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Paul Newman and Francis Ford Coppola
In my Feb. 21 Noshing Around column, I write about some red-carpet event at Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar that will feature the wines of Francis Ford Coppola and introduces Newman’s Own wines. That got me thinking about movies, specifically, my favorite Paul Newman movies. Off the top of my curly head, I’d have to…
Election Integrity Heads Back To Court (clarified version)
Tucson attorney Bill Risner will soon be back in Pima County Superior Court on behalf of those election-integrity-loving Pima County Democrats. On Monday, Feb. 25 at 3 p.m., Risner goes before Judge Michael Miller to request that the court look at objections Risner filed against Miller’s findings of fact from his Dec. 18 ruling in…
Flag-Burning Asshat Gets Legal With Farmers’ Market
There’s only so much harassment a farmers’ market can take. That’s what market manager Alan Ward and two vendors were thinking on Wednesday, Feb. 13, when a certain attention-hungry Mexican flag-burner descended in front of the downtown Bank of America building to get on his bullhorn. When he turned his bullhorn in the direction of the…
Who Wants To Be a Super Delegate?
So we’re hearing a lot about these super delegates and how they might have the power to decide the Democratic presidential race. Blog for Arizona takes a look at the Arizona super delegates today. Perhaps you’re wondering how you can become a super delegate yourself. How does it work? Do you have to be bitten…
On Track
If you haven’t been downtown lately, you might not have noticed that the first segments of track for the urban streetcar have been laid in the messy construction zone of the Fourth Avenue underpass. The good news: Congress Street is scheduled to reopen next month, ending the wack detour we now have when we enter…
Learning Something New Every Day
So I opened up next week’s Free Will Astrology column, and Irene Messina–who does the first read of the column–had left a note at the top of a column, noting that she had a question about these two sentences: The average male owns 15 pairs of underwear, while the typical female has 21. (The other…
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Comedy That’s Real
Janet Neipris’ mother-daughter play ‘Natives’ opens at Invisible Theatre
Danehy
Independents who felt entitled to vote in the presidential primary are bad Americans
Pick of the Week
Eight Days a Week
Community and the Sacred
An art exhibit at PCC’s West Campus is not flashy, but it’s full of quiet strength
Tuttle
We all need more than love; we also need to keep our expectations in check
Life Rejected
David Lynch’s horrific ‘Eraserhead’ may be the most cohesive film ever made
Deadwood Drama
Sentimentality is both a strength and a weakness in Kenneth Kieser’s Western debut
Guest Commentary
Rejoice the fact that Tucson is still part of the American frontier
Pretty Garbage
Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star in another good-looking, but stupid movie
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
Meet the Interns
A note from the editor.
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Noshing Around
New: Bistro Philippe Firecracker Bistro, formerly the home of Pacific Rim fusion, has been transformed into Bistro Philippe, celebrating the foods of the French countryside at moderate prices. Chef Philippe Trosch is best known locally as the AAA Five Diamond Award-winning executive chef at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, where he hung his toque prior…
¡Ask a Mexican!
Survey: 17 percent of Latinos think illegals “hurt the economy.”
Now Showing at Home
“Tootsie: 25th Anniversary Edition,” “Across the Universe,” and “Rocket Science”
A Feel for Greece
OPA! brings tasty Greek food to Campbell Avenue’s restaurant row
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Rock Foundations
Dean and Britta keep it simple, keep on rollin’
Going for Broke
Financial ruin! Theme parks! Guns in schools! That’s right, kids: It’s another session of the Arizona Legislature!
Hypnotic and Raucous
Austin hard-rock band Lions can relate to facial hair, but can’t relate to the Top 40
Clean Reception
A year from the formal digital-TV switch date, officials take steps to keep old sets out of landfills
Soundbites
PUT ON YOUR DANCIN’ SHOES Chow Nasty don’t drop any science on their 2007 debut album, Super (Electrical) Recordings (Omega). Don’t expect to hear any life lessons, or to have your IQ soar upward when listening to them. What you can expect is an album unlike anything you’ve ever heard. The San Francisco group sounds…
Black Pioneers
A new book examines the lives of African-American Tucsonans between 1860 and 1900
Nine Questions
Clay Lewis
Creature Comforts
The Pima Animal Care Center seeks an overhaul
Rhythm & Views
What does a classy, untouchable rockabilly cat do once he’s conquered the world several times over? For Jim Heath, aka the Reverend Horton Heat, he forms Reverend Organdrum. A trio with Heath on guitar, Tim Alexander (from Asleep at the Wheel) on Hammond B-3 organ and Todd Soesbe on drums, Reverend Organdrum breathe new life…
The Skinny
QUESTIONING AUTHORITY Ever since we finally passed a half-cent sales tax to pay for transportation projects, people have been saying that the next big thing the area needs is a regional water authority that would take control of the water supply. The talk got a little more pronounced during last year’s fight over city Proposition…
Live
Donovan, Al Stewart, Fox Tucson Theatre, Saturday, Feb. 9
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
The Mars Volta really understand the whole prog-rock thing: unapologetic excess, esoteric self-referentiality, endless songs filled with sudden tempo changes and bizarre rhythms. The Bedlam in Goliath kicks off on “Aberinkula,” with vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala screeching operatically over crashing drums and spacey synth sounds. The rest of the album follows with a frenzied, masturbatory urgency…
Media Watch
Cook Out; KNST Looking for New Chief
Rhythm & Views
Keren Ann has come out of her folk/jazz en française shell and created a record with a sense of urgency on this self-titled album–this one, sung entirely in English. The opening track, “It’s All a Lie,” is intense and powerful, with guitar power chords that wail into the distance along with sparse cymbal crashes and…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Bruce Smith
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Police Dispatch
Lifestyles of the Bored and Stoned UA Area, Jan. 25, 10:16 p.m. Two UA fraternity members’ dorm-room practices were revealed by law enforcement, according to a UA Police Department report. An officer was dispatched to the La Paz residence hall, 602 N. Highland Ave. He smelled burnt marijuana coming from one of the rooms; its…
Encyclopedia About Tango
Argentina’s famous dance is the subject of a long-running show coming to Centennial Hall
