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• Arizona Softball Faces UCLA in Westwood This Weekend

  09-05-2019 20:40
  The sixth-ranked Arizona Wildcats (40-11, 17-4) face their stiffest conference test this weekend, facing third-ranked UCLA for three games in Westwood, California.
  The Wildcats enter the weekend series off a three-game sweep at the hands of the Washington Huskies, who beat Arizona by a combined score of 12-6.…
  
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• D-Day Doll Visits Tucson on Commemorative World Tour

  09-05-2019 19:38
  “Oh my, here it comes,” said World War II veteran Gwen Niemi, who, even at 99-years-old, could hardly contain her excitement as the C-53D Skytrooper airplane landed at the Tucson International Airport.The historic aircraft, nicknamed the “D-Day Doll” flew in the Normandy Invasion of France in 1944, dropping paratroopers, delivering supplies and evacuating the wounded.…
  
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• Three Great Things to Do in Tucson Today: Thursday, May 9

  09-05-2019 10:30
  Chiltepin Naughty Naranja Pre-Release. 1912 Brewing is hosting a pre-release party for their “Naughty Naranja” brew, made in collaboration with Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.…
  
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• XOXO: Where to Rock Thursday, May 9

  09-05-2019 10:00
  These alt-rockers formed in Tempe in 2007. Seven studio albums later, frontman John O'Callaghan  casts light on their latest, You Are Ok (8123 Records).…
  
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• Trial Run

  09-05-2019 10:00
  We are in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692. The scene opens with Reverend Paris carrying a limp Betty Paris (portrayed by Christopher Younggren and Flories Rush respectively), who's passed out after being discovered dancing in the middle of the forest.Now, I must admit that Arthur Miller's The Crucible, directed by Christopher Johnson, is the first show I have seen at The Rogue Theatre. I sat down, eager to see what the play had in store.…
  
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• Superheroes, Monsters, Robots and More!

  09-05-2019 10:00
  There are a bunch of movies coming out this Summer Movie Season, and it's my honor and job and legal obligation to let you in on some of the scuttlebutt surrounding them in a preview sort of way.There are a bunch of movies coming out this Summer Movie Season, and it's my honor and job and legal obligation to let you in on some of the scuttlebutt surrounding them in a preview sort of way. The summer movie season technically stretches through half the year now, starting in early March, when we got
  
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• Police Dispatch: Tripping the Lights Bombastic?

  09-05-2019 10:00
  A meth-using man with an impressive slang vocabulary literally seized domestic power (sort of) by turning off his mother's electricityGreen Valley March 14, 8:42 p.m.…
  
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• Object Lessons: Biotech

  09-05-2019 10:00
  Nighthawk Biotechnology, Inc. is not a real company, it's the name of Ironwood Ridge science teacher Mark Pincus's biotechnology class.Students at Ironwood Ridge High School have the unique opportunity to work at Nighthawk Biotechnology, Inc., which tackles real-world science, teaches students about the biotech industry and even offers university and career connections. But Nighthawk Biotechnology, Inc. is not a real company, it's the name of Ironwood Ridge science teacher Mark Pincus's biotechn
  
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• Listen to Her Heart: Jenny Lewis

  09-05-2019 10:00
  On The Line finds Lewis exploring moments and themes that are both big and small, serious and fun, her songwriting voice stronger than ever.On The Line could've been a breakup album. Or the latest from Jenny Lewis could've been centered on the death of her mother.…
  
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• Hearing Distance: Monologue of a Muted Man

  09-05-2019 10:00
  A new play told through language and dance and music opens with an homage to still another art form: the visual arts.A new play told through language and dance and music opens with an homage to still another art form: the visual arts. In the first scene of Monologue of a Muted Man, set among the winding canals of Venice, Artifact Dance Project dancer Ashley Bowman transforms herself into Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man.…
  
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• Curry Up and Visit

  09-05-2019 10:00
  How one local health food store turned the tables by serving in-house mealsIt's really hard to imagine a time before Whole Foods, before Sprouts, before corporate-operated "health food" fronts moved in and became the consumer's norm. We can liken it to the usual axiom: Can you recall life before the internet?…
  
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• Cannabis Consolidation

  09-05-2019 10:00
  Arizona is a pretty unique state when it comes to cannabis. We've heard those in the industry call it "the wild west" in reference to relatively lax laws surrounding testing, but it's wild in other ways as well.Arizona is a pretty unique state when it comes to cannabis. We've heard those in the industry call it "the wild west" in reference to relatively lax laws surrounding testing, but it's wild in other ways as well.…
  
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• Bringing Closure

  09-05-2019 10:00
  Group volunteers said the calls to search for a missing loved one have increased in recent months as a flood of mostly Central American families has surged toward the border.One works at a college, another runs an Airbnb. A third works with landscapers and contractors.…
  
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