Mar 8-14, 2001

Mar 8-14, 2001 / Vol. 18 / No. 1

Soundbites

Hootie and the Blowfish are attempting a comeback… Is Fuck really challenging the system… Arlo is Up High in the Night… and more March madness in this week’s Soundbites.

Your Cultural Creativity Quotient

Are you a cultural creative? Take this quiz and find out! Do you — Create your own local economies based on buying local and buying green? Get out of global financial markets and corporate-driven consumerism? Make contact with the earth, grow your own food, buy from friends and neighbors, start and support local cottage industries…

Empowering the People

Some Tucson groups that empower people to make viable choices that are better for the Earth and life than the status-quo quick fix: Women Who Build Houses: teaches permaculture building skills. 206-8000; 326-1217. The Organic Gardeners: meets monthly to promote organic gardening techniques. 670-9158. BICAS: teaches people to build their own bikes and offers art…

The Skinny

Waste Management Inc. is filling our public landfills with its crap… The transportation department hasn’t quite bridged the gap at the baseball complex… The rich are getting richer with the tax cuts… and more.

Newsreel

Our biggest surprise in the past few days is that last week’s Tom Danehy column, “And Baby Makes Two,” drew only two letters–one praising Danehy’s condemnation of voluntary single-motherhood, one branding him a misogynist. I figured it would stir up a lot more hate mail. The Weekly is not the place you’d expect to find…

Conspiracy Theory

Tucson’s Food Conspiracy Co-op celebrates 30 years of taking protest from the street to the kitchen and back again.

City Week

Opera Goes Prime Time at the TSO… Circus Chimera pop out of its Toy Box… Borderlands welcomes the Daughters of Africa… and more in this City Week.


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