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Hop to It
We’ve scoured the Tucson landscape of beer-themed events and picked out some of the best and bubbliest for your enjoyment.
Tap Dance
In addition to the dozens of collaborations between local brewers and food pairing events, the Tucson Craft Beer Crawl takes over the city for a day.
Two Dozen Ways To Have Fun This Weekend!
Wyatt Earp: Tombstone Brewing Company is pairing up with Casa Video Film Bar to give an authentic feel of the Wild West. See? Even films can get involved in Arizona Beer Week. Watch Kevin Costner play perhaps the most famous sheriff of Cochise County, and battle it out at the O.K. Corral. Or as the…
Laughing Stock: Chortling Chollas!
The Cactus Flower Comedy Festival of funny women kicks off at Tucson Improv Movement at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, with a set by FST (Female Storytellers), and runs through standup comedy, improvised sets and jams, bilingual improv, workshops, an all-gender jam, and more through Saturday, Feb. 24. The lineup includes teams from the UA,…
The Weekly List: 25 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Panels When Immigration Hits a Wall: Life in the Borderlands Location. In case the issue of immigration ever feels like it’s getting too abstract for you, hear from three locals about what the changing landscape of immigration policy means for them. Mo Goldman, a Tucson…
Hey! What Happened To the Arizona Monitor Website?
Politico had a fascinating story this morning about the Arizona Monitor, a “news” website that has recently been singing the praises of—among others—Republican Kelli Ward, the former state lawmaker now running for U.S. Senate, as well as Pima County’s nuttiest supervisor, Ally Miller. It looked as if Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward had scored a…
Trump’s Education Budget Proposal
Trump’s budget proposal isn’t just being called DOA—Dead On Arrival. It’s being called DBIA—Dead Before It Arrived—since the congressional budget deal he signed means some of his proposals were outdated before they were printed. But nothing Trump proposes, or says, or does, no matter how ridiculous or mendacious, can be considered dead so long as…
The Tip Off: Rawle Alkins leads Arizona into Tempe to play Tra Holder and Arizona State
Welcome to the week where full of good, old-fashioned hate sweeps across our state like a wayward Haboob racing across the parched desert. I’m talking, of course, about the biannual throw-down on the hard wood between our state’s largest institutions of higher knowledge—The University of Arizona and Arizona State University. The rivalry (which really hasn’t…
XOXO: Where To Rock Tonight!
[image-1] “And this old porch is like a steaming, greasy plate of enchiladas/With lots of cheese and onions/And a guacamole salad/You can get ’em down at the LaSalle Hotel/In old downtown/With iced tea and a waitress/She will smile every time.” The still life captured in “This Old Porch,” a song penned by acclaimed songwriters Lyle…
XOXO: Find Some Music With (or Without) Your Valentine
Delivering an apocalyptic Valentine, Sweethearts of The Rodeo lasso together a winning group of ladies—Lana Rebel, Amy Rude, Lonna Kelly, Lisa O’Neill, June West, Karima Walker, Cristina Williams, Marina Cornelius, Tulip Sweet—for a romantic night of harmony, singing the sweetest of country duets. Guaranteed to soften even the leathern heart of the lovelorn. In the…
Unpacking a Great Hearts Charter School’s Hair Braiding Story
When I first read about a 12 year old African American student being sent home from Teleos Preparatory Academy because his hair was braided, I dismissed it as little more than a dress code, or hair code, story. Teleos charter is part of the Great Hearts charter chain which has 23 schools in the greater Phoenix…
It’s a Fat Tuesday Miracle! Bashas’ Supermarkets Donating Money from Paczki Sales
Are you a fan of Polish fruit-filled pastries and looking to boost your Karma quotient? If so, boy, are you in luck! Bashas Supermarkets, the only grocery store in Tucson selling Paczkis, is donating 10 percent of the money from all sales of the fruity Polish pastries that are synonymous with Fat Tuesday and the…
Posole Needs a Home
Hi there! I’m Posole! I am a 1-year-old girl ready to meet the purr-fect family! I came to HSSA as a transfer from another shelter so they don’t know much about my past. They do know that I am a very sweet and loveable girl that is going to make someone very happy! Come meet…
Pima County Public Library is Now Letting You Watch Movies Online
Do you remember when you used to check out DVD’s at your local library every time you visited? Now as the Pima County Public Library continues to grow digitally you can do the same and watch your favorite films online. The Pima County Public Library recently announced the beginning of a service allowing cardholders for…
Know Your Product: Mammoth Grinder
When it comes to metal band names, you generally want to pick the biggest and/or baddest names possible to compete with competition. So what’s bigger than a mammoth? And what’s badder than grinding that titanic monster down into a fine dust? Mammoth Grinder fuse the particularly chaotic styles of American death metal and hardcore punk…
XOXO: Where To Rock This Weekend!
Friday, Feb 9: Their ’60s-influenced sound fuses elements of the archetype of pop music—the three-minute song—with expressionism that is unafraid to expand and distort to evoke an emotional response. Born of the earthen desert, La Cerca and the accordion, upright bass and violin propelled dark folk/Americana of Ex-Cowboy will be at Owls Club… She stirs…
Goodbye Flycatcher, Hello Seven-Story Apartment Building on Fourth Avenue
The Flycatcher bar on Fourth Avenue may be torn up for student housing as early as this summer. The downtown hotspot is under contract with student-housing development company out of Memphis, Education Realty Trust Inc., or EDR. A neighborhood meeting was held on Wednesday, Feb. 7, where legal representatives for the company told local residents…
Trouble Bruin: Arizona Smacked Down by UCLA, 82-74, at McKale Center
Jaylen Hands sealed Arizona’s fate late in the first half of Thursday’s tilt between the mighty Bruins and the 13th-ranked Wildcats. Hands, who entered Thursday’s game averaging 11.1 points per game for the Bruins, went on an unbelievable one-man scoring barrage in the half’s final minute. The San Diego native nailed consecutive three-pointers, buoying what was…
The Tip-Off: On Parker Jackson-Cartwright’s Improved Confidence, UCLA’s Mettle and Arizona’s Lackluster Defense
The course of the Pac-12 conference season swung on a blocked shot by Arizona freshman Deandre Ayton. The block, which came in the waning seconds of Arizona’s road game against Washington on Saturday night, careened toward the far sideline, right into the hands of junior forward Dominic Green. Green, who entered Saturday’s contest averaging a…
XOXO…: Where To Rock Tonight: Fetty Wap, Chuck Prophet, Mac Sabbath & More!
“Fetty means money,” explains rapper Fetty Wap. Something he apparently is quite good at making. “Trap Queen”—the third song he ever recorded—soared to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. After his self-titled debut album blew up—certified platinum—Wap said, “My mission isn’t to become more famous.” Instead, he wanted to use his fortunes to help…
Tucson Salvage
A dust devil charges down the swap-meet walkway and stirs the shop’s neatly displayed sunglasses, silver trinkets, and daisy-happy pillows.
Editor’s Note
Our cover story will tell you what you need to know about Beer Week and Tucson Craft Beer Crawl.
Methodists Help Migrants
This church’s heart includes a drum kit and electric guitar below the dais, water harvesting to feed the native trees in the yard and, now, an immigration legal services clinic.
Honest Goodness
If you keep up with the culinary whirlwind that is happening in Tucson, you may have noticed a big influx of barbecue joints opening up.
Police Dispatch
A couple tries to dine and dash their Christmas dinner at Waffle House.
Hibernian Happenings
“We were very lucky,” says David Howley, now a musician in the renowned band We Banjo 3, which alights in Tucson on Valentine’s Day.
Rising From Ash
On Memorial Day 2017, votive candles set ablaze the chapel at DeGrazia Gallery of the Sun.
Ghost Bust
I suspect we’ll be talking about this one again in about 10 months when we are compiling our year’s worst lists.
Police Dispatch
A guy wandering the University of Arizona campus was trying very hard to get into a fight.
Reel Indie
Exhibition on Screen: Rembrandt. If you like your classical portraits of tired vagabonds in the streetlight, it’s hard to do better than Rembrandt. The Hanson Film Institute and University of Arizona Museum of Art celebrate the Dutch master with an inside look his paintings, life and long-lasting influence. The film also documents landmark exhibitions of…
Let Love in
Valentine’s Day might seem a bad time to ponder the perplexing dichotomy of our rapidly connecting yet rapidly isolating world, but here we go.
Spin City
An oversized room with painted cinderblock walls, low ceilings and light-stained wood paneling greets you when you step into the recording space at Baby Gas Mask Records.
Loophole Lessons
As part of the Fair Share Campaign, ACEP will hold events to educate people on how “fiscal decisions affect the priorities that Arizonans care about.”
XOXO…
The musical magic hitting Tucson this week.
Know Your Product
his Valentine’s Day, the Sweethearts of the Rodeo are rounding up a romantic evening of country songs at Exo Bar.
The Skinny
Jim Nintzel watches McSally go full Trump since announcing her Senate run and takes a closer look at a panel discussion with Mexico-based photographers.
Practical Progress
Last week, state Sen. Sonny Borrelli introduced a bill that would significantly lower card fees for patients.
