Dems Win, but Now Real Fight May Begin
Yesterday was a good day for folks like John Brakey, a Tucson Democrat who’s been involved in election-integrity issues since 2004. Judge Michael Miller’s rulling–that forces Pima County to hand over election files–came just after Brakey found out he was a new grandfather to a baby girl. “This gives me lots to celebrate,” Brakey said…
51 Down, One to Go!
The year’s next-to-last issue of the Weekly is online and waiting for your perusal. Feel free to comment here on its contents!
Project White House: The Big Tent
Project White House got some nice ink this morning in the Arizona Daily Star. Thanks to Daniel Scarpinato for the story. The Project White House candidates are about to receive their first campaign challenge. But before we get underway, we’d like to reach out one last time to any of the candidates who made the…
Project White House: And Away We Go!
The roster is set for Arizona’s Feb. 5 presidential primary—and we’re excited to announce that half of the candidates on the Democratic ballot are participating in Project White House! One-third of the the candidates on the GOP ballot are also participating in PWH. For those who came in late: Project White House is Tucson Weekly’s…
Christmas + Mother = Tamales
A couple of weeks ago, my mother got on the phone to my cousins and me to make an important announcement: “On Saturday the 16th, I’m making tamales. If you want any, you better show up and help make them.” I’ve read The Little Red Hen to my son enough times to know she meant business.…
Barack Inhaled Through the Nose
The political world is still going on and on about Barack Obama’s admission to high school students that he used alcohol and cocaine in his youth. This isn’t a new confession, but a detail of the presidential candidate’s life he wrote in a memoir published years ago. Smart idea. I’m sure Obama has been planning this run…
A Complaint From a Reader
Someone just called in, quite upset, to complain that we ran “a picture of the inside of a human skull” on our back cover. He said he was going to complain about us to the City Council and the Board of Supes, as well as on Channel 12. Turns out he was talking about an ad…
Zinburger Appears to Be a Win
I was an invited guest to the pre-opening of Zinburger, a Fox Restaurant Concepts place that I predict will be another winner. Sam Fox consistently knows how to satisfy Tucson’s dining public. I wrote about Zinburger in my Noshing column this week, but that was before I ate there. The dark merlot hue of Bistro Zin is long…
Police Dispatch
Trouble at the Trailer West Camino Del Paloma, Nov. 17, 10:51 p.m. A man attempting to defend his wife gathered a small posse armed with landscaping tools and then vandalized another man’s trailer, said a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. The Sheriff’s Department was informed of the incident by a 12-year-old girl, who called from…
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Danehy
Snapshots from a night of women’s college basketball
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Elizabeth Bernays
Rhythm & Views
You never know what to expect from Robert Wyatt, except that he’ll challenge your ears as well as your heart with lovely, sad and dark avant-garde rock compositions. Once upon a time, he was the drummer for ’70s prog-rock band Soft Machine. Recent work has headed for the fringes. Divided into three parts–representing love and…
O’Sullivan
Let’s face facts: Animals can sometimes be a-holes
Pick of the Week
Keeping a Tradition
Longest Night
This year, ZUZI! celebrates the solstice with some lullabies
Guest Commentary
A proposed bill banning smoking in cars with minors deserves support
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
White Conscience
Apartheid in the 1960s is the focus of Beowulf Alley’s impressive one-woman play
¡Ask a Mexican!
Though Detroit’s Mexican community is tiny, it’s not the smallest such enclave in the United States.
Animal Nonmagnetism
‘The Golden Compass’ proves that blasphemy can be extremely boring
Dislocation and Separation
Migrant artifacts from the border areas star in a new art show at El Ojito Springs
Newspaper Death Watch
A note from the editor.
Lasting Impact
The powerful ending of ‘Atonement’ will really hit you on the way home from the film
Imagine Anew
Hershman R. John’s poetry debut is a gem of a book
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Gifts on Disc
These DVDs tickled our reviewer, so they just may tickle someone on your shopping list
Indie-Lit Treasures
A list of books to consider for the last-minute shopper
Readers Give the Boot!
We invited Weekly readers this year to join us in our Get Out of Town! revelry. Here’s a selection of the submissions we received. We should remind everyone that the opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of the Weekly editorial staff. So there. CARL’S JR. (OR WHAT’S LEFT OF IT)AT WILMOT AND GRANT…
Now Showing at Home
“Superbad: 2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition,” “Saturday Night Live: The Complete Second Season,” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”
Glorious Gadgets
They make toys for grown-ups, too; here’s a holiday season recap
No Food for You!
A resident raises a fuss after a HOA says yes to $3,500 to light three trees, and no to a food drive
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Report Card
TUSD re-examines its media policies after previously clamping down on openness
Elegant Minimalism
Music-nerd trio Antelope offer stripped-down ‘meditative punk’
Noshing Around
New: Zinburger Fox Restaurant Concepts plans to open its newest concept on Monday, Dec. 17, in the former Bistro Zin location at Joesler Village, 1865 E. River Road. The menu will offer four different kinds of burgers: Angus beef, Kobe beef, free-range turkey and veggie, plus salads. Side orders cost extra; one side is hand-cut…
Forced Out
A Border Patrol agent’s departure highlights a troubled institution
Local Expansion
New Tucsonan Tracy Shedd is a welcome addition
A Saucy Buffet
Contessa proves that all-you-can-eat restaurants can actually serve good food
Get Out of Town!
Our fifth-annual list of people, organizations and entities that we wish would just go away
Soundbites
A VERY TUCSON CHRISTMAS If the Christmas music at every freakin’ retail store in existence isn’t reminder enough, look no further than this week’s slate of holiday-themed shows to tip you off that the season is in full swing. (My heat currently isn’t working, so I need to look no further than my thermostat–but that’s…
The Skinny
MINE SHAFT Augusta Resource Corporation is running into a rough patch in its bid to rip out a big patch of the scenic Santa Ritas in the pursuit of copper. The mining company has the absurdly antiquated 1872 Mining Act on its side, but local opposition from both sides of the political aisle has been…
Nine Questions
Chris Segrin
No Chain Stores Here!
Local, independent stores offer a variety of last-minute gift possibilities
Live
Avenged Sevenfold, Rialto Theatre, Thursday, Dec. 6
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Confession: I rooted hard for the beatboxin’, scat-singin’ Blake Lewis during the previous season of American Idol, and I really wanted to like this album. Too bad Audio Day Dream is pretty much impossible to get worked up about. Lordy, I tried. I’m a populist at heart, and the idea that millions of teenage girls…
Media Watch
‘Star,’ Citing Advertising Slump, Lays Off 11
Rhythm & Views
Levon Helm, legendary drummer for The Band, is enjoying another yet another round of critical acclaim–this time for a solo release, Dirt Farmer, his first studio album since 1982 and one that has already earned him a Grammy nomination. In the liner notes, Helm reveals that his family encouraged him “to record some of the…
