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Preserving La Tierra del Jaguar by Jeff Gardner
WHILE THE MODERN borderlands region is home to plenty of strife between humans, the vast ridges hold even more difficulty for another one of its inhabitants, the jaguar. Once ranging from Argentina to California, jaguar populations have dwindled in recent years due to habitat loss and livestock protection programs. It is estimated about 15,000 jaguars live in the wild today, with only one believed to be left in the United States. Federal preservation programs throughout the past decade have aimed at protecting critical habitat for the North American jaguar throughout Pima, Santa Cruz, and Cochise counties in Arizona. But one Tucsonan is protecting the jaguar in a more literally grassroots manner. Randy Young is the founder of La Tierra del Jaguar, a farm and school project working in the Sahuaripa region in Sonora, Mexico. Just a few miles from the 55,000-acre Northern Jaguar Reserve, La Tierra del Jaguar is a nonprofit planned to teach environmentally-friendly agricultural techniques to local farmers in order to expand jaguar range and population. Young previously worked as the Reserve Manager at the Northern Jaguar Project, which purchased cattle ranges in Mexico and purposefully let the land grow wild to create more natural habitat for the jaguar. However, Young aims at a different kind of preservation with La Tierra del Jaguar. “Their focus is very much about protecting the jaguar in its home,” Young said. “But I saw a need for preservation in a different direction – the human is the problem for the jaguar… my whole project is about working with the humans to save the jaguar.” Young grew up in New Mexico, and his life completely changed when Warner Glenn, a cattle rancher, spotted a live jaguar in the Peloncillos Mountains in 1996. Young grew up in and around those same mountains. “It completely redefined my definition of ‘wild’ to have that animal there,” Young said. La Tierra del Jaguar plans on creating a balance between farmers and jaguars in the borderlands region, stretching from Sonora into Tucson, by fixing agricultural techniques that often lead to conflict between the two populations. Eco-friendly techniques from La Tierra del Jaguar include natural building methods, irrigation, organic growth methods, livestock management, and large-scale restoration techniques. “One major threat to the jaguar’s long-term survival is the current method of doing agriculture.” Young said. According to La Tierra del Jaguar’s website: Ranchers and farmers have long been cast as the enemy when it comes to the conservation of large predator
species like the jaguar, and not without reason. Since livestock is literally the lifeblood of many ranching and farming operations, the loss of a single animal can be devastating to a family that makes its living from its agricultural yield. And as more and more natural habitat is consumed, developed, and converted from wilderness into agricultural land, jaguars are increasingly forced to look at domesticated animals as a potential food source. “When someone in those communities loses a cow, it’s such a big loss that it warrants going out to find and kill the jaguar.” Young said. Young has already secured 25 acres of land for the demonstration site. Still in its initial phases, La Tierra del Jaguar’s farm and school demonstration site is in need of donations for a water/irrigation system, labor and machinery. “The demonstration site is the key to this,” Young said. Ultimately the plan for La Tierra del Jaguar is to make produce, products, ecotourism, workshops and cabin rentals to fund the demonstration site, making the project self-sustaining and eventually regenerative, thus alleviating financial difficulties and creating an appreciation for the jaguar. Young also plans on inviting researchers to the project grounds, making the area both educational for farmers and a research area for science. “I get emotional when I talk about the jaguar, because I’ve basically dedicated my life to this,” Young said in an interview with Vice News. “Because I do feel like we are in that apocalyptic moment. We’re on that cutting edge where we’re losing all these species right now, and we have the ability to change that, each and every one of us.” Though the demonstration site is in the Mexican state of Sonora, the progress of this project bridges a path for the jaguar into a larger habitat, and informs farmers and ranchers spread throughout the borderlands region, even into Tucson. “It’s not something I would have sought out, but it has all come together,” Young said. “I very much feel the call of the jaguar.” Young and La Tierra del Jaguar will have an official launch party on Wednesday, February 6 at Exo Coffee Roasters at 403 N. 6th Ave. Live music, likely Tejano, will follow a presentation on the subject of La Tierra del Jaguar and general jaguar conservation strategy. Drink specials with commemorative glasses and jaguar-related memorabilia will be available for purchase to support La Tierra del Jaguar’s mission. For more information, visit latierradeljaguar.org
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Ed Keeylocko by Craig Baker
Editor’s note: Ed Keeylocko, legend and founder of Cowtown Keeylocko 40 miles east of Tucson, has passed away at 87. A GoFundMe webpage has been created to help celebrate his life with a memorial March 15-17. “When he took ill, some people vandalized his buildings. They broke into the Blue Dog Saloon and stole invaluable possessions of the stories he often told,” the GoFundMe page says. Zócalo Magazine pays tribute to Ed by looking back at an article that originally appeared in the May 2016 edition of the magazine.
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HE STORY OF COWTOWN Keeylocko is, quite literally, the stuff of local legend. Host to two annual festivals—Keeylocko Days in October and Spring Fever in April—as well as the occasional special event, the working ranch lies at the end of a mile-long dirt road off of Arizona Highway 86/West Ajo Way about forty miles southwest of Tucson; a handful of homemade signs (one of which is topped by a sun-bleached cow’s skull) lead the way into ‘town’ near a border patrol check station not far from mile marker 142. So long as you call ahead, you’re likely to find the property’s owner and sole resident, Ed Keeylocko, sipping clear tequila from a baby food jar at the Blue Dog Saloon—the private, fully-functioning bar and music venue that Keeylocko built by hand. With its dirt floors, wooden plank walls, and an impressive assortment of vintage western bric-a-brac, the saloon is a throwback to days long gone. And it’s not the only such structure on the property. Since he acquired the land in the early 1970s, Keeylocko has also built a library, restaurant, jailhouse, a bank which once distributed its own currency (called “Keeylocko Dollars”), an arena, an outdoor stage, and even a chapel where he can quickly marry interested visitors. To that effect, Ed Keeylocko is also an ordained minister. On any normal day, the ambiance of Cowtown Keeylocko has all of the same eerie charm—and roughly the same population—as a legitimate nineteenthcentury ghost town. Where the appearance of the property is one of an active old west haven, sans the people, the only sounds in Cowtown Keeylocko come from the wind in the creosote and the occasional braying bull. An assortment of intimidatingly large pigs can be seen wandering the grounds freely or wallowing under the stage. Perhaps appropriately, a number of the buildings onsite have fallen into disrepair over the years and now exist more-or-less simply as facades. Others have been converted from their original intended uses into elaborate storage sheds full of various odds and ends. Still, the 84-year-old cowpoke has dreams of refurbishing, and even expanding on, his creation. “I want to put it back like it was when I first built it,” Keeylocko says of his Cowtown. He says he’d ultimately like to add another saloon, a museum, and “places for people to stay—either teepees…or little bungalows—so that people can get away from a place, to relax and think, and to see the stars. A lot of people on the east coast have never seen the stars,” he says. As for the man himself, Ed Keeylocko is a bit of a mystery. And he tends to speak primarily in metaphors and anecdotes, which makes parsing the particulars of his story into something of a riddle. According to his own accounts, Keeylocko was born in South Carolina on December 3, 1931 to a mother named Alice Long, who was so anxious to be rid of him that she refused to give him a name. Without anyone’s knowledge, the doctor who birthed him—named Julius Edward Grant—filed the birth certificate under the name Julius Edward Long. But, when he was abandoned as an infant in the yard of Alice Long’s estranged aunt, Esther Brooks, he was unofficially given the name Edward J. Brooks. It wasn’t until he tried to join the military at the age of seventeen that Keylocko—then Brooks—learned that there was no official record of his existence as he knew it, and so he was baptized and admitted into the armed forces with only a certificate of baptism. He fought in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars before retiring almost twenty-four years later and relocating to Arizona. “In Arizona they didn’t see a person’s race,” he explains of his choice 10 ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com | February 2019
of residence. While Keeylocko was stationed briefly in Sierra Vista, he says it was a single positive experience with a white store clerk in Tombstone that gave him this impression. “I’d remembered that all those years,” he says. After moving to his ranch, in an effort to learn how to “breed the horns back on” his cattle (what he calls “undomestication”), Keeylocko received a degree in agriculture from the U of A and began populating the place with livestock. It also wasn’t until he’d acquired his property near the Coyote Mountains that Ed self-applied the name Keeylocko. He says his inspiration came from a South Carolinian urban legend about a man named Keylock, who would “show up and rectify the situation” whenever plantation owners were mistreating their slaves. Keeylocko says that his foster mother used to say that the wily young redhead in her keep reminded her of the “mystery man,” and so Keeylocko adopted the name officially. He made it his own by adding an extra “E” and tacking on an “O” to the end. As for the origins of his Cowtown, Keeylocko tells a story about trying to sell his cattle at auction in Tucson in the 1970s. He says his unique key-andlock brand had piqued the interest of the other ranchers in the area, but that for years none had managed to put a face to the man who owned it. Once he showed up in person to make a transaction, however, and the buyers realized that Keeylocko was black, they refused to buy from him. He says a pair of “good-ole-boys” intercepted him in the parking lot that day and suggested that, if Keeylocko wanted to sell his cattle and name his own price, he ought to just build his own town. So, that’s just what he did. Since then, Keeylocko has become something of an expert on Old West history, with particular expertise on African American cowboys. “Blacks have made a long, long history in the West,” Keeylocko says, though he insists that he didn’t know it when he first took to the lifestyle. He says the term “cowboy” actually refers to young slaves and Native Americans who managed herds in the early days of the Old West, long before whites like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and John Wayne were painted as the heroes of the range. Keeylocko refers to that particular movement in American media as “the fiction west,” during which he says African Americans were effectively written out of their true history. But there were still those who remembered the long cattle drives which had been staffed mainly by black plainsmen. Keeylocko says that, for a long time, lots of white ranchers weren’t so fond of the moniker. “The Texans didn’t like the word ‘cowboy,’” he says, “they wanted to be called ‘cowmen’… so, I guess the name just stuck, and everybody accepts that now, but it wasn’t always like that.” And it’s precisely that neglect for true history in the mainstream annuls that builds misunderstanding and prejudice, Keeylocko says. “When you don’t tell the true history,” he says, “that’s where the trouble starts.” As of yet, there is no heir apparent for Keeylocko’s legacy and namesake, though there are a few regulars at the Blue Dog Saloon who no doubt would do all they could to keep things going in the absence of the man they call “Pops.” Still, Keeylocko is open to meeting someone that fits his standard as a replacement. “You have to be a visionary about the past and the future,” he says, “you can’t think of just right now because it changes periodically, and you have to be aware of these changes.” That’s the mindset that will keep Cowtown Keeylocko alive, he says. But for now, it’s still just him and the regulars; and the occasional over-night party. And, yes, camping is included with admission. n
photo: Ed Keeylocko, April 14, 2016.
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Geronimo and his band just before surrendering in 1886. Photograph by C.S. Fly.
Geronimo Shaman, Seer, and Warrior by Gregory McNamee
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n a rugged mountain range northeast of Tucson, within line of sight of Mount Lemmon, lies a canyon lined with cottonwood and willow trees, abundant in game and fish. There, a century and a half ago, lived a band of Apache Indians known as Aravaipas. Led by an elder named Eskiminzin, they had maintained peace with the American farmers and miners who were pouring into Arizona Territory after the Civil War. The federal government formally declared them prisoners, but they were allowed to remain in the canyon. The citizens of Tucson, the largest town in the region, had been battling Apaches of all kinds for decades. When the regional military commandant made it clear that the Aravaipas would be living there under federal protection, civic leaders gathered a force of Tohono O’odham, Mexicans, and Anglos. At
dawn on April 30, 1871, the company attacked, and in moments 144 Aravaipas lay dead—most of them women and children. President Ulysses S. Grant demanded that the ringleaders of the massacre be brought to justice. A Tucson jury deliberated for nineteen minutes before acquitting them. In the aftermath, putatively for their protection, the War Department directed that all Apaches be confined to a single reservation, and for the next six years, the army chased Apaches from their highland camps and drove them to the reservation, a dusty flat along the Gila River, which the soldiers dubbed Hell’s Forty Acres. A thousand Apaches died in the process. Six thousand or so were finally rounded up. One of them was called Goyahkla, “The One Who Yawns,” better known by the name Mexican soldiers had given him: Geronimo, the Catholic saint
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On October 14, 1894, magazine illustrator Henry Farny drew this sketch of the Apache war leader Geronimo (1829–1909). Geronimo signed the sketch. Collection Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona.
Hieronymus or Jerome. He was born near at a place he called No-doyohn Canyon, near the present-day town of Clifton, Arizona, just west of the New Mexico line. He said he was born in 1829, though most historians put it in 1823. Following Apache custom, Geronimo consider his birthplace his true homeland, and though he would roam far and wide, he would often return to it, fleeing pursuers, to roll on the ground and cloak himself in ancestral dirt for protection. Geronimo was a member of a small band of Bedonkohe Apaches that lived in the Peloncillo Mountains, stretching along the Arizona–New Mexico border from the Mogollon Rim and down south into Mexico. Early on, his fellow Apaches recognized that he had a gift for seeing into the future in order to interpret the present, and he was trained as a shaman, learning songs to guide him between the spirit world and the ordinary one: Through the air, I fly upon the air Toward the sky, far, far, far, To find the sacred land. And now the change comes over me.
Skilled in medicine and prophecy, Geronimo had also been a resolute warrior since his early manhood, after Mexican soldiers came into the high country and murdered his mother, his wife, and three of his children. After that, he took matters into his own hands; as he recorded in his autobiography, he had learned as a child that Usen, the chief Apache deity, “does not care for the petty quarrels of men,” and that it was up to the injured party to exact retribution. So he did. For two decades, he traveled with small bands of Apaches into Mexico, raiding farms and laying siege to small towns, stealing cattle and horses, occasionally killing people. Wounded many times in battle, Geronimo taught his fellow warriors the tactics of invisibility, slipping away into rocky canyons and mountains when pursued, striking quickly and from a long distance. Geronimo paid little attention to the Anglos who came into Apache territory at first. They were, after all, an enemy of Mexico, too. But soon it was not Mexican soldiers but American ones who came into the Peloncillos and the Mogollon Rim country. They killed Apache leaders such as Mangas Coloradas. They killed ordinary Apaches, too. After that, Geronimo said, “all of the Indians agreed not to be friendly with the white men any more.”
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Z history The Chiricahua elder Cochise led his people into war. When he died, in 1874, his son Naiche emerged as a leader. So, too, did Geronimo, who supplanted Naiche—because, the Anglo newspapers explained, Geronimo surpassed all other Apaches in “cruelty and cunning.” More likely he was simply a better leader. Geronimo led the band from the United States to Mexico and back again, depending on which side was safer at the time. He fought the armies of both countries for a few years. Finally, in 1877, he went to the San Carlos Reservation. Geronimo submitted to the demand that he wear brass dog tags and present himself at daily roll call. But in time, fed wormy hardtack and rancid beef, unable to farm in the salty bottomlands, lied to by one government agent after another, Geronimo left with a handful of warriors, as he would do many times in the coming years. He returned to San Carlos after Mexican soldiers killed his ally, the war leader Victorio. He left the reservation again, disappearing as if by magic. To this day, historians have not been able to reconstruct with certainty the paths they followed, but this time they were not seen until they were well into the Sierra Madre of Mexico, from which Geronimo conducted a brilliant guerrilla campaign. In March 1886, after having been pursued relentlessly by thousands of American soldiers, Geronimo again surrendered. By this time his band—numbering about thirty-five warriors and one hundred women—had split apart. Many of the Apaches remained in the Sierra Madre, where loggers would find their campfires and arrowheads well into the 1940s. Geronimo had a simple demand on behalf of those who stayed with him: If he surrendered, he said, then he would submit to imprisonment for a couple of years, as long as his people were allowed to return to Arizona. Instead, the Apaches were shipped off to an island prison in Florida where the Aravaipas who had survived the Camp Grant Massacre were also interned. Geronimo was not with them; with Naiche and a few others, he escaped to Mexico. The noose tightened, with Mexican soldiers in pursuit on one side, Americans on the other. In a few months, on September 3, 1886, at a place near the border called Skeleton Canyon, Geronimo made his final surrender. A memorial along US 80, forty miles northeast of Douglas, Arizona, commemorates the surrender, which actually occurred a dozen miles south in rugged, little-visited country. Geronimo would never see his native land again, even though General Nelson Miles promised him that on signing the peace treaty, “Your past deeds shall be wiped out . . . and you will start a new life.” He was imprisoned separately from the other Apaches and put to hard labor for nearly eight years. President Grover Cleveland declined several appeals to pardon him, after having said that his fondest hope was to hang Geronimo Geronimo, photographed by Edward S. instead of treating him as a prisoner of war. Curtis, 1905. Then, in 1894, along with some 340 other Apache prisoners, Geronimo was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he farmed and posed for tourist photographs, sitting at the steering wheel of a Cadillac sedan bedecked in a top hat or a Plains Indian headdress. He made an appearance in St. Louis honoring the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, selling bows and arrows and signing autograph books. He played baseball. He related his life story to a white biographer. He traveled to Washington to appear in President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade in 1905, and he asked: “Arizona is my land, my home, my father’s land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among the mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct.” Roosevelt rebuffed him. When death came to Geronimo 110 years ago, on February 17, 1909, it must have been a relief. And for a time, it appeared as if the Apaches would depart with him. For the next decades, the residents of San Carlos raised hay and barley for the horses of the government that confined them, and they continued to die, now the victims of diseases like malaria and typhus and especially of hunger—for, as American officer John Gregory Bourke thoughtfully remarked, “Our government had never been able to starve any of them until it had them placed on a reservation.” But the Apaches survived, against terrible odds. Long forgotten, Geronimo reemerged in history in World War II, when American paratroopers shouted his name while jumping into battle. Their cry made a fitting tribute to a warrior whose name endures all these years later. n 18 ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com | February 2019
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february SAT 2 SAVOR FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL A culinary festival that will indulge you in the flavors of Southern Arizona’s culinary arts. With over 65 of the region’s finest chefs, wineries, breweries and restaurants. 21 and up event. Tickets: $79 each, $85 day of event. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 11am-3pm. 520-797-3959. SAACA.org
WEDS 6 – SUN 10 60TH TUBAC FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS Meander the streets of Tubac to see work by over 200 participating artists alongside more than 100 art galleries, food vendors, a beer garden, and live music at the main stage. 10am to 5pm daily. 520-3982704. TubacFestivals.com
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Angel by Carolyn Sotelo, along with Miles Conrad, Cristina Cadenas, Jacqueline Chanda, and Neda Contreras at Contreras Gallery through Feb. 23.
SIEMPRE CON NOSOTROS
A special event honoring three leaders in the community who champion the rights for homicide survivors. Tickets: $125. 5:30pm, dinner & dessert at Site 17: 840 E. 17th St. 520-207-5012. AZHomicideSurvivors.org
FRI 8 FLAME OFF! Watch 18 artists work with glass live at this special not-to-be missed event. It’s like the Iron Chef of glass art competitions! This year’s competition theme: (Un) Natural World. Artworks are available to be bid on during and after the event. Tickets: $20, VIP $50. Proceeds benefit the Sonoran Glass School. Returning this year is the Sonoran Glass Art Show housing glass art from artist around the country. Open from 10am to 5pm February 6 to 9. Flame Off! Competition is from 7pm to 11pm on February 8. 633 W. 18th Street. 520-884-7814. SonoranGlass.org
SAT 9 2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN
A free, family friendly urban block party! 2pm to 9pm street performers, 5pm to 9pm stage performances. Performances, vendors, food trucks, and more. Free family friendly movie at the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum. Downtown Tucson. 2ndSaturdaysDowntown.com
SAT 9 CITY MARKET: WINTER
Tunnel Vision wall installation by Adrian Esparza, solo exhibit at Joseph Gross Gallery through Jan. 24.
Celebrating the season of winter with fine vendors offering a selection of plants, photography, watercolors and goods, along with live tunes by Kaitlyn Fabry Music and happy hour prices all evening long at the AC lounge bar. 4pm to 7pm. AC Hotel Downtown, 151 E. Broadway Blvd. Marriott.com
THE SECRET WORLD OF SHARKS Discover the true nature of the world’s most misunderstood animal in this photographic presentation with award winning underwater photographer, Samantha Schwann. Free admission, kid friendly. 6:30 to 7:30 pm. The Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Rd. CCP.Arizona.edu
SAT 9 – SUN 10 OPENING WEEKEND: 76TH ANNUAL WINTER MEET
Celebrate opening weekend of the 2019 Winter Meet with live horse racing. Post time: 1:30pm. 520-745-5486. RillitoRaceTrack.com
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february Sonoran Glass School host its 18th annual Flame Off competition on February 8, 7pm at 633 W. 18th Street.
SUN 10 FINE VALENTINE COUPLE’S RELAY
True loves, best buds, and solo runners/walkers are all welcome at this fun race ad post race brunch with 100% of proceeds going to charity. Costume and PDA contest, UofA stadium ramps included in the course, free post-race hot breakfast at Gentle Ben’s. Race beings at 8:30am. 4m and 2m events. Register online. AZRoadRunners.org
OUR BLACKNESS, OUR HERITAGE COMMUNITY SHOWCASE In honor of Black History Month, Team Keeping the Culture Alive along with the Barbea Williams Performing Company is bringing the 2nd annual step show and community showcase to the Old Pueblo! Featuring African and African fusion dances throughout the showcase. School supply donations for TUSD’s African American Student Services will be accepted. 4pm to 6pm. Doors open at 3pm with food and merchandise vendors available. Pre-sale tickets: $5 kids 13 and under, $7 adults, or $10 each at the door on the day of event. Cholla High School, 2001 W. Starr Pass Blvd. 520-628-7785.
FRI 22 – SUN 24 QUILT FIESTA! The 41st annual event features a small quilt auction, door prizes, speaker Joanne Hillestad, lectures, demos and hundreds of quilts to see. $10 day / $20 for 3 day pass. Fri & Sat 9am to 5pm; Sun 10am to 4pm. Tucson Convention Center, 260 S. Church St. TucsonQuiltersGuild.com
SAT 23 PEACE FAIR & MUSIC FESTIVAL
Arizona’s largest gathering of peace, justice, and environmental groups with live music and entertainment, food vendors, raffle prizes, and activities for kids. Free to attend. 11am-4pm. Armory Park Center, 220 S. 5th Ave. For more information call 520-468-5805 or visit: TucsonPeaceCalendar.org
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WESTWARD LOOK PRO TENNIS CLASSIC
non-competitive, social 3-mile run/walk, that begins and ends downtown at Hotel Congress, rain/shine/holidays included! Free. 5:15pm. 311 E. Congress St. 520-9910733, MeetMeAtMaynards.com
Professional tennis players from across the globe will participate in the tournament, featuring $15,000 in prize money. Attendance is free and open to the public. Westward Look Resort & Spa, 245 E. Ina Rd. ITFTennis.com
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SANTA CRUZ RIVER FARMERS’ MARKET Locally grown foods and goods
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with live music. Guided walks through Menlo Park begin at 4:30pm. Market Hours: 4-7pm. Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida Del Convento. MercadoSanAgustin.com
the world, this event features a massive bike expo, dedication dinner, late night entertainment, and 24 hours of tunes provided by 91.3 KXCI Community radio. 520-6231584. EpicRides.com
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Western heritage meets extreme sport when the cowboys and cowgirls come to town. It’s non-stop action with bull riding, bareback and saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, team and tie-down. Don’t miss the rodeo parade with over 200 non-motorized floats on display at 9am on February 21. Tickets and more information available online. TucsonRodeo.com
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The Grand Canyon celebrates 100 years as a National Park in February. Photo: Zuni Point, black and white, silver gelatin print with some silvering. Henry G. Peabody Photographs (circa 1930). CP PEA. Greater Arizona Collection. ASU Library, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
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North Rim Visitor Center, Grand Canyon National Park. Photo © AT Willett, 2014 Editor’s note: In this issue and over the next several issues of Zócalo Magazine, we explore the Grand Canyon, which is celebrating 100 years as a National Park. In March and April, we’ll go below the rim to look at river trips, backpacking adventures, and the land of the blue-green water.
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little more than a century ago, Europe broke out in a war that involved dozens of nations on every continent, one that killed and wounded millions. When it was over, in 1920, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the French commander in chief of the Allied forces in World War I, came to the United States on a nationwide tour, where great crowds met him to applaud him for victory. He traveled from coast to coast by rail. Along the way he was taken to see the Grand Canyon, where he spent long minutes gazing into its depths, transfixed. His American escort finally asked him what he thought of the place. Marshal Foch replied, “I was just thinking what a wonderful place this would be to drop one’s mother-in-law!” He may not have been the first to harbor such malign thoughts about his relative by marriage, but Marshal Foch probably secretly appreciated the place anyway. At least so we can imagine, since, his American guide reported, he waited a while before speaking, breathless, taking in all that grandeur before him. We can imagine a link between moment and the time that the first people to lay eyes on the place, perhaps 15,000 years ago, perhaps even longer ago than that. They surely also beheld it in wonderment, that place that later generations of Native people called Tsékooh Hatsoh, “rock canyon of great space,” Ongtupka, “home of the ancestors,” and other exalted names. The first Europeans to see it seem to have tried to hide the fact that they were impressed. When the first Spanish exploring party surveyed the area in 1540, its members referred to the great chasm before them simply as an “arroyo,” a ditch different from others in the region only inasmuch as it was “several leagues wide.” Even after exploring it for several days, Lieutenant 26 ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com | February 2019
López de Cárdenas would not believe the claim of his Indian guides that the river was half a league—more than a mile—across. He imagined its width, way down at the bottom of the canyon, to be only a few feet. The name “Grand Canyon” came into currency thanks to John Wesley Powell, who explored the canyon while traveling the length of the Colorado River in 1869, and again a couple of years later. Powell was an interesting fellow in countless respects, a brilliant scholar and intrepid explorer who wasn’t slowed down a bit by having lost an arm at the Civil War Battle of Shiloh. Even with that loss, he still managed to scale the walls of the Grand Canyon and visit the rim, where astonished Native people gathered to greet him. When his explorations were over, he went back to Washington, D.C., and put his knowledge to work as a government employee, founding the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology and the U.S. Geological Survey. There he made powerful arguments for organizing the states of the West according to the watersheds they contained, which would have made the Grand Canyon part of Wyoming rather than Arizona, but those arguments went unheard, yielding the legacy of conflict over water rights that Powell forecast. Powell’s good influence is one very solid reason why, beginning about then, the federal government began to pay closer attention to what is called the public domain, eventually setting aside portions of especially valuable— scientifically and scenically, that is, and not necessarily fiscally—land for future generations to enjoy. The preservation of the Grand Canyon was one result, and for just those scientific and scenic considerations.
arizona Z The first national park was established while Powell was setting up shop in whole worlds, and no ten lifetimes would be sufficient to explore it. It inspires back in D.C. following his second journey down the Colorado River: Yellowstone, awe, reverence, tranquility, and even terror, if you’re nervous about heights. It’s established in 1872, when Ulysses S. Grant, Powell’s commander at Shiloh, a place where blue-green water cascades over waterfalls several stories high, was midway through his first term as president of the United States. Despite where ferns and agaves grow side by side, where walls of stone drop thousands Powell’s efforts, it took some time before the Grand Canyon was set aside under of feet and condors soar overhead. Namibia, the Ukraine, Mexico, Tibet may the same kind of national protection, and meanwhile Arizonans went about shelter cousins to the place, but none of them quite equals the treasure that their business trying to make a living down in its shadow or up on its rim. now belongs to each of us. Go to the Canyon, for instance, and off to the west of Grand Canyon Village Some people who come to Grand Canyon feel strangely insignificant, on the South Rim you’ll find the Powell Memorial, named for John Wesley—who dwarfed by the sheer, barely fathomable, oversized scale of the place. That named many places in the Canyon, including all those Bright Angel names that stands to reason, for any place that suddenly gives way to a mile-deep fall, in dot its map, embracing the old Methodist hymn “Shall We Gather at the River,” which the whole of humankind past and present could easily be hidden, can but who modestly refused to name anything for himself. Look over the edge, make a single individual feel unaccountably tiny. and a good way down you may be able to see bits and pieces of Bass Camp, Faced with the incomparable grandeur of Grand Canyon, other people feel where pioneer William Wallace Bass, who exalted, spiritually elevated. Though it is flat, arrived at the Canyon in 1883, single-handedly the plateau leading to the Canyon is what the built a cable car to cross the river, planning for indigenous Kaibab people called a “mountain crowds of miners and tourists who, back then, lying down,” lifted up toward the heavens over failed to show up in sufficient numbers to make endless eons of geological time. Mountains in all the enterprise worthwhile. “The cable affords their forms, even flattish ones, are traditionally a fair crossing of the river at this point, and associated with deities and spirits, not so with a man on top of the car to operate the much because of the mere fact that they are windlass, a horse can be carried across, if he high relative to their surroundings but because is a tractable animal,” wrote Canyon explorer from them you can truly see forever, giving us Claude Birdseye, whose happy name suited a larger-than-life feeling that resembles nothing the vistas he took in. so much as extrasensory perception. Standing But by the time the 20th century opened, there at the edge of the world, I always find my with a railroad making regular runs up from senses sharpening, my eyesight and hearing Williams to the South Rim, visitors were becoming just a touch more acute—that on top showing up at the Canyon, and the miners of the vertigo that the place induces. and ranchers working there began to get the My first trip to Grand Canyon, in 1976, idea that there was more of a living to be was in the company of budding geologists, made serving the needs of those visitors than part of a laboratory class in geosciences that there was in cowpunching or digging for gold. I had enrolled in at the University. I was a new President Benjamin Harrison had set some of transplant from Virginia, still green, certainly the area aside as a “forest reserve” in 1893, untested in the ways of the desert as compared one of the last things he did in office. When he to the westerners I met, who nonchalantly came into the presidency in 1905, Theodore walked the rough-and-tumble Grandview Trail Roosevelt, who had first visited the Canyon with me in cowboy boots and tennis shoes. while spending time toughening himself up Others ran the trail from rim to rim, forcing as a young man in the Wild West, had other me to acknowledge that my various tromps ideas. He set about doing the legwork required into the Canyon were pretty unambitious by to designate the Grand Canyon a national comparison. A stranger sight altogether came monument, strengthening federal protections a couple of years later, when, dangling my feet Black and white print of six men and four women for it, and this he officially did in 1908. After over a ledge on Horseshoe Mesa, a thousand (unidentified) astride mules on the trail. Luhrs Family Photographs (1867-1990s). CP LFPC 390. taking that gander down to Bass Camp, if you or so feet above the river, I was startled out of Greater Arizona Collection. ASU Library, Arizona look hard enough across the miles and miles my skin at the sight of a hand, then another, State University, Tempe, AZ of open air to the North Rim, you may make coming up over the sheer wall. A leathery face out 8,429-foot-tall Roosevelt Point, named to followed, burned by the sun. “Got any water?” honor Roosevelt for that far-sighted accomplishment. Strangely, for so central he asked. “Got any food? A cigarette?” On the run from the law, the fellow—who a figure in Grand Canyon history, Roosevelt did not formally receive this honor disappeared as swiftly as he had appeared—had been hiding out in the inner until 1996, and the name is among the most recent additions to the Canyon’s canyon for months, though he apparently thought nothing of coming up for map. supplies from time to time. In 1919, under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson and just in time for Foch’s As I said, the Canyon contains whole worlds, some of them, like that visit, the Grand Canyon was given national park status, one principal difference sighting, very strange indeed. Arguments are ongoing about whether the place between a national monument and a national park being the recognition of its ought to be developed, mined, made more accessible, dammed, but a century world-class nature. Though there are deep canyons elsewhere in the world—I of conservation within the national park system will be tough to undo, even once visited the South Rim with a Soviet publisher, back in the days of the Soviet for the rapacious greedheads who are now in charge. On this centenary of Union, who airily dismissed the scene before him by saying, “Oh, we have one its elevation to one of the world’s most important and heavily visited national of these”—there is nothing quite like the Grand Canyon, at least on this planet. parks, we owe it every bit of protection we can offer, and every honor to a place The Grand Canyon, 277 miles long, varying between 5 and 18 miles wide, takes unlike any other. n February 2019 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 27
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“Desert Blooms” the flora and fauna of the Sonoran Desert, a selection of 1950s watercolors by Tucson artist Ted DeGrazia, will be on display at the Gallery in the Sun from February 1 through September 4, 2019.
AGUA CALIENTE PARK Reflections of Nature featuring glass paintings by Sue
DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN The Way of the Cross opens February 1
Betanzos, is on view through February 13. In the Steps of the Masters is on view February 16 to March 13 by members of Club Camera Tucson. Hours: 10am to 3pm. Ranch House Gallery, 12325 E. Roger Rd. 520-749-3718.
and continues through May 22. Desert Blooms opens February 1 with a reception from 5pm to 7pm, and continues through September 4. Hours: Daily 10am-4pm. 6300 N. Swan Rd. 520-299-9191. DeGrazia.org
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In This Together: Daring to Create a More Perfect Arizona, an ACLU of Arizona art exhibit opens February 5 and is on view to March 5. An opening reception and workshop on civil discourse is February 6 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Facing Work is on view through February 16. 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 June 1 and Hopi Katsina Dolls: Changing Styles, Enduring Meanings closes July 27. Long term exhibitions include, The Resiliency of Hopi Agriculture: 2000 Years of Planting; Life Along the River: Ancestral Hopi at Homol’ovi; Woven Through Time; The Pottery Project; Paths of Life. Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. 520-621-6302. 1013 E. University Blvd. StateMuseum.Arizona.Edu
CACTUS WREN GALLERY Art Trails Open Studio Tours February 2 & 3 from 9am to 4pm. Vintage Palooza February 17 from 9am to 2pm. Gallery hours: Everyday from 9am to 4pm. 2740 S. Kinney Rd. 520-437-9103. CactusWrenArtisans.net
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Richard Avedon: Relationships is on view through May 11. Ansel Adams: Examples is on view February 23 through May 4 with a special preview event February 22 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm. The Ansel Adams Public Celebration is February 23 from Noon to 4:00 pm. Hours: Tue-Fri 9am-4pm; Sat 1-4pm. 1030 N. Olive Rd. 520-621-7968. CreativePhotography.org
The Art of Friendship opens February 5 at 10am. Opening reception is on February 8 from 5pm to 7pm. The exhibitions Mini Masterpieces: An 8 x 8 Fine Art Show and Color Reflection are on view through February 3. Susan Libby and Judith Probst Pop Up Show is February 2 from 10am to 1pm. Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 10am-1:30pm. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Rd. 520-722-4412. DesertArtisansGallery.com
ETHERTON GALLERY
Bill Owens, David Hurn, and David Graham opens February 5 and is on view to April 20, with an opening reception February 9 from 7 to 10pm. The exhibition, In This Together: Sixty Years of Daring to Create a More Perfect Arizona will continue through February 2. Kate Breakey: Black Tulips continues through April 28 at the Tucson Botanical Gardens. Hours: Tues-Sat 11am-5pm or by appointment. 135 S. 6th Ave. 520-624-7370. EthertonGallery.com
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H2Oh! Juried Exhibition from the Studio Art Quilt Association is on view through February 10. Feathers: Solo Exhibition by Chris Maynard opens March 23 and continues through July 7. Hours: Daily 10am-4pm. 2021 N. Kinney Rd. 520-883-3024. DesertMuseum.org
JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM Call Me Rohingya is on view through May 31. Hours: Weds, Thurs, Sat & Sun 1-5pm; Fri 1-3pm. 564 S. Stone Ave. 520-670-9073. JewishHistoryMuseum.org
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY I-10: Adrian Esparza is on view through March 7. Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-4pm. 1031 N. Olive Rd. 520-626-4215. CFA.arizona.edu/galleries
CONTRERAS GALLERY Art Safari opens February 2 with a reception from 6 pm
LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY Separados por Frontera – Separated by
to 9pm and continues through February 23. Hours: Tues-Sat 10am-3:30pm. 110 E. 6th St. 520-398-6557. ContrerasHouseFineArt.com
Borders is on view through March 8. A gallery talk will be held on February 7 from 5pm to 7pm. Hours: Mon-Thurs 10am-5pm and Fri 10am-3pm. Pima Community College, 2202 West Anklam Rd. 520-206-6942. Pima.Edu
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Postmodern Dialogue is on view through February 23. On Our Watch opens March 1 and continues through April 20. Hours: TuesFri 11am-5pm; Sat 11am-4pm. 154 E. 6th St. 520-629-9759. DavisDominguez.com
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Ghost Stories & Fairy Tales: Make Believe in Miniature February 1 through April 28, 2019, Featuring original stories, 1/7 scale dioramas, paintings, puppets, and music by Anaheim artist Geoff Mitchell, at the The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures
MINI TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Ghost Stories and Fairytales: Make Believe in Miniature is on view February 1 through April 28. Girls’ Day Display is on view February 5 to March 3. Dave Cummins: Envisioning Bugatti is on view through April 28. Tues-Sat 9am-4pm and Sun 12-4pm. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Dr. 520881-0606. TheMiniTimeMachine.org
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Dazzled: OMD, Memphis Design, and Beyond continues through April 12. Hours: Weds-Sun 12-5pm. 265 S. Church Ave. 520624-5019. MOCA-Tucson.org
PORTER HALL GALLERY Ancient Climates is on view through February 9 in the Friend’s House Gallery; Kate Breakey: Black Tulips is on view to April 28; Out of the Woods: Celebrating Trees in Public Gardens is on view in The Legacy and Porter Hall Galleries through April 13. Hours: Daily 8:30am-4:30pm. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 520326-9686. TucsonBotanical.org
TUCSON DESERT ART MUSEUM
EFFIE! Plein Air Pioneer is on view through April 28. Ongoing exhibitions include: Desert Hollywood, The Dawn of American Landscape, and The Weavings of the Dine. Hours: Weds-Sun 10am-4pm. 7000 E Tanque Verde Rd. 520-202-3888. TucsonDArt.Org
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Carlos Estevez: Entelechy, Works from 1992 to 2018 is on view through May 5. Blue Tears: Installation by Patricia Carr Morgan is on view through April 21. Ongoing exhibits include Selections from the Kasser Mochary Art Foundation; Asian Art; Native American Culture and Arts; European Art; Pre-Columbian 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
Diner is currently on display featuring original china and silver service from the named first class Pullman trains. 414 N. Toole Ave. 520-623-2223. TucsonHistoricDepot.org
UA MUSEUM OF ART Current exhibitions include: Botanical Relations on view to March 31; What is the Color, When Black is Burned? The Gold War. Part 1. on view to March 24; 6 & 6 on view to March 31; Renaissance Prints from the Permanent Collection: A Selection on view to February 17. Ongoing exhibitions include, The Altarpiece From Ciudad Rodrigo. Hours: Tues-Fri 9am-5pm; Sat-Sun 12-4pm. 1031 N. Olive Rd. 520621-7567. ArtMuseum.Arizona.Edu
SOUTHERN ARIZONA WATERCOLOR GUILD Signature Show is on view
UA POETRY CENTER Artists’ Books: Focus on Photography is on view to February
February 5 to March 3 with a reception February 14 from 5pm to 7pm. Annual Show 2019 continues through February 3. Hours: Tues-Sun 11am-4pm. Williams Centre 5420 East Broadway Blvd #240. 520-299-7294. SouthernAzWatercolorGuild.com
16. Broken Threads, Lives Unraveled: Fuentes Rojas and the Migrant Quilt Project is on view February 25 to April 20. Hours: Mon & Thurs 9am-8pm; Tues, Weds, Fri 9am-5pm. 1508 E. Helen St. 520-626-3765. Poetry.Arizona.Edu
SUNSHINE SHOP Three exhibitions open: Welcome; Monsieur et Monsieur; and
WILDE MEYER GALLERY Small Works Show opens February 1 and is on view to
Kinetics & Aesthetics with a reception February 9 from 5:30 to 7:30pm. Exhibitions are on view through March 11. 2934 E. Broadway Blvd. SunshineShopTucson.com
February 28 with receptions February 2 and 3 from 11am to 3pm. Hours: Mon-Fri 10am5:30pm; Thurs 10am-7pm; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12-5pm. 2890 E. Skyline Dr. Suite 170. 520-615-5222, WildeMeyer.com
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TOHONO CHUL PARK
Copper State is on view in the Main Gallery through February 6. On February 14, Pollen Path opens in the Main Gallery with a reception from 5:30pm to 8:00pm and is on view through April 17. Featured Artist: William Lesch is on view through February 6 in the Welcome Gallery. On February 14, Featured Artist Erinn Kennedy opens with a reception from 5:30pm to 8:00pm and is on view through April 17. In the Entry Gallery Project Space, Laurie McKenna is on view February 1 to March 17. Hours: Daily 9am-5pm. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 520-742-6455. TohonoChulPark.org
TRIANGLE L RANCH 6 Women Creating, Living & Sharing is on view through February 16. Closing reception is February 16 from 2pm to 5pm. Adobe Barn Gallery, Triangle L Ranch, 2805 N. Triangle L Ranch Rd. 520-623-6732. TriangleLRanch.com
WOMANKRAFT ART GALLERY
Getting Into Shapes is on view February 2 to March 30 with receptions February 2 and March 2 from 7pm to 9pm. Hours: Weds-Sat 1-5pm. 388 S. Stone Ave. 520-629-9976. WomanKraft.org
YUME GARDENS Sakura: Photography by Mark Taylor opens with a reception on February 9 from 5pm to 7pm and is on view through May 4. Gardens will be closed during the reception. Garden hours: Tues-Sat 9:30am-4:30pm; Sun Noon-5pm. 2130 North Alvernon Way. 520-303-3945. YumeGardens.org
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Celebrate Ansel Adams at the Center for Creative Photography Ansel Adams: Examples February 23 – May 4, 2019. Late in his life, in response to persistent public interest in how his images were made, Ansel Adams published Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs. The book, which attempted to answer a question Adams’ was frequently asked, “How did you make this photograph?”, delves into the circumstances surrounding all aspects of the famed photographer’s image-making process. In it, Adams provides background to how he came to make certain images, outlines his thought process, and provides technical details related to each photograph. A mixture of Adams’ most iconic works, as well as lesser-known pictures, “Examples” delivers an insightful look into the photographer’s work and process.
Ansel Adams Evening Preview Event Friday, February 22, 5:30-8:00 pm, $30/person for CCP members, $40/person for the general public. Join the CCP for an exclusive reception to celebrate Ansel Adams. Guests will enjoy exclusive programming in the Volkerding Study Center, a special talk by Mark Burns, an archival material viewing, and get the first look at the Ansel Adams: Examples exhibition. Light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served. Lastly, in honor of Ansel’s fashion, bolo ties are encouraged and welcomed at this event. Tickets are available at www.ccp. arizona.edu
Ansel Adams Public Celebration Saturday, February 23, 12:00-4:00 pm, Free. Join CCP for an afternoon of Ansel fun! Activities include the opening of Ansel Adams: Examples, selfguided archival object tours, cake, vintage camera display, and hands-on family activities, such as making sun prints, a chalk mural, photo booth and more. The afternoon also features a presentation by renowned photographer Mark Burns. Mark Burns will be speaking promptly at 1:00pm. Space is limited in the auditorium.
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Image right: Color postcard titled, “8797 El Tovar Grand Canyon of Arizona.” Handwritten annotation, “Dear Miss Oakley, I expect to leave here Tuesday A.M. Have had the time of my life. Lovingly, M. Ryder Ridgway Photographs (1862-1974). CP RR 605. Greater Arizona Collection. ASU Library, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
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Fine Dining at El Tovar A Harvey House Endures by Gregory McNamee IN THE MID–1870S, an immigrant from England joined forces with the expanding Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad with a novel proposition. He had endured many a bad meal on the road west, and he discerned that he could use speed of transport to his advantage in getting better food in front of travelers. Fred Harvey had worked his way up the line from busboy to owner in a string of restaurants, and he knew his finnan haddie and his cheese soup. His idea was simple: At stops across the prairie into the Southwest on the route of the railroad, he would build travelers’ inns serving fresh food in wondrous quantities. As a refinement of the idea, he soon hit on the notion that this fresh food would be served by young women whom he called “Harvey Girls.” In time, dozens of his “Harvey Houses” sprang up along and near railroad lines throughout the Southwest, and it is no accident that some of the finest hotels in the region today are also Harvey creations or allies with fine restaurants attached, including La Fonda in Santa Fe and the Turquoise Room of La Posada in Winslow, Arizona. One of the finest, surely in terms of view as well as cuisine, is the dining room of the El Tovar Hotel on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, which opened as a Harvey House in 1905, the year the Grand Canyon was named a national monument, and has been doing a steady business ever since. Fred Harvey favored sturdy food to fit his taste, educated but rooted in the working-class Liverpool from which he had immigrated. He bought beef by the stockyard—more than 1,200 pounds a week early on—and daringly served it less than shoe-leather well done, educating Southwestern palates himself. Moreover, along with the blue point oysters, halibut, and potatoes au gratin, Harvey served local dishes, for one of his fundamental rules of doing business was, “Never take yourself too damn seriously,” and one of the sure signs of doing so was being slavish to an East Coast culinary regime. A Harvey House
chef in Las Vegas, New Mexico, was renowned up and down the line for his albondigas soup, to which he added a few exotic ingredients such as butter and marjoram. Harvey liked his codfish balls and his sautéed bullfrogs, but he may have been the first Anglo restaurateur in the nation to serve guacamole to Anglo guests. A collection of his recipes made certain cultural adjustments, to be sure; as one for “chili sauce” put it, “The foregoing is a Mexican dish, but the average American prefers a somewhat milder sauce, which can be produced by one quart or more of tomatoes instead of water.” So it is that the El Tovar dining room features a blend of haute cuisine and local flavor—salmon tostadas, say, and green chile chicken soup. There’s blue corn everywhere, including blue corn pancakes with pine nut butter and prickly pear syrup; if you want something warmer in your belly of a morning, then the chorizo with scrambled eggs, a Southwestern standby, is hard to beat, topped off with a tangy tomatillo salsa. You can go fancier than all that, with goat cheese, pan-seared scallops, fig jam, endive salad, filet mignon, and French onion soup, or you can sink into a simple hamburger. Cutting back to the Southwest, you can top it off with a chocolate mousse inside a chocolate taco, after having washed the meal down with locally produced beers or Arizona wines—and the wine list numbers more than 100 selections from all over the world. If you’re among the rich and powerful, you’ll want to call for a table with a picture-window view of the Canyon. If you’re not, well, there’s really not a bad seat in the house, limited views notwithstanding. The dining room is a touch pricy by Arizona standards (figure on $75 a person for dinner), but there’s no better food at the Grand Canyon. This is a known fact, and the restaurant is booked well in advance, so make a reservation before you roll in. Tell them Fred Harvey sent you. n February 2019 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 35
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ARIZONA FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC Alexander String Quartet with
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Pianist Joyce Yang February 13, 7:30 pm. Portals – Tim Fain Violin, February 21 7:30 pm. See website for locations. 520-577-3769. ArizonaChamberMusic.org
Benefit Concert, February 5. Concert at 7:00pm, auction at 6:30pm. Tucson Jewish Community Center, 3800 E. River Rd. 520730-3371. COTMusic.org
ARIZONA OPERA La Traviata, February 2 & 3. Silent Night, March 9 & 10. Tucson
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Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. 520-293-4336. AZOpera.org
ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE
Top Girls, February 6 to 24. Richard III, March 13 to 31. 1025 N. Olive Rd. 520-621-1162. Theatre.Arizona.edu
ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY
Two Trains Running, continues through February 9. Special Event: With Love, Marilyn, February 14 to 17. Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. 520-884-8210. ArizonaTheatre.org
ARTIFACT DANCE PROJECT
Goliath, A Story Retold. March 21 to 24. Steve Eller Dance Theatre, University of Arizona, 1737 East University Blvd. 520-235-7638. ArtifactDanceProject.org
BALLET TUCSON Winter Concert, February 1 to 3. Spring Concert, March 8 to 10. See website for locations. 800-838-3006. BalletTucson.org
BROADWAY IN TUCSON Something Rotten! February 5 to 10. Centennial Hall,
Jackie Evancho, January 10, 7:30pm; Lewis Black: The Joke’s On Us Tour, February 1, 8:00 pm; Groundhog Day (1993 movie), February 2, 7:30pm; Lonesome Traveler with Special Guest Peter Yarrow, February 3, 7:00pm; Joan Osbourne Sings Bob Dylan, February 6, 7:30pm; Some Like it Hot (1959), February 9, 7:30pm; The Oak Ridge Boys Shine the Light Tour, February 12, 7:30pm; Brian Regan, February 16, 7:00pm; Richard Thompson Electric Trio, February 17, 7:00pm; Roseanne Cash & Her Band – She Remembers Everything, February 20, 7:30pm; Tim Fain, February 21, 7:30pm; The Doo Wop Project, February 22, 7:30pm; Joey Diaz, Febuary 23, 7:00pm; Tori Kelly The Acoustic Sessions, February 25, 8:00pm; USAF Commanders Jazz Ensemble, February 27, 7:30pm; BANFF Mountain Film Festival, February 28 to March 2, 7:00pm. Fox Theatre, 17 W Congress St. 520-547-3040. FoxTucson.com
THE GASLIGHT THEATRE
The Belle Tombstone, January 10 to March 31. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 520-886-9428. TheGaslightTheatre.com
INVISIBLE THEATRE
Dancing Lessons, February 5 to 17. 1400 North First Avenue. 1200 West Speedway. 520-882-9721. InvisibleTheatre.com
1020 East University Blvd. 903-2929, BroadwayInTucson.com
LAFFS COMEDY CAFFE Steve Gillespie, February 1 & 2; Auggie Smith, February
CARNIVAL OF ILLUSION February 22 sold out; February 23 at 4:30 pm & 7:30
8 & 9; Lisa Landry, February 15 & 16; Johnny Beehner, February 22 & 23. 2900 E. Broadway. 520-32-Funny. LaffsTucson.com
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United States Air Force Band of the Golden West Commanders Jazz Ensemble, February 27, 7:30pm, at Fox Tucson Theatre
Some Like it Hot, February 9th, 7:30pm, at Fox Tucson Theatre.
LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP
Stage Kiss continues through February 16 and Time Stands Still is February 21 to March 30 on the Mainstage; The Brave Knight, Sir Lancelot, continues through March 24 in the Family Theatre. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 520-327-4242. LiveTheatreWorkshop.org
ODYSSEY STORYTELLING SERIES
Red Hot, February 7. Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm. The Sea of Glass Center for the Arts, 330 E. 7th St. 520-7304112. OdysseyStorytelling.com
TUCSON CONVENTION CENTER
Shen Yun – 5,000 Years of Civilization Reborn, February 26 & 27. 260 S. Church Ave. TucsonConventionCenter.com
TUCSON DESERT SONGFEST Latin Celebration! Various events continue through February 5. TucsonDesertSongFestival.org TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mamma Mia, February 21 to March 3. Proscenium Theatre, PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Rd. 520-206-6986. Pima.edu
Haydn & Schumann, February 2 at 2:00pm, Catalina Foothills High School; Best of the Eagles, February 9 at 7:30pm, Tucson Music Hall; Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, February 15 at 7:30pm, Tucson Music Hall; Just for Kids - Juanita the Adventurous Chicken, February 16 at 10:00 am, Tucson Symphony Center. 520-882-8585. TucsonSymphony.org
THE ROGUE THEATRE The Secret in the Wings, February 28 to March 17. 300
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Die Fledermaus, February 27 to March 3. University of Arizona, Bryant-Jordan Hall. 520-621-1162. Opera.Music.UA.Edu
SCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE
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Every Brilliant Thing, February 7 to 24. 738 N 5th Ave. 520-448-3300. ScoundrelandScamp.org
SOMETHING SOMETHING THEATRE COMPANY
The Hall of Final Ruin, February 22 to March 10. Temple Cabaret, 330 S. Scott Ave. 520-468-6111. SomethingSomethingTheatre.com
SOUTHERN ARIZONA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Something Rotten!, February 5 to 10; Joshua Bell, February 15, 8:00pm; Camille A. Brown & Dancers, February 21, 7:30pm; Bella Gaia, Beautiful Earth, February 24, 3:00pm. Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. 520-621-3364. UAPresents.org
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Sweet Ghosts, Feb. 8 at EXO
What’s Live Listening Rooms – What a Concept by Jim Lipson
TO FULLY APPRECIATE the delight of a good listening room, one must fully comprehend the consequences of what it’s like not to have that, especially when good music is involved. Without a doubt, the greatest non-listening room experience ever, was given to us by the Beatles. While crowds were beginning to get out of hand in Europe, it was the Ed Sullivan Show performances, 55 years ago this month, that somehow made screaming at the top of your lungs an acceptable concert behavior. In perhaps the greatest of rock and roll ironies, it was their complete disgust at the inability of anyone to hear anything (as even they could not hear their instruments), that drove the Fabs deep into the studio, where, with George Martin producing, they went on to develop the ultimate virtual listening room where they had complete control of every nuance of sound they wished to create and be heard. Within the legend that is the Beatles, people tend to forget what a great live band they were as evidenced by the two recordings that bookend their career.
Live at the Star Club in Hamburg in 1962, with Ringo sitting in on drums before he had joined the band, is nothing short of a great rock and roll band at the peak of its powers. Likewise, although within a completely different context, was their final performance on the rooftop of the Apple building in London a scant 50 years ago tomorrow (January 30 as we go to press), captured on vinyl and film in Let It Be. As usual, I digress. But still, in its own ways, the rooftop stage and the dingy confines of the Star Club were both great listening rooms, facilitating outstanding performances to be fully appreciated. Locally, unless you can score a gig at a place like the Berger Center or the Fox, the sound experience can be a crapshoot. Micro-breweries and coffee houses can be really cool places to play or be, but depending on the mood of the crowd and its ambient noise level and the frequency of the espresso, cappuccino or smoothie machines, you never know how it’s going to sound. One place that’s trying to find that good middle ground of social experience and listening room is the Exo Roast. Located on the corner of Sixth Ave. and
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Richard Thompson, at Fox Theatre, Feb. 17
7th St., it is literally attached to Tap & Bottle but with a radically different layout and feel. On a recent field trip not knowing who was playing, I got to enjoy Naim Amor’s jazz trio. With lots of tables, big chairs and even a few couches, the place has a homey come hang out kind of vibe. And the sound, through a minimal PA, was perfect because the noise level, while certainly a bit of a din, never got in the way of the listening experience. In spite of the fact that this place carries a full bar and limited food menu, and with lots of people on the fringes milling about, it served well as a listening room. This month, Exo serves up two different shows well worth coming in for. The First, on Friday, February 8 is Sweet Ghosts. This unique local project is headed by Ryan Alfred and Katherine Byrnes. Alfred is a bit of a known commodity as a bass player having performed with top shelf bands like Calexico, Ryanhood, Run Boy Run and the Ronstadts. But here plays the guitar as a sensitive and soulful accompaniment to Byrnes’ solo vocals, their unexpected harmonies and Byrne’s work on the piano. For the most part, these are not tunes you’re going to leave the place humming along to. Instead, each presentation is an experience unto itself to be fully savored and explored. Call it Indie folk if you must but mostly it’s Sweet Ghosts music. You can decide what kind of label you like to or need to attach. Expanding into a full band they will be joined by Ben Nesbit on the violin, Angelo Versace, piano, Gabriel Sullivan, upright bass and Kai Felix, drums. Tickets are $10 with showtime at 8 pm. The following night at Exo expect completely different show when Mary Flower, and award winning finger picking and slide guitarist sets up shop for a couple of sets. Mary says this about her 10th and most recent recording, “This CD is a mix of lap slide instrumentals and guitar pieces with vocals, all original, and is a departure from my previous recordings. Some of these tunes have been rumbling around in my head for quite a while and seemed wellsuited for a solo project. Many…have asked for more solo and more slide ...so here it is, the raw and unadorned.” A finalist in 2000 and 2002 at the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship (Top 3 both years, and the only woman), a nominee in 2008, 2012 and 2016 for a Blues Foundation Blues Music Award, and a 2011 Portland Muddy Award winner, Flower embodies a mix of rootsy, acoustic-blues guitar and vocal styles that span a number of idioms – from Piedmont to the Mississippi Delta, with stops in ragtime, swing, folk and hot jazz. Advance tickets are $13/$15 at the door for this 8 pm show. Local blues teen, Roman Barten-Sherman opens the show. The other listening room in town is so home grown/home spun, it only exists one night a month, but when it does it shines. Singer/songwriter Joyce Zymeck, professionally known as Joyce Luna, had become so frustrated with the lack of places to play where a songwriter could truly be heard, understood and enjoyed, she set out to find a venue that could accommodate folks like her. “It’s been a special experience to have a setting where people are really listening and are so close to the music,” said Luna in a recent conversation.
Because of this I can try out new songs because people can really listen to the words.” She says “One unexpected benefit,” she said, “is in getting to work with other musicians I admire,” as her showcase series is made up of a set of her own as well as an invited guest. “I’ve had to up my game to keep up with the quality. Each month is different. Sometimes we do a couple of songs together and sometime we craft a whole concert. I try to provide something unique each time.” Billed as the Fourth Saturday of the Month Listening Room, she has cultivated a space for this at the Congregation Chaverim at 5901 E. 2nd St. This month’s special guest is Anne English. Next month is Mitzi Cowell. More this month… February 6 - Joan Osborne, Fox Theatre – Osborne who is best known by many through her mega hit “What if God Was One of Us,” attained quite a bit of street cred touring with surviving members of the Grateful Dead. Now she is taking on Bob Dylan with an album and now a tour. Like Dylan himself, don’t expect these to be copies of the originals. February 9 – Purple Madness-the Prince Tribute Show, Rialto Theatre For anyone who wasn’t fortunate enough to have witnessed Prince’s live show, you have this. It was with this idea in mind that front man Bobby Miller chose to re-create some of Prince most memorable concert moments. February 13 – Neko Case, Rialto Theatre - Five years have passed since Case’s last solo project, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You. In the interim, she sang on Whiteout Conditions, the 2017 release from longtime bandmates the New Pornographers. Case has had a lot going on artistically and personally including having her home completely destroyed in a fire. This would be my pick of the month were I to indulge in such things. February 17 – Richard Thompson, Fox Theatre - Thompson has a career that stretches back some 45 years, back to his emergence as a teen guitarist and songwriter with the groundbreaking Fairport Convention— the band that essentially invented the term “English folk- rock.” And that’s saying a lot, with his dozens of albums consistently high on critic’s polls and guitar skills that have earned him a Top 20 spot on Rolling Stone’s list of Best Guitarists of All Time. This is billed as the electric trio tour and if I hadn’t already said it in the previous graph, this would be my pick of the month were I to indulge in such things. February 20 – Namoli Brennet, Club Congress – Namoli Brennet’s 2002 Boy in a Dress CD was groundbreaking for any number of reasons. Since then she has released 10 CDs including her latest, The Simple Life. I’ll let her words say it best. The Simple Life for me is a really, really personal album about a lot of different kinds of struggle, specifically the loss of my father and also some mental health issues that have had their teeth in me for years. This isn’t a metaphorical album or a collection of song-stories, but more of what I hope is a deeply revealing portrait of part of my inner world. n February 2019 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 43
Black Sabbitch performs at 191 Toole on Friday, February 8.
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 Fri 2: Miss Olivia & The Interlopers, Miller’s Planet Wed 6: Tracyanne & Danny, Photo Ops Fri 8: Black Sabbitch Tue 12: Pedro The Lion, Tomberlin Sat 16: Midnight Transit Co., Beyond Words Tue 19: Y La Bamba Sat 23: Igor & The Red Elvises Tue 26: Tinsley Ellis
2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN Congress Street, 2ndSaturdaysDowntown.com Sat 9: See web site for more information
BORDERLANDS BREWING 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773, BorderlandsBrewing.com Fri 1: Mustang Corners Sat 16: The Quarter
CHE’S LOUNGE 350 N. 4th Ave. 623-2088, ChesLounge.com See web site and Facebook page for information.
CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848, HotelCongress.com/club Fri 1: Grivo, Mute Swan, Moontraxx Sat 2: Amigo Devil, Harley Poe Thu 7: Efrim Manuel Menuck Fri 8: Kiko Villamizar, Los Esplifs Sun 10: Balms, The Exbats, Hannah Yeun Mon 11: Daniel Romano, Buxton, Casey Golden Tue 12: Soccer Mommy, Motiongazer Wed 13: Ladytowne Live Fri 15: Xixa, Ojalá Systems Sat 16: Tangerine, Night Weather, Chateau Chateau Thu 21: Slothrust, And The Kids Sat 23: David Huckfelt Sun 24: Foxx Bodies, Rough Draft, Feverview, Lucille Petty Mon 25: UN, Body Void, Hist, Kryge
LA COCINA 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351, LaCocinaTucson.com Fri 1: Greg Morton & Friends, Oscar Fuentes Sat 2: Nathaniel Burnside Sun 3: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 6: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Thu 7: Freddy Parish Fri 8: Greg Morton & Friends Wed 13: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Fri 15: Greg Morton & Friends Sun 17: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 20: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin
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Xixa performs at Club Congress on Friday, February 15.
Michael Mayfield Thu 21: Mitzi Cowell Fri 22: Greg Morton & Friends, Eugene Boronow Sun 24: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 27: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Thu 28: Hank Topless
CULINARY DROPOUT 2543 E. Grant Rd. 203-0934 culinarydropout.com/locations/ tucson-az/ See web site for information.
FINI’S LANDING 5689 N. Swan Rd. 299-1010 finislanding.com Fri 1: Neon Prophet Sat 2: Cochise County All Stars Fri 8: OnesAll Sat 9: Pete Ronstadt & The Company Fri 15: B-Side Sat 16: Merge Fri 22: Frank N Steel Sat 23: Heart & Soul
FOX TUCSON THEATRE 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515, FoxTucsonTheatre.org Sun 3: Lonesome Traveler with Peter Yarrow Wed 6: Joan Osborne Sings Bob Dylan Tue 12: The Oak Ridge Boys Sun 17: Richard Thompson Electric Trio Wed 20: Rosanne Cash & Her Band Thu 21: Tim Fain Fri 22: The Doo Wop Project
Mon 25: Tori Kelly Wed 27: USAF Commanders Jazz Ensemble
HACIENDA DEL SOL 5501 N. Hacienda Del Sol., 2991501, HaciendaDelSol.com Nightly: Live Music on the Patio Sat 2: Jeff Haskell & Julie Anne
HOUSE OF BARDS 4915 E. Speedway, 327-2011 houseofbards.com Wednesdays: Ladies Night with A2Z Sat 9: Kill ‘Em All, Witch Alley, Diamond Dust
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 Fri 1: Dave Riley, Bob Corritore & Juke Joint Sat 2: John Coinman Band, Leila Rose Lopez Sun 3: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series, Gabriel Ayala Quintet Tue 5: Flagship Romance, Moody Little Sister Wed 6: Nick McBlaine & Log Train Thu 7: Rhythm Jax featuring Angel Diamond Fri 8: Southbound Pilot Sat 9: ROH Sun 10: Nancy Elliott & Friends
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Andy Hersey performs at The Parish every Sunday.
Roseanne Cash & Her Band perform at Fox Theatre on Wednesday, February 20.
RIALTO THEATRE
Thu 28: Soulfly, Incite
ROYAL SUN LOUNGE
6453 N. Oracle Rd. 797-1233 theparishtucson.com Mondays: jazz & blues Fridays: live local music Sundays: Andy Hersey
318 E. Congress St. 740-1000, RialtoTheatre.com Fri 1: Vince Staples, Buddy Sat 2: Dia De Las Luchas, The Surfbroads Tue 5: Atmosphere, Dem Atlas, The Lioness, DJ Keezy Fri 8: Tritonal Sat 9: The Prince Purple Madness Tribute Show, Miss Olivia & The Interlopers Mon 11: Gregory Alan Isakov Tue 12: Alan Walker, K-391, Zaxx Wed 13: Neko Case, Jennifer Castle Thu 14: Omar Chaparro Fri 15: Metal Fest XVI—Then When, Sucker For The Sour, Sigils Of Summoning, Head Of Rust, Animate Echoes, Gutter Town, Exit Dream Fri 22: Damage Inc., Slaytanic, Maiden USA, Domination Sat 23: Blueface Mon 25: The Wood Brothers, Carsie Blanton Tue 26: Strfkr, Shy Boys Thu 28: Pettybreakers
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2990 N. Swan Rd., 907-7325 plazapalomino.com See web site for information
136 N. Park Ave. rocktucson.com Sat 2: Reel Big Fish Mon 4: August Burns Red, Fit For A King, Miss May I Wed 6: Magic City Hippies, Future Generations Thu 7: Kottonmouth Kings Sat 23: Entheos
Sunday Brunch Music Series, Paul Green & Midnight Blue Tue 12: Stewart MacDougall Wed 13: Darrell Scott Thu 14: Heather Hardy & Friends Fri 15: Caleb & The Homegrown Tomatoes Sat 16: Little House of Funk Sun 17: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series, Julie Wood Jazz Trio Tue 19: The Tucsonics Wed 20: Eric Schaffer & The Other Troublemakers Thu 21: Virginia Cannon Presents Thursday Night Live Sat 23: Key Ingredients of African Soul Sun 24: Nancy Elliott & Friends Sunday Brunch Music Series, P.D. Ronstadt & The Company Thu 28: Titan Valley Warheads
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PUBLIC BREWHOUSE 209 N. Hoff Ave. 775-2337 publicbrewhouse.com Sun 17: FebboFuentes Sun 24: Tiny House of Funk
1003 N Stone Ave (520) 622-8872 BWRoyalSun.com Sun-Tue: Happy Hour Live Music
SAINT CHARLES TAVERN 1632 S. 4th Ave (520) 888-5925 facebook.com/pg/ SaintCharlesTavern Fri 1: Flying Half Full Fri 22: Weeg Silver, Sly Tones
SAND-RECKONER TASTING ROOM
Sun 17: Up From Here, In Lessons, Something Like Appropriate Tue 19: Tom Walbank Wed 20: Open Mic Fri 22: Cirque Roots Sat 23: The Unday, Heroes Reunion, Miller’s Planet Tue 26: Songwriter Showcase, Steff Koeppen Wed 27: Open Mic
TAP & BOTTLE 403 N. 6th Ave. 344-8999 TheTapandBottle.com Sat 2: The Missing Parts Thu 7: Keli & The Big Dream
510 N. 7th Ave., #170, 833-0121 sand-reckoner.com/tasting-room Fri 1: Tiny House of Funk
SEA OF GLASS CENTER FOR THE ARTS 330 E. 7th St., 398-2542 TheSeaOfGlass.org See web site for more information.
SKY BAR TUCSON 536 N. 4th Ave, 622-4300. SkyBarTucson.com Fri 1: Edna & The Musicians, Black Medicine, Batty Junior, Tyna Ros Sat 2: Moon Bass Tue 5: Tom Walbank Wed 6: Open Mic Thu 7: Still Life Telescope, Silver Cloud Express, The Minds Tue 12: Songwriter Showcase, Steff Koeppen Wed 13: Open Mic Thu 14: NorthByNorth February 2019 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 45
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Photos left to right, top to bottom, Barbara at St. Phillips Plaza Farmers Market; Bruce at Hop Shop; Ignite Sign Art Museum; Dan at St. Phillips Plaza Farmers Market; Ignite Sign Art Museum; Azur at Boxyard; Jams, jellies and fruit preserves at St. Phillips Farmers Market.
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