Zocalo Magazine - April 2019

TUCSON ARTS, CULTURE, AND DESERT LIVING / APRIL 2019 / NO. 106

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07. Events 13. Desert 18. Events 25. Special Section - Cultivate Tucson Market 29. Art Galleries & Exhibitions 33. Performances 35. Food & Drink 41. Books 44. Tunes 50. Scene in Tucson ON THE COVER: “Sonoran Stunner” by Tucson artist Lisa Kanouse.

Read our inteview with Lisa on page 18.

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2019 RED DOT

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Tucson is home to the largest outdoor juried sculpture show in Arizona: the SculptureTucson Festival Show & Sale will be held on April 5, 6 & 7, 2019 at the Brandi Fenton Memorial Park.

FRI 5 – SUN 7 SCULPTURE FESTIVAL The festival kicks off on Friday with the Patron’s Event, a fabulous cocktail party with a contemporary dance performance by HawkinsDance, a hosted bar and hors d’oeuvres from Hacienda del Sol, along with an opportunity to view the selected sculptures on display. On Saturday & Sunday, enjoy a sculpture exhibit with works selected by a nationally recognized juror, artist talks, demonstrations, music and food. Patron’s Event is April 5 from 5pm to 9pm, tickets are $50 and available online. Sat & Sun events are free to attend. Sat 9:30am to 6pm and Sun 9:30am to 4:30pm. Brandi Fenton Memorial Park, 3482 E River Rd. SculptureTucson.org

SAT 6 BAJA BEER FESTIVAL This year’s annual celebration of craft beer in downtown Tucson focuses on IPAs and brewers will compete in the first statewide IPA competition.

Join 30+ brewers for samples, along with food for purchase. Local live music and lawn games round out the festivities. Ticket purchasers and guests must be 21 and over.

Tickets: VIP $70 with a Noon entry and 25 tasting tickets. General Admission $40 with a 1pm entry and 20 tasting tickets. Designated drivers $10 admission. Armory Park, 222 S. 5th Ave. ChooseAZBrews.com

STEM DAY

Reid Park Zoo has partnered with S.Y.STEM Coalition for a day filled with science and discovery at the zoo. A variety of STEM activities such as rocketry, slime making, a junior shark tank, paper airplanes, solar systems and much more will be offered. Event is free with regular zoo admission. Event hours: 11am to 3pm. 520-7913204. 3400 Zoo Court. ReidParkZoo.org

SAT 6 – SUN 7 SPRING BAZAAR A weekend long market with artists and local makers offering handmade goods, vintage clothing, and gifts. Free admission. Sat: 10am to 6pm; Sun: 10am to 4pm. Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida del Convento. MercadoDistrict.com

TUCSON FOLK FESTIVAL

Attracting over 120 folk music acts along with workshops, songwriting competitions, open mic, raffles, food and craft vendors, and a beer garden. Free admission. Downtown Tucson. See website for schedules and locations. TucsonFolkFestival.org

SUN 7 CATALINA STATE PARK TRAIL RACE A race for everyone with 5.3 and 10.6 mile distances that wind through Catalina State park, including the “92 and 48 Stair Climb” and a free Mexican breakfast. More information and registration available online.

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CYCLOVIA Pedal, walk, run, skate, or dance your way along this 3-mile car free open street route from Banner – University Medicine to Warehouse Arts District. Activities and food options available along the way. 9am to 3pm. CycloviaTucson.org

WEDS 10 – SUN 21 ARIZONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Offering independent film from around the world with an Opening Night Celebration from 6pm to 7pm at the historic Hotel Congress, followed by the Arizona premiere of Guest Artist starring Jeff Daniels at 7:30pm at The Screening Room. See website for schedule and locations.

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FRI 12 – SAT 13 SOUTHERN ARIZONA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL Workshops, film screenings, industry panel, student film critique, special guests, and a live-streamed awards ceremony take place over two days full of film festival fun in Wilcox, Arizona.

Wilcox Historic Theater, 134 N Railroad Ave. 520-766-3335. WilcoxFilmFest.com

FRI 12 – SUN 14 UA SPRING FLING Experience over 35 carnival rides, 20 original food booths, games, and entertainment at one of the largest student run carnivals in the nation.

Proceeds support 40+ diverse clubs and organizations on campus. UA Mall. SpringFling.

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SAT 13 2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN

A free, family friendly urban block party!

2pm to 9pm street performers, 5pm to 9pm stage performances. Performances, vendors, food trucks, and more. Free family friendly movie at the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum. Downtown Tucson. 2ndSaturdaysDowntown.com

SAT 13 GREAT PAPER AIRPLANE FLY-OFF

Watch folded creations made by kids aged 6 to 14 take flight in a competition to win prizes such as a flight experience.

9am - 1pm. Pima Air & Space Museum, 6000 E. Valencia Rd. 520-574-0462.

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MASTER GARDENER HOME GARDEN TOUR

Four beautiful and creative gardens will be on display demonstrating designs utilizing a variety of plants, art, and water conscience techniques or inspiration and education. This year’s theme is “Water Wise”. 9am to 3pm. Tickets: $20 and can be purchased online or at several locations (see website for a full list of locations). Pima County Cooperative Extension, 4210 N. Campbell Ave. 520-626-5161. Extension.Arizona.Edu

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april SUN 14 GABA BIKE SWAP MEET The largest bicycle swap meet in the southwest, attracting over 5,000 attendees and more than 40 vendors bi-annually. 7am to 1pm. BikeGaba.org

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Great Paper Airplane Fly-off, Saturday, April 13, at Pima Air & Space Musuem.

SAT 20 EARTH DAY FESTIVAL Discover all the ways to help make your world a healthier, greener place to live. Family friendly exhibits and activities will center around recycling and composting, gardening, and local wildlife groups. 10am to 2pm. Children’s Museum Tucson, 200 S. 6th Ave. 520-792-9985. ChildrensMuseumTucson.org

TUES 23 - SUN 5 AGAVE HERITAGE FESTIVAL Celebrating the cultural, commercial, and culinary significance of the agave plant through educational experiences, panel discussions, garden tours, an agave fiesta and gala dinner, and exhibits. Presented by The Hotel Congress. See website for more information. 520-622-8848. AgaveHeritageFestival.com

THURS 25 - SUN 28 TUCSON POETRY FESTIVAL Poetry readings, a poetry party, and a community photo by NIEVES MONTAÑO PHOTOGRAPHY, courtesy of Cultivate Tucson

open mic take place at various locations in this celebration of contemporary poetry. See website for more information. 520-622-8848. TucsonPoetryFestival.org

SAT 27 CULTIVATE TUCSON

This one day only spring pop-up market will feature plenty of fresh picks by established and new local makers and artists, with a percentage of sales going to support featured non-profit, Desert Survivors. See full list of vendors on page 25 of this issue. A limited number of Early Bird tickets are available for $15 in advance and $20 at the door for access before the market opens to the public, and early bird tickets include a limited edition tote. Early Bird entry: 8am to 10am. Market hours: 10am to 5pm. 1 East Toole Avenue. CultivateTucson.com

ONGOING MONDAYS MEET ME AT MAYNARDS

Southern Arizona Roadrunners’ Monday evening, non-competitive, social 3-mile run/walk, that begins and ends downtown at Hotel Congress, rain/shine/holidays included! Free. 5:15pm. 311 E. Congress St. 520-991-0733, MeetMeAtMaynards.com

THURSDAYS SANTA CRUZ RIVER FARMERS’ MARKET

Locally grown foods and goods with live music. Guided walks through Menlo Park begin at 4:30pm. Market Hours: 4-7pm.

Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida Del Convento. MercadoSanAgustin.com

THIRD THURSDAYS Every Third Thursday of the month, MOCA is open for free to the public from 6pm to 8pm. These themed nights feature different performances, music, hands-on art making activities, as well as a cash bar and food trucks. Free admission. 265 S. Church Ave. 520-624.5019. Moca-Tucson.org

SUNDAYS 5 POINTS FARMERS MARKET Every Sunday at Cesar Chavez Park. 10am to 2pm. 756 S. Stone Ave.

SECOND SUNDAZE

Every second Sunday, enjoy free admission and free family programming from 12-5pm. Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Ave. TucsonMuseumorArt.org

Cultivate Tucson market returns Saturday, April 27.

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here are good reasons why the Spanish explorers who began poking And then there are the patches where even four-wheel-drive, high-clearance around the edges of the northern Sonoran Desert five centuries ago vehicles have trouble getting up and over steep inclines and tire-munching lava should have named an old trail El Camino del Diablo, the Devil’s fields.

Highway. The track may have begun, well before humans arrived Even so, the times being what they are, the Devil’s Highway is decidedly in the region, as a migratory pathway for desert bighorn sheep less devilish to cross for someone with suitable vehicle. The Border Patrol and pronghorn. The forebears of the Hia C-ed O’odham, or “people of the seems bent on making it something of a superhighway compared to its earlier sand,” and the Tohono O’odham, or “people of the stony ground,” used it to iterations, sending vehicles out with a chain of tires spread out like a raft in move westward toward the sea to gather salt. The Spanish used it as an often their wake, smoothing down the path so that it can be taken at 35 miles an dangerous shortcut between better-developed native trails in Sonora and the hour or so. I’d guess that a full quarter of the 130-mile path is graded, almost Gila River. Today alambristas, crossing the desert to find better lives in El Norte, to the point that an ordinary passenger vehicle can take it—though that would meet death in appalling numbers in the lava fields and waterless playas. be precisely the wrong thing to do.

As for the Camino itself, it was once A final reason for the name of the a track guaranteed to bust a wagon axle Camino del Diablo: for much of the year, and discourage the hardiest of horses it’s too hot to spend time outside an airand mules. Parts are made of deep conditioned vehicle—and there’s too sand, slippery to the touch. The clay much to explore along the way to want to playas are even slicker when they fill be so confined. The stretch of time from with water that has nowhere else to go, November through April provides the which happens every now and again. I best window to get out into the country was heading out the door to travel the and see it for yourself. Even then, as highway to pay my respects to Ed Abbey, I discovered in the middle of March, the patron guardian of the southwestern you’re likely to have an area of many desert, on the thirtieth anniversary of tens of thousands of square miles pretty his death when a howling storm blew in much to yourself: I counted two federal from the Pacific, bringing an inch or so game marshals working in the Cabeza Camino del Diablo Pinacate lava field, Arizona. of rain to the borderlands and snow to Prieta National Wildlife Reserve, four Tucson. A week later, when I did go out, standing water three or four inches Border Patrol agents, a small caravan of visitors from the Pacific Northwest out deep blocked the way for several miles, swallowing a couple of unwary trucks bird watching, and a couple of other cars with one or two occupants apiece— that, fortunately, would have been easy enough to tow out with a winch if they altogether, fewer than twenty people. hadn’t managed to back out themselves.

I traveled with a piratical band of geologists who, among themselves, Water is less a problem in its presence than in its absence. Along the constituted a pretty complete living encyclopedia of the Sonoran Desert, Camino del Diablo, a dirt road that runs 130-odd miles long, there are only a stopping often to identify rare plants, animals, butterflies, and the like. We couple of spots where water can be found, and then not always. Some of the few were better prepared than most travelers to understand what we were seeing. permanent structures along the highway, apart from Border Patrol compounds, Moreover, we were prepared to negotiate the central problem of the Camino: are shacks alongside two wells dozens of miles apart. Early travelers along the namely, that there are plenty of ways to get in trouble, and even die, along it, Camino learned that it was impossible for a human to carry a water supply from getting into a tangle with drug smugglers (unlikely) to getting lost and sufficient to keep them alive between those waterholes, requiring a pliant mule running out of water (likelier) to breaking down without letting anyone know or two to haul that most precious of cargo. where you’re going in country where there’s no cell phone service (likelier still).

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To enter the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, which occupies most of the That spectral quality makes a fitting foreshadowing to our destination on territory south of Interstate 8 and west of Ajo, you need to apply to Luke Air the western end of the Camino, the Tinajas Altas Mountains. The geologist Force Base for a permit, which entails filling out a form and requires watching and explorer Raphael Pumpelly found an eerie spectacle when he got there a video that explains still other possible causes of death—getting caught in a a century ago, writing, “We were approaching the Tinajas Altas, the only spot practice bombing run, for one, or getting blown to smithereens by unexploded where, for a distance of nearly 120 miles, water might at times be found. It was ordnance, bombs and rockets and such that failed to blow up on landing but a brilliant moonlit night. On our left rose a lofty sierra, its fantastic sculpturing that are out there in the sands and rock, ticking, biding their time. weird even in the moonlight. Suddenly we saw strange forms indefinable in the One perhaps counterintuitive effect of all this metallic hell from above is distance. As we came nearer our horses became uneasy, and we saw before that, while portions of the desert are pocked by bomb us animals standing on each side of, and facing the craters and littered with the shells of target drones, trail. It was a long avenue between rows of mummified blown-apart vehicles, and the like, most of the territory cattle, horses and sheep.” is as near to pristine as the Sonoran Desert can be.

There was a time when the plains below the range Mile after mile passes by without a vehicle track, apart were the point of no return for a couple of dozen from the Camino del Diablo itself. Saguaros grow prospectors and travelers, too, who died of thirst— lush and healthy, ocotillos burst forth with their fiery one of the truly horrible ways to leave this sphere— flowers, and during the time of my last trip, flowers while searching for rainwater stowed away in the of many kinds—Mexican poppies, lupine, desert natural tanks, or depressions in the stone, that give primroses—were popping up everywhere, the western the mountains there names. Water eluded us, too, desert’s expression of the “superbloom” that followed thanks to a faulty map and a missing road marker. If abundant fall and winter rains. we hadn’t had a truckload of water, with a case of beer The lands between Darby Well, at the eastern and a couple of bottles of tequila to boot, our bleached entrance to the Camino, and Wellton, on Interstate bones might well have joined theirs.

8 a dozen or so miles east of Yuma and its western As it was, we found some splendid places and outlet, are classic lower Sonoran Desert. In places memorable things in the range: the skull of a desert the vegetation is dense, thick with cholla, barrel bighorn sheep, complete with horns; a tree that’s not cacti, saguaros, and organ pipe cacti and alive with supposed to be found anywhere beyond a mountain squadrons of singing birds. In other places, out on range a couple of hundred miles to the east; great the low hills and desert flats, life is more austere, horned owls; towering piles of boulders amid which Can you find the unexploded bomb? the province of sun-loving reptiles such as Uta grew some of the tallest saguaros I’ve ever seen; and, stansburiana, or the side-blotched lizard. There are places of sublime beauty, yes, unexploded ordnance in the form of a rocket with three bent fins planted such as the low pass that opens up onto a view of the Cabeza Prieta Mountains, deep in the ground in a side canyon, hidden among the rocks and creosote Ed Abbey country par excellence, and the view from atop the monument bush. erected at Tule Well by Boy Scouts eight decades ago. And there are oddly There are plenty of ways to die indeed out there on the Camino del Diablo, spectral places, such as the place near the Sierra Pinta where, amid an orderly but it opens up a huge stretch of country that every lover of the Sonoran Desert range of white granite, a black dome springs up, an intrusion from a time of ought to behold. I’d go back any time—any time, that is, between November volcanic activity that saw the earth throwing boulders high into the air, boulders and April, when the Devil’s Highway is just a little less devilish than it is the that landed miles and miles away. rest of the year. n

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The Desert and Downtown A chat with Tucson artist, Lisa Kanouse

Influenced by Mexican folk art, classical European artists, and New York, Lisa Kanouse has studied tile mosaics, sculptures, and ceramics in Vincenzia and Faenza, Italy. She has also spent summers learning printmaking and woodblock techniques in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

While she has explored many different media including mosaics, ceramics, woodblock prints, batiks, collage, silk painting, pastels, and sculptures, Lisa now focuses primarily on acrylic painting. Her subject matter ranges from local historic places to botanicals in the Sonoran Desert. Zรณcalo recently sat down with Lisa to learn more about her work and her love for Tucson.

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This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

Tell us about your background?

I grew up in Tucson. I’m a native Tucsonan and of course when you’re a kid and you’re growing up in this podunk little town, all you want do is get to the big city and get out of here. So, I went to college in New York City. I went to Parsons School of Design and that was wonderful. It gave me perspective, but it also made me realize Tucson is kind of a great place. So, moving back to Tucson, I kind of appreciated it in a whole new way. People are nice to you here. They’ll talk to you. You don’t have to worry about ulterior motives. It’s got a charm all its own.

Did you grow up in an artistic family?

My parents are both lawyers and my dad in Texas, he’s a teacher. My mother is very crafty. She’s done everything. Stained glass, quilting, but both of my grandparents on both sides are artists, watercolor and oil.

What was your focus at Parsons?

I studied illustration. I moved back to Tucson and finished my degree at the U of A. After working in illustration for a while, it kind of got old. Just the fact that your art is based off of somebody else’s idea. You’re illustrating somebody else’s stories. Somebody else’s music. You’re kind of at the bottom of the totem pole. I’m now trying to work more in fine art so that I can have my own voice and it is a really difficult market to get into. Hopefully Tucson is small enough that I could be a big fish in a little pond.

Why do you think you were drawn to study art?

Well in kindergarten everybody loves art.

Everybody wants to play with the crayons.

Everybody draws. The older we get, people just kind of drop it, lose interest. They go to soccer, to computers or other activities, and I just never stopped drawing. I seem to have a natural talent that it felt wrong to ignore or deny. Not that I feel the need to make a lot of money or become some art star, but it makes me happy. There’s a certain joy to completing a beautiful object, and adding beauty to the world we live in.

What medium do you mostly work in now?

I currently I work in acrylic. I used to work in oil, but acrylic dries fast and there are certain benefits to that. It doesn’t get muddy. The colors stay clean and true. You can get fast swishes. You’re able to maintain that immediacy to the brush stroke and it doesn’t get too labored.

How would you describe your style?

So my new thing is just to be honest and to be true to who you are instead of trying to be van Gogh or trying to copy somebody else’s style. I’ve been trying to find out what is unique about Lisa Kanouse. The few qualities that nobody else has that makes me unique. Like the Tucson and the Mexican folk art influences, the living in the city, the urban influence, all of those factors.

Just making sure they come through in my art. So, instead of doing a still life of some idealized sunflowers and fruit, I want to be true to what I know, like

painting a still life of the random clutter in my studio. I’m aiming at figuring out what makes my vision unique, nobody else has the same background or experiences that I’ve had, so why not explore that?

So how has that style changed over time do you think?

Well, going to art school was incredibly beneficial and I really appreciate the ridiculous amount of money my parents spent in letting me go. However, you learn a lot about the technical things which can sometimes get in the way of just expressing yourself freely. So, I’m trying to get back to what happens naturally with my brush strokes. What my hand wants to do. What my eyes sees that nobody else sees. I usually like to get this birds-eye point of view. I like trying to capture Tucson in an interesting unique perspective. I like to get up above the city and look down on the historic little barrios and see them, find the charm and a way to capture that charm. Tucson is changing so fast, you blink and everything changes. If I walk down Congress Street, I barely recognize half of the businesses on each block. There’s no pool tables on Congress anymore, which is kind of upsetting. So, I’m trying to capture the Tucson that I grew up with. The Tucson that I loved.

I remember the downtown that felt like it was our stomping ground and the empty concrete streets and the dusty desert. I’m focused on just capturing all that before it gets too Disneyfied or before there’s a Starbucks downtown. There’s a Super Cuts downtown. The fact that there’s a Super Cuts, that kills me.

Where do you go from here with your art?

Well, I’ve been so focused on capturing and recording the historic places in Tucson, and it occurred to me that these paintings might only be interesting to people that know Tucson and have seen those buildings and appreciate them. I really want to make sure that my work holds its own, even if you’ve never been to Hotel Congress. Even if you’ve never seen the Fox Lisa Kanouse Theater. It needs to be a good painting. It needs to hold its own without any background, it needs to have intrigue and hold the viewers interest even though they’ve never been there. So, I want to try to expand beyond Tucson and have other people see my work.

It really is amazing how much I’m still discovering every day just driving down the streets of Tucson. How incredible this place is. The cactus, they’re like sculptures. As a child getting dragged on hikes through the desert, I never really appreciated how amazing the landscape is. People back east probably can’t imagine 30 foot tall Saguaro covered in beautiful star shaped thorns. I mean they’re actually gorgeous. So that’s another thing I’m trying to capture and relay.

You also work at a frame shop, Arizona Picture and Frame on Speedway?

I do. They kind of grabbed me when I first moved back to Tucson from New York. They had a kind of deceptive ad in the paper. ‘Do you want a job working with art? Please call the number.’ Needless to say they didn’t mention it was just picture framing, that you wouldn’t be creating art. You were framing other people’s art. However, now that I’ve worked there for over 15 years I really am grateful and appreciate it because I get to meet a ton of people that love art.

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Folk art and botanical paintings by Lisa Kanouse.

I get to meet a lot of the galleries that show art and I’m motivated every day by seeing what people buy and what people decide to put in their homes.

So how do you find time to do your own art?

So, luckily I’ve been able to cut back my hours to just three days a week at the frame shop. I’m trying to hold onto a day job until this little burgeoning art career can hold its own. I’m trying to focus on making it profitable, at least to be able to pay my own bills with my art, which I’m sure people can imagine is not the easiest task, but I’m getting closer to that.

What schools did you attend in Tucson?

I went to Davis Bilingual, which is another historic spot that I want to paint soon and then Greenfield’s Country Day school, a small private school. It was great because they let their students be who they wanted to be. I wasn’t pressured.

I didn’t have bullies. My art teacher was happy as long as I was creating. She didn’t try to force me into doing anything so-called correctly or by the rules. She just let me explore what I wanted to do.

Where are you currently showing your work in Tucson?

I have my work at a bunch of different venues around town. Mostly home décor shops, like Que Bonita on the east side and Artiques, which is a kind of a consignment shop. Also a few galleries, like Old Town Artisans. I have some work in the Tucson Museum of Art gift shop and also a bunch of restaurants and bars around town, like Ermanos Wine Bar, the Nook Eatery, and Cafe Passé. Those I seem to do pretty well at. Wherever they serve alcohol seems to help. Beer goggles make people a little more attractive, they also seem to sell art nicely [laughs]. Bear Canyon Pizza has been really wonderful for me. They are on the far east side, and there are miles and miles of new homes and young families. They all have empty walls and they all need art. So, that happens to be a great location, just to get my work to new people.

homework, so commissions are a little bit like homework. They’re a challenge and I’m always up for a challenge and it helps expand my artistic skills. I like trying to figure out what’s in the clients head. What they are wanting on their wall and how to put my own ideas into it. Sometimes I’m able to figure out things they didn’t even know they wanted, but usually it’s always a pleasant experience.

What do you have coming up?

I try and stay in a lot of the downtown shows like Raices Taller. They have a different monthly show on the first Saturday of every month. They switch up the topic. Their next show is Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres. They do it annually and it’s a great turn out. A lot of different women artists show up. So, I’m definitely gonna try and submit to that one. And I’m hoping to do something with Titus Castanza at the Bring’s Memorial building.

What do you love most about Tucson? What keeps you here?

I guess mostly the vibe. It’s not pretentious. You can talk to people, and strangers and not have to worry about what they’re trying to get from you. It’s just very laid back. Like Mexico, you can just enjoy every day for that day. Not a lot of rushing around. You can wear jeans to the opera here. I appreciate the landscape that surrounds us. Oprah said that anybody that lives in Tucson should realize how lucky they are to live in such a amazing place. She loved Miraval. So, every time I look at our mountains, I think to myself, ‘well if Oprah loves it, it’s gotta be cool’ and it really is. I’m just starting to fully explore different ways of capturing the special qualities about the cactus that I love. And the science behind why they grow and the weird shapes they grow. Why do Saguaros have to be 30 feet tall and ribbed and with beautiful star shaped thorns? And the cholla and the way the light changes, especially at the golden hour. Yeah, this place has a lot to be appreciated.

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Hitchhiking is a kind of blind date. A car pulls over and you look for clues, hope for hope. It’s true— in the back of my mind the white pickup always waited, the memory of being abducted and left for dead. But who can live in fear forever?

At one point, I ended up in the Mohave.

In the hours waiting for a ride, I’d always force myself to relax. On some unnamed patch of sand, I would sip water and watch the sky. Sitting there on my pack, eating single sunflower seeds, I did not think of the future or the comforts of home.

In the inexhaustible light, I was changing. My hair had turned white and wild, my blue eyes eerie against a dark tan. More than once a driver told me, “I had to pick you up—you looked like an angel.” I’d bow my head and get in.

That day in the Mohave, west of Needles, a small pickup finally pulled over.

An older guy with rough hands and worn-out boots. He said he had a house near Barstow with his wife.

“Do you need a place to sleep?”

I tried to read his face. I’d gotten pretty good at it. “Okay,” I said, with a fake deep voice.

The house was small but very neat, on a scrappy hill above town. With my backpack, I could barely fit in the door. The man’s wife showed no surprise to see a blond giant standing there. Her name was June. She said dinner was in fifteen. She showed me to my room.

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I had not slept indoors in weeks, maybe months. Putting down my pack, I sat on the bed, on the blue plaid cover. Around me: model cars, schoolbooks, the World Book Encyclopedia.

Everything in perfect order.

When we all sat down to dinner, the husband seemed tired, but his wife was all smiles.

“Tom says you’re from New Jersey.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Are you a runaway?”

“No, ma’am. I call home every week.”

“Well, I hope you’re hungry.”

I was. As I ate seconds, Tom asked me, “So where you headed?”

“I’m going to Sequoia. To camp out.”

“Then?”

“Oh, I never know.”

After dessert, I watched TV with them.

Looking away from the screen, I saw the picture of their son on the mantel, a blond boy around ten years old, in a cowboy shirt.

Between a younger version of June and Tom, the boy smiled.

He was dead. I knew instantly. I excused myself.

June said, “I put fresh towels in the bathroom for you.”

“Thank you for dinner, ma’am. It was really good.”

After a shower, I ducked back into the boy’s room, wrapped in a towel, my long hair dripping on the floor. It felt strange to be standing there naked, looking at some kid’s toys and teddy bears. Inside a notebook, I found his name: Stanley, Sixth Grade.

I leafed through the pages. The writing stopped in May of 1968.

The boy’s bed was too small for me. I slept a bit and then left the house before dawn, without making a sound.

For a few days, I couldn’t stop thinking about Stanley. Said his name like he was there with me in Sequoia National Park.

Stanley, look, man—the biggest trees on Earth!

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ETHERTON GALLERY American Stories: David Hurn, David Graham, Bill Owens

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TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Carlos Estevez: Entelechy, Works from 1992 to

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A New Heaven, April 7 & 14. Psalms of David and Songs of Solomon, April 28. See website for locations and times.

520-329-7175. ARSingers.org

ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE

Richard III, April 1; Spring Awakening April 8 to 29. 1025 N. Olive Rd. 520-621-1162. Theatre.Arizona.edu

ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY

Things I Know to Be True, April 20 to May 11. Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. 520-884-8210. ArizonaTheatre.org

ARTIFACT DANCE PROJECT

Monologue of a Muted Man, May 11 & 12. Ina Gittings Studio 124, located just west of the Steve Eller Dance Theater. University of Arizona. 520-235-7638. ArtifactDanceProject.org

BALLET TUCSON

Film Screening of I Am a Dancer, with a pre-film lecture by Ballet Tucson Prima Ballerina Jenna Johnson, at the Loft Cinema, April 7 at 2:00 pm. BT2 Performance, June 9, Steve Eller Dance Theater. 800-838-3006. BalletTucson.org

BROADWAY IN TUCSON

Fiddler on the Roof, April 9 to 14. CATS, April 30 to May 5. Centennial Hall, 1020 East University Blvd. 903-2929, BroadwayInTucson.com

CIVIC ORCHESTRA OF TUCSON

POPS! (Free Concerts), 3:00 pm April 28 at Valley Presbyterian Church and 7:00pm May 5 at DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. 520-730-3371. COTMusic.org

FOX TUCSON

Currents by Mayumana, April 4 at 7:30 pm; Classic Albums Live: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes, April 5 at 7:30 pm; Chris D’Elia: Follow the Leader Tour, April 7 at 7:00 pm; Mighty Wurlitzer Organ Preview Concert, April 13 at 7:30 pm; Patton Oswalt, April 14 at 8:00 pm; The Musical Box – A Genesis Extravaganza, April 18 at 7:30 pm; Friends: The Musical Parody, April 20 at 7:30 pm; Jon Anderson of YES, April 23 at 7:30 pm; Agave Heritage Festival – Ignite Agave!, April 26 at 7:00 pm; I Dream in Widescreen 2019, April 27 at 7:00 pm; Storm Large & Le Bonheur, April 28 at 7:00 pm; Chicks with Hits, April 29 at 7:30 pm.

Fox Theatre, 17 W Congress St. 520-547-3040. FoxTucson.com

Patsy Cline, April 4 to May 11 on the Mainstage. Quirkus Circus & the Missing Ringmaster, April 7 to June 9 in the Family Theatre. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 520-327-4242.

LiveTheatreWorkshop.org

ODYSSEY STORYTELLING SERIES Extra, April 4. Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm. The Sea of Glass Center for the Arts, 330 E. 7th St. 520-7304112. OdysseyStorytelling.com

PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Polaroid Stories, April 18 to 28, Black Box Theatre. PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Rd. 520-206-6986. Pima.edu

THE ROGUE THEATRE The

Crucible, April 25 to May 12. 300 E. University Blvd. 520-551-2053.

TheRogueTheatre.org

SCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE Blood Wedding, continues through April 14. 738 N 5th Ave. 520-448-3300. ScoundrelandScamp.org

SOMETHING SOMETHING THEATRE COMPANY Switzerland, April 25 to May 12.

Temple Cabaret, 330 S. Scott Ave. 520-468-6111.

SomethingSomethingTheatre.com

SOUTHERN ORCHESTRA

ARIZONA

SYMPHONY

April 6 at 7:30pm at SaddleBrooke DesertView Performing Arts Center; April 7 at 3:00pm at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. 520-308-6226.

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TUCSON CONVENTION CENTER Cirque Du Soleil – Corteo, April 3 to 7. The Marriage of Figaro, April 13 & 14; Mariachi Women’s Festival, May 4; Academy of Ballet – Snow White, May 26. 260 S. Church Ave. TucsonConventionCenter.com

TUCSON

SYMPHONY

ORCHESTRA

Sibelius Symphony No. 2, April 5 at 7:30 pm. Music Rocks! April 6 at 4:30 pm; TSO Extra: Dvorak & Mozart, April 12 at 6:00 pm; Free Concert, April 18 at 7:30 pm.

520-882-8585. TucsonSymphony.org

UA PRESENTS Fiddler on the Roof (Presented by

THE GASLIGHT THEATRE

Broadway in Tucson), April 9 to 14. Alex de Grassi and Andrew York, April 11; Considering Matthew Shepard, April 16; Che Malambo, From Argentina, April 28. CATS! (Presented by Broadway in Tucson), April 30 to May 5.

Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. 520-621-3364.

UAPresents.org

INVISIBLE THEATRE Letters from Zora, April 6 &

UNSCREWED THEATER Family friendly shows every Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 pm. 4500 E. Speedway Blvd #39. 520-289-8076. UnscrewedTheater.org

Back to the Past, April 4 to June 2. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 520-8869428. TheGaslightTheatre.com

7 and 20th Century Blues, April 23 to May 5. 1400 North First Avenue. 1200 West Speedway. 520-882-9721.

InvisibleTheatre.com

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Pescado and cameron tacos at Cocteleria La Palma, on the northeast corner of 22nd Street and 6th Avenue.

The Fish Taco A Culinary Wonder from the Sea

by Gregory McNamee A TACO is a pretty simple proposition: Take a corn tortilla (anything made of wheat flour doesn’t qualify), fold it, put some sort of filling inside it—it can be vegetable, such as avocado or squash or bean, or it can be animal, such as ground beef or chicken—and eat it, usually after topping the thing with condiments such as cabbage, cheese, and salsa.

The fish taco is a variation on this theme. It probably owes its origins to the bounty of the sea along the Pacific Coast of Baja California, Mexico, although there’s no good way of proving the ultimate roots of a dish that people have probably been eating for millennia. After all, for millennia, one supposes, the coastal peoples grew corn and then ate fish with it, and it stands to reason that someone along the way would have thought to put the one inside the other and thereby establish a culinary trend.

Yet, in a contest whose rewards are nil but whose stakes are high, there has been claim to more recent authorship of the fish taco, with one party tracing its origins to a fish market in Ensenada, not far below the international border in Baja California Norte, and the other to a seaside food shack in San Felipe, on the Gulf of California. In both cases, the flaky white fish was dipped in a light tempura-like batter, fried, and served in corn tortillas with a topping of mayonnaise and shredded cabbage.

In the 1970s, a visiting American college student from San Diego, Ralph Rubio, worked out a recipe and, in 1983, opened a small restaurant in the shell of an abandoned hamburger stand in Mission Bay. Other vendors picked up on the idea, and by the time I first had a fish taco in inland Pasadena a year or two

later, the concoction was widespread throughout Southern California: battered white fish, cabbage, avocado, queso blanco, and a squeeze of lime, and you had a little taste of paradise.

The fish taco is now standard on Mexican-themed menus far within the continental interior, while Rubio’s original restaurant has grown into a small chain that serves both fried fish and more healthful grilled versions of fish and shellfish. There are two Rubio’s locations in Tucson, one long established in the growing food corridor along Campbell Avenue between Grant Road and Fort Lowell Road, the other tucked away in a nondescript strip mall alongside Broadway on the southwest side of El Con Mall. Rubio’s does a perfectly competent job of making a fish taco, and though there’s not much in the way of ambiente in the chain, you can eat reasonably well there.

But life is about ambiente as well as sabor, and for that there are better options. I’ll take any excuse to grab a fish taco at Seís Kitchen, at either its Mercado San Augustin (130 S. Avenida del Convento) or its River and Campbell (1765 E. River Road #131) location. Mariscos Chihuahua can be a hit-ormiss proposition, but I’ve enjoyed a good fish taco there even while quietly wondering how a landlocked Mexican state could give rise to a local seafood chain; the Barrio Hollywood location (1009 N. Grande Avenue) seems to be the most consistent. Cocteleria La Palma, a food truck on the corner of 22nd Street and 6th Avenue, does a fine fish taco, as well as a ceviche tostada and a shrimp taco that rank among the best seafood dishes I’ve eaten in Tucson.

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Woman-Eating Dinosaur east of Holbrook, AZ 1999.

Terry Moore A Tucson Photographer Gets His Kicks on Route 66

by Gregory McNamee

A COWBOY STANDS beside a handsome roan horse, staring off into the distance, an enigmatic smile on his face. Down the road, a black stallion rears its head into the sky, outlined in neon. Cocktail glasses, buried cars, signs advertising steam heat and cold drinks and good food at reasonable prices beckon. It all looks inviting—all except for the unfortunate woman who is disappearing sideways and rapidly into the mouth of a green dinosaur, poor thing, and never mind that humans and dinosaurs live together only in Ray Harryhausen movies and the fertile dreams of creationists.

These are the artifacts of the strange civilization that grew up over the decades along the Mother Road, Route 66, the storied highway that once stretched all the way from Lake Michigan to the shore of the Pacific Ocean, drawing millions of travelers west, fewer of them east. The road is now a major tourist attraction along much of its span, at least where the highway still exists, including a couple of hundred miles of good or good-enough road here in Arizona, still drawing visitors—especially motorcyclists from Germany, it seems, at all times of the year.

When he was nine years old, about the time the interstate highway system was first being sketched out, Terry Moore moved with his family from northern Minnesota to Claremont, California. “We went down a zigzag of highways to US 54,” he recalls. “Then we reached Tucumcari, New Mexico, and Route 66.

From there it was straight west to California, and it was magical. I had never been on a highway like that, had never seen landscapes like that, and I was hooked.”

The time was idyllic, with Dick Dale twanging in surf-crazy clubs along the road, with soda shops and beer joints and everything you might want along the way—and, to provide the necessary balance of nature and nurture that Southern California once boasted, orange groves lined the north side of the highway for mile after mile. The road changed names half a dozen times as it

ran toward the sea—where my father grew up, in Pasadena, it became Colorado Boulevard—but those orange groves were ever-present, along with a world of possibilities. “Many of the most important things in my life happened along Route 66,” recalls Terry. “I went to high school at the corner of Indian Hill and Foothills Boulevard,” the name of Route 66 out where he lived. “I bought my first car in Fontana on 66. I traveled 66 back and forth between Albuquerque, where I went to college, and home to see my family. The road was alive.”

By the 1970s, the road was less alive. The interstate highway system had been completed, bypassing many of the towns that the old Bobby Troup hit song “Route 66” mentioned. Terry kept traveling it anyway. In 2005, he and I traveled it over several days from Flagstaff to the California border, the place where machine gun–toting policemen awaited the migrant Okies in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Six and a half decades after the Joads passed through, we found plenty of places that were boarded shut and looked as if they were lost to time, abandoned cars, collapsed billboards, all the detritus of a transient civilization that had moved on without cleaning up after itself. But there were signs of new life everywhere, too—for instance, the reopening of an old gas station at Cool Springs, with further plans to create a little museum of the road.

That dream has come true, and you can go see it for yourself while searching out wild burros and lost mines in the Black Mountains of northwestern Arizona, where Route 66 does some of its most precipitous climbing.

A longtime resident of Tucson who still nurses a constant itch to travel the backroads, Terry Moore has just published a book, 66 on 66: A Photographer’s Journey (Schaffner Press, $27.95), recording his many years of travel along the highway. The photographs, as ever, are striking: Even in the most worn-out of buildings, the most forbidding of deserts, the most weathered of murals, Terry finds a place whose heart is still beating, a road that stretches from California to Chicago and that winds like a ribbon through our nation’s history. n April 2019 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 41

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What’s Live

My Thoughts on the Folk Fest

by Jim Lipson

Fine wine grown in the high desert of southeast Arizona

3/1: Dan Stokes 3/2: Sabra Faulk 3/8: Tom Walbank 3/9: Sam & Dante 3/15: Adara Rae 3/16: FebboFuentes 3/22: Jimmy Carr & Sam B 3/23: Leila Lopez & Brian Green 3/29: Hat Pin Duo 3/30: Big Grin

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FROM THE VERY BEGINNING I have loved the Tucson Folk Festival. In the fall of 1986, as a writer for the Tucson Weekly, I met with several founding members of the fledgling Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association (TKMA) to talk about this grandiose undertaking. For over an hour I asked questions, heard the rap, and in effect, drank all of the Kool-aid that was the essence of what would become the first ever Tucson Folk Festival. And it was good. Two full days of music on two stages at opposite ends of downtown’s El Presidio Park; all of it local and all of it free. What’s not to like?

In the years that have passed I’ve been a witness to and (full disclosure), a part of the evolution of the festival, sometimes slow and painful, but also breathtaking at times. There were years when the festival was graced by the likes of Odetta, Jesse Colin Young and Richie Havens. There were also years when headliners, unknown to most, like Laura Love or Ruthie Foster, completely wowed the crowds. And then there were other years when it felt hotter than hell (like last year) or when the winds, so incessant and unforgiving, were blowing instruments off of stands while threatening to separate stage canopies from their moorings. There were also the years when no one seemed to either know of or care about this little festival that could, that on April 6 & 7, will enjoy its 34th year.

Over the years many musicians have come and gone while many others remain a staple of the fest, year after year. The years have also seen the coming and going of KXCI which for many years would broadcast live from the Plaza Stage on a kind of tape delay that you had to see in action to believe— volunteers on bicycles running CDs of performances from the park to the station’s studio in Armory Park, to then be played for broadcast. Leaving the festival after the final act and then hearing it again on the radio going home, was for many, myself included, a festival ritual of sorts.

More than a dozen years ago, La Cocina (under a previous ownership), in such close proximity to the festival, actually threatened to stage its own little music fest. After some negotiation it was invited to be part of the festival and has been a wonderful partner ever since, especially these last several years.

This stage which is packed from start to finish, is a much cherished destination for performers and volunteers alike.

There was also the great success of the Tucson Museum of Art stage (and beer garden) before TMA decided to back out of the festival, as well as the great loss of the Courtyard Stage. Located at the east end of El Presidio and perhaps the best listening stage at the festival, the Courtyard Stage was closed three years ago for renovations that unbelievably, have yet to be completed.

One thing over the years that has not changed are the passions and the intense feelings organizers and performers have for this festival. For the organizers this is a year round project and a true labor of love. Having expanded to six stages and involving150 performing acts and easily engaging well over 500 musicians, the need for fundraising and staying on task is constant.

It’s a complex operation and all of it run by volunteers, as in no one getting paid. For those in the working world, coordinating the festival could easily translate into a 20 hour a week position that should be paid at least $20 per hour, 52 weeks a year. I only know this because as a former TKMA President, I have done it while also watching others do it. It is a lot of work with never enough time, volunteers, money, resources or appreciation. And yet somehow, some way, it always gets done. This year’s kudos go to TKMA President Diane Perry for keeping it all together.

On the other side of the equation are the performers who make this festival what it is. Because of its unique nature where the paid headliners make up only a small fraction of the schedule, it is a huge process to determines who

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gets to play (and who does not) and on what stage and at what time. And so applications are made with accompanying samples of music sent in to be juried.

In order to help fund the festival, applicants used to pay a mandatory $20 application fee which was not a guarantee you’d be accepted into the festival.

Yes, musicians would actually pay to play. (Performers can now submit for free if they meet the early application deadline.) Because of the growing number of applicants, many performers are indeed not accepted. If you are musician, emotions generally run high and hot. It’s a brutal process that is not always ego friendly. And it’s an extremely imperfect system. But if you ever want to see how this sausage is made, you could volunteer to be on the listening committee that will in fact, listen through upwards of 150-200 submissions. (TKMA does annually call for volunteers to do this.)

I can tell you that some of what I considered to be extremely arbitrary protocols regarding acceptance into the festival is what motivated me to get more involved. And while we tried to make changes and adjustments, there are always applicants who walk away feeling hurt, angry, sad or any combination thereof.

This year’s festival, due to a number of factors, will have a whole new look and feel. Following last year’s brutally hot weather in early May, the decision was made to move the festival into early April. Because of the City’s decision to move all festival activities out of El Presidio Park (another column for another time), Festival Central will now be focused at the Main Library’s Jacome Plaza. There will also be a new stage on Church St. which will be closed from Pennington St. north to Council St. as well as a small new stage at the Dusty Monk.

The result of all this will be a festival that will have more of a block party feel to it than ever before. With adult beverages available and accessible to every stage, the festival still can present itself as an extremely family-friendly event.

Headlining this year will be Red Molly—three women singer/songwriters playing various stringed instruments and backed by a rhythm section, playing Saturday evening at 9 pm. They are great. Heather Hardy and her Lil Mama Blues Band is the local headliner taking the stage on Sunday at 8. They are also great.

The TKMA press release also reminds me to mention things like workshops, songwriting competition, the Young Artist stage, and the Children’s Show with Mr. Nature’s Music Garden. But the truth is you should simply be blocking out the entire weekend for the festival. The complete festival schedule can be found at tucsonfolkfest.org

Red Molly: Abbie Gardner, Laurie MacAllister, Molly Venter What’s not the Tucson Folk Fest in April: April 4 – Jimmie Vaughan, Rialto Theatre – I’m going to get over the fact that I always thought it was Jimmie Ray Vaughan or perhaps II just imagined that. Either way he’s a killer guitarist. Having fronted the Fabulous Thunderbirds with the great Kim Wilson, Jimmie, actually the older of the brothers Vaughan, is now working on his third solo album. If you like the blues, there is plenty of him to like.

April 4 – Shades of Summerdog, Monterey Court – When I arrived here in 1983, Summerdog had already run its course as perhaps the best bluegrass band ever in Arizona. Throughout the last several years there have been various Summerdog sightings and mini reunions of one sort or another, including a massive gathering some years back at the El Casino Ballroom. This will no doubt be an extended tune-up for their performance at the upcoming folk festival April 13 – Laurie Lewis Trio, Berger Center - Rarely do women get noticed for Bluegrass but for her most recent album, The Hazel and Alice Sessions, Lewis was nominated for the Best Bluegrass Recording Grammy in 2017.

Inspired by the bluegrass duo Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Lewis makes a strong case for women in bluegrass.

April 12 – Carlos Arzate, Hotel Congress – A free show with one of the most interesting local songwriters on the scene.

April 13 – Carvin Jones Band, 191 Toole - He has shared the stage and toured with legends including BB King, Santana, Jeff Beck, Albert King, Albert Collins, The Animals, Jimmy Vaughan, Double Trouble and many more. Some great blues rock here.

April 18 – The Musical Box – A Genesis Extravaganza – Although not big on tribute shows, how often do you get a Genesis group coming to town.

This show will feature early Genesis, including Selling England by the Pound through the first post Peter Gabriel album, Trick of the Tail.

April 19 – Katie Haverly, Hotel Congress – Like Carlos Arzate, Haverly is one of the more interesting indie oriented songwriters in town. Also like his show, this is free on the patio as a part of the Hotel’s spring concert series.

April 20 – Little House of Funk, Monterey Court – This troupe is one of a handful of ensembles led by the fantastic Connie Brannock who plays percussion and really knows how to belt out a tune.

April 23 – Jon Anderson, Fox Theatre – The iconic voice of the band Yes. Their albums Fragile and Close to the Edge, powered by his vocals, remain two of the great works of the early ‘70s progressive rock era. n April 2019 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 45

little readers.

BIG AUTHORS.

Sponsored by: Tucson Literary Society. • Hosted by: Tucson Botanical Gardens

Join us Saturday mornings for nature-themed book readings by well-known children’s book authors. Each author has also prepared an interactive activity to deepen our understanding of the story and strengthen our love of reading.

Books will be available for sale in the Gift Shop. Authors will be available to sign the book after each activity.

For more information, please visit us online at TucsonBotanical.org or email Education1@TucsonBotanical.org.

All activities are included with Garden Admission or Free for Garden Members.

Where: Tucson Botanical Gardens, Education Classroom 2150 N. Alvernon Way

10:00 am-12:00 pm

Saturday, April 6: Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford This presentation is best for ages 5 years and older, but kids of all ages are welcome.

Rivera-Ashford’s latest published books include several companion books for the Disney Pixar Academy Award Winning movie Coco. Some titles include the acclaimed Miguel and the Amazing Alebrijes, The Story of Dante, and Miguel and the Secret Recipe for which Disney contracted Roni to illuminate the story of tamale-making by Coco’s Rivera family.

After sharing from a few of her books, Roni will provide some of the herbs mentioned so children may make and take home their very own mini herb bouquet.

Saturday, April 13: Michael Hale This presentation is best for ages 2 to 8 years, but kids of all ages are welcome.

Michael Hale has always loved monkeys but no one would ever let him have a monkey as a pet. Since he could not have a pet monkey, he decided that he would draw pictures and write stories about monkeys instead.

Michael has illustrated four picture books. Bad Monkey Business is his debut book.

Join Michael for a story time that includes Bad Monkey Business and a debut reading of his upcoming picture book, Fast Freddie, The Legend In A Shell.

Saturday, April 20: Dianne White This presentation is best for ages 5 years and older, but kids of all ages are welcome.

A life-long love of foreign languages and a special appreciation for the sounds of words and the rhythms of speech paired with an interest in children’s poetry and books led Dianne White to pursue a master’s degree in Language and Literacy and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults.

After 25 years of experience as a classroom teacher, White writes full-time. In her 2014 book, Blue on Blue, White guides the reader with gentle, rhyming text through a day in the life of a farming family as they experience the full range of a thrilling seaside thunderstorm.

Carvin Jones performs at 191 Toole on Saturday, April 13.

LIVE MUSIC Schedules accurate as of press time. Visit the web sites or call for current/detailed information.

191 TOOLE 191 E. Toole Ave. rialtotheatre.com Thu 4: Red Not Chili Peppers Fri 5: Mad Caddies Sat 6: B-Side Players, Taco Sauce Thu 11: SOB X RBE, Sneakk, Peacoat Gang, Ricky P., Tommy Will, YOUNG TUC Sat 13: Carvin Jones Sun 14: The Mattson 2 Tue 16: Ben Kweller, The Technicolors Wed 17: Avey Tare, Paradot Thu 18: John Vanderslice Sat 20: Murs, Cojo, Locksmith Mon 22: Mdou Moctar, Marisa Anderson Wed 24: Los Straightjackets, Igor & The Red Elvises Fri 26: The Wild Reeds, Valley Queen Sun 28: Freddie Gibbs Tue 30: Copper Chief

BORDERLANDS BREWING 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773, BorderlandsBrewing.com Fri 5: Mustang Corners Sat 6: Dash Pocket Sat 20: The Quarter

CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848, HotelCongress.com/club Thu 4: Go Fever, La Cerca, American Monoxide

Photo courtesy hotelcongress.com.

Photo courtesy realtotheatre.com.

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Cosmonauts perform at Club Congress on Monday, April 22.

Fri 5: Marley B, Haha, KKSP, TK Been Poppin’ TDT.ENT, Care Free, Kaizer, John Ronstadt & Round Midnight Sat 6: Hotline TNT, Hikikomori, The Trees, Beyond Words Sun 7: Moontrax, Panic Baby, Taco Sauce Wed 10: Modern Color + No Sun, The Trees, Carnival Thu 11: Sales, Lunar Vacation Fri 12: Xixa, Ojala Systems, Carlos Arzate Mon 15: The Messthetics Thu 18: Iceage, Shame, Pelada Fri 19: Katie Haverly, Intuitive Compass, Fayuca, Vana Liya, Santa Pachita, Desert Fish Sat 20: Sunday Afternoon Reunion Sun 21: Hand Habits Mon 22: Cosmonauts Fri 26: El Tambó Fest Sat 27: Agave Fest Sun 28: Ex Hex

LA COCINA 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351, LaCocinaTucson.com Thu 4: Freddy Parish Fri 5: Greg Morton & Friends, Oscar Fuentes Sat 6: Tucson Folk Festival Sun 7: Tucson Folk Festival Wed 10: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Thu 11: Freddy Parish Fri 12: Greg Morton & Friends Sat 13: Nancy and Neil McCallion Sun 14: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 17: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield

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Thu 18: Mitzi Cowell Fri 19: Greg Morton & Friends Sun 21: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 24: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Fri 26: Greg Morton & Friends, Eugene Boronow Sat 27: The Carnivaleros Sun 28: Mik and the Funky Brunch

FINI’S LANDING 5689 N. Swan Rd. 299-1010 finislanding.com Fri 5: Neon Prophet Sat 6: Funk Bunnies

FOX TUCSON THEATRE 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515, FoxTucsonTheatre.org Tue 2: Kansas Wed 3: Needtobreathe Thu 4: Mayumana Fri 5: Classic Albums Live: Damn The Torpedoes Sat 13: Mighty Wurlitzer Organ Preview Concert Thu 18: The Musical Box Tue 23: Jon Anderson Sun 28: Storm Large & Le Bonheur Mon 29: Chicks with Hits

HACIENDA DEL SOL 5501 N. Hacienda Del Sol., 2991501, HaciendaDelSol.com Thu 4: Dennis Moore, Birkworks Fri 5: Dennis Moore, Pete Swan Jazz Trio Sun 7: Dennis Moore, The Bad News Blues Band Mon 8: Nathaniel Burnside Tues 9: Nathaniel Burnside, Gary Roberts

Wed 10: Nathaniel Burnside, Sly Slipetsky Thu 11: Dennis Moore, Roscoe Trio Fri 12: Dennis Moore, Pete Swan Jazz Trio Sat 13: Dennis Moore, Robin Bessier Sun 14: Dennis Moore, Khris Dodge Mon 15: Nathaniel Burnside Tue 16: Nathaniel Burnside, Naim Amor Wed 17: Nathaniel Burnside, Mike Levy Thu 18: Dennis Moore, The Drift Fri 19: Dennis Moore, Pete Swan Jazz Trio Sat 20: Dennis Moore, Elijah & Yacouba Sun 21: Dennis Moore, Khris Dodge Mon 22: Nathaniel Burnside Tue 23: Nathaniel Burnside, Gary Roberts Wed 24: Nathaniel Burnside Thu 25: Dennis Moore, Robin Bessier Fri 26: Dennis Moore, Pete Swan Jazz Trio Sat 27: Dennis Moore, Birkworks Sun 28: Dennis Moore, Tom & Connie Mon 29: Nathaniel Burnside Tue 30: Nathaniel Burnside, Susan Artemis

HOUSE OF BARDS 4915 E. Speedway, 327-2011 houseofbards.com Wednesdays: Ladies Night with A2Z Mondays: Open Mic Fri 5: Stitched Up Heart Sat 6: Ashes of Ares, Helsott

Photo courtesy www.facebook.com/diane.vandeurzen.

Photo courtesy facebook.com/themusicalboxofficial.

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The Musical Box perform at Fox Theatre on Thursday, April 18.

Sun 7: Orenda Mon 15: Harlem River Noise Mon 29: Awaken I Am

THE HUT 305 N. 4th Ave., 623-3200 www.facebook.com/TheHutTucson Saturdays: Mike & Randy’s 420 Show with Top Dead Center Sat 6: Mike Sydloski, Mike & Randy’s 420 Show Fri 12: Black Salt Tone, Rilen’ Out

MONTEREY COURT 505 W. Miracle Mile, 207-2429 MontereyCourtAZ.com Thu 4: Nick & Luke, Shades of Summerdog Sat 6: Rhythm Jax featuring Angel Diamond, Emily Musilino Sun 7: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series, Wild Women—Diane Van Deurzen & Lisa Otey Tue 9: Mark Dawson Wed 10: Tammy West & The Culprits Thu 11: Touch of Gray Fri 12: Kyle Cook Sat 13: Baracutanga Sun 14: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series Tue 16: The Tucsonics Wed 17: Eric Schaffer & The Other Troublemakers Thu 18: Virgina Cannon Presents Thursday Night Live Fri 19: Lucky Losers Sun 21: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series Sun 28: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series

THE PARISH 6453 N. Oracle Rd. 797-1233 theparishtucson.com Mondays: jazz & blues Fridays: live local music Sundays: Andy Hersey

PLAZA PALOMINO 2990 N. Swan Rd., 907-7325 plazapalomino.com See web site for information

PUBLIC BREWHOUSE 209 N. Hoff Ave. 775-2337 publicbrewhouse.com Sun 7: Natalie Pohanic Wed 17: Bluegrass Night Sun 28: Tiny House of Funk’s Funky Fourth Sunday

RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000, RialtoTheatre.com Thu 4: Jimmy Vaughan, Mike Hebert, Michael P. Fri 5: Metal Fest XVII, Skoville, Beneath The Fallen Suns, Never Say Never, Tribulance, Dirtnap, Animate Echoes, Minutes To Midnight Sat 6: Cafe Jaleo Tue 9: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Sun 14: Space Jesus, Buku Tue 16: Steel Pulse Fri 19: Spyro Gyra Sat 20: Día De Los Luchas Sun 21: Sugar Hill Gang & The Furious Five, DJ Jahmar International Tue 23: Chvrches, Cherry Glazerr Thu 25: Kid Trunks X Craig Xen

Wild Women—Diane Van Deurzen & Lisa Otey perform at Monterey Court on Sunday, April 7.

x Robb Banks, Coolie Cut, Bass Santana Sun 28: Sheila E

THE ROCK 136 N. Park Ave. rocktucson.com Sat 13: Jake Miller Sat 20: 420 FireFest Thu 25: Knocked Loose, The Acacia Stain, Harms Way Fri 26: The 4th Annual PsychOut: Sugar Candy Mountain, The Psychedelephants, Tropical Beach, Silver Cloud Express, The Desert Beats Sun 28: Verbal Kombat

ROYAL SUN LOUNGE 1003 N Stone Ave (520) 622-8872 BWRoyalSun.com Sun-Tue: Happy Hour Live Music

SAINT CHARLES TAVERN 1632 S. 4th Ave (520) 888-5925 facebook.com/pg/ SaintCharlesTavern Fri 12: Funky Bonz Sat 20: Amy Mendoza & The Strange Vacation

SAND-RECKONER TASTING ROOM 510 N. 7th Ave., #170, 833-0121 sand-reckoner.com/tasting-room Mon 8: Tom Walbank Tue 9: San & Dante Mon 15: Adara Rae Tue 16: FebboFuentes Mon 22: Jimmy Car & Sam B Tues 23: Leila Lopez & Brian Green

Mon 29: Hat Pin Duo Tue 30: Big Grin

SEA OF GLASS CENTER FOR THE ARTS 330 E. 7th St., 398-2542 TheSeaOfGlass.org Sat 13: Sam Weber Thu 18: The Gold Souls Fri 26: Native Voices

SKY BAR TUCSON 536 N. 4th Ave, 622-4300.

SkyBarTucson.com Thu 4: Stereoriots, Sugar Stains, Black Medicine Sun 7: Mostapha, DJ Will, Street Blues Family, Jae Tilt, Odd Apollo Tue 9: Songwriter Showcase, Steff Koeppen Wed 10: Open Mic Tue 16: Tom Walbank Wed 17: Open Mic Thu 18: Fanclub, Asian Fred, Sea Moya, Cool Funeral Fri 19: The Unday, TGTG, Weekend Lovers Tue 23: Songwriter Showcase, Steff Koeppen Wed 24: Open Mic Thu 25: Paul Jenkins: The Piano Man Fri 26: Cirque Roots

TAP & BOTTLE 403 N. 6th Ave. 344-8999 TheTapandBottle.com Thu 4: Natalie Pohanic Thu 11: Tongs Fri 12: Taco Sauce Sun 28: Christopher T. Stevens

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Photos left to right, top to bottom: Mariah Haga @ thesanecatlady at the 4th Ave. Street Fair; A Young parrot at the Festival of Books; Catfish Keith at the 4th Ave Street Fair; Retro TV’s on 4th Ave during the Street Fair; Frank from the Comic Bookmobile at the Festival of Books; Hugo and Christina at the 4th Ave. Street Fair.

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Gorgeous Armory Park home, 408 W. 16th St., 2600 sf, built in 1914

18th St. Bungalows, modern lofts in historic Armory Park

SUSAN DENIS 520.977.8503 susan.denis@gmail.com