Rhythm & Views
IN THE POST Robbie Robertson era, The Band carried on, stretching perhaps one and a quarter albums’ worth of strong material into three. Give them credit for not folding up, and giving it that old college try. None of those earlier CDs come close, however, to being as rich and rewarding as this collection of…
Rhythm & Views
ONE OF THE more high-profile debuts in recent memory–thanks in no small part to the fact that Maynard Keenan, also of heavy metal kings Tool, is the singer–this gloomy, thunderous set actually justifies the hype. Unlike either Keenan’s main employer or songwriter-guitarist Billy Howerdel’s erstwhile employer (Nine Inch Nails), A Perfect Circle applies a deftness…
Boogie Rites
Cultural scholars hustle to discover whatever happened to the ’70s.
Manifest Destiny
Jim Paul guides the UA Poetry Center into new territory.
Local Urchin, Big Heart
Olive R. Twist serves up goodness against all odds.
Irate Lakes
After so much use and abuse, Southern Arizona’s lakes have turned nasty.
Cake Walk
Lost Girls, by Andrew Pyper. Delacorte Press. 385 pp, $23.95. IT’S A BEACH read, a sun-chiller: a damp, rain-soaked, frosty story set in the god-forsaken Ontario north, complete with a frigid, dripping La Llorona and a predatory English teacher. You don’t have to think, and you’ll get just one more reason to hate lawyers. Lost…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Crème DeMentia
Schlock auteur John Waters returns to his roots.
The Skinny
TAKING INITIATIVE: Gov. Jane Dee Hull complained last week that it’s just too damn easy to get an initiative on the ballot. Under the state constitution, petition passers need to gather valid signatures from at least 10 percent of the number of people who voted in the previous election. And that’s just to change state…
Smart Asset
Project Vote Smart continues its work to save democracy–and it doesn’t cost you a penny!
Walking The Line
Thanks to prosecutors and lawmakers, the Border Patrol’s job just got harder.
United In Opposition
District 5’s Democratic contenders agree on most things, especially getting rid of Jim Kolbe.
Dem Bones
Dorkiness triumphed at the Democratic convention.
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Cheap Thrills
Fun things to do that won’t cost a fortune.
Raising Morales
The Sisters Morales come home to Tucson.
Soundbites
IN THE BAG: The history of bagpipes in rock and roll–according to me, anyway–reads like this: In 1983, the band Big Country released its debut LP, The Crossing, which included the smash hit “In a Big Country,” whose instrumental hook had new-wave kids everywhere exclaiming, “Have you heard that song by that band Big Country?…
