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Your Indispensable Back-To-College Guide
Welcome to some tips about shit that matters for you back-to-schoolers, straight from three current Arizona Wildcats. Listen up to their advice and remember to work hard, play hard and do your homework.
Cinema Clips: Annabelle: Creation
Annabelle, the creepy doll from The Conjuring movies, gets her second standalone film with Annabelle: Creation, a silly movie that’s nevertheless enjoyable thanks to some deft direction and surprisingly competent acting. The movie essentially holds together thanks to solid performances from Talitha Bateman and Lulu Wilson, the latter being the same child actress who gave…
Laughing Stock: It Really Is All About You
“The audience makes this show,” says Tucson comedian Nancy Stanley. She’s referring to The Estrogen Hour, her project with Mary Steed to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The next Estrogen Hour is at 6 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 27 at Laff’s Comedy Caffe. “The audience is always important to a comedian’s energy and…
Why Did Phoenix Cops Unload Tear Gas and Flash Bang Grenades on Trump Protesters?
After the Donald Trump campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center was over, there were clashes between anti-Trump protesters and City of Phoenix Police officers, who fired tear gas and flash bangs. City of Phoenix Police Department released a statement which put the blame for starting the entire thing on a handful of activists whom…
Cinema Clips: Lemon
Eccentric comedic actor Brett Gelman gets a much deserved starring vehicle as Isaac, a theater teacher going through some troubles with his blind girlfriend (Judy Greer). She starts getting antsy, and his behavior gets weirder and weirder, especially when it comes to student Alex (a very funny Michael Cera). Let’s just say things don’t go…
The Weekly List: 22 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. ¡Cultura! Día de los Muertos Opening Reception. Tohono Chul’s next exhibit honors and remembers the dead in a celebration that is full of color and joy. Pieces by local artists will be displayed until the exhibit ends on Nov. 8, and artists whose work is…
Quick Bites: You Can Eat With Your Hands!
End of Summer Pizza Party! Okay, this section is called “Quick Bites.” And sometimes, though a festival of tastings or a five-course meal might sound indulgent and incredible, all you really want is a quick slice of pizza and a soft drink. Old Pueblo Harley Davidson has pizza lovers covered for a Saturday summer send-off,…
Quick Bites: Wine Sounds Just Fine
Beat the Heat Sangria & Salsa Festival. If you’re wondering what more a Southern Arizona resident could really ask for besides salsa and sangria, get this: the event is held in an ice hockey rink, with full blast AC. Not to mention there will be paella, empanadas, artisan vendors and live Spanish guitar. Parents who…
Cinema Clips: Whose Streets?
This is a strong documentary from directors Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis about the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement after the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The film utilizes stock footage of protesters and their standoffs against militarized cops, and shows you how things got mightily out of hand. It…
Anti-Racist Protesters Demand Supervisor Miller Resign
About 600 protesters waving familiar posters gathered in front of Pima County’s Administration Building on Tuesday evening: Refugees Welcome, Black Lives Matter, No Human is Illegal. In an age where almost every week, people take to the streets to voice their outrage with the government, people are getting creative. “Dumbledore’s Army accepting members” and “Ctrl+Alt+Delete”…
In The Flesh: The Old Pueblo’s Greatest Rapper, Big Meridox, Says Goodbye To Tucson in a Fitting Farewell at The Flycatcher
Dope flow. Sick rhymes. Loud, deep bass rattled innards. Earplugs were little defense. “We’ve got three fucking decades of Tucson hip hop up here,” Jivin Scientists’ MC Runt exclaimed. Tucson’s hip-hop community gathered Saturday night at The Flycatcher to pay homage to Marcus “Big Ox” Meridox, who, along with James Ciphurphace and Jivin’ Scientists, in…
Little Birdies To Hit The Golf Course
It’s the event that your 3 to 5 year olds have been waiting for for up to 3 to 5 years! The Tucson J’s 2nd Annual “Itty Bitty Open,” a golf tournament for children ages 3 to 5. Plastic putters will be provided, as will a golf professional who goes over basic golf terms and…
HOCO Fest Countdown: The Stunning Yves Tumor
Each Labor Day weekend, Club Congress hosts the HOCO Fest, the city’s biggest musical bash. It runs Wed. Aug. 30—Sunday, Sept. 3. We here at TW HQ are so down with it that we’re doing power previews like tequila shots of bands and artists performing. Here’s the beautifully deceptive Yves Tumor, performing Sunday, Sept. 3. As…
Cinema Clips: Logan Lucky
A gang of losers plots to rob a NASCAR racetrack on one of its busiest weekends, and they do it in a hackneyed way that makes absolutely no sense. Steven Soderbergh comes out of retirement to direct Channing Tatum as Jimmy Logan, a former football player who has fallen on bad times, then suddenly gets…
Bernie Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Bernie! I am a 5-year-old brown tabby, male looking for the purr-fect home! I came as a transfer from another organization in April. Don’t let my tipped ear fool you, I have lived my whole life indoors. I did not like being in a kennel so the nice people at HSSA let me…
Ally Miller Chickens Out: Under Fire for ‘White Pride’ Comments, Supervisor Skips Today’s Board Meeting
Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller, who made the news last week when she declared her “white pride” on Facebook after would-be Nazis marched in Charlottesville and killed one counter-protester (along with injuring others), decided to skip today’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Miller dashed off an email at 6:13 a.m. this morning letting county officials know she…
HOCO Fest 2017 Countdown: Mexican Institute of Sound
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. We here at TW HQ so down with it we’ll be doing power previews like tequila shots of bands and artists performing…
HOCO Fest 2017 Countdown: Willis Earl Beal (AKA Nobody)
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. We here at TW HQ so down with it we’ll be doing drive-by previews like tequila shots of bands and artists performing…
San Antonio’s Pre-K Program
Tucson will be voting on Strong Start, an initiative to fund a preschool program through a half cent sales tax. San Antonio, Texas, has created a similar system, with significant differences. A long Politico article has the details. Here’s a brief summary. San Antonio voted in a 1/8-cent tax to fund a pre-K program, with…
In the Flesh: Tucson’s March Against White Supremacy
On Sunday, Aug. 13, approximately 2000 concerned citizens of Tucson took to the streets and sidewalks to demonstrate to the rest of the community that bigotry, hatred and violence on rise in America, enabled by the POTUS himself, is just not acceptable. Same thing happened around the country. With 24 hours to organize, an assemblage…
Education Poll: Support For Charter Schools Down (And Other Results)
Education Next published the results of its latest poll on education issues. As with all polls and studies, these results should be taken with many grains of salt. But Education Next is a serious publication and it has been conducting these polls for awhile, so its numbers are worth a serious look. For me, the most surprising…
HOCO Fest 2017 Countdown: DJ Orange Julius
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. We’re so down with it we’ll be doing drive-by previews like tequila shots of bands and artists performing the Hoco Fest fest,…
Editor’s Note
It’s the time of the year when all those co-eds come back to Tucson in search of a college education and all that comes with it: Adderall-fueled all-nighters, keg parties, date dashes, Special K freakouts, hookups and all that other stuff that kids are all up into. Since I have no idea what the kids…
Hasty Tasting
Food is a necessity, but with the local launch of grocery delivery services Instacart and UberEATS (the food delivery branch of the popular ride service) last week, Tucson residents need not walk farther than the front door to get it.
Rock ’N’ Roll Star
Terry Trash is feeling it.
Police Dispatch
A bloody, sunburned man was soon rescued after he was seen on a major street with his pants falling off, allegedly after a random assault.
Out on Top
Just as Tucson hip-hop has evolved over the last two decades, so too has Big Meridox, who has endured as the most visible, most respected and most accomplished MC here. With an imminent move to Indianapolis (where, surprise, he got a higher-paying teaching gig) Meridox is wrapping up his long-running While You Slept show, curating…
The Skinny
Supervisor Miller finds a way to make the Charlottesville mess about her skin color
Police Dispatch
West Fort Lowell Road July 10, 2:19 a.m. A young man used the most tenuous of technicalities to truthfully state he didn’t self-inject drugs—even having been caught among overwhelming evidence to the contrary, according to a University of Arizona Police Department report. A UA officer pulled the subject over near Fort Lowell Road and Campbell…
Paul Durham for City Council
We need to build on recent success with the best available leaders. Vote wisely, Ward 3. Vote for Paul Durham.
Ask a Mexican!
DEAR MUJER: Was I ever confused about my ethnic identity? Absolutely.
Danehy
There are unsubstantiated reports of people claiming to have voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and then Donald Trump in 2016. I know, that whole Nibiru thing is more believable, but this myth won’t go away. I heard some guy on the radio the other day actually make that claim.
Sanctuary Awaits
Firefly is that hideaway you’ve been asking about but have yet to find. I
Know Your Product
The members of hardcore metal band Dead Cross hate the term “supergroup.”
Campus Clash
A legal fight over campus cannabis is lurching toward the Arizona Supreme Court
Fire and Fury
For “Liar, Liar Pants on Fire,” Linda Bohlke scorched a pair of toddler jeans and emblazoned them with the flaming face of our president, Mr. Fire and Fury himself.
Production Values
When the marvelous and more than slightly mad Mel Brooks labored to write and direct his first full-length movie, The Producers, it was 1967 and a tumultuous culture clash was happening outside the rehearsal room (or rooms, actually, since there was a need to bounce around because of money issues). The production process was tumultuous—by…
Child’s Play
Annabelle the creepy doll from The Conjuring movies gets her second, standalone film with Annabelle: Creation, a silly movie that is, nevertheless, enjoyable thanks to some deft direction and surprisingly competent acting.
Reel Indie
In the mood for a Batman movie (Lego or otherwise)? How about a fun action adventure showing in an outdoor venue? A Japanese film based on a manga? Some British theater?
