Events

Forging a Utilitarian Classic

November 3, 2013 |

The art of the blacksmithing returns to the Tucson Presidio.

Blacksmithing is disciplined, detailed work, needing strength and dexterity to stoke the fires and hit the molten metal with the correct pressure.
Photo via Wikimedia Commons/Scott Sandars

On Nov. 9, the unmistakable scent of hot metal will waft through the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson, re-introducing the lore of the smithy to Tucson.

That day, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., the Arizona Artist Blacksmith Association (AABA) holds a metalworking event at Presidio San Agustín, a mix of demonstration for the public and technique-honing for the professionals. Modern-day blacksmiths will hammer away at the red ore in the reconstructed fort at the corner of Washington Street and Court Avenue, keeping tradition alive and showing crowds how frontier smithing was a cornerstone of settlement survival in Tucson.

Blacksmithing was critical to this dusty northern outpost of New Spain when the presidio fort was built in the 1780s by the conquistadors. Smiths were the armorers who repaired weapons for military and their trade also served settlers by shaping metal shoes for horses and mules, forging nails, hardware or tools for building, and repairing essential equipment, such as wagons and plows.

The AABA has conducted demos state-wide since the association’s founding in 1981, for both the public and also for the 235 state-wide members, 44 of whom are based in Southern Arizona. Although many members are hobbyists, there is a strong core of practicing blacksmiths still at work in Tucson. Two Tucson metal smiths and AABA members, Bill Ganoe and Eric Thing, helped initiate this Tucson Presidio demonstration.

Tucson’s blacksmithing legacy has roots in the 11-acre presidio downtown, probably to the west of City Hall and south of Alameda, at the site pinpointed by archaeologists as the first blacksmithing operation. In the 1850s, a ring-shaped, 1400 pound meteorite (still the largest of its kind in the world) was used as an anvil at this site. Although the Smithsonian now houses this meteorite, its replica is on display at Flandrau Science Center on UA’s campus. More modern-day Tucson smithing lore is found at 724 N. Main St., where Wm. Flores and Son, Tucson’s contemporary first family of practicing blacksmiths, has been stoking its forge since 1929. The family’s first shop was on Court Street.

Storied Hands
Blacksmithing was always hard work in the west. With new iron expensive and hard to come by, very little was produced in colonial Mexico, and iron that was shipped to settlers from across the Atlantic Ocean needed to be hauled up to New Spain by mule train from Veracruz. The Industrial Revolution sped the demise of the handcraft, and blacksmithing may have become extinct if not for the founding of the Artist Blacksmith Association of North America (ABANA) in 1973.

The AABA, a chapter of the North American organization, continues its demonstrations and workshops in an effort to document the stories and techniques of the master craft. Harold Hilborn, a Tucson blacksmiths and founder of Holy Hammer Ironworks, doesn’t want the craft to fade into history, and meticulously preserves old-style handwork as do many of his fellow association members.

“This is why we hold our demonstrations for the public, to keep the forges lit and burning, and help the craft stay alive,” says the skilled smith.

Blacksmithing is disciplined, detailed work, needing strength and dexterity to stoke the fires and hit the molten metal with the correct pressure. It’s a lifetime practice that’s also an art.

Functional Craft
According to Hilborn, blacksmiths put a little bit of themselves into each piece, while staying true to historic principles of craftsmanship and functionality.

Adrian Legge at a September AABA demonstration in Camp Verde.
Photo by Barry Denton

“We take tools of and techniques of the past and use them to sculpt functional art for homes or business,” says Hilborn. For metal art admirers, Hilborn wants to clarify an often incorrectly-used term: “The metal security iron you see on homes and business is ornamental iron, not wrought iron. Wrought iron is a type of metal with very little carbon in it, and around World War II manufacture or production of it stopped, as alloy steel became more prevalent. Back in the day, ornate decorative iron was produce by a blacksmith shop but it was largely forged wrought iron bars with cast iron elements.”

Modern blacksmiths still produce this type of work today but use low-carbon steel alloys for art that ranges from railings and decorative furniture, to fireplace enclosures, sculpture and lighting. “A main difference between a modern blacksmith and a fabricator/welder is that we use a forge anvil and hammer to shape our products, to give them texture and life,” Hilborn explains.

Demo Details
The pros will get a chance to work with master craftsman Mark Aspery – certified with Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths, the UK-based guild that begun in London in 1324 – in a two-day Joinery Workshop the same weekend as the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson demo. Skills (ability to perform basic forging techniques and to hammer for several hours each day) and separate registration for the Nov. 10-11 workshop are required.

While the blacksmith demonstrations are underway on Nov. 9, onlookers also will have a chance to purchase gear and books, as well as browse a tailgate with association members selling mostly blacksmithing-related items and tools. An afternoon drawing for an “Iron-in-the-Hat” raffle (of forged art and functional items on display during the demonstrations) will benefit the AABA general fund.

Head to the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson, 133 W. Washington St., Nov. 9 to see hot metal hammered and a classically-wrought, utilitarian art. Admission to the demonstration is free to the general public, but there is $20 fee for AABA members. Donations will help benefit the Presidio rebuilding effort.

Safety goggles may be de rigueur, of course.

More details on the  Nov. 9 event are at TucsonPresidio.com. For information on the Nov. 10-11 Joinery Workshop and Arizona Artist Blacksmith Association, visit AZ-Blacksmiths.org.

Veloci Rapture

November 3, 2013 |

Bicycles. Art. Two great tastes that taste great together, as the Reese’s commercials used to say. With its mostly-flat streets and sunny blue skies for fans of the former, combined with the open minds and low rents favored among practitioners of the latter, Tucson has long been home to aficionados of both.

It should come as no surprise to us desert rats, then, that a studio workspace for bicycle-loving egalitarian artists has in recent years sprouted and flourished in the Old Pueblo. In a landscape dotted with Sonoran flora and bounded by national parks, inspiration is literally everywhere and two-wheeled creative types tend to gravitate towards one another.

VelociPrints, headquartered at 310 S. Meyer Ave., is a hub of sorts for these freewheeling folks. There is absolutely no admission cost to their upcoming annual show featuring all-print, limited edition two-dimensional bike-inspired art, and every single one of the works displayed, and sold for only $40 each, at Borderlands Brewing Company, 119 E. Toole Ave.!

A percentage of all sales will go to Tu Nidito Children and Family Services, the only organization in Southern Arizona offering comprehensive grief support for young people suffering the loss of a loved one, and a complete set of prints will be donated to this year’s Bicycle Inter-Community Art and Salvage (BICAS) Annual Art Auction – which takes place this December.

VelociPrints founder and director Nathan Saxton is only too happy to sing the praises of his collective’s many talented members. Among VelociPrints’ fifteen participating artists is Matt McCoy, a graphic designer for beloved film/art house The Loft Cinema and a local disc jockey as well. Printmaker Luis Valdez, according to Saxton, “has got a really good sense for the feel of Tucson.” Mural painter Ruben Urrea Moreno creates art about bikes and also builds bikes that are art pieces, and is known for his make-art-every-single-day tagline, “To paint – you must paint.”

Bicycles. Art. What’s missing?

Beer!

Is there any better place for the VelociPrints gang to show their stuff than Borderlands Brewery Company, one of the latest and greatest watering holes downtown?

“This will be our third year at Borderlands,” says Saxton, describing the combination of bicycle-inspired artwork and locally-produced suds as a “natural match.” The whole idea of the “community-centric” VelociPrint Show is “to get a ton of people in the building. Everybody contributes a little and everybody gains a little. Bicycling is an activity that people of all ages and economic levels can enjoy,” Saxton says.

“We’ve designed this event in that spirit, and our goal is that everyone who attends is inspired to jump on a bike the next day.” Or even later that same evening, one presumes.

VelociPrint Show 2013 debuts at Borderlands Brewing Company, 119 E. Toole Ave., on Saturday, Nov. 16 from 4-9 p.m. and runs through Nov. 30. The savvy cyclist might want to pedal over from the Greater Arizona Bicycling Association (GABA) bicycle swap meet taking place nearby at 5th Avenue and 7th Street earlier that opening day on Saturday, Nov. 16. Just look both ways and be careful crossing those modern streetcar tracks that were recently laid down!

Bicycles. Art. Beer. Community. For more information, visit BorderlandsBrewing.com, BikeGABA.org and VelociPrints.com.

Elevating Female Voices

November 1, 2013 |

“The Best of Kore Press 2012 Poetry,” which Bowden describes as “a landmark publication since we’€™ve never done something like this before and we published it the year of our anniversary.”
Book cover photo by Valerie Galloway

Late October saw Kore Press’ downtown adobe office filling up with artwork – donations from local artists for the non-profit press’ 20th anniversary fundraiser, garden party and art auction on Nov. 10.

A large assemblage, eight framed pieces, from local artist Eva Harris had arrived since the last time co-founder and Executive Director Lisa Bowden had been in. She gazes at the accumulation with appreciation and curiosity, while Director of Operations and Development Therese Perreault describes the work.

“These are from Eva, calligraphy pieces done in the traditional form,” Perreault says while pointing to the compact disks that are accompanying each piece. “She listens to music when she works, and includes the CD and the track that inspired the piece.”

Everything is lying face down. Bowden exhibits patience even though it is clear she is itching to look at them. “It can wait,” she smiles, and leads me over to their library to explain the work published by the press. Bowden pulls out a chapbook and details how Kore Press offers a short fiction award for a single short story, in addition to its first book award for poetry.

“We have a big name judge and we publish it in a chapbook. The design is 8-1/2 by 11 (inches) folded in half, quick and dirty and interesting and compelling, like a short story. We do some kind of handmade element,” Bowden points to the 2010 short fiction award winner, Heather Brittain Bergstrom’s All Sorts of Hunger cover.

“In this case it’s a knot sewn through the Os in the title. Leslie Marmon Silko judged this one and Heather Brittain Bergstrom just signed a two book deal with big publishers in New York. She’s a Northwest writer and writes a lot about the sex worker industry in that part of the country. The voices of her characters are really interesting and unusual.”

Brittain Bergstrom’s book deal illustrates Kore Press’ success in its charge as a feminist press to elevate women’s voices and push to change the dominant paradigm of gender inequity in publishing.

“Women are unrepresented in creative writing and literary worlds, and in the publishing world and in the journalism world and in the media world, just like they are everywhere else.” She says it simply, and refers to Kore’s informational pamphlet that lists these statistics:

  • Only 29% of the members of the New York Times editorial board are women; 35% of The Wall Street Journal; 40% of the Los Angles Times.
  • Since 1948, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded to 42 men and 17 women.
  • Since its inception in 1923, Time Magazine has had only one female editor.
  • In 1980 there were over 40 feminists presses in the U.S. Now there are 10, eight are non-profit. Three have lasted over 20 years. One of them is Kore.
  • Kore has published over 120 female writers and has launched over 50 careers.

We step back two decades, to the beginning of Kore in October 1993. As conversations between creatives are wont to do, the idea that sprung from the minds of Karen Falkenstrom and Bowden took hold, became a reality and grew.

“We discovered there wasn’t anything like it in the Southwest, per se. In California, yes, and it just kind of took off from there. We were talking over coffee at The Cup Cafe and just decided, ‘We’re going to do it, we’re going to make it happen’.”

In the fall of 1993, Bowden had come out of the university’s English department and had been working for several years with Charles Alexander at Chax Press (“it was all about letter press printing and hand binding, mixing inks and using this wonderful old machines to make books”), Falkenstrom had been an MFA student and assistant to the director at the UA Poetry Center at the time, Alison Deming.

Synchronicity steps in when Alexander takes a job in the Midwest and sells the press to Kore; serendipity came along to bring Kore its first publication, Alison Deming’s manifesto Girls in the Jungle: What Does it Take for a Woman to Survive as an Artist?

Bowden had heard Deming present that 10 point manifesto at the Tucson Museum of Art’s exhibit of Guerrilla Girls posters. “Oh, yeah, I want that, I want that, that’s what I want to do, that’s what we’re about,” Bowden says, remembering the inspiration and excitement. “It was one of those light bulb moments. And Karen was working with Alison at the time at the Poetry Center and she just asked her. And I thought, ‘Well, that was easy, she just gave us a piece to publish’.”

The broadside was easy to publish; however the press’ first book Helen Groves, by Olga Broumas and T Begley, was done by hand and took a year and a half to produce 200 copies. “It was laborious and beautiful and kind of an exquisite thing,” Bowden shares. “From that point, we went back and forth between the two” forms of publishing.

This piece by Cynthia Miller is an auction offering at the garden party, Nov. 10.

“To me, what was important to establish was the value of aesthetics and beauty and the care that went into the making of the book was a way of honoring the labor of the writer. Sort of in-kind, because we weren’t making anybody any money, so to really lift up those voices with beauty and aesthetics and sort of arrest people visually as much as the words would do otherwise. Those were my skills, that is what I brought to the table.”

While Kore has mostly moved away from the labor intensive book-as-art publishing, its efforts to elevate the voices of women has manifested in other ways, through community engagement and working with young women to inspire and provoke their minds and realities.

As the press moves forward, the next steps include progressing into the national arena with a national board of directors, recognizing that “our books are distributed nationally, we have national and international submissions for our contests, and so, by the nature of what we do, we have a national and international audience” Bowden states.

“Sustaining is a whole other thing and that’s what we’re really interested in now, looking at what we’ve done and how to sustain that. And the track record that we have, not just in terms of longevity, but the kind of reach and impact that we’ve had with our projects is compelling to a lot of people.”

University of Arizona Art Professor Ellen McMahon is one of those people.

“Lisa Bowden and I shared a studio when she founded Kore Press and I’ve been a supporter since then,” McMahon writes via email. “I think I’ve donated work to every auction they’ve had. Kore is doing amazing and important work, encouraging and supporting women to get their ideas and voices out into the world. I have great respect for Lisa and the organization she has grown over these years and I’m glad to be a contributor.”

Local artist/auction consultant Valerie Galloway agrees, saying “Many women have benefited from Kore Press and the exposure they have received. I think it’s important for individual members of artistic communities to help each other and support each other, and this is a wonderful way to do that. I admire Lisa so much for her tireless dedication to women writers and the arts in Tucson.”

Mixed-media artist and art donor Cynthia Miller shares, “I have always been a supporter of  Lisa Bowden and Kore Press, even before Kore, when Lisa worked with Chax Press at the Steinfeld Warehouse. Lisa’s commitment to the craft of contemporary bookmaking is well met by the writing women of our generation. Kore Press celebrates everyone. I am just happy to be a small part of it all.”

Be a part of Kore Press’ 20th Anniversary celebration, fundraiser and art auction on Sunday, Nov. 10 on the lawns of the Franklin House, 402 N. Main Ave., from 2 p.m.-6 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Children under 12 are free. The price includes light fare, drinks and bidding privileges on the work donated by over 30 artists. Tickets available at KorePress.org or by calling (520) 327-2127.

 

Performances Nov 2013

October 31, 2013 |

Arizona Friends of Chamber Music present Vienna Piano Trio on Wed, Nov 13.
Photo courtesy Arizona Friends of Chamber Music

ARIZONA FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC Hye-Jin Kim and Ieva Jokubaviciute perform on Sun, Nov 10. Vienna Piano Trio performs Wed, Nov 13. TCC’s Leo Rich Theatre, 260 S. Church Ave. 577-3769,  ArizonaChamberMusic.org

ARIZONA ONSTAGE PRODUCTIONS Pinkalicious The Musical takes place Sat, Nov 16- Sun, Nov 17. Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. 270-3332, ArizonaOnStage.org

ARIZONA OPERA The Flying Dutchman shows Sat, Nov 23-Sun, Nov 24. TCC’s Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. 293-4336, AZOpera.com

ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY The Mountaintop, a re-imagining of the events on the eve of Martin Luther King’s assassination, continues through Sat, Nov 9. Xanadu, a musical comedy, opens Sat, Nov 30. Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. 622-2823, ArizonaTheatre.org

BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE Savage Bond shows Fri, Nov 8- Sun, Nov 24. Adults; $20, Senior, Military and Teachers; $18. 11 S. 6th Ave. 882-0555, BeowulfAlley.org

BERGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER African Music Night, starring K-Bass and Farafina Musiki, a benefit for Imagine No Malaria, is Sat, Nov 2. Marvin Goldstein and Vanessa Joy Holiday Concert takes place Fri, Nov 22; 7pm. 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. 770-3762, ASDB.State.AZ.US/Berger/

BLACK CHERRY BURLESQUE/RAW Tantalizing burlesque performance on Fri, Nov 1 and Fri, Nov 15; 8pm and 10pm. Surly Wench Pub, 424 N. 4th Ave. 882-0009, TucsonBurlesque.com

CARNIVAL OF ILLUSION Continues its 5th season through November. Tucson Double Tree Hotel, 445 S. Alvernon Way. 615-5299, CarnivalOfIllusion.com

CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER Oliver, based on Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” this endearing musical is full of popular songs  such as “Consider Yourself,”” Food, Glorious Food,” “As Long As He Needs Me” and many more! Nov. 1-3. Pima Community College Center for the Arts Proscenium Theatre, 2202 W. Anklam Rd. CYTTucson.org.

FOX THEATRE An Evening with Mandy Barnett and Classic American Music takes place Fri, Nov 1; 8pm. Twist and Shout: The Definitive Beatles Experience takes place Sat, Nov 2; 7:30pm. Vince Gill: Chasing Rainbows Gala takes place Sun, Nov 3; 6pm. Pacific Mambo Orchestra featuring Tito Puente, Jr performs Tue, Nov 5; 7:30pm. The Evolutionary Links Between Exercise and Happiness – Lecture Series takes place Wed, Nov 6; 6:30pm. An Acoustic Even with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt on Thu, Nov 7; 7:30pm. Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey perform Fri, Nov 8; 7:30pm. The Piano Man: Celebrating the Music of Billy Joel and Elton John takes place Sat, Nov 9; 7:30pm. How Great Thou Art: The Gospel Music of Elvis takes place Sun, Nov 10; 7:30pm. Happiness: A Feeling or a Future? – Lecture Series takes place Wed, Nov 13; 6:30pm. TPOA Battle of the Bands shows Fri, Nov 15; 5pm. Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could performs Sat, Nov 16. Eddie Money performs Wed, Nov 20; 7:30pm. Jim Breuer performs Thu, Nov 21; 7:30pm. Prices Vary. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515, FoxTucsonTheatre.org

THE GASLIGHT THEATRE Buccaneers Caribbean continues through Sun, Nov 10. A Smalltown Christmas opens Thu, Nov 14. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 886-9428, TheGaslightTheatre.com

INVISIBLE THEATRE Miracle on South Division Street shows Thu, Nov 12- Sun, Nov 24. 1400 N. 1st Ave. 882-9721, InvisibleTheatre.com

LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP The Great Zantini and the Magic Thief continues through Sun, Nov 24. Souvenir continues through Sat, Nov 16.  Holiday Memories opens Thu, Nov 21. Short Attention Span Theatre performs Sat, Nov 9 and Sat, Nov 16. See website for prices and times. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-4242, LiveTheatreWorkshop.org 

NOT BURNT OUT JUST UNSCREWED Comedy troupe performances take place weekends in November. Locations vary. 861-2986, UnscrewedComedy.com 

ODYSSEY STORYTELLING SERIES Revenge: Stories of Getting Even takes place Thu, Nov 7. 7pm; $7. Fluxx Studios and Gallery, 416 E. 9th St. 730-4112, OdysseyStoryTelling.com

PCC THEATRE ARTS The Laramie Project shows Thu, Nov 14- Sun, Nov 24. Thu-Sun; 7:30pm, Sun; 2pm. $15. Jazz Improv Combos shows Mon, Nov 25. 7:30pm. $6. Proscenium Theatre, 2202 W. Anklam Rd. 206-6670, Pima.edu/cfa

PUPPETS AMONG US Crumpled shows Sat, Nov 9- Sun, Nov 10 & Sat, Nov 16- Sun, Nov 17. 4pm. $6; Kids, $8; Adults. Puppet Cabaret shows Sat, Nov 23. 7:30pm. $8. The Playhouse, 657 W. St. Mary’s Rd. 444-5538, PuppetsAmongUs.com

THE ROGUE THEATRE Measure for Measure shows Thu, Nov 7- Sat, Nov 24. 738 N. 5th Ave. 551-2053,TheRogueTheatre.org

SEA OF GLASS CENTER FOR THE ARTS Vansguard shows Fri, Nov 15; 7:30pm. $13-$18. Opening Our Eyes-Documentary shows Sat, Nov 16; 7pm. $7.50. 330 E. 7th St. TheSeaofGlass.org

TUCSON JAZZ SOCIETY Pete Christlieb & John Allred: Big Band Extravaganza performs on Sat, Nov 2; 7pm. Westin La Paloma Resort. Fred Hersch Trio performs Wed, Nov 13; 7pm. Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. 903-1265, TucsonJazz.org

TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Bimps and Wolfie perform Sat, Nov 2; 10am & 11:15am. Tucson Symphony Center. Legends and Dances performs Sat, Nov 9; 8pm and Sun, Nov 10; 4pm. Catalina Foothills High School. Dancing with Glass and Beethoven takes place Fri, Nov 15; 8pm and Sun, Nov 17; 2pm. Hot, Hot, Hot! takes place Sat, Nov 30; 8pm. See website for times and prices. TCC’s Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. 882-8585, TucsonSymphony.org

UA’S ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE The Fantasticks continues through Sun, Nov 10. Tornabene Theatre. The Man Who Came To Dinner opens Sun, Nov 10. Marroney Theatre, 1025 N. Olive Rd. 621-1162, TFTV.Arizona.Edu

UA PRESENTS Jon Batiste and Stay Human perform at Club Congress Thu, Nov 7- Sat, Nov 9. Diavolo Dance Theater performs Sat, Nov 9; 8pm. Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra performs Fri, Nov 15; 8pm. Unión Tanguera: “Nuit Blanche” shows Sat, Nov 30; 8pm. Prices vary. Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. 621-3341, UAPresents.org

Music November 2013

October 30, 2013 |

2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN Congress Street, 2ndSaturdaysDowntown.com
Sat 9: The LoBros Band, The Jonestown Band, Funky Bonz

AVA AMPHITHEATER at Casino Del Sol
5655 W. Valencia Rd. CasinoDelSol.com
Sat 9: Heart
Sat 16: Battle of the Badges

BORDERLANDS BREWING
119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773, BorderlandsBrewing.com
Fri 1: Tortolita Gutpluckers
Sat 2: Mustang Corners
Sun 3: Jazz Telephone
Thu 7: Hank Topless
Fri 8: Leila Lopez
Sat 9: Shrimp Chaperone
Wed 13: David Rose
Thu 14: Chris Jamison
Fri 15: The Determined Luddites
Thu 21: Joe Stevens of Coyote Grace
Fri 22: Tommy Tucker
Sat 23: Buffelgrass Band
Wed 27: Stefan George
Fri 29: The Introverts
Sat 30: Widow’s Hill

BOONDOCKS LOUNGE
3306 N. 1st Ave. 690-0991, BoondocksLounge.com
Mondays: The Bryan Dean Trio
Tuesdays: Lonny’s Lucky Poker Night
Thursdays: Ed Delucia Trio
Sundays: Lonny’s Lucky Poker Night
Fri 1: Live Music with Neon Prophet
Sat 2: Equinox
Sun 3: Heather Hardy & Lil’ Mama Band
Fri 15: Live Music with Neon Prophet
Sun 17: Last Call Girls
Fri 29: The Amazing Anna Warr & The Giant Blue Band

CAFE PASSE
415 N. 4th Ave. 624-4411, CafePasse.com
Wednesdays: Jazz Wednesday
Thursdays: Songwriter Thursdays feat. Sweet Ghosts
Fridays: Blues Fridays feat. Tom Walbank & Roman Barton Sherman
Saturdays: Country Saturdays feat. Hank Topless
Sundays: Sunday Brunch feat. Salvador Duran

CLUB CONGRESS
311 E. Congress St. 622-8848, HotelCongress.com/club
Fri 1: All Souls Procession Party
Sat 2: Copper and Congress, The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Sun 3: Face Paint Town
Mon 4: The 1975
Thu 7: Jonathan Batiste & The Stay Human Band
Fri 8: 26th Annual Scooter Rally Kickoff Party
Sat 9: Jonathan Batiste & The Stay Human Band
Sun 10: Blitzen Trapper
Tue 12: Of Montreal & Big Freedia
Wed 13: Tera Melos
Mon 18: John Vanderslice

John Vanderslice performs at Congress on Nov. 18.

Mon 25: Built to Spill

LA COCINA
201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351, LaCocinaTucson.com
Sat 2: Oscar Fuentes
Sun 3: Santa Pachita
Sat 23: The Sonoran Dogs

FOX TUCSON THEATRE
17 W. Congress St. 624-1515, FoxTucsonTheatre.org
Fri 1: An Evening with Mandy Barnett and Classic American Music
Sat 2: Twist and Shout: The Definitive Beatles Experience
Sun 3: Vince Gill: Chasing Rainbows Gala
Tue 5: Pacific Mambo Orchestra feat Tito Puente, Jr
Thu 7: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt
Fri 8: Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey
Sat 9: The Piano Man: Celebrating the Music of Billy Joel and Elton John
Sun 10: How Great Thou Art: The Gospel Music of Elvis
Fri 15: TPOA Battle of the Bands
Sat 16: Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could
Wed 20: Eddie Money
Thu 21: Jim Breuer

HACIENDA DEL SOL
5501 N. Hacienda Del Sol. 299-1501, HaciendaDelSol.com
Sun 3: Hans Olson
Sun 10: Bacon Patrol
Sun 17: Black Skillet Revue
Sun 24: Grams & Krieger

MONTEREY COURT
505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429, MontereyCourtAZ.com
Fri 1: Those Beatles Guys
Sat 2: Kevin Pakulis Band
Sun 3: Heather Lil Mama Band with Tony & the Torpedoes and Jerome Kinsey
Wed 6: Peter McLaughlin and Alvin Blaine
Fri 8: Snowapple Quintet
Sat 9: Gabriel Ayala Quintet
Thu 21: Peter Case
Fri 22: Bob Corritore & Dave Riley CD Release Party
Sat 23: The Coolers
Fri 29: Kiko Jacome & Stone Avenue Band

PLUSH
340 E. 6th St. 798-1298,  PlushTucson.com
Fri 1: Logan Greene Electric, River Man, Wallpaper Prison
Sat 2: Ashbury, Another Lost Year, Elisium
Tue 12: Downtown Brown, Laser Dad

PLAYGROUND BAR AND LOUNGE
278 E. Congress. 396-3691. PlaygroundTucson.com
Tuesdays: Dinner & A Movie
Wednesdays: REWIND: Old School Hip Hop
Fridays: Merry Go Round :: 4 rotating DJs

RIALTO THEATRE
318 E. Congress St. 740-1000, RialtoTheatre.com
Fri 1: Paul Oakenfold
Sat 2: An Evening With Ryanhood
Sun 3: Dance of the Dead: The Official After Party for the 24th Annual All Souls Procession
Tue 5: Riff Raff
Wed 6: Gramatik: Age of Reason Fall Tour 2013
Thu 7: Baauer
Fri 8: Clutch
Sat 9: Robert Cray Band
Sun 10: Lupe Fiasco: Tutsuo and Youth Preview Tour
Mon 11: Misfits
Tue 12: KMFDM
Thu 14: Chance the Rapper
Fri 15: Relient K & Motion City Soundtrack
Sat 16: Gaelic Storm
Sun 17: Hopsin and Yelawolf
Mon 18: John Vanderslice
Fri 22: Lluvia Flamenca
Mon 25: Alkaline Trio & New Found Glory
Wed 27: Groundation
Fri 29: Thirty Seconds to Mars
Sat 30: X & The Blasters

SKY BAR
536 N. 4th Ave. 622-4300, SkyBarTucson.com
Mondays: Team Trivia
Tuesdays: Jazz
Wednesdays: Open Mic
Thursdays: Live Music

SOLAR CULTURE
31 E. Toole Ave. 884-0874, SolarCulture.org
Thu 7: Geographer with Royal Bangs
Wed 13: Dean Moore
Thu 14: Portland Cello Project
Fri 22: Andrew Jackson Jihad
Tue 26: Sera Cahoone

SURLY WENCH PUB
424 N. 4th Ave., 882-0009, SurlyWenchPub.com
Fri 1: Black Cherry Burlesque
Tue 5: Artphag
Fri 8: Blackout
Sat 9: Fineline Revisited
Fri 15: Muskhog CD Release
Sat 16: Club Sanctuary
Fri 22: Tucson Roller Derby Party
Sat 23: Cleric, Brazz Tax
Sat 30: Fineline Revisited

TOPAZ
657 W. St. Mary’s Rd. TopazTundra.com
Thu 14: Weed, Otherly Love, Hellshovel, Prom Body, AZ77
Fri 22: Night Beats, The Resonars, Dream Sick
Sat 23: Mr. Elevator and the Brain Hotel, The Freezing Hands, Katterwaul, Union Pacific

Films November 2013

October 30, 2013 |

“Singin’€™ in the Rain” shows at Fox Theatre, Nov. 23-24.

THE LOFT CINEMA
3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777 (show times recording), 322-LOFT, LoftCinema.com
Times and admissions vary.
Fri 1: First Friday Shorts, Museum Hours, The Last Dragon, Man of Tai Chi
Mon 4: Grand Theft Auto
Tue 5: Nebraska
Thu 7: Loft Film Fest, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Waiting Room, Willow Creek, A Birder’s Guide to Everything, Dear Mr. Watterson: An Exploration of Calvin and Hobbes, Le Week-End, Mr. Nobody.
Fri 8: Delicatessen
Wed 13: Broadway Idiot
Fri 15: Clue, GMO OMG, Blue is the Warmest Color
Sun 17: The Servant
Mon 18: The Video Dead
Fri 22: Oldboy
Mon 25: The Arena
Fri 29: Beetlejuice

FOX THEATRE
17 W. Congress St. Admission is $6-$8. 624-1515, FoxTucsonTheatre.org
Sat 23 & Sun 24: Singin’ in the Rain

PIMA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES
594-5500, Library.Pima.Gov
Fri 1: The State of Arizona (Joyner-Green Valley)
Thu 7: The State of Arizona (Oro Valley)
Mon 18: The Hunger Games (Flowing Wells)

THE SCREENING ROOM
127 E. Congress St. 882-0204, Facebook.com/tucsonfilm
See the website for schedule.

 

Galleries November 2013

October 30, 2013 |

ATLAS FINE ART SERVICES The Exotic Sublime- Explorations of the Desert Southwest continues through Sat, Nov 23. Wed-Thu; 11am-6pm. Fri-Sat; 11am-7pm. 41 S. 6th Ave. 622-2139, AtlasFineArtServices.com

CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY  Charles Harbutt, Departures and Arrivals opens Nov 8, exhibits through Jan 2014. Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm; Sat & Sun, 1pm-4pm. 1030 N. Olive Rd. 621-7968, CreativePhotography.org

Charles Harbutt, Woman and Train, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976
Gift of the artist ©Charles Harbutt
Showing at Center For Creative Photography

CONRAD WILDE GALLERY Relative Geometries runs Nov 2-Nov 30 with a reception opening night from 6pm-9pm. Tue-Sat, 11am-5pm. 439 N. 6th Ave. #171. 622-8997, ConradWildeGallery.com

CONTRERAS GALLERY Morelia, by Martin Quintanilla, shows Sat, Nov 2-Sat, Nov 30 with a reception opening night from 6pm-9pm. Tues-Fri; 11am-5pm, Sat; 11am-4pm. 110 E. 6th St. 398-6557, ContrerasHouseFineArt.com

DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY  Installation by Albert Kogel, paintings by Andy Polk and sculpture by Barbara Jo McLaughlin open Thu, Nov 7. Tue-Fri, 11am-5pm; Sat, 11am-4pm. 154 E. 6th St. 629-9759, DavisDominguez.com

THE DRAWING STUDIO Small Wonders shows Sat, Nov 2-Sat, Dec 14 with a reception opening night from 6pm-8pm. Open every Saturday night throughout exhibit; 6pm-9pm. Tue-Sat; 12pm-4pm. 33 S. 6th Ave. 620-0947, TheDrawingStudio.org

ETHERTON GALLERY Sonnets of Light, featuring Charles Grogg, Mayme Kratz, and Masao Yamamoto, continues through Sat, Nov 16. Tue-Sat, 11am-5pm. 135 S. 6th Ave. 624-7370, EthertonGallery.com

LIONEL ROMBACH GALLERY Human Refuse shows Mon, Nov 4-Wed, Nov 13. Bachelor of Fine Arts Annual Fall Exhibition opens Tue, Nov 19. Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm. 1031 N. Olive Rd. 624-4215, CFA.arizona.edu/galleries

LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY Construct: Putting it Together continues through December. Mon-Thu; 10am-5pm. Fri; 10am-3pm. 2202 W. Anklam Rd. 206-6942, Pima.Edu/cfa

MADARAS GALLERY Children in Art shows through Sat, Nov 30. Mon-Sat; 10am-6pm. Sun; 11am-5pm. 3001 E. Skyline Dr, #101. 623-4000, Madaras.com

MONTEREY COURT CAFE GALLERY  Monterey After Dark continues through Spring 2014 as part of Fourth Friday Artwalks; 5pm-8pm. Really Rhinos continues through Sat, Nov 30. 505 W. Miracle Mile. MontereyCourtAZ.com

OBSIDIAN GALLERY Three Artists: Merry Arttoones, Magdalene Gluszek, and George Penaloza, an exhibit of ceramic sculptures through Sun, Nov 10. Wed-Sat; 11am-6pm. 410 N. Toole Ave. 577-3598, Obsidian-Gallery.com

PORTER HALL GALLERY  Comings and Goings, the work of Julie Freshwater, Dan Chavez, Carol Lucas and Kathy Robbins, opens Thu, Nov 7. Daily; 8:30am-4pm. $13, Adults; $12, Student/Senior/Military, $7.50, Children 4-12; Free, Children 3 and younger. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, TucsonBotanical.org

RAICES TALLER 222 ART GALLERY Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead: annual cultural celebration and homage to the dead in the tradition of the Hispanic Southwest. Nov. 2-16, opening reception Nov. 2, 6pm-9pm, with blessing of the altars, lighting of candles, community potluck, refreshments, music, and children’s art activities. Fri-Sat, 1pm-5pm. 218 E. 6th St. 881-5335.

SACRED MACHINE Visit the website for information. Wed-Fri, 5pm-8pm; Sat, 4pm-9pm. 245 E. Congress St. 777-7403, SacredMachine.com

SOUTHERN ARIZONA WATERCOLOR GUILD Fiesta Sonora Show continues through Sun, Nov 10. 9th Annual Calendar Show opens Tue, Nov 12. Awards reception on Thu, Nov 14; 5pm-7pm. Tue-Sun; 11am-4pm. Free. 5605 E. River Rd. 299-7294, SouthernArizonaWatercolorGuild.com

UA ART MUSEUM University of Arizona School of Art Faculty Exhibition continues through November. Tue-Fri, 9am-5pm; Sat-Sun, noon-4pm. $5 adults; children/students/faculty, free. 1031 N. Olive Rd. ArtMuseum.arizona.edu

WEE GALLERY Sam Esmoer Show runs Sat, Nov 2-Sat, Nov 30, opening reception Nov 2, 6pm-11pm. Tue-Sat, 11am-6pm. 439 N. 6th Ave Suite #171. 360-6024, GalleryWee.com

WILDE MEYER GALLERY The Journey – 30 years in Scottsdale; Eclectic Fusion and Quick Draw; Loving the West all show Thu, Nov 7-Sat, Nov 30. Mon-Fri, 10am-5:30pm. 3001 E. Skyline Dr. WildeMeyer.com

WOMANKRAFT ART GALLERY 27th Annual Holiday Bazaar opens Sat, Nov 2. Receptions Sat, Nov 2 and Sat, Dec 7; 1pm-5pm. Wed-Sat; 1pm-5pm. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976, WomanKraft.org

YIKES TOYS AND GIFT-O-RAMA Circus Show continues through Tue, Dec 31 and features new works by Mel Dominguez, Melissa Daye, Valerie Galloway, Sam Esmoer, Catherine Eyde, Vicki Lázaro, Nadia Walsh, and Mykl Wells. Mon- Sat; 10am-5:30pm. 2930 E. Broadway Blvd. 320-5669, YikesToys.com

The Gathering of Souls

October 30, 2013 |

photo: Dominic Bonuccelli, azfoto.com, courtesy of All Souls Procession

In it’s twenty-fourth year, the All Souls Procession returns to honor the dead and celebrate life in one of the Southwest‘s biggest events.

On Sunday, Nov. 3 the streets of downtown Tucson and the surrounding neighborhoods will be transformed for a yearly gathering of epic magnitude for a divine purpose. Drums will bellow as citizens and visitors march donning skull-painted faces and brightly crafted masks. Many will hold signs with pictures of departed loved ones and some even push grandiose floats that depict burial scenes and skeletons. Thousands of people will line the streets to cheer on and dance to the music of marching bands and street musicians as the community of Tucson unites in edifying emotion.

As the procession nears its final location, the crowd of 50,000 participants and nearly as many onlookers file into the open space where bursts of fire stretch towards the sky momentarily lighting the white cloaked dancers suspended from 100-feet in the air above. As the music intensifies and the chanting begins, a large cauldron of written letters and prayers is hoisted above the crowd where it is lit on fire to send the charred ashes to their recipients in the afterlife. Music from the elevated stages will echo loudly into the night as the crowd revels in Tucson’s legendary All Souls Procession.

The highly anticipated procession returns, and  thanks to the efforts of a small and determined organization known as Many Mouths One Stomach, the event is flourishing more than ever. For MMOS founding member and the artistic director for the event, Nadia Hagen, the work begins for the next year’s procession as soon as the last procession ends.

“We’ve been working on logistics as far as routing the path and obtaining permits from the city and we have been figuring out how the streetcar will impact the downtown part of the trail,” says Hagen. “We’re using a finale site where there’s a lot of construction and development going on. Really it’s a yearlong planning process. This event grows exponentially, so naturally each year is the biggest it’s ever been.”

This always-evolving event will see many new changes to its lineup and location this year, as gatherers are encouraged to meet on Nov. 3 at Hotel Congress as early as noon to experience Face Painting Town, where expert face painters will be on hand to help aid in the makeover process. Then the participants are asked to assemble at 5 p.m. at the underpass of 6th Avenue and 6th Street where procession will begin directly at 6 p.m. The route moves south on 6th Avenue to Alameda then leads west to West Congress Street where it will conclude at the final meeting grounds past the freeway at Mercado San Agustin.

“The location of the route is very pragmatic and it is dictated by construction, which there is an abundance of downtown, but we want to stay in the heart of the city,” says Hagen. “It’s great for people to feel ownership over the main artery of our town. Unfortunately we’re not able to keep the Mercado space permanently because it’s all slotted for development. There is a tentative plan to use a plot of land to the west of the Mercado. If the city and the public can really push for a festival ground to be allocated on that space then that would be a permanent home for this event.”

While nearly 100,000 people turn out to participate in and watch the procession, the event finds itself in a yearly struggle to stay afloat financially and to remain an independent entity. This year the coordinators at MMOS are again asking for donations at the procession which will greatly help them fund this and next year’s event and to make sure that they can continue the tradition for years to come.

“Less than 1.4% of the people who come to this event fund the entire thing. Those are the only people who donate. If we could get 5% of the people who come to donate then we would never have to run a campaign to continue this,” says Hagen. “This year we’re going to have people out in the crowd that we’re calling the Hungry Ghost Crew who are going out to collect offerings of money. We want to make it clear because we know in the past that people have been confused and have thrown donation money into the urn that was meant for us and it ends up getting burned. Giving a little makes a huge difference for us and it is the difference between this event living and the event dying.”

The ASP was originated in 1990 when a local artist named Susan Johnson put together a performance piece to help grieve the loss of her father. Coinciding with Mexico’s Día de los Muertos, the event began seeing larger and larger crowds of people who wished to mourn the loss of their own loved ones and feel the sense of unity that came with such a momentous gathering of community. While the event has grown and evolved beyond the wildest dreams of it’s founders, all of the hard work and year-round effort that goes into planning the event all becomes worthwhile at the climax of the evening.

“The closing ceremony is always the best part for me when we light the urn of prayers,” says Hagen. “I love talking to people who have never experienced it and try to describe it for them. I can grow jaded from all of the year-round work that we do for this, but when we haul out the urn and people put in their prayers and we hoist it above the massive crowd and burn it, that moment is indescribable. That moment is beyond any words and it makes all the big efforts and heartaches and hardships that go into this just melt away.”

For information on the procession, maps, details on contributing and schedules of events and workshops, visit AllSoulsProcession.org

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From workshops to parties, a series of events surround the procession before and after the main event. Highlights include:

Saturdays & Sundays through October
Lantern, Float and Mask-Making Workshops: 
Free, donations appreciated. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Seinfeld Warehouse, 101 W. 6th St.

Sundays & Wednesdays through October
Procession of Little Angels Costume Workshops:
Free, donations appreciated. Wednesdays,6 p.m.-9 p.m., Sundays, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Maker House, 283 N. Stone Ave.

Saturday, Nov. 2
Procession of Little Angels: An All Souls experience just for kids and families with loads of art activities, performances from Stories That Soar with Tucson Circus Arts and a sunset Procession around the park. Free, donations appreciated. 3 p.m. Armory Park, 221 S. 6th Ave.

Saturday, Nov. 2
Night of the Living Fest:
Deerhoof and The Meat Puppets join a huge lineup of amazing national and local musicians for this Arts and Entertainment Fest and Official All Souls Pre-Party. $35-$75. Noon-1 a.m. Old Tucson Studios, 201 S. Kinney Rd. NightOfTheLivingFest.com

Sunday, Nov. 3
All Souls Procession Finale:
Free, donations appreciated. 6 p.m. Music with Tribe Called Red (Ottawa Canada), Hojarasca Andina (Bogota, Columbia), and opening ceremony from Danza Azteca Calpulli Tonantzin. Mercado San Augustin, off of West Congress Street at 100 S Avenida del Convento.

Sunday, Nov. 3
Dance of the Dead After Party:
Featuring A Tribe Called Red. $35, 9 p.m.
Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St.

 

 

 

The Cat’s Meow

October 21, 2013 |

The Cat’s Meow is Hermitage Cat Shelter’s annual fundraiser, but this year, the Cat’s Meow Goes international!

But wait, isn’t the shelter in Tucson? And the event typically held in Tucson? Yes! That’s right! You don’t have to travel far to enjoy some international tasty treats, cool cocktails and help fund-raise for some friendly felines.

“It’s out biggest event of the year,” said Lee Bucyk, executive assistant as Hermitage Cat Shelter.

The Hermitage Cat Shelter cares for more than 200 cats. They recently rescued about a dozen cats from the Pima Animal Care Center, which had reached capacity in their cat kennels are were forced to consider euthanizing older or sicker cats.

“We are a no kill shelter,” Bucyk said. “Even when we’re near capacity, we have foster families who will take cats until we have a spot for them.”

Bucyk is a cat lover herself, with five of her own at home.

“It’s amazing working here,” she said. “I just reached a point in my life where I wanted to do something with more meaning to it.”

The Cat’s Meow Goes International offers the same opportunity to the community – a chance for an enjoyable evening with an awesome reward.

The evening runs from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26 at the Scottish Rite Temple, 160 S. Scott Ave., and hosts silent and live auctions, entertainment and, of course, food. The dinner buffet will include everything from gazpacho, ceviche, quinoa, chicken mole and delectable deserts.

It is dinner and a show with local talent group, Cirque Roots performing as well. The circus-inspired dance troupe specializes in hoop-dancing, acrobatics, fire dancing, juggling and stilt walking.

The Hermitage Cat Shelter is a non-profit organization and runs entirely from donations. According to Bucyk, adoption rates have been going up during the past six months. This month, they’ve been running a “name you own price” adoption special.

“We screen our adoptions really well,” Bucyk said. “We do a really good job with our adoption areas.”

She explained that the shelter helps to match cat ages and personalities with the person or family who will be taking a cat home. Bucyk says that the shelter is expecting 150 to 200 guests at the Cat’s Meow Goes International event.

Ongoing events to help provide for the Hermitage Cat Shelter include Movies with the Cats. The shelter invites guests to enjoy movies, popcorn, soda and cats for a good cause.

Tickets for the Cat’s Meow Goes International are $45 for individuals, $85 for couples. Students and military personnel get in for $40. Tables for eight people can be purchased for $345. Tickets are available at the shelter, 5278 E. 21st St., by phone, (520) 571-7839, or online. For more information about upcoming events, The Cat’s Meow Goes International or the shelter, visit HermitageCatShelter.org.

Creative Cocktail Competition

October 10, 2013 |

Margaritas that go well beyond blended or on the rocks.

There are several origin tales that lay claim to being the 1940s bar that first concocted the margarita, and its birthplace hops all over the border. Some say it was Acapulco or El Paso or Juarez or San Diego. But the oldest story, and my personal favorite, goes something like this: during Prohibition, Americans crossed into Mexico looking for booze and were greeted with tequila. A popular drink called the “Daisy” sported orange liqueur, lime, and brandy, with the with the agave hooch substituting the brandy. Thus, the margarita (Spanish for daisy) was born.

Today, Tucson lays claim to the World Margarita Championship, and on Oct. 25 the Tucson Museum of Art’s outside courtyard will be buzzing with people sampling unique margaritas from over 15 contenders and later casting their votes  for the best margarita. So while businesses have to be part of the Tucson Originals to compete, making the “World” Margarita Championship a bit of a misnomer, at least history and geography have set Tucson in prime real estate to claim the title.

Regardless of its origins, tequila shines in this drink like brandy never would. “All tequilas are a little different,” explains Ryan Clark, head chef at Lodge on the Desert. “Some may be more aged, more subtle, might even have some smoky notes to them. I think balancing the cocktail with that is really important.” The reigning champion has been hard at work on this year’s secret weapon for months. With his team at Lodge on the Desert, he won last year with a margarita spiked with house-made pomegranate jam and local pomegranate vinegar. This year, his star ingredient is a little darker.

“Salt cured black limes,” Clark explains. “We boiled limes with salt water and sun dried them in the beautiful Tucson sun. They have a bitter, salty citrus note to them, which is kind of our big thing at the Lodge, making a sweet, sour and bitter mix and balancing all those flavors.”

Other heavyweights in the competition include mixologists from the Marinaterra Resort in San Carlos, Mexico – though not a part of Tucson Originals, they were specifically invited by the organizers. Marinaterra Resort head bartender Julio Blanco’s mastery with tequila earned him the Peoples’ Choice Award the last two years running; last year’s winning potion was laced with tajin chile and mango.

In the midst of the libations, Tucson Originals restaurants serve well-matched nosh, and the live music by Reno del Mar gets better with every cocktail. The Margarita Championship’s popularity has grown, and now in its seventh year organizers expect a crowd tipping 1,000. Proceeds go to the Blair Charity Group. But no matter who wins: “It’s pulling hairs,” Clark adds. “After all, it’s tequila.”

The most exciting thing about the competition is the innovation and creativity on display. “I think Tucson is a big trend-setting town, and we have some great mixologists,” says Clark. “To see what they’re coming up with and what trends they’re setting for the nation is unbelievable.”

The championship happens on Friday, Oct. 25, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., at Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Ave. Tickets are $50 advance, $60 at the door. Get more information, and tickets, at TucsonOriginals.com/culinary-festival or call (520) 343-9985.