Dec 27, 2007 – Jan 2, 2008

Dec 27, 2007 - Jan 2, 2008 / Vol. 24 / No. 44

Looking Forward: 2008 Albums

While the Weekly is printing our musical faves of 2007, I thought it’d be nice to look forward as we look back. Here’s a list of some albums slated for release in early 2008 that I’m excited about: The Magnetic Fields, Distortion (Jan. 15): Stephin Merritt really never fails to express his songwriting genius, and…

Annie Holub

Replacing Barney With a Penguin

When you work in newspapers, there is always a family member, friend or neighbor with a story idea or they insist is the Next Big Thing.  My latest source is 6 years old with gorgeous brown hair and brown eyes, and he happens to live under my roof: My son has caught on to the joys of…

Mari Herreras

The Disappearance of Alfredo Jiménez Mota

Michael Marizco, on his Border Reporter blog, has a story about Alfredo Jiménez Mota, a newspaper reporter who vanished in 2005. On the eve of the one thousandth day of the reporter’s disappearance, the following story was not accepted by Sonoran newspaper El Imparcial unless I was willing to redact the names of those suspected…

Jimmy Boegle

Project White House: The Candidates Speak!

Next week’s print edition of TW will introduce you to the 22 candidates now participating in Project White House, but a few of them are already reaching out to voters at the Project White House Blog. Swing by to learn about Sean “CF” Murphy’s surprise VP invite and Richard Grayson’s many celebrity endorsements.

Jim Nintzel

Yes, Virginia, Pima County Did Appeal

Election-integrity activists John Brakey and Jim March called it: When Judge Michael Miller issued his ruling on Dec. 18 that would allow the Pima County Democratic Party access to the 2006 Primary and General Elections databases, Brakey and March said they worried the county would file a stay keeping the Democrats from claiming the files, and appeal the…

Mari Herreras

No HOA for You!

Barry Austin, the Finisterra neighborhood resident disgusted with his homeowner’s association, sent us an update on reaction to our story about his HOA voting yes to pay $3,500 for Christmas lights, but no to a neighborhood food drive for the Tucson Community Food Bank. After press time, the Finisterra HOA held its annual meeting on Dec. 12. According to Austin, the…

Mari Herreras

Soundbites

MUSIC AND FUN BETWEEN HOLIDAYS As seems to be a tradition in these parts, once again, we find ourselves with not much to do in that nether region between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, right? Well, not quite so fast: There are a few things going on, especially for punk fans and the rockabilly inclined.…

Stephen Seigel

Noshing Around

Congratulations Tucson resident Wanita Torrance never thought she would be taking her 87-year-old mother to Italy, but that is exactly what she is getting ready to do, thanks to the Passport Promotion sweepstakes offered at Sweet Tomatoes restaurants during August and September. Torrance was just recently notified that she had won. Have a great trip!…

Karyn Zoldan

Rhythm & Views

Longtime local musician Kevin Henderson, guitarist with the rock band The Swigs, has issued a top-notch double CD that is, for the most part, truly a solo effort–and on his own label, too. On Watch Your Head, Henderson performs all vocals and plays all instruments in the recording, except for the tune “Effigy,” which is…

Gene Armstrong

Rhythm & Views

Listening to Alone is sort of like looking at naked baby pictures of Rivers Cuomo in his bathtub. Or like coming across a box of embarrassingly strange pictures he drew as a teenager of made-up space aliens. Some of the tracks hearken back to the early days of Weezer: There’s “Lemonade,” with the beautifully simple…

Annie Holub

The Skinny

SHOCKING PREDICTIONS FOR 2008! In what has become a tradition in these parts, The Skinny turned to staff psychic Stella Sabrini to peer into the future and let us know what headlines we can expect in the year ahead. JANUARY As Arizona budget deficit grows to $1.2 billion, Gov. Janet Napolitano delivers State of the…

Jim Nintzel

Police Dispatch

Somebody Won the Pot North Oracle Road, Nov. 26, 10:44 a.m. A traveling San Diego man left his car windows open and was robbed of suitcases containing more than $10,000 in cash, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. A sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to the La Posada Lodge, 5900 N. Oracle Road; the…

Anna Mirocha

Rhythm & Views

It’s no secret that poetry and music are incredibly effective vehicles for creative expression. Combine the two, though, and the results can vary widely. So it’s with pleasure that I report that Dan Kaufman’s new solo album smoothly melds his avant-garde chamber music with the words of Jewish-Romanian poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan. It’s…

Gene Armstrong

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