Just in Time for May Day …
… here’s the new Weekly, online and hitting the streets as I type! Please, by all means, comment on the issue’s contents here. And here’s this week’s online Ask a Mexican!
We Won’t Have Jennifer Burns To Kick Around Anymore
State Rep. Jennifer Burns has announced she will not seek re-election, saying she “can no longer afford the level of time and financial commitment required to be a representative.” Burns is something of an anomaly in the Arizona Legislature: A Republican who represents the Democratic-leaning Legislative District 25, which includes Marana, Sierra Vista and a…
New On TWTV: So You Want To Be a Tucson Weekly Intern
Our latest installment of Tucson Weekly TV is up. Matt Kielty demonstrates some of the challenges of being an unpaid Tucson Weekly intern.
Bob Westerman and the 10 Simple Rules
Here’s something I’ve been meaning to post for some time: Last year, in lieu of covering a dreadfully boring City Council election, I wrote up a piece about 10 Simple Rules for political candidates. Bob Westerman, a Republican seeking to challenge Democratic Sen. Jorge Luis Garcia in westside Legislative District 27, is the first candidate…
Fuel Inefficiency
Here’s Thomas Friedman from the NY Times on Sen. John McCain’s pandering gas-tax holiday proposal, which would suspend the federal gas tax between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The gist: This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little…
Box Trot
Has Wal-Mart finally found a way to open up at El Con Mall? TW contributor Dave Devine tells the TW Blog that El Con neighbors learned at a recent meeting that good ol’ Wally Mart was negotiating with Macy’s to take over the the department store’s now-vacated space at the west end of the mall.…
TQ&A: Charlotte Gillis Takes on Gender Discrimination
Charlotte Gillis is a 30-year-old student and mother of two who happens to be passionate about what she believes in—so much so that she got arrested on April 8 for indecent exposure near the corner of Speedway Boulevard and Stone Avenue. Gillis stood topless to challenge indecent-exposure laws that discriminate against women. She’s charged with…
Tube Tied: Update
Just two more days of TV Turn-Off Week! I’m still doing pretty good. I watched Arizona Illustrated last night, as well as the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica, of course. But I think that was it! Oh, wait, I did watch 30 Day of Night, but that’s only because it’s due back at Casa Video…
Magic Carpet Ride
Don’t forget: Today is One Last Round at Magic Carpet Golf! It’s your final chance to wander the delightful links at 6125 E. Speedway Blvd. Plus, you get to help out the Valley of the Moon while you’re at it! Details here!
Next Stop: Maury Povich!
So now the Lute and Christine Olson divorce battle has spilled over the KRQ morning show. Lute complains that Christine is out to destroy him and the Arizona Daily Star is a willing accomplice, while Christine says she’d never do such a thing and Lute has turned into a big old liar. “This is not…
Steve Leal Wants You … to Discuss Water!
The folks at the Ward 5 City Council office asked us to let you know: Councilmember Steve Leal cordially invites everyone to a town hall meeting to discuss one of the most important issues affecting everyone, water. At this town hall, the topics of conserving water, harvesting water and using one of Tucson’s most valuable…
Tube Tied: Update
So I’m doing pretty good with this whole TV Turn-Off Week thing. I hardly watched any more TV after swearing it off yesterday. Let’s see: I watched an episode of The Shield, but I was working out on an elliptical while I was watching it. That doesn’t count, does it? Oh, and I watched a…
Cage Match in Legislative District 26
Looks like the Pima County Democrats have found a candidate to run for the Senate in Legislative District 26: Cheryl Cage. “This election cycle is one of the most important in my lifetime,” Cage says. “We have decisions to make about our water, our growth, our educational system. I also want to make sure the…
¡Ask a Mexican!
Hating emos is so 1998.
Serially Putrid
’88 Minutes’ is so criminally bad, the filmmakers should go to prison
Hispanics Make Their Mark
Southern Arizona shows off Latino/Latina art with a weekend of shows and seminars
How to Get Involved
A note from the editor.
Touching Women
’88 Minutes’: Not 88 minutes long and not entertaining, but great for Al Pacino’s libido
Desert Saint
Poet Jane Candia Coleman divines the spirit of a famed Jesuit missionary
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Anne Pollack
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
Trouble in Wonderland
The quest to save the Valley of the Moon continues
Now Showing at Home
“Juno: Special Edition,” “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!: Season One,” “Cloverfield”
Hits and Misses
Two meals at Jai Thai, two very different experiences
One Last Round
It’s your last chance to play at Magic Carpet Golf–and you can help the Valley of the Moon while doing it
Indie Watch
What’s happening in the world of independent film in Tucson.
Noshing Around
New: Ginza Sushi and Japanese tapas-style dining called izakaya debuted in late January at Ginza, located at 5425 N. Kolb Road. This space was formerly occupied by Yama. Ginza is open for lunch Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and dinner nightly from 5 to 10 p.m.; 529-8877. First Anniversary Celebration Crave…
Road Rule
While most nearby residents want the county to take over a bumpy Vail-area road, liability concerns have led to a delay
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
High-Price Housing
UA officials cut costs after a regent balks at new dorms costing more than $150,000 per bed
Bandwidth and Elbow Grease
Boys Like Girls’ ‘overnight success’ happened thanks to a lot of hard work
Border Brush
Are immigrant-rights activists back in the crosshairs of federal agents?
Controlled Experiment
Mostly Bears prove their mettle with their first full-length album
Economic Divide
In the westside Menlo Park neighborhood, new development and an old neighborhood combine
Soundbites
COUNTRY REUNION Tucson in the 1970s was home to a thriving country-music scene, and several of the bands at that scene’s core have reunited for live performances in recent years. This week, you can add another name to that list. For the first time in 28 years, all of the original members of Straight Shot–Donny…
The Skinny
JUGGLING THE BOOKS The Arizona Legislature and Gov. Janet Napolitano managed to put together a budget plan to resolve the current fiscal year’s $1.2 billion shortfall, which takes care of the immediate problem–the fact that otherwise, the state would have ran out of money before the fiscal year concludes on June 30. The plan draws…
Nine Questions
Jeff Eckenrode
Media Watch
KVOA Power-Outage Broadcast Has ’60S Feel
Live
Dimmu Borgir, Rialto Theatre, Thursday, April 17
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Police Dispatch
No Great Shakes East Valencia Road, March 27, 2:10 p.m. Small children on a bus were surprised by a hostile, genital-exposing transient after school, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. A statement by a parent of two of the children involved–an 8-year-old and a 6-year-old–alleged that the bus had been stopped at an…
Rhythm & Views
If an art object makes you uncomfortable, there’s probably some kind of underlying cultural or personal expectation not being met, and the uncomfortable feeling is you questioning that expectation. Most of the music I listen to does not make me uncomfortable; most music is actually created to do the opposite. British duo Fuck Buttons’ Street…
Danehy
The NBA Playoffs are here, and Geri Rice, 87, will be glued to her TV
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Rhythm & Views
Under the shadows of Jack White’s other band and a guerilla marketing plan, The Raconteurs have released a tidy sophomore album. Equal parts frenzy and orchestration, Consolers of the Lonely impresses far more often than the band’s occasionally frigid debut; still, with four more songs and nearly a half-hour more material, it also falters more.…
Tuttle
While the future looks bleak, there is good news in the effort to curb environmental damage
Pick of the Week
Food and Dance
Rhythm & Views
Tools of the trade for this Baltimore-via-Australia duo are robotic drum-machine beats, ray-gun samples, vocals that sound as if they were shouted through a Radio Shack walkie-talkie and a general air of manic anarchy. The Death Set runs circles around most of the glitchcore and laptop bands out there. Canned beats and tinny melodies never…
Guest Commentary
Americans need to mourn the dead workers and fight for the living
Fighting Fun
Michael Angarano steals the show from Jet Li and Jackie Chan in this silly yet enjoyable flick
It’s Raining … Something!
As Arizona Rep puts on a winning ‘Urinetown’ production, Homoneurotic delightfully gets its gay on
