Attack of the Moron Faxes
A note from the editor.
Now Showing at Home
“Reality Bites,” “Ned Kelly,” and “Pennies from Heaven”
Bistro Buddies
Life’s good when delicious food is shared with old friends at Livorno
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Top Ten in Movies
Zip’s Music & Video, Inc.’s top rentals for the week ending Aug. 1, 2004 Hellboy Columbia The Bourne Identity Universal Starsky & Hutch Warner Brothers The Butterfly Effect New Line Cinema Secret Window Sony Pitch Black USA Films Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Buena Vista 50 First Dates Columbia Cold Mountain Miramax Mystic River…
Noshing Around
Taco Bron Brand new and bright orange, Taco Bron features tacos and burros made from certified Angus beef, vegetarian refried beans and cilantro rice. Open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., the brightly colored restaurant offers table service and a full bar. Locals Tom and Denise Palomares own an existing Taco Bron at 3200…
Tug o’ War
Jim Kolbe, Randy Graf and the cultural divide of the Republican Party
Sweet Serendipity
The Flatlanders celebrate their not-so-overnight success with a new album and a tour
Meet the Candidates
Congressman Jim Kolbe The senior member of Arizona’s congressional delegation, Republican Jim Kolbe is seeking his 11th term in the U.S. House of Representatives. A native of Evanston, Ill., Kolbe is a Navy vet who served in Vietnam. He’s been in politics for more than 46 years, getting his start as a page for Barry…
The Enduring Cool
Shawn Colvin and her ironic, darkness-embracing songs are headed to City Limits
Angler’s Anguish
A prominent local author says the city’s Parks and Recreation Department is to blame for a recent fishkill at Lakeside Lake
Soundbites
DISCO MONSOON Americans tend to serve up their nostalgia trips in 20-year cycles: witness the current exhumation of all things ’80s, with the possible exception of parachute pants (which certainly must be just around the corner, in ironic hipster fashion, natch). Thus, the ’90s saw the retread and fetishization of the 1970s, especially the musical…
Downtown Discord
Critics of the Tucson Downtown Alliance say the organization’s too close to City Manager James Keene
Rhythm & Views
If Michael Moore is the anti-Bush icon of the movie industry, then consider Ministry’s front man Al Jourgensen that of the music industry. Having recorded 1992’s Psalm 69 as a statement against the first Bush in office, Jourgensen has returned with Houses of the Mole. This time around, Jourgensen was left alone to record Houses.…
To the Bone
The UA community braces for yet another round of painful budget cuts, thanks in large part to the rising costs of health care
Rhythm & Views
Several polls taken since the beginning of the election stampede have shown that most voters unhappy with the current state of affairs are really voting against President Bush and not for any particular candidate: Rock Against Bush is the punk rockers’ battalion. Twenty-six songs compiled by Fat Mike of Fat Wreck Chords and a DVD…
Live
Dick Cheney with Alan Simpson and Lynne Cheney, Pima County Fairgrounds, Thurber Hall, Saturday, July 31
Rhythm & Views
The danger with musicians going multi-culti is that sometimes all those colorful tastes, while so beguiling on their own, can blend together and cancel each other out. The result can end up as bland as white bread and butter. Los Angeles-based band Ozomatli avoids this trap on their third, full-length disc, Street Signs, by refusing…
The Skinny
WHAT A DICK! The Arizona Daily Star has been getting a bunch of attention following its revelation last Saturday that members of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign demanded to know the race of a photographer assigned to cover the veep’s appearance at the Pima County Fairgrounds. “It was such an outrageous request, I was personally insulted,”…
Nine Questions
Don Dokken
Media Watch
‘TOO JEWISH’ ON THE MOVE Can a talk show be too Jewish for a Christian radio station? Not if that station is KVOI 690 AM, which last weekend welcomed Rabbi Sam Cohon’s local Too Jewish program to its airwaves. “We think what he does is very valuable to the community,” says KVOI general manager Doug…
Top Ten in Music
Zip’s Music & Video, Inc.’s top sales for the week ending Aug. 1, 2004 Jadakiss Kiss of Death (Ruff Ryders) Ashlee Simpson Autobiography (Geffen) Van Halen The Best of Both Worlds (Rhino Records) Jimmy Buffet License to Chill (RCA) The Roots The Tipping Point (Geffen Records) Juvenile Juve the Great (Universal) Velvet Revolver Contraband (RCA)…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Erica Carder and Christopher Beeson
Live
Slipknot, Slayer, Hatebreed, & God Forbid, TCC Exhibition Hall, Monday, Aug. 2
Police Dispatch
Toxic Blow East Ajo Way and South Kino Parkway, July 16, 1:20 p.m. An agitated man claimed that his wife was trying to poison him, and then asked authorities to test some of his cocaine in order to prove it, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report said. Deputies had difficulty understanding the fidgety man, who…
The Latino Lens
The National Association of Latino Independent Producers comes to town, allowing Tucsonans to preview a PBS series
Pick
Works of Passion
Hot Art
Raices Taller commemorates the heat in a Latino way with ‘Calor’
Danehy
No matter which side of the abortion debate you’re on, you must agree: As a society, we can do better
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Making an Impact
Dwight Metzger uses the power of the (small) press in a big way
Tuttle
The GOP loyalists come together to hear a protest-free speech from a bored vice president
Sensitivica: Some Kind of Feeling
Metallica ditches the drugs, violence and groupies for psychobabble and … ballet class?
Couch and Conservation
Katie Lee secures a comfortable seat at the top of today’s eco-writing world
Guest Commentary
When walking through the homeowners’ association lands, beware the Suburban Commando
Unwatchable
M. Night Shyamalan’s gimmicks are in full, nauseating force in a disappointing ‘Village’
Top Ten in Books
Reader’s Oasis bestsellers for the week ending Aug. 1, 2004 The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, W.W. Norton & Company ($10) Skinny Dip Carol Hiassen, Alfred A. Knopf. Inc. ($24.95) Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Nonsense Approach to…
