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Tucson Salvage: Portrait of a Free-Spirit, Cutting-Edge Rabbi
Her living room is hyper-cozy, crammed with books. They’re everywhere, on shelves, on tables, towering in piles on the floor and in boxes. She apologizes, explaining they are in the middle of a home renovation. The affair, inside this ranchy, mid-century home, which she has shared with her husband Jack for 31 years, is overseen…
Pima Animal Care Center offers tips for prepare for Fourth of July
July 4 falls on a Monday this year, likely meaning three or even four nights of loud, celebratory fireworks. Pima Animal Care Center wants to share a few tips on how pet owners can make sure their pet stays safe but remains easily identifiable if they do happen to get out. Register pets using Petco Love…
Pima County’s pet shelter remains overcrowded
I was recently reminded that it is has now been one year of PACC operating in “Code Red,” which means we are using non-public kennels meant for temporary housing and disease isolation to house available, adoptable dogs. Why? Because the number of pets entering the shelter, specifically dogs, continues to outweigh the number of pets…
Pet problems? We’re here to help
Are you one of the many Tucsonans who adopted a Pandemic Pup over the last couple of years, and spent a whole lot of quality time snuggling with your new best friend while working from home? Did you go back to work at the office and discover your buddy is struggling to adjust to home…
Cashed Out
A major cannabis bill FAILED last week in the final days of the legislative session. While it had passed the Senate, House Bill 2050 failed in the House of Representatives on a vote of 36-22. Although a majority of House members were in favor of the legislation, it required a two-thirds majority to pass because…
Retiree discovers his artistic side, now draws pet portraits
On a day when he decided to take a break from his normal routines of playing golf, running through the neighborhood or cycling through Dove Mountains paved paths, Tom Schultz discovered the bigger picture. Or, in this case, the 8-by-11-inch picture. When a hooded oriole chirped in Schultz’s backyard, he couldn’t help but become intrigued.…
Save a pet, save a vet: Nonprofit organization trains service dogs to help vets cope with PTSD
Many years ago, when Marine Corps veteran Dave Rafus returned from overseas, he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. At the time, he and his wife talked about getting a service dog, but there were no organizations in Southern Arizona that offered this training service. Instead, they went to Pima Animal Care Center and brought…
Danehy: State Lawmakers have passed universal vouchers, even though voters rejected the idea in 2018
At one time or another in his life, dumbass Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets has stated that he believed that the Earth is flat, that Man never landed on the Moon, and that the COVID vaccine would make him sterile and/or Bill Gates’ B-word. But, in Kyrie Irving’s defense, not even he is stupid…
City Week: Weekly Picks
Camping. If you’ve ever spent extended periods in the great outdoors with your loved ones, you may now refer to them as your loved/hated ones. Part of Live Theatre Workshop’s Etcetera Late Night Series, this show is about what nature’s beauty brings out in us: the good, the bad and the ugly. Actors Ally Tanzillo and…
For Want of an Underwear Drawer…Transplants live their dreams in Tucson’s comedy scene
Ashley Tappen says she doesn’t remember ever not wanting to be a comedian. “I just really enjoy making people laugh,” she says. “Some things I say that I don’t even think are funny, they crack people up. So I thought spreading joy was the way I would like to make a living.” When she graduated…
Female Gaze: Downtown gallery Raices Taller 222 once again brings us ‘Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres’
Way up north among the forests of Flagstaff, the artist Debra Edgerton makes art that honors the multiple cultures of her family. A longtime senior lecturer at Northern Arizona University, Edgerton was born to an African American father and a Japanese mother. The couple met in Japan during the American occupation after WWII. When they…
XOXO: Mark Your Calendars
Mark your calendars… Thursday, June 30 Despite frontwoman Gabi Montoya relocating to Seattle two years ago during the lockdowns, the “mutual desire to be absolute putas chingonas” remained a constant, as bassist Isabella Rodriguez eloquently states on IG. Chicana-powered garage/glam street rioters Taco Sauce return. At Club Congress… In pursuit of redemption—or merely to cash…
Best of Your Love
I love this town—and I am going to miss celebrating it in our most anticipated issue of the year, Best of Tucson®. But this is my penultimate issue as TW’s editor as I prepare to follow my bliss to new horizons, so I won’t be here to oversee our annual love letter to the businesses…
