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EvEryonE rEmEmbErs the historic El Con sign topped with the conquistador crossed swords. The monument sign was first installed in December of 1962, and was taken down in 1999 to build the Krispy Kreme building. The sign has been designated a historic landmark sign and refurbished to its original state by Jude Cook of Cook signs in Tucson. It was re-installed and lighted at a commemorative 50th anniversary ceremony on saturday, Dec. 22. Council member steve Kozachik officiated the re-lighting, with performances by the Tucson boys and Girls choruses.

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Bridging 4Th Avenue And downTownby Teya Vitu

While construction sWiftly proceeds for The Cadence student housing project, a leasing office, located at 218 n. 4th Ave., has already been open since the end of september signing University of Arizona students up at the 456-bed complex for the Fall 2013 semester, including 99 apartments with 167 beds on the Centro Garage.

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mostly UA dorm students have been the first to lease rooms that will become available in August 2013 at the eastern edge of Downtown. They will experience an upgrade from tight dorm room bunks to having their own bedroom and bathroom at The Cadence. The dorm prison ambiance gives way to a near resort setting at The Cadence, which has one six-story L-shaped structure next to rialto Theatre and another three-story structure atop the Centro Garage across the street. “A lot of people renting with us are from the dorms,” Amy Kirby, The Cadence’s marketing and leasing director. “They go ‘Wow’ when they see the mock-up (apartment at the leasing office) and the plans. They are coming from an environment where they are packed like sardines.”

The swimming pool is the center piece at The Cadence. “I think the pool area is going to be where everybody wants to be,” said stepha-ny Gamboa, a Cadence marketing assistant and UA junior. “The fire pits are awesome.” The L-shaped building will run along the rialto The-atre and broadway with a one-story commercial section extending along Toole Avenue to create a tenant-only courtyard with the pool.

“The pool has an outdoor kitchen, Las ve-gas-style cabana and you have a movie screen right over the pool,” Kirby said. The pool area also has a large fire pit. A second fire pit will be in the more intimate courtyard on the rooftop on the Centro Garage housing that will feature landscaping, seating and a barbeque. “That will be more of a chill space,” said Chad Izmirian, a Capstone Development senior vice president based in the Encinitas, CA, office near san Di-ego. Capstone is the developer of The Cadence. The fire pits delineate the basic Capstone vision that the apartment on the garage may be more desirable to older students and the rialto side for younger students. The Cadence is not target-ing freshmen.

The Cadence offers a broad array of op-tions, including studios, one, two, three, four and five bedrooms. “From our perspective, it’s more about designing units for a variety of demographics,” Izmirian said. “An older stu-dent – seniors or graduate students – would be inclined to rent a unit with a lesser number of roommates. A sophomore or junior is probably more inclined to want more roommates.” The five-bedroom units – there are five of them – were almost an afterthought, not the size Cap-stone usually builds. but they have proven sur-prisingly popular in the early months of leasing. “What we’re seeing in leasing is the 4’s and 5’s are going the quickest. The 5’s are almost sold out,” Izmirian commented.

The Cadence will home 97 apartments with 289 beds next to the rialto – land that used to hold the Greyhound bus station and the Cen-tro Garage will boast 99 apartments with 167 beds. In both buildings combined, there are 14 studios, 29 one-bedroom apartments, 71 two-bedroom, 62 three-bedroom, 14 four-bedroom and five five-bedroom apartments. no four- or five-bedroom units are on the garage.

Izmirian describes The Cadence as high-end urban student housing. The more traditional barren dorm room is becoming something of the past. “students these days come in with higher expectations. most students had their own bed-room and bathroom growing up. Technology is a huge thing. What you’re seeing is a bigger push for privacy”, Izmirian says.

students are also gravitating to more urban environments. “I think they like the location

Downtown,” said Ashley Farmer, another Ca-dence marketing assistant and a UA sophomore. “It’s close to campus but still Downtown.”

The Cadence sits right at the junction of Downtown and 4thAvenue. right now, zero peo-ple live within a couple hundred yards of where Toole, Congress, 4th Avenue and broadway converge. In one year, some 450 college stu-dents will occupy the space, and the streetcar should be rolling by in both directions.

“It will be good for Downtown. I do believe this will bridge 4th Avenue and Downtown fi-nally,” Kirby said.

Construction started in July – and the Centro Garage has already largely disappeared behind and underneath the framing for three stories of Cadence apartments on top and another two stories on the face. There is a ledge off the third level of the four-level garage upon which a doz-en apartments are being built. Izmirian calls this the building’s “eye brow.”

“We’re further along on the garage,” Izmirian said. “We essentially are done with framing. The roof will be complete soon. We will start adding windows and the exterior sheathing of the build-ing. We will wrap the building with moisture pro-tection. After that you will see the start of stucco right after Christmas.“ Within the framed struc-ture, all the internal mechanical, electrical and plumbing is now getting installed.

on the Greyhound/rialto side, the concrete podium that will serve as the ground floor is complete as is the wood framing of the first two levels of student apartments. Three more levels of apartments have yet to be framed and should be in place by the start of February.

The ground floor, with an 18-foot ceiling, will offer indoor amenities such as a fitness room, an event room, a media room, a great room – “a big living room,” Izmirian said, a multi-sport simulator, a business center, a tanning center and a sauna.

The Cadence’s urban character will come with a built-in commercial level. The garage side will have 10,000 square feet of retail on street level, and the rialto side will add another 9,500 square feet along Toole Avenue. This commer-cial space could be filled with restaurants, brew pub, a coffee shop, “some sort of market,” may-be some other types of shops.

“We’ve had lots of interest,” Izmirian said. “We are negotiating our first letter of interest. Within the last 30 days, we started marketing in earnest.”

The Cadence offers three studio options with 435 to 472 square feet rent for $975 to $990 per month. The three one-bedroom options measure 531 to 672 square feet with rents of $1,060 to $1,120. The three two-bedrooms op-tions have 748 to 879 square feet and rent for $799 to $825 per bedroom. The four-bedroom option is 1,347 square feet and rent is $678 per bedroom. The five-bedroom apartments cost $708 per month per bedroom, measure 2,162 square feet and a 55-inch television is included in the living area. rent includes a room fur-nished with a bed, chair, desk and dresser. Each room also has a bathroom, a washer and dryer, and cable, Internet, water, sewer, pest control and trash are included. students are re-sponsible for phone and electricity.

For more information visit TheCadenceTucson.com. This article originally appeared on DowntownTucson.org

“From our perspective, it’s more about designing units for a variety of demographics”

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A gArden BeArs FruiT in The wreckAge oF rio nuevoby Teya Vitu

ThE FLEDGLInG TrEEs at mission Garden bore fruit in early December just as they did 220 years ago in the same spot in shadow of A mountain and is the only project of the scrapped Tucson origins heritage Park to bear any fruit at all through the planning, spading, grading, planting, and grassroots push by The Friends of Tucson’s birthplace.

Figs, quince, apricots, sweet lime and plums are also growing on the acre that the founding members of The Friends of Tucson’s birthplace roger Pfeuffer, raul ramirez and bill DuPont and dozens of other volunteers have tended this year. It’s the first phase to recreate the full 4 acres of the san Agustín mission Garden from the 1780s and subsequent decades.

“This is all heritage fruit,” said roger Pfeuffer, chair of The Friends of Tucson’s birthplace, the non-profit that is building and operating mission Gar-den. “This is from cuttings from trees that trace their lineage from trees 150 years ago.”

“These are European fruits brought into the area by Father Kino,” added ramirez, secretary of The Friends and historian on Fa-ther Eusebio Kino.

The Friends of Tucson’s birthplace started in 2009 as a loose group of west side supporters includ-ing Pfeuffer, DuPont, ramirez, Diana hadley, Gayle hartmann and Cele Peterson. They saw an adobe compound enclosing nothing. Tucson origins heritage Park was touted as rio nuevo’s signature piece until the city pulled the plug in 2008. no construction ever got started on rec-reating mission san Agustín and its Convento or the new children’s, University of Arizona and Arizona historical society museums. This also included the mission Garden.

The Friends held a press conference on the site in 2009, uncertain just who would show up to support the creating of the garden. It was en-couraging enough that The Friends then put on a forum attended by about 150 people in the historical preservation community.

“We saw there was an interest in this,” Du-Pont said. “People were willing to donate mon-ey and time.” DuPont is the founding chair of The Friends of Tucson’s birthplace and direct descendent of Jose Ignacio moraga, who was commander of the Tucson presidio in 1791.

“The person who really wanted to do this was Cele Peterson. she saw the wall. We assured her it was going to get done”, said DuPont.

The Friends formalized themselves by incor-porating as a 501(c)3 with the Arizona Corpora-tion Commission in 2010 and gaining the non-profit status in fall 2011. In the meantime, that led to clearing up just who had what claim on the mission Garden grounds.

The Friends had been working with the Tuc-son Parks and recreation Department, while the rio nuevo multipurpose Facilities District laid claim to all land associated with Tucson ori-gins. mission Garden is Pima County Parks land and the City owns the wall.

The santa Cruz valley heritage Alliance, The Tucson botanical Gardens and the Arizo-

na-sonora Desert museum, the Arizona state museum, the Arizona humanities Council and the Audubon society have all endorsed mission Garden.

The Friends entered into five-year intergov-ernmental development and operating agree-ment in november 2011 with the City and the County. since then, rio nuevo gave up all claims on mission Garden.

“We didn’t do anything inside the walls until we got that agreement,” Pfeuffer said. “We’re obligated to raise $350,000 in those five years. neither the City or County are under any finan-cial obligation to support the garden.”

The Friends received a $15,000 grant from the City’s historic Preservation office that re-quired a $15,000 match. That was the seed funding to plan the orchard. The Friends raised another $60,000 and received $35,000 from the southwestern Foundation for Education and Preservation. An Americans with Disabilities Act grant added $38,000, and recently the Tohono o’odham nation donated $39,600 for the gar-

den’s Phase 2 work.They have has raised $160,000 of the nec-

essary $350,000 so far.“This resonates with people on a number of

levels,” Pfeuffer said. “Part of it is ‘yeah, we’re going to do something people didn’t think could be done.’ Part of it is the heritage trees got a lot of interest.” The orchard now has 119 trees and people have sponsored 42 trees for $1,000 a piece.

Tucson once had many orchards and gar-dens before Davis-monthan Air Force base changed the dynamics of Tucson in the 1940s. “It just brought back a lot of memories,” DuPont said. “my great grandfather had some of those orchards in his backyard. This is what we knew Tucson as.”

one of four acres is plant-ed. The Friends started Phase 1 work on the site in January 2012 to install solar-powered irrigation, ADA trails, build a ramada and storage build-ing and, in march, started planting the mission orchard. About 50 volunteers were in-volved in planting trees and building the ramada, and 20 volunteers are active on an extended basis.

The second phase should be planted in spring. That will include desert plants and

also a timeline garden both along the western wall. The timeline garden will trace the prog-ress of agriculture from the earliest settlers to the hohokam, the o’odham, the mexican era, the Territorial era and cotton representing the statehood era.

“What we want to show people is how native people gather food from desert plants,” Pfeuffer said.

The southern 2 acres have not been fully planned yet but will likely involve mission crops such as sonoran wheat, Pima white wheat and cilantro. “We might put in an olive grove or may-be more fruit trees,” Pfeuffer said

but for Pfeuffer, the mission Garden isn’t just a bunch of crops and orchards.

“I think of one word: Legacy,” he said.The garden is open to the public every sat-

urday from noon to 4 pm through may and 8 am to noon in the summer.

This article appears courtesy of DowntownTucson.org

raul ramirez, roger Pfeuffer and Bill Dupont inspect the orchard at Mission Garden.

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Brewmasters Showcase Craft BeerIn New Downtown Brewpub

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steve tracy is a straightforward, practical kind of guy. The day I meet him he’s wearing no-nonsense work clothes and is fully involved in the hubbub of work at Thunder Canyon brewery’s new Downtown location. he apologizes for keeping me waiting, but I’m impressed, not perturbed—steve started Thunder Canyon brewery over a decade ago, and it’s cool to see that he’s still fully involved on the ground in day-to-day operations. With plenty of work still to be completed before the brewpub opens on January 8th, steve is good-natured about the fact that I’m interrupting his day to pepper him with questions.

of course, the first thing I want to know is how steve got interested in brewing beer—and how he managed to turn his passion into a career. homebrewing is a widespread phenomenon today, but back when steve opened the first Thunder Canyon brewpub, in 1997, it wasn’t nearly as ubiquitous a hobby, nor were microbrews as popular as they are these days.

“It was a big step,” steve admits, speaking of the decision to leave his comfortable job as a mining engineer to open up his own business. but he explains that he couldn’t turn down the opportunity he’d been presented with: a mutual friend had introduced him to people in Tucson who were interested in working as partners to open up a brewpub. steve loved brew-ing, loved the ambiance and interaction with customers offered by the brewpub environment, and, perhaps most importantly, was open to the idea of moving to Tucson—a city he’d visited in the past and found to be beautiful and welcoming.

“It was a quieter city fifteen years ago,” he explains, and the changes Tucson has undergone since steve founded Thunder Canyon brewery in 1997 are part of the reason that TCb is expanding downtown. “People downtown don’t tend to go up to the northern part of the city, and vice versa,” steve told me, so it seemed like a smart idea to capitalize on the ongoing revitalization of Tucson’s downtown and Tucson’s growing appe-tite for good, local beer by opening up a new location. I asked steve if he expected his customer base to be different downtown than it was on the north side. “maybe a little bit,” he said. “more college students, of course. more industry folks. but really the brewpubs draw people from across the board—anyone from twenty-one-year-olds having their first drink to old folks out on a date. Craft beers aren’t an exclusive thing these days. When

I was growing up, my parents drank generic light beers. Today, kids are growing up and their are parents drinking local microbrews.” Craft beer is the new normal—Thunder Canyon’s brewpub isn’t trying to fill a niche any more specific than “a place for anyone who likes to drink beer” (and from-scratch pub food—also a crowd-pleaser).

This doesn’t mean that TCb isn’t constantly innovating. “We’re always working on two or three new beers,” and “We always keep in mind what people are asking for,” says steve. his current favorite TCb offering is the Cuppa Joe coffee porter, which is made with locally-roasted Cartel cof-fee, he says without hesitation. In general steve prefers darker beers like stouts and porters—“I’m not so much a hoppy beer drinker,” he explains, though he adds that he appreciates all beers. Any guilty pleasures—a light beer or mainstream national beer? steve looks slightly disgusted, and the answer is an adamant no. Well then, what are his favorite microbrews? he smiles and admits that he mostly drinks his own stuff. I get it—in addition to being delicious, drinking his own beer has to be the most economical option for steve!

In terms of his future plans for TCb, steve seems happy to stay rela-tively small and local. “In bigger [brewing] operations, sometimes—un-fortunately—the accountants end up having more of a role in the brewing process than the brewmasters themselves,” says steve. “If you’re small like us, you can make sure you’re using the best ingredients and never skimping on quality.” In steve’s estimation, the biggest mistake a micro-brewery can make is trying to get too big, too fast. “It’s easy to lose con-trol,” he says.

steve’s key to success? “Great people,” he says, such as his general manager and kitchen manager, who have both been working with steve since he and his partners (who he subsequently bought out) opened the first TCb location over a decade ago. “Craft beer is about interactions. TCb is about more than just brewing beer and going home.” This is why, in steve’s opinion, the brewpub is the ideal venue for sharing and showcas-ing craft beer. I look around the downtown Thunder Canyon brewpub—which, with its poured concrete floors and heavy wood tables, is inviting and warm even in its unfinished state. I agree that this looks like a fantastic place to interact with the people who make—and drink—great beer.

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the PaPer-covereD sPace downtown at 50 East broadway has been in the process of emerging into a new restaurant for over a year, and soon it’s coming into the world with a name: Penca. “Penca is the rib of the agave,” explains the owner, Patricia schwabe. “It represents the relationship with the land; a resilient spirit; it’s organic and true to its roots,” she adds, and it’s a name that reflects the place itself.

The address is a building from the 1920s, stripped to its foundation and crafted from the ground up with local and repurposed materi-als. schwabe and her husband ron are owners of Peach Properties, and many of the building materials for Penca have been salvaged and collected from other historic downtown build-

A new MexicAn resTAurAnT wiTh hisToric rooTs

Opening Penca

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ings they’ve restored. “It creates a style that to me is personal and local, warm and intimate,” Patricia describes. It’s a style that she hopes will resonate into the drinks – from a cocktail menu being built by Luke Anable – to the food inspired by the fresh, vibrant cuisine found in central and southern mexico and her own child-hood in mexico City. “I love traditional mexican restaurants,” she says, “where the ingredients are fresh, the colors are vibrant, and where the service is exceptional.” schwabe hopes that she can bring a small piece of that downtown, and wants Penca to be “a place where people be-come friends of the house.”

“The space is warm and minimal – I think romantic, in a way – and almost completely handmade top to bottom,” Anable writes, de-


Patricia schwabe, owner of Penca

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scribing a bar from poured concrete, reclaimed wood and steel. It’s a look he calls honest and transparent, and he wants the drinks he serves there to match in their simplicity. “We think there is a time and a place for most things and we’d like to be able to provide a fitting drink for all occasions,” he notes, aiming for “a return to locality and contextual sensibility” with thought-ful drinks that pair gracefully with food or simply a memorable part of the day.

schwabe scribbles down a sampling of dishes: huevos florentinos for breakfast, chile ancho glazed albondigas for lunch, short ribs for dinner. The menu will be sourced from lo-cal purveyors and farms, equipping chef David valencia with fresh seasonal flavors to create what he calls “Progressive mexican cuisine.”

Complementing their origins, the courses will be served on dishes made locally at santa Theresa Tile Works downtown.

Everything that is going into the emerging Penca is locally sourced and made or remade custom to the space, a process that explains its long development. “It takes time to see an idea for what it is,” explains Anable. “We’ve all had bad ideas and, for me, the only way to see them for what they are is to spend time with them, work with them, and see if they can hold up to the weight of experience and practice.” And for schwabe, who has been involved with every step of the building, the answer is even simpler: creating a new business while simultaneously leasing properties and spending time with her children. meanwhile the practiced hands of so-

nya sotinsky and miguel Fuentevilla of Fors Ar-chitecture have been at work designing custom booths and chairs from reclaimed wood, most of it from the 1900s. They’ve stripped the restau-rant down to its historic foundation.

“The space itself is very old and exposing the foundation, we hope, will remind people of the bigger picture downtown, the importance of preservation and history at a time of redevelop-ment and revitalization,” Luke Anable wrote to me about the space coming to life. “Everything we’re doing has one foot in the history of the area and one in a sense of what Tucson could and should be as a modern, progressive city.”

Though the opening has been pushed back a few times, the owners expect Penca to be in bloom in time for the Gem and mineral show.


ThE rEsULTs ArE in and the winners of moCA’s third biennial Local Ge-nius Awards have been announced. A special live event that took place on november 30th unveiled the 2013 class of local Tucson geniuses includ-ing evolutionary biologist Dr. Anna Dornhaus, architect rick Joy, writer and biologist Dr. Gary nabhan, ecologist and essayist Dr. Peter Warshall and author and legal scholar robert A. Williams. The special ceremony took place at the Plaza at moCA.

“A Local Genius is someone whose work and activities have global and historical impact but who chose to call Tucson home,” says executive director and chief curator of moCA Anne-marie russell. “not only do they contribute to world knowledge and humanity, by basing their activities in Tucson, they elevate our community in the global arena. As a contempo-rary art museum, we celebrate visionary innovation and originality first and foremost, so that is a primary criteria—people who have done something that no one has done before.”

The Local Genius Awards honor remarkable people in all spectrums of fields, as past winners have included artist robert Colescott, chef Ja-nos Wilder, the band Calexico, nAsA visionary Peter smith and a diverse array of others. While the rigorous nominating and final voting process remains private to avoid unwanted lobbying, the end results have always produced legendary winners who might not obtain the local praise that they deserve.

“We were struck by how many world-renowned people are based in Tucson, and how under-recognized many of them were to Tucsonans,” says russell. “We thought the Local Genius Awards would be a great way to highlight their activities and contributions to the world, celebrate them in their hometown, and show the world that Tucson is a place that culti-vates, produces, honors and celebrates innovation.”

The winners this year showcase no shortage of innovation: Dr. Anna Dornhaus’ research has overturned conventional thinking with regard to animal social behavior and communication; rick Joy’s architecture is world renown for his innovative use of local, natural and cultural materials, and indigenous and folk traditions for his environments; Dr. Gary nabhan is an internationally-celebrated nature writer, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist who has been called “the father of the local food movement”; Dr. Peter Warshall is an acclaimed ecologist, activist and essayist whose work centers around conservation-based development; and robert A. Williams, who is the author of numerous books and is a legal scholar and judge pro tem Tohono o’odham nation, and specializes in indigenous legal systems, post-colonialism and critical race theory.

“Tucson has pockets of excellence and genius in a variety of fields, not just in art, but also all across the board that relate to moving culture and society forward,” says moCA president, board of directors randi Dorman. “It’s so incredibly inspiring to hear about the work that these people do here in town. And it gives me faith that one day my daughter, growing up in this environment, has the potential to accomplish something like that as well.”

The Local Genius Award Gala will be taking place on Friday, April 12th at 6:30pm at the Leo rich Theatre downtown where 2011 Genius Emeriti Jane Poynter and Taber macCallum are the honorary Gala Chairs who will be introducing the Geniuses. A special procession will follow and guests will head over to moCA for the dinner and entertainment portion of the evening, including a silent auction, cocktails, dancing and celebration.

“It’s becoming the party of the year in Tucson,” says russell. moCA Galas are known for being elegant and beautiful, but not at all stuffy or pre-tentious. Last year, when we honored 16 Artists in residence, we had folks in black tie finery smashing a piñata blindfolded and dancing late into the night. It’s a raucous good time that is also, in the words of one prominent local businessman, the business-networking event of the year.”

Tickets can be purchased for the gala at Moca-Tucson.org/lga/ For more information email [email protected] or call 520-624-5019. To be-come a member of MOCA or contribute to MOCA visit Moca-Tucson.org.

Honoring Local Geniusesby Jon D’Auria

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local Geniuses, left to right, top to bottom: Dr. Gary nabhan, Dr. Peter Warshall, rick Joy, Dr. anna Dornhaus, and robert a. Williams (pictured with Moca Board President, randi Dorman.) all photos courtesy of Moca, unless noted.

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If I Ran The Circuses

EvEn In ThEsE days of rapid-fire innovation (or perhaps especially so during them), not everything needs to be “new and improved.” The groundbreaking and experimentally fast film speed - 48 frame per second shots - with which director Peter Jackson created his recent “The hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” certainly generated box office buzz and without a doubt modernized Tolkien’s 1937 work for the blu-ray generation. Critics, on the other hand, were nonplussed.

by contrast, absent any digital enhance-ments or special effects wizardry whatsoever, the Zoppé family circus out of Italy amazes onlookers purely through their adept applica-tion of the old-fashioned circus arts: juggling, clowning, acrobatics. After all, some tricks are truly timeless. Classic is the new cutting edge. Any act that has pleased audiences since 1842 hardly needs enhancing.

It was that year, as legend would have it, that in a budapest public plaza youthful French bus-ker napoline Zoppé stumbled upon a talented and lovely equestrian ballerina named Erme-negilda. When her father forbade their relation-ship due to napoline’s lowly social status as a clown, the two eloped to venice and established a society of smiles which continues today. Af-ter 170 years in the business, the incomparable Zoppé Family Circus returns to the old Pueblo this month with tightrope walkers and trapeze artists intact.

Using little more than a 500-seat tent and their extremely active imaginations, the Zoppés are stark traditionalists when compared with Las vegas’ oversized Cirque de soleil. here one’s limbs are the tools of the trade, and bro-ken bones come with the territory. since a high wire misstep in 1990 nearly took him out of the ring permanently, sixth-generation performer Giovanni Zoppé has been grateful for each clap and cheer of the crowds. Filling the shoes of his late father Alberto in the role of the show’s iconic “nino the Clown” character is merely a temporary position for Giovanni, until he inevi-tably passes it on to son Julien. young Zoppés have no need to run away and join the circus; they are born into it.

And circusing is an honorable profession in-deed. “I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown,” said the legendary Charlie Chaplin. “It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.” Truer words have rarely been uttered. nothing beats the blues like belly laughs under the big top.

The University of Arizona’s UApresents brings the one and only Zoppé Family Circus to reid Park, 900 s. randolph Way, on Friday January 11 at 7 pm; saturday January 12 at 1, 4 and 7 pm; and sunday January 13 at 1 and 4 pm. Purchase $25-$35 general admission tick-ets at UApresents.org. Discounts are available for students, seniors and military. Familiarize yourself beforehand with the latest news and

tour photos from the sawdust life at Zoppe.net.Whether coincidentally or by grand design

the January 11-13 weekend also sees cirque D’or in town, making three appearances at the old Pueblo’s tremendous and treasured Fox Tucson Theatre, 260 s. Church Ave. With contortionists and aerial artists from across the globe presented in the modern cirque style, the D’or shows compliment those of the Zoppé clan with little redundancy.

The Chinese Golden Acrobats of Cirque D’or, world famous for their eye-popping dis-plays of physical elasticity and defiance of gravity, will stack and stretch themselves into shapes you’d think unimaginable. When deliver-ing their wow-moment, jaw-dropping spectacle the hebei province troupe is known for balanc-ing an unbelievable number of human bodies in seemingly impossible formations. If you like to applaud, your hands will be ready to fall off af-ter witnessing these feats. Cirque D’or performs Friday January 11 at 7:30 pm; saturday Janu-ary 12 at 7:30 pm; and sunday January 13 at 3 pm. buy $28-$106 tickets at FoxTucsonThe-atre.org.

Two internationally acclaimed traveling cir-cuses stopping in Tucson at the same time? To quote Dr. seuss: stoo-pendous!

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Two circuses coMe To Town

Zoppé family circus, uapresents, Jan 11-13

cirque D’or, fox theatre, Jan 11-13


sat 5BeyonD tucson - 16 events Fun ac-

tivities and entertainment. 12pm-4pm. see website for

more details, beyond-Tucson.org

thu 10- sun 20tucson international JeWish filM festival showcasing the Jewish experi-

ence, current and historic, locally and internationally.

see the film listings section for lineup. see page 26.

TucsonJewishFilmFestival.org

fri 11-sun 13tucson Quilt fiesta more than 300 quilts

and other quilted items displayed at 35th annual Tuc-

son Quilt show. Tucson Convention Center, 260 s.

Church Ave. 547-5463, TucsonQuiltersGuild.com

sat 122nD saturDays A monthly downtown

fest! Free. 6pm-10:30pm. Free. Congress street,

2ndsaturdays.com

fri 18- sat 19DillinGer Days An exciting commemoration

of the events that lead to the capture of John Dillinger

takes place every January, with a whiskey tasting, his-

torical reenactments, live music and more, at hotel

Congress. Details at hotelCongress.com

fri 18- sun 20soccer shootout A soccer extravagan-

za for U.s. youth soccer and Arizona youth soccer

teams. Times/costs vary. FortLowellshootout.com

tucson olD West rounD uP A trade-

show/ auction feautring old West and American Indian

cultural memorabilia and collectibles. old Tucson, 201

s. Kinney rd. 883-0100, visitTucson.org

WeD 23- sun 27out in the Desert filM festivall LGbT Film Festival at Fluxx studio & Gallery, 414 E 9th

st. see pages 23-25. outInTheDesertFF.org

sat 26MarDi Gras 2013 7pm at CAsIno DEL soL

Experience a taste of new orleans in Tucson at the

party of the year. new orleans-style dinner, live per-

formances of batucaxe and Flam Chen, tarot card

readers, a photo booth and dance the night away to

the music of 80’s & Gentlemen and the muffulettas.

Details at mardiGrasTucson.org. Proceeds benefit the

Community Food bank’s hunger-relief programs.

onGoinGsKyniGhts nightly tours of the universe as part

of the stargazing program. 5pm nightly, lasting ap-

proximately four-five hours. $60/adult includes a light

dinner. mount Lemmon sky Center, see website for

directions. 626-8122, skycenter.arizona.edu

MonDaysMeet Me at MaynarDs (@hotel Congress)

southern Arizona roadrunners’ monday evening, non-

competitive, social 3-mile run/walk, that begins and

ends downtown at hotel Congress, rain/shine/holidays

included! 311 E. Congress st. 991-0733, meetmeAt-

maynards.com

thursDayssanta cruZ river farMers’ MarKet

Locally grown fruits and vegetables, plants, flowers,

canned goods, honey, baked goods, eggs, gourds,

herbal remedies, more. 4pm-7pm. mercado san

Agustin, 100 s. Avenida del Convento. Community-

Foodbank.com

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fri 25the DraWinG stuDio 2012 Gala celeBration anD Benefit

Paper is as versatile as the imaginations and needs of humans. since paper was first

invented in 105 AD, people have made use of it in ever-more creative ways. Artists,

too, have relied on paper as a ground to create art.

The Drawing studio will celebrate artists, the character of paper, and 21 years of

nurturing visual art in the larger community with “The Paper ball” – their annual

Gala Celebration and benefit on Friday, January 25, 2013, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Advance tickets are $125 each for the general public, or $100 for Associate mem-

bers of The Drawing studio. Tickets at the door are $10 more.

The gala party will feature an exhibit of 200 art works on paper, or made from paper,

by invited artist friends of The Drawing studio. Gala ticket-holders will be able to

choose one of these works of art to take home. In addition, “Contemporary mas-

ters of Tucson” is a special silent auction of significant works donated by some of

Tucson’s most well-known artists, including James G. Davis, Jim Waid, Gail marcus

orlen, Pat Dolan, betina Fink, Cynthia miller, Charles Littler, Josh Goldberg, Andrew

rush, steven romaniello, nancy Tokar miller, Catherine nash, Albert Kogel, and

Alfred Quiroz. meet the artists preview Thu, Jan 19 from 5pm-7pm. The Drawing

studio, 33 s. sixth Ave. 620-0947, TheDrawingstudio.org

Works by charles littler at “the Paper Ball”

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sat 26MarDi Gras 2013 Experience a taste of new orleans in Tucson at the party

of the year at Casino del sol. Join us in celebrating honorary Queen of Carnivale,

betsy bolding. Enjoy a new orleans-style dinner, live performances of batucaxe

and Flam Chen, tarot card readers, a photo booth and dance the night away to the

music of 80’s & Gentlemen and the muffulettas. bid on unique auction items: U of

A basketball tickets and spa packages, plus over 20 masks created by local artists.

special hotel room rates are available. Tickets are $125 per person and are available

online at mardigrastucson.org or by calling 622-0525 ext 492. Proceeds will benefit

the Food bank’s hunger-relief programs. Party at 7pm.

sat Jan 13 & sun Jan 13PuPPets aMonGus Presents “sleePWalKer” A curious

girl journeys through her own dream-scape to discover an unlikely connection to the

past. This beautiful and charming story is told through shadow puppetry, toy theater

and song. musical accompaniment by Jimmy Carr. Tickets: $6 for Kids ages 3-12

(2 and under are free). $8 for Adults. Located at 657 W. st. mary’s rd. visit The

Playhouse webpage for details, PuppetsAmongus.com

the 4th annual tucson sculPture festival kicks sculp-

ture into the 21st century, showcasing the eclectic variety of local artists along with

some 3D printed creations. Also featured is the Anarchestra, a complete orchestra

of homemade welded musical instruments. The festival runs for 2 weeks during the

day, February 1 - 15, with an opening on Friday evening, February 1. This festival

takes place at two locations near downtown, The Whistle stop Depot, 127 West 5th

street (one block west of stone Ave), and The sculpture resource Center, 640 north

stone Avenue. more information, including maps, demos, evening events and other

specifics online at TucsonsculptureFestival2013.blogspot.com

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ouT in The deserT FilM FesTivAl reTurns To Tucson by Herb Stratford

In A ToWn that is blessed with a multitude of excellent film festivals, one has to wonder if there are any cinematic stories not yet being told. The “out in the Desert: Tucson’s Interna-tional LGbT Film Festival,” will tell many new stories January 24 – 27, 2013. The 2nd annual film festival will present 164 films from around the world at the FLUXX studio space, located at 414 E. 9th st.

The four-day event will screen films from many different countries including documenta-ries, shorts and feature films thanks to the lo-cal group FLUXX. This is the second year they have hosted the festival and the response has been excellent with more than 600 entries from around the world, according to Joe sprague, the organization’s development director and the fes-tival’s director. FLUXX, the winner of the 2012 TPAC LUmIE award for emerging arts organiza-tion, is a local non-profit arts organization whose programming supports open dialog and conver-sation about queer culture via arts exhibits, per-formances workshops and special events. The film festival is beneficial to both the organization and participating filmmakers as they can both gain exposure and have their messages heard by many.

“As always, we strive to show the very best of the newest crop of LGbT themed films avail-

able,” said Joe sprague. since the festival works with filmmakers directly, and does not show any films that have distribution deals, there are many films that are unseen by the public. FLUXX also does not charge a submission fee for films to the festival in order to decrease the cost of entry for emerging filmmakers. This year, the festival continues its focus on short films, and will present more short films than any other LGbT film festival in the country. As the “out in The Desert” festival takes place in January, it is the earliest festival on the LGbT circuit, leading to many southwest and world premiere screen-ings for Tucson audiences.

In the feature length documentary “I stand Corrected” jazz musician Jennifer Leitham’s gender-reassignment is chronicled through in-terviews and archival materials. A well-respect-ed musician from her teenage years through her performances with mel Torme, and even Tonight show bandleader Doc severinsen, she was known then as John Leitham. Jennifer went through gender reassignment after years of feel-ing that something was wrong, and continues to be a musical force in the jazz world today. mu-sic, the one constant in her life, played a power-ful role in her transformation and continues to do so. This powerful and inspiring story of being true to oneself, plays at FLUXX and Jennifer will

be in attendance for a post screening Q & A with the audience.

of special note this year is the shorts pro-gram that features many films by local filmmak-ers who are finding their voice through film. With topics ranging from hIv to same-sex wed-dings, several shorts are by Tucson filmmakers including “Linda and Angela” by Angela soto, and “Leyenda” by Forrest brennan.

other shorts of interest include “Fallen Com-rade,” which traces a military romance; “The Divine Decadence of Cheesecake” from Aus-tralia; and “Pursuit,” a comedy about a woman hell-bent to get a female motorcycle cop to pay attention to her directed by Patty newton. The festival will host around 30 filmmakers this year who will be present at their individual screenings for Q & A sessions, along with several produc-ers and actors. Filmmakers from Iran, Canada and Australia have also approached the festival about attending, which speaks about the quality and impact the festival is having on the interna-tional LGbT community.

The festival kicks off with a launch party on January 4th with the announcement of all films, and a special party at the FLUXX space. The full list of films and screening times is available at OutInTheDesertFF.org

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The 22nd AnnuAl Jewish FilM FesTivAl by Herb Stratford

ThE TUCson JEWIsh Community Center is a place of community, support and activity. It is also a place that fosters connection between generations and cultures. one method of building and strengthening these activities is the annual JCC Film Festival, which takes place January 10-20. With a line up of 17 feature films and a handful of short films, this year’s festival has a wide range of stories that will inspire, urge contemplation and reflection and also entertain.

one unique element in this year’s festival is the “rhythm and Jews” collection of films according to Lynn Davis, the JCC’s Director of Arts and Culture. With four films highlighting the intersection of the Jewish faith and music, nearly every ear will find something that they can relate to. Docu-mentaries on legendary composer Doc Pomus, the history of the classic musical number hava nagila, and an encore of the 2011 standout film “The Jazz baroness,” will screen during this year’s festival. Joining the

lineup are several World War II dramas that are both heartbreaking and inspiring. “Joanna” tells the story of an orphaned Jewish girl who is living in hiding. “Free men” tells the true story of a Paris mosque and its muslim members as they smuggle Jews during the German occupation.

but the festival is not just about the same old stories. A new, second generation of survivors are “finding their voice, and defining a legacy of trauma, despair and hope moving forward” according to Davis. These sto-ries will continue to be heard in new films, telling stories in new ways. The JCC will present several films told from this perspective as well.

This year the majority of films will screen at the JCC ballroom, with opening night at the Loft Cinema and closing night at the Crossroads Festi-val cinemas. A full schedule is online and printed copies are also available.www.tucsonjcc.org

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Free Men, Monday, Jan 14


EThErTOn GallEryA new exhibit, Surface Tension, at the Etherton Gallery features top-notch artists with striking visual work that will leave you dazzled long after you have left the gallery. Joel-Peter Witkin’s beautiful yet horrific images are joined by new work from mixed media artists holly roberts and Alice Leora briggs. The show will run through April 6, with a reception on January 12 at the gallery, located at 135 s. 6th Ave. For a preview of the work visit the gallery’s website at EthertonGallery.com.

InvIsIblE ThEaTrETucson will host the premiere performance of “Celebration!” on January 12 and 13 at the berger Performing Arts Center. The show stars valarie Pettiford and is full of singing and dancing from broadway hits like FossE and Chicago. Pettiford is a veteran of film, television and theatre work, and is a true star making her Tucson debut in this production. For ticket information visit InvisibleTheatre.com.

ChambEr musICThe Tucson Chamber artists will host a program featuring the Chamber Artists chorus, orchestra and soloists performing a program of bach and britten works. The performances are on saturday, January 5, at st. An-drew’s Presbyterian Church at 7:30pm, and sunday, January 6, Grace st. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 3pm. For more information visit TucsonCham-berartists.org.

uaPrEsEnTsJazz greats, a traveling circus, Carol burnett and even Flamenca dancing, there’s lots of great arts events to experience this month thanks to UA-presents. The Zoppé Family Circus returns to Tucson, following their out-standing run last year, on January 11-13. If you’re looking for a little Latin dance to warm you up this month, soledad barrio’s noche Flamenca will be on stage at Centennial hall on January 13. Jazz legends Chick Corea and Gary burton will make a Tucson stop on their world tour on January 19, and finally, comedy legend Carol burnett will bring back memories and stories from her long career in an intimate one-night event on January 26. visit uaPresents.org for more details and ticket information.

rOGuE ThEaTrEbertolt brecht’s “mother Courage and her Children” will be presented by the rogue Theatre January 10-27 at their space on West University boule-vard. regarded as a masterpiece, brecht’s take on nature, war and capi-talism is one of the highlights of rogue’s 2012-2013 season, and promises to resonate profoundly in our modern world.

January FIlmsA few films of note to look for at main stream theatres this month include: “Zero Dark Thirty” which chronicles the hunt for bin Laden; “Promised Land” directed by Gus van sant, tells a tale of one small town’s indecision related to natural gas fracking rights; and at The Loft Cinema, “beware of mr. baker”, a documentary about legendary drummer Ginger baker and his anti-social ways.

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arT GallerieS/exHibiTSatlas fine arts smallWORKS, an invitational exhibition of works small in

scale, featuring artists marvin shaver, Josh Goldberg, Katherine monogan, James

schaub and many more, through January 19. Wed-Thurs 11am-5:30pm, Fri-sat,

11am-7pm. 41 s. 6th Ave. 622-2139.

artseye Gallery Landings by stephen strom and stu Jenks runs sat,

Dec 1- Thu, Feb 14. 3550 E. Grant rd. 327-7291. ArtsEye.com

arts MarKetPlace Gallery Thurs-sat, 12pm-6pm and by appoint-

ment. 403 n. 6th Ave., 882-3988. Artsmarketplace.org

Blue raven Gallery Thu, noon-4pm; Fri, noon-5pm; sat, 11am-5pm.

3042 n. 1st Ave. 623-1003, blueravenGalleryandGifts.com

Borealis arts Tue-sat, 10am-5pm & by appointment. 150 s. Camino seco

# 108. 885-2157, borealisArts.com

center for creative PhotoGraPhy And Then... My First Years

at CCP opens Fri, Jan 25. Photo Friday: Suburbia takes place Fri, Jan 4. mon-Fri,

9am-5pm; sun, noon-5pm. 1030 n. olive rd. 621-7968, CreativePhotography.org

conraD WilDe Gallery Running Amok continues through sat, Jan 26

with a reception on sat, Jan 5 from 6pm-9pm. Tue-sat, 11am-5pm. 439 n. 6th Ave.

#171. 622-8997, ConradWildeGallery.com

contreras Gallery Reflections of the Sonoran Desert continues

through sat, Jan 26. Tues-Fri 11am-5pm, sat 11am-4pm. 110 E. 6th st. 398-6557,

ContrerashouseFineArt.com

Davis DoMinGueZ Gallery Abstract paintings by David Pen-

nington and Amy metier and abstract metal sculpture by steve murphy opens

Thu, Jan 3. Tue-Fri, 11am-5pm; sat, 11am-4pm.154 E. 6th st. 629-9759,

DavisDominguez.com

Deco Ignite: Neon and Light Show continues through Thu, Jan 31. Tue-

Wed, sat, 11am-4pm; Thu-Fri, 11am-5pm. 2612 E. broadway blvd. 319-0888,

DecoArtTucson.com

DeGraZia Gallery in the sun Portraits of DeGrazia continues

through sun, Jan 20. mixed media Angels by Jane stern continues through Fri, Jan

11. Pottery by Clydean Troner and Elaine Dow shows sun, Jan 13-Fri, Jan 25. oil on

Panels and Canvas by Earl Wettstein opens sun, Jan 27. Daily, 10am-4pm. 6300 n.

swan rd. 299-9191, DeGrazia.org

the DraWinG stuDio The Paper Ball takes place Fri, Jan 25 with a

preview on Wed, Jan 23. 6pm-9pm.Tue-sat, noon-4pm. 33 s. 6th Ave. 620-0947,

TheDrawingstudio.org

etherton Gallery Seeing in Silver: John Loengard, Ralph Gibson and

Harry Callahan continues through sat, Jan 5. Surface Tension: Joel-Peter Witkin,

Alice Leora Briggs, Holly Roberts opens Jan 8 with a reception on sat, Jan 12,

7-10pm. Tue-sat, 11am-5pm. 135 s. 6th Ave. 624-7370, EthertonGallery.com

florence Quater Gallery Fees and tuition vary. The Art Center

Design College, 2525 n. Country Club rd. 325-0123, sUvA.edu

fluXX stuDio anD Gallery Out in the Desert 2013: Tucson’s Interna-

tional LGBT Film Festival takes place Wed, Jan 3- sun, Jan 27 with reception on Fri,

Jan 11. Fluxx studio and Gallery, 414 E. 9th st. Fluxxproductions.com

GeorGe strasBurGer stuDio anD Gallery Thu-sat, 11am-

4pm and by appointment. 172 E. Toole st. 882-2160, Georgestrasburger.com

JosePh Gross Gallery Subdivision #3 continues through Wed,

Jan 9. Language of the Land: Popular Culture within Indigenous Nations and the

New Wave of Artistic Perspectives opens mon, Jan 14 with a reception on Thu,

Jan 24. mon-Fri, 9am-5pm; sat-sun, 10am-4pm. 1031 n. olive rd. 626-4215,

CFA.arizona.edu/galleries

“running amok” continues through sat, Jan 26 with a recep-tion on sat, Jan 5 from 6pm-9pm at conrad Wilde Gallery.

andrew Phelps, “Billboard home”, 2006. chromogenic color print. Gift of the artist.

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lionel roMBach Gallery Art 441, Advanced Photography continues

through Wed, Jan 16. mon-Fri, 9am-5pm; sat-sun, 10am-4pm. 1031 n. olive rd.

624-4215, CFA.arizona.edu/galleries

louis carlos Bernal Gallery Wed 10:30am-5pm; Tue, Thu

10am-5pm; Fri 10am-3pm. 2202 W. Anklam rd. 206-6942, Pima.Edu/cfa

MaDaras Gallery Wine-tastings every Thursday night during Art Walk

from 5-7pm. Art and gifts featuring wine images including paintings and hand-paint-

ed bowls, trays, lazy susans and napkin holders. mon-sat, 10am-6pm; sun, 11am-

5pm. 3001 E. skyline Dr, #101. 623-4000, madaras.com.

MuseuM of conteMPorary art Wed-sun, noon-5pm. $8, adults;

free, children under 12, members, military; free to all second Wednesday of the

month. 265 s. Church Ave. 624-5019, moCA-Tucson.org

Monterey court cafe Gallery monterey Court Cafe Gallery, 505

W. miracle mile. montereyCourtAZ.com

oBsiDian Gallery Home for the Holidays continues through sat, Jan 6.

obsidian Gallery, 410 n. Toole Ave., #120. 577-3598, obsidian-Gallery.com

PhilaBauM Glass Gallery & stuDio The Ins and Outs, fea-

turing the interior optical Paintings in solid glass by Wes hunting and the exterior

surface design by bob Kliss, continues through sat, Jan 26.10am-5pm. Tue-sat,

10am-5pm. 711 s. 6th Ave. 884-7404, PhilabaumGlass.com

Porter hall Gallery Art by Nancy Polster continues through mon,

Jan 14. Art by Andra King opens Thu, Jan 17. $8, Adults; $4, Children 4-12; Free,

Children 3 and younger. 2150 n. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, Tucsonbotanical.org

raices taller 222 art Gallery Fri-sat, 1pm-5pm & by appoint-

ment. 218 E. 6th st. 881-5335, raicesTaller222.webs.com

sacreD Machine Works by Daniel martin Diaz. Wed-Fri, 5pm-8pm; sat,

4pm-9pm; sun, 3pm-6pm. 245 E. Congress st. 777-7403, sacredmachine.com

the southern ariZona Watercolor GuilD 200 Under

$100: bin bonanza continues through sun, Jan 6. Tue-sun; 11am-4pm. river Cen-

ter Plaza, 5605 E. river rd., #131. 299-7294, WaterColor-sawg.org

stone DraGon stuDio Wed-sat, 11am-4pm & by appointment, 405-

5800. 1122 n. stone Ave. 624-7099, holyJoestudio.com

teMPle Gallery Valerie Galloway: Photographs continues through Tue, Jan

8. Drawings by David F. Brown opens Fri, Jan 11. mon–Fri, 10am-5pm. 330 s. scott

Ave. 624-7370, EthertonGallery.com

tucson MuseuM of art Han and Beyond- The Renaissance of China:

The James Conley Collection opens Thu, Jan 24. The Shape of Things: Four Decades

of Paintings and Sculpture continues through sun, Jan 13. Barbara Rogers: The Im-

perative of Beauty, A Fifty-Year Retrospective continues through sun, Jan 13. Henri

Matisse: The Pasiphae’ Series and Other Works on Paper continues through sun,

Jan 20. Desert Grasslands opens sun, Jan 26. Elements in Western Art: Water, Fire,

Air, and Earth opens sun, Jan 26. Feminina: Images of the Feminine Latin America

opens sun, Jan 26. Wed, Fri, sat: 10am-5pm; Thu: 10am-8pm; sun, noon-5pm.

$10, adults; $8, seniors; $5, students 13+; free, children under 12. Free to all the

first sunday of the month. 140 n. main Ave. 624-2333, TucsonmuseumofArt.org

ua art MuseuM An Engagement with Presence: Drawings and Prints

from the UAMA Permanent Collection continues through sun, Jan 6. In Relief:

German Op-Art Ceramics continues through sun, Jan 27. Tue-Fri, 9am-5pm;

sat-sun, noon-4pm. $5 adults; children/students/faculty, free. 1031 n. olive rd.

Artmuseum.arizona.edu

ua Poetry center Selections from the Permanent Collection: Big Books

continues through Wed, Jan 30. mon/Thurs, 9am-8pm; Tues/Wed, 9am-6pm; Fri,

9am-5pm. 1508 E. helen st. 626-3765, Poetry.Arizona.Edu

WilDe Meyer Gallery The Gem Show continues through Wed, Jan 2.

Southwest Holidays continues through Thu, Jan 3. My Favorite Things begins sat,

Jan 5. The Muscle Car and the ol’ Truck opens sat, Jan 5. Celebrating Art opens

Thu, Jan 3. mon-Fri, 10am-5:30pm. 3001 E. skyline Dr. Wildemeyer.com

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“three hotels” shows at Beowulf alley theatre from fri, Jan 4- sun, Jan 20.

“indigo Girls” perform sat, Jan 19.

freud’s last session premieres sat, Jan 19, at arizona theatre company.

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ariZona frienDs of chaMBer Music Sergey Antonov & Ber-

nadene Blaha perform on sun, Jan 20 at 3pm. Trio solisti performs Wed, Jan 23 at

7:30pm. TCC’s Leo rich Theatre, 260 s. Church Ave. 577-3769, ArizonaChamber-

music.org

ariZona onstaGe ProDuctions Five Women Wearing the Same

Dress plays Thu, Jan 10- sun, Jan 27. Temple of music and Art, 330 s. scott Ave.

270-3332, Arizonaonstage.org

ariZona theatre coMPany Freud’s Last Session premieres sat, Jan

19. Temple of music and Art, 330 s. scott Ave. 884-8210, ArizonaTheatre.org

BeoWulf alley theatre Three Hotels runs Fri, Jan 4- sun, Jan 20. 11

s. 6th Ave. 882-0555, beowulfAlley.org

BlacK cherry BurlesQue Tantalizing burlesque performance on Fri,

Jan 4 at 8pm and 10pm. surly Wench Pub, 424 n. 4th Ave. 882-0009, Tucsonbur-

lesque.com

carnival of illusion shows Fri, Jan 25- sat, Jan 26. see website for

times and locations. Double Tree Tucson hotel, 445 s. Alvernon Way. 615-5299,

CarnivalofIllusion.com

chaMBer Music Plus Bob Clendenin stars in John Cage @ The Cabaret

shows Fri, Jan 4- sun, Jan 6. Confidentially, Chaikovski shows sun, Jan 27. 400-

5439, ChambermusicPlus.org

foX theatre Cirque D’or shows Fri, Jan 11- sun, Jan 13. Clint Black: 2013

Acoustic Tour takes place Wed, Jan 16. Chick Corea & Gary Burton perform sat, Jan

19. Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress st. 624-1515, FoxTucsonTheatre.org

the GasliGht theatre Scrooge: A Gaslight Musical continues through

sun, Jan 6. Lone Stranger opens Thu, Jan 10. Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. broadway

blvd. 886-9428, TheGaslightTheatre.com

invisiBle theatre Valerie Pettiford in Celebration shows sat, Jan 12-sun,

Jan 13. Invisible Theatre, 400 n. 1st Ave. 882-9721, InvisibleTheatre.com

live theatre WorKshoP The Chosen opens Thu, Jan 3. Delia and the

Mud People continues through February. Live Theatre Workshop, 5317 E. speedway

blvd. 327-4242, LiveTheatreWorkshop.org

not Burnt out Just unscreWeD The improv comedy troupe

performs Fri, Jan 4, 7:30pm at revolutionary Grounds Coffee house, 606 n. 4th Ave

and Fri, Jan 18 at rock n Java Cafe. 861-2986, UnscrewedComedy.com

oDyssey storytellinG series Myths: Monsters Under the Bed

shows Thu, Jan 10 at 7pm. $7. Fluxx studio and Gallery, 416 E. 9th st. 730-4112,

odysseystoryTelling.com

Pcc arts Harvey Wolfe Cello performs sun, Jan 20 at 3pm. $6. PCC Center for

the Arts recital hall, 2202 W. Anklam rd. Pima.edu/cfa

the roGue theatre Mother Courage and her Children shows Thu, Jan

10- sun, Jan 27. 738 n. 5th Ave. 551-2053, TherogueTheatre.org

tucson syMPhony orchestra Peter and The Wolf shows sat, Jan

5. The Four Seasons shows sat, Jan 12- sun, Jan 13. Karen Gomyo performs Tue,

Jan 15. Indigo Girls perform sat, Jan 19. Romantic Brahms takes place Fri, Jan 18

and sun, Jan 20. Ballroom with a Twist takes place sat, Jan 26- sun, Jan 27. TCC’s

music hall, 260 s. Church Ave. 882-8585, Tucsonsymphony.org

ua Presents Zoppé Family Circus takes place Fri, Jan 11- sun, Jan 13.

SoledadBarrio’s Noche Flamenca 2013 takes place sun, Jan 13. Chick Corea and

Gary Burton perform sat, Jan 19. Harold and the Purple Crayon shows sun, Jan 27.

Centennial hall, 1020 E. University blvd. 621-3341, UAPresents.org

WinDinG roaD theatre enseMBle August: Osage County opens

Thu, Jan 24. 749-3800, WindingroadTheater.org

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oPeninG, saturday, January 26th, 6-9 pm, at the hotel congress lobby, is figurative works of internationally recognized local artist, shana Zimmerman, and Joe Pagac, one of tucson’s most popular up and coming artist. the work will be hung in the lobby of hotel congress and its adjoining restaurant, the cup. learn more about the artists at shanaZimmerman.com and JoePagac.com

the Green room (24x36 oil), by shana Zimmerman was inspired by and set in the hotel congress lobby.


KnOw whEn TO GIvE uPIT mAy sEEm like a strange suggestion for new year’s, but many of the problems we encounter in gardening comes from our inability to accept defeat. Gardening should not be like war. your garden should not be de-void of pests. A balance of good guys and bad guys is necessary. If you are meeting the needs of your plants, you won’t have too many pest infestations, since they tend to overtake plants that are previ-ously compromised. occasionally, aphids will take over a lettuce plant and a tomato hornworm may devour a young tomato. Accept it. you don’t need to come out with the heavy artillery, or even the organic insecticidal soaps. Look rather into whether the plant has enough water, sun, and if you are planting it in the proper season. sometimes there is nothing wrong and there just happens to be a spike in a particular insect’s population. Accept it and move on. The biggest problems we have in agriculture come from trying to force the unnatural (like acres and acres of the same plant growing all in one spot). As a result we end up resorting to more and more extreme methods of cultivation. many pes-ticides and synthetic fertilizers originated from the same companies that once made chemical weapons and bombs. After World War II, these companies found a new industry for their prod-ucts: agriculture. Let your garden be a refuge for clean, natural food to grow. Employ benefi-cial insects and maybe even use some organic pest controls occasionally. but first ask yourself, is that one or two lettuce plants worth all that effort?

The best way to avoid pest infestations is by not fighting them. When you spray even the gentlest of pesticides, you are killing good guys as well, throwing your garden off balance. The best way to keep your plants happy is making sure you have enough organic material in the ground, a good layer of mulch at the base of the plant, and sufficient sunlight (most gar-den plants, especially in the cool season, do best in full sun all day long). Keep your plants moist, evenly, but don’t over water. The first mistake people make when learning to garden is over watering. The second is usu-ally over watering which tend to push nutrients out of the soil. Plants favor

deep watering and less often, rather than fre-quent, shallow watering. mulching also helps with keeping the moisture in the ground so watering can be less frequent.

Add more biology to the soil, not less. Think about adding some beneficial critters. Ar-bico is a Tucson-based

company that sells beneficial organisms for your garden. Try beneficial nematodes, lacewings, or praying mantis. Check out their website at www.arbico-Organics.com and if you have questions, call them up. They can be very helpful.

sEasOnal GuIDElInEsmany people start projects around the new year. For the garden, it is

the middle of the cool season. Whether you already have a garden going or are just starting, you can still be planting, growing and harvesting those

winter vegetables that many people get going in the fall: the various greens, root vegetables, cilantro, parsley, dill, peas, or the underap-preciated herb, chervil, which is often used in French cuisine. As the cool season continues, select varieties that need shorter times to grow and that are heat tolerant. The heat will be here before we know it.

speaking of the warm season, January is the month to start planting out pots of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, inside or in a cold-frame. These will be put in the garden in 6-8 weeks

(with continued cold protection). This is especially beneficial for getting a head start on the warm season, and playing with some of the varieties that take a little longer to mature. you can also direct-seed some of these warm season plants if you make a plan for protecting them from frosty nights. They will grow slower. Also try growing potatoes. Plant them now. small potatoes are planted whole, while larger ones are cut into 2 inch sections. Plant with “eyes” face up.

Jared R. McKinley maintains a gardening and homesteading blog called Arid Land Homesteaders League at AridLandHomestead.com

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“let your garden be a refuge for clean, natural food to grow.”

by Jared R. McKinley

Notes From A Plant Freak

January is the month to start planting out pots of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, inside or in a cold-frame.


misterpaulfisher is a consultant-teacher-lecturer-artist who has been puzzling for many decades. Find out more about Paul, his work and puzzles at: www.misterpaulfisher.com

riddle me This!

A riddle is a question or a problem phrased obscurely but correctly and posed to test the ingenuity of the person trying to find the answer.

riddles demonstrate command over the words, objects, and ideas central to the life of a group or nation. They perform cultural and political work as they operate at the thresholds of courtship, initiation, death rituals, moments of greeting, and intercultural relations.

one of the first great riddlers of the print medium was Charles Dickens.

In Dickens’s periodical All the Year Round for 12 september 1863, a contributor published the riddle:

PUZZLE #9

What word is this?

“Misery, myself, and my wife.”

The answer to this riddle inspired the riddle for 19 september. The new riddle expressed its umbrage at the concept of the previous one. The new contributor’s riddle was:

PUZZLE #10

Then what word is this?

“My first two letters are a man, my first three a woman, my first four a brave

man, my whole a brave woman.”

Go to our webpage for both of the answers and an explanation as to how these riddles show the ideas described above.

ansWers to puzzles 9 and 10 are available atwww.Zocalomagazine.com/puzzles

Found Puzzlesby misterpaulfisher


singing Across The divide:Border songs compilation captures the emotions of border politics by Emily Gindlesparger

AFTEr hIs FIrsT field trip with his students to the Arizona-mexico border, lined now with a metal fence ripping across the desert, robert neustadt wrote a song. The northern Arizona University professor took his class on Latino Theater, Film, and the Us/mexico border to the site of their studies to see it first hand, and when neustadt sat down with a guitar later, the stories came forward. “I wrote that song because I had to write that song,” he explained. “It just sort of came out of me.” he had met undocumented migrants who had been deported - a sterile word for being split from fami-lies they’d built in the U.s., or even families they’d left in mexico - and dropped off in nogales with no resources to move or mend the divide. The title of the song is an even more sterile term for this separation: “voluntary return.”

The song has now joined 30 other tracks from musicians, poets and storytellers in a new album that tackles the emotion on both sides of the fence. “border songs” is available on CD baby and since october has sold over 800 copies; the proceeds amounting to $16,000 are being donated to no more Deaths, a humanitarian aid organization that provides aid to migrants in the desert and at repatriation centers in northern mexico.

neustadt was haunted by what he’d seen across the border: the make-shift camps, the border Patrol attitudes, the shrines to people who’d died in the heat. he wasn’t the only one. And when his friend and collaborator Chuck Cheesman shared a song he’d also written about the complicated tangle of border politics, the two realized there might be a whole album’s worth of songs like this across the state, maybe even the whole country. “I thought it was such a beautiful idea that I jumped on it and wouldn’t let go until we did it,” neustadt professed. An album was born.

The sounds of the border songs are as diverse as the people in them. sweet honey in the rock’s strong harmonies lead into the Latino beats of Lilo Gonzalez into the soft dulcet of Amos Lee in the first three tracks. The pieces swing from story and spoken word to ballads, rock, and spanish-language rap, with appearances from Calexico, michael Franti and spear-head, Pete seeger, Joel rafael and sergio mendoza y La orkesta. Every-where in between, locally known songwriters contribute tracks. The artists talk about coyotes and border Patrol and sb1070 and death and love torn away.

Concerts are popping up around Arizona, and Tucson will see one on January 5th at southside Presbyterian Church. Among the performers is Glenn Weyant, a sound sculptor whose track on the album blends mar-garet randall reading a poem over Weyant playing the actual border wall itself, with violin bows, sticks and brushes. Perhaps above all, “border songs” seeks to create an experience of immigration like Weyant’s sound: tactile, tormented, and immediate.

“border songs” is available for purchase at CDBaby.com; all of the $20 pricetag benefits No More Deaths.

Border Songs in Concert will be at Southside Presbyterian Church, 317 W. 23rd St., on Sat., Jan. 5 at 7pm. There is a $5 suggested donation, or admission with purchase of a “border songs” CD. For more informa-tion, visit BorderSongs.com or find No More Deaths on Facebook.

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photo: Shawn Skabelund


The Music Never sTopsby Jim Lipson

WhEn rhyThm & rooTs impresario Jonathan holden died suddenly last January from a pulmonary embolism, there were tributes, testimonials and many heartfelt remembrances of both the man and his work. much of what was written and said primarily focused on his work as a promoter and all he had done to bring roots music and Americana, primarily from lesser known artists, to audiences in Arizona. Following the shock of holden’s passing and a public memorial that packed Plaza Palomino (where holden had produced many shows), the future of rhythm & roots appeared un-certain at best, except however to the one person who mattered most.

“With eight acts coming at me who all had deposits paid, I wanted to see how it would all play out,” said susan holden in a recent interview. While she and holden had been married for three years, she had an addi-tional time with him working in the office and helping him keep it together. “Jonathan wasn’t very computer savvy so I helped him with a lot of that. I was also his sounding board because he loved to talk about music!”

There was enough success in that spring season to keep the operation afloat but what holden seemed strengthened by most is the tangible sup-port she has received. “Agents, venues, KXCI radio and even other pro-moters, such as bonnie vining of LAvA, have been so kind and respectful.” At the same time she acknowledges the economic realities of running this business while still maintaining her full time job as a marketing manager at simply bits.

“because he lived this seven days a week, Jonathan was open to a lot of experimentation,” she said. because I have a full time job I’m not able to do that.” As a result, “the most difficult part of running the business is constantly having to say ‘no.’ Agents contact me daily and artists that Jonathan has brought in several times over the years, I’ve had to tell them (the timing) just doesn’t work for me. but as long as I can break even we’ll keep doing this. but if people stop coming, I may have to walk away.”

In the meantime, supported by a core group of 6-8 people, rhythm and roots is gearing up for a new season of shows and as usual, utiliz-ing a variety of venues. “Jonathan lived for being able to say, ‘yes’ if he could make it work. (by continuing on) I feel like I’m keeping him alive.”

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a brief run down of the spring season for rhythm & roots concert series:

an aCOusTIC EvEnInG wITh DEsErT rOsE QuarTETsat., Feb. 2, 7:30 Pm, Fox Tucson Theater, 17 w. Congress st.

Anchored by rock and roll hall of Famer and founding member of both the byrds and Flying burrito brothers, Chris hillman and herb Pederson, this group exponentially expands upon the sound these two veterans have also been cultivating as a duo for many years. Last seen in town headlining the Tucson Folk Festival in 2010, the quartet is filled out by John Jorgenson (also on strings) and bill bryson on bass. Collectively, they sport a résumé that includes references in working with Emmylou harris, Dan Fogelberg, Linda ronstadt, Jackson browne, John Denver, Elton John, bob Dylan and bob seger.

ThE Paul ThOrn banDsun., Feb. 10, 6:00 Pm, Club Congress, 311 E. Congress st.

According to holden, Thorn has been referred to as the “mark Twain of Americana.” From Tupalo, mississippi, Thorn comes from a family whose father was a preacher and whose uncle was a pimp, hence the title of his debut album Pimps and Preachers. When Thorn and his band hit Tucson, he’ll be performing both his originals as well as covers featured on his new album, What the Hell’s Going On? because, as he says, “there are so many great writers out there whose songs need to be heard.”

JOhnny rawlssat., Feb. 23, Plaza Palomino, ste. 147, 2970 n. swan rd.

rawls is one of those rhythm and roots perennial faves that holden was happy to give a resounding, “yes!” A highly recognized vocalist, songwriter, guitarist, arranger and producer, rawls is a purveyor of what is referred to as “soul blues.” he’s been on the cover of Living blues magazine, received the Critics’ Choice Award for best Album of the year three times, and has been the recipient of many nominations and awards, including best soul blues Album from the blues Foundation.

sOns OF PIOnEErssun., march 3, 3:00Pm, berger Performing arts Center

believe it or not, this was the group that first made roy rogers (as in roy and Dale Evans) a singing star before he made it in the movies. While many singers have come and gone, the sound of the Pioneers, which holden describes as Americana music of the 1930s, has remained true to its roots. With incredible harmonies they are still defining Western music as they come alive when they hit the stage.

sTEvE FOrbErT, aPrIl 5 anD ChrIs brashEar wITh PETEr mClauGhlIn anD TODD PhIllIPs, aPrIl 6 Plaza Palomino, suite 147, 2970 n. swan rd.

While details are still being worked out for these shows, the Forbert show will be a co-promotion with the Fox Theatre and TKmA. Forbert’s Alive on Arrival debut in the late 1970s heralded perhaps the last in a series of young singer-songwriters who were forced to carry the weight of being known as the “new Dylan.”

brashear and mcLaughlin have performed often as a duo and are always a crowd favorite. mcLaughlin is an award winning flat pick guitar virtuoso who has toured with Laurie Lewis among others while playing locally when available, with the John Coinman band as well as his own bluegrass group, the sonoran Dogs.

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liVe MUSic2nD saTurDays DOwnTOwnCongress street,

2ndsaturdaysDowntown.com

sat 12: 6pm-7:15pm: Aztral Folk,

7:30pm-8:45pm: The Tangelos,

9pm-10pm: The Jits

ava amPhIThEaTEr aT CasInO DEl sOl5655 W. valencia rd.

CasinoDelsol.com

wed, February 13: bb King

bOOnDOCKs lOunGE3306 n. 1st Ave. 690-0991,

boondocksLounge.com

mondays: The bryan Dean Trio

Tuesdays: Lonny’s Lucky Poker

night

Fridays: Live music with neon

Prophet

sat 5: Tony and the Torpedoes

CaFE PassE415 n. 4th Ave., 624-4411,

CafePasse.com

wednesdays: The Glen Gross

Quartet

Fridays: roman barten-sherman,

Tom Walbank

saturdays: matthew Cordes, hans

hutchinson, hank Topless, Catfish

and Weezie, Andy hersey

Club COnGrEss311 E. Congress st. 622-8848,

hotelCongress.com/club

Fri 4: rich hopkins and the

Luminarios

sat 5: Cash Lansky CD release

wed 9: Aceyalone

wed 16: roll Acosta

Thu 17: An Evening with Keller

Williams

Fri 18: Dillinger Days- Dillinger

speakeasy

sat 19: brother’s macabre

Dillinger Days magic show

Tue 22: Wovenhand

wed 23: Ty segall

mon 28: Geographer

la COCIna201 n. Court Ave. 622-0351,

LaCocinaTucson.com

saturdays: DJ herm

sundays: DJ herm, Catfish and

Weezie, bungaloo bbQ

Wednesdays: Jazz with Elephant

head

Thu 3: stefan George, JmC and

his Wood

Fri 4: JmC and his Wood, The

Greg morton band, ohioan Tour

wed 9: monster Pussy

Thu 10: monster Pussy

Fri 11: The Greg morton band,

Emilie marchand

Thu 17: stefan George

Fri 18: The Greg morton band

Thu 24: stefan George and Amy

rude

Fri 25: Amy rude, Greg morton

band, Coming out: A Queer

Dance Party

sat 26: Coming out: A Queer

Dance Party

CushInG sTrEET bar & rEsTauranT 198 W. Cushing st. 622-7984,

Cushingstreet.com

saturdays: Jazz

DElECTablEs rEsTauranT 533 n. 4th Ave. 884-9289,

Delectables.com

sat 5: nowhere man and A

Whiskey Girl

FOX TuCsOn ThEaTrE17 W. Congress st. 624-1515,

FoxTucsonTheatre.org

wed 16: Clint black: 2013

Acoustic Tour

sat 19: Chick Corea & Gary

burton

ThE huT305 n. 4th Ave. 623-3200,

hutTucson.com

Fri 11: black salt Tone

Fri 18: Thicker Than Thieves

Fri 25: Jameson and the sordid

“roll acosta” performs at Plush on fri, Jan 11.

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aztral folk at 2nd saturdays Downtown, sat 12.


lIvE aCOusTIC vEnuE assOCIaTIOn (lava)Abounding Grace sanctuary, 2450

s. Kolb. 647-3234, Lavamusic.org

sat 12: monroe Crossing

sat 19: Arvel bird

sat 26: big Wide Grin

mOnTErEy COurT505 W. miracle mile,

montereyCourtAZ.com

wed 2: Tommy Tucker

Thu 3: shaky bones

Fri 4: The Titan valley Warheads

wed 9: nashville songwriters Jam

Thu 10: Wade Lashley & hannah

Pralle

Fri 11: Kiko & the stone Avenue

band

Plush340 E. 6th st. 798-1298,

PlushTucson.com

Thu 3: Justin martinez, spiders

Can Fly

Fri 11: roll Acosta, run boy run,

Cadillac mountain

sat 12: Golden boots, The

modeens, hey bucko

rhyThm & rOOTsPlaza Palamino, 2970 n. swan

rd. 319-9966,

rhythmandroots.org

sat, Feb 4: Desert rose Quartet

rIalTO ThEaTrE318 E. Congress st. 740-1000,

rialtoTheatre.com

sat 5: K-bass and Farafina musiki

Fri 11: slightly stoopid

sun 13: Greg brown

sat 19: The Fab Four

wed 23: Ty segall

sun 27: “Tucson’s best”

showcase

wed 30: An Acoustic Evening with

matisyahu

sKy bar536 n. 4th Ave. 622-4300,

skybarTucson.com

mondays: Team Trivia

Tuesdays: Jazz

wednesdays: open mic

Thursdays: Live music

Thu 3: Tommy Tucker

sOlar CulTurE31 E. Toole Ave. 884-0874,

solarCulture.org

surly wEnCh Pub424 n. 4th Ave., 882-0009,

surlyWenchPub.com

mondays: black mondays with

matt mcCoy and weekly guest

Fri 4: black Cherry burlesque

Fri 11: Fanny’s Fresh meat

student burlesque

sat 12: Fineline revisited

Fri 18: black Cherry raw

sat 19: sanctuary

Fri 25: mission Creeps

sat 26: Fineline revisited

OTHer venueS17Th sTrEET marKET840 E. 17th st. 792-2588,

seventeenthstreetmusic.com

bluEFIn7053 n. oracle rd. 531-8500,

bluefinTucson.com

sundays: George howard Duo

Casa vICEnTE375 s. stone Ave. 884-5253,

Casavicente.com

Tuesdays: Live Classical Guitar

wednesdays: Live Guitar

Thursdays: Classical Guitar

Friday and saturdays: Flamenco

Guitar and Performances

ChE’s lOunGE350 n. 4th Ave. 623-2088,

ChesLounge.com

haCIEnDa DEl sOl5501 n. hacienda del sol rd.

299-1501, haciendadelsol.com

KInGFIshEr2564 E. Grant rd. 323-7739,

KingFisherTucson.com

luna bElla2970 n. swan rd.

Lunabellarestaurant.com

nImbus brEwEry3850 E. 44th st. 745-9175 &

6464 E. Tanque verde rd. 733-

1111, nimbusbeer.com

“clint Black” performs at the fox theatre on Wed, Jan 16.

Photo courtesy of FoxTucsonTheatre.com

“Wovenhand” performs at club congress on tue, Jan 22.

Photo courtesy of H

otelCongress.com

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lava presents Big Wide Grin, sat 26.


by Andrew BrownlifeintucsonZ

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