Mar 10-16, 2005

Mar 10-16, 2005 / Vol. 22 / No. 2

Noshing Around

Chopped Tucson’s newest fresh and healthy, made-to-order restaurant opens March 14 at 2829 E. Speedway Blvd. Diners can select ingredients from 50 different options that will then be finely chopped together and mixed with a choice of salad dressings. Sandwiches and paninis are served, too. Locally co-owned by Paolo DeFilippis and Jeff and Fran Katz,…

Karyn Zoldan

Under Siege

As illegal immigrants surge across Southern Arizona, life for ranchers living near the border has become a living hell

Leo W. Banks

Soundbites

SEASON’S GREETINGS As we discussed last week, The Season of Rock is well upon us. If last week’s offerings amounted to but a light sprinkle, this week brings a torrential downpour of can’t-miss live acts making their way to Tucson en route to Austin for next week’s South By Southwest music conference. Since we never…

Stephen Seigel

Live

Steve Wynn, The Sand Rubies, Al Perry, Tom Freund, Club Congress, Friday, March 4

Linda Ray

The Skinny

BABY NEEDS A NEW PAIR OF SHOES Less than two years into his job on the Pima County Board of Supervisors, Ramon Valadez has developed a conflict revealed on the first page of the board’s March 1 consent agenda–the many items deemed so routine that they are passed on a single vote. Valadez, the Democrat…

Chris Limberis and Jim Nintzel

Rhythm & Views

The metal gods are back! With the return of frontman Rob Halford to Judas Priest, Angel of Retribution is the most anticipated album of the year. It’s the first studio effort from the Painkiller-era of Judas Priest in more than a decade. The good news is that Priest, individually and collectively, have not lost a…

Jon Hobson

Rhythm & Views

So there’s this guy in New York named Antony who, despite physically resembling the love child of Pee Wee Herman and Phil Collins, has somehow convinced genuine artists like Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright and Devendra Banhart to contribute vocal performances to his full-length collection of shattered spirituals called I Am a Bird Now. Antony sounds…

Jarret Keene

Rhythm & Views

French rock ‘n’ roll is so uniformly awful that Auteurs/Black Box Recorder mastermind Luke Haines once wrote a sneering anthem about it. French post-rock, however, has a significant leader in M83, which consists only of Anthony Gonzalez, who performed and recorded his new apocalyptic work somewhere in the French countryside. A curious locale, given that…

Jarret Keene

Speak for Yourself

‘Permanent Collection’ mixes issues of art and race into a package that provokes, but does not change minds

James Reel

Police Dispatch

The Great Panty Heist West Ina and North Thornydale roads, Feb. 14, 10:09 a.m. A woman phoned authorities to report that someone had stolen about 15 pairs of underwear from her locked apartment, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report said. The woman said, without elaborating, that “weird things” had been happening around her home. Then…

Saxon Burns

Downing

A query for creationists: If the Earth is so young, why did God make it appear so old?

Renée Downing

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