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The Pros and Cons of Being Fat
Jes Baker is an irreverent blogger and blunt speaker who has made a name for herself in the body image movement.
The Weekly List: 22 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Shows and Performances Miss Witherspoon. She may be with a spoon, but the main character in this show is without life. In fact, the play opens with Veronica Witherspoon waking up in the afterlife shortly after committing suicide. She’s not super stoked to hear that…
The New Republican Outlaw
Is a Republican candidate who’s crime-free, too PC? Not quite. Not yet. But today’s Republican voters love their bad boys. I mean their really, really bad, sometimes shockingly bad boys. It’s happened too often lately to be happening by chance. It’s a growing trend. Criminal behavior isn’t a bug for this year’s Republican candidates, it’s…
Charger Needs a Home
Hi friends! I’m Charger! I am a 5-year-old boy who is looking for my fur-ever home! I am a playful boy who already knows how to sit. I absolutely love treats and will be easy to teach new tricks. The nice veterinarian at HSSA told me I have atopy which means I have allergies that…
The Lineup: What’s Happening in Tucson This Week!
It’s time for another edition of The Lineup, our partnership with KFMA, Rock 102.1 FM! KFMA DJ Boy Wonder and Tucson Weekly Executive Editor Jim Nintzel talk about how to have fun this week.
FORM Festival Is One Week Away: Fleet Foxes, Beach House, Chance the Rapper and More!
The fifth annual FORM Music Festival coming up next weekend and tickets are still available. From May 11 to May 13, more artsy events are going to take place than you can possibly attend. So you better start planning now. FORM takes place in the eco-experimental city of Arcosanti, between Phoenix and Flagstaff. The location…
Invisible Theatre’s ‘Prodigal Son’ Is a Fun but Flawed Play
Closing out the 47th season of that small but mighty gang at the Invisible Theatre is Mr. Goldberg’s Prodigal Son, a new play by John W. Lowell. The press release called this production a premiere, and I have not been able to find mention of a production of it anywhere else. So IT is bringing us…
UA, ASU Libertarian Schools Are Growing Fat On Money From the Government They Despise (It’s Much Worse Than I Thought)
Here’s something I never thought I’d say. Arizona is throwing money at education. I’m not talking about the K-12 budget. The raises for teachers still leave them far behind the national average. The rest of the public school funding is ridiculously low as well, and it will stay that way as long as Republicans control…
It’s Best of Tucson Time
Elections matter. It’s a lesson we’ve all learned in recent times—and we know you can’t wait for the chance to let your voice be heard. We’re speaking, of course, of Best of Tucson—our annual competition to determine Tucson’s best bands, museums, galleries, restaurants, brewpubs, dive bars, coffee houses, annual spectacles, playgrounds and all the rest.…
Tucson Salvage
A little girl wearing a striped overshirt and floral skirt steps up to the Magic Shop booth, flicking back her flat shoulder-length hair.
Know Your Product
Janelle Loes is hopping down from her hometown of Phoenix to tell her stories, folk songs with a country tinge.
The Great Crossover
Just a few short years ago there was this literal explosion of food trucks suddenly presiding all over the greater Tucson vicinity.
Three young choreographers debut three new dances at Artifact this weekend
Artifact Dance Project is known for live music at its contemporary dance concerts, played on violins, guitars and drums.
Putting the Bud in ‘Budget’
While taxes from legalizing marijuana would never amount to the $650 million Ducey said the state needs to fund education, certainly the millions in revenue are worth discussing.
Family Ties
For the final production of their season, Arizona Theatre Company has welcomed back longtime artistic director David Ira Goldstein to direct.
Police Dispatch
An intoxicated man held himself together just enough to almost buy more alcohol at a convenience store.
Editor’s Note
An excerpt from local activist Jes Baker, update on #RedforEd, Tucson Salvage, a crossword puzzle explanation, and more this week.
Cross Cultural
Borderlands Art Exhibition, composed of 14 art pieces created by high school students in the Tucson Unified School District, included images of flags, social justice symbols and butterflies.
Excelsior!
The Avengers team takes a swift kick to their remarkably muscular collective ass via a super baddie named Thanos.
Reel Indie
What to watch this week.
A Lotta Bit of Hope in the Distance
Jivin Scientists dish out beats that are equal parts mellow and dynamic, and load them with philosophical, open-hearted hip-hop.
Here Today, Gone Tamale?
“It’s their job to low ball, but we’re getting screwed,” says owner Mike Holquist, Sr. “They’re smiling at us while offering no real money.”
XOXO…
The music you need to know for this week.
Ice Palace
Hockey fans never expected to have a team to call their own but have embraced the Tucson Roadrunners.
