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Desert Angel
On three separate days of the week, Smith takes up to 12-hour trips to check on the quality of the water and refill the tanks. “I love the desert,” he says. “This is my land and I don’t want anyone to die here.”
Casa Video Top 10
Tucson, we don’t have too many slow weekends left this summer. School is starting up, the weather will soon take it down a notch (or 30) and our weekly list of events is going to explode. Until then, let’s take it easy. Maybe catch a movie. Here is your weekly look at the Top 10…
The Weekly List: 27 Things To Do in Tucson in the Next Seven Days
Food & Booze Bakasana And Beer: It’s Yoga hour at the Dragoon Taproom on select Saturdays hosted by Exude Yoga LLC. First come, first served. The event will run 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. on S Aug. 6. $5. Looking for something more intense? Head back the next day for Brewery Bootcamp because beer should always come…
3V3 Improv Comedy Tournament
In honor of the summer backyard basketball season, Tucson Improv Movement is hosting a comedy tournament. Teams of three comedians will perform, and you can help crown the champions. The first round is Saturday, Aug. 6 from 9 to 10:15pm at Tucson Improv Movement, 329 E. 7th St. For just $5 you can attend and be…
Grab Your Pager and a Neon Windbreaker and Get Ready for the ’90s Bar Crawl
In the mood for a little nostalgia—and vodka? Plan to go to the ’90s Bar Crawl this Saturday, Aug. 6. The crawl will stop in at a plethora of downtown bars (Elliott’s on Congress, Batch Cafe & Bar, Highwire Lounge, R Bar, Playground, O’Malley’s, Borderlands Brewing Co., the Surly Wench, Maloney’s, Che’s Lounge, Mr. Heads, Sky Bar and the Hut), all of which will be…
Early Voting for the Local Primary Election Begins Wednesday
Look out a green envelope in your mail! Members of the Permanent Early Voting List should start seeing their ballots for Arizona’s Aug. 30 election tomorrow. Don’t know what or who is going to be on the ballot? Read up on the candidates. Wish you had signed up for an early ballot ages ago? Request one…
“Have You No Sense of Decency?”
During Senator Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts in the 1950s, he decided to go after the U.S. Army. The army hired Joseph Welch as its lawyer to make its case during what is known as the Army-McCarthy hearings. When McCarthy claimed one of Welch’s attorneys was connected to a Communist group, Welch responded, “Have you no…
The Simpsons Weigh in on the 2016 Election
What’s the future of the 3 a.m. phone call? The Simpsons wagers we’re choosing between Bill and Hillary Clinton fighting over calls to the Situation Room or Donald Trump struggling to mold a dog into a toupee before it’s “too late.” The choice is yours! Don’t forget to register to vote before Oct. 10.
Cinema Clips: Into the Forest
A couple of great actresses make a fair script movie-worthy in this apocalyptic thriller from writer-director Patricia Rozema. Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood star as Nell and Eva, two sisters living with their dad (Callum Rennie) in their home deep in the forest. One routine evening, they are enjoying the luxuries of modern civilization…
Updated: Looking for a New Pet? Forgo the Puppy Mills at ‘Adopt, Don’t Shop’
Put kitty litter and a box of dog treats on your grocery list because you’re getting a new pet. This Saturday, Aug. 6, Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter, the Humane Society of Southern Arizona, Pima Paws for Life, and Pima Animal Care Center are participating in an Adopt, Don’t Shop event. The date of the…
McSally: “No Justification for Ever Attacking the Family of Someone Who Gave His or Her Life for This Country”
U.S. Rep. Martha McSally has weighed in on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with Khizr and Ghazala Khan Kahn, the parents of heroic Muslim-American soldier Capt. Humayun S. M. Khan killed in Iraq in 2004. “Our fallen heroes, and their families, deserve nothing but our highest respect,” McSally said via email. “This is…
Pearson Education: Live By Common Core Profits . . .
Pearson Education, part of Pearson PLC, one of the world’s largest education companies, bet big on Common Core testing as well as textbooks and other materials tailored to boost scores on Common Core tests. Right now, the British company is in a bit of trouble. The stock price for Pearson PLC, the world’s largest education…
Get Your Hands on a Stingray at the Desert Museum
There’s a new exhibit opening at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (2021 N. Kinney Road) this Friday: Stingray Touch. What do you think of when you visualize the desert? Cacti? Breathtaking sunsets? Elusive Gila monsters? At the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, you can experience those things, as well as the touch of a stingray. Although the Sonoran…
Enjoy a Classic Pokéfilm at the Loft’s Pokémon Party
While Pokémon Go hasn’t even been out a month yet, the franchise has been around for years, together both the new app and the original games and movies have a large fan base. Tucson is no exception. It’s hard to go almost anywhere without seeing someone with their head buried in their phone trying to find…
Celebrate Safety and Community at National Night Out
National Night Out, an annual day dedicated to trying to strengthen community-police partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie is this Tuesday, Aug. 2. The community building campaign aims to make neighborhoods safer and overall better places to live. The national campaign, which has been celebrated for 33 years, believes the safety of a community depends on knowing your…
Cinema Clips: The Innocents
Writer-director Anne Fontaine (Adore, Coco Before Chanel) delivers her best film yet with this haunting story about a Polish convent in 1945, dealing with the savage after effects of WWII. Lou de Laage is Mathilde, a French Red Cross doc who is taking care of German concentration camp survivors. When a nun comes begging for…
Public Brewhouse Celebrates a Year of Great Beer
Local nanobrewery Public Brewhouse is celebrating its one year anniversary. It took Mike Gura and Cody Van Haren, the two head brewers and owners at Public, three years to open up their brewery. The two met while working as EMTs on an ambulance together and have been brewing together for five years now. The idea to…
Casa Video Top 10
Well, I know you’ve got a busy weekend ahead of you. If you find some time to rent a movie, these are probably the ones you’re going to want. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Hail, Caesar! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot A Perfect Day Eye in the Sky Hello, My Name is Dorris Green Room My…
Win Tickets to see the Diamondbacks Play the Nationals
We’ve got four tickets to Tuesday evening’s DBacks vs. Nationals baseball game at Chase Field (401 E. Jefferson St., Phoenix). The game starts at 6:40 p.m. Enter below and we’ll get in touch with the winner midday Monday. Keep in mind that the tickets will need to be picked up from our office on the…
B-Sides: Litter Brain
The band, which features members of Arroyo Deathmatch, carries that sense of humor throughout the album with tunes like “You Can Get Mimosas Now,” “Toilet Phone” and “Loan Groan.”
Keeping it Brief
Best Trains for productivity We often hear about marijuan being great for increasing appetite, sex drive, and helping us sleep better. These things are amazing, but sometimes what is really need is a kick to make us more active and get more done. Here are a few marijuana strains that help people become more active…
Get Creative Juices (Coffee) Flowing
Maybe it’s time to get motivated with some other like-minds for some much-needed inspiration and brainstorming at Coffee with Creatives.
Tucson Salvage
Dorreen Martinez is one of those who can’t help but remind you of little wonders that bring a certain joy to city nights.
Get Outta the Sun at the Sunburn Film Fest
The Screening Room is bringing back the Arizona Sunburn Film Festival Shorts Block.
The Show Must Go On
They did it!
T Q&A
Nikko Kimzin, a graduate from the UA School of Theatre, Film and Television, is working hard to see minority performers and artists take the stage in new and important ways.
Curiouser and Curiouser…
Surly Wench is, as always, host to the grotesque, beautiful and intriguing.
Pop Matured: Atlas Genius
There is something very soothing about the music of Atlas Genius.
Police Dispatch
Two local apartment-complex residents were relieved of a noisy neighbor when he was finally jailed after screaming and banging around in the predawn hours (and treating the cops beyond rudely).
Crystal Frontier
Sonoran Glass School is the only place in the desert southwest that offers lessons in and provides facilities for each of these disciplines.
B-Sides: DJQ
If you didn’t catch local poet and beat maker Enrique García Naranjo’s piece in the L.A. Times in May, you’ll want to check out “What Is Mexcellent?” right now.
Dust Devil
What was once their own/Heard now is only his groan
Food for Thought
Given everything going on socially, politically and, especially, racially in this country right now, why does food matter?
Police Dispatch
Sheriff’s deputies took one more local “seafood pusher” off the streets after they caught a guy in a southwest-side Walmart with numerous bags of frozen shrimp shoved down his pants.
Doctor’s Orders
Democrat Matt Heinz is an emergency room physician and former state lawmaker who is seeking to challenge U.S. Rep. Martha McSally.
Summer on Stage
Now that we know Arizona Theatre Company will see another great season, check out the first musical to hit the Temple of Music and Art before the Fall.
Zippy Pippy
While the new Star Trek Beyond lacks a little bit in soul and story cohesiveness, it scores high on the zip factor, and introduces a creepy new villain.
Groove Meter: Greyhounds
It’s never bothered the Greyhounds for a minute that nobody—from fans to their label to music writers and DJs—knows quite how to describe the band.
The Skinny
Ally in Wonderland, Part 357 Pima County Supervisor now facing investigation by Arizona Attorney General The email controversy surrounding Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller now has her under investigation by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. And if our sources are correct, it’s a serious problem for Miller, who is in the midst of a reelection…
Jump for Joy! (and Drink Tickets)
This is not your kid’s recess hour.
Editor’s Note
Am I tired of suffering from voter’s remorse? You bet. Do I think I just might suffer again if Clinton is elected? Probably. But throwing a vote in any other direction won’t help.
Answering Machine
Live Theatre Workshop’s production of The Lady With All the Answers allows us to get a literally up-close glimpse of the down-to-earth advice mill that Ann Landers was for decades grinding people’s problems into flour for their daily bread.
B-Sides: Los Master Plus
There’s absolutely no way you will possibly be seen standing still at Rialto Theatre this Friday.
