Balloting Bliss
A note from the editor.
Now Showing at Home
“King Kong: 2-Disc Special Edition,” “Capote” “Paradise Now,” and “Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus”
Living With Pain
Cynthia Hogue uses poetry to chronicle her dealing with arthritis
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Noshing Around
New: Vero Amore This authentic wood-fired, brick-oven pizza place just opened at 3305 N. Swan Road, No. 105, next to Bashas’; 325-4122. Crawfish Festival Redux After a successful March event, the French Quarter’s third annual Crawfish Festival returns. Crawfish are in season for a few weeks in the spring; c’mon down Friday and Saturday, April…
Clash of Values
Welcome to the great property-tax revolt!
Shaking Up the Norm
Exene Cervenka is comfortable with being a role model to her fans, younger bandmates
Viva Zivaz!
While Zivaz looks familiar, its nuanced food in a fast-casual concept is delightfully unique
Break Point
If Republicans cut state income taxes, Arizona’s wealthiest will be big winners
Single Ambassadors
The NOJO promises audiences a fine time while using music to find solace
Bat Rap
Why are people always picking on the order Chiroptera?
Soundbites
THE CRAWL CHRONICLES For starters this week, I’d tell y’all about the Weekly’s Spring Club CrawlTM, except you’ve probably already combed through our intensively informative insert, which fills you in on as much as you could possibly want to know about the event–the largest downtown event there is, with musical treats for all, regardless of…
Bug Juice
You may just freak out when you learn what’s in your soy milk
Nine Questions
Justin Bernard
The Skinny
NO CAR DEALER LEFT BEHIND Those poor ol’ car dealers! It appears that auto brokers are just driving them to the poorhouse. Fortunately, the Arizona Legislature is here to rescue them from the dangers of competition. Turns out there are some people who don’t much like dealing with car salesmen. (We know–it’s hard to imagine.)…
Live
Bohemian Plush: A Tribute To Queen, Plush, Thursday, March 30
Media Watch
First Things First …
Rhythm & Views
It’s no secret we’re living in a modern world. When bands like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah can do with the Internet what countless one-hit wonders in the ’90s couldn’t do with hours of radio play–that is, sell records and remain relevant–you know that being signed to a label like Capitol Records matters less and…
Police Dispatch
Phone Sex UA Area, March 21, 9:40 a.m. A woman engaged in dirty talk with a caller who pretended to be her boyfriend for nearly 80 minutes before she realized he wasn’t her beau, a University of Arizona Police Department report stated. The woman told police she was awakened by a restricted call on her…
Rhythm & Views
Josh Rouse used to be a more artistic singer-songwriter. His narrative lyrics and his conceptual aims–previous records evoked times, places and characters–singled him out among the whiny singer-songwriter crowd. By contrast, his seventh album, Subtítulo, seems to have fallen back into the sludge. Maybe it’s unfair to expect Rouse to continue to make his records…
Toxic Tour
The father of ‘environmental justice’ comes to the Old Pueblo
Rhythm & Views
Longtime Tucson-by-way-of-Paris expatriate Naim Amor has released a local anomaly: an actual LP. Like, 12-inch vinyl. Completely different versions of a few of the 10 tracks on Exsanguine will be released down the road a bit on Naim’s next CD, Sanguine, making this a preview–sort of, but not really, as none of these versions will…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Jacquelyn Sellers
Top Ten in Music
CD City’s top sales for the week
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
One for All!
The players in Gaslight’s latest stand out over the production in its totality
Pick of the Week
Keeping It Wild
Getting Goosebumps
‘Little Women’ returns to Tucson–but this time, it’s as a popular opera
Danehy
The immigration debate is really not a debate at all
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Artists at Work
Local talents take matters into their own hands for the spring open studio tour
Downing
Deport the undocumented migrants–it won’t hurt me …
Spin Cinema
Aaron Eckhart shines in a decent movie that could have been better
Narrative and Illness
Rafael Campo preaches about the value of poetry in the healing process
Guest Commentary
Tucsonans need the good sense to hang on to something
Death by Sequel
Don’t see this movie; heck, don’t even read this review–‘Basic Instinct 2’ is that putrid
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
