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What You Need to Know About the Palo Verde Beetle

What You Need to Know About the Palo Verde Beetle What You Need to Know About the Palo Verde Beetle on KVOA.com; July 14th, 2017 Palo Verde Beetles are found all over Southern Arizona. But what exactly are they? The Palo Verde Beetle lives underground for two or three years before coming out for the […]

Tucson Women’s Comedy Festival

Tucson Women’s Comedy Festival Laugh Like a Woman: Tucson Women’s Comedy Festival; Feb. 27th, 2017Posted By Linda Ray on Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:30 PM Getting the full disclosure out of the way: I’m a member of the Tucson Improv Movement company. I’m not performing in the TIM-hosted first Tucson Women’s Comedy Festival Feb. […]

Tucson Women’s Comedy Festival brings laughs to the community

Tucson Women’s Comedy Festival brings laughs to the community The Tucson Women’s Comedy Festival began Feb. 23 at the Tucson Improv Movement Theater. This is the festival’s first annual show, and Thursday’s show started off with three women storytellers. Each woman stood onstage to share a monologue that left the audience laughing. The event showcased […]

Tucson Improv Movement’s Jessica Peck Proves Women are Funny

Tucson Improv Movement’s Jessica Peck Proves Women are Funny Some people like to make broad and obnoxious generalizations. One persistent stereotype in the comedy world is that women aren’t and can’t be funny. Obviously Tucson Improv Movement’s Jessica Peck doesn’t agree and her weekly comedy night is out to prove those completely ridiculous people wrong. […]

Troupe brings improv movement to Tucson

Troupe brings improv movement to Tucson The Old Pueblo isn’t where you typically hear puns about glockenspiels, but the mission of the Tucson Improv Movement is to always accept improbable challenges. TIM performs improvised sketches almost every Saturday at The Red Barn Theater on Main Avenue and First Street, just south of Speedway Boulevard. Audience […]

Top 8 Reasons to Love a Packrat (Yes, Really!)

Top 8 Reasons to Love a Packrat (Yes, Really!) They’re CUTEPackrats are adorably adorned with large sympathetic eyes and ears comically larger than their faces. Wiggly whiskers and a soft, furry body complete their look. Why do they look so darn cute? Typically when animals display larger-than-life features we, as humans, find that facial ratio […]

The World of Yes/And: Improv group creates comedy on the fly

The World of Yes/And: Improv group creates comedy on the fly The World of Yes/And Improv groups create comedy on the flyBy Sherilyn Forrester If you think that “The Harold” might be the brother of “The Donald,” you would be wrong. And if you think that improvisational theater is less than and never equal to […]

The Beauty of a Scorpion

The Beauty of a Scorpion A scorpion, according to most, is a symbol of cruelty; tangible evidence that nature has a mean streak. However, as with all fauna, when we turn an attentive eye to the creature we will see something worth observing. A scorpion is more than pincers and a stinger. It too needs […]

Five years and 1,400 hours later, 17-year-old found family at Desert Museum

Five years and 1,400 hours later, 17-year-old found family at Desert Museum By Johanna Willett Arizona Daily Star Dec 26, 2016 When Alexander Pye started volunteering as a junior docent at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, he found his people. Friendly, quirky and into science — just like him. Alexander, 17, is now in year five […]