Juan for the Road
To hell with George Bernard Shaw.
High Notes
The UA pops the cork on two festive concerts this weekend.
Season’s Greetings
Murder! Suicide! Hunchbacks! Womanizers! Killer statues! Randy widows! Dead nuns! It’s opera! It’s Arizona Opera, to be precise. The Tucson-based company is packing all that into its 2001-2002 season, which opens in October. The five-opera lineup manages to seem well-rounded without being especially daring, aside from the art form’s routine quota of sex and violence.…
Sweat It Out
Beat the heat, Cubano style.
Heart and Soul
Stupefied by Sonoran heat? Thick rush hour exhaust? The blather of MTV? Discouraged by the dust devil of doublespeak from the White House crew? Pick up David Appelbaum’s book of poems, An Alchemist at Heart, and take a walk through the moist Eastern woods. Like Roethke, Appelbaum looks for meaning in natural things, in the…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Just Add Teens
Disney/Buena Vista achieve mathematical precision in audience-targeting with teen-seeking missile “Crazy/Beautiful.”
The Skinny
DON’T COUNT HER OUT: Word out of Washington is that Education Secretary Rod Paige may be on the outs with the Bush Administration. If that’s the case, it’s no wonder former Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Graham Keegan has taken a job with a Washington think tank. The higher profile may suit her well…
Taxing Times
The City Council is talking trash.
Arts District Downturn
What’s supposed to be the city’s cultural hub is a nest of bars, tattoo parlors and empty storefronts–just like any other downtown.
Blockbusted
If you think Blockbuster Video’s late fees are high, wait until you see how much some stores are taxing you.
Club Footing
The Boys & Girls Club gives everybody a head start, even big-mouthed Italian kids.
Newsreel
Some stories are so cyclical that we sometimes wonder if we might as well reprint articles from years ago, and see if anybody notices. There are, for example, only two kinds of downtown-Tucson stories: “Downtown in Decline!” and “New Hope for Downtown!” I guarantee that Margaret Regan wrote this week’s feature on the sorry shape…
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Cheap Thrills
Fun things to do that won’t cost a fortune.
Road Kill
Will Molehill and Audiogusto knock ’em dead on their summer tours?
Soundbites
WHAT A SHOCK: Q: What do Benicio del Toro and Albuquerque punk band Scared of Chaka have in common? A: They both have a fondness for the people of Nogales, Sonora. The whole world knows the del Toro story by now, so let’s just skip to the more obscure–and more interesting–Chaka one. The band recorded…
