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Have a Little Faith
Navigating the intersection of faith and sexuality can be tricky, but these couples may have found a way.
Laughing Stock: ‘Tit Tit Tit Tit Titty Titty Tit Tit TITTERS!’
“I just love saying the word over and over” says Tucson’s legendary cartoonist David Fitzsimmons. “I wonder if some media outlets will be uncomfortable with the name of the program.” Had he forgotten he was talking to the Weekly? Fitzsimmons is all about tits, right now; specifically, about the cancer afflicting them. Last month he…
Quick Bites: Prickly Pears, Pitas and Margaritas!
World Margarita Championship. Life is less hard when you have a marg, and furthermore… TEQUILA! Tucson Original Restaurants and the Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance are teaming up to make your life a little less hard and a lot more spirited with this opportunity to sample local cocktails and cuisine. A panel of judges…
The Weekly List: 25 Things To Do In Tucson In The Next Week
Your Weekly guide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Art Free First Thursday: Sonoran Oktoberfest. Celebrate TMA’s sculpture garden, TMALearn, and then exit through the gift shop. No, really, it’s also the grand opening of the new museum shop in the Historic Fish House on Main Avenue and it’s going to be cool. This…
Recent UA Grad Identified as Victim in Mass Shooting
Christiana Duarte, a recent graduate from the University of Arizona, has been identified as one of the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night. Duarte, who graduated in May 2017 with a degree in communications from the Eller College of Management, was reported missing early on Monday. She attended the Route 91…
The Best Way To Get Results-Based Funding Is To Be Well-Off and White
The results are in. The Arizona Department of Education published a list of all the schools getting results-based funding for the 2017-18 school year. There aren’t any real surprises for those of us who have been paying attention since the bill passed during the last legislative session. As expected, the list is heavy with schools…
Why I Keep Writing About Those Damn AzMERIT Scores
It’s something of an obsession with me, writing about AzMERIT scores. A new set of scores, a new use of the scores, a new news story about the scores, and there I am with another post or two or three. So here’s yet another post, a rambling discussion on why the tests, the way they’re…
9th Annual Pink Hard Hat Campaign
A human Pink Hard Hat Ribbon was created by over 525 people on the Banner Health construction site on Friday, Sept. 29, launching Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The ninth annual event was run by EMCOR Group Inc. to promote their “Protect Yourself. Get Screened Today,” campaign. The 525 people were made up by construction workers…
Gabby Giffords on Las Vegas Mass Shooting: “This Must Stop”
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ statement on last night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas: I know this feeling of heartbreak and horror too well. The massacre in Las Vegas is a grave tragedy for our nation. This must stop – we must stop this. I am praying for the victims of this shooting, their families and…
LGBTQ+ Dance Classes Bring Salsa To All
Olivia Avanzato, 28, has been dancing since she was 4 years old. She’s been teaching classes at Floor Polish for about a year, teaching styles like “bad-ass tap” and solo salsa. When Marina Cornelius, the studio’s founder, suggested she teach a couple’s class, Avanzato was having a hard time getting psyched about it. Then she…
Sinema’s In: Democratic Congresswoman Joins Race for Sen. Jeff Flake’s Seat
Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema made it official today: She wants a shot at the U.S. Senate. Sinema has had a colorful career in politics, starting out as a green in her idealistic youth and growing into the kind of moderate Democrat who votes with the Trump/congressional GOP agenda agenda nearly half the time. (Given that she’s…
Vintage Vinyl
Tucson is tied to ’60s sunshine pop and the My Three Sons TV show via the short-lived L.A.-area group The Yellow Balloon.
Danehy
For all the taxpayer money and praise they get, the average charter school is still crappier than the average real public school.
Straight To the Hearth
>Imagine trying to share your favorite toy with all of your siblings. Then your friends. Then neighbors. Not an easy task.
Check-in Time
The downtown area just opened up its first major hotel in decades.
Reel Indie
This weeks’ cinematic offerings
Police Dispatch
A man on meds took a grand cab ride around town, before ripping out the cab’s fare machine.
Irish Music Old-Style
Superstar Irish fiddler Martin Hayes is on the line, calling not from Ireland as you might expect, but from his home in Madrid.
Congressman in Cuffs
Rep. Raúl Grijalva was arrested while demonstrating in the street below Trump Tower, holding a banner advocating for DACA recipients.
Pieces of Resistance
Planned Parenthood may be facing more hostility today than it has at any time since its founding members were jailed back in 1916 for distributing birth-control information that was considered “obscene literature.”
Ask a Mexican!
“We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans, both at the same time! It’s exhausting!”
From Wastewater to Cold Beer
There is a certain “yuck factor” for many people when it comes to the idea of drinking water that has been through the sewer system.
Woman of Mystery
Bestselling mystery novelist J.A. Jance came to Tucson earlier this month to sign copies of “Proof of Life,” the newest book in her J.P. Beaumont series.
Making Time
>For Steff Koeppen, working on a new album with her band the Articles over the last several years, that insistent march of time weighed on her mind.
Editor’s Note
Emily Dieckman’s cover story this week is a heartfelt look at what happens when love comes into conflict with institutional barriers.
Restless Soul
Composer/performer Chris Black rode into town from Austin, Texas, in the summer of 2007, heartbroken.
Fun and (Spy) Games
An example of a sequel pulling out all the stops and going into severe overkill mode.
Know Your Product
Detroit-born, Grammy-nominated blues star Janiva Magness has a voice like warm suede.
Out With a Whimper
Earlier this month, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state’s medical marijuana industry
