On Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1984, the first edition of the Tucson Weekly hit the streets.
By Jim Nintzel
Feb 21, 2019
A brilliant blue sky broke through a wall of slate gray clouds in the early afternoon hours Sunday, Feb. 17, shining light on the University of Arizona campus' newest gem.
By Christopher Boan
Feb 21, 2019
Developer and downtown advocate Randi Dorman launched her bid for mayor of Tucson during a casual gathering of supporters last week at downtown's Connect Coworking courtyard.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Feb 21, 2019
A whole lot of bills are about to die at the Arizona Legislature and here's your chance to meet U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kelly
By Jim Nintzel
Feb 21, 2019
Way back further my dad forbade Circle Ks, thought them unseemly for us kids. Later the Circle K becomes ecstasy in repetition.
By Brian Smith
Feb 21, 2019
As if starring in a derivative Hollywood action flick, a black-clad lone male delivered a trite one-liner before committing some seriously dangerous acts at a gas station
By Anna Mirocha
Feb 21, 2019
Nobody knows how someone—or something—mysteriously managed to make off with an enormous hot tub sitting in a man's front yard overnight.
By Anna Mirocha
Feb 21, 2019
In the filing, Polk compared the way the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act legalizes cannabis concentrates to legalizing explosives made from fertilizer.
By Nick Meyers
Feb 21, 2019
To think that some people say there's nothing to do in Tucson. Well, this week's Spring Arts Preview proves them wrong.
By Jim Nintzel
Feb 14, 2019
With more than half a century of history, the show has developed its own culture and climate, a unique group of specialists and fanatics many Tucsonans only scratch the surface of during their strolls through the swarming stalls.
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 14, 2019
His job is to entertain people from the beginning of the rodeo to end—he banters with the announcer between runs, he interacts with the crowd.
By Emily Dieckman
Feb 14, 2019
West Nile symptoms can vary, making the illness difficult for doctors to diagnose. Most cases cause mild flu-like symptoms; others end in death.
By Lauren Schieler and Cronkite News
Feb 14, 2019
Former astronaut Mark Kelly wants to knock Martha McSally out of the U.S. Senate
By Jim Nintzel
Feb 14, 2019
Oh, I looove to be in love. Don't you looove to be in love? Ain't it just great to be in love? Oh, ain't it wonderful?
By Tom Danehy
Feb 14, 2019
Perhaps you've heard of Alex Berenson's book released last month, Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
By Nick Meyers
Feb 14, 2019
Somebody was having a bad day...
By Anna Mirocha
Feb 14, 2019
Jim remembers the good old days just in time for Beer Week
By Jim Nintzel
Feb 7, 2019
ASDB's deaf program serves about 350 students in preschool through 12th grade. The competition pairs hearing dancers with deaf staff members at the school, who each get to perform two songs of their choice.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Feb 7, 2019
What began as a small showcase at an elementary school now brings Tucson an estimated $120 million annually—but how?
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 7, 2019
The diagnosis came out of the blue, but so did an outpouring of support from the community. Local breweries, artists, businesses and bands all helped raise funds for the Vernons.
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 7, 2019
Under the guidance of Associate Editor Jeff Gardner, the Tucson Weekly Brew Review Crew undertook the dangerous assignment of reviewing various craft beers submitted to us ahead of Arizona Beer Week.
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 7, 2019
Thursday, Feb. 7 – Saturday, Feb. 16
Feb 7, 2019
Bruce Bayly demonstrates a mathematical equation by blowing across the lip of a glass Coca-Cola bottle, only to be interrupted by a train rumbling the floor of Borderlands Brewing.
By Ian Green
Feb 7, 2019
After chowing down on some high-end sushi, these local kids tried to roll on home
By Anna Mirocha
Feb 7, 2019
A University of Arizona student repeatedly had strange stuff stolen while away using the bathroom, a UA Police Department report said.
By Anna Mirocha
Feb 7, 2019
Every year, cannabis becomes more popular. And every year, more people have ideas about how to tax, propagate, regulate and defend the industry.
By Nick Meyers
Feb 7, 2019
We are bidding farewell to production manager Chelo Grubb, who is heading off to a new job at Reid Park Zoo.
By Jim Nintzel
Jan 31, 2019
With big companies like Raytheon, Sargent, Bombardier and Ascent, Pima Community College's Aviation Maintenance Technician program helps fill a growing demand for skilled workers in the industry.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jan 31, 2019
In her previous position, Stewart worked as CEO of the Association of University Research Parks, which is based right here in Tucson, though she worked out of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
By Jeff Gardner
Jan 31, 2019
Arizona's legislative session is in full swing—and as always, that swing goes from the serious work that needs to get done to the sideshow attractions, such as the current feeding frenzy focused on one Prescott Republican
By Jim Nintzel
Jan 31, 2019
Do you know how many charter schools have come and gone over the past 25 years? Don't feel bad; the State of Arizona doesn't know, either.
By Tom Danehy
Jan 31, 2019
There is so much death in the Southern Arizona desert Alvaro's project, these silent monuments to courage, will never be completed.
By Brian Smith
Jan 31, 2019
A University of Arizona student was frightened by a disheveled-looking guy in a bathrobe "sneaking" around campus with a bag full of Ramen noodles
By Anna Mirocha
Jan 31, 2019
Feuds between DeMenna Public Affairs and certain camps within the ADA are no secret.
By Nick Meyers
Jan 31, 2019
Find out what's between the covers this week
By Jim Nintzel
Jan 24, 2019
If initiative supporters can gather 9,241 valid signatures from city voters by July 5 and persuade Tucson voters to pass it in the November election, Tucson will be known as a "sanctuary city."
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jan 24, 2019
Four humanitarian aid workers were found guilty Friday on misdemeanor charges involving leaving aid in a restricted area of Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
By NICOLE LUDDEN and Cronkite News Service
Jan 24, 2019
The latest Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IGCC) report concludes we have 12 years before global average temperatures rise by 2 degree celsius
By Jason Makansi
Jan 24, 2019
Two intrepid and artful individuals shoplifted almost $2,000 worth of clothing by stuffing it all inside their own clothing
By Anna Mirocha
Jan 24, 2019
Comedy is powerful stuff. And Tucson is going to get a whole lot of it at the CAT Comedy 520 LOL Crawl this week
By Emily Dieckman
Jan 24, 2019
The CAT Comedy 520 LOL Crawl lineup
Jan 24, 2019
Republican Rep. Tony Rivero introduced the first piece of cannabis legislation that would remove the definition of cannabis from state statutes.
By Nick Meyers
Jan 24, 2019
The Arizona legislature got to work this week, following Gov. Doug Ducey's State of the State address.
By Jim Nintzel
Jan 17, 2019
The federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in 2017 made significant changes to the way taxpayers can claim deductions and what portion of their income is taxable.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jan 17, 2019
Beginning at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 20, at the Jácome Plaza downtown, the Tucson Women's March will feature speakers engaged in a variety of social justice-oriented issues.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jan 17, 2019
Now, after decades of performing, the Zoppé Family Circus is bringing their Old-World charm to Tucson—for the eighth time.
By Jeff Gardner
Jan 17, 2019
I've had a love/hate Relationship with Hope since the earliest, bleakest days of my 10-plus years of incarceration.
By Joe Watson
Jan 17, 2019
By Jim Nintzel
Jan 17, 2019
It’s a New Year and I’ve got some new questions:
• When the economy is roaring along (as we’ve been told), why would the stock market go down? It’s never been a secret that I prefer real science and math to economics.
Jan 17, 2019
It's been four years since Hamilton—the musical celebrating the life, trials and death of founding father Alexander Hamilton—began seizing the hearts of Broadway fans, historians and hip hop aficionados alike.
By Chelo Grubb
Jan 17, 2019
Cake?
By Anna Mirocha
Jan 17, 2019
A college-going proselytizer had a not-so-legal method for spreading the Word, perhaps showing his preaching game ahead of his practice.
By Anna Mirocha
Jan 17, 2019
The Arizona Supreme Court decided to hear the case of State v. Jones, in which the Court of Appeals ruled cannabis concentrates illegal last June. The date has been set for March 21, but a decision will come likely months following the trial.
By Nick Meyers
Jan 17, 2019
Once upon a time, in my early days working here at Tucson Weekly, I had the job of driving bundles of the paper from Phoenix to Tucson.
By Jim Nintzel
Jan 10, 2019
Founded in 2016, Garcia and Shirley designed the project to provide professional support to Native American preservice teachers by training them how to serve Indigenous communities in the field.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jan 10, 2019
Will Arizona’s saguaros survive climate change and drought?
By Stephanie Morse and Cronkite News
Jan 10, 2019
The Chatterbox bartender calls him "the legend of Alvernon" and relates of small kindnesses with other bartenders and the neighborhood homeless. Says Louis forever seems resigned to the presence of others like he'd rather be elsewhere. Says he's been working at Luke's for 30 years.
By Brian Smith
Jan 10, 2019
Journeys take place in the mind as much as they do in physical space, and I have noticed a recurring thought-pattern that unspools every time I travel Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson.
By Tom Zoellner
Jan 10, 2019
A scrutinizing older woman was extremely upset upon seeing her next-door neighbor "completely" exposing himself while peeing outside her window
By Anna Mirocha
Jan 10, 2019
Even though Arizona's cannabis industry has had its fair share of bruises from the last year, it seems the old adage holds true as what has attempted to kill it only makes it stronger.
By Nick Meyers
Jan 10, 2019
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