Mon 9:50, 12:50, 4, 7:10; Tue-Wed 10, 1, 4:10, 7:30, 10:40 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 9:55, 10:40, 12:40, 1:40, 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30; Fri-Sun 9:45, 12:40, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40; Mon 9:45, 12:40, 3:45, 6:45; Tue-Wed 12:20, 3:10, 6:15, 9:20
The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility Barbara (PG-13) Fri-Mon 2:15, 4:45, 7:30; TueWed 2:15, 7:30 The Bay (R) Thu 10:15 Chasing Ice (PG-13) Thu 12:30, 3:15, 5:30, 7:30; Fri-Mon 12:45, 3, 7:45; Tue-Wed 5:15 Dial M for Murder 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 5 Django (Not Rated) FriWed 9:45 The Great Dictator (G) Thu 7 Holy Motors (Not Rated) Thu 5:15; Fri-Wed 9:30 Jurassic Park (PG-13) Thu 10 A Late Quartet (R) Thu 12:15, 2:45, 7:45; FriSun 2:30, 7:15; Mon 2:30; Tue-Wed 2:30, 7:15 The Master (R) Tue-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7 The Nightmare Before Christmas (PG) Fri-Wed 12, 10 Oma and Bella (Not Rated) Fri-Mon 12:30, 5:15; Tue-Wed 12:45 The Perks of Being a Wallflower (PG-13) Thu 4:40 Santa Claus (Not Rated) Mon 8 The Sessions (R) Thu 12, 2:30 Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (R) Thu 9:30
Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. Alex Cross (PG-13) Thu 4:40, 7; Fri-Wed 5:10, 7:30 The Bourne Legacy (PG-13) Thu 4:45; Fri-Wed 4:20 Brave (PG) Thu 11:55; Fri-Wed 11:30 The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) ends Thu 7:50 End of Watch (R) Fri-Wed 11:20, 2, 4:30, 7:10 Frankenweenie (PG) Fri-Sun 11, 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 9:50; Mon 11, 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, 7:40; Tue-Wed 11, 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 9:50 Hope Springs (PG-13) ends Thu 3 Looper (R) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:50, 9:40; Fri-Sun 7, 9:40; Mon 7; Tue-Wed 7, 9:40
The Man With the Iron Fists (R) Thu 12:10, 2:30, 7:40, 10; Fri-Wed 4:40 The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) Thu 12:30; Fri-Wed 12 ParaNorman (PG) Thu 12:40, 5:20; Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:30 Pitch Perfect (PG-13) Thu 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; Fri-Sun 1:50, 7:20, 9:50; Mon 1:50, 7:20; Tue-Wed 1:50, 7:20, 9:50 Seven Psychopaths (R) Thu 2:10, 9:30; Fri-Sun 2:40, 9:55; Mon 2:40; Tue-Wed 2:40, 9:55 Sinister (R) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55; Fri-Sun 9:45; Tue-Wed 9:45 Taken 2 (PG-13) Fri-Sun 11:10, 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10; Mon 11:10, 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50; Tue-Wed 11:10, 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10
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Tower Theatres at Arizona Pavilions 8031 N. Business Park Drive. 579-0500. Call for Tue and Wed film times Anna Karenina (R) ends Thu 11:40, 2:30 The Guilt Trip (PG-13) Thu-Mon 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG13) Thu 10:50, 12, 2:20, 3:30, 5:50, 7, 9:20; Fri-Mon 11, 12:15, 2:30, 3:45, 6, 7:15, 9:30 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D (PG-13) Thu 1:10, 4:40, 8:10; Fri-Mon 9:50, 1:20, 4:50, 8:20 Jack Reacher (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Mon 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Life of Pi (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:15; Fri-Sat 11:15, 4:40; Sun 4:40; Mon 11:15 Lincoln (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 3, 6:30, 9:40; Fri-Mon 11:50, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Monsters, Inc. (G) ThuMon 12:15, 9:15 Monsters, Inc. 3D (G) ThuMon 10, 2:30, 4:45, 7 Playing for Keeps (PG13) Thu 11:15, 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15; Fri-Sat 10:20, 12:40, 5:20; Sun 12:40, 5:20; Mon 10:20, 12:40, 5:20 Red Dawn (PG-13) Thu 5:30, 7:45, 10; Fri-Mon 3:10, 7:40, 9:55 Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu 10:45, 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50; Fri-Mon 10:10, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:25, 9:40 Skyfall (PG-13) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45; Fri-Mon 3:35, 6:40, 9:45 This Is 40 (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Mon 10:15, 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Thu 11, 7, 9:35; Fri-Sun 2, 7:35, 10:15; Mon 2, 10:15 Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu 11:20, 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30; Fri-Mon 10:40, 1:10
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CINEMA Christian Petzold works with his muse again to create ‘Barbara,’ another award-winning thriller
BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com he unmistakable snap of the latex gloves could mean only one thing. Discovered riding home on her bike well after she should have arrived home, Barbara (Nina Hoss) must be hiding something. That’s what the men in the blue Mercedes think. So they take her inside, toss her house looking for whatever, and commence the cavity search. Snap. That seems like rough treatment, especially for a respected pediatric physician, but Barbara recently requested permission to leave East Germany. She wants to move to the other side of the Berlin Wall to be with her lover, Jörg (Mark Waschke), and that makes her an enemy of the state. Instead of granting her request, the government moves her to the middle of nowhere, under the watchful eye of the secret police, the Stasi. She also has the attention of her chief of surgery, who may be romantically interested in her, a government informant, or both. We don’t often get looks behind the Iron Curtain from what was once the land behind the Iron Curtain. The Lives of Others won the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2007, but it is widely believed that its subject matter—a heavy criticism of East German surveillance during the Cold War— kept the film out of the Berlin Film Festival a year earlier. In fact, Germany has largely failed to examine its communist past, although since The Lives of Others, that has started to change. Like that film, Barbara is Germany’s official foreign-language entry in this year’s Academy Awards, and it is also set toward the end of the Cold War, in that period where it’s darkest just before the dawn. The paranoia, to borrow a line from Buffalo Springfield, runs deep. But not all paranoia is delusion: On the night that the Stasi invade Barbara’s home, they’re right; she is hiding something. Barbara has been with Jörg, who has the means to pass more freely between West and East Berlin. If he can, he will extract her from her current predicament, though in the meantime, the visits and his money help. Barbara sees something of herself in a teenage patient named Stella (Jasna Fritzi Bauer). Stella injured herself escaping from a labor prison, and she, too, has her sights set on fleeing East Germany. But though Stella’s circumstance steels her resolve even more, especially once the girl is dragged back to the prison, Barbara is constantly reminded of the important work she’s doing in the hospital. If she leaves for her own freedom, what will become of not only these patients, but those
Reviews by Jacquie Allen, Colin Boyd and Bob Grimm.
NEWLY REVIEWED: OMA AND BELLA
Two old Jewish ladies living together in Berlin cook and remember their pasts in the documentary Oma and Bella. Friends for several decades, the two ladies now take care of one another. This is an intimate glimpse into the lives of two people, the kind of whom are now all almost gone. The women are survivors of the Holocaust and many of their memories of the event are harrowing; both of their parents were killed during this time, and in one sequence, a friend of the two talks briefly about her time in Auschwitz. The women mostly try to stay light-hearted, but they still honor and respect their past and are visibly shaken when they have to recall some of the events they lived through. This is one of the more effective documentaries in some time. While some of the topics discussed are without a doubt depressing, the ladies stay happy and try to live their lives as fully and richly as possible. They are an inspiration; they show that, no matter what kind of hardships you go through, you can still overcome them and live your life joyfully. Allen
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Gerard Butler needs to just shut his stupid face, quit acting and take up water polo or something. I am sick and tired of sitting through this guy’s crap. At some point, you just realize that the people making the good movies don’t want you in them, for whatever reason. I’m not saying Butler is a bad actor; he can actually be quite good at times. I am saying he’s getting roles not good enough for Steve Guttenberg, and with this piece of crap, he’s dragging some good actresses down with him. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Uma Thurman and Judy Greer all humiliate themselves in this thing (which Butler co-produced), and let’s hope this represents a low point for all of them. Butler plays an ex-soccer star trying to win his wife (Jessica Biel) back, and he’s a total dick. That’s all you need to know. Grimm
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Barbara Rated PG-13 Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld and Rainer Bock Directed by Christian Petzold Adopt Films, 106 minutes Opens Friday, Dec. 21 at the Loft Cinema (795-7777)
yet to come? Nina Hoss has collaborated with writer-director Christian Petzold on four previous occasions, and on three of those projects, she walked home with hardware of some kind. She already has for this one, too, as a matter of fact. The kind of bond that a filmmaker and an actor share when they implicitly trust one another is unmistakable, and in many cases, that can only be forged over time. In a film loaded with intrigue, Petzold knows that Hoss will only reveal what he wants revealed. Barbara can’t find other ways out of her maze, and we can’t see any hope of it in Hoss’ performance. We’re as in the dark about her next step as she is. Barbara is an unconventional thriller, one that simmers throughout without ever looking like it’s about to bubble over. But it is also highly effective and quietly gripping, a terrific exercise in restraint from our heroine, as well as from the director and his muse.
Although it is being pushed as heady Oscar fare, Hitchcock is a little too bizarre and too goofy to find itself seriously in the running for Best Picture. I’m not complaining; I am a fan of bizarre, goofy movies. As this film explores the making of Psycho—Alfred Hitchcock’s biggest risk as a filmmaker—Hitchcock takes a few enjoyable diversions. It contains a blast of a performance from Anthony Hopkins as Hitch, with Helen Mirren perhaps outpacing him as Hitchcock’s wife, Alma Reville. The film has a surface sheen to it, seemingly placing more of an emphasis on Alma’s possible love affair with a fellow writer (Danny Huston) than on the making of Psycho. Still, when it’s dealing with Psycho and the mechanics of making a movie, Hitchcock is a lot of fun. Grimm THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
And so it begins again, another journey into Middle Earth by way of Peter Jackson’s vivid visual imagination. But The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey does not catch fire in the way The Lord of the Rings did. Its storytelling is uncomfortable and unremarkable, and the cinematography and production design are done in by Jackson’s experimentation with High Frame Rate 3-D, a new innovation that doubles the frames per second for a crisper image. Unfortunately, it’s terribly unnatural to look at. Having said that, The Hobbit has also been released in various other formats, so you can likely avoid removing your 3-D glasses a half-dozen times to stabilize your eyes. Like Lord of the Rings, this is a quest, with Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) joining Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and a roguish band of dwarves. They may be moving an awful lot, but this story never seems to go anywhere. Boyd
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When I heard that Spike Lee would be reprising the role of Mookie from his breakthrough film Do the Right Thing in this film, I got excited. I was interested in seeing what had become of the pizza delivery boy who threw a garbage-can through Sal’s Pizzeria’s window. Well, dammit … Spike just does a walk-on in his latest film, carrying a pizza box and still saying “Hell no!” to people pitching their wares or religion. Apparently, Mookie still works for Sal, so there must’ve been some major compromises after the events of Do the Right Thing. I think he should’ve been fired for the garbage-can incident. It was a dick move. This film isn’t about Mookie. It’s actually about a rather drab kid named Flik (Jules Brown), sent to stay with his religious fanatic grandfather (Clarke Peters) in Brooklyn for the summer. Mookie is still delivering pizzas in Brooklyn, but he’s not stopping to really talk. His appearance is just a stunt. We get little Mookie, and too much Flik. Brown is not a charismatic actor, and being that he is the center of the film, the movie lands with a thud. Peters has his moments delivering fiery sermons in his little church, but it’s the sort of thing you have seen before. There’s a big plot twist toward the end that further derails an already listless film. The movie, until then, is lighthearted and simple. When the film takes its big shift, it feels very weird. Just what Lee is trying to say with this movie is a mystery, and his string of narrative duds continues. I miss the guy who used to write great films. However, Lee’s Michael Jackson documentary, Bad
25, also came out this year, and it’s quite good. So 2012 wasn’t a total loss for Spike. SPECIAL FEATURES: You get a behind-the-scenes featurette and a commentary with Spike Lee. The commentary is the best thing about the disc.
Men in Black 3 (Blu-ray) SONY MOVIE B SPECIAL FEATURES BBLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 6.25 (OUT OF 10)
I enjoyed this one even more the second time. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones put on the black suits for their first mission in a decade, and it’s good to have them back. The story involves Smith’s Agent J going back to 1969 (the year of the Miracle Mets) and trying to save a young Agent K (Josh Brolin, hilarious as a young Jones) from a disgusting killer alien named Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clement). Emma Thompson also joins the party as Agent O, replacing Rip Torn’s Zed as the big boss. Some of the time-travel logic is a bit nutty, but you won’t care if you are a fan of Smith in top form. His rapport with Brolin is just as good as his rapport with Jones. And getting Brolin for the role is some of the year’s most-perfect casting. The Cape Canaveral finale is a real winner, as is the leap off of the Chrysler Building. There were all sorts of problems making this movie, but it doesn’t really show in the finished product. After the lousy Men In Black 2, this is a strong sequel that I hope will pave the way for more chapters. SPECIAL FEATURES: There’s a stand-alone making-of featurette, as well as a look at the re-creation of 1969 for the film, a gag reel and an examination of the special effects. They’re well done and worth your time.
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The Bourne Legacy (Blu-ray) UNIVERSAL MOVIE C SPECIAL FEATURES BBLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 5 (OUT OF 10)
Jeremy Renner replaces Matt Damon at the center of the Bourne franchise, and the studio should’ve just left well enough alone. The events of this movie take place at the same time as Damon’s last Bourne outing, The Bourne Ultimatum. We know this because Matt Damon’s character is mentioned on occasion, and his image shows up during TV news telecasts. It’s just a reminder of how much more fun the franchise was with Damon starring. Renner plays Aaron Cross, who, like Damon’s Bourne, is part of a superagent experiment. He’s a superstrong, supersmart agent thanks to some magic drugs and outlandish writing. Renner is a decent enough actor, but he’s no Matt Damon. Consequently, Aaron Cross is no Jason Bourne. Edward Norton is new to the series as a suspicious retired colonel, and Rachel Weisz is cast as well. Both barely register. Yes, the Bourne movies made a lot of money, but when Damon basically refused to soldier on, it would’ve been a good idea to let things lie for a while. This one feels rushed and unimportant. There was some talk of Damon and Renner teaming for a future chapter. I’m doubting that will ever happen, but it’s not a bad idea. Damon needs a hit, and Renner needs some help. SPECIAL FEATURES: You get a director’s commentary with Tony Gilroy, deleted scenes and some making-of featurettes.
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New Restaurant/Learning Center t seems like my Twitter feed goes through phases where, for weeks at a time, it’s constantly bombarded with Instagram pictures of food, shot with smartphones and appropriate photographyruining filters applied. Generally it’s a mix of pictures of homemade dishes and shots from appropriately hipster-chic locally owned restaurants around town, boasting über-local ingredients, delicate preparations and unique fusions of flavor. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not judging my friends who do this … I’m just not among them. I’m definitely guilty of the occasional food-related tweet or picture, but I’m not an Instagramming, filter-loving smartphone photographer. Social House, or “SoHo,” because acronyms are painfully cool right now, seems the perfect restaurant to be depicted in this manner, though. The interior is funky and sleek, with a few TVs dotted throughout, but it still offers an intimate dining experience if that’s what you’re looking for. The menu differs for lunch and dinner, and both have a smattering of delicious-sounding offerings that I would have liked to have tried, given the opportunity, but there’s only so many dishes one can reasonably order and taste on two visits. SoHo is big on presentation, concept and overall flavor, though there were some issues with details, execution and service on both visits. The drink menu is one area where there are zero problems —there’s a wonderful selection of several dozen craft (and noncraft) beers on tap (ranging from $3 to $10), as well as four draught wines (two are $6, two $10), and a reasonably priced and varied selection of wellchosen wines, available by both the glass and bottle. The signature cocktails ($8 to $12) are inventive, creative twists on classic drinks that pay lip service to the classics—we tried a few on our dinner visit and were not disappointed in any, though the Soho Mule and the Scarlet (both $8) were the clear favorites. The lunch menu is fairly salad-and-sandwich-centered, with a few options for entréestyle dishes and a decent selection of appetizers (or “Share” plates). The artichoke dip ($10) was phenomenal, and the portion was huge— definitely sharable. It was piping hot, creamy and had great flavor, especially topped with crispy melted parmesan. The grilled flatbread was lightly salted, which was a perfect detail. I decided on the Cuban belly sandwich ($12) with fries, because I can never resist pork belly; and Ted went for the bacon-wrapped chicken sandwich ($11) with fries.
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The pork-belly sandwich from Social House. Unfortunately, the appetizer far outshined the sandwiches, which were beautifully presented but mediocre. Mine was grilled too much and came with burnt bread (yuck), which marred the flavor of the pork belly, ham, gruyere, mustard and pickles. Once I picked apart the sandwich innards, it was quite tasty. Ted’s sandwich also suffered from some degree of mediocrity—the chicken was dry; the bacon was overcooked and burnt on one side (it’s wrapped around the chicken breast, pre-cooking); and the guacamole tasted mostly like avocado without much added to it. Fortunately, dinner was a better, though pricier, experience. The dinner menu tends toward the more creative—we ordered spiced venison carpaccio ($11) and a roasted tiger shrimp relleno ($9) as appetizers, and both were superbly flavored and absolutely beautifully presented. However, they were also really, really small. The carpaccio was four paper-thin (as carpaccio should be) slices of venison, about the diameter of a golf ball, with a sprinkling of fried capers and pecorino cheese. The menu says “spiced” venison, but whatever spice there might have been was undetectable, as was the truffle in the truffle aioli. However, the dish didn’t suffer for it. The venison was flavorful and not at all gamey, but there were only two small bites per person. The relleno was much the same—for $9, you get one small pepper stuffed with two mediumsized shrimp, corn, avocado and cotija cheese, atop a bed of ancho chile mole sauce. It was, flavorwise, one of the best rellenos I’ve had in Tucson, with great smoky flavor and lovely balance; but the portion was teeny tiny, especially when you’re sharing it with another person, or a party. (It’s listed under the “Share” section of the menu.) Our dinner entrées suffered from some serious execution flaws—first, they took nearly 25 minutes to come to the table after our appetizers had been cleared, and when they arrived, it was apparent that my bistro steak ($19) had been sitting in the hot window for quite some time— the plate was smoking hot; the sauce had sepa-
Social House 446 N. Campbell Ave. 747-5223; www.soho-az.com Open daily, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Pluses: Beautifully presented dishes that are mostly tasty; great drink selection Minuses: Food slow to come out; dishes can be either under- or over-seasoned
rated; and the steak looked like it might have once been medium-rare, but was now quickly venturing past medium. Ted’s dinner had also been sitting in the window, but not the hot one, apparently—his crispy ahi tuna ($17) was just barely lukewarm on the outside when it arrived at the table, and the tempura asparagus were downright cold. The ahi made up for the execution errors in flavor—and the ahi steak itself was perfectly rare on the inside. The apple kimchi had a pleasant tang; the asparagus paired surprisingly well with the tuna and kimchi; and the soy caramel added a necessary bit of sweetness to the dish. My dish, on the other hand, suffered from way too much salt. The sweet onion potato gratin and the bordelaise sauce were both nearly inedibly salty, while the steak had hardly any seasoning at all (or maybe it did, and the potatoes and sauce killed my palate before I could taste it). The fried marrow balls were a cute idea, but didn’t add anything to the dish, and the delicate marrow was so overwhelmed by the thick batter that it wasn’t even good on its own. A passion fruit margarita panna cotta ($8) ended the meal on a high note, at least. The gluten-free citrus sponge cake was a little dense for a sponge cake, but the flavors were excellent and the panna cotta was pleasantly tangy—a great palate-cleansing way to end the meal. But, until SoHo can work out the details, their food might be better on Instagram than “IRL.”
UrbanFresh recently opened at 73 E. Pennington St., so I stopped in to look around and was greeted—with a lot of enthusiasm— by three lovely ladies. The UrbanFresh tag line is “A Vegucational Experience,” and with a plant-based menu, it lives up to the name. The menu includes wraps, salads, smoothies and juice blends. Hours are 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. The restaurant also provides several cooking classes of the vegetarian variety. Stop in or call 792-9355.
Parlour Frozen Yogurt Coming “Soon” Next to Magpies on Fourth, 605 N. Fourth Ave., is a glass door through which you can see a neon sign that’s been taunting me. “Frozen Yogurt,” it says in glowing letters. The place looks to be put together well, with a serving area and seats ready for guests. I asked around and was told there had been an inhouse tasting recently to finalize things for the opening. An exact date wasn’t known, but the ever-popular “soon” was tossed around. So I’m hoping it’s the quick “soon” and not the long one. Side note: I like the Magpies remodel. The addition of the indoor/outdoor bar ties it all together.
Another Food Store on Fourth A banner hanging from the storefront at 210 N. Fourth Ave. reads “Deli-Grocery and Homemade Dinners To Go.” It also states that the store is opening in January. But with less than a month to go, the place was still empty. If anyone has any more info, please let me know.
Delectables Offering Breakfast We’ve been told countless times that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But unless my significant other puts something together for me as I head out the door in the morning, I do without. Which is why I may have missed the news last month that Delectables, 533 N. Fourth Ave. is now serving breakfast starting at 9 a.m. The menu features a number of breakfast classics, such as French toast, plus a few morning cocktails for those with the day off. Check it out at www.delectables.com.
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KEY PRICE RANGES $ $8 or less $ $ $8-$15 $ $ $ $15-$25 $ $ $ $ $25 and up. Prices are based on menu entrÊe selections, and exclude alcoholic beverages. FORMS OF PAYMENT V Visa MC Mastercard AMEX American Express DIS Discover DC Diner’s Club checks local checks with guarantee card and ID only debit debit cards CatCard University of Arizona CatCard. TYPE OF SERVICE Counter Quick or fast-food service, usually includes take-out. Diner Minimal table service. CafÊ 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.
LAS BRASAS TAQUER�A C 2928 E. 22nd St. 881-6077. Open Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Beer Only. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Watch your own steak, chicken or tripas de leche sputter on the brazier grill and be deftly placed in a tortilla, taco or torta roll. The sides are fresh and zippy, and the meal’s a deal! $ CAFÉ POCA COSA C 110 E. Pennington St. 622-6400. Open Tuesday-
Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. For years, owner Suzana Davila has delighted residents and visitors alike with her Like Water for Chocolate style of Mexican food. The sauces at CafĂŠ Poca Cosa are extraordinary, reflecting an intricate blend of chiles and spicing as unusual as they are delicious. Pile on the incredible purĂŠed salsa, and try not to miss the mole and pipian. (4-1300) $$-$$$ CASA MOLINA E 6225 E. Speedway Blvd. 886-5468. Open daily 11
a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/CafÊ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 3001 N. Campbell Ave. (795-7593) and 4240 E. Grant Road (326-6663). A family operation with roots tracing back over the last five decades, Casa Molina is one of the most consistent places in town to sample true Mexican food. With an extensive menu that includes tacos, tostadas, enchiladas and chimichangas—as well as fried shrimp and hamburgers for more timid palates—Casa Molina boasts something for every taste. Children are always welcome, and the margaritas are top-flight. (8-12-99) $-$$ CHACO’S CAFE S 2027 S. Craycroft Road. 790-1828. Open Monday-
Saturday 6 a.m.-2 p.m. CafÊ/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Chaco’s CafÊ feels like a small-town Arizona joint, with casual service, red checkered vinyl tablecloths and inexpensive, tasty eats. All of the Mexican standards you’d expect are offered, from green-corn tamales to shrimp fajitas. The salsa bar is a nice touch, and you can entertain yourself by reading all of the wise sayings handwritten on the walls. (7-15-10) $-$$ CLUB 21 C 2920 N. Oracle Road. 622-3092. Open Sunday and Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. CafÊ/Full Bar. MC, V. Offering good Mexican food for more than 50 years, this neighborhood favorite should be considered when looking for a cool place to enjoy a margarita or a cold beer. Moderately priced meals make it a nice place for families, too. (4-22-04) $-$$ CROSSROADS RESTAURANT DRIVE IN
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Thursday 7:15 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday-Sunday 7:15 a.m.-
9:30 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. MC, V. For a light and flavorful meal, El Sabroso is worth ferreting out. Its use of oak wood to grill meats and vegetables, fruits and fresh seafood puts an interesting twist on what it coins “Mexican Caribbean.â€? (7-26-01) $-$$ EL SUR E 5602 E. 22nd St. 748-1032. Open Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ. Beer and Specialty Drinks. MC, V. This is one of those secret little places that you might not want to share with everybody. Old-fashioned, damn good Mexican fare is served up with a smile. The tortillas are made specially for El Sur and definitely add an extra touch. The dĂŠcor is funky and down-home, and the servers treat you like family. With prices and flavors that remind of a simpler time, the place attracts a crowd. Try the flan if you have any room for dessert! (12-29-05) $ LA FRESITA W 1450 W. St. Mary’s Road. 622-4005. Open daily
6 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DC, DIS, MC, V. More than just a friendly neighborhood taqueria, La Fresita offers full plates of goodies such as steak ranchero, chiles, tacos, burros, quesadillas and more. The corn tortillas are homemade and served up fresh and hot every day. The fruit shakes are sweet and delicious. With breakfast, lunch and dinner on the menu, La Fresita has literally something for everybody, even gringos! Hamburgers are on the menu. (10-6-05) $ LA FUENTE C 1749 N. Oracle Road. 623-8659. Open Sunday-
Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m. Bistro/ Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Take a fresh look at this Tucson classic. With tasty Mexican-food classics like chiles rellenos and unexpected surprises like fried red snapper, La Fuente is definitely worth a visit if you haven’t been in a while. A nice tequila and margarita selection is also offered. (5-27-10) $$-$$$ GUADALAJARA GRILL C 1220 E. Prince Road. 323-1022. Open daily 10
a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Salsa is made tableside, and the customer is in charge of what goes into it. The chips are fresh, hot and endless, but leave room for what comes next. Every dish is redolent with distinct and finely tuned flavors. (10-21-04) $$-$$$ LA INDITA C 622 N. Fourth Ave. 792-0523. Open Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Tuesday 11 a.m.- 1 p.m.; Saturday 6-9 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Diner/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. La Indita’s menu shows its Michoacan Tarascan Indian heritage. Menu items like the Tarascan tacos and Indian fry bread make La Indita a continued favorite. $ LEO’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT E 5114 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-9180. Open Monday-
Saturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. CafÊ/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Leo’s may be one of the city’s best-kept secrets. You’ll find such delicious standards as cheese enchiladas, flautas and burros, along with treats like mole and fish tacos. There are vegetarian specialties and a kids’ menu as well. The house margarita also is a winner. Finish off your meal with those airy puffs of fried dough: sopapillas. (11-22-07) $-$$
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6 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. MC, V. One could easily miss Maico, situated along busy 22nd Street. We’re glad we didn’t. Tiny as it may be, Maico serves some excellent Mexican chow for diners to enjoy in its outside dining area. Maico has a way with beef, chicken, pork and fish. You’ll find all the usual taqueria items and friendly service. (11-13-08) $ MARIA’S CAFÉ S 3530 S. Sixth Ave. 620-1465. Open Tuesday-
Saturday 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. CafÊ/ Beer and Wine. AMEX, MC, V. Quality Mexican food and tableside pay television sets—what more is there to say? In operation for a quarter of a century, Maria’s satisfies on a variety of levels. $-$$
MARY’S LUCKY DOLLAR MARKET S 1555 S. 10th Ave. 884-8720. Open Monday-Friday 6 a.m.-1 p.m. CafÊ/No Alcohol. Cash. Mary’s is one of Tucson’s least-refined restaurants, but the insanely cheap, flavorful food keeps locals a-comin’. The chorizo is the house specialty; alongside some eggs, potatoes and refried beans, it’s pure deliciousness. (2-18-10) $
MICHA’S S 2908 S. Fourth Ave. 623-5307. Open Sunday 7 a.m.8 p.m.; Monday 6:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 6:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Diner/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. One of the perennial favorites among local Mexican food aficionados. The chorizos are made on site, and the chimis are crisp and full. $-$$
MARISCOS CHIHUAHUA S 3901 S. Sixth Ave. 741-0361. Open daily 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Diner/Beer Only. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Cash and checks. Also at 1009 N. Grande Ave. (623-3563), 2902 E. 22nd St. (326-1529), 999 N. Swan Road (881-2372), 356 E. Grant Road (884-3457), 435 W. Irvington Road (294-3194) and 4185 W. Ina Road (572-2523). Alcohol served varies per location. A bit of the Mexican seaside has found its way north. At Mariscos Chihuahua, shellfish reigns supreme with fresh Guaymas shrimp being the specialty of the house. Don’t miss the shrimp ceviche, a Mariscos favorite that has regulars coming back for more. $-$$
LA OLLA NW 8553 N. Silverbell Road, No. 102. 579-0950. Open Monday-Saturday 11:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. CafÊ. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, MC, V. While chains dominate in Marana, La Olla is a wonderful mom-and-pop place with a Mexican bent. You’ll find all the traditional stuff—enchiladas, tacos, chimis—along with some surprisingly creative items, from appetizers to desserts. For starters, try the empanadas: tiny pies filled with cilantro pesto, shrimp chile and manchego cheese. EntreÊs include a breaded pork tenderloin topped with garlic shrimp and chipotle crema. (5-28-09) $$
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LA PARRILLA SUIZA C 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Diner/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 5602 E. Speedway Blvd. (747-4838) and 4250 W. Ina Road (572-7200). Friendly service, delicious food and a large menu. What more could one ask for? Try the chimichanga; you will not regret it. (2-20-03) $$-$$$ PERFECTO’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT S 5404 S. 12th Ave. 889-5651. Open MondayWednesday 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.-5 p.m. CafĂŠ/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. This homey little spot attracts a crowd. Perfecto’s serves all the usual stuff, and there is truly something for everybody. Kids will enjoy a burro and french fries; grown-ups will enjoy luscious soups, fresh seafood and homemade desserts. A Sunday buffet attracts a huge crowd, and the house-made choco flan is unique and tasty. (12-10-09) $-$$ LA PLACITA CAFÉ E 2950 N. Swan Road, No. 131. 881-1150. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Sunday 5-9 p.m. Full Cover. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The official Mexican restaurant of the Old Fort Lowell Neighborhood, La Placita CafĂŠ, tucked away in Plaza Palomino, serves up consistently good, lard-free Sonoran and Oaxacan food in nearsecret. Divine chile rellenos, sopa de mariscos and delicious mole are among the standouts on the large menu. Nice folks, too. (4-26-07) $$-$$$ QUESADILLA’S GRILL C 110 S. Church Ave., Suite 7136. 798-3697. Open Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DC, DIS, MC, V. The menu features standard tacos, enchiladas and tostadas. The breakfast burritos are especially worth checking out, featuring an “assemble-your-ownâ€? list of ingredients that makes breakfast worth getting up for. (3-1-01) $
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The Resonars are a recorded one-man show, but Matt Rendon found a group that can re-create his sounds live
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BY GENE ARMSTRONG, garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com ith recordings by his project the Resonars, Matt Rendon has established a reputation for uncannily recreating the vintage sound of 1960s-era psychedelic pop and garage rock. Even more amazing, he has played every instrumental part and sung every vocal part on each of the Resonars’ six albums, including the forthcoming Crummy Desert Sound. Rendon also writes most of the material, and produces and records all the albums in his Coma Cave Studio, which is still located in the guest house at his parents’ midtown home. (Jim Waters of Waterworks Studio mixes Resonars albums.) But earlier this year, the Resonars became a functioning, multiplayer band for the first time in about 15 years, Rendon says. The impetus was a gig in March at Austin’s famous South by Southwest Music and Media Conference, for which Rendon gathered some of his musical friends to perform the Resonars’ songs live. “We threw together a band to play South by Southwest at the request of Burger Records. It was so much fun, and we got to know the songs really well and really quickly, so we just figured ‘Let’s run with this!’” Burger Records, the Resonars’ Fullerton, Calif.-based label, has since 2007 been building a reputation for its hundreds of vinyl and cassette releases by young and hungry underground punk, pop and rock acts. The label also will be behind the End of the World showcase this Friday night, Dec. 21, at Club Congress. The concert will feature sets by the Resonars; fellow Tucson bands Lenguas Largas, Freezing Hands and Acorn Bcorn; and out-of-town guests Feeding People, White Night and Lovely Bad Things, all from Southern California. Almost all the acts on the bill have released recordings, or soon will, on Burger, the cultfavorite boutique label that has issued two past Resonars recordings—That Evil Drone and a reissue of Bright and Dark. Burger also will put out Crummy Desert Sound in January. The Resonars began 20 years ago as a conventional band, playing many local gigs in the mid-1990s before Rendon dissolved the group. “Around 1997, I split it up and started making the records myself,” he said over a beer one recent afternoon in the Tap Room at Hotel Congress. Rendon downplays the significant achievement in making Resonars records by himself. He says he never set out to be a solo act but ended up playing all the parts on the recordings by necessity. “It was what had to be done. When I split
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from the original band, I had to become the players I always wanted to play with—a Keith Moon-style drummer, a melodic bass player. I wasn’t ever really thinking about it. I just had a song and needed, say, a counterpoint bass line, or whatever. “It just kind of kept going and going, and I kept making records. I never really thought it out.” If Rendon were to assemble his favorite allstar band, it would include Moon on drums and either Paul McCartney, John Entwistle (The Who) or Chris Hillman (The Byrds) on bass. And on guitar? “It’d probably be, like, Pete Townshend and Jeff Beck or early Clapton.” Many casual listeners will be taken aback to learn that those four- and five-part harmonies on Resonars records were all created by Rendon, in his multitracked solitude. The vocals are the sort you might imagine the Mamas and the Papas, the Beach Boys or the Association taking months to perfect. Typically modest, Rendon doesn’t think he’s doing anything special with the singing. “Lately it’s been getting a little difficult, because I’m losing my high range, because I’m getting older,” the 44-year-old says with a chuckle. “But I just spend a lot of time in there, and when it comes time for harmonies, I have no idea in advance of what I want to do as far as backups. I just sort of sit in there and goof around until something sounds good. Then I’ll put a second one and a third part, and then maybe double them. I don’t want to say there isn’t a whole lot of thought put into it, but I am just back there goofing around.” The secret is to develop the vocal harmonies until they, as he puts it, “crackle.” There’s a sound alchemy that occurs when different harmony parts work together, he says. “When you sort of hear ghost tones develop in the back, I know that I am getting somewhere with it. The Mamas and the Papas are the masters of that.” Because Rendon plays with two other
End of the World Party With Burger Records featuring the Resonars, Feeding People, Lenguas Largas, Lovely Bad Things, White Night, Freezing Hands and Acorn Bcorn 8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21 Club Congress 311 E. Congress St. $5 advance; $7 day of 622-8848; hotelcongress.com
groups—both on the bill this Friday—he has the opportunity to experience music-making from different perspectives. “In Freezing Hands, I drum, which I love doing more than anything else. And (singersongwriter) Travis (Spillers) writes beautiful songs, and on the recordings, we work on harmonies together. In Lenguas Largas, I am really more of a percussionist—I just play one drum, a high hat and cymbal, and my job is basically to bash the hell out of those three pieces.” Playing with the anarchic punk-pop extravaganza known as Lenguas Largas allows Rendon a chance to cut loose, and he also enjoys the camaraderie. “There are six members, but at any given moment, there can be up to nine. If anyone is around on a given night, they’ll be included in the show.” Speaking of which, Lenguas Largas leader Isaac Reyes plays in the live version of the Resonars, which also features drummer James Peters (Yardsale Heart, the Jons) and bassist Jeremy Schliewe. Rendon is especially pleased that his bandmates can re-create the meticulous sound of Resonars recordings. “In my mind, I always thought I was never going to be able to meet these people who can pull this off, especially a drummer who plays really off the chain, and guys who can do all the harmonies. I had almost given up. “But for 17 years I was looking for people who can put this together, and it ended up coming up together in a week.”
‘Tis the season of giving and all, but let’s face it: While it feels really good to give someone something, it’s even better when you get something in return. In that spirit, there are a few benefit shows this week; you give them money, they give you a great show. It may take a while for Tim and Eric’s Chrimbus to catch on, but Seinfeld’s Festivus (for the rest of us) is celebrated in gatherings all across the land these days. This year Tucson gets in on the anti-holiday holiday action with a Festivus Celebration and Dance Party at the famed El Casino Ballroom. The event is a joint benefit for community radio station KXCI FM 91.3 and the 28th Annual Tucson Folk Festival, which is put on for free each spring by the Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association (TKMA). The 2013 edition will be held on Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5, and will feature national headliner the David Bromberg Quartet and local headliners Stefan George and Lavinia White (and Friends). But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. The Festivus Celebration will run from 6 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, Dec. 22, and will feature one heck of a roots-oriented lineup. While we can’t vouch for the order of appearance, the show’s bill includes performances by the John Coinman Band, whose titular frontman is currently on break from touring with Kevin Costner’s Modern West. His band comprises ringers such as flat-picking guitar master Peter McLaughlin and pedal steel player Neil Harry; blues violin player Heather Hardy and the Li’l Mama Blues Band, whose set will include a guest appearance by Sabra Faulk; Coyote Supper Club, a new band featuring singer-songwriter Kevin Pakulis and vocalist Amy Langley; Stefan George and the Ditchriders, another new band featuring bigname players including Gary Mackender on accordion, Harry on pedal steel, bassist Jay Trapp, and singer Lavinia White; world beat dance band Baba Marimba; and the String Bean Folk Orchestra, which is exactly what its name suggests—15 to 25 players on acoustic instruments including mandolins, guitars, violins, and acoustic basses. El Casino Ballroom is located at 437 E. 26th St. Admission to the Festivus Celebration and Dance Party is a $10 donation, and there will be a “traditional Festivus dinner” (in Tucson, that means Mexican food) available for $7 a plate. For more information head to tkma.org or kxci.org. On the following night, Sunday, Dec. 23, Club Congress will play host to For the Love 5, an annual hip-hop benefit for a toy fund for the children of Casa de los Niños, a local non-profit that seeks to prevent child abuse and neglect and provides shelter and family service programs. Hosted by Grey Matter (aka Black One and Table Manners – Black One will also be performing), the show will feature sets by People
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From the Sun, Marley B, Big Meridox, CB Project, ZeeDubb, Lord Kash, Grimey L, The Other Guy, Johnny Redd, theACES, ONEway, The Terrifix and more. For the Love 5—so named because it’s the fifth annual iteration of the event—gets rolling at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 23. Admission is a $5 donation, and Club Congress is located at 311 E. Congress St. For further details, check out hotelcongress.com/club or call 622-8848. Not everyone is all cheery this time of year, and for those people Club Congress has got another show up its sleeve this week. A few days after the hip-hop benefit, the club will be the site of the annual Blues Hall of Fame Show, a “benefit jam concert” stacked with some of Tucson’s finest blues acts. The proceeds go to the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame, “a nonprofit organization dedicated to honoring the musicians in the state of Arizona who have demonstrated great skills and commitment to keeping the blues alive and well in our region and promoting the awareness of blues music and culture here, nationally, and abroad.” The show will feature performances by the Bad News Blues Band, Grams and Krieger, the Bryan Dean Band, Juke Joint Johnny, Stefan George and many more. But the real fun comes when the musicians start sitting in on each others’ sets and, inevitably, the jam sessions that ensue. The annual Blues Hall of Fame show kicks off at Club Congress at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 26. Admission is a suggested donation of $5. If you’ve got questions, use the same info as above to contact the folks at Club Congress.
COVER-UP FOLLOW-UP As a member of the team that put it together, I’d like to offer sincere, heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of us to all those who contributed to the success of this year’s Great Cover-Up, which took place last weekend at Plush, Club Congress, and the Rialto Theatre. While figures from ticket sales are still being tallied at press time, thanks to your efforts we’ll be donating somewhere in the neighborhood of $6,000 to the event’s beneficiary, the nonprofit SAAMHA, the Southern Arizona Artists and Musicians Healthcare Alliance. As much as any event in Tucson, the CoverUp is a community-wide joint effort, so let me take a moment to single out those who helped the most in putting the event together. Major props to the following: the tireless, intrepid Mel Mason, without whose efforts the whole thing couldn’t happen; our amazing emcees, Cathy Rivers and, especially, Matt Milner, who hosted all three nights and helped plan the event; Curtis McCrary, Kris Kerry, and everyone else at the Rialto Theatre; David Slutes and all the folks at Club Congress; Randy Lopez and the rest of the Plush staff; the incredible sound engineers Tom Beach, Dana Fehr, Bruce Momich, and Zach Matheson, who each year have their work cut out for them, but especially so this year; stage managers Ian Carstensen and J Lugo Miller; our generous sponsors KXCI FM 91.3 (thanks to Randy Peterson, Duncan Hudson, and Gene Armstrong), Tucson Weekly (thanks, Jill A’Hearn), Rainbow Guitars, and Sticks N’ Strings; poster designer Ryan Trayte of Saywells Design and Katie Haverly for flyering; and all of the performers who donated their time and energy to a great cause and treated us to some fantastic performances: Saint Maybe, Boreas, the Black Jackalope
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As usual, there are lots more fine shows happening around town this week that we didn’t get to tell you about in detail. Starting with a roundup of—in case the Mayans were right— options for how to spend your last night on earth: American Android, The Jons, and Jumpstylin’ Ari Grabb at Plush on Friday, Dec. 21; Black Cherry Raw burlesque with a live band at Surly Wench Pub on Friday, Dec. 21; End of Days Party at Cowtown Keeylocko featuring Al Foul and Hans Hutchison on Friday, Dec. 21; Neon Prophet at Boondocks Lounge on Friday, Dec. 21; Valence album-release show featuring The Gallery, Sinphonics, Shattered Systems, Psygoat and more at The Rock on Friday, Dec. 21; Starting Over: The John Lennon Experience at the Berger Performing Arts Center on Friday, Dec. 21; Cosmic Dance Party featuring DJs Elektra Tek, Fix, Resinate, and Seth Myles at After Dark at Delectables on Friday, Dec. 21; Attunement at the Galactic Center on Friday, Dec. 21; Acoustic Silverbell at La Cocina on Friday, Dec. 21. In case the Mayans were wrong, options for the rest of the week: Cumbia Christmas with Chicha Dust at Club Congress on Saturday, Dec. 22; Calle Debauche Reunion Holiday Party with instrumental sets from Steakhäus and Satellite Freakout at The HangArt on Sunday, Dec. 23; Alaska, Rise Like Lions, A Perception, and Spider Cider at Tucson Live Music Space on Sunday, Dec. 23; Hans Hutchison and Friends and Naim Amor at Club Congress next Thursday, Dec. 27; Sidepony Music Presents: A Post-Apocalyptic Social at Plush on Saturday, Dec. 22; an evening of songs inspired by It’s a Wonderful Life with Alex Whelan at Tucson Live Music Space on Saturday, Dec. 22; Al Perry at Plush next Thursday, Dec. 27; Songwriter Thursdays with Billy Sedlmayr at Café Passe tonight, Thursday, Dec. 20, and next Thursday, Dec. 27.
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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. APPLEBEES ON WETMORE 565 E. Wetmore Road. 292-2600. 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. 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. CAFÉ ROKA 35 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-5153. 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. CHE’S LOUNGE 350 N. Fourth Ave. 623-2088. 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.
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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. DON’S BAYOU CAJUN COOKIN’ 8991 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-4410. DRIFTWOOD BAR 2001 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4317. 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. 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. 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. MERCADO SAN AGUSTÍN 100 S. Avenida del Convento. 461-1110, ext. 8. MESCAL BAR AND GRILL 70 N. Cherokee Trail. Mescal. (520- 586-3905. 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. 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. 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. PY STEAKHOUSE 5655 W. Valencia Road, inside Casino del Sol. (800) 344-9435. 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. STADIUM GRILL 3682 W. Orange Grove Road. Marana. 877-8100. THE STATION PUB AND GRILL 8235 N. Silverbell Road. 789-7040. THE STEAKOUT RESTAURANT AND SALOON 3620 W. Tangerine Road. Marana. 572-1300. 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. WILD BILL’S STEAKHOUSE AND SALOON 5910 N. Oracle Road. 887-6161. WILDCAT HOUSE 1801 N. Stone Ave. 622-1302. WINGS-PIZZA-N-THINGS 8838 E. Broadway Blvd. 722-9663. WISDOM’S CAFÉ 1931 E. Frontage Road. Tumacacori. 398-2397. WOODEN NICKEL 1908 S. Country Club Road. 323-8830. WOODY’S 3710 N. Oracle Road. 292-6702. WORLD FAMOUS GOLDEN NUGGET 2617 N. First Ave. 622-9202. ZEN ROCK 121 E. Congress St. 624-9100.
Due to the Christmas holiday, some events here may not take place. We recommend that you call and confirm all events.
THU DEC 20 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch The Bisbee Royale Palabra Andante featuring Matthew John Conley Boondocks Lounge The Queen Bees (Sabra Faulk, Mitzi Cowell and Heather Hardy) The Breeze Patio Bar and Grill Live music Café Passé Songwriter Thursday: Billy Sedlmayr, Gabriel Sullivan Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Live classical guitar Chicago Bar Neon Prophet Club Congress Rescue Lights Christmas Party: A House a Home, Ethan Steigerwald, Arch Solace La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Stefan George, Rosano Brothers Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Kevin Sterner and Strait Country (George Strait tribute) 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 Hideout Bar and Grill The Gebbia/Barrett Acoustic Duo Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Corey Spector Las Cazuelitas Event Center Live music Maverick Jack Bishop Band McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Susan Artemis Mercado San Agustín Naim Amor, Chris Kallini, Mona Chambers, Sean Rogers, Katherine Burns Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Don Nottingham O’Malley’s Live music On a Roll Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge The L.A. cast of Beatlemania Pinnacle Peak Bluegrass Music Jam RPM Nightclub 80’s and Gentlemen Rialto Theatre Kinky, Mexican Dubwiser, Electric Feel DJs Sheraton Hotel and Suites Prime Example Sky Bar Skinkfinger 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 Music Box 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 If you would like your band, club or solo act to be listed, send all pertinent times, dates, prices and places to: Club Listings, Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726. Fax listings to 792-2096. Or e-mail us at clubs@tucsonweekly.com. Deadline to receive listings information is noon on Friday, seven days before the Thursday publication date. For display advertising information, call 294-1200.
Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company DJ spins music The Hideout Fiesta DJs The Hut DJ MGM 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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FRI DEC 21 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bamboo Club Live music The Bashful Bandit Live music Bedroxx DJ Du and the Cooper Meza Band The Bisbee Royale The Tryst, Leila Lopez, Race You There Boondocks Lounge Neon Prophet Café Passé Tom Walbank, Roman Barten-Sherman Café Roka Nancy Weaver’s Jazz Quartet Cascade Lounge Doug Martin Chicago Bar The AmoSphere Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler 22nd Street Bobby Wilson Club Congress End of the World Party: The Resonars, Feeding People, Lenguas Largas, Lovely Bad Things, White Night, Freezing Hands, Acorn Bcorn La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar The Greg Morton Band, The Jits Cow Palace Live music Dakota Cafe and Catering Co. John Ronstadt and Howard Wooten Delectables Restaurant and Catering Live music El Mezón del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Live music La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music Hacienda del Sol Freddy Vesely, Stefan George The Hideout Sol Down Irish Pub The Bishop/Nelly Duo Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar NoethenButJazz Las Cazuelitas Event Center Mariachis Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Maverick Flipside McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky Mercado San Agustín Naim Amor, Chris Kallini, Mona Chambers, Sean Rogers, Katherine Burns Mint Cocktails Barbara Harris Band Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Celtic Christmas Concert: Pua, Trim the Velvet, Out of Kilters Mr. An’s Teppan Steak and Sushi Edna and Ely with Malik Alkabir, Manny Brito Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Mothership Connection and Captain Antenna Old Father Inn Live music Oracle Inn Wild Ride Band O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Pacific Breeze The Parish Heather Hardy La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Plush Jumpstylin’ Ari Grabb, The Jons, American Android Redline Sports Grill Giant Blue Ric’s Cafe/Restaurant Live music RJ’s Replays Sports Pub and Grub Shell Shock The Rock Valence album release: The Gallery, Sinphonics, Shattered Systems, Psygoat, Why Nos Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon Andy Hersey Shot in the Dark Café Mark Bockel The Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar 80’s and Gentlemen Stadium Grill Live music The Steakout Restaurant and Saloon House of Stone Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Surly Wench Pub Black Cherry Raw Tanque Verde Swap Meet Live music V Fine Thai Phony Bennett Whiskey Tango Dirty Dice Wisdom’s Café David Blixt
KARAOKE/OPEN MIC Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y-Not Karaoke Brats Brodie’s Tavern Driftwood Bar Famous Sam’s W. Ruthrauff Famous Sam’s Pima Iguana Cafe Jeff’s Pub Kustom Karaoke Know Where II New Star Karaoke LB Saloon Karaoke with 1Phat DJ Margarita Bay Midtown Bar and Grill Putney’s Karaoke with DJ Soup Riley’s Irish Tavern Chubbrock Entertainment Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Salty Dawg II Tucson’s Most Wanted Entertainment with KJ Sean Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon Stockmen’s Lounge Terry and Zeke’s Wings-Pizza-N-Things YNot Entertainment Woody’s
DANCE/DJ The Auld Dubliner DJ spins music Big Willy’s Restaurant and Sports Grill DJ Obi-Wan Kenobi Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Flamenco guitar and dance show Circle S Saloon DJ BarryB Delectables Restaurant and Catering After Dark: DJs Elektra Tek, Seth Myles, Resonate, Fix The Depot Sports Bar DJ and music videos Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Groovin’ Fridays Old School party Desert Diamond Casino Sports Bar Fiesta DJs: Latin/ Urban night Diablos Sports Bar and Grill DJ Mike Lopez El Charro Café Sahuarita DJ spins music El Charro Café on Broadway DJ spins R&B El Parador Salsa-dance lessons with Jeannie Tucker Famous Sam’s Valencia DJ spins music Fuku Sushi DJ spins music Javelina Cantina DJ M. Maynards Market and Kitchen DJ spins music Music Box ’80s and more NoRTH DJ Phatal O’Malley’s DJ Dibs Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge Flashback Fridays with DJ Sid the Kid Sinbad’s Fine Mediterranean Cuisine DJ spins music Sky Bar Hot Era party, Elemental Artistry Fire-Dancing The Station Pub and Grill Chubbrock Entertainment Unicorn Sports Lounge Y Not Entertainment Wildcat House Top 40 dance mix Wooden Nickel DJ spins music Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz
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SAT DEC 22 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bashful Bandit Live music The Bone-In Steakhouse Bobby Wilson Boondocks Lounge The Railbirdz Café Passé Country Saturdays Cascade Lounge George Howard Che’s Lounge Live music Chicago Bar Neon Prophet Club Congress Chicha Dust Colt’s Taste of Texas Steakhouse Live music Cow Pony Bar and Grill DJ spins music Cushing Street Restaurant and Bar Live music Dakota Cafe and Catering Co. Howard Wooten Delectables Restaurant and Catering Live music Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Angel Norteno Don’s Bayou Cajun Cookin’ Melody Louise El Charro Café Sahuarita Live salsa band El Mezón del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Elbow Room Maha Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Live music La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Gold Live music Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music Hacienda del Sol Freddy Vesely, Rafael Moreno The Hideout Los Bandidos The Hut K-Bass and Farafina Musiki, Spirit Familia Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Sonus Brio Las Cazuelitas Event Center Mariachis
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Kade Mislinski moved to Tucson when he was 6, and he graduated from the UA in 1997. He was once a member of the local jazzfunk band Interlocking Grip and DJ’d at mostly now-defunct clubs around town, including the Airport Lounge, the Velvet Tea Garden, Heart-Five and Club Congress. These days, he’s the co-owner, with Jenny Rice, of Hub Restaurant and Creamery, Playground Bar and Lounge, and Lulu’s Shake Shoppe, and is the proud father of two kids, Luna and Polo. Stephen Seigel, musiced@tucsonweekly.com
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The Auld Dubliner DJ spins music Bedroxx DJ spins music Brodie’s Tavern Latino Night Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Flamenco guitar and dance show La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar DJ Herm Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Noches Caliente Desert Diamond Casino Sports Bar Fiesta DJs: Country Tejano night Driftwood Bar ’90s R&B with DJ Qloud Nyne El Charro Café on Broadway DJ Soo Latin mix El Parador Salsa-dance lessons with Jeannie Tucker Famous Sam’s Valencia DJ spins music Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company DJ spins music Mescal Bar and Grill DJ Tomtom Music Box DJ Lluvia On a Roll DJ Aspen Pearson’s Pub DJ Wild Wes Rusty’s Family Restaurant and Sports Grille DJ Obi Wan Kenobi Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge DJ 64, DJ Phil Sinbad’s Fine Mediterranean Cuisine Belly dancing with Emma Jeffries and friends Sir Veza’s Taco Garage Wetmore DJ Du Wildcat House Tejano dance mix Wooden Nickel DJ spins music Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz
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What was the first concert you attended? Robert Plant, Tucson Convention Center Arena, 1988. Heard “Tall Cool One,” “Ship of Fools,” “Immigrant Song” and “Communication Breakdown.” What are you listening to these days? Sonny Rollins, Gary Clark Jr., Sigur Rós, Eric Dolphy, Son House, Calexico, Beck. I also use Spotify, so I jump all over the place listening with the kids. We listen to EDM, jazz, indie, rock and soundtracks. What was the first album you owned? Tuff Crew, Back to Wreck Shop. And on 45, it was “O-o-h Child” by the Five Stairsteps. What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone seem to love, but you just don’t get? Chris Brown and Justin Bieber. And I’m good with pop—just don’t get these guys. What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live? Michael Jackson. Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure? The Killers. I know, I know—but man, they’re just good. Favorite song: “All These Things That I’ve Done.” What song would you like to have played at your funeral? “Liwa Wechi” by Miriam Makeba, then “Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince.
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What band or artist changed your life, and how? Sigur Rós, Peter Gabriel, Hans Zimmer, and every year, the Coachella Music Festival—it may be the best thing you’ll ever do.
Arizona Inn Dennis Reed Armitage Wine Lounge and Café Ryanhood The Auld Dubliner Irish jam session Azul Restaurant Lounge Live piano music The Bashful Bandit Sunday Jam with the Deacon
Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time? Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain.
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RHYTHM & VIEWS A.R. Kane
Big Boi
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Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors
Warrior
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This great, now-overlooked shoegaze duo from the late 1980s and early ’90s released only three proper studio albums, but lots of EPs and 12-inch singles fill out their impressive body of work, the depth and breadth of which is demonstrated in this twodisc, 33-track package. Alex Ayuli and Rudi Tambala comprised A.R. Kane, and their engaging experiments in dream pop, drone rock, jazz funk, avantgarde, electronica, dance music and sonic collages earned them comparisons to such acts as the Jesus and Mary Chain and most of the roster at 4AD Records. Much of A.R. Kane’s attraction derived from their balance of the sacred and profane, the tender and the brutal. Genuinely creepy songs such as “Butterfly Collector,� “Lollita,� “Haunting� and “Baby Milk Snatcher� also are genuinely beautiful. Even on more heavyhanded tracks, such as “Sado-Masochism is a Must� and “Sperm Travels Like Juggernaut,� the lack of subtlety is mitigated by playful irony. Casual listeners might question the need for multiple versions of some tunes, but when alternate takes and dance remixes are included, each is substantially different from the original version. These tunes offer glimpses of the soft, white underbelly of desire and need. But listening to A.R. Kane also is deliciously disorienting—it might make you feel as if you’re in the midst of The Matrix, with streams of musical code cascading around you, simultaneously logical and incomprehensible. Did you take the red pill or the blue pill? Gene Armstrong
Even without the large and eclectic stable of special guests, Big Boi’s second solo album would sound like a musical collage, an ever-shifting hybrid of hip-hop, dance and rock styles. Helming this colorful journey, Big Boi sounds confident and creatively energized as both rapper and mad genius. Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors is bookended by “Ascending� and “Descending,� the first a mellow bit of introductory bravado, and the closer a long meditative collaboration with Little Dragon, resting on a slowly twisting acoustic guitar riff. In between are the bouncy and catchy sounds of classic OutKast hip-hop funk like “The Thickets� and “Apple of My Eye�; the heavy club beats of “In the A� and “Lines�; the R&B guest hooks of Kelly Rowland on “Mama Told Me�; and most surprising of all, the hyper indie-rock of Wavves paired with a skittering beat on “Shoes for Running.� “CPU� (featuring Phantogram) starts as the sort of bass-heavy, futuristic song that recalls OutKast, before fading into airy synthesizer ambience. “Thom Pettie� returns to that futuristic funk, with Killer Mike adding some of the record’s best verses. The most thrilling part of Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors is that despite how well Big Boi stitches together so many sounds, I still get the sense that not everything fits together quite right. Exploratory wildness is the guiding principle on this album as well as in his career, and there’s surely even better music still to come from Big Boi. Eric Swedlund
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Ke$ha is about pleasure, often consequence-free, certainly debauched. While Lady Gaga annoys with her didactic streak, condescending to tell us all how to feel about myriad social issues, Ke$ha is refreshingly devoid of social context. We suffered through three decades of Madonna so that we could have someone like Ke$ha—a raging id who gender-fucks without the entire weight of Judith Butler’s bibliography suffocating the endeavor, who can tell her cheating ex “suck my dick� on “Thinking of You� and have it register heartbreak as much as female machismo. Warrior is, as follows, an experience of pure revelry. Perhaps Ke$ha compounds socials ills; perhaps she comments upon them. If the Teen Mom generation actually followed Ke$ha’s advice, it wouldn’t exist. Ke$ha would never allow some beerswilling Peter Pan to knock her up. “Die Young,� one of Warrior’s standouts, is a clear manifesto of her celebrity. “Oh what a shame that you came here with someone,� she sings, without a trace of snot-nosed callousness. So while you’re here in my arms / Let’s make the most of the night like we’re gonna die young.� It undercuts monogamy as an idea, giving the listener permission to lose herself in the moment with her object of desire. This album marks Ke$ha’s transformation from bitter maenad to hustler-poet. She now gives a fuck, but that doesn’t stop her from burning her way through the crowd. Gaga spends all her time pandering to the gay male sensibility—Ke$ha is actually living it. Sean Bottai
MEDICAL MJ The president talks a nice game about marijuana, but that doesn’t mean much
What Now, Obama? BY J.M. SMITH, jsmith@tucsonweekly.com s the presidential election was unfolding, and it started to look like an Obama victory, cannabis advocates across the nation started wondering what the Choomer in Chief would do about the drug. It was looking like voters would make it legal for recreational use in Colorado and Washington and maybe Oregon, too. President Obama had offered a few hints about how he feels, never advocating full legalization or even directly backing the medical paradigm, but saying he thinks the Department of Justice should consider it a low priority to bust medical-marijuana establishments in states where it’s legal. It was a weak
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endorsement, of sorts. Some thought his postelection lame-duck status would allow him the freedom to revert to his high school days and come out for legalization. Then on Election Day, all hell broke loose when voters (the smart ones, anyway) gave the nod to recreational use in Washington and Colorado, prompting my daughter to say on Facebook, “Everyone is going to move to Colorado now and the current residents are going to be like ‘wut is going on’ and it’s going to be a huge mess.” I don’t know how many people are planning to move, but I do think a huge mess is developing. The president kinda sorta weighed in on the issue last week, when he told ABC News that we need a conversation about how to deal with the situation. He didn’t come out for legalization, but he offered yet another hint
that he thinks the federal government should back off. “It does not make sense from a prioritization point of view for us to focus on recreational drug-users in a state that has already said that under state law, that’s legal. At this point (in) Washington and Colorado, you’ve seen the voters speak on this issue. And, as it is, the federal government has a lot to do when it comes to criminal prosecutions,” Obama told ABC, adding that he won’t go so far as to say pot should be legal and doesn’t want to encourage drug use. Well, that all sounds great, but it solves exactly nothing and moves the discussion forward exactly zero inches. It’s pretty much the same thing the president said about medical marijuana a couple of years ago. Since then, Attorney General Eric Holder and his Department of Justice have made it a priority to bust numerous medical-marijuana dispensaries in several states and put one Montana dispensary operator behind bars and facing a 90-plusyear mandatory federal prison sentence (not a typo). So I have some questions about what Obama’s soft language means, exactly. There will almost certainly be busts in Colorado and Washington despite the low priority of marijuana. Making it a low priority doesn’t mean looking the other way, and it shouldn’t. I’m not against busting dispensaries or recreational users when they flagrantly break the law. I’m OK with not selling cannabis near schools and keeping it low-key, under the radar. But I think we need more than a conversation. We need a decision, a change in federal law. Ultimately, Obama won’t have to make a decision unless he wants to. He can continue to pass the buck, to kick the can down the road to the next president (Hillary?), who could then kick it to the next president, and so on. But eventually, the public is going to stomp on the can, flattening it so it can’t be kicked anymore. People will demand a decision. When that happens, the can will stop in the road, and President Obama will be able to smoke out in retirement the way he did in high school.
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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): Isaac Newton is regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history. But the time he spent as a member of the English Parliament was undistinguished. The only public comment he ever made while serving there was a request to close the window because he was cold. Basketball star Michael Jordan had a similar schism. In the prime of his outstanding career, he took a year off to try playing baseball, which he did poorly. After analyzing 2013’s astrological aspects, Aries, I’m guessing that you should cultivate a firm intention to avoid doing what Newton and Jordan did. Keep playing to your strengths and emphasizing what you love. Don’t get sidetracked by peripheral concerns. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 2013, I’d like to help you cultivate an even more reliable relationship with your intuitions and hunches than you already have. You may not need much guidance from me, since the astrological omens indicate this will happen quite naturally. There’s another kind of inspiration I hope to offer you in the coming months: clues about how to be “bad” in ways that will give your goodness more vigor. And when I say “bad,” I’m not referring to nastiness or insensitivity, but rather to wildness and playfulness and experimentation. Here’s one further service I want to provide, Taurus: helping you build a greater capacity to receive gifts, blessings and support. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the year 1900, few people believed that human beings would ever fly through the sky in machines. Most scientists thought that such a feat was impossible. For years, the Wright Brothers had a hard time convincing anyone to believe their flights were actually taking place, even though they had photos and witness reports as documentation. Although the leap you’ll be capable of in 2013 isn’t quite as monumental as the Wright Brothers’, it could be pretty important in the history of your own life. You may also have to deal with skepticism akin to what they had to face. Be true to your vision, Gemini! CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 2013, I predict you will see why it’s wise to phase out an influence you have loved to hate for far too long. Uncoincidentally, you will
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also have a talent for purging emotional burdens and psychic debris that you’ve been holding on to since the bad old days. No later than your birthday, if all goes well, you will be free from a subtle curse you’ve been casting on yourself; you will finally be attending to one of your longneglected needs; and you will have turned some rather gawky, half-assed wizardry into a smooth and silky magic. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 2013, I pledge to help you raise your lovability. It’s not that you are unlovable now, of course, but there’s always room for improvement, right? And if people become even more attracted to you than they already are, then you’re likely to get a lot of collaborative and cooperative work done. You will thrive as you and your allies work on projects that make your corner of the world a better and more interesting place. So what are the first three actions you could take to raise your lovability? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): First question: Have you ever thought to yourself, “I’m afraid I will never achieve my noblest dreams or live according to my highest ideas”? Answer: There’s a very good chance that in the coming year you will banish that fear from the sacred temple of your imagination. Second question: Have you ever wondered if maybe you unconsciously undermine the efforts of people who are trying to assist you? Answer: In the coming months you should discover exactly what to do to prevent such a thing from happening. Third question: Do you know the single most important question you should be asking in 2013? Answer: I predict you will figure that out sometime in the next three weeks. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 2013, I will be encouraging you to journey into the frontiers and experiment with the unknown. I will seek to inspire you to go in search of teachings you’ve needed for a long time. Are you ready for this expansion, Libra? Are you feeling a natural urge to explore forbidden zones and discover missing secrets and mess with your outmoded taboos? As you might imagine, doing this work would motivate you to develop a healthier relationship with your fears. To bolster your courage, I suggest you find some new freedom songs to sing.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2013, I will do what I can to ensure that your fiscal biorhythms are in close alignment with the universal cash flow. You should have pretty good instincts about this worthy project yourself, Scorpio. And so there’s an excellent chance that your wealth will increase. The upgrade will be especially dramatic if you are constantly scheming about how you can share your riches and benefit other people with your generosity. I think there will also be an interesting fringe benefit if you maintain maximum integrity as you enhance your access to valuable resources: You will develop a more useful relationship with your obsessive tendencies. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 2013, I pledge to conspire with you to achieve more mixtures, connections, accords and unifications than you ever thought possible. I will furthermore be a fount of suggestions about how you can live well in two worlds. I will coach you to create a peace treaty with your evil twin and your nemesis, and I will help you develop a knack for steering clear of other people’s bad ideas and sour moods. I can’t
of course guarantee that you will never again experience a broken heart, but I swear I will do everything I can do to heal the broken part of your heart that you’ve been suffering from. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When he was 21, the Capricorn writer Jack London set off to prospect for gold in the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. He had a rough time there. Malnourished, he suffered from scurvy and leg pain. To make matters worse, he didn’t find much gold, and returned home broke. On the other hand, he met scores of adventure seekers who told him stories of their travels. These tales served as rich raw material for his novel The Call of the Wild, published in 1903. It made him famous and is generally regarded as his masterpiece. I’m guessing you will begin a similar trajectory in 2013, Capricorn. Events that may at first seem less than successful will ultimately breed a big breakthrough. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I can’t force you to seek more pleasure in 2013. I won’t nag you to play harder and explore the frontiers of feeling really good.
However, I will say this: If you don’t plan to put yourself into at least partial alignment with the cosmic mandate to have maximum fun, you may not get the best use out of the advice I’ll be offering though my horoscopes in the coming year. Please consider the possibility of ramping up your capacity for pure enjoyment. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The study of ancient Mayan civilization owes a lot to the fact that Americans started buying lots of chewing gum in the late 19th century. Huh? Here’s the connection: For a long time, chicle was one of the prime ingredients in Chiclets, Juicy Fruit, Bazooka bubble gum, and many other brands of chewing gum. Chicle is obtained from the sap of sapodilla trees, which grow in abundance in Central America and Mexico. Over the decades, workers harvesting the chicle accidentally found many Mayan ruins covered in overgrown vegetation, then told archaeologists about their discoveries. I foresee a metaphorically comparable sequence happening in your life during 2013. In unexpected ways, you will be put back in touch with and benefit from lost, forgotten or unexplored parts of the past.
¡ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net exican.net Dear Mexican: Many of my friends think I’m loco for playing with my dad the way I do. See, mi padre is now retired and living in Mexico, and is very worried that I am now 30 and not married yet, so he wants me to go back to where he lives to try and take an india from there back here to los EEUU, if only to at least look after me. I retaliate by kindly “reminding” him as much as possible that we are leprecanos (yes, I read your previous articles), to which he gets very angry. Everyone says that he’s going to beat me up one day, but it never happens. Last year, I gave him for Navidad a bowler hat, an Irish soccer shirt and matching knee high socks. Let me tell you, he was so red for a second I thought he was going to explotar, but we still love one another very mucho. Are family relationships between gabachos so much different? Concerned Green Bean Dear Leprecano: Just a quick reminder for the gabachos and wabs that might’ve forgotten your ethnicity: A leprecano is a half-Mexican, half-Irish person and therefore probably the most raza borracha of them all. As for your question: Why are you asking me about gabachos? They’re a bigger mystery to me than Mayan Long Count calendar. The one spiel I can pull out of your hilarious pregunta, though, is the idea of Mexican families in the United States sending their pocho sons to the motherland to find himself a nice rancho girl. While intermarriage rates among Latinos continue to rise—the Pew Hispanic Center reported this year that 26 percent of Latinos marry outside their ethnic group, second only to Asians among America’s largest ethnic groups—the reality is that Mexican immigrants want their children to marry within their old social structures. That’s why a Mexican-American teenager’s life is a perpetual weekend of weddings, quinceañeras, birthdays, baptisms and boxing matches—they’re all staging areas for courtship. Of course, the best-laid plans of Mexis and madres usually fail here in el Norte, what with all the girls from Jalisco, Zacatecas and Sinaloa flirting their way toward every Mexican man’s heart. That’s why the fail-safe measure for parents is the rancho option: There’s always going to be a third cousin in the ancestral village who’s still a virgin, waiting patiently for pocho peen salvation.
Why do Mexicans all flock back to the motherland at Christmas for weeks at a time? They buy a shitload of presents, new clothes and basically check out of the USA. They blow their all feria, and then come back broke and start all over again. My folks are from the beautiful state of Chihuahua, and I cannot remember ever leaving at Christmastime for an extended trip to Mexico .... Come to think of it, I can’t remember any presents either. Shit...sucks for me. Mexicana Por Fortuna Dear Wabette by Fortune: Most of the Mexicans who historically made the trip back home to Mexico (I say “historically” because fewer Mexis are making such trips at the moment due to the narcowars and pendejo border fences) loaded up on presents for relatives back home, relatives that were usually poorer than them. Also don’t forget the conspicuous consumption angle (immigrants want to appear as if they’ve found success, especially when going back home) and the fact that Mexicans return to Mexico because they’re Mexicans and have Mexican relatives who still live in Mexico and want to see their Mexican relatives in Mexico because Mexico Mexico VIVA MEXICO, CABRONES!!! Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican.net; be his fan on Facebook; follow him on Twitter @ gustavoarellano; or ask him a video question at youtube.com/askamexicano!
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Sane people can have extreme and/or violent sexual fantasies, NOPE, and extreme and/or violent sexual fantasies do not make sane people crazy. (Let’s call them EVSFs for short, shall we?) But you need to talk to a shrink—not because you’re hopelessly damaged or the only person out there with EVSFs, but because you’re troubled by your fantasies. And that’s understandable. It’s difficult to have EVSFs—or to find a healthy way to incorporate EVSFs into your sex life, or to figure out how to dial EVSFs way the fuck back if there’s no healthy way to incorporate them into your sex life—when your erotic imagination is constantly dragging you to new and more disturbing places. And while most people’s fantasies are relatively fixed, i.e., certain types of people or scenarios turn them on, your erotic imagination seems to be on the hunt for new “wrong” thoughts, images, stimuli and scenarios. You need to seize control of your sexuality, and you’ll need help doing that, or your sense of estrangement from your sexuality will only continue to grow. That said, NOPE, you could be seeing causation where there is only coincidence. There are a lot of people out there who didn’t suffer the kind of abuse you did—or any kind of abuse at all— but who nevertheless have EVSFs. Some people with troubling fantasies or interests have found relief with low-dose antidepressants; some folks with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been helped by novel programs that incorporate MDMA, aka ecstasy, into their treatment plans. You could be suffering from PTSD, considering your history. A good therapist—one with whom you are completely honest—may be able to help you reshape and redirect your fantasies in the direction of still-intense, less-wrong, not-constantlyescalating stimuli that gives you the “wrongness” charge you need without nuking your mental health or your life. (Stay away from all pedo porn sites, NOPE, even “stories only” porn. Please.) And a good sex therapist can help you draw a clear distinction between your adult sexuality— whatever form it takes—and your history of sexual abuse. (I shared your letter with a sex researcher I trust, and she urged me to urge you to insist on seeing a reputable therapist who does sex therapy specifically, as they’re less likely to be
I am gay, and I have a brother who’s gay. The problem is, he is very much into humiliation. He exposes himself online and allows his online “masters” to have control over his pictures and videos. I found his pictures recently, and the embarrassment and humiliation were a huge turn-on for him. (In real life, we’ve never shown any interest sexually in each other whatsoever. But when he asked if I had any naked pictures, I told him I did and sent some to him, and somehow, that was a bit of a turn-on, I must admit.) On to the real problem: Soon, my brother told me that he felt really guilty, cleaned up his hard drive, deleted all his pics and mine and asked me to do the same, and swore off playing online. But I found evidence that he’s resumed this habit. This has been a pattern for him, he says, and he insists he was somehow damaged in childhood. I told him I see him as my kinky brother and that he might be happier if he could just accept himself. But I don’t think he should quit his “addiction” cold turkey, as it hasn’t worked in the past. Bro Of Kinky Bro There are people who manage to turn their lives upside down in pursuit of their turn-ons—there are people whose sex lives are complete fucking shitshows—and all they’re into is heterosexual sex in the missionary position in their own bedrooms with the lights off. Your brother’s problem isn’t his childhood or his kink. His problems, plural, are his self-loathing, his attempts to swear off his kink (which leads to these binge-and-purge cycles) and the reckless ways he indulges his kink when he’s bingeing. Instead of running from his kinks—which he can’t do—your brother needs to find safer, saner ways to satisfy his desire for erotic humiliation and submitting to someone else’s control. People with humiliation kinks managed to find ways to get off before the Internet came along, BOKB, and so can your brother. And you need to establish better boundaries, BOKB. No more swapping pics with your kinky bro, bro, and no more hunting for evidence of your bro’s ill-advised online adventures. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage, and follow me @fakedansavage on Twitter.
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