Cover Story
Bring Out Your Brew
Bear down and bottoms up, Tucson.
Song of the Day: Billy Sedlmayr Tackles Primal Scream and ‘I Can Change’
Writing about Primal Scream is a chore. For one thing, they’re a Glasgow band who’ve done pretty much anything and everything to make their reputation, one that’s schizoid to say the least. After leaving The Jesus and Mary Chain to make Scream a full-throttle effort, Bobby Gillespie and band began a series of post-punk stab’s at mid-’80’s…
TUSD Sideshow
The TUSD Superintendent’s job is still at risk, although discussion of it was absent from Tuesday night’s board meeting. The crowd of more than a hundred people cheered at the beginning of Tucson Unified School District’s regular board meeting when the controversial item was removed from the agenda. For an hour and a half, one…
Cinema Clips: The Salesman
Writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s (A Separation) latest involves Ermad (Shahab Hosseni), a teacher and part time actor in Iran forced to leave his home when it becomes uninhabitable. He moves to a new place on short notice with his wife, Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), while they are both in the middle of a run for Arthur Miller’s…
TUSD Superintendent Firing Update: Nothing To See Here, Folks (For Now).
The agenda for TUSD’s Tuesday board meeting included an action item to look at firing Superintendent H.T. Sanchez and General Counsel Todd Jaeger. The item was pulled from the agenda. No action. Nothing to see here folks. But this isn’t the last time we’ll witness an attempt to oust Sanchez. It was a preview of coming…
Song of the Day: Billy Sedlmayr On Why The Small Faces’ ‘Tin Soldier’ Makes Him Fall in Love With Rock ‘N’ Roll Again and Again …
P.P. Arnold, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott, Glyn Johns, Kenny Jones, Ian “Mac” McLagan, Billy Sedlmayr
Cinema Clips: I Am Not Your Negro
Writer James Baldwin’s unfinished book Remember This House gets a documentary three decades after his death, and it’s a powerful one. Baldwin is seen in speeches he gave in the sixties, one of them on The Dick Cavett Show, and the civil right’s leader’s words prove absolutely prophetic in retrospect. Director Raoul Peck’s Oscar nominated film…
Does TUSD Board Member Rachael Sedgwick Want to Fire Superintendent, General Counsel at the Tuesday Board Meeting?
The agenda for Tuesday night’s TUSD Board meeting includes this “Action Item” requested by new board member Rachael Sedgwick: Discussion/Consideration/Action re Employment, Assignment, Appointment, Promotion, Demotion, Dismissal, Salaries, Disciplining or Resignation of a Public Officer: – Superintendent – General Counsel The Superintendent is H.T. Sanchez. The General Counsel is Todd Jaeger. Consider this post a heads…
Jerry Falwell Jr. to Head Trump’s Higher Ed Deregulation Task Force. Expect a Big Boost for Liberty—Falwell’s Liberty University, That Is.
Lost in the uproar over our new Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is another education-related appointment that needs no Senate confirmation. Trump plans to make Jerry Falwell Jr. head of his task force to deregulate higher education. The Obama administration made some significant advances in draining the for-profit university swamp. Think Corinthian Colleges and ITT Tech, both…
Rita Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Rita! I’m a shy 1.5-year-old female and I need a home. I was found as a stray and brought into HSSA by a good Samaritan, who micro chipped and vaccinated me! I’m ready to find my forever home and I can’t wait, because I am very scared in the shelter. I get along…
Cinema Clips: John Wick: Chapter 2
A whole lot of people get shot in the face during this worthy sequel to the 2015 breakout hit John Wick. Keanu Reeves—totally bummed out Keanu Reeves—returns as the lone assassin, originally brought out of retirement after somebody killed his dog and stole his car. Many deaths later, Wick is back in his stylish home,…
Painting for Pups
Spend the night of Saturday, Feb. 25 from 6-9 p.m. helping the sweet companions at Pima Animal Care Center find their forever homes and getting crafty at the same time. Win-win. An art class sponsored by Tipsy Picassos will teach you how to paint this “Starry Night Dog” masterpiece for $35. All art supplies are…
Fiamme Pizza Napoletana Restaurant Now Open
Fiamme Pizza Napoletana isn’t just wheeling their way around Tucson anymore. Scott Volpe, owner, opened a restaurant of his own at 4706 E Sunrise Dr. The restaurant has been open since Feb. 1, and is still getting in the swing of things. The restaurant fits about 25 people right now and they only have one…
Countries That Embraced Vouchers Made the Wrong School Choice
Remember that statewide vote Arizona held on vouchers? No? I didn’t think so, because no such vote ever took place. There’s a reason for that. Every time voters in other states have been asked the question, they’ve voted against vouchers. Our Republican-led legislature created our two voucher-like programs on its own. The first program was…
Here’s Your Chance to Win Thousands of Dollars
Have you got game show ambitions? If you think you’ve got what it takes to be on Wheel of Fortune. Well, this is your chance because the Wheelmobile is rolling into Tucson and looking for contestants on their next show. The Wheelmobile is the show’s promotional bus that travels from city to city in search…
Beer Week Calendar
Beer Week Calendar • Arizona Beer Week Kick Off with Arizona Wilderness and Historic Brewing Thursday, Feb. 9, 5 to 11 p.m. Tap and Bottle, 403 N. Sixth Ave. Kick off Beer Week at Tap and Bottle with collaboration brews from Arizona Wilderness and Historic Brewing and Pin the Beard on the Brewer. • Qmulative…
Vegan Vibes
Urban Fresh, tucked away in downtown Tucson, is a tasty meat-free mecca with the Padilla family serving as your flavor saviors.
Dinnerware Revisited
Once upon a time, before there was an Elliot’s on Congress, before there was a Hub, before there was a modern streetcar, there was Dinnerware.
Ass-kickin’ Posole!
There are several things you need to know about Guera, a one-woman play by actress/writer Lisandra Tena, the current production at Borderlands Theater.
Third Generation Degeneration
After seeing Ouija: Origin of Evil last year, and being blown away by the horror sequel, I had newborn faith in the ability for horror sequels to entertain me.
Noise Annoys
I’m fairly lucky as far as local alt-weekly writers go. I get a fair amount of correspondence from readers and not all of it is angry.
Black Heart Procession
Hank Topless calls his music honkytonk countryblues, jamming it all together into two words, obliterating the spaces in between so what’s left is its own new thing.
Know Your Product
Atlanta punk band The Coathangers might have formed as a joke for a local house party, but the level of cult success they’re enjoying internationally is certainly nothing to scoff.
Editor’s Note
Mari remembers sitting in the Sabino High School auditorium about six years ago, listening to four Republican candidates explain why they were the best choice to fill the CD 8 seat left vacant by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
Press Darling
At 62, Stuart Leslie Goddard, is pretty spry for an old white guy.
Dust Devil
Super Bowl arrives again in masses stirring up splendor distractions from our daily lives that drives us to dine on the worst food that we can find.
High Horses
It seems too much pot is giving Republican state lawmakers an identity crisis as they keep trying to pass greater regulation on the Arizona marijuana industry.
Police Dispatch
A very unfortunate man was just getting to know a woman online
The Pleasure Activist
In our society, most forms of sexuality are still highly stigmatized.
Give Me Your Huddled Masses
A 20-year-old Syrian refugee told his story to demonstrators holding signs that read “Refugees Welcome” and “No Muslim Ban,”
The Skinny
Activists want U.S. Rep. McSally to hear from them at an open meeting, but McSally has other plans.
Ask a Mexican!
When Americans retake California from you low-IQ Mexicans, should we call it the Reconquista?
Tucson Salvage
The General coughs and points, and says, “That’s Killer, he’s been the best partner I’ve ever had.”
