Tucson Will Surprise You

Tucson CVB is upping the ante and offering up to $30,000 credit to groups booking meetings in Tucson. Through December, 2010, Tucson CVB offers groups $1,000 – $10,000 credit per meeting to their master accounts dependent upon the number of peak room nights. The program will apply to up to three meetings booked in the... destination as long as a contract is signed in 2010. The meetings do not have to be booked for consecutive years.Read More

More and more beer drinkers are choosing locally brewed and bottled brands. As a result, the craft brewery is the fastest growing market segment in the alcohol beverage industry. Tucson is home to three main craft breweries: Nimbus Brewing Company and Barrio Brewing Company, both of which are microbreweries, and Thunde...r Canyon Brewery, a brewpub. Nimbus recently opened a second location, Nimbus Bistro and Brewery on East Tanque Verde Road. This location offers more than 130 craft beers by the bottle—including the seven Nimbus-brand styles of locally brewed classic ales and various seasonal specialties, and about 20 beers on tap—with a menu offering traditional pub grub with more sophisticated bistro fare. Next time you’re in Tucson, be sure to sample our great local brews at Barrio Brewing (www.barriobrewing.com), Nimbus (www.nimbusbeer.qwestoffice.net), and Thunder Canyon (www.thundercanyonbrewery.com).Read More

To highlight the elegance and diversity of contemporary design in Tucson, Etherton Gallery’s newest exhibition combines art and design in one space. The exhibition, “ART+DESIGN: etherton invites,” at Etherton Gallery in downtown Tucson, is collaboration of nationally known designers and artists from Arizona. New works ...not seen before in Tucson are on display, including hand-blown-glass lighting fixtures by Tom Philabaum; mesquite-wood furniture by Stephen PaulRead More

Ansel Adams Featured at Tucson Museum of Art. A survey of more than 100 photographs by famed landscape photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984) will be on exhibit at the Tucson Museum of Art from October 10 through February 14, 2010. Many of Adams’ most famous images are included and presented in the more intimate scale he... intended them to be viewed. These works were originally printed by the artist himself in his California darkroom and given to The Friends of Photography to represent his legacy. Adams co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 1975. For more information, visit the TMA website at www.TucsonMuseumofArt.org.Read More

There are adventures of gore galore in Tucson and Southern Arizona that will leave Halloween thrill-seekers shaking in their boots this month. Tucson is crawling with creepy things to do for grown-ups and kids alike. Accompany Tucson’s paranormal investigators to catch a glimpse of some long-time, long-gone Downtown T...ucson residents. Get the full and freaky Halloween experience at the 2009 Nightfall: Harvest of Fear extravaganza at Old Tucson Studios. Scare yourself senseless at “flashlight night” in the Buckelew Farms corn maze. Learn about more Halloween adventures at www.visitucson.org.Read More

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it. Go out of your usual routine this weekend. Do something you haven't done before. Check out a restaurant on the other side of town, get out to a festival with friends, take a hike or get out on a horse. If you're not in Tucson, make your plans to get here as soon as poss...ible. The weather is perfect and there is absolutely no end to the possiblities here! GET OUT AND EXPERIENCE TUCSON & SOUTHERN ARIZONA. Then, get back here and tell me all about it! Go to www.visittucson.org for ideas.Read More

It is almost silly how much there is to do in Tucson & Southern AZ this weekend. The first annual Southern Arizona Food & Wine Festival at Rillito Park is going to be fantastic. $5 gets you in to enjoy a ton of kid's fun, salsa making and tamale eating competitions, fair food, fine food & so much more! There's the Bisb...ee 1000 stair climb event as well. While you might want to train for next year's climb if you haven't done so this year, the fun and activity in that amazing town will be rockin' this weekend. De Anza Days down in Tubac will be a whirlwind of activity with food, dancing and reinactments. WOW. If you're anywhere near Tucson and you're bored this weekend, you're really in trouble! Visit www.visittucson.org/events for a comprehensive listing of what's going on!Read More