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Stateless Fear: An Asylum Story
Hammouda is soft spoken, answering in English so quick and quiet that it is difficult to make out over the din of evening passersby and the screech of a halting streetcar.
Casa Video Top 10
Just a few short weeks until we’ll all be able to go outside without our faces melting off! In the meantime, keep yourself entertained inside your house. Here’s the week’s top 10 most rented DVD’s from Casa Video: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice The Boss Keanu Hardcore Henry A Hologram for the King The Lobster…
Quick Bites: Transported by Tastebud
“Road trip!” This time of year, merely hearing that enthusiastic utterance may exhaust you. Which means you’ve likely already been on a road trip or two this summer. But good news: There’s another kind of trip that takes absolutely no packing and only enough gas to get to East Grant Road. During the Kingfisher’s “Road…
Cinema Clips: Miss Sharon Jones!
In 2013, soul singer Sharon Jones was diagnosed with cancer and underwent a major operation and chemotherapy. Well, that didn’t slow her down much at all, as this documentary from director Barbara Kopple shows. When Jones got sick, she just shaved her head and kept on performing. The film shows her appearances on stage, in…
The Weekly List: 23 Things To Do in Tucson in the Next Seven Days
It’s Our Birthday! Tucson is turning 241 this weekend. There’s a plethora of ways to celebrate (a hike at Saguaro National Park, a bucket of eegees and a trip to Antigone Books sounds like a perfect Tucson day), but here are your more formal options: Celebrate “with a bang” at Presidio Museum (196 N. Court Ave.).…
Quick Bites: Go Plumb Local
If you’ve eaten the food of award-winning Chef Janos Wilder, you know why he’s a local celebrity. And this Saturday, Aug. 20, you can join him at an event celebrating local restaurants, local food and local agriculture, hosted by nonprofit Local First Arizona at the three-course “Ranch to Table Dinner.” Attendees will be greeted with…
Greg Miller Out At the State Board of Education
Wednesday afternoon the press released the news that Greg Miller, current president of the state Board of Education, quit. Not only will he no longer be board president, but he says he plans to leave the board entirely. Miller and Ed Supe Diane Douglas have feuded since she stepped into office in January, with Ducey generally…
Win Tickets to the Beach Blanket Be-Bop at the Gaslight Music Hall
Good news if you’ve been meaning to check out the Gaslight Theatre’s new sister-site: The Gaslight Music Hall (13005 N. Oracle Rd #165) is giving away tickets to see its summer musical revue the Beach Blanket Be-Bop show for each of its remaining performances. Enter below to win a pair of ticket to the performance of…
The Countdown Is On: UA Is Headed Back Into Space with OSIRIS-REx
The UA is headed back out to space with a new NASA mission in roughly three weeks. Asteroid hunter OSIRIS-REx is scheduled for liftoff on Thursday, Sept. 8. The pretty damn cool science mission, led by Principal Investigator and UA Professor of Planetary Science Dante Lauretta, will spend the next two years chasing down the…
Ducey ‘Next Step’ Watch: Day 89. “No More Reading Tea Leaves” Edition
Bill Buckmaster went and did it. On his Aug. 10 radio show, Bill asked his guest, Doug Ducey, “What is the next step for getting more money into the classrooms?” In the next few minutes, Ducey, employing his usual word-salad-sprayed-through-a-garden-hose style of answering questions, said lots of things about improving education but never said a…
The Last Hurrah
The twilight of summer is here (womp womp). Upsides? Walking out the front door will soon no longer feel like accidentally opening a pre-heated oven. And hey, here’s a list of five awesome events to attend before the onslaught that is the first week of school descends upon our once empty, tranquil desert streets. 1)…
Want To Be a Top High School? Better Not Have Too Many Low Income Students.
Newsweek published its 2016 America’s Top High Schools listings. I’m not a fan of these things. Their criteria are usually questionable, and they favor schools in high rent districts, making it look like those schools are doing a better job educating their students than schools in low rent districts. But this one is more interesting…
Cinema Clips: Suicide Squad
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was a skunk blast to the face for most of us trying to have a good time with a superhero movie earlier this year. This has been established repeatedly—perhaps ad nauseam—in this here column. Suicide Squad looked like a chance to get DC movies back on the good foot.…
Hemmingway Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Hemingway! I’m a very special 10-month-old kitten and I need a home! What makes me special you ask? Check out my front paws! I have extra toes! That’s right, I’m a polydactyl cat! In my previous home I really loved being around kids, I was very gentle and sweet to them. If your…
Casa Video Top 10
To do list: Hang out with some mermaids, take a lesson from one of Tucson’s best chefs and watch some movies. Here’s a list of the 10 most rented movies from Casa Video last week: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice The Boss The Lobster Keanu Harecore Henry The Revenant Criminal Batman: The Killing Joke…
David Gowan Bows To Reality, Quits Congressional Race
Arizona Speaker of the House David Gowan gave up on his hopeless campaign for Congress today and endorsed fellow Congressional District 1 candidate Gary Kiehne, saying that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu “must not be our nominee.” Gowan’s statement: After prayer and conversations with my family, I have made the decision to suspend my campaign…
Khizr Khan Calls On McCain To Rebuke Trump
The last book Khizr Khan sent his son Humayun, an Army captain who was killed in a 2004 car bombing in Iraq, was Sen. John McCain’s “Why Courage Matters.” Khan said he has long respected the Arizona Republican, and that one of his last conversations with his son had been about the book and McCain’s…
Scott Stewart Drops Out of Race for PCC Board
Scott Stewart, Pima Community College’s longest sitting board member, announced yesterday that despite filling paperwork for re-election earlier in the year, he will not be running for another term. He endorsed Meredith Hay, who served as Executive Vice President and Provost at the UA from 2008 to 2012. Hay is running unopposed for the seat.…
Beautiful Pour
Beer brought Eric Sipe beautiful things.
Pre-Game the Mermaid Parade
The Return of the Mermaids is kicking off in full (tail) swing.
Lions and Tigers and Bulbasaurs, oh my!
Trainers can meet one another and catch ’em all (sans zoo animals) while enjoying music, facepainting and learning some valuable tips and tricks.
Cook with Janos
James Beard award-winning chef Janos Wilder will take a group of intrepid Tucson foodies through a comprehensive cooking class.
The Campout is Back So Bring on the Poor Life Choices
AZ Hops and Vines is bringing bacon, booze and now stars to the Bad Decisions Campout this year.
Dancer’s Return
Joshua Blake Carter says he has been “very lucky” since graduating from the UA School of Dance with a BFA in 2009
Dream Building
Art Almquist loves his job.
Suicide Squat
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was a skunk blast to the face for most of you trying to have a good time with a superhero movie earlier this year. This has been established repeatedly—perhaps ad nauseam—in this here column.
Rock Pickups: Silversun Pickups
“Hide your cradle and a headstone in the watermark when the sea comes,” sings Brian Aubert of the Silversun Pickups in “Cradle (Better Nature) which kicks off the bands’ most recent full length effort, Better Nature (2015, New Machine Recordings)
Editor’s Note
Working in a newsroom can be grumpy business.
Stage Share: Old Crow Medicine Show, Brandi Carlile
Critter Fuqua doesn’t care too much about fixing any particular label on the music of Old Crow Medicine Show.
Dust Devil
He’s Mighty like a River.
The Real Madness
For nearly a century officials have touted the dangers of marijuana. Many of us can dip into the memory banks to find attempts of officers visiting our classrooms to enlighten us on how drugs would ruin our lives.
Tucson Salvage
When you’re never around a little kid and then you suddenly are around a super-intuitive one, it’s like they’re from asteroid B-612.
Pleasure Activist
“I think the simplest definition is loving more than one person, but it’s so much more than that.”
T Q&A
Other than when the rains come fast filling our washes, we don’t have too many bodies of water to call our own, but Lizzie Mead works hard to allow the desert mermaids of Tucson a time to bask in the late summer sun.
Police Dispatch
A man and his live-in female partner woke up early one morning to find their vehicle covered in savory breakfast foods.
Police Dispatch
A man hastily pooh-poohed his constitutional rights while being detained for threatening to beat up the entire population of a bar.
