Rhythm & Views
If you’re one who judges folks by the company they keep, make what you will of Tom Freund’s collaborations with Ben Harper, The Silos, Victoria Williams and Graham Parker. Hint: It’s not just because he’s cute, in that reckless-poet sort of way. For more than a decade, Freund’s been a favored sideman on upright bass.…
Terror War on the Web
An Arizona Internet company unknowingly hosted an extremist Web site, raising questions about freedom of speech
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Ginny Bonner
Classics and Commissions
The Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival doesn’t really have a theme–or does it?
Security Squeeze
The USA Patriot Act has proven that the UA Campus isn’t a small world after all
Police Dispatch
Drunk Driving East Sunrise Drive and North Sabino Canyon Road, Feb. 7, 7:44 a.m. A Pima County Sheriff’s Department report said that a Tucsonan on his way to school found a dead javelina–posed like it was enjoying a beer and a smoke–on the hood of his car. The javelina had a cigarette in its mouth…
Physical Challenge
UA students get the chance to dance a masterpiece as part of their ‘Premium Blend’
Foul Bills
The state wants more baseball teams during spring training–but Pima County taxpayers can’t afford it
Pick
Remembering the Casualties of War
Environmental Art
A UAMA display shows the works of the couple behind NYC’s ‘The Gates’
On Rock and a Hard Place
A westside neighborhood bands together to fight a proposed development–and wins a battle
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Thoreau, Ives Examined
The Arizona Cultural Forum seeks to bring scholars and artists together around a certain theme
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Love, Loans and Loins
The latest ‘Merchant of Venice’ film sticks faithfully to the Elizabethan era
To the Birds
Frances Wood documents bird watching throughout the year
Media Watch
Free Agency
L.A. Werewolf Story
Wes Craven shows he’s lost his touch with the much-maligned ‘Cursed’
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best sellers for the week
Now Showing at Home
“I Heart Huckabees: Two-Disc Special Edition,” “The Brady Bunch: The Complete First Season,” and “Sealab 2021: Season Two”
Hidden Valley Haven
This longtime favorite is still serving up fun and good food
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Noshing Around
Finally Reopened After many challenges and delays, Red Sky Café opened in its new and better location in Plaza Palomino at 2900 N. Swan Road. The interior was created by Terri Taylor Designs. Old favorites remain, but the restaurant has expanded its appetizers options. Four nightly specials include two grilled fish choices, wild game and…
Sage Francis F.A.Q.
Interview as cut-and-paste
Danehy
Many pushy parents are robbing their athlete kids of their youth–and their health
Banjo Miracles
After three decades of playing banjo, guitar and mandolin, Tim Wiedenkeller releases his first solo album
Tuttle
Animal cruelty runs amok at the rodeo, Tucson’s annual claim to shame
Soundbites
THE SEASON OF ROCK Can you smell that? That, m’friends, is the glorious stench of what we call The Season of Rock, the first of two such periods in the year when Tucson is overrun with more live music than your wallet (and those delicate ears of yours) can possibly withstand. Most people call it…
Guest Commentary
The library book is a sacred object–and those who besmirch them deserve pain
Nine Questions
Zakk Wylde
All About Technology
A note from the editor.
Live
Jon Rauhouse’s Steel Guitar Rodeo, Plush, Saturday, Feb. 26
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Rhythm & Views
From the beginning, Saddle Creek recordings, especially Bright Eyes albums, had a disconnect; the music was structurally brilliant, but the musicianship slightly sloppy, the rhythm a bit off, the key a bit flat or sharp–the Golden Buddha covered in cement. The potential just below the surface was just audible enough, though, and with Bright Eyes’…
The Skinny
NO BUSINESS LIKE FLOW BUSINESS Readers of the Arizona Daily Star have been treated to not one, but two stories about how magnanimous Tucson Water is toward stepchildren: the Flowing Wells Irrigation District and the town of Marana. Meanwhile, City Hall’s behemoth water utility wants to control as much CAP water as possible, which is…
Top Ten in Music
CD City’s top sales for the week
Broken Trust
Saving some patches of our vanishing desert depends on state land reform. Just don’t expect to see that happen anytime soon.
