Concert venues ripe with drugs

Lanre Akomolafe, a local Tucson entertainment filmer and photographer, sees it now more than ever. “I was at Mad Decent Block Party, a music festival in Phoenix, Arizona, last year and a man fell to the ground and started seizing right in front of me,” says Akomolafe. Akomolafe brought medical personnel to help. Later, Akomolafe…

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191 Toole: Faith in Rock n’ Roll

191 Toole may be home to mosh pits and metal anthems on a Saturday night, but on Sundays they bring out the pews. City On a Hill, a local Christian nonprofit, took over the lease at 191 Toole in downtown Tucson with no previous experience running a music venue. Tom Collins, executive director of COAH,…

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