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Blood on the Tracks
The rescue unit flipped the lights to frantic flashing and gained speed after turning onto the highway.
Pixies Still Fly At Lost Lake
When the crowd cheers at the intro of every song, you know the band is doing or did something right. In this case it’s both. From blistering noise-rock to sweet and sentimental ballads, Pixies’ show at Lost Lake spanned their entire career. There was so much music for them to cover they rarely had time…
Run The Jewels Put Meaning Behind The Mania At Lost Lake
Even the security guards volleyed beach balls when Run the Jewels took the stage. And they definitely did take the stage—by force. The hip-hop duo’s presence and energy was unsurpassed the entire festival weekend. That combined with eye-rattling bass and some of the catchiest hooks in modern rap made an explosive concoction rarely heard outside…
The River Bride, A ‘Fairy Tale For Adults,’ Opens at ATC This Weekend
The River Bride blends Brazilian folklore, poetic imagery and the excitement of young love to tell a story of two sisters in fishing village along the Amazon. Right before her sister Belmira’s wedding (to a man Helena feels was rightfully hers), fishermen pull a man out of the river who has no past, but who offers both…
Quick Bites: Macabre Miscellany
Yume Japanese Gardens Tea Ceremony. There’s something inherently mindful about drinking a cup of tea. You don’t drink it to help you move faster, like coffee, and the flavor is usually subtle, so as you slow down to focus on the taste, it feels like time slows down as well. In Japan, a tea ceremony…
Quick Bites: Frightnin’ Feasts
Devil’s Night Dinner at Hotel Congress. Hotel Congress isn’t limiting its Halloween festivities to one night—they’ve got a whole Halloweekend thing going on. But this dinner, featuring Kenny Bang Bang the magician and a fire juggling (FIRE JUGGLING!) performance, is a can’t miss. Each of the four courses—See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No…
The Weekly List: 22 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. The Tell-Tale Art Live Drawing Atelier. Can we all agree that you’re held a little bit more accountable when someone is watching you? You try just a little bit harder, maybe turn out work that’s just a little bit better? At this event to benefit…
The Fed Tax Cut, AZ School Grades, Results-Based Funding, and a W.A.G.
The federal tax cut proposals Republicans are putting together will most likely throw a few tax cut bones to the middle class and toss a couple of chicken wings in the direction of the poor so it looks like everyone gets a tax break, but the richest Americans will be the folks getting thick, juicy,…
Chance The Rapper Does First Show As Grammy Award Winner At Lost Lake Festival
Chance the Rapper’s Twitter video of him helping his 2-year-old daughter learn to count went viral just a few days before his performance at Phoenix’s Lost Lake Festival on Friday. The video might evoke a sense of nostalgia or familiarity for most parents, if he weren’t using his three recently awarded Grammy’s for the counting lessons.…
Flake: “Mr. President, I Rise Today To Say, ‘Enough'”
Flake’s bombshell announcement today that he would not seek reelection next year is rocking the state’s political landscape. Flake took time on the Senate floor today to explain his decision, saying that the coarseness of President Donald Trump drove his decision. Talking Points Memo summarizes: “I have children and grandchildren to answer to. And so,…
Alden Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Alden! I am a 2 year old male Queensland Heeler mix looking for my fur-ever home! I can be shy at first but will warm up to the right person quickly. Please bring any kids or dogs that live in your home to come meet me. I am at HSSA Main Campus at…
Danny Brown Embraces The Dissonance At Lost Lake
Danny Brown is hip-hop’s punk phase: a complete rebellion from the genre’s norms and style. Not only was his gold chain replaced by a grungy The Police t-shirt, but Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” played for his arrival onstage. This isn’t to say he wasn’t rapping—he certainly was, with fantastic delivery and sometimes hilarious, sometimes shocking…
Noname Keep Things Light–Even When They Get Heavy–At Lost Lake
The drummer playing for rising star rapper Noname was wearing a shirt that said “Wonderful Noise,” and that served as a prophecy for the set he was about to be a part of. Fatimah Nyeema Warner, widely known by her stage name Noname, struck a balance between meaningful and fun at her Friday night performance…
Introducing ‘1989 Miles of People & Change,’ A Border Exploration with American Babylon
Think of the border with Mexico. What is the first image that comes to mind? Whatever dreams and nightmares and visions you are seeing when you think of Mexico and our border with Mexico, they could use some context. Information about the border is spare, sparse, and often outlandish. Hyperbolic descriptions of criminal hordes lurking…
Ousting Opioids
Recreational marijuana could help lead to a decrease in opioid-related deaths
Tucson Salvage
Finely manicured fingers rotate like a miniature flesh-and-bone loom, looping and sliding yarn through a tattered selvage.
Cream of the Crop
When people ask Kevin Danzeisen how he ended up in the dairy business, his response is that he’s just a cow guy, and always has been.
The Ward 6 Pack
Council Member Steve Kozachik is fighting to keep his spot as Tucson City Council’s Ward 6 representative.
Think of the Children
Isn’t it time we took better care of Tucson’s preschoolers? And our city’s zoo animals? We endorse yes on Props 202, 203, and 204.
Role Play
The fog rolls across the dusky moor. A once-thought-mythical beast roams and roars.
Editor’s Note
This week we have voting and election stories, our endorsements, book excerpts, the movies to see, music in town, so much more!
Police Dispatch
It’s never fun to wake up and find someone has snuck into your dorm room and peed all over your stuff.
Reel Indie
Another week of indie films is upon us, and Film Fest Tucson is taking center stage in its four-day run.
Deja Voodoo
A college girl learns a few lessons about life by reliving the day she is murdered over and over again.
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes
At 78, Colorado folk icon Judy Collins is more spry, vibrant and generally full of life than many people
A Trifle Too Satanic
Nothing annoys a diehard Rolling Stones fan more than telling them this is the band at their most adventurous and dangerous.
Standing With Rosa
From 2014 to 2015, Rosa Robles Loreto, an undocumented immigrant, wife and mother of two, sought sanctuary at Southside Presbyterian Church.
Police Dispatch
When are erections maybe not such a great idea? Let me tell you…
The Skinny
It’s been quite a week in the Trump White House.
Know Your Product
When you see the list of influences cited by Wolves in the Throne Room, you know you’re in for something special.
