Good Times
A note from the editor.
Top Ten in Movies
Zip’s Music & Video’s top rentals for the week ending March 7, 2004 Under the Tuscan Sun Walt Disney School of Rock Paramount Seabiscuit Universal Lost in Translation Universal Secondhand Lions New Line Open Range Walt Disney Spy Kids 3D: Game Over Walt Disney Intolerable Cruelty Universal Radio Columbia TriStar My Boss’ Daughter Walt Disney
Downtown Gem
Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant offers good, uptown comfort food in the heart of the city
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Sun-Tanned Pop
It may not even technically be spring yet, but it’s time for some Autumn Defense
Noshing Around
Charro Grill This recently opened, fast-casual concept comes from a partnership between Metro Restaurants and El Charro Café, serving traditional favorites plus beer and frosty margaritas, updated with fresh fish, char-roasted vegetables and low-carb items. Eat in or take out; delivery will be available soon, 1765 E. River Road at Campbell Avenue. 615-1922. Dessert Wines…
The Skinny
CROSSING THE LINE Under pressure from Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Fields, the Independent Redistricting Commission released revised maps of the state’s legislative districts with the aim of making districts more competitive. The new map, approved after the two Republican members of the commission failed to sneak in some last-minute changes, now has eight…
Music for Plants, Jellyfish and Ghosts
All Night Radio plays for everyone
Media Watch
CLEAN SWEEP? A.C. Nielsen’s winter sweeps period just ended last week. Four times a year, the ratings company does some intensive audience surveying; the networks and some cable channels trot out special fare to give their numbers an artificial boost, and the results allow the winners to charge more for advertising. The unexpected angle to…
Soundbites
HEAVY DUTY When NYC neo-’80s rock revivalists Interpol released their debut album, Turn on the Bright Lights, in 2002, fans and critics were largely split into two camps: those who fawned over the band’s Joy Division-meets-The Strokes exuberantly melancholic strums and croons, and those who dismissed them as being simply the sum of their influences…
Iraq Revisted
Locals comment on the war and the Bush Administration’s declared desire to build democracies
Nine Questions
Stacey Richter
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
The ironically titled America’s Sweetheart, Courtney Love’s solo debut and her first album in more than five years (since Hole’s Celebrity Skin), may be the first great rock ‘n’ roll record of 2004. Sure, America’s Sweetheart recycles guitar riffs right and left from the likes of Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsay Buckingham and, yes,…
Open Fire!
After years of delays and county manipulations, local shooters are finally getting their ranges
Rhythm & Views
The debut full-length from rising local rock phenom The Deludes is a case study in the correct approach for a self-released record. Their first, and wisest, move was to affiliate themselves with someone like renowned local producer Jim Waters, an expatriate New Yorker who moved to Tucson because he wanted to live somewhere “that didn’t…
Margaret Sanger: Tucson’s Irish Rebel
As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, we look back at a local 20th-century icon
Rhythm & Views
Remember how critics always said that, tormented as he was, Kurt Cobain couldn’t help writing a great pop song? Gingersol will remind you of that. Gingersol principals Steve Tagliere and Seth Rothschild have seen a pain or two in love and life, but unlike Cobain’s outsized turmoil, theirs will resonate with nearly anyone over 21.…
Homeward Bound
Primavera Foundation’s new boss has a history in the Old Pueblo
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week ending March 7, 2004 Kanye West College Dropout (Rock-A-Fella) Twista Kamikaze (Atlantic) Eamon I Don’t Want You Back (Jive) Incubus Crow Left of the Murder (Epic) Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell (Interscope Records) Norah Jones Feels Like Home (Blue Note) Lostprophets Start Something (Sony) Lil Rob Neighborhood…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Jo Anne Schneider, Bentley’s owner
Live
Metallica, TCC, Wednesday, March 3
Police Dispatch
Keeping It in the Family East Drexel Road and South Leslie Avenue, Feb. 18, 5:40 p.m. According to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report, deputies arrested a couple after they got into a fight in front of the woman’s 3 year old. When deputies arrived at the trailer park at the 5600 block of South…
Good Cheap Music
The best bits from Noel Coward’s works get a fine review from the ATC
Pick
Food, Politics and Society
Angry Prince
College senior Nat Cassidy proves he’s good enough for any stage with his turn as Hamlet
City Week
Unsung Heroes SPIRIT OF FÈS TOUR THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 7 P.M. CENTENNIAL HALL, 1020 E. UNIVERSITY BLVD. 621-3341, uapresents.org It’s been called “one of the world’s great music events” by the London Daily Telegraph. The United Nations honored it as one of the seven events in the world that are “unsung heroes in the dialogue…
Meadow Musings
An impossible intermingling of generations provides a scattered storyline for Wilde Playhouse
Danehy
A skilled basketball team was just shy of winning the state championship
‘Hidalgo’ Happens
Tucson’s John Fusco believes the controversy over his latest film is misguided; after all, it’s a movie, not a history book
Revelatory Dance
After a two-year absence, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is coming back to town
Tuttle
It’s the 21st century, and technology now owns us
Failed Invasions
“The Barbarian Invasions” has racked up a bevy of awards and acclaim. Why? Beats us.
Westward Women
A new anthology takes an academic look at the lives and struggles of 20th-century Western women
Guest Commentary
The system seems to have little use for people who take a stand for justice
Now Showing at Home
“The Chaplin Collection,” “Dummy,” and “Pieces of April”
Top Ten in Books
Reader’s Oasis bestsellers for the week ending March 7, 2004 The Far Side of the Sea Ben Clevenger, Jesuit Fathers of Southern Arizona Publishing ($22.50) Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths Bruce Feiler, Harper Collins ($12.95) The New German Cinema Carol Flinn, University of California Press ($19.95) Keepsake Storm Gina Franco, University…
