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The Death of Josseline
Josseline shivered as she stepped over the stones and ducked under the mesquites. She was in Arizona, land of heat and sun, but on this late-January day in 2008, it was cold and damp. The temperature was in the 50s, and the night before it had dropped to near freezing. A winter rain had fallen,…
Artistic Range: David Kish at Tucson Internation Airport
“Untitled from the Saguaro Rubbing Series” is among the works on display by David Kish, from March 1 through June 19 at the Tucson International Airport, 7250 S Tucson Blvd.There is an artist reception from 1 to 5 p.m., today, Sunday, April 25 in the Upper Link Gallery. (There is free parking for those attending…
Lute Olson Endorses Brian Miller in CD8
Republican Brian Miller, who is one of four GOP candidates competing for a shot against Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, scores an endorsement from former UA basketball coach Lute Olson—and picks up some pointers on how to make a three-point shot.
Meet Jonathan Paton
Republican Jonathan Paton, who stepped down from the state Senate earlier this week, has a new Web site up. You can meet Paton himself at a Meet and Greet tonight at Chopstix, 8195 N. Oracle Road. Auto dealer Jim Click would also like you to meet Jonathan, although that will cost you a bit of…
Artistic Range: David F. Brown at Temple Gallery
“Ships of the Desert” is among the pieces on display during “David F. Brown: Paintings and Drawings” from March 5 through March 30 at Temple Gallery, 330 S. Scott Ave. The exhibit is on display from Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and before Arizona Theatre Company Performances. There will be an…
Picture This: Board in the Late Afternoon
ANNA MARUM Wesley Oliver, a sophomore at the UA, passes time skateboarding in the Sixth Street parking garage. Skateboarding enthusiasts often hit up the garages on their spare time.
Artistic Range: James Hajicek and Carol Panaro-Smith at Etherton Gallery
“09-3” from Arc of Departure, a photogenic drawing by James Hajicek and Carol Panaro-Smith, is on display at Etherton Gallery, 135 N. Sixth Ave., through Feb. 27.
Another Example of Brilliant Lawmaking In Phoenix
Howie Fischer reports: Ignoring threats by a company to pack up and leave, a House panel voted late Tuesday to overturn the renewable energy mandate on utilities by the Arizona Corporation Commission. HB2701 strips utility regulators of their authority to impose such requirements. In its place, it puts in a different mandate, this one crafted…
Margaret Regan on ‘Talk of the Nation’ Wednesday (Tomorrow)
Margaret Regan, the Weekly arts editor and author of the fantastic new book The Death of Josseline, is slated to appear on NPR’s Talk of the Nation at 12:30 p.m. (Tucson time) on Wednesday, Feb. 24 (i.e. tomorrow). She was originally slated to be on the program Monday (which we reported in the dead-tree version…
One Lawmaker’s Pro-Makeup, Anti-Light Bulb Campaign
Presenting a brand new argument against those pesky, energy-saving fluorescent light bulbs: They make it hard to apply makeup. At least that’s what state Rep. Olivia Cajero Bedford thinks. As Jim Nintzel discusses this week in the Currents section: During a recent House Commerce Committee Rep. Frank Antenori explained the merits of his bill, HB…
Picture This: Tucson Rocks
JOSH MORGAN Caleb Preston boulders for the first time with a small group of friends at Gates Pass.
Glassman Staying Put—For Now
On the same day that state Sen. Jonathan Paton resigned, Tucson City Councilman Rodney Glassman, who is exploring a run for U.S. Sen. John McCain’s seat this year, chimed in with a press release of his own, vowing to stay on the Tucson City Council at least until April so he can work on the…
New Times Eviscerates Andrew Thomas and His Lousy Lawyering
We don’t pay too much attention to Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, but we really should, given that he wants to take his nutty prosecutorial approach to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. For anyone who really cares about the rule of law, Sarah Fenske of the Phoenix New Times has a must-read summary of how…
Pastiche Launches the Whiskey/Whisky Club
Pastiche Modern Eatery introduces the Whiskey/Whisky Club. First meeting is tomorrow night at 5:30 p.m. Reservations required. And have you checked out Pastiche’s Bedrock Chop? Three and half pound Rib Steak Chop, rosemary demi-glace, chef’s vegetable selection. It appears a bit pricey at $44, until you consider that it can feed a family of four.
Artistic Range: Andy Warhol at Tucson Museum of Art
Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, 1978, one of four screenprints on Bristol Strathmore paper. © 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. The name, image, and likeness of Muhammad Ali appears courtesy of Muhammad Ali. The work will be on display as part of Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and…
Paton Resigns. Who Gets His Senate Seat?
Jonathan Paton State Sen. Jonathan Paton resigned yesterday from the state Senate to focus on his challenge to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Paton has to prevail in a four-way GOP primary that includes fellow vets Jesse Kelly, Brian Miller and Andy Goss before he’ll have a shot at Giffords. Paton copped to being sad about leaving…
Margaret Regan on Arizona Illustrated
Tucson Weekly Arts Editor Margaret Regan talked about her new book, The Death of Josseline, with Bill Buckmaster on KUAT-TV’s Arizona Illustrated tonight. Watch it after the jump. We have an excerpt from The Death of Josseline in TW this week. Read it, and buy the book.
Picture This: Wilco (The Dog) In Flagstaff
Jim Nintzel I took Wilco (The Dog) to Flagstaff for the weekend. I think she liked the snow.
Picture This: A Taste of U.S. History in the Old Pueblo
KATRINA ARRINGTON Brandon Collon reads a copy of the Declaration of Independence. This copy is one of the 25 remaining copies of the original Dunlap prints made in Philadelphia in July 1776.
UA Brainiacs Talk About Brains
The UA College of Science is launching its spring lecture series, focusing on the mind and the brain, tomorrow night. The talks start at 7 p.m. at UA’s Centennial Hall. Lynn Nadel, a Regents’ Professor in Psychology, will discuss “Building Brains, Making Minds”: What does the brain do? The ancients thought it was a radiator,…
McCain and Kyl on Arizona Illustrated’s Friday Roundtable
Our two U.S. senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl, made their first tag-team appearance on Arizona Illustrated last night. Their biggest difference: McCain says the Republicans should not have spent so much money expanding prescription-drug coverage for Medicare patients in 2003, while Kyl continues to defend his vote for the entitlement, even as he complains…
One More Mars Pic
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona One more Mars photo from this week’s batch of photos from the UA’s HiRISE camera. HiRISE team member Maria Banks tells us: This observation shows a northwestern portion of the floor of a crater in the Arabia Terra region of Mars. In the subimage, several light-toned layered outcrops are visible, surrounded by…
New Eastside Farmers’ Market
Donna DeConcini gave us a call today to let us know about her newish farmers’ market that’s held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., every Friday and Saturday, at 8995 E. Tanque Verde Road, on the northwest corner of Catalina Highway and Tanque Verde Road. Items sold at the organic market include produce grown on…
Calexico: A KUAT Profile
Courtesy Arizona Public Media I really can’t shower enough praise on Joey Burns, John Convertino and the rest of the guys that make up Calexico. I’m hooked on the music, a mash-up of rock-and-roll and mariachi seasoned with a lot of other flavors that could only have been cooked up in Tucson’s barrio. And I…
Artistic Range: Paula Taylor at Zoe Boutique
“Givenchy” is among the pieces that will be available for purchase during “Pop Up Shop” on Saturday, Feb. 20 at Zoe Boutique, 735 N. Fourth Ave. “Pop Up Shop” will be from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. with live models and a cocktail party from 5 to 10 p.m.
Picture This: Joshua Morgan
JOSHUA MORGAN Gaege Root, a mechanical engineering student at the UA, feeble-grinds a ledge in Downtown Tucson. “Photography gives us the ability to encapsulate the emotionally powerful seconds in life that we wouldn’t take notice of normally,” says Joshua Morgan, who has been taking pictures since he was 17. A transplant from Sierra Vista, Ariz.,…
Grijalva: Save the Public Option!
Congressman Raul Grijalva thinks there’s still hope for the public option in health-care reform: As a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, I have championed the creation of a public option since the health care reform debate began, and I believe its inclusion in a reconciliation bill is crucial. Over the past year, numerous economic…
New from HiRISE: An Enhanced 3-D Image of Martian Mojave Crater
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona A new twist on the images snapped by the UA’s HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: An enhanced 3-D image of the Mojave Crater on Mars: The vertical dimension is exaggerated three-fold compared with horizontal dimensions in the synthesized images of a portion of the crater’s wall. The resulting images look…
We Missed The Hoff!
David Hasselhoff was on campus yesterday, but we missed it! Matt Lewis of the Wildcat got the scoop: Cindy Cain, who teaches Sociology of Popular Culture, also met with Hasselhoff. They discussed how Western popular culture has influenced other countries. Hasselhoff expressed interest in the ways in which popular culture could improve women’s rights and…
The Kinder, Gentler J.D. Hayworth
If you’re heard Sen. John McCain’s radio ad attacking J.D. Hayworth, you know it featured a creepy woman whispering about how rotten the former congressman for funding fruit-fly research and snake eradication in Guam. Hayworth is taking a more humorous approach with his first video ad. It kind of matches Hayworth’s approach so far: Saying…
Hayworth X McCain = Glassman?
Perhaps heartened by the fight that U.S. Sen John McCain has against upstart J.D. Hayworth, Democrat Rodney Glassman appears to be moving closer to launching a campaign. The Tucson City Councilman has a new Web site for his exploratory campaign.
Democrat Dave Bradley for Arizona Corporation Commission
Genial state Rep. Dave Bradley wants to run for the Arizona Corporation Commission. Az Blue Meanie has the scoop.
Almost live video: Transportation secretary on Tucson streetcar
OK, so it’s only three hours old, but here’s the speech U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood gave during his visit to Tucson today in which he gave the city $63 million of that sweet, sweet stimulus money for the modern streetcar project.
Mailbag
Grimm Needs to Get Over His Biases Against Bible-Themed Films Upon reading Bob Grimm’s review of the film The Book of Eli (“Bible Bump,” Cinema, Jan. 21), I found myself distracted by his biases. The first thing that stood out was the blatant distaste on Grimm’s part for any film that dares to include the…
Artistic Melting Pot
There’s so much that’s impersonal in today’s world,” says Harry Clark, co-founder of Chamber Music PLUS. “You can barely get a human being on the phone when you need help with something.” The remedy Clark offers to an impersonal modern world? Chamber music. “Not to say that an orchestra isn’t personal,” he qualifies. “It is.…
Pride and Tragedy
Margaret Regan penned her first story for the Tucson Weekly—an art review, she tells me—20 years ago this very month. And all of us here at Weekly World Central are proud as hell of Margaret, our arts editor, because she’s also reached another milestone this month: the publication of her first book. You can read…
Bad Doggy
After some monumental struggles—including director replacements and many postponements—The Wolfman is finally in theaters, and those problems are evident in the finished product. While Benicio Del Toro puts in some good work as the hairy one, the film feels like it’s missing something. Lawrence Talbot (Del Toro) hears his brother is missing, so he returns…
Simple Love Story
Frankie and Johnny are losers. I know the song says “sweethearts.” But in Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, currently being produced by the new Winding Road Theater Ensemble, these two are more losers than lovers. Oh, they try. When first we meet them, they are in the throes of what…
Soundbites
GET YOUR IRISH ON The marketing folks at Guinness—the makers of the Irish stout and the people who verify that some guy hula-hooped for nine days straight—must be geniuses. In 1993, they decided to establish a new potential world record: the world’s biggest toast (a raised-glass salutation, not a browned slice of bread). Since they…
Now Showing at Home
WWII in HD; Law Abiding Citizen (Blu-ray); You, the Living
Band of Contentment
Homesick after a move to the Northwest didn’t work out, Beau Bowen and Garth Bryson decided to move back to Tucson and start a new band—and they started brainstorming about a new drummer before they even left. Lo and behold, they got their man in Josh Skibar, whose band Is to Feel had just fallen…
Darden Smith: After All This Time: The Best of Darden Smith (Darden Music)
Austin singer-songwriter Darden Smith has been making Americana music for some 25 years; his debut album was released in 1986. This retrospective collection of 16 of his best tunes focuses primarily on Smith’s midtempo and nearly twangless folk-pop tales of small towns, heartache, dreams and desire. Smith performs these precise narratives in a charming voice…
Live
Brazilian Fest: Batucaxé, Capoeira Malandragem, Key Ingredients of African Soul
Universal Views
Nestled on a craggy mountaintop about 4,000 feet above the dim lights of Tucson, the Kitt Peak National Observatory is in a world of its own. Since the late 1950s, researchers at Kitt Peak have contributed to some of the most groundbreaking astronomical discoveries of the 20th century, ranging from the discovery of water molecules…
In Mourning: Monolith (Pulverised)
A Swedish progressive death-metal act signed to a boutique aggressive-music record label in Singapore? It can’t possibly get any more obscure. Still, metal is back, big-time, and despite mixed reviews in underground circles, Metallica’s 2008 album Death Magnetic proved to be a critical and commercial return to form, seemingly re-energizing the band and the entire…
T Q&A
Jodi Netzer
City Week
David Bagga Book-signing; Reading by John D’Agata; Pima Community College presents Cinderella; Western Round Up by Barry Sapp and Susan Evans
Little Places
Restaurants come and go; the dining business is a high-risk, high-turnover endeavor. And of all the Tucson restaurants that have closed in recent years, the one I miss most (aside from Terra Cotta, where I experienced countless special moments) was a little place called Romi’s Mexican Food. Romi’s—which closed a little more than four years…
Nine Questions
Mario Cordova
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Top Ten in Music
The 17th Street Guitar and World Music Store top sales for the week
In the Pipeline
When he’s on the stump, Republican congressional candidate Jesse Kelly doesn’t mince words about federal stimulus spending and earmarks. “It must stop now,” says Kelly, who promises to not seek any federal earmarks if he defeats Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in November. “This is bribery with taxpayer money, and it’s a disgrace.” Kelly dismisses any…
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: People talk about the costs of illegal immigration on our society. What about the savings? Has there been any research into how much more a meal at a restaurant would cost without Mexicans cooking and washing dishes? What percentage increase would we see with supermarket produce if migrant illegal laborers were paid a…
White Elephant on Ajo
After abandoning Tucson on March 31, spring training baseball will leave behind 64 years of fond memories. It will also leave behind about $25 million in debt. Spring training began in Tucson at what eventually became Hi Corbett Field. In the first game, on a March afternoon in 1947, the Cleveland Indians defeated the New…
Noshing Around
Whiskey Club Pastiche Modern Eatery owner Pat Connors has started a group that meets once a month to sample and learn about different whiskies. It’s called the Pastiche Whiskey/Whisky Club, and Connors said attendees at last month’s event were treated to Jameson whiskies and an Irish whiskey that had never been seen before stateside. They’ll…
Don’t Got You Covered
During her State of the State address in January, Gov. Jan Brewer announced a budget-cutting blueprint that included drastically scaling back the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS. She said that program’s expansion—approved by voters in 2000—was costing more than expected. “While we agree we must provide essential services for those with no…
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
Housing Democracy
Four years ago, Richard Kimball convinced his fellow board members at Project Vote Smart that creating a new office at the UA was a great idea. Today, he’s full of regret, as the organization he helped start is being forced to close its Tucson office at the end of the year. According to Kimball, a…
Weekly Wide Web
If you’re like me, you’ve used an online e-mail program like Yahoo! mail or Gmail for several years now, and not much has changed. You send mail; you get mail. That’s it. Then Google rolled out a free feature for Gmail that would change the face of communication as we know it: Google Buzz. What…
Media Watch
UA reviewing credential policies following NCAA violations
Danehy
OK, so maybe, just maybe, Tucson isn’t the craziest place in Arizona. After spending 48 hours in Prescott-Prescott Valley last weekend, I may have to reconsider my long-held belief. I was in Prescott because the girls’ basketball team I coach went to the state finals. And for the second year in a row, the Class…
Sade: Soldier of Love (Sony)
A decade has passed since Sade Adu last released an album of new songs. So how does one of the definitive artists of cocktail soul make music in 2010? By combining tradition with up-to-the-minute grooves and sonic textures. Sade continues to practice a now-classic style of exquisite heartbreak and desperate desire while slipping from blissed-out…
The Skinny
Hayworth vs. McCain: the GOP vs. itself; Who needs one of them fancy fiscal analysis things, anyways?; Unhealthy Arizona; Sitting out the primaries
Serraglio
The morning after a good desert rain, when the low winter sun pierces the remnant clouds and warms the saturated soil, you can see the steamy breath of the Earth exhale into the humid air. In my backyard, barren just a few weeks ago, a fresh veneer of tiny seedlings glistens with dew each morning.…
Tolstoy, Plus Boobs
It’s a rule of Oscar-season cinema that if you’re making a highbrow period drama, you not only have free license to show naked breasts; you’re ethically obligated to do so. It’s as though modern breasts are sleazy and exploitive, but period breasts enlighten our moral conscience. Strangely, audiences that get picky about the historical accuracy…
Living Laboriously
When Gabriel Thompson showed up in Yuma two years ago to work the lettuce fields, he was offered a promotion—twice—before he’d cut a single leaf. “Maybe it would be better if you worked inside, in the plant,” the puzzled Dole manager told him. “You could make more money, and it wouldn’t be so hard.” Thompson…
Guest Opinion
Encroachments on individual rights and assaults on the environment and quality of life proceed from so many directions that efforts to throw up protective boundaries seem futile. And yet dedicated citizens keep trying. One issue that won’t go away is the redundancy of overhead military flights. “(Davis-Monthan) is Turning Tucson Into One Gigantic Airbase” was…
Picture This: Music Underground
JOSHUA MORGAN The Missing parts, an alternative folk band, performs in the Fourth Avenue underpass. The group can be heard and seen every Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. JOSHUA MORGAN Douglas Fransisco plays his steel-lap guitar.
Free For All: Declaration of Independence Visits Tucson
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Whatever disagreements we might have with our fellow citizens, we imagine most of us agree that the writing of this document was a landmark moment in the history of freedom. One of the 25 remaining Dunlap broadsides of the Declaration of Independence is coming to Tucson this…
Gullies in Terra Sirenum
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Gorgeous new HiRISE shots from the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Lab are up, including this shot of gullies in a crater in Terra Sirenum. HiRISE team member Kelly Kolb tells us: This observation shows gullies in a crater in Terra Sirenum. The gullies unusually emanate from different elevations along the crater wall.…
The French Are Loose At the Loft Tonight!
BANDE ANNONCE DU TOUR DE FRANCE 2009les lutins du court métrage | MySpace Video French shorts at the Loft Cinema tonight! Details here.
New Wine Store in Marana
A new wine store called VinTabla Wine and Fine Spirits has opened in Suite 144 of Dove Mountain Center (12130 N. Dove Mountain Blvd, Marana). The store specializes in low-production boutique wines, fine spirits, esoteric beer, cigars and artisan cheeses and meats, said Lucas Gutierrez, the sommelier in charge of the store. There’s also a…
Picture This: Wandering Musician
ZINIU CHEN Shade Ferguson, a street musician, plays music on the UA campus. Ferguson is often seen around University Boulevard with his guitar strapped to his back.
Artistic Range: David Christiana at Lulubell Toy Bodega
“Five and Dime,” by David Christiana, is among the works on display from Saturday, March 6, through Wednesday, March 31, at the Lulubell Toy Bodega, 439 N. Sixth Avenue, Suite 187. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 to 6 p.m. The gallery will host an opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m.…
Artistic Range: Juan Carlos Breceda at Tansey Gallery
“Torero Rosa,” by Juan Carlos Breceda, is among the works on display through Monday, Feb. 22 at the Tansey Gallery, 3001 E. Skyline Drive, Suite 109. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Artistic Range: Juan Carlos Breceda at Tansey Gallery
“Nostalgia De Monte,” by Juan Carlos Breceda, is among the works on display through Feb. 22 at the Tansey Gallery, 3001 E. Skyline Drive, suite 109. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Come to an opening reception tonight from 5 to…
Artistic Range: Paula Taylor at Zoe Boutique
“J’tois Leather Dress” is among the pieces that will be available for purchase during “Pop Up Shop” on Saturday, Feb. 20 at Zoe Boutique, 735 N. Fourth Ave. “Pop Up Shop” will be from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. with live models and a cocktail party from 5 to 10 p.m.
Artistic Range: Juan Carlos Breceda at Tansey Gallery
“Bella Donna,” by Juan Carlos Breceda, is among the works on display from Feb. 11 through Feb. 22 at the Tansey Gallery, 3001 E. Skyline Drive, Suite 109. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Opening reception is from 5 to 7:30…
Artistic Range: Ted DeGrazia
“Mountain Scene No. 3” (top) and “Station VII” (bottom) by Ted DeGrazia are among the works on display through April 30 at the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, 6300 N. Swan. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
