The Tombstone Small Animal Shelter offers the cheapest adoption rates in southern Arizona but the no-kill shelter, which is operated entirely by volunteers, is suffering financial troubles this year.
Elaine Perry, president of the shelter, blames the depressed economy for the lack of donations. She also says that people are surrendering animals more often than adopting because they can no longer afford the cost of pet care.
“It’s a big deal, like adopting children I think,” said Perry. “And I think you’ve got to have the time and money to give them the care they need.”
Mary Doria Russell’s Pulitzer nominated novel Doc, based on the events of Doc Holliday’s life, is being turned into an HBO series.
Russell, who heard the news back in June, learned that the new show will be under a two-year contract, with Akiva Goldsman as the executive producer and Ron Howard directing the pilot episode.
“I wasn’t allowed to say anything until HBO made the announcement in late November,” says Russell. “It almost killed me; I’ve never kept secret that long before in my life.”
The Epitaph staff and others rate the beer out of five stars
Janice Biancavilla: 3/5 Stars
This medium bodied pale ale, much like it’s flavor, begins sweet but doesn’t hold attention.
Upon first sip, OK Ale has a surprising sweet fruity flavor and a smooth body that would suggest drinkability. However, the back-end of the brew doesn’t follow through. The mild hoppy finish is very one dimensional and after a few sips the brew begins to blend together as a confusingly sweet-hopped beer that can’t decide if it wants to be a pale ale or a hoppy amber.
The beer redeems itself when it warms slightly and the full flavors become more apparent but still does not hold the complexity that is expected with pale ales and leaves a resonating too-dull aftertaste of hops.
Kellie Mejdrich: 2.5/5 stars
The malt/hop balance is not enough to make it an IPA, but too much to make it traditional ale. It's got this really mineral, bitter finish that's pretty metallic. It's not a very good beer—it barely establishes itself flavor-wise beyond common shelf beer in Tombstone. -Kellie Mejdrich
Logan McNutt: 24, Supervisor at Oro Valley Municipal Pool: 3/5 Stars
“It’s hoppy but not overbearing”
“A very simple beer”
Emily Hardy: 2/5 stars:
"It's really hoppy, like iron-y," said Emily Hardy, 24, a librarian in Tucson. "It hurts my feelings."
Allan Davison, airbrush artist and owner of the Red Roan Gallery, opened shop on 4th Street earlier this year and is excited to finally do… nothing.
In the past, Davidson worked as a portrait artist at Disneyland and Universal studios but now the Orange County, Calif., native says he is sick of being in the big city and chose Tombstone to get away from the hectic lifestyle.
“I like it here and I’ll probably stay for a while and see where it goes,” said Davidson. “It’s a nice place to be; people are very friendly.”
It is easy to see that Tombstone has its fair share of bars complete with enough alcohol to make rookie livers cry in fear of cirrhosis, but there are not many that take their name exclusively from the town itself.
“Electric” Dave Harvan, the owner of a modest brewery in Bisbee bestowed with his moniker, offers four beers brewed with fresh, all-American grains and hops ranging from a lager, an IPA, an oatmeal stout and, of course, a pale ale named after Tombstone’s most famous landmark—the OK Ale.
“After I started brewing, it only made sense to expand into Tombstone,” Harvan said. “Everyone in Tombstone drinks, so there’s a huge market up there.” A chuckle escaped his wide smile. Thus, the idea for a Tombstone brew was planted and the hops were harvested.
Name:Ruben Suarez Occupation: Owner of Adobe Lodge Motel, Bella Union From: Tucson, Arizona What brought you and keeps you in Tombstone?“The history has kept me here. It just makes the town spring to life.”
Dawn: A card game between Virgil Earp, Ike Clanton, Tom McLaury, and Cochise County Sherriff Johnny Behan at Fly’s Lodging House ends. Earp and Behan go home, Clanton stays and drinks until 8 a.m. 8 a.m.: Clanton runs into E.F. Boyle, a barkeeper, outside the town telegraph office. Boyle later testifies that Clanton was armed and swearing vengeance on the Earps and Doc Holliday. 1 p.m.: Wyatt Earp pistol-whips Ike Clanton for being armed in town. Clanton is dragged to court and fined $25.
In time for the celebration of the 130th anniversary of the gunfight that make Tombstone famous, O.K. Corral owner Bob Love displayed a new find, one that could implicate Wyatt Earp in the murder of Johnny Ringo.
Ringo was found in July of 1882, less than a year after the famed gunfight, with his shoes off and a single bullet hole in his head at the roots of a tree in West Turkey Creek Valley, near Chiricahua Peak, close to the U.S.-Mexico border in southeastern Arizona. The then-property owner found him sitting at the base of the tree, with a gun hanging off one of his hands, and turned his body over – but the coroner originally ruled his death a suicide.
Cowboys might learn to lift their pinkies while sipping their cabernet with the addition of a winery on Allen Street.
Silver Streak Winery, opening for business around Thanksgiving, will offer wine tasting for those curious about an alcohol with more class than beer or whiskey. In addition to their tentative hours of noon to six, the winery also will host occasional private parties.
Jann Bengel and her husband Hank, owners of the winery, have stood outside the property for numerous days, handing out business cards and talking to countless people about the addition of the winery to Tombstone’s already plentiful alcohol business.
“The response was wonderful,” Jann Bengel said. “A man would like beer but his wife likes wine, a woman would like a scotch and the man would like a glass a wine.”
Several passersby walking the dirt road commented about the winery, expressing their delight of a good place to get wine and asking when it would open.
