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Sunday, May 20, 2012
TW Maintenance and Miscellany / News Shameless Self-Promotion: 'Weekly' Scribes Nab Five Awards in Arizona Press Club Contest
Posted by Jimmy Boegle on Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:00 PM
The Tucson Weekly took home five awards this year in the Arizona Press Club’s annual contest—including a first-place award for Margaret Regan in the Arts Criticism category.
The results of the awards, for work done in 2011, were announced Saturday, May 19, at The Duce in Downtown Phoenix. In the contest, the Weekly competes in the Metro category, along with all of the state’s largest newspapers, including The Arizona Republic, the Arizona Daily Star and the Phoenix New Times.
Regan—the dean of Tucson arts writers who is widely regarded as the state’s top arts scribe—won two awards, including the aforementioned Arts Criticism first-place, for a selection of her 2011 arts reviews. About Regan’s work, judge Ben Waterhouse remarked: “Regan’s admirably jargon-free essays show both an impressive descriptive ability and a strong awareness of the greater cultural context in which the art exists. Not many visual art critics are capable of both.”
Regan’s other award came in the Arts Reporting category, in which a selection of her work took home third place.
Tom Danehy nabbed second place in the Sports Reporting category (behind only The Arizona Republic's investigation of the Fiesta Bowl scandal) for “Rez Ball” (March 3, 2011), his report on the love of high school basketball in Arizona’s Native American communities.
Leo W. Banks earned the third-place honor in the Immigration Reporting category for “Digging for Dollars” (April 7, 2011), his report on drug tunnels in Nogales.
Finally, Mari Herreras won third place in the Social Issues Reporting category (behind two Phoenix stories) for “Family Portraits” (Pride, June 16, 2011), her report on the struggles that nontraditional families are having in Arizona.
Craig Harris, of The Arizona Republic, was named the Virg Hill Journalist of the Year, in part for his aforementioned Fiesta Bowl-scandal coverage.
Other big awards went to Nick Oza of The Republic (Arizona Photojournalist of the Year), Mike Rice of the Arizona Daily Star (Arizona Designer of the Year), Beatrice Richardson of the Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review (Arizona Community Photojournalist of the Year) and Marley Shebala of the Navajo Times (Arizona Community Journalist of the Year).
Friday, May 18, 2012
TW Maintenance and Miscellany We Get Mail: Recaptioned Comics Edition
Posted by Dan Gibson on Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:00 PM
A reader submitted this interesting recaptioned version of the May 10th edition of Random Shots.
For what it's worth, I don't think I'd vote for Stalin, but I can't speak for the rest of my Tucson Weekly comrades colleagues.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Media / TW Maintenance and Miscellany You Should Listen to Mari Herreras on the Radio Right Now
Posted by Dan Gibson on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Whatever you're listening to on your headphones at work today is bound to be less interesting than Mari Herreras' audio appearance on the Steve Leal show today, which is airing right about nowish (assuming you're reading this post within the hour of its posting). It's super easy to stream the show online (or even on your phone, if that's your thing), so do it.
Mari previewed this week's show on her Facebook "fan" page:
[I'll be] Joining Steve Leal on his show today, 12 Noon, 1330 AM, All Things Political with Kieran Suckling from the Center for Biological Diversity...There may be a few mystery guests today, but nothing confirmed. Guess you'll have to tune-in.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Do This! / TW Maintenance and Miscellany The Best of Tucson 2012 Ballot Is Live!
Posted by Dan Gibson on Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Every year, we put out our gigantic Best of Tucson® issue and every year, the complaints start rolling in. "How did Jon Justice win Best Talk Show Host?" "My favorite restaurant is better than [fill in the blank]!" "Seriously, Jon Justice?"
Well, since most of the awards are based on reader voting and reader voting alone, now is the time for your voice to be heard. The ballot is online for Best of Tucson® 2012 and until May 30th, we'll be collecting the opinions of our readers. Has your favorite establishment remained shamefully overlooked? Post a link to the ballot on your Facebook page. Shout it out on Twitter. You only have yourselves to blame/congratulate, Tucson.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
TW Maintenance and Miscellany Welcome to Tucson Weekly Mobile 2.0
Posted by Dan Gibson on Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:00 AM
It's possible you've already noticed, but a few days ago, we flipped the switch on the 2.0 version of our mobile website and I'm personally really happy with the results. The whole thing just looks a lot cleaner and works better in general, but there are also a ton of enhancements, all of which are intended to help you not just read what we have in the print edition and on The Range, but also help you find somewhere to eat or drink, something to do, or a movie to see.
There are still more enhancements to come (including the ability to see and search the menus of local restaurants), but for now, if you have any comments or suggestions, let me know via email (dgibson AT tucsonweekly DOT com).
Friday, February 3, 2012
TW Maintenance and Miscellany We Have a Pinterest Board Now
Posted by Dan Gibson on Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:00 PM
Who knows what we'll actually do with Pinterest, other than share some photos from our website and maybe some that didn't make the paper, but we're on there and we'll be adding stuff as we get around to it. So, if you want to follow us, we'd be happy to follow you and we'll let the Pinterest magic wash over us together.
Friday, January 20, 2012
TW Maintenance and Miscellany You Can Subscribe to Comments Now!
Posted by Dan Gibson on Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:00 PM
As always, we strive to improve the user experience for you, reader of TucsonWeekly.com, hopefully in a manner that involves as little extra work for our staff as possible. So, we're thrilled to announce that you can now subscribe to comment threads!
So, when you post a comment, this option will be presented:
Click the handy button and you'll get an email (to the address on your account) notifying you of future postings to that thread. So simple and convenient!
Also, even if you haven't commented in a thread, you can still keep up with the angry things people are saying about us, either via RSS feed or email at the bottom of the comment block:
Enjoy!
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
TW Maintenance and Miscellany Thanks for the Flowers, PETA
Posted by Dan Gibson on Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Today in "strange things that happen around here" news: We received a shipment of flowers from PETA thanking our editorial board for its piece on the Reid Park Zoo elephant situation. Even stranger, the note on the flowers said that 10% of the cost of the flowers was donated to PETA. So, they managed to donate to themselves and get us some flowers.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Fun in General / TW Maintenance and Miscellany There Are Scouts in the Weekly's Office!
Posted by Dan Gibson on Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:50 PM
The Cub Scouts of Pack 261 are visiting the Tucson Weekly offices today to learn about how a weekly newspaper is put together. We don't get all that many tour groups through here, so this merits a blog post, right? Thanks for coming by, Scouts!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Arts and Culture / TW Maintenance and Miscellany Arts People, Help Us Help You
Posted by Dan Gibson on Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM
While it might seem a little early to you, putting together our Spring Arts Preview is serious business. As you read this, Calendar Girl (as editor Jimmy Boegle puts it, "her term, not mine") Linda Ray is working hard to put together our comprehensive guide to what's happening between January 15th through the summer in galleries, museums, on stages and everywhere else artsy. However, inevitably once the issue hits the stands, someone will complain that they weren't included, so this is your warning. We have to have the information to include it in this issue, and we'd love your help in getting all that information together in one place.
If you are an artist, someone affiliated with art, or know someone with some sort of art thing going on in Tucson during the first half of 2012, please let us know what's happening. We don't even need an actual press release. You don't even have to use complete sentences! Send us the start date, end date, hours or show times, ticket or admission prices and, of course, the titles of your events to listings@tucsonweekly.com, and we'll get it out to Tucson. Thanks.
