The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Don’t trends, like the ubiquitous “pop punk” that has plagued the radio for nearly a decade now, have an expiration date? Shouldn’t these guys be trying to figure out how to have their Green Day tattoos lasered off, or going to enunciation school, or appearing on fucking Cribs again? Who knew that in 2004, we’d…
Media Watch
J-SCHOOL JUMP-START With full-time professors almost as scarce as Linotype machines, the UA’s journalism department has been in danger of losing its academic accreditation. Or so predicted department head Jacquelyn Sharkey, who recently emerged from more than a month of negotiations with UA administrators with assurances that her program would be bulked up enough to…
Live
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hotel Congress Parking Lot, Tuesday, March 9
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Michael Lown-Peters
Top Ten in Music
CD City’s top sales for the week ending March 13, 2004 Norah Jones Feels Like Home (Blue Note) Maroon 5 Songs About Jane (Octone) Kanye West College Dropout (Rock-A-Fella) Twista Kamikaze (Atlantic) 50 First Dates Soundtrack (Maverick) Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell (Interscope) Eamon I Don’t Want You Back (Jive) Avant Private Room (Geffen)…
Police Dispatch
Hard Ass Missing South Camino Del Sol and West Camino Calderon, Feb. 27, 3 p.m. Somebody stole a concrete donkey statue from a Tucson home, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated. The homeowner told deputies that he believes the grey-and-white jackass might have been stolen from his front yard overnight. Deputies had no suspects…
Choreographed Messages
Israel’s leading contemporary dance troupe, Batsheva, promises to emotionally charge its audience
Pick
If I Strip for You…
Racism Review
Invisible Theatre’s production of “Spinning Into Butter” turns a flawed script into thought-provoking material
Danehy
It’s time for March Madness, the best three weeks in all of sports
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Discussing Wagner
Gottfried Wagner, the great-grandson of anti-Semitic composer, is giving three local talks this coming week
Tuttle
What’s next for Mel Gibson after his ‘Passion of the Christ’ violence fest?
Chronicling Iran
Iranian greats Jafar Panahi and Abbas Kiarostami team up for another powerful film
Disarming Arts
The UA Museum of Art’s Jasper Johns exhibit highlights a number of campus-area gallery shows
Guest Commentary
It’s Time to Stop Homeowner Associations From Enslaving Unsuspecting Victims
Shuttered Thriller
Despite Johnny Depp’s efforts, Stephen King’s latest film proves to be mediocre and predictable
Big Birds, Big Problems
In the world of conservation, most of the turkeys wear uniforms
Feel the Vibe
A note from the editor.
Now Showing at Home
Schindler’s List Universal Movie Grade A Special Features B DVD Geek Factor 9 (out of 10) One of the more anticipated DVD releases comes to fruition 10 years after its theatrical run. Spielberg’s Schindler’s List will always stand as one of cinema’s most powerful and important achievements. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler…
Top Ten in Books
Clues Unlimited bestsellers for the week ending March 13, 2004 Flashback Nevada Barr, Berkley ($7.99) High Country Nevada Barr, Putnam ($23.95) Relative Danger Charles Benoit, Poisoned Pen Press ($24.95) Muletrain to Maggody Joan Hess, Simon and Schuster ($23) Bookman’s Promise John Dunning, Scribner ($25) Cottonwood Scott Phillips, Ballantine ($23.95) Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon Donna Andrews,…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending March 14, 2004 Mona Lisa Smile Columbia TriStar School of Rock Paramount Lost in Translation Universal Thirteen Twentieth Century Fox Once Upon a Time in Mexico Columbia TriStar Cabin Fever Lions Gate Duplex Miramax Spellbound Columbia TriStar Matchstick Men Warner Intolerable Cruelty Universal
‘Safe,’ Swanky Sushi
Ra Sushi bends over backwards to be a hip, trendy place to eat Asian
The Saga of Three Points
The settlement 25 miles southwest of Tucson has an awful reputation. Is there hope for the place?
High-Wire Act
In his barn or on stage, Andrew Bird fears no glockenspiel
Noshing Around
Lunch in Bloom For the next few months, Feast will serve lunch at the Friends House in the Tucson Botanical Gardens. Like the plants, the menu of artistic sandwiches, soups and desserts changes weekly. Home Grown Sell your fruits and vegetables at Arizona Farmers’ Markets. Bring your 2003-4 crop plan–what you plant, how much and…
Cruise Control
Arizona lawmakers consider a ban, pushed by Phoenix cops, against the ‘unauthorized assembly of vehicles’
Unheard-of Legend
Fresh off a ‘Letterman’ appearance, Leon Russell is obviously still hip
Farming With Nature
Conservationists and ranchers can get along, as some Southern Arizona pastures show
Soundbites
TRAVELIN’ BANDS Each year at this time, practically the entire music industry converges on Austin, Texas, for the South By Southwest music conference. It seems that some members of “the biz” are actually musicians, and with the conference itself offering little compensation for bands aside from exposure to members of the music mafia, bands usually…
Walk for Peace
Local Jews and Muslims have overcome obstacles in an attempt to create an interfaith community
Nine Questions
Chris Brooks
Depot Development
The downtown train station’s restoration is almost finished, but few leases for the building have been signed
Rhythm & Views
There are infinite ways to start a record; bands try all kinds of tricks, from putting in weird noises to hitting you full-on with a wall of sound. The Black Watch, however, opts for the more traditional route, beginning Very Mary Beth with some good old-fashioned guitar and John Andrew Frederick singing, “I don’t know,…
The Skinny
BONDED Pima Prime Minister Chuck Huckelberry is making all the right overtures to gain support for his record $732.2 million borrowing plan, slated to go to voters in a six-item menu on May 18. The Huck doesn’t want to shoot himself in the foot, so he is pledging access to the lands that will be…
Rhythm & Views
Chicago, the “Hog Butcher for the World” as Carl Sandburg famously put it, didn’t come into its own as a rock city (outside of blues circles, at least) until the early ’90s. But as stalwart indie label Touch and Go grew into a pre-eminent tastemaker (along with 90 Day Men’s label, Southern), the “City of…
