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Sweet Challenge: ‘Spring Baking Championship’ gives UA chef a place to shine
Manja Blackwood keeps her head down and serves as UA’s executive sous chef. On Monday, March 6, Blackwood will take centerstage on the Food Network’s “Spring Baking Championship,” which streams the same day on Discovery+. The show has already finished filming, but Blackwood couldn’t reveal much about her time there. “I loved it,” Blackwood confessed.…
Review: ‘Scream VI’ scares up twists and meta commentary in NYC
More than 25 years after the first film and without the late, great horror maestro Wes Craven at its helm, it would be easy to say the “Scream” franchise should be left alone. But when filmmaking duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (“Ready or Not”) stepped in and took the mantle with last year’s “requel,”…
Live Music Calendar March 1 to March 8
MARCH 1 Dos Argentés, Bright Bright and Viané Club Congress, 7:30 p.m., $10 Eric Johnson Rialto Theatre, 8 p.m., $29-$36 Joe Bourne Sings Nat King Cole The Century Room, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., $15-$25 Mysterious Babies The Century Room, 7 p.m., $10 Oscar Fuentes LaCo Tucson, 5:30 p.m., free Pokey LaFarge 191 Toole, 8…
Sonoran Cannabis Expo tickets on sale
Tickets are on sale for Earth’s Healing’s first Sonoran Cannabis Expo in Downtown Tucson. Naturally, it’s on Thursday, April 20. The event will feature Southern Arizona dispensaries, growers, suppliers, activists and entertainers for an afternoon and evening celebration centered around the local cannabis industry. The afternoon begins at 4 p.m. when Whistle Stop Depot at…
Type O Negative CBD tincture is the real deal
Fans of the goth metal band Type O Negative were skeptical when they heard Whole Organix was releasing a CBD product named after the long-separated act. Type O disbanded when frontman Peter Steele died from heart failure in 2010. They have re-released a few albums over the years, including their final collection, “Dead Again,” last…
Is Beyonce the GOAT? Some think not
They had a funny bit on “Saturday Night Live” a few years ago where two married couples are sitting around, just shooting the breeze, when someone brings up the latest Beyonce album. One of the guys says, rather nonchalantly, “Oh, I thought it was OK.” The other three people recoil and loudly gasp. Noting their…
Floatation therapy rises to new levels
Water, darkness and Epsom salt are the keys to deep therapeutic rest, according to Jason and Lindsey Krauss, the owners of Levity Wellness Center near the UA. “We specialize in REST/Floatation therapy,” Lindsey said. “We are a small, yet adorable local business that does wonderful things for the community. We are thanked by our guests…
City Week: Weekly Picks
Cactus Classic Baseball Invitational Tucson Invitational Games host the NCAA D3 – Baseball Cactus Classic at Kino Sports Complex this month. It’s all baseball, all day, every day in March. According to the National Weather Service, March has average daily highs of 75 degrees and is among our least rainy months of the year. Call…
Steven Briggs is a gift
Brown Thrasher can mimic up to 2,000 sounds. Apparently it’s advantageous for mate-seeking male Brown Thrashers to excel at pretending they’re something that they’re not. But what a random gift it is for a human to be brilliant at imitating everything they hear. How did that sort of thing help bring the human race out…
Gimme ABBA: Mania pays tribute to the great Swedish rock/pop group
Swedish rock/pop group ABBA rose to fame in 1974 with its song “Waterloo” and continued with “The Winner Takes It All,” “Money, Money, Money,” “Fernando,” “Dancing Queen” and “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man after Midnight).” The group’s music inspired the popular jukebox musical “Mamma Mia!” London-based Mania: The ABBA Tribute gives audiences a full ABBA…
