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Triple Play
Ward 3’s roughly 18,000 Democrats and 12,000 independent voters will choose between three candidates in the Aug. 29 primary
Laughing Stock: Late Nite Laugh Lessons
Be sure to play with your cell phone and tussle with your neighbor. Maybe snap some gum or just put on your best worst attitude. You could be part of the show as a nightmare of a nun stereotype becomes a figure of way too much fun in Late Nite Catechism. The one-loveable-badass-woman-show for all…
The Weekly List: 20 Things To Do in Tucson In The Next 10 Days
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Animals Kitty Quinceañera. Celebrate the senior kitty-zens of the Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter & Sanctuary, and maybe even take one home to love. Aside from food and fun, the event will be offering adoption fees of only $5 for cats over 7 years old. Show your…
Song of the Day: Billy Sedlmayr Weighs in on Old FM Staple ‘Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo’ and Johnny and Edgar Winter
Johnny Winter was born in Beaumont, Texas in the early ’40s. He and little brother Edgar would often catch blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, Bobby Bland and B.B. King on the Chitlin Circuit’s lower stops. By the time the bros began gigging they knew firsthand what prejudice could do to those inflicted, and to those…
TUSD Enrollment, 2000 to 2017
For the past few years, I’ve put up a chart of TUSD’s enrollment numbers beginning in 2000. The district has a detailed table of daily enrollment for those years separated out by grade, ethnicity and gender. However, it wasn’t updated last year because, I was told, of a change in computer operations. I recently received the 2016-17…
Cinema Clips: Brigsby Bear
Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney stars as James, a man who loves a kid’s TV show called Brigsby Bear, and loves his parents (Mark Hamill, Jane Adams). As it turns out, he’s also a kidnapping victim, his parents aren’t his real parents, and the TV show was produced by his fake dad for him only.…
HOCO Fest 2017 Countdown: Ho99o9
Each Labor Day weekend, the fine folks at Club Congress host the city’s biggest musical bash of the year. It runs Wed. Aug. 30-Sunday, Sept. 3. The Tucson Weekly is down with it. So down with it we’ll be doing drive-by previews of bands and artists performing the Hoco Fest fest, local and international. Here’s…
Puppy Love and Feline Fondness: Get Yourself A Pet for (Nearly) Free This Weekend
Meet Harley, a two-year-old female Staffordshire Bull Terrier. This weekend, she and all of the animals at the Pima Animal Care Center can be adopted with no adoption fee, as a part of PACC’s participation in the nationwide “Clear the Shelters” campaign. Adoption fees will be waved Saturday, Aug 19, and Sunday, Aug. 20. The…
Harley Needs a Home
Hi there! I’m Harley! I’m a cute little 1 year old boy and I need a new home! I came to HSSA as a stray so they don’t know a lot about my history, but they do know that I’m a sweet boy! I’m looking for a home that is willing to give me ample…
A Look At TUSD’s AzMERIT Scores
The state has released scores on the AzMERIT tests given this spring, meaning we can compare TUSD’s 2017 scores with its scores two years ago when students took the first AzMERIT tests, and with the state scores. I’ll lay out the results the numbers first, then I’ll try to figure out what they mean, and…
Know Your Product Online Bonus! Atlanta Georgia’s The Head Pick Their Life-Changing Albums. They Play Tonight at The Flycatcher!
Know Your Product: The Head Straight outta Atlanta, Georgia, The Head formed a decade ago when twins Jack (drums) and Mike (vocals/bass) Shaw took their love for The Beatles, as well as The Stone Roses and the cynically witty Madchester scene, and created something rooted in garage nostalgia yet ultimately contemporary. Packed with big rock…
Tucson Peacefully Protested White Supremacy!
Sunday, Aug. 13: We were late. Ten minutes behind the hundreds of marchers, and a four-year-old in tow. The photographer offered us a shaded seat until they circled back. But this was no time to sit still. Hate and intolerance had once more surfaced on a national level at the Charlottesville, Virginia white nationalist march.…
Cinema Clips: Detroit
Director Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) directs this uneven yet powerful at times account of the infamous 1967 Algiers Motel incident, part of a race riot that put the city of Detroit under siege. When a man fires off a starter pistol from his hotel window during intense riots, the police and National Guard converge…
Results-Based Funding. The Inequity Will Increase After This School Year
My last post was about the likely distribution of the new results-based funding which will go to 17 percent of Arizona’s schools. The details are in the earlier post. Here’s the short version: Only 35 percent of the state’s district schools cater mainly to higher income students, but they represent 65 percent of the schools…
RIP Blood Spasm Frontman and Underground Tucson Legend (‘We Got Cactus’), Bob McKinley
Inimitable punk rocker Bob Spasm, frontman for the riotous Blood Spasm—once hailed by the local press as Tucson’s biggest punk rock band—died on Aug. 9 after a struggle with multiple sclerosis. Renowned for his on-stage histrionics, Bob “Spasm” McKinley formed Blood Spasm in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1983. A revised version of the band was a…
In the Flesh: WTF AF Presented ‘Not Just Another Pretty Face’ Zine Launch with Cool Funeral, Chezale, Shovel, Fawn Bones, Julia Kinu and More!
Prior to its launch, WTF AF organizer Molly Ragan excitedly tells Tucson Weekly about her latest passion project, a new new zine called Not Just A Pretty Face. “It’s a collective project featuring numerous women and female-identifying people from the downtown community with the goal of elevating our voices, art and experiences,” Ragan, who is…
Store to Stomach: Food Delivery Services Hit Tucson
Tucson residents can bring a whole new meaning to the phrase “couch potato” by having potatoes delivered right to their door: in original spud form or in frenched form. Grocery delivery service Instacart launched in Tucson on Aug. 8 and UberEATS, the food delivery branch of the popular ride service, launched in the city on…
AHHHHHHHHHH!
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. And on Aug. 25, HUB Restaurant & Ice Creamery will heed our cries when it reopens for lunch and dinner after its summer renovations. Brunch, the most important meal of the day and clinically shown to be the most acceptable time to get day drunk,…
Present Future
Agricultural fields once stretched across the desert as far as the eye could see. Danny Lyon was there to photograph them.
Know Your Product
With her debut album, Dacus became one of the most acclaimed musicians of 2016.
Towering Inferno
This movie is a catastrophe, and a complete slight to everyone
Dead Letters
Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent letters to governors of states with legal recreational marijuana
Ask a Mexican!
WOW . . . Art Laboe in ¡Ask a Mexican! This column has finally hit its zenith—and since it’s all downhill from here, Art, I’d like to dedicate “The Agony and the Ecstasy” to my sad girl, journalism.
A Certifiable Strategy
Get ready for the first of a new breed of teachers in Arizona’s public schools this year.
Bloom Free
If Tucson is a body, Jocelyn is the synapses connecting its creative faculties.
Equitable Solutions
At a community forum on equity, the Ward 3 primary candidates spoke to a full house
Editor’s Note
McSally’s new effort on healthcare plus a look at Ward 3’s Democratic candidates before the August 29 primary.
A Needed Prescription
President Donald Trump has threatened to crash the individual marketplace by cutting off federal funding
Window of Opportunity
In July, the U.S. Department of Labor awarded Pima County a $236,654 grant for the Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program
Police Dispatch
Two people were apprehended on the edge of town possessing meth pipes but no meth, bullets but no guns.
Paul vs. Faul
This week decide if the music from Paul and Faul came from the same cranium at “Live and Let Die-A Paul McCartney Tribute” at the Fox Theater.
Reel Indie
Movies hitting Tucson’s independent theaters
Tucson Salvage
Any generalized comfort we felt before Donald Trump’s arrival in office has been converted into painful awareness of everything around us.
Cultural Appropriation
Most people come for the culture, but what brings them back is the quality of food and drink.
