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Nurse Blake takes to the comedy theater
Blake Lynch, known to millions as comedian Nurse Blake, says a lot of theaters think his performance is going to be a TED Talk. “But it’s not,” he said. “It is so rowdy and wild.” Pandemonium is what you’d expect from an intimate party of 1,200 close friends who’ve waited for years to meet in…
Savage Love: Quickies
There is more to this week’s Savage Love. To read the entire column, go to Savage.Love. At a party recently I was chatting with a parent who mentioned that he lets his (elementary school age) kids look at porn. He had a laissez-faire attitude about the whole thing, but I found it disturbing. Am I…
World’s Largest Pet Walk takes over Tucson
Tucson and many other cities around the United States will participate in the fifth annual World’s Largest Pet Walk to benefit Pet Partners on Saturday, Sept. 24. Founded in the 1970s, Pet Partners is a nonprofit that helps people through the love of animals. They register dog handlers to serve as a team to visit…
LGBT Chamber builds a safe space to conduct business
Joining the Tucson LGBT Chamber of Commerce was what their current president calls “indescribably refreshing.” Vera Minot joined the chamber, which members name the Gaymber, in 2018 after moving here from central Texas. Her business partners invited her to join. “It was just indescribably refreshing to be able to go network and be a professional…
City Week: Weekly Picks
“Fandango Fabuloso” Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers features in the Tucson Symphony’s season debut. With José Luis Gomez conducting, she and the orchestra perform “Fandango,” a concerto written for her by Arturo Márquez and introduced last year with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Tucson composer Robert Muczynski’s “Charade” and Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 5” round out the concert.…
AIDSWALK Tucson feels the love
Monique Vallery of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation is proud of the community’s support. Last year, the organization raised approximately $80,000 with 200 participants and volunteers participating in its AIDSWALK Tucson. “This year is going to be the 34th annual AIDSWALK. It’s now one of the oldest walks in Tucson,” said Vallery, SAAF’s director of…
Lewis Black ‘promises’ knock-knock jokes, songs
Lewis Black said fans attending his Sept. 30 Fox Tucson Theatre show can expect the “typical” gig. “It’s pretty much the happy-go-lucky comedy fun stuff, complete with a lot of knock-knock jokes, a couple of songs,” he said sarcastically. “I’ll be interesting. Who knows by then? The way things are rolling.” Of course, he’s kidding.…
Broadway’s ‘Bright Star’ debuts in Tucson
For Tiffany Jensen, it was more than feeling comfortable with the bluegrass music or the comedic writing. When she auditioned for the Tucson premiere of Broadway’s 2016 musical “Bright Star,” she felt a connection to the show’s main character, Alice, because they shared something deeply personal. Like Alice, Jensen has lost a child, and it’s…
XOXO: Mark Your Calendars
Thursday, Sept. 22 Although best known as a vocalist, Christopher Cross can shred as a guitarist. In 1970, when Ritchie Blackmore fell ill shortly before a Deep Purple concert Cross was tapped to fill in. His prolific chops once led to an unfulfilled invitation to play with Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan,…
Live Theatre’s one-man show reflects on big ideas
Live Theatre Workshop knows that life has some pretty big questions, and the answers aren’t always easy to find. So, they’re closing out their 2021-2022 season with “An Almost Holy Picture” on their main stage. Running through Oct. 8, the one-man play by Heather McDonald explores ideas of faith, humanity, growth and suffering. It’s a…
Recreational cannabis soars, medical marijuana struggles
Arizona’s commercial marijuana market has gone through a seismic shift since 2021 began. Adult-use and recreational sales have overtaken medical marijuana, as cardholders abandon certifications and established businesses wrestle with the need to change with the times. Throughout 2022, the Arizona Mirror has tracked a 7-month downward trend in medical marijuana sales, while the recreational…
Tim Haver survives by the grace of God
Tim Haver is a real-life miracle. He tells this story, which began one ordinary day, as these things do. “I had made a birthday dinner for (a boyfriend),” he said. “Well, he never showed up, so I decided I’m going to go to Rocky Point. I got myself all liquored up, bought myself a new…
Still Winning: Is sports betting and new gaming technology threatening the Arizona Lottery?
It’s the day of the $1.02 billion Mega Millions lottery, only the third time in 20 years that the jackpot for the multistate game has surpassed the billion-dollar mark. And John Gilliland, public information officer for the Arizona Lottery, is feeling the excitement—even working from home, stuck waiting on the exterminators. “We love these days,”…
Senior Pride provides support for older LGBT adults
Many LGBT seniors feel isolated from their community, and COVID-19 has only amplified this problem. Southern Arizona Senior Pride tries to ensure these individuals can connect with others while having access to important resources and programs. The organization will have a presence at this year’s Tucson Pride Festival on Saturday, Oct. 1, when they will…
They’re finally coming for — them
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was known as “The Great Dissenter.” (He was on the court 100 years ago, back when conservatives had integrity.) In the 1927 case of Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal, Holmes (in a dissent, naturally) wrote “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.”…
Tucson Pride returns with three-day celebration
For 45 years, Tucson Pride has hosted the Annual Pride in the Desert festivities, opening with the Pride Parade and following with a Pride in the Park Festival. The festival returns this year after being virtual in 2020 and postponed in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tucson Pride President Stephen Myers said after two…
