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Summer Wonder
A list of cinematic extravaganzas coming your way this summer. It looks like it could be a lot of fun, with some decent brain fuel/indie offerings to boot.
Arizona Vouchers: Hype vs. History
Arizona’s voucher advocates have a persuasive, but false, narrative about the value of taxpayer-funded private school tuition. It falls apart when you look at our voucher history since the programs began 20 years ago. The pro-voucher narrative is lovely and seductive. Lots of parents who want private school for their children just can’t afford it,…
Cinema Clips: War Machine
This movie is all screwy. Brad Pitt plays General Stanley McChrystal (based very clearly on real-life General Stanley McChrystal), put in charge of the War in Afghanistan during the Obama administration. As depicted by Pitt, McMahon is just his Inglorious Basterds character without a mustache, but this time, Pitt never feels relaxed in the part. He seems lost…
In Defense of the Summer Blockbuster
What is there to say about Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales that has not already been said? New York Times critic A. O. Scott called the flick “the perfect opposite of entertainment.” Ouch. The movie is, technically, awful. The plot is—most definitely—garbage. And yet I found myself enjoying the film, despite…
Vote Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace
You are just about out of time to vote in the first round of Best of Tucson. So, hop on over to the survey, give us your opinion on the 30 (or more!) people, places or institutions you think are the best of the best, and submit your ballot before 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday. “But…
Chu Chu Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Chu Chu! I’m a 2 year old big boy, and I am looking for a new home! I’m a very affectionate dog, and eager to please people around me. I know how to sit for treats, and would love to learn new tricks too! In my previous home I got along well with…
Meet the New ‘What the Hell, I Got Nothing Else To Do’ Teacher
“You mean I can teach with just this diploma saying I have a bachelor’s degree? The one I just got at graduation?” “That’s right, so long as it’s in a subject that’s taught in middle school or high school.” “I’m an American History major.” “Then you can…
Tour Diaries, Day Five and Six of the Marianne Dissard Euro Tour
Day 5—May 26. Berlin : Annie bought some roller blades this morning and sends me a video of her feet slicing through the streets of Prenzlauer Berg and into a church. Don’t you go breaking an arm now, guitar player! We’re not done playing. Me? I’m playing it very safe on our second day off.…
Anyone Can Teach. It’s Easy! (At Least That’s What Republican Legislators and the Governor Tell Me.)
Here’s an idea. Let’s have all those legislators who voted for the new teacher certification rules teach in some of the Arizona’s public schools until Winter Break, in classrooms where the district hasn’t been able to find a teacher. They can resume their jobs at the Capitol in January, writing budgets stiffing schools and bills insulting…
Tour Diaries! The Second Entry (Day Four) of the Marianne Dissard Euro Tour
Day 4—May 25, 10 a.m.: I drive Connor to the McDonald’s parking lot on the outskirt of Chemnitz. On our first day off, he’s catching a car share ride – in a white convertible – to Cologne, a seven hours drive to reunite with his/our old Tucson buddy – and my first Europe tour drummer…
Streets of this Town: Trainsong
“Streets of This Town” is a little daily photo series featuring random pics I take on long walks through Tucson—to sort of coincide with Tucson Salvage.
Tour Diaries! Vol. 1 Finds Tucson Songster Marianne Dissard Galavanting Across Europe, With Old Pueblo Star-Shiners Brittany Katter, Annie Dolan and (Special Guest) Connor Gallaher in Tow
The Tucson Weekly blog is today launching an ongoing Tour Diaries series that will see Tucson artists keeping daily, er semi-daily, track of their on-the-road shenanigans, the dirt, the grime, the glory, the hangovers, the warts, maybe even the schtupping. We’ll be asking all artists to tell it like it is. For the inaugural Tour…
Noise Annoys
Occasionally there are some small groupings of time where death’s hand and the cruelty of surprise meet and we lose souls we selfishly need with us.
The Skinny
With deadline approaching, Republicans are having a tough time fielding candidates for the three Tucson City Council seats up for grabs this year.
Police Dispatch
A local driver and a bicyclist were chased around midtown at about 2 a.m. by someone throwing eggs out a car window
Ask a Mexican!
I don’t endorse this kind of hit-and-run behavior, but I’m telling that little anecdote so that the dumbasses who leave their cars in the middle of the street aren’t too shocked when they find their ’83 Buick Skylark in pieces…
Danehy
I remember thinking about Putney Swope on Election Night. I wondered how many people had cast their ballots for Donald Trump, thinking that it was a one-off, screw-you vote.
Nearly Mythical
In the short time Sky Dragon has been opened they have yet to disappoint, rather they surprise and delight with each new dish that is prepared.
Editor’s Note
As the long Memorial Day weekend springboards us deep into summer, find some celluloid relief from the heat in our local cineplexes.
Police Dispatch
UA Mall April 11, 9:01 a.m. A young Oklahoman on the road landed randomly in Tucson and found it much to his liking, having easily secured all his basic “needs,” except a girlfriend, whom he decided to seek on the University of Arizona campus—a logical plan to him, but objectionable to others, according to a…
Know Your Product
The band plays the Old Pueblo this week, so we spoke with Conan about the five albums that shaped has shaped his own and Exmortus’ sounds to date.
Hemp Haters
Gov. Doug Ducey killed a bill that would have opened a new industry for Arizona farmers Monday, May 22.
Hispanic Chamber applauds Ducey education, business efforts
Gov. Doug Ducey discussed his accomplishments supporting education and Southern Arizona businesses in the past year at the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce annual post-legislative luncheon May 12. Among those accomplishments was the much-applauded balanced budget, a focus on providing funding for teachers and other efforts to retain the state’s educators, slashing burdensome regulation and…
Crop Conundrum
Despite many technological innovations and the inclusion of robotic pickers for some crops, healthy field row edibles usually don’t end up on a dinner plate without some stoop labor wielding lettuce knives.
Angst, Humor, and Pain
Live Theatre Workshop’s production of regret and pride and unfinished business and the helplessly lasting nature of love spills both comically and painfully across the stage
Midnight Blue
Mason’s sound is big, brash and powerful, tipping a hat to the blues traditions it’s rooted in.
