A New Issue and a New Video “Ask a Mexican”
OK, here’s what you do: 1. Read this week’s fine issue of the Tucson Weekly. 2. Comment on its contents here if you so choose. 3. Then watch this week’s online “Ask a Mexican,” right here! 4. Sit there and feel smarter, enlightened and full of joy!
To Bead or Not to Bead
The Haggerty family, which has been peddling jewelry, beads and such at Piney Hollow for more than three decades, are closing their doors next month. The Fourth Avenue shop’s closing sale starts April 1. The release: Piney Hollow was established as a jewelry craft workshop in August of 1972. First located on 6th Street in…
Someone Who Really Needs to Shit or Get Off the Pot
Here’s the most disturbing story we’ve come across in weeks, courtesy of the Associated Press. An excerpt: Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to…
“Horrible. Just stupid.”
Our very first Tucson Weekly TV special report debuts today on YouTube! See for yourself as the Meet Rack sign comes crashing to the ground.
Finally: We Get Prozac In Our Water!
As we debate the future of adequate water in the desert, out comes a study issued Sunday by The Associated Press that will make you look twice at our already endangered tap water. The study looked at 24 metropolitan areas in the United States, including Tucson. The conclusion? Water delivered to homes through city water utilities…
Tonight at The Loft: Demo’s Bill Risner Joins Filmmaker For Q&A
Tucson attorney Bill Risner will join David Earnhardt, the filmmaker of Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections, for a Q&A session at a screening of the film at the Loft Cinema tonight at 7:30 p.m. Evidently Bradblog’s Brad Friedman, loved by election integrity activists everywhere, will be there, too. According to a press release, Earnhardt’s film “examines how the…
TQ&A With Seh Welch (National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Is Monday, March 10)
Monday, March 10, is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. To mark the occasion, free HIV testing will be offered at several locations in Tucson (Theresa Lee Clinic, 332 S. Freeway Road; the Tucson Indian Center, 97 E. Congress St.; Native Images, 2016 E. Broadway Blvd.; and the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, 375 S.…
Clash of the (S.F. Newspaper) Titans
Those of us in the alt-weekly newspaper world have been following–with a mixture of interest, amusement and horror–a trial putting the San Francisco Bay Guardian against S.F. Weekly. The Cliff’s Notes: The San Francisco Bay Guardian is one of the granddaddies of the alternative press; it’s been around for more than 40 years ago. The…
Web Site Go Boom
FYI, our main Web site–tucsonweekly.com is down. Please, everyone, remain calm. NO PANICKING!!!! Rest assured, our webmaster is on the case, and I am sure the Web site will be back up and running soon. Meanwhile, the blog is working fine (obviously, if you’re reading this), although the teasers to the main Web site and…
A Fall in the Presence of God
The folks at the Meet Rack–by far one of the most interesting dive bars in Tucson, if not the world–removed the semi-famous sign that stood in front of the bar earlier today. Meet Rack owner/former mayoral candidate Jim Anderson–aka God–was present for the removal, hugging the sign at one point before it was yanked down.…
Legal Eagles
Raptor advocates score a small victory in court
Nine Questions
Jason Burke
Voting Review
Pima County prepares to address election challenges and make changes
Rhythm & Views
Delayer, the Heavenly States’ third full-length, is even more energetic than their last album, Black Comet–an incredible feat, especially considering how many quiet songs are on this record. Black Comet was like sprinting down a hill after you just nearly killed yourself running up that hill; Delayer hits you with enough energy to go several…
Financial Bind
While lawmakers bicker over the budget, the state’s money problems worsen
Rhythm & Views
Greg Dulli–the pudgy-faced alt-rock lothario of the mid-’90s–has teamed up with Will Ferrell look-alike and former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan to form The Gutter Twins, whose first album blends roots rock and blues with histrionic goth trappings. It all results in an underwhelming debut. The problem is the lack of dynamic songwriting, paired with…
The Skinny
VIRTUAL SUCCESS The feds’ “virtual fence”–which employs high-tech sensors, radar, cameras and an MP3 player–is a huge success! We know this, because Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff told the press just last month that Project 28, the network of towers down near Sasabe that were equipped with sensors, radar, cameras and other technology, was working…
Rhythm & Views
Most immediately striking on this album by this Celtic band from Germany are the sublimely intertwined vocals of co-lead singers Gudrun Walther and Sandra Steinort. These two women are simply amazing, not the least because they also play various instruments: fiddle, viola and diatonic accordion for Walther; and piano and flute for Steinort. Their vocal…
Media Watch
KUAT Airs Third War Installment
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Incandescent Fairy Tales
The family of Turner G. Davis stars in his loving, yet occasionally dark fantasy paintings
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Kate Becker
Rise of the Radicals
David Berman extensively documents the history of anti-capitalism in the Mountain West
Police Dispatch
The Effects of Low Blood Sugar East Benson Highway, Feb. 5, 8:20 p.m. A dog-owning panhandler became enraged when his pet was given food, but he was not, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Employees at the TTT Truck Stop stated that they had been outside on their break when a homeless man…
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Pick of the Week
Collective Creativity
Eats and Ales
Good food, cold beer and a well-informed staff combine to create a great neighborhood brewery
Danehy
Tom and vegetarians can agree on one thing: The environmental costs of meat production need to be addressed
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Noshing Around
National Cereal Day Celebrate National Cereal Day at the Cereal Boxx on March 7. From 5 to 7 a.m., KOLD Channel 13 will broadcast live. During those two hours, any cereal, parfait or oatmeal with a beverage can be purchased for a 50 percent discount. Contests will be held at 3 and 4 p.m., but…
O’Sullivan
After the news surrounding the latest beef recall, Catherine has eaten her last hamburger
Expect the Expected
‘City of Men’ is almost tolerable, if you go in with really, really low expectations
Live
Lymbyc Systym, This Will Destroy You, Solar Culture Gallery, Wednesday, Feb. 27
Guest Commentary
Celebrate Tucson’s diversity with a game of bilingual Scrabble
Fun With Ferrell
‘Semi-Pro’ is better than most comedies, but that’s not saying much
Dancin’ in the Seats
Angelique Kidjo, ‘the face of Africa,’ heads for Tucson after winning her first Grammy
¡Ask a Mexican!
Many gabachos have long wondered about the galaxy of godparents that surround Mexicans from birth to death.
Now Showing at Home
“The Darjeeling Limited,” “Walker,” “The Sporting Life”
In With the New
The premiere concert by Thom Lewis Dance launches a busy week of dance in the Old Pueblo
Change Is Afoot
A note from the editor.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Sophisticated Collaboration
Beach House’s spooky, sexy work may just enhance Baltimore’s musical reputation
Fluid Situation
What does the future hold for Tucson’s water supply? Only one thing is certain: It’s all going to cost more.
Soundbites
WXSW TO AND FROM SXSW Ah, Tucson in March. Can you smell it? No, not the blooms on the bushes, but the sweet, sweet smell of tires meeting pavement, courtesy of vans full of bands making their way to Austin, Texas, for yet another round of South by Southwest, the biggest dang music conference in…
