ScrambleWatch 08: Your New Online Campaign HQ!
As you can see from our cover story, we’ve got a brand-new election blog: ScrambleWatch 08! We hope that you’ll visit often for the latest news, most insightful analysis and juiciest gossip on the ongoing election season. If you’re a candidate with news about your campaign–or, hell, someone with a good tip about a candidate–drop…
New Issue! New Issue!! New Issue!!!
The new issue is online and ready for your enjoyment. Feel free to comment on it here. The Mexican is being lazy again, so there’s no YouTube clip AGAIN, but, hey, we have another Savage Love online extra. So enjoy! (Letters to Dan Savage in response to his advice to Shitty Boyfriend In The Midwest)…
More Brew Blast
Over the weekend, I wrote about Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer sticking it once again to Pima County regarding election-security issues. Last week, Brewer sent out a press release along with her 11-page letter to Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry admonishing the county for the 133-page report Huckelberry and his staff prepared that’s full…
Dateline Mars: Phoenix Gets Cooking!
Looks like the Phoenix Mars Lander science team finally has had a breakthrough with that clumpy Martian soil. At today’s press conference, scientists from the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Lab said that the enough soil had finally fallen through the screen to fill Oven No. 4. Here’s today’s press release: NASA’s Phoenix Lander Has an…
Project White House: Award-Winning Journalism!
Project White House, Tucson Weekly’s first Reality Journalism competition, won third place in the Innovation category at last weekend’s Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conference. While it’s my name on the award, there’s no way I could have done it without the help of Hector Acuña, TW’s former art director and my frequent partner in crime,…
Administration Renders ‘Volcano’ Dormant
The story: Students at Shasta High School in Redding, Calif., ran a front-page photo of a student burning a flag in the school newspaper, with an editorial about First Amendment rights and the Constitution’s protection of flag burning. Everyone then flipped out, and the administration cancelled the paper for the forseeable future. My take: — No…
What Happens to Bad Cable Companies
People in L.A. have no choice when it comes to cable companies. One cable company spans from San Diego to Ventura to Riverside … a damn monopoly. It’s gotten so bad that the city of L.A. is suing Time-Warner. I so resent it when people don’t have choices. In Tucson, we don’t have a choice,…
Damned If You Don’t, Damned By Brew If You Do
Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer’s office sent out a press release late yesterday, along with a letter sent to Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry on June 5 in response to his 133-page document that outlines proposed changes the county wishes to make regarding elections procedures. In an 11-page letter to Huckelberry, Brewer said most of…
New Airline: Reduces Carbon Footprint
When a lot of airlines are fighting for their lives, going bankrupt, canceling flights or charging to use the bathroom in flight — here’s a new kind of airline… Derrie-Air charges passengers by weight. The more you weigh, the more you pay. Their tag line is, “pack less, weigh less, pay less.”
Catch a Love and Joy Wave
Last November, the Tucson Weekly interviewed UA psychologist Victor Shamas, who leads a weekly chanting circle held near the UA campus. Shamas recently sent us PR about WAVE1, which takes place on June 18 at 7 p.m. The point of WAVE1 is to send a wave of love and joy around the world by coming…
Heart Attack Kills Greasy Tony?
Interesting obits Tuesday in the morning daily and on Tucson Scene regarding the passing of Tony Giorgianni. Sure, it’s old news now, but while his restaurant Greasy Tony’s is closed until Giorgianni’s son decides what to do with this establishment close to my … heart, I am putting out a plea now to save the SIGN! For many…
¡Ask a Mexican!
Will American prejudice soon overwhelm Mexicans?
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Wholesome Eats
Heading for Old Tucson or the Desert Museum? You may want to consider breakfast or lunch at Coyote Pause
Editor’s Note
A note from the editor.
Now Showing at Home
“Rambo,” “In Bruges,” “Cassandra’s Dream”
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Travel Record
A trip through Asia and into the Middle East colored Firewater’s music
Lost Angels
Why is infant mortality on the rise in Pima County?
One Big Party
Through almost 20 years of touring and lineup changes, the BellRays have evolved
The Skinny
MO’ BUDGET BLUES More bad news on the state-budget front: The Joint Legislative Budget Committee released its April revenue report last week. To avoid going all wonky, let’s just say that the numbers aren’t so hot. The state took in about $10 million less than the bean counters predicted just a few months ago, when…
Soundbites
‘LOCALS ONLY’ MOVES ON Continuing where we left off last week, here’s some more news about Locals Only, the only local-music radio show in Tucson, found at KXCI FM 91.3 FM on Monday nights from 8 to 10 p.m. If you missed last week’s live acoustic performance at Club Congress by Chango Malo (plus special…
Early Shift
More voters are embracing the idea of voting by mail
Nine Questions
Davison Koenig
Price of Admission
Along the border, sexual assault has become routine
Rhythm & Views
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (ANTI-) The only negative thing about Nick Cave’s latest opus of degradation and hope is the vulgar excess of punctuation in the title. Otherwise, this record is among the best in an oeuvre that is threatening to rival those of Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash for…
Sustainably Yours
Rainwater-harvesting expert Brad Lancaster says community and conservation are keys to desert living
Rhythm & Views
The Long Blondes Couples (Rough Trade) It’s consistent with the post-postmodern moment that everything on the latest Long Blondes album reminds one of something else. It’s like the arch referentiality of a Family Guy episode filtered through a dance party co-deejayed by Justine Frischmann and Vince Clarke. However, Couples is not as all over the…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Live
Cowboy Junkies
Media Watch
Moore No More at KMSB
Rhythm & Views
Barry Adamson Back to the Cat (Central Control) Over seven previous solo records, musical polymath Barry Adamson carved out an original niche as a purveyor of ultra-cool “cinematic soul,” producing worldly, genre-hopping records stuffed full of material that could have/should have been soundtracks to unmade movies. Add to that full-blown soundtracks for David Lynch, Oliver…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Kristy Theilen
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Police Dispatch
POTTY-MOUTHED WANNABE PYRO NORTHWEST SIDE, MAY 6, 7:57 P.M. A 14-year-old boy with bad language threatened arson after a dinnertime argument, said a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Deputies were dispatched to the boy’s home, where his mother stated she had been dining with her son and giving him constructive advice about his D in…
Bring on the Sizeys!
Davis Dominguez’s ‘Small Works Invitational’ yet again offers up a variety of impressive little creations
Wild Hooves
With our open land being replaced by strip malls and housing developments, one has to wonder what has happened to the spirit of the West. In certain pockets–including the Cerbat Mountains outside Kingman, Ariz.–you’ll find a glimmer of hope that the spirit of the West lives on. It’s where hooves pound the dusty earth, and…
Sea Change
Galleries come and go, but the ‘Summer Arts Cruise’ abides
Danehy
The story of a champion horse who just wasn’t interested
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
Tuttle
Beat the summer heat with a little literature
Pretty, Pretty Torture
Filmmaker Errol Morris should be ashamed of his lazy, offensive documentary about Abu Ghraib
Morose Maine
UA professor Jason Brown’s collection of short stories is extremely dark, but the writing is beautiful
Guest Commentary
Tucson’s ‘progressive community’ continues to fight for peace and oneness
Mediocre ‘Sex’
‘Sex and the City’ doesn’t work as well on the big screen, but diehard fans will be pleased
Noshing Around
Blue Willow Turns 30 The Blue Willow restaurant, gift shop and bakery, a Tucson institution, celebrates its 30th anniversary on June 10. Family-owned since 1978, the Blue Willow serves breakfast, lunch, dinner and that fabulous chocolate cake on one of the best patios around–and the interior’s cozy, too. From June 9-15, order two featured dinner…
