Cover Stories
City of Song
You can see art and music in the way the buildings are constructed, in the buskers on street corners and in the very way the city is laid out.
5 Great Shows from SXSW
These five sets were some of the best we saw at the festival.
Girls Rule at SXSW
South By Southwest is an all-you-can-hear sonic buffet—and as with any buffet, you might try something only to realize you don’t really have an appetite for it.
The Weekly List: 23 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Easter Good Friday Cross Procession & Easter Sunday Sunrise Service. If you’re looking for a truly reverent way to spend Easter weekend, consider joining the Los Dorado Orphan League as they conduct the 51st annual procession up Sentinel Peak Friday evening. They’ll meet in the…
Laughing Stock: Fresh Comedy at Congress
Pauly Casillas brings his innovative, audience participation comedy show, The Switch, back to Hotel Congress Thursday, April 5 at 8 p.m.; free, 21+. The show’s lately run monthly at The Hut, and in Phoenix at the Crescent Ballroom, where it’s attracted a large following. The Switch offers each of a dozen comedians a short set…
Looks Like It Was a Good Idea To Fight Big Data In Education
In 2013, the next big thing in education/technology convergence was inBloom, a nonprofit funded by $100 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The idea was to create a gigantic database filled with student information pulled together from school records. Private education companies could tap into the data to tailor educational software to individual students.…
Claytoon of the Day: Portraits By Deplorables
We’re happy to introduce a new daily political cartoon from Clay Jones, a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose work will be appearing daily here on The Range and weekly in the print edition. You can learn more about Jones here, as well as peruse some of his past strips here. Here’s what he has to say…
Here’s How To Preserve Local Ownership on Fourth Avenue
Local First Arizona is working with the Fourth Avenue Merchants Association on a forum planned for March 30 to discuss potential legislative and policy solutions to promote localist ownership opportunities for Historic Fourth Avenue and the Tucson community. This community forum is in response to the planned Union on 6th project, which is a seven-story…
Want More Money For Schools? Get Rid of Prop 108
It was a miracle 26 years in the making. Last week the Arizona legislature passed a tax hike. Well, not a tax hike exactly. SB 1390 is a new tax, but it’s not a new new tax. Prop 301, the six-tenths of a cent sales tax for education, is set to expire in 2020, and the…
Lucifer Lurks in the VHS Haze: “Everything Is Terrible!” comes to The Loft
How to give your cat a massage, a man in a rooster costume doing yoga on a farm, explaining why Jesus died for your doughnuts. These are just some of the thousands of bizarre and wondrous clips the members of “Everything Is Terrible!” have scrounged from the depths of VHS dollar-bins. Since the turn of…
Watch and Learn About ‘Pizza & the Art of Living’
Pizza and philosophy are two things that go together better than one would think. The Loft Cinema will show Arrangiarsi (Pizza & the Art of Living), a documentary film that shows a character’s quest to find the meaning of life through pizza. Matteo Troncone, who’s the director, writer and star of the documentary, will be at…
Frida Revisited
Dancer Claire Hancock admires Frida Kahlo, the über-famous Mexican artist who devoted herself to painting despite a lifetime of severe pain.
Microcosm of the Southwest
The storied adobes of the Fort Lowell district on this Saturday’s home tour owe their existence—in part—to unruly 19th-century soldiers.
Big Mama’s House
Arizona Theatre Company’s Low Down Dirty Blues shakes the worry and stress right out of us like you’d shake the dirt out of a throw rug.
Mysterious Ways
By the time the movie plays out, some of the formulaic plot mechanics are mostly forgivable because, well, this movie is pretty damned adorable in the end.
Police Dispatch
During a Walmart shoplifting trip, a man somehow fit numerous rather dangerous items in his pants and ran a good distance with them.
Reel Indie
Movies, movies, movies!
Police Dispatch
An obviously intoxicated individual wandering the UA campus was treated very leniently by two cops.
Tucson Salvage
I first spotted Ray stepping off a city bus carrying a half-finished canvas. I actually followed him to a kidney disease center near downtown to ask to see it.
XOXO…
Xavier and his brand of musical happenings.
Know Your Product
Hailing from the far-off land of Tucson, Foxx Bodies brings a noisy punk sound mixed in with catchy sung vocals.
The Greenest Party
There was something in a salad that had me perk up and quiz, “The heck did I just eat?”
Cannabis Court
Arizona courts have something to say about medical marijuana this week, and it’s all good.
Editor’s Note
Our staff descends upon Austin for South by Southwest festival.
Class Act
Pueblo Magnet High School students filled the bleachers on Wednesday, March 14 for a moment of silence and to hear their peers give compelling speeches about ending gun violence.
Hitting the Wall
Riding horseback along the 18-foot border wall in Southern Arizona’s Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke talked border security with Tucson Sector Border Chief Patrol Agent Rodolfo Karisch.
Guest Opinion
After a recent visit to the legislature in Phoenix, I came home to Tucson deeply concerned about the state of affairs in Arizona and education in particular.
