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Tucson Salvage: A song from the wood
In all manner of humanity. The motherly gaits and ‘Nam vets, the floral sun hats and deviant tats, the thick, the slight, the white, brown and black. And try, apply or taste: Organic soaps, desert-specific allergy stoppers and local-farm asparagus, and so on. Under a decorative race-horse-and-jockey silhouette perched high on a pavilion, this Tucson…
City Week: Weekly Picks
“Nerdlesque: The Full Frontier” Longtime local burlesque leading light Natasha Noir presents another in her series of burlesque shows for nerds like us. Expect sultry reveals of pop-culture heroes, from the highest-regarded to the most obscure. Noir describes the event as a “full-length striptease revue” of favorite characters from “across the geeky galaxy.” It’s for…
Bloom season at Life Under the Oaks farm
May is a special and busy time for Life Under the Oaks Lavender Farm, tucked in the foothills in Oracle. The start of summer marks the beginning of bloom season, saturating their fields with the flower’s signature hue. “Bloom season is what everyone waits for,” owner Carolyn Blair noted. “The field is all purple, and…
Gregg Turkington: Cutting-edge comedy
Gregg Turkington is a Swiss army knife of comedy. Neil Hamburger is the blade. Your humble scribe is not the equal of those who routinely pen lacerating smartassery in acid quips about the fulsome awfulness of Hamburger’s comedy. We also resist the pity that would normally accompany our beholding such epic sloth and awkwardness. We…
Crocodiles’ new show is ‘heaven’ sent
The two core members of Crocodiles have made inter-city writing, recording and touring work. Despite living in very different parts of the world, the pair of Brandon Welchez (vocals, guitar and based in Los Angeles), Charles Rowell (guitar with a home in Paris) have kept the band alive and prospering. And they’re now well into…
Capriotti’s brings ‘fanatically delicious’ sandwiches to Tucson
After 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, Jose Alvarez moved to Tucson, ready to start his next business venture. He noticed a lack of food diversity in the area and that inspired him and his friend, Ed Mingus, to open Tucson’s first Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop, 1830 E. Broadway Boulevard. Two more locations are slated…
Live Music Calendar May 11 to May 17
MAY 11 First Day on Earth Club Congress, 7:30 p.m., $10 Freezing Hands, Spank and Lemon Drop Gang Groundworks, 7 p.m., $10 Steve Hofstetter 191 Toole, 7 p.m., $28 MAY 12 Greg Morton & Jim Stanley LaCo Tucson, 5:30 p.m., free Malachite!, Bäsmini, Chess club Dropout, Tyler Beck (Stumpy), Disband, SudotheNomad and Bug Byte Groundworks,…
Marvina Thomas balances success, giving back
Black entrepreneurs account for less than 2% of the nation’s cannabis businesses — a narrative being changed by Marvina Thomas and her company Fourtwenty Collections, a 100% Black, female-owned business. With headquarters in Arizona and New Mexico, Thomas is a community-forward entrepreneur who uses her success to give back and provide opportunities to underrepresented communities.…
Budtender Diaries: Terpenes, trichomes and THC percentages…oh my!
The misconception surrounding THC percentages dominates the cannabis market, limiting the true benefits of the plant. Everyone who consumes cannabis has a different relationship with the plant; as it is something deeply personal. I’ve spent the last two years working at a dispensary, where I was quickly introduced to the hodgepodge of preferences that exist…
