Apr 14-20, 2005

Apr 14-20, 2005 / Vol. 22 / No. 7

Noshing Around

Dine Out for Safety On Wednesday, April 20, more than 35 of Tucson’s independent restaurants will donate 20 percent of their proceeds to the nonprofit Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault. The event began in 1997 and raised $12,000. Last year, it raised more than $126,000. SACASA works to reduce the trauma and incidence of…

Karyn Zoldan

AIFF Schedule

This is the schedule as of the Weekly’s feature deadline. Please confirm all times and locations at azmac.org or call 628-1737. Thursday, April 14 7 P.M. at HOTEL CONGRESS Opening Night Celebration Reception Ole with music by Salvador Duran 8:30 P.M. at THE SCREENING ROOM A “Reel” Surprise 10 P.M. at THE MONKEY BOX Music…

Tucson Weekly Staff

Soundbites

CLUB CRAWL FEVER: CATCH IT! Since there’s a handy pullout section (in the print edition) telling you everything you need to know to maximize your experience, we won’t blather on about this weekend’s Spring Club CrawlTM, which runs from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, April 16. Still, since it’s the biggest damn local…

Stephen Seigel

Rhythm & Views

The name and apparent penchant for Garrison Keillor notwithstanding, Doris Henson is not some bovine Minnesota hausfrau whose joys include needlepoint and passive-aggressive baking. Rather, Doris Henson comprises five young Kansas men who do the rock thing, and if Give Me All Your Money is representative of the Doris Henson experience, they do it rather…

Curtis McCrary

The Skinny

THE TAXMAN COMETH Yeah, yeah, we all hate the IRS. But for most of us, paying income tax is still a better deal than the proposed alternative–which basically boils down to a higher sales tax. In fact, the Arizona income tax is pretty much peanuts for all but the top filers. But our own certainty…

Chris Limberis and Jim Nintzel

Rhythm & Views

Having experienced some Spinal Tap moments, Queens of the Stone Age have returned with Lullabies to Paralyze. The new offering comes without bassist Nick Oliveri, who was fired due to his rumored abuse of the rock lifestyle, or Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl as the session drummer for the album, as he was on 2002’s…

Jon Hobson

Rhythm & Views

Attention all cave-dwelling Neanderthals seeking the prehistoric call of bestial simians grunting in heat, the roar of man-eating dinosaurs, and the hair-raising chaos of an angry mastodon liquored up on a jungle cocktail of fermented cocoa leaves, devouring raw meat and nubile girls with equal insatiability. The reverb-heavy, demolition-rock of the Konks is today’s call…

Ron Bally

Police Dispatch

Quick Change UA Area, April 4, 6:40 p.m. Authorities arrested a male cross dresser for changing outfits in a women’s restroom, a University of Arizona Police Department report said. A female custodian at the “Swede” Johnson Building, 1111 N. Cherry Ave., noticed a pair of red high heels in a bathroom stall after the building…

Saxon Burns

Mime Magnified

Theatrical Mime Theater, with a series of showsnext week, has designs on ‘something really big’

James Reel

Tuttle

The gang mentality strikes the Capitol, as two pieces of legislation illustrate

Connie Tuttle

MOCA Rising

Exhibitions, lectures and a concert signal the maturing of Tucson’s Museum of Contemporary Art

Margaret Regan

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