Some Late-Breaking Events
Here are a few events that were received too late for inclusion in our print issue (the details of which you can see to the right). Saturday, March 31 at 5 p.m. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church 545 S. Fifth Ave. Poetry Reading. Arizona Quarterly, Chax , POG and the UA Poetry Center sponsor a reading…
Blogging Advisory
Hey, kids! Just a note to let you know that for the better part of the next two weeks, I’ll be away, galavanting around another continent. The illustrious John Banks will be moderating, and the usual gang of idiots will be blogging. Assuming I do not cause an international incident, I’ll be back around April…
Island Life
The New York Times is reporting that Arizona’s beloved sky islands are in trouble.
Shootout at the Loft Corral
The gang at the Loft Cinema continue to keep it real, cinema-wise. This Tuesday, March 27, we’ll have the Big Reveal of the winners of the 48-Hour Shootout, a contest for local filmmakers to create a short picture show in just two days. As one of the judges for the contest, I can tell you…
On Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera
On Feb. 15, the Tucson Weekly ran a photo essay by Debbie Nathan regarding Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera, who was shot and killed in January by Border Patrol agents. Well, the Sierra Vista Herald—which, like the Weekly, is owned by Wick Communications—is reporting that there are some serious inconsistencies in the stories being told about…
What the Frak?
OK, so the Battlestar Galactica season 3 finale: Meh. No, not even meh. Ugh. First, Baltar’s trial was full of squandered potential. Wasn’t Caprica supposed to testify? Why did the lawyer formally known as Apollo take the stand instead of delivering his speech in a closing argument? What was the point of having Gaeta perjure…
Marjorie Hagen, in Trouble Again
Readers with good memories may recall this 2004 Pick of the Week, penned by yours truly, that focused on a very bad woman named Marjorie Hagen. (It was our Pick because an author was in town promoting a book about Hagen, and at the time, Hagen was in her final days of incarceration.) Well, Hagen’s…
I Couldn’t Help but Think of All Those Recent Posts About Our Favorite Tucson Dishes When I Read This Story
This is one hell of an alternative to divorce …
Red Star Wants to Talk Peak Oil
So, does anyone have any thoughts on this week’s cover story?
Unidentified French Objects
Maybe Fife Symington will find his extraterrestrial friends in the 50 years worth of UFO files that France has just opened.
Fife and the Visitors From Another World
So Fife Symington just came out and told CNN that he saw the “Phoenix Lights” in 1997, and that he thinks that they were caused by a UFO from another planet. Really.
Help the Humane Society
You know that pet-food recall, stemming from the kidney failure of some cats who had eaten the food? Well, it’s put a dent in the Humane Society of Southern Arizona: Today the Humane Society of Southern Arizona sorted through our pet food and had to throw away a large quantity of the recalled brands of…
Some Late-Breaking Events
Here are a few events that did not make it into our print edition. Thursday, March 22 at 6:30 p.m. The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. Brincando El Charco. The UA Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies presents the free screening of Brincando El Charco. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, scholar of Queer Puerto…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Heather Moroso
Questions of History
ATC’s ‘I Am My Own Wife’ is quietly brilliant
Danehy
It’s a privilege to play high school sports, not a right
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Abstract Transformations
The works of Ulfert Wilke return to public view at The Gallery at 6th and 6th
O’Sullivan
Getting baked one fine evening in California
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Are We Alone?
NASA’s first artist in residence comes to Tucson to ponder the question of other life in the universe
Guest Commentary
Some thoughts during Women’s Herstory Month
Soundbites
This past weekend, Stephen Seigel was in full revel with a few other Weekly music critics at the South by Southwest music conference and festival in Austin, Texas. Read more about their adventures in next week’s issue. For now, let’s examine some of the more promising gigs scheduled for the Old Pueblo during the next…
Cries for Attention
Nuggets of wisdom are buried in this difficult tome about American Sufi Samuel L. Lewis
People We Won’t Be Hiring
A note from the editor.
Chaotic Spirals
The noise rock of Norma Jean reflects patterns of grace and mercy
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
¡Ask a Mexican!
Whether to should keep this column’s gold-toothed, mustachioed, sombrero-wearing fat Mexican logo, and what should to name him.
Movie for Misogynists
‘I Think I Love My Wife’ provides further evidence that Chris Rock should avoid films
Noshing Around
Coming Soon · Sabra, a Mediterranean restaurant, is coming to 4210 E. Speedway Blvd., the former address for Saigon Café, Green Bamboo and Three Sisters. · Bajio Mexican Grill, a franchise, will soon debut in new development at 4660 E. Camp Lowell Drive, at Swan Road. According to bajiomexicangrill.com, the Bajio is a lush valley…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Nothing but a Party
Rapping about sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, Mickey Avalon does it right
Fish With Flair
Sushi King has the tools to thrive in a spot where other restaurants failed
Apocalypse Soon?
A UA professor thinks an oil crisis is imminent–so kiss your old life goodbye
Now Showing at Home
“Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin,” “Charlotte’s Web,” and “Masters of Horror: Pro-Life”
Water Pressure
The City Council wants more Colorado River water–and that means water bills will increase
Rhythm & Views
It’s usually a bad idea when mythic rock bands reunite. Case in point: Post-peak efforts by Television and Jane’s Addiction. Iggy Pop, however, says joining up again with Ron and Scott Asheton isn’t about money. So what’s the reason? To prove something 34 years after the Stooges’ garage-punk-metal masterpiece Raw Power forever changed rock ‘n’…
Big-House Budgets
Will rising prison costs spark reform?
Rhythm & Views
It would be one thing if Long Island’s Car Bomb sounded like its namesake; our review would be easier to write. Instead, this nausea-inducing technical-grind quartet sounds like an explosive loaded with … what? Rusty nails? Radioactive material? The band is volatile all right, but in that really horrible way that involves secondary and tertiary…
The Skinny
SCRAMBLEWATCH ’07: NO GUTS, NO GLORY EDITION City Councilman Steve Leal made it official last week: He’s not giving up the southside Ward 5 seat he’s held since 1989 to challenge Mayor Bob Walkup. Leal said he would have done it, if only it weren’t for that pesky resign-to-run law. After pondering his options for…
Nine Questions
Chuck Billy
Entering Year Five
We check in with the same Tucsonans to get their thoughts on another Iraq war anniversary
Rhythm & Views
A pleasing air of malevolent irreverency clings to all 19 tracks on The Man Who Lives for Love by Spencer Dickinson, a collaboration between Blues Explosion hot shot Jon Spencer and Luther and Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars. Spencer does here what he does best anywhere else in his considerable body of work:…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Live
Vicki Brown, Will Elliott, Marianne Dissard, Andrew Collberg, Salvador Duran, and Naim Amor at TucsonScene.Com Austin Showcases, March 15-17
Media Watch
Explorer ‘Nett’s a New Editor
Russian Roulette
Gripping moments make ‘The Italian’ worth seeing, despite some slow parts
Police Dispatch
Rise and Shine Overton Road and La Cholla Boulevard, Feb. 19, 9:33 p.m. A woman who was staying at a male friend’s house received a rude awakening, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. The woman said she was snoozing at about 8 a.m. when another woman burst into the bedroom, tore the blankets…
Top Ten in Music
CD City top sales for the week
Pick of the Week
Harps and the Cosmos
Just Crisp Enough
ATC’s ‘Molly’s Delicious’ is a tasty, if insubstantial, little treat
