Loan Rangers
Who is that masked man offering you cash against your next paycheck?
Check Out Time
It’s becoming a checkless society, whether you like it or not.
Driven to Debt
Trade your car title for quick cash, but if you’re not careful you’ll be running on empty.
Credit Where It’s Due
Your credit rating may be worse than you deserve.
Rent To Be Owned
That TV you’re ‘renting’ is 10 times more expensive than a cash purchase.
Kwanzaa Quandary
Why would anyone celebrate such a bogus holiday?
Fee-Range Turkeys
Banks gobble up your money through extra charges.
Newsreel
The morning paper used to run a good, locally written personal-finance column, but later shifted its emphasis to small business (that is, potential advertisers; screw the readers). Even so, that column, like most in the mainstream press, assumed that you’re in a position to lay a nice little nest egg if you just follow the…
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Cheap Thrills
Fun things to do that won’t cost a fortune.
Stories of the City, Stories of the Trees
The Handsome Family takes the folk back from the folkies.
Soundbites
ROOT FORCE: While it has always been somewhat so, Tucson as of late seems to have become a roots-rockin’ mecca, due largely to Troy Olsen’s ongoing, keep-’em-guessing Hillbilly Hayride every Wednesday night at Plush, guest-hosted in recent weeks by Teddy Morgan. It’s brought out the likes of Al Perry, Creosote, Gila Bend, Chris Burroughs and…
Off the Wall
Artists bring their work to life at the public library.
Art Work
A new T/PAC director rolls up her sleeves.
Little Pizza Heaven
Oregano’s spices up the bistro scene.
Vitality and Vulnerability
Richard Jackson leans over the balcony of desire.
Oh, Tenenbaum!
Wes Anderson’s latest film defies curmudgeonly killjoys.
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
The Skinny
OUT TO LUNCH: Had to love the Tucson Citizen’s anguished look at meal and entertainment money spent by Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup, a Republican who has distinguished himself from his Democratic predecessors George Miller and Tom Volgy by living large. Sort of. Certainly he’s far ahead of Miller, who prided himself on being a tightwad…
