Top Ten in Music
Hear’s Music top sales for the week
The Skinny
OUR LAWYERS OF LOURDES The Board of Supervisors fumbled when it punted a decision on July 5 to issue contracts to a few defense lawyers seeking part of the $13.5 million in lawyer pork Pima County will dish out this year. Only Republican Ray Carroll was clear. He wanted to nix the $140,000 in contracts…
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Noshing Around
Sky Blue Wasabi Brand new at 250 S. Craycroft Road, suite 100 (next to Risky Business), this table-service restaurant serves teppanyaki and sushi. For the uninitiated, teppanyaki is the style of cooking on huge, hot steel grill tables so your food is sliced, diced and cooked before your eyes, just like having your own personal…
Legal Briefs
Unexpected Discovery and Disclosure in the Stidham Murder
Final Farewell
A journalist faces a friend’s mortality in ‘Goodbye, Walter’
Media Watch
It’s Just Business
Not Just for Primates
Don’t let the name fool you; the Monkey Box is a cool place to dine
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Susan Strom
Between the Lines
Rubén Martínez explores the borderlands
Police Dispatch
Not What He Paid For Irvington Road and Alvernon Way, Aug. 2, 6:47 p.m. A man said a woman he paid to have sex with stole his car and thousands of dollars in cash and checks while he was in the bathroom, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report said. The 52-year-old man from Nogales told…
Hip Moves
Susan Eyde brings a fresh spin to the ancient art of belly dancing
Pick
Saint and the City
Danehy
Tom gets hot and heavy with local firefighters
Like This Virgin
Steve Carell doesn’t mess around in his new comedy
Downing
News you can use: a brief guide to Tucson weeds
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Now Showing at Home
“The Brown Bunny,” “The Simspsons: The Complete Sixth Season,” and “David Chappelle: For What It’s Worth”
Guest Commentary
Let’s have a fiesta and celebrate American culture
Grimm Reaper
Terry Gilliam’s fairy tale harvest falls a few bushels short
Well-Adjusted Rock
The Heavenly States go with the flow
Feedback Feedback
A note from the editor.
Indie Watch
What’s happening in the world of independent film in Tucson.
Knit Wits
Welcome the first positive example of country music for punk rockers
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Nine Questions
Charlie Bertsch
Writing on the Wall
Neighbors take action as grafitti explodes in the community
Soundbites
A NEW YEAR (OF ACCELERATION) Another end-of-summer weekend, another CD release party–this time courtesy of The Year of Acceleration. I can hear you. You’re all like, “Wait, supposed ‘music guy.’ Everyone knows those guys recently changed their name to The Year. It says so right on the cover of Used to Have a Life, the…
Live
Velvet Revolver, Anselmo Valencia Amphitheater, Sunday, Aug. 20
Sound and Fury
A vivid documentary traces border vigilantism
Rhythm & Views
Black Camaro is from Las Vegas, and not unlike many of our local bands, it self-releases its own music; if you want this CD, you have to send away for it. Despite all that, you should know about Black Camaro; it’s created this wild musical world teeming with seedy characters and scenes of 20something creative…
Rhythm & Views
A year following its resurrection with Archetype, Fear Factory has returned with Transgression. The latest effort from the innovators of cyber metal is both very experimental and heavy. Known for using industrial sounds to distinguish its extreme playing, on Transgression Fear Factory has scaled back the technological beats and focused more on the sounds of…
Crime Flighter
Barbara LaWall is prosecutor for the nation, world
Rhythm & Views
The pleasures in sifting through the CD racks of an independent music-retail shop are infinite! Sure, shopping online in your boxers is fun, but it doesn’t compare to a post-Thai-dinner daze wherein you stumble into the record store next door, flip through the so-called new releases (White Stripes, Weezer, etc.), and encounter the mystery of…
Meet Vernon Walker, GOP City Council candidate
He stiffs his creditors! He ignores his tax bills! He’s voted once in the last quarter century! Whats next? A career in politics!
