The Weekly Tucsonan

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1. Taxi Driver (Cult Classic) @10
Rocky Horror Picture show @12
Saturday, June 18
The Loft Cinema
3233 E Speedway Blvd

On Taxi Driver: Martin Scorsese’s intense, Oscar-nominated classic, a milestone of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city’s underbelly.

On Rocky Horror Picture Show: Pull up your fishnets and get ready to become a creature of the night at the strangest, sexiest “science fiction double feature” of all-time, a Loft tradition for 33 years and counting!

2. Father’s Day
June 19th (All Day)

In the US, Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. Its first celebration was in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910.  Other festivities honoring fathers had been held in Fairmont and in Creston, but the modern holiday did not emerge from those.   Modern Father’s Day was invented by Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Creston, Washington, who was also the driving force behind its establishment.  Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who reared his six children in Spokane, Washington.  She was inspired by Anna Jarvis’s efforts to establish Mother’s Day.  Although she initially suggested June 5, her father’s birthday, she did not provide the organizers with enough time to make arrangements, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.

3.  Black Lips w/ Cerebral Ballzy and Acorn Bcorn
Tues, June 21 2011
Doors @ 8:30
Plush Bar
340 E. 6th St., Tucson, AZ, 85705

Across four albums, Black Lips have made sloppiness an aesthetic choice. Their live shows have the feel of a bunch of blitzed teenagers spazzing out on borrowed instruments in a friend’s basement.  Fortunately, buried beneath the Lips’ psychedelic slop heap are surprisingly exacting pop hooks, clever musical experiments, and insidious grooves (on 200 Million Thousand) belie the band’s wastrel image.

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