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The Politics of Sociability
Your weekend plans.
Foodways at Tucson Meet Yourself
If you haven’t heard the news by now you probably have your face in a burrito.
Fill Up On Beer, Bands and Brats at 4thtober Fest
It might be 90 degrees outside, but it is fall and with fall comes a series of delicious and refreshing Oktoberfest-ivals. This weekend, the fest to not miss is 4thtoberfest. This Saturday, Oct. 22 from 1 to 7 p.m., enjoy bands, brats and so many local beers on 4th Avenue. Now, you can get into…
Five Ways To Avoid Being An Able-Bodied Douchebag
So, I want to start this article off by saying that I had some trepidation about that title up there. I tend not to like to call people “douchebags.” It’s one of the most vile insults of the world, in my book. Right up there with the “C” word. I’m more of an “asshat” kind…
The Annual Community Mental Health Arts Show Is Back
Art is a universal language that has the ability to transcend barriers put up by societal differences. The ability to enjoy art, both in its creation and appreciation, is granted to every person regardless of who they are. For the seventeenth year in a row, Community Partners Inc. is here to celebrate the importance of art…
Casa Video Top 10
My weekend plans: Read though my Voter Registration Guide, finish reading The Joy Luck Club and finally watch Swiss Army Man. What are you guys up to? Here’s your weekly look at the most popular movies at every Tucsonan’s favorite video rental place: 1. X-Men: Apocalypse 2. Central Intelligence 3. Neighbors 2 4. Warcraft 5. Free…
Tempest DuJour And Other Queens Channel The Donald
A few RuPaul’s Drag Race favorites, including Tucson’s own Tempest DuJour, bronzed up and donned Cheeto-dust wigs to lip sync some of Donald Trump’s greatest hits from the campaign trail. Enjoy:
The Weekly List: 22 Things To Do In Tucson In The Next 10 Days
Your Weekly guide to staying busy in the Old Pueblo. Pick of the Week Blue Heritage Festival: It’s been a long week, and we’ve all earned a day of Blues. This weekend the Southern Arizona Blues Heritage Foundation is bringing us a Blues Heritage Festival, featuring Los Lobos, the Garcia Brothers and the Missy Andersen Band. Don’t forget…
Carmona Takes The Gloves Off
On Thursday, Oct. 6, Dr. Richard Carmona held a press conference to act as a spokesman for Pima County Sheriff’s Deputies who have allegedly been blacklisted, threatened, harassed, had their wives harassed and who have been improperly reassigned and demoted by Sheriff Chris Nanos and his cronies. As Carmona put it, the Pima County Sheriffs…
My Picks for the TUSD School Board: Cam Juarez, Kristel Foster, Betts Putnam-Hidalgo
Before I discuss my choices for the TUSD board, I want to make it clear that these are my personal picks. The Weekly will make its endorsements sometime in the future, and I have no input in those decisions. I want to see Cam Juarez and Kristel Foster reelected to the board because I believe…
Cinema Clips: Deepwater Horizon
I think my shockingly lustrous eyelashes got singed watching Deepwater Horizon, director Peter Berg’s harrowing account of the worst oil rig disaster in American history. That’s because Berg’s film drops the viewer into a situation where fire and explosions are so realistic, you can feel the heat and disorientation of the 2010 disaster, which claimed…
Song of the Day: ‘See Saw’ by Don Covay
South Carolina-born Don Covay grew up on gospel (dad was a Baptist minister), but it was Little Richard who convinced him he’d find the true light by going secular. (Richard had also helped Covey supercharge his live show—it became rife with sexual tension for girls—and even christened him “Pretty Boy.”) By 1965, the year this ditty and its same-titled album…
Pick Up Tickets to the Southwest Cannabis Conference + Expo in Phoenix
Want to drive up with Phoenix and spend the weekend learning all about the cannabis business? We’ve got tickets to the Southwest Cannabis Conference + Expo where you can do just that. SWCC Expo will be an electric environment for industry members, entrepreneurs, local leaders, companies, job seekers and curious individuals to come learn…
Cinema Clips: The Greasy Strangler
This totally bonkers film plays out like David Lynch meets John Waters. Grouchy old man Big Ronnie (Michael St. Michaels, who once played a security guard on Diff’rent Strokes) and his weird son (Sky Elobar) conduct disco tours in which they lie to tourists about where the Bee Gees wrote their music. In the evenings,…
Antigone Books Is Looking For New Owners
Are you up for the job of leading one of Tucson’s most wonderful feminist and literary sanctuaries? Antigone Books (411 N. 4th Ave.) is up for grabs. Here’s the email Antigone’s subscribers received last night, in its entirety: The two of us have owned Antigone Books for more than 25 years, happy to be…
In The Flesh: Asian Fred at Club Congress
It seems that about halfway through each decade since the 1970s, prevailing rock music trends and styles begin to run out of steam, including some of the form’s most recognizable purveyors. This happened explicitly in the ’90s, with the fallout from grunge resulting in a fragmented mess of pop-punk, ska, rap-rock and just about everybody…
McCain Dumps Trump Ahead of Tonight’s TV Debate
Ahead of tonight’s televised debate between Sen. John McCain and his Democratic challenger, Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick, McCain decided to dump his endorsement of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. In so doing, he has undermined on of Kirkpatrick’s best attacks against McCain and eliminated any need to defend the collapsing Trump. McCain could put up with…
Gerard and Butch Need a Home
Hi friends! I’m Gerard and this is my big, best friend named Butch! We were brought into the shelter together and have been officially deemed a bonded pair. I am an 8 year old poodle mix and Butch is a 3.5 year old pit bull mix. Butch and I love to go on walks together,…
More on the Financial Backers of ‘TUSD Kids First’
A few weeks ago I posted about the independent expenditure campaign, TUSD Kids First. The main takeaway was that TKF had collected a total of $35,150, most of it from five local businesspeople: Committee Chair Jimmy Lovelace, $3,334; Treasurer Kathleen Campbell, $8,170; Cody Richie, $7,500; Jim Click, $7,500; and Tom Regina, $5,000. At the time, the TUSD board candidates…
Cinema Clips: Birth of a Nation
Director Nate Parker’s biographical film about Nat Turner plays out like the scariest of horror shows, and it very well should. The film scarily portrays Turner’s slave rebellion in the south, one that resulted in many African Americans being slaughtered in retaliation. It’s bloody, it’s heartbreaking, and it’s the two-by-four to the face type of…
Conservative AZ Leaders to TUSD: ‘Let’s You and Him Fight’
I don’t know if Tom Horne and John Huppenthal, Arizona’s two most recent ex-superintendents of education, ever get together, and I don’t know if either of them spend any time with recalled Republican State Senator Russell Pearce. But the three of them definitely should find time to gather and celebrate now and then. They have every reason to…
In the Flesh: Una Noche de Corridos at UA
Una Noche de Corridos, an evening of song, part of the University of Arizona’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, which took place Thursday, Oct. 6, commenced with a presentation on the corrido by Bob Diaz, Special Collections Curator for the Performing Arts and volunteer radio programmer for KXCI-FM radio. “What’s a corridor anyway?” Diaz defined for the…
Race Relations: What Horror Films Are Made Of (This One At Least)
Folks, something amazing is happening in February. No, Saint Valentine is not swooping down from the heavens to help you find your one, true love. No, Tucson is not bringing Mardi Gras to Fourth Ave (so please don’t let me find you running up and down the street topless, throwing beads everywhere). And no, the…
Watch This Doc On Badass Trailblazing Architect Judith Chafee
Anyone who gives a damn about the look and feel of Tucson, and in ways how some of its loveliness has been redeemed and shaped and conserved, should view this 24-minute piece called The Architect on Tucsonan Judith Chafee. You’ll note that the much-revered and controversial Chafee was a trailblazer “who smoked, drank and cursed and built homes.”…
Song of the Day: ‘My Man’ by Valley Queen
Songs by this Echo Park quartet often brim with a kind of ache that suggests something intoxicating or sad or life-changing is up around the bend, good or bad, and that it can be frightening. There’s ache too in Valley Queen singer Natalie Carol’s voice, which lifts with gentle power and grace over the band’s often languid country-rockish soundscapes.…
PACC is Getting a New Building, So You Should Adopt a Pet This Weekend
Who wants a puppy? Pima Animal Care Center, 4000 N. Silverbell Road, just got started constructing a new animal care facility and it is celebrating (/trying to avoid overcrowding) by offering some serious discounts on pet adoptions. All dog, cat, puppy and kitten adoptions will be $10 Oct. 7-9. All adoptable PACC pets have been spayed or neutered,…
Happy Birthday, Bookmans!
Bookmans Entertainment Exchange is turning 40 and you should join in the celebration by participating in its 40 years in 40 days social media scavenger hunt. Don’t dawdle, the challenge has already begun! The 40 days started Wednesday, Oct. 5 and will run through Sunday, Nov. 13 at all six Bookmans Entertainment Exchange locations. The…
Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
By the time Echo & the Bunnymen wrapped up its most creatively fertile period more than 30 years ago, it seemed highly unlikely that the band’s creative—if not so much commercial—fortunes would prosper into the next century.
Editor’s Note
Is it the New Year yet?
Dust Devil
Some guys wanted me to sell blow and I felt was bad.
Police Dispatch
An elderly woman was the victim of a “grandson scam” in which the scammer demanded not money, not jewelry, but iTunes gift cards
Police Dispatch
A homeless man learned the lesson “Don’t steal where you live” after he used someone else’s credit cards—found at a gas station on one side of his camp—to go on a small shopping spree at a gas station on the other side of his camp (and he was caught almost immediately).
Tucson Salvage
Maybe it says something that when Bryan L starts talking about five holes drilled into his head I can’t stop listening to him even though “Moonlight Mile” is playing. The
Hitsville AZ
Taking a cue from legendary folk musicologist Alan Lomax, a new Tucson record label is dedicated to raw, stripped-down acoustic music.
Guest Opinion
LGBTQ Americans have greater equality than ever before. Yet, for all our gains, we still have many steps to take as we progress towards full equality. It’s still perfectly legal to fire someone for being lesbian, gay, or bisexual.
Pleasure Activist
That sex workers need the law or the public to help them out of sex work.
Truth Through Fiction
The 12th annual Tucson Film and Music Festival, starting Oct. 6, continues to focus on music-related films, but expands the theme to all stories southwest.
Presidential Potential
With legalization efforts poppinge up around the country, it might seem like recreational marijuana is certainly on its way to being a national norm. However, current medical and recreational marijuana policies only exist by the grace of the federal government.
Ask a Mexican
Dear Viejito Gabacho: Since when has a harp not been “conventional”?
Happy Anni-BEER-sary
David Zugerman is beaming on a beautiful Sunday afternoon as he scans the full bar top on the weekend of the one year anniversary of his establishment, the Tucson Hop Shop
Dance Unlimited
The ballet-infused, pop-tinged modern dance of the legendary Twyla Tharp rolls into Centennial Hall Sunday, in a 50th anniversary concert performed by her international dancers.
The Body Electric
The Something Something Theatre Company (I don’t understand the allure of the name either) has done itself proud with their production of Body Awareness.
Epic Proportions
To call this a disaster film similar to those put out by Irwin Allen in the ’70s is both a compliment (Hey, some of those where pretty great) and a bit belittling.
The Madcap Laughs
More and more, Robyn Hitchcock says he feels like “an Englishman who’s been marinated in America.”
