Newsreel
I tend to quit jobs when the consultants take over. That’s why I gave up my glamorous career as music director at KUAT Radio in 1988. Public radio was being ruined by a couple of national-level consultants who had little understanding of the stations’ classical and jazz content, or of the audience for that music.…
Cheap Thrills
Fun things to do that won’t cost a fortune.
Sisterhood Is Powerful
On the first day of creation, God made heaven and earth. On the last God made woman, “and nothin’s ever been the same.” So Annie Burns writes in “God Made Woman,” the opening cut on the Burns Sisters’ Americana-charting album Out of the Blue, a set of songs that amply demonstrates why the three sibs…
Soundbites
Is it Him?… The creepy crawlies are out… And other niblets.
Mount Graham Misery
As the trees go, so go the red squirrels.
The Once and Future Queens
The Mahotella Queens are back on the road.
Eatin’ Raw Bacon
Ween is once again a band on the run.
Leal for Council
Re-Elect Steve Leal in Ward 5.
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Radio daze
KXCI is ensuring its survival, critics say, by gutting itself.
Chamber of Horrors
Discordant times for a local orchestra.
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Roadside Refreshment
Let us now praise taco stands and neighborhood bars.
The Skinny
The race is on in Ward 5… TUSD taxes are ever-expanding… And more.
Descent of Man
In J.T. LeRoy’s world, the heart is a lowly hunter.
Parkway Prognosis
Making the grade-separated intersection.
Made in the Shade
How annoying can a low-level gangster get?
Quiz the Candidates
Council hopefuls weigh in on a grade-separated intersection at Grant Road and Campbell Avenue.
Road Block
Optimists are elated over depressing I-10.
Ball Bearings
Riki Ellison returns to his roots for some life coaching.
