Pontificating on Pugilism
A highly informal survey reveals not everybody is a fan of the sport
Now Showing at Home
“Dog Day Afternoon: Two Disc Special Edition,” “Monty Python’s Personal Best,” and “The Weather Man”
The New Neo Thing
A successful expansion of a Malaysian favorite
Youth Saviors?
Many troubled kids find a safe haven in boxing programs
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Noshing Around
Wine Divine The Arizona Wine Growers Association and the Tucson chapter of the American Wine Society pair up March 10 for the sixth annual Governor’s Choice banquet at the Savoy Opera House for award-winning Arizona wines, Western-style barbecue, silent auction and a live blues concert by Mr. Boogie Woogie. Reservations are still available and may…
The Doctors Are Out
Why are physicians fleeing Arizona?
Soundbites
GO WEST, YOUNG BAND Every year at this time, scores of bands pass through town on their way to and from the South By Southwest Music Conference (SXSW), which takes place this year March 15-19, in Austin, Texas, and every year at this time, a local mover and shaker inevitably suggests that Tucson start its…
Numbers Game
For environmental votes, just follow the money
Pet Sounds
The members of Animal Collective impress critics, incite haters and remain friends
Gulf Course
The ecological threats to the Sea of Cortez
Girls Gone Wild
KXCI celebrates International Women’s Day
On the Day Before Ashes
Mardi Gras was a parade of misery, and everywhere you looked, people were laughing
Live
Low, Damien Jurado, Club Congress, Wednesday, March 1
A Bloody Mess
Tucson hawks and doves now agree that U.S. involvement in Iraq has gone wrong, but for different reasons
Rhythm & Views
The already certifiably batty NME has completely lost its shit. The week Arctic Monkeys’ debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, dropped in the UK, it placed fifth on NME’s best British albums of all time list. Not crazy enough? These newcomers trumped albums by flash-in-the-pan groups like The Beatles and…
The Skinny
CABLE TENSION Looks like Cox Communications won the big one last week, when it finally managed to get the state to restrict what cities can demand in terms of franchise fees and PEG–public, education and government–channels. Gov. Janet Napolitano signed the cable legislation that Cox had been pushing for years, which means Tucson’s PEG channels…
Nine Questions
Arthur Vint
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
If The Now Sound of Brazil 2 represents the musical mood in contemporary Brazil, the country remains in a languid state. Largely a low-key affair, only a couple of the 14 tracks rise above a laid-back, down- or mid-tempo pace. Seven artists contributed two tracks each to a collection that is heavy on female lead…
Danehy
Development on the opposite end of Arizona could result in big problems for the entire state
Media Watch
Bruce Out, Black In at KIIM
Top Ten in Music
Zia Record’s top sales for the week
Guest Commentary
Scientifically observe as Randy talks with his cat
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Katja Schulz
Rhythm & Views
Tales from Turnpike House is St. Etienne’s eighth full-length, and all of their breezy, British ’60s pop and contemporary dance elements are present and accounted for–loungey flutes, ba-da-da-da-ba-bas and shuffling drum beats–but when Cracknell sings in “Side Streets” that she has “Features I quite like and don’t mind keeping,” it gives the false hope that…
Found, but Not Lost
A note from the editor.
Police Dispatch
You’ve Got Mail UA Area, Feb. 28, 8:58 a.m. Staff at the Arizona State Museum received an unusual envelope in the mail addressed to “White Studies,” a University of Arizona Police Department report said. A woman said the museum, at 1013 E. University Blvd., received the envelope on Feb. 28. The envelope had many messages…
Role Play
Cinema casts a long shadow over ‘The Philadelphia Story’
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Pick of the Week
Spicy Salsa
Toe Jam
Ballet Tucson serves up its annual dance and dessert confection
Boxing Bounces Back
Fights today bring big bucks to Native American casinos and Southern Arizona
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
I Dismember Mama
The Latina Dance Project takes on a violent Aztec story
Downing
Jimmy’s Broadway Automotive is a breath of fresh air in a city full of dingy design
Spin Cycle
In ‘Ultraviolet,’ sword-wielding Milla Jovovich whirls against the baddies, again and again and again
The Desert Canvas
Lawrence Cheek highlights Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic Arizona architecture
A Brief History of Boxing
Boxing is one of the oldest known sports, with 2,000-year-old depictions on the walls of tombs in Egypt and stone carvings indicating that Sumerians, who lived in what is now Iraq, boxed at least 5,000 years ago. Boxing began as an exhausting and brutal spectacle. In ancient Greece, two men would sit face to face…
Rock ‘Round the Block
Dave Chappelle throws one hell of a party
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
