Catholic Worker Movement
Casa Maria, 401 East 26th St., is one of 175 Catholic Worker communities committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer and hospitality for the homeless. The Catholic Worker movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is pacifist and anti-racist. Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1897 and died in 1980. Her…
A Disclosure
A new editor–this is my fourth issue of the Weekly–imposes new ways of doing things. That includes setting standards that perhaps before were not strictly defined. In the case of our reviewers–whether of restaurants, movies, music, books, the arts or politics–I will seek to disclose to our readers their associations when I think they are…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Gut Buster
Jim Harrison indulges huge appetites, displays tough-guy charm and a warm heart and drops names aplenty in his new collection of essays.
The Skinny
The scoop on the new supe… Legislators playng in traffic . . . And more!
Beyond Oprah
Michael Franzen’s ‘The Corrections’ quite simply is an amazing novel about family trauma.
Access Limited?
There are no soap operas on Tucson’s public-access TV channels. The drama is behind-the-scenes.
Thorny Investigation
Missing persons, dead bodies, complicated emotions and no Crocodile Dundee–what more could we ask of an Aussie flick?
A Load Off
Truckers have entered a brave new world after 9/11. So have we all.
Street Fight
The campaigns are squaring off over May’s sales-tax proposition for road improvements.
Gold Digger
Our personal-finance advisor sums up the Olympics. Want a Canadian dime?
Standards
A note from the editor.
City Week
“Little Terrors” at Pima College… Arizona Symphony Orchestra… Newport Jazz Festival… And more!
Cheap Thrills
Fun things to do that won’t cost a fortune.
Rhythm 101
Ubaka Hill returns to Tucson to teach drumming as a path to liberation and well-being.
Soundbites
These kitties growl… The Good Life… Tony Furtado . . . And more!
Themeless Variations
This time, the Winter Chamber Festival trades unity for diversity.
Working Poor, Living Poor
Thousands try to make it on minimum wage, or less, in Tucson. That’s why they call it hand to mouth.
Blood Memories
Alvin Ailey’s troupe dances the roots of a culture.
An Army of Poor Women
Thirty-nine-year old Pauline (who does not want to reveal her surname) lives with a man in an apartment for which they pay $550 a month. “It was filthy and I had to clean it when we moved in. We’re looking for a better area; this area is nothing by prostitutes and crack.” This is her…
Foothills Folly
Proud to be no-frills, El Corral steakhouse deserves its status as a Tucson tradition.
High-wage, High-tech Mirage
Political and business leaders are fond of telling us that Arizona’s high-tech industries pay good wages and, thus, are making life better in the state. However, the truth is that high-tech employment doesn’t even show up on the radar screen of the Greater Tucson Economic Council. According to GTEC, in August 2001 the Tucson Metropolitan…
Genetic Engineering
Can Orts’ dancing DNA survive the swinging box of death?
