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 "attribution": "Source: Tucson Littles (https://littlesweekly.com/tucson/). Cite the city page when you quote a listing; each listing also links to the page we checked it on.",
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  "slug": "tucson",
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  "state": "AZ",
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  "label": "Oct 19–25, 2026",
  "start": "2026-10-19",
  "end": "2026-10-25"
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 "summary": "Reid Park Zoo’s Boo at the Zoo runs Thursday through Sunday evenings with candy tables, characters and a Fall Festival Zone, and Wednesday adds a calmer sensory-friendly night. Thursday’s Discovery Night at Children’s Museum Tucson is free from 5 to 7, and Tucson Botanical Gardens tells The Crow and the Pitcher at Wednesday story time. Tucson has 24 outings this week, 21 free and 16 under a roof.",
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  "places": 15,
  "free": 21,
  "indoor": 16
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  "date": "2026-10-24",
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    "label": "Morning",
    "name": "Family Storytime (Martha Cooper)",
    "where": "Martha Cooper Library",
    "time": "10:30–11:30am",
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    "label": "Lunch",
    "name": "HUB Restaurant & Ice Creamery",
    "where": "Downtown, 278 E. Congress St.",
    "time": "Open 11am–midnight",
    "cost": "$$",
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    "name": "Wild Katz",
    "where": "Central Tucson, 4629 E. Speedway Blvd.",
    "time": "Open 10am–9pm",
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   "time": "6–9pm (timed entry)",
   "venue": "Reid Park Zoo",
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   "description": "This week’s story is Jim Weiss’s telling of The Crow and the Pitcher, followed by a handprint crow craft in the Education Building classroom.",
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