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Southern Arizona celebrates jazz legend Charles Mingus’ 100th birthday | Page 6
Our Town
Pima County RTA falling short on cash, but largely meeting its goals
Happenings
Gloria Gomez
INSIDE Veterans’ convoy | Page 4 Music, theatre and classes around town | Page 16
Sports & Rec
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Arizona International Film Festival celebrates 30 years Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media
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he Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky once said, “The artist exists because the world is not perfect.” In turn, the Arizona International Film Festival returns this year with a renewed effort on connection and collaboration, perhaps making the world a
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bit better through art. Over its three decades, the Arizona International Film Festival has balanced its focus on films both local and throughout the world. This effort has never been stronger, as it features movies filmed right here in Tucson, as well as from more than a dozen countries. Over the next week and a half, the film festival brings comedy, drama
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and documentary films to the Old Pueblo, as well as special highlights on cross-border creation. Participating venues include downtown’s Screening Room and Fox Theatre, the festival grounds at the MSA Annex, The Loft Cinema, Etherton Gallery, the Cactus Carpool Drive-in Cinema, and Main Gate Plaza at University Blvd.
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n audit of Pima County’s Regional Transportation Authority Plan found it falls short by $149 million, putting 11 projects at risk. The plan was enacted in 2006, after voters passed a one-half-cent-per-dollar sales tax dedicated to a spate of projects to improve roads and public transit. Initially, costs were estimated to be around $2.4 billion, but those have grown to $2.9 billion and remaining sales tax revenues — which end in 2026 — and other regional funds fail to completely cover the gap.
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