Things to Do, Wednesday, Feb. 12
Blood Road. Summit Hut is honoring ultra-endurance mountain bike athlete Rebecca Rusch by screening the 2017 documentary Blood Road. This Emmy-winning film follows Rusch’s search for answers surrounding her father’s death in the Vietnam War, as she bikes the 1,200 miles of the Ho Chi Minh trail. Rusch and her Vietnamese riding partner Huyen Nguyen…
Things to Do, Tuesday, Feb. 11
Infusion Night at Pueblo Vida. For Arizona Beer Week, Pueblo Vida Brewing Company is releasing two limited-edition infusions. First up, it’s the Orange Medley “Highly Compatible” Double IPA, made in collaboration with Wren House Brewing. This DIPA includes multiple citrus notes, including navel and blood orange on top of a hoppy finish. They’re also releasing…
Things to Do, Monday, Feb. 10
Wine Tasting Gala Fundraiser. Arizona Wine Collective is hosting a wine tasting in support of Desert Voices, Tucson’s LGBT chorus. The tasting includes five local wines paired with complimentary hors d’oeuvres. Forty percent of ticket purchases supports Desert Voices singers to attend the GALA 2020 Festival. Of course, Arizona Wine Collective is always a good…
Things to Do, This Weekend, Feb. 7 – 9
Buffalo Soldiers: The 10th Cavalry Regiment Told Through the Art of David Laughlin. The 10th Cavalry was stationed in Arizona from 1885 to 1896, where they served as postmen, park rangers, police officers and armed forces all at once. This exhibition at the Tucson Desert Art Museum, put on in partnership with the Greater Southern…
Where to Rock, This Weekend, Feb. 7 – 9
Friday, Feb. 7 Not unlike a Castaneda novel, in pursuit of A Separate Reality—while under the direct influence of a potent cumbia infused psychedelic that arose from the Peruvian highlands—Tucson cumbiancheros Chicha Dust talk to coyotes. On the plaza at Hotel Congress… Straddling the fence, with one dusty Converse sneaker smeared with the grime of…
Laughing Stock: Politics, popcorn and PALentines
Pilloried politics at The O Graham Elwood and Ron Placone mean for their Progressive Comedy Tour to entertain us. Obviously, they don’t define “progressive” the way established political parties do. They see humans as progressive, and politics, with its sycophant national media, as the sludge of corporate greed. Since Placone is bringing his guitar, audience…
Where to Rock, Thursday, Feb. 6
From Montreal, aggressive electronic trio Black Tiger Sex Machine mashes together dubstep beats with atmospheric visuals to create a dark sci-fi aesthetic. Explore “New Worlds” at Rialto Theatre. DJ/producer Blanke and the otherworldly bass of Vampa set the tone… Emerging from the City of Brotherly Love’s punk scene in 2011, Grayscale quickly left the grit…
Claytoon of the Day: Ripping Trump A New One
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Claytoon of the Day: Windmills Get Another Victim
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SOTU Prebuttal: Trump Hasn’t Done Anything To Help Americans With Health Care Issues
In his upcoming State of the Union Address, President Trump owes Americans some straight talk on health care. The reality is that Trump has already broken his many promises on health care. During his three years in office, Americans are paying more for medicine and millions have lost coverage due to cost increases. In 2015,…
Mo’s Revenge on GGG Wednesday
Break out the chips and frost those tips because Tucson chef, Mo Madril of Geronimo’s Revenge food truck is appearing on Guy Fieri’s Guy’s “Grocery Games” this Wednesday night on Food Network at 8 p.m. MST. If you’ve never seen the show, the best way to describe it is as a reboot of legendary ’80s…
County Supes Reject Stonegarden Grant on Another 3-2 Vote
Today the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted to reject more than $1.8 million in federal Operation Stonegarden funds. This money would have gone toward Pima County sheriff’s deputies overtime, mileage and equipment related to federal immigration missions. Democratic Supervisors Sharon Bronson, Ramón Valadez and Richard Elías voted against the funds, while Republican Supervisors Steve…
Adoptable Pets: Athena Needs a Home
“Hello! I’m Athena! I was adopted from HSSA several months back but was recently returned because my owners couldn’t care for me anymore. I’m a little sad, but the awesome people here at the Humane Society of Southern Arizona have assured me that I am a VERY good girl who is going to find a…
Things to Do, Tuesday, Feb. 4
Life Beyond Earth. The University of Arizona science lecture series is back! This year’s theme: Catalysts of Change. Kicking it off are astronomy professor Chris Impey and molecular and cellular biology and astronomy professor Betül Kaçar. They’ll be talking about the trajectory of life on Earth and the future of life off-Earth. Are we alone…
Claytoon of the Day: Can’t find Kansas City
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A Q&A with historical novelist Nancy E. Turner about her new book ‘Light Changes Everything’
On January 14, Tucson author Nancy E. Turner released her newest novel, Light Changes Everything. The historical fiction based in rural Arizona focuses on a young feminist in 1907 aiming for a better future. Light Changes Everything is a new take on the experiences of young women living in the Wild West. Turner, a University…
Where to Rock, Monday, Feb. 3
Texas ska punks Hans Gruber and the Die Hards, Muddle of Pud (crusty stoner metal), BYOM (hardcore punk) and Perish (powerviolence) stir up the status quo. At Blacklidge Community Collective…
Tucson Mall is Getting a Harkins
A new Harkins Theatre will be coming to the Tucson Mall, located at Oracle and Wetmore Roads, in the near future. On Jan. 30, Harkins announced plans to build its third theater in Tucson and 37th location overall. “We are proud to be a local Arizona company and love it when we have the opportunity…
Claytoon of the Day: Inappropriate
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Just Najima Drops Queenie
On Queenie, songstress Just Najima’s debut album, her impassioned voice simmers and seethes. Her prose dripping with ‘tude—“I Ain’t Got Time (For That Shit)”—can impale a stake straight into the gut. Like on “America Blues,” she wails about Michael Brown and how the system let a murdering cop go free, “injustice crying out.” Defiant, Najima…
In Advance Of Honeyden, The Rifle Asks “Are We Having Fun Yet?”
With a salvo, in advance of a new album, Honeyden (Burger Records, 2020), scheduled to drop on Jan. 31, gunsmoke-diffused indie rockers The Rifle are breadcrumbing fans with a trail of singles. Nelene Deguzman reflects on the backstory to “Are We Having Fun Yet?”, revisiting a difficult time in her life in hindsight. “I was…
Work begins at Ruthrauff and I-10
Less than a year after work was completed at the Ina Road Interchange, construction is underway at Ruthrauff Road and Interstate 10. The $79 million project, when completed, will allow drivers to pass over the interstate and Union Pacific railroad track, similar to the Ina interchange. Sundt Construction is handling the project. The project includes…
The Other Shoe Drops For Lee Enterprises
In a power move worthy of Gordon Gekko, Alden Global Capital acquired a near six percent interest Wednesday in media rival, Lee Enterprises, after purchasing a $9.2 million stake in the company on the open market. Alden’s subsidiary, MNG Holdings (DBA) Digital First Media reported purchasing 3.4 million shares to the Security and Exchange Commission…
Claytoon of the Day: Tripping On Nepotism
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Danehy
It’s a new year and we’re now in the Twenties. Some of the old questions (many of which have never been answered) must now give way to new questions.
A Saguaro Primer
The saguaro is one of the world’s most studied wild plant species, probably because of its charisma and ready accessibility, but also because, as a large cactus, it is decidedly different from plants more familiar to researchers.
Good Taste
A passion for picking apart flavors began early for Nathan Thompson Avelino.
Quick Bites
Culinary adventures and libations in town!
City Week
The best events and fun in town this week!
Dance Trifecta
Midway through the eighth annual Tucson Desert Song Festival—devoted this year entirely to the American voice—Ballet Tucson is stepping up to perform three dances with American roots.
Under the Skin
Arizona Theatre Company’s production of Master Harold… and the Boys, Athol Fugard’s semi-autobiographical play set in 1950’s South Africa, begs the audience to question how we deal with difficult times.
Pot Luck
There are many reasons to happily hop to your local cinema for a showing of Guy Ritchie’s gangster comedy return, The Gentlemen.
Reel Indie
Movies in your local indie theaters!
Old Country
“A good song is a good song.” Hank Topless makes this declaration between bites of his pollo asado taco at Taqueria Pico de Gallo on Tucson’s southside. The introspective, yet cocksure country musician’s new album, Songs I Hate To Sing, captures the sound of country music made between the dawn of the atomic age and…
Know Your Product: Pieta Brown
The songwriter’s voice is an invaluable musical instrument, capable of conjuring poetry, melody, atmosphere, storytelling and more. But for certain singers, such as Pieta Brown, voice can achieve all these at the same time, and more. Although she possesses such a great voice, the folk/country singer has managed to balance instrumentation and singing over multiple…
Queen of Cactus
If there’s a story about the saguaro cactus that’s stuck in my head since I heard it back in 1982, it’s the one about David Grundman, the drunk knucklehead who, after failing to run down one of those mighty cactus in his jeep, decided he’d blast it with his shotgun. The saguaro got the last…
Police Dispatch
A woman allegedly grabbing coffee for cops made a huge scene at a Starbucks before sunrise, insisting it hadn’t opened exactly on time at 5:30 a.m., a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated.
XOXO
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The Lion’s Share
It’s often been said that the collective soul of humankind needs wild places as well as the magnificent creatures that dwell there. The killing of a mother cougar and her two offspring found scavenging on human remains on the eve of the New Year in Pima Canyon may prove that adage true. In social gatherings…
Buzzy Brew
What happens when Arizona’s oldest medical marijuana edibles producing kitchen teams up with one of the best coffee roasters in the Old Pueblo? You get a damn fine cold brew coffee, infused with full spectrum cannabis extracts, that’s sure to make Mondays tolerable.
Tucson Salvage
Tucson Salvage columnist Brian Smith reflects on how his gorgeous new baby opened his heart in ways he could never have imagined.
