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The Skinny
The Arizona Legislature wrapped up its work last week. Here are 13 takeaways from the session.
Revolutionary Fashion
Sundays are busy at Buffalo Exchange. Customers stream in, hoping to score Diesel jeans or a vintage dress.
I Know I Said I Wouldn’t Give Teachers Advice, But . . .
During the #RedforEd walkouts, I wrote a post saying educators were doing just fine without my advice, and this retired teacher wasn’t about to “old man” them. Yeah, well. Don’t call this advice then. Call it what I would do if I were in the teachers’ place. Except it might not be what I would…
The Weekly List: 23 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Performances Cirque Italia. As if Cirque de Soleil wasn’t crazy enough, this show has all the acrobatics, contortionism, aerials and other impressive feats, but with a 35,000-gallon tank of water underneath it all. Who wouldn’t be impressed by one of those people flipping around on…
Laughing Stock: Laff’s and Tears, Plus New Mics
Flip Schultz headlines Laff’s Comedy Caffe shows Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19. In the feature slot is Arizona comedian Jill Kimmel, who probably wishes we would all stop mentioning that she’s Jimmy’s sister. Although she’s performed sketches on her sibling’s show, she’s compiled her own solid credentials in top comedy clubs and at…
You’ve Got a Month Left to Vote in the First Round of Best of Tucson
Hearing “You’ve got a month left to vote in Best of Tucson!” might sound a lot like “You’ve got SO MUCH TIME left to vote in Best of Tucson!” Then again, consider that it’s already mid May. Wasn’t it March just, like, yesterday? No. Time slips away, and so does your time to show your…
The Dangers of Forming Political Coalitions While Black: North Carolina, 1898
I’ve been reading about North Carolina’s Reverend William Barber and his Poor People’s Campaign over the past few days, and contributed to the organization’s legal defense fund for people being arrested during what it calls its “growing moral fusion movement.” (I mention my contribution not to pat myself on the back but to encourage others to…
Educators, It’s Definitely Time To Get Political
“You teachers need to get back to playing beanbag with your boys and girls and leave the political hardball to us. Don’t trouble your pretty little educator heads with things you don’t understand.” That’s the mantra Republicans are directing at teachers: “Don’t get political.” “You said you wanted a raise,” teachers are being told. “Well, we…
Cinema Clips: Revenge
Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz is dynamite as Jen, mistress to Richard (Kevin Janssens), a rich man with a fancy house in the middle of the desert. Jen and Richard are enjoying a romantic getaway when Richard’s hunting buddies (Vincenct Colombe and Guillaume Bouchede) show up early and immediately commence ogling Jen. After a night of…
Colette Needs a Home
“I am a very sweet girl who loves attention and enjoys long chats with my favorite people.” — Colette (845297) Colette is a 4-year-old girl who is looking for the purr-fect family! Come fall in love with me at PAWSH Park Place at 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. For more information give an adoptions counselor a…
The Games BASIS Plays
Dust off your bullshit detector, put in new set of batteries and turn it on. Ready? OK, feed this into your BSD. “The five top high schools in the country are all in Arizona, and they’re all part of one charter school chain.” Does that statement trigger your detector’s smell alert? Are red lights flashing?…
Koz and Effect
A Q&A with Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik from midtown Ward 6.
After NAFTA
President Trump and jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald have something in common—lyrics to one of her songs, Undecided…
Danehy
At the Rialto Theater, that age-old question—Beatles or Stones—will be emphatically asked again and then answered to no one’s satisfaction.
Mujeres Rule at Raices
In Agua Prieta, Sonora, on the south side of Uncle Sam’s border wall, brilliantly colored murals have recently sprung up on the barrier’s 20-foot vertical bars.
Downtown Rumbling
Last year, after 20 years of being in business, the Thunder Canyon restaurant in the Foothills Mall closed.
Problem Child
For the second time in a couple of months, Tucson’s theater-goers have the opportunity to see Buried Child, Sam Shepard’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Know Your Product
There are two big words that come to mind when listening to Tucson’s own La Cerca: Tone color.
That’s All, Folks!
Arizona’s SB1420 dies as Democrats rejected the bill, causing it to fall short of the three-quarters vote needed to amend the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act.
Reel Indie
The best indie offerings this week.
Their Way
The members of Scottish indie pop band the Trashcan Sinatras could never have imagined when they formed in 1986 that they’d still be kicking it 32 years later.
XOXO…
What’s coming down the music pipeline in the next week.
Editor’s Note
Election season is upon us—so why not warm up by voting in this year’s Best of Tucson™?
Birth Pains
Charlize Theron is once again in Oscar-worthy form.
Into The Annex
The Diary of Anne Frank, based on the book, tells the story of two Jewish families and one Jewish dentist going into hiding during the Nazis’ occupation of the Netherlands.
Police Dispatch
An elite Foothills preschool was the repeated victim of vandalism evidently inflicted by a graffiti-artist dope smoker with notably immature artistic leanings
Police Dispatch
A wheelchair-bound elderly gentleman showed the world he was anything but a helpless old man.
