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Better To Give
Let the Weekly staff be your helpful holiday elves with their picks for the best local shops.
Advent(ure) Calendar
Find the right event to get you in the holiday spirit.
Laughing Stock: Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby
“From an intellectual academic level,” says Rebecca Tingley, a fine arts Ph.D and former cast member of Chelsea Handler’s show, Girls Behaving Badly, “I have been exploring how things surrounding women and their sexuality is always a secret. “If you have an abortion it’s a secret. If you’re having your period it’s a secret. If you…
Casa Video Top 10
The next week should be a busy one. Between trying to avoid the El Tour de Tucson route, hanging out with (or protesting against) Steve Bannon—and maybe his local, exclamation point-loving brother—and everything else this sunny city has to offer right now, I can’t image anyone is going to have much time to hang out…
Laughing Stock: The People’s Pervert Does Christmas
“I’m busier in my career than I have ever been in my entire life,” says Baltimore septuagenarian John Waters, the author, stand-up comedian, satirist, paradigm smasher, movie auteur and, not least, his hometown’s Statue of Liberty. He styles himself as “The People’s Pervert.” Waters brings his annual, one-man Christmas show to the Rialto Theatre on…
The Weekly List: 25 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Music 2017 International Tucson Guitar Festival. The guitar is one of those things that allows space for infinite improvement: You can practice for years and still only beginning to unlock your potential, because there are just that many possibilities. But the world-class guitarists coming to…
Quick Bites: Bacon, Chili and Pie
What to Eat with What You Drink. Don’t understand wine pairings, or wine in general? Hey, same here. Well, here’s your opportunity to get a little more cultured. Dive in with Tana at Sand-Reckoner Vineyards, and find out what food tastes best with what wine. Unlock the mysteries of wine and maybe, for once, drink…
Deer Tick Blows the Roof Off at 191 Toole
It was a night to remember inside a half-packed 191 Toole on Monday night, as college rock favorites Deer Tick shredded through a two-set masterpiece. The Providence, Rhode Island-based quintet—touring in support of their new double EP (Deer Tick Vol. 1 and Vol. 2)—brought their typical punch-drunk energy to the Old Pueblo, blasting through two…
Cinema Clips: Thor: Ragnarok
Somebody was smoking some laced wild shit and licking frogs when they put together Thor: Ragnarok, a film so nutty it easily surpasses the Guardians of the Galaxy films as the screwiest offering in the Marvel universe. When you hand the keys to the Thor franchise over to a director like Taika Waititi, you know…
McSally Silent on Roy Moore Accusations
The stampede of Republican lawmakers retreating in horror from Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is quite the spectacle. Moore, who appears to have crawled straight from the pages of a particularly icky Stephen King novel, has become so toxic that GOP senators can’t tweet out their disapproval fast enough. Both of Arizona’s senators have called…
Chris Bannon: ‘We Are Coming For You!’
In October Robin Hiller, executive director of Voices for Education, sent an email to her mailing list with the subject line, “Protest DeVos/Trump/McSally Monday.” The email asked people to attend a “Public Education Rally” in front of Rep. Martha McSally’s office Oct. 9. The day before the rally, Hiller received the following email in reply.…
Trusting Entrepreneurs to Improve Education: A Cautionary Tale
“Beware of all educational enterprises that require billionaire entrepreneurs.” Henry David Thoreau wrote that, or almost wrote that. His actual words were, “Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” I just updated it a bit. Bill Gates has put many hundreds of millions of dollars into education improvement schemes, with minimal success. Now he’s…
Rosie Needs a Home
Hi, my name is Rosie! I am a 2-year-old female Domestic Medium hair looking for my purr-fect home! I am looking for a home that is as calm and quite like me. A scratching post and catnip would be nice too! I do well with cat savvy dogs, some cats, and older kids. Come meet…
The Weekly Take: DeAndre Ayton leads Arizona into tonight’s season opener against NAU
It’s been 232 days since we last saw Arizona basketball coach Sean Miller and his band of sweaty teenagers take to the court, but alas that streak will be snapped tonight. Miller and company kick off a highly-anticipated campaign at 8 p.m. tonight against the Lumberjacks of Northern Arizona University in what should be a…
A UA Prof Chimes In on the ‘Freedom Center’
The discussion continues. First I wrote a guest opinion in the Weekly’s print edition about University of Arizona’s Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, aka the Freedom Center, creating a high school course being taught in Tucson Unified and other local school districts. The next week, Michael McKenna, director of the Freedom Center, responded with a guest…
The Weekly Tate: Khalil Tate and Arizona Chomping at the Bit to Host Oregon State
Have you missed out on watching Arizona’s gargantuan gunslinger Khalil Tate and find yourself with a bad case of buyer’s remorse as a result? Have you watched an Arizona defensive unit that starts five or more freshmen crush opponents in ways unseen in these parts since legends named Bruschi and Briggs roamed about? If so,…
Musical Airs
Now onstage at the Rogue Theatre is a humorous but perplexing piece that strives too hard to be too much.
Historic Parallels
At the same time European Jews were forced to wear two yellow triangles to form a star, LGBTQIA+ individuals were forced to wear one pink triangle.
Invisible Touch
Each Thanksgiving Day, one of Arizona’s “48 Most Intriguing Women” becomes a clown.
Worthy of Worship
Somebody was smoking some laced, wild shit and licking frogs when they put together Thor: Ragnarok.
From War to Peace
I had (and still have) an abiding love for the Peace Corps.
They Have the Meats
What I love about many Tucson restaurants these days is that they started out as a food truck.
Minor Refugees, Major Challenges
More than 5,400 juvenile immigration deportation cases were heard in Arizona between 2005 and July 2017, according to the Executive Office of Immigration Review.
Get It While You Can
Local business owner Julie Simons is sick of the health care tug-of-war.
Police Dispatch
A 16-year-old girl got a not-so-sweet glimpse of an elderly man walking around her house in the nude
Police Dispatch
A non-student at the UofA was busted for urinating on two of the bathroom’s floor and walls, dressed as a Hasidic Jew.
Reel Indie
This week could be deeply thematic! Comedic/dramatic! Cinematic! Why it could be Reel Indie!
Danehy
I’ve got a birthday coming up and around this time of year, I tend to get all philosophical and stuff.
Both Sides Now
Having two distinctly different sounds was never a plan for Deer Tick.
Guest Opinion
There are many reasons to be optimistic about the health of our teens, but recent funding cuts threaten future progress.
Know Your Product
Denver indie-pop outfit Tennis is composed of husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley.
Canna-Clash
It may often seem like nothing can stop the tidal wave of marijuana legalization from washing over the country, but constant political battles remind us that it’s a hard-fought battle.
Vintage Vinyl
“As far as I’m concerned, we were the best band in Tucson,” said Gerorge “Taco” Miraval, bassist of the Five of Us.
Editor’s Note
No it isn’t too early for our Holiday Guide to events and shopping this season. Plan your social calendar and get that shopping done early. You can thank us later.
Marana Microbrew
When Todd told his wife, Erika, that he wanted to stay in Tucson and open up a brewery instead, she was amenable to the idea.
A Taste of Tucson
If there’s one thing that I learned on my recent food and beverage tour of France and Spain, it’s this: Milieu matters.
