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Intnl. Wireless and Mobile Network Security Conference to Meet in Arizona

TUCSON, Ariz. - The fifth meeting of international thought leaders on the technologies used to protect wireless networks in home and commercial IT systems will take place in...

6TH ANNUAL COUNTRY THUNDER

Florence, Ariz. - Great American Country (GAC) television is readying their tour bus to make the cross-country trek for Country Thunder to be held in Florence, Arizona on...

God Bless America

'God Bless America' are often the final three words of speeches given by major politicians but the term is used for ironic effect here by Bob Goldthwait. Goldthwait,...

Bike Events in Tucson This Weekend, March 31-April 1

from:Tucson Endurance Sports Examiner

In Tucson this weekend, join your children at the Kidical Mass bike ride on Saturday, then hit the mountain bike trails of Fantasy Island with the Dirty Bunny Century on Sunday....

McKale Center Attendance Figures Still Best in the West

from:University of Arizona

Over the last six seasons (2006-07 to 2011-12), the Wildcats men's basketball team has drawn a total of 1,399,955 fans for an average of 13,861 in 101 home dates. In that...

Wildcats basketball supersizes order at tonight's McDonald's All-American Game

from:Arizona Wildcats Examiner

Half of Arizona Wildcats head coach Sean Miller’s top ranked recruiting class will be participating in tonight’s 2012 McDonald’s All-American Game going down at...

Wildcats basketball supersizes order at tonight's McDonald's All-American Game

from:Arizona Wildcats Examiner

Half of Arizona Wildcats head coach Sean Miller’s top ranked recruiting class will be participating in tonight’s 2012 McDonald’s All-American Game going down at...

Exhibition - Speaking In Tongues: Wallace Berman And Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976

from:Center For Creative Photography

Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976 brings two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation with one another for the...

UA Women's Wheelchair Basketball Wins National Tourney

from:University of Arizona

The UA women's wheelchair basketball team has won the National Wheelchair Basketball Association tournament with a 33-30 win over the Denver Lady Rolling Nuggets. During the...

An interview with rising star Ben Howard: Master of his kingdom

from:Tucson Concerts Examiner

Seems like it was only a couple of centuries ago that we couldn’t wait to move out of the house. Mum and Dad’s rules were in a word, lame – especially that...

UA Pharmacy Student Headed to Paralympics

from:University of Arizona

Second-year pharmacy student Jennifer Poist is one of only 12 female wheelchair basketball players selected for the U.S. Paralympics team. She and her teammates will compete in...

From Flogging Molly to RCPM: Greenpeace in Tempe

from:Tucson Concerts Examiner

Say what you want about the Grand Canyon State, but where else can you see a bunch of Detroit-based Celtic-punkers sharing the stage with Mexico’s favorite Americano band....

The Hunger Games - Tension-Filled Action-Adventure

How well does this movie accomplish what it sets out to do? That's the primary question that propels my writing each review. In cinematically adapting the first of Suzanne...

Silent House

Watching this continuous, single-take horror thriller could be part of a Survivor test. The husband-and-wife team of Charlie Kentis and Laura Lau, who made the shark-infested...

Friends With Kids - Edgy, Amusing

Social commentary makes relevant film-making, as evidenced by perceptive writer/director/producer Jennifer Westfeldt, who reveals how parenthood defines character in this witty,...

A chat with folk rocker Mike Acerbo: The search is over

from:Tucson Concerts Examiner

What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. But it’s not for lack of trying. It’s just the inability to adequately describe something that up to now has been...

Arizona Food Allergy Alliance Easter Egg Hunt

Arizona Food Allergy Alliance hosts an annual Easter Egg Hunts across the statewide! Come on out, bring your family and friends, play games, hunt for plastic eggs filled with...

The Perfect Proposal: A Victory and a ‘Yes’

from:University of Arizona

Swimmers Matt Grevers and the UA's Annie Chandler, who are serious contenders for the Olympic games, got engaged in February after Grevers won the 100-meter backstroke at the...

Bike pros compete in Tucson’s Old Pueblo Grand Prix

from:Tucson Endurance Sports Examiner

Canadian Leah Kirchmann won the pro women’s race in the Athlete Octane Old Pueblo Grand Prix, held in downtown Tucson Saturday. In the final sprint, she narrowly edged out...

Specialized brought bikes for Tucson mountain bikers to test on Saturday

from:Tucson Endurance Sports Examiner

Specialized showed off its latest mountain bikes at Catalina State Park on Saturday during Demo Day. “We want to give everyone a chance to ride the 2012 Specialized Bikes...

Biologists Document Best Fishing at Lees Ferry in 10 Years

The sun is about to cross the celestial equator so get ready -- the Vernal Equinox, or the first day of spring, is March 21. The great spring fishing is well underway. Keep in...

Casa de mi Padre

As an ultimate vanity project, Will Ferrell has taken a "Saturday Night Live" skit and fleshed it out into a full-length, desperately un-funny feature film - in...

WE HAVE A POPE (Habemos Papam)

As an actor, Michel Piccoli is one of the world's gems with a resume stretching back to 1954. But there is little he can do to rescue a film about upper levels of the...

THE TROUBLE WITH BLISS

Michael Knowles directs 'The Trouble With Bliss' as though the movie were a TV feature or an off-Broadway play. Judging by the reviews on Amazon for Douglas Light's...

Project X - Crude and Repetitive

Perhaps every generation of parents needs a cautionary tale about leaving a teenager home alone for the weekend. After all, at first glance, Thomas (Thomas Mann) is a shy, nerdy...

A chat with Jin Akinishi: American test drive

from:Tucson Concerts Examiner

Music is the universal language. It knows no gender, race, religion, or political party. No matter who we are, a brilliant melody can move us. A driving beat can groove us. A...

Lawi Lalang Earns National Track Honors

from:University of Arizona

UA sophomore Lawi Lalang has been named the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association National Men's Track Athlete of the Year. The Wildcats will open...

Women's Tennis to Open Pac-12 Season

from:University of Arizona

The Arizona women's tennis team, which is 8-0 at home (10-3 overall), will open Pac-12 Conference play on March 16 at Washington State. The Pac-12 is arguably this...

From Free to Organized Play

from:University of Arizona

In Lydia Bell's youth sports course, students are seeking answers to critical questions about how families, communities, the media and the environment support or discourage...

IronKids scheduled for Ironman Arizona in Tempe

from:Tucson Endurance Sports Examiner

IronKids announced that it will add nine new events to its 2012 season, bringing the total number of events to nearly 30. There will be an IronKids run at the Ironman Arizona held...

Women's Swimming Prepares for NCAA Championships

from:University of Arizona

Arizona's No. 9 women's swimming team will compete in the 2012 NCAA Women's Swimming Championships March 15-17. The UA's relay teams are among the fastest in the...

Green for a day: Flogging Molly plays Tempe Mar. 17

from:Tucson Concerts Examiner

Faith and begorrah, the boys (and girl) are back in town! Flogging Molly storms into the desert this Saturday as part of their 8th Annual Green 17 Tour. The Celtic-punkers'...

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

The 3-D animated adaptation of this iconic, cautionary environmental fable focuses on taking responsibility for the devastating effects of industrialized society on the...

Well done Dunwells

from:Tucson Concerts Examiner

There are some things that have to be seen to be believed. A standing ovation for an opening band for instance – a band that has released but one album no less.But the Fox...

THE KID WITH A BIKE (Le gamin au v�lo)

If you live in an urban area, you're likely to see dogs tied up to the poles outside supermarkets, even restaurants-as though their owners were once living in Dodge City and...

John Carter, Surprisingly Humorless

You've already seen this sci-fi thriller - many times before. Based on "Tarzan" creator Edgar Rice Burroughs' first installment of his 1912 pulpy adventure...

THE SALT OF LIFE (Gianni e le donne)

The expression "Dirty old man" deserve to be sent to the scrap heap of all politically incorrect talk, including ethnic, religious, racial and age-ist epithets. Older...

FOOTNOTE (He'arat Shulayim)

When Abraham seemed all-too-ready to sacrifice his son Isaac per heavenly command, we note that if he were living in our own modern times, he would be jailed for child abuse and...

Arizona to Make NIT Appearance

from:University of Arizona

The UA men's basketball team has accepted a bid to participate in the 2012 National Invitation Tournament. The Wildcats will open play on March 14 by hosting Bucknell at...

UA Baseball Tallies 8th-Straight Victory

from:University of Arizona

Robert Refsnyder's ninth-inning RBI single extended his hitting streak to 17 games and pushed Arizona's win streak to eight games as the Wildcats defeated Eastern...

Pima County Fair 2012

from:Pima County Fair

Schedule: Thursday, April 19,2012: 1:00 – 3:00 pm With Two Cans Of Unopened Food! 93.7 KRQ Present, Cody Simpson in concert tonight at 8:00 p.m. on the Main Stage! Clear Channel...

Big To Little, Dino To Nano Celebration

from:Tucson Childrens Museum

Tucson, AZ - Children of all ages can celebrate the past and usher in the future during the “Dino to Nano Celebration” at the Children’s Museum Tucson. The event...

Looking for a title and a tourney berth, Wildcats basketball all in

from:Arizona Wildcats Examiner

Two bubble teams enter today’s Pac-12 Championship (happening now on CBS), one team leaves knowing their spot in the NCAA Tournament is secure after earning an automatic...

Wildcats basketball lives to fight another day

from:Arizona Wildcats Examiner

It took overtime and a good scrum to resolve things the first time around but the Arizona Wildcats men’s basketball team’s 81-73 win over Oregon State back in...

Jennie Finch: Motherhood, Marathons and Being 'a Machine'

from:University of Arizona

UA alumna Jennie Finch is arguably one of the greatest pitchers in the history of fast-pitch softball. As a senior at the UA, she set an NCAA record with 60 consecutive wins...

UA, OSU to Meet Tonight in Semifinals

from:University of Arizona

The No. 4 seed Arizona men's basketball team (22-10, 12-6 Pac-12) has advanced to the 2012 Pacific Life Pac-12 Tournament semifinals tonight vs. Oregon State. The game begins...

Win or go home for Wildcats basketball

from:Arizona Wildcats Examiner

After having their March Madness bubble popped via pitchfork to end the regular season, the Arizona Wildcats men’s basketball team (21-10, 12-6) needs two convincing road...

A chat with baseball great Tommy John: The ultimate pitchman

from:Tucson Concerts Examiner

Almost anyone can get a street named after them. And a distinguished (read “uneventful”) political career might warrant a city park. But do something really heroic,...

Tucson mountain bike group offers grants to improve bicycling off road

from:Tucson Endurance Sports Examiner

Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists, a 501(c)3 mountain bike advocacy group based in Tucson, announced that applications are now available for $1000 grants to Pima County residents...

Wildcat watch: College basketball rankings and ratings week 18

from:Arizona Wildcats Examiner

The Arizona Wildcats men’s basketball team's (21-10, 12-6) worst loss of the year came at the worst possible time but at least now their mission is clear.Win the Pac-12...