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• Dick Tomey Memorial Service Scheduled for May 31

  16-05-2019 23:26
  The memorial service for longtime Arizona football coach Dick Tomey will be held at McKale Center on Friday, May 31.
  The service, which is scheduled to start at 9:00 a.m. local time, will honor the winningest coach in Wildcats history.…
  
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• Not-to-be-Missed Author Events at The Library

  16-05-2019 22:31
  Looking for something fun to do at your library? Mark your calendars for three author events at Dusenberry-River and Joel D. Valdez Main Libraries. Linda StraderSaturday, May 18, noon to 1 p.m.Joel D. Valdez Main Library Author Linda Strader will discuss and sign copies of Summers of Fire: A Memoir of Adventure, Love, and Courage.…
  
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• XOXO: Where to Rock Thursday, May 16

  16-05-2019 10:00
  They are the progeny of the late Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts. Accomplished musicians in their own right, Devon Allman and Duane Betts just can’t help it; They have guitar playing in the double-helix of their DNA.…
  
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• Wheat Child o’ Mine: Chef Abel’s Tortillas

  16-05-2019 10:00
  Abel Ramos has been making some of the best tortillas in the highly competitive Southern Arizona market since he turned 6.When I was 11 years old I'm pretty sure my biggest accomplishment was steering my elf thief to 9th level in Dungeons and Dragons. But local wunderkind Abel Ramos has been making some of the best tortillas in the highly competitive Southern Arizona market since he turned 6.…
  
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• Unsolved Mystery: Detective Pikachu

  16-05-2019 10:00
  This is a movie that says, "if you don't know anything about Pokémon, none of this is going to make a lick of sense."I know that there is a thing called Pokémon Go that people play on their phones. I know that there are TV cartoon shows and all sorts of trading cards and merchandising involving Pikachu and other wacky creatures.…
  
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• The Tucson Trilogy

  16-05-2019 10:00
  Lando Chill’s latest album looks out to a bigger world as he moves on to LALando Chill's third album Black Ego wraps up the first phase of his career in Tucson. He began with the intensely personal, family-oriented For Mark, Your Son in 2016, followed up with the experimental, purpose-seeking The Boy Who Spoke to the Wind in 2017 and, last October, released Black Ego, an outward-looking, politically oriented album.…
  
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• On the Edge of Deportation

  16-05-2019 10:00
  An excerpt from The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez Netflix and Redbox hadn't quite killed the video store business yet, particularly on the low end of the industry. Jack's shop clung to a loyal band of customers because it rented movies for one dollar, the best deal in Douglas.…
  
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• MMJ: Good Tidings

  16-05-2019 10:00
  'Tis the season for legislation, and, as one might expect, that means more good news for the proliferation of cannabis.'Tis the season for legislation, and, as one might expect, that means more good news for the proliferation of cannabis. What's less expected is where that's happening.…
  
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• Danehy: Goodbye Dick Tomey

  16-05-2019 10:00
  Tom says goodbye to the finest football coach the Arizona Wildcats ever had.Ask anybody who ever experienced success as a football player to describe the coach who had the greatest impact on him and the response will almost always go something like, "Oh man, he was hard on me. He'd yell and scream, get in my face and cuss me out...I loved that dude." When you talk to guys who played for Dick Tomey, the former University of Arizona football coach who died last Friday at the age of 80 from lung ca
  
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• Bordering on Brutality: The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez

  16-05-2019 10:00
  Aaron Bobrow-Strain's new book about the border, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, combines the life story of a young undocumented woman, told in extraordinary detail, with a history of the U.S. border enforcement regime.Aaron Bobrow-Strain's new book about the border, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, combines the life story of a young undocumented woman, told in extraordinary detail, with a history of the U.S. border enforcement regime. For 25 years, he writes, the migrants have been s
  
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• Back in Gear: The Bike Ranch

  16-05-2019 10:00
  The Pima County board of Supervisors will decide next week whether to greenlight a proposed bicycling resort across from Saguaro National Park-East.The Pima County board of Supervisors will decide next week whether to greenlight a proposed bicycling resort across from Saguaro National Park-East. The 45-acre plot of land, owned by Tucson-based real estate developers Kelley Matthews and Peter Lasher, is the proposed site for The Bike Ranch.…
  
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• At a Loss: Rabbit Hole

  16-05-2019 10:00
  Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire is a wonderfully scripted story that explores five individuals processing the loss of a child.Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire is a wonderfully scripted story that explores five individuals processing the loss of a child. This production, directed by Vince Flynn and running at Community Players, is sad, funny, poignant and viscerally relatable.…
  
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• Laughing Stock: Keep Tucson Sketchy, Celebrating and Unscrewed

  16-05-2019 01:31
  Keep Tucson Sketchy has it allLet’s Keep Tucson Sketchy roars back at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at The Screening Room.…
  
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