On Feb. 22, 1984, the first issue of the Tucson Weekly hit newsstands, with a profile of Arizona Theatre Company’s Gary Gisselman on the cover, ads from Futons Etc. and Nino’s on First (promoting shows by Gentlemen After Dark, Naked Prey and the Meat Puppets), and a place selling waterbed sheets. Take a walk down memory lane with a PDF of our legendary first issue (the “saloon” review is a nice touch).
This article appears in Feb 17-23, 2011.
One of the neatest things is TW has backdoors to its archives that date back to 1995. For example: http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/06-22-95/co…
Tucson Weekly was one of the first newspapers in the world to go online with the advent of the world wide web, and the second alternative newsweekly.