Let It Rot
Local governments give composting short shrift
A Capitol Idea
The Capitol Years put Philly on the map
Tucson on the Rails
A look back at the day the railroad arrived, 125 years ago
Nine Questions
Luke Knipe
Children’s Crusade
GOP leaders raise education spending but slash programs for poor kids
Soundbites
TURNING JAPANEESE By the time Americans became hip to the Japanese all-girl pop trio Shonen Knife–via the 1989 tribute album Every Band Has a Shonen Knife Who Loves Them, which included Knife tracks performed by the likes of Sonic Youth, Redd Kross and L7, and the raves of outspoken fans like Kurt Cobain (who once…
Dog Days of Retirement
The Greyhound Rescue League constantly hustles to give castaway dogs a new life
Live
Okkervil River, Campo Bravo, and Amy Rude at Plush, Friday, March 11
The Skinny
HERR HEIN Hope the locked-in-the-1950s bureaucrats and lawyers at City Hall are getting the message: Mike Hein as city manager beginning next month means, refreshingly, business won’t be done as usual. To the secret-keepin’ city attorneys and the dolts on City Council that they lead around, here’s the first clue: Hein found it clumsy, stupid…
Rhythm & Views
The Forty-Fives may be from Atlanta, but they seem to have absorbed a lot of Detroit. Trace elements of much of Detroit’s greatest music–from Motown soul through the glory days of the Stooges and MC5 up to recent garage-rocking outfits like the Gories, White Stripes and Dirtbombs (whose Jim Diamond produced the new CD)–can all…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
The future of heavy metal has arrived! Orlando quartet Trivium is set to shake the foundations of their genre with the release of their major label debut, Ascendancy. Shredding riffs, blast beats, dual guitar harmonies and solos, and vocal schizophrenia sum up the album’s 12 astonishingly brutal tracks. Despite their youth (ages range from 19-22),…
Media Watch
Free Speech Showdown
Top Ten in Music
CD City’s top sales for the week
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Jo’Ann Ruhl
Rhythm & Views
The year was 1987, and pop metal rooled soopreme. You couldn’t go a block without hearing about sugar being poured on someone. Bands like Winger and Dokken and the Crüe and Bon Jovi were directly responsible for the nation’s collective bad hair, and the prevailing, freewheeling, “Nothin’ But a Good Time” mood. Then came grunge,…
Police Dispatch
Grandma Hercules West Ina Road and North La Cholla Boulevard, Feb. 21, 10:13 a.m. The grandson of an elderly woman living in a nursing home said he didn’t believe the director’s assertions that his 85-pound grandmother broke her hip trying to move a television set, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report said. The grandson said…
Dark vs. Light
Fine acting and a harrowing story mark two very different productions at Wilde and Invisible Theatre
Danehy
Pass on the vegetarian cooking in favor of NCAA tourney speculation, using advanced mathematical processes
Pick
A Fine Fair It Is
Take Me Out; Get Me Drunk
Two upcoming dance performances honor two American pastimes: baseball and boozin’
Tuttle
This is the time of year to stop and smell the flowers–literally
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Domestic Nightmares
Monika Rossa uses bright colors to depict terrifying scenes, with a touch of music thrown in
Guest Commentary
Despite Rosemont Ranch’s environmental appeal, the county should decline an offer to acquire it
Meets Lowered Expectations
Given what time of year this is, ‘Hostage’ is comparatively decent
Land of Micro-Wars
An exiled poet, coming to the UA for a reading, doesn’t like what’s happening to America’s democracy
Add and Subtract
A note from the editor.
CGI City
You’ll go for the trailer, but you’ll stay because ‘Robots’ is a good time for the kids
Issues Political, Personal
A UA Italian professor spins a fine thriller out of research material for a class
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Now Showing at Home
“Finding Neverland,” “Dead Birds,” “Pimp My Ride: The Complete First Season,” and “Orgazmo”
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best sellers for the week
Under a Green Banner
The story of the San Patricios, a battalion–fighting for Mexico against the United States–that history nearly forgot
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Chop! Chop!
Chaos, craze and catharsis behind the scenes of an about-to-open new restaurant
The Brush Up
A local lawmaker shows she’s not afraid of a little beryllium
Meet Ida
Over the years, this quiet New York ensemble has sustained their tone
Noshing Around
Native Son Returns Westward Look Resort has a new executive chef: Jamie West, a Tucson native who left the Old Pueblo to attend the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. He worked in Napa Valley and Santa Barbara at the famed San Isidro Ranch, frequented by celebrities such as Julia Child and Oprah…
