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Rugrat Referendum
Two little girls paint on an easel while children’s classical music plays quietly. A curly-haired 3-year-old runs up to Bill Berk, the director of Outer Limits School, and hugs him around the legs.
Laughing Stock: Oct. 29 and Other Trips, er, Tips
Put on your roller skates Sunday night, Oct. 29, for two great charity comedy shows! At The Whistle Stop, 127 W. 5th St., Tucson cartoonist David Fitzsimmons hosts an extravaganza to benefit Exodus Community Services, a local substance-abuse recovery program. The evening includes a host of comedians: Nancy Stanley, Dave Membrila, Josiah Oswego, Unscrewed Comedy…
Prop. 204: Planting Preschools in Daycare Deserts
The term “food desert” was created in the 1990s to describe areas where residents don’t have access to healthy, affordable food. With no adequate markets within a reasonable distance, people living in food deserts are more likely to live on fast food and what they can buy in local mini-marts, most of which is unhealthy…
TSO Presents 007-themed Show Next Weekend
Hilary Kole grew up watching the James Bond movies. Who didn’t grow up watching James Bond movies? However, the vocalist also created the iteration of the “Music of James Bond” event she’ll be performing as a part of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s SuperPops! Series, which is something fewer people can lay claim to. “People have…
The Weekly List: 22 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo Stars Star Wars Paint Party. You Pick Your Side! You may not be able to use the force to help you become a professional painter, but you can attend a fun event where your painting is sketched out for you ahead of time and you…
Quick Bites: Halloween Specials, Fall Brawl And Therapy Dogs
Salud 2017! Ruff week? What could make for a better evening than wine tasting, local restaurants, craft breweries and live music? Let us answer that for you: dogs! At this event hosted by Gabriel’s Angels, an Arizona-based organization that delivers pet therapy to abused and at-risk children. At this event to benefit the organization, attendees…
Results-Based Funding: The Transition From Test Scores To School Grades
We already know which schools are splitting up the $38 million in results-based funding for the 2017-18 school year. The money is going disproportionately to schools with students from the most affluent homes. The top 11 percent of schools by family income make up almost 40 percent of schools getting the funding. Even more of…
Let’s Listen To That Awesome New Calexico Single
Calexico has a new album, The Thread That Keeps Us, coming out in January, which makes us even more excited to travel to Phoenix for this week’s Lost Lake Festival so we can hear some of the new material live. Bandleader Joey Burns says The first single, “End of the World With You,” is “sort…
Board of Supes Set To Discuss Christy Proposal for Countywide Sales Tax for Roads
Pima County Supervisor Steve Christy wants a countywide half-cent-sales-tax increase to deal with the county’s dilapidated roads. Christy’s “Just Fix the Roads Plan” also calls for repealing the property tax increase the county passed in June and send the revenues from his proposed 10-year sales tax to the Regional Transportation Authority so that agency can…
Boris Blows Your Mind (and the Rest of Your Body) Away
An earthquake hit Tucson Saturday night. Only this earthquake wasn’t measured on the Richter scale, but in decibels. The cause of these tremors was Japanese experimental trio Boris. Boris specializes in beautiful, overwhelming layers of droning noise-rock. Powerful to a point where you aren’t sure if your hair is vibrating or your skull is about…
Koch Brothers Infiltrate Pima County Schools With a High School Econ Course
I have a story in this week’s print edition. You can read it here. This is the short version. The Koch Brothers put up a million dollars. Ken and Randy Kendrick (he owns the Arizona Diamondbacks) pitched in even more. They funded UA’s Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, usually shortened to the “Freedom Center,” which…
Town and County Officials Say Supervisor Miller is Misleading the Public on Bond Issue
Update: In a letter dated Oct. 11, Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry sent an email to Oro Valley town manager Mary Jacobs regarding District 1 Supervisor Ally Miller’s alleged statements on the Let Oro Valley Excel blog. Responding to Miller’s statement that he misleads voters on bond propositions, Huckelberry has this to say: “I can…
The Fix Is In: Free Spay and Neuter Event Hits Town This Weekend
Need a pet spayed or neutered? This weekend at ASAVET Charities’ third annual MEGASpay and Neuter event is the perfect time to do it. Starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14 (dog day) and Sunday, Oct. 15 (cat day), the group will be providing spay and neuter surgeries for pets, along with any follow-up…
Memorial Service
The people touched by Tucson’s mass shooting sadly understand all too well what the victims in the Las Vegas concert massacre are going through.
Here’s the Pitch
Tucson now has its very own iteration of Shark Tank as part of TENWEST.
The Skinny
It’s been a good couple of weeks for Ann Kirkpatrick.
Police Dispatch
Maybe don’t tell the cops to chill out when you’re drinking a six pack in public.
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: I’m very bothered by the fact that Tom Flores is not in the Hall of Fame.
Danehy
April 25th. What do you say we settle on that date as the perfect time to talk about gun control?
Love on a Plate
Where does one go after opening several successful restaurants, some with sibling locations and all enjoying loyal fan bases?
Judith Revisited
In the latter days of the Renaissance, the daring Italian painter Caravaggio painted a dark and violent canvas, “Judith Beheading Holofernes.”
Runner’s High
Ridley Scott’s original sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner came out in 1982, 35 years ago.
Guest Opinion
The Freedom Center, which has been at UA since 2011, gets a majority of its funding from the Koch Brothers and a wealthy Arizona donor couple.
Reel Indie
Spooky offerings and more
Police Dispatch
SnapChat helped nab a drunk man who’d disrupted a party by screaming obscenities and exposing his penis.
Payson Party
Payson may soon be a new haven for medical marijuana patients looking to cultivate their own supply.
Raptor’s Spirit
The bad-boy singer of Eagles of Death Metal has a simple motto: “Stay horny, keep it light, never let the bad guys win.”
Razor Harp
Get a taste of East Coast blues from the experts at Tucson Meet Yourself downtown this weekend
Vintage Vinyl
Vintage Vinyl Tucson Holy Grail Alert!
Editor’s Note
This week, staff reporter Danyelle Khmara takes a look at a vital question in front of Tucson voters this year: Prop 204.
