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HoCo Fest Labor Day Weekend Schedule Unveiled Today (Tucson Weekly)

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Tucson Weekly: Feeding the Fringe

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History of Epic Engineering Failures

History of Epic Engineering Failures

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In the case that you didn’t see the post I made earlier, Tucson has an alternative Newspaper called the Tucson Weekly, and every year they come out with a “Best Of Tucson” awards issue. This year the voting process was such that people who read the paper (or online articles) could send in who they thought should win in each category. There was then a second round of voting in which the Weekly compiled the most submitted names into a list of 5 nominees, and then people chose who they thought should win from that list. You had to vote in at least 30 categories for your vote to count.

This morning I won “Best Local Actress” and it’s really surreal to think that there are enough people in this town that care about the career I’m creating for myself, and the work that I’m doing (or even maybe just recognize my name) so much so that they thought to submit my name, and / or then vote for me.

I’ve been doing theatre in this city for almost a decade, and have worked so hard to seize, and enjoy the opportunities I have been fortunate enough to have, and while public acknowledgement is weird, and overrated, it certainly has made me grateful for all of the opportunity I have had to do the thing that I love more than anything else. 

Life is weird. Here is the article.

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Fall Arts Preview: Music, Literature and the Stuff of Life - Tucson Weekly

Tucson Weekly Fall Arts Preview: Music, Literature and the Stuff of LifeTucson WeeklyFlorence en el Amazonas is the November show, inspired by the magical realism of author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Florencia Grimaldi is traveling through an enchanted rainforest hoping to find a long lost Read more at http://houstonfilmscripts.rememberthealamo.info/2015/08/27/fall-arts-preview-music-literature-and-the-stuff-of-life-tucson-weekly/

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Multi-instrumentalist and composer Emma Ruth Rundle is in a mood. It may change in the span of a heartbeat or two, but it's never far from something like a storm-clouded beach with a single seagull circling, perhaps screaming. There may or may not be a carcass involved. Or a brooding flock of carnal impulses.

"I think everyone will agree that my particular moods are highly changeable," Rundle said, edgily, with her band members apparently overhearing her phone interview. She's speaking, specifically, of the way she interprets songs onstage. "Any given performance, there are lots of variables and logistical problems," she continues, covering most of what can go wrong with gear, sound, lighting and any other detail that may affect the artist's focus or the fans' reception. It's the kind of attention to detail that makes the difference between a mere talent and one bound for a successful career.

"Sometimes it's cathartic," she says. "Playing the instrument and in a state of not having to think about actualizing the performance aspect can coalesce into a successful performance—all demons exorcised."

Rundle used to be a lot quieter about it. "I'd been very shy my whole life, never identified as a front person, didn't feel comfortable having a spotlight on me, never made it out of the music scene in L.A.," she says. Still, she'd carved out her intentions with an education in music-making, sound and art at the renowned California Institute of the Arts.

Rundle eased into the new-millennial Los Angeles post-rock scene at the experimental end of shoegaze folk. Her own project, The Nocturnes, made largish waves in the local soup with its addition of goth flavors. But it was in L.A.'s Red Sparowes that Rundle began generating serious heat. With the confidence she was gaining Rundle began to grow into her own talent and clarify her vision for it. Some Heavy Ocean, her 2014 solo project for L.A.'s respected Sargent House label, spoke for her definitively, exploring stretch feats in her vocal expression and particularly in her guitar range, from nuanced to explosive.

Meanwhile, though, she had formed the band Marriages with fellow Red Sparowes alum Greg Burns. The duo later added drummer Andrew Clinco. In that project's 2015 release, Salome, Rundle's voice and guitar work are intentionally mixed down so that all the parts have equal importance, all members of the team. The songs on Salome don't explicitly report on the famous seductress' life and times, but they may reflect the complexity of Salome's circumstances, and, she admits, those of Rundle, herself.

"My life is not rainbows. None of this is story. The goal is to perform and not to act. The goal is to be present with the material and the music and the moment that you're making it. All of the emotion of that is all about things that happened in and around making that record. I don't know how to tell a story that isn't based in reality."

It's nonetheless a great story. Time Out London just called Salome one of the 25 best albums so far in this year that's seen releases from Blur, Sleater-Kinney and Sufjan Stevens among much more predictable company.

And not a drop of blood was shed.

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Episode 062: Growing Up Quickly (with Dan Gibson)

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We’re back!!! (!!!)

After an unprecedented 3-week hiatus, The SideStreets Podcast is BACK and bigger/better than ever, with our guest, Dan Gibson, of VisitTucson.org and a million other fascinating things. Dan was once the head honcho at the Tucson Weekly after running their online presence, and in his previous life, worked in every avenue of the music industry one could imagine. This is everything I’ve ever wanted in a SideStreets interview.

We also talk a bit about our 2-week cross country road trip extravaganza -- 11 days, 5,000 miles, 16 states, and a whole lot of food. Here is a video we made about it.

What else is going on?...Well, since the episode is one of our longest in SideStreets history (just a hair under an hour and 13 minutes), you’d be WAY better off just listening to it instead of letting me ramble here. Some links:

• VisitTucson.org • Dan Gibson on Twitter (follow this guy, ok??) • VisitTucson on Twitter • VisitTucson on Facebook

Bed music: dashflanagan.

Get in touch: Email me at sidestreetspodcast at gmail dot com, or follow me on twitter, either on my personal twitter feed, or at the official SideStreets twitter page.

Topics: Tucson, more Tucson, road trips, visiting Tucson, making people happy, taking the brunt of people’s complaints, a unique vantage point, iTunes playlists, the music biz, selling points, moving around, a foot in the door, and the things we do for love.

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