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Creative Power

The Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance has partnered with many creative leaders and educators to bring the communities of Oro Valley and Tucson an interactive summit.

By Briannon Wilfong Apr 18, 2019

The Foilies 2019

The cause of government transparency finally broke through to the popular zeitgeist this year.

By Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 14, 2019

Unbroken Angel: Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea moved to Tucson in 1994 at the summoning of Chuck Bowden, the revered border journalist who haunted the meridian between cartel and datura bloom.

By Isaac Kirkman Feb 28, 2019

Brewski Benefit: How the Tucson Brewery and Business Community Helped Their Own

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

Beer Review

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

Arizona Beer Week Highlights

Thursday, Feb. 7 – Saturday, Feb. 16

Feb 7, 2019

Borderlands Brewing and UA Scientists Team Up for Public Lectures

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

LOL for One and One for LOL

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

Comedy Calendar: Lotsa Laughs

The CAT Comedy 520 LOL Crawl lineup

Jan 24, 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

Interstate 10: A Personal History

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

2018: A Space Idiocy

If we are really building a Space Force, can the current occupant of the White House lead the charge into the final frontier? We can think of plenty of other nitwits and ne’er-do-wells we’d like to send up to space with him, whether they were the LSD-gobbling airmen tasked with safeguarding our nuclear missiles or onetime Tucson City Councilman Rodney Glassman, who lost his bid for the Arizona Corporation Commission. Our year-in-review starts in 5…4…3…2…1…blast-off!

By Leo W. Banks Dec 27, 2018