February 03, 2012, 11:29 pm
Arts Feature

From Wood to Bronze to Found Objects

Festival features an amalgam of sculpted materials

By Gerald M. Gay

The Tucson Sculpture Festival has downsized this year for your benefit.

Arts Feature

Art on the Artifacts of Military History

By Gerald M. Gay

Some of Tucson’s aeronautical antiques are serving a new purpose, as contemporary works of art.

Arts Feature

Courtyard Artists

By Kelly Lewis

In an otherwise somewhat uninspired part of town, flanked by Evergreen Cemetery and run-down motels, developers and artists are bringing new life to Miracle Mile via Monterey Court.

Arts Feature

Coherent Families of Four Elements

By Dolly Spalding

At the age of 13, Moreno first became aware of how often he noticed “11:11.”

Arts Feature

Velocipede Art

By Kelly Lewis

Local artists are showing their support for Tucson’s thriving bike community through The VelociPrint Show 2011, with events Nov 12-13.

Arts Feature

Arts & Culture Guy: Arizona Onstage Productions

By Herb Stratford

Arizona Onstage Productions presents “See Rock City & Other Destinations,” Nov. 3-20, Thursdays-Sundays.

Arts Feature

Arts & Culture Guy: The Rogue Theatre

By Herb Stratford

William Faulkner powerful play “As I Lay Dying,” runs Nov. 3-20, Thursdays-Sundays.

Arts Feature

Arts & Culture Guy: If My Verse Is Alive

By Herb Stratford

KORE Press presents an evening length performance of Emily Dickenson inspired dance on Nov. 12.

Arts Feature

The Artists Welcome You

By Sarah Burton

If practice makes perfect, the Open Studio Tour’s nearly 24-year run means this annual arts event can’t get any better, right? Not so fast.

Arts Feature

Phone-ography

The new photography?

By Courtney Ludwig

Cell phone technology has come along way from merely being a brick-weighted, hand held communicator in the early 90s.

Film

Tucson Jewish Film Festival Returns!

By Herb Stratford

One of the highlights of Tucson's many unique and interesting film festivals each year is January's Tucson Int'l Jewish Film Festival, happening 1/12-1/22.

Film

Cinema Miscellany

By Herb Stratford

Peggy Johnson has special a present for Tucson film lovers this month - an eight-day cinema care package, with daily screenings through Nov 17.

Film

Drunkards, Scofflaws and Hypocrites

By Jamie Manser

If you think you know about Prohibition, think again.

Film

Drive-In Theatres

Back to the Past?

By Herb Stratford

Once a major component of the entertainment world and American culture, drive-in theatres accounted for over 4,000 screens in the United States.

Film

From Punk to Jazz

By Herb Stratford

Tucson Film and Music Festival Sspans the gamut this month, with films screening Oct. 6-10.

Film

An Interview With Ken Burns

His newest documentary with Lynn Novick, Prohibition, airs Oct. 2-4

By Jamie Manser

*Warning: the interview contains plot spoilers*

Film

It’s Alive!

AZ Underground Film Fest Returns

By Herb Stratford

The AZUFF is unique in Arizona, and in fact, is one of the largest genre film festivals in the country. The last two nights are this weekend!

Film

Tabloid

By Herb Stratford

Director Errol Morris, famous for his documentaries like “The Thin Blue Line” and “The Fog of War,” has delivered another excellent film entitled, “Tabloid.” Tellin

Film

"The Robber" - FIlm Review

By Herb Stratford

The Austrian-German film “The Robber” is compelling on a number of fronts. Initially, due to its genesis— it’s the true story of Johann Rettenberger, a world class marathon run

Film

Friends with Benefits

By Herb Stratford

Often contemporary films try desperately to capture a specific element from a different film era.

Performing Arts

A Slice of Americana

By Jonathan Lowe

Garrison Keillor brings his wry mid-western wit, which encompasses modern tongue-in-cheek social commentary, to Tucson on Feb. 1.

Performing Arts

ATC's Theatrical Confection

By Herb Stratford

The Arizona Theatre Company’s production of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps” is a modern day melodramatic mash-up.

Performing Arts

“Shipwrecked” at The Rogue Theatre

By Herb Stratford

We often think of tabloid journalism and the cult of celebrity as a modern day invention, but the practice of telling tall tales and elaborating on truths is as old as storytelling itself.

Performing Arts

Arts & Culture Guy: Jan. 2012

By Herb Stratford

Zoppe Family Circus, new exhibits at Tucson Museum of Art, and performances by Tucson Symphony Orchestra.

Performing Arts

A Modernized “Lear” Breaks New Ground

By Herb Stratford

The historic tale of royal deception, betrayal and familial conflict is modernized with a ”king” of industry protagonist.

Performing Arts

Cell Block Tango

By Emily Gindlesparger

Chicago is a town where murderesses want to be show-biz stars, where the rumor mill is hard-hitting journalism, and where the courtroom is a stage for sleight of hand lawyers.

Performing Arts

Rival Love

Perfromances continue through Sunday

By Marisa Bernal

Broadway in Tucson's "West Side Story" delivers rumbling gangs, feisty Puerto Rican immigrants and forbidden teenage love all in one.

Performing Arts

Lights, Cameras, Yelp!

By Corey Dane

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely - yelpers.

Performing Arts

Eat Up Sweeney Todd

By Chelsey Barthel

A show to sink your teeth into hits Tucson for only five performances this August.

Performing Arts

Unplugged & Spontaneous

By Emily Gindlesparger

In the intimate Screening Room downtown, Puppets Amongus will be unfolding their latest show on Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12.

Visual Arts

Calexico In Retrospect

By Kelly Lewis

75 works relating to Calexico's career are on display at Sacred Machine.

Visual Arts

Behind Rock’s Iconic Shots

By Polly Higgins

You know the images, but do you know who the photographers are?

Visual Arts

Time Warp

By Dave Califano

"Rockin' The Desert" at Etherton Gallery, closes Nov. 12, so check it out while you still can!

Visual Arts

Who Shot Rock & Roll? Tucson Did!

By Kelly Lewis

Since we know you’re all dying to find out what these rockers are really like, we thought we’d do some digging to find out.

Visual Arts

Punk’s Not Dead

By Phoenix Michael

Tucson-born Pettibon’s work was known to countless music fans during the late 20th century.

Visual Arts

From Song To The Page

By Kelly Lewis

UA Poetry Center features the poetry of big-name stars through Dec. 23.

Visual Arts

A Catechism in Cataclysm

By Lee Gutowski

A stunning example of what art is supposed to do: help us examine our human state of being, and in so doing, help us come more deeply into our humanity, together.

Visual Arts

Passion in Pictures

Photographer A.T. (Tom) Willett

By Lee Gutowski

There’s no shortage of inspiration in Tucson for Willett; his appreciation of this town runs deep.

Visual Arts

Capturing Moments, Wind and Sun

Photographer Daniel Snyder

By Carli Brosseau

A photographer he is, but Snyder's parallel identity as the owner of a sustainable energy company has been growing in prominence.

Visual Arts

Shooting Movement

Photographer Bill Lesch

By Dolly Spalding

Bill’s images don’t depict frozen, static moments, but the actual passage of time caught in the act; movement is implicit, as is a sense of flow and impetus.

 

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