Pick
Dance Moves
Lunar Inspiration
Local artists again gather to celebrate the full moon
Danehy
What’s wrong with kids today? It all starts with their ‘parents’
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Tuttle
A crash course in vehicular necessity
Beautiful Slowness
Don’t let the boring beginning chase you off: ‘Broken Flowers’ is worth staying for
Going Home Again
Sharon Niederman’s debut novel succeeds with a strong sense of place and powerful themes
Feedback Without Yelling
A note from the editor.
‘Deuce’ Deux
This ‘Bigalow’ sequel is better than the original–but that’s not saying much
Soup for Dessert
Despite fine food and a fantastic look, Bar 58° needs some organizational improvement
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Now Showing at Home
“Saturday Morning With Sid and Marty Krofft,” “The Truman Show: Special Edition,” “Downfall”
Noshing Around
Primo A few months ago, Primo opened in the J.W. Marriott Starr Pass Resort. Although the restaurant’s under the hotel roof, it is independently owned by Melissa Kelly and Price Kushner. Kelly, a James Beard Foundation award winner, was named Best Chef Northeast when she owned Old Chatham Sheepherding Co. Inn in Chatham, N.Y. The…
Housing Hassle
University-area neighborhoods continue to battle the development of so-called mini-dorms
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Endorsement
The ‘Tucson Weekly’ endorses Steve Farley in the Ward 6 Democratic primary
Making the Undergrad Grade
The University of Arizona has been both beaten up and praised in the national press. To find out where the school stands, we talked to the real experts–the students.
All About the Energy
Five metal groups get ready to play in unity at the Rialto
Monster Mash
Fighting meth, block by block
Soundbites
LOCALS ORGY Aside from the mercury in your thermometer dropping, another sign that the end of summer is fast approaching comes this week in musical form. Fall signals the beginning of the second heavy period of new releases each year, and proof we’re almost there can be found in the fact that not one, not…
Propped Up
The county, TUSD brag about tax cuts, yet property owners will pay more because of sharp value increases
Songs for Susan
The music community comes together to remember and raise money for a departed friend
Snake Saviors
A group of UA researchers makes a yearly trek to capture and study a threatened rattler
Nine Questions
Max Cannon
The Skinny
DEAD MAN TELLS TALE? The most startling utterance in the pretrial motions and commotion surrounding the case against Dr. Bradley A. Schwartz and Ronald Bruce Bigger came last week, near the end of a hearing when the understated prosecutor, Richard Platt, explained the relevance of a witness. Platt said the witness, a detective, held evidence…
Live
Two Cow Garage and Grand Champeen at Plush, Saturday, Aug. 13
Media Watch
When Old Is New
Rhythm & Views
Improbably, the latest side project to emerge from the Calexico family tree is a one-man effort from the drummer. Ragland is a strange, dark, lo-fi collection of instrumentals recorded with only three instruments: piano, vibraphone and drums. Convertino plays all three himself, and recorded all of it in his living room. The result is 12…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Los Angeles’ Red Sparowes are more than just a little influenced by The Cure–their atmospheric instrumental rock sounds like continuations of the swirling chorus-guitar songs on Disintegration. Each song title is a sentence, which combined, form an abstract paragraph describing a moment of apocalypse: “Alone and unaware, the landscape was transformed in front of our…
Legal Briefs
Unexpected Discovery and Disclosure in the Stidham Murder
Rhythm & Views
Once the princess of alternative pop in the days before Nirvana, Juliana Hatfield has struggled for more than a decade to come up with the goods that would define her solo career. Admittedly, this was no easy task, given that her early band, Blake Babies, was so damn good. But a series of overproduced efforts…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Todd Bedinotti
Top Ten in Music
CD City’s top sales for the week
Police Dispatch
Mauled By My Sister Ina and Thornydale Roads, July 30, 1:45 p.m. A woman checked into urgent care after allegedly being bitten repeatedly by her sister, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated. The woman said her sister, who has a history of violence, had recently started staying with her in Tucson after “burning all…
Kink Heaven
Wanna explore a fetish? Well, here’s your chance
