J-Bar’s Summer Music Series–2010

J-Bar hosts weekly  music on their gorgeous patio during the summers, however I want to let you know that the shows have moved from Wednesday/Thursday to Friday/Saturday for the rest of the season. The 2010 schedule is loaded with excellent musicians, and it really is a great way to spend a summer evening . . [...]

Graham Brown Book Signing

Clues Unlimited hosts author Graham Brown, who will be signing his suspenseful thriller “Black Sun,”  featuring a beautiful researcher, a Mayan legend and an international chase.
From the blurb at amazon.com: “In the heart of the Amazon, NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw makes an incredible discovery: a translucent Mayan stone generating massive waves of energy while counting [...]

Kids Eat Free at Metropolitan Grill

Metropolitan Grill invites all of Tucson to its grand re-opening. I’m told they have a fine new menu and a new look. They are now calling themselves Metropolitan Grill, America’s Kitchen. In any case, kids eat free during the month of September. Some restrictions apply. For example, I am reasonably certain you will have [...]

Cinema La Placita: American Graffiti

Cinema La Placita is a long-standing Tucson tradition. is there anything nicer than seeing a movie outdoors on a Thursday evening?  This week, come and watch American Graffiti, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams and Paul Le Mat. Directed by George Lucas. Plot overview from IMDB: “A couple of high school grads spend one [...]

Betsy Thornton Book Signing

Clues Unlimited hosts author Betsy Thornton this Saturday. She will sign her book, Dream Queen. The book features victim’s advocate Chloe Newcombe. I have not read the book, but this is what Publisher’s Weekly had to say about it:  The book”charts her earlier years, long before she moved to Arizona. Two years after her older [...]