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A Mythic Proposition
Rex Swift wears a confident smile as he receives a rousing round of applause from the conservative crowd at the Thursday Morning Breakfast Club on a recent sunny morning. “The problem,” explains Swift, “is that government is doing far too many things that the private sector could do, at much too high a cost.” This…
Artistic Range: Ed Mell at the Tucson Museum of Art
“Renewal,” 2001, oil on linen by Ed Mell, whose work is on exhibit alongside Andy Warhol and David Tineo at downtown’s Tucson Museum of Art. See all of it at this weekend’s delectable Crush Wine, Food, Art Festival con April 9-10. Details on the delicious fundraiser here.
Jon Stewart Demolishes McCain’s Flip-Flops
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c <td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'Say Anything www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform Jon Stewart on McCain’s claim to have never considered himself to be a maverick: “I’ll give you a moment to scrape your brains off the ceiling.”
AZ Chamber Vs. Clean Elections
SCR 1009, a bill that would ask voters to block public funds from being spent on political campaigns (and thus gut Clean Elections), is scheduled for a hearing today in today in the House Commerce Committee. Last week, it was held because it didn’t have the votes to pass. The Arizona Chamber of Commerce has…
Glassman In Senate Race; Who Replaces Him On Tucson City Council?
Democrat Rodney Glassman gave up his City Council seat after less than three years serving Ward 2 to jump into the race for U.S. Sen. John McCain’s seat. Given the current national mood and his lack of name ID statewide, we’d rate his chances as low, unless Republican J.D. Hayworth somehow wins the primary or…
CD8: First Televised GOP Debate on Arizona Illustrated
The four Republicans seeking to unseat Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords—Jonathan Paton, Jesse Kelly, Andy Goss and Brian Miller—did their first televised debate last night on Arizona Illustrated. Watch it after the jump. And don’t forget: This Sunday, April 11, Arizona Public Media is hosting forum on the sales-tax proposition on the May 18 ballot at…
Munger: Man with a Plan
Republican John Munger debuts a 15-second TV ad. It’s thin on details, unless you’re wondering where his Web site is.
Got Poetry? It’s National Poetry Month
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GOP Tax Cut Plan Hitting Choppy Waters
The House GOP tax-cut plan that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest Arizonans and corporations while increasing taxes on homeowners has hit a snag. Howie has the details here. Senate President Bob Burns speaks a bit of common sense about the idea of the tax cuts: Senate President Bob Burns, R-Peoria, said he can’t support reducing state…
Festival en el Barrio Viejo Video Extravaganza!
Miss the Festival in El Barrio Viejo last weekend? We’ve got videos from the performances of Calexico, Courtney Robbins, Sergio Mendoza ya la Orkesta and Salvador Duran at TucsonWeeklyTV.com. Related Stories
Pima County Democrats: Sales-Tax Hike “Lesser of Two Evils”
The Pima County Democratic Party endorses Prop 100, but isn’t happy about embracing a regressive tax hike: The Pima County Democratic Party reluctantly endorses Proposition 100, a half-cent sales tax unfortunately necessary because of the wrong-headed policies, fiscal mismanagement and lack of courage demonstrated by the Republican-controlled Legislature and Jan Brewer. Brewer has been at…
Farley Report: Legislative Session Ends This Week?
Is Sine Die around the corner? The latest from Rep. Steve Farley: Howdy, Friends O’Farley… Could they really be that foolhardy? I know that is a question that may have entered your mind from time to time regarding the Governor and Legislative majority. And recent history has seemed to suggest an affirmative answer more often…
AZ Economic Freefall Continues
Another depressing reality check for the state’s financial picture: We still have not hit bottom in our declining tax revenues. The lagging sales tax is one big reason. Retail sales were down by at 5.8 percent compared to February 2009, which was relatively good compared to the contracting sales tax, which was nearly 40 percent…
A Legislative Health-Care Debate
Here’s an exchange between Republican John Kavanagh and Democrat Kyrsten Sinema that gives some insight into where legislative Republicans and Democrats are coming from on the health-care debate in Phoenix.
Arizona Illustrated: Political Face-Off
Republican Bruce Ash battles Democrat Paul Eckerstrom on KUAT-TV’s Arizona Illustrated, after the jump. Both support the sales-tax proposition on the November ballot, although both have reservations. Tonight on Arizona Illustrated: The four GOP candidates who want a shot at Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords debate in a forum moderated by anchor Bill Buckmaster. Catch it…
We Told You So: Corpses on Congress
We said that Bodies was coming to Tucson last week and everyone thought it was just an April Fool’s Day hoax. Well, today the morning daily reports: A controversial exhibit featuring plasticized corpses is coming to Tucson. “Bodies . . . The Exhibition” will be at the Rialto Block, 300 E. Congress St., starting in…
Mind and Brain Lecture Series Winds Up
The UA’s Mind and Brain lecture series wraps up tonight with “Morality and the Emotional Brain.” Shaun Nichols, a professor of philosophy, will discuss: Does morality come from the emotions, or from rational thought? Philosophers have struggled with this question for centuries. Recent work in cognitive science suggests that emotions play a critical role in…
Playboy Comes To Tucson
Former PAC-10 model and Playmate Juliette Frette: “Playboy is not something to be taken lightly.” Brittany Munsee was abuzz following her audition for Playboy’s upcoming “Girls of the Pac-10” pictorial today. “Me and my sisters watched The Girls Next Door and I always wanted to try it out,” says Munsee, a UA English major from…
Republican Brian Miller on Paton’s Half-Million-Dollar Haul: “Is This Democracy? Or Just More Bought-and-Paid-For Politics As Usual?”
Republican Brian Miller responds to the news that Jonathan Paton, his rival for the Republican nomination in CD8 to run against Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, has raised a half-million dollars in the first quarter: Brian Miller raised over $60,000 in the 1st Quarter from many hundreds of donors within Congressional District 8. Nearly 100 people donated…
Walden Out Of Senate Race
Nan Walden has announced she won’t seek U.S. Sen. John McCain’s seat this year. That leaves the Democratic field to Tucson City Councilman Rodney Glassman, whose announcement is imminent.
CD8: Jonathan Paton Is the Half-Million Dollar Man
Republican Jonathan Paton, one of four GOP candidates looking for the chance to take on Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this November, announced today that he had raised more than a half-million dollars before the end of the first-quarter filing period. “I’m very proud that we did as well as we did when we were told…
Artistic Range: Dirk Arnold’s Gateway Saguaro
“Gateway Saguaro,” by Dirk Arnold, a new public art installation on Miracle Mile near Drachman Street. Come to a lighting ceremony for the new work tonight between 6:15 and 7 p.m. Details after the jump.
Picture This: Tucson Nightlights
ALEX BUDISH Light streams across a midnight road through the west side of Interstate 10.
CD8: Paton Camp Raises A Half-Million Dollars
Republican Jonathan Paton reports that he has raised more than a half-million dollars for his campaign against Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords: In his first nine weeks as a candidate, Jonathan Paton has already topped an impressive $500,000 in contributions from more than 1,000 individual donors – a total that is expected to place Paton among the…
School Budget Crisis Times Three
According to an Arizona Education Network press release, the Amphitheater School District’s three high schools are sponsoring three forums this week on the state budget crisis and education: Amphitheater High School PTO, Canyon Del Oro (CDO) High School PO, and Ironwood Ridge High School NPO are sponsoring a series of three forums in the Amphitheater…
EARTHQUAKE!!!
So I am sitting at home in the recliner, doing some copy-editing on my laptop, when all of a sudden, it feels like the chair is … shaking. I turn to the significant other and tell him it feels like my chair is vibrating or something. He looks at me like I am a loon.…
Festival en el Barrio Viejo: Celebration of Community and Rockin’ Good Time, Besides
Photo by Aleksa Brown Calexico frontman Joey Burns Wandering past the Tucson Weekly’s old downtown offices brought back a wave of nostalgia during yesterday’s Festival en el Barrio Viejo, especially since my old partner in crime, Hector Acuña, was here in Tucson for the block party with wife Lisa Weeks and their new baby, Casey.…
Festival en el Barrio Viejo: A Barrio Exorcism
While I watched Joey Burns of Calexico spit gritas into the microphone at yesterday’s Festival en el Barrio Viejo, I couldn’t help but think that he was finishing an exorcism of Tucson’s demons—an exorcism long overdue—that started back when the festival gates off Cushing Street opened a little before 1 p.m. yesterday, April 3. Why…
Back to Bike Basics
A clunker car I had completely died a couple of weeks ago, and there’s is some competition for what will become the other “family” car. In the meantime, though, I finally took my bike to Ordinary Bike Shop (it’s in my neighborhood) for a few repairs so I could regain my independence. While the repairs…
Picture This: University Art Walk
ALEX BUDISH Paul Fielding, with the glasses, take a stroll with his friend Ravi Garg on Park Avenue.
An Autism Awareness Month Story
A story in honor of Autism Awareness Month: I spent three days visiting the Grand Canyon this week with about 40 elementary school kids from Miles Exploratory Learning Center, a K-8 TUSD school on Broadway Boulevard. I’ve been back for two days, and I’m tired and now sick—my immune system is not used to being…
Picture This: Sky’s the Limit
JOSHUA MORGAN Richard Knotts leans on a handrail at Arizona State University. Knotts waited for a security guard to pass by a 13-stair handrail before attempting to skate the rail. He didn’t do the trick.
Tonight After Festival En El Barrio Viejo…
Head on down to Plush for the Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout record release show. More details here. Mostly Bears is also playing tonight— their show is at Skrappy’s. Get the details here. Acorn Bcorn is playing a show at the Red Room, click here for more information.
Hi Corbett: “As Old-School As a Flannel Uniform”
ALEX BUDISH Farewell to Hi Corbett, an aging temple of baseball where the players meet the fans. Jim Caple at ESPN gets it right about Hi Corbett: Hi Corbett feels more like the way spring training once was, when a team’s objective was to get overweight players back in shape after a winter peddling insurance…
Tommorow: Festival en el Barrio Viejo!
Details—and a free Calexico download—here. Related Stories
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ Sunny Day
Ten days after the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of President Obama’s landmark health care package, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is ready to move on to one of her favorite topics: solar energy. Giffords was joined by 50 or so of Arizona’s solar boosters for a tour of Tucson Electric Power’s solar test bed…
Daily Kos: J.D. Hayworth Crushes Giffords/Glassman/Walden
Rasmussen recently had J.D. Hayworth just 7 percentage points behind U.S. Sen. John McCain in this year’s GOP primary. McCain’s camp had said its polls have him up by 20 points. Daily Kos puts McCain closer to reality at 15 points. Another interesting tidbit: On the general election front, we tested two fairly well-known but…
Bowden on Ciudad Juarez: “I Thought I’d Stumbled Into Hell”
Charles Bowden at Time: Last week during the day, some kids in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were playing soccer in a park when a car slowed down, guys got out and executed a 13-year-old boy. And then they drove away, unmolested in a city with 11,000 army and police officers. The Mexican government repeatedly states that…
Tucson Jazz Institute Musicians Win Honors
Doug Tidaback, director of Big Bands at Tucson Jazz Institute (www.tucsonjazzinstitute.org), gave us the heads up on some recent honors and events. Tucson Jazz Institute Ellington Band was awarded First Place Community Jazz Band in the Essentially Ellington competition and has been invited to perform at Lincoln Center in New York City in May. The…
Friday Roundtable: Spring Training, The Arizona Legislature & More Border Woes
We run down the events of the week on Arizona Illustrated’s Friday Roundtable. Watch it after the jump. BTW: You’re invited to an Arizona Public Media one-hour special on the sales-tax initiative at the UA Stevie Eller Dance Studio on Sunday, April 11. Arizona Illustrated anchor Bill Buckmaster will be moderating the forum and Linda…
Friday Roundtable: Congressman Raul Grijalva
Congressman Raul Grijalva stopped by Arizona Illustrated’s Friday Roundtable to talk about immigration, health-care and baseball. Check it out after the jump.
Goodbye, Rockies. Hello, Tokyo?
ALEX BUDISH Jason Giambi came up to bat for Colorado Rockies with the bases loaded during the last day of spring training at Hi Corbett Field on Wednesday, March 31. A handful of fans called out “Steroids!” I reckon that’s a big part of Giambi’s legacy, but I thought back to another time that that…
Picture This: La Placita
ALEX BUDISH Colors abound in downtown Tucson’s La Placita. ALEX BUDISH Street lights illuminate the colorful La Placita office buildings in downtown Tucson.
Corporate Tax Cut/Homeowner Property Tax Hike On The Legislature’s Agenda
The tax package that would cut taxes on Arizona’s wealthiest residents and businesses and increase taxes on homeowners is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, April 7. Senate President Bob Burns had previously stalled the bill, which is expected to cost the state $942 million in tax revenue once it’s…
First Friday Shorts at the Loft Cinema
It’s time again for First Friday Shorts at the Loft Cinema! Join “Red Meat” cartoonist Max Cannon and see what your fellow Tucsonans have cooked up this month. We hear a lot of buzz on The Cordial Dead, which will be premiering tonight! Details here. Also at the Loft: North Face, A Prophet and Fish…
Sunnyside High School’s Wrestling Championship Coach
Elindenews.com A multimedia slideshow produced by Josh T. Saunders for Elindenews.com Watch and listen to Coach Bobby DeBerry of Sunnyside High School’s undisputed wrestling champions. Click on the image to take you to El Independiente’s Web site. Slideshow produced by Josh T. Saunders, the Web editor for El Independiente, the South Tucson bilingual newspaper.
Picture This: Ghosts of Mini-Golf Past
JOSHUA MORGAN From left: Darrin Wood, Michael Duarte, Orlando Rivera and Christa Oertwig prove that there’s still magic at the abandoned Magic Carpet Golf miniature golf course.
HiRISE: Your Wish Is Their Command
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona The Christian Science Monitor reports on the HiWish program run by Alfred McEwen and the HiRISE team at the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab: Scientists with NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter yesterday released the craft’s first images of the Martian surface taken at the behest of everyday folks with a keen interest in…
Sierra Club Update: “As If The Legislature Has Not Done Enough Damage Or Introduced Enough Ridiculous, Senseless and Truly Harmful Legislation…”
The latest dispatch from Sierra Club lobbyist Sandy Bahr: “You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.” — Lyndon B. Johnson April 2, 2010 Hi everyone! As…
Writer’s Block: Mary Ann Hutchison
Local author Mary Ann Hutchison has written her first novel. She will be signing copies of her book during the Mariachi Conference on Saturday, April 24, at Reid Park. Moochi’s Mariachis Open Books Press 194 pages, $15 Summary: Their teen friendship is tight. It’s forged by their love of music and their dream. It seemed…
Andrew Thomas In Arizona AG Race
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has announced he’s running for Arizona Attorney General. Ray Stern of Phoenix New Times has details: The move has long been anticipated, but some pundits have wondered whether Thomas’ political — and potentially legal — problems would keep him in place as county attorney. Thomas has been accused of abusing…
Ban on Texting While Driving May Finally Roll Into Law
Written by Alec Nielson/ArizonaNewsService.com PHOENIX—After some false starts—and a recent near-death experience—a ban on texting behind the wheel faces one final hurdle in the Arizona Legislature. If the legislation passes and Gov. Jan Brewer signs it, Arizona will join 20 states and the District of Columbia in barring drivers from sending a text message, peeking…
Corpses on Congress
The Downtown Tucson Partnership has a big announcement next Tuesday about the future of the the Rialto building that surrounds the Rialto Theatre. We hear the display—being billed as a “world-class scientific exhibition”—is one of those shows of posed dead bodies. Our alternative brethren up in Seattle review one of the shows: The first thing…
Picture This: Spring Training
ALEX BUDISH Colorado Rockies fans like Bryce Raymond of Colorado, left, line up for autographs from their favorite players at the penultimate spring training game in Tucson.
Martian North Pole
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona A new batch of photos from the HiRISE camera have been posted online. These shots are from the HiWish suggestions made by members of the public. HiRISE team member Shane Byrne tells us about this shot of the Martian north pole: Sometimes icy layers can be ablated away during warm climates. Later…
Miss Yesterday’s Science/Media Lecture? We’ve Got the Video
For those of you who missed scientist-turned filmmaker Randy Olson’s science and media lecture at the UA yesterday, here’s a clip where the former Marine biologist discusses two PSAs in his Shifting Baselines Ocean Media Project. One of which features Jack Black and a host of other celebrities.
Picture This: Moon Over Tucson
ALEX BUDISH Moon looms over Downtown’s iconic copper building.
Boy Meets Reptile
In the Viking village of Berk, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) is the unlikeliest hero imaginable. Surrounded by burly, bearded Norsemen, Hiccup is a clumsy flyweight whose every effort to help the village fight the many airborne attacks by hordes of dragons backfires. But when he wounds the feared Night Fury dragon with a one-in-a-million…
Noshing Around
Food Wars; New Farmers’ Markets; Diablos Sports Bar and Grill; Guiseppe’s
A Lot Going On
Ask the members of Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout a simple question—in this case, “How do you all know each other?”—and all four members launch into overlapping stories, constantly interrupting and talking over each other, about random high school parties, childhood bands and Hitler on a stick. One question has been asked; 15 minutes…
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Readers: In honor of April Fools’ Day, I turn this column over to Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, to answer your preguntas. Enjoy! Dear Mexican: I’m a white, college-educated, liberal, Democrat, socialist U.S. citizen. I don’t have any problem with Mexicans coming here to get a good job. From your perspective, why…
Live
Ramsey Lewis Trio and Patti Austin
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
Glorious Meat ‘n’ Potatoes
Sometimes you have to appreciate the beauty of simplicity. Do one thing, and do it well. It seems that so many restaurants these days are trying to please everyone, creating menus that are veritable tomes and doling out overly large portions of mediocrity. Our collective palate has been so dulled by sodium- and preservative-drenched foods…
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Guest Opinion
The finales of Cactus League baseball at Tucson Electric Park and Hi Corbett Field were played earlier this week, representing another loss for the “little guy” under the poor leadership of Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. The greater metropolitan Phoenix area needs another spring training tenant like the desert needs another dune buggy, yet…
Top Ten in Music
The 17th St. Guitar and World Music Store top sales for the week
Fun With Comments
Have you been to TucsonWeekly.com lately? If you haven’t, you’re missing out on some really … um, interesting conversations in the comments sections. Some gems from the last week: • After Jim Nintzel took to The Range, our daily dispatch, to analyze some of Sarah Palin’s statements about John McCain during her Tucson appearance last…
Printing Laughs
Jay C. Cotner and Jacob Brown wear many hats. I mean literally: These two workhorses who bring Gutenberg! The Musical! to hilarious life actually wear hats—black-and-white baseball caps, to be exact—to help us differentiate a host of characters in their play within the play. Arizona Onstage Productions, which brings us this silly slice of fun…
Capturing the Zeitgeist
In the cataclysmic year of 1968, Andy Warhol brought a cavalcade of hipsters from the Big Apple to the Baked Apple. The plan was to shoot Warhol’s gay Lonesome Cowboys flick at Old Tucson Studios, a movie set more accustomed to John Wayne than the mop-top pop artist from New York City. Not surprisingly, cultures…
‘Summer’ Comes to Pima
The Pima Community College Theatre Arts program wanted to end its season in a big way. “This show is massive,” said Frank Pickard about William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which he is directing. “It’s very unique that we have such a big show as our last show for this season.” Pima’s production of A…
T Q&A
Lori Kiefer
City Week
Dispatches: The Killing Zone screening; Author M.E. Harrigan; Author Karen Anderson; Papers screening
Brave New Future
A year ago, I ran into Charlie Keating at an ice-cream parlor in a ritzy suburb of Phoenix. Keating, you’ll recall, was one of the major players behind the savings-and-loan crisis back in the ’80s and actually did some prison time. He told me, “You know, if all that had happened today, they (the government)…
Weekly Wide Web
If you like your Web sites easily navigable, you should avoid any URL ending in .gov. Recovery.gov may be the best-designed government Web site we can find. However, that’s a bit like saying Tucson is the ski capital of Southern Arizona—it’s technically true, but it doesn’t count for much. From October through December 2009, according…
Soundbites
It’s festival season; in the barrio; transmogrify this!; short takes; on the bandwagon
Canned Hunt
Every few years, as if on cue, a Phoenix-based hunting cabal launches a ham-fisted power grab. Back in 2000, under the name Arizonans for Wildlife Conservation, the group unsuccessfully pushed a ballot measure aimed at squashing the public’s ability to enact hunting restrictions. The goal? To block a replay of 1994, when a voters’ initiative…
Mailbag
Claim: First Things First Article Was a ‘Slap in the Face’ Tim Vanderpool’s article, “First Things First?” (Currents, March 11) was a slap in the face to an effort that has made significant improvements in the lives of young children in Arizona. You forgot to mention that because of First Things First funding in Central…
Now Showing at Home
Toy Story and Toy Story 2 (Blu-ray); Fantastic Mr. Fox (Blu-ray); The Men Who Stare at Goats (Blu-ray)
Borrowed Money
A policy disagreement over Pima County’s debt has apparently become personal. Supervisor Ray Carroll says a member of the county’s Bond Advisory Committee has filed a complaint against him with the Arizona Attorney General’s office in retaliation for his outspokenness on the debt issue. A spokeswoman for that office declined to comment, and the person…
Police Dispatch
Extreme parking-lot rage; let’s do it in the cart
Surfer Blood: Astro Coast (Kanine)
Astro Coast, the debut from West Palm Beach, Fla., quintet Surfer Blood, stitches together the big hooks of party rock, a bit of ’80s synth, surf-inflected indie rock and some dance-y Brit-pop. The band’s exuberance makes this an exciting and inviting record, but beyond the great first impression, Astro Coast begins to feel flat, with…
Border Gadgets
What do the Squid, the puke ray and the Transborder Immigrant Tool have in common? The first two were created with taxpayer money to help secure our borders against those who cross illegally. The Transborder Tool was created with taxpayer money to help people cross our borders illegally. Is your head spinning yet? Let’s see…
Danehy
If a bona fide jerk calls you a jerk, does that make you the opposite of a jerk, or are you a jerk squared? In the same manner, if a stoner calls you boring, what does that mean, exactly? You’ve got this guy who uses a drug that clouds his mind, dulls his coordination and…
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (Universal Motown)
These days, seemingly everyone in hip hop and R&B constructs a complicated mythology around their albums. Erykah Badu is now getting in on the myth-making racket. She says her new album is subtitled “Return of the Ankh,” because the ankh is, like, her favorite symbol, and she is really, really into Egyptian mythology. Also, this…
The Skinny
John McCain pals around with Sarah Palin … more sick news from the state’s health-care battle with the feds … school’s out for TUSD boss Elizabeth Celania-Fagen … and more!
Downing
I went to Phoenix, and it was good. That is one string of words I never thought I’d produce. I’ve always loathed Phoenix and all it stands for—or, more precisely, all it rolls over for—and I’ve clung like a starving limpet to Tucson since I first got my cut-off-clad ass to the UA in 1973.…
Titus Andronicus: The Monitor (XL)
One of the more impressive young bands to revel in loud, sloppy angst is New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus. The Monitor may be loosely based on the Civil War, but it is certifiably ambitious and remarkable. Few young bands show the willingness to incorporate or even attempt the range of styles and ideas that Titus Andronicus…
Media Watch
Arnold leaving KOLD after a decade; Benson leaves KVOA for a position in Florida
Misguided Youth
A movie like Fish Tank leads to conflicted feelings. On one hand, it’s terrific to see a gifted director coming into her own, and a young, talented actress grabbing a role and refusing to let go. On the other, it’s a major downer, because director and star are doing an effective job of depicting miserable,…
Nine Questions
Neil Collins
Lyons Out at Downtown Partnership
Glenn Lyons, executive director of the Downtown Tucson Partnership, is on his way out of town. The release from DTA: Glenn Lyons will be leaving his position as CEO of the Downtown Tucson Partnership in May to lead a similar public-private group in Des Moines, Iowa. Lyons has accepted a position as President and CEO…
Glassman on Arizona Illustrated: Senate Announcement Looms
City Councilman Rodney Glassman rehearsed for his upcoming Senate campaign on Arizona Illustrated last night. You can watch his segment with Bill Buckmaster after the jump. Look for him to announce his plans to seek McCain’s seat next week.
Calexico Headlines Festival in El Barrio Viejo
Just Press Play: Calexico performs at the Backyard, Austin, Texas, on May 5, 2004 You know where you want to be this Saturday, April 3: Festival en el Barrio Viejo! Calexico is headlining the all-day music festival in the streets of downtown’s Barrio Viejo to benefit KXCI. The show will include Sergio Mendoza y La…
