Six cool things you can still do in Tucson this weekend (Aug. 12-Aug. 13)
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Play like a pirate or even a mermaid, just not at the same time or place.
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If you prefer your sea-loving activities above the waterline, head down to Bisbee for the Seventh annual Pirates of the High Desert event, happening at restaurants and bars all over the historic mining town.
Pirate activities will be in abundance. There will be a pirate ball at St Elmo on Friday, a fashion show at Old Bisbee Brewery and a pub crawl on Saturday.
Adult fun at its finest.
Visit the Facebook event page for more information.
And while you are down there, check out the grand opening of The Loovre, Bisbee's classiest art gallery, located in the bathroom at POCO, 15 Main Street.
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We might be far from the beach, but we aren't far from the mermaids. Come Saturday, Aug. 12, Fourth Avenue will be flooded with mermaids and sea creatures for the 4th annual Return of the Mermaids. The daylong festival includes shows, games, a costume contest, pageant and parade.
'When we think of ourselves as mermaids, it has more to do with a wild spirit,' Lizzie Mead, the event's co-organizer, says. 'Forme and many others, mermaids represent freedom.'
Mead, who also owns Silver Sea Jewelry, says the idea is to celebrate mermaids and Tucson's monsoon season.
'The event is rain or shine,' she says. 'If it rains, you're a mermaid - you just get wet.'
Although you don't have to dress up, it is encouraged.
'It's more fun if you're dressed up, even if you're not a kid,' Mead says. 'Just cut back and embrace the strangeness of it.'
Tucson's mermaid event is inspired by the Coney Island Mermaid Parade in New York, which has been around for 35 years.
The event is jam-packed with festivities.
The day begins at noon with a mermaid art show at Pop Cycle, followed by a 1 p.m. show at Tucson Improv Movement. Tickets for the improv show are available online.
At 4 p.m., Tucson Thrift Shop will house Mermaid M ichelina. From 5 to 8 p.m., folks will have the chance to meet Mermaid Odette at Haggerty Plaza. Twelveyear- old Mermaid Kailee will also be present.
The Surf Broads, an all-female band, will take the stage at 5:30 p.m., and a costume contest will begin at 6:30 p.m. When 7 p.m. hits, Lykiska Dance will begin their performance, followed by Flam Chen and the Tucson Circus Arts at 7:45 p.m.
The parade will start at 8 p.m. in Haggerty Plaza. Everyone in the parade should be costumed or holding the hand of a child who is costumed.
The event will also have activities at the 'Beach' in downtown Tucson, near Hotel Congress. From 3 to 10 p.m., the Beach will showcase 25 art vendors, and there will be music, food trucks, and even more shows, such as fire-spinning and a body-positive mermaid pageant at 9 p.m.
From 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., after the kids go to sleep, Surly Wench Pub is throwing a 21+ mermaid dance party.
- Gloria Knott
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Both venues, easily within walking distance with one another, celebrate milestones this weekend.
Public Brewhouse will mark two years under its belt. R Bar is celebrating three.
R Bar, the Rialto's go-to venue, will have live screen printing going on and music from the Street Blues Family. The fun runs from 8 p.m. to midnight, according to the Facebook event page.
Public Brewhouse will have Little House of Funk performing from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Cadillac Mountain from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. AND cupcakes infused with beer. WITH BEER!
- Updated
After a brief summer hiatus, the Friends of the Pima Public Library returns this weekend with its first public book sale after the break.
Thousands of titles of all genres will be available for purchase, most between $1 and $5.
The prices make it hard to pass up.
The sale runs 8 a.m.-noon Saturday and Sunday at the Friends' shop, 2230 N. Country Club Road.
- Updated
The good folks at AZ Hops & Vines in Sonoita have added another element to its Bad Decisions bacon, chocolate and booze campout: A meteor shower.
The winery will be observing the Perseids meteor shower scheduled for this weekend. Other than that, there will be the usual offerings from Hops & Vines: Wines (duh), craft beer, distilled spirits, food trucks, live music, camping and, of course, s'mores.
More information can be found on the Facebook event page.
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Wynonna, the platinum-selling, chart-topping country singer who has long and often been called the βfemale Elvis,β brings her newest project The Big Noise to the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St., Sunday for a 7 p.m. show.
Wynonna & The Big Noise dub the tour βRoots & Revivalβ and according to early reads, the concert surveys Wynonnaβs 33-year career β her solo hits and the songs made famous by her mother-daughter act The Judds β where sheβs at now with the band and its new album βAinβt No Thing!β and where sheβs going.
Thatβs a tall order and knowing Wynonna it will be delivered with plenty of humor and genuine warmth. Tickets are $27 to $89 at foxtucsontheatre.ticketforce.com
- Cathalena E. Burch
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If you prefer your sea-loving activities above the waterline, head down to Bisbee for the Seventh annual Pirates of the High Desert event, happening at restaurants and bars all over the historic mining town.
Pirate activities will be in abundance. There will be a pirate ball at St Elmo on Friday, a fashion show at Old Bisbee Brewery and a pub crawl on Saturday.
Adult fun at its finest.
Visit the Facebook event page for more information.
And while you are down there, check out the grand opening of The Loovre, Bisbee's classiest art gallery, located in the bathroom at POCO, 15 Main Street.
- Updated
We might be far from the beach, but we aren't far from the mermaids. Come Saturday, Aug. 12, Fourth Avenue will be flooded with mermaids and sea creatures for the 4th annual Return of the Mermaids. The daylong festival includes shows, games, a costume contest, pageant and parade.
'When we think of ourselves as mermaids, it has more to do with a wild spirit,' Lizzie Mead, the event's co-organizer, says. 'Forme and many others, mermaids represent freedom.'
Mead, who also owns Silver Sea Jewelry, says the idea is to celebrate mermaids and Tucson's monsoon season.
'The event is rain or shine,' she says. 'If it rains, you're a mermaid - you just get wet.'
Although you don't have to dress up, it is encouraged.
'It's more fun if you're dressed up, even if you're not a kid,' Mead says. 'Just cut back and embrace the strangeness of it.'
Tucson's mermaid event is inspired by the Coney Island Mermaid Parade in New York, which has been around for 35 years.
The event is jam-packed with festivities.
The day begins at noon with a mermaid art show at Pop Cycle, followed by a 1 p.m. show at Tucson Improv Movement. Tickets for the improv show are available online.
At 4 p.m., Tucson Thrift Shop will house Mermaid M ichelina. From 5 to 8 p.m., folks will have the chance to meet Mermaid Odette at Haggerty Plaza. Twelveyear- old Mermaid Kailee will also be present.
The Surf Broads, an all-female band, will take the stage at 5:30 p.m., and a costume contest will begin at 6:30 p.m. When 7 p.m. hits, Lykiska Dance will begin their performance, followed by Flam Chen and the Tucson Circus Arts at 7:45 p.m.
The parade will start at 8 p.m. in Haggerty Plaza. Everyone in the parade should be costumed or holding the hand of a child who is costumed.
The event will also have activities at the 'Beach' in downtown Tucson, near Hotel Congress. From 3 to 10 p.m., the Beach will showcase 25 art vendors, and there will be music, food trucks, and even more shows, such as fire-spinning and a body-positive mermaid pageant at 9 p.m.
From 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., after the kids go to sleep, Surly Wench Pub is throwing a 21+ mermaid dance party.
- Gloria Knott
- Updated
Both venues, easily within walking distance with one another, celebrate milestones this weekend.
Public Brewhouse will mark two years under its belt. R Bar is celebrating three.
R Bar, the Rialto's go-to venue, will have live screen printing going on and music from the Street Blues Family. The fun runs from 8 p.m. to midnight, according to the Facebook event page.
Public Brewhouse will have Little House of Funk performing from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Cadillac Mountain from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. AND cupcakes infused with beer. WITH BEER!
- Updated
After a brief summer hiatus, the Friends of the Pima Public Library returns this weekend with its first public book sale after the break.
Thousands of titles of all genres will be available for purchase, most between $1 and $5.
The prices make it hard to pass up.
The sale runs 8 a.m.-noon Saturday and Sunday at the Friends' shop, 2230 N. Country Club Road.
- Updated
The good folks at AZ Hops & Vines in Sonoita have added another element to its Bad Decisions bacon, chocolate and booze campout: A meteor shower.
The winery will be observing the Perseids meteor shower scheduled for this weekend. Other than that, there will be the usual offerings from Hops & Vines: Wines (duh), craft beer, distilled spirits, food trucks, live music, camping and, of course, s'mores.
More information can be found on the Facebook event page.
- Updated
Wynonna, the platinum-selling, chart-topping country singer who has long and often been called the βfemale Elvis,β brings her newest project The Big Noise to the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St., Sunday for a 7 p.m. show.
Wynonna & The Big Noise dub the tour βRoots & Revivalβ and according to early reads, the concert surveys Wynonnaβs 33-year career β her solo hits and the songs made famous by her mother-daughter act The Judds β where sheβs at now with the band and its new album βAinβt No Thing!β and where sheβs going.
Thatβs a tall order and knowing Wynonna it will be delivered with plenty of humor and genuine warmth. Tickets are $27 to $89 at foxtucsontheatre.ticketforce.com
- Cathalena E. Burch
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If you prefer your sea-loving activities above the waterline, head down to Bisbee for the Seventh annual Pirates of the High Desert event, happening at restaurants and bars all over the historic mining town.
Pirate activities will be in abundance. There will be a pirate ball at St Elmo on Friday, a fashion show at Old Bisbee Brewery and a pub crawl on Saturday.
Adult fun at its finest.
Visit the Facebook event page for more information.
And while you are down there, check out the grand opening of The Loovre, Bisbee's classiest art gallery, located in the bathroom at POCO, 15 Main Street.
We might be far from the beach, but we aren't far from the mermaids. Come Saturday, Aug. 12, Fourth Avenue will be flooded with mermaids and sea creatures for the 4th annual Return of the Mermaids. The daylong festival includes shows, games, a costume contest, pageant and parade.
'When we think of ourselves as mermaids, it has more to do with a wild spirit,' Lizzie Mead, the event's co-organizer, says. 'Forme and many others, mermaids represent freedom.'
Mead, who also owns Silver Sea Jewelry, says the idea is to celebrate mermaids and Tucson's monsoon season.
'The event is rain or shine,' she says. 'If it rains, you're a mermaid - you just get wet.'
Although you don't have to dress up, it is encouraged.
'It's more fun if you're dressed up, even if you're not a kid,' Mead says. 'Just cut back and embrace the strangeness of it.'
Tucson's mermaid event is inspired by the Coney Island Mermaid Parade in New York, which has been around for 35 years.
The event is jam-packed with festivities.
The day begins at noon with a mermaid art show at Pop Cycle, followed by a 1 p.m. show at Tucson Improv Movement. Tickets for the improv show are available online.
At 4 p.m., Tucson Thrift Shop will house Mermaid M ichelina. From 5 to 8 p.m., folks will have the chance to meet Mermaid Odette at Haggerty Plaza. Twelveyear- old Mermaid Kailee will also be present.
The Surf Broads, an all-female band, will take the stage at 5:30 p.m., and a costume contest will begin at 6:30 p.m. When 7 p.m. hits, Lykiska Dance will begin their performance, followed by Flam Chen and the Tucson Circus Arts at 7:45 p.m.
The parade will start at 8 p.m. in Haggerty Plaza. Everyone in the parade should be costumed or holding the hand of a child who is costumed.
The event will also have activities at the 'Beach' in downtown Tucson, near Hotel Congress. From 3 to 10 p.m., the Beach will showcase 25 art vendors, and there will be music, food trucks, and even more shows, such as fire-spinning and a body-positive mermaid pageant at 9 p.m.
From 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., after the kids go to sleep, Surly Wench Pub is throwing a 21+ mermaid dance party.
- Gloria Knott
Both venues, easily within walking distance with one another, celebrate milestones this weekend.
Public Brewhouse will mark two years under its belt. R Bar is celebrating three.
R Bar, the Rialto's go-to venue, will have live screen printing going on and music from the Street Blues Family. The fun runs from 8 p.m. to midnight, according to the Facebook event page.
Public Brewhouse will have Little House of Funk performing from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Cadillac Mountain from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. AND cupcakes infused with beer. WITH BEER!
After a brief summer hiatus, the Friends of the Pima Public Library returns this weekend with its first public book sale after the break.
Thousands of titles of all genres will be available for purchase, most between $1 and $5.
The prices make it hard to pass up.
The sale runs 8 a.m.-noon Saturday and Sunday at the Friends' shop, 2230 N. Country Club Road.
The good folks at AZ Hops & Vines in Sonoita have added another element to its Bad Decisions bacon, chocolate and booze campout: A meteor shower.
The winery will be observing the Perseids meteor shower scheduled for this weekend. Other than that, there will be the usual offerings from Hops & Vines: Wines (duh), craft beer, distilled spirits, food trucks, live music, camping and, of course, s'mores.
More information can be found on the Facebook event page.
Wynonna, the platinum-selling, chart-topping country singer who has long and often been called the βfemale Elvis,β brings her newest project The Big Noise to the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St., Sunday for a 7 p.m. show.
Wynonna & The Big Noise dub the tour βRoots & Revivalβ and according to early reads, the concert surveys Wynonnaβs 33-year career β her solo hits and the songs made famous by her mother-daughter act The Judds β where sheβs at now with the band and its new album βAinβt No Thing!β and where sheβs going.
Thatβs a tall order and knowing Wynonna it will be delivered with plenty of humor and genuine warmth. Tickets are $27 to $89 at foxtucsontheatre.ticketforce.com
- Cathalena E. Burch
If you prefer your sea-loving activities above the waterline, head down to Bisbee for the Seventh annual Pirates of the High Desert event, happening at restaurants and bars all over the historic mining town.
Pirate activities will be in abundance. There will be a pirate ball at St Elmo on Friday, a fashion show at Old Bisbee Brewery and a pub crawl on Saturday.
Adult fun at its finest.
Visit the Facebook event page for more information.
And while you are down there, check out the grand opening of The Loovre, Bisbee's classiest art gallery, located in the bathroom at POCO, 15 Main Street.
We might be far from the beach, but we aren't far from the mermaids. Come Saturday, Aug. 12, Fourth Avenue will be flooded with mermaids and sea creatures for the 4th annual Return of the Mermaids. The daylong festival includes shows, games, a costume contest, pageant and parade.
'When we think of ourselves as mermaids, it has more to do with a wild spirit,' Lizzie Mead, the event's co-organizer, says. 'Forme and many others, mermaids represent freedom.'
Mead, who also owns Silver Sea Jewelry, says the idea is to celebrate mermaids and Tucson's monsoon season.
'The event is rain or shine,' she says. 'If it rains, you're a mermaid - you just get wet.'
Although you don't have to dress up, it is encouraged.
'It's more fun if you're dressed up, even if you're not a kid,' Mead says. 'Just cut back and embrace the strangeness of it.'
Tucson's mermaid event is inspired by the Coney Island Mermaid Parade in New York, which has been around for 35 years.
The event is jam-packed with festivities.
The day begins at noon with a mermaid art show at Pop Cycle, followed by a 1 p.m. show at Tucson Improv Movement. Tickets for the improv show are available online.
At 4 p.m., Tucson Thrift Shop will house Mermaid M ichelina. From 5 to 8 p.m., folks will have the chance to meet Mermaid Odette at Haggerty Plaza. Twelveyear- old Mermaid Kailee will also be present.
The Surf Broads, an all-female band, will take the stage at 5:30 p.m., and a costume contest will begin at 6:30 p.m. When 7 p.m. hits, Lykiska Dance will begin their performance, followed by Flam Chen and the Tucson Circus Arts at 7:45 p.m.
The parade will start at 8 p.m. in Haggerty Plaza. Everyone in the parade should be costumed or holding the hand of a child who is costumed.
The event will also have activities at the 'Beach' in downtown Tucson, near Hotel Congress. From 3 to 10 p.m., the Beach will showcase 25 art vendors, and there will be music, food trucks, and even more shows, such as fire-spinning and a body-positive mermaid pageant at 9 p.m.
From 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., after the kids go to sleep, Surly Wench Pub is throwing a 21+ mermaid dance party.
- Gloria Knott
Both venues, easily within walking distance with one another, celebrate milestones this weekend.
Public Brewhouse will mark two years under its belt. R Bar is celebrating three.
R Bar, the Rialto's go-to venue, will have live screen printing going on and music from the Street Blues Family. The fun runs from 8 p.m. to midnight, according to the Facebook event page.
Public Brewhouse will have Little House of Funk performing from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Cadillac Mountain from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. AND cupcakes infused with beer. WITH BEER!
After a brief summer hiatus, the Friends of the Pima Public Library returns this weekend with its first public book sale after the break.
Thousands of titles of all genres will be available for purchase, most between $1 and $5.
The prices make it hard to pass up.
The sale runs 8 a.m.-noon Saturday and Sunday at the Friends' shop, 2230 N. Country Club Road.
The good folks at AZ Hops & Vines in Sonoita have added another element to its Bad Decisions bacon, chocolate and booze campout: A meteor shower.
The winery will be observing the Perseids meteor shower scheduled for this weekend. Other than that, there will be the usual offerings from Hops & Vines: Wines (duh), craft beer, distilled spirits, food trucks, live music, camping and, of course, s'mores.
More information can be found on the Facebook event page.
Wynonna, the platinum-selling, chart-topping country singer who has long and often been called the βfemale Elvis,β brings her newest project The Big Noise to the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St., Sunday for a 7 p.m. show.
Wynonna & The Big Noise dub the tour βRoots & Revivalβ and according to early reads, the concert surveys Wynonnaβs 33-year career β her solo hits and the songs made famous by her mother-daughter act The Judds β where sheβs at now with the band and its new album βAinβt No Thing!β and where sheβs going.
Thatβs a tall order and knowing Wynonna it will be delivered with plenty of humor and genuine warmth. Tickets are $27 to $89 at foxtucsontheatre.ticketforce.com
- Cathalena E. Burch
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