Tucson Just Got a Little More Informed
Because the new Weekly is online and ready for readers! Feel free to comment on its contents here. And here’s a YouTube Ask a Mexican! for your entertainment and enlightenment.
Event Cancellation
Today’s Aveda Institute Open House at 845 N. Park Ave., as listed on page 25 in our July 24 print issue, has been postponed. The event has been rescheduled for Thursday, Aug. 21, at 8 p.m.
Goodbye, Thirsty Thursday
Talk about vanishing Tucson: Tonight is the last Thirsty Thursday at Tucson Electric Park. I can remember when Thirsty Thursday involved beers for a quarter for the Tucson Toros games back at Hi Corbett Field. Of course, the beers were in tiny cups the size of shot glasses–or at least that’s my hazy recollection–and you’d…
Pick of the Week
Fighting Femicide
Creating Commodity
‘Landscapes of Fraud’ chronicles the privatization of the Upper Santa Cruz
Danehy
T. Boone Pickens may be supporting renewable ‘energy’but gaining a water monopoly is his real goal
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
This Crazy Life
Tucson High drama teacher Art Almquist doesn’t shy away from controversial material
O’Sullivan
Catherine enjoys some time with various Customer Service Professionals
Experiment in Horror
If you’re stoned, ‘Mother of Tears’ may be incredibly amusing
Rhythm & Views
Whether you call Health avant-garde, art-punk or just glorious noisemakers, the critically acclaimed Los Angeles band has given us one of the most radical remix albums in recent memory. A passel of dance-music producers have remade and remodeled tunes from Health’s acclaimed debut release of last year. That excellent album sounded like the Blood Brothers…
Guest Commentary
Dreaming of a United States with roundabouts aplenty and fewer red lights
ABBA Attack
Pierce Brosnan’s crooning in ‘Mamma Mia!’ will have you desperately sending out an S.O.S.
Part Artist, Part Scientist, All Female
In Tucson and in the restaurant world in general, women rule when it comes to pastries
¡Ask a Mexican!
Winners in the corn vs. flour tortilla contest.
Now Showing at Home
“Shine a Light,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Blu-Ray),” and “Drillbit Taylor: Extended Survival Edition”
Desert Locavore
Our intrepid writer decided to only eat local foods for a whole week; here’s her diary
When Idiots Attack
A note from the editor.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Growing Habits
Native Seeds/SEARCH builds a new home to house its seeds and pursue its mission
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Assault on the Senses
Harvey Milk share their brand of blues rock with audiences west of the Mississippi for the first time
Like a Fox
A (former) Tucson Original makes good in the regional restaurant market Perfect
Market or Mandate?
The Corporation Commission election will determine the eventual fate of the state’s renewable energy standard
Meet Eef
The frontman of Clem Snide goes solo with ‘Lose Big’
Shifting Cloud
A former haven for those who light up, Safehouse tries to survive the smoking ban
Six Pack
A not-quite-liveblog of last week’s Legislative District 29 debate
Soundbites
THE JIMMY BUFFETT OF THE SOUTHWEST So the other night at the Wolf Parade show at the Rialto, I was shooting the shizz with a co-worker–OK, it was Jim Nintzel. He told me that I needed to embrace modern culture (I’m an incorrigible Luddite) by ditching my gimpy PC for a shiny new Mac, abandoning…
The Advertising Culture
A big billboard remains standing on a lot that was turned into a park
Nine Questions
Denise Grimes
The Skinny
THE EARLY SPREAD Last week, as President George W. Bush was tying up traffic and scaring up a half-million dollars or more for Republican Tim Bee’s campaign against Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, we saw our first poll numbers in the Congressional District 8 race. First came a poll from the Bee campaign, which showed Bee…
Live
Journey, AVA At Casino Del Sol, Saturday, July 19
Executive Homecoming
Wingspan’s new leader credits the LGBT organization for giving him direction
Rhythm & Views
What about modernity changes the nature of guilt? What do we in modern times feel guilty about? These questions are definitely pondered lyrically on Modern Guilt, Beck’s collaboration with producer Danger Mouse (half of Gnarls Barkley), but that’s nothing compared to the guilt the record produces in me: I find the record downright boring, and…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Top Ten in Music
Toxic Ranch Records top sales for the week
Media Watch
Derechos Humanos, KQTH Host Do Battle
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Nick Swinteck
Rhythm & Views
It would be easy to call this a sequel to Neil Diamond’s last CD, the refreshingly heartfelt 12 Songs, his first collaboration with big-time producer Rick Rubin. But that would be selling this effort short. Way short. Where that recording was a compendium of some interesting tunes, this is a full-fledged concept album, a collection…
Police Dispatch
Adventures in Soliciting West Wheatridge Drive, July 2, 8:10 p.m. A homeowner with a distaste for door-to-door vendors let his feelings turn physical with one persistent cable salesman, said a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Sheriff’s deputies were called to the man’s house to deal with an “arrogant” solicitor who allegedly refused to leave his…
Pure Beauty
Conrad Wilde Gallery braves construction and the summer heat with a greatest-hits exhibition
