Dec 16-22, 2004

Dec 16-22, 2004 / Vol. 21 / No. 42

The Skinny

MANAGER’S SPECIAL Since Tucson City Manager James Keene announced his resignation, Mayor Bob Walkup and the City Council have exercised the same sage and steady judgment that had A Mountain painted a couple dozen different colors following the invasion of Iraq. After originally voting to have an interim manager fill in until after next November’s…

Chris Limberis and Jim Nintzel

Rhythm & Views

There’s a truly sickening moment halfway through the opening track, “Pretty in Casts,” off Pig Destroyer’s Terrifyer, when you suddenly hear what sounds like a beer bottle shattering. For the next few songs (“Boy Constrictor,” “Scarlet Hourglass,” “Gravedancer”), this improvised weapon is then slowly, gradually pressed against your face. But the actual carving doesn’t start…

Jarret Keene

Rhythm & Views

Bluegrass music was cool decades before the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack album became a hit, and this meticulously assembled (by Gregg Geller) and thoughtfully notated (by Billy Altman) four-CD set makes it abundantly clear. The 109-song collection kicks off with a 1929 recording of the traditional instrumental tune, “Soldier’s Joy,” by Gid Tanner…

Gene Armstrong

Holiday Pageantry

The performers in ‘A Tucson Pastorela’ seem more at ease this year–but where are all the local references?

James Reel

Police Dispatch

Hog Tied West Mile Wide and North Sandario roads, Nov. 27, 12:39 a.m. Deputies responding to a domestic-violence call found a man sitting on top of his father, who was on the ground outside with his hands taped behind his back, according to a PCSD report. The wife of the man who had been restrained…

Saxon Burns

Noshing Around

Terra Cotta Terra Cotta (they’ve dropped the Café part of their name) reopens Dec. 20 after its disastrous July 5 fire. Reservations are being accepted for lunch and dinner at 3500 E. Sunrise Drive; 577-8100. Pizza Delivery, Not Drugs KVOA Channel 4 reported that an owner of Magpies Gourmet Pizza was arrested in connection with…

Karyn Zoldan

Danehy

Barry Bonds and all of his apologists should be ashamed: He’s embarrassed a once-great sport

Tom Danehy

Soundbites

A LOCAL HOLIDAY RADIO TRADITION When I was but a wee lad, my father would regale me with stories about how different things were when he was my age, and the one thing that really stuck with me was that families used to crowd around the radio the way they did the television in my…

Stephen Seigel

Now Showing at Home

“Wild at Heart,” “Kids in the Hall: Complete Season 2,” and “Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume 2”

Bob Grimm

Live

Neko Case and The Sadies, Solar Culture, Tuesday, Dec. 7

Linda Ray

Rhythm & Views

To fend off the cold, cold winds of December, wrap yourself in Saint Etienne. Travel Edition, the British band’s first Stateside best-of compilation, knits the sweetest and catchiest tracks off of the band’s 14 records into an 18-song-long scarf that is so warm it could melt snow and grow flowers and grass. The record begins…

Annie Holub

Giving Grief

Giving away a car? You should know that some for-profit companies end up taking 30 percent of that donation

Tim Vanderpool

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