Cover Stories
A Broke Student’s Guide
If you’re one of those students who live in a fancy high-rise and drive an Audi RS4, then this listicle is not for you.
Food Insecurity
hile many joke about college students only eating Top Ramen because they’re always broke, food insecurity is an actual problem facing students.
State of Mind
There is little means of escape, it often seems, from the pressure cooker that is our frightening global context, fed by increasingly violent wars and human suffering, fueled by the bubbling intolerance and fear that can only come when people split further apart on the spectrum of thought and opinion.
Win Tickets To See Colvin & Earle
Local fans of Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle, rejoice! The solo artists have banded together and are stopping by our beloved Rialto Theater (318 E. Congress Street) on Sunday. Here’s a little about the duo from the Rialto’s website: Grammy Award winning singer-songwriters Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle have announced a special run of tour dates…
Casa Video Top 10
Feeling the need for a weekend in front of the TV? Here’s your weekly look at the most popular movies at Casa Video: The Boss Keanu Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice Fathers and Daughters The Lobster Hail, Caesar! A Hologram for the King Batman: The Killing Joke Hardcore Harry 10. Criminal
The Weekly List: 21 Things To Do In Tucson In The Next Seven Days
Pick of the Week Meet OSIRIS-REx! The UA Lunar and Planetary Lab is teaming up with NASA to head back out into space. 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 near-earth asteroid Bennu. Once OSIRIS-REx catches…
Silicon Valley Businesses Move to Phoenix—Because It’s Cheaper
Governor Ducey loves to talk about businesses fleeing states with high business taxes and onerous regulations to come settle in Arizona. It hasn’t worked out exactly as planned. Our U-Haul lots aren’t overflowing with moving trucks carrying California businesses here, though we’ve seen a bit of an economic upswing lately. That includes high tech businesses…
World View Case Moves Forward After Motion Denied
On Monday, Aug. 22, Judge Catherine Woods heard oral arguments regarding Pima County’s motion to dismiss the suit brought by the Goldwater Institute that challenged the legality of the World View Enterprises deal. Pima County was represented by attorneys Regina Nassen and Andrew Flagg, while the plaintiffs were represented by attorneys Jim Manley and Veronica…
Win Tickets to See the Diamondbacks on Friday
You know the drill: Enter below to win tickets to see the Diamondbacks vs. Reds game on Friday, Aug. 26 at 6:40 p.m. We’ll contact the winner midday Thursday and they’ll have to pick the tickets up from our office either Thursday or Friday before 5 p.m. Good luck! Fill out my online form. var…
Quick Bites: How Do Ya Like Them Apples?
Southern Arizona doesn’t offer that prototypical American autumn (duh). Our fall is more “monsoon-fed-weeds-taking-over-our-yards” than “trees-changing-color-all-around-us.” And more, “Gee, it’s finally going to be cooler than 100 degrees!” than, “Quick, the kids need new jackets!” Even our back-to-school dates are different from in most other states. But it’s still apple season. Apples may not be…
The New York Times is Telling the Story of How Tucson Became an ‘Unlikely Food Star’
If you ask me, anyone who thinks Tucson’s culinary successes are unlikely hasn’t been paying attention. Well, it seems as though some folks are taking note now. Today, the New York Times published a story detailing a bit about our Sonoran cuisine under the headline “Tucson Becomes an Unlikely Food Star.” Here’s a snippet: There…
What John Oliver Said About Charter Schools
John Oliver and his staff clearly did their charter school homework. On Last Week Tonight last Sunday, Oliver discussed problems with the lack of vetting of people who open charters and the lack of oversight once schools are open. He shows people plagiarizing their charter applications, others using charters as their personal ATMs, and schools…
Cinema Clips: Don’t Think Twice
An improv group called the Commune faces an uncertain future when their theater is closing and members of their team are faced with life changing events. Writer-director-actor Mike Birbiglia plays Miles, an improvisational actor in his mid-thirties who feels passed over, while Jack (Keegan-Michael Key) finds himself in line for a role on The Weekend…
Food Truck Frenzy at Tucson Hop Shop
Beer, food and friends. Three things that dissolve worries and leave one warm, hoppy and ready to take on another day. Now it’s one thing to go to the local bar for a drink and a bite and it’s another to go to a place where the menu and the people making the food change…
Crooked Teeth and a New Brewery
What do dwarves drink after slaying dragons all day? Tucson brewer Benjamin Vernon is pretty sure it would be his Dwarvish Ale, an earthy brew with a hefty oak finish that will be one of the debut beers when his Crooked Tooth Brewing Co. opens Downtown this fall. Vernon has been working overtime—as in, every…
Jazzy Needs a Home
Remember me? I’m Jazzy! I’m a 2.5-year-old girl and I’ve been looking for a home since April! I’m very scared in the shelter, so I can’t wait to for my new family to find me and take me home! I really need a home where I can be an indoor-only dog and get a lot…
Cinema Clips: Hell or High Water
Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster all destroy their parts in this absolutely terrific modern western from director David Mackenzie. Pine and Foster play two brothers who come up with a bank-robbing scheme to save the family farm, and Bridges is the soon-to-be-retired sheriff trying to stop them. Pine takes his career into all…
Cinema Clips: Little Men
Friendships when you are younger are a big deal. Writer-director Ira Sachs is very much clued into this reality with this beautiful little movie about a family moving to Brooklyn after a relative has left them a home. Greg Kinnear, in his best role in years, plays Brian, an actor on the downside of his…
Win Tickets to See Black Bottom Lighters at the Rock
Black Bottom Lighters are playing a the Rock (136 N. Park Avenue) on Friday, Aug. 19. After that band performs, Spahn Valley Ranch hands featuring Sean Raines from We Killed The Union, Jimbo from Border Town Devils and other special guests will take the stage. Doors open at 7 p.m. Want a pair of tickets?…
Danehy
It’s the middle of August, which means that, here in Tucson, it’s the sweaty armpit of the entire year’s calendar.
Editor’s Note
This week, with the help of our UA interns, we get down to reality: the students are back. Some of us grumble at their return, but it’s great for the city.
Dust Devil
The sky, not falling, is melting in-to-out, sliding molten glass about each structure, each crevice.
Police Dispatch
Perhaps in anticipation of the dry-scalp-inducing winter—even in the middle of monsoon season—two men tried to shoplift about $50 worth of Head and Shoulders shampoo (plus some Purell) by concealing the bottles in the clothing they wore.
Police Dispatch
A rural Tucson woman showed great kindness to an acquaintance, giving him a place to stay and letting him borrow valuable things—only to be led on a “wild horse chase” after she loaned him her horse and he apparently stole it (among other things).
Five tips for staying out of trouble in the dorms
Let’s face it: If you’re a college student occasionally you may find yourself on the wrong side of the law. Here are some tips to help keep you out of trouble.
Is Prop 205 Right for Arizona?
Prop 205, which would decriminalize the use of marijuana for adults over 21, is a complex proposal.
Desert Nutrition
Farm-to-fork or forage-to-fork? How wild you want to get?
Dancing with Saguaros
You know you love the saguaro, but if you really love them, you dance and celebrate their cactus goodness
Stella! Stella!
Yes, monsoons are still around, which makes it the perfect night to get New Orleans sultry with a screening of A Streetcar Named Desire on Thursday, Aug. 18 at Cinema La Placita, 115 N. Church Ave., from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Come celebrate Tucson’s 241st birthday … and the SunLink Streetcar’s 2nd birthday with a…
Rummage Rumba
The Wildcat Welcome Week Rummage Sale is Friday, Aug. 19 (8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) and Saturday, Aug. 20 (8 a.m. to noon) at the UA Surplus Storefront, 3720 E. 34th St. This event was a collaboration with Residence Life and the Office of Sustainability that helped divert nine tons from the landfill during the…
Golden Beer Ticket
Casa Video and Casa Film Bar, 2905 E. Speedway Blvd., is screening Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory on Friday, Aug. 19, from 7 to 9 p.m. to go along with an Arizona craft beer and cider, and candy pairing night. For more details, as if you really need any, visit the event’s Facebook page.
Adios, Compadre
A gathering of the tribes was held Saturday at the ranch of a life long friend of the Ronstadt clan to remember a musician, historian, father and all around solid guy – Michael J. Ronstadt.
Furious Island: AJJ
“We used to be cool and now we’re P.C. bitch-asses.”
Studio Love
Jon Rauhouse loves to record music in Tucson.
Best Two out of Three
Voters will face a nuanced decision when they head to the polls on Aug. 30 to choose two Democrats to advance to the general election for Legislative District 9 in the Arizona House of Representatives.
The Joy of Sex
The Venus of Willendorf, as any art history major can tell you, is one of the oldest representations of a naked woman.
The Skinny
Kirkpatrick continues her effort to link McCain to Trump, while McCain links Kirkpatrick to Hillary.
Relationship Rigors
Musical revues have been quite popular, especially in recent years.
Media Watch
It’s no secret media, like a lot of industries, has endured its share of major changes due to transitions in the technological landscape. Many folks who run large media conglomerates are getting paid handsomely to devise strategies that best implement ways to maximize a shrinking bottom line.
Stoner Party
There have been a few too many “more of the same” type movies at theaters this summer. Flat, big budget blockbusters and sequels without an ounce of creativity or originality puking out of the Hollywood industrial complex, delivering an astounding amount of expensive, vapid horse shit.
