The Last Issue o’ the Year
Is online! Look off to your right for all the seasonal, year-in-review goodness!
New Year’s Resolution: Saying Yes to Mess
Once again, it’s almost that time when those pesky resolutions keep popping up in the recesses of my mind. A friend told me that she made one resolution last year; because it was only one, she was able to stick to it. Her resolution was to floss her teeth every night. In the past, I’ve…
A Forking Strange Thing
So, at the Tucson International Airport today, I had a chance to eat at the new sports-bar thingie just off of Gate 22. Here’s what’s weird: They gave us forks to eat with. Like, real, metal forks. Beyond security. At the airport. Am I the only one who thinks this is, um, kinda stupid?
Fish Tacos Times Two
In the never-ending hunt for fish tacos, I had two different plates yesterday. The first was at Barrio, at JB’s recommendation. The fish of the day was salmon and they were loaded with black beans, guacamole and the standard fixins inside a soft flour tortilla. Very good, especially with the mango salsa that came on…
Urgent Breaking Travel News Update
Apparently, someone finally told the TV stations it snowed in Denver. This blog just witnessed a KOLD Channel 13 reporter bothering people at the Tucson International Airport, asking harried travelers if their travel plans have been hindered due to the storm. (Please note I am not criticizing the TV reporter for bothering people. I did/do…
We’re No. 1
The state, that is, in terms of growth by percentage. In other words … say goodbye to more of the Sonoran Desert.
Yet Another Reason to Be Happy You Don’t Live in Phoenix
Props to the Phoenix New Times for sticking it to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The paper has been reporting on the corruption and stupidity in his office for quite some time. Check out this week’s dispatch, in which the New Times lets Arpaio have it—despite inane threats of legal action.
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Tunes for Transition
Tucson will be alive with the sound of music as 2007 arrives
Tuttle
It’s time to rethink what the holiday season is all about
New Year’s Pick
First-Rate Fun
Migrants and Minutemen
Disposable cameras document the border journeys of both the hunter and the hunted
Guest Commentary
Don’t fret the season’s consumerism; take a walk and shop at local businesses
Local Heroes
Our fourth annual look at some folks who strive to make Tucson–and the world–a better place
Patient Performance
A whole new ‘Pastorela’ experience awaits Tucsonans
Danehy
An NCAA committee shows that efforts in the name of gender equity can go too far
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
Aren’t We Special?
A note from the editor.
Saved by the Bell
‘Rocky Balboa’ is, without a doubt, another Rocky movie
Into the Painterly
Davis Dominguez celebrates 30 years with 60 artists, old and new
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Super Spider!
‘Charlotte’s Web’ is pure family-movie magic
A Miss, Then Hits
‘Bull by the Tale’ offers wonderful stories–but don’t bother with the first one
The Rich and the Poor
This holiday season, almost 15 percent of Pima County residents are living in poverty
Now Showing at Home
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Four-Disc Extended Edition,” “Oldboy: Three-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition,” “Cars,” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest: 2-Disc Special Edition”
Noshing Around
Local Altruism by Tucson Originals On Dec. 18, two charities–the Community Food Bank and New Beginnings–were presented with checks for $18,000 each as the nonprofit beneficiaries from the Tucson Culinary Festival, held Oct. 6-8 at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort. Christmas Eve Dining Most of the Tucson Originals restaurants have special Christmas Eve dinners planned, so…
The Skinny
GROWING INTEREST Gov. Janet Napolitano has recently been huddling with city and county officials to cook up new strategies to handle the state’s ever-explosive growth. It’s all leading into her State o’ the State speech next month, when she’s expected to propose a big ol’ growth package. Details remain sketchy, but Napolitano has already said…
New Year’s City Week
An EveningWith EMAT European Multi-Ethnic Alliance of Tucson New Year’s Eve Dinner Dance 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 31 Doubletree Hotel, 445 S. Alvernon Way 777-8187 or 326-7330 What does your heritage mean to you? A lot of Americans don’t really think about it. But people in the European Multi-Ethnic Alliance of Tucson (EMAT) do. The…
Food, Beautiful Food
Ferranti’s is a European treasure–if you can get through the busy traffic
Media Watch
KWBA Tries To Find Market Niche
Tunes for the Holidays
Our Christmas-music-lovin’ Jewish music critic yet again reviews his mail
Eat, Drink and Be Merry
New Year’s dining options include everything from family fun to Sunday brunch to happy hours
Police Dispatch
Freddy Krueger Calling Ina Road and La Cholla Boulevard, Nov. 26, 12:13 p.m. A woman received scary phone calls from a man identifying himself as “Death Row,” a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report said. The woman said that at about 11:30 p.m., she received a phone call from someone she didn’t know. The caller was…
Soundbites
BLYND AMBITION Not even the holiday season can slow the tide of local CD releases and the parties that accompany them. This week brings the debut EP from Flyin Blynd, the self-released 5ive From … . The band’s leader is singer/songwriter/guitarist JR Dennis, who relocated to Tucson from Nashville, Tenn. According to the band’s press…
What New Year’s resolutions are people making?
We asked a few Tucsonans to share
Top Ten in Music
CD City’s top sales for the week
Worse Off Than Sardines
Riders of a crowded bus route may be out of luck when asking for more service
Nine Questions
Travis Spillers
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Live
Ozomatli, Rialto Theatre, Thursday, Dec. 14
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Rich Greenwood
Rhythm & Views
Swedish singer/pianist Frida Hyvönen’s sweet voice at first makes you think of cabaret; her piano clinks, and the organ on “Djuna!” sounds like it was given up by a failing circus. “Someday when I’m not broke, I’ll kiss my boys goodbye,” she sings, and she sounds like she should be traveling the back roads of…
The Cost of Greed
Death and defects are the rule in the Ecuadorian Amazon, thanks to American oil-company carelessness
Rhythm & Views
Piers Faccini, born in Britain to Italian parents but a current resident of Paris, incorporates a world of musical influences into his incredibly mellow but, at the same time, textured songs. Each song maintains a tension between an utter outpouring of emotion and silence: “Days Like These,” for example, has moments of just Faccini’s soulful…
Pick of the Week
Sonoran Art
Rhythm & Views
Remixing The Beatles–what fresh travesty is this? Yes, someone has fiddled with the hallowed pop canon recorded in the 1960s by the inventive and immortal Fab Four. Fear not, though, ye purists. Behind this album is none other than Sir George Martin, the now-80-year-old mastermind who produced most of the band’s material and frequently is…
