Wednesday/Thursday = New Issue
It’s online and ready for your reading/viewing pleasure. And if you want to know more about Quinceañeras, here’s this week’s online Ask a Mexican!
Hold Steady Is Just What We Need
When I come across some new music that I love, it’s a little bit of both nirvana and torture at the same time. I can’t get enough. I want to play the new stuff over and over and over again until I’m almost, but not quite sick of it. That’s what’s going on right now…
Jose Rincon Gets Yet Another Ghost Bike
In this week’s Skinny–out Thursday, Aug. 21–we mention Chris Chandler and his son Riley, a classmate of Jose Rincon’s when they attended St. Michael’s last year. Rincon died in March after being hit on his bike by a car allegedly driven by Glenda Rumsey. At the age of 14, Jose was taken from his mother and…
John Brakey’s Mailbag Documentation
In the Aug. 14 Tucson Weekly, John Brakey wrote a letter to the editor in which he discussed the allegations of vote-flipping in the 2006 Regional Transportation Authority election. We asked him for some documentation before running the letter, and he provided it. Here is a PDF of said documentation.
It’s Good to Know the Right People…
Who knew that when former Tucson Citizen staffer Ann-Eve Pedersen started Tucson Unified School Supporters—in what would become a successful effort to challenge the Tucson Unified School District’s school-closure plan—that it would inevitably bring her brother-in-law Paul Eckerstrom back to political life? Eckerstrom, a former Pima County Democratic Party chairman, is often credited with getting…
More Layoffs Coming to ‘Citizen’
More layoffs are coming to the Tucson Citizen. This memo was sent to Citizen staffers: Citizen employees, As all of you are aware, our national and local economy has been struggling for the better part of two years. The housing market crisis has spread to many other businesses causing a continued negative impact on our…
Yet Another Ballot Initiative Bites the Dust (Updated)
State trust land reform isn’t going to happen this year. This just in from Jan Brewer: PHOENIX — Secretary of State Jan Brewer today officially disqualified Proposition 103, the “Conserving Arizona’s Water and Land Initiative” as the measure lacked the minimum number of signatures to qualify for the November General Election ballot. The proponents for…
Extraordinary Deportations
Hospitals ship immigrants to their home countries–and often to an uncertain future
Nine Questions
Kat Takach
Anywhere, Anytime
For the third year in a row, The Wyatts are the TAMMIES Band of the Year
In Memory Of
Bicycling advocates use ‘ghost bikes’ to remember those who’ve died while riding
Soundbites
THE FIRST SIGN OF ‘FALL’ (WHATEVER ‘FALL’ IS) It happens every year at this time: After holing up in the studio for the hottest months of the year, local acts emerge with new music for the masses. Usually, at the end of the summer and beginning of fall (what’s fall again?), a spate of new…
The Big Picture
Mostly Bears’ debut album is getting praise from around the country–including a TAMMIES honor
The Skinny
CASH FLOW Republican Doug Sposito has triggered a flow of campaign funding in Legislative District 30, where four Republicans are competing in the Sept. 2 primary for the seats being vacated by Reps. Marian McClure and Jonathan Paton. Sposito filed a “trigger” report last week revealing that he had spent more than $25,500 on his…
Rhythm & Views
Digital Leather is–regardless of what some other dipshits in town have to say–Tucsonan Shawn Foree’s musical output. It’s pretty much been a one-man operation in the studio, with differing lineups as a live act. This album is the first that captures both elements. The band assembled on side two (recorded live at the second Gonerfest,…
Vaudevillian Sideshow
Coming soon to a sidewalk near you: the Dusty Buskers
Media Watch
Derechos Humanos’ KQTH Boycott Gets Meager Results
French Connection
A partnership of artists from Tucson and Nantes culminates in a week of shows, culture
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with CJ Minott
Rhythm & Views
On its second album, this Los Angeles-based act proves depth is possible on a good trip-hop recording, bringing freshness to a tired genre. The rococo arrangements draw from classic pop, ragtime jazz, spy-movie soundtracks, French cabaret music, Cold War-era Latin dance rhythms and campy-but-cool Playboy After Dark-style lounge music. Through it all, Bitter:Sweet works a…
Police Dispatch
In Need of a Piggybank North Kain Ave., July 20, 9:26 p.m. A large sum of cash was apparently no help to a mother of three in a bad situation, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a trailer-park residence by a man named Mario, who had just left…
Rhythm & Views
With apologies to Bob Dylan, this album should have been titled Another Side of Kevin Pakulis. Unlike his first two CDs, this record is quiet, slow and almost brooding at times, showcasing a part of Pakulis that he rarely gets to express. These tunes are a haunting mix of melancholy and playful, delivered in a…
ScrambleWatch ’08: Lesser-of-Evils Endorsement Edition
Our picks in the primary election
Top Ten in Music
Toxic Ranch Records top sales for the week
Drink This!
Should Tucsonans be concerned about the traces of pharmaceuticals found in our water?
Filling the Gaps
After almost going belly-up two years ago, UApresents finds its niche
Pick of the Week
To the Dedicated DJs
Defining Ideas
Two exhibitions ending Sunday at the UA Museum of Art show off works displaying serious self-discipline
Danehy
If you’re unmarried and choose to cohabitate, don’t send Tom an invitation to a housewarming
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Biodiesel, Goats and Sex
A New Yorker tells a humorous tale about moving West and trying to live sustainably
Messina
Can technology and science add to our human existence? Transhumanists think so
Ban Clones!
The new ‘Star Wars’ is great if you enjoy violence, inconsistency and meaninglessness
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Guest Commentary
HIV rates are higher than previously believed–but you can help turn the tide
Cinematic Slaughter
‘Tropic Thunder’ delightfully features big stars giving the middle finger to their Hollywood bosses
Vino and Victuals
A chic, urban décor and mostly fine food await diners at Armitage
¡Ask a Mexican!
A myth as fanciful as Reagan’s welfare queen.
Now Showing at Home
“Get Smart: Season One,” “Son of Rambow,” “WarGames: The Dead Code,” and “Starship Troopers 3: Marauder”
Noshing Around
New: JaxKitchen JaxKitchen is slated to open on Saturday, Aug. 16, serving modern comfort food with a European flair at 7286 N. Oracle Road, in the former Conti’s location. Owners Brian and Sandy Metzger bring years of restaurant experience to the new venture. Executive Chef Addam Buzzalini hails from Seattle and looks forward to making…
New in the ‘Weekly’!
A note from the editor.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
A Note from the Music Editor
Welcome to the results of the 15th annual Tucson Area Music Awards, or–as they’re more commonly known around these parts–the 2008 TAMMIES.
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Open Borders
Noise-rocker Carla Bozulich’s musical interests know no boundaries
That Desert Rock Sound
Rich Hopkins and David Slutes–you can call them the Sand Rubies–join the Tucson Music Hall of Fame
Community Benefits
New leadership in the Old Nogales Highway Colonia fights for infrastructure and respect
Live
The Temptations, Fox Tucson Theatre, Friday, Aug. 8
2008 TAMMIES Winners
(C) = Critics’ Choice Finalists / (R) Readers’ Choice Finalists The Big Stuff Band/Musician of the Year The Wyatts (R), 41.4 percent Runners up: 2. Mostly Bears (C), 34.1 percent 3. Golden Boots (C), 24.5 percent Up-and-Coming Artist(s) of the Year The Dusty Buskers (R), 36.2 percent Runners up: 2. American Android (R), 26.5 percent…
