The Reason Why Wednesday Afternoon Is Your Favorite Time of the Week!
It’s an all-new issue of the Weekly! Feel free to comment on it on this here post.
Event Cancellation
We have just been notified that the following event has been cancelled: Raw Whole-Food Potluck. Wild Oats. 7133 N. Oracle Road. 297-5394. Enjoy a potluck meal featuring raw, organic, vegan and gluten-free food at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 22. Bring a dish to share, or something to add to a salad. Free.
Project White House: The Tucson Weekly Readers’ Endorsement!
Are you feeling cheated because you didn’t get around to changing your voter registration to Democrat or Republican before the deadline to vote in Arizona’s Feb. 5 presidential primary? Do you live out of state but wish you could vote for a Project White Candidate? Here’s your chance: You can vote online for the candidate…
Health Care Rhetoric from the Candidates
This is one of the better articles I’ve seen showing how Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are out of step when it comes to universal health care–even though they dance the dance. Call me a pessimist, but I don’t think any real universal health-care proposal is going to make it if either of these candidates win. And one…
All Hail Aztlan! All Hail Aztlan!
Lee Ewing from the Arizonans for Immigration Control called this morning to discuss a protest taking place tonight in front of the Tucson Unified School District about raaasa. “Raaasa?” I asked. “I’m not sure what you mean. Can you tell me what Raaasa is?” “Raaaasa studies in our schools,” he replied. It clicked. La Raza.…
Project White House: Murphy Hits Mitt!
A number of breaking news reports from Project White House: Republican Sean “CF” Murphy has posted a new campaign ad blasting fellow GOP candidate Mitt Romney. In related news: Project White House has launched a new YouTube channel that includes short campaign ads from several of the candidates. More to come later this week! Finally:…
Now the Geeks Get Busy
Friday, Jan. 11, was the deadline for Pima County to hand over the election-database files that the Board of Supervisors voted to turn over at the drama-filled Jan. 8 supes meeting. The best decision the board made that morning–no matter your opinion on this public-records case–was not to hold the discussion and vote on the Pima County Democratic Party…
300-Unit Development Gets Challenged
In Marana, the end of 2007 welcomed new development–along with some heavy-duty criticism from local desert protection activists. Last week, the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection issued a press release calling attention to a 300-unit development approved by Marana that would destroy some prime desert on the Hardy Wash. The project is called DeAnza, and contradicts the habitat-conservation planning…
Now Hear This!
KUAZ radio, found at 89.1 FM and 1550 AM on your radio dial, will be carrying Gov. Janet Napolitano’s State of the State speech with a special report beginning at 1 p.m. today. Reporter Christopher Conover has invited me to join him for pre-speech preview of the legislative session, as well as some post-speech analysis…
Project White House: The Televised Debate!
Big news for Project White House: The Tucson Weekly is teaming up with Access Tucson to sponsor a televised debate among Project White House candidates! Tucson Weekly Senior Writer Jim Nintzel will moderate the one-hour Tucson Weekly/Access Tucson/Project White House Dark Horse Presidential Candidate Debate, which will be broadcast live from Access Tucson studios at…
Some Late-Breaking Events
Here are a few events that were received past the deadline for our Jan. 10 issue. We recommend calling to check on last minute changes in location, price, time, etc. Thursday, Jan. 10 at 5 p.m. Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel 880 E. Second St. Teacher Recruitment Fair. The American Board for Certification of Teacher…
Pick of the Week
Independent Insight
True Spirituality
A new theater group forms to bring some ‘Doubt’ to Tucson
Danehy
Read along as Tom reveals his wants and needs
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Out of Africa
El Anatsui takes metal trash and uses it to tell varied stories
O’Sullivan
Don’t pick up dog crap, and save a sea turtle as a result!
L.A. Story
Richard Kelly’s latest is sure to let down fans of ‘Donnie Darko’–and movies in general
Debunking Religion
This collection seeks to get to the truth behind various spiritual notions
Guest Commentary
The desert Southwest can be unique–even when it comes to used-car purchases
Leaky Vessel
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman almost make the ridiculous ‘Bucket List’ script work
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Questions and Answers
A note from the editor.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Delicious Dish
One of Tucson’s top restaurants has survived a move with its charms intact
¡Ask a Mexican!
Tell Mitt that the Book of Mormon requires amnesty for illegals.
Now Showing at Home
“Sunshine,” “Joshua,” and “Hairspray: 2-Disc Shimmy and Shake Edition”
Noshing Around
Coming Soon: Cocina Loco Michael Gray, the former chef de cuisine at The Grill at Hacienda del Sol (when The Grill reopened after 1997 renovations), is partnering with Gabe Otero to open Cocina Loca (“Crazy Kitchen”) near the UA, at Sixth Street and Park Avenue. The menu offers casual fast food with global influences. The…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Miss O’Dell
A longtime Tucsonan works on a book about recovery and her decades with rock ‘n’ roll royalty
The Risks of ‘Revitalization’
Tucson is about to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to a new convention center. Will this be money well-spent–or will it become another boondoggle like Tucson Electric Park?
Friends Among Destruction
Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny says he’s not a good songwriter; we respectfully disagree
Undocumented Drama
Problems arise when Tucson police enforce immigration laws
Soundbites
RECORD REVELRY With the exception of DJs (and even most of them travel with iPods in hand these days), for Generation Y and all who follow it, vinyl records are a novelty, a throwback to a time they’ve only read about. But for us Gen Xers and those who came before us, records were once…
American Pie
Murphy to Neutopia: “I’ve got just the thing to plug your flag hole!”
Nine Questions
Eric Manch
Growing Controversy
Pima County ponders whether to heap regulations on vendors at farmers’ markets
Live
The Wooden Ball, Club Congress, Friday, Jan. 4, and Saturday, Jan. 5
The Skinny
VOTING MONTH HAS ARRIVED While all the attention so far has been on Iowa and New Hampshire, Arizonans are already going to the polls this week for the Grand Canyon State’s presidential primary, with early voting starting Thursday, Jan. 10. We urge Arizonans to hang on to those early ballots for the next few weeks,…
Rhythm & Views
I detest the acronym RIFYL. RIFYL stands for “recommended if you like,” and is usually followed in a record review by a list of bands. These lists are often composed of bands-of-the-moment who have little or nothing to do with the actual band in question, save common hairstyles or geographic locations. Instead of providing a…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Lupe Fiasco’s shtick is to call bullshit on the hip-hop game for anti-intellectualism and silly macho posturing. It’s endearing, but since emceeing is all about inflated ego and posturing, Fiasco sometimes comes off as self-righteously hypocritical. But is Lupe’s latest, The Cool, any good? The answer is yes. Lu’s a charismatic rapper, and it’s hard…
Media Watch
John C. Scott Bolts from the Jolt
Rhythm & Views
The artists featured on the soundtrack to the Bob Dylan quasi-biopic I’m Not There were presented with a double-edged sword. As scenes called for various actors to look and sound like Dylan, select musicians were forced to self-impale, suffering the wrath of his fans; conversely, those allowed the freedom to make a Dylan song their…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Christian Monrad
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Police Dispatch
Get Over Her Already West Camino Del Medrano, Dec. 15, 2007, 7:06 a.m. A jealous and possibly suicidal man admitted making vulgar threats against his ex-girlfriend’s current boyfriend, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Sheriff’s deputies were called to investigate a potential suicide after a woman reported that a man of her acquaintance,…
Destruction of Innocence
This production of a play about a marriage ruined by a goat is loud, intense and uncomfortably realistic
