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On Tap: Tucson Foodie promises ‘bigger and better’ beer crawl
What’s old is new again for the Tucson Craft Beer Crawl. The event — part of Tucson Craft Beer Week, set for Thursday, Feb. 15 to Sunday, Feb. 25, and teamed with Best Life Presents/Ranch House Media (producers of TenWest and Pueblos del Maiz) — is reverting to old-school drink tickets attached to a badge.…
‘Dazzling Premieres’: Ballet Tucson
Ballet Tucson’s Winter Concert has something for everyone to love just in time for Valentine’s Day, with four unique and diverse ballets. A notable highlight is the Arizona premiere of an iconic work by world-renowned choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, “After the Rain Pas de Deux.” Broadway fans will know Wheeldon as the Tony Award-winning choreographer of…
Staying Creative: Matisyahu ponders his career on ‘Hold the Fire’
Matisyahu’s new EP, “Hold the Fire,” is centered around the question of how to stay inspired as a music artist the further one goes into a career. It’s a topic that resonated strongly for the singer/rapper born as Matthew Miller, as he’s now two decades into a career that began with his 2004 album, “Shake…
Spreading Peace: Gov’t Mule’s latest album is deeply personal
Gov’t Mule’s latest album “Peace… Like A River” shreds laurels and hews fresh sounds from a batch of deeply personal and dynamic songs that deliver fuel for new and longtime admirers alike without giving into convention or complacency. A dozen studio albums in, the gang that originally hammered out its vanguard album at the Allman…
A Family Affair: Tap & Bottle attributes success to the community
Rebecca Safford, Tap & Bottle co-founder, sees the Tucson brewery community as a family. She attributes that, in part, to the success of her three locations. “Although we’re not participating in the Tucson Craft Beer Crawl, we love and support everybody who’s doing it,” she said. “I think, in the beer world, the breweries are…
Arizona Beer Week Roundup
The 14th Arizona Beer Week will run from Thursday, Feb. 15, to Sunday, Feb. 25. Arizona Beer Week has events taking place from Northern Arizona to Southern Arizona that celebrate craft beer. Here is a sampling of Beer Week events around Tucson. Live Music At Barrio FEB. 15 To kick off Arizona Craft Beer Week…
City Week: Week of Feb. 8, 2024
The Invisible Theatre: “The Bookstore” THROUGH FEB. 10 The history and charm of a neighborhood bookstore is lost on the busy and preoccupied protagonist who’s inherited one from her aunt. All but twisting his mustache, an evil real estate developer offers her much more than it’s worth to take the shop off her hands. That’s…
Cookies Make the Dough
If there’s one thing Emma Plummer dislikes, it’s using an ineffective tool. As a pastry chef, she hates to see people butcher a freshly baked loaf of her sourdough bread trying to slice it with the wrong knife. It’s best to use the right tool for the job in the first place. “There’s nothing more…
A blight on public education
Arizona Superintendent of Public Education is anything but. He is a mean-spirited, truth-averse hater of public education, that which, over the past century, made America the greatest country in the world. He doesn’t care about public education. He wants private education funded by public funds, designed to benefit only those people who look like him…
Finley Distributing: Empowering small businesses
When walking through the beer aisle of a grocery store or local business, the arrangement of colorful boxes and different styles of the beverage might seem random. However, there is a method to the madness. Finley Distributing is a locally owned business that specializes in giving companies an opportunity to get their brand into stores…
Children’s Museum Tucson receives $35,000 grant
Children’s Museum Tucson has been approved for a $35,000 Grants for Arts Projects award as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ first round of fiscal year 2024 grants. The government agency offers support for art projects across the country. Executive director Hilary Van Alsburg explained why receiving this funding was so special to…
The Work of Alchemy: Transforming Beans into Chocolate
Armando Bezies is nearly an alchemist. He is an expert at taking plain brown beans and turning them into dark, rich chocolate — the kind to impress a lover. “You take this raw bean and then you’re able to transform it into a little chocolate bon bon or a chocolate bar,” Bezies said, “It’s that…
RSO helped the founder quell symptoms
It was 1997, and engineer Rick Simpson was working at a Nova Scotia hospital, where a work-related injury would change the course of his life. While working on asbestos-coated pipes in the hospital’s boiler room, the combination of poor ventilation and poisonous fumes led to Simpson losing consciousness. Subsequently, he fell off a ladder. Although…
