Tucson's Hotel Congress losing music director after 27 years
David Slutes' fingerprints are everywhere in the historic Hotel Congress, where he has been Tucson music's public face, champion and cheerleader for 27 years.
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David Slutes' fingerprints are everywhere in the historic Hotel Congress, where he has been Tucson music's public face, champion and cheerleader for 27 years.
After 33 years here at Tucson Weekly, it’s time to move on to new adventures. So I’m stepping down as executive editor of Tucson Local...
Tucson Weekly founder Doug Biggers, who launched this paper way back in 1984, told me a long time ago that the only constant in the newspaper biz is change. He got that right. In the three decades I've been working around here in various roles, it's been my great pleasure to work with a long line of kick-ass journalists, photographers and artists. Together, we've hounded politicians, interviewed rock stars, chased after space robots, shamed scoundrels, been hassled by The Man and basically had more fun than should be legal. Some former colleagues remain good friends and others curse my na...
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