Month: August 2014

Drive-in movies to return to Tucson

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Tucson’s Cactus Drive-in Theatre Foundation Bringing Drive-in Movies Back To Town. (press release)

Tucson, Arizona-The Cactus Drive-In Theatre Foundation announced today that they have revitalized their community base and are now doing a fundraiser via a Kickstarter project to bring the “drive-in experience” back to Tucson.   The Cactus Drive-In Theater Foundation is a non-profit (501C3) with plans to bring a drive-in theater back to town. Their ultimate goal is to establish a permanent, community-owned drive-in theater in Pima County. This Kickstarter project will bring them one step closer to fulfilling that dream. 

In April of this year the original founders George Cohn and Charles Spillar of the CDITF took back control of the non-profit, elected a total new board of directors, and this new energized group has revitalized the efforts to have a drive-in theater back in Tucson. Originally the Cactus Drive-In Theatre, it was renamed the DeAnza in 1977 and kept the name until its closure & destruction in 2009. Many mourned the downfall of Tucson’s last drive-in theater. As a result the Cactus Drive-In Theatre Foundation was formed, and its Facebook page blossomed to nearly 1500 followers since April of this year and new supporters are joining daily. <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cactus-Drive-In-Theatre-Foundation/142005862525867?ref=br_tf >

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Funniest Nixon movie ever

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There are a number of good films about Watergate and “Tricky Dick” Nixon — All the Presidents Men (1976),  Nixon (1995), Frost/Nixon (2008), for example. But my favorite film on this anniversary of “Nixon Resigns” is the comedy parody Dick (1999). Nixon is brilliantly played by Dan Hedaya. Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams are two … Read more

Ride Sun Link to 2nd Saturday Downtown in August

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Most of Tucsonans know by now that the  new Tucson modern streetcar started operation with 8 cars on Friday, July 25.  If you missed being one of the 60,000 passengers who tried it for free, plan on catching it easily to downtown from the UA, Main Gate Square or 4th Avenue (or even from out west at the Mercado de San Agustin or the Luis G. Gutierrez bridge on Cushing St.) to downtown,  for the monthly, very popular urban street fest called 2nd Saturday Downtown.  This fest has been celebrating downtown since May, 2010.

How to ride Sun Link: http://www.streetcarfriends.org/faq/. A round trip pass costs $4.00 (get tickets at the kiosks) and the streetcar runs till 2 a.m. on Saturdays (Sunday mornings).

SATURDAY

  • 8 AM – 10 PM EVERY 20 MINUTES

  • 10 PM – 2 AM EVERY 30 MINUTES

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Photo above of a Sun Link streetcar on Congress St., courtesy of Donovan Dean Durband.

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