Development Derailed
Some southeast-side landowners feel screwed by the city’s new D-M flight-path restrictions
Stolen Lines
A Loudon Wainwright III performance on an old ‘SNL’ rerun speaks to our writer
Bus Barn Blow-Off
Noxious bus fumes threaten a neighborhood’s health
Soundbites
CHOOSE YER BLUES Pity the poor blues fan. Like it’s not enough that he’s, y’know, got the blues (and especially at such a gorgeous time of year!), but this Saturday, he’s got three worthwhile shows to choose from, to try to find some commiseration. Making his annual stop in Tucson, at a slightly more upscale…
Schwartz’s Defense
The Brad Schwartz saga moves from the Merit Commission to the courtroom
Nine Questions
Carol Tracy
Beyond the Fences
Ever wondered what goes on at the ‘Boneyard’? Here’s the story–but stop calling it the ‘Boneyard’
Live
KFMA Day, Pima County Fairgrounds, Saturday, May 7
The Skinny
WHAT WOULD ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY JACK MCCOY DO? For two days last month, Barbara LaWall delivered the gospel in the case against three former prosecutors she fired or suspended. Her acolytes delivered the sermons on other days. They all preached accountability, prosecuting crimes, protecting the community from thugs and villains, and the importance of hard…
Rhythm & Views
Boogie-woogie music has the distinction of being a vanishing genre that nevertheless has exerted considerable influence over much contemporary music–from blues to jazz to rock. Pianist Arthur Migliazza, 24, a fixture in local music circles since he played the Tucson Blues Festival as an 11-year-old wunderkind, has been keeping the boogie-woogie flame alive and aspiring…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Brooklyn-based John Guilt has a bio that reads like many a scrappy indie band’s–heavy on the “we played withs” and the “guest appearance on percussion by the triangle player from Veruca Salt”-type shit. It seems very difficult for unsigned bands to resist their common predilection to drop names in the vain hope that someone’s glimmer…
Media Watch
Correction
Top Ten in Music
Hear’s Music top sales for the week
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Richard Fimbres
Rhythm & Views
When a long-awaited album is released, and its best parts are the session drummer and new bass player, that is not good. Sadly enough, this is the case for With Teeth, the first Nine Inch Nails album in more than five years. It appears that iconic frontman Trent Reznor has either lost touch with his…
Police Dispatch
Designer Impostor East River and North Oracle Roads, April 19, 8:27 a.m. A woman claimed someone broke into her car and switched her designer purse with an imitation, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated. The woman said the Dooney and Bourke purse she had in her possession looked the same, but was missing a…
Dark, Comedic Suicide
Steve Gompf and Jeff Falk work together in video and live performance, creating something that’s ‘not a Cathy cartoon’
Danehy
A death close to home reminds us of the costs of this lie-driven war
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Daisy’s Chains
Amusing and disturbing, ‘Baby With the Bathwater’ gets full justice from LTW
Tuttle
Welcome to the lusty, luscious month of May
Pick
Snapshot of the Blues
Historic Revival
The African Showboyz use their energy and talent to keep traditional cultural elements alive
Guest Commentary
At El Con Mall, shit really happens
Expressionless Crusade
Orlando Bloom’s wooden performance botches an otherwise well-done ‘Kingdom of Heaven’
Second-Hand Revelry
Andi Allen takes items from the trash bin and turns them into bold, often sexually charged works
TAMMIES Votes and Random Notes
A note from the editor.
A Javelin in Paris
‘House of Wax’ should have quit while it was ahead
The Power of Nature
A University of New Mexico teacher thinks there’s much to learn from Mexican folk medicine
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Now Showing at Home
“The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” “Spaceballs: Collector’s Edition” and “Meet the Fockers”
Top Ten in Books
Barnes and Noble Broadway’s hardcover fiction best-sellers for the week
Everything Cinematic Is Illuminated
A look askew at this summer’s movie offerings
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Noshing Around
Happy 10th Anniversary Tucson’s original Saturday farmers’ market, held at Plaza Palomino (corner of Swan and Fort Lowell roads), features a variety of fresh produce and vegetables, seasonal fruits, wild Alaskan Salmon, ready-to-eat tamales, Mama Llamas empanadas, freshly roasted coffees, potted plants and flowers, hand-made scented soaps, fresh bakery and breads and much more. Musical…
Some Other Upcoming Films
Movies we wish were coming to the local multiplex
This Happy Accident
After a late start, Albuquerque’s Bernadette Seacrest is finding sudden success in the jazz world
Enoteca’s Excellence
Downtown has another winner on its hands–one even a bad day can’t ruin
