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Insect Farming The Protein of the Future by Jeff Gardner THE WORLD is slowly embracing a different source of protein. It’s healthy and sustainable, and has six legs: insects. Beyond the health and environmental benefits, what will it take for Americans to start eating bugs? “There’s this public perception for what meat is, and that would have to change,” says Goggy Davidowitz. “Colloquially, it’s known as the ‘yuck factor’.” Davidowitz is an associate professor of entomology at University of Arizona, and runs a lab here in Tucson dedicated to the ecological and evolutionary physiology of insects. Part of the lab’s research is entomophagy (eating insects) and insect agriculture. It is estimated Earth’s population will reach 9 to 10 billion by the year 2050. With such a high number, we need new ways of feeding people. It is estimated there simply will not be enough land to raise sufficient cattle, poultry and pork to match the world’s protein needs. This is where insect agriculture comes in; insects use far less resources to produce protein. It may seem odd, but with foods like flour now being able to be infused with insect protein, entomophagy might not seem as difficult to stomach. “Thirty years ago, the concept of eating raw fish was considered strange in the U.S.,” Davidowitz says. “And now we have like fifteen sushi restaurants in Tucson.”
Entomophagy might not have a foothold in the U.S., but for other countries, like Thailand and Nigeria, it’s always been part of the culture. The United Nations estimates roughly two billion people eat insects as part of their daily diet. The concept is being picked up in European countries now, as well. “The rest of the world is a decade ahead of us when it comes to this,” Davidowitz says. A 2013 report by the United Nations, titled Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security states, “Insects as food and feed emerge as an especially relevant issue in the twenty-first century due to the rising cost of animal protein, food and feed insecurity, environmental pressures, population growth and increasing demand for protein… alternative solutions to conventional livestock and feed sources urgently need to be found.” The report goes on to detail how insect farming produces fewer greenhouse gasses than cattle or pig farming, how insects are a highly nutritious food, and because they are cold-blooded insects are very efficient at converting feed into protein. For instance, crickets require only two kilograms of feed for every one kilogram of bodyweight they gain, as compared to 10 kilograms required in cattle. When it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, insects fare even better;
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Cricket farming in egg tray. crickets produce under 100 grams of greenhouse gases for every kilogram of body mass gained, versus cattle which produce nearly 3000. Despite these clear benefits, entomophagy remains stigmatized and overlooked in the United States, including Arizona. More so than just not wanting to eat insects, there are even difficulties in the legislation and funding of the subject. In July of this year, Senator Jeff Flake attempted to end federal agriculture subsidies for insect farming and the development bug-based food for human consumption, saying “Clearly a new source of protein is not needed.” This may be because Sen. Flake simply doesn’t like the idea of eating insects, but it also might have something to do with him receiving financial contributions from cattle companies. “Insects will never completely replace livestock,” Davidowitz says. “People aren’t going to give up steaks. The question is, will they reduce their consumption? Can they get most of their protein elsewhere?” Davidowitz says one of the best parts about insect agriculture is it can happen almost anywhere, even here in Tucson. Small-scale insect farms in homes may be part of the future, and already is in some homes, with crickets and mealworms. “For farmers, it’s pretty much ‘if it’s an insect, kill it, because it’s eating my crops,” Davidowitz says. “But it’s only a matter of time before farms are growing host plants specifically for the insects, not the fruit.” Insect farming can also be combined with other new agricultural technologies for even more sustainability. For instance, vertical farming is the practice of growing crops in vertically-stacked layers, for land and resource conservation. Vertical farming does not work with cattle or poultry farming, but it does with insect farming.
It’s technological advancements like these, coupled with a need to feed our growing population, that Davidowitz says will wean our culture onto the sixlegged livestock of the future. “We can do things like disguise the insect protein as a powder, then people will say ‘hey, this is not too bad’.” Davidowitz says. “I think that will be major.” Americans already eat insects, whether they are aware of it or not. The FDA allows certain low levels of insects, mites and insect fragments to be in food products, described as “Defect Levels.” For instance, the FDA allows 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams of chocolate, one whole insect per 50 grams of cornmeal, and 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams of peanut butter. “I don’t think we have a choice for changing our protein source,” Davidowitz says. “We will not be able to feed all 10 billion people in the future with our current farming model. We’ll need to either find a better way to produce protein, or people are going to starve.” A local event that works as a great place to receive first-hand experience and information about insects is the upcoming Arizona Insect Festival, of which Davidowitz is a presenter. This free and annual event, hosted by the UA Department of Entomology, contains dozens of booths with insects on display, presentations, and – yes – edible insects. “It gets a hugely positive reception,” Davidowitz says. “Every year we run out of food.” The 2018 Arizona Insect Festival will take place on Sunday, Oct. 21st, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Environment and Natural Resources 2 Building on the UA Campus. n
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Magic at the Mortuary IT’S THAT TIME of year again, boys and ghouls; time for thrills, chills and the utterly unexplained. Magic Kenny Bang Bang, the “Master of Macabre,” has been relentlessly toiling all year to bring you his annual dose of mystifying and bewildering magic, to make your Halloween season complete and frightfully unforgettable. Joined by the bewitching Ms. Midnight, Magic Kenny presents the 5th year of dreadful, yet captivating oddities to a brand new location for “Magic at the Mortuary,” exclusively at the Owls Club on south Scott Avenue. Previously Brings Funeral Home until 2014, the Owls Club Lounge sets a dead-on, picture-perfect stage for Magic Kenny’s notoriously hair-raising brand of Halloween conjuring. Join Magic Kenny & Ms. Midnight every Wednesday evening at the Owls Club during the month of October, for a one hour, intimate parlor-style, magical performance,
and embark (if you dare), on a brief tour of the former Bring’s Funeral Home embalming room. Hear some of the haunted history and spine-tingling ghost tales of Tucson, all while witnessing some of mind-bending close up illusions that can only be described as “unearthly.” Is it a haunted magic show, or a glimpse into the spirited paranormal? Judge for yourself. Showtimes are every Wednesday in October, on the hour at 6, 7, 8 & 9 p.m. Tickets are $20 and available for purchase at MagicMortuary. BrownPaperTickets.com, or at the door. Seating is limited. 21+ only. Show run time is one hour. The Owls Club is located at 236 South Scott Avenue. OwlsClubWest.com
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7th Annual Tucson Modernism Week FRI 5 TO SUN 14 Presented by the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation, this annual celebration highlights Mid-century Modern design and architecture programs, film, lectures, special displays and events throughout Tucson. Just a few of the hightlights include...
Andy Burgess, Sunshine Mile Modern Tucson Modernism Week Opening Night & Artist Reception, Fri, Oct 5 New watercolors celebrating Tucson’s mid-century modern architecture, 5-8:30pm. Free. Sunshine Shop, 2934 E Broadway (Hirsh’s Shoes Bldg), 3894776, SunshineShopTucson.com
Andy Burgess, Welcome Diner, Sunshine Mile Modern - watercolor on paper
Andy Burgess, Bank of America, Sunshine Mile Modern watercolor on paper
EXHIBIT: Harwood Steiger Fabrics of the West, opening reception Oct. 6, exhibit runs through Oct. 14. The art of textile design radically transformed after World War II as America’s economy boomed and optimism bloomed into consumer society. In Southern Arizona Harwood and Sophie Steiger were pivotal in this artistic revolution. Incorporating bold dramatic colors and graphic motifs inspired by the Sonoran desert, they transformed the market by producing hand screened elegant-yet-affordable fabric that made contemporary design accessible in of the postwar era. For the first time an exhibit Harwood Steiger: Fabrics of the West will showcase these iconic fabric designs.
LECTURE: In the Arms of Saguaros | William L. Bird, Oct. 13 Join historian William L. Bird for a exploration at how the saguaro cactus become the far-flung icon of the American west. Historically the iconography of the Carnegiea gigantea has served many promotional needs. First, as a leading botanical curiosity illustrating 19th century government survey party reports; and closer to our time, as a welcoming metaphor of southwestern travel and tourism whose outstretched arms gathered resources, beckoned visitors and hooked new residents. Discovering that there was nothing like cozying up to a saguaro, desert publicists in the postwar era created a social saguaro in the company of freshly starched western wear and bathing suits. Models typically rested or stood barefoot in and on the arms of saguaros whose troublesome spines had been removed for the purpose of a pose. The saguaros that sacrificed their spines for tourism represent the closing of an era of environmental ambivalence at the dawn of a greater appreciation of the fragility of nature’s sharpest curves.
Vintage Trailer Show, Oct. 13 & 14 - AND - Sunshine Mile Market, Oct. 13 & 14 Blast off with shiny, chic and mobile Vintage Trailers. Venture inside one-of-a-kind, renovated travel trailers and tour their groovy interiors, modular custom built furniture and retro finishes. Trailer owners will be on hand to talk history, restoration and adventures on the open road. Then join the Sunshine Mile for a pop-up market celebrating of Tucson’s Mid-Century heritage alongside new expressions of creativity & culture. Food, vintage, & fine craft vendors will provide something for everyone. This event will be next to the Vintage Trailer Show. You’ll find local artists and businesses selling vintage & southwest modern items. Vendors include businesses from The Sunshine Mile as well as other merchants from the community.
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COMMUNITY PRE-ENACTMENT a rapid intersection transformation at 6th Ave. & 7th St.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20TH, 2018, 10AM-6PM Cities all over the world are experimenting with “TACTICAL URBANISM,� a way to quickly and affordably try out traffic safety improvements, redefine public street space, and enhance local identity.
In less than 24 hours, the intersection of 6th Ave. & 7th St. will be transformed using little more than paint, planters, and patio furniture. Be the first to check it out and join in an all-ages mini block party with DJs, food trucks, climbing wall, and more.
Why? Find out more at: livingstreetsalliance.org/pre-enactment Project & block party made possible through support from:
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Binational Encuentro: Female Migrations October 11 - 19
The Binational Encuentro: Female Migrations initiates a conversation among collaborating artists, scholars, and community leaders reflecting on the concepts of border, territory, migration, displacement, and movement through the lenses of gender and sexuality (October 11-19). Taking place in Tucson and Douglas Arizona participants from Tucson, Phoenix, Douglas and Mexico City will address what it means to be a gendered crosser of borders. The position of women as thresholds, as border to be traversed, often serves to silence their own experience of crossing. Female and female-identified migrants experience significant physical and psychological violence, amplified by ethnic, environmental, economic violence. However, migrant women are not simply victims of global processes. They share political and cultural bases for alliance and co-creation. The Encuentro is comprised of a series of workshops, roundtables, and performances that approach the borderlands through female visual and performance art, which is in constant geographical, aesthetic and poetic migration. This Encuentro aims to provide spaces for women, migrant women, and artists to experiment with art and create a collaborative network to empower more women to participate in the field of artistic creation to inform, educate and raise awareness about shared issues. All events are free and open to the public. Interpretation and translation in Spanish and English will be provided during the events. Space is limited. For more information on how to participate or to reserve free tickets to workshops, please visit our website: binationalencuentro.org
Community Pre-enactment
at the intersection of 6th Ave & 7th St, October 20 Living Streets Alliance, in partnership with the City of Tucson Department of Transportation, local businesses, and dozens of volunteers and partners, will transform the intersection of 6th & 7th to demonstrate what a Complete Street can look like using temporary materials such as paint, flexible posts, planters and street furniture. A preenactment is a way to demonstrate what’s possible and to try out and test changes to the street to see how they work, before they’re permanent. Since the intersection of 6th & 7th will get torn up within the next year (in preparation for Downtown Links), this is a perfect opportunity to try out some of the possible enhancements that could go into place when it gets reconstructed. Based on successful examples from other cities, this project could yield benefits to the community such as calm traffic and slow speeds, enhanced streetscapes, spaces for cars distinct from spaces for people to walk, shorter street crossings, and strengthening & building community through creative place-making. The project will be completed over the course of one day on Saturday, October 20. Volunteers are needed to help out in shifts throughout the day and to help collect data before and after the transformation. More information at livingstreetsalliance.org. Conceptual rendering courtesy of Gabby Jehle.
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Valley of the Moon Tucson’s Weird Monument by Gregory McNamee
BORN IN 1885, George Phar Legler moved to downtown Tucson from his native Indiana in 1916. There he worked as a postal clerk and letter carrier, one of those proverbially quiet guys who kept pretty much to himself. In the early 1920s, it’s said, Legler separated from his wife, and along about that time, the neighbors whispered, his behavior became a little, well, odd. He left downtown and bought a few acres of land on what was then the far northern outskirts of Tucson, near the corner of Allen Road and Tucson Boulevard. There he sank a deep well, hired a team of mules and a couple of helpers, and spent the next few years hauling rocks up from the bed of the Rillito. He also began reading deeply in the literature of parapsychology, studying authors like Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Cayce. Legler was strange, to be sure, but Tucson has always been a haven for curious folks, and in any event he was a harmless fellow who lived by his motto, “The golden key to happiness is kindness to all.” He found his happiness in an eccentric pursuit, setting to work making of his trove of boulders and cobbles small fortresses, castles, fishponds, grottoes, amphitheaters, caves, and his masterpiece, a ramshackle playhouse that he called the Great Tower of Zogog. In 1932, Legler finally let the waiting world know what he had been up to. He opened his property to public tours, and it became a favorite destination of school field trips and social clubs. Dressed in a sorcerer’s robe and pointy hat, Legler acted as guide and emcee, performing magic tricks, extolling the virtues of his rainbow-coalition philosophy of life, and lecturing on the merits of his favorite authors—Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, and Robert Louis Stevenson— whose influence is obvious everywhere. But Legler’s Valley of the Moon resembles nothing so much as Tolkien’s Middle Earth, a hobbity place of hidden botanical gardens, twisted folk sculptures, fairy knolls, gnomish dales, stone bridges, fishponds, wishing wells, and penny lanes along which, visiting children learn, it’s good luck to find a
penny along the path but bad mojo to take two. Greed, in Legler’s worldview, is not good. Legler continued to lead tours of the Valley for the next three decades, becoming locally famous in the bargain, so much so that Life magazine devoted a four-page photo spread to his wacky wonderland in an issue of September 1953. But, alas, it popularity waned, and by the early 1960s closed his park to the public after no one came calling. Disillusioned, Legler holed up on the property and shut the doors behind him, and for the next few years no one saw much of him. But in 1971 a group of Catalina High School students, who remembered the Valley of the Moon from the annual Halloween visits of their youth, came out to pay Legler their respects. They found him, as one of the students recalled, “living like a troglodyte in his cave,” dressed in rags and talking excitedly about Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon. After surveying the mess, the civic-minded kids formed the Valley of the Moon Restoration Society, cleaned up the trash, mended broken walls and shored up cracked foundations, and collected money to ready the place for reopening. Legler, who died in 1982, lived a long life—long enough, in fact, to see the resurrection of his wonderland, which quickly became a favorite site for weddings, graduation parties, and other such events. It’s a must-see during the two weeks leading up to Halloween, when the site’s caretakers deck the mesquite and velvet ash trees with gossamer, crank up the munchkin music, don their own Merlin robes, and transform the Valley into a kid-friendly, nonspooky alternative to local haunted houses. The hours are irregular, so call ahead (520-323-1331) or visit the website (www.tucsonvalleyofthemoon.com) to find out what’s up at George Phar Legler’s weird wonderland. n October 2018 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 21
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THURS 4 - TUES 30 THE 2018 TUCSON HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
Secrets, a series of free topical lectures, panel discussions, events and special guests, presented by the UA College of Humanities throughout the month of October. If knowledge is power, how powerful are secrets? Throughout history, valuable information has been withheld, protected and obscured. Hidden identities, mysterious escapes and encoded meanings have reverberated across time and around the world. How have marginalized people used clandestine means to keep their culture alive? What different power can information have when it’s concealed? How have closely guarded secrets influenced human cultures? One of the many guest speakers to participate in the festival, is DJ Tony Tone, with his lecture “Crushin’ It: Untold Stories from Hip-Hop’s Founding Days,” happening on October 12. Originally a member of The Brothers Disco, DJ Tony Tone formed The Cold Crush Brothers in 1978, becoming one of the pioneering groups in the Bronx. With stage-stomping performances, The Cold Crush Brothers battled other groups for hip-hop supremacy, cementing a reputation as one of the strongest underground crews in history. The Cold Crush Brothers helped spread hip-hop internationally with a trip to Japan in 1983 and were the first group to fuse hip-hop and rock. Early on, DJ Tony Tone recognized the that the music would become a sensation: “I knew I was part of something bigger, I knew I was hip-hop.”
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FRI 5 TO SUN 7
MT. LEMMON OKTOBERFEST
German culture at the top of Mt. Lemmon with traditional food, beer, live German music, dancing and family fun. Noon to 5pm on Saturdays and Sundays. 10300 Ski Run Rd. Mt. Lemmon. 520-576-1321. SkiTheLemmon.com
THROUGH OCTOBER 31 NIGHTFALL
A frightening feast for all of your senses! The only haunted town around with outrageous live shows, hideous live characters, comedy and drama are some of the frightful attractions that await you. See website for hours and more information. Tickets: $22$29.50. Young audiences are not recommended. Old Tucson Studios, 201 Kinney Rd. NightfallAZ.com
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TUCSON FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL
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Celebrate the opening of this highly anticipated exhibit showcasing work by some of the most significant African American artists of the last four decades. Free public opening celebration from 7pm to 9pm. Tucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue. 520-624-2333. TucsonMuseumofArt.org
FILM FEST TUCSON
14th annual festival showcasing independent music related documentaries with an emphasis on films and filmmakers with a connection to Arizona or the desert Southwest. Fri: 7pm to 10pm; Sat&Sun: 1pm to 10pm. Tickets: $8. See website for schedule of events. The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress Street. 520-882-0204. TucsonFilmandMusicFestival.com
A destination film festival and place for filmmakers and audiences to meet, discover, and experience unique and important stories told on film. Individual tickets are $10 each. Fest All Access passes are $45 with access to all screenings. VIP passes give guests access to the FFT VIP Lounge for $95 each. See website for schedules and locations. FilmFestTucson.com
FRI 5 TO SUN 14
FRI 12 - SUN 14
TUCSON MODERNISM WEEK Presented by the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation, this annual celebration highlights Mid-century Modern design and architecture programs, film, lectures, special displays and events throughout Tucson. See website for programing and tickets. PreserveTucson.org/Modernism-Week
TUCSON HUMANITIES FESTIVAL A series of free lectures, panel discussions, events, and special guests, presented by the UA College of Humanities. HumantitiesFestival.Arizona.edu
THURS 11 – SAT 13
SAT 6 OKTOBERFEST
Meet local Southern Arizona Brewers, experience German inspired food, and polka music from The Bouncing Czechs at 5:30pm. New this year: purchase ticket bundle in advance to enjoy drinks and food sooner. 3pm to 10pm. Trail Dust Town, 6541 E. Tanque Verde Rd. TrailDustTown.com
TUCSON MEET YOURSELF
An annual celebration of culture with performances, dancing, food, music, and special exhibits. See website for daily schedules. Jacob Library Plaza in Downtown Tucson. 520-621-4046. TucsonMeetYourself.org
FRI 12 - SUN 21 TENWEST FESTIVAL
Join culture makers, technologists, professionals, and community builders for a celebration of inspiration and innovative solutions. See website for locations and schedule. 520-477-8278. TenWest.com
SAT 13 2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN A free, family friendly urban block party! Winter Hours: 2pm to 9pm street vendors, 5-9pm stage performances. Art After Dark at the Children’s Museum from 5:30-8pm. Free family friendly movie at the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum. Downtown Tucson. 2ndSaturdaysDowntown.com
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STAR PARTY Imagine what you will see in the skies looking through 8 big telescopes. Astronomers will be onsite to answer questions and discuss the elements of the night sky. Meet at the main trailhead parking lot and bring water, snacks, a red light, sweater or jacket. Park fee is $7 per vehicle. 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Catalina State Park, 11570 N. Oracle Rd. AZStateParks.com
SAT 13 TO SUN 28 PUMPKIN FESTIVAL Tractor drawn wagon rides, pumpkin patch, corn maze, petting zoo and more! 10am to 5pm. $10 per person. Buckelew Farm, 17000 W. Ajo Way. 520-822-2277. TucsonPumpkins.com
SUN 14 MSA ANNEX - MERCADO FLEA MARKET With 30+ vendors, this eclectic vintage market brings a wide array of the Tucson area vintage and antique dealers. Furniture, industrial, collectibles, vintage clothing and everything in between. The Mercado Flea is held on the second Sunday of the month between May and September and is located on the lot between the Mercado San Agustin and Mercado Annex on Avenida Del Convento. Hours: 8 AM - 2 PM.
SUN 14 AIDSWALK
This year marks the 30th year of AIDSWALK Tucson, a fundraiser for care services, prevention programs, and LGBTQ initiatives of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation. A fun run and walk in remembrance of loved ones lost to HIV/AIDS with registration beginning at 7am, a fun run at 7:30, and walk at 9am. Registration fees $10-$25, free for survivors living with AIDS. Joel D. Valdez Main Library, Jacome Plaza, 101 N. Stone Ave. 520-628-7223. AIDSWalkTucson.SAAF.org
SUN 14 URBAN GARDEN FESTIVAL
A full-day dedicated reconnecting to our food and celebrating the fall season. Enjoy pumpkin painting or a display of decorated pumpkins, learn from live cooking demos, grab a bite from one of the talented food partners, and gather tips on growing your own food at home while listening to live music in the gardens. Event included in regular admission. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 North Alvernon Way. 520-326-9686. TucsonBotanical.org
SUN 21 ARIZONA INSECT FESTIVAL Creepy-crawlies, tarantulas, fruit flies, cockroaches, and more… convinced yet? This festival, completely designed and run by UA scientists, is filled with 2-legged and 6-legged creatures. Food trucks, lectures art making, hands on activities, and more on the lower level and surrounding areas of the Environmental and Natural Resources 2 building on the University of Arizona campus. ArizonaInsectFestival.com
FRI 26 & SAT 27 HALLOWEEN HOWL
Explore haunted caves, face painting, haunted hay rides, a costume contest, and more fun activities under the moon. 6-9pm. Admission: $9 adults, $6 kids ages 5-12, or $25 for a family pack of 4 tickets. Colossal Cave Mountain Park, 16721 E. Old Spanish Trail, Vail. 520-647-7275. ColassalCave.com
NGHTMARE ON CONGRESS STREET Tucson’s biggest Halloween party with 3 stages, 4 bands, late night DJs, costume contests, and over $3K in cash and prizes. 7pm to 2am. Tickets: $12.30 to $33.90. Hotel Congress, 311 East Congress Street. HotelCongress.com
SAT 27 DESERT BONEYARD RUN/WALK
Run or walk a 5K or 10K between aircraft giants in this unique setting. Registration online: $30-$45. 5:30am gates open, event ends at 11am. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, South Kolb Road & East Irvington Road. 520-2280022. DMForceSupport.com
SAT 27 & SUN 28 OPEN STUDIO TOUR SOUTH All participating artists working and exhibiting south of River Road, in a range of artistic disciplines, open their creative spaces to the community. See website for artist locations and more information. OpenStudioTours.com
SUN 28 GET MOVING TUCSON An urban half marathon event featuring the Half Marathon up A Mountain, The Tucson Lifestyle 5k Run/Walk, the Free FitKidz Mile, and the Cox Charities Family Costume Mile. Live music, a vendor expo, children’s activities, jumping castle, food trucks, a breakfast after party, and more. See website for registration information. 520-326-9389. AZRoadRunners.org
ONGOING PLANETARIUM SHOWS
Explore the stars and beyond every Thu-Sun with a laser light show on Fridays and Saturdays. $5-$7, kids under 3 are free. See website for program times. Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium, 1601 E. University. 520-621-7827. Flandrau.org
MONDAYS MEET ME AT MAYNARDS
Southern Arizona Roadrunners’ Monday evening, non-competitive, social 3-mile run/walk, that begins and ends downtown at Hotel Congress, rain/shine/holidays included! Free. 5:15pm. Maynards Market, 400 E. Toole. 520-991-0733. MeetMeAtMaynards.com
SUNDAYS 5 POINTS FARMERS MARKET Every Sunday at Cesar Chavez Park. 10am to 2pm. 756 S. Stone Ave.
SECOND SUNDAZE
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he film festival season is upon us here in Tucson, with more than one weekend tightly packed with films jockeying for our attention this month alone. One of the most densely packed and well-curated of October’s highlights is the Film Fest Tucson, now in its third season. Having grown to an expansive thirty-seven films spread between three venues over three days, it follows the classic festival line-up of a mix of short and feature length narrative and documentary films. There will be panels, parties and visiting filmmakers, four free outdoor screenings, a silent film with live musical accompaniment, an ‘Artist Tribute’ event dedicated to the work of three women filmmakers and actresses, and a winner will be announced for the Festival’s ‘Desert Pitch’ award. Worth noting: most of the films screened are Arizona premiers, and only a couple have previously been formally screened in Southern Arizona.
show, and our panel of working industry folks pick one winner who walks away with $1,000.”
Festival director Herb Stratford has secured three outstanding venues, The Fox Tucson Theatre, the Scottish Rite Cathedral (the impressive Masonic Temple on Scott Ave.) and the new AC Marriott Hotel. Many of the festival screenings will be followed by Q&A’s with visiting filmmakers, as well as other special guests.
All three honorees will be on hand for the Artist Tribute event at The Fox at 8 pm on October 13, which will start with a conversation and some film clips, followed by a screening of Catherine Hardwicke’s 2005 Cali skateboarder film Lords of Dogtown. Sophia Mitri Schloss will be doing a Q&A after the screening of her latest starring role in Sadie (Oct. 12 at 7:00 pm), as will Haley Lu Richardson at Support the Girls (Oct. 12 at 9:00 pm). And Hardwicke will also lead a free directing masterclass at the festival on October 13 at 3:00 pm.
I recently spoke to Stratford (also a Zócalo contributor) about the shape of the Festival and some of the special events. What is the Festival mandate, as far as the curating and booking goes? What is the focus of the Festival? “First and foremost it’s about connecting storytellers and audiences, so quality is top criteria. Then it’s about collaboration as we work with partners to bring in films and to start conversations (with TMA, MOCA, Modernism Week, etc.). And finally we also like to shine a light on Arizona’s film history, which is why we always do a vintage, silent film with live music. As a film critic I see lots of great films that don’t always get theatrical releases, and I try to bring films and filmmakers to Tucson where we have such a film savvy audience that will appreciate great stories and storytellers.” What can you tell us about the new ‘Artist Tribute’ feature of the Festival? “This year we’re honoring three outstanding individuals in the film industry, director Catherine Hardwicke, and actresses Haley Lu Richardson and Sophia Mitri Schloss. Catherine has worked on seminal films here in Southern Arizona like Tombstone, Three Kings and Tank Girl, and Haley Lu is originally from Phoenix but is currently a rising star in recent films with Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley. Sophia stars in one of our films this year (Sadie) and was also the star of Lane 1974 from last year’s program, so she’s of the new generation of indie film actresses making an impression. We will be showing some highlights of each of their work, and I’ll be doing a conversation with each of them from the stage of the Fox Theatre.” And what can you tell us about ‘Desert Pitch?’ “It’s our 2nd annual competition where people submit an idea for a film or TV
Most films programmed have never been formally screened in Arizona before, correct? One or two played in Scottsdale, and of course the silent film played in 1922, I think. Otherwise, they’re mostly all Arizona premieres, except Lords of Dogtown and Operation Finale, as those are special screenings with guests for expanded Q&A’s. What sort of pre and post film events might happen? “In addition to the special directing masterclass by Catherine Hardwicke and panel with Chris Gore of Film Threat, we’ll have a few post screening Q&A’s.”
Tucson locals interested in photography will want to note three screenings: Witkin & Witkin about the photographer Joel Peter Witkin and his identical twin brother, the painter Jerome Witkin (Oct. 12, 9 pm); Love, Cecil tells the story of the remarkable photographer, designer and scene maker Cecil Beaton (8/13, 3 pm); and Gary Winogrand: All Things are Photographable (Oct. 13, 8:30) illuminates the career of one of the greats of 20th century photography. Beuys documents the life and work of the legendary German artist and provocateur Joseph Beuys (8/13, 6:30 pm), while 306 Hollywood (8/12, 8:30 pm) is an unconventional, revelatory documentary about the fantastical archaeological excavation of the long time home of the grandmother of sibling filmmakers Elan & Jonathan Bogarin. Regionally, the impressionistic El Mar La Mar was filmed in the Sonora on both sides of the border (8/12, 7 pm), and Agave: Spirit of a Nation brings perspective and history to a doc about the mighty succulent responsible for tequila and mezcal (8/12, 8:30). The Festival wraps Oct. 13 with several other outstanding evening features, including a screening of the 1922 silent classic Sky High (filmed in and around the Grand Canyon), starring the great cowboy star Tom Mix, with live accompaniment by the composer and pianist Jeff Haskell at the Scottish Rite Cathedral at 8:30 pm. At the same time, Dawson City: Frozen Time tells the remarkable story of a cache of well over 500 long lost films from the 1910s and 1920s discovered in 1978 in the Yukon, just south of the Arctic Circle. Check the festival website (filmfesttucson.org) for more information, and see the full film schedule on the next pages of this issue of Zócalo Magazine. n
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We’ve assembled a total of 37 films for you to experience (26 features and 11 shorts) and returned to one of the most iconic locations in downtown Tucson for this year’s festival — the 102 year-old Scottish Rite Cathedral. With its amazing, period Masonic lodge meeting rooms, it will be our headquarters for the festival. We will also be holding screenings at the new AC Marriott hotel and also at the Fox Theatre (see page 4 for details). We’ve also added four, free outdoor screenings to take advantage of the amazing Tucson weather in October. We hope you can experience a film in each of our venues.
All indoor screenings for the 2018 Fest take place at either the Scottish Rite Cathedral, located at 160 South Scott Ave., the AC Marriott Hotel, located at 151 East Broadway, or at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 West Congress. We’ve transformed our non-traditional screening venues into state-of-the-art screening rooms to show films. The Scottish Rite’s main lobby is the FFT lounge, the perfect place to meet friends before a screening there, or to stay and talk about the films.
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Parking in downtown Tucson is available at parking structures and on the street. After 5pm street parking is free. Garages are located at Pennington St. between Scott Ave. and 6th Ave. and at La Placita garage, located on Jackson between Stone Ave. and Church Ave. For a map of downtown parking options visit page 15 or online at: https://www.tucsonaz.gov/park-tucson/where-can-ipark-downtown
Advance Tickets
Advance tickets can be purchased online via FIlmFestTucson.org. All advance tickets are $10 (+ service fee). Festival passes are also available in advance for $45 (+ service fee), which grants access to ALL screenings. A special $95 VIP pass adds access to the VIP tent at the Scottish Rite. All major credit cards are accepted.
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Day-Of Tickets
Day-of tickets do not have a service fee and can be bought at the venues starting 90 minutes prior to each day’s first showtime, (i.e. 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 12:00 p.m. on Saturday.)
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Our exclusive VIP tent, for filmmakers, sponsors and VIP Pass holders only, is located in front of the Scottish Rite in their North parking lot. It’s the perfect place to unwind before or after a screening Friday and Saturday nights. We have Whiskey del Bac, Sand Reckoner wine and Dragoon Brewing Company pouring, and of course some delectable snacks. The $95 pass for this limited-availability oasis also includes admission to all screenings, panels and our special wrap party late Saturday night. Visit FilmFestTucson.org to get your VIP Pass.
Ticket and pass holders are advised to arrive 15 minutes prior to showtime to guarantee admission. Those arriving less than 15 minutes prior to showtime cannot be guaranteed a seat, even with a ticket or pass. All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges will be given to ticket or pass holders turned away after this time.
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Film Fest Tucson was created for you — local Tucsonans and visitors alike who love great storytelling, great cinema and conversation about both. We’ve created this festival because we believe there are more stories to be told, and by sharing this festival with other important Tucson arts and culture entities, we all benefit. We hope you will continue to support film all year long, and we’ll see you each October for Film Fest Tucson.
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Thursday, October 11, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. – AC Marriott, Marbella Room Film Fest Tucson is set to discover and help you deliver your winning film or TV idea to Hollywood, along with an extra thousand bucks in your pocket to boot! Submit your Film or TV pitch to Film Fest Tucson’s Desert Pitch Competition. The Top 10 projects selected will be invited to our pitch event where you’ll be rubbing elbows with industry veterans on the panel, as you make your pitch and will also receive the latest version of Final Draft software. The top five chosen will advance to the finals, where one lucky person will walk away with $1,000. Our panel this year includes veteran producers Scott Manville, Debi Wisch and writer/critic Chris Gore. Visit FilmFestTucson.org for information and tickets.
Film Fest Tucson’s 2nd annual Film and Television Desert Pitch competition will bring 10 semifinalists in front of a jury who will award a cash prize of $1,000. 5:30 p.m. – Competition Semifinals 7:00 p.m. – Competition Finals 8:00 p.m. – Awards/Reception hosted by Film Tucson
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160 S. Scott Ave: The 1916 Masonic temple’s three meeting rooms are transformed into state-of-the-art screening venues for the festival. The Red (200 seats), Purple (150 seats) and Blue (120 seats) rooms must be seen to be believed.
17 W. Congress: This 1929 Southwestern Art Deco theatre was restored and reopened in 2005 after being closed for 30 years. With 1,164 seats and amazing acoustics, it is the heart of downtown and a breathtaking venue for cinema.
151 E. Broadway: Downtown’s newest hotel plays host to our Desert Pitch events, and also features two screening rooms: the Marbella (75 seats) and the Granada (40 seats), which are new, intimate spaces to experience a film or panel.
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2018 TribuTE – cElEbraTing THrEE rEmarkablE WomEn in Film Saturday, October 13 Fox Tucson Theatre 6:30 p.m. – Tribute 8:00 p.m. – Film Screening/Q&A
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We are excited to be honoring the remarkable work in film of these three artists. This year, our honorees are continuing to blaze trails and deliver powerful performances and cinema. Join us as we shine a light on their achievements and talk with them about their careers to date and what’s next. Following the tribute event will be a special screening of “Lords of Dogtown,” Director, Catherine Hardwicke’s cult classic film about the rise of skateboarding.
caTHErinE HarDWickE – DirEcTor Catherine Hardwicke’s first film as a director was the criticallyacclaimed “Thirteen,” which won the Director’s Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. She has since become best known as the director of “Twilight,” which launched the worldwide franchise, The Twilight Saga. Hardwicke previously worked as a Production Designer on films like “Tombstone,” “Three Kings,” “Tank Girl” and “Vanilla Sky.” Her most recent film, Sony’s “Miss Bala,” stars Gina Rodriguez, and is slated for release in January 2019. Catherine will discuss her career, future projects and the industry today. Special post-screening Q&A following “Lords of Dogtown.”
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Haley Lu Richardson recently wrapped filming “Five Feet Apart,” “Support the Girls,” “The Chaperone” and “Operation Finale,” in which she stars with Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley. Her work in “Columbus,” “The Bronze,” “Split” and “Edge of Seventeen” solidified her role as a true rising star that can perform drama to comedy and everything in between.
With a pair of remarkable performances in back-to-back independent films “Lane 1974” (FFT-2017) and “Sadie,” actress Sophia Mitri Schloss has made her mark playing characters who are dealing with far more than they should be. She is clearly destined for continued success in the entertainment world with upcoming work in film and music on her horizon.
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Film Threat Founder and Editor, Chris Gore and Film Critic and FFT Director, Herb Stratford will unpack some big issues in a lively discussion about the current state of the film business including: Your Indie Film Sucks, Movie Critics Are Idiots, and How to Direct a Nude Scene. Each topic will be followed by a brief audience Q&A period, and the entire program will be recorded for a Film Threat podcast.
In this special program, Hardwicke takes you inside pre-production. From creating a workable shot list to constructing lookbooks, shaping locations and building relationships with cast and crew, she offers tips and tricks, as well as showcasing her personal work materials. A unique opportunity to see and hear how one of Hollywood’s top directors works, from start to finish.
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We’re thrilled to offer four, free outdoor screenings this year as part of Film Fest Tucson. Our Friday night screenings will take place on Scott Street in front of the Scottish Rite Cathedral, and on Saturday night in the Scottish Rite parking lot. Bella’s Gelato food truck will be on-site Friday night, and attendees can enjoy a Beer Garden Saturday night while watching the film. Bring a chair (we will have some available), and join us for some great films under the stars.
Outdoor screenings supported by:
sciEncE Fair (ouTDoor scrEEning) Friday, October 12, 6:30 p.m. – On Scott Avenue South of Broadway DiRECTORS: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster | WRiTERS: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster, Jeff Plunkett | PRODuCERS: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster, Jeff Plunkett | TRT: 90 Minutes Every year, over 1,700 students from 75 countries compete in the annual International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), a highly competitive showcase of the world’s top young scientific minds. Selected from millions of qualifying students, these finalists compete for the coveted top prize that, as one previous winner explains, “will change your life in ways you won’t even comprehend.” Sponsored in part by the Marshall Foundation
agaVE: spiriT oF a naTion (ouTDoor scrEEning) Friday, October 12, 8:30 p.m. – On Scott Avenue South of Broadway
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DiRECTORS: Nick Kovacic, Matthew Riggieri | PRODuCERS: Nick Kovacic, Matthew Riggieri TRT: 79 Minutes Mexico is home to the highest biodiversity of agave varietals in the world. Tequila and Mezcal spirits derived from the heart of the agave are the fastest trending spirits in the marketplace. This expressive documentary takes viewers beyond the spirit to discover how one plant can carry the weight of a culture and the people trying to protect it. Sponsored in part by The 2019 Agave Heritage Festival
cHEF Flynn (ouTDoor scrEEning) Saturday, October 13, 6:30 p.m. – Scottish Rite South Parking Lot
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DiRECTOR: Cameron Yates | PRODuCERS: Laura Coxson, Cameron Yates | TRT: 88 Minutes Ten-year-old Flynn McGarry transforms his living room into a supper club, using his classmates as line cooks and serving a tasting menu foraged from his neighbors’ backyards. With sudden fame, Flynn outgrows his bedroom kitchen and mother’s camera, and sets out to challenge the hierarchy of the culinary world. “Chef Flynn” tracks a remarkable journey of a young chef.
brEWmasTEr (ouTDoor scrEEning) Saturday, October 13, 8:30 p.m. – Scottish Rite South Parking Lot
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DiRECTOR: Doug Tirola | WRiTER: Doug Tirola | PRODuCERS: Susan Bedusa, Danielle Rosen, Douglas Tirola | TRT: 95 Minutes “Brewmaster” follows a young ambitious New York lawyer who struggles to chase his American dream of becoming a brewmaster and a Milwaukee-based professional beer educator as he attempts to become a Master Cicerone®. “Brewmaster” creates a cinematic portrait of beer, those who love it, those who make it and those who are hustling to make their mark. 6
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DiRECTOR: Megan Griffiths | WRiTER: Megan Griffiths | PRODuCERS: Jennessa West, Lacey Leavitt CAST: Melanie Lynskey, Sophia MItri Schloss, Tony Hale, John Gallagher Jr., Danielle Brooks,
Justin Thomas Howell TRT: 96 Minutes Special post-screening Q&A with actor Sophia Mitri Schloss following the film.
“Sadie” is a 13-year-old girl who lives at home with her mother while her father serves repeated tours in the military. She’s extremely attached to her father despite his prolonged absences. When her mother begins dating a new man, Sadie takes extreme measures to end the relationship and safeguard her family through the only tactics she knows–those of war.
supporT THE girls Friday, October 12, 9:00 p.m. – Scottish Rite, Red Room DiRECTOR: Andrew Bujalski | WRiTER: Andrew Bujalski | PRODuCERS: Houston King, Sam Slater CAST: Haley Lu Richardson, Regina Hall, James Le Gros, Lea DeLaria, Shayna McHayle TRT: 90 Minutes Special post-screening Q&A with actor Haley Lu Richardson following the film.
Lisa Conroy is the last person you’d expect to find in a highway-side ‘sports bar with curves,’ but as general manager at Double Whammies, she’s come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely–but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction.
lorDs oF DogToWn Saturday, October 13, 8:00 p.m. – Fox Tucson Theatre DiRECTOR: Catherine Hardwicke | WRiTER: Stacy Peralta | PRODuCER: John Linson CAST: Emile Hirsch, Rebecca De Mornay, Victor Rasuk, Nikki Reed, Heath Ledger TRT: 107 Minutes Special post-screening Q&A with Director Catherine Hardwicke following the film.
A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised on the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually becoming legendary.
sky HigH (1922, silEnT Film + liVE accompanimEnT by JEFF HaskEll) Saturday, October 13, 8:30 p.m. – Scottish Rite, Red Room DiRECTOR: Lynn Reynolds | WRiTER: Lynn Reynolds | PRODuCER: William Fox CAST: Tom Mix, J. Farrell Macdonald, Eva Novak, Sid Jordan, William Buckley, Adele Warner TRT: 58 Minutes
Piano accompaniment by Jeff Haskell
A government agent investigates a ring that is smuggling Chinese aliens across the border from Mexico. His investigation takes him to the Grand Canyon where he finds a dazed girl wandering around who has become separated from her companions. He and the girl are soon found by her companions – the smuggling ring! Featuring amazing Grand Canyon flying stunts by star Tom Mix. Supported by Tucson Jazz Festival Oct 11 - 13, 2018 | Guide provided by Film Fest Tucson and Zocalo Magazine | FilmFesttucson.oRG
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DiRECTOR: Peter Livolsi | WRiTER: Peter Bognanni | PRODuCERS: Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Tarik Karam | CAST: Asa Butterfield, Alex Wolff, NIck Offerman, Maude Apatow, Ellen Burstyn TRT: 85 Minutes Sebastian has spent most of his life with his grandmother in their geodesic dome home, tourist attraction where she schools him on the futurist teachings of her former mentor Buckminster Fuller. Sebastian soon has his first real friendship, a band, and his future at stake, depending on the choices he makes.
summEr ‘03 Friday, October 12, 6:30 p.m. – AC Marriott, Marbella Room DiRECTOR: Becca Gleason | WRiTER: Becca Gleason | PRODuCERS: Alexandre Dauman, Eyal Rimmon | CAST: Joey King, Andrea Savage, June Squibb, Paul Scheer | TRT: 95 Minutes Inspired by true events, “Summer ‘03” follows Jamie, a 16-year-old girl and her extended family who are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of family secrets on her deathbed. Jamie is left to navigate her nascent love life and maintain her closest friendships in the midst of this family crisis.
angEls WEar WHiTE Friday, October 12, 9:00 p.m. – AC Marriott, Granada Room
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DiRECTOR: Vivian Qu | WRiTER: Vivian Qu | PRODuCER: Sean Chen | CAST: Vicky Chen, Meijun Zhou, Ke Shi, Le Geng, Mengnan Li, Jing Peng, Yuexin Wang | TRT: 107 Minutes In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working that night, is the only witness. Fearful of losing her job, she says nothing. Trapped in a world that offers them no safety, all of the girls will have to find their own way out.
maDEmoisEllE paraDis Saturday, October 13, 6:30 p.m. – Scottish Rite, Blue Room
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DiRECTOR: Barbara Albert | WRiTERS: Kathrin Resetarits, Barbara Albert PRODuCERS: Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Michael Kitzberger | CAST: Maria Dragus, Devid Striesow, Lukas Miko, Katja Kolm | TRT: 97 Minutes “Mademoiselle Paradis” tells the true story of Maria Theresia von Paradis, a gifted pianist and close friend of Mozart, who lost her eyesight as a child. Desperate to cure their talented daughter, her parents entrust Maria to Dr. Mesmer, a forward-thinking-physician who gives her the care and attention that she requires. But at what cost does this treatment come for Maria’s future?
liTTlE WooDs Friday, October 12, 6:30 p.m. – Scottish Rite, Purple Room
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DiRECTOR: Nia DaCosta | WRiTER: Nia DaCosta | PRODuCERS: Rachael Fung, Tim Headington, Gabrielle Nadig, David Stone | CAST: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Lance Reddick | TRT: 105 Min For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to be dragged in even deeper after a desperate plea for help from her sister. 8
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liTTlE pink HousE Saturday, October 13, 6:30 p.m. – Scottish Rite, Red Room DiRECTOR: Courtney Balaker | WRiTER: Courtney Balaker | PRODuCERS: Courtney Balaker, Ted Balaker, Arielle Boisvert, Joel Soisson | CAST: Catherine Keener, Jeanne Tripplehorn TRT: 98 Minutes A small-town nurse emerges as the reluctant leader of her working-class neighbors in their struggle to save their homes from political and corporate interests bent on seizing the land and handing it over to the Pfizer Corporation. The battle goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and the controversial 5-4 decision in Kelo v City of New London that gave government officials the power to bulldoze a neighborhood for the benefit of a multi-billion-dollar corporation.
Woman Walks aHEaD Saturday, October 13, 1:30 p.m. – Scottish Rite, Red Room
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DiRECTOR: Susanna White | WRiTER: Steven Knight | PRODuCERS: Andrea Calderwood, Marshall Herskovitz, Erika Olde, Richard Solomon, Edward Zwick | CAST: Jessica Chastain, Sam Rockwell, Ciaran Hinds, Michael Greyeyes | TRT: 101 Minutes The story of Catherine Weldon, a widowed artist from New York who, in the 1880s, traveled alone to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull. Her arrival is met with open hostility by a U.S. Army officer, who has stationed troops around the Lakota reservation to undermine Native American claims to the land. Catherine ends up fighting for what is most important to her. Sponsored by Old Tucson Studios
DocumEnTary FEaTurEs WiTkin & WiTkin
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Friday, October 12, 9:00 p.m. – Scottish Rite, Blue Room DiRECTOR: Trisha Ziff | WRiTER: Trisha Ziff | PRODuCERS: Luis Arenas, Isabel del Rio, Trisha Ziff TRT: 90 Minutes “Witkin & Witkin” explores the worlds of identical twins, photographer Joel-Peter and painter and life-long educator Jerome. Through the voices of the women in their lives, the wives, the models, the studio assistant and the collector, we gain access to their worlds. It is a film about visual perception, the process of aging and the relationship between painting and photography. Sponsored in part by Etherton Gallery
albErT FrEy: THE arcHiTEcTural EnVoy (parT i)
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Saturday, October 13, 7:00 p.m. – AC Marriott, Granada Room DiRECTOR: Jake Gorst | PRODuCERS: Jake Gorst, Tracey Rennie Gorst | TRT: 63 minutes Albert Frey, the Swiss-born 20th Century architect, led the charge in introducing Modernism to the United States, and through his curiosity about the American landscape, he developed a deep love of nature. This film focuses on the early part of Frey’s career in Switzerland, France and New York. Sponsored in part by Tucson Modernism Week Oct 11 - 13, 2018 | Guide provided by Film Fest Tucson and Zocalo Magazine | FilmFesttucson.oRG
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DiRECTORS: Elan Bogarin, Jonathan Bogarin | WRiTERS: Elan Bogarin, Jonathan Bogarin, Nyneve Laura Minnear | PRODuCERS: Elan Bogarin, Jonathan Bogarin, Judit Stalter | TRT: 82 Minutes “306 Hollywood,” from sibling directors Elan & Jonathan Bogarin begins when the two undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother’s house. They embark on a magical-realist journey in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind. It is a touching, bittersweet look at family and memory. Sponsored in part by Pima Council on Aging
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DiRECTOR: Mark Maxey | PRODuCERS: Mark Maxey, Gino Scofidio | TRT: 80 Minutes Millions of people have been touched by his music, yet few know the journey, hardships and triumphs of American musician and composer W.G. “Snuffy” Walden. Friends and collaborators share personal stories, laughs and insights about this generous soul who overcame the excesses of rock and roll to find success as one of the most beloved composers in television history.
El mar la mar Friday, October 12, 7:00 p.m. – AC Marriott, Granada Room
Arizona Premiere
DiRECTORS: Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki | PRODuCERS: Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki TRT: 94 Minutes
An immersive and enthralling journey through the Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border, “El Mar La Mar” weaves together harrowing oral histories from the area with hand-processed 16mm images of flora, fauna and items left behind by travelers. A sonically rich soundtrack adds to the eerie atmosphere as the call of birds and other nocturnal noises invisibly populate the austere landscape.
loVE, cEcil Saturday, October 13, 3:00 p.m. – Scottish Rite, Blue Room
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DiRECTOR: Lisa Immordino Vreeland | PRODuCER: Lisa Immordino Vreeland | TRT: 99 Minutes Oscar®-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler, but also an arbiter of his time. From the “Bright Young Things” to the front lines of war to the international beau monde and the pages of Vogue and then as the Queen’s official photographer, Beaton embodied the cultural and political changes of the 20th Century.
garry WinogranD: all THings arE pHoTograpHablE Saturday, October 13, 8:30 p.m. – AC Marriott, Marbella Room
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DiRECTOR: Sasha Waters Freyer | PRODuCER: Sasha Waters Freyer | TRT: 90 Minutes Garry Winogrand may be the foremost photographic artist of post-World War II America. His images from New York to Texas to Hollywood provide a fascinating portrait of a nation in transition. This look at the man and his work includes images, home movie footage, and more to illustrate why many consider Winogrand to be the finest photographer of his generation. 10 FilmFesttucson.oRG | Oct 11 - 13, 2018 | Guide provided by Film Fest Tucson and Zocalo Magazine
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prEssing on: THE lETTErprEss Film Friday, October 12, 8:30 p.m. – Scottish Rite, Purple Room
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DiRECTORS: Erin Beckloff, Andrew P. Quinn | WRiTERS: Erin Beckloff, Andrew P. Qui PRODuCER: Kevin Grazioli | TRT: 100 Minutes The modern world was born on a printing press. Once essential to communication, the 500-yearold process is now in danger of being lost as its caretakers’ age. From self-proclaimed basement hoarders to the famed Hatch Show Print, “Pressing On” explores the question: why has letterpress survived in a digital age? This film examines the people and world of this beautiful medium.
DaWson ciTy: FrozEn TimE Saturday, October 13, 8:30 p.m. – Scottish Rite, Blue Room
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DiRECTOR: Bill Morrison | WRiTER: Bill Morrison | PRODuCERS: Bill Morrison, Madeleine Molyneaux TRT: 120 Minutes “Dawson City: Frozen Time,” pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s-1920s, which were lost for over 50 years. They were discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory, in Dawson City, located about 350 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Director Bill Morrison blends the story of their discovery and salvage with haunting images from the actual films, once thought to be lost forever. Sponsored by Bear Canyon Center for Southwest Humanities
THE pricE oF EVEryTHing
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Friday, October 12, 7:00 p.m. – Scottish Rite, Blue Room DiRECTOR: Nathaniel Kahn | PRODuCERS: Debi Wisch, Carla Solomon, Jennifer Blei Stockman TRT: 105 Minutes With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, “The Price of Everything” dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and our times where everything can be bought and sold. Featuring interviews with curators, dealers, collectors and artists, the film is a powerful snapshot of today’s art market. Sponsored in part by The Tucson Museum of Art
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Saturday, October 13, 6:30 p.m. – AC Hotel, Marbella Room DiRECTOR: Andres Veiel | WRiTER: Andres Veiel | PRODuCER: Thomas Kufus | TRT: 107 Minutes LAnGuAGE: German & English w/ English subtitles Thirty years after his death, Joseph Beuys still feels like a visionary and is widely considered one of the most influential artists of his generation. Known for his contributions to the Fluxus movement and his work across diverse media — from happening and performance to sculpture, installation, and graphic art — Beuys’ expanded concept of the role of the artist, places him in the middle of socially relevant discourse on media, community, and capitalism. Sponsored in part by MOCA Tucson
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A young nun-to-be struggles to find God inside Robin, a non-responsive adult whose brain stopped developing before he was born.
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THE Hun – 12 MINUTES
THE inconsiDEraTE HousEguEsT – 15 MINUTES
ispy– 14 MINUTES
When an inconsiderate houseguest invades your personal space and refuses to respect your boundaries, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands.
Harriet, a young Department of Justice bureaucrat, spends her days helping the FBI, CIA, and other law enforcement agencies spy on citizens. But when she uses the government’s spy technology for personal use, she gets a little more than she bargained for.
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WHEn WE mEET again
A jilted bride finally faces the truth about her ex-fiancé after a newly-installed speed camera on her street pushes her to the edge.
When an overworked Cuban-American millennial rushes home to pack for a trip to Cuba, her eccentric Abuelo hijacks her day, enlisting her to track down an urgently needed car part for a family member in Havana.
Terry is a career IT worker who is being forced to spend the next two weeks training his replacement, Ahbi, an H-1B work-visa recipient from Kashmir, or else he won’t receive his severance pay.
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On an isolated ranch in 1871 Wyoming Territory, Katie violently struggles to free herself from the men who dominate her life.
JaspEr – 20 MINUTES
Jasper, a young, lovelorn inventor, strives to create a time machine in order to win back his ex-girlfriend. In the process, he meets Claire, a clever engineering student who takes interest in his work. 12 FilmFesttucson.oRG | Oct 11 - 13, 2018 | Guide provided by Film Fest Tucson and Zocalo Magazine
Set in the trenches, during the late stages of the First World War, “The Hun“ follows a young American soldier, Private MacDonald, who has just become his company’s new message runner.
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A scientist travels into a parallel universe to convince an alternate version of his dead wife to return with him to his world.
no namE maDDux 25 MINUTES
A young priest tries to help a 14-yearold Charles Manson.
THE moDErn liVEs 8 MINUTES
Two excerpts from “The Modern Lives” series of short music videos, a collaboration between Blues musician Jackie Greene and Animator Bill Plympton.
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We are excited to have these talented, special guests with us for the festival. Visit FilmFestTucson.org for additions not confirmed by publication time.
DEbi WiscH – PRODUCER
TrisHa ziFF – DIRECTOR
Debi Wisch is a principal of Hot & Sunny Productions, a full-service production company focused on developing content about the arts for film and television. Her most recent productions include “The Price of Everything,” P. 10 and “Love, Cecil.” P. 11 Debi will be a juror for this year’s Desert Pitch competition. P. 4
Trisha Ziff wrote and produced her first film “Oaxacalifornia” in 1995. She spent the next 20 years working as a curator, author and book editor on photography. Her film “The Man Who Saw Too Much” won her an Ariel Award in 2015. She will attend the screening of her film “Witkin & Witkin.” P. 9
cHris gorE – FILM WRITER
gino scoFiDio – PRODUCER
Chris Gore is the publisher of FilmThreat.com and host of the Film Threat podcast. The author of several books including “The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide,” he is also a filmmaker, having written and produced “My Big Fat Independent Movie.” He was a regular on G4TV’s Attack of the Show and will be presenting a panel Saturday afternoon. P. 5 He will also be a juror for this year’s Desert Pitch. P. 4
Gino is an award-winning producer and editor with 20+ years of experience with major cable television networks and on documentary film. He has worked extensively with the Discovery Channel, HBO, ESPN, National Geographic Channel and Lifetime Television. Gino edited and produced the film “Up to Snuff” and will be present for the screening. P. 10
scoTT manVillE – PRODUCER
JusTin THomas HoWEll– ACTOR, “SADIE”
Scott Manville began his career as a development executive at Merv Griffin Entertainment and has served as Producer for Relativity Media. He now develops film and TV projects independently and runs the online marketplace–Indiepitch.tv. Scott will be a juror for this year’s Desert Pitch competition. P. 4
An Arizona-based actor, Justin started acting at age 10, and has done work in both TV and film over the past 8 years. He appears in “Sadie” and will be present at the screening for a post-film Q & A. P. 7
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Todd has a background in finance and marketing and has now moved into producing with his second feature documentary “Agave: Spirit of a Nation.” The first, “Decanted: A Winemaker’s Journey” premiered globally on Netflix in 2017. Todd will be present at the screening of “Agave.” P. 6
ILLUSTRATOR/ANIMATOR Rich Borge is an New York-based illustrator who works primarily on editorial and corporate/advertising illustration and motion design projects. He created the iconic vintage toy/film director animation for this year’s festival, seen on collateral and before every film.
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April (Rebecca Galcik), Callie (Anza Keller), Sapphire (Gabriela Giusti) and Trudy (Eavan Clare Brunswick), in Arizona Repertory Theatre’s Like Heaven, written by Elaine Romero. Photo by Ed Flores.
Writing from the Heart Treading the Stage with Playwright Elaine Romero by Gregory McNamee
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hen she was very young, Elaine Romero discovered that she had a talent for telling stories. “I was writing before I was even reading,” she recalls, “putting what I thought were letters on paper, making up my own world.” The years passed, and, now in college, Romero continued to tell stories, mostly writing poems while studying literature. “I went to a small school where everyone knew everyone else,” she says. “The head of the theater department there came up to me and said, ‘I notice that you attend all the plays we put on.’ It was true. I was going to all the performances I could, experiencing the plays in three dimensions after reading them on the page—learning that language lives in a room, and not just on a page.” That was all it took. Soon Romero was working on plays of her own, without formal background but with a sense the possibilities of telling her stories in many voices, with a lyricism and rhythmic energy that came from those years of reading and writing poetry. “I started writing plays in the dark,” she said. “I didn’t really know theater that well. All I knew was that plays did something inside me, that they had a magical churning in me. So I wrote my first play when I was eighteen, and there’s been very little time since that I haven’t been working on writing plays and putting them out into the world.” She has indeed been busy ever since, writing dozens of plays, some short, concentrated moments of monologue last only a few minutes, some full-length. One such full-length piece, commissioned by Ford’s Theatre—yes, that Ford’s Theatre—in Washington in 2014, centers on a Latina who finds, inside the pocket of an expensive designer coat, a handwritten note from the Chinese worker who made it. Tracking that person down at the factory of origin becomes a tense, multilayered story involving globalization and its victims and discontents. The title, Modern Slave, speaks volumes—and the play has spoken to audiences across the country, with performances and readings in Washington, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other venues. Just so, one of her short plays, lasting only ten minutes, has made the rounds from coast to coast, having originally been commissioned by a theater in Chicago. Meaningfully entitled Swastika, it speaks to life in, as one Brooklyn theater company billed it, “the Time of Trump,” a time when things are decidedly not normal and the world seems to be falling into a rabbit hole with no end. “Putting our lives up on stage can be a healing thing,” says Romero. “When we do, when we see bits of our lives up there, it might just be that a person will say, ‘I’m okay.’ But it can also hold things up to the light and show how they’re wrong. I wrote a play recently, for example, called Revolutions, which was first staged in Spanish just a few weeks ago in Los Angeles. It’s part of a four-play series about war, and what we’re willing to do to young people in the name of war.” Just as classical tragedy turns on errors of pride and reversals of fortune, so does that series unfold. The first play in it, Graveyard of Empires, was staged in Chicago in 2012. It depicts a software engineer who has designed a drone that, years later, kills his son in a friendly-fire incident. The blood-spilling comes as a result of a tiny error of programming, the kind that makes our cellphones hiccup and refrigerators click. “He’s brilliant, but still he makes an error. I set out to write a tragedy—and people have come up to me afterward and said, ‘You’ve written a Greek play,’ which delights me.” Armed with a master’s degree in playwriting, Romero came to Tucson in the early 1990s and began to teach playwriting as an adjunct at the University. She declined an offer to teach permanently, saying, “I decided to commit myself to writing, to see what that is. I knew that I was always interested in teaching, but I still had plenty to learn myself.”
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And so she devoted herself to writing full-time, building an extensive body of work that has been staged in venues around the world. Many of her plays, such as Barrio Hollywood, commissioned by the San Diego Repertory in 1999, and The Fat-Free Chicana and the Snow Cap Queen, are set in the U.S.Mexican borderlands with themes that touch on issues of Latino culture. In the former (see the excerpt opposite page), a young Mexican American boxer braves the ring in order to lift his family from poverty, a dream that is soon complicated. Staged by the Borderlands Theatre Company, that family-based drama was inspired by a sign Romero saw on Tucson’s west side advertising a long-gone boxing gym. In the latter, similarly inspired by real life, generations clash over how to prepare traditional food with an eye to current concerns for health, whence the evocation of manteca, lard, in the title. Is there a way to balance that tradition—and that lard—with jogging, eating disorders, and other emanations of modern life? Romero’s comic play digs deep into questions of identity. Romero enjoys the blend of the comic and the tragic, but she allows that comedy is harder to write in dark times, and times are certainly dark. “I’m an optimist,” she says, “but I’m not sold that we’re not going to go up in flames. I love being in complexity and the whole rich mess we’re in, but sometimes it’s hard.” Still, nearing the hundred-play mark, she revels in the instantaneous nature of theater, no matter whether funny or bleak. “If I write a poem or a novel,” says Romero, “I don’t have a sense of how the reader is responding. In a play, however, I can tell immediately if the audience is laughing or fidgeting, if they’re enjoying it or are bored. Theater is brutal that way, but it also gives you an immediate reward. I remember the first time I saw someone cry at one of my plays—it was a Mexican man who was crying, in a play that was being staged in San Antonio—and it felt like a great achievement!” Although her work has taken her to assignments and residencies in places like the Kennedy Center in Washington and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, the native Californian finds herself always returning to Tucson, which she considers home. “Tucson has an important place in my work,” she says. “The sky and the mountains create the biggest possible canvas to work on. I’m still deeply aware of the political and what’s happening in the world, but the beauty here doesn’t distract me away from myself. Instead it takes me into myself, where the questions in my work get sorted out.” She has also rejoined the faculty of the University, teaching writing in the School of Theatre, Film & Television. The department is growing, and with it the theater community in Tucson. “We’re seeing much bigger national recognition for the work we do here,” she says, “and Tucson is its own place, with its own sound, just like Chicago has its own sound. We’re tuning the keys, and what we’re hearing is the voice of the community.” Currently, the Arizona Repertory Theatre is staging a production of her play Like Heaven, which blends sharp observation of the ways friends interact with each other with a nice sense of humor—no Greek tragedy there, though betrayal lies at the heart of the story. The play runs through early October, and Romero will be on hand after the performance at the UA’s Tornabene Theatre on October 5 for a discussion. (See https://theatre.arizona.edu/shows/ like-heaven for details.) “I tell my students that while it’s important to work, and especially to finish projects, you should take time to enjoy who you are and appreciate who you’re with and what they’re bringing to you,” Romero says. “Theater is about life, about experiencing things and about giving yourself chances to speak. My life has taken me from big houses to postage-stamp apartments all over the country. I’ve become a very different person from who I started out to be just by taking the risk of being a writer.” n
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Elaine Romero Amá: My son. My child is dead. And you blame me? He killed him. Michael took Alex’s throat in his hands and he killed him. I saw the whole thing. That horrible man murdered my son. I am a witness! I want that man to go to the electric chair! I want him dead! Let him see what it feels like to be murdered. (More upset) My son was going to be fine. He had a difficult few months, but he was going to be fine. (Short beat) I did not sneak off. I went out for some air. (Short beat) No, I did not know he was dead when I left. I had no idea until you said it to me. What do you mean—contradicting myself? (Beat) You already have ideas in your head, I can see them floating around in there…. (Short beat) I saw everything. Don’t pretend. When you know. (Breaking down) The truth. —an excerpt from scene 3 of Elaine Romero’s Barrio Hollywood (2008)
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Battling Food Waste by Gregory McNamee HERE’S A LITTLE exercise in money management. The next time you’re at the bank, withdraw $3,000. Find the nearest trashcan, throw the stack of bills into it, and walk away. Who would do such a strange thing? Why, we Americans, and every single day of the year. The average family of four spends a bit more than $10,000 a year on food. That same family throws out somewhere between one-fourth and one-half of the food it purchases—a figure that has steadily risen since statistics were first kept in the 1970s. Multiply 327 million Americans by the $3 that each throws away in spoiled or uneaten food each day, and you have enough to fund the space program, give every child on the planet a college education, replace nearly every bridge and every mile of road in the United States. Consider the problem in another way. It takes more than six tons of water to produce a pound of beef. Every uneaten bite represents squandered water, along with oceans of gas and oil. We know much of this thanks to the University of Arizona’s Garbage Project, instituted 45 years ago by the late William Rathje, an archaeologist who, having studied prehistoric middens, had the light-bulb moment of wondering what insight the habits of modern consumers—and producers of garbage—offer to the study of the past. For a couple of years in the mid-1970s, I stood in a steaming, stinking corner of the city’s south side garbage dump and picked apart trash bags that contained some astonishingly nasty things—rotted food, rotted diapers, rotted everything. Yet we learned from decades of data gathered that people threw out a lot of good stuff—and fibbed about it when questioned, especially about how much booze they consumed. Why do we waste so much food? For one thing, we buy too much of it. Though you might not know it when it comes time to pay at the register, food
costs are at an all-time low in the United States—indeed, that we can keep ourselves fed for just a few dollars a day would seem astonishing to one of our compatriots a couple of generations ago. How can we combat food waste? One way is to make more frequent trips to the store, provisioning ourselves a few meals at a time, which is better for more than our wallets. A recent Canadian study found that people who live within two-thirds of a mile from a grocery store weigh 11 percent less than those who live farther away. And of food that is susceptible to spoilage, how much can you really eat before it begins to go bad? Keep records, buy judiciously, and you’ll likely see an immediate reduction in food waste. For instance, plan a few meals at a time that make use of fresh vegetables, and then compare them to what you’re actually eating. The purpose? Well, sad to say, but many of us buy fresh vegetables because we’re supposed to, because we feel like bad parents if we don’t serve them to our kids. The problem is, those ought-to feelings usually translate to not serving them at all, with the result that the bag of spinach you just bought is going to be slimy and inedible when you dig it out of the crisper three weeks from now. Make sure that your refrigerator is set cold to retard spoilage, eat what you buy, buy what you’ll eat. Can we mend our wasteful ways? Certainly. We don’t waste food because we’re bad people, but because we’re unaware that we’re doing so. Cynics may argue otherwise, but we can learn to alter our patterns of consumption. After all, it was once said that Americans, accustomed to a world of endless plenty, would never submit to the idea of recycling—and yet nowadays we recycle a third of our waste, increasingly from the convenience of our curbs. But making less waste in the first place is a good start. Your wallet, your body, and your planet will thank you for it. n October 2018 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 51
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Tom Philabaum’s Alchemy show opens on October 6.
Tacos y Tamales at Contreras Gallery, opens October 6 with a group show of thirteen artists, with a combination of art styles and mediums. Friday, watercolor by Eric Twachtman showing at Davis Dominguez Gallery’s Lay of the Land.
ARIZONA HISTORY MUSEUM
Facing Work opens October 4 and is on view through February 16, 2019. John Slaughter’s Changing West: Tombstone, Bullets, and Longhorns is on view to August 2019. Permanent Exhibits include: History Lab, Mining Hall, and Treasures of the Arizona History Museum. Hours: Mon & Fri 9am-6pm; Tues-Thurs 9am-4pm; Sat & Sun 11am-4pm. 949 E. 2nd Street. 520-628-5774. ArizonaHistoricalSociety.org
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY
LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY Cielo is
DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN
on view to October 5. Sustained Visions opens October 29 and is on view to December 7, with a reception and gallery talk November 1 from 5pm to 7pm. Hours: MonThurs 10am-5pm and Fri 10am-3pm. Pima Community College, 2202 West Anklam Rd. 520-206-6942. Pima.Edu
ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM
DESERT ARTISANS GALLERY
One World, Many Voices is open through March 2019. Long term exhibitions include, The Resiliency of Hopi Agriculture: 2000 Years of Planting; Life Along the River: Ancestral Hopi at Homol’ovi; Hopi Katsina Dolls; Woven Through Time; The Pottery Project; Paths of Life. Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. 520-621-6302. 1013 E. University Blvd. StateMuseum.Arizona.Edu
Lay of the Land is on view to November 3 with a reception October 6 from 6pm to 8pm. Hours: Tues-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat 11am4pm. 154 E. 6th St. 520-629-9759. DavisDominguez.com
DeGrazia’s Chickens are on display through January 30, 2019. Hours: Daily 10am-4pm. 6300 N. Swan Rd. 520299-9191. DeGrazia.org Over the Moon and In My Dreams Miniatures continue through November 4. All Jewelry Pop Up Show: Celest Michelotti, Jere Moskovitz, Melissa Rogers & Margaret Shirer is October 6 from 10am to 4pm. Hours: Mon-Sat 10am5pm; Sun 10am-1:30pm. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Rd. 520-722-4412. DesertArtisansGallery.com
Wild Spirits Art Show, 9am-2pm, October 13. Gallery hours: Everyday from 9am to 4pm. 2740 S. Kinney Rd. 520-437-9103. CactusWrenArtisans.net
GALLERY The Unguarded Moment: Steve McCurry, Takeshi Ishikawa is on view through November 10. Hours: Tues-Sat 11am-5pm or by appointment. 135 S. 6th Ave. 520-624-7370. EthertonGallery.com
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
IRONWOOD GALLERY
CACTUS WREN GALLERY
Ways to Go: Photography of the American Road is on view to November 24 and The Heritage Gallery is on view to January 12. Hours: Tue-Fri 9am-4pm; Sat 1-4pm. 1030 N. Olive Rd. 520-621-7968. CreativePhotography.org
CONTRERAS GALLERY Tacos y Tamales opens October 6 with a reception from 6-9pm and is on view to October 27. Hours: Tues-Sat 10am-3:30pm. 110 E. 6th St. 520-398-6557. ContrerasHouseFineArt.com
ETHERTON
Artists for Conservation 2018 Annual Exhibit is on view to November 25. Hours: Daily 10am-4pm. 2021 N. Kinney Rd. 520-883-3024. DesertMuseum.org
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY
Legacy: 40th Anniversary of the Joseph Gross Gallery is on view through November 15. Tribute to Joe Gross and a reception in his honor is November 15 from 4 to 6pm. Hours: MonFri 8am-4pm. 1031 N. Olive Rd. 520-626-4215. CFA. arizona.edu/galleries
MINI TIME MACHINE Power: A Closer Look at Queens Throughout History is on view to January 13 and Connie Sauve: Miniatures from the IGMA Guild School is on view to December 16. Jean LeRoy’s Buzzard Creek Ghost T is on view to November 4. Hours: Tues-Sat 9am4pm and Sun 12-4pm. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Dr. 520881-0606. TheMiniTimeMachine.org
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Blessed Be: Mysticism, Spirituality, and the Occult in Contemporary Art is on view through December 30. Hours: Weds-Sun 12-5pm. 265 S. Church Ave. 520-6245019. MOCA-Tucson.org
PORTER HALL GALLERY Year of the Tree is on view to January 13. Hours: Daily 8:30am-4:30pm. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 520-326-9686. TucsonBotanical.org PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY & STUDIO Tom Philabaum’s Alchemy show opens on October 6 with a reception from 4-6pm. Show continues through January 26th. Hours: Tues-Sat 11am-4pm. Call for glassblowing viewing. 711 S. 6th Ave. 520-884-7404. PhilabaumGlass.com
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TO DO GOOD
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Sherri Belassen, “Rancho Golfer,” 40” x 30” oil on canvas, at Wilde Meyer Gallery’s Desert Living.
RAICES TALLER 222 GALLERY
Cruzando Linas | Cruzando Fronteras group exhibition is on view to October 20. Hours: Fridays and Saturdays 1-5pm and by appointment. 218 E. 6th Street. 520-881-5335. RaicesTaller222.com
SOUTHERN ARIZONA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM Dinner in the Diner is currently on display featuring original china and silver service from the named first class Pullman trains. 414 N. Toole Ave. 520-6232223. TucsonHistoricDepot.org
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART
30 Americans opens October 6 with a members only preview from 6pm to 7pm and a community celebration from 7pm to 9pm, and is on view through January 13, 2019. Ongoing exhibits include Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art, J. Knox Corbett House, and the La Casa Cordova. Hours: Tues-Wed & Fri-Sat 10am-5pm; Thurs 10am8pm; Sun 12-5pm. 140 N. Main Ave. 520-624-2333. TucsonMuseumofArt.org
UA MUSEUM OF ART
on view to September 30. Hours: Tues-Sun 11am-4pm. Williams Centre 5420 East Broadway Blvd #240. 520299-7294. SouthernAzWatercolorGuild.com
Current exhibitions include: What is the Color, When Black is Burned? on view to March 24, 2019; Picture the World: Burhan Dogancay As Photographer on view to December 9. Ongoing exhibitions include, The Altarpiece From Ciudad Rodrigo. Hours: Tues-Fri 9am-5pm; Sat-Sun 12-4pm. 1031 N. Olive Rd. 520-621-7567. ArtMuseum.Arizona.Edu
TOHONO CHUL PARK Sonoran Stories continues
UA POETRY CENTER Puerto Rico in My Heart |
SOUTHERN ARIZONA WATERCOLOR GUILD Share our Walls (Area Arts Organizations) is
through November 7. If it Doesn’t Have a Hole, It’s a Bowl | Art Planters for Plant People is on view through November 7 in the Welcome Gallery. 10x10 | A Fundraiser opens October 5 and is on view to December 16. Hours: Daily 9am-5pm. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 520-7426455. TohonoChulPark.org
TUCSON DESERT ART MUSEUM
Joseph Labate – The Sawmill Fire is on view to December 9. Ongoing exhibitions include: Desert Hollywood, The Dawn of American Landscape, Arizona Women Uncovered and True Grit. Hours: Weds-Sun 10am-4pm. 7000 E Tanque Verde Rd. 520-202-3888. TucsonDArt.Org
Puerto Rico en Mi Corazon is on view to November 21. Hours: Mon & Thurs 9am-8pm; Tues, Weds, Fri 9am5pm. 1508 E. Helen St. 520-626-3765. Poetry.Arizona. Edu
WILDE MEYER GALLERY Desert Living opens October 1 and is on view to October 31. Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-5:30pm; Thurs 10am-7pm; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12-5pm. 2890 E. Skyline Dr. Ste. 170. 520-615-5222, WildeMeyer.com
WOMANKRAFT ART GALLERY Reflections is on view to October 27 with a reception October 6 from 7pm to 9pm. Hours: Weds-Sat 1-5pm. 388 S. Stone Ave. 520-629-9976. WomanKraft.org
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Pima Community College Music presents the Chorale & College Singers, October 21.
Pima Community College Music presents the Wind Ensemble, October 18
ARIZONA FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC Blake Pouliot Violin, October 14, 3:00 pm; St. Lawrence Strong Quartet, October 24, 7:30 pm. See website for event locations. 520-577-3769. ArizonaChamberMusic.org
ARIZONA OPERA Maria de Buenos Aires, October 6, 7:30 pm and October 7, 2:00 pm. Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. 520-293-4336. AZOpera.org
ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE
Like Heaven, through October 8; Sister Act, October 15 to November 5. See website for locations. 520-621-1162. Theatre.Arizona.edu
ARIZONA
THEATRE COMPANY Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, October 20 to November 10. Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. 520-8848210. ArizonaTheatre.org BALLET TUCSON
Opening Night Gala, October 12; Fall Concert, October 13 & 14. See website for locations. 520-901-3194. BalletTucson.org
CARNIVAL OF ILLUSION
October 6, 4:30 pm & 7:30 pm, Tucson Season Opening. Scottish Rite Cathedral Grand Parlor, 160 S. Scott Ave. 520-615-5299. CarnivalOfIllusion.com
FOX TUCSON Benise – Fuego, October 2, 7:30 pm; The Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey, October 5, 7:30 pm; Una Pareja De 3, October 6, 8:00 pm; Chinese Warriors of Peking, October 7, 4:30 pm; Magic Men Live, October 8, 8:00 pm; The Simon & Garfunkel Story, October 12, 7:30 pm; Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium Adventure,
October 14, 3:00 pm; I’m With Her: Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins & Aoife O’Donovan, October 15, 7:30 pm; An Intimate Evening of Songs & Stories with Graham Nash, October 16, 7:30 pm; Adam Devine, October 20, 8:00 pm; Ghostbusters – Presented by the Heath Foundation, October 21, 3:00 pm; Dhoad, Gypsies of Rajasthan, October 24, 7:30 pm; Sesame Street Live! C is For Celebration, October 26, 6:30 pm; World of Dance, October 27, 7:30 pm; Joan Baez, October 28, 8:00 pm; Halloween At the Fox: Ghostbusters, October 30, 7:30 pm; Compania Flamenca Eduardo Guerrero, October 31, 7:30 pm. Fox Theatre, 17 W Congress St. 520-547-3040. FoxTucson.com
THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Vampire or: “He Loved in Vein”, continues through November 4. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 520-886-9428. TheGaslightTheatre.com
INVISIBLE THEATRE The Busy World is Hushed, October 30 to November 11. 1400 N. First Ave. 520-8829721. InvisibleTheatre.com
LAFFS COMEDY CAFFE
Michael Malone, October 5 & 6; Keith Carey, October 12 & 13; Mike Merryfield, October 19 & 20. 2900 E. Broadway. 520-32-Funny. LaffsTucson.com
LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP
PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The Magic Rainforest, continues through October 7. Chorale & College Singers fall concert October 21, Wind Ensemble One Movement Wonders October 18. Proscenium Theatre, PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Rd. 520206-6986. Pima.edu
SCOUNDREL AND SCAMP THEATRE Eurydice, October 11 to 28. 738 N 5th Ave. 520-4483300. ScoundrelandScamp.org
SOUTHERN ORCHESTRA
ARIZONA
SYMPHONY
Saddlebrook DesertView Performing Arts Center, October 20, 7:30 pm; St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Concert, October 21, 3:00 pm. 520308-6226. SASOMusic.org
TUCSON
CONVENTION CENTER Bob Dylan, October 5. Tucson Music Hall, 260 S Church Ave. TucsonConventionCenter.com TUCSON
SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Mozart & Schubert, October 6 & 7; Brahms Symphony No. 1, October 12, 7:30 pm and October 14, 2:00 pm; Lights! Camera! Pops!, October 27 & 28. See website for locations. 520-882-8585. TucsonSymphony.org
Every Brilliant Thing, through October 6; The Grand Canyon Mystery, continues through November 11. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 520-327-4242. LiveTheatreWorkshop.org
UA PRESENTS Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton
ODYSSEY STORYTELLING SERIES
UNSCREWED THEATER Family friendly shows
Big Brother, October 4, doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm, The Sea of Glass Center for the Arts, 330 E. 7th St. 520730-4112. OdysseyStorytelling.com
Marsalis, October 5; Scotty McCreery, October 24. Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. 520-621-3364. UAPresents.org
every Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 pm. 3244 E. Speedway Blvd. 520-289-8076. UnscrewedTheater.org
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Butterfly Magic Returns! After 4 months away, our famous Butterfly Magic Returns to the Tucson Botanical Gardens. Step into our tropical Cox Butterfly & Orchid Pavilion and walk amongst hundreds of exotic butterflies that span 11 countries.
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EXCITING SHOWS
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 IN THE DIAMOND CENTER Doors at 7pm | Show at 8pm
GRANGER SMITH FEAT. EARL DIBBLES JR. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 IN THE DIAMOND CENTER Doors at 7pm | Show at 8pm
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22 IN THE DIAMOND CENTER Doors at 5pm | Show at 6pm
JEFF FOXWORTHY FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 IN THE DIAMOND CENTER Doors at 7pm | Show at 8pm
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november
Bread & Puppet Theater Performs in Tucson One Day Only
ON NOVEMBER 11TH, Tucson’s Flam Chen hosts Bread and Puppet Theater, which comes to town to preform The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus, a show that explains and teaches riot and rebellion against intolerable situations with the help of state of the art paper-maché weaponry and the appropriate riotous Bread and Puppet Brass Band. Bread & Puppet Theater is an internationally celebrated company that champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art filled with music, dance and slapstick. Its shows are political and spectacular, with huge puppets made of paper maché and cardboard. Founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side, the theater has been based in the North East Kingdom of Vermont since the early 1970s. B&P director, Peter Schumann, says of The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus: “Tigers roar, apes drum their chests, horses neigh, and celestial grasshoppers teach ICE agents the basics steps of grasshopper rebellion dancing. A paradise investigation team analyses the earthlings’ relationship to paradise, while major representatives of Mother Earth attend a festive Puerto Rican dance of
liberation from natural and political disaster.” Bread and Puppet’s performance in Tucson is part of a 14-week tour across the country and back with The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus and The Basic Byebye Show. After the performance, Bread and Puppet will serve its famous free sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread and Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press – will be for sale. Bread and Puppet Presents The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus, 4 p.m. Sunday, November 11th, at The MSA ANNEX-Culture Collider Stage, 267 Avenida del Convento, Tucson, AZ 85745 Admission is by donation, $10−$25 suggested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more information on the event please visit breadandpuppet.org or flamchen.com. n October 2018 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 63
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What’s Live Riveting Stuff by Jim Lipson
AS SOMEONE who likes to listen to and enjoy music, there is nothing like the excitement of a good live performance. When it’s all going well, the synergy between performer and audience can be a deeply affecting experience. There has been nothing however, local or otherwise, delivered in any medium, that can top the live performances delivered on Thursday, September 27 inside the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and what followed on Friday, in what may go down as the ultimate elevator speech between a sexual assault survivor and Jeff Flake. And you thought must see TV was dead. As I was pondering the notion of including any of this in the column this month, I came upon a Facebook post from my buddy Dan Sorenson which seemed to put so much of it into perspective for me. It should be noted Dan enjoyed a satisfying career at the Tucson Citizen as a features writer for a number of years until that paper folded. Then later, a not so satisfying experience with the Arizona Daily Star where he and dozens of others were unceremoniously let go when that paper became serious about purging so many good journalists from its ranks. (Another story for another time.) While Dan would do quite well as a political blogger, he seems perfectly content to play music on the side (he’s a solid bass player, formerly of the Mollys) while occasionally yelling, via Facebook, at people to get off his lawn (metaphorically of course), or the moral political equivalent. Here is some of what he wrote… A couple thoughts on the Kavanaugh hearing: Whether he tried to rape Christine Blasey Ford or not, Kavanaugh is now known to be unfit to serve on the Supreme Court, or any court, based on his tantrum/performance and staggeringly partisan statements yesterday. He made it clear he couldn’t be fair to a Democrat, Progressive, Liberal, moderate or anyone to his left. (Really, bringing up Clinton?) His hatred for Democrats is on the record. It will stink up any decision he’s ever involved in. He should not only not be confirmed; he should lose his Federal judgeship. He shouldn’t hold anyone’s life in his hands, er . . . fists. And if that bias were not enough, his tantrum alone should be enough to disqualify him. He’s a federal judge asking to be a Supreme Court Judge and he lashes out like a steroid freak on meth when he is questioned? Isn’t tough questioning what happens in courtrooms every day? And isn’t a judge the final authority with the responsibility for making our judicial system work? He showed great contempt for the very system he’s nominated to help safeguard. His screaming shit fit alone disqualifies him from that power and responsibility. It doesn’t matter to Senate Republicans whether he tried to rape Ford or not, but it should matter that he doesn’t have the character to hold what I could argue is, long term, the most important office in our country’s government. By the time this rag hits the streets, this may well be a done deal…or not. Either way, it will not diminish the stigma of the white men, most of them over the age of 70, who sit on the Judiciary Committee, who did not have the balls to question Blasey Ford for themselves, and then leaving it to Flake, who looked nothing short of shell shocked as he addressed the Committee on Friday, in going up against his own party in asking for his limited FBI investigation. If this spectacle wasn’t all so deeply painful for so many, it would almost rise to the level of absurdist entertainment. And speaking of entertainment… October 6 - Gene Rules: A Tribute to the Late, Great Gene Ruley, Club Congress - A night of music and reminiscing and featuring the unveiling of the Gene Ruley Guitar Memorial at the Club Congress. If you knew Gene and want to perform, you can still call the club for available slots and details. 64 ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com | October 2018
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October 15 – I’m With Her, Fox Theatre
October 6 – Johnny and the Deep Rollers, Club Congress – Juke Joint Johnny Strasser has long been a part of the scene with his best known work going back decades as a member of Los Lasers/L Mondo Combo where he was equally adept on saxophone, guitar and harp. While health concerns have limited his ability to be out and about, when he does play it’s always a big band blues event. This free show will be outdoors on the Congress patio. October 11 – 10,000 Maniacs, Rialto Theatre – While Natalie Merchant is no longer part of the group, the lineup still boasts four of the six original members with current shows embracing the full scope of their catalogue. Be sure to get their early and catch the opening set by Katie Haverly. October 12 – Freedom for Children w/music by Santa Pachita and Diluvio, 191 Toole – With virtually no info on the Rialto website regarding what this show will benefit, I can tell you Santa Pachita is a kickass 9-piece band with horns, flute, keyboards, guitar and lots of percussion that will knock your socks off with their take on high energy salsa rock. October 15 – I’m With Her, Fox Theatre – This outstanding folk trio, which is distinguished by expert songwriting and stellar three part harmonies, is one of the marquee shows of the month. Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan may not yet be household names but their work with the bands Nickel CreeK and Crooked Still have led to multiple Grammys and rave reviews. October 16 – Graham Nash, Rialto Theatre - David Crosby (who Nash may or may not be talking to—it’s hard to keep up), has been famously quoted as saying “Nash write’s the anthems,” in regards to his role in CS&N. I would argue he was the very heart and soul of that group and he’s still got the vocal chops to back it up. October 19-21 - First Annual Rhythm & Roots Festival, Club Congress – These shows, all outside on the patio and free feature three distinctive evenings of roots and Americana. Friday’s show is with Karl Blau, a Pacific Northwest
staple, outfitted with an unmistakable, deeply emotional voice that roams between baritone and falsetto. Saturday’s show is billed as a guitar rumble with Mike Hebert, Pete Fine, Ed Delucia, Mitzi Cowell and Loren Dircks. Sunday concludes the fest with Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, who’s shows, steeped in the blues are said to be nothing less than extremely memorable. October 19, Leigh Lesho, 191 Toole – This is a CD release that will feature music from Leshos brand new concept album Akasha, recorded with contributions from Oscar Fuentes, Gabriel Sullivan, Heather Hardy and Thoger Lund (Giant Sand) among others. Look for a review in next month’s Zócalo. October 19 – TKMA Benefit for 34th Annual Tucson Folk Festival, Monterey Court -– This show, anchored by the Wayback Machine, will include special guests John Coinman, Earl Edmonson, Petie Ronstadt, Don Armstrong and a special birthday tribute to the late Stefan George. October 22 - Coco Montoya, 191 Toole – This blues guitar great spent many years as the main guy for John Mayall. What else do you need to know? October 28, Joan Baez, Rialto Theatre – This show has been sold out for months but it’s still worth noting we are now in the age of graceful retirement (with a thanks to Paul Simon as well). Aging geezers, so far past their prime should take note. We give thanks to Joan for a lifetime of music, activism and conscience. November 3 - Roman Barten Sherman and Tom Walbank, Exo Bar and Roast – Located on the corner of Sixth Ave. and 7th St. Exo is Tucson’s best new listening rooms. Fifteen-year-old Roman Barten-Sherman has been playing Mississippi delta and hill country-styled blues for almost ten years. Tom Walbank, a long-time mentor to Roman, has been one of Tucson’s premier blues players for close to two decades with his signature vocals and harp playing. Roman and Tom are now releasing Searching the Desert for the Blues. Look for a review next month. n October 2018 | ZOCALOMAGAZINE.com 65
Carlos Arzate and the Kind Souls play at Cans Deli on Friday, October 19.
LIVE MUSIC Schedules accurate as of press time. Visit the web sites or call for current/detailed information.
191 TOOLE 191 E. Toole Ave. rialtotheatre.com Thu 4: Bahamas, Bedouine Fri 5: Battle of the Bowl Sat 6: Dan Soder Sun 7: The Oxford Coma, Mother of Thousands, Psygoat Tue 9: Mothers, Lala Lala, Moaning Wed 10: Chief Keef, Youngleak, Freqz, Poloman Da Hustla Fri 12: Santa Pachita, Deluvio, Eclecto Fenix, Tradiciones, DJ Toltec Sat 13: DJ Dan Sun 14: Skeletonwitch Thu 18: Billy Strings Fri 19: Leigh Lesho-Akasha Album Release Show, Fuentes, Febbo Sat 20: The Lemon Twigs, Jungle Green, Asian Fred Sun 21: Allen Stone, Nick Waterhouse Mon 22: Coco Montoya Tue 23: Robert Delong Thu 25: Jesse & Joy Fri 26: Strung Out, The Bombpops, Counterpunch Sat 27: The Mission Creeps, The Fink Bombs, Spiderhole, The Voodoo, The Rifle, The Furys, Pygmy Death-Ray Mon 29: Four Fists, Shiftee, Angel Davanport Tue 30: Jerry Paper, Stimulator Jones, Prophet
BORDERLANDS BREWING 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773, BorderlandsBrewing.com Sat 20: The Quarter Band
CANS DELI 340 N. 4th Ave. 775-0226 cansdeli.com Wed 3: Spooky Mansion, Sun Dog, Tropical Beach Thu 4: Mystic Braves, The Creation Factory, The Desert Beats Sat 6: Crystal Radio, Paper Foxes, Actual Wolf, Juju Fontaine, The Happy Fits Sun 7: Lowlife, Brooke Povadora, sun riah Tue 9: MC Lars, MC Frontalot, Mega Ran, Schäffer the Darklord Wed 10: Entresol, Dalembert, M. Crane, Karima Walker Thu 11: Mesquite, J-Calvin, Street Blues Family Sun 14: Kikagaku Moyo (Geometric Patterns) Fri 19: Carlos Arzate & The Kind Souls, Las Chollas Peligrosas, Fatigo Sun 21: Genitorturers, Echo Black, The Offering Sat 27: Gila Byte, Last Crime, Blacklidge, The Diversion Program, Miss Olivia & The Interlopers, The Demons Tue 30: Devan Mulvaney, Lano, Chateau Chateau
CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848, HotelCongress.com/club Wed 3: The Essex Green Thu 4: Shannon Lay, Night Shop Fri 5: Emo Night Live, Taking Back
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Coco Montoya plays at 191 Toole on Monday, October 22.
Harambe Sat 6: Johnny and the Deep Rollers, Gene Rules! A Tribute to the Late Great Gene Ruley Tue 9: Thunderpussy Wed 10: Lawrence, Joe Hertler and the Brummies Sat 13: John Paul White, Amy Lavere, Will Sexton, Birds & Arrows, Surfbroads Sun 14: Flint Eastwood Mon 15: Guerilla Toss, New Doubt Tue 16: Amped Up Open Mic Fri 19: Welshly Arms, The Glorious Sons, Charming Liars, Karl Blau, The Easy Leaves Sat 20: Deafheaven, DIIV, Guitar Rumble with Mike Hebert and Loren Dircks Sun 21: Death Valley Girls, Reverent Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Tom Walbank Mon 22: Exploded View, Exek Tue 23: KT Tunstall Wed 24: Molly Burch Fri 26: Nightmare On Congress Street with Michigan Rattlers, The Surfbroads Sun 28: Still Corners
LA COCINA 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351, LaCocinaTucson.com Wed 3: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Thu 4: Freddy Parish Fri 5: Greg Morton & Friends, Oscar Fuentes Sat 6: Nathaniel Burnside Sun 7: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 10: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin
Michael Mayfield Thu 11: Nancy & Neil McCallion Fri 12: Greg Morton & Friends Sat 13: Nancy & Neil McCallion Sun 14: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 17: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Thu 18: Mitzi Cowell Fri 19: Greg Morton & Friends Sat 20: Eric Schaffer & The Other Troublemakers Sun 21: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 24: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield Thu 25: Hank Topless Fri 26: Greg Morton & Friends Sun 28: Mik and the Funky Brunch Wed 31: Miss Lana Rebel & Kevin Michael Mayfield
FOX TUCSON THEATRE 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515, FoxTucsonTheatre.org Tue 2: Benise—Fuego Fri 5: The Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey Fri 12: The Simon and Garfunkel Story Mon 15: I’m With Her: Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins, and Aoife O’Donovan Tue 16: Graham Nash Wed 24: Dhoad, Gypsies of Rajasthan Fri 26: Sesame Street Live Sun 28: Joan Baez Wed 31: Compania Flamenco with Eduardo Guerrero
HACIENDA DEL SOL 5501 N. Hacienda Del Sol. 2991501, HaciendaDelSol.com
Nightly: Live Music on the Patio Sun 28: Mr. Bing’s Supper Club Experience with The Manhattan Dolls
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 Wed 3: Nick McBlaine and Log Train Thu 4: Jacob Acosta Band Fri 5: The Rhythm Jax featuring Ms. Angel Diamond Sat 6: Niki Crawford Sun 7: Sunday Brunch with Nancy Elliot & Friends Tue 9: Wally Lauder Wed 10: Eli Cook Thu 11: Touch of Gray Fri 12: Sam Pace & Gilded Grit Sat 13: East 2 West Sun 14: Sunday Brunch with Nancy Elliot & Friends, Michael P & The Gullywashers Tue 16: Tucsonics Wed 17: Eric Schaffer & The Other Troublemakers Thu 18: Passport To Nashville Fri 19: TKMA Presents—A Fundraiser for the Annual Tucson Folk Festival Sat 20: Southbound Pilot Sun 21: Sunday Brunch with Nancy Elliot & Friends, Missy Andersen Trio Tue 23: The Holy Who Whos, Zen
Salad Fri 26: ROH Annual Halloween Ghoolish Dance Party Sun 28: Sunday Brunch with Nancy Elliot & Friends
THE PARISH 6453 N. Oracle Rd. 797-1233 theparishtucson.com Mondays: jazz & blues Fridays: live local music Sundays: Andy Hersey
PLAZA PALOMINO 2990 N. Swan Rd., 907-7325 plazapalomino.com Sat 13: Mr. Boogie Woogie
PUBLIC BREWHOUSE 209 N. Hoff Ave. 775-2337 publicbrewhouse.com Wed 3: Kevin Pakulis Sun 7: Eugene Boronow Wed 10: Little Cloud Sun 14: Jillian and the Giants Sun 28: Tiny House Of Funk
RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000, RialtoTheatre.com Tue 2: Houndmouth, Family of the Year Wed 3: Dirty Heads, Jukebox The Ghost, Just Loud Fri 5: Drop D, Push, Beyond The Firewall, Broken, The Billy Moon Project Sun 7: Jonathan Davis, The Birthday Massacre, Julien-K Tue 9: Chelsea Wolfe & Russian Circles Wed 10: Nelly, Phresher, Hesus Da God, Poloman Da Hustla
Photo courtesy hotelcongress.com.
Photo courtesy foxtucson.com.
Graham Nash performs at Fox Theatre on Tuesday, October 16.
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KT Tunstall performs at Club Congress on Tuesday, October 23.
Thu 11: 10,000 Maniacs, Katie Haverly Fri 12: Don Felder Sat 13: Borgore, GG Magree, Benda Fri 19: Puddles Pity Party Sat 20: Theivery Corporation, Julian Marley & The Uprising Sun 21: Café Tacvba, Ruen Brothers Wed 24: Snails — The Shell 2.0 Thu 25: Reik, Matisse Fri 26: Stryper, Push, Hands and Feet Sat 27: Dia De Los Luchas Tue 30: Jauz, Holy Goof Wed 31: Dawes
Anthony Febbo Fri 19: Keila Womack & Charles Lolmaugh Fri 26: Dan Stokes
SEA OF GLASS 330 E. 7th St., 398-2542 TheSeaOfGlass.org Sat 6: Danny Green Trio Fri 26: TaliasVan & The Bright & Morning Star Band
SKY BAR TUCSON
1003 N Stone Ave (520) 622-8872 BWRoyalSun.com Sun-Tue: Happy Hour Live Music
536 N. 4th Ave, 622-4300. SkyBarTucson.com Wed 3: Open Mic Thu 4: Singer Songwriter Showcase Tue 9: Tom Walbank, Steff Koeppen Wed 10: Open Mic Fri 12: Cirque Roots Tue 16: Tom Walbank, Dos Muñoz Wed 17: Open Mic Thu 18: Sadgirl Tue 23: Tom Walbank, Steff Koeppen Wed 24: Open Mic Fri 26: Cirque Roots Sat 27: InLessons Tue 30: Tom Walbank Wed 31: Open Mic
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THE ROCK 136 N. Park Ave. rocktucson.com Sat 13: We Came As Romans Thu 18: Hed P.E. Sun 21: Albert The Cannibal and Crafting The Conspiracy Sat 27: D.R.I. And Skullcrack
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