Your Photo Radar Update for Thursday, Aug. 23
The Tucson Police Department’s photo-radar van will be in the following neighborhoods on Thursday, Aug. 23: 7 to 9 a.m.: Whitemore Elementary, 5330 E. Glenn St. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.: On Craycroft Road near Fifth Street 1 to 4:30 p.m.: Prince Elementary, 200 E. Prince Road 4:30 to 10 p.m.: On 22nd Street near…
Some Late-Breaking Events
Here are a few events that were received too late for inclusion in our print issue: Saturday, Aug. 25 at 11:30 a.m. Etherton Gallery 135 S. Sixth Ave. Artist Talk. Photographers Jeff Smith and Tom Willett will talk about their exhibition, Out of a Clear Blue Sky: Severe Weather Photographs, and dangers they encountered in…
HP Doesn’t Know Rom from Writer
I needed a new computer but didn’t want a Dell, because I’ve heard they’re hell, so I opted to get an HP computer. I’ve had an HP laserjet printer for more than 15 years. I also had a family & friends discount. I made a mistake! My computer (a desktop model) was only out of the…
Your Photo Radar Update for Wednesday, Aug. 22
The Tucson Police Department’s photo-radar van will be in the following neighborhoods on Wednesday, Aug. 22: 7 to 9 a.m.: Gridley Middle School, 350 S. Harrison 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.: On 22nd Street near Pantano 1 to 4:30 p.m.: Reynolds Elementary, 7450 E. Stella 4:30 to 10 p.m.: On Golf Links near Kolb
I Was Out Past My Bedtime Last Night
I am highly biased here, but last nights TAMMIES ceremony was, IMHO, fantastic. Ryanhood had most of the girls (and some of the guys) swooning with their fantastic acoustic rock, and Tucson Music Hall of Famer Ernie Menehune—age 84—put on a fantastic show. He’s one of my new heroes. But my fave moment of the…
Media Watch
Meyer Ends Morning-Show Gig With the Source
Soundbites
PHONE CHANGE Soundbites recently received an e-mail from Gabe Palacios, frontman for TAMMIES Critics’ Choice Best New Release runners-up Found Dead on the Phone, informing us that the band’s singer/keyboard player, James Tiscione, has left town for China, leaving Found Dead to make necessary changes to their sound accordingly. “We have been working, rehearsing to…
Guest Commentary
It’s time to close the borders–to people coming and going, to imports and exports
Police Dispatch
Locked Up UA Area, July 29, 7:01 a.m. According to a University of Arizona Police Department report, a man was accidentally trapped inside a caged-in vending area for as long as 18 hours. The report said 54-year-old Alejandro Bautista was locked into the outdoor vending area near the Education Building, 1430 E. Second St., about…
Nine Questions
David Isen
¡Ask a Mexican!
Wasn’t there a study a couple of years ago where they sent Americans who were collecting unemployment to pick strawberries, and they all quit within a week?
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Joleen Snowden
Live
The One AM Radio, Lymbyc Systym, the Race, at The Living Room, Thursday, Aug. 9
Comings, Goings and Stuff
A note from the editor.
Pick of the Week
A Life in Pictures
Rhythm & Views
Blending soul, jazz and pop can be tired and bland, but Austin, Texas, singer-songwriter Suzanna Choffel infuses her songs with an invigorating breath of freshness and cool. And, sure, there are a lot of female musicians out there who audibly take after Ani DiFranco, but few can actually manipulate that inspiration into something beyond derivative.…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Rhythm & Views
It’s been 14 years since Crowded House released a studio recording. Their buoyant pop ditties could have been the soundtrack to the late ’80s and early ’90s, with no tune more indelibly seared on our collective brainpans than their massive hit “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” The group said farewell in 1996. However, the suicide of…
Darkness and Magic
Artists use Shakespeare as a muse in an exhibit honoring ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Boys and Girls of Summer
The lives of kids at camp make for a rewarding, compelling documentary
Top Ten in Music
CD City top sales for the week
Learning Options
Using technologies both old and new, some TUSD schools are reaching out to students in different ways
Hormonal Hilarity
The team behind ‘Knocked Up’ and ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin’ have created a teen-comedy gem
Rhythm & Views
Gosh, there are just so many similar-sounding bands–the Shins/Strokes/Stripes/Shits–reportedly bringing the rawk these days that it’s hard to distinguish them. Part of the problem is these groups have better fashion sense than they do drummers. From out of this rhythm-challenged maelstrom, however, comes Hollywood actress Juliette Lewis and her band the Licks with an album…
The Vegan Crusade
Animal-rights activists attempt to get people to abandon meat with smaller steps and subtlety
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Love and Ridicule
The Queen of Mean splits her time between Tucson’s Canyon Ranch, gigs around the country
Now Showing at Home
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Collector’s Edition,” “Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 11,” and “A Night at the Roxbury: Special Collector’s Edition”
Top Ten in Books
top ten Mostly Books top salesfor the week endingAug. 10, 2007 1. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin ($15) 2. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead, ($20.76 sale) 3. Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams Alexander McCall Smith, Canongate ($18) 4. The Secret…
Born Into This
Chango Malo celebrate ‘The Whiskey Years’ with a CD-release party
Frantic Farce
The Catalina Players’ valiant attempt at ‘The House of Blue Leaves’ falls short
Chaotic Coherence
The young men of The Fall of Troy make up more than just a punk band
A Spicy Cookbook
Janet Taylor’s healthy recipes aren’t fully Southwestern, but they come close enough
More Than a Bar Band
The Wyatts hope the return of a lost brother and a successful new album will take them to the next level
Ups and Downs
Bistro 44 has pluses, but service and seasoning problems need fixing
Readers’ Choice Awards
THE BIG STUFF BAND/MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR: The Wyatts Runner up: Haley Jane UP-AND-COMING ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Amber Norgaard BEST NEW RELEASE: The Wyatts, The Continuing Saga of The Wyatts, Volume 1 Runners up: Round the House, Safe Home; Amber Norgaard, Rising PERFORMANCE AWARDS BLUES: Bad News Blues Band Runner up: Tom Walbank BLUEGRASS:…
Noshing Around
Vegetarian Kielbasa Vegetarian restaurant Lovin’ Spoonfuls, located at 2990 N. Campbell Ave., has sent out Tucson’s first cart selling totally meatless kielbasa. The cart is located at the downtown library plaza, on the corner of Stone Avenue and Pennington Street, weekdays from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The cart operator is like a character right…
Polynesian Legend
At age 84, Ernie Menehune–the newest Tucson Music Hall of Fame member–refuses to slow down
A Note from the Editors
Thanks for reading and supporting Tucson’s music community.
Oaxaca Journal
Amid conflict hype, the Southern Mexico city’s tourist trade is hit hard
Healing Art
A former nurse, Amber Norgaard uses music to help keep people well
Danehy
Tom writes about the things readers ask him to write about
The Skinny
OPENING THE FLOODGATES The heavy hitters, as expected, are launching their campaign against John Kromko’s Tucson Water Users’ Bill of Rights. The “No on 200” committee, chaired by attorney Larry Hecker, was officially formed last week to knock down TWUBOR, which voters will decide on the November ballot. The initiative is a big bundle of…
Critics’ Choice Awards
BEST BAND OR ARTIST: (TIE) Calexico and The Deludes Runner up: Greyhound Soul Even without releasing a proper album during our voting period, the multinational/multicultural Calexico once again came out on top this year. And why not? The band spent a good portion of the year taking their exceptional music–the sound of Tucson–to all corners…
Tuttle
Don’t resort to cans; eat well this summer!
