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Breaking the Green Ceiling
As the marijuana industry blooms, women are finding their footing in the workforce. In a field yet to be dominated by men, women in the weed business show that their skill, experience and raw ambition stack up against anything men can do.
Cannabis Bowl 2017
Last year was our first Cannabis Bowl, a chance for all medical marijuana patients to let us know their favorite products, people and places all related to our local MMJ community.
The Weekly List: 12 Things To Do In Tucson In The Next 10 Days
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Cinema Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina. Come experience the Tony-Award winning musical, Evita. Learn the remarkable, true story of Eva Perón and how she went from living in the slums of Argentina to becoming the First Lady. Arizona Repertory Theatre concludes their season with this popular…
Ed Shorts
A few thoughts from recent Arizona education news. Writing about U.S. News’ Best High Schools rankings: When in doubt, read the instructions. The story that BASIS dominated the U.S. News & World Report high school rankings got lots of press in Arizona, but few reporters bothered to look carefully at how the ratings were calculated.…
Casa Video Top 10
The Tucson sun is heating up again, which means indoor air conditioning will be everyone’s best friend soon enough. For those days that it is too hot to do anything, including to leave your bed, kick back and relax in the comforts of your makeshift igloo with one (or all) of Casa Video’s top 10…
Streets of This Town: The Nightwatchman
“Streets of This Town” is a little daily photo series featuring random pics I take on long walks through Tucson—to sort of coincide with Tucson Salvage.
Once Again, It’s Time to Deconstruct the U.S. News “Best High Schools” Rankings
Once again, BASIS swept the U.S. News & World Report’s list of best public high schools, taking five of the top seven places. University High placed number 15. Does that mean BASIS has five of the seven best schools in the country and University High is the 15th best? Only if you think “best school”…
Documentary Hot Damn Makes its World Premiere in the Old Pueblo This Sunday!
With no shame and no regret, award-winning Canadian filmmaker—by way of New York—Jefferson Moneo offers an unabashed look at the eclecticism of Tucson’s arts scene in his 18-minute documentary film Tucson Hot Damn. Tucson Hot Damn makes its world premiere at the 2017 Arizona International Film Festival as part of The Tucson Happening, a music,…
Joe Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Joe! I’m a 5-year-old boy, looking for a home! I was transferred to HSSA from a different shelter, but since being here I have made many friends! I get along well with my kennel mate, and love to meet new people. I’m a very sweet dog, and will make a great pet! If…
Good, Available Child Care Benefits Society
Quality child care is helpful to children and their parents, and though it’s expensive in the short term, it’s cost effective in the long term. And we spend half as much of our Gross National Product on it as the average industrialized country. All this information is in a New York Times article. The surprise is,…
In The Flesh: Let’s Live A Little at Invisible Theatre is a Mouthful That Rewards, Challenges
There’s a little gem of a play now treading the boards at the Invisible Theatre. Kathleen Clark’s Let’s Live a Little is the last show of the season, and it’s a lovely way to end Invisible Theatre’s 46th year. The show tells several stories, related in some ways, although often quite generally. Their chief connection…
Trouble in Republican City Over Voucher Expansion?
I can’t remember agreeing with Greg Miller—a Republican who runs a charter school and is ex-president of the Arizona Board of Education—before. But an op ed he wrote for the Capitol Times, GOP support of voucher expansion bill an insult to most students, is an exception to the rule. It begins, As an advocate for…
Zona Politics Tonight: Councilman Steve Kozachik and Metro Chamber Prez Mike Varney
Tonight on the televised edition of Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel: I talk with Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik about Prop 101, the city’s proposal to hike the sales tax by a half-cent per dollar for five years in order to fund capital improvements for the police and fire departments and do more road repair.…
Laughing Stock: Comedy for Tragedy
“I have been involved in fighting violence and helping victims of violence since 1980 when my sister was killed in an armed robbery in Chicago,” Suzie Agrillo explains. That event also inspired the genesis of her annual Comedy for Charity variety show at the Fox Tucson Theatre. This year’s extravaganza, “Thank You for Serving” is…
Statewide Voucher Initiatives Has Been Voted Down Everywhere, Every Time
There’s no way Republicans can take away the initiative process using the initiative process. Voters won’t go for that. And they can’t push through school vouchers that way either; people always vote against vouchers. So this year, Republicans have used their legislative majority to thumb their noses at voters, taking away something they like and…
The Skinny
Congressman Raul Grijalva sues Trump administration over border wall plans
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: You are a racist, my friend.
Tucson Salvage
It’s midnight and Cowboy rolls up on his fourth-hand Gary Fisher mountain bike, slides to a stop, hops off, leans the machine against the storefront window, and steps into the severely lit shop.
Booze Now, Food Later
This Downtown Tucson pop-up bar serves classic cocktails and rotating tap and bottled beers.
Good as Gold
On the right, Gail Marcus-Orlen ramps up the crayon-box colors in her surrealistic oils, using lush purples, oranges and teal to paint a kaleidoscope of enchanted figures.
Money and Challengers, Oh My
Congresswoman Martha McSally continued to demonstrate her fundraising prowess last week, announcing she had raised nearly $750,000 in the first quarter of 2017.
Know Your Product
Kansas City’s Tech N9ne is a producer, songwriter, and co-founder of the Strange Music record label.
Fate of the Bung Hole
With The Fate of the Furious, easily the most stupidly titled installment in the Furious franchise (Yes, even more stupid than the name Tokyo Drift), you get to see the single most disgusting, stomach churning, horrifying moment in cinema so far this year.
Editor’s Note
They put the signs out right? Just in case we have any young, smart and fearless educators driving through our state thinking, “Wow, this land is beautiful.”
Dust Devil
The old lone wolf sniffed
Police Dispatch
Someone apparently frequenting small towns in Ohio used the numbers from a University of Arizona faculty member’s work credit card to fraudulently spend an outrageous amount of money
Police Dispatch
While a sheriff’s deputy was searching a woman upon her arrest, she was initially irate at his being too close to her chest for her comfort
Eva Perón —Saint or Shameless?
Just hearing the title should activate the little earworm ready to burrow into your brain; The melody fills your head and plays a continuous loop for hours.
Noise Annoys
Comedy has always been about storytelling as much as punchlines.
Tale of Two Cities
“We’d always wanted to write a song about Seattle,” recalls singer Emily Nokes.
Vintage Vinyl: The Dearly Beloved
1966 As the Beloved One’s: Boyd Records BB157; As Dearly Beloveds: Columbia 4-43797 The record was also released on CBS, UK (202398) And CBS Australia (BA-221340)
