Playing With Your Food
This YouTube video brings new meaning to the phrase playing with your food.
Legal Brief
Arizona Democrats are piling on U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales, who appears to be living beneath the shadow of what Hunter S. Thompson once called the million-pound shithammer. Yesterday, Arizona Democratic Party Chairman David Waid sent out a letter to Sens. Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter calling for an investigation into whether Paul Charlton, the U.S.…
My Heroes
This story, about two bartenders who stopped a potential date-rapist in the San Francisco Bay area, is worth checking out.
Big Sister Is Watching
What do you say we just skip the ’07 city election and go straight to the next year’s presidential race, OK? We’re already bored with the idea of talking about Rio Nuevo and the children of Tucson. And besides: With the front-loaded primary season, we’re going to have a national primary in February now, which…
Must-Visit Tucson Restaurants: Rita Connelly
Concluding the list of must-visit Tucson restaurants we Weekly resident foodies compiled at the request of a reader … here’s Rita Connelly’s two cents. My list can be found here; Renee Downing’s list here; and Karyn Zoldan’s list here. For a great prime rib or steak dinner: El Corral (on River Road). Quintessential Tucson. For Mexican:…
Avoid the Eastside Costco Area Today
Blog correspondent Garrett informs Weekly World Central that the Carl’s Jr./Green Taco at Wilmot and Grant roads caught on fire and is a smoldering mess. As of 2 p.m. Sunday, fire crews are on the scene and using the fire hydrants in the adjacent Costco parking lot. He reports that the area is a “mess.”…
Regarding “The Art of John Lennon”
In this week’s issue, Anna Mirocha wrote a City Week blurb on The Art of John Lennon, a traveling show coming to La Encantada this weekend. Something we did not note in the blurb, unfortunately, is the fact that there are some questions about the art being displayed. Margaret Regan wrote about this on Jan.…
Must-Visit Tucson Restaurants: Renee Downing
Continuing with the list of must-visit Tucson restaurants we Weekly resident foodies compiled at the request of a reader … here’s Renee Downing’s two cents. My list can be found here, with Karyn Zoldan’s here; Rita Connelly’s list will come later. Green corn tamales—I haven’t had them for years, but the ones at Lerua’s on…
Leal Chooses Not To Run
This week’s Skinny wondered if Ward 5 Councilman Steve Leal would take the risk of challenging Mayor Bob Walkup. We now have our answer: No. Leal has sent out a letter saying that it’s just too important that he remain on the council. Without him, who knows how adrift the city could go? Here’s Leal’s letter:…
Must-Visit Tucson Restaurants: Karyn Zoldan
Yesterday, I detailed my list of must-try Tucson restaurants, for the benefit of a reader. Here’s Karyn Zoldan’s list. Still to come: lists from Rita Connelly and Renee Downing. What about a Sonoran hot dog at El Guero Canelo? There’s a location on South 12th Avenue and a newer location on Oracle Road near Grant…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Now Showing at Home
“Re-Animator,” “Bosom Buddies: The First Season,” “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”
Noshing Around
New: El Guero Canelo This southside fixture with a following has opened a second location at 2480 N. Oracle Road (just north of Grant Road); 882-8977. Open daily from 6:30 a.m. to midnight; now is the time to try feed your Sonoran hot dog fix. OpenTable Everything is going high-tech these days, including dinner reservations.…
Guest Commentary
Bring it home: What war has done to the Old Pueblo
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Hispanic Expansion
Habanero’s brings good–if slightly bland–Mexican food to the foothills masses
The Irish Orphan Abduction
A tale of race, religion and lawlessness in turn-of-the-century Southern Arizona
Big, Bold and Epic
San Francisco’s Secret Chiefs 3 believe in the power of live music by rehearsed performers
¡Ask a Mexican!
Do wabs know what their designer knock-off American clothes say?
The Skinny
BUSTING THE BOSS So the federal government finally came down hard last week on a Southern Arizona employer for hiring illegal immigrants. The president of Sun Drywall and Stucco, Ivan Hardt, and 10 of his employees face charges of knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and conspiring to harbor illegal immigrants. The bust, which comes after a…
Wandering Spirits
Elvis Perkins on being a nomad, Leonard Cohen’s synthesizer and the Episcopalian way
Train Town
A Tucson historian examines how the railroad once dominated Tucson
Soundbites
BALK! I never claimed to be so good with math, or, for that matter, the concept of the calendar. And so, when I told you last week that Gene Armstrong would be your musical tour director this week here at Soundbites, I was mistaken. The Geners (think: The Donald) will actually be in the captain’s…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Nine Questions
Vicki Brown
Agitating for Change
Call to Action wants openness and reform in the Catholic Church
Live
Luca, Little Sisters of the Poor, and Loveland at Club Congress, Friday, March 9
Papers, Please
The Arizona Board of Regents adopts policies to comply with Prop 300, exposing unknowns
Rhythm & Views
As one of those rare critics who’d prefer to bask in the primal-scream therapy of Plastic Ono Band than any number of Lennon/McCartney advertising jingles (in other words, the entire Beatles catalog), I harbored no ill will toward Yoko. Moreover, I figured her new collaborative album with first-rate artists like Cat Power, the Flaming Lips…
Clean Up
The Arizona House agrees to reform the state’s publicly financed campaign program
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Media Watch
Romo Returns to Her Roots
Rhythm & Views
From the album art (lead singer and songwriter Abraham Levitan sitting at a bar with one hand over a beer, a cigarette in the other), you’d never guess that The Simp overflows with disco madness and David Bowie-style theatrics. And although the name Baby Teeth is just asking for bad metaphors (The Simp is an…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Jennifer English
Rhythm & Views
Despite their playful, in-your-face lyrical smut, this Northwest Washington all-female foursome are not foul-mouthed skanks reminiscent of Peaches or Fannypack. Combining stripped-down keyboard beats with occasional guitar bursts, brash drum-bashing and punk-ferocious bass lines, the Trucks engage in tongue-in-cheek romanticism and provocative lyrics that take no prisoners, viciously crucifying insensitive boyfriends and dumped lovers as…
Police Dispatch
Mortal Combat River and Swan Roads, Feb. 13, 11:59 p.m. A report from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department illustrates the commonly held notion that there are at least two sides to every story. The two men involved in this encounter agree that they got into a physical confrontation in a parking lot. The first man…
Keeping People Alive
Letters to a Polish girl in a Nazi labor camp transform into a play
Pick of the Week
64 Days of Peace
Dance as Church
Douglas Nielsen reintroduces himself to Tucson at NEW ARTiculations’ latest show
Danehy
Just because certain words make you wince, it doesn’t make them illegal
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Stage Blackout
This performance of Beowulf Alley’s latest wasn’t quite ready for the spotlight
Tuttle
Been knocked out by illness? You’re not alone
Crash and Burn
‘Premonition’ is a nice, Hitchcockian thriller, until the filmmakers tack on a message of redemption
Ray of Light
This Tucson poet’s collection really shines
Cover Coverage
A note from the editor.
Shirtless Struggle
This graphic novel turned action thriller is definite empty-headed fun
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
