Some Late-Breaking Events
Here are a few events that were received too late for inclusion in our print issue: Thursday, May 24 from 7 to 10 p.m. Windmill Inn, 4250 N. Campbell Ave. Build Residual Income. Multi-million dollar producer Julie Mirr will teach methods, strategies and techniques to build lifetime residual income. Free. Call 219-7060 for info. Sunday,…
Primavera Needs Water
This just in from Primavera’s Sarah Murphy: We need bottled water at Primavera for our homeless men, women and children. Donations can be dropped off at 702 S. Sixth Ave. in Armory Park. … The summer is hot! Please … help them out!
And You Thought John McCain Had a Potty Mouth
House Minority Leader John Boehner on the Senate immigration reform package.
Downtown Revitalization
Hey, ladies: Get better O with G-Shot. Apple is not at all happy with the iGasm. What do you get when you mix bees, an Amazonian ritual and Mick Jagger’s cock?
On Notice
Tedski over at Rum, Romanism and Rebellion reported earlier this week that Congressman Raul Grijalva’s appearance on The Colbert Report is scheduled to air Thursday, May 24. Hey, that’s tomorrow! We’d tell you what time, but the midtown bureau’s satellite dish gives us an East Coast feed of Comedy Central, so we don’t know when…
Groundhog Budget
Just like last week, the Arizona House of Representatives voted on a budget on Tuesday afternoon, past The Skinny’s deadline. When the column appears online later today through the magic of technology, you’ll be directed here for an update on the vote. So here you go: House Speaker Jim Weiers managed to resurrect his budget…
Survey Says …
Rasmussen Reports has some interesting survey numbers regarding illegal immigration. The polling firm notes that 56 percent of adults surveyed support an enforcement-only approach to securing the border. More than six out of 10 people would support hiring 6,000 more Border Patrol agents, while 43 percent say they’d support hiring 100,000 more BP agents. Support…
That Wascally Womney
Fresh from his blow-out with Texas Sen. John Cornyn, Sen. John McCain went all Looney Tunes on Mitt Romney over the former Massachusetts governor’s criticism of the Senate’s immigration-reform package. From the AP report: Republican John McCain accused presidential rival Mitt Romney of flip-flopping on immigration Monday and said with sarcasm: “Maybe his solution will…
Two Thoughts
Arizona GOP Chairman Randy Pullen says the party base is incensed over a U.S. Senate compromise bill, drafted in part by Sen. Jon Kyl, according to the Arizona Daily Star: “We have people coming in every day, tearing up their registration cards and throwing them on the floor, or coming in and changing their registration…
Curses!
The Washington Post reports that Arizona Sen. John McCain got pretty hot during a debate with Texas Sen. John Cornyn on the immigration reform package: Things got really heated when Cornyn accused McCain of being too busy campaigning for president to take part in the negotiations, which have gone on for months behind closed doors.…
Jimmy Carter Bashes Bush
In what is an unprecedented moment in history, former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter is lashing out, saying the Bush administration is the worst in history. (It’s about time!)
Adios, Arek!
Tucson Weekly editorial designer Arek Sarkissian II has left the building. Arek is off to the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg to sharpen his journalism skills so he can follow his bliss and get back to being a reporter. Arek and I spent his last night in town wolfing down heavy-duty burgers at Kingfisher before…
The Amazing Comment-Eating Spam Filter
Hey, blog readers and comment-leavers: If you should make a comment and not see it show up right away, feel free to e-mail me (mailbag@tucsonweekly works!). If it doesn’t show up, it means one of two things: 1. You innocently did something (such as including more than a link or two) in your comment that…
Border Breakthrough
We’ve finally seen the Big Reveal on the Senate’s immigration reform package. At first glance, it seems a mite bit tougher than the STRIVE Act, the proposal that’s now floating around the House of Representatives. For example, the STRIVE Act has a $500 fine for people who have entered the country illegally; the Senate plan…
Freedom of Speech Is a Serious Business
States crack down on soldier T-shirts. Let’s hope Gov. Napolitano vetoes this bill if it reaches her desk, and that the laws in other states are somehow rescinded.
Tucson: Bicycle Friendly Community?
Well, it’s National Bike Week and I noticed that the League of American Bicyclists has proclaimed Tucson and the eastern Pima County region a “Gold Level Bicycle Friendly Community.” Hmm. It looks good on paper, but I’m not convinced. A key factor that seems to be missing from their criteria is the existing driver attitude…
Shameless Self-Promotion
‘Weekly’ writers nab 18 awards in the Arizona Press Club’s annual contest
Suspense and Soccer
The great Jafar Panahi creates action by combining the personal and the political
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
¡Ask a Mexican!
Every Banda El Recodo track cranked up to Level 11 is payback for the white noise of talk-radio.
Shallow Portrayals
‘Georgia Rule’ wastes a fun performance by Jane Fonda
Live
Social Distortion, Rialto Theatre, Thursday, May 10
Last Chance; First Meeting
A note from the editor.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
A Taste of Cairo
Luxor Café is splendid for delicious, inexpensive Egyptian food–or maybe just coffee and a hookah
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Now Showing at Home
“Notes on a Scandal,” “Spider-Man 2.1,” “Little Children,” and “Dreamgirls: Two-Disc Showstopper Edition”
Noshing Around
New: McClintock’s McClintock’s opened last week in the exclusive community of Saguaro Ranch, northwest of Tucson. The entrance to the community is an eerie tunnel that was made by blowing a hole in the Tortolita Mountains. The menu features organic-American cuisine with Tuscan influences. McClintock’s is open daily for dinner starting at 5 p.m. Reservations…
Tucson’s Other Collegiate Sports Program
Pima Community College athletics alternately struggle and flourish, thanks to ever-changing directives and a commuter-college atmosphere
To Enjoy
Los Amigos Invisibles just want everybody to have fun
Art Reprieve?
Two new studies have Warehouse District tenants feeling cautiously optimistic
Soundbites
THE BITCH IS BACK Bring on the power chords and the dancing girls. It’s been a full year and a half since the members of Whiskey Bitch last converged to induce you to throw the devil’s horns, bob your head ’til you get a case of self-induced whiplash and rock out with your cock out.…
Stormy Romance
How did a supervisor at Child Protective Services end up dating an abusive dad?
Nine Questions
Geoff Tate
Border Patrol Battle
Agents express a lack of confidence in their chief
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
The Skinny
THE END IS NIGH Budget negotiations broke down between Senate and House leadership in the state Legislature last week, meaning the architects of the competing plans will now try to get them through their respective chambers and then come to an agreement. Senate President Tim Bee shouldn’t have much trouble passing his budget, which is…
Being Himself
Renowned musician JB Bigham wants to be respected as a songwriter
Media Watch
Laurence Scott Bids Tucson Adieu
Rhythm & Views
On his much-hyped second full-length album, rapper Brother Ali (an associate of Ant and Slug from Atmosphere) barks authoritatively like a true-believer preacher, flexing a smooth, articulate, charismatic flow that is genuinely appealing. Likewise, the music on this Ant-produced CD is a highly listenable combination of old-school turntable-scratching and contemporary “undie” hip hop with an…
Police Dispatch
Sibling Melee Orange Grove and Shannon Roads, April 19, 7:07 p.m. A family got into a fight after one brother refused to hold a baby so the other could smoke a joint, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report said. The younger brother alleged that his older brother had tried to hand their sister’s baby to…
Word Treasures
Stories That Soar! offers an evening of the year’s best stage works written by kids
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Kings of Leon may be treading water. Since the band’s inception, the gang has cultivated and nearly monopolized the Southern garage-rock genre–with no apparent plans to change. That said, the band’s recent opening slots for U2, Pearl Jam and Bob Dylan have had some effect, because a noticeable anthemic sheen pervades Because of the Times;…
Insurance for All
Two groups attempt to take health-care plans to Arizona voters
Rhythm & Views
Dntel is Jimmy Tamborello of the Postal Service, and Dumb Luck is his second album under that name; like the Postal Service, Dntel is an exercise in brilliant collaboration. Tamborello has an incredible ability to bring out layers in other songwriters’ work that they wouldn’t necessarily have used themselves, and Dumb Luck’s nine songs sound…
Danehy
How are your state legislators doing this session?
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Sydney Hutchinson
A Night of Taiko
Odaiko Sonora offers Southwestern-tinged drumming performances to Tucson audiences
O’Sullivan
The bees are eerily missing from Southern Arizona this spring
Pick of the Week
Poetry With Panache
What Goes Up
Downtown galleries currently exhibit memories of collapse, birds and beaches
Guest Commentary
Get to really know your grandparents before it’s too late
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
On the Road
A local economist’s travelogue offers a deeper view of America
