Cover Stories
A Tucked-Away Treasure
The drive to Winkelman isn’t long or difficult—it’s about 60 miles up the 77 from downtown Tucson, but toward the end, it does involve a jaunt down a dusty, bumpy dirt road that has you feeling like you took a wrong turn somewhere.
Under the Gun
Joining over a million students and allies, in over 800 marches across the nation and the world, Tucsonans marched to demand legislation to reduce gun violence in the student-led March for Our Lives.
Ambiguous Amendments
With last month’s school shooting triggering protests calling for action to prevent gun violence across the country, Gov. Doug Ducey unveiled his Safe Arizona Schools Plan
Laughing Stock: Unscrewed Theatre Has Moved!
Chris Seidman, executive director of Unscrewed Theater, furrows his brow a little as he works at a yard-sale table in a vacant room of an empty 3,300 foot retail space. Voted Best Comedian in Tucson Weekly’s 2017 Best of Tucson™ poll, he’s now juggling some serious adulting, designing the space and raising money to build…
The Weekly List: 24 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Shows Sons of Orpheus Spring Gala Concert. You know spring has sprung when the local male choir puts something together. The group behind several CDs and a TV special has performed all over the world, but this week, they’re singing here at home. With a…
A Look Back At the N.R.A
George H. W. Bush was a Life Member of the N.R.A. until 1995, when he sent an angry letter to the Association and quit. It was two weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, and the N.R.A was standing by Wayne LaPierre’s statement that federal agents are “jack-booted thugs,” going on to call them “federal agents wearing…
Claytoon of the Day: Sullying the Office
Find more from cartoonist Clay Jones here.
IP-Yays
If you’re already feeling nostalgic for the way the Easter Bunny hopped in and out of your life last weekend, the perfect solution for this weekend is to fill that void with a different kind of hop. The third annual Baja Beer Festival features more than 40 vendors, all from Arizona, with a special focus…
Claytoon of the Day: Ensnared By Sinclair
More from cartoonist Clay Jones here.
Ramble On: 2018 Science of Consciousness Conference Begins
The brain named itself. And then a few thousand years later it gathered with a bunch of other brains in the foothills above Tucson and decided to have a big talk about just what the hell was going on. The 25th annual Science of Consciousness Conference is underway, and with it, some of the brightest…
‘Dark Money, Charles Koch, and the UA Freedom Center’ Panel Discussion Tuesday at UA
Kochs Off Campus is hosting a panel discussion, “Dark Money, Charles Koch, and the UA Freedom Center,” Tuesday, April 3, 7pm, in Education Building 211 on the University of Arizona campus. I will be one of the panel members, along with: David Gibbs, Professor of History, Moderator; Samantha Parsons, UnKoch My Campus Grassroots Campaign Strategist; Douglas Weiner, Professor…
Bolder
What’s gotten into these teachers? That #RedforEd protest on March 21 was great and all, but it was supposed to be a one-and-done, right? Teachers got to wear those nice, new red t shirts. They went to the Capitol. They told legislators and the press, “We want decent salaries! We want more funding for schools!”…
Claytoon of the Day: Doctor Suck Up
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Time Market Owner Purchases Rincon Market
Rincon Market, a beloved small market on Sixth Street and Tucson Boulevard that has been open since 1926, is about to get a revitalization as Time Market owner Peter Wilke has stepped in as the new owner. Wilke has lots of plans to keep up the reputation for quality food and refreshments, as well as a…
Electric Six Keeps Moving Forward
Electric Six frontman Tyler Spencer, aka Dick Valentine, will be the first to tell you that this wild and wacky experiment was never supposed to last. When the Detroit disco-rock troupe formed in 1996 as the Wildbunch, they were seen by many as a novelty at worst, a party band at best. Many, many members…
Claytoon of the Day: Roseanne Reboot
Find more from cartoonist Clay Jones here.
Police Dispatch
Law enforcement found a suspiciously odd combination of mushrooms and, um, “cake” kept in the dorm room of two University of Arizona undergrads.
Know Your Product
“The most rewarding thing about recording is when you manage to capture a great, one-of-a-kind performance,” says venerable Tucson producer/engineer Jim Waters.
Police Dispatch
A hospital took in a man whose behavior was at first merely (very) strange and then turned frighteningly hostile.
Persistent Protection
In the scramble for Congress to pull together a spending bill for the 2018 fiscal year, medical marijuana emerged as a precarious winner in the final passing of the bill on March 23.
DC Update
Jim Nintzel’s Q&A with Tom O’Halleran on the latest in Washington.
The Skinny
Jim Nintzel on the education sales tax and Pima County’s roadblock to fixing our deteriorating roads.
Danehy
Ahh spring. Gotta get rid of those thoughts that keep bouncing around in one’s head lest they metastasize and you turn into Bobby Fischer or something.
Editor’s Note
The late Thin White Duke might as well have been talking about the kids who led rallies across our nation to say: “Enough.”
Food City of Gold
When the original Don Pedro’s restaurant on South Sixth Avenue closed down after being in business for five years, the family behind the sumptuous Peruvian food almost gave up. Almost.
Fractured Art
Tucson painter Charlotte Bender is off in an explosive new direction, fracturing landscapes and reconstructing them in exhilarating mixed-media paintings.
Monster Mush
While the original Pacific Rim had some definite problems, its sequel, Pacific Rim: Uprising is a big, stupid, worthless, son-of-a-bitching waste of time.
Reel Indie
What to watch this week in Tucson’s indie theaters.
All Grown Up
Tiffany was known worldwide as the spunky, denim-clad pop-teen who would show up in malls and sing to the screaming masses.
XOXO…
The music world this week.
