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Lovely Linda: New exhibit showcases McCartney’s photography skills
The land of majestic saguaros attracts many visitors from across the pond each year. The diverse and prickly plant species that stand tall, like guardians that watch over the Sonoran Desert that is home to many resilient creatures. Even the kaleidoscope-colored sunsets are second to none. Many who leave, inevitably get back to where they…
Long Distance Moving Tips
Are you finally ready to take the leap and move out of town? Maybe it’s for a new job, or maybe you’re just looking for an adventure. Whatever your reason may be, it can feel daunting to tackle such a big endeavor as long-distance moving. But don’t worry – we’ve got tips to make the…
The Role of SEO in your Digital Marketing Strategy
If you’re a marketer in the modern world, then there is one topic that you must understand to keep your digital presence strong: SEO. As technology continues to evolve and more of our lives become entwined in the digital world, optimizing your website’s ranking on search engine results is becoming increasingly important for any business…
Victorian women capture modern passions in play
There are stories and storytellers. Then sometimes there are stories about the storytellers. At Scoundrel & Scamp, Polly Teale’s “Brontë” takes audience members into the lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, three novelists and poets whose passionate tales continue to charm and mesmerize readers 180 years after they were published. The play takes place…
Chase Rice ‘Way Down Yonder’ in Tucson
From linebacker at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to contestant on CBS’ Survivor, Chase Rice has finally found his form in Nashville. The Florida-born, North Carolina-raised country music star will perform a Military Appreciation Concert on Saturday, March 4, on the Omni Tucson National Resort’s Practice Range, following the second round of…
Get high without the hangover with THC-infused beverages
Former University of Phoenix president Bill Gibbs was looking for an adult beverage that wouldn’t make him hungover. “I’m old,” joked the 72-year-old Gibbs. “As you get older you can’t drink and you’re looking for healthier alternatives. I didn’t like the prospect of giving up alcohol, so I was looking for something else.” What the…
Tucson Salvage: Crosses, Aleister Crowley and a show of street survival
The boy shakes his head and sneers: “It’s the Jesus-fuck man.” He is strolling in pricey kicks toward the brand new Starbucks with three other high school kids, two of them girls in makeup too severe for daylight. They laugh, the unsettling kind of laughter that rises from the well-fed with so much luck and…
City Week: Weekly Pick
Spring Ikebana Festival: 10th Anniversary Edition Flower arrangements representing traditional and contemporary Ikebana also represent the five major schools of ikebana — Sogetsu, Ikenobo, Ohara, Sangestu and Shinsei. Known as “The Way of the Flowers,” Ikebana is meditative practice embodying ideals of taste, beauty and oneness with nature. The art gives equal weight to all…
Alt-folk group celebrates release of ‘Something’
Christopher Stryker and Gianna Purcell have a close relationship. They grew up within three blocks of each other in the Chicago area, and they live the same distance away in Tucson. For 13 years, they have performed together as the alternative folk outfit Barefoot on Bumblebees. Barefoot on Bumblebees will celebrate the release its fourth…
Joe Pera brings ‘Comedy in Ice’
Let’s see how we can all just chill together. Joe Pera comes to the Rialto Friday, Feb. 24, on a trajectory that’s taken him from film school and a grinding open mic regimen through a groundbreaking indie series on Adult Swim and now on to bigger and better-known theaters. Having committed to a comedy career…
