Apr 26 – May 2, 2007

Apr 26 - May 2, 2007 / Vol. 24 / No. 9

Some Late-Breaking Events

Here are a few events that were received too late for inclusion in our print issue. Friday, May 4 at 1 p.m. Raskob Kamourian Financial Advisors 4100 N. First Ave. Planning for Retirement. A free, no-obligation financial education seminar will be offered. Learn how to start financial planning and the steps to take that will…

Irene Messina

G4 Can Suck It

I suspect many of our esteemed blog readers disdain TV viewing already—with the possible exception of Red Star, who, judging from his conduct ’round these parts, is a victim of the mind-numbing aftereffects of a Weather Channel overdose. Here’s more fuel for the fire: I’m indignant about the continuing encroachment of advertising while watching my…

Saxon Burns

Ka-Ching!

It’s official, Range readers! Gov. Janet Napolitano has picked Design No. 2–or The Range Quarter, as we like to call it–as the official quarter of Arizona. In just one year, these rugged coins will be hitting the streets across America. We encourage all our loyal rangers to conduct all their financial transactions with these quarters,…

Jim Nintzel

Dammit, Chloe! We Need a Scriptwriter Now!

Has 24 just totally gone off the rails? My buddy Curtis McCrary says it’s jumped a whole school of two dozen sharks, lined up end-to-end. Sure, the show always played fast and loose with the whole real-time gimmick, but now the writers have abandoned any pretense. This season’s big “unthinkable” moment–a nuke going off in L.A.…

Jim Nintzel

Range Readers, You Kick Ass!

Yes! YES!!! The Range’s preferred design for the state quarter, No. 2, is the overwhelming favorite of Arizonans who voted in a survey by State Treasurer Dean Martin. We’ve yet to learn which design came out ahead on Gov. Janet Napolitano’s survey, but we’re thrilled that Range readers appear to have risen as one to…

Jim Nintzel

Gonzo Journalism

It appears that Sen. John McCain may be struggling to keep control of that Straight Talk Express, at least when it comes to those folks he’s tossing underneath it. The watchdogs at Media Matters filed a report last week that McCain told Mike Allen of The Politico that he thought it was past time for…

Jim Nintzel

Cooking Hershberger

It hasn’t gotten any play down here that we’ve noticed, but Arizona Republic columnists have been busting on state Rep. Pete Hershberger for siccin’ the Secretary of State’s Office on Robin Scoins, a woman who has been a consistent critic of Child Protective Services ever since she had her own kids taken away from her.…

Jim Nintzel

Janet Napolitano Speaks Out About Sex Abuse of Women in Military

Three cheers for Janet Napolitano and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius for speaking out on the sexual abuse and rape that women in the military face in Iran and Afghanistan. These women soldiers are not dealing with sex abuse from the enemy but rather from the military, higher ranking officers and fellow soldiers.  War is hell in more ways…

Karyn Zoldan

No Wonder Eight Dems Are Running …

After refusing to use the word for the first chunk of his presidency, George W. Bush all of a sudden loves the word “no.” In fact, after a warning he made this week regarding Congressional efforts to setting a timetable to pull out of Iraq, his veto pen seems to be surgically attached to his hand. …

Kelli Hart

Frakin’ Toasters

Looks like the Japanese are bringing us ever-closer to Cylon dominance. Don’t blame me … I voted for Roslyn. And this is bad news regarding the cleaning system at the midtown bureau …

Jim Nintzel

Get Hot Teat at Ike’s!

What a difference one letter makes. I was reading the May/June 2007 issue of Highroads, the Arizona AAA magazine*. On Page 26, the article asks readers to recommend “eclectic coffee”. Julie S. from Scottsdale writes: “From hot teat to Italian sodas to hot or cold coffees—it’s all yummy. Plus they have a very rustic look…

Karyn Zoldan

Yee Haw–Kucinich Introduces Impeachment Articles against Cheney

Now here’s a man with a good idea. And why impeach Cheney?   To summarize: It’s this vice president who is the driving force of taking the United States to the war against Iraq under false pretenses and is once again rattling the chain of doing the same thing against Iran, again under false pretenses.

Karyn Zoldan

Connie Tuttle Isn’t Going to Like This At All

Slate is running excerpts from Christopher Hitchens’ new book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, which–as the title suggests–explores the heretical notion that God is a figment of man’s imagination. As you’d expect from Hitch, there’s not a whole lot of respect for people’s beliefs. All the excerpts are entertaining, but the third one, which…

Jim Nintzel

Coffee Shops + No ‘Weekly’ = ???

So, there’s this new little non-chain coffee shop that I’ve come to like. It’s kinda close to my house, and it has free wi-fi, so I have taken to hanging out there while copy editing and whatnot on the weekends. I noticed that this coffee shop doesn’t have a Weekly rack, although it does have…

Jimmy Boegle

Some Late-Breaking Events

Here are a few events that were received too late for inclusion in our print issue: Friday, April 27 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Cottonwood Elementary School 9950 E. Rees Loop Annual Carnival. Enjoy games, prizes, inflatables, food and entertainment. A silent auction to benefit the student body will be held. Punch cards are $8…

Irene Messina

Renzi on Edge?

The Skinny noted this week that Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi had resigned from the House Intelligence Committee but was hanging onto his other assignments. Between the time we filed that report and it saw print, Renzi had already quit his other committees. In the meantime, we learned from Paul Charlton, the dismissed U.S. attorney for…

Jim Nintzel

Noshing Around

New: Cereal Boxx Do you eat cereal for dinner? At the Cereal Boxx, Tucson’s first cereal café, you can arrive in your pajamas, watch cartoons with your family, then eat assorted bowls of cereal with yummy toppings. Also on the menu are frozen bananas, yogurt parfaits, homemade granola and cereal bars, complemented by an espresso…

Karyn Zoldan

Danehy

More on Rosie O’Donnell, World Trade Center 7 and Wikipedia

Tom Danehy

Police Dispatch

Caveat Emptor Wetmore and Oracle Roads, March 28, 1:41 p.m. A man found an apparent methamphetamine lab among the contents of a storage unit he bought at an estate auction, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated. The man said he paid $105 for the unit’s contents, adding that he wasn’t allowed to see what…

Saxon Burns

Soundbites

THE EVOLUTION OF ANDREW BIRD Though he only last played in Tucson in September, Andrew Bird is back in town this week, hot on the heels of his new album, Armchair Apocrypha, his first for his new label, Fat Possum. Fat Possum, which specializes in gritty blues, both by old masters and younger practitioners, is…

Stephen Seigel

Tuttle

Before criticizing another religion, first look at the history of your own

Connie Tuttle

Rhythm & Views

The clicking rhythm on “Haul Away,” the fourth song on Apostle of Hustle’s second album, National Anthem of Nowhere, hints at frontman (and Broken Social Scene guitarist) Andrew Whiteman’s love of Cuban music. But then the driving guitar and drums on “¡Rafaga!” hit, and it’s clear that Whiteman can jump. Apostle of Hustle can move…

Annie Holub

Rhythm & Views

As a member of the now-defunct Royal Trux, Jennifer Herrema spent the ’90s making a name for herself as the growl-and-grunt frontwoman of a band that aloofly eschewed pigeonhole status. While their foundation was Stonesian boogie, the trajectories were all over the place. Fittingly, she once complained that the audience at a Lollapalooza side stage…

Brian Mock

Rhythm & Views

After establishing an epic sound with 2005’s The Great Destroyer (thanks in part to Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann), indie-rock trio Low were poised to expand their sonic palette even further with the promisingly titled Drums and Guns. Instead, the band does an about-face, retreating into a foxhole of beat machines and other synthetic instrumentation.…

Jarret Keene

The Skinny

LET’S MAKE A DEAL! Could it be? Could it possibly be? Has City Hall reached an agreement with the University of Arizona to develop that downtown science center and state museum? The framework may be in place, now that the UA has dropped its preposterous request for $237 million for the two facilities. City Manager…

Jim Nintzel

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