Cover Stories
Spring Arts Preview: Theatre
The curtain is rising on King Lear, the Book of Mormon and a lot more this season
Spring Arts Preview: Dance
Spanish flamenco, Irish step, Argentinian tango, Caribbean calypso and more are on the spring dance menu—and that’s just one of many shows
Spring Arts Preview: Classical Music
Classical music performances across the region
Spring Arts Preview: Visual Arts
Glass artist Tom Philabaum may be stepping away from the fire, but Southern Arizona’s art scene is hot, hot, hot
Laughing Stock: Bird City Migrates to Tucson
“Everyone thought I was crazy,” says Genevieve Rice, founder of Phoenix’s Bird City Comedy Festival. “I still am.” In the two years since she launched the festival, she’s added a podcast, two monthly series of live comedy shows in Phoenix, Jazz and Jokes and Bird City Comedy Presents, and now The Early Bird Comedy Tour,…
A Look At Poverty and Education, Chickens and Eggs
Last week I wrote a post about Bill Gates who, after spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to improve education with minimal success, has begun to learn how much he still has to learn about education. And to his credit, he’s beginning to look at poverty as an underlying problem with lots of moving parts,…
The Weekly List: 23 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Your Weekly list to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Theater Lost in Yonkers. New York State: Two young teenage boys are sent to live with their menacing grandmother for the summer (but also with their sweet Aunt Bella and Louie, their hoodlum of an uncle). This Pulitzer Prize- and Tony award-winning play takes place…
Israel, the U.S. and Guns
In Israel you can buy 50 bullets a year. That’s it. And only if you’re a licensed gun owner. That number jumps to 100 bullets if you’re also a security guard. Of the 8.5 million people in Israel (the number doesn’t include the 5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza), about 135,000 of…
Zona Politics: State Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley and State Sen. Andrea Dalessandro
In this televised edition of Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel: State Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley and state Sen. Andrea Dalessandro sit down for one-on-one interviews about what’s going on at the Arizona Legislature this session.
UA Researchers: Liquid Brain is Toxic
When someone suffers a stroke, there is poor blood flow to the brain, and this results in the death of brain cells. Dead fragments of the brain don’t heal like normal muscle or body tissue — they liquify, and this liquid brain stays in the skull, right next to the healthy brain, for a long…
The Tip-Off: Dusan Ristic and Arizona in for a Dam Good Time Against the Oregon State Beavers
Sean Miller knows full well the horrors that await any team that sleepwalks into the cavernous confines of Gill Coliseum in Corvallis, Oregon. That’s because Miller has been on the wrong side of the matchup in the Willamette three times since 2010, most recently in 2015, when the then-seventh ranked Wildcats met a Beaver buzz…
Fourth Avenue and Future of Localism in Tucson
Tucson is at a critical juncture with our priorities for local ownership and the identity of our community. Historic Fourth Avenue is essential to Tucson’s identity and is currently facing the stark reality of having a development vastly different from the locally owned independent businesses that comprise the avenue and make it Tucson’s strongest local…
Zona Politics: Big Data, Billy Kovacs and Hollace Lyon
On this televised edition of Zona Politics: Host Jim Nintzel talks with Vincent Del Casino Jr., who is delivering the final talk in this year’s UA College of Science Spring Lecture Series at Centennial Hall at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26. The topic: “There’s No Such Thing As Big Data.” Then Nintzel talks with Billy…
Farrah Needs a Home
Remember me? I’m Farrah! I am a one year old girl looking for my fur-ever family! I came to HSSA with my three kittens who have since found their forever homes. I am a shy girl who will do best with a patient family that gives me plenty of time to adjust. Once I am…
The Education of Bill Gates
Bill Gates made billions and billions of dollars in the field of computer technology, helping to transform the world in the process. He’s an innovator. He’s a disrupter. He’s the savviest of savvy businessmen. He’s been successful beyond anyone’s wildest dreams of success or avarice. So Gates thought, why not put his entrepreneurial genius and…
Growing Pains
Fourth Avenue’s Flycatcher nightclub may be demolished this summer, with plans for new apartments and retail space.
XOXO…
The reason the United States of America, the land of immigrants, is so special is because it takes all of us together and we become America.-Wyclef Jean
Police Dispatch
A drunk man went out shoe-shoplifting and landed himself in jail, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report.
Troubled Tram
For some, there’s only one thing that can break the magic of this place: the Sabino Canyon shuttles.
’60s Spectacular
It’s difficult to look up entertainment in Tucson without having the Rialto Theatre quickly coming to mind.
Burçin’s Galaxy
A few decades ago, a young Girl in Turkey pasted images and quotes from Albert Einstein into her journal.
The Skinny
If you’re terribly surprised that the GOP-controlled Congress is on a mad spending spree now that they hold the nation’s purse springs, you have forgotten the lessons of the George W. Bush administration.
Editor’s Note
A preview of the cultural events in Tucson this spring!
Danehy
Have you ever been watching something on the news and your mind just starts spiraling?
War and Remembrance
Veteran Jonathan Green not accustomed to getting emotional, and was surprised by his reaction to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Know Your Product
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Maine, Slaid Cleaves brings three decades worth of folk music to Tucson.
Irrational Immolation
After last week’s excitement over SB1420, the Arizona bill that would reduce registration fees for patients, it reached an impasse as Republicans refused to allow lower fees.
Come Back and Play
When I first stepped in The Playground a few years ago, to be honest with you, I didn’t like it.
Musical Romance
The 1960 musical is the world’s longest-running, proving its sturdiness in both story and style.
Of Inhuman Bondage
I was the only single guy sitting in a dark theater with couples of varying ages, primed for groping and sloppy in-theater fellatio.
Reel Indie
Where the reel fun happens.
Wild & Reckless
Blitzen Trapper’s music has always drawn characters into the spotlight from the margins of American life.
