Carolyn Classen

Carolyn Sugiyama Classen, a life long Democrat, was born & raised in the State of Hawaii, was a Legislative Aide for U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye on Capitol Hill, and practiced law for a while. In Tucson she worked as a tribal staff attorney for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and later was the Interim Executive Director of the now defunct Domestic Violence Commission. In 2008 she became a “My Tucson” guest columnist for the Tucson Citizen newspaper, then continued blogging for Tucsoncitizen.com for over four and a half years. Her blogsite was entitled “Carolyn’s Community” about community events and some political news, until Gannett Publishing shut down the site on January 31, 2014. She started with Blog for Arizona on Feb. 11, 2014. Part time she sat as a Hearing Officer in Pima County Consolidated Justice Courts Small Claims Division since April, 2005 for 15 years. She is married to University of Arizona Distinguished Professor Albrecht Classen, a native of Germany. They have one son, who lives in Seattle, WA with his wife and daughter. She is also the Editor of the Southern Arizona Japanese Cultural Coalition website, www.southernazjapan.org (since Jan. 2013).

Warehouse Arts Management Organization (WAMO) Art Walk

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Walk/stroll along E. Toole St. in Downtown Tucson to visit various artist activities and galleries on Saturday Oct. 4, 2014 from 5  to 10 p.m. Here’s the map of the art walk, between 6th Avenue on the east and the Steinfeld Warehouse (west of Stone Avenue).

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WAMO Walk Central: 174 E. Toole
We’re turning this parking lot into a fun venue of Music, beer/wine, art installations, arts presentations, and Food Truck Court.
`Artists studio visits!
`Projector Festival.
`Borderlands Brewery beer garden open with live music.

Plus PCOA Art Auction / at Artifact Dance Studio, 17 E. Toole St. (see flyer below)

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Tucson Modernism Week 2014

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Lots to do during this week as usual. See full schedule here (some events require tickets): http://www.tucsonmod.com/schedule. The Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation presents Tucson Modernism Week 2014, beginning Friday, October 3rd through Saturday, October 11th. The celebration will feature a series of programs, film, lectures and events highlighting Tucson’s Mid-century Modern design and architecture throughout the … Read more

Monty Python films at the Loft on every Wednesday in October

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And now for something completely Python…

Always look on the bright side of life and prepare for a massive month of Monty Python on the big screen as The Loft Cinema presents a moving tribute to killer rabbits, silly walks and dead parrots – it’s guaranteed to be more fun than the Spanish Inquisition! Monty Python’s Flying Circus started as a television show in 1969, growing exponentially in popularity with each passing year until finally, in 1971, the first Monty Python movie appeared,And Now For Something Completely Different. British comedy would never be the same again. Drawing on the crackpot genius of its members (including Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Terry Jones, to name only the proverbial few), the Python troupe combined brainy satire with utterly ridiculous nonsense to create a new brand of surreal comedy that inspired generations of performers. Following the success of their first film, more (and increasingly hilarious) Monty Python movies arrived at intervals of every few years, even after the original, legendary television series went off the air in 1973. From the outrageous satire of The Life of Brian to the quotable insanity of The Holy Grail to the warped fantasy of Gilliam’sTime Bandits and beyond, the films of Monty Python prove that comedy may be nice, but a shrubbery is ever nicer.

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Beautiful kimono exhibit opening at Yume Japanese Gardens

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Kimonos made with exceptional skill from fine materials have long been regarded as great works of textile art, often hand painted, embroidered, or brocaded and sometimes costing thousands of dollars. Join us to view nearly two dozen examples of the traditional Japanese robe, ornamented with beautiful painterly designs.

This exhibition runs from Oct. 1 to Nov. 23 and admission to it is included with entrance to the Gardens. Accompanying the exhibition is a permanent display of 19th-century woodblock prints depicting scenes of daily life in pre-modern Japan.

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Terrifying time at The Slaughterhouse in Tucson

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Warning: Never go alone to a haunted house.

My courageous husband and I dared to venture into the Tucson Slaughterhouse on Friday night for a preview of their 5 scary Haunts. This former animal slaughterhouse was indeed full of infected, bloody “zombies”, and other scary creatures of questionable living status. One scary, blood-stained creature was situated in a standing coffin outside, but was he truly dead? We doubted it as the coffin was empty later.

We started off in the Boiler Room with creatures in gas masks and in all forms of decomposition and hacked bodies. They appeared suddenly along creepy corridors with things hanging from the ceilings, dripping liquid (blood? saliva?), gas explosions — more than enough to scare anyone.

Then we proceeded bravely into the City Meats indoor enclosure with insane butchers holding chain saws and grotesque body parts lying around. There was even a very narrow, totally dark maze, which we were ever so relieved to escape from. I heard a lot of screaming inside there as we exited.

Breathing free air again, we hesitantly creeped through the outside Twisted Tree Mortuary/cemetery, where the figure of Death (of course in somber black) followed us.  It was unnerving. We walked past grave stones, tombs, corpses, half dead people, yet to be buried.

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