Media Watch
‘Tucson Sport’ Tackles Adolescent Fitness
Rhythm & Views
This emo-metal band’s sweet, melodious pop vocals are contrasted throughout most of its second album with hounds-of-hell throat shredding and barking. This is not new among modern metal acts, and the juxtaposition may once have implied a dichotomy of earnest naïveté and the barely-articulate beast within. In the collective hands of the young quintet Silverstein,…
Police Dispatch
Please Hold River Road and La CaÑada Drive, Feb. 20, 4:59 p.m. A man wanted to press harassment charges against his soon-to-be ex-wife for barging into his office and berating him during a speakerphone conference call, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated. The man said he had been on a conference call in his…
Rhythm & Views
Hot damn, that voice. I know it’s old hat to comment on Neko Case’s fantastic pipes, but approximately four years after her last solo studio effort, they seem to be even stronger. If you buy only one alt-country album by a red-headed singer this year, make it Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (sorry Jenny Lewis,…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
There’s good 1980s revivalist new wave, and then there’s the, well, other stuff. Such as the cold and detached synth-pop disco of Gil Mantera’s Party Dream, a two-man unit that last month saw the release of its third album. Synthesizer bleeps, blips and drones by Mantera will occasionally remind listeners (if they’re lucky) of the…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Richard Michod
Creations in Tin
Rand Carlson takes chopped-up pieces of metal and makes new images for his Temple Gallery show
Pick of the Week
Three Years and Counting
Cozy Caper
ATC’s ‘Sherlock Holmes’ is light and shallow, but rather entertaining
Danehy
Tom goes the whole nine yards for this column
The Inhumanity!
Lars von Trier scolds everyone in this well-made but extremely negative flick
Pondering Place
Lucy Lippard helps MOCA bridge the gap between visual and textual arts
Tuttle
Illusion today is trumping reality, thanks to the obsession with celebrity
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
Guest Commentary
Fiction writing: a disease best avoided at all costs
Disgusting Desert
Nuclear mutants provide great scares and extreme gore in ‘The Hills Have Eyes’
Southwestern Gothic
Christine Granados’ literary debut makes good on her big promise, skill
Queries Contained
A note from the editor.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Swish-Swish Sensation
Japanese food lovers: Get thee to Shabu Shabu Tanaka
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Now Showing at Home
“The Andy Milonakis Show: The Complete First Season,” “Walk the Line: Collector’s Edition,” and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Two-Disc Deluxe Edition”
Noshing Around
Restaurant of the Month VegCooking.com, a PETA Web site, chose Lovin’ Spoonfuls as restaurant of the month. According to Reannon Peterson, manager of vegan campaigns, “Lovin’ Spoonfuls serves delicious, cruelty-free food that delights vegetarians and meat-eaters alike with comfort food like a Route 66 bacon cheeseburger and stroganoff supreme to curried mushroom-walnut pâté and the…
Priestly Tales
The stories of clerics who left misty, green Ireland to serve in dry, dusty Arizona
Blog Break
What’s in a name? For Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, almost everything
Never-Ending Sentence
When have felons finally paid their dues?
Soundbites
WHAT WOULD JESUS LISTEN TO? Not long ago in these pages, we published an article by Annie Holub, about the band Mute Math. In the article, the group’s singer, Paul Meany, complained about how Warner Bros., the band’s current label, was attempting to market Mute Math as a Christian band, after someone at the label…
Mounting Bills
Border security! Tax cuts! Nipple exposure!
Singular Focus
The Dirtbombs are prolific in terms of shows, songs and quality
Train Talk
Some 126 years after trains came to Tucson, their culture continues to fascinate local writers, historians
Live
Fishbone, Chango Malo, and Mankind, Club Congress, Friday, March 10
The Skinny
HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A COUNCILWOMAN SCORNED Previously in The Skinny: After losing her Ward 3 seat to Democrat Karin Uhlich last November, Republican Kathleen Dunbar went forward with a defamation lawsuit against Uhlich, three retired schoolteachers, the Pima County Democratic Party, the Amphi School District and three players to be named later. Dunbar…
Nine Questions
Sammy Claiborn
Suspect Sale?
President Bush revives a proposal to sell up to 300,000 acres of desert, forest land
Top Ten in Music
CD City top sales for the week
