Nine Questions
Jim Waters
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Live
U2, Kings of Leon, Glendale Sports Arena, Friday, April 15
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Derek Brown
Rhythm & Views
Perennial bad-boy Jon Spencer pairs up with Matt Verta-Ray from Speedball Baby and Madder Rose for a rockabilly fist-fight as Heavy Trash. This ain’t your momma’s rockabilly, of course: They bring the snotty attitude and sexy strut of Spencer’s Blues Explosion and put it right in your face. A throw-back to the crude, moonshine-fueled rockabilly…
Pick
Music of the Season
Danehy
Tom’s Kansas City volleyball travel journal
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Downing
A brief Know-Your-Border quiz
My Dinner With Crispin
Crispin Glover sets up shop at the Loft for a week to show and discuss his extremely controversial new film
Guest Commentary
A look at the brighter side of mixed-species creations
Rhythm & Views
The 1980s hangover currently gripping popular music can be a little tedious, but it’s not an unpleasant experience when channeled by the up-and-coming Los Angeles band The Slow Signal Fade on its recent six-song CD, Through the Opaque Air. Instead of continuing that decade’s legacy of sugary synth-pop radio hits, the members of The Slow…
Fair and Balanced (Voting, That Is)
A note from the editor.
Rhythm & Views
Is it just me, or is French rock making a comeback of sorts, what with chanteuse Coralie Clément squarely positioning herself among other forward-thinking, frog-eating acts like M83? Music writers will likely dismiss Clément’s latest effort, Bye Bye Beauté, as simple, unambitious pop-rock, and at first listen, the tag sticks–until you sift through your CDs…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Top Ten in Music
CD City’s top sales for the week
Capturing Crossings
Alex Webb’s photography shows a quarter-century of life along the border
Theater Trio
Three newly opened plays are all worthy of applause
Harp-Fu Mania!
The special effects, humor and non-likeable protagonist make ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ worthy of the admission price
Cancer Combat
Breast cancer patients battle the disease with a boot camp
Thoroughly Modern Musical
A tale of an ambitious small-town girl in 1920s New York comes to Tucson
Another Amityville
This re-make runs scary circles around the original
Green Machine
Making corporate hay from Earth Day
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Power to the Utility
A neighborhood feels wronged after TEP–without warning–decides to install new, larger power poles
Noshing Around
Taste of Generosity On Wednesday, April 27, get a taste of your own generosity when you join with Chipotle’s effort to raise money for the new Teen Zone in the Oro Valley Public Library. Chipotle Mexican Grill in the Foothills Mall ( 7555 N. La Cholla Blvd., No. 155) will donate 50 percent of the…
Now Showing at Home
“The Amityville Horror Collection,” “Sting: Bring on the Night,” and “AC/DC: Family Jewels”
Deseg Dispute
Has TUSD’s desegregation efforts driven students to charter schools?
Circus Resurgence
One author thinks underground circus acts are a revolution of sorts
Kiss Without the Makeup
Jumping jacks with the Electric Six
The Skinny
THE END IS NEAR? In the spring, a legislature’s fancy turns to thoughts of getting the hell out of the Capitol. Only one thing stands in their way: a budget deal. Over the last couple of weeks, optimistic that a budget deal is in the works, lawmakers have been running load after load of legislative…
Adventures in Ordering
Green Bambou serves some of the area’s better Vietnamese cuisine, but the service needs improvement
Energetic Attack
Gutbucket use rock and jazz sounds to make something that fits neither category
Media Watch
Cable Bill Burned
Soundbites
SOUNDBITES PRESENTS ‘PAGE SIXSIXSIX’ The music editor’s out of town this week, so in place of the usual column, we’re presenting this update on the latest comings, goings and canoodlings of the stars around Tucson … CIVIC SCANDAL Authorities in Calexico, Calif., tell Soundbites that local mariachi death rockers Calexico are abusing the key to…
Police Dispatch
DOUBLE ENTENDRE UA AREA, APRIL 7, 3:27 P.M. An officer made a choice of words that could be interpreted two ways when writing about a man who passed out in a fast-food parking lot with his genitals exposed, according to a University of Arizona Police Department report. After receiving a call, the officer found the…
