Your Wednesday Afternoon News Update
— Here’s hoping Hurricane John doesn’t take a right turn. — Are gas prices finally starting to stabilize? Follow-up question: Is this a good thing if they do? — And finally, for the love of Pete, turn off your damn microphone before you go to the bathroom. Thank you.
Universal Healthcare for All Passes Cali Senate and Assembly
In what has been an incredible uphill but necessary battle, California might just see universal health care. Amazingly enough, SB840 passed in both the state Senate and state Assembly. It now waits for signing from the Governator on Sept. 1. Proponents of SB 840 expect the Governator to veto SB840, but who knows—perhaps they could…
Rumsfeld’s Follies
I can’t believe that Donald Rumsfeld is still our secretary of defense. I can’t believe he keeps getting away with what he does and says. He’s an embarrassment to this country who has no regard for law, the Constitution or the truth. His latest moron maneuver came yesterday in Fallon, Nev., when he basically accused…
Your Tuesday Morning News Update
— That wackadoo, child-molesting polygamist Warren Jeffs was finally arrested. Ya think maybe the Star will give him a thorn? — Um, why didn’t John Kerry bring this up, say, 21 months ago? — I would SO pay to see this debate.
September 1 is Impeachment Day
I wonder if traditional or any media will pick this up? This Friday is Impeachment Day, and there are lots of online and home grown activities planned. You can read all about it here. I don’t think for a minute that it will happen, but I applaud the people trying to do it.
Your Monday Morning News Update.
— Arrested Development was freakin’ ROBBED. Again. — Florida: Nice place to visit, but wouldn’t wanna live there. — And finally, I have decided the Star is reacting to our loving, gentle (or not) mocking of “Thorns and Flowers” by ratcheting up the stoooopid. I know this makes no sense, but now else can you…
Article: Nowhere Left to Run (greyhounds)
The Arizona Daily Star wrote a well-presented, comprehensive article about what is going on at the Tucson Greyhound Park and why some of us greyhound activists are always so angry. If you speak Spanish and can translate, consider posting some of these flyers in South Tucson for the $1,000 reward money for information about 100…
It Can Be Easy Being Green! But It’ll Still Cost You Some Green.
I’m currently working on a feature about a very environmentally-conscious band called Cloud Cult (who you can read all about in next week’s Weekly), and Craig Minowa, the main guy behind the project, clued me in to an interesting way to offset your energy usage. I have to admit, it seems somewhat sketchy to me—and…
San Diego or Bust Art Show (Ellen Van Slyke)
Ellen Van Slyke, best known in restaurant circles as one of the previous owners of beloved Boccata and current food and beverage manager for Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, is on her way out of town to follow her dream and live at the beach (Can I come?) in San Diego. She’s transferring to Loews Coronado. What a…
Your Thursday Morning News Update, Sorta
If blogging is light from me, personally, over the next two days, it’s because I am in beautiful Anchorage, Alaska, visiting our new sister newspaper, the Anchorage Press. We got in late yesterday afternoon, and the sun went down around 10 p.m. Tres cool. Anyway, hopefully the other good Weekly bloggers will pick up the…
Your Election HQ
A note from the editor.
Fang-Filled Flight
‘Snakes on a Plane’ paradoxically honors its audience’s intelligence by being really stupid
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Much Ado About Pizza
Vero Amore’s special pie-making technique results in a product that thrills the taste buds
Memory of the Flood
Hurricane Katrina was blamed for the devastation of New Orleans, but human error and incompetence were just as guilty–and global warming means more destruction is on the way
Now Showing at Home
“Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier,” “South Park: The Complete Eighth Season,” and “Jenifer: Masters of Horror”
Noshing Around
Sushi Making Classes Joy Asian Market hosts sushi-making classes on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights from 8 to 10 p.m. Owner Chin Tak says that classes are for two or three people, and students learn to make 10 different rolls. The cost per class is $40 per person at 6261 N. Oracle Road. Call 531-1121…
The Myths of New Orleans
One of the Crescent City’s biggest challenges is overcoming inaccurate reports and stereotypes that formed in the immediate wake of Katrina
About Sharing Music
A Phoenix radio legend brings his old-school show to Club Congress
Poll Positions
Our poll shows Giffords and Graf have the early lead in the race to replace Congressman Jim Kolbe
Eternal Return
Don Caballero: the unbearable lightness of heavy
Science Friction
Congressional District 8 candidates discuss stem-cell research and evolution
Soundbites
THE GOD OF THUNDER MEETS SPACE ALIENS It’s a pretty slow week for music in the Old Pueblo, so allow me to indulge in the spinning of a couple of yarns concerning one particular show of note. My father worked in radio pretty much his whole life, first as a DJ, and later in ad…
Battle Margin
From health care to education, Democratic House District 28 contenders are mostly on the same page
Nine Questions
Frankie Stein
Community Concerns
District 29 House Democrats split when discussing what they want to accomplish
Rhythm & Views
If you’ve spent any time exploring downtown music during the last couple of years, you have probably seen Vicki Brown, playing violin with Amy Rude, Campo Bravo, Naim Amor and, well, lots of other folks. Her constant nocturnal musical collaborations give Tucson a steady look at her considerable talent, but little indication of what she…
Record or Rhetoric?
District 30 Republicans bitterly fight to emerge victorious in the House primary
Rhythm & Views
Whether your idea of gospel is the staid, button-down (read: uptight/white) variety, or the joyous, fully rocking gospel of black church choirs, be prepared to have your head rearranged by Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal. True to the title, Good God! offers 18 tracks of groove-heavy, funky and often truly off-the-wall gospel. Originally released…
The Skinny
HIT AND MISS From the Scramblewatch ’06 desk: State Rep. Steve Huffman went negative against former state lawmaker Randy Graf last week in the Congressional District 8 Republican primary contest with both a TV spot and a mailer. The TV spot focused on two silly moments from a couple of years back. The first was…
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Police Dispatch
I’M Going To Tell Mom UA Area, Aug. 4, 10:57 p.m. A man appeared to have beaten his brother with a lug wrench during an argument, a University of Arizona Police Department report stated. An officer who responded to the call found a dazed Bernardino Junior Leon, 29, in the backseat of a car near…
Live
Fatlip, Plush, Tuesday, Aug. 15
Media Watch
‘Citizen’ Photog Accuses ‘Star’ of Hypocrisy
Rhythm & Views
When Stone Sour recorded its self-titled debut album, it was written off as “just another side-project,” featuring Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor and guitarist Jim Root, prior to its release. What resulted was a loud, brutal and dark phenomenon that was one of the best metal albums of 2002. Fast-forward four years, and Stone Sour has…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Lisa Banta
Stage Royalty
‘The Lion King’ more than lives up to the hype
Danehy
Updates on recent column topics: concerts, graffiti and radicals
Pick of the Week
Wives and Peacemakers
Fruit of the Loom
When Barbara Brandel stopped weaving and turned to painting, she didn’t leave cloth behind
Downing
The desert is alive and well again after much-needed rains
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
The Craft of Writing
Eleanor Kedney brings New York’s Writers Studio to Tucson
Guest Commentary
Pro-war demonstrators infringe on the rights of anti-war protesters–and the authorities do nothing
Back to School
‘Accepted’ delights with its sophomoric humor before petering out toward the end
Satisfying Suspense
Yeah, J.A. Jance’s latest is light–but it sure is good fun
