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Articles by Margaret Harstad
Editor's Note | Editor's Note | Tucson Weekly
If there's a Tucson band that has been the soundtrack of my life for the last two decades, it's Calexico. I can remember seeing Joey Burns and John Convertino when they were playing tiny downtown clubs (and one memorable Best of Tucson™ party), and I've had a great time watching the band's evolution in show after show, record after record. So it was a thrill to sit down with them to learn all about the latest album, The Thread That Keeps Us, the band's ninth studio album.
Editor's Note | Editor's Note | Tucson Weekly
We are giving our best to those who are the best this week: the best shops, restaurants, bars, cafes, festivals, trails, parks and places that make Tucson a great place to live. Let's have a big round of applause for the winners, the finalists and the roughly 12,000 readers who took time to vote. True confession: I haven't been much involved with Best of in recent years.
Education Poll: Support For Charter Schools Down (And Other Results) | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Education Next published the results of its latest poll on education issues . As with all polls and studies, these results should be taken with many grains of salt. But Education Next is a serious publication and it has been conducting these polls for awhile, so its numbers are worth a serious look. For me, the most surprising result is that the support for charter schools is down, significantly.
TUSD Enrollment, 2000 to 2017 | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
For the past few years, I've put up a chart of TUSD's enrollment numbers beginning in 2000. The district has a detailed table of daily enrollment for those years separated out by grade, ethnicity and gender. However, it wasn't updated last year because, I was told, of a change in computer operations.
A Look At TUSD's AzMERIT Scores | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
The state has released scores on the AzMERIT tests given this spring, meaning we can compare TUSD's 2017 scores with its scores two years ago when students took the first AzMERIT tests, and with the state scores. I'll lay out the results the numbers first, then I'll try to figure out what they mean, and don't mean.But first, let me repeat my intense dislike of our obsession with high stakes, standardized tests. They only test what's testable in a fill-in-the-bubble format.
Tucson Peacefully Protested White Supremacy! | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Sunday, Aug. 13: We were late. Ten minutes behind the hundreds of marchers, and a four-year-old in tow. The photographer offered us a shaded seat until they circled back. But this was no time to sit still. Hate and intolerance had once more surfaced on a national level at the Charlottesville, Virginia white nationalist march. We paused to remove a rock from my son's shoe, and that's when we met Faith. She is pregnant and tired. But it feels too isolating and helpless to stay at home today.
Know Your Product Online Bonus! Atlanta Georgia's The Head Pick Their Life-Changing Albums. They Play Tonight at The Flycatcher! | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Know Your Product:Straight outta Atlanta, Georgia, The Head formed a decade ago when twins Jack (drums) and Mike (vocals/bass) Shaw took their love for The Beatles, as well as The Stone Roses and the cynically witty Madchester scene, and created something rooted in garage nostalgia yet ultimately contemporary. Packed with big rock choruses and killer fret-work courtesy of guitarist Jacob Morrell, the band’s recentEP shows just how much they’ve grown into themselves over the past 10 years.
Tour Diaries: XIXA Day 8: 'Gabe Heard and Saw Me Reset My Knee From Across the Room.' | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Day 8Limitations of the human body and the Road.Touring, although adventurous and fun, can be hard on the human vessel. In any "normal" daily routine, one hopes not to fall ill from any number of things. Out here, it's important to stay as healthy as possible.To start, you'r far from home. Add to that strange food and food-handling practices and there's cause for worry.
HoCo Fest Labor Day Weekend Schedule Unveiled Today | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Make your reservations now: Hotel Congress today released the schedule for the annual HOCO Fest running Wednesday through Sunday over Labor Day weekend.With a lineup of nearly 60 bands, the festival offers everything from local favorites to what are sure to be some diamonds in the rough. HOCO Fest offers not only music, but a series of events focused on food and music.Lando Chill will take to the stage Wednesday, Aug.
Tour Diaries! XIXA Day 7: Memories of Dylan and Meeting Former Czech President Václav Havel at Gunpoint. Also, Sold Out Show! | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Ostrava, Czech Republic to Nürenberg, Germany.We played the Colours of Ostrava Festival last night to a packed house full of people of all ages.For me, this was one of those moments when I was glad I became a musician and not a pilot. The first time I came to the Czech Republic was in 1993, with a singer/songwriter with a pretty big following, worldwide.I met Václav Havel three times, and once was held at gunpoint by his Secret Service men. Havel saw what was happening, and called them off.
In The Flesh: DJ Shadow and Mophono at The Rialto—Masterful Visuals and Sonic History Lessons | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
DJ Shadow with MophonoRialto TheatreJuly 19Appealing to the psychedelic purple chakra and the primal red root at once, Mophono and DJ Shadow took us on a rollercoaster of the mind, through moody, soul-deep bass, melodic jazz and classic hiphop. All the elements were masterful—the cuts, the breaks, the scratching and the samples. Two turntables and hardly any microphone had us alternately listening hard and pounding our fists in the air.
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