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Local Heroes 2015
Our 12th Local Heroes issue.
Cinema Clips: The Big Short
Director Adam McKay, the master behind such broad comedy gems as Anchorman and Step Brothers, flexes his slightly more serious muscles for this one, a take on the housing bubble that nearly destroyed the global economy. An ensemble cast featuring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt make this a funny-yet-scary look at…
Tucson Weekly’s Most Read Stories of 2015
Happy New Year! We’re at home nursing hangovers and writing resolutions we won’t keep, so we don’t have time to keep you entertained on the Range today. But never fear! There’s plenty for you to read. We’ve got year-in-review articles aplenty. Take your pick from: Chow, Cinema, Music, Dubious Achievements, Danehy’s thoughts and even our…
Casa Video Top 10
Let’s be real: You’re not going to want to do much on Jan. 1. You should plan to spend the morning curled up on the couch with some water, dedicating the first sober hours of the year to relaxing and taking care of yourself. Maybe you should plan ahead and pick up a movie? It’s…
Tucson Museum of Art Receives Oscar Berninghaus Painting as Gift
The Tucson Museum of Art is adding another piece of Southwestern art history to their collection in the way of a gift from two out-of-state donors. The oil painting “Haying Time in Taos” is from artist Oscar E. Berninghaus, who is most known for his work as one of the “Taos Six.” Berninghaus founded the Taos Society of…
Tucson Should Be Like Miami and Install Portable Bathrooms Outdoors for City’s Homeless Population
It wasn’t too long ago that the City of Tucson shut down Veinte de Agosto park over public health concerns from the Pima County Health Department. The park for years has been occupied on-and-off by many of Tucson’s homeless residents who congregate downtown. There aren’t any bathrooms outdoors, so naturally the area eventually flooded with…
Prove Me Wrong, Gov. Ducey. Please, Prove Me Wrong.
Here’s what pisses me off about the whole Prop. 123 thing. On the plus side, Arizona’s public schools stand to receive over $300 million a year which has been denied them for years if Prop. 123 passes and the state is allowed to dip further into the state land trust funds than is currently allowed.…
Cinema Clips: Daddy’s Home
The second pairing of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg isn’t as funny as their first offering, The Other Guys, but it’s still funny enough to warrant a look. Ferrell is in bumbling mode as Brad, stepfather to a couple of kids who hate him and the husband of Sarah (Linda Cardellini). Just when the kids…
Obama Administration Gears Up for Mass Deportation of Central American Families (Great Way to Say ‘Happy New Year’)
As soon as early January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be carrying out a series of raids to deport hundreds of Central American families who hoped to get asylum in the U.S., but whose applications were denied by immigration courts. As we get ready to begin a new year, this sends a disturbing and very…
Take Advantage of Two Tax Credits for Charitable Organizations
Yesterday I wrote about the tax credit donations you can give to public schools. Here are two more tax credits, each for $200—$400 for a couple. You can take all three credits and get it all back—100 percent of it—so long as you owe at least as much in state income taxes as you give.…
Layla Needs a Home
Layla — 788226 1.5 years old Qualities: Social and kind with people and cats. Housebroken and crate trained also! Needs: A home that is willing to love and care for a sweet cat with FeLV. HSSA will vaccinate all cats in home to protect from FeLV. Fee: Adoption fee is sponsored by the Home for the…
Do You Need a Hug? Get One Tomorrow from the ‘Free Hugs’ Guy
The leader of the “Free Hugs” movement is coming to Tucson tomorrow, and he hopes you’ll be there waiting to get a hug. For the past seven years, Montreal-native Arié Moyal has been spending the holiday season traveling across the U.S. and Canada, spreading some much-needed love. “Financial difficulties, family issues, seasonal affective disorder and…
Take Advantage of Public Education Tax Credits
Here’s a last minute reminder about Arizona’s tax credit opportunities. You get to give money to some of your favorite causes and organizations, then get it all back—100 percent of it—at tax time if you owe enough in state income tax. The three tax credits I strongly recommend are for public schools, charitable organizations that…
Into the Mild: Journal From a Refugee Camp, Week Two
Mytilene, Greece – December 2015 This is part three of a journal I’m keeping during my month working at a refugee camp in Greece. Part two, covering settling in at Camp Pikpa and starting work, is here. Dec. 14: Reality sank in this morning. A very overqualified volunteer had gone back to her 9-5 job…
Media Watch
During one of the many technologically driven events that significantly slashed terrestrial radio’s one-time listening monopoly—in this case most notably the advent of satellite radio and its mass collection of format choices—over-the-air signals attempted to counter with HD. Similar to television’s transition to all digital, where stations can include other signals broadcasting on the same…
The Best of 2015
While there were plenty of standout albums nationally, it was even more difficult to pick out favorite local releases for 2015.
Danehy
It’s Christmas Eve and there’s some serious holiness going on.
MMJ Update and Opinion: New Conditions
The Arizona Medical Marijuana Act has provided safe legal access to medical cannabis to sick Arizonans since the passage of Prop 203 in November 2010.
¡El Tambó!
Too many cookies or too much Christmas blues?
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Readers: This guy followed with me in a private email that whined, “I don’t think you have the balls” to publish his letter. Well, guess what, Chicano Charlie? Not only do I have the huevos, I also have the facts.
Dancing and Giving
Salem the Bear’s Annual Food Drive returns on Sunday.
Bon Voyage, Christmas
The UA Compost Cats is partnering with the City of Tucson and the San Xavier Cooperative Farm to compost Christmas trees.
The Best Things I Ate in 2015
Tucson is tasty.
Take a Walk
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY It may just be the holidays talking, but Albert Kogel’s exuberant carved wood paintings at Davis Dominguez Gallery are beginning to look a lot like Christmas…ornaments. Take “Devices of Desires,” a kaleidoscope of colors spinning across multiple layers of wood. A jaggedy flash of orange zig-zags across a teal plank at the…
Editor’s Note
Head out to a park and feed some people. Let us know how it goes.
Gone Solo
Playwright/actress Monica Bauer has only been a resident of Tucson about six months, but she’s already making a mark on Tucson’s theater scene. There’s nothing much going on theater-wise for the week between Christmas and New Year’s, she says, and that seemed just the right time for introducing the first annual Solo Theater Festival. From Dec.…
Dust Devil
A good-guy gun blows bloody holes<
Star Love
The new Star Wars doesn’t suck! The new Star Wars doesn’t suck!
Police Distpatch
During a local drugstore heist, some young wannabe thugs tried to steal hard alcohol and make chilling threats—but acquired only soft candy and chewing gum.
B-Sides: Orkesta Mendoza
Tucson’s cumbia king is back from a big European tour and what better way to celebrate than a post-Christmas show at Club Congress ?
Police Dispatch
A local homeowner experienced a mysterious theft when someone stole a bunch of green light bulbs she’d put out in front of her house.
B-Sides: Dogbreth
Phoenix’s Dogbreth is taking that arduous hour and a half trek down south to give the Old Pueblo a taste of their sunny, fun-loving style of punk.
Sights and Sounds
Through his company, Pop Narkotic, Jimi Giannatti creates professional posters and photos for bands who often don’t have the capital to back up their talent.
Backlog Blues
At the Department of Child Safety, it appears more like business as usual—and in Arizona, when it comes to neglected and abused children, business as usual means a huge backlog of cases.
Letter to the Editor
Last summer, I went door-knocking with members of Tucson SURJ to distribute signs in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Visiting over 20 homes and businesses, we talked with other white people about racism and white privilege to build solidarity for Black lives. In the following weeks, signs disappeared and were defaced. Several were modified…
Letter to the Editor
We are independent voters residing in Tucson and just a few among the 1.219 million independents in the state who will be barred from voting in the most important election in the country, the presidential primaries. Although independents are the largest community of voters in Arizona, having surpassed the number of registered Democrats and Republicans,…
Letter to the Editor
The Border Patrol has stated they cannot afford body cameras, yet they can spend $600,000 each to build $80,000 houses in Ajo, more than $100,000 per foot to repair the fence in Nogales, more than a million for a canopy over I-19, a billion dollars for a virtual fence that was a failure from day…
The Skinny
We have a federal budget, in spite of most of the Arizona delegation’s votes and here’s your chance to write part of the state budget.
