The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Sitting in the middle of the dusty road where old timey meets new old-timey, Jim and Jennie and the Pinetops sound like they’d be equally at home on the front porch or in a smoky club. The arrangements, instrumentation and overall sound on Rivers Roll On By (their third CD) are staunchly traditional, while their…
Legal Briefs
Unexpected Discovery and Disclosure in the Stidham Murder
Top Ten in Music
CD City’s top sales for the week
Media Watch
Jolly Roger Radio Returns
Rhythm & Views
Sweden’s most sonically brutal metal group, Meshuggah, has decided to slow things down a bit for their new release, Catch Thirty-Three. In the process, they have incorporated drum programming into their new sound instead of using real percussion. If that’s not bad enough, much of the guitar throughout the album sounds like an overly distorted…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Kelly Frieders
Simon’s ‘Sunshine’
Top Hat Theatre Club debuts with an inspired production of an aging play
Police Dispatch
Tripping In TV Land Catalina Highway and Houghton Road, June 9, 8:37 a.m. A 14-year-old boy who appeared to be hallucinating told deputies that Officer Jones from the television program Reno 911! was curled up on his couch crying, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated. The boy had called authorities to report that four…
A Great Adventure
The new UAMA curator brings a lot of experience to Peter Briggs’ old gig
Danehy
A look back at the first half of the year
Pick
Worldly Beat
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
Downing
A modest proposal for serious change in air travel
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Transcending Borders
Rose Castillo Guilbault’s essays celebrate immigrant successes
Guest Commentary
An argument in favor of maquiladoras
Dumb Blonde
Nicole Kidman and the rest of the cast seem horribly lost in ‘Bewitched’
Face Time
A young friend and his mother introduce us to the joys of beef cheeks
We Get Letters
A note from the editor.
Terrifying ‘War’
Steven Spielberg adds another classic to his canon
Noshing Around
Laferlita Pizza Former New Yorker Robert Laferlita brings Neapolitan-style (thin and crisp) pizza to Sam Hughes Place starting this week. Laferlita Pizza is located at 446 N. Campbell Ave. (at the southeast corner of Sixth Street and Campbell); 867-8145. Menu items include salads, antipasto, panini sandwiches, chicken wings, cappuccino and a full bar. Open Monday…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Now Showing at Home
“Peter Gabriel: Growing Up on Tour– A Family Portrait,” “The Ren & Stimpy Show: Seasons Three and a Half-ish” and “American Psycho: Killer Collector’s Edition”
Indie Watch
What’s happening in the world of independent film in Tucson.
Missed Opportunity?
In 1975, Tucson was at a growth and development crossroads. The city arguably went the wrong way.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
The Issue of Infill
Metro Tucson continues to leapfrog open land as it expands into the desert
Sonic Experimentation
With an explosive approach and delicate melodies, Spitalfield is more than an emo band
By the Numbers
What’s hiding in the city budget?
Soundbites
THE BLOGS RECOMMEND It’s tough to trust music journalists these days. What once was, and occasionally still is, a legitimate and informative art form is now too often a suspect exercise in PR for the subjects the writer is covering. Those readers who care enough may find a writer out there that they trust, someone…
A Slow Burn
One wavering Cochise County official feels the incinerator debate’s heat
Nine Questions
Kidd Squidd
City Spending Spree
Dems target GOP incumbents who declined public campaign funding–and corresponding spending limits
Rhythm & Views
Nary a musical genre is safe from the radical Mexican pop-rock band Café Tacuba. Such is illustrated on the group’s most recent album, a live set recorded during a two-night stint in Mexico City last October. Acoustic folk, Top 40-style pop, thrash metal, bouncy ska-punk, tropical flavors, breezy jazz–they’re all fair game for this quartet,…
The Skinny
LAND GRAB It’s no secret that the State Land Department isn’t concerned about preserving open space on the more than 9 million acres of trust land under its control. The agency’s mission, as laid out in the Arizona Constitution, is to sell as much land as possible for as much money as possible, mostly to…
Live
Spoon and The Clientele, Rialto Theatre, Wednesday, June 22
