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Cities & Homesnew

Writer Cord Jefferson reflects on growing up in Tucson and what leaving his hometown taught him.

Tucson Weekly | Cord Jefferson | 04-24-2014 | Culture

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Celebrating the Silencesnew

Thirty years after his breakthrough album, Steve Roach is still in the Sonoran Desert creating "resonant sonic spaces"

Tucson Weekly | Jason P. Woodbury | 04-14-2014 | Profiles & Interviews

Deafheaven: Vulnerable and Violentnew

Whether they're playing black metal, shoegaze or some collision of the two, Deafheaven are among the most acclaimed acts in music right now

Tucson Weekly | Gene Armstrong | 03-27-2014 | Profiles & Interviews

Feeding the Monsternew

From the forthcoming book: Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security by Todd Miller.

Tucson Weekly | Todd Miller | 03-18-2014 | Excerpts

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For Heaven's Sakenew

A plan to pick on gays goes horribly wrong and other tales from the AZ Legislature

Tucson Weekly | Jim Nintzel | 02-27-2014 | Politics

We'll Buy That for a Dollar!new

In a world where studios will keep remaking films forever, RoboCop is one we can live with.

Tucson Weekly | Colin Boyd | 02-15-2014 | Reviews

Tags: Samuel L. Jackson, Joel Kinnaman

Marianne Dissard: The Cat. Not Menew

French-born Marianne Dissard left her longtime home of Tucson last year, but not before recording her third proper album, one that pairs ambitious musical leaps with greater emotional vulnerability. Variety has characterized Dissard's musical path, from 2008's L'Entredeux (written with and produced by Calexico's Joey Burns), which found Dissard channeling Americana through her French chanson tradition, to the bright and theatrical L'Abandon (2011) to two loose, off-the cuff recordings, made in Berlin and Paris with her small touring ensembles...

Tucson Weekly | Eric Swedlund | 02-13-2014 | Reviews

Emotions in Eirenew

Will Forte turns in a great, emotionally charged performance in Run & Jump.

Tucson Weekly | Bob Grimm | 02-07-2014 | Reviews

Tags: Will Forte, Run & Jump

Prepare for Punsnew

Yes, there are kid movies that adults can enjoy. The Nut Job is not one of them.

Tucson Weekly | Colin Boyd | 01-16-2014 | Reviews

Southern Blendnew

Dent May's Mississippi-based, mixed-up pop songs.

Tucson Weekly | Annie Holub | 01-16-2014 | Music

J.D. Wilkes & the Dirt Daubers: Wild Moonnew

What began as an old-timey unplugged side project for psychobilly trailblazer J.D. Wilkes and his pinup-gorgeous wife, Jessica, has evolved on their third album into a swaggeringly electric band that specializes in swamp blues and twangy garage-abilly. Fans of Wilkes' Legendary Shack Shakers will appreciate the after-midnight roadhouse energy of the Dirt Daubers, but this group also crafts concise songs with oodles of melodic hooks that all might have been hit singles in an alternate jukebox universe...

Tucson Weekly | Gene Armstrong | 01-16-2014 | Reviews

Tags: J.D. Wilkes & the Dirt Dauber