Dec 30, 2004 – Jan 5, 2005

Dec 30, 2004 - Jan 5, 2005 / Vol. 21 / No. 44

Rhythm & Views

Listeners familiar with the low, deep and magnetic rock sound of the Boston trio Morphine may not be familiar with some of the other musical experiments of the late Mark Sandman, the endlessly inventive two-string, slide bassist and vocalist of that pioneering group. This two-CD, one-DVD box set aims to correct that. The 46-year-old Sandman…

Gene Armstrong

The Skinny

TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN Yuri Downing, the 2002 legislative candidate who was facing fraud charges over his spending of Clean Elections funds, recently pled guilty to perjury in Maricopa County Superior Court. The guilty plea ends a lengthy legal fight that started after Downing, son of state Rep. Ted Downing, teamed up with two…

Chris Limberis, Dave Maass, and Jim Nintzel

Rhythm & Views

Want Two is one of the year’s best albums. Since his label’s decision to split Want into separate releases, Wainwright has consistently claimed that the second part would show off more of his “operatic” side. He’s no Freddie Mercury, however, and, if anything, Two can be characterized as being a bit “artier” than previous efforts.…

Jarret Keene

Rhythm & Views

Sometimes, it’s hard to take veteran producers Prince Paul and Dan “The Automator” Nakamura seriously. They adopt strange pseudonyms; they structured their previous album as a self-help book. Hell, they call themselves the Handsome Boy Modeling School. But dig a little deeper, and you realize the duo’s tongue-in-cheek antics actually demonstrate just how serious they…

Kevin Capp

Police Dispatch

Cooking With Fire Wetmore and Flowing Wells Roads, Dec. 7, 9:54 a.m. A landlord believed that an evicted tenant, who was angry that his belongings had been removed from his former residence, caused considerable damage to the property when he melted a microwave on a stovetop, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report said. The tenant…

Saxon Burns

Danehy

Don’t believe what some idiot lawyers say–drunken driving is a heinous, disgraceful crime

Tom Danehy

Downing

My two cents: A former movie reviewer’s take on the cinema I experienced in 2004

Renée Downing

This Film Soars

‘The Aviator’ is an incredible movie–now, would someone please give Scorsese an Oscar?

Bob Grimm

Noshing Around

New American Bistro Café 54, located at 54 E. Pennington St., is an American bistro open weekdays for lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Chef Scott McMahon, who formerly worked at Café Terra Cotta, Barrio Grill and Lumé, makes everything from scratch using fresh ingredients. Café 54 also serves as a training program for…

Karyn Zoldan

Soundbites

THE KING OF MUSIC COLUMNS Screw Paul Krugman. Forget about Maureen Dowd and her Pulitzer Prize. They think they’re so damn smart with their highbrow musings and multisyllabic words. My favorite columnist used to be Larry King, until he stopped writing his column a few years ago. When I needed a truly informed opinion on…

Stephen Seigel

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