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Singing the Blues: Festival offers a variety of music genres
Through blues, musicians share their sorrows, hopes, dreams and life experiences. Each year, the Blues Heritage Festival brings together these musicians and those from other genres for a day filled with tunes. This year, the event will be held in a new venue, the Steam Pump Ranch in Oro Valley on Saturday, October 29. …
Hughes Federal Credit Union Invites the Community to a Shred & Toy Drive Event
Hughes Federal Credit Union invites residents to shred sensitive, personal documents at the Leman Academy of Excellence in Marana and bring unwrapped gifts for infants and children hospitalized at Banner Diamond Children’s Medical Center on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Participants may bring up to 15 pounds or three boxes of documents…
The kids are united!
The football slides off his fingertips, and Federico (“Fred”) Torrez shouts, “I know! Butterfinger hands.” A hot wind gusts and his forehead glistens with sweat. Children step in and out of Torrez’s shadow, cut across the green field, air seasoned with bermuda grass and the previous night’s rain. Kids toss cornhole bags far and away…
Comedy for Charity’s laughs ease the pain
Suzie Agrillo has long believed that laughing makes us feel better. A Google search confirms it; even the Mayo Clinic agrees. So, after a particularly stressful family reunion around 2010, she took the advice of comedian and fellow attorney Elliott Glicksman and took her wit for a spin for in the open mic at Laff’s…
XOXO: Mark Your Calendars
Mark your calendars… Thursday, Oct. 27 During the 1980s — on the strength of a string of hit singles, “Suddenly,” “Caribbean Queen” and “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going” and others — Leslie Sebastian Charles, known professionally as Billy Ocean, rode a wave of international popularity. In 2020, he was appointed Member…
Teatro Carmen renovation is close to fruition
A 1915 Barrio Viejo building, Teatro Carmen on Meyer Street, is returning to its roots. Crews are taking down the stucco encasing the façade to expose the original brick. With it will come a new outdoor, garden venue. It’s just another step in a major renovation for the building, which will be used once again…
Derby league strives on its competitive nature
The Copper State Roller Derby League has two primary rules—talk about derby and “don’t be a dick.” Still in its infancy, the local league was founded in July 2021, the “brainchild” of Teia “Weirdo” DeWier, the league president. “I felt like there was this space to create another league that maybe had different goals,” DeWier…
TENWEST inspires sustainable collaboration, debuts block party
The annual TENWEST IMPACT Festival invites curious and impassioned locals to discuss mindful entrepreneurship and sustainability. The five-day conference starts Tuesday, Nov. 1, at the Tucson Museum of Art, and features brainstorming workshops, lectures and a variety of after-party events. The theme of this year’s festival is, Create, Build and Sustain. A day is dedicated…
Arizona NORML names a new political director
Army veteran, social worker, political candidate and small business owner, Sarah Tyree said she was honored and surprised when Arizona’s National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) tapped her for its political director. “I hope I can reach or exceed everybody’s expectations,” Tyree said. “I didn’t see that coming.” When former political director…
City Week: Weekly Picks
Nightmare on Congress Dress to impress and you could win $2,000 in two costume contests when Tucson’s haunted hotel throws its Halloween bash. You’ll party down to your bones with music by King Quice, The Surfbroads and Early Black. DJs HumpHouse and Bex & Halsero keep the beats going while vendors and Halloween-themed food and…
Halloween, fall events aplenty in Tucson area
Halloween brings out the creepiness in all of us. From haunted houses and corn mazes to dance parties, here are some of what the Tucson area has to offer this fall. Ghostbusters in the Haunted Ruins Something odd is going on in the Haunted Ruins and Valley of the Moon’s fairy woods. Join patrons on…
