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Bennu Blast
Robots don’t come much cooler than OSIRIS-REx.
Casa Video Top 10
Plans for the next few days: Pick up a copy of local author Shannon Baker’s new book Stripped Bare, join the foraging movement from the couch and study up on the upcoming local elections. Just in case you’ve got time to squeeze in a movie or two, Casa Video sent us this list of their…
Old Heads vs. Young Bucks: Hip-Hop’s Dilemma
The hyper-American culture of hip-hop has been around for a whopping 40 years, and has gone through countless changes. We’ve heard party music heavily focused on seconds-long drum breaks propelled by two turntables and a DJ, to boom-bap beats, heavy dark samples and witty MCs rhyming about the “trife” life, to extremely melodic and catchy…
Quick Bites: Join the Foraging Movement From Your Living Room
No, by that headline we don’t mean you’ll be foraging for lost peanuts and spilled M&Ms hiding in your couch cushions. We’re talking about using your laptop to access (specifically, to buy) foods from the great outdoors that have already been foraged for you. Foraging is perhaps the most grassroots method of obtaining sustenance. (In…
Charters Are Not Public Schools, Says the National Labor Relations Board
It sounds like an academic question. “Class, today we’re going to discuss whether or not charter schools are public schools.” You say “public school,” I say “publicly funded school.” Potato, po-tah-to. But recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board move the question into the realm of federal law. In two cases, the NLRB decided charter…
Gabriel Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Gabriel! I’m a 3 year old cutie and I need a new home! I really love to play and I would do great in a home with another dog that also has a high energy level! I hope that when the weather cools down my family will take me for runs, jogs and…
ITT Tech Closes All Its Campuses, Including One in Tucson
ITT Tech, one of the for-profit college companies which have come under well-deserved scrutiny for their predatory recruiting tactics, dependence on government funds to pay student tuition and the questionable quality of their course offerings, is shutting down nationwide. That includes one campus in Tucson and three in the Phoenix area. Nationally, it has about…
Quick Bites: Calling All Awesome Teens! (Also, Parents of Awesome Teens)
Hey, kids! Stay in school! Say no to drugs! Get involved in your community! Seriously—we hope you do all those things. But if you’re a young person reading this particular blurb in this particular alternative newspaper, you’re probably pretty precocious, so you already do them. Since this is the Chow section, you’re probably interested in…
It’s No Mistake: WOOPS! Bakeshop
Lookout Tucson, there is a new bakeshop in town and trust me, despite the name it’s no mistake! WOOPS! (845 E. University Blvd.) originally comes from the busy streets of New York City, more specifically founded in 2012 with a small pop up shop in Bryant Park. Now, they have decided to take their dessert business…
Chance Needs a Home
Hi friends, I’m Chance! I’m a fun 3-year-old boy and I need a new home. I really love to play and am getting along well with my kennel mate! I would love a new home where I can get ample exercise and play time. I would benefit from a daily exercise and maybe even some…
Diane Douglas’ Public Support of Trump Doesn’t Surprise Me, But It Sure Makes Me Uneasy (And Not Because of Trump)
Diane Douglas, Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, ran as a Tea Party candidate. The banner headline on the first incarnation of her campaign website read, “Kill Common Core.” Not “Stop Common Core.” Not “End Common Core.” “Kill Common Core.” With an over-the-top opening line like that and her conservative educational track record as a school…
Obstructionism Now, Obstructionism Forever: McCain Vows To Stop the Future Clinton Administration From Accomplishing Anything
Republican Sen. John McCain, facing a tough reelection challenge from U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-CD1), told voters last week that they should elect him to serve as a check against a Hillary Clinton administration. It appears that McCain is not anticipating a Trump triumph in November. Over at Talking Points Memo, Lauren Fox notes that…
American Babylon: A Conversation With Jan Brewer
Recorded Wednesday, Aug. 31 at the Phoenix Convention Center just before the Donald Trump rally. Jan Brewer was appointed Governor of Arizona in 2010 to replace Janet Napolitano. She was elected for a full term later that year after signing SB1070, legislation which made it illegal to be an immigrant. This was a hugely controversial…
American Babylon: Kid Wearing Keffiyeh at Trump Rally Singled Out and Ejected
Take a look at this video footage which shows a young kid in a Keffiyeh being singled out and ejected by Trump security guards at the Donald J. Trump rally in Phoenix Convention Center on Wednesday, Aug. 31. I spoke with the security guard in the suit in this footage, and he told me: “He’s…
El Divo Will Never Die
Mexican singer and songwriter Juan Gabriel died from a heart attack at the age of 66 in Santa Monica, Calif. on earlier this week, just two days after his last concert. Gabriel, known for his poppy love ballades, rose to stardom in the early ’70s with his hit song No Tengo Dinero, fame that came…
Prickly Pear Paradise
So, how do you prepare prickly pear?
Revved and Ready
In need of some action?
Revival of a Classic
Watch a modern take on an old classic as the Gaslight Theatre opens their new show Frankenstein
Neighborhood Nosh
What’s for dinner?
The Dude Rules
Imagine for a moment if Jesus had had no interest in being baptized.
Bullets on the Border
On October 10, 2012, Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Ray Swartz shot Nogales, Sonora, teenager Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, firing through the slats in the Border fence.
Horror What?
Look, I know movies are mostly fiction and much of what happens in them can’t really happen in the real world.
HOCO Delights
At the end of touring for the last Y La Bamba album, Luz Elena Mendoza says she felt a silence in her heart.
An MMJ Win
Many consider marijuana a “drug.” However, it is no more a drug than cigarettes we smoke or alcohol we drink.
Police Dispatch
A woman being investigated for screaming didn’t even try to explain herself to law enforcement—she just wouldn’t stop screaming—so she ended up in jail (where she was left still yelling in a cell).
Editor’s Note
Newspaper life can be a little hard, but we’ve got some recommended reading for you this week.
Media Watch
Last week in Chandler, Bob Richardson was arrested for allegedly soliciting male masseuses at his residences, and then using hidden cameras set up in the locations to view the footage again later.
Dust Devil
A sniper with a sidearm doesn’t give me protection.
Ask a Mexican
It’s the triumphant return of Ask a Mexican! Some of you will celebrate, some of you will write angry comments about a this “stereotypical” portrayal. C’est la vie.
Police Dispatch
At least seven large cacti in a nice, quiet Foothills neighborhood were found violently sliced to pieces by a machete, and a crack pipe–presumed related to the vandalism—was found near the cactus carnage.
The Skinny
Jim Nintzel pens a heartbreaking goodbye to Margaret Koch Tilton, his mother.
Danehy
Tom has a a dilemma … or maybe it’s a quandary. It could even be a predicament or a plight, something Donald Trump would call a “mental owie.”
Under the Neon Sky
Start HOCO Fest off right.
