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The Mission Creeps Onward
Theirs is a nightmarish playground of zombies and monsters, of skeletons and witchcraft. Songs jump listeners like haunted-house spooks.
Festival Season Is Coming To Tucson
There’s an estimated 32 million people in the U.S. who attend music festivals each year and that number continues to rise because of popular demand from millennials around the country. And as a frequent festival-goer myself, it seems as if Tucson has officially jumped on the popular bandwagon and is now offering two major shows to kick-start festival…
Casa Video Top 10
Mooooovies! Here’s your weekly look at what’s hot at Casa Video: Captain America: Civil War The Conjuring 2 Now You See Me 2 The Jungle Book The Nice Guys Money Monster The Meddler Whiskey Tango Foxtrot A Hologram for the King Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Get In The Mood For Pride With Your New Favorite Coming Out Song
Happy Celebrate Bisexuality Day, everybody! Are you celebrating? Gettin’ bi alright? As we detailed in this week’s cover story, Tucson Pride is happening next week and you should be there. Spotify has a few pretty spectacular playlists to help you get in a Pride state of mind, but I personally believe you need to start with…
CM Punk and the UFC: Dishonorable and Disrespectful
Phillip Brooks, better known by his ring name CM Punk, went from World Wrestling Entertainment Champion to having a 0-1 record in the Ultimate Fighting Championship in UFC 203 on Sept. 10. The 37-year-old former professional wrestler’s debut only last two minutes and 14 seconds and lost by submission to 2-0 fighter Mickey Gall, who is 24. This…
The Weekly List: 28 Things To Do In Tucson In The Next 10 Days
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Food & Booze Arizona Wine Dinner: If you’re looking for a fun, night out with delicious food and wine, be sure to check out the Arizona Wine Dinner at Maynards Market & Kitchen. All the food will be prepared by the Maynards Kitchen team to…
Quick Bites: Brunch-Hounds Rejoice!
Ask and you shall receive! We have had so many people request our avocado toast that we have decided to officially put it on the menu! #prepandpastry 📸: @nateares40 A photo posted by @prepandpastry on Sep 8, 2016 at 11:46am PDT Be honest. If you could pair an awesome meal with a cocktail before noon—without…
Song of the Day: ‘The Rovin’ Kind’ (with Tucson reference) by David Ruffin
Sure, blow and women and depression and panic went lengths to ravage the Mississippi-born singer’s vocal range and tone (it finished him off in the end) but it’s that hold-a-note-despite-the-odds quality—a perfect aural metaphor of just hanging on—that made David Ruffin one of the greatest soul singers to draw a breath. His voice didn’t age as much as reveal his…
Give Back To Your Community: Tucson Meet Yourself Needs Volunteers
As September comes to an end, it is finally that time of year once again. The annual Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival is upon us in just two short weeks. Tucson Meet Yourself is a festival that celebrates Tucson in all of its glory, bringing together local artisans, musicians, cooks and dancers, and putting them…
Quick Bites: We Scream for The Screamery—Now Downtown
The Screamery Handcrafted Ice Cream has a couple other locations in Tucson, but its latest one—in the heart of downtown, which opened this summer—has been getting the most attention. It’s pretty daring to open a location of your gourmet ice-cream shop smack in the middle of HUB territory (the HUB is basically across the street),…
Cinema Clips: Demon
A couple (Itay Tiran and Agnieszka Zulewska) have the worst…wedding…ever in Poland after the groom has seemingly become possessed with the ghost of a Yiddish woman. The groom’s possession comes after arriving at the old house he and his soon-to-be wife are to live in. He goes for one of those creepy nighttime walks, sees…
Song of the Day: ‘All Pop, No Star’ by The Slingbacks
Disclaimer No. 1:I was married to the singer (Shireen Liane) and we lived in Tucson for a spell, had a little place with our cats and a garden over on Camilla Street. I was drunk so we splintered and she landed in London with a fat major-label deal with Virgin Records, and did the sole Slingbacks album…
CD1: Babeu Tries To Counter Accounts of Abuse at School He Once Oversaw
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, the Republican candidate who is facing Democrat Tom O’Halleran in Congressional District 1, has been hammered throughout the campaign for his history as a headmaster at a Massachusetts school for troubled youth some 16 years ago. Several of Babeu’s GOP primary opponents hit him for his past support of what…
Looks Like Brother Dean Got Arrested For Kicking A Student In The Chest
Dean Saxton, whom you might know as “Brother Dean” or the “You Deserve Rape” guy, appears to have finally crossed a legal line and assaulted a student. UAPD confirms that Saxton was arrested and given a one-year exclusionary order banning him from campus until next Fall after students reported seeing him kick a woman in the…
Like Quality Sound? Don’t Buy Into Bluetooth.
There has been a lot of hype over tech juggernaut Apple’s new iterations to the iPhone 7—primarily over the introduction of packaged in Bluetooth headphones and the removal of the headphone jack which will not allow wired headphones to be used unless you have an adapter. Many see it as a step forward, others see…
Fruit Fiends Unite for Tucson’s Pomegranate Festival
There’s an event for all the fruit fanatics out there and it’s coming to you this Saturday, Sept. 24. The Annual Pomegranate Festival will be coming to Tucson’s Mission Gardens, 946 W. Mission Ln., for the second year in row from 9-11 a.m. Brought on by the Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace in conjunction with the Ajo…
Learn About Medical Marijuana and the Workplace
There’s an estimated 90,000 people in Arizona with medical marijuana cards, making company and employment policies surrounding cannabis use a hot topic of discussion. What can and can’t employers ask of their card-carrying employees? Find out at the free information seminar Lovitt & Touché Learning Academy (7202 E. Rosewood Street #200) is hosting on Thursday,…
Ducey ‘Next Step’ Watch: Day 123: “Changing the Trend Line” Edition
Forget about the “next step” in education funding Governor Ducey promised when he wanted to pass Prop 123. Ducey has forgotten about it, or is trying to forget, anyway. His phrase du jour is “changing the trend line.” Ducey published an op ed about his most recent educational goal. He wants 60 percent of Arizonans to have a college…
Winky Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Winky! I’m a playful 6 month old boy and I need a home! I have lived with HSSA for almost my entire life and I’m ready to find my forever family. I love to play and get lots of snuggles! I have some calluses around one of my eyes so my vision isn’t…
Cinema Clips: White Girl
Leah (Morgan Saylor), a college student in New York City, is moving into a new apartment. She meets a drug dealer (Brian ‘Sene’ Marc) who she really likes, and gets mixed up in some bad stuff with him. Meanwhile, she’s doing an internship at an ad agency where her boss (Justin Bartha) calls her into…
Song of the Day: “Crazy Horses” by Chick Cashman and Ron Reyes
Tapped The Osmonds ear-bender “Crazy Horses” for Song of the Day but remembered Tucson’s man-for-all-seasons Chick Cashman (nee Clif Taylor) and the killer takedown version he recorded last year with one-time Black Flag shouter Ron Reyes (and backed by rhythm aces Boyd Peterson and Jamie Peters). Lord do Cashman and Reyes make a fist-jacking bid to…
Get Reading for National Library Card Month
It’s National Library Card Month! The Pima County Public Library is teaming up with the American Library Association to ensure that everyone in the community gets their hands on a library card. The best part about the library is that it’s free, but you have to have a library card. If you are on the…
Casa Video Top 10
In this week’s Weekly List, we highlighted some of our favorite Tucson yoga classes—you know, just in case you need something to help cool down after a stressful few days. If yoga’s not your thing, I reccomend a good ol’ fashioned movie marathon. This is a list of Casa Video’s most rented movies over last…
Tucson Is A Vacuum—And I’m Ok With That
In case you haven’t noticed, hardly anyone that lives here is a Tucson Native. I kid you not. You can ask five different people where they are from and you will likely get the following answers: New York, Illinois, Michigan, and two other frozen over states that Satan will never step foot in. Just about…
Teacher Shortages: Things Are Bad All Over (Only More So In Arizona)
The Learning Policy Institute just published a research paper, A Coming Crisis in Teaching? Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S. Across the country, the demand for teachers is growing at the same time teachers are leaving in large numbers and fewer college students are enrolling in teacher education programs. Before looking at the study’s general findings, I…
Song of the Day: ‘Tucson Kills’
Billy Sedlmayr’s “Tucson Kills” is a frighteningly lovely glimpse into boyhood and Tucson, and it brims with ache and empathy and tender regrets. There’s a heady sense of location here, to the point of mythology, dusted with area references—from the fading whores down on 6th Avenue and scoring in barrios Sobaco, Old Pasqua and Hollywood to “going crazy” in…
Trump’s Childcare Plan Is As Phony as the Rest of His Proposals
One of the more unlikely campaign promises that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has made was all about helping families with the cost of childcare, which can be rival the cost of college tuition for some families. I’ve written a lot over the years about the Arizona Legislature’s failure to come through for working families…
Top Shelf Predator
What does a jaguar in Southern Arizona have in common with a new, locally crafted (and very potent) whiskey?
MOCA’s Art Now!
Do you like looking at art? Do you like talking about art?
Storytelling for Kids
If you have or know a kid that likes to read (or is learning to read), the Children’s Museum will host a festival all about books for kids.
Meet Your Best Furrend
Two words: free babies . . . well, furr babies that is.
Space Poetry
Out-of-this-world poetry
Rock Out with The Naked and Famous
New Zealand sensation The Naked and Famous is coming to Tucson.
Garden of Earthly Delights
Tim Mosman and Hank Tusinski have the same philosophy of painting but you might not guess it by looking at their works.
Fallen Angel
One amazing thing about Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize winning Angels in America is that somehow the playwright has been able to create a colossal experience, tackling so many ideas that could easily lose us with overreaching, but doesn’t.
Editor’s Note
Well. Maybe not.
Brilliant Plane
Historical accuracy be damned.
Dust Devil
Tributes to my deceased dogs, rabbits, hamsters, mice, fish and birds.
Mad for Racket: Melvins
This band trades on confusion.
Danehy
With Labor Day in the rear-view mirror, we’re now in the stretch run of the political season and there are just so many questions that need to be answered.
Dark Meets Light: The Naked and Famous
In the case of The Naked and Famous, passion and pain have become inseparable.
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: I heard you on NPR describing the various ways that Mexican food images are used to scare white people about the brown hordes from the South coming up here to steal their stuff and take away their ketchup.
Youth Pot
A new poll has illustrated what many of us already know: about half of Arizonans support marijuana legalization.
Media Watch
This is the final Media Watch column in the Tucson Weekly. Thanks for reading.
The Skinny
NBC survey puts McCain out way ahead, while Public Policy Polling shows a tight race with Kirkpatrick
Police Dispatch
The epitome of a (potty-mouthed) sexually entitled male delivered perhaps the worst “pick-up line” ever to a convenience-store clerk—in her place of work, while she was working—after having already harassed her for months and even being barred from the store.
