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The Iconoclast
When Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild stepped to the microphone at City Councilman Steve Kozachik’s campaign-kickoff party at Borderlands Brewing last month, he called the Ward 6 Democrat “an iconoclast.” “An iconoclast is a person who is a destroyer of idols and someone who questions old customs and old ways,” Rothschild said. “And that is something…
Here’s a Woman After Tom Danehy’s Popeye’s-Loving Heart
Tucson Weekly columnist/noted Popeye’s Chicken aficionado Tom Danehy is a happily-married man, so this particular clip doesn’t do him all that much good. However, if he were on the market, he might want to call up Christina who appeared on Steve Harvey’s talk show to give a glimpse into how the spicy offerings of the…
Beyond The Block A: Former Local Hoops Star Joins Grand Canyon Staff
The connections to Tucson continue for Grand Canyon University’s men’s basketball program, which moves to Division I hoops next fall under the leadership of well-known Phoenix hoops celebrity Dan Majerle. Majerle filled out his coaching staff Wednesday, adding former Canyon del Oro High School standout Chris Crevelone as an assistant. Crevelone was most recently on…
Blue Man Group Will Be In Tucson In Two Weeks
Broadway in Tucson is bringing Blue Man Group to the Tucson Music Hall in two weeks. The group has become popular for its musical performances that involve comedy, audience interaction and sometimes toilet paper being thrown into the crowd. At least that’s what Mario Divetta experienced three years ago when he saw them in Las…
Compromise Reached on Background Checks?
In this week’s print edition (hitting streets right now), I have a a look at the latest on the efforts to push expanded background checks on gun sales through the U.S. Senate as it returns to work this week. (I have a longer and somewhat dated piece on the challenges to enacting background checks here,…
Our Celebrity Showdown Is Down to the Excellent Eight
I have to admit there were some surprises in the second round of the Tucson Weekly Celebrity Showdown. Amanda Beard (64%) over Sean Miller (36%)? Chuck George over Lute Olson in a close one? But most of all, I was stunned to see that Janos Wilder took Mark Kelly in a blowout. You never know,…
Got An Idea For a Dream Tamale? Tucson Tamale Company Could Make It Reality
Locally-owned restaurant Tucson Tamale Company is in the throes of Tamale Throwdown 2013, their search for the newest, greatest gourmet tamale flavor as suggested their fans, friends and customers from the Tucson area. Last year’s winner was the Paella tamale, filled with spanish chorizo, roasted chicken, shrimp, peas, red peppers and rice, wrapped in saffron-flavored…
‘HOLY F—KING SH-T, SUBWAY IS OFFERING A DEAL ON SANDWICHES’: The Star, Paraphrased
Making fun of the Arizona Daily Star’s website isn’t that difficult, honestly. It’s kinda terrible in a number of different ways, from content to usability — and I’m not saying that as a competitor, but as someone who actually uses the Internet for things. It’s just bad. But c’mon, azstarnet.com. This is what you’re running…
Stabbing at a Texas College Leaves 2 Critically Injured, 12 Wounded
At the Lone Star College’s CyFair campus in Cypress, Texas this morning, fourteen people were injured in a stabbing incident, leaving two in critical condition. According to ABC News, “a white male suspect described by police as ‘approximately 21 years of age and currently enrolled at Lone Star College system’ has been arrested, but authorities…
The Maine Announces Summer Headlining Tour
Earlier on Monday, The Maine tweeted out that they will be headlining the 8123 North America Tour this summer, beginning June 4 and ending on July 27. We will be headlining the first ever @8123 tour this summer with 3 of our best friends! Get more info at 8123.me/tour— The Maine (@themaine) April 8, 2013…
Katie Bolger: “I Have Embarrassed Myself, Family, Friends and Co-Workers, and For That I Am Truly Sorry”
Katie Bolger, the chief of staff for City Councilman Paul Cunningham, has asked Tucson Weekly to publish her apology to the community for her behavior following a run-in with police last week: Open Letter to my fellow Tucsonans: On Friday, March 22, I conducted myself in a manner that is deeply embarrassing. I am extremely…
Mark Your Calendars for Loft Aid
Most weeks, La Cocina runs an event called Tuesdays for Tucson. It’s a really solid deal for non-profits in this town: You bring the people, La Cocina provides the place, and your charity gets 10% of the net profits for the night. On April 30, the Loft Cinema is the non-profit of the night and…
“Science” Proves Something You Probably Could Have Guessed Regarding Penis Size
Nice to know that Canada and Australia have teamed up to compile information that every human being already assumed to be true…women find men with larger penises more attractive than their less-endowed counterparts: So Mautz and his team, working at the Australian National University, designed an experiment in hopes of settling the controversy. They created…
Chécalo: La Santa Cecilia at the Rialto
Check out this amazing video from the Latin Grammy nominated La Santa Cecilia. This Los Angeles band will be at the Rialto, Tuesday, April 9. Tickets are $10 presale or $15 at the door. They’ll be playing with Santa Pachita, Vox Urbana, Salavdor Duran and Conjunto Imperial. The video, sponsored by the the National Day…
Chécalo: La Santa Cecilia at the Rialto
(From We Got Cactus) Check out this amazing video from the Latin Grammy nominated La Santa Cecilia. This Los Angeles band will be at the Rialto, Tuesday, April 9. Tickets are $10 presale or $15 at the door. They’ll be playing with Santa Pachita, Vox Urbana, Salavdor Duran and Conjunto Imperial. The video, sponsored by…
“I Have No Dog in This Fight Except For Human Equality”: Doug Stanhope Made His Presence Felt at Bisbee’s Civil Union City Meeting
Comedian Doug Stanhope makes his home in Bisbee, which recently made a name for itself by becoming the first city in Arizona to recognize same-sex civil unions — and as it turns out, he was at the historic meeting where that ordinance was passed. Stanhope, as quoted in the headline, appeared only to offer his…
Margaret Thatcher is Dead, So Let’s Listen to Music
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died today at the age of 87, and perhaps the best way to celebrate note her death is with music. Flip through the music magazines of the era—NME, Melody Maker, even Smash Hits—and you’ll be astonished by the number of references to Thatcherism (do they even mention David Cameron…
Beyonce and Jay-Z’s Trip to Cuba Under Investigation
Because they clearly have nothing more important on their agenda, two members of Congress are demanding an investigation into Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s recent trip to Cuba. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, both Republicans from Florida, wrote a letter appealing to the director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control for further information on…
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘No Cameras’ Sign is My Favorite Concert Innovation
As someone whose recent concert experiences have been so marred by idiots holding up cameras during performances (I may have bruised a few peoples’ ribs at the Childish Gambino show last April, for instance), this sign that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs introduced at their Webster Hall show this weekend is now the reason I’d go…
Go See “Cleopatra Jones” Tonight
There are a ton of things to enjoy about Cleopatra Jones, showing at the Loft tonight at 8 p.m. A partial list: 1. Shelly Winters as “Mommy,” the head of a drug smuggling ring.2. Tamara Dobson, over six feet tall, as the title character, a secret agent/karate expert3. Jones’ car, a bad-ass black Corvette4. A…
Today in Weird, Gritty Reboots of Beloved Childhood Fixtures: a Calvin and Hobbes Movie Trailer
Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes ran for just more than ten years, from November 1985 to December ’95, and left behind a huge hole in the hearts of many fans of newspaper comics readers (True story: Eight-year-old David was crushed when Calvin and Hobbes disappeared). In the time between then and now, Watterson has been…
Lil Wayne: New Album, Tour Info, and Medical Update
Photo from Flickr Creative Commons by Penn State Despite being leaked through file-sharing websites, Lil Wayne’s tenth studio album, I Am Not A Human Being II, was officially released a few weeks ago by Cash Money Records. The new album, tying in with other Wayne lyrics, is no stranger to vulgarity. (In fact, if you…
McCain Opposes Filibuster on Universal Background Checks
As the U.S. Senate gets back to work today, there’s a lot on the agenda: A budget plan, immigration reform and the question of creating a universal background check. Slate’s John Dickerson explains why he thinks the Senate might actually break through the logjam that has held up legislation in recent years; meanwhile, Talking Points…
This Just In: It Is Windy As Hell
It’s so windy in #Tucson right now, the @pac12 just fined @uacoachmiller another $25,000K #ArizonaWildcats— SCO (@TucsonSco) April 8, 2013 Sure, this isn’t much of a revelation unless you’ve been inside of a bunker all day, but the winds are whirling about the desert today, coating cars across the city in fine layers of dust…
UA Hoops Ranked Fourth Most ‘Valuable’ College Program
Arizona’s men’s basketball team may have only made it to the Sweet 16 in this year’s NCAA tournament, but an annual survey of college hoops programs’ overall value considers the Wildcats to be a Final Four contender. A professor from Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (say that five times fast) has ranked Arizona No. 4 on…
Tom Goes to the Chair: Recapping the Best Dramas Cable TV Has to Offer
Sorry this is late, but I had to watch the season-ending episodes of The Walking Dead and Justified to see which one was better. It was Justified, but The Walking Dead continues to amaze despite the idiotic game of musical chairs that AMC insists on playing with the people running the show. I suppose I…
Money, So They Say, Is The Root of All Evil Today: Colorado’s Proposed Cannabis Tax Goes Too Far
For decades, cannabis advocates of every stripe have been telling everyone who would listen that we need to legalize and tax cannabis. I don’t think this is what they had in mind: a Colorado legislative committee is proposing a ridiculous 30 percent state tax on cannabis, according to Huffington Post: The House-Senate committee, which will…
April Fool’s Joke Leads to Woman Accused of Murder
A woman from Kingsport, Tenn. started her Monday, April 1, off with what she thought was a great April Fool’s Day prank — then wound up handcuffed and accused of murdering her husband. According to WKPT, Susan Hudson decided it would be funny to trick her sister into believing she had murdered her own husband.…
AZ Illustrated Politics: Immigration Reform, Background Checks, Election Law Changes & More
On last night’s episode of AZPM’s AZ Illustrated Politics: Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President Lea Marquez-Peterson and former state lawmakers Jonathan Paton and Paula Aboud joined host Jim Nintzel to discuss the Senate’s work on immigration reform; the push to expand background checks on gun sales; how Gov. Jan Brewer’s call for Medicaid expansion…
Heads Up, Weekend Update Fans: Seth Meyers Is Coming To Tucson
That’s right, Seth Meyers of Saturday Night Live fame is heading to the stage on Monday, April 15 at UA’s Centennial Hall in an event being promoted by the University’s student body association, ASUA. Tickets aren’t on sale quite yet, though UA students will have the first crack at them on Monday, April 8 at…
Donate Food, Get Tickets to See Phoenix
If you haven’t picked up tickets to see Phoenix Tuesday night at AVA yet, KFMA has a great deal for you tomorrow. Head to the Bashas’ at Cortaro and Thornydale at noon on Saturday, turn in some non-perishable food, and get two tickets to the show. The Facebook page for the event notes that supplies…
Riverside City College’s Student Body President Is A Sex Offender, and People Are Surprisingly Cool About It
Being a sex offender is perfectly okay and doesn’t violate the constitution of the Associated Students at Riverside City College, according to a statement quoted in The Indian Express The Indian Express reports, via the Associated Press: When flyers appeared at Riverside City College this week saying the student body president is a sex offender,…
Olympic Gold-Medalist Amanda Beard Discusses Her Success and Struggles in New Book
Model, Olympic gold-medalist, wife, and mother Amanda Beard has had her share of success and happiness through her career and her family, but as well as many hardships. “In The Water They Can’t See You Cry”, a memoir written by Beard with Rebecca Paley, is an honest and raw account of her life in the…
Listen to Some Songs Picked by Dan Gibson on KXCI Today
On KXCI’s The Home Stretch, Cathy Rivers has started a new monthly segment called People & Playlists on the first Friday of each month. Someone important from the community comes in, there’s some banter, and six or so of the guest’s favorite songs are played. First up in March was, for obvious reasons, Mayor Rothschild.…
ALIPAC To Use ‘Illegal Invaders’ In Response To AP’s Decision To Strike Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, an organization that advocates for immigration enforcement and border security, released a statement on April 3 in response to the Associated Press’ recent decision to no longer use the term ‘illegal immigrant’ in its stylebook: ALIPAC is changing its “style” preference in all future articles and press releases today in…
It’s Best of Tucson Voting Time!
Our two-month-ish extravaganza of Best of Tucson voting begins now, as the ballot for the 2013 edition is online. There’s a nice moment for us to enjoy here at the Weekly when the ballot goes out, when the process seems so pure and idealistic, before we gather the results and put out the issue on…
C-FAIRR to PCC Board: ‘We are Gravely Concerned by Your Failure to Grasp the Existential Threat the College Faces”
According to a story we ran this week on the ongoing saga called Pima Community College and the colleges accreditation worries, the PCC governing board — or at least the four senior members of the board — have remained mum on the call to resign issued by the college’s faculty senate and other community groups,…
Venus and Serena Williams Documentary Debuts Today
Dubbed by many as one of the greatest stories in sports (as a long-time tennis player, I’m a bit biased) the lives and careers of sisters Venus and Serena Williams are now the subject of a new documentary. Released on iTunes today, Venus and Serena follows the sisters during the 2011 season, as they publicly…
Japan Beat Us to a Dream-Reading Machine
In today’s surreal science news, researchers in Kyoto, Japan have reportedly built a “dream-reading machine” using MRI and electroencephalography (come again?) technology, according to a study published today in Science. A membership is required to view the entire study (you can view the abstract here), but Smithsonian took an inside look at how the findings…
A Political Action Committee Has Launched to Support Bearded Candidates
And no, not “bearded” in the same way Rock Hudson married Phyllis Gates back in the ’50s — this is for those gentlemen who allow their beards to grow without fear of public disapproval, following in the facial haired footsteps of luminaries such as Taft, Lincoln, Hayes and Garfield. From The Hill: The Bearded Entrepreneurs…
‘Daily Currant’ Writes that Egypt Issues a Warrant for Jon Stewart, Internet Doesn’t Realize It’s A Joke
As so often happens in Internet-land, people have forgotten that not everything that people post is real — and this time, the hubbub has been about the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, supposedly in trouble with Egyptian leadership for making fun of them, according to the Daily Currant: According to a statement issued by Minister of…
Kozachik on Urination Allegations: “It’s Bullshit”
Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik says that recent allegation that he urinated in public last week are “bullshit.” Local right-wing radio jocks have been repeating the unsubstantiated claim, which was first made at the Arizona Daily Independent website. Kozachik, who was the subject of this week’s cover story, told TW via email: They’re clearly desperate.…
Goodbye, Roger Ebert
Widely regarded Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert died today at age 70 after a lengthy battle with cancer, according to the Sun-Times. This comes just one day after he announced he’d be taking a “leave of presence” from his writing duties with the Sun-Times website, a post that marked his 46th anniversary with the…
Clear Your Schedule on May 26: ‘Arrested Development’ Launches on Netflix
Seriously, I just about blue myself out of sheer exhilaration this morning. It’s a good thing that May 26 is a Sunday, because otherwise I’d have to take the day off—though i might anyway, just to deal with Bluth-induced joy. We’ve made a huge mistake! There are actually 15 new episodes of @arresteddev on May…
Felecia Rotellini: AG Horne “Should Show More Respect for the People’s Authority To Govern Themselves”
Democrat Felecia Rotellini, who narrowly lost to Tom Horne in the 2010 race for Arizona Attorney General and who has already announced plans to seek the office in 2014, said today that Horne wasting tax dollars and infringing on personal liberty by threatening to sue the town of Bisbee over the council’s recent decision to…
Union Public House Wine Dinner
The culinary team at Union Public House at 4340 N. Campbell will be preparing a dinner with the folks at Elk Cove Vineyards. Monday, April 8, a four-course dinner will be presented starting at 6:30 p.m. at $75 per person. For reservations or for further details call 329-8575 or email info@uniontucson.com.
Robert Earl Keen Is Looking for Charles Bowden
One of half-dozen or so widely influential songwriters who rose like a flying saucer out of West Texas in the 1980s, Robert Earl Keen brings to the Rialto a colorful array of songs about love, murder, good times, geography and the human condition. He might also sing a couple from his new record, Are You…
Editor’s Note
First of all, thanks for reading our 100 Essential Dishes issue last week. Getting a real sense of how many people read any particular part of the paper any given week is a challenge, but considering more than 1,100 people have shared the article on Facebook alone so far, this particular feature seems to be…
Sweet Movement
A revival of a 110-year-old Russian ballet about toys that come to life is the main course at the Dance & Dessert concerts this weekend. Performed by Ballet Tucson for the first time, “The Fairy Doll” is a comedy divertissement danced in classic Russian style. “It has three commedia dell’arte figures, a fairy doll and…
David Bowie: The Next Day (Columbia)
The peerless David Bowie is back after a decade with The Next Day, one of this year’s most intriguing and surprisingly excellent albums. The Next Day doesn’t serve as a departure or a reinvention, but in presenting an album cover that literally slaps the title over the Heroes cover, Bowie is masking his past, asking…
Danehy
The buzz on national sports-talk radio last week (besides the NCAA Tournament) concerned the rumor that a gay player in the National Football League was considering coming out. To their credit (and/or eternal damnation), the folks at ESPN covered the “story” nine ways from Sunday, even trotting out their in-house business analyst to talk about…
Tales of Tradition
Dinéjí Na’Nitin: Navajo Traditional Teachings and History By Robert S. McPherson University Press of Colorado 287 pages; $24.95 In early May 1996, newspapers in Utah and New Mexico reported that two Navajo women, Sarah Begay and her 96 year-old mother, Irene Yazzie, were in their house in Rocky Ridge, Ariz. when they heard what sounded…
Parenthetical Girls: Privilege (Abridged) (Marriage)
The subtitle for this fourth full-length by the mercurial Portland, Ore.-based indie-rock group hints that there’s more to it. Indeed, during the years since the band’s last album, 2008’s Entanglements, Parenthetical Girls released a series of five limited-edition EPs. Frontman Zac Pennington has compiled the highlights of that series here. I haven’t listened to the…
Messina
Don McLean may have dubbed Feb. 3, 1959 “the day the music died” in his 1971 song, “American Pie,” but in the small town of Tucson, Ariz., rock ‘n’ roll was alive and well. As a familiar story in American rock ‘n’ roll history, McLean was referring to the day that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens…
Top Ten in Books
1. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson ($15.99) 2. A Long Day at the End of the World Brent Hendricks ($14) 3. The Best Buddhist Writing 2012 Melvin McLeod and the editors of the Shambhala Sun ($17.95) 4. Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power Rachel Maddow ($15) 5.…
The Strokes: Comedown Machine (RCA)
On 2011’s Angles, the Strokes proved that they were interested in reinvention and growth. Rather than repeating themselves by restaging the sound of Is This It, Angles was eclectic, messy and quite often wonderful. Not every song worked, but the overall approach did. Comedown Machine shows the band continuing in this new direction. Even if…
Mailbag
A selection of reader reactions to our 100 Essential Dishes.
Hating ‘The Host’
Hey, kids, especially you aspiring filmmakers, gather around because Uncle Bob has got something to tell you. OK? Now, listen up. I want you to make your next movie experience The Host. I want you to go and see it as soon as possible because it is an important step in your moviemaking education. It’s…
Nine Questions
A Milwaukee native who moved to Tucson in 1997, Josh Osteen works as an event booker at Club Congress, where he also hosts WaWaWa every Tuesday night under the alias PC Party. What was the first concert you attended? It was Chumbawamba. It was the sixth grade, and it was my birthday. Yes, I did…
Police Dispatch
Fun and games on the UA campus, with three students inappropriately appropriating construction equipment and an airing of grievances between staff on the University’s Facebook page.
Top Ten in Cinema
1. Lincoln 2. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3. Life of Pi 4. Killing Them Softly 5. Zero Dark Thirty 6. Argo 7. Les Misérables 8. This Is 40 9. Skyfall 10. Seven Psychopaths
Live
Jeff Mangum, former and future frontman of late ’90s indie rockers Neutral Milk Hotel, means a lot to a lot of people. With nary a peep from him since the turn of the century, his silence has been as mythical as his music. A couple of generations later, Mangum is viewed in some circles in…
Shotgun Wedding
The gun-toting ghost of C.J. McElroy must linger in the trophy room bearing his name. For it’s here that the California flooring mogul turned big-game stalker deposited his many manly triumphs, from stuffed tigers and huge polar bears to nearly every species of antelope imaginable. His other legacy buzzes in the back offices of the…
A Martial Arts Mess
One of the great pleasures of film over the past 40 years or so is the remarkable martial arts choreography in movies produced both in mainland China and in Hong Kong. Before the studios there could afford much in the way of visual effects, what made martial arts movies worth watching was the fights. The…
Dispensary Delay
If you build it they will come. Maybe. Back in the day (the day being late 2010), when a functional medical cannabis program was a gleam in our collective eye, there was hope spilling all over the ground where medical cannabis was concerned. There was hope that we would quickly have that functional system. Hope…
Education on the Rocks
Pima Community College’s standing as an educational institution is in the balance this Saturday, April 6, as board members from Pima’s accreditor, the Chicago-based Higher Learning Commission (HLC), gather to discuss whether or not to place the college on probation. If put on probation, PCC would have two years to correct problems that the HLC…
Ask a Mexican!
The Mexican touches on education in the Hispanic community, and why Mexicans are always talkin’ trash.
Media Watch
The state of TV news doesn’t look great, according to the Pew Research Center; Simone Del Rosario is coming to KGUN; Clear Channel has a number of spots open, if you’re looking; and more!
True TV
Tell Your Friends Hannibal Thursday, April 4 (NBC) Series Debut: Like NBC and everyone involved, we’re all trying to forget Do No Harm, the last new crime drama the network served up for Thursdays—Hannibal will definitely help wipe that memory, if not through sheer gore alone. This Silence of the Lambs/Red Dragon prequel goes back…
Pedersen On Sports
My last season covering the Arizona men’s basketball team was 2004-2005, a season any self-respecting Wildcat fan will remember as the one that ended with “the Choke.” Leading top-seeded Illinois by 15 points with about five minutes left in the Elite Eight, it appeared the UA was on the way to its fifth Final Four.…
Into the Woods
The Lodge Sasquatch Kitchen 7265 N. La Cholla Blvd. 219-8528; lodgetucson.com Open 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily Pluses: Good drink selection; well-executed concept; great service and desserts Minuses: Inconsistency in food quality; TVs everywhere The whole concept of a “concept” restaurant has always been a little strange to me—isn’t every restaurant a concept restaurant?…
The Skinny
Mayor Jonathan Rothschild wants Jeff Flake and John McCain to support expanded background checks on gun sales … Flake says a universal background check would require too much paperwork … and Shaun McClusky wants to give away free shotguns in our all-guns edition of The Skinny!
Revenge of the Bicycles
Kylie Walzak can’t wait to wear the costume she recently finished making for Cyclovia Tucson. It’s a rainbow-colored tutu made in shades of neon. Walzak will also attach a bubble machine and speakers to her bike. “So I’m going to be like a one-person, rainbow tutu-bubble machine with music coming out of my bike, and…
Noshing Around
Five Palms Steak and Seafood opens up; Brewd and Daglio’s shut their doors; Jack’s Original Barbecue is coming back; and learn how to smoke cholla bud!
City Week
Spend an evening chatting with John Muir; rock for justice with the Cordials; check out some old tyme base ball in Bisbee; and more!
Still Around
Steve Forbert 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5 Plaza Palomino Courtyard, 2970 N. Swan Road Advance tickets are $18; $22 at the door. Available at Antigone Books, all Bookmans locations, Dark Star Leather and at www.rhythmandroots.org and 800-594-8499. For more info, call 440-4455, or email info@rhythmandroots.org. An otherwise intelligent acquaintance of mine recently hooked a thumb over…
Phoenix After Five Albums
Phoenix 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 9 Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheater at Casino Del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road $25 to $35 (800) 344-9435 or casinodelsol.com In 2000, when Phoenix’s debut, United, was released, I worked at the late Hear’s Music on Campbell. At the time, Phoenix were on Astralwerks, a label mostly stocked with electronica…
Soundbites
Big names roll through the Old Pueblo; Hotel Congress is where you want to be on April 6; and so, so much more!
T Q&A
Joel Hodgson is the creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000, which aired on Comedy Central, and later the Sci-Fi Channel, from 1988 to 1999. The show saw Hodgson and two robot puppet friends silhouetted against a movie screen, riffing on B-movies. Hodgson stepped down from the show’s lead role in 1993, but it remained a…
Classical Tales and Custody Battles
Luis Alfaro’s new play, Bruja, has the power to knock your socks off with its aura of mystery, its fresh reinvention of the ancient Medea myth anchored in the cultural turmoil of Latino immigrants trying to adapt to life in American society, and a cathartic recognition that only with great consequence will ambitions in a…
Top Ten in Music
1. Avon Ladies Avon Ladies 7″ 2. Ghost Mice/Andrew Jackson Jihad Split 3. Hoax Collected 4. Ice Age Dead Kings 5. Iron Lung White Glove Test 6. Limp Wrist 1st 7. Slices Still Cruising 8. Spazz Dwarf Jester Rising 9. Stoic Violence Stoic Violence 10. Sweet Tooth Japanese Void 7″
‘Actresses Without Teeth’ Tumblr Reminds Me Of Fish, Lovecraftian Horrors
So over the last week or so, the Actresses Without Teeth Tumbr Tumblog has been gaining a massive number of fans across the internet — and I’m not completely sure why. I mean, for some reason, when I see this: Actresses Without Teeth and this: Actresses Without Teeth I can’t help but think of this:…
