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Les Mis, Jessica Chastain & Historical Handjobs
The Grimmy Awards Best Actors: Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables), Liam Neeson (The Grey), Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln), Joaquin Phoenix (The Master), Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook) Best Actresses: Naomi Watts (The Impossible), Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Emmanuelle Riva (Amour), Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Smashed) Best Supporting Actors: Sam Rockwell (Seven Psychopaths),…
U.S. Rep. Ron Barber: Committed “To Move Forward With Common-Sense Proposals To Reduce Gun Violence”
Congressman Ron Barber reacts to President Barack Obama’s proposal on gun safety and regulation: U.S. Rep. Ron Barber, a vice chair of the congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, today attended the president’s speech releasing gun violence prevention measures. Barber’s initiative, Mental Health First Aid, was included as a component of the comprehensive proposal to…
The Museum of Broken Relationships: The Lonely Person’s Dream (Nightmare?) Vacation
As someone who is happily in a relationship, I’m not looking for reasons to put my memories in the Museum of Broken Relationships—but I’ll gladly visit to view the wreckage that people have sent in to commemorate their failed courtships. Let’s look, for an example, at the story of “An Ex Axe,” part of the…
Billy Bragg Is Coming to Phoenix
In general, I believe Tucson has all of the concerts a person needs to attend, but occasionally, something notable happens up north and a drive to Phoenix is in order. A show by Billy Bragg, who doesn’t seem to play shows in America all that often and was boycotting Arizona for a few years, would…
‘Idle No More’ Solidarity Action in Tucson
Chris Summitt Idle No More solidarity action at Tucson Mall. Just in case you missed the solidarity action that took place on Friday, Jan. 11 in support of the Idle No More movement, Tucson photographer Chris Summit was at the ‘Flash Round Dance’ that took place in the middle of the Tucson Mall. You can…
Hey, There’s Finally An Official Response to the Secession Petitions
And it is, in short, “knock that shit off and let’s figure things out together.” From the White House: In a nation of 300 million people — each with their own set of deeply-held beliefs — democracy can be noisy and controversial. And that’s a good thing. Free and open debate is what makes this…
Apocalypse Films Live to Die Another Year
Surviving 2012 did nothing to quench America’s obsession with the apocalypse, and this year’s pop culture lineup looks as morbid as ever. The studios – big surprise – aren’t looking to prioritize creativity in their quest to profit from stories of humanity’s demise, because at this point, what threat have we not had to rally…
Obama Releases List of Executive Actions on Guns
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden announced 23 executive actions in an effort to curb gun violence. Talking Points Memo has a list of them here. Meanwhile, Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly have a survey up as part of their new political committee, Americans for Responsible Solutions. You can let them know what…
The New Whole Foods Is Open and They Have Great Beer
The beer taps at Whole Foods at River and Craycroft You probably missed your chance to be one of the first hundred customers (they received a free baguette), but if you want to check out the new Whole Foods at 5555 E. River Rd. (the northeast corner of River and Craycroft), the wine and beer…
Randy Parraz Asks Gov. Brewer to Treat DREAMers Right
While the Guv was giving her State of the State yesterday, Monday, Jan. 14, Randy Parraz’s group, Citizens for a Better Arizona, showed up to demand the state allow DREAMers to received their driver’s licenses. From Voxxi: “If they’re good enough to graduate from our high schools, if they are good enough to graduate from…
White House Raises Response Threshold On Petition Website
We’ve had a lot of fun talking about online petitions here in the past, from the stupid petition to deport Piers Morgan, to the stupid petitions to secede, to the good-natured petition to create a male-friendy Easy Bake Oven (though the last one was hosted on change.org, for clarity’s sake). Well, the White House is…
Tegan and Sara to Stream Songs Leading Up to Album Release, Tucson show in April
If you’re still pissed about Tegan and Sara’s postponement of their Tucson show that was supposed to take place at the Rialto on Dec. 8, here’s a silver lining. The Canadian indie duo’s seventh studio album, Heartthrob, drops exactly two weeks from today, and the band said they’d be periodically streaming tracks on various sites…
El Rio Golf Course’s Future: Time for Community Input
The last time we talked to Salomón R. Baldenegro about the city-run El Rio Golf Course and what happened on Aug. 15,1970, (“Honoring History,” Dec. 15, 2010) it was a look back at Chicano history in Tucson and how Barrio Hollywood residents and activists organized to take over the course and demand a neighborhood park.…
The Resonars, Burger Records Get a Little Love From Spin
Tucson’s The Resonars, recently the subject of a Weekly profile by Gene Armstrong, get some love from Spin in a brief piece posted on the no-longer-in-print mag’s website today. Burger Records, which will be releasing the band’s new album Crummy Desert Sound on Jan. 29, is putting out a new cassette tape every day in…
AZ Court of Appeals: Legislature Must Spend More on Schools
The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled today that state lawmakers violated the Voter Protection Act when they failed to increase school funding to account for inflation in recent years. “Without question, the legislature faces substantial challenges in preparing the state budget, particularly during difficult economic circumstances,” Judge Michael J. Brown wrote in the ruling, which…
‘A Room Full of Laughter and Fun’: A Golden Globe Awards Recap
If you’re like me, you may use the Golden Globe Awards as a way to figure out what movies are worth spending an outrageous $10 a ticket on to see, and what television shows are worth attempting to cram into your busy schedule. For those of you who didn’t have time to watch the awards,…
The Irony Of a Political Automaton Asking Why Other People Don’t Have Souls
Hey, remember Jesse Kelly? The guy who was beaten soundly by both Gabby Giffords and Ron Barber, then bounced out of town to work with Citizens United, the widely-reviled political action committee, infamous for being part of a Supreme Court decision that many feel has warped American democracy as we know it? After months of…
Dave Grohl’s ‘Sound City’ Showing For One Night Only at The Loft
Despite having been the drummer for what was arguably the most influential band of the ’90s, and then coming out from behind the drum set to front the alt-rock band Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl is never busy enough. The former Nirvana drummer’s directing debut “Sound City” is set for home release at the beginning of…
In Your Defense When a Spouse/Partner/Relative Claims You’re Too Obsessed With Sports …
I give you Mr. LeTourneau, who from what my friend in Baltimore tells me is a typical Ravens fan. His loving wife decided she might as well document her man’s lunacy during Sunday’s AFC playoff game against Denver, just in case the poor children stuck in this home ever became the subject of a custody…
Most Important Concert Ever Coming to Town
The Rialto had a fine lineup of announcements today (WHY?, Festival en el Barrio and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club), but HOT 98.3 went ahead and destroyed the entire concert game here in Tucson by announcing the lineup for the 13th annual Slow Jams Live show at the TCC on February 24th. Hold on to your…
‘Who Bombed Judi Bari?’ Comes to the Screening Room This Weekend
More than two decades after a Judi Bari was nearly killed by a bomb placed beneath her car seat, the campaign continues to find those responsible for attacking the prominent Earth First! activist. Their gritty crusade is detailed in the Arizona premier of Who Bombed Judi Bari?, a documentary playing Friday through Sunday at The…
Mayday Parade to Release New CD in Fall 2013
After recently wrapping up a co-headlining tour with The Maine, Mayday Parade announced yesterday that they will be releasing their fourth full length album in 2013 on Fearless Records. For those of you who have yet to hear this band, Mayday Parade is an indie band from Tallahassee, Fla. Their first full-length album, A Lesson…
Brewer Calls for AHCCCS Expansion
The biggest shocker from today’s State of the State has to be Gov. Jan Brewer’s call to expand AHCCCS to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. I wrote a piece on this last week if you need some background, but Brewer today called for the state grab the matching federal dollars and create a…
Yet Another Silly AZ Health-Care Bill
Julia Tylor of Cronkite News Service has a story this today about a bill sponsored by Rep. Carl Seel, a Republican who has been a leader in the Birther community, to block a state-run health-care insurance exchange. You might consider this somewhat redundant, given that Gov. Jan Brewer has already said that the state isn’t…
From The ‘Former Prep Hoops Star Now Toiling In Anonymity’ Department …
Terrell Stoglin was an absolute stud in high school. He led Santa Rita to the state championship EVERY season during his four-year varsity career for 2006-2010. He won a state title with the Eagles to the 2010 Class 4A-II title, and along the way gained enough notoriety to garner scholarship offers from numerous top-level Division…
This Year’s “Best Original Song” Nominees Sure to Bore on Oscar Night
In the days leading up to the Academy Awards on Feb. 27th, a watercooler conversation on nominees beyond “Best Picture” will likely glaze the eyes of all but a small minority of movie nerds. Then, only a minority of that minority can resist napping through the slow, middle section of a notoriously long-winded telecast to…
The Mysteries of 50 E. Broadway
The papered windows, the coming soon sign, and the patient (or not so patient as the case may be) waiting to see what is the restaurant at 50 E. Broadway in downtown continues on. The mastermind behind this place, Patricia Schwabe, spoke with my predecessor back in August here. She revealed that it would be…
Author Bobby Wilson Faces His Life Challenges Through Writing and Law
Writing has become a way for author, lawyer, and teacher Bobby Wilson to express his personal challenges and triumphs, as well as the corrupt issues of the country. In his fiction novel, State of Mind, he used characters based on real Americans to describe the issues surrounding the nation’s financial crisis in a way that…
Sorry, America: Obama Won’t Build a Death Star
Sad news out of Washington: Despite the support of more than 34,000 Americans who signed a petition demanding it, the Obama administration announced today that it would not build a Death Star. Hat tip: TPM
Tucson Gets State’s First Cannabis Kitchen
State inspectors gave the nod in Tucson on Thursday to the state’s first commercial cannabis kitchen, Heavenly Harvest, where staff were making cannabis butter, stuffing ovens and mixing spices to bring their edibles to Green Halo dispensary patients as soon as possible. “We expect to have a full line of edibles out by Saturday,” said…
Kozachik Jumps To Democratic Party
Ward 6 Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik has announced that he’s jumping from the GOP to the Democratic Party. Here’s Kozachik’s statement: In 2009, when I was first approached by the local Republican Party leadership to consider running for the Tucson City Council, there was a clear mutual understanding that my political inclinations are to…
MALDEF’s Nancy Ramirez Discusses Recent TUSD Meeting and Deseg Process
On Tuesday, Jan. 8, after newly-elected Tucson Unified School District governing board members Kristel Foster and Cam Juarez were sworn in, Adelita Grijalva was voted in as president of the board and Foster as clerk. When the board returned from executive session, Grijalva did exactly what she said she would after last month’s confusing meeting…
Rum, Romanism & Resurrection: Lefty Blog Returns
Former state lawmaker Tom Prezelski is resurrecting Rum, Romanism and Rebellion, the left-leaning blog established by his brother Ted, who gave up the writing when he went to work for Tucson City Councilman Paul Cunningham last year. “I think that there is a need to provide a more historical perspective on what is happening,” Prezelski…
Fox News Hosts Find “Liberal Bias” in Math Textbooks
Eric Bolling, co-host of Fox News’s The Five, a panel-discussion show that discusses news and issues of the day, pointed something out yesterday that apparently shook him to his core: liberal propaganda within an elementary school math textbook. Detailing the distributive property. No, really. A part of me feels that this is simply too silly…
Richard Lewis Coming to Tucson To Help Celebrate 10 Years of “Too Jewish” Radio Show
This looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun: Local Rabbi Sam Cohon will celebrates the 10th anniversary of doing his Too Jewish Radio Show with Rabbi Sam Cohon and Friends radio show with an old-fashioned variety show at the Fox Theatre. On hand for the program: Comedian Richard Lewis, as well as…
For Local Author Kelly Frederick, ‘Self-Publishing’ Is Synonymous With ‘Self-Discovery’
In the novel-writing business it pays to be persistent, but local author Kelly Frederick knows it also pays to know when to take matters into your own hands. Frederick self-published her first novel, Umbrellas in the Sun, last year after turning a seemingly unrealistic goal into a reality. An avid reader, Frederick began to consider…
This Week in Tucson Bicycling
Want to ride bikes with Patrick “McDreamy” Dempsey or pro cyclist Tom Danielson? You can next week during the Ride On Tucson event. Check out the story for all the details. This bicycle amenity is getting very little love from cyclists. See what it does and why they don’t like it. No more getting lost…
The White House Responded to the Stupid Petition to Deport Piers Morgan
Less than a week after the Sandy Hook shooting, CNN host Piers Morgan got into a heated debate with Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, which you can see part of below: Shortly after, a movement to deport Morgan, a British citizen, for “attacking the Second Amendment, appeared on the White…
“It’s the Tenth of January and I Still Ain’t Had No Sleep…”
If today has a song, it’s surely Arlo Guthrie’s “Darkest Hour,” a mysteriously captivating song, filled with fever-dream imagery of love, war, yearning and one night that changes everything. It’s long been on my shortest list of all-time favorite songs, built from both understated details that set on the mind like black & white photographs…
2013 UA Football Schedule Released: Plan Accordingly
If there’s one thing that can be gleaned from the freshly released 2013 football schedule for the University of Arizona, it’s this: us fans are going to be spending A LOT of time on campus in November. The Pac-12 Conference formally announced the entire league’s schedule today, ranging from a pair of games on Thursday,…
NOBUNNY Infiltrates The Rock, Frightens School Children, Disturbs Sound Engineer
NOBUNNY, sans pants. On Sunday, January 6th, 2013, after a grassroots email campaign to have him added to a bill with Fatlip and soon-to-be-legendary crunkcore quartet BrokeNCYDE, NOBUNNY slithered onto the stage at The Rock half-naked and confronted those who’d most likely misunderstand him: teenage punks. Don’t blame the kids, they were conceived while their…
Tom Goes to the Chair: GTFO, ‘Girls’
A few years back, I was given a writing assignment from a nationally known publication. They wanted me to write a humorous essay about the then-hit TV series, Sex and the City. I watched a few episodes, fought back the bile creeping up into the bottom of my throat, and then watched them again just…
Medicaid Expansion: Not Just An Arizona Problem
In TW’s print edition this week, I examined the upcoming policy fight over whether Arizona should expand its AHCCCS (or Medicaid) rolls. It would bring a lot of federal dollars to the state and ensure that more low-income Arizonans have health insurance, but some Republicans are complaining about the price tag and others just don’t…
Man Devours Second Breakfast and Some
So with the release of The Hobbit movie(s), Denny’s came up with the Hobbit Menu. Now I’m a big nerd, and fan of all things J.R.R. Tolkien, but I couldn’t persuade myself to go eat any of this menu. Well, seems this fella had done it for me, and the rest of us too. Please…
Fun. Releases New Song, “Sight of the Sun”
For those of you Fun. lovers out there, the anticipation for a new song is over. Fun. recently released a new song with an upbeat and catchy vibe titled “Sight of the Sun,” written by Fun. front man and Arizonan, Nate Ruess. The new song was originally intended for their latest album, Some Nights, but…
It’s Kenny Lofton Week, Because Sure, Why Not?
Photo by Flickr user AndrewMalone The Classical, a sports site seemingly designed to make you feel simultaneously uncool and stupid (strangely, I sort of mean that as a compliment), has determined that this week is Kenny Lofton Week, for reasons I can’t quite discern. However, as Mr. Lofton is a former Wildcat, PCL-championship winning Tucson…
Redemption For Black Crown Coffee Co.
So I gave my opinion of the experience I had at the semi new Black Crown Coffee Co. here. There were a few things I had mentioned needing improvement. I recently received this from the owner. Hey Jerry, My name is Scott, I am the owner of Black Crown Coffee Co. I saw the article…
UPDATE: Anakim added to Feb. 6 Godhunter show at the Rock, new Godhunter video
Anakim has been added to the Feb. 6 show at the Rock to round a night that will include a few of my current favorite bands in the area. Find some Super Bowl hangover cures in time for this event because it will be loud and heavy. Meanwhile, Godhunter seems to be one of the…
Forgiveness and Friendship
It’s hard to imagine a more relevant play than the one Live Theatre Workshop has selected for its first show of 2013. The Chosen, based on Chaim Potok’s 1967 novel of the same name, and adapted for the stage by Potok and Aaron Posner, is a thoughtful story of friendship, growing up, and facing the…
Editor’s Note
I haven’t been the editor for long, but one of the questions that comes up a lot, whether in person, over the phone or via email, is how someone can get their work in the Tucson Weekly. One misconception people seem to have is that we have open full-time writing positions that we’re looking to…
Cross Purposes
The Soledad Crucifixion By Nancy Wood University of New Mexico Press 325 pages, $21.95 Santa Fe writer/photographer Nancy Wood has achieved something I’d dreamed of reading but hadn’t encountered to my critical satisfaction—a Southwest picaresque that blends Deadwood’s gothic-humored darkness with Gabriel García Marquéz’s magical realism. In other words, Wood, 64, writes like a horny…
Teabilly Time-Wasting
Don’t get me started. Last week, an Arizona legislator who shall remain nameless filed a resolution in the House of Representatives that would bring the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act back to voters for a 2014 do-over. Because it is a concurrent resolution, all it needs is a vote of both houses in the Legislature. Gov.…
Danehy
Most of the hard-core gun owners I know are decent, hard-working, solid citizens who would never use a gun illegally. However, when you start talking to them about reasonable restrictions on certain types of weapons or ammunition magazines, they turn into the bastard child of Pee Wee Herman and Professor Irwin Corey. (The latter is…
Top Ten in Books
1. Flight Behavior: A Novel Barbara Kingsolver, HarperCollins ($28.99) 2. Queen of America: A Novel Luis Alberto Urrea, Little, Brown and Company ($14.99) 3. A Very Hairy Christmas Susan Lowell, Rio Nuevo ($15.95) 4. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories Sherman Alexie, Grove ($27) 5. Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories From the Animal Kingdom Jennifer S.…
Greg Brown: Hymns to What Is Left (Sawdust)
Over nearly 40 years, Greg Brown has released more than 30 albums of folk and country-blues, his nimble guitar playing and rich baritone just one part of the equation. Brown’s insightful songwriting is an unending treasure of tales and observations, and on this latest record his pen is calibrated to turn out some of his…
Messina
On Saturday afternoons at Reid Park, David Martinez Campa and Bill Cassell meet to practice their sport. Campa stands 5 feet 10 inches and weighs 155 pounds. Cassell is shorter, more muscular in appearance and says he has 100 pounds on Campa. In a strength contest, all odds would be on Cassell. But as the…
Efficiently Epic
The controversial Zero Dark Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow’s excellently crafted version of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, has a bunch of politicians and CIA officials crying foul. This makes me think the movie must contain some harsh truths and grim realities about the war on terror. It’s virtually absent of politics, or any of…
The Coup: Sorry to Bother You (Anti-)
Though it’s already 2013, don’t let 2012 escape until you listen to the Coup’s Sorry To Bother You, a late-October burst of political hip-hop that’s half party and half social treatise. Led by Boots Riley, the Oakland group finds the proper balance right off the bat with “The Magic Clap,” which sounds like Sly and…
Guest Commentary
Another Jan. 8 has come and gone. Tucsonans will never forget that day, two years ago, when we lost so many good people to an unspeakable act of violence. In the days and weeks that followed, Tucsonans felt grief and outrage. Yet we were determined not to let this incident define us. That determination fueled…
Top Ten in Cinema
1. Ted Universal 2. The Dark Knight Rises Warner Bros. 3. The Bourne Legacy Universal 4. Men in Black 3 Columbia 5. Lawless Weinstein 6. Total Recall Sony 7. Hope Springs Columbia 8. Looper TriStar 9. Arbitrage Lionsgate 10. Beasts of the Southern Wild Fox Searchlight
Graham Parker & the Rumour: Three Chords Good (Primary Wave)
Serendipity strikes as Parker re-enters the zeitgeist. This is the first release in more than three decades by the British singer-songwriter Parker with his fabled pub-rock-cum-proto-new-wave backing band, and they reconvened just in time to appear as themselves on screen in the movie This Is 40. Parker is, however, no fledgling musical artist: He has…
Great Expectations
An unheralded team in an unheralded sport, the Tucson Magpies rugby club enters 2013 league play with high expectations after consecutive Sweet 16 appearances in the national playoffs. A series of upset wins last year propelled the Magpies to fourth place nationally, the club’s best season in its 33-year history. That topped the 2011 season,…
Unnecessary Autobiography
David Chase can write great characters, great dialogue and great scenarios. The Sopranos buys him some benefit of the doubt with Not Fade Away, his first film and, somewhat regrettably, an autobiographical one. The benefit of the doubt doesn’t win in the end. Chase is so enamored with the music of his youth and his…
Unhealthy Opposition
Even though Arizona stands to gain billions of federal dollars by implementing the Affordable Care Act, the prognosis does not look good for expanding the state’s AHCCCS program to include more low-income Arizonans. Gov. Jan Brewer is still weighing whether to push for the expansion, but Republican lawmakers appear to have little appetite for expanding…
Keeping Tabs
You may not glimpse the cellphone signals bursting through our city every day, but somebody does—namely law enforcement agencies that tap increasingly precise technology to keep tabs on crooks and rescue the endangered. But while the cops contend that surveillance such as cellphone tracking can only be used with court permission under very specific circumstances,…
Now Showing at Home
Bob digs Smash…a DVD to hold you over while you wait to see Zero Dark Thirty…Hit and Run turns out to be a decent time
Mailbag
A poetry critic critiques our poetry critic
Fox’s Successful Flip
North Fattoria Italiana 2995 E. Skyline Drive 299-1600; www.foxrc.com/restaurants/north-fattoria-italiana Open Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (brunch) and 5 to 11 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (brunch) and 5 to 10 p.m. Pluses: Fresh, fresh pastas Minuses: Some may…
Media Watch
Raycom and Cox compromise…send Bobby Rich China for his anniversary milestone at KMXZ…KFMA elevates Creepy Pete…and more!
Remembrance of Things Past
Digital technology, still being in its infancy in the grand scheme of things, has a definite perk: the ability to remaster and greatly improve already monumental albums. Hence we have The Reissue, wherein a band or record label remasters (or sometimes just repackages or reprints) an album so that it can be resold in a…
Police Dispatch
Someone decides to liberate vending machine of their snacks at the University…alleged Department of Corrections recruits were treated after a car wreck caused by “deer,” not long after leaving a bar
Top Ten in Music
1. Looper (DVD) TriStar 2. The Game Jesus Piece (DGC/Interscope) 3. T.I. Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head (Grand Hustle/Atlantic) 4. Ted (DVD) Universal 5. Imagine Dragons Night Visions (Interscope) 6. Kendrick Lamar Good Kid: M.A.A.D City (Aftermath) 7. 2 Chainz Based on a T.R.U. Story (Island/Def-Jam) 8. Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox (Atlantic) 9. Various…
Weekly Wide Web
The news that, as of Jan. 1 this year, Michigan became the latest state to ban employers from requesting social media account passwords from their potential hires, makes 2012 seem as if it was the year of the Internet privacy bubble. Upon passing House Bill 5523, Michigan joined Maryland, Illinois, Delaware and California in banning…
Noshing Around
Big Juan’s closes…Foothills Bistro and Wine Bar opens…another wine bar rolls in…Ric’s Cafe shuts its doors
The Heart of Rock and Roll
Check out Glossary at Plush on Thursday, Jan. 17.
Soundbites
Chick Cashman and the Countrypolitans come through Club Congress…the Eric Hansen Benefit Show is at the Boondocks…and more!
City Week
The 22nd Annual Tucson International Jewish Film Festival kicks off this week…experience the poetry of Jefferson Carter and Petey Mesquitey…snapshots of the stars…Joel-Peter Witkin pushes the limits in Surface Tension.
Live
Two metal bands, three local rap collectives, a punk rock agitator, a hip-hop legend, and the leading proponents of crunkcore: The Rock sure knows how to put a schizophrenic show together. Locals Await Thy Hero’s intense metalcore offered pure visceral thrills to the converted, and probably sounded like white noise to others. Prog-metal group Blueshift…
T Q&A
There’s still time to see most of “Images/Reality: Restoring Tucson History from our Dreams of China,” an exhibit at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, 1288 W. River Road. It is one of nine projects recognized and supported by the Arizona Humanities Council. We recently talked to Robin Blackwood, head of the center’s history committee, about…
Nine Questions
Kindall Gray is an English instructor at the University of Arizona and an assistant fiction editor at Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts. She also writes novels, short stories and reality show recaps. Her fiction will appear in issue No. 174 of One Story, and she blogs at realhousewivesrealprofessor.wordpress.com. She is a native Tucsonan, is…
Flamenco in Raw Form
La Noche Quebrada Performed by Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca 7 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 13 Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd., on the UA campus $22 to $42 general; $15 to $42, UA students, faculty and staff; discounts for seniors, military and groups Available at box office, UA Student Union BookStore, the “A” stores at…
Ask a Mexican!
The Mexican covers classic car collection…and answers why the U.S.A is so damn great
Checked Out
Three Hotels Presented by Beowulf Alley Theatre7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m., Sunday, through Sunday, Jan. 20 11 S. Sixth Ave. $20 regular; $18 seniors, teachers and military; $8 students Runs an hour and 40 minutes, with no intermission 882.0555; www.beowulfalley.org “I came of age in hotels,” says businessman Kenneth Hoyle in Three Hotels,…
The Skinny
Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly call for change in gun legislation…Steve Kozachik and Frank Antenori butt heads, over and over again
RPM and Redline Sports Grill Are Apparently Closed
No confirmation from the ownership yet, but word is that Luke Cusack’s Redline Sports Grill and accompanying nightclub RPM closed yesterday. There was drama last year between Cusack and Lindy Reilly (of Lindy’s on Fourth fame) and then a giant Buffalo Wild Wings location opened right next to Redline late last year, likely hacking away…
