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For the Love of Tumamoc
It started with a sunrise and a cup of coffee. All love affairs start somewhere, and this one began at 5 a.m. on a desert winter morning as I hiked to the top of Tumamoc Hill with three friends. We went on a lark, coffee cups in hand, thinking it would be cool to start…
Missing Toddler Found in Claw Machine
A 3-year-old in Lincoln, Neb., wandered away from home and climbed into a claw machine in a nearby bowling alley. The child was found by an employee around the same time the mother called the police to report the child missing, according to WOWT NBC Omaha. Fortunately, the vendor was able to retrieve the unscathed…
USA TODAY Names Tucson One of the Best Cycling Cities in U.S.
Photo courtesy of shutterstock.com “George Hincapie nominated Tucson for, among other things, its strong winter appeal.” Stop me if you heard this one before, Tucson is a great cycling city. Maybe we’re biased, but Tucson was built for cyclist. If you won’t take our word for it, maybe USA TODAY Travel’s top 10 U.S. Cycling…
Get Real on Fraternities and Sororities on LGBT Equality?
According to the Canada-based Get Real organization, they’re “a university-student run non-profit that speaks to high school students about unlearning homophobia and embracing everyone.” And that’s cool and all, and the video making its way into our internet hearts is nice, too, but it wasn’t that long ago (almost 30 years, when I was in…
More From Our Interview With Steve Roach
In last week’s issue, we spoke with ambient composer Steve Roach about the 30th anniversary of his landmark album Structures from Silence. Originally issued in DIY fashion on cassette by Roach himself, the three-song suite quickly gained notice. On April 15th, the album sees deluxe treatment courtesy Projekt Records. In addition to a clarity-enriching remastering…
Republican Legislators Caravan To The Bundy Ranch
It’s crazy up at the legislature right now, what with the recent passage of the budget and the rush to push through a bunch of bills so everyone can go home. And, not surprisingly, it’s crazy time as well. Five Republican legislators went to Mesquite, Nevada, over the weekend to support the rancher, Cliven Bundy,…
Banksy’s Latest Piece Will Be Used to Save a Boys Club
The latest piece of street art by Banksy went missing, but it magically reappeared in the most unlikely of places. During an interview with CCTV, Broad Plain Boys Club Manager Dennis Stinchcombe said he removed Banksy’s “Phone Lovers” from a wall on Clement Street and plans to sell it for hundreds of thousands of pounds…
Tucson Artist Nancy Tokar Miller Dies
Nancy Tokar Miller, an acclaimed painter often called Tucson’s best artist, died Tuesday after a long illness. She was known for her shimmering near-abstractions of land, sea and sky, painted in brilliant, liquid colors. Born in 1941, Tokar Miller grew up in Los Angeles, near the ocean, but she had lived in Tucson since 1968.…
Best Game of Jenga Ever
I was never good at Jenga, or anything that requires a steady hand. Caterpillar used the 320E, TH514C, 277D, M316D and 349E to play a monstrous game of Jenga. One crane operator on the ground directed five other Cat drivers while they maneuvered and reordered 27 massive wooden blocks one at a time.
The ‘Hey Dude’ Ranch is Still Out There
It’s been 25 years since Nickelodeon’s Hey Dude was on the air. But the memories still haunt the abandoned set at the Tanque Verde Ranch. Florida filmmaker Adam The Woo made a special trip to the outskirts of the Old Pueblo and captured some footage of the hardly memorable set to one of Nick’s earliest…
Kids Vs. Cassette Players
There was a simpler time when a device like the cassette player was a practical household item. Now, that ancient piece of technology has been long forgotten, and a good way to stump a know-it-all child. Benny and Rafi Fine recorded the reactions of various young people of Generation Z while they try to figure…
CD2: Barber Raises $422K in First Quarter
As the deadline for FEC fundraising reports closes in, Congressman Ron Barber’s team tells the Weekly he has raised more than $422,000 in the first quarter of 2014. While that’s a big number for Barber, it still lags behind the nearly $450,000 that likely GOP opponent Martha McSally reported raising last week. Barber is still…
Tucsonans Go to School on Broken Bells’ Perfection
A super-group of two, Broken Bells played to a packed house that expected the best on Sunday night, April 13 at the Rialto Theatre. Minds, and expectations, were blown. The duo, comprising producer and recording artist Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, and the Shins’ James Mercer delivered a 360-degree experience that was perfect in every…
104.1 Dumps Truth, Adds News Block, Moves Justice
It’s no longer The Truth. It’s no longer “Right Talk for Tucson.” But it is more local, and it will hope to use that local appeal to improve its standing against the nation’s top talker. KQTH 104.1 FM, the market’s lone news/talk FM, will on Monday follow the lead of stations in other cities and…
Funny or Die Creates a ‘Cosmos’ for Creationists
Creationist Cosmos from Funny Or Die Would you like to be a fan of COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey but you believe in God? Funny or Die has made this COSMOS parody, and it’s much shorter and “informative” than the Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s version. Creationist Cosmos host Jared, community outreach leader for the Creationist Baptist Church…
A Multi-Layered Tale Of Teacher Layoffs, Seniority And Test Scores
Image courtesy of shutterstock.com Stories about education rarely bring up as many interesting questions as this tale of teacher layoffs in Los Angeles. The Tale, Part 1: Because of budget cuts, teachers were being laid off all over the L.A. school district. The district’s seniority policy dictated that last hired teachers would be the first…
Celebrate Whiskey Del Bac This Week at Scott and Co.
The three varieties of Whiskey Del Bac largely disappeared quickly, and that’s without really any actual retail distribution, but apparently the first batch is apparently coming to an end at Scott & Co. this week (although I remain convinced someone is hoarding a case of the stuff somewhere). Celebrating the local booze, the artisan bartenders…
Neko Case Brings It Home to the Rialto
Neko Case has had several homes, the most recent a farm in Vermont. But Saturday night at the Rialto, she seemed very much in touch with the time she’s spent as a Tucsonan and the friends she’s made here. Occasionally portrayed as seeming prickly, Case was obviously attitude-free on Saturday. She built an easy rapport…
No One Explains Passover Better Than Rugrats
Rugrats: “A Rugrats Passover” Get More: Rugrats Episodes,Rugrats,Rugrats Games If you don’t understand something, the Rugrats probably has an episode dedicated to it. Nickelodeon is streaming the infamous Rugrats Passover episode in honor of the first night of the Jewish Holiday. This highly enjoyable episode was nominated for multiple awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award,…
This Southwest Flight Attendant Should be a Stand-Up Comedian
I fly almost exclusively with Southwest Airlines. I don’t know if it’s because flights are cheap, bags fly free or that one time, they bumped me up to first class and the beautiful flight attendant got me drunk. I guess that was another airline, but I was so drunk I thought I was on a…
Reason #273 Why Baseball Pranks Are the Best Pranks
Tonight marks the latest edition of Tucson’s final Triple-A baseball game, as the El Paso Chihuahuas wrap up their temporary use of the Kino Stadium as their home field with a 6:35 p.m. clash against the Reno Aces. Free tickets to the game are available at any Eegee’s location, which is as good a reason…
House Majority Backs Hits Back Against LIBRE Ads
The House Majority PAC, which supports Democratic congressional candidates, is responding to the LIBRE Initiative’s recent TV ads criticizing U.S. Reps. Ron Barber (D-CD2) and Ann Kirkpatrick (D-CD1) with a $365,000 ad buy targeting Republicans Martha McSally (who hopes to unseat Barber) and Andy Tobin, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives who is…
Seth MacFarlane and His Peculiar Distaste For Tucson
I’m the last person you’d call a Tucson apologist, but even I’m starting to get a little uncomfortable with all of the bashing our community has gotten from long-running animated sitcom Family Guy. The latest jab at the Old Pueblo came in Sunday night’s episode, when after Lois and the Griffin family were worried that…
So Long, Aaron Gordon; Try Not To Take Everyone Else With You
The interwebs, the Twittersphere and everywhere else that “breaking news” can be found nowadays is full of reports today that Aaron Gordon is going to declare for the NBA Draft … sometime this week. And the modern streetcar is going to start operating. At some point. Probably. You heard it here first! Why Gordon’s impending…
Ed Shorts: “Opt Out Of Standardized Testing” Edition
Image courtesy of shutterstock.com In the past few days, I’ve posted a video about the local and national Opt Out Movement and an op ed from a principal in Brooklyn, NY, criticizing the Common Core tests her students took and her inability to talk about specifics because of a state-imposed gag order. The Opt Out…
Plush Sold and Renamed Flycatcher
After 13 and a half years, the Plush era on Fourth Avenue will officially come to a close on Monday, April 14, with the establishment reopening the next business day as The Flycatcher. The smoky swanky nightclub, formerly known as Café Sweetwater, located on 340 East Sixth Street was sold and renamed as Plush in…
Today: “Borderland” Screening and Q&A with Al Jazeera America Producer
A new Al Jazeera America documentary series, Borderland, premieres today, with the first episode featuring Tucson organization No More Deaths, Pima County Medical Examiner Greg Hess and other familiar border-associated folks. A screening and Q&A takes place this evening in the UA School of Journalism’s student lounge on the third floor in the Marshall Building…
Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller’s Chief of Staff Quits Amid Turmoil in District 1 Office
Details remain sketchy, but The Range has learned from multiple sources today that Jennifer Coyle, the chief of staff for Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller, resigned from her post earlier this week. While accounts vary among our various sources, it appears that a personality conflict was at the root of Coyle’s decision to step down.…
AZ Illustrated Politics: State Budget, City Budget, Saving the A-10 & More
On last night’s AZ Illustrated Politics: National Republican Committeeman Bruce Ash and Pima County Democratic Party Latino Caucus Chairman Vince Rabago unpacked the winners and losers in this year’s state budget; defended the city’s policy of allowing cops and firefighters to sell back unused sick time, which has come under fire from some Tucson City…
Squeaking Baby Sloth Video of the Day
Sloth Squeak! from Lucy Cooke on Vimeo It’s Friday and everyone at Tucson Weekly HQ is gearing up for some Triple A baseball action, so we are enjoying some cute animal videos to get pumped up. Nothing gets us more amped than watching videos of cute animal that might cease to exist. That’s right, Ranger.…
Singer-Songwriter Jesse Winchester Dead at 69
NPR has reported that singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester passed away Friday morning. Wincheseter was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus in 2011. The Juno award-winning vocalist collaborated with The Everly Brothers, Wynona Judd, Jimmy Buffett and Elvis Costello. From NPR: Winchester, like hundreds of thousands of other anti-war protesters who left the country or otherwise avoided…
Things to Do on a Friday Night: Pennington Street Block Party
Here’s an excuse to put on some pants and turn off the Netflix machine. The students and faculty of City High and local sponsors are hosting the sixth annual Pennington Street Block Party from 4 to 7 p.m. on Pennington Street. The block will be closed from will be closed from South Stone to North…
I Could Tell You What’s On The Common Core Test, But Then I’d Have To Kill You
Image courtesy of shutterstock.com A principal in Brooklyn, NY, doesn’t much like the Common Core tests her students had to take. She’d like to tell you why, but she can’t. I’d like to tell you what was wrong with the tests my students took last week, but I can’t. Pearson’s $32 million contract with New…
Take a Tour of Colonia Solana
One of Tucson’s finest midtown neighborhoods is Colonia Solana, which is filled with stately mansions along the winding roads just west of El Con Mall. You can get a peek inside many of those fine homes between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, April 12, during a home tour of the historic properties. Tickets are…
CD1: Kirkpatrick Raises Nearly $325,000 In First Quarter of 2014
As The Range noted yesterday, congressional candidates will be announcing their first-quarter fundraising hauls over the next week ahead of the April 15 filing deadline. Today, Congressional District 1 incumbent Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick announced she had raised nearly $325,000 between Jan. 1 and March 31 and had had mroe than $1 million on hand. Kirkpatrick…
Spring Above Dance Party this Saturday
Had a rough week and you just want to dance? DJs E_Rupt & DanH are hosting a “dance rock/rock dance party” starting at 9 p.m. at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St. Live performances covering LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, The Juan Maclean and Holy Ghost by some talented local musicians. Tickets are only $5 at the…
Want To Opt Your Child Out Of AIMS Testing? Sorry, Can’t Be Done.
AIMS testing is a requirement for every child in grades 3 though 8. Parents can’t opt their children out of the tests, except through one maneuver which jeopardizes their children’s education. But some local parents, fed up with the high stakes testing regimen and upset with their lack of choice in the matter, are joining…
The War on Drugs Delivers the Goods at Congress
Fans of smart, hard hitting and emotionally unguarded pop-rock had a mid-week treat on Tuesday, April 8, when The War on Drugs stopped at Club Congress on tour behind its buzz-busting new record Lost in a Dream. Luckily, our woman-on-the-scene C. Elliott took some photos for you. Get your Google on to find out more about…
Video: “Batman: Strange Days”
Batman turned 75 years old this month. We have seen The Cape Crusader transform into various beasts, but there’s that underlying element that makes him immortal. In honor of the Dark Knight’s 75th anniversary, Bruce Timm and Warner Bros. created this two-minute period piece that was influenced by Bob Kane’s original incarnation of the Batman.…
Cinema Showdown: Much Ado About The Surveillance State Edition
I don’t think I’ve ever been able to watch The Muppets after creator Jim Henson died in 1990. Besides being 12 years old and more interested in horror movies and boobs on Cinemax, I couldn’t get past Kermit the Frog’s weird new voice. If you’re like me, you’ll be happy knowing The Loft Cinema is…
CD2: McSally Raises Nearly $450K in First Quarter
With federal campaign-finance reports for the first quarter of 2014 due on April 15, you can expect to see a lot of campaigns releasing their totals over the next few days. The first one that we’ve seen comes from Republican Martha McSally, who had a titanic haul that fell just short of $450,000. McSally is…
Amazon Acquires ComiXology
The world’s largest online retailer has purchased Comixology for an undisclosed amount. Comixology is a cloud-based digital comics app that offers 40,000+ titles on smart devices and the Internet . All the major and independent comic book publishers use ComiXology to digitally distribute their comics and graphic novels. The comic book app officially launched in…
Cholos of the World Unite
I grew up in a community located in the South Tucson —Kino and 29th St. to be exact—that is referred to as the Vistas. I’ll never forget leaving my house to go to Cavett Elementary or Utterback Middle School and noticing various structures, walls and fences tagged by the residential gang members that referred to…
Stand With Monica: Stop Profiling Trans Women of Color
Today at 4 p.m. (Thursday, April 10), the Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP) will hold a rally in front of the Tucson Police Department headquarters, 270 S. Stone, “to demand justice and show support for Monica Jones, a student in the ASU School of Social Work who currently awaits trial after being profiled and falsely…
Tumamoc Hill: A User’s Guide
Mari Herreras’ story in this week’s issue gives us a great feel for Tumamoc Hill—its history, its culture and its many fans. If you want to try the hike, there are just three rules: No pets. No hiking on weekdays between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. And no messing with the plants and wildlife. Follow these tips…
Word Odyssey: Origin of the Almighty “Dollar”
A lot of books and blogs on etymology target odd words, many that you’ve never heard of, nor ever will again. These can be provocative. But for Word Odyssey, I prefer common, everyday words, words we take for granted, but which carry a rich history that is not commonly known. Now, there’s hardly an American…
Let’s Watch A Classic Football Movie on the Arizona Stadium Jumbotron
Arizona’s athletic department is going all out with marketing what it’s calling Super Wildcat Weekend from Thursday through Sunday, a collection of sporting events and activities meant to showcase nearly every UA sport that doesn’t use a basket. But maybe the most ambitious — and flat out fun — part of the lineup helps kick…
Soundbites
NEVER AS TIRED AS WHEN I’M WAKING UP Last week, we ran previews of most of the big shows coming to town this month which was a solid idea as far as alt-weekly features go, but that has made the Soundbites gig a little more difficult. But, hey, there’s still plenty to cover. Skipping Joe…
What’s (Way) Out There?
Finding Life in the Galaxy 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 12 Pima Air & Space Museum 6000 E. Valencia Road 574-0462; www.pimaair.org The Pima Air & Space Museum has developed a great reputation as a great place to learn about aircraft advancements and the history of flight. But the “space” part of the name doesn’t get…
Thinking Small
When most Americans go to India, they come back with lots of pictures. So did Alisa Basila. But along with her photos, she and a few of her friends brought back an idea. Basila, a senior in the UA’s Eller College of Management, went to India with a study-abroad group in the summer of 2012…
Baseball Like It Used To Be
5th Annual Copper City Classic Vintage Baseball Tournament 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 12 and Sunday, April 13 Warren Ballpark, corner of Arizona Street and Ruppe Road, Bisbee (520) 432-3813; www.friendsofwarrenballpark.com Major League Baseball just held its Opening Day last week, with 30 teams full of world-class athletes starting a long season of…
Sports
It’s been a little more than 10 years since Joe Kay’s life changed forever. And during that time, one of Tucson’s most inspirational athletes has made it his life’s work to help others who have gone through a similar change. Kay was a promising multisport star at Tucson High in February 2004 when, after helping…
Young & Sick: Young & Sick
It makes sense that Dutch-turned-Los-Angeleno artist Nick Van Mofwegian is opening for Foster the People on their way to Coachella. Under the brand Young & Sick, he designed the covers for both of their albums, as well as ones for Maroon 5 and Robin Thicke, and a line of clothes for Urban Outfitters. No successful…
Latin Swings
While the November election is still seven months away, surrogates in Southern Arizona’s two big congressional races are already taking swings at the candidates. The newest player on the scene is the LIBRE Initiative, a dark-money, Texas-based non-profit that is spending $700,00 on television ads targeting U.S. Reps. Ron Barber (D-CD2) and Ann Kirkpatrick (D-CD1).…
True TV
Mad Men Sunday, April 13 (AMC) Season Premiere: The seventh and final season of Mad Men, the series that made AMC legit years before the money-printing machine of The Walking Dead fired up, will split 14 episodes over this spring and next, because why not? You put up with it for Breaking Bad, so AMC…
Ask a Mexican
Dear Mexican: Even though throughout the years since I came to the U.S. 20 years ago I have seen it happening with less frequency, the use by Mexicans of the expression ¿Mande? (Command me) has always struck me. I personally see it as a symbolic legacy of submission probably originating from the times of the…
The Carnivaleros: Strictly Tabu
As a musician and artist, Gary Mackender does a lot of cool things. But clearly his passion is the Carnivaleros, his ever- evolving project that while often out of site is never quite out of mind. Like each of the band’s three previous CDs, this one is draws upon talents of a unique set of…
Case Without a Censor
For her latest album, Neko Case dropped what she calls her “inner censor.” As a songwriter, her lyrics were typically enigmatic, sheltered or turned entirely outward. But in the years since her 2009 Middle Cyclone album, Case faced the deaths of her parents, allowing the grief into her life, and also her songwriting. The result…
Open Doors
Every morning, Richard Zelens rises before dawn and walks with his dog to the dry riverbed of the Rillito to watch the sun come up. Besides the spiritual benefits he says he receives from witnessing the break of each day, he gets an artistic payoff. A series of oil paintings called “Morning Dog Walk” have…
Police Dispatch
BUT HE DOES BANG—ON DOORS SAN XAVIER BEATMARCH 10, 2:47 A.M. A bleeding, blabbering drunk forced his way into a woman’s home after claiming he was being pursued by gangbangers, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. The woman called 911 to report the man, who had been banging loudly on her door. When…
Broken Bells: After the Disco
No longer a surprise, oddball collaboration, Broken Bells carry the weight of actual expectations into their second album. What the restless chameleon-like producer Danger Mouse and Shins frontman James Mercer cooked up in 2010 was a strange and fresh dish. Four years later, they’ve dialed down the eclecticism, making a risk-free album, in step with…
Celebrating the Silences
I’m having trouble keeping up with Steve Roach as we tear up the winding path that leads to his studio in the foothills south of Tucson. Roach is best known for making music that is serene, meditative and soothing, music that bends and slows its listener’s sense of time. But in this moment he’s driving…
Enthralled by Words
Bringing the precision of poetry—Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter notwithstanding—into the theater is a perilous undertaking that too often falls flat. Many great plays are poetic, of course, but the reverse is rarely true. Even the greatest poetry struggles to live and breathe as it moves from the page to the stage. Trying to dramatize a man’s…
Still Suppressing
Editor’ s note (again, not really, but it’s a premise): Mr. Smith continues to drift in and out of consciousness and blink out orders to Dick Cheney. Mostly Mr. Smith is tasking the former vice president with flipping the television between Duck Dynasty and pay-per-view porn. But at times he is requesting the bizarre, such…
Live
When I last caught up with Free Machines at TLMS (now Gary’s Place), the combination of the primitive sound system and tiny physical space emphasized the Tucson quartet’s physical impact, with regards to overwhelming (but glorious) volume and its accompanying overtones. On Club Congress’ new P.A., the band’s fantastic songwriting, often quite pretty and poppy,…
Noshing Around
Welcome to a special edition of Noshing Around, your unofficial guide to Easter Eats. Easter is April 20th, for those procrastinators out there, get your reservations soon! Bluefin Seafood Bistro, 7053 N. Oracle Road, and Kingfisher Bar & Grill, 2564 E. Grant Road. The sister restaurants are serving lobster bisque, a fresh-fish special and roasted…
Now Showing at Home
Better Living Through Chemistry A dull pharmacist (Sam Rockwell) is drawn into an affair of meds, martinis and sex with a sultry prescription addict (Olivia Wilde)—until the DEA comes around. If you buy Rockwell and Wilde as bored suburbanites, you’ll buy this. (Universal) Date & Switch High-school buds Michael and Matty (Nicholas Braun and Hunter…
On the Shelves
The Bare-Toed Vaquero: Life in Baja California’s Desert Mountains By Peter J. Marchand University of New Mexico Press $34.95; 136 pages; photo essay To get material for this book on the lives of ranchers in Baja’s Sierra de la Giganta, field biologist and photographer Peter J. Marchand hauled his sleeping bag and camera via beat-up…
Flour, Fantastic
The name may be a little strange but after a couple of meals at this Campbell Avenue cafe, we’ve come to the conclusion that Prep & Pastry is the ideal title. After all, the first thing you notice as you walk in the door is a beautiful display of baked goods. They seem to call…
Editor’s Note
In a weird bit of synergy that I wasn’t super psyched about, we had a lot of positive editorial coverage of Gio Taco, a not-entirely-cheap taco based restaurant located downtown beneath a student housing project. These things happen, but gosh, for some readers, the double whammy of some mentions in our 100 Essential Dishes feature…
Raid, Redone
To its credit, The Raid 2 is in no way a rehash of its predecessor. We’re so let down every time a Hangover Part II or another Expendables comes along that we often forget they’re only trying to give us what we said we really wanted. But The Raid 2 is such a departure from…
Nine Questions
As a sometime member of the Mission Creeps and Some Of Them Are Old, 27-year-old Joseph Elias is an in-demand drummer. A proud father to a 3-year-old son, Elias also plays all the instruments and sings for his solo recording project Ay Dios Mio, whose music can be found at soundcloud.com/ay-dios-mio-1. He’ll be playing the…
Roll Film
Twenty-three years ago, the first Arizona International Film Festival opened at the newly restored Temple of Music and Art. Highlights included dreamlike animation from the brothers Quay and the 1927 silent film Wings, with live musical accompaniment by Tucson jazz musician Jeffrey Haskell. Since then, the festival has grown into Arizona’s longest-running independent film festival.…
Danehy
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Philo Farnsworth, the Utah man who invented television back in the 1920s when he was just 21. I mentioned that there is a statue of Farnsworth in the U.S. Capitol, which is a great honor seeing as how each state is allowed two statues and Utah’s other one…
Media Watch
ARIZONA ILLUSTRATED HAS NEW ARTS HOST PBS affiliate Arizona Public Media has named Debi Chess Mabie as host of its Thursday Arizona Illustrated Arts program. Before moving to the Old Pueblo in 2010 and taking a job with the Tucson Pima Arts Council, Mabie was executive director of the Boocoo Cultural Center and Café in…
Afraid of Everyone
There’s a moment during the opening minutes of Mistaken for Strangers where we see Matt Berninger, lead singer for the rock group the National, getting a little snippy with the interviewer. Berninger is outside, sitting on lawn furniture, and becoming incensed with the inane questions being asked by an off-camera voice. While he seems majorly…
Serraglio
I realize that spring actually started in January and everything bloomed about a month early (the new normal), but the official passing of the equinox—combined with some excruciating episodes and epiphanies—has me in a philosophical mood. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” Alexander Pope wrote in An Essay on Man. Many have interpreted this…
The Skinny
A NEW GUT-BUCKET LOW The Weekly, as well as the morning daily, has noted Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller’s imperious behavior toward Bob Dorson, a 62-year-old retired businessman who had the temerity to request a face-to-face meeting with his elected representative so he could get a look at the pricey conference table and other expenses…
Roughing It With Chaperones
Family Campout Program for Beginners Saturday, April 12 to Sunday, April 13 Catalina State Park 11570 N. Oracle Road 586-2283; www.azstateparks.com/family/index.html Arizona State Parks introduced a pilot program last year to help introduce families to the joys of camping, and after a successful tryout it’s back for another year. Catalina State Park is the next…
R.I.P. Ultimate Warrior 1959-2014
The professional wrestling world mourns the monumental loss of the Ultimate Warrior. James Brian “Justice” Hellwig, 54, collapsed while walking his wife to her car outside of an Arizona Hotel on Tuesday, according to TMZ. Hellwig was inducted to the 2014 WWE Hall of Fame on Saturday, April 5. Here is his acceptance speech: Hellwig…
