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Los Lobos, The Bennu and More: Concerts to See in Tucson This Weekend
Friday, Sept. 6 Like a carbonaceous asteroid, psychedelic funk/jam band The Bennu shoot through the night sky emitting light. They make impact at 191 Toole. The Legion of Mario channel the music of the Grateful Dead beforehand. “It’s heaven and hell.” Local Love presents MetalFest XVIII. Headrust, Never Say Never, Sinphonics, Sigils Of Summoning, Fire…
Nine Things to Do This Weekend in Tucson: Napoleon Dynamite, Craft Beer and More
Friday, Sept. 6 Shows and Entertainment The Vinyl Grooves at The O. Did someone say “go-go dancers?!” And if no one said it, why not? We should all be talking about go-go dancers all the time! I can’t even walk in those crazy boots, and they dance in them! The special ’60s arm of Desert Melodies…
Laughing Stock: Celebrating and Rememberiing
Bobby Henline headlines benefit for military and first responders. National touring comedian Bobby Henline tops the bill of a benefit variety show at the Fox Tucson Theater at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 10. Tickets are $20, or two for $35, via foxtucson.com. The 9/11 Tower Challenge Vaudeville Show also includes the Gaslight Theatre’s popular retro…
One Seed Pima County: Blooming Black Russian Sunflowers
At Pima County Public Library, it starts with a seed… Were you one of the thousands of Pima County residents that checked out Black Russian Sunflower seeds as part of the Library’s 2019 One Seed program? For many of you, now could be the time to start harvesting and saving your seeds! If you planted…
Jacob Tobia makes Tucson a stop on their national book tour!
Have you read Jacob Tobia’s (pronouns: they/them) national bestseller, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story? You really should! Then join us on October 6 at Murphy-Wilmot Library (530 N. Wilmot Rd.) from 6 to 8 pm for an open and honest discussion about how we can build a world free from gender-based trauma and bursting with trans-inclusive feminism.…
XOXO: Where To Rock on Thursday, Sept. 5
In July 2018, after snorting rails of cocaine that were “left in my room,” chugging “a friend’s” THC-infused lean and chasing it all with tequila at a nearby bar, this emo-rapper—after going outside for a smoke—felt an “explosion” detonate inside his chest. He woke up in a hospital bed. A nurse informed that he suffered…
Four Great Things to Do in Tucson: Thursday, Sept. 5
Akira. This 1988 animated film is such a dazzling mishmash of genres and themes it almost had to be a big deal from the beginning: science fiction, anime, hallucinatory body horror, cyberpunk action sequences and noir elements all blend together into one of the most influential Japanese films since the ’80s. More than just influential…
Police Searching for Shooting Suspect on Southwest Side
Local authorities are currently on the search for a male shooting suspect on Tucson’s southwest side. The Pima County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene of a shooting in the 4000 block of West Camino Elario on Wednesday, Sept. 4 just before 2 p.m. According to the PCSD, they received a call of someone who…
Claytoon of the Day: A Real Tacky Cartoon
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Casino Del Sol Launching Tailgate Chef Contest at UA Football Games
Get out your aprons and spatulas, Tucson. It’s time to find the best tailgate cook in the Old Pueblo. At each University of Arizona home football game, starting this Saturday, Sept. 7 against Northern Arizona University, Casino Del Sol Executive Chef Ryan Clark will search for the best tailgate dishes. His goal? To crown one…
Reid Park Zoo says ‘goodbye’ to Elinor the giraffe
The Reid Park Zoo said goodbye to one of its animal inhabitants this week, 20-year-old Elinor the reticulated giraffe. Born in the Knoxville Zoological Gardens on May 29, 1999, Elinor came to Tucson when she was 11 years old in 2010. According to the zoo, Elinor died Monday, Sept. 2, just a day after “demonstrating…
Claytoon of the Day: F’ed Up
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All Bets Are On, Volume 29: On Arizona’s loss to Hawaii, college football week one and more
Co-hosts Christopher Boan and Tyler Vondrak are back to break down the first full week of the college football. Boan spends the first segment recounting his college years at Colorado State, which hosts Colorado tonight. The next segment features Vondrak riffing on Arizona’s opening week loss to Hawaii in Honolulu, as well as picking the…
XOXO: Where to rock this weekend, Aug.30-Sept.2
Friday, Aug. 30 Neoperreo is a mashup of reggaetón and digital culture. Chilean singer, “La Reina del Neoperreo,” Tomasa Del Real rose up from the L.A. underground—where she slogged away as a tattoo artist—to the vanguard of reggaetón’s freakiest offshoot. Perreo is a sexually uninhibited dance that challenged the sensibilities of Puerto Rican status quo,…
Claytoon of the Day: Tossers For Trump
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Copia Edibles Hosts Statewide Blood Drive With American Red Cross
Peggy Noonan, founder and CEO of marijuana edibles company Copia Edibles, knows first hand how vital blood donations can be. Diagnosed with Leukemia in 2017, Noonan felt inspired to shine a light on the importance of donating blood. Now, Copia will be organizing a statewide blood drive in partnership with the American Red Cross association. “Having…
Sheriff’s Department Suspends Secure Transport Contract After Prisoners Escape
After two inmates escaped custody while being transported to the Pima County Adult Detention Complex, the Sheriff’s Department has suspended it’s use of Kansas-based transport company Security Transport Services (STS). On Aug. 26, STS was transporting 56-year-old Blane Barksdale and 59-year-old Susan Barksdale, who were being extradited to Tucson in relation to charges connected in…
Unholy Matrimony
After some strong but smallish roles in Ash vs Evil Dead and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Samara Weaving gets a lead role and totally kills it in Ready or Not.
Splitting the Check
Moms Demand Action wants both Sinema and Arizona’s other senator, Republican Martha McSally, to support a federal law requiring universal background checks. Such universal background checks, which require background checks on all gun sales, have been instituted in 12 states. Arizona does not have them.
Reel Indie
Ready for battle? Don’t miss Kill Bill or Rambo!
Cray’s Way
After five decades of playing venues big and small, Blues Hall of Fame guitarist Robert Cray says the best part of being a professional musician is still when he hits the stage.
Danehy
It’s not an easy time to be a teenage girl, although it probably should be better than it is.
City Week
Mark your calendar!
Tiny Terrors
Worldwide, mosquitoes kill more than 700,000 people a year, more than any other animal by a large margin, by transmitting diseases.
Tucson Salvage
Hannah talks about her mom and stops, a rare breath between difficult subjects. She continues: “It’s an injustice for people to assume others aren’t going to change just because they used to be a certain way. My mom cleaned up and was getting her life together and it was so beautiful.
XOXO
Music to fill out your week.
Fall Arts: Large Canvas
It’s been 100 years since the Bauhaus shaped my house and your house and Tucson is ready to mark the moment.
Fall Arts: Stage Whispers
Theatre-going Tucsonans know that, luckily for us, theatre here never really rests.
Fall Arts: Fine Tuned
TSO has more events going on than we can fit in the paper, so we’ve just included events from their Classic, SuperPops and Masterworks series in this roundup.
On the rise
Behind the rallying cry to “Get off the agrochemical treadmill,” Tucson will celebrate a decade-long revival designed to bring healthy and better tasting grains and legumes back to Southern Arizona with a Heritage Grain Forum on Tuesday, Sept. 3, and Wednesday, Sept. 4, at the University of Arizona Haury Auditorium.
Fall Arts: Meet the New Boss
For Arizona Theatre Company’s new artistic director, Sean Daniels, this is a homecoming.
Arts & Craft
Jim introduces our Fall Arts Guide and the rest of the content in the latest edition of Tucson Weekly.
Fall Arts: Stayin’ Alive
Tucson’s dance calendar has shrunk in recent years. Now it will get even sparser with the closing of Artifact Dance Project.
Quick Bites
Food and libations for your week!
