Cover Stories
Savage Love: Jerked Around
There is more to this week’s Savage Love. To read the entire column, go to Savage.Love. I’ve been with my wife for ten years. We are both 36 years old. We moved in fast and didn’t take time to learn certain things about one another. For example, I watch porn, which she only found out…
Recreational marijuana sales soar over medical marijuana
It looks like recreational marijuana use is big bucks for Arizona. Medical marijuana usage plummeted as recreational use soars to a new high. According to the Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR), adult-use (recreational) marijuana sales rose over $58.2 million in June. Medical marijuana usage sales sank to an all-time low at $33.7 million. In May,…
City Week: Weekly Picks
Trouble’s Trivia I am here to recommend this trivia night at the Jackrabbit Lounge because I went to it last week and it was very fun. The Jackrabbit is a bar with red lighting, retro vibes and a specialty drink called the Jackrabbit, which, to my surprise, came with a cute lil’ plastic rabbit in…
Nancy Stanley is back. Maybe. Probably.
After a debilitating stroke, COVID-19 isolation, the loss of her mother and retirement doldrums battered her soul and dulled her vaunted self-assurance, Nancy Stanley is ready to play, and to fall in love all over again with her audience. She’ll be headlining Ladies’ Night Comedy, Uncensored at 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, at Unscrewed Theater.…
Singer Andy Grammer is keeping his head up
Pop star Andy Grammer is known for songs like “Keep Your Head Up” and “Honey I’m Good.” But during the COVID-19 quarantine, he wasn’t all that great. “The pandemic kicked my (butt),” he said. “It got me into therapy. I had to deal with all the fun discoveries that therapy would give you. “I used…
Pop artist Eva Grace takes music in new direction
After her pandemic song “Goes Like (Do, Do, Do)” soared past 8 million streams and inspired the Hisoka TikTok dance, Eva Grace is exploring new sounds. The Tucson resident is hoping to lure music fans from all genres with melodies that lean toward alt/indie pop. She recently released her most recent single “still cry sometimes.”…
XOXO: Mark Your Calendars
Thursday, Aug. 25 From its glitchy self-titled debut to its latest studio album, Los Angeles noise rock/industrial outfit HEALTH has assimilated a deep anxiety about the future into its oeuvre. Squaring up to the illusory nature of contemporary life, in a society where delusion has become normalized, on “DISCO4 :: PARTII” — a collaborative album…
Legends Los Apson bring borderlands rock to town
Established in 1969, in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, Los Apson were pioneers of the musical movement that took the borderland regions by storm. Known for their covers of songs like “Fue en un Cafe,” (“Under the Boardwalk”) “Popeye,” (“Popeye, The Hitchhiker”) and “Cuando era Jovencito” (“Cottonfields”), Los Apson brought Spanish-speakers their own version of rock…
Collaborative Community Work: 16th HOCO Fest features new sustainability summit
HOCO Fest celebrates its 16th anniversary Labor Day weekend with a “forward-facing” twist: the Regenerate AZ: Sonoran Desert Sustainability Summit. Matt Baquet, the festival’s director of four years, called it a “homecoming.” “I truly believe and hope that we will begin this process in this era of Tucson becoming a beacon symbol of sustainable, regenerative,…
Tav Falco ‘wanders’ into the Grand Canyon State
Multimedia artist Tav Falco and his band Panther Burns have long been considered heroes to bands like Primal Scream, Spiritualized and the Blues Explosion. The 77-year-old Falco takes it all in stride. “I doubt these two consider me a hero,” said Falco about Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and Jon Spencer of the Blues Explosion.…
