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Sticky Summer Nights
Ken Weir is Sticky, volunteer mascot for the indie pro baseball outfit The Tucson Saguaros.
Is the Strong Start Tucson Initiative a Good Idea?
Tucsonans will be voting on an initiative, Strong Start Tucson, which, if it passes, will provide money to make preschool more available and affordable for the city’s children. It will be funded by a half cent sales tax. That sounds like a wonderful idea to me, but some people have voiced strong objections to the details…
The Weekly List: 23 Things To Do In Tucson In The Next 10 Days
Your weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Family Friendly Cool Summer Nights Full Moon Festival. Visit this fest in pairs, so that one of you can keep watch for werewolves while the other partakes in the Desert Museum’s hands-on art activities. You can also enjoy the music of local band Haboob and…
Cinema Clips: Landline
A young woman (Abby Quinn) discovers that her dad, Alan (John Turturro), might be having an affair after spying some strange poetry on their desktop in the mid-nineties. Director Gillian Robespierre also reunites with her Obvious Child star Jenny Slate who plays Turturro’s older daughter, having relationship problems of her own with Ben (Jay Duplass).…
Tour Diaries! XIXA Skinsman Winston Watson Lays Out Some Stage Rules of the Road … From France, Days 17-18
Day 17-18 Toulouse and Bordeaux, France. Cooperation, sacrifice, and The Hang. Being in a band, is as Don Henley says, “is like being in a marriage. In our case, amplify that by five.” I don’t quote him, too often, but… he’s right. But, it’s not that simple. Human beings are fascinating. Sit quietly and watch…
Arizona’s Un-Credential. Is It the Beginning Of the End Of Teaching As a Profession?
I’ve written a number of posts about SB 1042, which created a new Subject Matter Expert Standard Teaching Certificate. But recently I realized I was so wrapped up in the details of the bill, I missed the big picture, which is that, thanks to the new law, education courses, teacher training and student teaching are…
Cash Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Cash! I am a 1-year-old male Domestic Medium hair cat looking for the purr-fect home. I would do better in a home with older, calm children. In my last home I did get along with an older, small breed dog. I am already litterbox trained and ready to find my forever home. Come…
Tour Diaries! XIXA Day 16: How Ariano, Italy, is Kinda Close To Tucson
Day 16 Ariano, Italy I’ve been to many cities in Italy, but, Ariano has its own special, unique charm, much like how Tucson isn’t really like the rest of Arizona, or like how Austin isn’t like the rest of Texas. After being fleeced in Turin, we were elated that our next stop after Ravenna was…
Tour Diaries! XIXA Day 14-15: Italy, Sore Knees, Hiccuping Fog Machines, The One Back at Home, and Writing Blog Posts on Mobile Phones
Days 14-15 Resolution and reconciliation. After the events that took place in Turin, a million thoughts go through your head. Should, coulda, woulda. All for naught. Life moves on, you dust off, you keep moving. Today, we are in Ravenna, Italy, to do a show tonight. Then it’s on to beautiful Ariano, Italy, and eventually,…
Meritocracy, System Justification and Mexican American Studies
With Mexican American Studies back in the news, the discussion over whether the program helped or hurt its students has been reopened. Were minority students better off for being taught ways Hispanics have gotten a raw deal in this country, or does that just make them angry and discouraged, leaving them worse off than if…
Song of the Day: Billy Sedlmayr On Crazy Jimmy, and also Elton John’s ‘Have Mercy on the Criminal’
I knew a man some years back, his name was Jimmy, “Crazy Jimmy.” He Had served 28 years on his 25-to-life sentence. When eventually he made parole, they say he hit the bricks and was dropped off at a tiny bus stop, where he must have stood with his $25 check and state-issued Brogans before…
In The Flesh: Jimmy Carr and the Awkward Moments Create a Raucous Musical Celebration Aboard Sun Link
Eager passengers gathered under dark, threatening clouds at Mercado San Agustin station, early Saturday evening. It was a celebration—a moving one too thanks to Jimmy Carr and The Awkward Moments—to commemorate the third anniversary of Tucson’s modern streetcar (Sun Link). (Since its July, ’14 launch, the streetcar has provided approximately 2.93 million rides to passengers.)…
Burlesque Battle of the Bands This Weekend? Yep, You Read That Right.
Then fetchingly monikered Lola Torch explains the Tucson Libertine League’s second event with this tagline: “We guarantee we’ll make you sweat, but we promise you’ll love it.” It’s unlike anything else that you likely see in a Moldy Pueblo summer. Combining the raw power and tension of rock ‘n’ roll with the expressive movement of…
The Mariachi Miracle
During his 46 years in Tucson, Daniel Buckley has developed an immense respect for Mexican-American culture.
Summer Catch
Since the summer of last year, Tucson became home to the (semi) pro start-up the Tucson Saguaros.
Editor’s Note
Our intern and Tucson Salvage columnist team up to highlight Tucson’s (semi) pro baseball team the Tucson Saguaros.
Know Your Product
Rena Lovelis is charisma on wheels, a magnetic ass-magnet for all sexes, whose croon-and-shout voice is crammed with deceptive sexual tension.
Art in Technicolor
Borderlands has made a name for itself by celebrating the legacy of the barrio and the diversity of the voices of our beloved borderland region.
Fog of War
In a strange way, this ambitious, confusing but visually stunning work is one of Christopher Nolan’s least successful films.
The Skinny
Ann Kirkpatrick tosses her hat in the ring while Ward 3 Democratic primary candidates show us the money.
Vintage Vinyl
Ray Camacho and The Teardrops “Lonely Town”/”I Told You So” Copper State CSR 1078, 1968.
Cannabis Court
The federal government’s staunch stance against the happy little plant may seem at odds with public opinion.
Danehy
Long-time Amphi High School football coach Vern Friedli died from complications from a series of strokes at the age of 80.
Reel Indie
As the summer heat continues, make a mad dash from the AC in your house to the AC in your car to the AC in one of Tucson’s indie movie theaters.
Ask a Mexican!
My, how quickly Oklahomans forget their own history-sad that a Mexican has to teach you about your own people, but that happens only in America.
Police Dispatch
Four inebriated young men broke into the University of Arizona’s pool in order to jump off the highest diving board for cheap thrills.
Pleasantly Punjab
What is it, exactly, about strip malls and fantastic food?
