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Tucson agave fest celebrates plant’s heritage
For centuries, the agave plant has had an important impact on the Southwest borderlands. The annual Agave Heritage Festival celebrates the plant as well as Tucson’s rich cultural history through four days of tastings, seminars, an agave pit roasting, culinary events and live Latin and jazz music. This year, the festival will run from Thursday,…
Stanley, Steed team up for good
Nancy Stanley is impulsive, reckless and messy. Mary Steed is compulsive, cautious and perfect. Stanley said as much right after she noted that Steed is skinny, and she is not. Stanley was iterating a litany of ways the duo differs, by way of illustrating that they are perfect teammates for organizing a wildly successful comedy…
Climbing in Color hosts Higher Ground fundraiser
Tucson rocks have long been a playground to climbers. But when the Climbing in Color founders entered the world of slabs and ridges, they saw something odd but not uncommon. There were not many people of color on the rocks. “They noticed there weren’t a lot of people that looked like them in the community,”…
Swap meet allows guests to explore movie set
Popular movies like “Tombstone” and “The Quick and the Dead” as well as over 100 other westerns were filmed in Benson at the Mescal Movie Set. During the upcoming Cowboy Western Tack and Swap Meet on Friday, April 21, and Saturday, April 22, visitors can walk around the movie set while shopping from local vendors.…
City Week: Weekly Picks
Emerging Choreographers Showcase Emerging choreographers debut 10 original works at this year’s showcase presented by the Esperanza Dance Project. The program also includes a performance of the group’s classic repertoire, “House of Hope,” and an exhibit of works by local visual artists. Esperanza Dance Project is a local nonprofit that works to empower survivors of…
Live Music Calendar
APRIL 20 Delta Daze, Gutter Town, The Pilot Fighters and Reptilian Youth Groundworks, 7 p.m., $10 Dougie Poole Hotel Congress Plaza, 7 p.m., $17.51 Heather “Lil’ Mama” Hardy LaCo Tucson, 5:30 p.m., free Lil Jon Pima County Fair, 8 p.m., $20 Rachel Eckroth Trio The Century Room, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., $20-$30 Sonoran Cannabis…
More Americans celebrating 4/20 with hemp
As Americans celebrate the biggest holiday for cannabis consumption, culture and community on April 20, millions will also incorporate hemp products in their festivities. A recent survey of U.S. cannabis consumers found that 41% of respondents regularly use hemp products such as Delta-8 and Delta-9, according to data commissioned by Hometown Hero CBD, the veteran-supporting…
New outdoors group hosting meet and greet
Toyin Ajayi is an entrepreneur and lover of the wilderness, but as a Black woman, she considered herself a minority in outdoor spaces. It only took a few minutes online to understand why. “When I would do a Google search on the outdoors or ‘outdoorsy,’ I wouldn’t see women like me represented as much,” Ajayi…
Tucson Salvage: Raising lives that matter
Grandma settles back into the dining room chair and the identical twin 5-year-old girls, Kiyah and Kiara, climb onto her lap, whisper requests into her ear. The girls are shy, giggle distractedly; there’s a stranger in the house. Respecting grandma’s gentle instructions to self-occupy, the girls slide from her lap and shuffle into their bedroom…
Review: Ari Aster returns with surrealist epic ‘Beau Is Afraid’
When Ari Aster said in a 2019 Reddit Ask Me Anything post that his next film may be a “zonky nightmare comedy,” the idea wasn’t hard to imagine. Across the filmmaker’s previous output, including the features “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” he’s flirted with darkly comic undertones despite their horrific exteriors. Now, four years later, Aster is…
