Cover Stories
Picking Up the Thread
Calexico’s Joey Burns shares his thoughts about some of the songs on their new album, The Thread That Keeps Us.
Calexico Rides Again
It’s a mid-December morning and Calexico founders Joey Burns and John Convertino are joining me for breakfast at Hotel Congress.
Comedy, Beer, Theater & More: Eight Things To Do Today!
[image-1] Beer Week: Ermanos Craft Beer & Wine Bar. Mexican food, BBQ, and beer? It’s like they rolled Tucson into a perfect little ball (minus the saguaro needles). On top of the awesome food, Ermanos is also unveiling their new Cerezo beer! 5-9 p.m. Beer Week: Pueblo Vida. Releases are fun, especially if alcohol is…
Happy Valentine’s Day! Four Fun Ways To Celebrate!
UA Presents: Rene Marie. If this jazz singer’s soaring voice and fabulous stage presence aren’t enough to leave you feeling inspired, then her story should be. Marie first dipped her toes into the world of music when she took a year of piano lessons at age 9, and then began writing her own music and…
Fat Tuesday, Beer Week and Short Films: Four Fun Things To Do In Tucson Today!
French Quarter Fat Tuesday Celebration. Diet starts tomorrow! So today, we gorge. Ah, Fat Tuesday, a true microcosm of the American experience. Get your NOLA on at Monterey Court with yummy New Orleans food and a selection of jazz music by French Quarter String Band that combines the magic of New Orleans with the flavors…
The Three Best Ways To Have Fun in Tucson Today
Dawson Rutledge. If Harry Connick Jr. was funnier, if Beck was Canadian, if Wes Anderson was a pop-folkster born in the late 1990s, you’d have something approximating the blinky yet sincere ponderings of Dawson Rutledge. He’s an old-souled and wonder-filled 20-year-old. His music trips senses. Like a silent movie. Like physical comedy. Like he sees…
33 Awesome Ways To Have Fun This Weekend
Beer Week: Trivia at Crooked Tooth. Sure, while drinking you might better remember the horrific blunders you made 10 years ago, but are you better at trivia? Well, time to test your wits with a night of beer trivia and history. It’s free to enter and the winner gets a $40 gift card to drink more beer!…
A Radical-Sounding Education Funding Proposal From an Un-Radical Source: Arizona Town Hall
A billion dollars. That’s on the high end of the figure you hear when people talk about increasing Arizona’s K-12 funding. Governor Ducey came in at one-tenth of that, $100 million. At the latest Koch brothers summit, Ducey said to the assembled multi-millionaires and billionaires, “I didn’t run for governor to play small ball. I think…
The Three Best Ways To Have Fun Tonight: Dance, Drag Queens and Beer, Beer, Beer
Beer Week! A few highlights as Beer Week kicks off: Pueblo Vida celebrates with a spirit of friendliness and teamwork by releasing a brand new beer. The “Just Friends,” a pale ale, is the product of a collaboration with Wren House Brewing. 4-10 p.m. Meanwhile, at downtown’s Thunder Canyon, two of the biggest and most active local breweries are…
The TUSD Board Should Publicly Affirm Judge Tashima’s Ruling
The governing board of the Tucson Unified School District has an educational, and moral, obligation to officially acknowledge the importance of Judge Wallace Tashima’s ruling that ARS 15-122 was unconstitutional because it was the product of racial animus directed at the students, teachers and administrators involved in the district’s Mexican American Studies program, and it was…
Owen Needs a Home
Hi there! My name is Owen! I am a 1 year old boy who just can’t wait to meet my fur-ever family! I am a loving, goofy boy who is sure to put a smile on your face! I regularly give hugs to HSSA staff! I absolutely love to play with toys and cuddle with…
Don’t Waste Your Time with ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’
Originally planned for an April theatrical release date, the third Cloverfield movie got itself a surprise release on Netflix immediately following the Super Bowl last night. While I’m a big fan of the first two installments in the Cloverfield series, J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot production company have got to be kidding trying to…
The Tip-Off: On Lorenzo Romar’s Seattle Homecoming, Washington’s Stifling Zone and Allonzo Trier’s Deft Touch
The 91-year-old enclave known as Hec Edmundson Pavilion has been a house of horrors for the Arizona Wildcats over the years. The gym, which sits on the scenic shores of Lake Washington—catty-corner to the University of Washington’s freshly-renovated football stadium—has haunted some of Arizona’s best teams. Take, for instance, the now-vaunted 1997 Arizona squad, famous…
Where To Rock This Weekend
From our XOXO.. column… Friday, Feb. 2: Not everyone can claim to have worked with “The Godmother of Punk Rock” Patti Smith. Guitarist Oliver Ray can. C’mon, is that not enough street cred to get your tired carcass off the couch? Ray—accompanied by Clay Koweek, Thøger Teetens Lund and Anna Jo Phipps—will be previewing songs…
25 Amazing Ways To Have Fun in Tucson This Weekend
Want to have fun this weekend? The Weekly has 25 recommendations for you. Surely there’s something for you on this list! American Flying Buffalo Pho Special. American Flying Buffalo will be at Button Brew House with a pho-nomenal surprise: A brand new pho menu! Get all the spicy, soupy goodness you can. And if you’re…
Editor’s Note
If there’s a Tucson band that has been the soundtrack of my life for the last two decades, it’s Calexico.
Stars Pick Their Top 5!
Before returning to her sailboat in England for the summer, here snow—or is it show?—bird Marianne Dissard shares five of her favorite musical things.
Dance Galore
A cornucopia of dance styles is on the menu at opposite ends of the UA campus this coming week.
Going Native
Director Scott Cooper’s Hostiles is an uncompromising, brutal western.
Dreamer Dilemma
Dreamers still have plenty to worry about with Donald Trump’s latest immigration proposal.
Reel Indie
Beat the winter heat this week with these indie offerings.
Police Dispatch
An amped-up, intoxicated woman wearing binoculars was apprehended after a Christmas evening of antics.
Out of this World
Katie Haverly’s potency as an artist stems from her impassioned quest to find understanding.
Criminal Compassion
A humanitarian aid worker is being charged with a felony after giving blankets, clothes, food and water to migrants crossing the desert.
XOXO…
John Coltrane: “I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.”
Hoop Dreams
Danehy is known for his laissez faire coaching philosophy that’s void of the complicated schemes that have inundated basketball at all levels.
Vintage Vinyl
The Ric-A-Shays: “Turn On”/”Groovy”, Lola Records #002, 1965.
Cashing In
No matter on which side of the aisle members of Congress sit, we can all get behind the idea of bolstering the national budget.
Said in Stone
When Kelsey Henderson does a lithomancy reading—a method of divination that uses stones to foresee the future—she uses the stones to speak.
Danehy
Tom thinks this generation shows there’s hope for the future, even if their music sucks.
Fizzy Lifting Drinks
Fermented tea may sound a bit gross if not oxymoronic, but a local family has concocted a strangely delicious elixir that has multiple health benefits.
An Irish Romance
Arizona Theatre Company has mounted a more-than-respectable version of John Patrick Shanley’s charming, light-hearted play.
