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Cuvee, Other Restaurants Are Closed
Adam Borowitz, our Noshing Around writer, reports: Cuvee World Bistro, at 3352 E. Speedway Blvd., has closed as of Sunday, Jan. 4, according to a recorded message left on the restaurant’s voicemail by owner Robert Bossardet. “I want to extend my sincere appreciation to the entire city of Tucson, to all of our guests, to…
Screwed-Over Iraq Vet Watch: The Final Chapter
We’ve been telling you over the last few weeks about how Republican Vic Williams, who was recently elected to an Arizona House of Representatives seat in Legislative District 26, stiffed an Iraq war vet on a $400 deposit on a house she rented from her last summer. To recap from our first edition of Screwed-Over…
Last Chance: The Obama Issue!
The submission deadline for the Tucson Weekly’s Obama Issue is almost here! All submissions need to be in on or before noon on Jan. 7—that’s next Wednesday. To recap what the Obama Issue is all about: In our Jan. 15-21 issue, we’re opening our pages to you, our splendid readers, to express yourselves regarding the…
Status and Stasis
A review of stories from 2008 reveals that the status quo often–but not always–reigns supreme
Live
Calexico, Y La Orchestra, Rialto Theatre, Monday, Dec. 29
Charity and Integrity
Updates on stories regarding banned food drives, ballot bigotry and election databases
Rhythm & Views
It would be a cruel simplification to pigeonhole Marianne Dissard’s lovely singing voice as “breathy.” More accurately, on her debut album, L’entredeux, Dissard shapes each exhalation into music–a diverse palette of sighing, moaning, trilling and purring. Born in France but a longtime Tucson resident, Dissard is a singer/songwriter as well as a poet, activist, filmmaker…
The Skinny
SCREWED-OVER IRAQ VET WATCH, PART III We’ve been telling you in recent weeks about Army Sgt. Tasha Downum, a 26-year-old single mom who was stiffed on a deposit on a beach house that she rented from Republican Vic Williams, a newly elected member of the Arizona House of Representatives in District 26. As David Safier…
Rhythm & Views
Kanye West’s fourth album stands to be the musical conversation piece of 2008. Easily the sharpest creative turn West has ever made, 808s and Heartbreak is basically just what the title says: a drum machine and a man wallowing in loss. It’s West’s breakup record, and his swagger has given way to regret, stung pride…
Fence Fears
Metal barriers are the San Pedro River’s newest inhabitants
Rhythm & Views
Electric Arguments is the sound of musicians completely liberated, and shouldn’t all albums sound like that? Maybe not, but if there’s any man who should be artistically untethered, it’s Paul McCartney. He’s revived this pseudonym/project, which he devised with partner-in-crime Youth (Killing Joke and Orb member, The Verve producer) back in 1993 as an instrumental…
Media Watch
Layoffs the Big Media News in 2008
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Molly McClintock
Real People
LTW makes ‘Beau Jest’ a gem by avoiding stereotypes, caricature
Police Dispatch
Intolerance Reinvented West Leafwing Drive, Dec. 4, 3:16 p.m. A northwest-side homeowner who apparently worships the sun hurled verbal abuse at his deer-hunting neighbor, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. The reportee stated that his across-the-street neighbor had been outside talking to some children on bicycles when the reportee’s car alarm started going…
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Pick of the Week
Kids, Hippos and the Bassoon
How We Grew
The development of the West as we know it is impressively explained in this upbeat volume
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Choices Aplenty
You may be pleasantly surprised at the quality of the Desert Diamond buffet
Danehy
Tom starts off 2009 with queries concerning economists, Michael Jackson and the UA band
Conflict of Conscience
Kate Winslet is fantastic in ‘The Reader,’ but the film falls apart in its final two sequences
Noshing Around
A Perfect Signing Maynard James Keenan, the reclusive lead singer and co-founder of Tool and A Perfect Circle, and his business partner, Eric Glomski, will sign bottles of wine from their wineries Caduceus Cellars, Merkin Vineyards and Arizona Stronghold from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 6, at Whole Foods Market, 3360 E. Speedway Blvd.…
Messina
Paul Nosa makes art with a sewing machine and green electricity
Puppy Love
‘Marley and Me’ is a surprisingly entertaining and realistic dog movie
Guest Commentary
Don’t blame the barista for your worries and declining finances
Now Showing at Home
“Transsiberian,” “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson,” and “Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection”
¡Ask a Mexican!
Why is Mexican Spanish prone to such a mangled morphology?
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Obama Issue: Last Call
A note from the editor.
Can’t Stop Listening
We start off 2009 with more lists of our favorite albums from 2008
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Soundbites
A PERFECT … BOTTLE? Considering the darkness and mystery projected by Maynard James Keenan–Arizona resident and frontman for Tool, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle–via his bands’ music (“Stinkfist,” anyone?), live performances (he’s rarely visible to the audience, preferring to lurk in the hazy shadows) and videos (those creepy Tool stop-motion animation clips), one might not…
Bailout Nation
Our review of 2008: A year of rapid collapse
Nine Questions
Theresa Andersson
