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Holidaze
This could be the best time to figure out how to salvage this holiday season beyond adding extra bourbon to the eggnog or feeding your grief with Aunt Claudia’s Chex party mix and sugar cookies.
Nine Questions: Sid The Kid
For the last 10 years DJ Sid The Kid has been bringin’ the funk to Tucsonans. As an open format DJ, Kid specializes in playing all genres and primary focuses on music that has been or is in the Top 40. You can see Kid at Hotel Congress on Saturdays. What was the first concert…
Casa Video Top 10
Somehow it’s already December and 2016 is slipping through our fingers—not that anyone is going to miss this year, it’s been rough. While I personally think you should spend your remaining movie watching hours for the year filling your brains with performances by Alan Rickman, Florence Henderson and Gene Wilder, I suppose you also have…
Cinema Clips: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Peter Yates returns to helm the next chapter in the Harry Potter universe, a prequel called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the title of a textbook Harry studied at Hogwarts. The film takes place well before Harry’s time, as the world of wizardry comes to New York City in the 1920s. Unfortunately, Beasts struggles with…
Quick Bites: Help Keep Monsanto Out of Pima County
Welp, it’s happened: Your good ’ol safe, fun Quick Bites column—which you could always turn to for light news about new goodies on the menu at your fave café or the latest quirky downtown ice-cream shop opening—has turned political. (OK, we’ve always been a little political, considering we’re all about local, sustainable and healthy, right?)…
Cinema Clips: The Handmaiden
For a good part of its running time, director Chan-wook Park (Oldboy, Thirst) seems to have made a relatively tame movie by his standards with this latest offering. A young woman (Tae-ri Kim) is recruited by a scam artist (Jung-woo Ha) for a robbery plot involving another young woman (Min-hee Kim) and her uncle (Jin-woong…
Laughing Stock: Jade Esteban and Jeff MacKinnon Double Up, Puns and All About You
Jade Esteban and Jeff MacKinnon Double Up at Laff’s Known as the Prada Enchilada, Jade Esteban Estrada brings Las Vegas style and Palm Springs sass to Laff’s this weekend as co-headliner with the hilariously opinionated and self-regarding Jeff MacKinnon. Esteban’s delivery is endearingly folksy. It’s as if he’s metaphorically winking at an audience of friends as…
The Weekly List: 25 Things To Do In The Next 10 Days
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Food & Booze Pivot Produce Campaign Closing Party: Pivot Produce is on a mission to make local produce available in local restaurants. According to a fundraising campaign they’re running right now, they’ve got that down: During their first two months in business they put $8K the pockets…
Gobble Some Finger Foods With Pivot Produce in Celebration of Tucson’s Local Eats
Tucson food fiends unite, a food party is only a few days away. In a celebration of local food and with hopes of meeting a fundraising goal, Pivot Produce is teaming up with four local businesses to throw an hors d’oeuvres party with local produce on Dec. 4 from 4-8 p.m. at Pueblo Vide Brewing…
Irish Concerts by John Doyle and Danu Touch on Immigration and the Longing for Home
John Doyle and Duncan Wickel Renowned Irish guitarist and songwriter John Doyle has long written Irish-style tunes inspired by history. In his latest CD, Shadow and Light, Doyle, who plays at Pima College West Saturday night with fiddler Duncan Wickel, zeroes in on the great Irish immigration to America in the 19th century. Echoing the…
Youthful Energy and Fine Performances Uphold The Sound of Music at Centennial Hall
Originating in Centennial Hall on the UA campus, The Sound of Music is spreading across the valley and echoing through our own hills, although they are quite different from the alpine ranges featured in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s beloved musical. Presenting group Broadway in Tucson has brought a really fine touring production of…
Get Your Flamenco On This Saturday
If you’re a fan of flamenco music and dance, you won’t want to miss this Saturday’s show by a crew of international artists who are performing at the Sea of Glass Center for the Arts. Lluvia Flamenca will feature Tucson flamenco dancer Mele Martinez, French singer Jose Cortes, Cuban guitarist Andres Vadin and two Venezuelan…
T.H.R.E.A.T. Watch: Journalist Christiane Amanpour Is Worried
“I never in a million years thought I would be up here on stage appealing for the freedom and safety of American journalists at home.” That’s how Christiane Amanpour began her acceptance speech for the International Press Freedom Award given to her by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Amanpour is one of those strong, steady, fearless…
Nine Questions: Lando Chill
Tucson hip-hop artist Lando Chill says “I make music and talk to people. Do a lot of inspiration on the side.” Chill released his debut album For Mark, Your Son earlier this year and can be seen making inspirational speeches and talks with Tucson youth. What was the first concert you attended? Geez Louise. I think…
Clothing With A Purpose
On the corner of Fifth Ave. and 31 St., stands a building. It’s not elaborate, it doesn’t draw much attention, and it could easily be overlooked. But, despite the unadorned physical appearance, Preloved Chica Clothing has made a name for itself for what happens on the inside. The mission of Preloved Chica Clothing is to…
Cinema Clips: Tower
This documentary about the 1966 tower shooting at the University of Texas takes a unique approach in using rotoscope-type animation and performers, combined with archival footage and interviews. The words being said by the performers are actual words taken from interviews with real survivors, who are also featured in the movie, non-animated. It’s a unique…
Betsy DeVos, Privatization and . . . Fallujah?
I’m taking a side trip to Iraq, 2004, to create a—Full disclosure: not entirely fair—linkage between events during the Iraq War and Betsy DeVos, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education. I’m a few days late to the DeVos story, but there’s still lots to be said. You can sum up her philosophy of education in…
Cleopatra Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Cleopatra! I’m 1-year-old little mama cat and I need a new home! My kittens and I were brought into the shelter, but now I am spayed, fully vaccinated and ready to find my forever home! I love to play and be pet, but on my own terms only. You know what people say…
Thunder Canyon Brewery to Host Crowd-Funding Events for Local Musicians
As valuable as crowd-funding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have become for independent musicians, the online campaigns lack face-to-face interaction between musicians and their fans. Based on a successful event last fall, Thunder Canyon Brewery’s downtown location is launching a series of monthly events to help local musicians raise funds for upcoming projects. The idea…
Dear Daily Star: An Unsubstantiated Claim Is Not a Citation
I opened my copy of the Star this morning and found this misleading headline: Trump assails recount, cites illegal voting Then I read the first paragraph of the Associated Press story: President-elect Donald Trump claimed without evidence Sunday that “millions” voted illegally in the national election, scoffing at Hillary Clinton’s nearly 2 million edge in…
Theater Review: Some Non-Traditional Holiday Cheer in A Christmas Survival Guide.
There’s plenty of Christmas on Tucson theater stages. You may know some of the more obvious choices, but there might be one you’re not familiar with. Let’s get you up to speed. Possibly flying under your radar is the St. Francis Theatre. It operates as part of the St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist…
Let’s Dance
Each time Sergio Mendoza returned from a tour or a recording project, he’d carry back new musical ideas.
Noise Annoys
It’s always exciting when an artist who’s been recording and performing over a span of years is now entering a new creative era, and is just beginning to peak.
Know Your Product
During the early ’60s, surf music and beach-party films owned much of pop culture; it was a sort of rite of passage for kids looking for a less wholesome escape from a puritanical existence.
Vintage Vinyl Tucson
This record has a really bad mix. Detail: the bass is way too loud and midrangy, the drums are too loud and sound like someone pounding on a cardboard box with a mallet during the lead solo, which is practically drowned out.
Roll Out
While many are still reeling from election night’s results, some of that dizzying effect may owe itself to new marijuana laws in eight states. Only one state didn’t pass its marijuana ballot measure, and we all already know who it is.
Editor’s Note
The hope I expressed recently that organizers start doing what they do best is happening in Tucson and across the country. Yes, there are protests, with some good protesters and some bad, but organizing is what’s needed to keep activists on target. And while that’s going on, it’s common lately to hear about people being…
Dust Devil
Got lost in the desert today
Police Dispatch
A local man’s ex-girlfriend came into his house without permission to commit a rather out-of-the-ordinary burglary—the heist of two comforters.
Police Dispatch
A father found a baggie full of pharmaceuticals mixed in with his child’s Halloween-candy collection.
Hotel Heights
Tucson gets ready to adopt a different kind of Hispanic influence as a team of local developers, architects and construction companies near completion on downtown’s first new hotel since 1972
The Skinny
Pima County’s economic development plan pays off with Raytheon expansion, Congressional Republicans see an opportunity to privatize Medicare and McSally critical of Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran but declines to say whether U.S. should withdraw from it
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: We have Mexican teenagers here in my apartment building who are chronic troublemakers
Letter to the Editor
What is Scott Stiteler’s vision You wrote in the Weekly that Scott Stiteler has a vision for downtown Tucson. I’d like to know what Mr. Stiteler’s vision is. Exactly what is his vision? And what is his background? Does he have a background in city planning or architecture, or art and culture? And where and…
Douglas Revisited
Back in 1979, when Emily Velasco was a 13-year-old living in Douglas, her grown-up cousin Louis Carlos Bernal came a-calling.
Danehy
Donald Trump may not be a bigot, but he damn sure plays one on TV.
Kris Kringle, Come Home
The Christmas countdown is on.
Beast of Burden
See Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them knowing that 1) Things will probably get more exciting in future chapters and 2) Nifflers aren’t half as interesting as Hippogriffs.
Spice Girl
Wendy Garcia is a hurricane.
