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LettersFromhome
Want a letter from a fire lookout?
By
Jean Rukkila
Invest in a stamp
A
fter I wrote my first letter of the summer, I asked a hiker who stopped by the
fire tower to put the envelope into his
pack and walk it the five miles off the mountain and mail it for me. I hoped he wouldn’t
forget and find it a month from now stained
by orange peels and smelling of sunblockstained handkerchief. In the past six summers, I think most of the letters have gotten
through that I’ve trusted to chatty youths
hiking in church groups, foreign travelers
amazed at the view and local hikers doing
their annual trek. One letter even rode down
the mountain in a doggy pack! Woof!
It still impresses me when a hand-kissed
page travels from hand to distant hand.
Maybe that’s why I save postmarks I’ve
received from the South Pole and valentines
posted from Loveland, Colo. I like the dated
one of a kindness of them. I’ve thought
about creating a round stamp, an imprint to
add to envelopes I send from the lookout:
MAILED BY FOOT. It would be a special
cachet like the one on the postcards we use
to hike from river trips to Phantom Ranch for
mailing. They’d get stamped Mailed By Mule
from the Bottom of the Grand Canyon.
While I enjoy the “ting” on my iPhone
that signals there is an email, those words
don’t stick to my life like a letter or card
does. Email messages all look alike on the
glowing screen: credit card balances and
links to cute animal photos look trapped in
a column of same sans serif droning. The
boring click and click again feels like emptying a dishwasher. By contrast I smile when
I shake out a carefully opened envelope;
there I find sentences that please my eye,
words uniquely shaped, as lively as a flock
of grosbeaks pausing on the wooden bird
feeder that hangs from an apple tree branch.
Signatures as sturdy as petroglyphs.
Tucked into the journal from my first
season as a fire lookout are two postcards
from Edward Abbey bearing his particular
chicken scratch. I was working Horsethief
Lookout on the Prescott National Forest
and would sometimes hear a fire boss relaying messages to Ed who was on Aztec Peak
Lookout. One night it was news about an
invitation for Ed to speak in Hawaii. This
amused me, so I sent a letter to Aztec Peak
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Detail from an illustrated letter from the fire lookout.
teasing him about having better places to
be than in a glass cube up several flights of
steps. He wrote back to invite “Horsethief”
to a reading in Prescott. I was glad I invested
in that stamp!
I keep handwriting longer than I keep
emails, like the watercolor postcard sketch
of the top of the Mormon Temple in Salt
Lake City that arrived to me last summer. It
still looks lovely taped to the door, gently
fading from the big light that travels through
the lookout each day. Temple meets temple I
thought when I fixed it there.
A fine way to inspire letter writing is
to Google “artist illustrated letters.” Look
at Frederick Remington’s sketches of horses
in margins, or Gauguin’s watercolors from
Tahiti. I once got to see the Beatrix Potter letters that first told the tale of Peter
Rabbit, and I marveled to think that’s how
a story might begin. Impressed by how
sketches amplify words, I often draw to start
a letter. A postcard comes of Van Gogh’s
bedroom, so I tape it to the fire finder and
then draw them both, adding in the San
Francisco Peaks outside the windows. I reel
in clouds and place them around an address.
Maybe it’s a day to have honey in my tea,
so that’s the detail I send to a friend with a
drawing plucked from the kitchen counter.
For several fire seasons, I and other
fire lookouts and rangers kept a round
robin letter going: we each wrote up the
details of our days at assorted parks and
peaks and mailed it along to the next gal. It
was a fun accumulation of piercing insights
and shared gripes about seasonal work. I
Tea time at the tower: envelope art and inspiration for envelope art. Photos by the author
thought of those letters again when I rented
this season’s PO Box for the summer at the
downtown post office. I so love finding real
handwriting layered into the credit card
offers and bills. So it occurred to me it might
be fun to invite you into Box 1716.
Write me, dear reader. I might not be
that busy at the fire lookout, especially if
this season continues to be so wet around
the ears, so there might be even more time
to read. I dare you: tell or draw the news of
your one and only day. Send it along. When I
come down on a day off to have shrimp and
polenta, or dance at the Orpheum, or cruise
through the wonderful selection of cards at
Zani, I’ll collect my mail at the post office
and tote it up the dirt road to read. It’ll be
fun to have your quirks and sentences with
my second cup of tea and the views of the
North Rim, Navajo Mountain and the Little
Colorado. I’ll share your insights with the
ravens and Violet-green Swallows. Maybe I’ll
coax the Canyon Wren I hear down slope into
view by reading paragraphs aloud.
I’m not too worried about being overwhelmed with missives. I’m pretty sure no
one writes letters anymore except me. (And
Matt, and Ann. And Michele and Kate.) Do
you remember where the address goes? Jean
Rukkila PO Box 1716 Flagstaff, AZ 86002.
Got it? Can you find a 49-cent stamp? Maybe
I’ll write back. Around 250 hikers come up
the mountain every summer and they are
eager to have the weight of my mail in
their packs!
A native of Arizona, Jean Rukkila is a fire
lookout and writer who has taught journalkeeping as a visiting artist in schools around
the state and in writing classes at Coconino
Community College. See more of her writing at
www.flagstaffletterfromhome.com.
THEMOTHERLOAD
A battle of wills
By Kelly Poe Wilson
I
f there was one word that I could permanently
remove from my children’s vocabulary, it
would be will. Specifically when it is coupled
with the word I, as in I will. Technically, I guess
that means I would be permanently removing
two words from their vocabulary, but since one
of those words just so happens to be one of
their absolute favorite words of all time, I think
I’ll just stick with the one. Besides, if I got rid of
I, that would mean I’d have to miss out on all of
those times I get to hear them say, “I already
did it.” And by all of those times, I mean both
of them.
Here’s how things usually progress in
my house. I ask them to do something. They
respond by saying, “I will.“A certain amount of
time passes. I ask them if they have completed
the task yet, and they respond, once again, with
“I will,” this time with more emphasis on the
will than the I. This process is repeated over
and over again until I either physically stand
over them and use my powers of concentrated
nagging to get them to accomplish said task,
or I give up and go to bed, exhausted by the
hours-long struggle. If it is the latter, then the
usual outcome is that I wake up in the morning,
ask them if they have done what I asked, and
am rewarded with “I forgot.“ At which point the
process begins again, although the second time
around it’s much more likely to end in the first
scenario than the second.
Fighting the word with the empty promise
In many ways I imagine this is what life
must be like for a nurse in a concussion ward
(if there is such a thing). You annoy your
patients by waking them every few hours to
ask them questions that, to you, are relatively
simple: What’s your name? Who’s the President? What year is this? (Did you finish that science project yet?). And they either reply with an
answer that satisfies you, or one that worries
you enough that you call in the big guns. (In
the case of the nurse, this would be a doctor.)
Except, I guess it’s not exactly like a concussion
ward, because in my case there is no one else
to call—in this scenario I am both the doctor
and the nurse. So I guess it’s really only like
a concussion ward in the sense that 1) I am
annoying them, and 2) they’re kind of annoying
me, too.
Also, there’s a difference in that, even if
the concussion patients really, really wanted to
I ask them to do something. They respond
by saying, ‘I will.’ A certain amount
of time passes. I ask them if they have
completed the task yet, and they respond,
once again, with ‘I will,’ this time with
more emphasis on the will than the I.
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will away their concussions. They couldn’t make
the mature, rational, reasonable decision to
simply not have a concussion anymore, thereby
being allowed to go home. They would if they
could, I’m sure—certainly no one enjoys being
badgered every two hours. No one enjoys being
woken up and harassed. And yet, they can’t get
away from it.
My children, on the other hand, could. And
yet, they still don’t.
All it would take for them to be released
from the tyranny of my incessant nagging (followed by badgering, chastising, lecturing and,
finally, shaming) is for them to actually do what
I am asking them to do, when I am asking them
to do it. That’s it. Don’t like getting bothered by
a nurse every two hours? Tough luck. Don’t like
getting bothered by me? Simply do your assignment (or chore).
Of course, maybe it’s me who is missing
the point. Maybe the extended have yous and
I wills are some kind of warm up for them, the
verbal equivalent of stretching before a race.
Great, now I sound like the one who has a concussion.
Kelly Poe Wilson has lived in Flagstaff since
1985. She lives with her wonderful husband,
Jim, and her dreadful children, Clementine and
Clyde. More of her work can be found at www.
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some shout, “Oh
my!” Others crack a
wry grin and growl,
“Bring it on.” There’s
a little something for
every type here in little old Flagtown, and
that includes a laundry list of fetishes.
Hell, we even have
a fetish club for
the kinky minded
locals (check the
Pulse section at the
beginning of each
month for the dirty
deets.) For those
at any stage in the
kinky game, whether
dipping a toe in
leather or knee-deep
in fishnets, there is
the annual Flagstaff
Fetish Ball to slake
one’s thirst for scantily clad vixens of any
sex. This year’s Den
of Iniquity promises
to be even naughtier
than the last as the
furries, BDSM fetishers and one and all
come out to play
Stretch before entering the Den of Iniquity. Courtesy photo
as one community.
While the mingling
starts on the dancefloor of the main bar, the VIP room is where it’s at. Complementary
champagne plus a human dessert tray made of some of the tastiest folks available will
take over upstairs, not to mention the full-on Turkish hookah bar and a Gothic-inspired
private flogging room that will fill out the air—as if it were any question whether or not
dreams really do come true. The stuff of the subconscious and beyond takes place at the
Green Room, 15 W. Agassiz, beginning at 8 p.m. General admission is $10. Private VIP
passes $50 and are limited. Curious minds can inquire on the Facebook event page or call
226-8669. www.flagstaffgreenroom.com.
FRI–SAT | 5.29–5.30
BAPTIZED BY CONFETTI
Regardless of where one falls on the religious
spectrum, it’s common knowledge backed by
good ole science that Jesus Christ himself
was an actual dude who actually roamed
around the bit of the Middle East that is now
Jordan some 2,000 years ago preaching the
word of “Don’t be a jerk.” If you’re one of
those denier types, just take a knee, or better yet an actual seat, and open your hearts
and ears for one timeless message brought
to you by the Advanced Acting students at
Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy as
they present Stephen Schwartz’ rock ‘n’ roll
musical Godspell. Schwartz originally blew
minds on Broadway in 1973, but this show
received an update in 2011 and now packs a
greater punch than ever through seriously
bu-bu-bumpin’ tunes like the super-famous
“Bless the Lord” and “Day by Day,” which let
Jesus do the talking through his parables.
Judas and John the Baptist have a romp too,
but not to be missed is the all-star ensemble
comprised of some of the most talented
teenagers this side of the Mississippi. And
they represent you, the community. To top
it all off, they have confetti—four cannons
full of glitter, to be exact. It’ll all pop off at
the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen, with
a 7:30 p.m. show Fri and Sat, plus a 2 p.m.
matinee Sat. Doors open one hour before
show time. Tickets are $10 in advance and
$15 the day of the show. 556-1580. www.
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FRI–SUN | 5.29–6.14
TRICKS OF THE TRADE
As the adage recounts, after three days,
something stinks—and it surely isn’t the fish.
Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece, Much
Ado About Nothing places Don Pedro in the
house of Leonato for a freakin’ month, and in
that time, all those involved watch their house
flip upside down, metaphorically speaking,
of course. Beatrice and Benedick are caught
in a love-hate battle of wits as they pick at
each other’s most ridiculous traits much as
that schoolyard bully pushed you in the sand
because they “liked” you. Claudio and Hero,
though, have it a bit worse as they totally
dig each other, but Claudio is tricked into
thinking his lady is running around on him.
Natch, ‘tis not the case in this merry game of
cat and mouse which mixes gossip, rumor and
an incredible amount of miscommunication
(thanks, Obama—err, Dogberry.) If there has
ever been a cast on the small stage to tackle
this folly, it’s Theatrikos’ players. And to complete the scene, they’ve designed a set that is
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Flagtown, dudes and dudettes, was, in the beforetime, in the long, long ago, a town founded on the
backs of … sheep. S’right, we’re a sheepherding
town, and much of the Reservation still upholds this
longstanding tradition. Back again to set the record
straight is the reinvigorated 24th annual Flagstaff
Wool and Fiber Festival, thanks to the fine folks
at the Pioneer Museum. This will be a wacky fest
to remember, folks, as one and all are welcome to
observe live sheep, alpaca and more get the razor—to
their wool—as Jerry Ladd of Tri-Ply Fibers takes a
load off. Wool isn’t just for the eye of the beholder
as community members are invited to lend their flock
for a buzzcut at $10 a head. Not a bad deal, and you
can learn from the best, plus participate in a fleece
swap or send the fiber off to
the mill. To keep the fancy
yarns spinning, there will
be activities from fleece
judging to mutton tasting,
workshops, demonstrations
Jessalyn Carpino as Hero in Theatrikos’ Much Ado About Nothing. Photo by Diandra
and a fiber arts competition
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guaranteed to trick audiences into swearing they saw this show
can work magic with a loom.
in a Sicilian playhouse. From expert scenery to caricatures, this
Cart and card away at the Pioneer
is not to be missed, especially for the “green show” before
Museum, 2340 N. Ft. Valley Road, both
each performance. Envelop yourself in the Shakespearean
days from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 774-6272.
pre-show that takes place in the courtyard and trails into the
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Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse, 11 W. Cherry,
‘cause these actors have more talent than they can share on
one stage. Fri and Sat performances begins at 7:30 p.m. with
Sun matinees starting at 2 p.m. Tickets are $13–$19. 774-1662.
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means Fliggity Flag. Ted and John Siegel have said sayonara
to their California hometown in favor of the wide-open road
to spread their message mixed of equal parts blues and ole
timey Americana—the kind missing from the pages of books,
though they are born of history. These boys didn’t just wake
up one day and decide to pen a few tunes in a particular vein.
No way. They were made for this, just prod a bit about their
storied family lore. The Deltaz have a knack for taking what
runs in their very blood and applying a lacquer of homespun
six-string, harmonica and percussion flecked with sweetly
sung lyrics crafted to lend insight to their storied past. The
results are unpretentious and unfaltering, and they’re down to
lend insight to their style at the State Bar, 10 E. Rte. 66. The
two-man gig starts at 7 p.m. and is free for all. 266-1282. www.
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While Flagstaff prides itself on its strong foundations in
the ever-present lumber industry and as a town founded on
railroad ties, those little tid bits are only part of the story.
Two brothers from the very same
mother have joined their musical
forces in a carefully conspired effort
to blast their signature Americana
across these red, white and blue lands.
But before the Deltaz tackle the
fields of grain, they have to cross the
purple mountains (majesty) and that
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EDITOR’SHEAD
Rock me like a
guitar dame
By
Andrew Wisniewski
I
t was June 10, 1966 when Janis Joplin debuted
with Big Brother and the Holding Company.
They were a progressive instrumental rock ‘n’
roll band based in San Francisco, and she was
an outsider Texan among the exotic hippies of
Northern California. They were heavy and established, she was small and relatively unknown.
The next year in 1967 during a performance
at the Monterey Pop Festival, she would experience a breakthrough that would pin her as one
of the first and most notable female artists to
break the “girl singer” mold in folk and pop music
at the time.
Joplin’s mix of hard rock and blues was a
game changer that ushered in a slew of frontwomen who really knew how to rock out. Ladies
like Grace Slick, Stevie Nicks, Chrissie Hynde, Joan
Jett, Pat Benatar, Patti Smith and Suzi Quatro
took center stage. By the ’90s Kathleen Hanna,
Ella Hooper, Kim Gordon, Carrie Brownstein,
Gwen Stefani and Courtney Love, among a long
list of others, had successfully introduced a
unique hybrid of rock, pop, punk and grunge to
the mainstream. And no doubt have there been
numerous other women who have made a lasting
mark on music over the decades. I’m simply mentioning ones—off the top of my head—geared
more toward rock music.
In today’s music landscape, it would appear
that the industry is becoming less male dominated than it once was. For the longest time I’d
occasionally say to myself, “I need more female
artists in the rotation.” And it’s true; I think the
majority of most people’s music collections consist of music made by men.
A few months back I said the same thing
to myself, but more specifically, I needed female
fronted rock bands. And, as such was the case, I
got exactly what I asked for. It happened in March
during South by Southwest in Austin, Texas when
NPR Music posted their Front Row video of Aussie
singer-songwriter and guitarist Courtney Barnett’s
full-set showcase at the famous Stubb’s BBQ.
Immediately I was drawn to her positive sound,
rambling lyrics and deadpan singing style. Only a
few days later on March 23 she released her debut
album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I
Just Sit, to critical acclaim. And since picking up a
copy of my own, it has not even come close to falling out of the rotation.
Shortly after, I caught wind of Wolf Alice.
Fronted by Ellie Rowsell, the four-piece out
of the U.K., simply put, rocks in every sense
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of the word. I wasn’t hooked at first, but I
also wasn’t turning in the other direction.
It wasn’t until I heard their live KEXP set
from March that I fell in love. They’re solid
on record, but the real deal in the flesh. I
recently had the chance to catch them down
in Phoenix at the Crescent Ballroom, and
was absolutely blown away by how powerful and dialed in they are to their sound (a
unique blend of hard rock, pop and the best
parts of ’90s grunge), and how dangerously
good they truly are. I’ll always cheer and
clap, but I’ve never been one to yell s*** at
shows. However, there was a moment when,
after they finished the song “Your Love’s
Whore”—with a silly grin on my face and
watery eyes resulting from incandescent
happiness—I shouted, “You guys [expletive]
rock!” It just came out. Everyone screamed in
compliance.
It’s a bold statement, I know, but it was
one of the best sets of music I’ve ever laid
witness to. On top of that, it was free. They’ve
yet to release their debut album, My Love is
Cool. That’s due out June 23 in the States. But
based on everything I’ve seen and heard up
to this point, I’m hard-pressed to think they’re
not going to be massive.
Then came Hop Along (no pun
intended), which I stumbled upon during a
Tuesday morning “new music” search. Based
out of Philly, this indie folk-rock outfit is
highlighted by the evocative, scratchy and
muscular voice of lead singer Frances Quinlan.
Earlier this month the band released their
second full-length LP, Painted Shut. It only
took one listen before I had a ticket in hand
to see them last Friday at the Flycatcher
down in Tucson. Here’s what I learned: Quinlan is entirely unassuming, for when she steps
up to the mic, all bets are off.
In a recent online article, Vulture posed
the question of whether or not she has
the best voice in rock music today. I listen
to a lot of music, and having seen her live,
there’s nothing that makes me want to say
she doesn’t.
Not a single one of these ladies, or their
bands, is a flash in the pan. They’re no joke,
all vastly different, and a refreshing blast of
unabashed female-fronted attitude. Check
‘em out. All three are sure to be on my endof-the year favorites list.
News Quirks
BY ROLAND SWEET
Curses, Foiled Again
Police said they received their “strongest investigative lead” in the case
of 80 frozen pizzas stolen from a warehouse in Gambell, Alaska, when John
Koozaata, 29, and Lewis Oozeva, 21, called the police station and tried to sell
the pizzas to on-duty officers. (Anchorage’s Alaska Dispatch)
Police who found a 43-year-old man covered with blood in Suffern, N.Y.,
said the victim said his son stabbed him several times in the head with a
screwdriver during an argument. After putting out a description of suspect
Jared Hudson, 23, officers received a call from police headquarters that a man
fitting Hudson’s description had just been spotted running into the station to
use the bathroom. He was promptly arrested. (New York’s The Journal News)
Better World Without People
Nevada granted permission for Daimler to test self-driving trucks on public roads. Daimler’s Wolfgang Bernhard said autonomous trucks were likely to
be on the road before driverless cars because they operate “in a less complicated traffic environment” on open highways, whereas passenger cars spend
more time in congested urban settings. The 18-wheelers still need human drivers to perform more challenging off-highway maneuvers, such as backing into
loading docks. Bernhard said he expects other states to join Nevada, resulting
in a regulatory framework and providing an incentive to truck operators, who
would save on fuel and wages. “These guys have to make money,” he pointed
out. (Reuters)
Google Inc. disclosed that 11 of its driverless vehicles have been involved
in minor accidents on California roads since testing began six years ago.
The incidents involved “light damage, no injuries,” Chris Urmson, director of
Google’s self-driving car project, explained. “Not once was the self-driving car
the cause of the accident.” (Associated Press)
Google announced that its self-driving cars are capable of interpreting the
hand signals of bicyclists. A patent issued to the company says its system uses
a combination of sensors to determine when a bicycle is present and to track
arm angles indicating a turn. (The Washington Post)
Sons of Beaches
The world is running low on sand, a finite resource that’s the material
basis of glass and concrete. Both are vital to construction, the prime user
of sand. Sand is also used in detergents, cosmetics, toothpaste, solar panels
and silicon chips. Demand is causing riverbeds and beaches worldwide to be
stripped bare to provide the more than 40 billion tons of sand that people
consume every year. That figure is increasing due to the worldwide construction boom, particularly in the Arab world, whose abundant desert sand is
unsuitable for concrete. As a result, criminal gangs in some 70 countries are
dredging up tons of sand to sell on the black market. In India, for example,
“sand mafias” have killed hundreds of people, including police officers and
government officials, to capitalize on demand for sand. “The fundamental
problem is the massive use of cement-based construction,” said Ritwick Dutta,
an Indian environmental lawyer. “That’s why the sand mafia has become so
huge.” (Wired)
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Litigation Nation
James Brickman filed a lawsuit against Fitbit, claiming that his wrist-worn
Fitbit Flex “consistently overestimated sleep by 67 minutes per night.” The
suit, filed in a San Francisco federal court, accused the company of misleading
consumers by touting that its gadgets present “exact” sleep data. “Thinking
you are sleeping up to 67 minutes more than you actually are can obviously
cause health consequences, especially over the long term,” the lawsuit states.
Fitbit insisted the suit has no merit, pointing out, “Fitbit trackers are not
intended to be scientific or medical devices, but are designed [to help users]
reach their health and fitness goals.” (Britain’s Daily Mail)
BEGINS THE SEASON NOW.
Dominique Sharpton, 28, is suing New York City for $5 million, insisting
she was “severely injured, bruised and wounded” when she stumbled over
uneven pavement on a downtown sidewalk. “I sprained my ankle real bad lol,”
Sharpton posted on Instagram after last fall’s incident. She claims “permanent
physical pain,” even though subsequent social-media postings show her wearing high heels and climbing a ladder to decorate a Christmas tree. Sharpton is
the eldest child of Al Sharpton, whom critics accuse of using threats of protests and boycotts to shake down major corporations for cash donations to his
causes. (The New York Post)
Come by Thorpe Park
(the field behind the softball fields)
and learn how to play this 3000 year old Irish game.
Fred Habermel, 72, filed a lawsuit against Norton Healthcare for losing
part of his brain. The complaint said doctors at Norton Cancer Institute in
Louisville, Ky., extracted a piece of brain tissue to use to develop a vaccine
to inject into Habermel’s head in an experimental procedure to fight a brain
tumor that had resisted previous treatment. “I can see losing a blood sample,
but how do you lose brain tissue?” his attorney, Gary Weiss asked. “I can’t
imagine worse negligence.” Weiss said Habermel doesn’t have enough of the
affected tissue left in his brain to undergo the procedure again. Despite his
client’s poor prognosis, Weiss noted one silver lining: The hospital told them
they wouldn’t have to pay for the surgery. (Louisville’s The Courier-Journal)
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claims, her professor didn’t do enough to help her pass. She acknowledged
that he provided a distraction-free environment and extra time for her final
exam the second time, but said she “broke down and wept more than once”
because he didn’t respond to telephoned questions as he had promised. (Wilkes-Barre’s The Citizens Voice)
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Shaynna Lauren Sims was arrested for illegal dissection at a funeral home
in Tulsa, Okla., for cutting a deceased woman’s hair, smearing makeup on the
woman’s face and using a box cutter to make “a large vertical cut starting
from the hairline stretching to the tip of the nose,” according to the arrest
report. Sims is dating the dead woman’s ex-boyfriend. (Tulsa World)
Melanie Nash, 53, admitted smashing the concrete vault that held her
father’s corpse, along with three other people, and rifling through the casket
in search of his “real will” because she felt she hadn’t received her proper
inheritance. Instead, she found only vodka and cigarettes. Police in Colebrook,
N.H., discovered the crime the next day when a patrolman reported “the
gravesite of Eddie Nash did not look right,” Judge Peter Bornstein said when
he sentenced Nash to one-and-a-half to three years in prison. “That is the
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Here today, gone Tomorrowland
Reviewed by Erin Shelley
D
of futuristic hover cars and spaceships. No one
isney returns to its strange idea of
else experiences the same result with the pin;
making movies based on its rides at
only Casey. So, when a mysterious young girl
Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Who
named Athena (Raffey Cassidy) shows up to
would have thought that such a silly idea made
help guide her to this strange place,
movie-making sense? Yet, while
Casey follows. She is led to
the lack of success of Haunted
Clooney’s character, Frank
Mansion (2003) with Eddie
TOMORROWLAND
Walker. It seems in his past,
Murphy proved it a ridicuDirected by Brad Bird
he too met a young girl
lous idea, the Pirates
Rated PG
named Athena who gave
of the Caribbean series
HARKINS THEATRES
him a pin.
(2003–11) with Johnny
Tomorrowland gives us
Depp showed the idea
jet packs, killer robots, and a
could work. This time Disney
story about a possible tomorrow
takes an entire area of its theme
that may or may not occur. The first half of
park as the starting point for its latest
the movie sets up the mystery.
film, Tomorrowland. It also adds in George
Who is Athena and what exactly does
Clooney. Tomorrowland is no Haunted Mansion,
she want Casey and Frank to do? This is where
but it doesn’t achieve Pirates of the Caribbean
the movie is its most entertaining. Robertson
status either.
is engaging as Casey, and watching her try
Britt Robertson plays Casey Newton, who
to adapt to the mysterious situation is fun.
is a genius at technology, science, and getting
Unfortunately, though the movie has a lot
into trouble. After one of her bouts of trouble
of energy and interesting ideas, it cannot
she is given a pin. Every time she touches it
sustain it, and by the time we get to the big
she finds herself in a different world, a world
B-
action climax, the movie becomes too frenetic
and overblown.
Director Brad Bird has a great track
record. He’s directed The Iron Giant (1999), The
Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011). He does
his best with Tomorrowland, but his script (cowritten with Damon Lindelof) went with too
Just like a heart-shaped box
M
Morgen, a documentarian who also helmed The Kid Stays
ore than 20 years after Kurt Cobain’s death, documenin the Picture (2002) and Chicago 10 (2010), also dives deep into
tarian Brett Morgen brings to his mythological altar the
home-video archives of Cobain and wife Courtney Love, as
film Montage of Heck. This HBO feature is likely driving
well as time with their daughter, Frances Bean (much
hardcore Nirvana fans to sign up for the recent Apple
has been made of Frances, now 22, being one of
TV offering of HBO Now, sneaking to friends’
the film’s executive producers). These scenes
houses who have HBO or otherwise finding a
MONTAGE
also give a sharp sense of Cobain as a human
way to check out what is the most detailed
OF HECK
being, even as he and Love both appear
and intimate portrait of the Nirvana frontman
afflicted and damaged. It’s moving to see
committed to film. It’s a love letter to the
Directed by Brett Morgen
how tender Cobain can be while he cares for
tormented rock star.
Rated Unrated
his baby daughter.
Montage of Heck begins with the Cobain
HBO NOW
The notable omission with Montage of
family and their life in Aberdeen, Wash. It
Heck is how little it explores Nirvana—the
tracks Cobain’s early years and moves through
thing for which Cobain is best known—as a
his troubled teens. It tells of his challenges with
band. It glosses over the group’s inter-relationhis divorced parents and the feeling he did not have
ships and dynamics. Bassist Krist Novoselic is intera home. As it progresses, the film becomes transcendent
viewed, but he appears guarded. His only interesting reveal is
in the way it digs into Cobain’s psyche through the images and
an idea that Cobain was driven, in part, by his fear of humiliawords of his journals, rendered in striking animated sequences.
tion.
It further depicts a rotoscoped scene based on Cobain’s telling
Drummer David Grohl is not even featured as an interof his first—and awkward—sexual experience. The event leads
viewee. Morgen explained later that Grohl was interviewed but
to ridicule at school and a failed suicide attempt. It becomes
that it was “too late for inclusion.” It’s difficult to understand
the most powerful and haunting moment in the film.
many scenes of people talking. Eventually, the
people begin to sound too preachy.
Tomorrowland has a lovely message, and it
offers lots of fun moments, but it may be more
successful for younger audiences. If nothing
else, it is interesting to see what writers come
up with when tasked with writing something
based on an area in Disneyland.
Reviewed by Seth Muller
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the rush to complete the film, as Cobain has been dead for
more than two decades. And Grohl’s absence makes the documentary feel incomplete. Still, for Nirvana fans and music lovers, Montage of Heck is required viewing. It gets closer
to understanding Cobain more than any other film treatment has.
Extra Butter
The Izzard of Odds
Comedian Eddie Izzard’s extensive and diverse filmography
By Erin Shelley
E
ddie Izzard is coming to town! Yes, I am
excited. I have my ticket for his May
31 show at NAU’s Ardrey Auditorium.
Ever since stumbling upon his HBO comedy
special, Dress to Kill, many years ago, I
have been hooked on his humor. But Izzard
doesn’t just make me laugh, he also shows
up in movies. Like many comedians, Izzard
has made it to film.
Unlike many comedians,
Izzard found roles in more
serious films than in the
usual score of comedies in which many
comics are cast.
It isn’t surprising.
Izzard’s original
goal was to be a
dramatic actor. He
used his growing
fame as a stand-up
comic to earn roles on
the British stage, which
then led to a few roles in
TV movies. His first feature
film was in a 1998 movie called
The Secret Agent. His next film was
in the cult favorite, Velvet Goldmine. Playing the manager of a 1970s rock star, Izzard
showed that he had no problems playing a
dramatic role.
Just like his comedy, Izzard’s choice of
films is off-the-wall and interesting. He’s
had supporting roles in Mystery Men (1999)
and Shadow of the Vampire (2000). In one he
plays a leader of a criminal gang; in the other
he plays a German actor involved in one of
the first vampire films.
Izzard rarely gets leading-man roles,
but in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Cat’s Meow
(2001) he did. Starring with Kirsten Dunst,
Izzard plays Charlie Chaplin to her Marion
Davies. This film tells the possible tale of
what happened one weekend on publisher
William Randolph Hearst’s yacht. Though
playing the great comedian Chaplin, this
film allows Izzard to show his dramatic and
romantic skills. If you haven’t seen it, you can
stream it on Netflix.
Izzard would continue to play supporting characters, but the films became more
high profile. He would appear in both Ocean’s
Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s Thirteen
(2007) as Roman Nagel, plus
co-star in the Tom Cruise
2008 thriller, Valkyrie.
Since 2004, Izzard
also started working
as a voice actor in
animated films.
He’s voiced characters in The Wild
(2006), Igor (2008),
and Cars 2 (2011).
He even played
Queen Elizabeth
in an episode of The
Simpsons. He voiced the
valiant mouse, Reepicheep
in The Chronicles of Narnia:
Prince Caspian (2008).
Eddie Izzard shows up on television,
as well. He’s played a psychology professor
on United States of Tara and starred in The
Riches (both are available on Netflix). Most
recently, he played the villain “Big Bad”
Wolfe on the TV series Powers, and Dr. Abel
Gideon on Hannibal.
Though there are plenty of ways to see
Izzard’s comedy shows via DVD and streaming media, and they highlight what a funny
guy he is, we can watch him in film and television shows too. He’s a wonderful talent.
He’s coming to Flagstaff. And I have a
ticket!
To read our cover feature on Eddie
Izzard in this week’s issue of Flag Live, flip to
page 14.
Remembering
Dawn Moran
–with love from Tobby Moran
When we are apart, my breath is not as deep, the air not
as sweet. All I can do is miss you, count the minutes until next we meet. – From our first Christmas, 2007.
Dawn Moran was never afraid to have fun. Whether front-row
dancing at a Whiskey Rodeo show, parasailing in Maui, sipping a new
single malt, cheering for me as I crossed the finish line at a mud race,
or handing out hugs to people she’d only just met, Dawn Moran was
as fearless in her pursuit of fun as she was generous with her love.
I have to say her whole name because that’s who she was. She wasn’t
just Dawn, she was Dawn Moran—my wife. She became Dawn Moran when
we were married in Uptown Pubhouse on April 11, 2009. Dawn was very
humble, rarely acknowledging her beauty. But on that day, as a luminous
and gorgeous bride, she owned the room. She glided between the pool
tables, her smile lighting the way in front of her, a beacon to my heart.
Dawn Moran was—and will always be—what her namesake is: a bright light that warms each day anew. Her
love and devotion to her family, children, grandchildren and friends was nothing short of inspirational. Every day with her made me closer
to the best man I could be. I could throw a
rope to the moon and bring it down, rearrange the stars, hike the Grand Canyon in a
single day, or run with the bulls in Spain, just
because she loved me. Every mundane moment,
every new and wonderful experience was an adventure. Every day was full of hope, joy, love, and fun.
The love she gave freely, generously and in such
abundance, will forever leave in its wake happiness, inspiration and joy. Please remember Dawn
Moran’s laughter, her grace, her open heart. Think of
her when you lift a glass with friends and loved ones. Let
her smile inspire your own. Be fearless. Love. Have fun.
Dawny, I just love you.
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Lit
BY DIANDRA MARKGRAF
Ready to turn that page
The Northern Arizona Book Festival readies for a fall revival after a two-year hiatus
F
or the first Northern Arizona Book
Festival planned in two years, the
organizers contacted a favorite from
previous years to headline. Alberto Ríos,
arguably one of Arizona’s greatest living
poets and a National Book Award finalist,
will take the stage at the Orpheum Theater
and help put back on track a once booming and embraced annual event. Around
this celebrated Grand Canyon state poet, a
cadre of local and regional authors will work
to stir again enthusiasm for books with their
literary prowess.
Later this year, from Sept. 7 through
Sept. 12, the fest will fly once again beginning at Uptown Pubhouse and culminating
at the Orpheum. The plan is to focus more
attention on fresh talent and streamline the
scope from an event that, in past years, has
brought authors like E. Annie Proulx, Billy
Collins, Dave Eggers and Lemony Snicket.
For the first year back from hibernation, the organizers have deemed the event
“The Return of the Writer” with the hope
to spotlight and elevate local writers who
might carry the day at other festivals, such
as celebrated children’s book author Monica
Brown and nonfiction phenom Nicole
Walker. The new Northern Arizona Book
Festival also cross-pollinates with the Narrow Chimney Reading Series, run by James
Jay and Jesse Sensibar.
Since its inception in 2013, Narrow Chimney has been steadily gaining notoriety. In
March, the series gathered a prestigious Viola
Award for Best in Storytelling. Jay notes the
Viola win, plus the burgeoning literary scene
in Flagstaff, pushed he and Sensibar to further
Acclaimed Arizona-based poet and author Alberto Rios will present at this fall’s Book Festival. Courtesy photo
explore opportunities for nonprofit status
The current board members are heavy
economy and shrinking grant funds. Still, Jay,
and re-launch the book festival.
hitters in local and national literature who have
who served as NABF’s executive director for
“We thought why don’t we merge with
their own connections and experiences to bring
four years, explained the nonprofit status
the Book Festival and have that be sort of an
to the table. Their words have appeared in their
stayed intact thanks to the former board’s careumbrella, not just for Narrow Chimney but
own published works, major literary journals,
ful management.
there are a lot of other literary groups starting
magazines and collections across the country—
“A lot of nonprofits will go under because
up, which is cool,” Jay says. “I don’t think any
most recently with Narrow Chimney’s recently
they financially can’t do any more,” he says.
of those folks have nonprofit status. If they
self-published first-volume anthology.
“But they had the foresight to say hey, in a
wanted to write grants, then the Book Festival
Jay, a published poet, and Sensibar, as the
couple years we’re not going to be able to
can work as the statutory agent for that.”
former editor of Northern Arizona University’s
keep this up, so let’s put on the brakes. Let’s
The Book Festival was a local mainstay
Thin Air literary magazine, bring their talents
wait and see if someone else wants to pick
since its inception in 1997. But by 2007,
as notable literary figures. Stacy Murison,
it up.”
attendance had plummeted with the redlining
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Development Director at KNAU, has been
writing grants and fundraising for nonprofit
organizations for more than 20 years.
Walker recently confirmed her appearance in September and notes, when she
first applied for her university job, the book
festival was bait on the hook. “They said we
have this huge book festival with marquee
names,” she says, noting Margaret Atwood,
Robert Pinsky and Toni Morrison all have
made appearances. “We’ll probably never
get back to that level, and, in fact, maybe
we don’t want to. There’s something to be
said for keeping it to people that Flagstaff
might be particularly invested in.”
She commended the vibrant literary
community for continuing to thrive in the
NABF’s absence.
“There are big-shot people in this
town,” Jay says. “So to say we’re going
regional is not to say we’re not going
national. There are others of us who have
been big headliners at other book festivals.”
As with Narrow Chimney, the
group will use their contacts to mutually
strengthen the new festival through their
common networks with limited overlap,
Murison notes. This reach will allow them
to cast the net for funding and attendance
even farther at a time when the arts in Ariz.
have already taken a hit. With Gov. Doug
Doucey’s recently approved budget slash,
grants have become ultra-competitive
and nonprofits have shifted to pursuing
national grants and private sector donations in lieu of state dollars.
Murison adds, “As grants continue to
dry up, how can we get individual people
involved in these projects? Once they know
this is a 501c3 and we can take contributions, then people realize they want to support
it. We have a great community of supporters
who love the arts. It’s sad about the state, but
luckily we have good neighbors.”
To learn more about the Northern Arizona
Book Festival as it gains momentum, check
out their website at www.nazbookfest.org. The
Narrow Chimney is on summer hiatus, but several literary events are happening and can be
checked out at the Facebook page for Flagstaff
Literary Mainframe.
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and guts with
Force Majeure
By Diandra Markgraf
Photo by Andy Hollingworth.
I
t’s the tail-end of April, and Eddie Izzard has landed on American soil after a
transcontinental flight departing England for sunny Los Angeles. From his weary timbre,
he’s obviously tired. Not simply due to jetlag or having a slew of reporters from L.A.
to Flagstaff pry into his life so early in the morning. He’s the sort of years-deep tired that
creeps with the territory of starring in stage and screen productions, running for public
office, physically running marathons, and all while simultaneously surmounting the most
fantastic claim in comedic history. As Izzard notes, by the end of this leg of his show Force
Eddie Izzard brings his latest
comedy tour Force Majeure to
NAU’s Ardrey Auditorium Sun, May 31.
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Timing is everything
At 53, Izzard has hand-built a career which rests on doing
everything big, bold and always in style with high-heels or sporty
boots to perfectly painted nails. For this “action-transvestite,” he
lands with Queen of Hearts gelish, a deep crimson lacquer, with
the left ring finger sporting the golden stars of the European
flag. The right is painted in homage to the British Union Jack.
Gel polish is a bit of a miracle and would require some sort
of nuclear explosion to even chip. “I’m very much an action
transvestite,” Izzard says in a recent phone interview. “I’m quite
physical with things, so it has to be hard-wearing nail polish.”
At the end of this tour, Izzard’s flawlessly madeup mug perfected by Makeup Art Cosmetics will have
graced stages in Germany and France, including the palace
at Versailles, while performing in each country’s native
tongue—a new feat for an English speaking comic, who
accepts learning new languages as a natural progression,
however daunting, especially when nailing comedic timing.
“For people in America and in Britain, we say the Germans
have no sense of humor. This is just something that we said.
We have no idea if they have a sense of humor or not because
we don’t speak enough German to be able to understand
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their comedy shows,” he says. Charting any new language
starts with easy shows with pictures, then dramas to build up
vocabulary. He emphasizes comedy, though, is the hardest.
“It’s got slang, it’s got references, there’s no
pictures, there’s no storyline, it’s just constant little
vignettes and stories—really tricky stuff.”
Izzard has tackled comedy his entire life, from
a wee lad roaming half the world with his father, an
accountant with British Petroleum, to developing
his act on London’s subterranean stages.
When he was a boy he knew he wanted to be an actor,
but his career began to lift off in the 1990s. Since then, he’s
starred in numerous dramatic plays and television programs in
the U.K. and America including the wild-eyed Mr. Kite in Julie
Taymor’s Beatles-inspired film Across the Universe (2007) and the
Showtime series United States of Tara (2011) as Doctor Hatteras,
a psychotherapist who attempts to treat Toni Collette’s redlining
character struggling with Disassociate Identity Disorder.
His most recent character-driven venture is “Big Bad”
Wolfe on Playstation Network’s series Powers. Izzard also
wrapped up an audition in a Brisbane hotel room which led
to striking a pilot episode for Jenji Kohan’s latest proposed
drama, The Devil You Know, directed by Gus Van Sant.
Arguably best of all, though, is when Izzard portrays
himself through and through, especially with his stand-up
specials. 1998’s Dress to Kill that busted audiences’ guts
to pieces with skits like “Cake or Death” and the followup tour, Circle, which debuted in 2000 and includes a
performance in French. Izzard has seen it all and continues,
in language and trailing the life’s timeline, with Force
Majeure—a grueling undertaking in itself, as he’s toted
the acclaimed show around the world since 2013.
“It’s great ‘cause since I was 7 I wanted to act, and
now I’m 123 and I’m doing these great dramas, I’m touring
France in French, doing Germany in German,” he says.
“And I’ve got to give it up in five years for a while and put
it into hibernation, going into deep, slow heartbeat.”
Making the leap
The conversation shifts in and out of focus as Izzard
explains he is so tired he’s forgotten how to fall asleep.
After four weeks of shuffling around the U.K. promoting
the next stage of his life, he says he is energized when it
comes to preparing himself for his career to take a turn.
Perhaps he’s cramming as much into the next five years as possible given his planned venture
into politics as the hopeful Mayor of London—or a member of Parliament—he hasn’t made up his
mind for the 2020 election, but things are looking up for the Labour party’s latest candidate.
For the comedian extraordinaire, the jump to politics was natural and his tired voice
springs to life at the mention of his five-year plan, though not without worry.
“I’m very energized by it. The first two weeks were a little tricky because people kept
saying, ‘Are you enjoying yourself?’ And I thought, well, enjoy isn’t really the word in politics,
for me. It’s always slightly worrying because I think I don’t know enough about this, I don’t
know enough about that. And then people said, ‘Are you having fun campaigning?’ I thought,
No, it’s hard bloody work. But after two weeks I started feeling like I could do it.”
Two weeks ago, the conservative Tories swept the British election and overran Parliament.
At the time of the phone conversation with Mr. Izzard, who was campaigning hard for himself
and his liberal-minded Labour party constituents for four weeks, he hadn’t yet lived through
that day. But if there’s any room to guess, he surely isn’t smiling now that the “right-wing crazy
people” have run of the government for the next five years.
As a man who dives headfirst into his passions,
he’ll have at it with every heartbeat. Perhaps, if
anything, his witty banter can serve to lighten up the
hard-heads in British Parliament, but Izzard insists
comedy is not the right tool to influence the system.
“Humor is an attack weapon, really,” he explains.
“What it does is it either gently or savagely pulls things
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good building weapon. What you need
for politics is: the ability to build new
systems; the ability to communicate
and to analyze. I think those
are the three key things.”
Even when the media
is shoving cameras in his
face, trying to get him
to slip up, Izzard
explains this is all
a skin-toughening
agent, like his
entire life as a
transvestite and an
actor, has prepared
him for this stage.
Like the characters
he portrays on film and
stage, he is relentless.
“I’m definitely still going
for it. I’m gonna do an Al Franken,
or try to do one, and I’ve got five
more years before I disappear and
my career goes into hibernation.”
Prepare to be swept away
in Force Majeure with Eddie Izzard
at Ardrey Auditorium, 1115 S. Knoles
Drive, on the NAU campus, Sun, May 31
at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 for students
and $54 for main-floor and balcony
seats. VIP tickets are $66. To learn more,
call 523-5661 or visit www.nau.edu/
cto. To keep up with the globetrotting
Izzard, visit www.eddieizzard.com
www.eddieizzard.com.
Flag Live
gives me
purpose...
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BY KYLE McDERMOTT
A dream becomes a reality
Mercado de los Sueños strengthens community and small business through cooperation
D
angling from the ceiling in
the hallway of Mercado de
los Sueños is a sign, chalked
in pink, “Three Sisters Shop.”
Adjacent to the room where three
aspiring craftspeople sell their
handmade goods, is a kitchen and
coffee shop where the bold aroma
of sustainably grown Guatemalan
coffee percolates and blends with
the vibrancy of authentic crafts
and ideas.
The market, located on
the corner of Fourth Street
and Seventh Avenue, hosted its
official grand opening on March
28 after years of planning and
collaboration between community members and the Sunnyside
Neighborhood Association. The
space is an ambitious model for
microbusiness incubation, where
entrepreneurs work together
under a single roof with the eventual goal of moving out and starting their own small business.
Marina Vasquez has taught
courses and workshops at NAU
on ethnobotany, appropriate
technology, pine needle basket
The main Floor of the Mercado de los Sueños is shelved with an eclectic mix of goods, from recycled-bottle vases, hand-drawn
weaving, salve and cream making
images to scarves, hats and lip balm. Photos by Kyle McDermott
in the Applied Indigenous Studies department for the past nine
The market is all-inclusive and goods range
He says he surveyed the community members
years. As a native of Guatemala and longtime
from fresh produce supplied by Flagstaff’s
not as potential customers or clients, but as
community activist, Vasquez weaves her experiCommunity Supported Agriculture, hand-drawindividual stakeholders.
ences into her time spent at the market. The
ings, wooden planter boxes crafted by home“They told me really early on that they are
Three Sisters Shop is a way for her to share her
less men in the community in support of the
pretty much ignored by the business world of
natural remedies and have a more diffusive
Sunshine Rescue Mission, to name just a few of
Flagstaff,” Pfeifer says.
presence with her crafts.
the items available.
Pfeifer quickly realized that the issue
“I never thought that I was going to have
Vazquez collects plants locally and grows
was not a lack of resources, but a disconnect
a business,” Vasquez says, reflecting on her
what she can in her garden, creating healing
between the community and the various
early days as an American citizen, with piles of
potions possessing efficacy as alternatives to
organizations in town. He played a key role
familial loans to pay off. “I’ve been knocking on
harsh chemicals for treating acne and other skin
in bringing these parties together to reach a
doors saying ‘buy this’ because I need to eat,
ailments. She places an emphasis on sustainable
common goal.
you know. Now, it’s so much fun. Instead of sitand respectful collection processes.
“We were working with a lot of people
ting at home watching TV, I come here to be a
“I wait until the snow is melted and the deer
that didn’t consider themselves entrepreneurs,
part of something so great.”
do the cutting for me,” Vasquez says, describing the
didn’t consider themselves business persons,
Patrick Pfeifer, who graduated from NAU’s
creation of her popular yucca soap. “The deer chew
but were very much performing all of those
Sustainable Communities graduate program in
the yucca, so I just collect it. I don’t go and harm any
same roles of entrepreneurs, just not classify2013, became heavily involved as an organizer
plants. That’s what I try to teach the students.”
ing themselves in that way,” Pfeifer says.
with the market in its early days of inception.
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The three “sisters” share a space within the Mercado
de los Sueños. From left: Marina Vasquez, Kristina
Secody and Barbara O’Keefe.
The main floor is designated for newcomers, giving them a chance to take foot and
benefit from increased exposure. Top-sellers
move into a small room, with heightened rent
and have three months to prepare for the next
step—owning their own store with the help of a
$5,000 loan offering.
Vasquez and the Three Sisters Shop have
moved off the main floor and are preparing to
transition out, but for now can only dream of
what’s to come.
Sunnyside Radio
At the end of the hallway bridging either
side of the market is another longtime-coming
initiative: Sunnyside Radio, or KSZN 101.5. The
station is a collaborative effort between the
Sunnyside Neighborhood and local Niles Radio,
which will broadcast the signal from their
Main Street facility. The company has donated
most of the engineering work, a transistor and
the antenna.
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VARIOUS EVENTS | THU 5.28
Handmade planter boxes by men of the Sunshine Rescue Mission. The boxes feature quality build and beautiful
design, a notch up from big box stores. Proceeds benefit the Sunshine Rescue Mission.
Market of Dreams continued from page 18
Mac England, the Project Lead, describes
the station as a giant leap forward for Flagstaff’s airwaves.
“The concept is that it’s programming
that’s actually produced and hosted live in
the studio by volunteers that come out of the
community—that come from all the different
socioeconomic groups in town, all the different
cultural groups in town,” England says.
England says this style of production is
rather uncommon, as the FCC loosened its ownership rules over the past 40 years and a select
few companies bought up most of the channels.
“Corporate America loves to cut cost and
one of the first things they look at is labor,”
England says. “They eliminated the news
departments across the county. The notion
of this project is that we’re going to turn that
around. We’re going to have a full news department with reporters covering beats like City
Hall, County Commissioners, the university.”
In addition, England says they will focus on
more specific local issues and encourage DJs to
share their anecdotes.
“There will be issue-oriented beat reporters
where people will focus on housing issues. People
will focus on water issues, other environmental
issues,” he says. “The music programming is going
to be done by volunteers out of the community
who, while in a given time slot will be restricted
to a specific kind of genre, they’re not restricted
to the music that belongs in that genre they play.”
While the Mercado de los Sueños has
become a welcomed reality for members of the
Sunnyside Neighborhood, Pfeifer emphasizes
that it’s been a dream of many for decades.
“The Sunnyside Neighborhood has been
working on some economic development concepts for 20 to 40 years,” Pfeifer says. “There’s
a long history of strong organizing work in that
neighborhood. The neighborhood association
realizes that while a lot of people are working
these two or three jobs, they’re all doing some
pretty cool things on their own. They have skills
and passions, things that they know how to do
and really love to do that nobody else knows
how to do.”
Pfeifer adds that the Mercado de los Sueños isn’t just about the individuals, but cooperation between them.
“If we can support these people’s dreams
and passions as a way for them to gain some
income, you can slowly start to shift the system
toward more self-employment and entrepreneurship, keeping the money local in the
community, building a strong local economy,
building a strong cooperative economy through
individual entrepreneurs helping one another in
a network.”
Mercado de los Sueños is located at 2532
E. Seventh Avenue, at the Southwest corner of
the Cal-Ranch parking lot. Hours are Tue–Thu
from noon–6 p.m., Fri noon–8 p.m., and Sat–Sun
noon–6 p.m. For more info and updates on the
market, visit the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/marketofdreams
Beaver Street Gallery:
Reincarnation. New art from old bed frames,
sculpture by David B. Harton. In the Alpha
space. Delta space: The Gallery Collection,
featuring a selection of the gallery’s 2-D and
3-D work. Runs through June 26. Gallery hours
are Mon-Fri, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and by appt. 28 S.
Beaver. 214-0408
Criollo Latin Kitchen:
Featuring artwork by Jetsonorama, Mike Frick
and Chip Thomas. Runs through May. 16 N. San
Francisco. 774-0541
Downtown Flagstaff:
Flagstaff Eats. Walking food tours in downtown
Flag. Two-and-a-half hours of walking and sampling food from seven different restaurants.
Tours offered every weekend Thursday through
Sunday. $40 per person. Sign up on www.
flagstaffeats.com. 213-9233
Flagstaff Federated Community Church:
Continuing Taoist tai chi and beginner class.
Every Thursday. 5:30-7:30p.m. flagstaff.az@
taoist.org. 400 W Aspen. 288-2207
Flagstaff Federated Community Church:
Weekly Mindfulness Meditation every Thursday.
Room 24 upstairs. 6:30 p.m. instruction,
7-8:30 p.m. sitting and walking meditation.
8:30 p.m. discussion. Come and go anytime.
Free and open to all. 400 W. Aspen. 774-7383
Hozhoni Art Gallery:
13th annual Recycled Art Exhibition. One Man’s
Trash is Another Man’s Art. Runs through May
30. Gallery hours are Mon-Wed and Friday
11 a.m.-4 p.m. Closed Sat and Sun. 2133 N.
Walgreen Blvd. 526-7944
Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio:
Individualized kung fu instruction in xingyi,
bagua and taji. Every Thursday. 6-8 p.m. www.
flagstaffkungfu.org. 4 W. Phoenix. 779-5858
Joe C Montoya Community and Senior Center:
Hour-long small group guitar classes. Ages 16
and up. Three sessions every Thursday from
2-5 p.m. Flexible format, multiple styles. $8 per
class or $30 for five classes, and $4 materials.
245 N Thorpe. (505) 614-6706
Mary D. Fisher Theatre:
Show Boat. Live on the big screen from
Broadway. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. $15, $12.50 for
Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A.
Sedona. (928) 282-1177
The Museum Club:
Shadows Benefit Comedy Night. Featuring
Rickey Shackleford and Mark Minguey. Doors
open at 6:30 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. $10.
3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434
The Museum Club:
Line dance lessons. Every Tuesday and Thursday
night from 6-7 p.m. $3. 3404 E. Rte. 66.
526-9434
The Museum Club:
Flagstaff Swing Dance Club presents dance
lessons every Thursday night from 7-8 p.m.
Different dance style taught each month. 3404
E. Rte. 66. 526-9434
NaU art Museum:
Enduring America: Selections from the Collection
of Art and Peggy Hittner. Featuring a historically
important exhibition of American painting and
sculpture from the 1930s and ’40s. Opening
reception 5-7 p.m. Runs through May 29.
Museum hours are Tue-Sat, noon-5 p.m. Free
with a suggested $2 per person donation. Old
Main, bldg #10 on the NAU campus. 523-3471
May 28–JUNE 3, 2015
Porky’s Pub:
Partnered dance night. Featuring salsa, zouk,
West Coast swing, East Coast swing, kizomba,
bachata and more. Hosted by Flagstaff Latin
Dance Collective and Grand Canyon Salsa
Festival. Every Thursday. 9 p.m.-midnight. Free.
2285 E. Butler. 774-1011
Red Rock State Park:
Guided nature walk at 10 a.m. Guest speaker
or a ranger/naturalist gives a 45-minute talk
at 2 p.m. Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per
vehicle. 4050 Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona.
(928) 282-6907
Simply Spiritual Healing:
Thursday night meditation. Every Thursday.
6-7 p.m. $20. All are invited. 105 E. Birch.
779-6322
MUSIC EVENTS | THU 5.28
Cruiser’s Café:
World musician Vincent Z. Noon-2:30 p.m.
Every Thursday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Williams.
635-2445
The Green Room:
Andy T Nixon Band. 8 p.m. Free. 15 N. Agassiz.
226-8669
Heritage Square:
2015 Summer Concert Series. Featuring Slugs
from Space. Jazz, rock and classical music from
Flag. 5-7 p.m. Free. Downtown Flagstaff on
Aspen between Leroux and San Francisco.
Hops on Birch:
Brian White. Americana and folk from Flag.
9 p.m. Free. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011
Main Stage Theater:
Acoustic Happy Hour with Cheap Sunglasses.
4-7 p.m. Last Thursdays with Desert Hot Tub
Club. 8 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood.
(928) 202-3460
Mia’s Lounge:
Viola and the Brakemen. Americana from Flag.
9 p.m. Free. 26 S. San Francisco. 774-3315
Monte Vista Lounge:
Karaoke with Ricky Bill. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San
Francisco. 779-6971
Old Town Center for the arts:
Live at Studio B. Featuring Dave Rentz. Doors
open at 6:30 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m.
$10 at the door. Every second and fourth
Thursday with a new artist. 633 N. 5th Street.
Cottonwood. (928) 634-0940
Raven Café:
Dylan Ludwig hosts the Songwriters Showcase.
8 p.m. Free. 142 N. Cortez. Prescott. (928)
717-0009
Sound Bites Grill:
Award-winning guitarist Ralf Illenberger. 6 p.m.
Free. 101 N. State Rte. 89A. Sedona. (928)
282-2713
VARIOUS EVENTS | FRI 5.29
Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse:
Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Virginia
Brown and Linda Sutera. Performances
7:30 p.m. Fri and Sat; 2 p.m. Sun. $13-$19. Runs
through June 14. 11 W. Cherry. www.theatrikos.
com. 774-1662
Episcopal Church of the Epiphany:
Taoist tai chi. Every Friday. 9-10:30 a.m. [email protected]. 423 N. Beaver. 774-2911
Flagstaff Elk’s Lodge:
Weekly all-you-can-eat Fish Fry. Fish fry begins
at 6 p.m. and bingo starts at 7 p.m. $10. Must be
18 or older to participate in bingo. All proceeds
benefit Elks Children Charities. Every Friday.
2101 N. San Francisco. 774-6271
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VARIOUS EVENTS | FRI 5.29
Mary D. Fisher Theatre:
Film screening: The 100-Year-Old Man Who
Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
7 p.m. Fri and Sun; 4 p.m. Tue; 7 p.m. Wed. $12,
$9 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy
89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177
Orpheum Theater:
Godspell. Classic off Broadway play presented
and performed by Flagstaff Arts and Leadership
Academy. Shows 7:30 p.m. Fri and Sat; 2 p.m.
matinee Sun. Doors open an hour before all
shows. $10 in advance, $15 the day of the show.
15 W. Aspen. 556-1580
MUSIC EVENTS | FRI 5.29
Altitudes Bar and Grill:
Flat Fives. 7-10 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver. 214-8218
Flagstaff Brewing Co.:
Teddy’s Bullet. 10 p.m. Free. 16 E. Rte. 66.
773-1442
The Gopher Hole:
Dark Skies. Featuring DJs Marty and Reymont
with special guest A*Naut spinning new wave,
post punk, dark disco and goth groove. 9 p.m.
Free. 23 N. Leroux. 774-2731
The Green Room:
Lindsay Lowend. EDM. Openers DJ Jess and ill.
Ego. 8 p.m. $7 in advance, $10 the day of the
show. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669
The Hive:
Shatterproof. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts
at 7:30 p.m. $5 in advance and $6 at the door.
All ages. 2 S. Beaver, Ste 190. 864-8675
Hops on Birch:
Brian Whelan. Rock, country and blues from
Culver City, Calif. 9 p.m. Free. 22 E. Birch.
774-4011
Main Stage Theater:
Movie premiere: The Dogs Way Down with the
Invincible Grins and more. 9 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main
St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460
Majerle’s Sports Grill:
Ricky Ray. 5-8 p.m. Free. 102 W. Rte. 66.
774-6463
Mia’s Lounge:
The Shiners with special guests Ten Letters.
Alt-country. 9 p.m. Free. 26 S. San Francisco.
774-3315
Monte Vista Lounge:
Kip Killagain. Jungle music from Flag. 9 p.m.
Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971
The Museum Club:
Stateline. 8 p.m. $5. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434
Oak Creek Brewing Co.:
Saith. 8 p.m. Free. 2050 Yavapai Drive. Sedona.
(928) 204-1300
Raven Café:
Fallen Arrows. 8 p.m. Free. 142 N. Cortez.
Prescott. (928) 717-0009
Sound Bites Grill:
Tom Tabback and the Daddy O’s. ’50s and ’60s
Grafitti Gold Show. 7 p.m. Tickets starting
at $20. 101 N. State Rte. 89A. Sedona. (928)
282-2713
The Spirit Room:
Mountain Stranded Time. 8 p.m. Free. 166 Main
St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809
State Bar:
Tex-Ola. Americana from Flag. 7:30-11 p.m. $5.
10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282
MAY 28–JUNE 3, 2015
VARIOUS EVENTS | SAT 5.30
Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse:
Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Virginia
Brown and Linda Sutera. Performances
7:30 p.m. Fri and Sat; 2 p.m. Sun. $13-$19. Runs
through June 14. 11 W. Cherry. www.theatrikos.
com. 774-1662
Flagstaff Recreation Center:
Zumba class. Every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. $5.
2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468
Galaxy Diner:
Swing Dance Club every Saturday. Lessons from
7-10 p.m. Free. 931 E. Historic Rte. 66. 774-2466
The Green Room:
Flagstaff Fetish Ball: Den of Iniquity. Costume
attire required. 8 p.m. $10 general admission.
$50 private VIP tickets (limited amount). 15 N.
Agassiz. 226-8669
James Cullen Park:
Continuing Taoist tai chi. Every Saturday
9-10:30 a.m. [email protected]. Bonito/
Hopi and Apache. 288-2207
Mary D. Fisher Theatre:
Film screening: The Salt of the Earth. 7 p.m. Sat
and Tue; 4 p.m. Wed. $12, $9 for Sedona Film
Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928)
282-1177
Murdoch Community Center:
Zumba class. Every Saturday at 9 p.m. $5. 203 E.
Brannen. 226-7566
Orpheum Theater:
Godspell. Classic off Broadway play presented
and performed by Flagstaff Arts and Leadership
Academy. Shows 7:30 p.m. Sat; 2 p.m. matinee
Sun. Doors open an hour before all shows. $10
in advance, $15 the day of the show. 15 W.
Aspen. 556-1580
Pioneer Museum:
Twenty-fourth annual Flagstaff Wool and Fiber
Festival. Two day festival of creativity, history,
and community events surrounding all things
wool and fiber. Free. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat and Sun.
2340 N. Fort Valley Road. 774-6272
Red Rock State Park:
Saturday and Wednesday daily bird walks. 7 a.m.
Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per vehicle. 4050
Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907
Shuvani Studio:
Monthly Soundscape Meditation. Crystal and
brass bowls with drums. Safe environment. Doors
open at 6 p.m., and close at 6:30 p.m. Meditation
runs from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Donations accepted, but
not required. Bring yoga mat, pillow and blanket
for comfort. Next to Mama Burger on the corner
of Ft. Valley Road and Humphreys. (951) 781-9369
Yavapai College:
Fourth annual Taking Root Verde Valley Wine
Symposium. Featuring industry speakers,
Arizona wineries grand tasting, raffle, local
food vendors and more. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $50
general admission; $25 students. 601 Black Hills
Drive. Clarkdale. For more indo and tickets, visit
www.verdevalleywine.org.
MUSIC EVENTS | SAT 5.30
Altitudes Bar and Grill:
Ricky Ray. 7-10 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver. 214-8218
The Gopher Hole:
The Naughty Bits. Rock ‘n’ roll from Sedona.
9 p.m. Free. 23 N. Leroux. 774-2731
Hops on Birch:
Raillery. Americana from Flag. 9 p.m. Free. 22 E.
Birch. 774-4011
Mia’s Lounge:
Lust for Life with DJs Marty Marr, Reymont
Cantil and Boris. Rock ‘n’ roll dance party. 9 p.m.
Free. 26 S. San Francisco. 774-3315
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Mind the income gap
2016 presidential candidates
address inequality (sort of)
A
t last, America’s political leaders indicate that they now feel the pain of the
poor and of the millions of working
families slipping out of the middle class.
Congress had previously paid no attention to the ever-widening chasm between
the rich and the rest of us, but it has
recently emerged as a central issue for such
Republican presidential contenders as Jeb
Bush, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio.
They are publicly lamenting the wealth gap
and—by gollies—proposing solutions. Alas,
though, the “solution” proposed by each of
them is not to provide help for those who’ve
been knocked down, but to offer aid to the
same corporate elites who’ve been knocking
down the middle class and holding down
the poor.
Specifically, their solution is to cut
taxes on corporations and the rich, do away
with environmental and labor protections,
and cut or privatize government programs—
from Head Start to Social Security—that
ordinary people count on. For example,
Rubio proposes to kill the food stamp program (even though the need for it is greater
than ever) and redirect that money into
what he calls a subsidy for low-wage workers. Does he think we have sucker-wrappers
around our heads? That’s not a subsidy for
By Jim
Hightower
workers, but for low-wage employers.
Why should taxpayers subsidize the poverty pay of profitable giants like McDonald’s, rather than making them pay living
wages and cover their own labor
costs?
I guess we should count it as progress that candidates are at least having
to admit that inequality is a problem, but
come on—offering the same old failed,
anti-government snake oil is an insult to
the American people. Jeb Bush shows
how vacuous their flim-flammery is by
saying that, to address the ever-widening
wealth and income gap, he’ll “celebrate
success and … cherish free enterprise.”
Gosh, what a comfort that’ll be to America’s hard-hit majority.
Jim Hightower is a best-selling
author, radio commentator, nationally
syndicated columnist and editor of The
Hightower Lowdown, a populist political
newsletter. He has spent the past four
decades battling the Powers That Be on
behalf of the Powers that ought-to-be:
consumers, working families, small businesses, environmentalists and just-plainfolks. For more of his work, visit www.
jimhightower.com.
Looks like Rocco’s Farmer’s
Market is open for business.
And the pant melons are
extra ripe this season.
Exploring different names
for man booty since 1994.
#SHIRTLESS ROCCO
REARVIEW
Bartender wisdom
Finch and book situation
I
t’s been the finches that have sent me back
to a book I borrowed two decades ago. More
specifically, three hatchlings I found knocked
out of their nest pushed me back to Landscape and
Memory by Simon Schama.
More on the finches. By the front door I have
a porch light the finches have been using as a nest
for the last few years. A few generations have
come and gone. Below the light and nest, there’s
a flat mailbox attached to the wall. It was on that
aluminum perch where I found three relatively
newly hatched hatchlings hunkered together on
the metal as the light snow fell. The nest above
them in shambles, I looked in the nearby trees for
the adults. Nothing. I had no idea what to do.
No idea what to do was the week’s theme; I
was on my way to work a wake at the pub. One of
the longtime regulars and a friend of mine, Dawn
Moran, had died suddenly in her sleep earlier that
By James Jay
week. No explanations. She was in her mid-’40s, in
as good of health as the next person, yet just went
to sleep and didn’t wake up. She was the matriarch
of her family, The Moran Clan, as she’d joked, and
then there was her sudden departure, leaving
her tightly knit family and long list of friends at a
loss. When I first heard the news, I went into work
mode. Folks would be running short on sleep, forgetting to eat, and the main job was to make sure
they could come together and be OK whatever
needs might pop up. Work, as it often is, became
a convenient way to avoid considering how I felt in
the face of loss. And then on the way to the wake
these clumped together hatchings undid me.
I projected all sorts of emotions onto the
birds: wrecked home; parents gone; abandoned
to the cold wind pressing on their skinny, mostly
furless wings. What to do? I remembered and misremembered everything I thought I knew about
birds. I scrambled. I’d heard that if you touch
hatchlings and get your human stank on them,
the parents would leave them. (Not true actually.)
But, at the time, I was stuck on the concept. I
found in my garage some new leather gloves not
yet used for the delayed wood cutting season—a
fortunate break for my psyche. I put them on
and went to the mailbox. I began assembling the
remains of the nest into my best guess at a shelter. I scooped the three birds together into the
nest. What next? In the yard were some kindling
size pieces of aspen my sons had been whacking
on. I made a wall to help hide them from the
weather and hoped for the best.
That day as I went through the motions of
work, the finches were close to my mind. I did a
little more research on my smart phone, trying
to differentiate the loads of crap online from
the real stuff. The next morning the three had
made it, the parents returned, the red-breasted
male guarding from a nearby limb and feeding
the female, the brown female sitting on the nest.
Things, of course, don’t end all rosy in this reality.
(Stop reading now if you want a happy story.)
After six days a Steller’s Jay returned and killed
two of the hatchlings. I ran it off, but it’d already
done more damage. (It was the likely predator
that knocked them out in the first place.) I tacked
a pillowcase around the nest for further hiding.
Now I’ve been waking at 4 a.m. to make
coffee and go guard the nest. The other day
I took two good swings with my hurley at the
Steller’s Jay. Thanks to some hook training
and lateral movement I’d learned from a rugby
player, I almost smashed it on a second swing. If
the neighbors were watching they might find me
a bit crazy. They might be right. But the Steller’s
Jay after his brush with the Irish ash of my hurley
hasn’t returned, and the lone survivor finch is
getting nearly big enough to leave home.
More on the book: Twenty years ago I borrowed Landscape and Memory from a renowned
scholar of Natural History Literature, Hank Harrington. I’ve read Aristotle, Lucretius, Thoreau,
and Leopold. I know what anthropomorphism
means. I’ve also read enough to know that reason is a servant, a mere tool, of our emotion.
This summer I’ve picked up a used copy of that
old book and am going to make it my summer
reading, my summer refresher as I become
emotionally attached to a baby finch and figure
out what comes next. Slainte.
For more than 20 years, James Jay has
worked in the bar business from dishwasher,
bouncer, bartender, bar manager to pub owner.
He is the author of two critically acclaimed books
of poetry and his poems have been selected for
the New Poets of the American West anthology.
WESTBETH
ENTERTAINMENT
PRESENTS
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MUSIC EVENTS | SAT 5.30
Monte Vista Lounge:
Tex-Ola. Americana from Flag. 9 p.m. Free. 100
N. San Francisco. 779-6971
The Museum Club:
Wade Hayes. Country from Oklahoma. 8 p.m.
$15. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434
Oak Creek Brewing Co.:
Kenzo. 3-6 p.m. Free. Open mic with James
Turner at 8 p.m. 2050 Yavapai Drive. Sedona.
(928) 204-1300
Raven Café:
Santa Pachita. 8 p.m. Free. 142 N. Cortez.
Prescott. (928) 717-0009
The Spirit Room:
Filabusta. 2 p.m. Free. Trial by Fire. 9 p.m. Free.
166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809
State Bar:
Ray Rossi. Acoustic blues from Flag. 7-10 p.m.
Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282
VARIOUS EVENTS | SUN 5.31
Canyon Dance Academy:
Flag Freemotion. Ballroom dance lessons
and dancing every Sunday. Learn social and
ballroom dancing. 5-7 p.m. No partner needed.
$8, $5 for students. 853-6284. 2812 N. Izabel.
814-0157
Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse:
Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Virginia
Brown and Linda Sutera. Performances
7:30 p.m. Fri and Sat; 2 p.m. Sun. $13-$19. Runs
through June 14. 11 W. Cherry. www.theatrikos.
com. 774-1662
Flagstaff City Hall:
Flagstaff Community Market. 8 a.m.-noon. Free.
Runs through Oct. 18. www.flagstaffmarket.
com.
Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio:
Weekly Flagstaff Zen Sangha Meditation.
8:30 a.m. Free. Every Sunday. Sutra service,
walking meditations (kinhin), and two 25
minute sitting meditations (zazen). First time
come at 8 a.m. for orientation. 4 W. Phoenix.
773-0750
Mary D. Fisher Theatre:
Film screening: The 100-Year-Old Man Who
Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
7 p.m. Sun; 4 p.m. Tue; 7 p.m. Wed. $12, $9 for
Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A.
Sedona. (928) 282-1177
Monte Vista Lounge:
Sunday Night Trivia with Lindsay and Savanna.
Every Sunday. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco.
779-6971
Pioneer Museum:
Twenty-fourth annual Flagstaff Wool and Fiber
Festival. Two day festival of creativity, history,
and community events surrounding all things
wool and fiber. Free. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat and Sun.
2340 N. Fort Valley Road. 774-6272
Shuvani Studio:
Flag Freemotion. Conscious movement/freestyle dance. Moving meditation to dance-able
music. No experience required. Every Sunday.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Next to Mama Burger on
the corner of Fort Valley Road and Humphreys
Street. 225-1845
Tranzend Studio:
Flagstaff Latin Dance Collective. Lessons: beginner and all level fundamentals, technique and
musicality. 7 p.m. Open dancing in main room
with salsa, bachata, merengue and cha cha; side
room with zouk and kizomba until 10 p.m. Every
Sunday. $10 drop-in, $8 for students. 417 W.
Santa Fe. 814-2650
May 28–JUNE 3, 2015
MUSIC EVENTS | SUN 5.31
1899 Bar and Grill:
Vincent Z. Acoustic world music. Every Sunday.
6:30-8:30 p.m. 307 W. Dupont. 523-1899
altitudes Bar and Grill:
Delta Blues Band. 3-6 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver.
214-8218
Flagstaff Brewing Co.:
Parker Smith. 2-5 p.m. Free. 16 E. Rte. 66.
773-1442
The Green Room:
Karaoke. 8 p.m. Free. Every Sunday. 15 N.
Agassiz. 226-8669
Josephine’s:
Vincent Z for brunch every Sunday. Acoustic
world music. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. 503 N. Humphreys.
779-3400
Oak Creek Brewing Co.:
Tyrell and Friends. 3-6 p.m. Free. 2050 Yavapai
Drive. Sedona. (928) 204-1300
Sound Bites Grill:
Susannah Martin Jazz Quartet. 6 p.m. $5 at
the door. 101 N. State Rte. 89A. Sedona. (928)
282-2713
The Spirit Room:
David Parker and the Big Time. 2 p.m. Free. 166
Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809
VARIOUS EVENTS | MON 6.1
Charly’s Pub & Grill:
Game night. 5-8 p.m. Free. 23 N. Leroux.
774-2731
Episcopal Church of the Epiphany:
Taoist tai chi. Every Monday. 10:30 a.m.-noon.
[email protected]. 423 N Beaver. 288-2207
Flagstaff Recreation Center:
Zumba class. Every Monday. 6 p.m. $5. 2403 N.
Izabel. 779-1468
The Green Room:
Weekly trivia night hosted by Martina. Every
Monday. 6:30-8 p.m. Free. 15 N. Agassiz.
226-8669
Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio:
Tango classes. Fundamentals: 6-6:30 p.m. $5.
Figures and Techniques: 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10.
(Both classes for dancers having completed a
beginner dance series). Practica: 7:30-9 p.m.
Practica included in price of class. 4 W. Phoenix.
773-0750
Mary D. Fisher Theatre:
Film screening: B.B. King: The Life of Riley. 4 p.m.
and 7 p.m. $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177
Sacred Mountain Fighting and Healing Arts:
Self defense class. Every Monday. 6-7 p.m. $10.
202 S. San Francisco. 864-8707
MUSIC EVENTS | MON 6.1
Campus Coffee Bean:
Open Mic night. Every Monday. 6-8 p.m.
[email protected]. 1800 S. Milton Road.
556-0660
Cruiser’s Café:
World musician Vincent Z. Noon-2:30 p.m.
Every Monday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Williams.
635-2445
The Green Room:
Karaoke. 8 p.m. Free. Every Monday. 15 N.
Agassiz. 226-8669
Hops on Birch:
Open mic night with Eric Hays. Every Monday.
8:30 p.m. sign-up. 9 p.m. start. 22 E. Birch.
774-4011
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The Write Now
Shock and awe
A
t the beginning of the month we
launched the 15th call for entries for
our monthly Flag Live writing contest,
The Write Now, and received our greatest
number of entries yet, thanks in big part
to a handful of wonderful submissions
from students at Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy.
The contest was once again blind-judged
by Flagstaff author Mary Sojourner, who
also gave us this prompt for writers to follow: “Include at least five colors—go beyond
ROYGBIV and use more specific colors. There
will be a change in the light and weather;
something that seems minor will turn out to
be influential. Opening sentence: What happens when once upon a time is now …”
This month our winning submission
comes in from second-time winner Lyn
Johnson, to which Sojourner writes: “Lines
like this: The chairwoman, petite as a baby
bird, is perched on black patent leather
stilettos, silent and fierce at the front of the
line we are attempting, with great effort,
to form. stopped me in my tracks. Clean
images and shock throughout this writing.
I like being surprised. That always keeps
me reading.”
For newcomers to The Write Now, we’ll
have our next prompt next week (the first
issue of every month). Submissions should
be received no later than 5 p.m. the following Friday (June 12 for our next round). Keep
the good words coming. And good luck!
What happens when once upon a time is now and nothing is
ideal, like you thought it would be? It’s all a little sticky, like gum. The
chairwoman, petite as a baby bird, is perched on black patent leather
stilettos, silent and fierce at the front of the line we are attempting,
with great effort, to form. The gold tassel of her PhD beret catches
the light like a flashbulb. Behind her is the lieutenant, a second fierce
woman who is directing us to line up, doctors in the front, she will
go first. “Are you going to be cracking your gum through the whole
ceremony? Because if you’re going to snap your gum the entire time,
I don’t want to sit next to you.” This comes from a third doctor, fierce
in her own direct way. The overhead lights have warmed up to full
force now, making memory out of the grey morning just outside. The
heat and light seem to have emboldened her. Chestnut flips of hair fly
across her face as she whips her head around to gauge our reactions.
Seeing only stunned faces she giggles and steps backwards into the
safe haven of a friend’s hug. The lieutenant snaps a particularly loud
one, rolls her eyes, turns her back. She does not see a fourth doctor
stride defiantly to the end of the line and execute a military turn
so perfect that for a split second her grey robe balloons out into a
luminous silver bubble. She folds her arms across her chest. She’s had
it. She is a warrior goddess in full academic regalia. Fierce. Up in the
stands students are smiling down on us. They are all shiny and new
again, as on the day they arrived, once upon a time. I feel a pang of
embarrassment where pride should be. Whatever they were taught,
it couldn’t have been the sticky business of how to work and play well
with others.
– Submitted by Lyn Johnson
Our Round 15 The Write Now Winner
COmICS
Proudly presented by the staff at
May sweet, sweet Carol
never know that, back in ’69, I was part of the
touring Shakespeare Erogenous Magic Time Theatre
Co. We had so much fun performing in several notable
plays, including All’s Well That Gets It in the End Well, As
You Like It So, So Bad, A Midsummer Night’s Ream, Titus
Androgynous and Much Ado About Bumpin’. It was
I
saw that they
a much different time for theatre back then.
did another film about
Shakespeare’s Macbeth that’s
making the film festival rounds
now. I really wish they’d stop
doing the darker works and
focus on the fun, lighthearted
comedies. Everyone is always
into that heavy drama stuff.
I like it whimsical.
Larry
&Carol
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Aspen & Juniper Firewood For Sale.
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Sale thru June 24th. Hard Dry Aspen
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Flag Hauling, Yard Clean Up, Haul Off
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Lawn Mowing: weekly or one time.
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TOWNHOMES FOR SALE
4bd/2.5ba/1688sq/2cg, built 2002.
1.5 mi to NAU. $275K. Call Wayne/
Terri @ 928-773-9300
COMML & INDUST PROPERTIES
8000 sq ft old charter school building,
2301 N. 4th St. Selling for appraisal
price of $750K. 928-526-0300
LOTS FOR SALE RESIDENTIAL
Will build to suit in Doney Park. 3+
acres, near Winona. Water, power,
septic in. 928-607-0928
APARTMENTS FURNISHED
Eastside, 1 bdrm furnished apt, with
24 hr access to gym with basketball,
pool & covered parking; $900/mo,
$900 dep. ref. rqrd. Call 928-6069450
APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
1 & 2 bdrm apt-house in Sunnyside
$700-$999/mo. Call Mary @ 928526-7909.
TOWNHOUSE RENTALS
3bdrm, 2ba, 2cg, end unit on Cassidy
Lane. Pets allowed w/ add. dep.
Dep. before move-in of $1350
+1st mo. rent of $1350. Avail 6/1.
928.699.0220.
ROOM FOR RENT
Quiet Nat’l.Forest, Room to Rent Util,
Cable, Intrnt incld, N/S, N/P $350/
mo.+ dep. Call 928-600-6769
2.5 ac, 5 min fm dwntwn, 1bd w/
private ba, storage, workspace,
garden, greenhouse & more. Share
w/ 2 other mature males. Most
pets ok, $650/mo, $400 dep. Call
415-724-0925
STORE AND OFFICE RENTALS
Various Retail Store Front Space &
Office Space on 4th St & 7th Ave,
some w/ utils incl. 526-0300.
Old jewelry store 2300 N. 4th St., 2600
sf, $1,700/mo., Old medical doctor’s
office at 2314 N. 4th St, 1500 sf at
$1100//mo. Water & garbage provided. Call 928-526-0300.
Office, 1-room, near downtown, quiet,
parking, nice view. $340onth. Take
a look at 119 E. Terrace Ave., Suite
C, upstairs, and call Rob (928) 8561100 $340onth
TRUCKS
2005 over-cab 6 cyl. auto, needs 2
parts or more. Offered $1000 by
June. Sell to B.O. 623-216-7919
2008 Chevrolet Silverado LT 66K mi.,
very good cond, Dark Cherry with
Rhino Liner and Tonneau cover. 4 dr,
V8 5.3 liter w/ flex fuel option. Loaded! Sedona call or text 810-931-2115
1 owner 21,500
72 Intl 1/2tn pkup 1110 series. 256/6
cyl, rust free body, some mech. wrk
completed, clr title. $650 703-6776584 / 519 W Tombstone
BOATS
23 ft Cabin Cruiser. Ciera Bayliner.
350 motor, Excellent condition! Good
family boat. ALWAYS Garage Kept.
$15,000. 928-853-7573
MOTORCYCLES
2007 Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Classic
150 original miles, like new, helmet
incl. $4000. Call 928-699-4765.
5TH WHEELS
1991 32ft Aljo 5th wheel. Ready to
Move. Fully Equipped. Very Good
Condition. $5000. 928-527-0394
BARGAIN CORNER
Metal bunk bed frame $50. 928-7746852
Entertainment Center/Armoire-Nice
hardwood rustic piece of furniture,
90”h x 60”w x 30”d, $950 new, asking
$300 OBO. Will hold 55” flat screen.
623-694-2691
Maytag Centennial Gas Dryer. Good
Condition. $50 Call Al 928-6071907
Older dark blue Lazyboy lift chair
$90, Pink recliner $25, Over stuffed
recliner blue $50, Bookcase $15, Sm
glass door entertainment cntr $15. All
Good Cond. 928-526-2107
Carson 16 ft trailer axels (Pair). 1 axel
has electric brakes. Only 2,500 miles
on them. $250 (including springs)
928-853-2914 Call or Text.
Red Ryder BB Gun (NEW) $40.
Mens dress suits (qty5) $50/ea. size
44-46L. 2 wooden chairs $10/ea. 2
wooden bar stools $15/ea. Deena
928-310-7788
GE Dishwasher, power scrub, quiet, 8
energy options, front control, white,
very good cond., $100. White door,
79”hx35”w, hinges on left, opens
inside, $50. 480-326-2623
Free- basket, handle & cord to a Masterbuilt Butterball 14lb indoor electric
turkey fryer. Fryer no longer exists.
Call or text 853-0165.
Oak Wall Unit 6’x7’ $50. Queen bed
rails, box spring mattress $40.
Pioneer CS-88 speakers $35/pair.
27” Monitor $40, 20” Monitor $30.
928-266-0871
Modern French Sword with Scabbard
$50 OBO. call 928-679-0691
HP LAPTOP Touchscreen (NEW in
box) 15.6 inch screen. 500GB WIN
8.1. $300. 928-890-9010
Racoon, skunk live trap, new, $15;
Lighted Conair Makeup Mirror 10X,
near new, $25 was $60; Email
pictures available, 928-527-4246.
Mitsubishi 55” Projection TV. HDTV,
loaded with features. Excellent
Condition. Only $125. 928-637-8849
New 30 gallon Propane Water Heater,
$175. 928-773-0651
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FLAGSTAFF LIVE GENERAL INFO
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MUSIC EVENTS | MON 6.1
Main Stage Theater:
Karaoke Service Industry Night. 8 p.m. Free. 1 S.
Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460
The Museum Club:
Open mic night. Every Monday. 8 p.m. Free.
3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434
Olde Sedona Bar and Grill:
Jam session/open mic every Monday. 9 p.m.
1405 W. Hwy. 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-5670
The Patio:
Monday Night Blues. Featuring SammyMac,
Ron James, Roger Smith and Rich Bowen.
7 p.m. Free. Every Monday. 409 S. San Francisco.
779-7033
VARIOUS EVENTS | TUE 6.2
Firecreek Coffee Co.:
Speak Up: Bridging the gap between local
people and local politics. Forum for Flag residents to connect with local politics. 5 p.m. Free.
Every Tuesday. 22 E. Rte. 66. 774-2266
Hops on Birch:
Trivia night with Eric Hays. Every Tuesday.
8:30 p.m. sign-up. 9 p.m. start. 22 E. Birch.
774-4011
Mary D. Fisher Theatre:
Film screening: The 100-Year-Old Man Who
Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
(4 p.m. Tue; 7 p.m. Wed.) Salt of the Earth.
(7 p.m. Tue; 4 p.m. Wed.) $12, $9 for Sedona
Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona.
(928) 282-1177
The Museum Club:
Line dance lessons. Every Tuesday. 6-7 p.m. $3.
3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434
Ponderosa High School:
Beginner Taoist tai chi. Every Tuesday 5:307 p.m. Followed by continuing Taoist tai chi.
Every Tuesday. 7-8:30 p.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.
org. 2384 N. Steves. 288-2207
Taala Hooghan Infoshop:
Dharma Punx meditation group every Tuesday.
8:15 p.m. 1700 N. 2nd St. www.taalahooghan.org
Temple of the Divine Mother:
Unplug and Recharge Meditation: Come join us
to unplug from stress and recharge your being
by learning moving, sound, & guided meditation. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month.
Ongoing from 7-8:30 p.m. by donation.
MUSIC EVENTS | TUE 6.2
Firecreek Coffee Co.:
Open mic night. Every Tuesday. Signup at
6:30 p.m., 7 p.m. show. All ages. 22 E. Rte. 66.
774-2266
The Green Room:
Honky Tonk Tuesdays. Featuring DJ MJ. Every
Tuesday. 8 p.m. Free. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669
Main Stage Theater:
Open mic with D.L. Harrison. 8-11 p.m. Free. 1 S.
Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460
Mia’s Lounge:
Jazz Jam. 9 p.m. Free. 26 S. San Francisco.
774-3315
Monte Vista Lounge:
Karaoke with Ricky Bill. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San
Francisco. 779-6971
Oak Creek Brewing Co.:
Drumz and Dance Party. Free. 6:30 p.m. 2050
Yavapai Drive. Sedona. (928) 204-1300
May 28–JUNE 3, 2015
The Patio:
Blues Tuesday with Larry Z. 7-10 p.m. Free.
Every Tuesday. 409 S. San Francisco. 779-7033
State Bar:
Tony Holiday and the Velvetones. Blues, funk
and soul. 7-10 p.m. Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282
VARIOUS EVENTS | WED 6.3
Charly’s Pub & Grill:
Team trivia. 7 p.m. 23 N. Leroux. 774-2731
Firecreek Coffee Co:
Poetry slam. Every Wednesday. Signup at
7 p.m., 8 p.m. start. 22 E. Rte. 66. 774-2266
Flagstaff Recreation Center:
Zumba class. Every Wednesday. 7 p.m. $5. 2403
N. Izabel. 779-1468
Heritage Square:
Kids Squared. Fun and educational programs
for children ranging from ages 2-12. This week:
Author Matthew Henry Hall of Phoebe and
Chub will be telling stories and performing
sing-alongs for children ages K-5 and their
parents. 10-11 a.m. Free. Runs through July 29.
Downtown Flagstaff on Aspen between Leroux
and San Francisco.
Jim’s Total Body Fitness:
Flagstaff Latin Dance Collective. Six week salsa
dance fundamentals. 6-7p.m. $15 drop in, $20
for couples. Every Wednesday. www.latindancecollective.com. 2150 N. 4th St. 814-2650
Lumberyard Brewing Co.:
Extreme Wednesdays. Showing extreme
sports videos. Free. 10 p.m. 5 S. San Francisco.
779-2739
Main Stage Theater:
In House Dart and Pool Leagues. 6 p.m. Free. 1
S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460
Majerle’s Sports Grill:
Trivia night. Every Wednesday. 7 p.m. 102 W.
Rte. 66. 774-6463
Mary D. Fisher Theatre:
Film screening: Salt of the Earth. 4 p.m. The
100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window
and Disappeared. 7 p.m. $12, $9 for Sedona Film
Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928)
282-1177
Murdoch Community Center:
Zumba class. Every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. $5.
203 E. Brannen. 226-7566
Red Rock State Park:
Saturday and Wednesday daily bird walks. 7 a.m.
Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per vehicle. 4050
Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907
State Bar:
Wings and Wine. Pairing Pillsbury Winery from
Cottonwood with Wil’s Grill from Flag. 6 p.m. 10
E. Rte. 66. 226-1282
MUSIC EVENTS | WED 6.3
The Green Room:
Soulective. DJs spinning funk, dance, hip-hop
and EDM. Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. Free 15 N.
Agassiz. 226-8669
Sound Bites Grill:
Eric Miller. Latin jazz guitarist. 6 p.m. Free. 101
N. State Rte. 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-2713
The Spirit Room:
Don Cheek hosts open mic. 8 p.m. Free. 166
Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809
State Bar:
The Deltaz. Americana, rock and blues from Los
Angeles. 7-10 p.m. Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282
To have an event included in the Pulse calendar e-mail [email protected] or mail info to Flagstaff Live, Attn:
Pulse Calendar Submissions, 1751 S. Thompson St., Flagstaff, AZ 86001. The deadline is every Friday by 5 p.m. for
the following week’s issue. All events are subject to change, subject to editing, and may have to be cut entirely due
to limited space in Flag Live. For more info, call 779-1877.
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