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Right-Wing Rule
When the Arizona Legislature wrapped up its work on Thursday, May 3, it concluded one of the most conservative sessions in the state’s history. GOP lawmakers—who held a two-thirds majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives—created new barriers to abortion services, including a push to deny funding to Planned Parenthood, even for…
Now In the Grocery Aisle: Isabella’s Ice Cream
Local food truck Isabella’s Ice Cream, which is a pretty sweet mix of green technology, vintage automobile and gourmet ice cream, has started packaging its ice cream for sale at several local grocery stores.Food Conspiracy Co-op is the first to carry it, but word is it will soon be available at Maynards Market and Time…
A College Education Before Puberty?
Graduating on time—meaning, in four years—and graduating early are two goals that many college students hope to achieve. But there are some people around the world who do even better than that, and it makes me sick. As the school year came to a close, I celebrated with my friends who graduated at UA this…
New Poll: Romney Extending Lead Over Obama In Arizona, But He Shouldn’t Pick Arpaio As VP
Public Policy Polling delivers new numbers about the race between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney in Arizona. The Democratic-leaning firm also looked at how the race changed with Jan Brewer, John McCain or Joe Arpaio as Romney’s running mates, but concluded that those choices weren’t all that plausible: Arizona’s looking a little bit…
Whiskey Wednesday Starts Today
Union Public House up at St. Philip’s Plaza kicks off its new Whiskey Wednesdays today, with half-off all bourbon, whiskey and scotch. The special runs all day and includes everything from rail liquor to the super-fine aged stuff. Union Public House has also decided to start serving brunch on Sundays, and has worked up a…
CD8: Kelly Spox Blows Up During KGUN Interview Over Campaign’s Endorsement by Group Linked to Neo-Nazis, White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism
On the day of a Congressional District 8 debate at the Jewish Community Center, Republican Jesse Kelly is the subject of a television news report about how he was endorsed by ALIPAC, a group that has been linked anti-Semitic groups, white supremacists and neo-Nazis. When Kelly, who is facing Democrat Ron Barber in the June…
Tucson’s Banksys at Work
While Tucson has a bit of a graffiti problem in general, there are some using the University of Arizona as a canvas in more aesthetically pleasing ways, usually using stencils and a single color of spray paint. underpass near Greek Row staircase of the Music Building sidewalk next to a Zone 1 parking lot wall…
It’s Horchata Time
If you don’t like horchata, please have yourself evaluated. Please. If you love horchata, you understand that this is a cure all to relieve that desert crispiness. No, you are not on fire. It’s just May. Drink some horchata: Homemade Horchata Makes about 7 cups 1 cup raw or blanched almonds) 2/3 cup white rice,…
Talking Comics: Captain America Edition
Eric and Arnie discuss a new Captain America comic and also the super-smash-hit film The Avengers, including a moment when Eric uses the term “brotastic” and gets into his deep, mildly disconcerting love for fictional character Tony Stark. You probably shouldn’t watch this video if you haven’t seen the movie, but who are we kidding?…
Let’s Take a Moment to Appreciate Renée Downing
The AltWeekly Awards will be handed out at the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Convention in Detroit early next month, and one of our own is among those nominated. Since 1,108 entries were received from 90 member publications, it really is an honor to be nominated, like Renée Downing was for her column writing this year.…
What’s Hot in Containers This Summer
One of my favorite colors is purple! Kara Smith of The Contained Gardener Summer Purples This summer, I have been planting a more simple design plan. It has been fun using purple in this arrangement – but now you need to think – what color is purple??? There are pink purples (gomphrena) and blue purples…
Let’s Play Bingo Tonight
Man-about-town Dan Hernandez is kicking off a new weekly bit of entertainment tonight at Auld Dubliner, mixing bingo with cheap drinks and prizes, which is just about any human being could ask for from a night out. From tonight’s event page on Facebook: BINBIN BINGO! I GOT A BINGO WHEELAULD DUBLINER HAS THE DRINKS Its…
CD8: Special Election Ballots Returning At a Record Pace
Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez reports that ballots in the special election between Republican Jesse Kelly and Democrat Ron Barber are returning at a record pace. Rodriguez says that her office mailed out 185,000 early ballots in the race beginning on Thursday, May 17. By today, more than 48,782 ballots had come back in.…
Bennett Gives Up On Whole Birther Thing
Looks like Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has realized that his quest for Obama’s birth certificate was not going well for him, according to Nick Martin of Talking Points Memo: After days of ridicule for launching a conspiracy theory-fueled investigation into Barack Obama’s birth certificate, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett on Tuesday backed…
Three Cheers for Tucson Meet Yourself
At a press conference tomorrow, folks from Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival (Oct. 12-14) will share some outstanding news — the nonprofit that celebrates everyone and everything in our Arizona-Sonora region received two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works Grants totaling $65,000. U.S. Congressman Raul Grijalva will announce the grants tomorrow, 11:30 a.m.…
TLC Discovers Worst Person in Universe
TLC’s “Birth Moms”: This Smoking, Drinking Girl Is Pregnant At some point, TLC will either document and/or aid the destruction of our culture and Birth Moms, which documented the lives of three women living in some sort of pre-adoption compound in Utah, including the shoplifting, smoking, drinking star Kandice, is only a sign of our…
A Fact Check: The Citizens United Ad Now Showing in CD8
Citizens United is the latest Super PAC to wade into the June 12 special election between Democrat Ron Barber and Republican Jesse Kelly to complete Gabby Giffords’ term. Citizens United is spending $100,000 to run TV ads targeting Barber over cuts to Medicare Advantage in the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare, according to Politico.The ad,…
New Poll: Cardon Gaining on Flake in GOP Primary for Kyl’s Senate Seat
Public Policy Polling has released a new poll showing that Republican newcomer is closing the gap with Congressman Jeff Flake in the race for the retiring Jon Kyl’s U.S. Senate seat. Meanwhile, Flake continues to hold a 13-point lead over likely Democratic nominee Richard Carmona. Here’s the release from PPP: Republican Senate primaries not going…
Tomorrow’s Google Doodle Is Amazing
It won’t be up in America until midnight, apparently, but if you’re a fan of vintage synthesizers or just making noise, you’ll probably lose an hour or so of productivity playing with Google’s fully functional (and recordable) Moog synth currently available on Google Japan in honor of the late Robert Moog’s birthday. I have no…
Leon Ware and Quadron Have Crafted the Perfect Summer Song
Leon Ware is a somewhat under-appreciated soul artist – he worked on the Maxwell album Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite and essentially created Marvin Gaye’s I Want You, among a bunch of other songwriting credits and albums of his own – so it’s nice to hear him teaming up with hipster Danish soul act Quadron for…
Critter of the Week: Meet Wendy
Wendy – #705111 – 6 Years Old – Shepherd Mix – Female Sweet Wendy needs some stability in her life and a place she can finally call home. This mature senior has a long list of wonderful qualities. She has been around children and other dogs, she is loving and loyal, and she would be…
You Win, Jill T. Nagamine
Former Arizonan Nick R. Martin at Talking Points Memo has the chain of emails going back and forth between our nu-birther Secretary of State Ken Bennett and representatives of the state of Hawaii regarding Pres. Obama’s birth certificate. Let’s just take a moment to celebrate Assistant Attorney General Jill T. Nagamine, who replies by demanding…
Seeing Stars (Well, Eclipsed Sun)
Story and Photographs By Keith Perfetti Hundreds of people showed up to the “Crescent Sun Over Tucson” Solar Eclipse Viewing Party in front of the Flandrau Science Center at the University of Arizona campus. Hosted by the UA College of Science, the gathering attracted amateur astronomers and the general public who setup on the UA…
Buddha’s Dog House Is Open
The newest restaurant to call the Fourth Avenue area home is Buddha’s Dog House at 425 N. Fourth Ave., and it was open for business this weekend. I was in a hurry and didn’t get the business hours, but here’s a look at the interior and the menu board.
You Should Read the Mad Men Power Rankings
This advice is totally useless if you’re not watching Mad Men — and if you’re not and you’re someone who actually owns a TV, I’m not exactly sure what you’re doing with your life — but the weekly edition of Mark Lisanti’s Mad Men Power Rankings, now hosted at Grantland.com, is really one of my…
Here’s What the Eclipse Looked Like, If That’s Your Thing
I spent the hour or so yesterday when the sun was obscured by the moon trying to keep my kids from looking directly into the apparently astronomical spectacle, possibly blinding themselves forever, so I missed the action, but this YouTube video collected from photos by Cory Poole seems like an adequate substitute for the real…
Maybe We Should Read Fewer Things We Agree With
Watch ‘The Information Diet’: More ‘Conscious Consumption’ Needed? on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. I need to buy Clay Johnson’s new book The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, although the irony of a blogger recommending a book that seems to suggest that we should consume less media-wise is not lost on me.…
Here Is a James Bond Movie Trailer for Your Enjoyment
Somehow I’ve managed to miss the two previous James Bond films with Daniel Craig in the title role, not because I dislike Craig (I don’t) or because I don’t like the premise (I do), but they just haven’t been a priority, I suppose. However, I might have to get back in the swing of things…
Finally, Helpful Relationship Advice From the Internet
From the genius behind Yo, Is This Racist? comes Yo, Should I Dump This Asshole?, a wildly profane guide to…well, you can figure it out. As a helpful guide, if you’re asking if you should dump someone, probably just go ahead and do it. That’s just my theory, but the site is still quite entertaining.
Shameless Self-Promotion: ‘Weekly’ Scribes Nab Five Awards in Arizona Press Club Contest
The Tucson Weekly took home five awards this year in the Arizona Press Club’s annual contest—including a first-place award for Margaret Regan in the Arts Criticism category. The results of the awards, for work done in 2011, were announced Saturday, May 19, at The Duce in Downtown Phoenix. In the contest, the Weekly competes in…
Political Roundtable: The Kelly-Barber Debate, The CD8 Campaign Ads & a Bit More
I’d hoped to talk about a lot more on last night’s Political Roundtable, but the discussion about the race between Democrat Ron Barber and Republican Jesse Kelly to complete Gabby Giffords’ term ended up stretching through most of the show. Still, we managed to touch on a new state law that forces cities, towns and…
Freestyle Explosion Preview: a Conversation With Exposé’s Ann Curless
The ladies of Expose One thing that’s worth noting about Ann Curless, one of the members of Exposé’s classic lineup, who are playing the TCC Arena tomorrow night as part of the Freestyle Explosion package concert: she seems like an exceptionally nice person. She apologized for missing our original interview time, made small-talk about the…
Welcome Back, Shondies (Move to Tucson)
I don’t often write mash notes for local bands or musicians on the Range. My editor probably thinks that’s a good thing. Anyway, the last time I professed my love for a band was Seashell Radio. Yeah, I still love them. This time I’m professing love for the Shondies, a Brooklyn-based group that should just…
Sierra Club Gives Failing Grade To Every Southern Arizona Republican State Lawmaker
Our Southern Arizona Republican lawmakers—Sens. Frank Antenori, Al Melvin and Gail Griffin and Reps. David Gowan, Ted Vogt, Vic Williams, Terri Proud, David Stevens and Peggy Judd—all got failing grades on this year’s Sierra Club report card. (If you read this week’s cover story on the session, this is probably not news to you.) You…
La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill at Main Gate Square Has Closed
The La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill located at 825 E. University Blvd., Suite 181, has closed. A company representative verified the closure this morning, saying that it pulled out of Main Gate Square about five days ago. We’re also hearing murmurs that some other restaurants may be readying to pull out of Main Gate Square,…
Tucson Padres: Home for the Weekend
Jim Nintzel The Tucson Padres launched a new homestand a big 13-0 win over the Nashville Sounds last night. The Padres are in town every night through next Thursday, May 23. Why not get out to a game this weekend? Cops and firefighters get in free tonight, the club is giving away camouflage T-shirts tomorrow…
We Get Mail: Recaptioned Comics Edition
A reader submitted this interesting recaptioned version of the May 10th edition of Random Shots. For what it’s worth, I don’t think I’d vote for Stalin, but I can’t speak for the rest of my Tucson Weekly comrades colleagues.
Political Roundtable Tonight: The CD8 Debate, Legislative Leftovers & More!
Tonight on Arizona Illustrated’s Political Roundtable: Pima County Democratic Party chairman Jeff Rogers and Pima County Republican Party chairwoman Carolyn Cox debate about this week’s debate between Republican Jesse Kelly and Democrat Ron Barber in the special election to finish Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ term. We’ll also talk about the final bills that Gov. Jan Brewer…
(No) Thanks Ken Bennett for Stirring Up the Birther Stuff Again
Secretary of State Ken Bennett is seemingly planning on running for Governor in 2014, so maybe this is his angle to appeal to the crazy people of our state, but seriously, we have to do this birther stuff again? Even Jan Brewer thinks this stuff is nuts. When some sort of conservative nutjobbery is a…
This Week in Tucson Bicycling
In the same week, Tucson learned it did not receive the coveted platinum rating from a national advocacy group, but was ranked at the eighth most bikeable city in the United States. Find out why Tucson didn’t get platinum and find out why we ranked eighth. New bicycle and pedestrian crossing signs went up near…
Mexico City Kitchen Rocks the Spelling World
You don’t have to spell correctly to make awesome food, as proved by this delicious Facebook post sent out this afternoon by local food truck Mexico City Kitchen: Thank you everyone for you support. We are located at main n 6th street. Tomorrow friaday we cocking hot dogs topped with choriso and avacado. The spelling…
Beer + Crepes = Awesomeness
Dragoon Brewing Co. holds its official grand opening tomorrow, Friday, May 18, and food truck Animal Farm will be in the parking lot. Then, as if that isn’t awesome enough, on Saturday, May 19, more tasting room hours and this time food truck Planet of the Crepes will be there. From the brewery’s website: Next…
Gustin Reichbach is Like Any MMJ Patient … Almost
New Yorker Gustin Reichbach went through hell when his doctor diagnosed his Stage III pancreatic cancer three years ago. Aggressive chemotherapy left him battered almost as badly as the cancer itself. He couldn’t eat. He couldn’t sleep. He was in pain and nauseous. He lost weight. He tried various prescription drugs, but they left him…
I Am So Conflicted About the Local-Food Movement
In the first weeks that I started writing the Noshing Around column here at the Tucson Weekly, local food was the hottest thing going. But it wasn’t long before I started to smell bullshit in the air when people talked about it, and that smell lingers even today. It pains me greatly to say that.…
Susan G. Komen Is My Enemy No. 1
Susan G. Komen is my enemy No. 1. The reason? It’s a two-parter, so bear with me: 1) The politicizing of abortion has nothing to do with breast cancer research and finding a cure. 2) The sexualization of breasts and women in general is exploited by this non-profit organization. So why hate them so much…
Happy Birthday, Taj Mahal
I’m personally not the biggest Taj Mahal fan — sometimes the world music influences sort of wear on me — but he’d be worth noting just for “She Caught the Katy,” which is just a great song. Mahal, who celebrates his 70th birthday today, will be at the Fox Tucson Theatre on May 24th.
In Case You Were Wondering What’s Up With the Wiggles
VIDEO: The Wiggles say goodbye It never really occurred to me that there would be a new batch of Wiggles, but I suppose I also just assumed that there would be a time when their popularity would fade away and the original cast would disappear with their giant piles of money (they earned $45 million…
The Best Tribute to Chuck Brown You’ll Read
It’s impossible to overstate how popular and influential go-go singer/guitarist Chuck Brown was in the Washington, DC area, even if his fame didn’t really transcend regional fame, other than a few hits and some legendary samples. However, David Simon, creator of The Wire, probably reflected Brown’s legacy best on his blog yesterday: Just heard the…
TUSD Responds to Urrea, Urrea Responds
On May 4, acclaimed writer Luis Alberto Urrea—The Humingbird’s Daughter, The Devil’s Highway, and Queen of America—was on the PBS show Moyers and Company discussing the book banned that took place in the Tucson Unified School District when it dismantiled Mexican-American studies. Urrea has been a steadfast supporter of the program. Of course, TUSD didn’t…
Beyond Books
Any time this week, you just may catch a glimpse of a Chilean poet “weaving” parts of Tucson into the UA Poetry Center, says the center’s Annie Guthrie. Cecilia Vicuña is setting out each day—along with local filmmaker Jonathan VanBallenberghe, Guthrie and an art graduate student—to visit trademark Tucson sites. Saguaro National Park West is…
Speak Up!
A couple of weeks ago, I saw two people fucking like wild animals on a bench at Himmel Park in the middle of the night. It was one of those That Just Happened moments that passed quickly through my hippocampus and was permanently burned into long-term memory. The incident is apropos of nothing, except maybe…
The Tucson Weekly Endorsement: Ron Barber
There’s a reason that Republicans who have worked with Democrat Ron Barber are stepping across party lines to support him. It’s because those Republicans—former Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup, Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik, homebuilder John Wesley Miller, former state lawmaker Pete Hershberger, former SAHBA lobbyist Alex Jacome, former president of the 162nd Fighter Wing Minuteman…
Noshing Around
Bella D’Auria opens; Places to beat the unbearable heat; and more!
Top Ten in Books
1. Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want Martha Beck, Free Press ($26) 2. Loverboys Ana Castillo, W.W. Norton ($13.95) 3. This Is Not the Story You Think It Is …:A Season of Unlikely Happiness Laura Munson, Berkley ($15) 4. So Far From God:…
Corpse of a Film
A lot of work and a lot of money have gone into Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, a big-screen adaptation of that strangest of strange soap operas that ran in the late 1960s and early ’70s. The saga of tortured vampire Barnabas Collins proves to be a nice exercise for the eyes, but the stuff coming…
Media Watch
Career help for journalists; AZPM awards; Poor naming choices at KVOA; and more!
Ask a Mexican!
I usually don’t allow anyone to hijack this columna, but an exception must be made for California State Assemblymember Gil Cedillo. He’s been fighting the good fight for decades, including recently trying to get driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants and ceaselessly supporting DREAMers. Cedillo was so moved by the undocumented college student who wrote in…
Stop Watch
There’s no need to dig up old Twilight Zone episodes to glimpse a parallel universe. You can find one right here in Tucson, with a short visit to folks like Sandra Moreno. The warm, well-regarded single mom has three kids to look after—and the federal government is breathing down her neck. In a crowd, Sandra…
Fun With the Freeway
The view from Ken Pausen and Sylas Marner’s retirement spot is going through a daily metamorphosis. And they couldn’t be happier about it. The two men are among dozens of people who call the Prince of Tucson RV Park home. The longstanding park, with a mix of full- and part-time residents, is nestled on the…
Soundbites
Spiritualized is coming to town!; Morrissey returns; and more!
Weekly Wide Web
As the Tucson Weekly’s web producer, my job is essentially to get people to come to TucsonWeekly.com (which you are, regularly, right?), so I spend an absurd amount of time staring at Google Analytics, trying to figure out how to increase our online audience. Like people at most online publications these days, we try to…
Dramatic Danes
Take a handful of conservatory-trained musicians well-versed in the vocabulary of classical and jazz music. Then add a healthy interest in 1980s hard rock; a respect for the timeless tradition of punk experimentalism; and an abiding faith in contemporary Americana. What do you get? The dramatic, sometimes psychedelic and always moving indie-rock of Danish band…
Police Dispatch
Drawings of dicks; Mastering the f-word
Nine Questions
Lisa Healey is a Boston native who moved to Tucson seven years ago. A desk jockey by day, at night, she can be found at live music venues around town taking photos of bands and musicians. What was the first concert you ever saw? Rush at the Providence Civic Center in 1981. I was there…
City Week
Wrestling gone wild; Safe travels to Guatemala; Creative children; Super-local radio
Specific Help Wanted
Tucson High Magnet School is the largest high school in the Tucson Unified School District—so why is the administration watering down the criteria in the search for the school’s next principal? At the TUSD board meeting on May 8, Tucson High staffer Margaret Chaney asked governing-board members that very question during the call to the…
TQ&A
Shot in the Dark Café seemed like the perfect place to talk with Patrick McArdle (a former Tucson Weekly intern) about his new project, Digital Downtown Darkroom. On the walls of the café hangs Dog Soldier and Wolf … From the Fifth World, a new show that includes rusted car hoods, fenders and such adorned…
Live
Phoenix singer-songwriter Lonna Kelley is a longtime favorite at Club Congress—but she’s taking a different road with her new band. Make My Baby is more of a collaborative effort—with three female singers, right out front—than Kelley’s alt-country bands Broken Hearted Lovers and Reluctant Messiahs. And Make My Baby captures an entirely different sound, a tom-thumping,…
Now Showing at Home
Being John Malkovich; Chronicle (Blu-ray); Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
Great Lake Swimmers: New Wild Everywhere (Nettwerk)
Toronto songwriter Tony Dekker leads Great Lake Swimmers, an electrified folk orchestra striving for the same agelessness that’s carried decades of roots music. New Wild Everywhere finds Dekker writing with a troubadour’s restlessness, filling his songs with elemental and natural imagery—fire, wind, storms, animals, wounds, dreams and desires. The band’s sound falls somewhere in the…
Top Ten in Music
1. Summerdog 1978-1982 (self-released) 2. Grams and Krieger No, You! (Firesweep) 3. Pablo Peregrina Traveling Soles (self-released) 4. Rich Hopkins and Luminarios Buried Treasures (San Jacinto) 5. Ron DeVous Hot Samba Nights (self-released) 6. Ron Doering The Balladeer (self-released) 7. Silver Thread Trio Trigger and Scythe (Prophette) 8. Gabriel Sullivan By the Dirt (Fell City)…
Godhunter: Wolves (Acid Reflux)
Local sludge quintet Godhunter finally unveils a proper physical-CD release for their debut five-track album, which became available via the band’s Bandcamp site earlier this year. Recorded at Arcane Digital Recording in Chandler and released by Tucson extreme-music label Acid Reflux, Wolves wields a medulla oblongata-wrenching wallop and obvious political (anarcho-libertarian) lyrics. In opening cut…
The Skinny
Early voting is underway on Thursday, May 17, in the special election for Gabby Giffords’ seat … Barber and Kelly continue to spar over Social Security and Medicare … Who is behind all those ads we’re seeing on TV? … and more!
GSol: Mythic Images: Live at Café Aquí (Self-released)
If you’re looking for something mainstream in terms of songs with melody lines, lyrics and a semblance of structure, this is not the record for you. Throw in a Joseph Campbell reference to help flesh out the title, and you begin to get the sense this is not something you’re going to hear on the…
Brand-New Works
As writers go, playwrights are a curious lot. Sure, they sit alone in their garrets—or whatever the modern equivalent is—transforming ideas into words just like poets, essayists and other creative writers. But stringing some good dialogue together is only part of the process. These words need actors, a director, a stage of some sort, and…
Wonderful Bubble
Stress wouldn’t seem to be a problem at an old manor outside of Paris. But despite the wine, the cheese and the picturesque countryside, Plants and Animals found themselves with frayed nerves instead of focus. The Montreal indie-rock trio decided on a new process to record their third album, working longer and more carefully on…
Been There, Done That
You’ve seen this movie before. In The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen plays a fish out of water who is acclimating himself to American culture and offending everyone in sight while he does it. You could begin that sentence with “In Borat” or “In Bruno” and not make any other changes. Therein lies the problem with…
Mediocre Meat
There isn’t a huge selection of locally owned restaurants in the Vail area, so when one of them doesn’t meet expectations, it seems like an even bigger disappointment—and unfortunately, dining at the Vail Steak House Café and Diner was a subpar experience on almost all counts. The historic building, purchased and revamped by the current…
Danehy
A few things worth mentioning: • Am I the only one who is dismayed by local TV-news people calling in “body-language experts” to try to discern whether there’s something fishy about the way the parents of missing 6-year-old Isabel Celis are acting? You’ve got people going over the footage of press conferences, freezing frames and…
Mailbag
Political party madness; Support Fourth Avenue; The fight against extra fees; Caption issues; Corrections
Eclectic Gathering
A smiling young woman, swathed in a frilly apron, holds aloft a can of Sani-Flush. “I never knew it was so easy,” she gushes, gesturing to a sparkling toilet she has just cleaned. Another woman, equally cheerful, recounts how much her marriage has improved since she switched to Domestic cleanser. “He loves me, he loves…
Cosmos Deconstructed
Astronomers tell us that we live in an expanding universe filled with myriad galaxies that are rocketing away from each other at incredibly fast speeds. Yet, they say, it’s not the galaxies themselves that are doing the moving. It’s actually space that’s expanding, carrying the galaxies along with it. If you find yourself as perplexed…
Top Ten in Movies
1. Contraband Universal 2. The Vow Screen Gems 3. Haywire Lionsgate 4. Underworld: Awakening Screen Gems 5. New Year’s Eve Warner Bros. 6. Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol Paramount 7. Joyful Noise Warner Bros. 8. Shame 20th Century Fox 9. The Innkeepers MPI 10. Pariah Focus
Editor’s Note
Can we talk about allergies for a moment? What in the $%@& is in the air that is causing me to sneeze approximately every 7.2 seconds? Good god. For the last three weeks, my nose has been irritated and gross and a generally unpleasant place to have attached to my face. Last week, when it…
Gargulinski
Paradise comes from happy hounds, good pizza and camping in Arizona—not necessarily all at once. The hounds and the camping make a magnificent mix, but you’d be hard-pressed to get the crust of a DiGiorno frozen pizza to properly rise on a campsite grill. And to make sure the hounds-and-camping mix stays more like paradise…
Watch Tonight’s CD 8 Candidate Forum
Chris Conover and Andrea Kelly moderated an one hour forum with the candidates in CD 8 special election. Early ballots go out tomorrow, but there’s an additional debate on the calendar sponsored by the Star, May 23rd, at the Tucson Jewish Community Center.
You Should Go Watch Soccer on Saturday
Your hometown semi-pro soccer club FC Tucson kicks off its home campaign in the Premier Development League this Saturday night with a match against the truly unfortunately named SoCal Seahorses this Saturday night at the Kino Sports Complex. The guys behind the team have really given local sports their all, developing and staging the Desert…
Fighting for Family Unity and Immigration Justice
Below is a video Tucson filmmaker Brenda Limon put together to further explain the May 10 caravan that left Tucson for Phoenix to demand Pat Vroom, ICE chief counsel for Arizona, issue administrative closure for about 10 local families’ immigration cases. In this week’s issue, Tim Vanderpool tells one family’s story and explains what immigration…
