The power of the breast
Ava and Nora, our identical twin girls, are splayed out on a blanket in our living room wearing heart-festooned size-0 onesies.They scooch to find each other’s touch. Theirs is an unyielding bond carried over from a single placenta in the womb. This overwhelming rush of love and longing carries the hopes of a future. It…
City Week: Week of Dec. 21, 2023
“The Who’s Holiday” DEC. 21 TO DEC. 31 Samantha Cormier plays Dr. Seuss’ Cindy Lou Who as a wayward, middle-aged character on the tipsy side. We find Cindy preparing to host friends for a Christmas party in her modest trailer home. Speaking entirely in Dr. Seuss-like rhyming couplets, she shares her own perspective on her…
Laughing Stock: Start the New Year with Greg Romero Wilson
Greg Romero is hard to characterize, because he is just so much himself. His family and ancestry are Mexican, but he doesn’t speak Spanish nor feel especially immersed in his ancestral culture. He’s rampantly energetic in the manner of his two Bible-thumping preacher parents, but it’s in service to irreverent jokes. His smile and laugh…
Ballet Tucson recruits Tucson Symphony Orchestra for ‘The Nutcracker’
As the days grow shorter and twinkling lights adorn the city streets, a familiar magic takes hold in Tucson: Ballet Tucson’s beloved production of “The Nutcracker.” This year, from Dec. 21 to Dec. 23, the tale of Clara’s journey unfolds at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall. In collaboration with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, it promises…
Tucson musicians host their annual ‘rendezvous’
Rendezvous’ annual winter concert has become a tradition for the Tucson musicians. This year’s gig — Saturday, Dec. 23, at the Hotel Congress Plaza — will feature favorite songs of drummer Nick Tkachyk, keyboardist Chris Peña, saxophonist/keyboardist Greg Stanley, bassist Sean McEvoy, guitarist Johny Vargas and violinist/guitarist Katie Vargas. Percussionist Tom Beech is their honorary…
Pop the cork at these NYE celebrations
New Year’s Eve doesn’t have to mean sitting at home, watching the latest pop star perform on television. Tucson has a plethora of happenings, whether they’re groovy dance parties or low-key hangs. There are many ways to enjoy another classically sunny New Year’s Eve in Tucson. Tucson country singer Billy Shaw Jr. and Mamma Coal…
Treats for New Year’s Eve
New Year’s Eve is all about partying. But what if you’re the host? What do you serve? Here are a few last-minute dishes to whip up. A Signature Side Dish Almost every get-together – whether it’s family, friends or neighbors – always has one dish that’s the star of the show, time after time. It’s…
Tucson welcomes fourth Sol Flower
Tucson has become the new home to four Sol Flower dispensaries in four months. Recently, Sol Flower dispensaries held ribbon-cutting ceremonies at each location with vendors, locally made balloon garlands, food trucks and DJs. They were held in partnership with Tucson Metro Chamber. “We’ve seen such a huge response from the community since those grand-opening…
Review: Emma Stone shines in fantastically funny, strange ‘Poor Things’
Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the most interesting filmmakers working today, and his new release “Poor Things” is no exception to that case. An adaptation of the 1992 novel of the same name by Scottish author Alasdair Gray, it plays like a delightfully bizarre gender-swapped twist on “Frankenstein.” Emma Stone stars as Bella Baxter, a…
