Surreal Times
A note from the editor.
Endearing Formula
Except for its Sapphic twist, ‘Imagine Me and You’ is a by-the-book romantic comedy
Noshing Around
Trading Places Café Poca Cosa closes its doors on Feb. 18 and reopens in the slick new space at 110 E. Pennington St. (at Scott Avenue) on Feb. 23. Although the new location won’t look like a piñata exploded, it will still be colorful, with pomegranate-hued walls, artful niches, chocolate-colored chairs, a sleekly sculpted bar…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Attached to Songs
Don’t ask Margo Timmins the name of the Cowboy Junkies’ fill-in drummer
Respect and Esteem
A look back at Henry O. Flipper, a Tucsonan and West Point’s first African-American graduate
Opening the Floodgates
Craig Wedren, of Shudder to Think, finally goes solo
The Skinny
BUT AT LEAST WE KNOW THAT FEMA MONEY IS BEING WELL-SPENT Once again, President George W. Bush is playing deadbeat-dad-in-chief. To balance the books, the Bush administration has zeroed out the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which provides federal dollars to the state to cover the cost of illegal immigrants who are incarcerated in Arizona…
Soundbites
GIN IN THE BEDROOM Relatively new to Tucson via Seattle, Michael John Serpe owns and operates Home Recorded Culture, which he describes as “not so much a label as it is a musician and artist toolbox, fully equipped with a bare-bones recording studio and a screen-print shop. We help artists document their moment in time…
Media Watch
Choal’s Goals for KVOA
Nine Questions
Professor Paul
Police Dispatch
Awkward Ride Ajo Way and La Cholla Boulevard, Jan. 24, 12:41 p.m. A middle school student complained that he became uncomfortable when a male peer began “talking nasty” to him on a school bus, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated. The boy said a fellow student sat next to him on the bus and…
Live
George Jones TCC Music Hall, Tuesday, Feb. 7 There were a few empty seats at the George Jones show at the TCC Music Hall–perhaps because of the slightly pricey tickets. But even for those who couldn’t easily summon the funds, it would have been worth the $60 just to hear him sing “He Stopped Loving…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
It’s not surprising that actor, soundtrack composer and pop singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson would have identity issues–his recording pseudonym is Chocolate Genius Inc. With this, his third album under his nom de pop, Thompson has created a genuine masterpiece about, as he puts it, “family, faith and the future. ” Produced by veteran Craig Street,…
Pachyderm Push
Should the Reid Park Zoo keep its elephants?
Rhythm & Views
One of my favorite periods of punk rock was the early ’80s, primarily in Southern California, when hardcore bands such as Descendents, Adolescents and Bad Religion began to integrate tuneful pop into their respective sounds, even while the lyrical content remained rooted in a sense of youthful angst. At its best moments, Long Island band…
Pick of the Week
Viva Mexican Cinema
Rhythm & Views
Pete Doherty is one of music’s living soap operas. The talented musician shared frontman duties with Carl Barât in the Mick Jones-endorsed act The Libertines. That is, until his uncontrollable drug addiction and unpredictable antics–including robbing Barât’s apartment for drug money–broke up the band two albums into their bright career. Now, less than a year…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Della Estrada
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Backcountry Shakedown
Stretching the law, national forests fill their cash drawers
Sensitive Simon
LTW makes ‘Broadway Bound’ into one of the company’s best productions
No Laughing Matter
At a speech in Tucson, a renowned Israeli cartoonist says illustrators can go too far
Art Anarchy
Arizona Repertory Theatre turns in a vital, if flawed, production of ‘Scenes From an Execution’
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Nature, Buildings and People
The CCP takes photography lovers behind some of Harry Callahan’s legendary images
Danehy
The story of Dani Higgins and her exceptionally bad week
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Genuine Mystery
Michael McGarrity shows his love for the Southwest in ‘Nothing but Trouble’
Tuttle
Welcome to Connie’s Relationship-Advice Corner
Now Showing at Home
“The Best of the Electric Company,” “Live Freaky! Die Freaky!”, and “The Tomorrow Show: Punk and New Wave”
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Guest Commentary
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‘Pink’ With Promise
The new ‘Panther’ is mediocre, but far better than other post-Peter Sellers efforts
The Treasure of Tapas
Casa Vicente offers Tucsonans a taste of Spain
