Some Late-Breaking Events
Here are a few events that were received too late for inclusion in our print issue. Thursday, Aug. 16 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Church of the Brethren 2200 N. Dodge Blvd. Neighborhood Meeting. The Palo Verde Neighborhood Association monthly meeting will feature a presentation of water harvesting and grey water use by Kathryn Hahne…
When Dick Cheney Had a Brain
Check out this YouTube video. Dick Cheney was being interviewed in 1994 and said that the United States should NOT go to Baghdad, because there would be too many casualties. At that time, he seemed to be thinking clearly.
America’s Downfall
The U.S. comptroller general has issued a report that says “the U.S. government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon,” according to the Financial Times.
Central Bistro Chutzpah
There’s an article in today’s Star about how Central Bistro at the Historic Depot is asking the city to continue subsidizing the restaurant by paying for 18 more months of rent and granting/loaning the restaurant $100,000. Say what? In the current Noshing column, I posed a question to the city, asking them why they made…
Health Care for All
Healthy Arizona, which bills itself as “a grass-roots organization focused on fixing the health care system in Arizona by placing an initiative on the ballot for the 2008 general election,” went live with their Web site about a week ago. I’m told by Dr. Matt Heinz, Healthy Arizona’s treasurer, that the group is “actively drafting…
Crazy Talk
We don’t often find ourselves nodding in agreement with Newt Gingrich, but he’s dead on when he says the current presidential campaigning process “verges on insane.” An excerpt: The former House speaker from Georgia said he will decide whether to enter the GOP presidential field in October. But in a wide-ranging speech at the National…
Out of Commission
The city’s planning board slowly reviews a new land-use code proposal
Nine Questions
Shelli Piechura
The Skinny
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GLORIOUS WAR The sleepy election of ’07 got interesting for about 72 hours last week, when former state lawmaker John Kromko signed up as a write-in candidate for the mayor’s race on the Green Party ticket. It appeared that Kromko, who is also the mastermind behind the Tucson Water Users’…
Rhythm & Views
After dropping the band seven years ago, Smashing Pumpkins’ uber-frontman Billy Corgan hails a reunion and brings the group’s drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, along for the reprise. Purists may balk at the departure of guitarist James Iha and bassist D’Arcy Wretzky, but in the studio, the “band” was all about Corgan playing every single part but…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
The Buffalo Tom formula seems simple enough–equal parts big, open guitar chords played at high volume; husky, melodic vocals; bittersweet lyrics of love and loss–that it’s surprising how many other so-called power-pop bands get it wrong. Starting with their self-titled debut in 1989, the Boston power trio fashioned pitch-perfect rock songs that made you roll…
Media Watch
Power to the People Meter
Rhythm & Views
You can’t fully appreciate the magnificence of this two-CD recording until you’ve viewed the accompanying DVD. There, you can see how Springsteen has amassed a small army of singers and players–18 in all, and never do you get the sense of any overkill, duplication or wasted effort. Even more remarkable: Save for the occasional pedal…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Bobbi Jean Schneider
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Police Dispatch
Psycho Lady Valencia and Mission Roads, July 14, 1:38 p.m. A woman acted bizarrely after she was arrested for domestic violence, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated. Authorities responded to a trailer park after Leticia Landra Dugan, the woman who was eventually arrested, phoned them. No age was given for Dugan. One deputy ran…
Living Installation
Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra present an evening of provocative performance art
Pick of the Week
In Search of a Growl
Goddesses and Heroines
Urmika Devi combines Indian and modern dance for a good cause
Danehy
What’s that smell? It’s just Tom, driving around listening to commercials
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Once More, With Feeling
The latest ‘Posadas County’ mystery lacks an emotional hook
O’Sullivan
Fear and loathing after being bucked off one’s horse
Austen Chronicle
‘Becoming Jane’ sure looks nice, but it could have used a plot
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Guest Commentary
It’s time to close Arizona’s Abu Ghraib-like supermax prison units
When You Wish
‘Stardust’ will one day be considered a classic, thanks to charm, humor and fantastic performances
Israeli Hits
Sabra serves tasty kosher eats in a splendid atmosphere
Sleepy Summer? Not for Us!
A note from the editor.
Now Showing at Home
“Red Dawn: Collector’s Edition,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “300: Two-Disc Special Edition”
Noshing Around
Closed: Central Bistro Central Bistro in the Historic Train Depot has closed; whether the shuttering is temporary or permanent remains up in the air. Ownership is blaming the restaurant’s woes on construction downtown, specifically the prep work on the Fourth Avenue underpass and trench work along Toole Avenue. I don’t imagine that’s much of a…
¡Ask a Mexican!
How and where did the name-display tradition start?
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Frank in Full
Dweezil Zappa tours to garner his late father some more respect
Who Killed Brad Will?
Why have Mexican and U.S. authorities allowed the murderers of an American journalist to go free?
Live
Gravy Train!!!!, Sugar and Gold, the Okmoniks, at Club Congress, Wednesday, Aug. 1
Glass Half-Empty
The company that wants to mine in the Rosemont Valley is promoting water plans that may be all wet
Soundbites
MUSIC, FOOD AND AWARDS–ALL FREE! The big story in music (around these parts, anyway) is the upcoming TAMMIES ceremony. In case you’re unfamiliar, that stands for Tucson Area Music Awards (don’t ask us why it’s not the “TAMAS”), and we here at the Weekly have been giving them out to deserving musicians for the last…
Lopsided Contest
Rodney Glassman and Robert Reus square off in the Ward 2 Democratic primary
Ghetto Dreams
The Detroit Cobras scuff up yesterday’s forgotten soul gems
