Police Dispatch
Great Cotton Balls Of Fire University Area, March 9, 10:15 P.M. According to a University of Arizona Police Department report, officers declined to arrest two students after they allegedly admitted setting cotton balls–soaked in nail-polish remover–on fire before throwing in the direction of a dormmate’s car. The student who owned the car told police he…
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records’ top sales for the week ending March 21, 2004 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell (Interscope) Suga Free New Testament (Bungalo) Twista Kamikaza (Atlantic) Cassidy Split Personality (J-Records) Maroon 5 Songs About Jane (Octone) Godsmack Other Side (Universal) Eamon I Don’t Want You Back (Jive) Incubus A Crow Left of the Murder (Sony)…
Danehy
Super-sized non-surprise: A ridiculous experiment yields predictable results
Pick
Jazzed Students
Choreography You Can’t Miss
Michael Uthoff Dance Theatre brings the Limón-Battle-Uthoff connection to Tucson
Downing
Of all the recent experiences I’ve had involving my dying brother, the time we spent in the emergency room was the worst
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
The Kronos Quartet’s Cosmic Quest
Stringed instruments, solar wind and interplanetary plasma discharges shape Kronos’ concert
Guest Commentary
Politics ain’t beanbag; choose an effective representative, or live to whine about it
A Minor Masterpiece
“Eternal Sunshine” proves that suddenly, science fiction has a chance
Cinema for the Ear
In this art gallery, you can close your eyes
Tucson Fundamentalism
A note from the editor.
Run; Don’t Lumber
Head for the mall –“Dawn” is one gloriously sick puppy
Painting: Uninterrupted
Enough of trendy–on with timeless, thanks to a former “Weekly” artist
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Now Showing at Home
Something’s Gotta Give Columbia Tristar Movie Grade A- Special Features A DVD Geek Factor 6 (out of 10) What a pleasure it is to watch this adorable film. You know you’re dealing with something special when Diane Keaton manages to outshine a cast that includes Jack Nicholson in top form. Fully deserving of her Oscar…
Top Ten in Books
GreenFire Bookshop bestsellers for the week ending March 20, 2004 Gourds in Your Garden: A Guidebook for the Home Gardener Ginger Summit, Sterling Press ($17.95 new) The Monkey Wrench Gang Edward Abbey and Douglas Brinkley, Perennial ($3 used) 2004 Almanac/Datebook/ Journal for Southern Arizona Chiricahua Arts and Sunflower Scribe Press ($10 new) The Straw Bale…
Bad Cops. Good Cops. More Cops?
An examination of the Tucson Police Department reveals widespread community support–despite some alarming incidents and statistics
A Sad Dog Tale
The story of an ailing man, his injured dog with puppies, overzealous animal-control officials and a caring City Council member
Gentleman and Scholar
Former Rep. Jim McNulty’s “Running Uphill” is full of the charming musings of this left-wing, pinko liberal
Suspect Identification
On a warm, pleasant evening last September, I was asked by Tucson police officers, for no apparent reason, to produce some identification, a request I forcefully rejected. Being a personal privacy advocate–and having lived and traveled in dictatorial countries where showing an ID card is a common requirement–I wasn’t about to comply. Here’s the backstory.…
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending March 21, 2004 21 Grams Universal Veronica Guerin Buena Vista School of Rock Paramount Mona Lisa Smile Columbia TriStar Duplex Miramax Lost in Translation Universal Thirteen Twentieth Century Fox Once Upon a Time in Mexico Columbia TriStar Cabin Fever Lions Gate Matchstick Men Warner
Life, Love, Death, Soup
It isn’t just meals that get dished up on plates
Terminations and Suspensions
Department 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Total Size of Dept. Tucson 1 / 6 4 / 21 6 / 14 2 / 19 2 / 19 15 / 79 938 officers Pima County Sheriff 0 / 6 3 / 1 1 / 1 1 / 4 0 / 6 5 / 18 464 officers Phoenix…
Soundbites
I’M A SUBSTITUTE FOR ANOTHER GUY Howdy, folks. This installment marks the third time I’ve dutifully taken up the SB post for our main man, Stephen Seigel, while he stuffs his face with barbecued ribs and takes in all the bands he possibly can at this year’s South By Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas.…
Noshing Around
Thai One On There’s a new Thai restaurant in the Rita Ranch area: Sa-Ing Thai Cuisine, locally owned by Tony Wong. Sa-Ing serves traditional Thai food cooked by chefs with 20 years of experience and is open for lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday at 9136 E. Valencia Road, 663-5955. Rolling Coffee Thunder Stop by…
Tropicana Twilight
A once-ritzy motel goes from swank to skank
Nine Questions
Elizabeth Cherry
No Place Like Home
The burglary of her beloved parrot and a slow-moving, strapped police department have made a local woman upset
Rhythm & Views
Some bands get worse as the years progress, as their signature, once-fresh sound gets tired and old. Not so with San Diego’s Pinback, whose first records, Pinback and Blue Screen Life, sounded like early-career Superchunk. Offcell, Pinback’s latest EP, sounds as if it sprouted from a completely different band; there’s less off-key singing and scratchy…
Visit Reservations
Arizona’s tribes are looking to boost tourism income while maintaining privacy and traditional values
Live
Al Foul, The Knockout Pills, Al Perry & Chango Malo, Club Congress, Friday, March 19
The Skinny
BONDAGE Mayor Bob Walkup; his Republican doggie, Councilman Fred Ronstadt; and their master, City Manager James Keene, continue to bitch that the city won’t be getting enough in the Pima County’s $732 million bond program that goes to voters in less than two months. Ronstadt goes so far as to say that the county is…
Rhythm & Views
Pioneers of the ’80s trash metal music scene (along with Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth), Exodus has returned with Tempo of the Damned, the band’s first studio album since 1992’s Force of Habit. A pure, in-your-face musical assault from start to finish, this latest album was well worth the wait. After reuniting with original vocalist Paul…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Overhead Projectors
Saddle Creek label’s Now It’s Overhead defy geographic boundaries
Media Watch
Tucson Up Front Last week, the Tucson Citizen launched a “Tucson first” redesign–basically a reorganization that moves all the local and state news to the front, relegating most national and world coverage to the “B” section. This may seem like a triumph of parochialism, but it’s actually part of publisher Michael Chihak’s careful plan to…
When Stars Collide
Jazz masters Roswell Rudd and Duck Baker team up for improvisation
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Ajia Simone, Female Illusionist
Rhythm & Views
The legendary FAME studio and label in Muscle Shoals, Ala., is where some of ’60s R&B’s biggest legends (Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Wilson Pickett) made their finest records. Lesser-known but just as talented was Southern soul queen Candi Staton, whose glory years (1969-1973) are represented in a new offering from Astralwerks. This 26-song collection is…
