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Hipsters meet gaming fans at Short Rest Tavern
Wearing a backward baseball hat and a bushy brown beard, Tom Garretson, on a 1-to-10 nerd scale ranks himself “a solid seven.” Fittingly, Garretson manages the fantasy-themed bar, Short Rest Tavern in Tucson Mall, at the back of the 5-year-old Tucson Games and Gadgets. Open for two years, the bar has become a haven for…
City Week: Weekly Picks
Tucson Roadrunners Friday and Saturday the Roadrunners host the Colorado Eagles. A special Friday package includes a “Yoga on Ice” feature. Saturday, there’s a $45 “Whiskey and Wings” pre-game event featuring del Bac Whiskey. Tuesday and Wednesday, the Roadrunners face the Milwaukee Admirals. Tuesday features popcorn and draft beer for $2 each and student tickets…
Tucson says goodbye to a treasure
Tucson lost a true treasure on Christmas. After an illness, local businessman and philanthropist Donald Luria died at home surrounded by his family. He was 87. Luria owned and operated the Tasting Spoon Cooking School and later opened the Terra Cotta Cafe, where he met his wife of 35 years, chef Donna Nordin. He co-founded…
Award Winning Topicals & Tinctures
Chronic Health has long been Arizona’s leader in topical and tincture products for patients looking for ailments ranging from pain relief to anxiety, with a true “Full-Spectrum” experience. Our award-winning topicals are produced using a proprietary process that extracts a huge range of compounds from the raw flower directly into the topical base oils while…
Allana Erickson-Lopez keeps falling upward
Next to veteran Mo Urban, dark horse Allana Erickson-Lopez was the most popular comedian among voters in Tucson Weekly’s 2022 Best of Tucson listings. It was the first year she’d been nominated, and she outshone previous contenders with decades more experience. This is the story of a woman who wandered into her talent and high-dived…
Rogue Theatre explores spiritual, worldly connections
In the play “Babette’s Feast,” two sisters living in a religious Norwegian village are exposed to temptations when they take in French refugee Babette. Their knowledge of the world is also broadened through her food artistry. Based on Isak Dinesen’s short story, it was conceived and developed by Abigail Killeen and written by Rose Courtney.…
Live Music Calendar
JANUARY 5 Brice Winston and Outward Bound The Century Room, 9 p.m., free Golden Boots LaCo Tucson, 6 p.m., free Lucky Devils Band Club Congress, 7 p.m., free JANUARY 6 AZ Hip-Hop Showcase 191 Toole, 8 p.m., $10 Brian Lopez w/Holy Faint Club Congress, 8 p.m., $17.51 Gimme Gimme Disco Rialto Theatre, 9 p.m., $20…
It must suck to be wrong about COVID-19
The New York Times, going about 1 inch out onto a limb, predicted that 2023 will be The Year of the Fabulist, with that particular sub-species being defined as “a liar, especially one who invents elaborate, dishonest stories.” With the Republicans (sort of) taking over the House of Representatives (the infighting is going to be…
