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07. Sustainability 09. All Souls Procession Guide 15. Community 18. Cultivate Tucson Vendor Directory 23. History 25. Loft Film Fest Program 49. Food & Drink 52. Architecture 55. Arts 56. Art Galleries & Exhibitions 59. Events 63. Performances 65. Tunes 70. Scene in Tucson ON THE COVER: Artwork, “La Reina De Corazones” (Queen of hearts ) by Chris Andrews.

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A Crossroads of Conservation Theory and practice in the Elkhorn/Las Delicias watershed

by Jeff Gardner

SOME 20 MILES southwest of Tucson, a watershed is being used both as a workspace and as a classroom. The Elkhorn/Las Delicias Watershed Restoration Project is a roughly 1,500-acre site of dry gullies, mesquite thicket, and plenty of desert rocks. But the vegetation is growing and the erosion is receding due to the collaborative efforts local ranchers and scientists.

Since 2012, the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance has worked in the Elkhorn/ Las Delicias watershed, practicing environmental monitoring, planning, and ultimately restoration. Located on Arizona State Trust land, the watershed project has served as an educational and environmental resource to hundreds.

“The Altar Valley Conservation Alliance, in general, is an organization that works with outreach, conservation and science.” said Mary Miller, executive director of AVCA. “And the Elkhorn project has all three of those key points.”

Site assessment and design began in 2010, but was installed in January 2012 with the help of some 100 volunteers, scientists, and ranchers.

“AVCA’s projects can be a very diverse mix of work, both on large and on small scale.” said Julia Sittig, AVCA conservation and science coordinator.

“In this watershed, we have a lot of joint learning going on. There are a lot of different people all working together.”

The team planted over 900 tons of rock and installed over 350 structures to combat the erosion moving upstream and revitalize the river system by slowing the water’s movement through the area.

“When we do this work to slow down water, it allows it to infiltrate the soil, and so far the vegetative response has been very positive.” Sittig said. “When you slow down water, you can do a lot of good on the land.”

The project sits between two neighboring ranches, with water flowing through arroyos via the nearby mountains. AVCA has involved a variety of interested parties in the project, including local ranchers, other conservation groups, and the University of Arizona.

“It’s a great project because it’s located at a site looking at the mountains, and you can actually see the watershed they create.” Miller said.

The monitoring and evaluation of the site provide promising results. AVCA has found “Increased soil deposition in channels and associated tributaries and uplands” with “Increased vegetation diversity and density evident”. Even better yet, the work done on-site is holding strong, with very few repairs needed. This also means the techniques are repeatable for future projects.

The project is now considered a case-study for watershed planning and community collaboration, with other groups including the University of Arizona, Boy Scouts of America, and the National Association of Conservation Districts involved.

“A lot of land-based projects are very complicated,” Sittig said. “You need to be improving the landscape and provide lasting treatment. And with any environmental project, photo courtesy Altar Valley Conservation Alliance you need ongoing monitoring.”

Funding for the ongoing monitoring and work at this project comes, in part, from several grants from Phoenix-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Foundation. Freeport initially supported the project with a $50,000 grant for a “watershed improvement project,” and has continued to support the project since.

AVCA calls the partnership with the mining company “particularly special, as it reflects a decade long commitment to active watershed conservation and science.” And although a conservation group receiving funds from a mining company might seem counterintuitive, Miller says she’s never received negative comments from the community on the partnership.

“What’s been great is how the organizing funder has continued to support the project,” Miller said. “This particular company has a great community outreach program that we’re part of.”

In September, AVCA program administrator Sherie Steele submitted a proposal to Freeport for continued support. This proposal included a letter of support co-signed by Pima County leaders from the Office of Conservation and Sustainability, Natural Resources Parks and Recreation, and Regional Flood Control District.

“These kinds of projects are never ending.” Miller said. “The idea is we can learn what worked well and use it for future projects... Hopefully this will lay the groundwork for more, bigger projects.”

Looking forward, work at the project hopes to continue and expand. The AVCA plans to continue their monitoring program and even plans for aerial monitoring of the area in March 2019 for a better view of the watershed’s growth. They also plan to continue coordinating tours and presentations of the area, and, looking further ahead, hope for 10-year anniversary reunion workshop in 2022.

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Complete Streets

by Jacklyne R. Volpe

AS MUNDANE as they are, our streets act as the watering-holes of society, a common public space where community members from all ages and backgrounds engage one another. Shop-owners and patrons, pedestrians, cyclist and motorist alike interact with our streets daily, yet little thought is given to how these streets affect us. One organization is looking to change that; transforming the ordinary streets of Tucson into what they call “Complete Living Streets.”

What is a “Complete Living Street” anyway? Well, if you’re like me you probably never heard the term before. If you want to see one in action, now you can at the intersection of 6th Avenue and 7th Street thanks to the local non-profit, Living Streets Alliance (LSA). According to LSA, a Complete Living Street is one that is safe, full of people and vibrant. An enjoyable, beautiful space where people of all ages and abilities can come together, socialize and experience a sense of community and fun, while safely accessing a variety of transportation options.

In last month’s addition we highlighted the Living Streets Alliance Project, a single day volunteer event where LSA, the City of Tucson, the University of Arizona, local businesses and volunteers came together to transform the intersection of 6th Avenue and 7th Street in to a “Complete Living Street.” The event has come and gone, and the volunteer-made project is proudly on display and ready for community use.

This project was made possible by a grant LSA received from AARP. In addition to the grant, monetary support was also provided by the AARP Tucson chapter and Mr. Car Wash. With organizations like the United Way, the University of Arizona and LSA’s member network, nearly 150 volunteers turned out to help complete the project.

Using temporary materials such as paint, flexible posts, planters and street furniture, the intersection now serves as a pilot: testing changes to the streets, seeing what works best and demonstrating future possibilities. Similar projects around Tucson have seen the benefits of enhanced streetscape, but according to Kylie Walzak, LSA’s Project Manager, this truly is the first Complete Living Street in Tucson. “It’s the first project in Tucson to use paint, graphics, flex post, planters and the like to reclaim space that was previously given to cars and claim it as a public space for people.”

But why this intersection? 6th Avenue and 7th Street has seen its fair share of accidents, and pedestrian and cyclist scares; this motivated business owners like Amy Smith of Exo Roast Company to do something about it. Smith stated her concerns about the intersection, “We witness a lot of unsafe driving practices at this intersection,” and she expressed her commitment to creating safer streets by partnering with LSA. Smith has high expectations for the project and she “hopes it slows the traffic down.” However, a complete street isn’t just about offering safer pedestrian crossing and reduced speeds, but it is also about community building through creative place-making.

Recognizing the importance of local culture and preserving public space Smith noted, “People aren’t always entirely aware of how much potential a street can have besides creating a space for cars. One parking space devoted to a shady spot to sit, one painted area that reminds pedestrians of the path, those things can make a huge difference for identifying and symbolizing a place.”

Initially, LSA drafted the intersection design based on the changes that would occur from the Downtown Links project. Ultimately, design for the intersection was a collaborative process among the community. LSA spoke

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community Z with local businesses at the intersection and gained valuable feedback about the design. Then working with designers, University of Arizona’s CAPLA and Fine Arts College and many other stakeholders, LSA was able to create a paint scheme and geometric pattern which complimented the area and nearby historic buildings.

Even a rotating schedule among business owners and LSA was created to manage the street furniture that must be put away each night. Walzak noted the design process, “Gives us a visual of what the new configuration of the intersection would look like, and to see if any changes need to be made before it becomes permanent.”

When asked about LSA’s motivation for the project, Walzak gave more insight as to how the project came about. “Tucson is about to pass a Complete Streets Policy,” she noted. “So, we wanted to use this area as an opportunity to demonstrate to Tucsonans what complete streets can look like, because we think there is a pretty serious misconception in people’s minds that complete streets have to be expensive and involve a lot of capital investment, that’s not the case at all. We wanted to show people that with paint, flex post and planters you can not only slow down speeds, and narrow intersections so people are more alert when driving, but you can also create really nice public spaces.” LSA is working closely with the City of Tucson on the Complete Street Policy and hopes it will better address social equity issues and pedestrian safety.

Impacts on traffic and pedestrian activity are already being noticed at the intersection. When asked about the affects the make-over has had on the intersection traffic, Exo Owner Smith stated, “It’s actually been a game changer in that regard. I’ve generally noticed less confusion for cars at the intersection, which has resulted in slower traffic and complete stops.” As far as the community goes, Smith said she has, “noticed young kids skating, scooting or roller blading in that area,” and feels that the intersection is already safer and attracting more pedestrian traffic.

So, what’s in store for the future? With plans for the Downtown Links project, the intersection will eventually be torn up and reconstructed. This means the community and LSA has about a year or so to observe the full benefits of the new “Complete Living Street.” To better understand the benefits, LSA has partnered with a class at the University of Arizona’s CAPLA to capture before and after data. The students have already conducted pre-project surveys and data collection, and plan to conduct post surveys and more data collection in order to quantify the benefits of the Complete Living Street project. Measuring things such as traffic volume, traffic speed and modes of transportation will help determine what streetscape designs work best for the area and the most effective way to implement these designs. Only time will tell. So go check out Tucson’s new trendy street for yourself!

For more information on Tucson’s Complete Living Streets or to find out how you can get involved, visit LivingStreetsAlliance.org for details. n

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Corner of 6th Ave & 7th Street one week after transformation.

Volunteers participate in transforming the intersection at 6th Ave and 7th Street.

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by Gregory McNamee

Boy Scout memorial above Josephine Saddle, as it appeared a few years ago.

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ixty years ago, on a mild November day, a group of six Boy Scouts set out on a hike in the mountains south of Tucson. Two of them were 16 years old, one 13, three 12. Their scoutmaster had warned them to stay in the area around Madera Canyon, where they had made camp, but the Scouts decided to try to make the top of Mount Baldy, the highest peak in the Santa Ritas, now known as Mount Wrightson.

November here is a fine and clement month, with typical daytime highs in the 70s. When the six Boy Scouts set off, it was on just such a warm day, and they left their cold-weather gear at their campsite, intending to be gone only a few hours.

The Scouts would not have seen, rounding the back of Mount Wrightson, that a storm had been building on the other side of the valley and was moving toward them like a coal-black freight train. In those days before radar-based meteorology and long-range forecasting, no one had predicted its arrival save for the weather forecasters at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, whose job it was to warn military pilots of such things. Their constituency did not involve civilians, much less Boy Scouts, and so their warnings of approaching bad weather were not shared beyond the barbed-wire fence ringing the installation.

The storm was ferocious, bringing rain, ice, and snow of a sort not recorded in more than half a century. It smothered the mountain. Before it did, the Boy Scouts had separated. One boy had halted, tired out, while another had developed painful blisters. Reluctantly, they and a third boy waited on the trail while the other Scouts went on to the summit. When the storm settled in, the older boys were already on the way back, making their way down to the saddle where a trail led back to the shelter of Madera Canyon.

The three Scouts did not return. Instead, lost in the blizzard, they stumbled about in the darkness of the storm. Night fell, and with it the temperatures. The three boys who had waited below had gone uphill a way looking for them, but they found no sign of their missing friends. Defeated, they made their way down the mountain in darkness, finally reaching the safety of their camp, though unable to locate their store of firewood in all the snow that had fallen. They shivered throughout the night until they made their way a mile downcanyon to the Santa Rita Lodge, one of them barefoot and incoherent, and told the startled innkeeper what had happened.

The storm had caught all of southern Arizona unawares. Ranchers were out gathering cattle that had been scattered in the wind and snow, while the sheriff’s department was busily attending to auto accidents and finding shelter for homeless people off the frozen streets of Tucson, to which the storm had brought more than half a foot of snow.

Meanwhile, the temperature had fallen in the higher elevations to well below freezing. A ham radio operator in Madera Canyon who learned of the missing boys sent out a call, and the news quickly spread. Over the next few days a team of searchers began to assemble: ranchers and miners, cavers and hikers, law enforcement officials, soldiers and airmen, private citizens. Members of the Civil Air Patrol took to the skies in light planes, while the military sent up helicopters from Davis-Monthan and Fort Huachuca. Communications among all these elements were spotty at best: Army and Air Force personnel used radios that broadcast on different bands, while the city police and county sheriff’s departments had no way to coordinate their efforts out in the field.

Other trackers went off on their own, lacking any kind of centralized command and control.

The search broadened. The few civilians in Tucson who had snowshoes pitched in. Bloodhounds and their handlers came in from California. Every Boy Scout in Tucson turned up for service.

Soon more than 700 searchers were in the field, with local ham radio operators and fellow radio operators from around the country forming an ad hoc network to relay reports and messages to disconnected rescue units. But

by November 24, most of those searchers had been pulled off the mountain

after Sheriff James Clark reluctantly concluded that the boys could not have survived the elements for so long. Hunting season had just opened, but he kept the Santa Ritas closed to visitors to avoid the possibility that evidence might be contaminated. A small unit of searchers kept looking, but without much hope.

They found bits of evidence here and there, including the remnants of a small fire and a discarded hatchet. But it was not until December 4 that a small party of searchers who remained on the mountain came across the frozen bodies of the three Scouts near Josephine Saddle, at an elevation of about 7,100 feet. The lost boys had with them a working flashlight and waterproof matches, but they could not have seen the trail or found any dry wood to burn.

One boy had broken a leg after slipping off the trail and tumbling into a ravine below. All three had died during the night of November 15–16, the temperature having plunged to 5 degrees below zero.

The three were within a quarter-mile of a Forest Service cabin, which has since been removed, but neither could they have seen it in the storm. They were also close to a telephone line that ran down the back of the mountain alongside the trail switchbacks, which, had they reached that point, they might have been able to follow down to safety. The weather was so fierce, though, that any speculation about what they might have been able to see and what they knew of the terrain isn’t of much use. After all, searchers had passed by their bodies several times before they were discovered, but the boys were then covered in two feet of snow that took its time to melt away in the steadily warming weather after the storm.

An honor guard of soldiers and civilian rescuers brought the bodies of the three Scouts down the mountain and returned them to their loved ones. A few days later, the boys were buried in Holy Hope Cemetery in Tucson. A memorial to the three now stands above Josephine Saddle, a reminder to passersby to think of them. The steep trail they took to the top of Mount Wrightson remains, but a much improved “supertrail” carries most traffic up and down the mountain, a favorite destination of hikers and bird watchers today.

Those two artifacts, monument and trail, are locally important. You cannot use the one without seeing the other and thinking of those poor Scouts. Of more enduring significance is what came of the lessons learned during the search for them. The Southern Arizona Rescue Association formed, crosstraining its volunteers in numerous skills; they learned how to ride horses and mules, rappel from helicopters, conduct swift-water rescues, read signs and tracks, operate field radios, and the like. SARA members learned much from military rescue personnel who had perfected their skills looking for downed pilots during the Korean War. They blended those military skills with a kind of early paramedical training learned from civilian doctors, developing a hybrid method that SARA members would in turn teach to military personnel.

All that marks one of the key moments in the birth of the search-and-rescue movement, which has spread around the world in the 60 years since the tragedy on Mount Baldy/Wrightson. On that 9,453-foot-tall mountain and surrounding peaks in the Tucson area, SARA members have frequent occasion to put their skills to work—indeed, SARA estimates that it conducts about 100 operations each year. From the Boy Scouts’ terrible experience on Mount Wrightson in 1958 comes another common practice today, too, namely, the well-founded advice of hikers and law enforcement personnel that, when going off for a hike or climb, you should always let someone know where you’re going, what path you plan to follow, and when you intend to arrive home.

Today, radio systems used by police and military reach across the bands to join rescuers of all kinds, and civilians can monitor a good deal of that traffic.

Today a well-trained group of volunteer rescuers awaits the arrival of trouble here—and there’s always trouble in extremes of weather, from heatstricken tourists to unwitting drivers swept away in floodwaters. The deaths of three boys—Mike Early, David Greenberg, and Michael LaNoue—long ago has meant the deliverance from death of many hundreds of people in the decades since. n November 2018 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 23

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The Loft Film Fest was proud to receive a $20,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for our 2018 edition – the only film festival in Arizona to receive NEA funding.

The NEA describes the purpose of Art Works grants to honor the “works of art, the ways art works on audiences and the fact that art is work for artists and arts professionals… enhancing the value of individuals and communities, by connecting us to each other and to something greater than ourselves, and by empowering creativity and innovation in our society and economy. The arts exist for beauty itself, but they also are an inexhaustible source of meaning and inspiration.”

The NEA grant funds the Loft Film Fest and also Loft Film Fest on the Road, a tour of free screenings of festivalquality films to underserved rural and urban areas in Southern Arizona with Loft Solar Cinema, a van outfitted with solar panels and batteries (donated by Technicians for Sustainability) that allows the power of the sun to provide the power to project films under the stars. The Loft Solar Cinema is the only American member of the Solar World Cinema network representing more than a dozen countries.

The Loft Film Fest, and the organization behind it, The Loft Cinema, are grateful for the support and the validation of the NEA Art Works grant.

CICAE Award

The Loft Film Fest is the only American festival member of the International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE). The CICAE was founded in 1955 and represents a network of more than 4,000 screens and 22 international film festivals that have a shared mission of building audiences for excellent independent international films. The CICAE award will be determined by a 3-member jury. This year’s jury includes:

Paula Astorga Riestra

Producer, distributor, academic and exhibition and promotion consultant Paula Astorga Riestra serves as artistic director of Distral Festival and is the head of development at Home Films Entertainment in Mexico City. Currently she is producing Inzomnia, the first stop motion feature made in Mexico, directed by Luis Téllez, among other film projects.

Cathleen Tanti

Cathleen has been collaborating with CICAE since 2010. This year she is co-producing and programming Solar Cinema Malta as part of Valletta 2018 European Capital of Culture’s main program, which is taking unseen films to 24 outdoor locations from May right through to October 2018. Cathleen is also the cinema programmer at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, Malta.

Katriina Moila Katriina is the project coordinator of the training programme ACAM, organized by CICAE. She holds a Master Degree in Arts Management. After some experiences in art galleries both in Venice and in Berlin, Katriina ended up working for CICAE’s project in 2011 as an intern. Since then, she has been collaborating with the international cinema association and her love for independent cinema has grown since.

The Lofty Achievement Award The Loft Film Fest is awarding 2 Lofty Awards this year. The Lofty is presented each year at the Loft Film Fest to an individual whose career and body of work have significantly contributed to the world of cinema, and who continues to inspire, entertain and enlighten audiences. The 2018 Lofty Award will be presented to: Chris Eyre will receive his Lofty Award at a 20th Anniversary screening of Smoke Signals. Billed as the first feature film entirely written, directed and acted by Native Americans, the award-winning Sundance hit Smoke Signals is a funny, touching and honest look at what it is to be Indian in America. Smoke Signals won many awards including honors at the Sundance Film Festival and the Independent Spirit Awards.

Charles Burnett is the director of one of the most famous and acclaimed independent films of all-time, Killer of Sheep, which was one of the first 50 films to be selected for the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry and was chosen by the National Society of Film Critics as one of the 100 Essential Films. Charles received an Honorary Oscar in 2017 for his work as an independent filmmaker whose work has been praised for its portrayal of the African-American experience.

The Lee Marvin Maverick Award named after

the Oscar-winning actor and former Tucsonan, is presented to those film artists who work embodies a bold spirit of daring, originality and independence.

This year’s Lee Marvin Maverick Award will be presented to celebrated filmmaker Penelope Spheeris, whose wideranging body of work has taken her from edgy independent films like the punk/metal documentary trilogy, The Decline of Western Civilization Parts 1-3, to massive Hollywood studio hits like Wayne’s World, and far beyond.

The Social Justice Award presented by Oscarnominated documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick, recognizes those filmmakers whose work displays a galvanizing passion for social change through cinema.

This year’s Social Justice Award will be presented to filmmaker Stephen Maing, director of the acclaimed documentary, Crime + Punishment, winner of the Special Jury Award for Social Impact at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

Films in Competition are located on pages LFF 22-24.

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ROMA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 7:00PM DIRECTED BY Alfonso Cuarón, 2018, Mexico/USA, in Spanish with English subtitles, 135 mins., Not Rated With films such as Y Tu Mamá También, Children of Men, and Gravity, Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón has demonstrated an uncanny ability to reflect on the human condition while offering boldly entertaining cinematic experiences. Shot on 65mm in stunning black and white, the semi-autobiographical Roma is Cuarón’s most personal film to date – an immersive, technically masterful, compassionate work that, though set in the 1970s, speaks directly to contemporary Mexican society.

TUCSON PREMIERE WINNER!

Golden Lion, 2018 Venice Film Festival!

OTHER FESTIVALS:

Toronto; Venice; New York SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FILM SPONSOR,

Patricia Whitehill

“The blend of the humane and the artistic within nearly every scene is breathtaking. It’s a masterful achievement in filmmaking as an empathy machine, a way for us to spend time in a place, in an era, and with characters we never would otherwise.” – Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) works as a live-in maid and nanny for an upper-middleclass family in Mexico City’s Roma district. When the family patriarch departs for an extended business trip, his wife Sofia (Marina de Tavira) is left at home. Inhabiting a role somewhere between family member and employee, Cleo helps Sofia and the children through a period of difficulty, just as she is dealing with her own intense relationship issues, and as their separate-butparallel issues intertwine, it becomes clear that their disparate levels of social status will differently impact their possible futures. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst the political turmoil of the 1970s.

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THE GUARDIANS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT 7:30PM Join us for closing night at the Loft Film Fest featuring a short set from Calexico, featuring Joey Burns, John Convertino, Rick Peron and Jacob Valenzuela! This special live performance will follow the Southern Arizona premiere of the award-winning new documentary, The Guardians, which features a music score by Calexico. Filmmakers Ben Crosbie and Tessa Moran will also be in attendance!

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

DocLands; Riverrun

“The grandeur and fragility of the monarch butterfly, threatened with extinction, nudges viewers towards a reckoning with the sustainability of life itself in this gently persuasive documentary.” – Jordan Green, Triad City Beat

DIRECTED BY Ben Crosbie and Tessa Moran, 2018, USA/Mexico, 70 mins., Not Rated A visually dazzling meditation on the delicate balance between human and nature, The Guardians elegantly interweaves the lives of the iconic monarch butterfly with an indigenous community in Mexico. Both depend on the same ancient forest for their survival and now face an uncertain future.

Migrating 3,000 miles to hibernate in the towering Oyamels, the monarch population faces collapse, hitting a record low of 33 million, down from 1 billion just twenty years ago. In the valley below, the people of Donaciano Ojeda must carve out a sustainable future in their ancestral lands now part of the protected Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Once loggers of this forest, they’ve made a radical decision to stop and regrow it instead. Santos, a charismatic avocado farmer and Aristeo, a philosophical tree caretaker are the storytellers of the community as they face new threats of illegal logging, internal divisions, and their own mortality. Shot over three years, this intimate documentary takes viewers on a cinematic journey through the butterfly dense mountaintops of Michoacan as the community works to build a path forward.

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SMOKE SIGNALS

(35MM PRINT!)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 7:15PM

20TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING WITH DIRECTOR CHRIS EYRE IN PERSON!

“Unpretentious, funny and soulful … beautiful in both its brevity and its vision of contemporary Indian culture, Smoke Signals abounds in easygoing humor.” – Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle Preceded by the short film, HOLY GRAIL A short narrative film created in conjunction with the Pascua Yaqui Youth Filmmaking Project.

DIRECTED BY Taima Cannon, 2018, USA, 3 mins.

Chris Eyre will receive this year’s Lofty Achievement Award, presented each year at the Loft Film Fest to an individual whose career and body of work have significantly contributed to the world of cinema, and who continues to inspire, entertain and enlighten audiences.

DIRECTED BY Chris Eyre, 1998, USA, 89 mins., Rated PG-13 Billed as the first feature film entirely written, directed and acted by Native Americans, director Chris Eyre’s award-winning 1998 Sundance hit Smoke Signals is a funny, touching and honest look at what it is to be Indian in America. Smoke Signals follows Victor (Adam Beach) and Thomas-Builds-theFire (Evan Adams), two young Idaho men with wildly different memories of one Arnold Joseph (Gary Farmer), a former resident of their Idaho reservation who split years before and has just died in Phoenix. Arnold’s popular, athletic son, Victor, remembers him best as an alcoholic, occasionally abusive father who drove off one day and never came back. By contrast, the highly-quirky, always-talking Thomas Builds-the-Fire, whom Arnold had saved from certain death years earlier, has chosen to romanticize the man’s life and deeds in a way that drives Victor crazy. However, circumstances bring this odd couple together in a funny and funky road trip to Phoenix to retrieve Arnold’s ashes.

Along the way, they must confront the reality of Arnold’s legacy, which has profound and unexpected effects on both of them.

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WAYNE’S WORLD

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 4:15PM WITH DIRECTOR PENELOPE SPHEERIS IN PERSON! Celebrated filmmaker Penelope Spheeris is the recipient of the Loft Film Fest’s Lee Marvin Maverick Award, named after the Oscar-winning actor and former Tucsonan, presented to those film artists who work embodies a bold spirit of daring, originality and independence.

This screening will include a career highlight reel and the presentation of the Lee Marvin Maverick Award before the film, and an onstage Q&A with the director following the film.

DIRECTED BY Penelope Spheeris, 1992, 94 mins., Rated PG-13 It’s party time, excellent, with director Penelope Spheeris’ hilariously goofy pop culture comedy that still ranks as the best and highest-grossing Saturday Night Live spin-off in history.

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DUDES

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 10:00PM WITH DIRECTOR PENELOPE SPHEERIS IN PERSON! This screening will include an introduction by director Penelope Spheeris, recipient of the 2018 Lee Marvin Maverick Award.

Penelope Spheeris, 1987, USA, 90 mins., Rated R Director Penelope Spheeris’s gonzo 1987 western, partially shot in northern Arizona, offers up an oddball dose of urban angst in the Wild West when three NYC punk rockers take an ill-fated road trip to California and cross paths in the desert with a gang of psychotic rednecks led by Lee Ving of Fear.

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KILLER OF SHEEP

(35MM PRINT!)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 1:30PM

40TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING WITH DIRECTOR CHARLES BURNETT IN PERSON!

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FILM SPONSOR,

Tucson Black Film Club

This screening will include a career highlight reel before the film, and the award presentation and onstage Q&A with Charles Burnett, moderated by acclaimed filmmaker Alex Cox, following the film!

Charles Burnett will receive this year’s Lofty Achievement Award, presented each year at the Loft Film Fest to an individual whose career and body of work have significantly contributed to the world of cinema, and who continues to inspire, entertain and enlighten audiences. Charles received an Honorary Oscar in 2017 for his work as an independent filmmaker whose work has been praised for its portrayal of the African-American experience.

DIRECTED BY Dir. by Charles Burnett, 1977, USA, 80 mins., Not Rated One of the most famous and acclaimed films of all-time, Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep was one of the first 50 films to be selected for the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry and was chosen by the National Society of Film Critics as one of the 100 Essential Films.

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CRIME + PUNISHMENT

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 6:30PM Featuring a post-film Q&A with Oscar-nominated director Kirby Dick in person and Crime + Punishment director/producer/ cinematographer/editor Stephen Maing, recipient of this year’s Social Justice Award, via Skype!

DIRECTED BY Stephen

TUCSON PREMIERE WINNER!

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact, 2018 Sundance Film Festival!

OTHER FESTIVALS:

Sundance; Full Frame

Maing, 2018, USA, 118 mins., Not Rated Over five years of unprecedented access allowed filmmaker Stephen Maing to document the efforts of a small group of New York City police officers (now known as NYPD12) who decided to sue the department over racially discriminatory policing practices. Troubled by the impact of quota-driven policing on young minorities, these officers risk their careers and safety to expose harmful policing practices that have plagued the precincts and streets of NYC for decades. Maing takes us inside the precincts, stations, prisons, meeting rooms, and courts of law, exposing the rampant abuse of power at all levels of city policing.

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JURASSIC PARK

(25TH ANNIVERSARY)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 6:00PM | FREE ADMISSION THIS SCREENING WILL TAKE PLACE OUTDOORS ON “HIPPIE HILL” AT HIMMEL PARK, 1000 N. TUCSON BOULEVARD. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN SEATING. DIRECTED BY Steven

“Jurassic Park is non-stop fun … it remains an absolute thrill from a Spielberg in top form: funny, scary, fast-moving and full of justright details.” – Rafer Guzman, Newsday

Spielberg, 1993, USA, 126 mins., Rated PG-13 Himmel Park goes Jurassic as the Loft Film Fest celebrates the 25th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s original dino-adventure with a free outdoor Solar Cinema screening of Jurassic Park in the park! “Hold onto your butts!”

Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster prehistoric creature feature Jurassic Park was advertised as “An Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making,” and that about sums things up in this pulse-pounding thrill-ride that made the whole world go dino-crazy. Based on the bestselling novel by Michael Crichton, the spine-tingling Jurassic Park proved that Spielberg was still capable, almost two decades after Jaws, of scaring the living beejeesus out of moviegoers everywhere.

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WARRIOR WOMEN

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 5:30PM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 AT 5:45PM WITH DIRECTOR ELIZABETH CASTLE AND STAR MADONNA THUNDER HAWK IN PERSON AT THE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH SCREENING! DIRECTED BY Elizabeth

Castle & Christina D. King, 2018, USA, 67 mins., Not Rated Through the figure of Lakota activist and community organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk, this inspiring documentary traces the untold story of countless Native American women struggling for their people’s civil rights. Spanning several decades, Christina D. King and Elizabeth A. Castle’s documentary charts Thunder Hawk’s lifelong commitment, from her early involvement in the American Indian Movement (AIM), to her pivotal role in the founding of Women of All Red Nations, to her heartening presence at Standing Rock alongside thousands protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Calgary; Seattle; Hot Docs

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THE GREAT BUSTER: A CELEBRATION

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 11:15AM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AT 7:15PM DIRECTED BY Peter

TUCSON PREMIERE WINNER!

Best Documentary on Cinema, 2018 Venice Film Festival OTHER FESTIVALS:

Telluride; Venice

Bogdanovich, 2018, USA, 102 mins., Not Rated The Great Buster: A Celebration, from Oscar-winning director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show), celebrates the life, career and unmatched comedic genius of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and influential filmmakers, Buster Keaton. Stunning restorations of archival works bring Keaton’s magic to life on the big screen, while interviews with his friends, family, collaborators, and an eclectic array of artists influenced by his singular vision (including Mel Brooks, Werner Herzog and Quentin Tarantino) detail a life and character that was as complex, bold, and graceful as the great works themselves. Bogdanovich (who also narrates) takes a personal dive into the Keaton archives and reveals a visionary artist (dubbed “Old Stone Face” thanks to his hilariously stoic demeanor in the midst of comic chaos) who put everything on the line for a laugh in such timeless and treasured films as The General (1926), Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), Sherlock Jr. (1924), and so many others.

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MAPPLETHORPE

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 7:30PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AT 2:45PM DIRECTED BY Ondi

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Tribeca; Frameline SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FILM SPONSOR,

The University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography

Timoner, 2018, USA, 102 mins., Not Rated Matt Smith (The Crown, Doctor Who) plays Robert Mapplethorpe in this compelling biopic about arguably one of the most controversial photographers in American history. From the artist’s early days as best friend to Patti Smith in early ’70 NYC, to his relationship with curator Sam Wagstaff, to his untimely death at the age of 42, Mapplethorpe explores the intersection of his art and his sexuality, his struggle for mainstream recognition, and, looming above it all, the specter of the emerging AIDS crisis.

Acclaimed filmmaker Ondi Timoner (DIG!; We Live in Public), utilizing a wealth of Mapplethorpe’s provocative, explicit and stunningly beautiful photographs to drive the action, rekindles the excitement and tragedy of Mapplethorpe’s life and career as he electrified the contemporary art world, indulged his own self-destructive impulses and immortalized a sexually-uninhibited generation facing the impending chaos of a deadly new disease.

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SHOPLIFTERS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 7:15PM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT 2:15PM DIRECTED BY Hirokazu

TUCSON PREMIERE WINNER!

Palme d’Or, 2018 Cannes Film Festival!

OTHER FESTIVALS:

Cannes; Munich; Toronto

Kore-eda, 2018, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, 121 mins., Not Rated The latest beautifully heartrending drama from Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda (Nobody Knows) follows a poor family committing petty crimes to survive. Following one of their regular, carefully choreographed shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his young son come across a little girl freezing in the cold. They take her to their ramshackle house and feed her. Though the family is initially reluctant, they take the girl in when they discover the neglect she’s suffered. This unusual family struggles to get by, relying on low-paid menial work and petty crime to survive. Still, in each other and in their simple life they find comfort and happiness. When a shoplifting caper goes wrong, hidden secrets emerge and the mysterious bonds linking the family begin to unravel.

A film built on beautifully observed and richly resonant moments, Shoplifters is at once delightful, funny and heartbreaking – a true testament to the unique humanism of director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

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WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 7:45PM

DIRECTED BY Madeleine Olnek, 2018, USA, 84 mins., Not Rated In this laugh-out-loud, emotionally-engaging period piece that’s part sketch comedy, part historical burlesque, Molly Shannon transforms 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson from tragic spinster to irreverent lesbian heartthrob. In Wild Nights with Emily, writer/director Madeleine Olnek (The Foxy Merkins) asks and answers the question: Was Emily Dickinson really a stoic shut-in, as the history books indicate, or was she much more?

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

SXSW; Outfest Los Angeles SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FILM SPONSOR,

The University of Arizona Poetry Center

Preceded by the short film, COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO In a city that houses millions, Smita finds herself fighting beasts of a different kind as she discovers a strange pre-requisite to renting a house in middleclass Mumbai. She would make an ideal tenant - except for one glaring flaw. She is a middle-class Indian woman without a husband. An intimate perspective on the ‘ideal Indian female’ in urban India. DIRECTED BY Reema Sengupta, 2018, India, Hindi/Marathi with English Subtitles, 15 mins.

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GHOSTBOX COWBOY

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 1:15PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 3:15PM WITH DIRECTOR JOHN MARINGOUIN IN PERSON AT THE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH SCREENING! DIRECTED BY John

ARIZONA PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Tribeca

Maringouin, 2018, China/USA, in English, 90 mins., Not Rated In this darkly comedic morality tale that examines the inner workings of China’s economic engine and the lengths outsiders will to go to get in on the game, befuddled Texan Jimmy Van Horn (David Zellner, director and star of Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter) arrives in China brimming with optimism, only to realize that acquiring a share of the country’s rapidly growing riches is not as easy as it appeared from back home.

Preceded by the short film, THURSDAY NIGHT An elusive stranger pays Bimbo a visit in the middle of the night to deliver a vital message. DIRECTED BY Gonçalo Almeida, 2017, Portugal, 8 mins.

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INVENTING TOMORROW

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 2:30PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AT NOON

Monday’s screening is a Science on Screen presentation featuring an introduction with Liz Baker, Deputy Director of the Southern Arizona Research, Science and Engineering Foundation!

Science on Screen is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Seattle; Sundance SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FILM SPONSOR,

SARSEF

DIRECTED BY Laura Nix, 2018, USA, 87 mins., Not Rated Meet passionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats – found right in their own backyards – while navigating the doubts and insecurities that mark adolescence. Inventing Tomorrow follows six young scientists from Indonesia, Hawaii, India and Mexico as they tackle some of the most complex environmental issues facing humanity today.

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BIRDS OF PASSAGE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 7:30PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 5:00PM

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Cannes; Toronto

DIRECTED BY Christina Gallego & Ciro Guerra, 2018, Colombia/Denmark/Mexico, in Spanish/English/Wayuu with English subtitles, 125 mins., Not Rated In the stunning follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent, director Ciro Guerra delivers an unexpected take on the cartel genre, depicting the true-to-life rise and fall of rival Wayuu clans in Northern Colombia, told through the story of a single Colombian family who find themselves increasingly forced into the violence and capitalistic pull of the country’s burgeoning drug trade. Co-directed alongside his longtime collaborator Cristina Gallego, Birds of Passage is a gripping narrative sprawling in scope and filled with a sense of surreal beauty, driven by incredible attention to the details of Columbia’s indigenous Wayuu customs, traditions, and celebrations. Blending professional and non-professional actors, trappings of Western influence, and pointed political commentary, Gallego and Guerra weave an epic crime saga of pride, greed and the clash between the old and new worlds.

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TYREL

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 10:00PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AT 7:30PM

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Seattle; Sundance

DIRECTED BY Sebastián Silva, 2018, USA, 86 mins., Not Rated In this timely and disquieting drama punctuated with flashes of squirminducing comedy, a young man slowly spirals out of control when he realizes he’s the only black person attending a weekend birthday party in a secluded cabin. Tyler (Jason Mitchel, Straight Outta Compton; Mudbound) joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t know. As soon as they get there, it’s clear that (1) he’s the only black guy, and (2) it’s going to be a weekend of heavy drinking.

Although Tyler is welcomed, he can’t help but feel uneasy in “Whitesville.” The combination of all the testosterone and alcohol starts to get out of hand, and Tyler’s supposedly festive situation begins to feel like a nightmare.

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SKID ROW MARATHON

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 2:45PM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT 12:15PM

WITH PRODUCER GABI HAYES IN PERSON AT THE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH SCREENING! DIRECTED BY Mark

ARIZONA PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Los Angeles; Palm Springs; Traverse City

Hayes, 2017, USA, 85 mins., Not Rated In this gripping and uplifting documentary, winner of 21 film festival awards, a criminal court judge starts a long-distance running club out of the Midnight Mission on L.A.’s notorious Skid Row, with the hope of changing lives. This unorthodox running club is comprised of homeless, recovering alcoholic and paroled men and women, all looking to rediscover their sense of self-worth and dignity. Skid Row Marathon follows five runners, including a former rock musician, a single mom, an aspiring artist and a murderer on parole, as they rise from the mean streets of Los Angeles to run in marathons around the world, fighting the weight of their past and the uncertainty of their future at every turn. While they struggle to cross the finish line, their story becomes one of hope, friendship, and the power of transformation.

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THE WILD BOYS

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 9:45PM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT 2:30PM DIRECTED BY Bertrand

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Rotterdam; Venice; Outfest LA

Mandico, 2018, France, in French/English with English subtitles, 100 mins., Not Rated French filmmaker Bertrand Mandico’s genre-and gender-bending surrealist work wickedly transforms Lord of the Flies as it zigzags through a perverse, hyper-stylized world of transgressions. In this hypnotically nightmarish adventure, five well-bred teenage boys (all played by women), are enamored by the arts, but drawn to crime. After committing a heinous act (aided by Trevor, a deity of chaos they can’t control), they’re punished by being sent out to sea on board a boat with a barbaric captain hell-bent on taming their ferocious appetites. Landing on a magical island populated by bizarre animals and lascivious plants, the boys begin to transform in both mind and body.

Preceded by the short film, ULTRAVIOLET A woman named Kanchana is using voodoo on scorpions in a rain-forest at night in Thailand under the influence of ultraviolet lights. DIRECTED BY Marc Johnson, 2018, France, 9 mins.

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TRANSIT

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 4:00PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AT 5:00PM DIRECTED BY Christian

ARIZONA PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Cannes, Berlin, Toronto

Petzold, 2018, Germany/France, in German/French with English subtitles, 101 mins., Not Rated Adapted from Anna Seghers’ WWII-set novel, the tricky noir thriller Transit transposes the plot to an indistinct era that resembles the present-day.

Georg (Franz Rogowski) is a German refugee who escapes to Marseille, a port for migrants fleeing an unspecified war. He carries the documents of a famous writer, Weidl: a manuscript, the promise of an elusive transit pass from the Mexican embassy, and letters from the writer’s wife, Marie (Paula Beer). Discovering that Weidl has taken his own life, Georg assumes the dead author’s identity, grows ambivalent about leaving the continent, and develops an obsessive desire for the mysterious Marie — herself stranded in the city.

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Loft Film Fest 2018 Schedule THURSDAY, NOV. 8 SCREEN 1

11:00AM

12:00PM

1:00PM

2:00PM

SCREEN 3

30 Island of the Hungry Ghosts 11:30am 105mins

5:00PM

SCREEN 3

39 Killing Jesus CICAE

27 Woman at War

32 Distant Constellation

12:00pm 105mins

12:00pm 101mins

11:45am 80mins 36 Hale County…

CICAE

1:45pm 123mins

1:45pm 76mins

26 The Waldheim Waltz 4:30pm 93mins

42 Marlina the Murderer…

CICAE

15 Inventing Tomorrow

2:45pm 93mins

2:30pm 87mins

41 Buy Me a Gun CICAE 5:15pm 84mins

6:00PM

7:00PM

SCREEN 1

29 Becoming Astrid

3:00PM

4:00PM

FRIDAY, NOV. 9

4:45pm 90mins +30min Q&A

11 Mapplethorpe

7:15pm 121mins

7:30pm 102mins

8:00PM

HIMMEL PARK

SCREEN 1 10 The Great Buster

23 Las Sandinistas

11:15am 102mins

11:00am 100mins

6 Killer of Sheep 1:30pm 80mins

11:00PM

14 Ghostbox Cowboy

4 Wayne’s World 4:15pm 94mins

24 Liyana

+30min Q&A

7:30pm 125mins

20 Transit

10:15pm 102mins

28 Relaxer

17 Tyrel

10:00pm 105mins

10:00pm 86mins

31 House of Sweat and Tears 10:15pm 109mins

12:00pm 105mins +30min Q&A

18 Skid Row Marathon

8 Jurassic Park

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3 Smoke Signals 7:15pm 92mins

7 Crime + Punishment 6:30pm 112mins +30min Q&A

+45min Q&A

Intro 5 Dudes 10:00pm 90mins

12:00AM

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+30min Q&A

9 Warrior Women

19 The Wild Boys 38 Blue My Mind CICAE

34 Shorts Showcase

4:00pm 102mins

+45min Q&A

6:00pm 123mins 16 Birds of Passage

SCREEN 1

2:45pm 85mins

3:45pm 63mins

5:30pm 77mins

SUNDAY

1:15pm 90mins

35 Prototype

9:00PM

10:00PM

SCREEN 3

+45min Q&A

12 Shoplifters

1 Roma 7:00pm 135mins

33 Animated Shorts

SATURDAY, NOV. 10

9:45pm 119mins

5:30pm 67mins +30min Q&A 25 Diamantino 7:45pm 92mins

IN COMPETITION: CICAE AWARD (LFF 20-22)

Y, NOV. 11 SCREEN 3

40 Rafiki CICAE

MONDAY, NOV. 12 SCREEN 1

15 Inventing Tomorrow 12:00pm 86mins

12:30pm 83mins

43 Too Late to Die Young CICAE 2:30pm 110mins

TUESDAY, NOV. 13

SCREEN 3

38 Blue My Mind CICAE 12:30pm 102mins

SCREEN 1

43 Too Late to Die Young CICAE 12:30pm 110mins

37 Chained for Life CICAE 11:30am 91mins

23 Las Sandinistas

SCREEN 1

SCREEN 3

36 Hale County…

CICAE

26 The Waldheim Waltz

11:00am 76mins

11:15am 93mins

24 Liyana

32 Distant Constellation

1:00pm 77mins

1:15pm 80mins

1:30pm 100mins

11 Mapplethorpe 2:45pm 102mins

SCREEN 3

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14

31 House of Sweat and Tears

39 Killing Jesus CICAE

3:00pm 109mins

3:00pm 105mins

42 Marlina the Murderer…

CICAE

40 Rafiki CICAE

14 Ghostbox Cowboy

3:00pm 83mins

3:15pm 90mins

16 Birds of Passage

28 Relaxer

THURSDAY, NOV. 15 SCREEN 1

25 Diamantino 12:00pm 92mins

SCREEN 3

18 Skid Row Marathon 12:15pm 85mins

12 Shoplifters 2:15pm 121mins

19 The Wild Boys 2:30pm 119mins

3:45pm 93mins 37 Chained for Life CICAE 5:15pm 91mins

22 3 Faces 7:30pm 100mins

20 Transit 5:00pm 102mins

22 3 Faces 35 Prototype

5:15pm 100mins

5:45pm 63mins 10 The Great Buster 7:15pm 102mins

9 Warrior Women

5:00pm 125mins

30 Island of the Hungry Ghosts

5:15pm 105mins

5:15pm 105mins

5:45pm 67mins

17 Tyrel

21 Prospect

7:30 86mins

7:45pm 98mins

27 Woman at War

13 Wild Nights with Emily

41 Buy Me a Gun CICAE

7:30pm 101mins

7:45pm 90mins

7:30pm 84mins

2 The Guardians 7:30 70mins

Q&A and Acoustic Set

by Calexico

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29 Becoming Astrid 7:45pm 123mins

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LFF 14

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PROSPECT

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 AT 7:45PM DIRECTED BY Christopher

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

SXSW; Seattle

Caldwell & Zeek Earl, 2018, USA, 98 mins., Rated R Cee (newcomer Sophie Thatcher) and her father Damon (Jay Duplass, Transparent) are on a risk-filled mission to strike it rich by mining a unique mineral found on a seemingly uninhabited moon. Once their broken down spaceship lands, it becomes apparent they are going to need another way off the planet. As the father/daughter duo try to harvest the large deposit of elusive gems AND find a way to return home, they discover that several other prospectors are also after the gems, and the job quickly devolves into a fight for survival. Forced to contend not only with the moon’s other ruthless inhabitants, but also with her own father’s greed-corrupted judgement, Cee finds she must carve her own path in order to escape. First-time feature filmmakers Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl have adapted their highlyacclaimed 2014 short of the same name into a lush, moody and visually spectacular blue-collar sci-fi western. Also starring Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones) and Andre Royo (The Wire).

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3 FACES

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 7:30PM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 AT 5:15PM DIRECTED BY Jafar

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Cannes; Toronto; New York

Panahi, 2018, Iran, in Persian with English subtitles, 100 mins., Not Rated Acclaimed director Jafar Panahi’s (The White Balloon; Offside) fourth outing since the Iranian government sentenced him to a 20-year filmmaking ban has Panahi and actress Behnaz Jafari playing themselves in a road movie of sorts.

It starts when Jafari receives a disturbing video in which a young woman named Marziyeh, distraught over her family’s refusal to allow her to leave home and study acting, hangs herself. Frantic but unsure whether the clip is real or simply a tasteless ploy on Panahi’s part to pitch her a forthcoming screenplay about suicide, the actress abandons her film set with the director; they embark on a journey across Iran to a remote, mountainous village in hopes of locating the girl unharmed.

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¡LAS SANDINISTAS!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 11:00AM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 AT 1:30PM DIRECTED BY Jenny

ARIZONA PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

SXSW

Murray, 2018, Nicaragua/USA, in Spanish with English subtitles, 100 mins., Not Rated ¡Las Sandinistas! reveals a magical moment in world history when thousands of female rebel fighters transformed society’s definition of womanhood and leadership. Nicaraguan women from every social class fought on the front lines on an unprecedented scale in the Sandinista rebel army, and after the defeat of the brutal Somoza dictatorship, these same women pioneered groundbreaking nationwide medical, social, and education programs. Today, as the current Sandinista government is erasing these women’s stories of heroism, social reform, and military accomplishments from history books, these same women are fighting to reclaim history – and are once again leading inspiring popular movements for equality and democracy.

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LFF 15

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LIYANA

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 5:30PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 1:00PM DIRECTED BY Aaron

TUCSON PREMIERE WINNER!

Best Documentary, Los Angeles Film Festival OTHER FESTIVALS:

Los Angeles; New York African

Kopp & Amanda Kopp, 2018, Swaziland/Qatar/USA, in English, 77 mins., Not Rated / Appropriate for ages 10+ Within the walls of Swaziland’s Likhaya Lemphilo Lensha orphanage, a great adventure is unfolding. A group of children living in Likhaya Lemphilo Lensha are being led through a workshop process by South African storyteller, Gcina Mhlophe. Together they dive into their collective imaginations to create Liyana, a brave young Swazi heroine who undertakes an epic adventure to rescue her stolen brothers, outsmarting many a dangerous animal and even more dangerous humans along the way. Winner of more than 25 film festival awards around the world, the gorgeous, inventive and inspiring Liyana fuses brilliantly photographed live-action footage with riveting animation, alternating between scenes of young imaginations at work and scenes that bring their story to life.

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DIAMANTINO

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 7:45PM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT NOON DIRECTED BY Gabriel

ARIZONA PREMIERE WINNER!

Critics’ Week Grand Jury Prize, 2018 Cannes Film Festival OTHER FESTIVALS:

Cannes, Toronto, NY

Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, 2018, Portugal/France Brazil, in Portuguese with English subtitles, 92 mins., Not Rated When the world’s leading soccer star loses his touch and ends his career in disgrace, he goes on a delirious odyssey where he confronts neo-fascism, the refugee crisis and genetic modification, in this delightfully bonkers Portuguese comedy/fantasy/sci-fi/thriller. Diamantino (Carloto Cotta, Tabu) is a hunky, Cristiano Ronaldo-esque Portuguese soccer star. After spectacularly losing his mojo at the World Cup, Diamantino plunges into the kind of existential crisis only a clueless and over-paid sports star can have. The forlorn footballer’s search for meaning eventually leads to a conspiracy involving his wicked twin sisters, mad scientists, shady secret agents and a sinister right-wing cabal aiming to force Portugal out of the EU. This is to say nothing of the surreal pageant of gargantuan fluffy puppies that manifest whenever Diamantino sets foot on a soccer field.

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THE WALDHEIM WALTZ

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 4:30PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 11:15AM DIRECTED BY Ruth

TUCSON PREMIERE Official 2019 Academy Award submission from Austria!

OTHER FESTIVALS:

Berlin; New York; Stockholm

Beckermann, 2018, Austria, in German/English/French with English subtitles, 93 mins., Not Rated Kurt Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1982. In 1986, his nation elected him as president despite a controversy over his previously undisclosed role in the Nazi regime during World War II. Using archival footage, filmmaker Ruth Beckermann (The Dreamed Ones) studies how various media reported Waldheim’s accession and, more broadly, the influence of false naïveté and political pressure by those in positions of power. The Waldheim Waltz is an intelligent, timely work of activist filmmaking—one whose questions about collective complicity, memory, and historical responsibility are as important to ask today as they were more than 30 years ago.

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LFF 16

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WOMAN AT WAR

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT NOON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 AT 7:30PM DIRECTED BY Benedikt

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Cannes; Hamburg; Toronto

Erlingsson, 2018, Iceland/France/Ukraine, in Icelandic/ Spanish/English/Ukrainian with English subtitles, 101 mins., Not Rated In this quirky, passionate and gloriously funny comedy/drama from acclaimed Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson (Of Horses and Men), a charming DIY eco-terrorist gets in over her head when she takes on big industry and the unscrupulous politicians out to ruin her beloved natural landscape. 50-yearold Halla lives in the beautiful Icelandic Highlands. The warm-hearted choir leader also leads a secret life as a passionate hardcore environmental activist. Armed with her bow and arrow, deftly wielded, Halla sabotages the industry that she feels threatens the natural world she so fiercely loves. As she embarks on her boldest sabotage plan yet, the stakes are raised when she finds out that she is on the verge of realizing a long-cherished dream to adopt a child – a dilemma which could drastically change Halla’s plans for social revolution.

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RELAXER

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 10:00PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 5:15PM DIRECTED BY Joel

ARIZONA PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

SXSW; Fantasia

Potrykus, 2018, USA, 91 mins., Not Rated An outrageously gonzo chamber piece set in a squalid apartment living room just before the ball drops on Y2K, Relaxer, from indie director Joel Potrykus (Buzzard), is a skuzzy ‘90s nostalgia flashback that’s both absurdly funny and grossly disturbing in its portrayal of the cultural detritus of the turn of the millennium. Stone-faced slacker Abbie (the Buster Keaton-esque Joshua Burge), commanded by his sadistic older brother, Cam (David Dastmalchian), takes on the dopest, most ultimate challenge ever: to beat Billy Mitchell’s infamous Pac-Man high score – by going beyond level 256’s infamous glitch, of course – without ever getting off the couch. For any reason.

Preceded by the short film, END OF THE LINE A short film directed by Jessica Sanders (Oscar-nominated, Sundance and Cannes winner) based on acclaimed writer Aimee Bender’s surrealist short story about a lonely man who goes to the pet store and buys a tiny man in a cage. DIRECTED BY Jessica Sanders, USA, 14 mins.

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BECOMING ASTRID

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 1:45PM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT 7:45PM DIRECTED BY Pernille

TUCSON PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

SXSW; Fantasia

Fischer Christensen, 2018, Sweden/Denmark, in Swedish/ Danish with English subtitles, 123 mins., Not Rated This compelling biopic chronicles a character-defining period in the young life of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, who later achieved worldwide fame as the much-beloved author of the classic children’s book, Pippi Longstocking. In Becoming Astrid, the teenaged Lindgren leads a carefree life with her family in the forests and fields of rural Sweden. Restless and eager to break free from the confines of her conservative upbringing, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper, where she hopes to cultivate her burgeoning creativity. But seduced by her boss and bearing his child, Astrid must quickly learn to fend for herself as a young woman – and proves to be just as strong, determined and resilient as her greatest fictional heroine. In spite of her struggles, Astrid emerges with a newfound courage that will later form the foundation of a vast and internationally-acclaimed body of work.

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LFF 17

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ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 11:30AM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT 5:15PM DIRECTED BY Gabrielle

ARIZONA PREMIERE WINNER!

Best Documentary Feature, 2018 Tribeca Film Festival OTHER FESTIVALS:

Tribeca, Edinburgh, New Zealand

Brady, 2018, Australia, 94 mins., Not Rated Christmas Island’s famous migrating crabs, lost souls caught in limbo and political detainees intersect in lyrical, highly cinematic fashion in the awardwinning documentary, Island of the Hungry Ghosts. The tiny Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island has been a center for migrating populations for millennia – first, the distinctive Christmas Island red crabs; then, phosphate miners from Malaya in the 19th century; and most recently, people seeking asylum in Australia. It is here, at the nexus of the three, that first-time feature documentary filmmaker Gabrielle Brady locates her extraordinary film essay, an expansion of her acclaimed 2017 short, The Island.

Preceded by the short, SYMPHONY OF A SAD SEA Hugo, a Mexican child and victim of violence, flees his hometown with one single dream: crossing to the United States to meet his father and leave his past behind. DIRECTED BY Carlos Morales, 2017, Mexico, Spanish with English subtitles, 12 mins.

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HOUSE OF SWEAT AND TEARS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 10:15PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AT 3:00PM DIRECTED BY Sonia

ARIZONA PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Fantastic Fest

Escolano, 2018, Spain, in Spanish/French with English subtitles, 104 mins., Not Rated Director Sonia Escolano’s mesmerizing exploration of religion, faith, and belief marries the aesthetics of European art cinema with the language of horror films to deliver a story both unique and shocking in its diabolical take on extremism. Somewhere in an unnamed country, a mysterious and sinister woman known only as “She” leads a religious cult using violent methods of control, including painful punishments for her followers who stray from the path of righteousness. But when a mysterious man arrives claiming to be the messiah, the followers are offered another way of life beyond the path of pain.

Preceded by the short film, MERCURY Year 2098, cosmic radiations caused by Mercury’s presence hit the surface of Earth slowly killing everybody. Jess finds herself obligated to harvest fresh resilient blood to survive. DIRECTED BY Pierre Edelmann, 2018, France, 5 mins.

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DISTANT CONSTELLATION

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 11:45AM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 1:15PM DIRECTED BY Shevaun

ARIZONA PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

London; Vienna; Locarno

Mizrahi, 2017, Turkey/USA, in Turkish/English/French/ Armenia with English subtitles, 80 mins., Not Rated In front of director Shevaun Mizrahi’s immaculate, patient, meditative camera, there are stories of childhood pain, like the one the old Armenian lady tells in a whisper. She dozes off mid-sentence, and then comes back.

‘I drop like that,’ she says. A blind photographer fiddles with his flash as he points his own camera back at us. A pianist flirts with the filmmaker, and finally proposes to her, somewhat hesitant. Two men ride the elevator, up and down, talking about their families. Outside the retirement home, there’s a new building under construction, transforming the landscape that surrounds this oddly secluded space, and the young workers there talk about their future plans. In Distant Constellation, elderly denizens take refuge in their cherished memories, and move between resignation and hope, in an immaculately composed, poetic, and sometimes playful look at the aging process.

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LFF 18

ANIMATED SHORTS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 4:45PM

Don’t miss this eye-popping program of animated short films, offering up an entire universe of styles and techniques that will take you into the future of animation … and beyond!

BATTLE OF THE MILLENNIAL MIND

MEDIUM RARE

EYE BAGS

MY DEAD DAD’S PORNO TAPES

HEDGEHOG’S HOME

THE SHIVERING TRUTH

Jazzy uses a Fisher-Price tape recorder to interview millennials about America in 2017. This short film was animated using the Super Nintendo video game Mario Paint. DIRECTED BY Jazzy Boho, 2018, USA, 5 mins.

Through monologue, Talia describes her chronic insomnia. When she meets Ah Gum, a goldfish who lives in her eye bags, they develop an interesting relationship. DIRECTED BY Jun H, 2016, Hong Kong, 6 mins.

Analyzing human interaction with objects and their functional and aesthetic presence in recurrent, yet questionable domestic scenarios. DIRECTED BY Luca Cioci, 2018, Italy/USA, 5 mins.

A short documentary that follows director Charlie Tyrell as he tries to uncover a better understanding of his deceased father through the random objects he inherited, including a pile of VHS dirty movies.

DIRECTED BY Charlie Tyrell, 2018, USA, 14 mins.

A Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts. Together, they march off towards Hedgehog’s home and spark a tense and prickly standoff. DIRECTED BY Eva Cvijanovic, 2017, Canada/Croatia, 10 mins.

The Shivering Truth is a miniature propulsive omnibus clusterbomb of painfully riotous daymares all dripping with the orange goo of dream logic. DIRECTED BY Vernon Chatman, 2018, USA, 11 mins.

I LIKE GIRLS

In her trademark playful style, Quebec cartoonist and animator Diane Obomsawin, a.k.a. Obom, adapts her latest graphic novel for the screen, using endearing anthropomorphic figures to tell poignant real-life stories of love. DIRECTED BY Diane Obomsawin, 2016, Canada, French with English subtitles, 8 mins.

Thara is a trans woman and sex worker living in Honduras. In spite of prejudice and violence, she risks everything in order to be herself- even in the face of the monstrous dangers that stalk the night. DIRECTED

BY Paco Ramírez and Tanya O’Carroll, 2018, Mexico/ Honduras/United Kingdom, Spanish with English Subtitles, 14 mins.

INTIMITY

VIVA EL REY (LONG LIVE THE KING)

As she is showering, dressing, and putting on her makeup, a woman bares her soul. DIRECTED BY Elodie Dermange, 2017, Switzerland, 6 mins.

JEOM

THARA

Long Live The King is a stop motion short film, whose intention is to approach in a lyrical way the phenomenon of war and the different processes deployed on a chessboard. DIRECTED BY Luis Téllez Ibarra, 2017, Mexico, 9 mins.

A strange and wonderful story about a special connection between father and son. DIRECTED BY Kangmin Kim, 2018, South Korea/USA, Korean with English Subtitles, 4 mins.

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LFF 19

SHORTS SHOWCASE

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT NOON

Dive into this exciting collection of short films and discover a unique world of stories, voices and emotions that only shorts can offer!

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FILM SPONSOR, University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television

THE CLIMB

Kyle just got out of a relationship, so his best bud Mike takes him out for a bike ride. Exercising in the outdoors sounds like the perfect way to help him process the break-up…that is until Mike gets something off his chest that jeopardizes the healing purpose of the afternoon, and even their friendship.

DIRECTED BY Michael Angelo Covino, 2018, USA, 8 mins.

FOR NONNA ANNA

In this raw and graceful testimony of intersectional womanhood, a trans girl has to care for her Italian grandmother. She assumes that her Nonna disapproves of her - but instead discovers a tender bond in their shared vulnerability. DIRECTED BY Luis De Filippis, 2018, Canada, in English and Italian with subtitles, 13 mins.

HAIR WOLF

A gentrification horror comedy set in a black hair salon, where the salon staff fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture. DIRECTED BY Mariama Diallo, 2018, USA, 12 mins.

NUUCA

The oil boom in North Dakota has brought tens of thousands of new people to the region, and with that has come an influx of drugs, crime, and sex trafficking.

DIRECTED BY Michelle Latimer, 2017, USA/Canada, 13 mins.

SECOND ASSAULT

When Jillian was 18 years old, she was raped in her college dorm room. Twelve years later Second Assault follows her on the journey to confront this incident and in particular, her anger toward the police officer who deemed the assault consensual. This film explores the trauma of reporting sexual violence, and the “second assault” that survivors often experience when they are not believed. DIRECTED BY illian Corsie & Amy Rosner, 2018, USA, 19 mins.

SMOKE THROUGH A SPIDER’S WEB

The film is set in the remote village of Nepal, where the society is still segregated by the system of caste and beliefs. Sabitri, who’s from a lower caste, is a trained stove maker and she along with her husband travels around her village to make a stove. But people, afraid of getting their kitchen impure by the entry of such lower class people, rejects Sabitri to build a stove inside their home. DIRECTED BY Niranjan Raj Bhetwal, 2018, Nepal, Nepali with English subtitles, 15 mins.

SNOOZE

Michael’s dad thinks he’s a screw up, his gym teacher thinks he’s lazy, and everyone else thinks he’s just a little off. Through his dreams, Michael must determine his own value. DIRECTED BY Carolyn McKee, 2018, USA, 10 mins.

TWO MEDUSAS

A funny and bittersweet coming of age story set around the drama that happens when two girls have the same Halloween costume for their elementary school Halloween contest: they both are going to be Medusa. DIRECTED BY Scott Hamilton Kennedy, 2018, USA, 12 mins.

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LFF 20

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PROTOTYPE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 3:45PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AT 5:45PM DIRECTED BY Blake

ARIZONA PREMIERE OTHER FESTIVALS:

Toronto; Queensland, Istanbul

Williams, 2017, Canada, 63 mins., Not Rated As the deadliest natural disaster in US history strikes Galveston, Texas in 1900, taking an estimated 6,000 to 12,000 lives, a mysterious televisual device projects images of unknown origin. Blake Williams’ experimental 3D film immerses us in the storm’s aftermath, at every minute represented by remarkable and mysterious sights of one world nearing destruction as another emerges. A haunting, gorgeously photographed consideration of technology, cinema, and the medium’s future, driven by striking stereoscopic images, Prototype is equal parts dense and fleet – an unprecedented, immersive journey into an abstract sci-fi landscape with no clear ancestor or likely successor.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 1:45PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 11:00AM

DIRECTED BY RaMell Ross, 2018, USA, 86 mins., Not Rated Filmmaker RaMell Ross’s intimate and impressionistic documentary, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, is a humanist exploration of the community of Hale County, Alabama, where mostly black, working-class families live, work, dream, celebrate and struggle together. It’s a region made unforgettable by Walker Evans and James Agee’s landmark 1941 photographic essay, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, which documented the impoverished lives of white sharecropper families in Alabama’s Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. Ross’s poetic return to this place shows changed demographics, and depicts people resilient in the face of adversity and invisibility. Assembling a collection of seemingly innocuous occurrences, the film captures fleeting moments, interactions and experiences that make up a life, and Ross’s skill as a photographer is evident in the stunning visual poetry of the images.

ARIZONA PREMIERE IN COMPETITION:

CICAE award

OTHER FESTIVALS:

Sundance; Full Frame

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CHAINED FOR LIFE

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 5:15PM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 AT 11:30AM DIRECTED BY Aaron

ARIZONA PREMIERE IN COMPETITION:

CICAE award

OTHER FESTIVALS:

Fantastic Fest; BAMcinemaFest

Schimberg, 2018, USA, 91 mins., Not Rated In this startlingly original and deeply felt creation, Jess Wexler (Teeth) plays Mabel, a beautiful movie star “slumming it” in an outré art-horror film inspired by Tod Browning’s Freaks and being shot in a semi-abandoned hospital by an eccentric, Herzog-ian filmmaker (Charlie Korsmo, Hook).

Cast opposite her is Rosenthal (Adam Pearson, Under the Skin, who himself has neurofibromatosis), a gentle-natured young man with a severe facial deformity. Both actors have been hired for the way they look. As their relationship evolves both on and offscreen, Mabel and Rosenthal challenge each other to grow as individuals, while writer/director Aaraon Schimberg raises provocative questions about cinematic notions of beauty, representation and exploitation.

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LFF 21

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BLUE MY MIND

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 10:15PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AT 12:30PM DIRECTED BY Lisa

Brühlmann, 2017, Switzerland, in Swiss German with English subtitles, 97 mins., Not Rated Drawing from the classic sexual awakening of Brian De Palma’s Carrie and the angst of femme-centric monster movies like Ginger Snaps, writer/ director Lisa Brühlmann’s debut feature follows Mia, the new kid in high school, alienated from her classmates and at odds with her frustrated parents. Eventually her tough attitude wins favor with a trio of neighborhood “Heathers” as she explores with wild abandon the usual youth cocktail of sex, drugs and crime.

ARIZONA PREMIERE IN COMPETITION:

CICAE award

OTHER FESTIVALS:

Fantastic Fest; Seattle; Zurich

Preceded by the short film, WITH ME A young woman running from her past finds more than she bargained for in an abandoned junk yard. DIRECTED BY Azadeh Ghochagh, 2017, Iran, 5 mins.

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KILLING JESUS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT NOON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 AT 3:00PM DIRECTED BY Laura

ARIZONA PREMIERE IN COMPETITION:

CICAE award

OTHER FESTIVALS:

Toronto; San Sebastian; Seattle

Mora Ortega, 2017, Colombia, in Spanish with English subtitles, 95 mins., Not Rated In this youthful revenge saga based on true events, an idealistic Colombian student witnesses her father’s murder and is aghast at the ineptitude and apathy of the local police force. Time to take matters into her own hands.

Inspired by her social activist father Jose Maria (Camilo Escobar), tomboyish university student Paula (Natasha Jaramillo) balances her days between studying photography and organizing against Colombia’s deeply corrupt legal establishment. But when she witnesses Jose Maria’s assassination in broad daylight, Paula is thrown into a state of shock, fear, and the nightmare of dealing with an inept and uncaring police force. Lost in a daze of sadness and rage, she unexpectedly catches a glimpse of her father’s killer, brooding young thug Jesus (Giovanny Rodriguez), in a nearby club, setting the young student on a path of revenge, of exacting any form of justice she can.

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RAFIKI

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 12:30PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 3:00PM DIRECTED BY Wanuri

TUCSON PREMIERE IN COMPETITION:

CICAE award

OTHER FESTIVALS:

Cannes; Chicago

Kahiu, 2018, Kenya/South Africa, in English/Swahili with English subtitles, 83 mins., Not Rated “Fun, fierce and frivolous African art.” This is how director Wanuri Kahiu defines AFROBUBBLEGUM, her vision for the future of filmmaking on the African continent. Her latest feature, Rafiki, embodies this vision perfectly.

A love story between two young women (played by newcomers Samantha Mugatsia and Sheila Munyiva) in a society that still bans homosexuality, Rafiki is saturated with joy, heartbreak, and a richly effervescent cinematography that showcases Kahiu’s native Nairobi in all its vibrancy. When Kena and Ziki first lock eyes, it’s genuinely love at first sight, despite the fact their families are political rivals. The young women grow close, but as they are not able to show their attraction in public — or even to their relatives and friends — they are forced to sneak small moments in private.

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LFF 22

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BUY ME A GUN

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Finding Pho in Tucson

by Gregory McNamee EVERYTHING MAKES broth in the soup, goes an Italian adage. That’s true of minestrone, that classic soup of leftovers. It’s also true of pho, the Vietnamese soup that, by some accounts, borrows both its name and some of its classical ingredients from the French pot au feu, among them beef and onions. Other accounts, it should be said, discount any French influence, even though France colonized Vietnam for a century, and instead point to Yunnan, a neighboring Chinese province where noodle soups are popular.

A classic pho begins with a bone broth, usually beef, made by simmering meat, onions, beef bones, oxtails, and the like for at least six hours; one Vietnamese cookbook recommends that the broth be cooked a dozen times that long, with the addition of diced onions and ginger, along with a mix of toasted star anise, coriander, pepper, and cinnamon, all of which lend subtlety but also complement the beef.

To this base is added a goodly portion of rice noodles cooked separately al dente. After that the ingredients can be pretty various. The canonical version includes sliced rare beef that, like a Mongolian hot pot (yet another source for the origin of pho, some culinary historians hold), cooks in the broth; brisket is also common. If you like organ meats, then a classic entry is for you, one featuring both kinds of beef along with tripe and tendons. Beware that these organ meats often figure in the meatballs that appear on many pho menus.

Chicken, shrimp, and fish are also common. If you’re willing to overlook the origins of that gelatinous broth, it’s possible to make a pho of only vegetables, though a typical pho will already include a side of bean sprouts and sometimes sliced carrots or pickled onions, along with cilantro, sliced chiles, sliced limes,

fish sauce, Sriracha, hoisin sauce, and Thai basil. Be warned that it’s a faux pas—or, beg pardon, a pho pas—to bring soy sauce into the equation, so don’t ask for it. If you’re making it at home, you can of course put in anything you care to, like little tiny ears of corn or green beans, though I’ve found that sticking to the culturally authentic basics yields the best results.

On that culturally authentic front, though we Tucsonans turn to menudo to handle the job, there are plenty of people out there who swear by pho as a remedy for a hangover. Whether you’ve done yourself damage the night before or not, there’s nothing at all wrong with having a bowl of pho for breakfast, especially on a cold morning—and pho is commonly eaten for breakfast in its country of origin.

Pho was long associated with Hanoi, the northern capital of Vietnam, and on some menus you can still find it translated as “Hanoi soup.” It has become a staple of Vietnamese cuisine generally, however, and in recent years it has taken a place on the menu of just about every Vietnamese restaurant in this country. Tucson has about a dozen such restaurants, by my count. My favorite so far is Com Tam Thuan Kieu, one of several Asian restaurants next to Lee Lee, the vast and endlessly alluring Asian grocery store up on the corner of Orange Grove Road and La Cholla Boulevard. Every time I’ve been there, at all hours of the day, it’s been packed, so the word is definitely out. Somewhat less busy, but still doing a thriving trade the last couple of times I’ve checked in, is Phó Can Tho, near the corner of Campbell and Glenn at the site of the former Pho 88, whose owner retired earlier this year. Go somewhere and grab a bowl—it’s just the thing to warm heart, soul, and bones. n November 2018 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 49

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by Hilary Stunda

ometimes the most beautiful works of art are simply under our nose or in the case of The Pioneer Building, over our heads.

It took a business deal and some strategic demolition to discover the ornate ceiling in the original Pioneer Hotel Dining Room from 1929.

If those walls could talk, they would speak of the celebrities and politicians; the entertainers who were guests at what was then the hotel of the west. Louis Armstrong, Ty Cobb, Eleanor Roosevelt, Cary Grant and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas were some of the notable guests who put Tucson on their map.

The historic dining room was 2-stories high, with chandeliers, 256 4 by 4 foot square tiles centered by an agave plant design and buffered by delicate finials. It was the site for ongoing cotillons, University of Arizona luncheons, parties, and late night revelries.

Tragically, a conflagration swept through the building in 1970 and ended that golden era.

Over the next twenty years, the building saw various corporate incarnations.

Yet, the ceiling of the dining room was still there, albeit hidden to the corporate workers who sat at their desks beneath the ubiquitous corporate acoustic ceiling tiles unaware of the historic gem above.

“Anyone who had the opportunity of getting above the modern acoustic ceiling grid with a flashlight to look at the beautiful old damaged tiles twentytwo feet above the floor must have dreamt of restoring the space,” said Perry Whitthorne, asset manager of Holualoa Companies, current owner of the Pioneer Building.

But nobody did until the summer of 2016.

With the last tenant now out of the space, the opportunity had arrived.

“You have this cool historic space to use for events and en suite access to 11,000 additional square feet,” said Whitthorne.

Excited by the prospect of restoring the historic ceiling, Whitthorne and architect Bill Williams of Engberg-Anderson began brainstorming ways to restore the ceiling and combine the historic 2,500 square foot space with the 52 ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com | November 2018

11,000 square feet of vacant space on the second floor.

But the million dollar question was, how?

“Any plan to bring this space back to its former grandeur would need to be done in a way that was financially responsible,’ said Whitthorne.

The key selling point was pitching the combined spaces to a tenant whose lease could support the historic renovation of the dining room.

In January of 2017, synchronicity intervened. Fletcher McCusker, Chair of the Rio Nuevo Board and CEO of UAVenture Capital, met with Mike Kasser, CEO of Holualoa. Holualoa Companies has a long history of supporting the Tucson arts community. At the time, McCusker was involved with Sinfonia, the parent company of the healthcare company, SinfoniaRX that was looking to move from their offices on Toole Avenue.

“For a community like Greater Tucson to be successful, its core must be successful,” said Kasser. “New businesses, restored architecture, theater and art – are all necessary elements to its creation and sustenance.”

“Within days of touring the building we not only had a tenant, but a true partner that desired to see the space restored as much as we did,” said Whitthorne. In addition to agreeing to a long-term lease, they offered to participate in the restoration costs.”

“I spent several days digging through local archives and doing internet searches on buildings constructed during the same time frame,” says architect Williams. “I was hoping to compare photos to drawings for accuracy, but I only found one photograph from the historical society. Luckily, we found the wall buried beneath newer layers. It still had the original colors and stencil patterns, which made it easy for us” he said.

“I was excited to bring the ceiling back to its historic splendor,” said Joe Pagac, the Tucson-based artist and muralist known for the wildly imaginative and colorful murals you see throughout downtown.

Pagac is no ingenue when it comes to art restoration, having worked on a number of sarcophagi and ancient Egyptian relics for the Egyptian exhibit in Tucson eight years ago at the former Rialto Exhibition Center.

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Progression of the old Pioneer Hotel Dining Room restoration, from generic office space (opposite page) to finished product.

With Joe and his wife Arielle as the artists and Williams as architect, the suspended fluorescent fixtures — to reveal early twentieth century materials, team was complete. like the plaster ceiling tiles, remnants of old finials, arches and pilasters we Pagac was strategizing how he would paint each of the 256 tiles, along hoped were still there, and the original paint, right there on the wall,” said with the stencil imagery of an agave plant, the finishing touches of hundreds Whitthorne. of decorative finials, as well as the dining room walls. There were twelve colors SinfoniaRX employees can access their offices from the dining room, which on the ceiling; ten within each tile; two for each finial; four colors on the walls. serves as a reception area and boardroom. The small iron staircase leads to a The ceiling was rough, with many holes. Many of the tiles had to be mezzanine and balcony area where two vitrines display historic pharmaceutical completely replaced and the rest had to be partially rebuilt by plaster specialists glass jars and ephemera. before Pagac could work on painting them to match the original.

“Recreating the bowed edges on the mezzanine and balcony allowed us to “By removing one of the tiles we could get the color samples and make use some carbon fiber reinforcing,” said Williams. “It was fun to mix in newer stencils for re-creating the final work on the ceiling,” technologies.” he said.

“The iron balcony railings are derivatives of the Before painting the agave stencils, they had to original, based off the photo, but adapted to meet jury-rig a system. It involved taping up a spray shield current building codes. Same with the chandelier. I was for each square and then having either Pagac or his hoping to find a similar chandelier in historic photos wife hold the stencil at the end of a handcrafted pole of other buildings, but no luck. I had to interpret the while the other one sprayed around it. general shape and scale of the new chandelier from “We matched the colors through mixing our own,” the photo. It’s a simplified version of the original.” he said. “Once we had matches we had them color With a swipe of a key card, employees enter a matched in the proper sheen to recreate the original door to the side of the mezzanine that accesses the as closely as possible.”

11,000 sq. foot industrial office space. SinfoniaRx now For the finials, Pagac was able to get part of one occupies about 17,500 square feet in the Pioneer. finial from the ceiling along with architectural drawings The Pioneer Hotel Dining Room circa 1930s.

It was luck that the fire of 1970 began a few floors of what the original looked like. above the ceiling. With the latest restoration, the “We spent around four hours hand sculpting a re-creation out of Sculpey, ceiling of The Dining Room at 100 N. Stone can now be added to the list of an oil-based clay,” he said. “Then it was sent out to a 3D printer who created Tucson’s historic and cultural touchstones, along with The Rialto Theatre, The the rest of the finials in Styrofoam which we then hand painted. Around 200 Fox Theatre, the Madden Media Building as well as such decorative must-sees copies were made to go in the intersection of each square.” as the old mirrors in the Wells Fargo building, just north of the Pioneer Building Today, the dining room is back in all it’s 22-foot high ceiling glory. and the beautiful ceiling inside the Chase building just south of it.

Discovering the ceiling of the original dining room of the Pioneer Hotel “Restoration of historic architecture, art and artifacts help us to better know might not be en par with discovering a Caravaggio or a Cezanne. But what is who we are by providing insights into who we were,” said Whitthorne. “In a thrilling is having a glimpse into the past. world in which touch is increasingly limited to a swipe or a click, they provide “It was exciting, right from the early demolition stages when we were true touchstones – texture and structure – to ground us and help us to find our removing late twentieth century materials — drywall, acoustic ceiling grids, way and ourselves.” n November 2018 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 53

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Mysterious Transformations Alchemy and Art at MOCA

by Gregory McNamee TAKE A PIECE of lead, work it with ingenious craft, and in time you will find gold in your hand. So the alchemists of old promised, and while gold may be an elusive thing always, the process of transformation continues to fascinate as, in the right hands, a note becomes a symphony, a thread a tapestry, a brick a house.

The possibilities of such transformations underlie the show that is now on exhibit at Tucson’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Curated by MOCA director Ginger Shulick Porcella and funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, “Blessed Be: Mysticism, Spirituality, and the Occult in Contemporary Art” considers artistic production in the light of ritual practice, which itself is a kind of performance, and other aspects of the occult as seen in the work of eighteen artists, including Cassils, Ron Athey, Adam Cooper-Terán, and Baseera Khan.

For instance, Reunion, a large painting by Los Angeles artist Alison Blickle, depicts a group of six women, three of whom gaze at a ceramic vessel in the center of the composition. Is it an urn? A chalice? We view the six as if through stained glass, though perhaps they are themselves made of that glass, performing a fragile dance even as one of the women looks out of the frame into the world beyond. The painting suggests a mystery of the classical kind, a ritual of things seen, heard, and touched.

Other pieces in the show invite the audience to see and hear—and even touch, in a few instances. Harry Smith may be best known for his Anthology of American Folk Music, which did much to launch the folk music explosion of the early 1960s, but he was fascinated by magic and the occult; it makes

perfect sense that on his twelfth birthday his father gave him a smithy and set him to the challenge of turning, yes, lead into gold. Whether he succeeded we do not know, but he did turn his precocious attention to other elements of ritual, including performances by Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest and music whose roots extend deep into the past. Smith’s film work, highlighted in the show, provides a kind of baseline. On a decidedly more high-tech note, Albuquerque native Leo Villareal’s 2017 installation Signature of the Invisible comprises an infinitely various light show, a light sculpture of a kind that calls to mind the more hallucinatory moments of Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and that remind us of the observation by its author, Arthur C. Clarke, that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” That’s just so, and Ginger Shulick Porcella notes that visitors often remain in front of Villareal’s constantly changing display for half an hour or more, transfixed.

“Our exhibits are only part of our programming,” she adds. “Along with them are lectures, films, slide shows, performances, demonstrations, and all kinds of things that activate the exhibit space.” To accompany “Blessed Be,” among other events, “art witch” Amanda Yates Garcia will conduct a hybrid workshop, lecture, and ceremony called “Allies and Initiations” on November 6, while on November 15, when admission to the museum is free, visitors can learn to make oracle cards and meditate, using Blickle’s painting as a guide.

“Blessed Be” runs until the end of the year. For more information on hours and admission fees, visit the MOCA website at www.moca-tucson.org. n November 2018 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 55

Z art galleries & exhibits ARIZONA HISTORY MUSEUM Facing Work is on view through February 16, 2019. John Slaughter’s Changing West: Tombstone, Bullets, and Longhorns is on view to August 2019. Permanent Exhibits include: History Lab, Mining Hall, and Treasures of the Arizona History Museum. Hours: Mon & Fri 9am-6pm; Tues-Thurs 9am-4pm; Sat & Sun 11am-4pm. 949 E. 2nd Street. 520-628-5774. ArizonaHistoricalSociety.org

ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM One World, Many Voices is open through March 2019. Long term exhibitions include, The Resiliency of Hopi Agriculture: 2000 Years of Planting; Life Along the River: Ancestral Hopi at Homol’ovi; Hopi Katsina Dolls; Woven Through Time; The Pottery Project; Paths of Life. Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. 520-6216302. 1013 E. University Blvd. StateMuseum.Arizona.Edu

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CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Ways to Go: Photography of the American Road is on view to November 24. The Heritage Gallery is on view to January 12. Hours: Tue-Fri 9am-4pm; Sat 1-4pm. 1030 N. Olive Rd. 520-621-7968.

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CONRAD WILDE GALLERY Statement: “We are closing our doors. Thank you for 13 tremendous years of exhibitions celebrating abstraction and innovation. Final exhibition runs November 3 to December 1 and it will be the last chance to collect your favorite artists’ work at special incentive pricing.” Hours: Tues-Sat 11am-4pm. Open first Saturday, November 3 & December 1 from 6pm to 9pm. 101 W. 6th St #121. 520-7848617. ConradWildeGallery.com

CONTRERAS GALLERY Harvest opens November 3 with a reception from 6pm to 9pm and is on view to November 24. Hours: Tues-Sat 10am-3:30pm. 110 E. 6th St. 520-398-6557. ContrerasHouseFineArt.com

DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY Alternate View, works by Alfred Quiroz in the Main Gallery and New Prints by Katherine Polk in the alcove opens November 17 with a reception from 6pm to 8pm and is on view to December 29. Lay of the Land closes November 3. Hours: Tues-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat 11am-4pm. 154 E. 6th St. 520-629-9759.

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DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN

DeGrazia’s Chickens are on display through January 30, 2019. Hours: Daily 10am-4pm. 6300 N. Swan Rd. 520-299-9191.

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DESERT ARTISANS GALLERY Mini Masterpieces: An 8x8 Fine Art Show and Color Reflection open November 6 with a reception from 5pm to 7pm. Over the Moon and In My Dreams Miniatures continue through November 4. Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 10am-1:30pm. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Rd. 520-722-4412. DesertArtisansGallery.com

ETHERTON GALLERY Danny Lyon: Photographs of The American Southwest and Mexico opens November 13 with a reception on November 17 from 7pm to 10pm and is on view through January 5. On November 16 at 6pm, the film Wanderer will be screened at the Center for Creative photography, followed by “Danny Lyon in Conversation with Chief Curator, Rebecca Senf”. The Unguarded Moment: Steve McCurry, Takeshi Ishikawa is on view through November 10. Hours: Tues-Sat 11am-5pm or by appointment. 135 S. 6th Ave. 520-624-7370. EthertonGallery.com

IRONWOOD GALLERY Artists for Conservation 2018 Annual Exhibit is on view to November 25. H2Oh! Juried Exhibition from the Studio Art Quilt Association opens December 1 and is on view through February 10. Hours: Daily 10am-4pm. 2021 N. Kinney Rd. 520-883-3024. DesertMuseum.org

JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY

Legacy: 40th Anniversary of the Joseph Gross Gallery is on view through November 15. A tribute to Joe Gross and a reception in his honor is November 15 from 4pm to 6pm. Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-4pm. 1031 N. Olive Rd. 520-626-4215. CFA.arizona.edu/galleries

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Sustained Visions is on view to December 7, with a reception and gallery talk November 1 from 5pm to 7pm.

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Power: A Closer Look at Queens Throughout History is on view to January 13 and Connie Sauve: Miniatures from the IGMA Guild School is on view to December 16. Jean LeRoy’s Buzzard Creek Ghost T ends November 4. Hours: Tues-Sat 9am-4pm and Sun 12-4pm. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Dr. 520-8810606. TheMiniTimeMachine.org

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Blessed Be: Mysticism, Spirituality, and the Occult in Contemporary Art is on view through December 30.

Hours: Weds-Sun 12-5pm. 265 S. Church Ave. 520-6245019. MOCA-Tucson.org

PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY & STUDIO Alchemy, an up-close look at Philabaum’s extraordinary fused glass paintings is on view through January 26. Hours: Tues-Sat 11am-4pm. Call for glassblowing viewing. 711 S. 6th Ave. 520-884-7404.

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PORTER HALL GALLERY Year of the Tree is on view to January 13. Hours: Daily 8:30am-4:30pm. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 520-326-9686. TucsonBotanical.org

RAIN CROW ART COLLECTIVE Open House and Christmas Preview is November 30 from 5pm to 8pm.

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SOUTHERN ARIZONA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM Dinner in the Diner is currently on display featuring original china and silver service from the named first class Pullman trains. 414 N. Toole Ave. 520-6232223. TucsonHistoricDepot.org

SOUTHERN ARIZONA WATERCOLOR GUILD Color My World is on view November 6 to December 2, with a reception November 15 from 5pm to 7pm. Holiday Show opens December 4 with a reception December 6 from 5pm to 7pm and is on view to January 6. Hours: Tues-Sun 11am-4pm. Williams Centre 5420 East Broadway Blvd #240. 520-299-7294.

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Copper State opens November 16 with a Reception with the Artists on November 16 from 5:30pm to 8pm and is on view in the Main Gallery through February 6. Sonoran Stories continues through November 7. If it Doesn’t Have a Hole, It’s a Bowl | Art Planters for Plant People is on view through November 7 in the Welcome Gallery. 10x10 | A Fundraiser is on view to December 16. Hours: Daily 9am-5pm. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 520-742-6455.

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TUCSON DESERT ART MUSEUM

Joseph Labate – The Sawmill Fire is on view to December 9.

Ongoing exhibitions include: Desert Hollywood, The Dawn of American Landscape, Arizona Women Uncovered and True Grit. Hours: Weds-Sun 10am-4pm. 7000 E Tanque Verde Rd. 520-202-3888. TucsonDArt.Org

TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART 30 Americans is on view through January 13. Ongoing exhibits include Selections from the Kasser Mochary Art Foundation; Asian

Art; Native American Culture and Arts; European Art; PreColumbian and Spanish Colonial Art, Art of the American West; Art of the American Southwest; J. Knox Corbett House, and the La Casa Cordova. Hours: Tues-Wed & Fri-Sat 10am-5pm; Thurs 10am-8pm; Sun 12-5pm. 140 N. Main Ave. 520-624-2333. TucsonMuseumofArt.org

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Join the Museum November 8 from 5pm to 7:30pm for the Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception. Current exhibitions include: What is the Color, When Black is Burned? on view to March 24; Picture the World: Burhan Dogancay As Photographer on view to December 9. Ongoing exhibitions include, The Altarpiece From Ciudad Rodrigo and Renaissance Prints from the Permanent Collection: A Selection. Hours: TuesFri 9am-5pm; Sat-Sun 12-4pm. 1031 N. Olive Rd. 520621-7567. ArtMuseum.Arizona.Edu

UA POETRY CENTER Puerto Rico in My Heart | Puerto Rico en Mi Corazon is on view to November 21.

Hours: Mon & Thurs 9am-8pm; Tues, Weds, Fri 9am5pm. 1508 E. Helen St. 520-626-3765. Poetry.Arizona.

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No Boundaries opens November 1, with a reception November 16 from 5pm to 7pm and closes November 30. Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-5:30pm; Thurs 10am-7pm; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12-5pm. 2890 E. Skyline Dr. Ste. 170. 520-615-5222, WildeMeyer.com

WOMANKRAFT ART GALLERY

Holiday Bazaar is on view November 3 to December 22 with a reception November 3 and December 1 from 7pm to 9pm. Hours: Weds-Sat 1-5pm. 388 S. Stone Ave. 520629-9976. WomanKraft.org n

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22 IN THE DIAMOND CENTER Doors at 5pm | Show at 6pm

JEFF FOXWORTHY FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 IN THE DIAMOND CENTER Doors at 7pm | Show at 8pm

RON WHITE FRIDAY, APRIL 5 IN THE DIAMOND CENTER Doors at 7pm | Show at 8pm 18+ Show

IT’S HAPPENING AT THE DIAMOND CENTER SAHUARITA. The Diamond Center at Desert Diamond Casino Sahuarita has an exciting lineup waiting for you. The Diamond Center is the best entertainment venue to see a show because every seat is a winner like you! Plus, come early for dinner at the Agave and then stay after the show for our cool promotion.

There is always something going on. For more information visit www.ddcaz.com SAHUARITA | 1100 W. PIMA MINE RD.

SAHUARITA Sahuarita Must be 21 to enter bars and gaming areas. Please play responsibly. An Enterprise of the Tohono O’odham Nation.

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november FRI 2 CALL HER GANDA SCREENING

Free screening of new documentary, Call Her Ganda (2018) with director, PJ Raval in person. 6-8:30pm. Free admission. Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Rd. HansonFilm.org

FRI 2 - SUN 4 NIGHT OF THE LIVING FEST The perfect pre party to kick off All Souls weekend, featuring MarchFourth, the Mission Creeps, Aztral Folk and more. Tickets: $15.

Proceeds support All Souls Procession. Locations: Cans Deli and MSA Annex. See website for performance times.

NightoftheLivingFest.com

TUCSON COMIC CON

Explore a pop culture filled weekend with celebrity guests, a costume contest, authors, shopping, autographs and more with Patty Hawkins as the official emcee and panel moderator.

Tickets: $5 - $45. Kids 8 and under are free. Main exhibit hall hours: Friday 3-8pm; Saturday 10am-7pm; Sunday 10am-5pm. Tucson Convention Center, 260 S. Church Ave. 1-800-745-3000. TucsonComic-Con.com

TUBAC FALL ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL Local artisans offering handmade goods just in time for holiday shopping. Free entry, $8 parking benefits local non-profits. Festival hours: 10am - 5pm. Tubac Village off of I-19. TubacAZ.com

SAT 3 TUCSON FIREFIGHTERS CHILI COOKOFF Firefighters from all over Southern Arizona come together to serve up their best chili recipes with proceeds benefiting the Adopt-A-Family program; assisting families and children with clothing, food, basic needs, and toys, throughout the holiday season. 10am – 10pm. Reid Park Bandshell, 998 S. Concert Place. TucsonFirefighters.org

PROCESSION OF LITTLE ANGELS Children and families gather to honor and celebrate loved ones.

Art making activities such as paper flower making and wing painting, face painting, sugar skull decorating, story telling and theater. Stories that Soar! and Tucson Circus Arts students team up to perform local children’s stories about death and grief followed by a procession around the park as the sun sets. Armory Park, 222 S. 5th Ave. AllSoulsProcession.org

SUN 4 ALL SOULS PROCESSION & FINALE CEREMONY Thousands will gather to remember deceased loved ones and be a part of this beloved community event with a procession along the Santa Cruz River and finale at the MSA Annex with musical guests XIXA. Gathering begins at 4pm, Procession at 6pm, Finale from approximately 8:30pm to 10 pm. Volunteers gather to clean up the finale site Monday at 10am. See website for locations and more information. AllSoulsProcession.org

WEDS 7 - SAT 10 TUCSON COMEDY ARTS FESTIVAL Improv, standup and sketch comedy performances, workshops and classes throughout the festival with special headliner, Maria Bamford. Tickets: $5-$52. See website for performance schedule. Rialto Theatre, 318 E Congress St. 520-314-7299. TucsonImprov.com

THURS 8 FALL EXHIBITIONS OPENING RECEPTION Join the UAMA in celebrating the opening of three unique and impressive exhibitions. 5pm reception opens, 5:30pm Pia Cuneo UA Professor of Art History introduction, 6pm Grace Liatti curator talk, 6:30 pm Frohawk Two Feathers artist talk. University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1031 North Olive Rd. 520-621-7567. ArtMuseum.Arizona.edu

THURS 8 - THURS 15 LOFT FILM FEST

Hand selected favorites from Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, and other top film festivals.

Opening with a screening of Alfonso Cuaron’s, Roma.

Tickets: $8-$10; $125-$150 festival passes. See website for showtimes and more information. Loft Cinema, 3233 E Speedway Blvd. 520-795-0844. LoftCinema.org

SAT 10 2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN

A free, family friendly urban block party! Winter Hours: 2pm to 9pm. Performances, vendors, food trucks, and more. Free family friendly movie at the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum. Downtown Tucson.

2ndSaturdaysDowntown.com

SAT 10 – SUN 11 DUSK MUSIC FESTIVAL

The festival returns with a new location at Armory Park in downtown Tucson!

Bringing nationally recognized acts to town such as Cold War Kids, Phantogram and Dillon Francis. Tickets: $49 $449. Armory Park, 19 South 5th Ave. DuskMusicFestival.com

SAT 10 - SUN 18 INTERNATIONAL

GUITAR

FESTIVAL

The Tucson Guitar Society brings some of the world’s best guitarists to town for the 10th annual festival. With audience favorites like Duo Assad and David Russell to Otto Tolonen and Tengyue Zhang. Tickets: $10-$30.

Holsclaw Hall and Crowder Hall, University of Arizona.

520-342-0022. TucsonGuitarSociety.org

SUN 11 GABA FALL BIKE SWAP MEET As the largest bicycle swap in the Southwest expect to see all kinds of bicycle gear offered by over 40 vendors. 400 N 5th Ave. 7am to 1pm. Facebook.com/GabaBikeSwap

IN THE NIGHT GARDEN PARTY

A 25th Anniversary celebration for local publishing press, Kore Press. Dinner, art auction, and special live sound art, poetry readings, and music performances from 4-8pm.

Tickets: $25-$100. The Franklin House, 402 N. Main Ave. KorePress.org

VEGOUT! TUSCON For both the seasoned vegan and those looking to discover the accessibility of a vegan lifestyle. With clothing, beauty products, jewelry, food vendors and drinks, live entertainment and guest speakers. Tickets: $15-$30, kids 12 and under are free.

10am to 5pm. Whistle Stop Depot, 127 W. 5th Street.

VegOutEvents.com

MON 12 NATIONAL PARKS FREE DAY

Enjoy free admission to all national parks on Veterans Day! NPS.gov

VETERANS DAY PARADE & CEREMONY The annual downtown parade honors current members of our military and veterans with a Celebration of Armistice Day theme. Parade begins at 11am at the corner of Alameda St. and Granada Ave. TucsonVeteransDayParade.org

FRI 16 - SUN 18 HOLIDAY ARTISANS MARKET Locally made artisanal crafts and original artwork to meet your holiday shopping needs, along with an opportunity to see the latest exhibits at the museum. New this year, the museum has partnered with La Cocina to expand the market with more vendors and live entertainment. Special community party Friday night from 5pm-7pm featuring Amor Deluxe.

10am - 7pm Friday & Saturday; 10am – 5pm Sunday.

Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Ave. 520-624-2333.

TucsonMuseumofArt.org

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EL TOUR DE TUCSON

MONDAYS

Arizona’s largest and longest running bicycling event for cyclists of all ages and abilities with event distances of 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles to choose from along with a Fun Ride. Join in as a cyclist or spectator then attend the Downtown Fiesta with live music, a beer garden, food vendors, merchandise, kids activities, the Grand Cycling Awards Ceremony and more. Armory Park, 221 S. 6th Ave. 520-745-2033.

Perimeterbicycling.com

THANKSGIVING CROSS-COUNTY CLASSIC Work up an appetite with a European style 5K

FAMILY FESTIVAL Fun activities, games, displays,

MOCASHOP HOLIDAY MARKET

and entertainment for the whole family. Free admission.

Also enjoy $1 admission to Reid Park Zoo and free swimming at the Edith Ball Adaptive Recreation Center.

Reid Park. 10am to 2pm. 520-791-4873. TucsonAZ.gov

SUN 18

around Reid Park. Separate men’s and women’s events and fun opportunities to cheer on friends and family as they hurdle hay bales and water jumps. 5k women’s event begins at 8am, 8:45am 5k men’s event, 9:30am co-ed fun run/walk. 520-326-9383. AZRoadRunners.org

SUN 25

Featuring youth groups and individuals performing jazz and blues from schools in the area, with workshops in the afternoon. 5-8pm with an all ages jam session to follow.

Free. Monterey Court, 505 West Miracle Mile. 520-2072429. MontereyCourtAZ.com

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. Maynards Market, 400 E. Toole. 520-991-0733.

MeetMeAtMaynards.com

THURSDAYS THIRD THURSDAYS

Celebrate Museum Store Sunday with an outdoor holiday market featuring local markers, designers, and MOCAShop vendors, along with food trucks and free admission to the museum! 12pm to 5pm. Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, 265 South Church Ave. 520-624-5019. MOCATucson.org

YOUTH BLUES, JAZZ & POP SHOWCASE

MEET ME AT MAYNARDS

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

• ONGOING •

at Cesar Chavez Park. 10am to 2pm. 756 S. Stone Ave.

PLANETARIUM SHOWS

Explore the stars and beyond every Thu-Sun with a laser light show on Fridays and Saturdays. $5-$7, kids under 3 are free.

See website for program times. Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium, 1601 E. University. 520-621-7827.

Flandrau.org

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

foxtucson.com

Upcoming Highlights Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation’s

Chasing Rainbows

Gala!

Rickie Lee Jones with

8 NOV 7:30pm 7:30pm Anders Osborne 9 NOV

Carole King’s Tapestry Album Live in Concert

Straight Up Paula!

Paula Abdul TS TICKET $45 A START

box office: 17 west congress 520-547-3040

SEASON SPONSOR

BERT W. MARTIN FOUNDATION Crown Jewel Sponsor Honoring GEORGE & MARGARET LARSEN

americana/ bluegrass duo An Evening with

16 NOV 7:30pm

18 NOV 7:00pm Dailey & Vincent E FRE ert! c Con

26 NOV 6:30pm

Under Magical Cirque An Evening with theStreetlamp NOV DEC Christmas 30 7:30pm Bruce Hornsby 3 7:30pm Hip for the Holidays 7 DEC 7:30pm

Trace Bundy

acoustic ninja

DEC 8 7:00pm

Ryanhood

downtown 2nd saturday

Hot Sardines New Year’s Eve Party!

11 DEC 7:30pm

Alan Cumming Legal Immigrant

holiday rock opera

13 DEC 7:00pm

Wizards of Winter

GNE MPA CHAOAST & RS T FAVO H IT TY PAR UDED WICE! L INC KET PR TIC

french fries & champagne tour

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SCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE presents This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing, November 10 to November 25.

UA OPERA THEATRE presents La Hija de Rappaccini, November 10 & 11.

ARIZONA FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC Modigliani Quartet with Pianist Fabio Bidini, November 14, 7:30 pm. Leo Rich Theater, 260 S. Church Ave. 520-577-3769. ArizonaChamberMusic.org

ARIZONA OPERA

Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, November 17, 7:30 pm and November 18, 2:00 pm.

Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. 520-2934336. AZOpera.org

ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE

Sister Act, through November 5. The Cripple of Inishmaan, November 5 to December 3. 1025 N. Olive Rd. 520-6211162. Theatre.Arizona.edu

ARIZONA

THEATRE COMPANY Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, through November 10. Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. 520-884-8210.

ArizonaTheatre.org BALLET TUCSON Footprints at the Fox, November 11 at 1:00 pm. Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St. 520-9013194. BalletTucson.org

Worlds (1953), November 17, 7:30 pm; An Evening with Dailey & Vincent, November 18, 7:00 pm; Miracle on 34th Street (1947), November 25, 3:00 pm; A Magical Cirque Christmas, November 26, 6:30 pm; An Evening with Bruce Hornsby, November 30, 7:30 pm. Fox Theatre, 17 W Congress St. 520-547-3040. FoxTucson.com

THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Vampire or: “He Loved in Vein” continues through November 4. Scrooge: A Gaslight Musical, November 8 to January 6. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 520-886-9428. TheGaslightTheatre.com

INVISIBLE THEATRE The Busy World is Hushed through November 11. 1400 N. First Ave. 520-882-9721.

InvisibleTheatre.com

LAFFS COMEDY CAFFE Brad Wenzel, November 2 & 3; Pauly Casillas and Jason Cheny, November 9 & 10; Patrick DeGuire, November 16 & 17; Sean Peabody, November 23 & 24. 2900 E. Broadway. 520-32-Funny.

LaffsTucson.com

LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP

BROADWAY IN TUCSON

On Your Feet!

November 13 to 18. Centennial Hall, 1020 East University Blvd. 903-2929, BroadwayInTucson.com

Death by Design continues through November 17 on the Mainstage.

The Grand Canyon Mystery continues through November 11. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 520-327-4242.

LiveTheatreWorkshop.org

CARNIVAL OF ILLUSION

ODYSSEY

November 17, 4:30 pm & 7:30 pm. Grand Parlour, 160 S. Scott Ave. 520615-5299. CarnivalOfIllusion.com

CATHEDRAL CONCERTS

Guitarist Misael Barraza Diaz in collaboration with the Tucson Guitar Society and Bolton Guitar Studies, November 13, 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Free will offering. St. Augustine Cathedral, 192 S. Stone Ave. 520-623-6351, TucsonCathedralConcerts.org

FOX TUCSON

Whose Live Anyway? November 1, 7:30 pm; NPC Megatron, November 3, 10:30 am; Rickie Lee Jones & Anders Osbourne, November 8, 7:30 pm; Tapestry – The Music of Carole King, November 9, 7:30 pm; Footprints at the Fox, November 11, 1:00 pm; Paula Abdul: Straight Up Paula! Fox Tucson’s Annual Chasing Rainbows Gala, November 16, 7:30 pm; The War of the

STORYTELLING

SERIES

Dealbreakers, November 1, doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm, The Sea of Glass Center for the Arts, 330 E. 7th St. 520-730-4112. OdysseyStorytelling.com

PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Tartuffe, November 8 to 18. Black Box Theatre, PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Rd. 520-206-6986. Pima.edu

ROGUE THEATRE The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, November 1 to 18. The Historic Y, 300 E. University Blvd. 520-551-2053. TheRogueTheatre.org

SCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE

SOUTHERN ORCHESTRA

ARIZONA

SYMPHONY

Saddlebrook DesertView Performing Arts Center, November 17, 7:30 pm. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Concert, November 18, 3:00 pm.

See website for locations. 520-308-6226. SASOMusic.org

TUCSON CONVENTION CENTER

The Kevin Hart Irresponsible Tour, November 4. Tucson Music Hall, 260 S Church Ave. TucsonConventionCenter.com

TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Midori, November 2; Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27, November 9 to 11; Copland & Goodman, November 17 & 18; Star Wars: A New Hope, November 24 & 25; Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3, November 30 to December 2. See website for locations. 520-882-8585. TucsonSymphony.org

UA OPERA THEATRE

La Hija de Rappaccini

by Daniel Catán, November 10 and 11 at 7:30 pm.

Environmental and Natural Resources Building (ENRN), University of Arizona, 1064 E. Lowell St. Free. 520-6211162. Music.Arizona.Edu

UA PRESENTS

Chiara Izzi, November 3; Imago Theatre, Frogz, November 4; Martha Graham Dance Company, The Eve Project, Celebrating the Many Facets of Womanhood, November 8; On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan (presented by Broadway in Tucson), November 13 to 18; UA Dance “Premium Blend”, November 14 to 18; Beijing Guitar Duo, with Meng Su & Yameng Wang. November 15. Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. 520-621-3364. UAPresents.org

UNSCREWED THEATER

Family friendly shows every Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 pm. 3244 E. Speedway Blvd. 520-289-8076. UnscrewedTheater.org

WINDING ROAD THEATER ENSEMBLE Good People, November 1 to 18. Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre, 738 N 5th Ave. 520-401-3626.

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This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing, November 10 to November 25. 738 N 5th Ave. 520-4483300. ScoundrelandScamp.org

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Billy Sedlmayr Harlem River Drive Fell City Records

by Carl Hanni

THE WORLD is full of great musicians, but less so great songwriters who are also gifted narrative storytellers. Well, Tucson has Billy Sedlmayr, and while he’s only one of many fine local lyricists, he’s a completely original, homegrown singer and songwriter, with a poet’s eye for language and a master storyteller’s gift for creating vivid, broad-ranging and often highly personal stories. And, lucky fellow, he’s also a musician surrounded by local players with an embarrassment of talent to breathe life into them. As Tucson’s musical poet of unflinching honesty and lives lived on a hard edge, Sedlmayr’s hard-earned POV can’t be faked, bought, learned or duplicated; it’s his alone. Fortunately for us all, he came out of the other side of a long and tortured tunnel with both his writerly skills sharpened to a fine point and a singular voice to convey them with. And that voice: penetrating, sometimes raspy and other times and clear and direct, with a hint of midwestern twang around the edges, it’s an open channel to the soul.

Billy Sedlmayr is back with his second solo album in four years, Harlem River Drive. It features eleven new original songs (some co-written) and a cover (of Shel Silverstein’s rueful “So Good To So Bad So Soon”) that move between anger, pathos, world weariness, open eyed wonder and many more spots on the psychic map. The new album expands on the ground laid down on 2014s Charmed Life, a landmark local recording suffused with the dust, wind, twang and cultural complexity that marks the Tucson sector of the great Sonora. The new record still cuts close to the bone, but widens the scope into new found territory; “I’m ready to grow young,” he sings on the title track, a good clue that he’s mixing up his head-space. On the other hand, he sounds like that same head might catch fire on “Ocean.”

Working for the second time with producer Gabriel Sullivan at his Dust & Stone studio (and with three tracks recorded at Waterworks studio), and backed by a band stacked with local ringers, Mother Higgins Children Band, Sedlmayr again finds himself in the sweet spot where it all comes together.

About recoding with the band, he says “We were a unit/strong, confident, yet like jazz, sensitive to each other,” and it shows. The tracks range from raging, guitar driver rockers like “White Powder Ma” and “Cloudless” to the dusty Americana twang of “Germany” and “Apology,” lovely, aching pop (“Stoney Coat”), the wide-screen cinematic feel of “Son of Sunoco,” along with melodic,

atmospheric numbers like “My Father’s House” and the fabulous title track, and one short spoken word number, “Teenage Jesus & The Tattooed Love Boys.” The players are some of the cream of Tucson’s musicians: drummer Winston Watson, bass player Thøger Lund, keyboard and synth player Jason Urman, Connor Gallaher on various guitars and pedal steel, and Sullivan on guitars, keyboards, synth, drums and percussion. Other locals guesting include Tom Walbank, Jon Villa, Brian Lopez, Efren Cruz Chavez, Jack Sterbis and Leo Schwamm, ex-Green On Red keyboard guy Chris Cacavas, Frenchman Jean Patrick Cousset, and vocalists Kaia Lacy and Katherine Byrnes. These cats don’t just play these songs, but bring them to life, with Urman’s keyboards and synths and Gallaher’s electric and steel guitar especially filling in the details.

Sedlmayr’s eye for lyrical details and evocative images gives all of the songs on Harlem River Drive narrative weight, like a series of short stories given musical accompaniment. Sampled more or less at random: “There’s a big black hole/where I throw my time/and buckets and buckets full/of my words and rhymes/and I distract myself/from the things that hurt/and we weaponize love/and I feel like dirt” (“Harlem River Drive”). Or “Winter sets herself down like UFOs/over Oregon or somewheres just the same/summer is a combine threshing fields of grain/but all she ever wants to do is rain” (“My Father’s House”). He’s a great reductionist (“You say your life is nothing more than an apology,” from “Apology”), and can also talk humanist common sense, as in “As tough as you are, someone is always tougher” (from “Teenage Jesus...”). I love the twisted poetry of “Stoney Coat:” “On an empty house/chock full of holes/ my eyes are not/the windows to my soul/I ain’t been painted/for some twenty odd years/on a layaway plan/from Pennys or Sears/bougainvillea crawling up the steps/just another non-conformist narcissist.” Those last two lines, man...

Billy’s got game.

About the new record, Billy says “I truly hope the record will let people into another side of me...it is the story of my life and those who touch it.” Consider it done.

Billy Sedlmayr will celebrate the release of Harlem River Drive on Thursday November 8 at Club Congress as part of the Dust & Stone Review, also featuring Inez and Crystal Radio. Showtime is 7-10 pm, tickets are $10. n

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What’s Live Here Comes Flash

by Jim Lipson

• gifts • glass blowing • jewelry • ornaments OPEN TUES - SAT 10AM-5PM

DOWNTOWN 711 South 6th Ave. 520-884-7404 philabaumglass.com

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ABOUT ONE year ago I realized I had the perfect music column for the next presidential election. I would brilliantly draw parallels between the current administration and one of the great yet unheralded rock operas of our time, Preservation Acts I and II, written, conceived and performed by Ray Davies and the Kinks, some 45 years ago. But despite what some moderate Democrats would have you believe, this election is very much about this President, his policies and a standard operating procedure that regularly attempts to make scapegoats of and assign blame to virtually anyone who dares to challenge or even question the prevailing party line. And so why wait until 2020 when we have the most important mid-terms ever?

By the early 1970s, Davies was already experimenting with the so-called concept album with records like Arthur and Lola Vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround. Preservation however, initially written for the stage, was perhaps the first rock production to utilize multimedia effects and with characters coming and going in full theatrical regalia. While its stage presentation was short lived, Preservation’s two soundtrack albums, Act I and the double LP Act II, contain a lot of great material detailing the rise and fall of a populist type leader/real estate magnate, Mr. Flash along with his rival, the equally dubious Mr. Black, both of whose worst character traits are a stunning composite of the current so called leader of the free world.

Without getting into a full blown review, just let these song titles sink in… ”Money and Corruption/I’m Your Man,” “There’s a Change in the Weather,” “Demolition,” “Money Talks,” and “He’s Evil.” And while “Here Comes Flash,” as a song title may seem harmless enough, consider these lyrics…You better run, you better fly/hide your daughters, hide your wives/ lock your doors and stay inside, Here Comes Flash. There’s no way that you can win, you must obey his every whim/ Or else he’s gonna do you in/ Here Comes Flash. He Will Smile at you, be a friend to you/Then he’s gonna screw you, just like that…

While Act II, as an album, is a bit of a mess, there is no denying that Davies, always the wry observer, had an incredibly clear vision of what could, and has happened at the intersection of politics, money and a working class electorate so willing to be sold a false bill of goods. What Preservation lacks in modern day production values and consistency, more than makes up for it with its prophetic storyline and bigger than life characters. It’s almost as if Davies went forward in time to the present day and hung out for a few weeks watching CNN, FOX and MSNBC, before going back, and leaving us with a jumbled masterpiece still waiting to be fully unpacked, appreciated and understood. But don’t take my word for it. Use your google machine and go listen for yourself.

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Todd Rundgren (“Unpredictable” by Danny O’Connor) at Rialto Theatre, November 13.

On a completely unrelated and sad note, melancholy trails to Elise Grecco who passed away in mid-October. I first became aware of Elise as a great interpreter of songs when she was playing solo gigs at places like Cushing Street, Delectables and the Solarium in the mid-1980s. In the early to mid-1990s she became very involved with the Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association (TKMA) and the production of the annual Tucson Folk Festival.

As TKMA president she was one of the prime movers and shakers within the festival’s organizing committee and for a time, was in fact the face, if not heart and soul of the festival. Back when TKMA was a bit more of a mom and pop type organization, she was the mom, or one of them. Musicians could often be found lurking around her mid-town home at all hours of the day and night, dropping off cassettes and later CDs of demo recordings to accompany applications for the folk fest, trying to get them in before the deadline.

While experiencing a variety of health challenges these past few years, Elise could still be seen at any number of TKMA events taking money at the door, selling raffles at the merch table, emceeing at the festival or performing at a fundraiser. With a voice that didn’t try or need to sound like anyone else, she could do wonders with a song. Her cover of Tom Waits “New Coat of Paint” will forever be a part of my soundtrack.

November 3 – Long Beach Dub All-Stars - Rialto Theatre - From Long Beach, California, obviously, they play a mixture of punk rock, reggae, dub, ska and hip hop. Founded in 1997, their initial claim to fame was being made up by surviving members of Sublime. After disbanding in 2002, they’ve been back at it since 2012. The Rialto should be the perfect venue for this show.

November 5 – Donna the Buffalo, 191 Toole – An exciting Americana jam band, the New Haven Register puts it like this, “Donna the Buffalo knows a thing or two about rhythm. Cajun, zydeco and old-time rhythms. A bit of reggae rhythm. Various guitar and fiddle rhythms. The rhythm of traveling by bus year after year for more than a quarter-century now.” Less concerned with making records than touring, this band knows how to play and get people dancing.

November 6 – Parker Milsap, Club Congress - At 25 years of age, Parker Millsap is making a name for himself with his live performances, soulful sound, and character-driven narratives. He’s had a string of highlights in recent years including his network television debut on CONAN, a performance with Elton John in London, an Austin City Limits taping and an Americana Music Association nomination for Album of the Year. Not bad for a kid from Oklahoma.

If you want a break from the election night coverage, this is your best bet.

November 8 – Rickie Lee Jones and Anders Osborne, Fox Theatre – If you’re looking for a night of rich songwriting, this should do the trick. While no

longer the cultural phenomenon she once was, Rickie lee still has great vocal chops. But it may well be Osborne and his evocative tunes that steal the show.

November 8 - Bettye Lavette, 191 Toole - Bettye LaVette is not a song writer but a singer in the tradition of great vocalists who have come before her.

(Insert your own classic crooners here.) The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, and Bruce Springsteen are just a few of the artists who have had their work re-imagined by Lavette. A singer’s singer.

November 9 – Jesse Dayton, Club Congress – This is one of several free shows this month out on the back patio of the Congress. One of the Club’s favorite Texan outlaw-Americana songwriters is back for the outdoor concert series.

November 10 – P. D. Ronstadt and the Co. – This is still the Ronstadt Generations but without the late Papa Mike and brother Mikey who lives in Cincinatti, but with Petey Ronstadt, Alex Flores, Bobby Ronstadt, Sam Eagon and Bryan Matyjasik. This band is very tight giving you blues, ballads and polkas among several other genres. Also free out on the patio, November 10 - Lucky Lenny String Band w/Cadillac Mountain – From Flagstaff, LL brings a mix of jazzy folk, indie bluegrass and Americana. Ditto for Cadillac Mountain (minus the jazzy folk of course).

November 10 – J.W. Jones, House of Bards – While there’s not a lot of info on the SABHF website, this organization which sponsors the annual Tucson Blues Festival, only knows how to pick winners.

November 13 – Todd Rundgren, Rialto Theatre - A songwriter, video pioneer, producer, recording artist, computer software developer, conceptualist, and a bit of a purveyor of performance art before it had a name, this night is billed as An Unpredictable Evening with Todd Rundgren. That probably says it best.

November 17 – Karla Bonoff, Gregory School Auditorium – One of the great songwriters from the 1970s, covered by the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton among many others.

November 17 – John Coinman Band, Hotel Congress – Coinman and his band make what’s become an annual appearance out on Patio Plaza. Always offering new material, one of our great local treasures.

November 23 – 7th Birthday Celebration, Monterey Court – It’s hard to believe there was a time when it was not at all certain the Monty would survive. Now it reigns as one of the premier venues for live music in Tucson with its unique outdoor/covered seating and stage. Oscar Fuentes, a talented songwriter and Santa Panchita, a Latin flavored big band with horns provide the music. n November 2018 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 67

Southern Culture On The Skids performs at 191 Toole on Friday, November 16.

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 1: Kero Kero Bonito, Tanikichan Fri 2: Spafford – Night 1 Sat 3: Spafford — Night 2 Mon 5: Donna The Buffalo, Raye Zaragoza Wed 7: The Record Company, Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear Fri 9: Of Montreal, Reptaliens Thu 15: Mom Jeans, Just Friends, Awakebutstillinbed, Retirement Party Fri 16: Southern Culture On The Skids, The Haymarket Squares Sat 17: Why? Plays Alopecia, Lala Lala Sun 25: Every Time I Die, Turnstile, Angel Dust, Vein Tue 27: Steven Page Trio (formerly of Barenaked Ladies), Westley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding) Wed 28: Waterparks, I Don’t Know How But They Found Me, Nick Gray, Super Whatevr, DeWayne Fri 30: Unlimited Gravity

BORDERLANDS BREWING 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773, BorderlandsBrewing.com Fri 2: Mustang Corners Sat 17: The Quarter Band

CANS DELI 340 N. 4th Ave. 775-0226 cansdeli.com Fri 2: Hocico Sat 3: Marchfourth, The Mission Creeps, Aztral Folk Wed 7: Droll, Kryge, Dayak Sun 11: Bob Log III Wed 14: The Strawberry Moons, Tropical Beach, Black Medicine Fri 16: Vox Urbana, DJ Smite Sat 17: Seanloui, Taco Sauce, Night Weather Sun 18: Habitual, Resonance, The Distortionists, Flying Half Full Tue 27: Suicide Forest, Vouna, Shadows of Algol, Azfarat Wed 28: Tone Ranger, Oolalong, Mic TV Thu 29: Silver Talon, Speedclaw, Napalm Strike, Flying Donkey Punch Fri 30: Santa Pachita, The Bennu

CHE’S LOUNGE 350 N. 4th Ave. 623-2088, ChesLounge.com See web site for more information

CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848, HotelCongress.com/club Thu 1: Y La Bamba, Winter, Weekend Lovers Fri 2: Birds and Arrows, The Rifle, Combo Chimbita, Ojalá System Sat 3: Transient, Bastard Noise, Sorrower, Realize, Woundvac Sun 4: The Artisanals, Mike Herbert, Hot Club of Tucson, Mr. Twin Sister, Sateen, GSA, Power Trip, Glacial Tomb, Get A Grip

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Rickie Lee Jones & Anders Osborne perform at Fox Theatre on Thursday, November 8.

Tue 6: Parker Millsap, Joe Peña Wed 7: Atala, Mother of Thousands, Via Vengeance Thu 8: Dust & Stone Review, Billy Sedlmayr, Inez, Crystal Radio Fri 9: Jesse Dayton, Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra, DJ Lag, Los Esplifs Sat 10: P.D. Ronstadt & The Company, Sugar Candy Mountain, Louise Le Hir, Droll Sun 11: Tropa Magica, Santa Pachita Wed 14: Languish, Fister, Aseethe, Earacher Sat 17: John Coinman Sun 18: Oshun Bittersweet World Tour, FT Proda Tue 20: Yndi Halda, Trees Speak, Staghorn, Zack Hansen Wed 28: Drew McDowall, Hiro Kone, Dismorphic

LA COCINA 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351, LaCocinaTucson.com Thu 1: Freddy Parish Fri 2: Greg Morton & Friends, Oscar Fuentes Sat 3: Nathaniel Burnside Sun 4: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 7: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Fri 9: Greg Morton & Friends, Freddy Parish Sat 10: The Wayback Machine Sun 11: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 14: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Thu 15: Mitzi Cowell Fri 16: Greg Morton & Friends,

Natalie Pohanic Sat 17: Natalie Pohanic Sun 18: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 21: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Fri 23: Greg Morton & Friends, Eugene Boronow Sat 24: Black Cat Bones Sun 25: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 28: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Thu 29: Hank Topless Fri 30: Greg Morton & Friends

CULINARY DROPOUT 2543 E. Grant Rd. 203-0934 culinarydropout.com/locations/ tucson-az/ Sat 3: Tiny House of Funk

FINI’S LANDING 5689 N. Swan Rd. 299-1010 finislanding.com Fri 9: Roadhouse Sat 10: Frank and Friends Fri 16: Kino and the Saints Fri 23: Midnight Blue

FOX TUCSON THEATRE 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515, FoxTucsonTheatre.org Thu 8: Rickie Lee Jones & Anders Osborne Fri 9: Tapestry—The Music of Carole King Fri 16: Paula Abdul Sun 18: Dailey & Vincent Fri 30: Bruce Hornsby

Postmodern Jukebox performs at The Rialto Theatre on Wednesday, November 21.

Giant Blue performs at Plaza Palomino on Saturday, November 17.

HACIENDA DEL SOL

Wed 21: Postmodern Jukebox Fri 23: NB Ridaz Reunion Concert, Zig-Zag, MC Magic, DOS, Frankie J, Lil’ Rob, Trish Toledo Sat 24: Romo Tonight

5501 N. Hacienda Del Sol. 2991501, HaciendaDelSol.com Nightly: Live Music on the Patio

THE HUT 305 N. 4th Ave., 623-3200 www.facebook.com/TheHutTucson Saturdays: Mike & Randy’s 420 Show with Top Dead Center

MONTEREY COURT 505 W. Miracle Mile, 207-2429 MontereyCourtAZ.com Thu 1: Corey Spector Fri 2: Carnivaleros Sat 3: Sugar & The Mint Sun 4: Sunday Brunch with Nancy Elliott & Friends, Wild Women Tue 6: Mike Spine & Barbara Luna Wed 7: Nick McBlaine and Log Train Thu 8: Touch of Gray Fri 9: Heather Hardy and a Taste of Jazz Sat 10: Lucky Lenny String Band, Cadillac Mountain Sun 11: Sunday Brunch with Nancy Elliott & Friends, Frank ‘n Steel Wed 14: Eb Eberlein & Widow’s Hill Thu 15: Virginia Cannon Presents Thursday Night Live Fri 16: Amber Norgaard Band Sat 17: Little House of Funk Sun 18: Sunday Brunch with Nancy Elliott & Friends, Tucson Youth Blues, Jazz & Pop Showcase Tue 20: Tucsonics Wed 21: Eric Schaffer & The Other Troublemakers Fri 23: Oscar Fuentes, Santa Pachita

Sun 25: Sunday Brunch with Nancy Elliott & Friends Tue 27: Bryce Rogers Wed 28: Connie Warren & Tom Dukes Thu 29: Titan Valley Warheads Fri 30: Gabriel Ayala Quintet

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 Sat 17: Giant Blue

PUBLIC BREWHOUSE 209 N. Hoff Ave. 775-2337 publicbrewhouse.com Sun 4: Febbo Fuentes, Natalie Pohanic Sun 25: Tiny House of Funk Tue 27: Acoustic Open Mic

RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000, RialtoTheatre.com Thu 1: Aaron Lewis Fri 2: Tech N9ne, Dizzy Wright, Futuristic Sat 3: Long Beach Dub All Stars, DJ Jahmar International Thu 8: Bettye Lavette featuring Evan Mercer Sat 10: Maria Bamford Tue 13: Todd Rundgren Wed 14: Eli Young Band Thu 15: Descendents, Radkey, Mon 19: Riley Green, Caiden Brewer

THE ROCK 136 N. Park Ave. rocktucson.com Sat 3: As I Lay Dying Tue 6: Badflower Fri 16: The Hip Hop Search 2018 Sat 17: Ruinfest 2018 Music Festival Wed 21: Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow Wed 28: SoMo

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 See Facebook page for more information

SAND-RECKONER TASTING ROOM 510 N. 7th Ave., #170, 833-0121 sand-reckoner.com/tasting-room Fri 2: Heather Hardy & Alvin Blaine Sat 3: Emilie Marchand Fri 16: Leila Lopez & Brian Green Fri 23: Amber Norgaard Fri 30: Austin Counts & Tom Walbank

SEA OF GLASS CENTER FOR THE ARTS 330 E. 7th St., 398-2542 TheSeaOfGlass.org Sat 10: General Tchefary Sat 17: Starseed Acoustic Ensemble Fri 30: Altai Kai Throat Singers

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

SkyBarTucson.com Thu 1: Eric Schaffer & The Other Troublemakers Fri 2: Joe Peña Tue 6: Tom Walbank, Dos Muñoz Wed 7: Open Mic Thu 8: Haunted Summer, Avi Buffalo Fri 9: Wyngs Tue 13: Tom Walbank, Steff Koeppen Wed 14: Open Mic Thu 15: Lucky Devils Showcase Fri 16: Silver Cloud Express Sat 17: Nail Polish Tue 20: Tom Walbank, Dos Muñoz Wed 21: Open Mic Fri 23: Cirque Roots, Crooked Saints Sat 24: Watercolor, United Snakes Tue 27: Tom Walbank, Steff Koeppen Wed 28: Open Mic

TAP & BOTTLE 403 N. 6th Ave. 344-8999 TheTapandBottle.com Thu 1: Heather Hardy Thu 8: Insley & Barnaby Thu 15: Eric Schaffer & The Other Troublemakers

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