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12 FEATURE STORY Single Speed Coffee Roasters is back on track with a newly-rennovated location. Story and photos by MacKenzie Brower

ON THE COVER: Barista Zach Shouse wipes down the countertop at Single Speed Coffee Roasters. ABOVE: A new mural decorates the upstairs wall in Single Speed’s Butler Avenue cafe.

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Birds Aren’t Real.

8 BREW

Masters of Brewtality crash The Oakmont

By Matthew Hayden

By Mike Williams

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15 REAR VIEW

Letter from Home College Chronicles Masters of Brewtality

Nicole’s Impossibly Possible Ideas

18 PULSE 21 MONEY SHOT 21 PAPER POEM

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LETTER FROM HOME

I’m fine. Really. ‌Stacy Murison continue to be a work in progress. One of my most recent activities, aside from birdwatching, reading, and binging the second season of Bridgerton, has been trying to stop myself from typing I hope this note finds you well, on my email correspondence. The sentiment is true enough, although the words themselves are automatic and now meaningless after so many years of typing them, especially during the ongoing pandemic. Face-to-face greetings also have become a challenge. I’ve yet to settle on a response to the typical greeting and “how are you?” exchange. I can’t say well, even though it’s grammatically correct. Are any of us “well” right now? Good doesn’t work either. Not that I’m a pedant, but I do worry about grammar to an extent, especially as a teacher whose friends will chastise me for misplaced commas in my social media posts. There are rules for punctuation—someday I will learn them. When my supervisor recently asked after me, I told him I was fine and found myself wilting under his scrutiny as he stopped his forward trajectory down the hall and stared at me. “Fine?” he huffed as I smiled and tried to joke, but he didn’t let me off the hook. According to him, “fine” is one of the worst four-letter words out there. Personally, I find “peas” the worst, but I held that thought as he asked some incisive questions to try to get to the heart of my less-than-good reply. Fine has a bad reputation in modern usage. It’s often considered the passive-aggressive response to something with which we do not find ourselves fine. We might as well be direct and say, “no,” or “I don’t agree,” or “yes, those jeans totally make your ass look fat.” What else do we say, though, when someone asks us now how we are doing? I remember working with a student from Russia a few years ago who chastised me for asking “how are you?” as a greeting while passing her in the hallway. She noted that if I really cared, I would stop moving and listen to her response. I’ve been so aware of how I greet people since then, normally relying on good to see you when it really is and a simple hello when I’m having a less-than-fine day. Will “how are you” soon disappear like handshakes? Elbow touches and fist-bumps seem cheerier somehow.

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I don’t think my social skills are rusty from the pandemic. Rather, I find myself wanting more meaningful exchanges. My friend, Chelsey, has a good substitution that involves us asking each other, “how is your brain?” It helps us cut through the palaver and speak our truths. And it’s not just happening amongst friends. I’ve noticed the baristas at the drive through coffee shop no longer ask how I am but in-

stead just request my order. Moving through the pandemic, I’ve decided that it’s okay to stop reaching for what David Foster Wallace called our banal platitudes—those automatic phrases that no longer have meaning because they are so rote. The “how are you” exchange is different now. As people come out of isolation or other challenging situations, they may need what

my Russian student needed: someone to actually listen, respond, and offer help. If someone is brave enough to admit to feeling less-than-fine, I would argue that I have a moral obligation to offer as much of myself as I can to them. The problem now though is that many of us are running on fumes. I know that people have written about “compassion fatigue,” especially for healthcare workers. Allow me to be bold and say that I believe many of us are suffering from “bullshit fatigue.” We no longer have the energy to be fake—but we also no longer have the energy to be too real, either. Perhaps we’re moving toward a cultural norm where it is perfectly acceptable just to say “hello.” And it’s perfectly acceptable to return a simple “hello.” Someday soon maybe, just maybe, fine will lose its passive-aggressive status and be the response we need it to be. Dream that dream with me, will you? By the way, I’m fine. Really. Hello. Stacy Murison is a Flagstaff-based writer. Her work has appeared in Assay, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, Flash Fiction Magazine, Hobart, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and The Rumpus among others. You can find her work at stacymurison.com or follow her on Twitter, @ StacyMurison.

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fter being postponed for several seasons due to the pandemic, the Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival is finally bringing their production of Crumbs from the Table of Joy to life. Written by renowned playwright, Lynn Nottage, this story is a potent yet nuanced examination of a Black family’s experience in 1950s Brooklyn. Crumbs is a memory play told from the perspective of the family’s youngest daughter, Ermina Crump, as she and her older

sister, Ernestine come to terms with their mother’s death and their father, Godfrey’s curious grieving process. Featuring a stunning cast of five, this play is bound to make any audience member think about their own relationships and the way they engage in today’s political discourse. Experiencing a story like this will make any night out well worth it. The play will run Thursdays through Sundays from May 5-15 at the Coconino Center for the Arts with showtimes

at 2 p.m. or 7 p.m. each day. Visit the Coconino Center for the Arts (www.ccaflagstaff.org) or the Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival (www.flagshakes. org) websites to purchase tickets for the play or learn more. Along with this edition of Flag Live, readers can view our very first documentary short about the production of Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Stay tuned each month for a new film about our community and/or the arts. May 2022 | flaglive.com | 5

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» FRIDAY | 5.6‌ Expect stellar stargazing as well as the chance to tour the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, which was the first city to be designated a Dark Sky City by the International Dark-Sky Association. See the telescope via which Pluto was discovered in the 1930s and peer through the century-old Clark Telescope. Head south to Tucson, often noted as the astronomy capital of the world. Check in to the Westin La Paloma, where families can learn about the celestial world in the foothills of Arizona’s Santa Catalina Mountains. A “cosmic concierge” may be available to provide an educational preamble while you enjoy fireside s’mores. Bolstered by your new information and the fresh night air, go forth to identify the sea of constellations above. Contact: lowell.edu; flagstaffarizona. org; westinlapalomaresort.com

STAY GRASSY, FLAG

Flagstaff’s First Friday Art Walk is back for another round after its longawaited return in April, and this month features even more creative gems. Debra Edgerton’s Between Two Edges is on display as part of Art in Action is open at the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany for folks to see her beautiful work and enjoy music and conversation. You can learn more about her work and see her watercolors at www.opendoorsartinaction.com. Along with Edgerton’s sublime dissertation on identity and reconciliation, the Terra BIRDS are teaching participants of all ages about how planting native grass is a form of climate action. Their “One Plug for the Planet” campaign is sure to educate and inspire both kids and adults. You can see their work at Mountain Sports this Friday from 5-8 p.m. Visit www. artwalkflg.org to learn more about the Art Walk and other exhibits.

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In one of America’s only Dark Sky cities, Flagstaff locals have a preternatural fascination with space. We are lucky enough to live in a town with such a strong dedication to the night sky, but rarely do we get the chance to truly celebrate its wonders. Luckily for us, the Lowell Observatory is hosting a party to celebrate this month’s total lunar eclipse. This rare, celestial event is a great way to cap off the night and not one to be missed. Lowell will have food trucks, scavenger hunts and a variety of science talks to keep everyone amazed and engaged until the main event. Festivities begin at 5 p.m. and go until midnight. visit the Lowell Observatory website at www.lowell.edu to buy tickets or learn more about the event.

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The West’s premier Overlanding event series is back for another season of exhibition, education and community. Located at the Fort Tuthill Fairgrounds, the Overland Expo brings people from all across the west to engage with top-of-the-line professionals to get you outfitted, trained and inspired as we roll into the summer months. Throughout its three-day run, the expo will offer you more than 300 hours of programs from more than 100 qualified presenters from around the world, so if you, yourself are an overlander, this one is a no-brainer. The event starts on Friday, May 20 and runs through Sunday, May 22 with each day starting at 8 a.m. Learn more about the Overland Expo-West at www.overlandexpo.com/west/.

Theatrikos is continuing its 50th season with The Foreigner, a devilishly clever comedy from the mind of Larry Shue. Set in a fishing lodge in Georgia, the play revolves around a group of people and a stranger who doesn’t speak a word of English… or so they think. Over the years, this play has come up often as the show audiences want to see again. Needless to say, the folks at Theatrikos are giving the people what they want. This is the third show of the season, and it starts on May 20 and runs through June 5 at the Doris Harper White Playhouse. Visit the Theatrikos website at www.theatrikos.com to learn more about their next show and their plans for the future.

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Masters of Brewtality haunt Flag’s elite at The Oakmont

elcome back, boils and ghouls, to another spine-tingling installment of Masters of Brewtality! This month, we’re doing another run of our ongoing series entitled, “No, I Don’t Come Here Often,” a vile spectacle spotlighting some of Flagstaff’s off-the-beatenpath drinking paradises that the average downtowner might overlook. And this one is a doozy! Our dear friend Jodi Keogh of the Oakmont hit us up asking if we’d want to MIKE pop in and check out a very WILLIAMS hoity-toity restaurant overlooking one of Flagstaff’s golf courses and, as we’re never unwilling to debase ourselves in front of the Flagstaff elite, we naturally said, “Feed us and we’ll do whatever you want.” Honestly, we were hoping it’d be weirder. The initial fantasy was the MOB staff stumbling in, looking like the trashiest of freaks and the entire establishment is absolutely mortified by our very presence. Mothers from Scottsdale yanking their toddlers close to their purses and gentlemen in 5-11 tactical pants fumbling trying to find that hand cannon the advertisements promised they’d need in this exact situation, that sort of thing. But it never happened and, in fact, it was quite the opposite. The Monday afternoon vibes were pleasant and relaxed, with families laughing comfortably and the bar staff amicable to pouring perfect pints in rapid succession. The manager, Ranen, was sporting a fresh black eye from catching an elbow on the outer edge of a mosh pit the night before, which immediately endeared him to us in the most fantastic of ways. The daily clientele consists mostly of longtime locals from the surrounding neighborhood who frequently post up in the exact same seats on the daily and are always happy to bring everyone up to speed on the latest gossip. When you’re looking for a proper example of the quintessential smalltown drinking experience, that’s it right there…. It’s not just a place to have a beer, it’s a caucus of who’s who and what’s what and we were immediately hooked. First, we’re going to talk food. To say we got blessed is an understatement and we can’t recommend smashing whatever looks good into your face with hedonistic abandon enough. This interview, unfortunately, came at that strange time when most restaurants in town are switching to their summer menu, so, by the time this

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hits the press, it’s going to be a whole new world. We can; however, comment on their year-round offerings…. We started off with the grilled cheese and tomato bisque. Rich, buttery goodness washed over us riding atop a wave of three melted cheeses and the addition of the bisque as a dip elevated this dish to cosmic levels. Next up was the Chicken Sonoma, a dish that followed head chef Mike Hook from his time at Buster’s. We’re of the mind that chicken is the kind of dish that everyone takes for granted, but is insanely easy to screw up. This was not the case. Perfectly juicy with a delightful Chardonnay cream sauce that you could easily just drink on its own paired with sautéed baby carrots and mashed potatoes so garlic-imbued, we didn’t have to worry about vampires for the rest of the month. Lastly, what bar menu in the Southwest would be complete without tacos? We did the beef barbacoa and the blackened mahi-mahi. Both were taste-bud annihilating in their

own right and, please believe we’re going to wreck a mountain of them again the first chance we get. Now, if you’re anything like the staff down here in the Masters of Brewtality crypt, you’re all about that spooky stuff and the Oakmont, like pretty much every place in Flagstaff is definitely haunted. Staff has video of beer mugs flying off shelves and stools are knocked over with chilling regularity. A quick side, what is it about this town and its hauntings? Are we located on a Hellmouth? Finally, onto the boozy treats! The local tap is the near omnipresent Tower Station, which we’re not even remotely complaining about and they’ve got a couple of rotating handles. While we were visiting, they were featuring the always solid Sam Adams and Voodoo Ranger’s hazy IPA, both of which complement a beautiful spring afternoon perfectly. There are also the classic villains of the craft beer world: the macrobrews. Bud Light, Coors, etc, which are all fine if

you’re stranded on a desert island and your only other option is recycling your own urine, Bear Grylls style. In a show of true class and affection for the craft beer world, the Oakmont also has Bell’s Two Hearted on tap. If you’ve never had a Two Hearted, pop in and give it a try and see why it’s routinely voted the best craft beer on the market. We can’t get enough of this stuff. Lastly, their cocktail menu is something to behold. From a classic margarita to their Frosé to a right solid Old Fashioned, you can’t go wrong. All in all, if you’re looking for a bit of respite from the downtown grind with an unparalleled view, give the Oakmont a shot. Until next month — cheers! Mike Williams (your titular Master of Brewtality) is a humble tattoo artist, egotistical writer, relentless beer drinker, unrepentant Hellraiser and connoisseur of all things Doom Metal. You can find him slinging ink at Flagstaff Tattoo Company or at some bar downtown.

COLLEGE CHRONICLES

Graduate’s take on where is home

lagstaff has always felt like a transitory home for me. I felt especially so when I started at Northern Arizona University, but since then I have gotten to know the city better and made a place for myself where I feel like I comfortably fit in. It’s strange now to think I’ll be graduating and will start over in a new city with new people. Will it be MacKenzie hard to make friends? How Brower do I make friends without school? Do I have to join organizations with my interests to meet people? Meeting people through school is a privilege we don’t often consider. We have a large population of a similar age condensed into one area where we learn about similar interests. It’s not hard to find people; the only work left for us to do is talk to them. A lot of the friends I’ve made through university will be with me for a long time, so I’m not scared I’ll be alone at all after graduation, but I might be lonely. I deeply desire to travel, and that outweighs my feeling to stay close to friends and family because I am so curious about the world. Nothing makes me happier than discovering beautiful places unlike any I have ever seen before. It makes me think about my future home — if the home is where the heart is, then can it be split into more than one place? My heart will always be with my closest friends and family, yet I know I might make a second home elsewhere where I would raise my own family. If this is the case, I only hope to still have the ability to travel often so my children can grow up knowing their grandparents. I have the fondest memories of my

grandparents from when I was a kid: Our trips to the pool or water park, sleepovers with my cousins, baking cookies, playing kickball, holidays and birthday parties. I want my own children to have the same chance I did for all of this. My family doesn’t do all of these things anymore since I moved to a different state for high school and college and we can only travel back a couple of times a year. However, we moved at a time when I was becoming a young adult, so I think it turned out OK because I was busier with balancing school, work and hobbies. I still miss my grandparents, but I do not resent the distance because they were with me throughout my whole childhood. Is it possible to follow a dream of traveling and maintain close relationships with family? It all comes down to time and money, the two apparently most valuable things in our capitalist society. Both come first when planning family trips. Even with the internet and social media, it is not the same as my grandma giving back scratches to calm me down. This became clear to much of the world during the pandemic when our movement and ability for physical connection was restricted. If I cannot travel and maintain close relationships with family, then is it possible to fulfill all of my dreams before having children? These are the kind of questions about the future I have started to consider with graduation approaching, as is the theme of this occasion. I am not in a rush to answer any of it. In fact, I am looking forward to slowing down life without projects and deadlines for a while. MacKenzie Brower is a photojournalist. She is passionate about cultural diversity, climate change and the environment. Her goal is to travel and see the world through the lens of her camera. May 2022 | flaglive.com | 9

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Barista Zach Shouse wipes down the countertop at Single Speed Coffee Roasters.

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SINGLE SPEED COFFEE Single Speed Coffee Roasters reveals freshly renovated space

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MACKENZIE BROWER ingle Speed Coffee Roasters’ newly renovated cafe — a bright spot where specialty coffee is roasted to then be served by expert baristas — is now open on Butler Avenue in Flagstaff. The inside boasts a combination of industrial and minimalist

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aesthetics. Silver insulation above reflects light in a way that mimics a skylight, while modern decor and vintage bikes hang on the walls. Wooden steps lead up to a loft sitting area where there is a hand-painted mural and balcony ledge full of plants. “The approach that we took was

to try to make this place as clean as possible,” owner Brad Richmann said. Richmann helped refurbish and build up the space himself as he has a background in contracting. Owning a coffee shop was always a thought Richman entertained, but it did not become a reality until the

Stop by for a cup of joe Single Speed Coffee Roasters is located at 1000 E. Butler Ave. in Flagstaff. It is open Monday-Friday 7 a.m- 2 p.m. and Saturday-Sunday 8 a.m- 3 p.m.

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Barista Zach Shouse wipes down the countertop at Single Speed Coffee Roasters.

For more information call Single Speed at (928) 266-0520 or visit their website: www.singlespeedcoffeeroasters.com

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Brad Richmann took over Single Speed Coffee Roasters from his brother-in-law in 2009 and has grown the business, which specializes in high-end coffee and roasting techniques, significantly since then.

2008 financial crisis. “I thought, ‘Well, if people aren’t going to be buying houses or remodels, maybe they’ll buy coffee,’” he said. “And there was a deeper passion for coffee, but we just needed an excuse to be able to dive into it.” Single Speed started in Williams and has been roasting coffee since 2003, officially coming under Richmann’s ownership in 2009 when his brother-inlaw handed it over after a rough time. Richmann worked construction on the side until the opportunity to move to Flagstaff

arose and he began operating the coffee business full time. Richmann closed the last Single Speed storefront shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic because the plan was to focus more on roasting and mobile coffee trucks, but then no events were happening. Single Speed’s newest space is for roasting as well as for customers to sit and stay awhile. The reason the shop is back to brick-and-mortar is because people kept asking for it, Richmann said. A high-end and specialty cafe,

Richmann’s vision was encouraged by his son Samuel and Zach Shouse, one of the baristas. “I was like, we can be these flip-flop-wearing, mountain-biking, dirt-loving people who just want to go out in the woods and hike and climb, and also want a good cup of coffee and a place to hang out,” Richmann said. Shouse has been certified in specialty coffee for 10 years. He said they have everything down to a science at Single Speed, putting “care and quality and craft” into every detail such as May 2022 | flaglive.com | 13

Stop by for a cup of joe Single Speed Coffee Roasters is located at 1000 E. Butler Ave. in Flagstaff. It is open Monday-Friday 7 a.m- 2 p.m. and Saturday-Sunday 8 a.m- 3 p.m. For more information call Single Speed at (928) 266-0520 or visit their website: www.singlespeedcoffeeroasters.com

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A new mural decorates the upstairs wall at Single Speed’s.

the syrups, the machine and how shots are dialed in with a light refractometer that ensures the appropriate amount of coffee is extracted for the brew. Shouse’s favorite drink is Single Speed’s Mexican Mocha, which has Ujjo hot sauce from Austin, Texas. It was developed after a dare to put hot sauce in coffee. “It creates an amazing concentrate for us to work with because we can really control the heat levels of what we want to put inside that mocha,” Shouse said. “So there’s a nice little bite to it as you drink, but it dissipates immediately after you sip.” Single Speed’s baristas are Specialty Coffee Association-certified and knowledgeable about things like latte art, bean origins and different brewing methods. “[Our baristas] know how to lead you into the best type of extraction or brewing,” Richmann said. “It takes a lot to get in here, so everybody kind of has a sense of ownership because of that.” They all take pride in their produc14 | flaglive.com | May 2022

tion, he added. According toSingle Speed’s website, “We source all of our beans through fair trade, providing an ethical path from the farm to your doorstep.” Roaster Matt Goetz said the specialty, higher grade products they import are determined by a cupping score which rates beans in categories such as fragrance, flavor, body, acidity and balance. In the roasting process, temperature and time are manipulated to extract different profiles—or flavor characteristics—from the beans, Goetz said. In addition to its cafe and wholesale accounts, (which include Lund Canyon Coffee and Cedar House Coffee Shop) Single Speed also has mobile coffee trucks at events such as mountain bike races, the Overland Expo and Pickin’ in the Pines. They also just started licensing their brand for mobile cafes, supporting other entrepreneurs by helping design and build trailers, provide equipment and train baristas.

Single Speed coffee roaster Matt Goetz stirs coffee beans at the local roastery and cafe.

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NICOLE’S IMPOSSIBLY POSSIBLE IDEAS

Once upon a time, teaching was possible Nicole Walker nce upon a time, it was possible to teach in public schools. In fact, I think it used to be great. I remember my favorite teachers — Mr. Oates who taught English and Creative Writing and encouraged me to read more Margaret Atwood and less Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath but who wrote things like, “this is a real poem” on some of my work, sending me down this path of writing for a living. I love him and forgive him. Mr. Vanderhooft, my chemistry teacher, taught me that humans have probably stunted human evolution because we adapt the environment to suit us rather than adapting to the environment. He also was severely bummed when I didn’t take AP Chemistry with him because I said I thought it best to take physics so I could be more well-rounded. But chemistry, maybe even before writing, was my true love. Students then, as now, don’t always listen to their teachers. Once upon a time, teachers had a job they could count on. They knew the deal—not great pay but some level of security, some respect in the community, a modicum of autonomy in their curriculum. Students are probably no more difficult to teach now than they were then but they didn’t have tiny televisions in their pockets, tiny bullies, tiny girlfriends, tiny video games. Students might have been bored enough to truly listen to their teachers! At least some of the time. The job that once was possible has become impossible. Some of the best teachers I know are leaving their jobs this year. An inspiring physics teacher. A devote-your-whole-souland-self elementary teacher. A versatile government, economics, and history teacher. An amazing math teacher. These teachers have devoted various numbers of years to their profession but this year, it seems, they could not take it anymore. If you know my column from before, Letters to Ducey, I wrote over five hundred letters beseeching Governor Ducey to support teachers. But Ducey seemed to take each opportunity to debase, defund, and defeat the teachers. From working to overturn propositions to raise taxes a tiny bit to hoarding the budget surplus, Ducey has made it clear that he won’t rest until the public schools are private, charter, or work farms. I used to think I was being hyperbolic when I said things like that. Now that I’ve seen what’s happening in the legislature this year and with the teacher exodus, I don’t think I’m exaggerating at all.

The legislature has introduced new a funding structure that guarantees less funding for schools. They’ve introduced a bill that means teachers do not need to be certified. They’ve introduced bills that proscribe and prescribe what teachers are allowed to teach. It’s one thing to go to work every day from 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., to coach afternoons and on weekends, to offer study sessions during lunch break, to take additional jobs to pay the bills, to bring their own supplies to the classroom, to find coats for kids who come to school without one, to advise students on where to go to college, to correct their homework not one, not two, not three, but four times to make sure they get it right. But it’s another thing to receive 67% of what other college-educated employees in the state receive. It’s another to lose authority over your curriculum even though you went to four, sometimes six, years of college to learn how to teach. It’s an insult that you cannot support your gay or transgender students, cannot teach ideology-challenging books, that you can’t teach the actual history of the United States for fear someone says your unit on the Civil War might actually mention that a lot of people, even our founding fathers, kept slaves. To take away respect, autonomy, support, and meaningfulness is a perfect recipe for dissolving public schools. Public schools are the first and most important tool for democracy. From teaching kids how to read to teaching them how to think for themselves, experienced teachers are necessary for them to be fully functional citizens. As teachers flee and untrained dilettantes take their place, staying for half a semester until they realize that educating people is hard, the schools will fade away one by one. And then, when there are schools left only for those who can find a way into these special schools where admission is a game and those with money and connections know how to play, the basis for democracy will fade away with them. The feudal system and the aristocracy return. Perhaps the oligarchs of this fine country will be so kind to offer the kids who don’t win a spot in their charter schools a rake or a hoe or something so they can work that farm like the non-aristocratic kids were born, in their minds, to do.

Nicole Walker is the author of seven books, most recently Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster. She teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. The words here are her own and do not necessarily reflect those of her employer.

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Activities are age appropriate, emphasize social and character development, leadership, teamwork, sportsmanship and fun! Our dedicated and well trained staff encourage campers to socialize and make new friends through structured activities for teams and individuals as well as free time. Camp weeks 1-5 and 7-10 are MonFri, week 6 is Tue-Fri (no camp Mon July 4). Camp activities are scheduled 9am-4pm. Each camp group has one hour of swim time everyday. Campers enjoy free play/time when dropped off as early as 7:30am and picked up as late as 5:30pm. There are a variety of options available to accommodate busy parents and campers; full week, flex week, full week mornings and full week afternoons! For an additional fee, campers can join us on Thursdays for an adventure or enroll in M/W or T/ Th group swim lessons or Wed camp swim team .

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Embrace the madness, Gen Z! MATTHEW HAYDEN ver the course of the last couple of years, a wild conspiracy theory has captured the imagination of Gen-Z. It goes something like this: In the late 1950s, the United States government hatched a plot to extinguish 12 billion birds and replace them with robotic replicas designed to spy on the American people. According to bird truthers, this sinister conspiracy has successfully evaded public perception for decades, but since the 70s, a movement called Birds Aren’t Real has been attempting to expose the lies and hold those responsible for this apparent genocide to account. This theory and its adherents may seem to resemble their QAnon counterparts, but unlike the followers of Q, the Bird Brigade, as they call themselves, understand that they are in on a joke, that birds are indeed real and that the United States government is not spying on the American people. Not with robot birds, at least. Brenden Tachsel, a Junior at Northern Arizona University and President of the Birds Aren’t Real club, said that the movement, though rooted in comedy, is more than just a joke. “It’s a way to deal with the insanity of our politics,” Trachsel said. “It plays into everything.” Back in 2017, the movement was inadvertently created by a cowboy-hat-toting college dropout named Peter McIndoe during a women’s march in Memphis. Donald Trump had just been elected and a group of his supporters showed up to the march to counterprotest. McIndoe noticed them, and on a whim, he took down a poster, flipped it over and wrote three words on the back — Birds Aren’t Real. Unbeknownst to McIndoe, a video of him proselytizing the feathered gospel was posted on Facebook and went viral. One of the early viewers of this viral video was Trachsel, and since then, he has been fascinated by the mission and lore of Birds Aren’t Real.

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Much like the movement itself, Trachsel’s club began as a spontaneous joke between him and cofounder, Lydia Nelson and gradually became one of the most attractive clubs on campus, racking up more than a thousand followers on Instagram, but as the years have gone by, Trachsel thinks the popularity of Birds Aren’t Real is indicative of something deeper. “When you think about the actual people who are involved in the movement,” Trachsel said. “I feel like a lot of them feel isolated by the crazy politics, and that’s an aspect of life that you can’t bring up. It’s painful in that way.” Trachsel himself has experienced this feeling of isolation so common among people who have grown up in the internet age, and he recognizes the dangers that young people face in a world so proliferated by toxic conspiracies and misinformation. During his time with Birds Aren’t Real, he has learned that by leaning into the absurdity of today’s political landscape, one finds community in the isolation and a new approach to counterprotest that foregrounds the political and digital lunacy familiar to so many in Gen Z. “Whether it’s real or not,” he said. “There is a community made out of people who think the same way as you, even if it’s satire… Yes, we are all there for one movement, one purpose, but if you look at every individual, it’s such a drastic response to what this movement means to them and that’s what makes it so wonderful.” Last November, Trachsel’s efforts culminated in the Birds Aren’t Real Awareness Concert which was attended by more than 300 people and featured Peter McIndoe himself alongside a film crew from VICE Documentaries — a fitting rendezvous for Trachsel whose journey began with the

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MFFFFF��F�F Join the movement Follow Brenden Trachsel on Instagram @brendantrachsel and Birds Aren’t Real NAU @birdsarentreal.nau. video from Memphis. As a follow-up to the concert, Trachsel and his posse organized a rally at the Union Pedway Amphitheater, and despite it being the Friday before Spring Break, the turnout was positive and passionate. Nearly 20 people showed up in their bird-truther garb, holding cardboard signs that said “RIP Birds,” “WAKE UP!” and “The Birds Work for the Bourgeoisie.” Some lost their voices preaching the feathered gospel to the passing students, many of whom shared the Bird Brigade’s enthusiasm. Their good news spread. In a post-truth world, Birds Aren’t Real offers young people an antidote to the chaos of America’s conspiracy-laden landscape; it provides an outlet for Gen Z’s pain and frustration in a way that is both cathartic and productive; but ultimately —and perhaps, most importantly — it allows them to have fun. To laugh at the madness.

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Ongoing

Yucca North:

kings bring outstanding music and dance performances. Every Saturday from 8-11:30 p.m. 30 S. San Francisco St. Authority Zero. Cinco de Mayo celebration at 7 p.m. Free. Coconino Center for the Arts: Sun/5.8 15 N WC Riles St. Flag Shakes’ Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Nuanced look VARIOUS EVENTS at a Black family’s experience in 1950s Brooklyn. Thursday Museum Club: through Sunday from May 5-15. $29 general admission. Swing dancing lessons. Learn the Lindy Hop in inclusive Flagstaff City Hall: 2300 N. Fort Valley Rd. and beginner-friendly classes. Every Thursday. 7 p.m. Free. Flagstaff Community Farmers Market. 8 a.m.-noon. 11 W. 3404 E. Rte. 66. Aspen Ave. Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse: Theatrikos Theatre Company’s The Foreigner. Hilarious comedy based on a devilishly clever idea. Performances May 20-June 5, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Masks required $20-$26. Tickets can be purchased online at theatrikos.com by calling 928-7741662. 11 W. Cherry Ave.

Fri/5.6

Museum Club: Open mic night. Every Monday from 6-9 p.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

Tue/5.10

VARIOUS EVENTS Museum Club:

Museum Club:

Downtown Flagstaff:

Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. Latino Night. Celebrating Latino and Spanish music. Every 3404 E. Rte. 66 Sunday. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66. Wed/5.11

First Friday Art Walk. 5-8 p.m. Downtown Flagstaff.

Shift FLG:

VARIOUS EVENTS

Shift Sunday Supper Club. Every week. A members-only, whole new way to experience Shift through monthly curated Episcopal Church of the Epiphany: Fifty-cent Friday. DJ playing Country and Top 40 hits. $.50 select meals for two or for four. Bring the best of Shift as well as new Art in Action exhibit “Between Two Edges.” Water- drafts, $3 select pitchers, $3 domestic bottles, $4 import bottles off-menu creations right into your home. Sundays 2-4 p.m. $3 wells. $5 cover. Every Friday 8 p.m.-2 a.m. 3404 E. Rte. 66. color paintings and traditional Japanese scrolls 107 N. San Francisco St. Visit www.shiftflg.com to sign up. from Debra Edgerton. Water colors can be viewed Sat/5.7 Oeno Wine Lounge: online at opendoorsinaction.com and the scrolls MUSIC EVENTS can be seen by appointment in person. Through May Wine Education Night. Thirty-minute wine lesson with Museum Club: 15. 423 N. Beaver St. sommelier Tyler Mcbride. Every Sunday. 4:30 p.m. 22 E. Thu/5.5 The Zookeepers. Country music and dancing. $5. 8:30 p.m. Birch Ave. #1. 3404 E. Rte. 66 Mon/5.9 MUSIC EVENTS Museum Club:

pours over 10oz. 117 N. Beaver St.

Museum Club:

VARIOUS EVENTS

MUSIC EVENTS Charly’s: Wednesday night Blues. Rich Neville and a rotating line-up of pals from the local and national blues scene. Every Wednesday from 6:30-9 p.m. $10 cover. 23 N. Leroux St. VARIOUS EVENTS Museum Club: Dime beer night. Every Wednesday from 5 p.m.-2 a.m. 3404 E. Rte. 66. Drinking Horn Mead Hall: Trivia. Every Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. Free. 108 E. Rte. 66.

Brews & Cues: Dark Sky Brewing: Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. The Runway Flagstaff: 3404 E. Rte. 66. Flagstaff Unleashed: A Drag Extravaganza. Drag queens and Locals Monday. Live music and $2 off all non barrel-aged Team trivia. Wine prizes for each round and compete for the

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Fort Tuthill:

Uptown Pubhouse:

Museum Club:

MUSIC EVENTS

Team Trivia. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. Free. 114 N. Leroux St.

Latino Night. Celebrating Latino and Spanish music. Every Sunday. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

Orpheum Theater:

Overland Expo West 2022. World-premier event for do-it-yourself overland and adventure travel enthusiasts. $20 day pass, $80 weekend pass. 8 a.m.-10 p.m. 2446 E. Fort Tuthill Loop.

grand prize. Every Wednesday. 6:30 p.m. Free. 11 S. Beaver St. to sign up.

Thu/5.12‌

MUSIC EVENTS Museum Club: Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66. Orpheum Theater: Todd Snider. Blues singer and storyteller. $30. Doors at 7 p.m. Show at 8 p.m. 15 W. Aspen Ave. Yucca North: Bad Bad Hats. Indie rock band. 7 p.m. 15 N WC Riles St. VARIOUS EVENTS Museum Club: Swing dancing lessons. Learn the Lindy Hop in inclusive and beginner-friendly classes. Every Thursday. 7 p.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

Fri/5.13‌

Pilcrowe album release celebration with Viola and the Museum Club: Brakemen. $13. Doors open at 7 p.m. Show at p.m. 15 W. Latino Night. Celebrating Latino and Spanish music. Every VARIOUS EVENTS Aspen Ave. Sunday. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66. Dark Sky Brewing: Museum Club: Oeno Wine Lounge: Locals Monday. Live music and $2 off all non barrel-aged The Zookeepers. Country music and dancing. $5. 8:30 p.m. Wine Education Night. Thirty-minute wine lesson with pours over 10oz. 117 N. Beaver St. 3404 E. Rte. 66 sommelier Tyler Mcbride. Every Sunday. 4:30 p.m. 22 E. Museum Club: VARIOUS EVENTS‌ Birch Ave. #1. Open mic night. Every Monday from 6-9 p.m. Free. 3404 Fort Tuthill: Shift FLG: E. Rte. 66. Overland Expo West 2022. World-premier event for do-it- Shift Sunday Supper Club. Every week. A members-only, whole Tue/5.17‌ yourself overland and adventure travel enthusiasts. $20 new way to experience Shift through monthly curated meals VARIOUS EVENTS day pass, $80 weekend pass. 8 a.m.-10 p.m. 2446 E. Fort for two or for four. Bring the best of Shift as well as new offTuthill Loop. menu creations right into your home. Sundays 2-4 p.m. 107 N. Museum Club: San Francisco St. Visit www.shiftflg.com to sign up. The Runway Flagstaff: Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. Mon/5.23‌ 3404 E. Rte. 66 Flagstaff Unleashed: A Drag Extravaganza. Drag queens and Wed/5.18‌ kings bring outstanding music and dance performances. VARIOUS EVENTS Every Saturday from 8-11:30 p.m. 30 S. San Francisco St. Dark Sky Brewing: MUSIC EVENTS

Mon/5.16‌

Charly’s:

Sun/5.22‌

MUSIC EVENTS Wednesday night Blues. Rich Neville and a rotating line-up of pals from the local and national blues scene. Every Orpheum Theater: Orpheum Theater: Wednesday from 6:30-9 p.m. $10 cover. 23 N. Leroux St. MarchFourth. Visual performances by stilt walkers, acrobatHustle & Heart. Night of hip-hop and rap with Palmtree, ics and hooping. $25. Doors at 6:30 p.m. Show at 7:30 p.m. D Nice, Swishamane, Mike Wayne and Dub & Down. 7 p.m. VARIOUS EVENTS 15 W. Aspen Ave. doors. Show at 8 p.m. $14. 15 W. Aspen Ave. Museum Club: VARIOUS EVENTS VARIOUS EVENTS Dime beer night. Every Wednesday from 5 p.m.-2 a.m. 3404 Flagstaff City Hall: E. Rte. 66. Museum Club: MUSIC EVENTS

Locals Monday. Live music and $2 off all non barrel-aged pours over 10oz. 117 N. Beaver St. Museum Club: Open mic night. Every Monday from 6-9 p.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

Tue/5.24‌

VARIOUS EVENTS Museum Club:

Drinking Horn Mead Hall:

Flagstaff Community Farmers Market. 8 a.m.-noon. 11 W. Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. Fifty-cent Friday. DJ playing Country and Top 40 hits. $.50 3404 E. Rte. 66 select drafts, $3 select pitchers, $3 domestic bottles, $4 Trivia. Every Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. Free. 108 E. Rte. Aspen Ave. import bottles $3 wells. $5 cover. Every Friday 8 p.m.-2 a.m. 66. Pulse continued on page 20 » 3404 E. Rte. 66. Brews & Cues:

Sat/5.14‌

MUSIC EVENTS Orpheum Theater:

Team trivia. Wine prizes for each round and compete for the grand prize. Every Wednesday. 6:30 p.m. Free. 11 S. Beaver St.

Bruce Cockburn. Canadian singer-songwriter. Doors at Uptown Pubhouse: 6:30 p.m. Show at 7:30 p.m. $45-$55. 15 W. Aspen Ave. Team Trivia. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. Free. 114 N. Leroux St. The Gopher Hole: The Payback. Come out every second Saturday of the Thu/5.19‌ month as the Payback celebrates the “golden age” of music. MUSIC EVENTS VARIOUS EVENTS‌

Museum Club:

The Runway Flagstaff:

Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. Flagstaff Unleashed: A Drag Extravaganza. Drag queens and 3404 E. Rte. 66. kings bring outstanding music and dance performances. VARIOUS EVENTS Every Saturday from 8-11:30 p.m. 30 S. San Francisco St. Museum Club:

Sun/5.15‌

Heritage Square;

Swing dancing lessons. Learn the Lindy Hop in inclusive and beginner-friendly classes. Every Thursday. 7 p.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

Flagstaff City Hall:

Fort Tuthill:

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Bike Bazaar. Annual human-powered parade and bike swap. Fri/5.20‌ Free. 9 a.m.-noon. 6 E. Aspen Ave. VARIOUS EVENTS

Flagstaff Community Farmers Market. 8 a.m.-noon. 11 W. Overland Expo West 2022. World-premier event for do-itAspen Ave. yourself overland and adventure travel enthusiasts. $20 day pass, $80 weekend pass. 8 a.m.-10 p.m. 2446 E. Fort Oeno Wine Lounge: Tuthill Loop. Wine Education Night. Thirty-minute wine lesson with sommelier Tyler Mcbride. Every Sunday. 4:30 p.m. 22 E. Museum Club: Birch Ave. #1. Fifty-cent Friday. DJ playing Country and Top 40 hits. $.50 select drafts, $3 select pitchers, $3 domestic bottles, $4 Shift FLG: import bottles $3 wells. $5 cover. Every Friday 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Shift Sunday Supper Club. Every week. A members-only, 3404 E. Rte. 66. whole new way to experience Shift through monthly curated meals for two or for four. Bring the best of Shift as well Orpheum Theater: as new off-menu creations right into your home. Sundays The Big Lebowski. 18+. $12. Doors at 7 p.m. Movie at 8 p.m. 2-4 p.m. 107 N. San Francisco St. Visit www.shiftflg.com 15 W. Aspen Ave.

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4 p.m. and movie at dusk. 6 E. Aspen Ave.

MUSIC EVENTS

The Runway Flagstaff:

Flagstaff Unleashed: A Drag Extravaganza. Drag queens and Wednesday night Blues. Rich Neville and a rotating line-up kings bring outstanding music and dance performances. of pals from the local and national blues scene. Every Every Saturday from 8-11:30 p.m. 30 S. San Francisco St. Sun/5.29 Wednesday from 6:30-9 p.m. $10 cover. 23 N. Leroux St. Charly’s:

VARIOUS EVENTS

Museum Club:

Flagstaff City Hall:

Dime beer night. Every Wednesday from 5 p.m.-2 a.m. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

Flagstaff Community Farmers Market. 8 a.m.-noon. 11 W. Aspen Ave.

Drinking Horn Mead Hall:

Museum Club: Trivia. Every Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. Free. 108 E. Rte. Latino Night. Celebrating Latino and Spanish music. Every 66. Sunday. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66. Brews & Cues: Oeno Wine Lounge: Team trivia. Wine prizes for each round and compete for the Wine Education Night. Thirty-minute wine lesson with grand prize. Every Wednesday. 6:30 p.m. Free. 11 S. Beaver St. sommelier Tyler Mcbride. Every Sunday. 4:30 p.m. 22 E. Uptown Pubhouse: Birch Ave. #1. Team Trivia. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. Free. 114 N. Leroux St.

Thu/5.26

MUSIC EVENTS Museum Club:

Mon/5.30 VARIOUS EVENTS Dark Sky Brewing: Locals Monday. Live music and $2 off all non barrel-aged pours over 10oz. 117 N. Beaver St.

Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. Museum Club: 3404 E. Rte. 66. Open mic night. Every Monday from 6-9 p.m. Free. 3404 VARIOUS EVENTS E. Rte. 66. Museum Club: Tue/5.31

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Swing dancing lessons. Learn the Lindy Hop in inclusive VARIOUS EVENTS and beginner-friendly classes. Every Thursday. 7 p.m. Free. Museum Club: 3404 E. Rte. 66. Fri/5.27 Karaoke night. Every Thursday from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66 MUSIC EVENTS Orpheum Theater:

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MUSIC EVENTS Durand Jones & The Indications. Contemporary R&B/soul. $22. Doors at 7 p.m. Show at 8 p.m. 15 W. Aspen Ave. Charly’s: Yucca North: The Slackers. American ska band. 7 p.m. 15 N WC Riles St. VARIOUS EVENTS Museum Club:

Wednesday night Blues. Rich Neville and a rotating line-up of pals from the local and national blues scene. Every Wednesday from 6:30-9 p.m. $10 cover. 23 N. Leroux St. VARIOUS EVENTS

Museum Club: Fifty-cent Friday. DJ playing Country and Top 40 hits. $.50 select drafts, $3 select pitchers, $3 domestic bottles, $4 Dime beer night. Every Wednesday from 5 p.m.-2 a.m. 3404 import bottles $3 wells. $5 cover. Every Friday 8 p.m.-2 a.m. E. Rte. 66. 3404 E. Rte. 66. Drinking Horn Mead Hall:

Sat/5.28

MUSIC EVENTS Yucca North:

Trivia. Every Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. Free. 108 E. Rte. 66.

Brews & Cues: Negative -32. Dead Dudes. Badger Springs. Naming our Team trivia. Wine prizes for each round and compete for the Monsters. 21+ 7:30 p.m. 15 N WC Riles St. grand prize. Every Wednesday. 6:30 p.m. Free. 11 S. Beaver St. Museum Club: Uptown Pubhouse: Stateline. Country music and dancing. $5. 8:30 p.m. 3404 Team Trivia. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. Free. 114 N. Leroux E. Rte. 66 St. VARIOUS EVENTS Heritage Square:

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