Pick
The Truth Is in Here
Top Ten in Music
Zia Record Exchange’s top sales for the week ending May 9, 2004 Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Epic) D12 D12 World (Shady) Petey Pablo Still Writing in My Diary 2nd Entry (Jive) Various Artists Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 (Fat Wreck Chords) Usher Confessions (Arista) Do or Die Pimpin’ Ain’t…
Danehy
On the mind: stupid legislators, Bush apologists, Al Gore and home-loan investigation clarifications
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Class Dance
Young dancers from across the west, representing 20 different companies, are converging on Tucson this weekend
Tuttle
Traveling across America, a common theme emerges: the desire to be somewhere different
The Talented Mr. Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman, on his way to The Loft, talks about everything from ‘The Bad News Bears’ to kissing Mark Wahlberg
Cubicle Comedy
A UA writing teacher gives the dullness of modern-day office life a humorous treatment
Guest Commentary
The desire to complain strikes us all, but as one formerly homeless man proves, there are better things to do
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending May 9, 2004 The Last Samurai Warner Brothers The Triplets of Belleville Sony Big Fish Columbia Kill Bill Vol. 1 Miramax Calendar Girls Touchstone Elephant Fine Line Love Actually Universal Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Miramax Peter Pan Columbia Girl With a Pearl…
Shadow in the Saguaros
An event at the Muse honors the life and work of Tohono O’Odham artist Leonard Chana
Hosed
A note from the editor.
Van Dullsville
If you’re an adult, or you like plot, wait in the car while the kids watch “Van Helsing”
Top Ten in Books
Reader’s Oasis bestsellers for the week ending May 7, 2004 Naked: Writers Uncover the Way We Live on Earth Edited by Susan Zakin, Four Walls Eight Windows Press ($14.95) Detachment Fault Susan Cummins Miller, Texas Tech University Press ($24.95) Arousing the Goddess: Sex and Love in the Buddhist Ruins of India Tim Ward, Monkfish Book…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Now Showing at Home
“The Kids in the Hall,” “Peter Pan,” and “The Last Samurai”
Seafood in a Hurry
Unknowledgeable, rushed service and small portions ruin the Bluepoint dining experience
Artistic Warning
A group including Tucsonan Alfred Quiróz hopes to send a message about border-crossing deaths with their gigantic Nogales border art
People and Places
The relation between humans and location gets played with in the experimental ‘The Itinerant Cinemascape’
Noshing Around
Seven Cups Seven Cups Teahouse–new to the Sam Hughes Neighborhood–serves certified, organic Chinese teas by the pot or per tea ceremony. Bulk and packaged teas are available to go. Seven Cups is open Tuesday-Sunday, located at 2516 E. Sixth St., 881-4072. Living in SIN Calling all restaurant workers to Service Industry Night. RA Sushi invites…
Reserve Fund
Why next week’s bond election is crucial to the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan
Documenting Issues
Tucson’s Pan Left video collective marks its first decade with a three-day film festival
Fire-Fueled Comeback
While the U.S. Forest Service usually suppresses blazes, it’s a fact: Fires are often good for ecosystems
Happy Accident
The Solace Bros. power trio prepares to take their unorthodox, yet sublime sound on the road
Kicking Back
An audit forces City Councilman Jose Ibarra to return $11,118 in city campaign matching funds
Hoot of a Decade
Owl’s Nest Productions is marking 10 years with a concert celebration and CD release
Coming and Going
Tucson Arts District Partnership, RIP; long live the Downtown Independent Merchants Association
Soundbites
CAT & PATHOS-DRIVEN POWER This week, Solar Culture Gallery hosts a pair of shows featuring solo women performers armed with only a guitar and a voice (and, in one case, possibly a piano), driving home the point that great stylistic differences can be achieved through similar means. First up is anti-folk poster gal Kimya Dawson,…
The Skinny
Church and County Margaret Kish, the dynamo who ran the Pio Decimo Center with grace, brains and power, has moved to Pima County’s Community Services Department. Sister Maggie is a director of the jobs/social service/housing department, and will be paid $76,544 a year. The department director, Hank “Free Country” Atha, is expected to retire from…
Nine Questions
Art Shapiro, Evolving Human
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Reunited Bay Area thrash-metal masters Death Angel have returned with The Art of Dying, the band’s first album since 1990’s Act III. Death Angel has managed to record an album that mixes their classic, speedy sound with a modern twist. “We’re a live band,” said lead singer Mark Osegueda during a recent phone interview. “We…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Ari Baban, chef and restaurant owner
Rhythm & Views
In the eight years since three blonde boys from Tulsa sang “Mmmbop” and started a whole new chain of teen pop, the brothers Hanson have grown up a bit, cut their hair and–rather than becoming blonde poster boys of a major record company–maintained artistic control over their songs, independently releasing their third full-length record, Underneath.…
Police Dispatch
Child Porn University Area, May 3, 6:10 p.m. According to a University of Arizona Police Department report, somebody used a doctorate employee’s e-mail account to send child pornography to a California man. The Californian called UA police after he opened the e-mail and clicked on links that opened lascivious pictures of children. Police tracked the…
Rhythm & Views
On first hearing about this album’s concept–jazz versions of classic reggae tunes–listeners might be a little wary. But with a pair of players as seasoned and fluid as Jamaican natives Monty Alexander and Ernest Ranglin making the music, Rocksteady makes natural sense. Born in Kingston, pianist Alexander left the island in 1961 to play with…
Media Watch
We’re All Friends Here
Live
KFMA Day, Pima County Fairgrounds, Sunday, May 9
