U.S. Senate GOP leader McConnell ‘comfortable’ with framework for gun control bill
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said he is comfortable with the bipartisan deal Senate Democrats and Republicans struck on gun control legislation, signaling that he will join in passing a bill when it comes to a vote. “For myself, I’m comfortable with the framework,” the Kentucky Republican said during a…
Arizona Senate Republicans want to outlaw kids at drag shows
Arizona State Senate Republican leaders announced Tuesday that they want to make it illegal for anyone under 18 to attend drag shows in Arizona, though the actual details of what will be proposed are a “work in progress,” the measure’s likely sponsor said. “In a civil society, you don’t bring your children up like that,”…
Study Stall: Federal bills languish as researchers ask for more money
As two bills supporting cannabis studies stall in Congress, regulatory hurdles and funding deficiencies continue to delay clinical trials of the plant for all but the most established researchers in the U.S. Earlier this year, the House approved the Medical Marijuana Research Act (H.R. 5657) and the Senate passed the Cannabidiol and Marihuana Research Expansion…
XOXO: Mark Your Calendars
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Rocky Point Rock: A musical festival this fall will benefit science field station CEDO in Puerto Peñasco
If you like sand, cerveza and Sergio Mendoza, you’ll want to be in Rocky Point at the end of September. Orkesta Mendoza featuring Quetzal Guerrero will join Mariachi Nuevo Azteca, Salvador Duran, Golden Boots, Los Esplifs and Puerto Peñasco band Agua de Coco for a concert benefiting CEDO Intercultural, the longtime research lab on the…
City Week: Weekly Picks
The Nina Variations. In Chekhov’s famous play “The Seagull,” the show ends on a scene between two lovers: Treplev, who is in love with Nina, and Nina, who is in love with someone else. In this show by Steven Dietz, Nina and Treplev live out 43 different possible conclusions of this story, the good, the bad…
Southern Accents: Chef Travis Peters has a shrimp and grits recipe for you
Opening a new restaurant during the pandemic is a risky business decision, but Chef Travis Gary Peters thrives on taking chances. Peters recently opened a gastropub, The Delta, at 135 S. Sixth Ave., in the space formerly occupied by Janos Wilder’s DOWNTOWN Kitchen + Cocktails. Peters told Prickly Pair Podcast hosts Alexandra Pere and Nicole…
Changing the World: The Fixx ‘means business’ in Tucson
The Fixx lead singer Cy Curnin hasn’t been shy about sharing his political beliefs from his start in 1979 through the English band’s new album, “Every Five Seconds.” This spring, he became a U.S. citizen and he’s ready to roll up his sleeves and advocate for change. “I felt like I was being handed a…
The Scraping of the Santa Ritas: Hudbay wins latest court battle over the Rosemont Mine as heavy equipment continues to roll in the Santa Rita Mountains
The same judge who put the skids on the Rosemont Mine project in 2019 has dismissed a pair of lawsuits attempting to halt mining activities in the Santa Rita Mountains filed by several environmental groups and three southern Arizona tribes. On May 23, U.S. District Court Judge James A. Soto denied the groups’ request for a temporary restraining…
A Healthy Return: Tucson Improv Movement is bouncing back from the COVID years
It’s as if a variety seed pack had been planted in the darkness of TIM Comedy Theatre. Imagine a retrospective time lapse revealing the COVID-long sprouting of it, almost every stem unique. Cut to the summer of 2022, it’s all starting to flourish, and (to strain the analogy to the breaking point), the theater now…
Assault on the Santa Ritas
Augusta Resource Co., the latest Canadian corporation to come down to Southern Arizona to with plans to devastate the Santa Rita Mountains, has finally found a way to move forward with plans to pull copper out of the ground. While they’ve been stymied by court decisions that have kept them from the original plan of…
Children’s Crusade: Tucson teens organize March For Our Lives protest this weekend in response to nationwide gun violence
J.J. Williams believes gun violence has gotten out of hand. The 15-year-old City High School student took to Twitter on the day of the Uvalde school shooting. A 14-tweet thread that received more 14,000 impressions targeted the lunacy of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s solution to school shootings by arming teachers. “This means that if…
Towers of Need: ‘Canstruction’ sculptures turn spotlight on importance of aiding hungry Tucsonans
If you see a Gila monster and a rattlesnake inside of the Park Place Mall over the couple of weeks, don’t run away. It’s just the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona’s summer fundraiser, Canstruction Tucson: Build for Hunger. Four teams made up of local architects, engineers, builders and many volunteers assembled thousands of canned…
