Cover Story
Welcome to 2017
Go forth, kick this rotten year in the ass.
Michael Carbonaro Ticket Giveaway
Michael Carbonaro is coming to town and we’re giving away two pairs of tickets to see his show. Here’s what the Tucson Music Hall has to say about him: Michael Carbonaro has performed over 500 comically perplexing and improbable feats of magic on his hit truTV series, The Carbonaro Effect. Now, he’s taking his show…
Cinema Clips: Lion
A young Indian boy gets lost on a train station and loses his mother in this uplifting film based on a true story from director Garth Davis. After a long odyssey through orphanages and abuse, Saroo winds up in Australia, adopted by new parents (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham). After 25 years, Saroo (played as…
Laughing Stock: Laughs To Look Forward To
I don’t know about you but I can’t wait to laugh my head off at the hapless, agonized last breaths of that misanthropic asshole year 2016. HA HA HA!! Can’t wait. And it’s as if Laff’s Comedy Caffé has read our minds. For New Year’s Eve, they’re offering two shows, each with a different menu,…
Cinema Clips: Jackie
Dealing primarily with the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, director Pablo Larrain addresses those terrible times through the eyes of Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman), First Lady and closest witness to the gory death of her husband. The film addresses notions never really discussed about the assassination in film before, such as Jackie’s decision to march…
The City Of Tucson Makes a Statement
Last week, the City of Tucson joined a number of other concerned cities across the nation by adopting a resolution supporting immigrant immigrant rights and condemning the kind of mass deportation policies Trump promised during the campaign. It passed unanimously. Resolution #22699 is long and detailed. It refers back to a resolution adopted in April,…
A Christmas Story: The Season Advances, as Done to Green Sleeves
Cole and his commotions pierce your scalp. As you turn on your side, ancient Indian arrowheads. Hot water filling ears, tub, and the one one-room tenement flat steam, a rusting locomotive engine breeze. Battling ice for window space, melting into cracked wood finish, Finished, you imagine, by blonde-on-blonde Scandinavian immigrants. Clear as winter ice. Performing…
More Money For Schools Leads to Better Outcomes, According To Two Recent Studies
Two recent studies take the topic of school funding and achievement head on, and they conclude that more money improves student achievement, and even boosts earning power after graduation. According to the studies, the results are strongest for children from low income families. It looks like “throwing money at schools,” as critics like to typify spending…
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Surumato: The town of Arellano, Spain might be in the autonomous Basque Country region of Navarre, but “Arellano” comes from Latin and denotes “farm of Aurelius.”
Natale Salumeria
One of the greatest things about living in Tucson—and being an adventurous eater—is that you are always on the lookout for the hidden food gold mines.
Editor’s Note
Let’s see what happens. Jeebus 2018.
Dust Devil
Boots, laced, hit hard vibram soles upon gravel.
Wage Rage
Minimum wage will climb to $10 an hour on Jan. 1, 2017, and to $12 an hour by 2020.
Sweet Relief
The line for Syrian Sweets Exchange, 2.0 was wrapped around the block by 9:45 a.m., 15 minutes after it opened.
Let the Great World Spin
By the time he was 23 years old, Alex Webb felt like he had hit a wall in photography.
Rogue Won
There was a time when we had to wait many years for our Star Wars fixes. In this, the New Age of Total Impatience, we get Star Wars every year. The New Age of Total Impatience most certainly has its perks.
Escort Service
A group encircled a small altar, adorned with items representing sex workers who suffered violent deaths, targeted because of their profession.
The Skinny
The city of Tucson goes up against the state of Arizona over the right to destroy seized firearms
Jingle Bell Shame
When the alt-right goes on their annual tirade about the supposed War on Christmas, they’ll again be zeroing in on how shop clerks are greeting them, how their kids’ teachers are signing off on their emails and what kind of non-denominational holiday cards are currently hurting their feelings.
Noise Annoys
Culturally and politically 2016 was one of the most explosive and consequential years in recent history.
Know Your Product
The Exbats live high up on on Black Mountain. That’s not a song. It’s on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Puff Daddies
For the first time since 2002, people aged 35 to 44 are more likely to use marijuana regularly than Americans aged 12 to 17, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention discovered in October.
Danehy
Time for a new year already.
