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Old-School Corporate Greed
A horrific tale of how a mining giant shipped off hundreds of workers to avoid labor unrest.
Casa Video Top 10
The monsoons finally made an appearance this week, cooling things down and taking the edge off our desert heat. Take advantage of these two-digit degree days by blocking off time to work in your garden, walk your dog and play in the (hopefully continuing?) rain. Then, when the humidity gets to be just a little…
Quick Bites: Tucson’s Twisted Tandoor Takeover
Check out the Tucson-famous Twisted Tandoor at their new digs! Formerly a food truck, this restaurant ditched its wheels and has upgraded to a brick and mortar as of July 1. Now located at the former Relish Kitchen & Wine Bar (4460 E. Camp Lowell Drive), the Twisted Tandoor is now offering a small lunch…
Cinema Clips: Baby Driver
This is a nice car chase movie antidote to The Fate of the Furious, a car chase movie that made me never want to see a car chase movie again, let alone Vin Diesel’s mushy mug. The soundtrack is one of the year’s best, and the guy in the title role is a major star…
Desert Beach Bash
Kick back and get your beach vibe on at Reilly’s Beach Club Free Patio Bash from 5-10 p.m. this Sunday, July 16. Located at The Rock (136 N. Park Ave.). Reilly’s Patio Bash is offering $2 tacos and $2 Mexican beer specials all night. Unwind with local music and comedy acts—the only thing this beach…
The Weekly List: 11 Things To Do In Tucson In The Next 10 Days
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Food & Booze Tucson World Music & Culture Showcase. Enjoy a little culture from all over the world The University Of Arizona Africana Studies Department and the Community Food Bank are coming together for a day of music, dancing, poetry and, of course, food. 8…
Laughing Stock: Retro Game Show
We’re a Big Fan! At 6’ 6”, Tucson’s Patrick Holt is an imposing drag queen. But height’s the least of the assets he brings to his alter-ego, Tempest DuJour. There’s also the drop-dead fabulousness of her costumes, created by the head of the UA’s costume design program—Holt, himself. Her sass is comedy gold, too. What doubtless…
There’s Election Integrity, and Then There’s Election Integrity
The press is calling it the Voter Fraud panel, though it would more accurate to call it the Voter Suppression panel. But the real name of the committee headed by Vice President Mike Pence and anti-immigration, pro-voter suppression Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. Note to Pence and Kobach: The…
Summertime Speakeasy Showdown
Don’t be a wet blanket this Saturday, July 15. Shimmy on down to 47 Scott (47 N. Scott Ave.) for the Summertime Speakeasy and Del Bac Showdown. For 40 clams (AKA $40), guests can sample cocktails from six local bartenders and participate in granting the People’s Choice award to the evening’s best drink. A portion…
Cinema Clips: The Beguiled
According to director Sofia Coppola, this is not a remake of the 1971 film of the same name starring Clint Eastwood; it’s a new adaptation of the novel both films are based on. Nicole Kidman stars as the leader of a southern school for girls, shut off from the rest of the world during the…
Koch Bros. and ALEC Shout From the Rooftops: “Stop Rooftop Solar!”
See if this paragraph from a recent article sounds familiar. [Arizona] Utilities argue that rules allowing private solar customers to sell excess power back to the grid at the retail price — a practice known as net metering — can be unfair to homeowners who do not want or cannot afford their own solar installations. It sounds…
In the Flesh: Tiny Town Times Debut Issue Release Show at Saint Charles Tavern! With The Rifle, Good Times Great Oldies, Treasure Mammal and Host Frank Powers (99.1 FM)
The importance of a free press, now more than ever, is immeasurable. Who’ll carry the torch next? Why, it’s … the Tiny Town Times, a newly launched quarterly community newspaper, offering a blend of “fiction, poetry, opinion, comics, illustrations, artist features, science and nature writing”… plus a really cool piece of foldout art. TTT publisher…
Cinema Clips: Okja
Director Joon-ho Bong, purveyor of spectacularly wacky cinematic things (The Host, Snowpiercer) delivers, perhaps, his wackiest yet with this tale about a future world where meat is scarce so huge pigs are biogenetically engineered for slaughter. The title character is a prized, giant animal raised in the mountains by Mija (Seo Hyun), a young girl…
In The Flesh: Casey Golden, Daycones and Fawn Bones Soothe and Rock the Smoking Area
Like a mirage of water on asphalt so appeared Fawn Bones, Daycones and Casey Golden, whose music collectively lifted the listlessness after yet another oppressive day of desert heat, last night (Thursday) on the patio at Bar Passé. Fawn Bones Fawn Bones was first up under the twinkling string lights on the rustic outdoor stage.…
Tucson Restaurateurs Victimized in Home Burglary
Consider visiting a restaurant that is as warm, familiar and familial as a friend’s kitchen. Imagine the walls, lined with family photos, and the smell of cumin, coriander and chilies lingering over good company. Since 1993, Tucson’s India Oven (2727 N. Campbell Ave.) has proudly served up a taste of Indian home cooking. Harmesh and Raksha Bhatti,…
DeVos Delays Loan Relief For Students Ripped Off By For-Profit Colleges
For-profit colleges have been ripping off the federal government and defrauding students for years. The systematic fleecing of the Feds and the students was reported as far back as 2009, but the government was slow to take action. In 2015 due to pressure from the Obama administration, the Corinthian College chain and ITT Tech Institute…
Cinema Clips: Transformers: The Last Knight
The latest Transformers movie, Transformers: The Last Knight, gets the dubious distinction of being the worst in the series. That is some sort of major accomplishment. It’s not the easiest thing in the world to look at this collective pile of movie manure and decipher which of the five is the worst. It’s like going…
“Neither Wolf Nor Dog” Indie Flick Opens This Weekend
As a comic-book heroine continues her blockbuster dominance this summer, a much lesser known film has also grabbed moviegoers’ full attention. The self-distributed Native American story “Neither Wolf Nor Dog” has quietly sold out nearly every one of its appearances at multiplex theaters across the U.S. over the past two weeks. This box-office winner, with…
Burro Fire Update: 11 Percent Contained
The Burro Fire east of Tucson has grown to more than 25,000 acres, but crews have made some progress in containing the blaze. Incident Commander Bea Day said in a press release that containment of the fire was at 11 percent, as of Thursday afternoon. Catalina Highway, Redington Pass Road and the Mount Lemmon Service…
The Weekly List: 12 Things To Do This Week
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Music Dogbreth. “I want you to feel like you could rely on me if you need to” … but I’m not sure if you can. This typifies the brutally honest, slightly neurotic voice of Dogbreth, a self-effacing indie combo from Phoenix and Seattle. Despite the…
Cinema Clips: Maudie
There isn’t a single wrong note in Maudie, an alternately heartbreaking and uplifting biofilm about the life of Canadian painter Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins). After answering an ad for a housekeeper in Nova Scotia, Maud, stricken with arthritis since she was a child, winds up in the house of miserable bastard Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke,…
Danehy
Is there anything that could have gotten Tom to vote for Donald Trump?
Vintage Vinyl
Though “La Bamba” is said to have African roots and been written well over 100 years ago, it’s 20th century form came into being as a Veracurz wedding dance, the earliest known recorded version was released in 1939 by El Jarocho (Alvaro Hernandez Ortiz).
Imagination Station
With record-breaking heat this summer, it feels like we skipped the sizzle and went straight to being baked.
Bisbee Deportation
Bisbee artist Laura McKenna knew for a long time that she wanted to make work commemorating the Bisbee Deportation of 1917.
Editor’s Note
Looking back 100 years.
Caviar Dreams
New York is 2,300+ miles away. That’s quite a drive to get you some good sushi. Not just good sushi, like some of the best in the country.
Police Dispatch
A deputy found a homeless man (who apparently liked the color red) naked in a car on the side of a major road—and possibly saved his life by commanding him to get medical attention for a leg infection, which he claimed was the reason he wasn’t wearing pants.
AHCCCS Denied
The United States Senate is primed to vote on the newest version of their secretive health care bill, the Better Care Rehabilitation Act (better known as Trumpcare) sometime after the Fourth of July recess.
Oh, Baby
Geeks like me have been bitching about director Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man exodus for a couple of years, now.
Light the Match
If you start with a penny and double it every day, the total climbs to more than $1 million within four weeks.
Skeeter Eaters
Fight the Bite, Day and Night helps the Pima County Health Department in their effort to combat disease-carriers.
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Pocho: Mexico just legalized medicinal marijuana nationwide, which will come as news to the abuelitas that have used marijuana-infused alcohol to treat sore joints and muscles for centuries.
Know Your Product
Out of the 802 saints that Pope Francis canonized in St. Peter’s Square on May 2013, Santa Pachita doesn’t appear anywhere in the canon. What up? Miguel Reyes explains: “Santa Pachita. Not a real saint.” In 2012, after playing in other projects, Reyes and Victor Cruz found kinship—rooted in their love of reggae, rock, ska,…
Breaking the Bank
With dispensaries bringing in as much green as they ship out, it may come as a surprise that banks aren’t ready to cash in on the booming industry.
