As I type this, the final page proofs for the 2011 Best of Tucson® edition are sitting about an inch and a half from my left elbow.
The art director, the former art director, the assistant editor and I spent part of last Saturday (the part before the mega-monsoon hit and uprooted seemingly every power pole within a one-mile radius of Weekly World Central) at the office finishing things up—and it looks mighty fine.
Check out Best of Tucson® 25: Super Tucson next week! And if you just can’t wait a week … well, rumor has it that some of the results may be leaked a tad early via our Twitter feed. So, if you’re not following @tucsonweekly already, you may want to fix that.
Some other dates worth noting:
• On Sept. 29, we’ll publish our special Fall Club Crawl® guide, giving you all the deets on our big music event that’s coming to downtown Tucson on Saturday, Oct. 1. If you’re 21 or older, I have a question for you: Have you taken $8 to Zia Record Exchange and purchased your all-access Club Crawl® wristband yet? If the answer is no … well, that’s something else worth fixing.
• In October, we’re bringing you two of my favorite special issues. On Oct. 13, we’ll publish our third and final Pride supplement of 2011, giving readers a look at the goings-on in Tucson’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Then, on Oct. 27, our Yum! dining guide will be published. We’re just finalizing the story lineup for Yum! … and it’s going to be pretty darned good.
But first things first: The issue you’re perusing right now is pretty darned good, too—especially Tim Vanderpool’s revealing story on the power of Arizona’s gun lobby.
Enjoy.
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2011.