Cover Stories
Striking Oil
While smoking bud will likely never go out of style, the marijuana industry is quickly moving in the direction of extracts.
Cannabis Bowl 2018
The results of our Cannabis Bowl 2018.
Higher Ground
With marijuana markets blooming across the country, Tucson is no exception as three new dispensaries have opened in the past year.
Laughing Stock: Overstock! So. Much. Comedy.
Club Congress is Comedy Central Los Angeles comedians Dave Ross and Chris Charpentier mix it up with the locals at Club Congress at 8 PM, Sunday, May 6. It’s a 21-and-over show; tickets are $10. Ross is best known for his role as Trademarq in the Comedy Central series, Corporate. Fans also remember his bits…
Laughing Stock: What, Now?
“We thought the name, What, Now?, would evoke the unpredictable nature of the show,” says Amber Frame, who co-founded the quarterly comedy show with Mo Urban. “What we really love about it is interrupting storytellers halfway through their story … and then an improv team comes up and acts out how they think it ended.” At…
Diane Douglas: “Public Servants Shouldn’t Unionize”
Diane Douglas, Superintendent of Public Instruction, had a 20 minute interview with reporter Derek Staahl Monday about the potential teacher walkout. The interview had a number of noteworthy moments, but the jaw dropper was when Douglas went beyond speaking out against the walkout and said public servants should not unionize. Douglas said during the interview that…
Conservatives Told: Keep Criticizing Teachers, But Not About Their Pay or Perks
Here’s a golden oldie. See if you remember it. “Teachers shouldn’t complain about their pay. They make more than the average worker. When they retire, they live off their generous state pensions. And look at all that vacation time they get. Their cushy pay and perks come courtesy of the teachers union which squeezes money…
Tucson Youth Making the Border Art
Both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border bustled with activity on a recent Saturday night in Nogales. On the U.S. side of the border wall, youth display their perspectives of the border. In Mexico, people go about their daily lives, yet stop to curiously glance at the teens projecting images on the border wall. Borderlands Art…
Catalina Brewing Beers Good News for Striking Teachers
Catalina Brewing Company is throwing their hat into the educational ring, offering specials for all teachers and their allies. The support may a bit seem odd until you learn their staff is mostly made up of former or current teachers. This week they’ll be hosting a few events for #RedforEd. Wednesday, April 25, 4 to…
Eve of a Strike: Teachers and Districts Prep To Walk out of Schools This Week
With teacher walkouts starting on Thursday, educators statewide are wearing red, waving Red for Ed signs and smiling at honking cars in front of their schools every morning, across Tucson and much of the state, demanding better public education funding. Statewide, 57,000 votes were counted from public school teachers and staff, and 78 percent voted…
The Strike Is On: Arizona Teachers Prepared for Walkout Next Week
Educators’ strike will start on Thursday, April 26, across Arizona, according to leaders in the Red for Ed movement. Votes from all public school teachers and classified staff who chose to participate were tallied last night. Arizona Educators United and Arizona Education Association said they counted more than 50,000 ballots and about 78 percent voted…
Antigone Books To Be Sold to Three Employees (If They Can Raise Some More Cash)
The many fans of Antigone Books can put their fears to rest—almost. The store will not be taken over by a chain. Three young employees of the popular indie Fourth Avenue bookstore have won a loan from the Small Business Administration to buy the business. “These three women are smart, passionate and hardworking,” says Kate…
Guest Opinion
I have had the privilege of working in Tucson’s indigent-community mental-health system for 32 years.
Halal of Precedents
After moving to Tucson from San Francisco back in 2006, I was very happy and even relieved to have a local business such as the Caravan Market just a few blocks away from me.
XOXO…
The music world for the coming week
Editor’s Note
It’s pretty clear that weed is marching toward mainstream acceptance, no matter what U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says about it.
School Strife
The Red for Ed movement, which began in early March, is calling for a raise for educators and additional funding for schools.
Sticking Around
For a tense 70 seconds, Thornydale Elementary was a goner.
Police Dispatch
A budding male-chauvinist bigwig insisted that doling out misogynistic insults to a female University of Arizona employee was his “right” as a paying student.
Know Your Product
Prof fuses the self-conscious hilarity of the Beastie Boys with modern rap aggression.
Police Dispatch
In a remarkably audacious convenience-store shoplifting incident, a man just kept topping himself in rude and unlawful behavior.
Springtime Abstractions
A number of the small galleries just north of downtown proper are exhibiting abstract works this spring, created by artists working in media from conventional paint to toilet paper to nylon stockings.
Past and Future
There’s a buzzword heard frequently as theater is discussed these days: immersive.
Barking Mad
Wes Anderson’s second foray into stop motion animation is another visual masterpiece.
Reel Indie
What to watch this coming week.
Turn On, Tune In…
Grab your oil wheels, LAVA lamps and “Have a nice day” T-shirts, because the Psych-Out! music festival is truckin’ on through Tucson.
Tucson Salvage
We’d drive by The Bambi in the family car, and I thought it a bar where moms disrobed.
