Look What the Wind Blew In: A New Issue!
Vol. 25, No. 13 of the Tucson Weekly is online and ready for its loving readers! Feel free to comment on its contents here–but first, enjoy this week’s YouTube Ask a Mexican!
We’d Find the Answers to These Questions, But We’re Too Busy Genuflecting at the Feet of Perverts
Remember when state Rep. Russell Pearce forwarded on that neo-Nazi e-mail in 2006? Russell said he hadn’t really read it before forwarding it to all his friends and was just so sorry that he’d passed along something so awful. Well, he may be hitting that “send” button a little too quickly again. Pearce, a Mesa…
Cooking the Books
So Tom Jenney of the Arizona chapter of Americans for Prosperity went all wonky on us last week after The Skinny made fun of the stupid “Friend of the Taxpayer” pledge he wants local officials to sign in allegiance to him. You’ll find Jenney’s full response down lower in this post, but the gist is…
Vegas: Have Barkley Wash Dishes To Pay Debt
So what if Charles Barkley has $400,000 gambling debt in the Vegas? They build a stage for Celine Dion, and now Cher is returning to town to get in on this predictable Vegas cash cow, but what about Charles Barkley. I love this man. He needs his own show–TV, Vegas, whatever. The Wynn is suing Barkley…
Getting Their Green On
The folks with the Green Party are getting to the heart of their platform–and getting their green on in party fundraising. Give Sally a call at 245-0395, and she’ll pick up your junk, like used bikes, clothes, books, TVs–things you might take to a charity. The Greenies will save you the trip, pick it up,…
Nine Questions
Gabriel Perez
Downtime!
A note from the editor.
Rhythm & Views
Whether recording under the moniker Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon or his given name, Mark Kozelek always captures the sonic essence of driving on a wide-open highway just as the light of dawn seeps into the distant horizon. Hearing the San Francisco singer/songwriter for the first time, you wonder why you’d never heard of…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Rhythm & Views
When people think of heavy metal, certain words come to mind: black, anger, loud and … cellos? Bringing what can be referred to as cello/stringed metal, Finland’s Apocalyptica have returned with a new studio effort, Worlds Collide. No longer will the group be thought of as just a stringed Metallica cover band: Worlds Collide will…
Luck, Redemption and Doing the Right Thing
On Feb. 6, Deputy Hector Palomino was responding to a traffic accident when he became involved in an accident of his own–and a dozen Samaritans jumped in to help
Rhythm & Views
For a California project, Sea Wolf sounds uncannily like the Pacific Northwest. An opening vignette on Leaves in the River evokes a mood of night fog and drizzle that never lets up, even in this set’s most clamorous tracks. Sea Wolf resides in the sophisticated imagination of Alex Brown Church. His music immerses subversively catchy,…
Traffic Troubles
Millville neighborhood residents and business owners fear the effects of changes at 22nd Street and Kino Parkway
Soundbites
DISTORTING THE HOUNDS If you’ve been reading this column regularly, you may have noticed that there’s been an abundance of new local CDs being released. That’s because we’re in the midst of New Local CD-Release Season, one of two such periods in the calendar year–the other being in the fall. And just in case you’ve…
Fee Fight Fattens
A class-action lawsuit seeks to rein in what critics say are out-of-control Forest Service charges
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
When Animals Are Attacked
A plan to reintroduce prairie dogs into Southern Arizona has ranchers raising a ruckus
A Comedy Assortment
Your local-theater roundup: Beowulf Alley shines; LTW does its best; and Invisible Theatre is doomed by lame material
The Skinny
SCRAMBLEWATCH ’08: DUELING INITIATIVES We mentioned last week that the initiative to restrict payday loans is in trouble, while the initiative to extend payday loans is likely to make the ballot. But that’s not the only pair of dueling initiatives out there; there’s also Support Legal Arizona Workers vs. Stop Illegal Hiring. Support Legal Arizona…
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Explosive Story
While tangents and baffling writing detract, you can’t help but like the main character in ‘Socorro Blast’
Media Watch
Radio Reporter Birmingham Keeps Chalking up Awards
100 Minutes of Ego
If you’ve ever wanted to see Salman Rushdie playing a gynecologist, then consider seeing ‘Then She Found Me’
A Burger Beyond
Is Tucson ready for an upscale hamburger joint? Zinburger provides the answer: a resounding yes
Police Dispatch
It’s Probably Not Her Diet East Makohoh Trail, April 19, 9:22 p.m. A driver who had apparently consumed no alcohol was so mentally incapacitated that she could not follow the simplest instructions, said a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Sheriff’s deputies responding to a suspicious-person call encountered a woman in a blue car that was…
Acid on the Eyes
Though it features a talented cast, ‘Speed Racer’ is a horrendous failure
Noshing Around
New: Motzi Nouvelle Patisserie Fourth-generation pastry chef James Botwright and Wayne Anderson co-own the newly opened Motzi at 47 N. Scott Ave. (formerly Touch of Class), located between Congress and Pennington streets, across from the county parking garage. Open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Motzi serves pastries, cakes, tarts, salads and sandwiches–and caters,…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Bryan Sanders
Now Showing at Home
“Teeth,” “Square Pegs: The Like, Totally Complete Series …Totally,” and “I’m Not There”
Danehy
What will cause Tom’s wife to have a breakdown: Tom, or red-light cameras?
Pick of the Week
Cooking for a Cause
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
O’Sullivan
When it comes to traffic engineers, perhaps it’s best if they just don’t think
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Pleasant Contortions
Another Liverpool quartet heads for the States–but this group wears surgical masks
Guest Commentary
A reader responds to last week’s Armory Park ‘cat battles’ article
Progressive Pioneer
Bonnie Raitt is a certified legend today–but it wasn’t always that way
¡Ask a Mexican!
“Great Scot is not a Scottish person at all, but an American who desperately wishes that he were Scottish.”
Live
Otep, The Rock, Tuesday, May 6
Shameless Self-Promotion
‘Weekly’ writers haul home 16 Arizona Press Club awards, dominate midsize publications category
Tedski Goes To Denver
Democratic activist Ted Prezelski, who runs the Rum, Romanism and Rebellion Web site, has been tapped to be Arizona’s official blogger at the Democratic National Convention. It ain’t Tedski’s first rodeo. He’s been to every convention since 1992, where he worked as an usher “watching who was going in and out of whose suite and…
The Blog Is Back! And a New Issue Is Out!
After a week of technical difficulties, crying and heavy drinking, it appears the blog’s back and, well, if not better than ever, exactly the same as it was. Which is a start. In any case, welcome back, and feel free to comment on this week’s issue–or, heck, last week’s issue–here. And enjoy this week’s YouTube…
