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Nobody Rich or Famous
I met Richard Shelton in the winter of 1989. He had started his writing workshop within the walls of the Florence prison some 30 years ago and was now at Cimarron unit, a high medium prison in the Wilmot complex, where I was serving my sentence. The workshop was like a floating crap game with…
Casa Video Top 10
Over here at Weekly World Central, we’re stressin’ to get next week’s paper to the printer a little early so we can take a little time off for movie marathons and pizza at home. That’s what December days off are for, right? Here’s your weekly look at Casa Video’s 10 most popular rentals right now:…
Quick Bites: You Can Give a Kid a Cupcake… or Teach Them How to Bake
The Carriage House is a very classy restaurant. But who said kids can’t appreciate fine cuisine? Certainly not Carriage House owner Chef Janos Wilder. This weekend he makes that very clear with the Carriage House’s first-ever kids cooking class (more precisely, baking class), when children—and teens!—can learn how to make fine cuisine—or more precisely, dainty…
The Weekly List: 23 Things To Do In The Next 10 Days
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Pick of the Week Fifth Annual Rock Lottery: In one of the most unique events of the year, the fifth annual rock lottery will feature 25 local musicians in an impromptu concert in makeshift bands. The concept is this: take 25 musicians, throw them together in…
Nine Questions: DJQ
Producer and sound provider DJQ’s mission is to enlighten people with the sounds of the barrio. From bring the revolutionary sounds of the 70s to his music, to playing G-FUNK to set the ambiance at a party, Q will always bring the music him and his people have been and continue to listen to. What…
Quick Bites: A Healthy Kind of Bar
“Let’s just get a sandwich or something.” The latest commercials for national chain Panera Bread pooh-poohs this phrase. But if you ever visit Tucson’s own long-beloved Food Conspiracy Co-op—especially for its ready-made snacks and meals (notably, but not limited to, sandwiches)—you might be saying it more frequently, with gusto, to your friends (and/or yourself ……
Tucson Stained Glass Brings Color to the Old Pueblo
In Tucson Stained Glass, bright glass items hang from the ceiling. The front windows display stained glass projects previous students and artists have completed, no one similar to any other. There are birds, cacti, animals, flowers, and kitchenware. Shelves of multicolored glass plates line the store, flanked by glassmaking supplies and equipment. And in the…
Cinema Clips: Loving
Written and directed by Greg Nichols, this film recounts the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose interracial marriage was ruled illegal by the state of Virginia in 1958, banning them from the state and sending their lives into constant turmoil. Put on probation with the threat of 25 years in prison…
Gen. Michael Flynn, Conspiracy Tweeter and Trump Whisperer, Is a National Security Risk
There’s no way Gen. Michael Flynn has the temperament or judgement to be Trump’s national security advisor. It’s far more frightening that Trump lacks the temperament and judgement to be president, but that’s all the more reason he needs a stable, competent person whispering in his ear. Trump is on course to be our least…
Cinema Clips: The Eyes of My Mother
Ever wondered what would happen to your kid if you raised her in the middle of nowhere with no friends and showed her how to perform surgery on decapitated cow heads? Writer-director Nicolas Pesce has and, heck, he’s made a whole damned movie about it. After a really strange guy (Will Brill) visits her farm…
For More About Betsy DeVos’ Priorities, Follow the Money
Betsy DeVos, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education, and her husband Dick devote a chunk of their $6 billion fortune to funding the political campaigns of candidates who are for more charters, private school vouchers and the rest of the privatization/”education reform” agenda. The couple also has a family foundation which contributed more than $10 million in…
Win Tickets to See The Nutcracker
Is it really wintertime without the classic beauty of the Nutcracker? Ballet Tucson says, “of course not!,” and they’re offering you a chance to see their version of the classic free of charge. We’re giving away two sets of four tickets, and winners can pick which show they want to attend. The options are: Dec.…
Hershel Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Hershel! I’m a handsome 6-year-old chocolate lab and I need a home! In my previous home I was a really good boy and even got along well with a cat. I’m looking for a home where I can get daily exercise and play time and a cozy bed to sleep in. If you…
Cinema Clips: The Eagle Huntress
Director Otto Bell’s documentary actually plays out like a cool, dramatic adventure film as a young girl aims to be the first eagle hunter in her family. Aisholpan, a 13 year-old Mongolian girl living with her tribe, has always been fascinated with eagles, and wants to become a champion eagle hunter like her father and…
Betsy DeVos Set To Join the Trump Cabinet’s Billionaire Boys [and Girls] Club
“I have decided to stop taking offense,” Betsy DeVos wrote in a Roll Call column, “at the suggestion that we are buying influence. Now I simply concede the point.” Betsy DeVos, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education, knows plenty about buying influence and has plenty of money to do so. Dubbed “The New Kochs” by…
You’re a Wizard, Harry: A Harry Potter Ball at Your Favorite Barnes & Noble
Have you always known you’re a witch or wizard at heart? Well, shed your muggle-ness for an evening of holiday celebration and magic at your local Barnes and Noble for the Harry Potter Magical Holiday Ball. Barnes and Noble locations across the country will hold a Yule-ball inspired dance party at all stores in the…
After Orlando: An International Theatre Action
Theaters across the globe are teaming up in response to the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida on June 12. Now, actors and theater goers alike are paying respect to the victims, their families and all those affected that night through live acting. This summer, a gunman shot and killed 49 club goers at the…
Fifth Annual Rock Lottery with The Flycatcher
It’s a unique night of local music and it’s something you’ve never heard before. The Flycatcher, a local bar and small-time music venue on Fourth Avenue, will host Tucson’s fifth annual rock lottery to benefit the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona. The concept is simple: Gather 25 of Tucson’s local musicians and fashion them into…
We Stand Together Network
“I’m here because this feels like a very dark time for me, and I don’t know what else to do.” Those are the words Robert Yerachmiel Snyderman, program specialist at the Tucson Jewish History Museum, used to begin his presentation at Wednesday night’s We Stand Together event organized by YWCA Southern Arizona. I don’t know…
Clipper Combat Barber Competition
Calling all barbers, stylists, and overall hair enthusiasts: It is that time again for the Annual Clipper Combat Barber Competition. The southwest region original was created by local barber Manny Vidal just three short years ago. But, since then the competition has grown to one of the largest barber competition in the southwest and it…
Dust Devil
n the still before the storm
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: What’s up with pochos and their disrespect for their origins?
A Democrat in Trumpland
>Congressman Raul Grijalva won an eighth term representing Southern Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives last month.
Guest Opinion
The last 18 months of politics is screaming out for change. We’ve witnessed a new low bar having been set for civility and honest debate. And we’ve seen yet again the impact money is having on our political system. I believe we can do better.
The Skinny
Grand Ambition Environmental groups are urging President Barack Obama to expand Grand Canyon protections With a leading climate-change denier coming in to head up the Environmental Protection Agency and many congressional Republicans pushing the idea of turning federal lands over to state control, environmentalists are looking at pretty rough days ahead. So there’s a new…
Police Dispatch
Perhaps local car thieves were intrigued by the strange “decorations” on the hood of a ’90s-model car they stole from a local young man.
Police Dispatch
A panhandler became criminally aggressive when people wouldn’t give him money—and then whined about it when he was caught.
Bahn Mi Boy
Vina Vietnamese Street Food at 4230 N. Oracle Road is new to the Oracle and Wetmore shopping area block but they are hardly new to the Tucson culinary scene.
Westward Ho
The Sunset Limited used to glide into town round about midnight.
Happy Staged Holidaze!
From the valleys of dusty deserts to the damp, cold and cobbled streets of Victorian London, the December holidays are rooted in tradition. Although many folks tie their holiday to a specific religious event, others have used that event to interpret and construct stories that speak in more immediate and tangible ways. Then those stories…
Loving Loving
As for the movie, Loving will stand as not only one of 2016’s best, but undoubtedly as one of its most important.
Court and Spark
“For me, it’s about never really giving up hope. I didn’t really play music at all the first few years I began living in Tucson, because I really just couldn’t,” says singer-songwriter Joyce Luna. Her vibe is similar to the type of acoustic tunes we’ve come to know from performers like Joan Baez or Joni…
Know Your Product
Spindly and resilient like a saguaro, one might say Al Perry is a desert survivor. He first took up guitar back in junior high. The first tune he wrote? “Shopping Mall Baby,” of course. “That was when there was this little magazine a friend did,” Perry says. Mallife; I would do collages and write poetry…
Vintage Vinyl Tucson
This Week: The Tongues of Truth “Let’s Talk About Girls” b/w “You Can’t Come Back” Current Records C-112, September 1966 In the early ’80s, former Tucsonan Manny Freiser was working as an exec to the president of A&M Records. A co-worker approached him and said «are you the real Manny Freiser?” to which he replied, “why, do I owe you…
High Hopes for High Times
>The failure of Prop 205 may have been a sobering realization for some, but others still have high hopes for the future of marijuana in Arizona.
Pleasure Activist
Whether you’re a heterosexual “breeder” or a same sex couple making a baby at home with the proverbial turkey baster, many of the same issues arise after integrating a sex life of leisure with one of goal oriented baby production. The first few cycles can be exhilaratingly romantic as you are weaving lovemaking with dreams…
Editor’s Note
So cheers, folks. Take care of yourselves. Thank you.
