Tucson Salvage columnist Brian Smith takes center stage this week with his cover story on Bob Meighan, a pioneering Tucson musician who just missed striking it big. Meighan, who has been battling by Lou Gehrig s disease for decades, recounts his career on and off stage over the decades. As usual, Brian brings a lot of heart to the profile. Dig into it and enjoy.
Elsewhere in this week s issue: Staff reporter Christina Duran catches up with the latest COVID news as Pima County rolls out mobile clinics in an effort to improve vaccination rates; calendar editor Emily Dieckman delivers a collection of pandemic-safe events for you to enjoy, including the much-anticipated reopening of the Loft Cinema; arts writer Margaret Regan threads her way through MOCA s new exhibit made of T-shirts; associate editor Jeff Gardner lends an ear to a new album from Sharkk Heartt, aka Lara Ruggles; Tucson Weedly columnist David Abbott grinds a few nuggets of national news; and there s helpful advice from
Remembering Lawrence Zubia of Pistoleros, an Arizona music legend Ed Masley, Arizona Republic
Lawrence Zubia, the charismatic frontman whose voice and presence helped make Pistoleros major players on the Mill Avenue scene that made Tempe a musical hotbed in the 90s, died the morning of Saturday, Dec. 19.
Zubia, 56, was taken to the hospital Friday afternoon with pneumonia.
As Mark Zubia, the brother with whom he d written songs since they were teens, explained, He d been recovering from surgery on his pancreas. He got the surgery in I believe April. And it just took too much out of him. Since April, he s been convalescing. Then, he got pneumonia. He should have been around at least another 20 years.