A New Issue!
The new Weekly, filled with all sorts of simply stunning journalism, is online and ready for your perusal. Feel free to comment on its contents here. Also, keep your fingers crossed: The plan is that by this time next week, the all-new TucsonWeekly.com will be live to the world, with an integrated blog and commenting…
RTA Election Next Steps
Yesterday, the Tucson Weekly received a copy of a letter sent Monday by the Attorney General’s Office to Jeff Rogers, chairman of the Pima County Democratic Party, regarding AG Terry Goddard’s next steps in the recount of the 2006 Regional Transportation Authority ballots as part of his ongoing RTA criminal investigation. The letter is from…
‘Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do, Whatcha Gonna Do …’
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has a fancy new Web site worth checking out. Sure, the changes make the site user friendly, but what’s worth the look-see is the video that plays at the top of the page. A friend noted it’s like the TV show Cops, but without the victims and the perps. The…
Karl Marx: The Musical?
Karl Marx was no Hitler or Stalin, but when I read that a Chinese director is creating a Karl Marx musical in Shanghai, I couldn’t help but think of The Producers, with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, and the lovely ditty, “Springtime for Hitler.” Mostly, because I was wondering how in the world you write…
Free Stuff: One Man’s Shit Is Another Dude’s Cool Stuff
I’m always inspired by people who have figured out the whole barter world. For our cover story coming out in this week’s issue, I talked to an artist who has bartered a few of her prints for things she needs. For her, it makes environmental sense–and makes sense to me, too. Lots of swapping and…
Pressed Out
In this week’s Skinny, we meant to say that Republican lawmakers had decided there was no other space for reporters to rent for their press room. I screwed up and the column ended up saying that there was another space for the media to rent. My apologies for the mistake. Hank Stephenson has more on…
Hail and Farewell
So that’s it for Battlestar Galactica. The space porn was beautiful to watch, but I’m left unsatisfied. Not in a “I want more BSG” way, but in a “I don’t feel like they answered enough of the questions they raised” kind of way. Angels? Really? WTF? Oh, well. The first two seasons were among the…
Benefit Show for Plato T. Jones
Hey, folks. We messed up and forgot to include info (other than a listing) in this week’s issue on a very important benefit show coming up on Sunday: Here are the details, from Cathy Warner at the Boondocks: This is to inform you of a very important benefit coming up at the Boondocks for local…
Grotesque Syndicate
You’ll learn a thing or two from this bleak, difficult movie about the other Italian mafia
Native Places
This fantastic debut book from UA lecturer Ian W. Record resurrects the spirit of the Western Apache
Danehy
Forget Big Brother: If you’re breaking the law while driving, you should be subject to punishment
Sweetened Sludge
The remake of ‘The Last House on the Left’ is horrifying–and not necessarily in a good way
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
O’Sullivan
The time has come to talk about boosting the minimum driving age
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Guest Commentary
A man fights for what’s right after his wife dies, and her life-insurance claim is unfairly denied
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
¡Ask a Mexican!
If something works for Mexicans, there’s no need to modernize it.
Now Showing at Home
“Synecdoche, New York (Blu-Ray),” “Let the Right One In (Blu-Ray),” “Primal Fear: Hard Evidence Edition (Blu-Ray),” and “Brokeback Mountain (Blu-Ray)”
Here to Stay
A note from the editor.
Going All the Way
The rock of Israel’s Monotonix is setting America on fire–literally
The Costs of Caring
La Indita owner Maria Garcia, 74, battles foreclosure and fights to help indigenous peoples
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Life-Giving Music
So what if he’s approaching 90? T-Model Ford keeps the blues going
Recession Dining
Restaurateurs respond to the economic downturn in different ways–and some even say there’s a silver lining
Signature Issue
Arizona’s real voter-fraud problem doesn’t have anything to do with people casting votes
Live
Viva Voce, Rafter, Say Hi, Telekinesis, Plush, Sunday, March 15
Stands Deliver
Some of Tucson’s best Mexican eats are not found at full-fledged restaurants
Tagging Trials
Community groups step up to fight graffiti
Nine Questions
Jake Bergeron
The Real Thing
The award-winning Café 54 serves the Tucson community on many levels
Silent Sentinel
Tucson celebrates the 129th anniversary of the railroad’s arrival with a vintage piece of equipment gone high-tech
Soundbites
THE WXSW MADNESS CONTINUES Whether we’re talking about UA men’s basketball or the onslaught of live musical entertainment, March Madness continues this week. (Go Cats!) By the time you read this, I’ll be knee-deep in barbecue, beer and the music of hundreds of bands in Austin at South by Southwest. Most of you, on the…
Authoritarian Overreach
A Tucson engineer fights what he calls unconstitutional checkpoints
Rhythm & Views
Austin’s Trail of Dead appeared to have a good thing going when its grungy, chaotic music found major-label backing with Interscope. Their big-league debut, 2002’s Source Tags and Codes, was a colossal collection of raucous, simmering jeremiads. Sadly, the group used their increased budget to overindulge their musical passions, which resulted in two bloated, pretentious…
The Skinny
LAW AND DISORDER The Tucson City Council somehow managed to botch its national search for a new police chief. After a lengthy meeting behind closed doors last week, council members decided against hiring any of the four applicants–two out-of-towners and local boys John Leavitt, an assistant chief, and Brett Klein, a TPD captain. Now they’re…
Rhythm & Views
On three straight albums, Virginia’s Lamb of God have proven that you don’t have to sound mainstream to be on a major label. LoG’s newest release, Wrath, is a 45-minute bulldozer that may establish the quintet as the biggest underground metal band since Pantera. Fans worried that the band’s 2006 release, Sacrament, was the start…
Media Watch
CW Repackages KGUN Reports for ‘Live’ 9 p.m. Newscast
Rhythm & Views
Australia’s The Church, with its 1988 cosmic masterpiece Starfish and Top 40 single “Under the Milky Way,” stands among the best alt-rock bands. The rich interplay between guitarists Peter Koppes (the “technical” one) and Marty Willson-Piper (the band’s emotional core) served The Church well over several unappreciated albums (Gold Afternoon Fix, Priest=Aura). But what of…
Police Dispatch
Self-Medication in Action East Alvord Road, Feb. 16, 10:56 p.m. A man damaged several homes, including his own, after replacing his prescription drugs with illegal ones, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Deputies went to a southside trailer park to investigate reports of a male subject running around and hitting doors with a…
Top Ten in Music
Toxic Ranch Records top sales for the week
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Edgar Ybarra
There’s No Business …
While ATC turns in a stale sitcom-like comedy, LTW produces a simpler yet hilariously theatrical show
Pick of the Week
Taste for Education
Reconciling Opposites
Nancy Tokar Miller’s beautiful, serene works dazzle in shows at the Temple Gallery, UAMA
