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NYE Guide 2015
You might think that choosing which person to smooch at midnight will be the hardest decision that you’ll have to make this New Year’s Eve, but deciding exactly where you’ll ring in the new year might be just as tricky. As 2014 winds down you can be sure that you’re starting 2015 off with a…
Starting Next Week, Go Check Out the Cristina Cárdenas Exhibit at the YWCA
Internationally and locally acclaimed Mexican artist Cristina Cárdenas, who for years has used her work to vocalize her discomfort with gender and cultural stereotypes, is going to be exhibiting some of her work at the YWCA’s Frances McClelland Community Center starting next week. Cárdenas’ exhibit will be the first show under the new-ish curator of…
Teen Worries for Father’s Health in Immigration Detention Center; Turns to Facebook for Community Support at Hearing Friday
I first met Ana Cobos Lugo at a Tucson City Council meeting a few weeks ago. She was there, alongside close to 50 other community members, protesting the implementation of a security program between TUSD and the Tucson Police Department – because of SB 1070, officers at schools could have potentially been able to interrogate…
Maker House Hosts New Year’s Eve— Nerd Style
Just in case one of these ten New Year’s Eve options didn’t really catching your eye, Maker House is joining forces with Tucson Comic Con to offer three parties crammed into one for their Time Traveler Ball. The event is peppered with replica memorabilia from your favorite TV shows and movies and, of course, cosplay is…
Kick off 2015 Looking at your Beautiful Self
When January rolls around, the people behind the Body Love Conference are hoping you’ll do things a little differently this year. No pledging to conform to magazine cover beauty standards, no blowing money on uncomfortable shapewear. Meet up with the team, take some pictures. Look at yourself and love it. Take a step toward self…
Zona Politics Year in Review
Zona Politics Eps.11 from Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel on Vimeo. If you missed yesterday’s Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel when it aired on KGUN-9, here’s your chance to see attorney Jeff Rogers and former state lawmaker Jonathan Paton talk about the big stories of 2014. Check it out for some sharp analysis of the…
‘The Interview’ Holds Up, if You’re into Dick Jokes
By the time this review gets to you, the once blacklisted “The Interview” will have been available on the likes of YouTube, iTunes and Xbox while playing in a limited number of theaters. Did you ever really doubt you would get a chance to see it? Commerce always wins! Co-directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s…
Soundbites
FULL OF SOUNDS Though Logan Greene is never too far away from some kind of action, be it booking, running his Diet Pop record label or performing solo with an acoustic guitar, it’s been a hot minute since we’ve heard from his trio, Logan Greene Electric. Therefore, it’s great news that his group returns with…
A Special Food Truck Feed
The Food Truck Roundup, the organized food truck posse we gravitate to local parks or special events around town, is doing a special food truck event on Christmas Day, Thursday, Dec. 25, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Santa Rita Park. The Roundup asked food truck chefs to prepare a free holiday meal of turkey…
520 Cannabis Medical Marijuana
Last week, fired UA researcher Sue Sisley learned that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment awarded the psychiatrist $2 million to her sponsor, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), for their marijuana study for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in 76 U.S. veterans. According to MAPS, Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council…
VW Bus Dreaming
I have a dream that one day I’ll find that perfect tricked out VW bus and run away. Until then, I can drool at the Tucson Bus Mob’s VW Bus Show, which benefits the Southern Arizona Community Food Bank, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2 to 5 p.m. at The Hut, 305 N. Fourth Ave. The show…
Editor’s Note
Getting governments to change policy isn’t an easy task. What it takes is an organizing effort that hardly ever flinches. Some think protest is all it takes—people filling the streets or blocking traffic—but that would be a mistake. I guess you could say over the past few years I’ve become a conesieur of good organizing.…
New Year’s Eve in Bisbee
Yes, you can stay in Tucson and there are plenty of New Year’s Eve offers. See our cover story on page 11 and other sections of the paper. We are ready for New Year’s. There’s something special about Bisbee and there’s something special about a Tucson band playing there Wednesday, Dec. 31 at the Quarry,…
Police dispatch
What an Ass Foothills Area Nov. 27, 3:07 a.m. A drunk white male started a pre-dawn racist ruckus at Walmart when he vociferously attacked a black employee for supposedly looking at his wife’s rear end, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Called to the Walmart at about 3 a.m. regarding a customer yelling…
Exit Interview
Sitting in his home a few hours after a Maricopa County judge declared the results of a recount that determined he wouldn’t be returning to Congress next year, Ron Barber reflected on his two-plus years representing Southern Arizona. “I want to make sure that the people of Southern Arizona know how grateful I am for…
The Big Don’t Ask
Last Tuesday’s City Council meeting attracted about 50 people protesting an agreement that would reignite a school safety program between Tucson Unified School District and the Tucson Police Department. Ana, a junior at Tucson High Magnet School, was in that crowd. She’s undocumented, but is raising funds to apply for the Obama Administration’s DACA program…
Media Watch
Lee finally turns a profit Lee Enterprises, the publishing outlet that owns the Arizona Daily Star, hasn’t enjoyed a quarterly earnings number in the black since 2010, but the company’s latest figures indicated more money is coming in than going out. “Lee continues to drive digital revenue and audiences at an accelerating pace,” said CEO…
Ask a Mexican
Dear Mexican: The other day, my Italian boyfriend and I were sitting in a cafe in Santa Monica. He asked me an interesting question: “If you had the choice to be any nationality in the world, which one would you choose?” Being the proud Latina that I am, I said, “Mexican.” Then he said, “Why?…
The Skinny
Island Fever Sen. Jeff Flake supports the Obama administration’s push to normalize relations with Cuba Many congressional Republicans were quick to condemn the Obama administration’s move to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba and push to end the half-century of economic sanctions imposed on the tiny communist island. Arizona Sen. John McCain, in a joint statement…
Queer NYE 2015
Fluxx Studio and Gallery, 414 E. 9th St., has always made it clear that it’s a space that welcomes everyone, but in particular it’s a safe and fun space for everyone on the LGBT spectrum and more. What that means for their NYE celebration is that this is going to be one of the funner…
Danehy
There’s a mean joke about a guy who has one good hand, but his other hand has been badly mangled in an accident. He goes into a church and prays, “Please God, make my hand like the other one.” He hears a thunderclap, then looks down to see that he now has two mangled hands.…
A Brew Year’s Fiestica?
Maybe the tag line for this Brew Year’s Eve night should be, “Come for the beer, stay for football,” except you’re gonna have to go home at some point and get yourself cleaned up before returning for the football and beer. The Pueblo Vida Brewing Company. 115 E. Broadway Blvd., is having a Brew Year’s…
Nuts for Nutcracker
The last of the season’s “Nutcrackers” pirouette across Tucson stages this weekend. Ballet Tucson, the city’s one professional company, deploys its expert dancers in its beloved classical version—now in its 21st year—at the Music Hall. Dancing in the Streets AZ takes over the Temple of Music and Art to show off the talents of its…
Underground Craft
First and foremost, Niklas Morris wants you to know his new bar isn’t a speakeasy, despite its somewhat hard-to-find entrance behind Reilly Craft Pizza. In fact, the outspoken bartender refers to the term speakeasy in its common modern usage as “a bullshit Disneyland garbage word.” For Morris, cocktails shouldn’t be a niche. Since cocktails are…
Just Another Princess Flick
Into the Woods Rated PG Starring Meryl Streep, James Corden, & Emily Blunt Directed by Rob Marshall 2 hours, 4 minutes Opens Dec. 25 Disney’s version of “Into the Woods” is utterly clueless and boring, an adaptation that renders something that was totally fun into something totally dreary. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1987 Broadway…
Noshing Around
OINK, OINK! It did not take long for the spot that housed The Heist to get a new resident. The freestanding restaurant, located at 7131 E. Broadway Blvd., is now under construction for the next concept to have a run at the former Grandy’s. Coming soon: The Oink Café. The family-owned operation from Phoenix, will…
Cinema Showdown
THESE EYES ARE LIES Director Tim Burton seems to have decided to step out of his weird, gothy comfort zone. While the Hot Topic kids must be bummed, the film, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz, is a welcome departure for almost everyone else. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m excited to…
Top 10 Albums
When I sat down to write this list last year, I realized that the records that had been the core soundtrack to my 2013 were made by local artists. It was an amazing realization that the same people whom I run into when I walk down the street, see at parties, or whose shows I…
Subtext, Please
Hollywood faces this dilemma all the time: What do you cut out of the book and what do you salvage to keep the spirit and primary themes intact? The Goldilocks zone for movies is somewhere between 90 minutes and two hours. Though some pictures are getting longer (particularly this time of year), two-and-a-half hours is…
Nine on the Line
Tucson native Ryan Clark, partner and executive chef at Agustin Kitchen, really needs no introduction. The culinary badass has certainly made quite the name for him in town already at just 29 years old. Besides graduating top of his class and dean’s list from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, Clark has worked at some…
Best of … Music
1. The War on Drugs – Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian) Filled with mesmerizing, epic songs—six, seven and almost nine minutes—this record so thoroughly absorbs my attention so that listening is like a waking dream. It’s expertly and subtly layered, the guitars and keyboards stacked and interwoven with patience and obsessive care. But at…
This Week in Craft Beer
Another year has come and gone, and as with most aspects of life, the craft beer world has gone through tumultuous evolutions in some regards and remained fundamentally unchanged in others. Beer laws have changed, breweries have opened, new beer has entered the state and local beer just keeps getting better. Though 2015 is sure…
