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Street Views
A county report shows that bringing all the road in unincorporated Pima County back up to ideal condition would cost an estimated $268 million—and that’s just for the streets that are outside the city limits of Tucson, Marana, Oro Valley and other local jurisdictions.
El Tambó Presents: Chicago’s Dos Santos & New York’s Karikatura Are Bringing a Multinational Music Lovefest to Tucson
The upcoming El Tambó is going to be a multinational lovefest, featuring music by Chicago-based Dos Santos and New York’s Karikatura. Both are virgins to the Tucson scene, so come show them how the desert shakes it. As cumbia and other Afro-Latin American, transglobal genres inspire a new sense of infatuation in the U.S., both…
Watch Your Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks at Fox Theatre
Grab a seat in the cool, dark Fox Tucson Theatre on Saturday, July 18 and be transported aboard the Nostromo when the historic venue hosts a special screening of 1979 sci-fi horror thriller classic Alien. Ridley Scott’s penchant for suspense combined with designer and artist HR Giger’s industrial gothic aesthetic creates a visually-stunning and tense…
Tucson Pastor Shares Her Thoughts on the Fight to Save Oak Flat & the Harms of Christian Privilege
Southside Presbyterian Church’s the Rev. Alison Harrington is speaking the truth on the Huffington Post. (Southside Presbyterian has been part of a new emergence of the Sanctuary Movement. The church has housed undocumented mother Rosa Robles Loreto for nearly one year as she fights her deportation order.) To paraphrase, this country is continuing to do…
Let’s Watch Another They Might Be Giants Video by Alex Italics
Tucson filmmaker Alex Italics (profiled by the Weekly back in February) has made a new video for They Might Be Giants. It appears he annoyed a few people in the process, as you can see if you watch “I Am Invisible.”
Which Has a Greater Effect On Student Achievement: Inequality/Poverty or Teachers/Schooling?
I was about to write a completely different post, about an article maintaining that disadvantaged kids have less access to top quality teachers than kids from higher income families. But then I came across a very long paper by David Berliner, a highly regarded, much-published emeritus professor of education at ASU and a fellow at…
Ash vs. the Evil Dead: Let’s Bring Back the Chainsaw
All right, you primitive screwheads—listen up! There was plenty of big Hollywood news out of the San Diego’s Comic Con International over the weekend, but for my money, the most exciting trailer was for Ash vs. the Evil Dead, a continuation of the Evil Dead franchise that I never imagined seeing come together. Let’s hear…
Five Ways to Celebrate National Nude Day
One of the joys, one of many, in living alone is the fact that you can sit around in your birthday suit, binging on Netflix and snacks with quiet, private dignity. While any day can easily be an appropriate nude day, today is the day to really bare it all and let it all hang…
McSally Calls Iran Agreement a “Dangerous Deal” While Grijalva Sees “Triumph of International Relations”
The Iran deal announced earlier today has drawn a lot of criticism from Republicans and cautious support from Democrats. Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-CD3) joined his Congressional Progressive Caucus colleagues in praising the agreement: The historic agreement struck today between the United States, our allies, and Iran is a triumph of international relations. President Obama, Secretary…
Celebrate Tomatoes and Basil This Weekend at the Heirloom Farmers Market
Summer eats are ripe with fresh, bright flavors and prominent among them are tomatoes and basil. This weekend, you’ll get two opportunities to celebrate the tasty union of these two foods when Heirloom Farmers Markets celebrates the abundance of the season with live music, demonstrations and, of course, plenty of basily and tomatoey wares for…
Transgender People May Soon Be Able to Openly Serve in the Military
The Department of Defense might be en route to reforming its policies regarding transgender people in the military. In a statement Monday, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter called the department’s regulations “outdated” and “confusing.” He announced two directives that will hopefully lead to transgender people being able to serve in the Army openly. It seemed…
ICE to Start Releasing Children, Women from Immigration Detention
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun reviewing cases of immigrant children and women, who are in detention while seeking for asylum or other relief to remain the U.S. legally. “Going forward, ICE will generally not detain mothers with children, absent a threat to public safety or national security, if they have received a positive finding…
Brother John’s Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Has Big Plans for Former Wildcat House
Gone are the days of cheap drinks and a packed dance floor at the Wildcat House. Since it closed in 2012, the former college bar staple has sat vacant, but brothers and third generation Tucsonans John and David Aldecoa are seeking to preserve its legacy while building something new in the space at Stone Avenue…
Back When I Was a College Student . . .
As a rule, I don’t write “Back in the good old days” posts. Nostalgia doesn’t cloud my memory enough that I forget all the bad things that went on when I was younger. The “good old days” were the bad old days in lots of ways. When I was teaching, I even refrained from shaming…
So, You Started a Best of Tucson Ballot… But Did You Submit It?
Chances are, unless you’ve just stumbled across our website for the first time ever, you’re aware we’re running our annual Best of Tucson survey. We’re in the middle of the finals right now. But, there is a problem. About 600 people have started but not submitted their Best of Tucson ballots. Maybe those 600 people…
Selene Needs a Home
Selene—8 years-old —Domestic Medium Hair Mix—F—#808560 Hello! My name is Selene and the staff says I am just purrrr-fect. I came to the Humane Society of Southern Arizona as a transfer and am on the hunt for my forever family. I am very sweet and loving, and I purr constantly. I love to nuzzle under…
Margaret Regan is Talking ‘Detained and Deported’ on Wisconsin Community Radio Show A Public Affair
The great Margaret Regan, a longtime Tucson Weekly contributor, is going to chat about her book Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire in the Madison, Wisconsin-based community radio show A Public Affair tomorrow morning. The show starts at 10 a.m. Tucson time. Call here: (608) 256-2001 to ask questions and give Margaret a shout out.…
Federal Judge Blocks Enforcement of Arizona’s ‘Revenge Porn’ Law
A federal judge has ordered Arizona to permanently block enforcement of the so-called revenge porn law. The statute, passed by the state Legislature last year, made it a felony for a person to “maliciously” post a nude image or video of an ex-lover on the Internet or other mediums. But opponents and plaintiffs in the…
Obama Administration Makes Case for Immigration Executive Actions In Front of Appeals Court Today
The Obama administration today is going to try to persuade the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to allow for the president’s 2014 executive actions on immigration to move forward. A U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen, based in Texas, temporarily blocked them in February, while a lawsuit against the actions on behalf of 26 states…
How to Take Your Menu to Moscow with Chefs Janos Wilder and Devon Sanner
Sitting down to experience the most recent iteration of Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails’ Around the Globe menu series, which gives diners the chance to experience some of the flavors of Moscow, the general consensus seemed to be one of both excitement and, honestly, a little confusion or trepidation. While the American culinary zeitgeist grows to…
Mac Sabbath Melds Fast Food with Metal at Club Congress
Although many metal bands came after Black Sabbath, it kind of seems like everyone knows they won’t be able to do it better. That means you can either try to carve out your own metal niche—words like doom and sludge come to mind—or you can do what many metal fans do and go the cover…
Candy Apple and Texas Trash Bring Tucson Punk to MOCA
Probably the best part about a contemporary art museum is its inherently inclusionary nature. You want to stack some shellacked pieces of compost in a clever way? Sure. You want to paint a big black dot on a white canvas? Go for it. You’re considering transforming the museum into a dumpster pool? Deal. Well, in…
Local Legacy: Dan Stuart
“They were all attitude,” Howe Gelb says of the Serfers, the new hot band in Tucson for a minute at the end of the ‘70s. “They were just adorable in a contentious way. The energy was so good and Danny was a character from the get go. And then they all moved to L.A. to…
The Big Bond Question
Should Pima County borrow $815 million to build and fix up roads, parks, health clinics, museums, police stations and more? That’s the big question facing voters this November as they decide the fate of a seven-question bond package on the November ballot. The bonds would be repaid by property taxes. With this issue, the Weekly…
Babylon Market: Super Market
Babylon Market is one of those places that will quickly sneak its way onto your list of haunts with cheap specialty food items and honest, straightforward dishes prepared to go quickly.
Pop Up Art on Second Saturday
Second Saturdays, happening on July 11, are a treasure trove of fun things to do, interesting things to eat and unexpected little peaks into galleries and shops.
Pulp Fiction: Lord Huron
The Western motif that surrounded Lord Huron’s debut record Lonesome Dreams is gone, replaced by a collection of strange, mysterious characters that inhabit songs inspired by vintage pulp fiction. “Since the beginning, I conceived this new record as sort of an anthology of weird fiction, a collection of stories that kind of overlap and intertwine,”…
B-Sides: Årabrot
What do the Norwegian winter and the Sonoran summer have in common? Well, both seem wholly unsupportive of human life and both might make you yearn for sounds from the dark abyss that is black metal.
Danehy
There was an episode on the old Rod Serling anthology, “The Night Gallery,” in which aging hipster Randy Miller (played by John Astin) finds himself in a door-less, white-walled room with a bunch of old people who are sitting around, watching a slide show of somebody’s recently completed vacation…to Tijuana! All the while, there is…
Tempests Transformed
Last week, just one day after an ice storm rolled in on dark clouds and pummeled Tucson with hail, the sky over Tohono Chul Park was calm. It was gray and overcast, to be sure, but not violent. It was a different story inside the park’s Exhibit Hall. Bolts of white lightning exploded jaggedly over…
Ask a Mexican!
Here’s a spicy tamale for you: why do Mexicans tear each other down?
Police Dispatch
Foothills Area 11:06 p.m. A woman was jailed on suspicion of multiple charges after she drew blood in an apparent attack on her ex-boyfriend simply because he’d offended her on social media, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Sherriff’s deputies arrived at the ex’s house to meet with his sister, who lived with…
Rock out with your tie-dye on
Got that secret tie-dye shirt waiting in your closet for just the right occasion? Or maybe you’re out and proud to be a hippie. Either way. Tucson can easily be described as a groovy city and Hippiefest 2015 will be a night that will transport you back to the ’60s. The music festival will be…
MMJ Opinion
Friday, July 10 will go down in history but not for the same reasons I would have wished. There was a state of the art social event planned that had to be cancelled, well not entirely cancelled, just the state of the art part. Counter Culture Events AZ planned and promoted the Fire and Ice…
Start Screaming for Ice Cream
Not that anyone really needs an excuse to eat ice cream, but if you want one you are set for the entire month of July: It’s National Ice Cream Month.
Wilde Nights
I don’t think it would surprise anyone familiar with the Tucson theater world that if someone were taking bets that some practicing artist in that world would be “going rogue”—in the most positive sort of way, generally speaking—the odds would favor smart, talented, passionate and mercurial Christopher Johnson.
Huminator
If the future installments get the go ahead, they should keep aging Arnie but fire the rest of the cast. If this film lacks anything, it’s true human charisma. As for Terminators, Arnie has things more than covered.
Blame it on the Rain
Gardening doesn’t need to bite the dust just because it’s getting up to the high, scorching digits. Monsoon season is here, and to celebrate, Desert Survivors Nursery will hold a plant sale.
B-Sides: Advance Base
Transport yourself into a dream state—one filled with saccharine tones and mellow drum machine beats topped with lyrics that seep downtrodden longing through their content as much as delivery. It might feel like you’re in your own low budget indie flick, but really you’ll be at Tiny Town Gallery on Thursday, July 9 watching Advance…
Climate Science
UA College of Science Dean Joaquin Ruiz oversees an award-winning team of research scientists who are looking at everything from the tiny building blocks of atoms to monstrous black holes that are 13 billion light years away. He recently spoke about the latest research on climate change and what’s up at Biosphere 2. Are there…
B-Sides: Numb Bats
One of Phoenix’s brightest rising stars, Numb Bats, are stopping into town to promote the release of their brand new EP Bees and Trees.
Guest Opinion
Imagine a scenario in which the users of a parcel of land have been there since long before recorded history and have long practiced religion on the site. Now imagine a mining conglomerate coming along and snatching up that piece of land, pushing the people off of it, and then blowing the thing up.
Dust Devil
The desert tortoise floats serenely in the rock pool, soaking and basking. It is solid as a rock, buoyant as a boat. It lives as it always did, not knowing it is on the edge where space shrinks to a point, and time collapses on itself. I would speak to those bright green eyes, but am…
Science Fun for the Kids
Some of us have kids, some of us don’t, but we all have an inner child. With that said, learning can be fun. Science and math don’t have to be boring; they can be entertaining. Science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics Sundays at the Tucson Children’s Museum, 200 S. 6th Ave., offers learning and fun…
Editor’s Note
As I write this Ed Note I’m driving to an airport in England heading to Prague. I’m thinking about how lucky I am but probably not for the reasons some of you are thinking. On and off this trip—a much needed vacation—I’ve been thinking about the importance of stepping out of comfort zones, new experiences…
Pleasure Activist
For all you penis owners out there, would you enjoy being repeatedly poked at the tip of your penis? Nope. Learn a bit about the magic of the clitoris.
Media Watch
Alan Michaels Returns, Saturday Night Locks on KLPX and Justice named interim PD for Scripps talk stations
The Skinny
Attorney General Brnovich wants to make it harder for DREAMers to attend college and A new city-county skirmish appears to be working itself out
