Another One Pushed Out!
Another fine issue of the Weekly is online and ready for you to devour. Feel free to comment on its contents here!
Project White House: Blog of Fury!
As the major media focuses on Election Day in New Hampshire, the campaigns are heating up at Project White House! Doctress Neutopia has fired back at Sean “CF” Murphy following Murphy’s attack ad; Murphy is returning fire and offering to buy Neutopia a drink at tomorrow’s Project White House Happy Hour!
Sean “CF” Murphy to Doctress Neutopia: “I’ve Got Just the Thing to Plug Your Flag Hole!”
In breaking Project White House news: Republican candidate Sean Murphy has aired an attack ad on YouTube in response to Democrat Doctress Neutopia’s recent video, which showed her visiting the Arizona border and cutting a hole in the American flag.
Project White House: Happy Hour! Plus: Registration Deadline!
Been waiting for your chance to quiz the Project White House presidential candidates? You’re in luck: The first Project White House: Happy Hour! is coming up this Wednesday, Jan. 9, at Danny’s Baboquivari Restaurant & Lounge, 2910 E. Fort Lowell Road (just west of Country Club Road). PWHHH! is from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., or…
A Turd Blossom Blooms in Tucson
The Pima County Republican Party has announced that Karl Rove (aka The Architect, Bush’s Brain, Boy Genius, Evil Trickster) will be visiting Tucson to “keynote a fundraiser” on Wednesday, Jan. 23. We’d tell you what Rove would be talking about, but the GOP release was all about the cheddar. Pima County Republican Party Chair Judi…
Project White House: Doctress Neutopia Cuts Up American Flag!
Project White House continues to make history: In her latest video dispatch, Doctress Neutopia has become the first presidential candidate to cut up an American flag at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tucson Young Professionals: Back in Action!
The Tucson Young Professionals are throwing another First Friday bash at the Tucson Museum of Art tonight. We had a great time at last month’s inaugural event, which brought out more than 500 folks to mingle, dance and drink a little wine (or whatev) in TMA’s sophisticated environs. If you’re not doing anything tonight, get…
Project White House: On the Air
Project White House got a little attention last night on Channel 13 News. UA political science professor John Garcia suggested the large number of candidates on the Arizona ballot had something to do with it being an “open seat” for the presidency. KOLD reporter Jim Becker rather astutely suggested it might have more to do…
Project White House Shocker! Grayson Drops Out!
The Project White House Blog is reporting this afternoon that Democrat Richard Grayson has dropped out of the Arizona presidential primary. From the report: Richard Grayson withdrew from the race for the Presidency yesterday, changing the 2008 Arizona Democratic presidential preference primary campaign back into a 23-way race and sending other candidates scrambling to fill…
Supes’ Appeal Meeting Starts in Executive Session
I checked the Pima County Web site to see if the agenda for the Pima County Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 8 meeting had been posted. Sure enough, the agenda is posted, but one concern is that the discussion regarding the supes possible endorsement of the appeal filed by the Pima County Attorney’s Office on Dec. 21 will…
Around the Dial
Radio ringmaster John C. Scott has found a new home on the AM band. Scott, who has been doing political talk in this town for nearly two decades from a variety of frequencies, will now be heard Monday through Friday from 7 to 8 a.m. on KVOI AM 690. The new show starts Monday. Sources close…
Project White House: The Second Challenge!
The candidates are sharing their vision of America at the Project White House blog. Doctress Neutopia has written an epic poem about the nation; Charles Skelley has taken on the industrial-prison complex;and Richard Grayson has shared a song. And that’s just the start. Be sure to see what they all have to say. This morning,…
The Good Old Days Revisited
As the day breaks on this first–and certainly important–election event, I am glad to see there is no frontrunner in either party. It reminds me of what the presidential election was like before Internet with polls, up-to-the minute coverage and the petty sniping among the candidates. Used to be that everyone would gather around the television…
Some Late-Breaking Events
Here are a few events that were received too late for inclusion in our Jan. 3 print issue. We recommend calling to check for last minutes changes in location, time, price, etc. Saturday, Jan. 5 at 3 p.m. Rincon United Church of Christ 122 N. Craycroft Road Rincon Chancel Choir and Chamber Orchestra. Tucson Symphony Orchestra…
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Credit Crisis
Inconsistent hours and a refusal to offer the basics overshadow Café 940’s charm and potential
Danehy
The Iowa caucus is here, so let the electoral insanity begin!
Complex Motivations
Unlikable people talk a lot in this character-driven film you’ll love or hate
Noshing Around
New: Shlomo and Vito’s New York Delicatessen For everyone who has been craving a deli: It has arrived in the foothills, at Plaza Colonial, across the street from La Encantada. I dropped by a few days after they opened and peeked inside to look at the menu–and there was already a wait during lunch. The…
Tuttle
Why are Burger King and Goldman Sachs fighting a tiny increase in wages for tomato pickers?
Cockroaches Attack!
‘AVPR’ is an insult to the Aliens that came before–not to mention filmgoers
Guest Commentary
Want to cut down on fossil-fuel usage? Slow down, and enjoy the Western scenery
Now Showing at Home
“Zodiac: 2-Disc Director’s Cut,” “Hot Fuzz: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition,” “The Kingdom,” and “The Simpsons Movie”
Our Resolutions
A note from the editor.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
¡Ask a Mexican!
Does a Chihuahua really fit a nation of macho men and feisty women?
More Albums We Liked
Our music writers keep on sharing their 2007 faves
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Soundbites
STRIPPED-DOWN TRADITION From Club Crawl™ to The Great Cover-Up to Club Congress’ annual birthday celebrations, Tucson is rich in events that galvanize the local music community. This week brings us another of those institutions. Originally conceived by Chris Holiman (River Roses, 35 Summers, Downtown Saints) as a way of providing a salve to a then-splintered…
Project White House ’08
Meet the Candidates
Nine Questions
Pete Fine
Integrity in Question
Pima County Supes consider an appeal of a court order to release election data
Live
Calexico and Friends KXCI Benefit, Temple of Music and Art, Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Invoice Issues
A national study shows the uninsured are charged more for hospital care, but Tucson hospitals say that’s not happening here
Rhythm & Views
Even with Ike Turner freshly buried, it’s tough not to approach his and Tina’s music with a bit of apprehensiveness, the burden of hindsight regarding what was actually going on in their private lives. But as someone once said, it’s important to separate the art from the artist, especially when the artist was an abusive…
Birth of a Shelter
HOPE’s founders show that saving animals takes compassion and true grit
Rhythm & Views
Even if I hadn’t caught a film critics’ screening of P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, an epic adaptation of muckraking novelist Upton Sinclair’s Oil!, I’d tell you that Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s score is darkly majestic–and I’d say it as someone who believes Radiohead to be largely overhyped. Actually, “score” isn’t the most precise…
The Skinny
SCRAMBLEWATCH ’08: POLITICAL PREVIEW Last year was political famine, with the races for City Hall so lame that we were reduced to making fun of John Kromko’s half-baked Proposition 200 campaign. (There we go again! How can we keep making fun of a political legend who has been granted an honorary degree from Joe Sweeney’s…
Rhythm & Views
British producer/DJ Paul Oakenfold has always received more credit than he has deserved. His productions–most of which feature the assistance of co-producers–fill the travel crates and hard drives of DJs the world ’round, but they noticeably lack color and originality. And his DJ gigs pack clubbers in, but they have shown very little evolution in…
Media Watch
Buckmaster Celebrates 20 Years at ‘Arizona Illustrated’
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Ray Umashankar
Looking to Challenge
Catalina Players changes direction, dumping the dinners and adding some edge
Police Dispatch
The Devil Made Him Do It East Benson Highway, Dec. 8, 4:53 a.m. A woman’s mentally disturbed boyfriend forcefully injected her with methamphetamine, following what he believed were the instructions of Satan, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Sheriff’s deputies met with the woman after she called to report domestic violence. She stated…
Route to Redemption
ASU teacher T.M. McNally’s collection of stories breathtakingly illustrates life’s contradictory nature
Pick of the Week
The Other Wildcats
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
