Smell That Fresh Newsprint (or at Least Imagine the Smell)!
The new issue is here, online and ready for you smart ‘n’ sexy readers. (If you’re dumb ‘n’ homely, you have to wait.) Feel free to comment on it here, folks! And I’d put the Mexican’s weekly video here, but he doesn’t seem to have done one for this week. Slacker! In any case, if/when…
Frak Yeah! BSG Is Back!
A ragtag fleet on the run in outer space! Doomed romance and political intrigue! Fraked-up humans and hot, sexy robots that play with our heads! What more do you really want in a TV show? Battlestar Galactica starts its fourth and final season on the Sci-Fi Network this Friday, April 4. If you haven’t been…
Biz Bounty
Frustrated by the slow pace of enforcement of last year’s employer-sanctions law, the House Judiciary Committee is set to hear a bill today that would grant a reward to citizens who report companies that hire illegal immigrants: The assets of the company that broke the law. Rep. Richard Wilkins (R-Sunnydale) says Arizonans are more likely…
New on TWTV: 999 Eyes Carnival of the Damned
Kelli Hart of Tucson Weekly TV was on the scene when the 999 Eyes Carnival of the Damned visited Hotel Congress last week.
Solidarity With Our Amsterdam-Based Weekly Brethren
The Amsterdam Weekly, a free alt-weekly in Amsterdam, has been abandoned by its financial backers. In a crazy scheme to keep the paper afloat, they’re asking for on-line donations … for five euros (about 7.50 in worthless U.S. currency), you can buy a part of a page of the paper. It’s worth checking out the…
Tune In!
Just in case you missed Arizona Illustrated last Friday, March 28, you can click here to see state lawmakers Jonathan Paton, a Republican who represents Tucson’s east side, Sierra Vista and Green Valley, and Steve Farley, a Democrat who represents midtown Tucson, answer questions from Arizona Illustrated anchor Bill Buckmaster, Tucson Weekly’s Jim Nintzel, Ann…
Report: Jet Blue Saying Sayonara to Tucson
Our sister newspaper, Inside Tucson Business, is reporting that Jet Blue’s last flight out of Tucson will depart on May 12: JetBlue Airways is leaving Tucson. With its departure Tucson is losing its only nonstop airline link to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The last flights will be May 12. “We’ve been in…
Register to Vote and Eat Pizza
On Monday, March 31, Eclectic Pizza teams up with 107.5 K-HIT to host “Remote to Vote” from 4 to 6 p.m. Eclectic Pizza will be serving free samples of pizza and offering a $3 medium cheese pizza for takeout between the above hours. People are encouraged to bring information on their candidate of choice as a peaceful way…
Loves Bites
Starting Friday at the Loft Cinema: Teeth, a horrific exploration of vagina dentata. James DiGiovanna says: “Teeth is not the most politically correct thing out there (that’d be the upcoming Hostel III: Hotel of Inter-Racial Healing), but it’s smarter, funnier and better-looking than at least two of the three remaining mainstream presidential candidates.” Plus: 80…
Midterm Report
Making the state safe for open records, rock ‘n’ roll and Ultimate Fighting: Your semi-regular legislative update
SXSW Snapshots
The music industry may be in flux, but the number of great bands continues to increase
The Skinny
EXPLORING NEW DEPTHS Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry wants us to drink straight from the toilet! Like dogs! Well, not exactly, although Huckelberry’s recent memo to the Pima County Board of Supervisors laying out the parameters of a water study with the Tucson City Council seems to have set off another weird wave of anxiety,…
Screw the Genre
The Avett Brothers play the music they want to play
Media Watch
KWBA Sold To KGUN Parent Company
Soundbites
‘PIPELINE’ TO O’MALLEY’S It seemed a bit odd to us when O’Malley’s played host to an Agent Orange show last December. After all, the sports bar/college hangout usually hosts local covers-heavy bands in its back room, and Agent Orange don’t exactly fit that bill. Formed in Fullerton, Calif., in the late-’70s, Agent Orange merged punk…
Jobbed by the System
Prior felonies destroy the career dreams of hard-working students
Nine Questions
Matt Cordes
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Live
Eric Bibb, Old Town Artisans, Saturday, March 22
Political Realities
Power will play an enormous role in the TUSD school-closure vote and its aftermath, regardless of the decision
Rhythm & Views
Shades of Yoko Ono! And believe it or not, that’s a good thing. Right from the get-go with “Seeing Hands,” I had a visceral reaction that made me smile, remembering Yoko’s unappreciated (and post-primal-scream) work on the last two John Lennon LPs, Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey. Cambodian-born lead vocalist Chhom Nimol is passionate,…
Short-Cut Conundrum
Pinal County tries to seize control of environmentally sensitive land to protect a road–in apparent violation of federal protections
Rhythm & Views
Locals The Swim have the indie-rock-guitar thing down–from the opening melody of “Heavy Ringer” to the last sweetly sprawling track, The Swim’s guitar sound hearkens back to an era in independent music when it wasn’t about glossy production or getting your song into a commercial; it was about honest emotion and guitars that sound achingly…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Stuart Hameroff
Rhythm & Views
Let’s assume, for argument’s sake, that the many metal-core acts that juxtapose melodic vocals with hoarse, strangled screams do so to illustrate the fact that they are constantly torn between two worlds. Heavy metal coexists with hard-core punk; pretty tunefulness shares headspace with atonal aggression; peace balances strife; the lion lies down with the lamb.…
Police Dispatch
Not Quite out of Sight North Oracle Road, Feb. 26, 9:57 a.m. A pair of grocery-store workers were offended by an apparent display of parking-lot exhibitionism, said a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Two female employees at Wild Oats Market, 7133 N. Oracle Road, both stated that they had often seen a bearded male in…
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Danehy
George W. Bush absolutely deserves the blame for the economic mess the country is in right now
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Athletic Dance
David Parsons brings a selection of choreography to Centennial Hall including a piece that was born there
Tuttle
A modest proposal to promote public transportation and make driving a little safer
Pick of the Week
Fun With Solar Energy
Forced Into a Farce
Beowulf Alley errs by overemphasizing the comedy in Tom Stoppard’s ‘Arcadia’
Guest Commentary
The war may be old news to the media, but it isn’t old news to the members of the public who are suffering
Abstinence-Only Education
This witty, well-made indie film stars a vagina with retractable shark teeth inside
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week ending March 21, 2008 A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose Eckhart Tolle, Penguin ($14) The Secret Rhonda Byrne, Beyond Words ($23.95) The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory, Touchstone ($16) Sleeping With Schubert: A Novel Bonnie Marson, Ballantine ($13.95) Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across…
¡Ask a Mexican!
Why is it that Mexican men are so flaky?
Bully Bomb
Owen Wilson’s clichéd dopey-deadbeat routine ruins ‘Drillbit Taylor’
On the ‘Verge’
Despite its rarified tone, a Tucson poet’s debut shows promise
Fun With Stats
A note from the editor.
Now Showing at Home
“I Am Legend,” “Southland Tales,” and “Atonement”
A Matter of Taste
Everything about Chow Bella is charming–except for the food
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Indie Watch
What’s happening in the world of independent film in Tucson.
Noshing Around
New: A-Z Eatery John Mertes, former executive chef at Soleil and Ovens, and former executive sous chef at Hacienda del Sol, has opened A-Z Eatery in the Bank of Tucson building, located at 4400 E. Broadway Blvd. The restaurant features homemade soups, salads, breakfast pastries, sandwiches, panini and daily breakfast/lunch specials weekdays from 7 a.m.…
Misplaced Priorities
Parents and educators say TUSD erred by moving to close schools without community input
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
