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Mary Farfisa is back!
Mary Farfisa’s Outer Space Adventures is a series of radio plays written and produced in Flagstaff by Jim Cheff for children. With 40 complete half-hour episodes in the can the Meteor will be home to the…
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Feb
27
Thu
6:00 pm Open Jam w/ Lucky Lenny @ Flagstaff Brewing Company
Open Jam w/ Lucky Lenny @ Flagstaff Brewing Company 
Feb 27 @ 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Grab your strings and come ready to sing at the Open Jam with Lucky Lenny. We got beer, Lucky Lenny’s got the sound, you got a song. Sign up at 6pm.
Feb
28
Fri
8:00 pm Eric Nakamoto Quintet @ Firecreek Coffee Company
Eric Nakamoto Quintet @ Firecreek Coffee Company 
Feb 28 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Doors open at 7:30. I’m super excited to be playing with these musicians and share my original songs and play jazz standards Tobias Colvin – Tenor Sax Ryan Pratt – Trombone Brian Kabala – Guitar Rob...
Feb
29
Sat
7:00 pm Leap Day Local Nite | $5 Ticket @ The Orpheum Theater
Leap Day Local Nite | $5 Ticket @ The Orpheum Theater 
Feb 29 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Leap Day Local Nite featuring: F-Town Sound and Four Cornered Room Western Funk meets Latin Groove. Wanna dance with a freight train? F-Town Sound got you! Drawing from influences of: Calexico, Jenny and the Mexicats, Tower...
7:00 pm Tim O’Brien with Jan Fabricius @ Coconino Center for the Arts
Tim O’Brien with Jan Fabricius @ Coconino Center for the Arts 
Feb 29 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Tim O’Brien performs in a duet setting with his partner Jan Fabricius on harmony vocals. Featuring his solid guitar, fiddle, and mandolin, the shows cover a range of original compositions and traditional arrangements mixed with stories...
Mar
1
Sun
8:00 pm Levi Platero @ Firecreek Coffee Company
Levi Platero @ Firecreek Coffee Company 
Mar 1 @ 8:00 pm – Mar 2 @ 12:00 am
Southwest Blues Rockers from the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation. www.leviplateromusic.com Levi Platero is from the Navajo Nation of the Southwest region of the United States. With his family band “The Plateros” they emerged on...
Music celebrating Black History Month
Engage climate change
Feb
25
Tue
6:00 pm Meeting on Upcoming Climate Events @ East Flagstaff Community Library
Meeting on Upcoming Climate Events @ East Flagstaff Community Library
Feb 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The two efforts that we’ll be discussing are 1) Climate Strikes on Earth Day and 2) Holding Climate-Centered Debates for City Council Candidates. Additionally, if you have a climate related initiative you would like to bring...
Mar
27
Fri
4:00 pm Flagstaff Community Seed Swap @ Coconino County Cooperative Extension
Flagstaff Community Seed Swap @ Coconino County Cooperative Extension 
Mar 27 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Flagstaff Foodlink, Coconino County Cooperative Extension, Flagstaff Sustainability Program, and the Grow Flagstaff Seed Library at the Coconino County Cooperative Extension office for a community seed swap. Seeds are a great way to share our local...
Environment-News
Environment-News
"These ecosystem modifications directly affect organisms on land and in the water downstream. Every decision to allow a mine to...
Recently, a number of gas stations have disappeared from Flagstaff. A couple have been replaced but the rest appear to...
Instead of getting serious about moving away from single-use plastic, corporations are hiding behind the pretense that their throwaway packaging...
Threatened plant, the San Francisco Ragwort, which grows no where else in the World except on the San Francisco Peaks...
But the effects of removing this “environmental safety net” won’t be felt equally. States with fewer local protections and resources...
Emerging efforts by cities and the federal government show that progress is possible, but experts say systemic changes are still...
While the reading in Antarctica still needs to be confirmed, the Brazilian scientists who logged it called the new record...
More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife...
Flagstaff The Trump administration has suspended 4,200 acres of oil and gas leases on public land in Arizona’s Little Colorado...
The administration's new managment plans "are the latest in a series of insults... that began when Trump illegally dismantled Bears...
"There is no way to build a greener, more inclusive economy without strong, thriving labor unions." By Andrea Germanos, staff...
Climate change has caused record-breaking ocean temperatures, and that means more dangerous storms, trouble for coral reefs and big changes...
Environment-Water
"These ecosystem modifications directly affect organisms on land and in the water downstream. Every decision to allow a mine to...
Recently, a number of gas stations have disappeared from Flagstaff. A couple have been replaced but the rest appear to...
But the effects of removing this “environmental safety net” won’t be felt equally. States with fewer local protections and resources...
More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife...
Flagstaff The Trump administration has suspended 4,200 acres of oil and gas leases on public land in Arizona’s Little Colorado...
The administration's new managment plans "are the latest in a series of insults... that began when Trump illegally dismantled Bears...
"This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever...
“It shouldn’t take a lawsuit to keep livestock from trampling these fragile southwestern rivers, but the Forest Service has turned...
Editor’s note: This report is part of an AZCIR collaboration with KPBS’ Fronteras Project, a regional news collaborative that produces...
The Little Colorado River is the focus of two pumped hydro storage power plant proposals that have met with resistance...
Flagstaff Flagstaff's future water supply is a target for potentially harmful toxins. Red Gap Ranch, located 40 miles east of...
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Drought by John Whipple
This weekend
Feb
28
Fri
9:00 am Join us for our next Flagstaff F... @ United Way
Join us for our next Flagstaff F... @ United Way
Feb 28 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Join us for a Flagstaff Family Food Center Ambassador Training Friday, February 28th 9 am – 12 pm United Way of Northern Arizona 1515 E. Cedar Dr. Flagstaff, AZ 86004 Learn about hunger in...
8:00 pm Eric Nakamoto Quintet @ Firecreek Coffee Company
Eric Nakamoto Quintet @ Firecreek Coffee Company
Feb 28 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Doors open at 7:30. I’m super excited to be playing with these musicians and share my original songs and play jazz standards Tobias Colvin – Tenor Sax Ryan Pratt – Trombone Brian Kabala – Guitar Rob...
10:00 pm Jamboree @ Flagstaff Brewing Company
Jamboree @ Flagstaff Brewing Company
Feb 28 @ 10:00 pm – Feb 29 @ 1:00 am
Playing killer cuts of old rockabilly, rock’n’roll, country, & doo wop
Feb
29
Sat
4:00 pm 6th Annual Mother Road Chili Coo... @ Mother Road Brewing Co
6th Annual Mother Road Chili Coo... @ Mother Road Brewing Co 
Feb 29 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join us for our 6th annual chili cook off, benefiting Flagstaff Family Food Bank. Those who wish to enter in the competition can sign up at either tap room. Those who wish to taste and vote...
7:00 pm Leap Day Local Nite | $5 Ticket @ The Orpheum Theater
Leap Day Local Nite | $5 Ticket @ The Orpheum Theater
Feb 29 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Leap Day Local Nite featuring: F-Town Sound and Four Cornered Room Western Funk meets Latin Groove. Wanna dance with a freight train? F-Town Sound got you! Drawing from influences of: Calexico, Jenny and the Mexicats, Tower...
7:00 pm Tim O’Brien with Jan Fabricius @ Coconino Center for the Arts
Tim O’Brien with Jan Fabricius @ Coconino Center for the Arts
Feb 29 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Tim O’Brien performs in a duet setting with his partner Jan Fabricius on harmony vocals. Featuring his solid guitar, fiddle, and mandolin, the shows cover a range of original compositions and traditional arrangements mixed with stories...
10:00 pm Syrrup (Memphis), The Rare Occas... @ Flagstaff Brewing Company
Syrrup (Memphis), The Rare Occas... @ Flagstaff Brewing Company 
Feb 29 @ 10:00 pm – Mar 1 @ 1:00 am
Syrrup’s music blossomed from a rich Jazz influence, as the members are involved in the Jazz scene of Memphis where they met. However, they came together to create original music that explores Soul, Folk, Rock, Pop,...
Flagstaff Community Seed Swap
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Off the wire
The head of the powerful union representing border patrol agents nationwide said the FBI is working to identify who stole...
Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. later accused...
“He’s paying our money to himself,” the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold told “Trump, Inc.” “There must be so much more...
THE NEW DEBTORS PRISONS Debtors prisons were banned by Congress in 1833, but a ProPublica article that revealed the sweeping...
How several agents from a small outpost in Arizona, including recently retired chief Carla Provost, climbed to the top of...
[caption id="attachment_5744" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Border Patrol Chief of Law Enforcement Operations Brian Hastings testifies at a congressional hearing on July...
THE NEW DEBTORS PRISONS High-interest loan companies are using Utah’s small claims courts to arrest borrowers and take their bail...
Tax software companies made around $1 billion in revenue by charging people who were eligible to file for free. by...
This week’s episode of “Trump, Inc.” reveals how watchdogs discovered contributions eventually traced to key figures in the Ukraine scandal....
Under Trump, Border Patrol agents wield nearly unchecked power over the fate of migrants — and their seemingly random decisions...
“Members of the Trump family were aware of and involved in the negotiation of this unconscionable contract,” the District of...
Video obtained by ProPublica contradicted the Border Patrol’s account of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez’s death. Now, House Democrats are...
Finding free online tax filing should be easier this year for millions of Americans. by Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel,...
Now several states are investigating it. ProPublica revealed that TurboTax maker Intuit charged millions of Americans for tax filing services...
Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant, was seriously ill when immigration agents put him in a small South...
Newly uncovered documents show the consulting giant helped ICE find “detention savings opportunities” — including some that the agency’s staff...
New Orleans There was a time when families followed a careful rule. When gathering with the blood, avoid talking...
The head of the powerful union representing border patrol agents nationwide said the FBI is working to identify who stole...
"These ecosystem modifications directly affect organisms on land and in the water downstream. Every decision to allow a mine to...
[caption id="attachment_5975" align="aligncenter" width="572"] Shutterstock[/caption] In our corporate-run health system, consumer “choices” are shaped entirely by profit-seeking monopolists. By Jim...
“Let us put our minds together to see what kind of future we can make for our children….” ...
Trump wants to cancel student loan forgiveness for public servants. But what if you’ve already taken the loans? By Jill...
Kansas City I can still remember my third grade teacher walking us through the duck-and-cover exercise and announcing as...
"That's not just a savvy coalition for winning the Nevada caucuses, it's how Bernie Sanders becomes president. Face it, establishment...
Kansas City Flying in and out of the Kansas City International airport is like a snapshot back in another time,...
Misconceptions abound on both sides of the aisle. Victor Moussa/Shutterstock.com Douglas J. Ahler, Florida State University With animosity between party...
Instead of getting serious about moving away from single-use plastic, corporations are hiding behind the pretense that their throwaway packaging...
Yesterday the Meteor published a story about Roger Stone being sentenced to 40 months in prison. Below, Rachel Maddow breaks...
Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. later accused...
Threatened plant, the San Francisco Ragwort, which grows no where else in the World except on the San Francisco Peaks...
“He’s paying our money to himself,” the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold told “Trump, Inc.” “There must be so much more...
Editors note: With thoughtful planning Flagstaff could turn our continued growth into a health boon for the community. The Ohio...
"Since the end of his Senate impeachment trial, President Donald Trump has carried out a concerted campaign against his Democratic...
New Orleans A reporter, Jed Kolko, with the New York Times seems to be connecting the dots in an...
[caption id="attachment_5966" align="alignleft" width="1024"] Roger Stone[/caption] Stone is expected to be pardoned by President Donald Trump. by Eoin Higgins, staff...
"This is mind-blowing. I've never heard of anything like it. We are in full on crisis mode." by Jake Johnson,...
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