Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Here's your chance to listen to the most recent episode of Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel, featuring an interview with Yellow Sheet Report editor Hank Stephenson. We talk about Mark Kelly's entry into the U.S. Senate race as well as some of the latest bills floating around the Arizona Legislature.
Zona Politics airs at 5 p.m. Sunday afternoons on KXCI Community Radio, 91.3 FM.
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Pima County Public Library is proud to present its first-ever community bike ride, Tour de Biblio. The weather is perfect, so dust off your bike and go riding.
Tour de Biblio - Southside Ride
Friday, February 22 from 9:15–11:30 am
The ride will begin downtown at Joel D. Valdez Main Library then we'll hit the streets and head over to the newly-remodeled Sam Lena-South Tucson Library. From there, we'll pedal our way to the Santa Rosa Library, a hidden gem nestled in Barrio Santa Rosa.
Tour de Biblio - Midtown Ride
Saturday, March 9 from 9:15 am–1 pm
This second, longer event will begin at Himmel Park Library, where we'll explore the Fontana Bike Boulevard leading to Woods Memorial Library. The tour will continue on to Martha Cooper Library and back to Himmel Park along the 3rd St/University Bike Boulevard.
Each of these events require registration, which can be completed on the Library's website or via Infoline at (520) 791-4010.
A few things to note:
For each event the Library will provide snacks and water, a safe route, and an introduction to riding in a group.
Before you arrive:
Riders will need to bring and wear their own helmets.
Any rider under the age of 18 must ride with a parent or guardian.
A waiver will need to be signed the day of the tour by all participants.
More exciting news!
In partnership with our friends at Living Streets Alliance, the Library will host free Bike Repair clinics the day before each event: Thursday, February 21 for Southside Ride and Friday, March 8 for Midtown Ride. They'll bring the tools and replacement parts, you bring the bike that needs help. RSVP to [email protected].
Ernie, a red-fronted macaw parrot, is missing from his home.
His owner, Rachel Goossen, is concerned that a good Samaritan may have taken him in to help but doesn't know how to contact her. The bird recently went missing from Willow Springs Road near Biosphere 2. According to a tip from workers at the Biosphere, he landed near a man working on fencing, who took Ernie with the intention of keeping him safe, but lost track of him in the South Tucson area, somewhere between Tyndall Avenue and 36th Street and 24th Street and 6th Avenue.
According to Goossen, the parrot is in very good health and could have flown miles from that location. She has not received a single tip since, so she is continuing to spread the word that Ernie does have a home and people are looking for him.
Ernie and Rachel are members of Arizona Free Flight, a local group of bird enthusiasts that advocate for responsible bird stewardship and safe free flight. To see photos and videos of what they do, visit their Facebook page.
If you see Ernie, help him return home by calling Rachel directly at (919) 827-2609. No questions will be asked. She just wants him back safely because she and her other parrot, Ernie's brother, miss him very much.
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Lucky for them, however, there is a team of human punching bags descending upon Tucson this Thursday, when the California Bears will play the Wildcats at McKale.
The Bears (5-20, 0-13) and Wildcats (14-12, 5-8) will play at the venerable venue in Tucson at 7 p.m. this Thursday.
Would you like to witness this example of basketball excellence? Well, if so, then you're in luck, as The Weekly is giving away two tickets to the battle royal!
Enjoy the game from the plush navy-blue seats of the 14,655-seat stadium and take solace in the fact that you'll (probably) witness the end of the longest losing streak Arizona will suffer in decades.
Winners of the tickets MUST be able to come to Tucson Local Media's office to collect the tickets. We are located at 725 N. Mona Lisa Rd. You may have a friend or family member pick up the tickets.
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Y La Bamba. Back with their feminismo-driven indie/folklorico fusion and fifth album, Mujeres. This time Portland-based singer-songwriter Luz Elena Mendoza helmed the LP herself, making it even more personal than 2016’s NPR-darling Ojos Del Sol. Mendoza’s collab with Mexican cantante Lila Down deepened her emotional range and vocal confidence. Such tunes as “Cuatro Crazy” reflect the rhythmic influence of her work with Sergio Mendez. “Soy como soy” (I am how/like I am), Mendoza whispers, unapologetically tracing her parents’ Mexican raices, wrestling with the constraints of a traditional Catholic upbringing. Mendoza herself is a U.S.-born chicana, more political than religious. But how can she reconcile the differences between herself and her mother, one generation, but worlds apart? Mendoza is honest and raw. Mendoza is exploring cultural and religious identity, blending the musical idioms of traditional música mexicana with American folk storytelling and car-crash guitar. Mujeres is personal, but Mendoza insists that her truth-seeking is in service to all women, struggling to discover their role in contemporary society. Tuesday, Feb.19, 191 Toole. Doors: 7 p.m. $12. 21+. Details here.
Morbid Angel. Barbed-wire angel wings cover hearts of sun-deprived desert dwellers. Thirty years in, the Morbid Angel tees are as essential metal accoutrement as pewter pentagrams and inverted crucifix. And the music? Hell, kids, it’s the lifeblood of death metal itself, thrash in the realm of darkness, disorienting tempo shifts and busted lawnmower vocals that’d do old Satan proud. Their first four long-players—Alters of Madness (’89), Blessed are the Sick (’91), Covenant (’93) and Domination (’95)—are essential genre classics. Trey Azagthoth, the sole remaining founding member, is a beastly metalist, a guitar hero for the Sumerian age and beyond—check his solos, his mystical state called the “Temple of Ostx.” Each five-minute aural assault is damn complex—and kudos to original band skinsman Pete Sandoval for putting the heart-attack drumming in death metal. Twenty years after Beavis and Butthead and suicide/Satan-worshipping media freakout, Morbid Angel endures a tight, rhythmic monster, leading fans down to primordial hell and expunging their rage with every spilt beer, raised fist and shitty line of G. Din to reclaim power—tyrants be damned. With Cannibal Corpse, Necrot and Blood Incantation, Tuesday, Feb.19. Club XS, 5851 East Speedway Blvd. Doors at 7 p.m. $30. All ages. Details here.
Events compiled by Briannon Wilfong, Emily Dieckman, B.S. Eliot and Jeff Gardner.
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Telling sometimes discomforting stories wrought of heritage while championing modern chicana feminism, Luz Elena Mendoza will lead us through the places that we are afraid to go. Eclectic indie-folk poppers Y La Bamba are at 191 Toole. Details here.
Gabriel Sullivan is hosting a songwriter night every Tuesday in February at Owls Club. Joining him this episode, homie Brian Lopez. Details here.
“If vomit were a movie, this would be the soundtrack.” Cannibal Corpse make some of the most extreme, violent metal music bar none. Paired with death metal pioneers Morbid Angel. The gates of Hell are sure to buckle under the strain. At Club XS. Details here.
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Monday, February 18, 2019
But I have a question. What took them so long? The English Immersion block was just as bad when it began 12 years ago as it is today.
The history of the English Immersion rule makes more sense when it is put in context. On its face it's all about how ELL students are taught, but it's more than that. It's part of Arizona's recent history of legislative efforts to punish not only immigrants specifically, but Latinos and Latino culture in general. And that includes demonizing the Spanish language.
Arizona's English Only law, passed by voters in 2000, and the resulting English Immersion ruling were followed by the "Show me your papers" law, and that was followed by a law designed to outlaw TUSD's Mexican American Studies program. The "Show me your papers" and anti-MAS laws were struck down by the courts in whole or in part. English Immersion survived its court challenges but was finally dragged down by the weight of its own failure.
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Adult Painting Class. Head on over to Bianchi's Italian Restaurant on Monday nights for some painting fun. Get there a little early and enjoy happy hour specials from 3 to 6 p.m. and then start painting at 6:30 p.m. once you are feeling a little creative. Bianchi's Italian 3620 W. Tangerine Rd. Marana. $25. Details here.
Strait Country: A Tribute to the music of George Strait. Kevin Sterner and Strait Country will be performing the critically acclaimed “Tribute to the Music of George Strait.” Get your cowboy boots on and boogie as these musicians recreate the arrangements that you know and love. The band includes the sounds of Strait as they perform in his vocal style and play pedal steel guitar and fiddle. Tickets to the show range from $12 to $23. The Gaslight Theatre 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 6 p.m. Details here.
Events compiled by Briannon Wilfong, Emily Dieckman, B.S. Eliot and Jeff Gardner.
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