Flickering Falsehoods: The Yuma sheriff isn’t investigating election fraud because of ‘2000 Mules’
Conservative activist and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza told a conservative podcast that 2000 Mules, his film making flawed and faulty claims about election fraud in 2020, directly led the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office to open up an investigation — but the sheriff says that’s simply not true. “The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office has been working jointly…
City Week: Weekly Picks
Laser Stranger Things. If you’re a Stranger Things fan, you know how good the soundtrack is, and you also know that season four of the hit Netflix series is coming out this week! Come gear up for the new season with a laser light show at Flandrau Planetarium, which will transport you back to Stranger…
Island Time: Creating tequila-glazed shrimp with D’s Island Grill chef Duwayne Hall
This week, Prickly Pair Podcast hosts Alexandra Pere and Nicole Feltman got to take a look into D’s Island Grill, 3156 E. Fort Lowell Road, and left with a stellar summertime recipe. D’s Island Grill is a family-owned business in Tucson led by head chef Duwayne Hall. He fuses traditional Jamaican foods with Southwestern flavors.…
Summer Survival 2022: A bundle of ways to get through the oncoming season of sizzle
Summertime—and the living is easy… Well, maybe not as easy as we’d like, what with Tucson hitting triple digits way back in April and everything costing more and COVID making a comeback and monkeypox on the horizon. Let’s face it, we could all use a little help to get to October. So the Tucson Local…
What’s new and funny and comes in bold packages?
Darryl Graves and Anthony Jenkins dream no small dreams. With a boost from other comedians who’ve logged more miles on Tucson’s comedy track, they’ve reached for the brass ring, producing their first major comedy shows.
Foolin’ Around: Hotel Congress hosting ‘Opry’ themed variety show
Tucson is nothing if not eclectic. As if the city doesn’t have a strong enough music culture, there is also a world-famous literary scene, a thriving food industry and more. A new show coming to the Hotel Congress Plaza aims to combine many of these facets of Tucson on a single stage — with some…
Growing Up: Chateau Chateau makes strife sparkle on new album “Grow Up”
Tucson duo Chateau Chateau are no strangers to spectacle. Even when singing about self-doubt or lost love, their songs are often packed with colorful synthesizer layers and soaring melodies. On stage, this can result in up to eight musicians, plus dancers, adorned in flamboyant costumes and wild lighting. Their “cathartic indie pop for weirdos” is…
XOXO: Mark Your Calendars
Mark your calendars… Thursday, May 26 Handful of hell. Weaned on a steady diet of gospel music in the small country churches that strew the hills of West Virginia, George Shingleton was a young boy when choir directors encouraged to find his voice and let it bridge the earthly space between people and pews. In…
Seeing Green: Arizona recreational cannabis sales hit record $72 million in March
Medical marijuana sales in Arizona continued to slide in March, dropping for the fifth consecutive month as recreational adult-use cannabis sales soared to new heights. The Arizona Department of Revenue also revised February sales upwards by several million dollars. In March, medical marijuana dipped to below $50 million for the first time since recreational sales…
Sonoran Explorin: Puppets in the Old Pueblo
A mouse defies a lion’s expectations when the tiny creature helps free the lion from a trap. A fox decides the grapes he can’t reach were probably sour anyway. A determined tortoise beats a cocky hare in a race. Most of us have Aesop’s Fables so burned into our brains that just hearing their titles…
High Expectations: Cannabis lounge Harambe Cafe hosts art exhibit, stand-up show
“VaiBionic,” aka Vai Trask, is taking on the NFT trend with her new gallery opening at Harambe cafe, including a closing reception from 6 to 10 pm on Friday, June 3rd. This is Trask’s second show in Tucson after debuting with “(UN)DEAD” at &Gallery, which explored her recovery after she was pushed out a window…
Santa Rita Saviors: As Hudbay Loses Appellate Court Ruling, Conservation Groups Stay Vigilant and Celebrate
The May 12 ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that blocks Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals from dumping waste rock and tailings from its proposed Rosemont Mine on Coronado National Forest land is a major victory for conservation groups and for preservation of sacred Native American sites. Hudbay’s plans to construct a mile-wide, half-mile…
Line Judgment: Title 42 remains in place at border for now—as does the fight over it
Supporters of Title 42, the pandemic-era health regulation used to turn away migrants at the border, welcomed the court ruling that blocked a Biden administration plan to pull the plug on the program Monday. But migration advocates said the Friday ruling by a federal district judge in Louisiana will only prolong a “counterproductive” rule that…
Ballot Box Battle: GOP bill to restrict ballot drop boxes fails after 2 Republicans vote no
Two Republican senators joined Democrats to kill a GOP proposal that would have banned the use of “unmonitored” ballot drop boxes. Sens. Paul Boyer and Michelle Ugenti-Rita both voted against House Bill 2238, but for vastly different reasons. Boyer has killed a number of Republican-backed bills to dramatically change election law, including proposals making it more…
Goodbye to All That
We have some changes afoot here at Tucson Weekly. For starters, this is the last issue for managing editor Jeff Gardner, who has been working alongside me for four years. Jeff has been an extraordinary journalist in the trenches with me. He can write about anything from food to science to rock ’n’ roll and…
