Tom Russell Turns up the Volume
Folk singer Russell crosses the border into the realms of the electric.
Soundbites
Wesley Willis is off the streets and into Solar Culture… The Congress hosts the LMNOPs of punk… Peter McLaughlin is picking up around Plush and more.
Rhythm & Views
For those of you not familiar with the Kindercore label, here’s your chance to slide up to the bar and take a “beer tour” of it. These three discs span 130-plus minutes of blissfully wonderful pop music. And I don’t mean “pop” in the Spears/*N SYNC/ Backstreet Boys sense. I’m talking the Big 3 of…
Space Odyssey
Catherine Eyde’s new work is out of this world.
Triple Score
Dance around town this weekend to three very distinct performances.
What About Bob?
The Church of the SubGenius seeks to save your Slack at the first-ever Tucson Devival.
A Gray-Day Monologue
Has Spalding Gray turned into a family man?
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Loafing Around
Beyond Bread is beyond belief.
The Skinny
Fred Ronstadt is bringing home the tax payers bacon… Wright is steering the Star even further off course… Demolition teams are tearing down community faith in the system… And more political pandering.
Frip Frap
Who is George Saunders and why is he unleashing his inner Gappers?
Self-Esteem Local Motive
A coalition of agencies has thrown out the economics books and fights homelessness on new terms.
Femme Fisticuffs
Fighting writers knock themselves out.
DU? PU!
Despite Air Force assurances, activists worry that depleted-uranium weapons at D-M may give Tucson a special glow.
Pig In A Poke
“Hannibal’s” promise of suspense casts brains before swine.
Indecent Proposal
Cud-happy commissioners are doing their best to make the Game and Fish Department serve ranchers first.
Dead Can Dribble
Coolidge would be just a dusty, open grave if it weren’t for its crack basketball team.
Newsreel
This week we begin a minimally related two-part series on people with strange brains. In the next issue, freelancer Lee Allen will peek inside the Mensa mind, mingling with high-IQ Tucsonans who describe themselves as “very fast people in what we perceive as a very slow world.” Mensa offers more than pocket protectors on parade;…
Cheap Thrills
Fun things to do that won’t cost a fortune.
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
‘Better’ Days
Rainer Maria exercises poetic license on the latest release.
