Top Ten in Music
CD City top sales for the week
After Prison
A new program helps nonviolent ex-offenders get back on their feet
In These Times
Tim Easton’s travels bring him back to the Old Pueblo for the second time in two months
Rhythm & Views
The Demolition Doll Rods long have coasted on their reputation as Detroit-based practitioners of garage music, even winning the public approval of Iggy Pop. The trio’s sound is generously stocked with all the right ingredients: primitive punk ‘n’ roll rhythms; Chuck Berry guitar riffs; a lineup of two guitars, drums and no bass; and oodles…
On the Chopping Block
Denial of a city grant, arts council troubles jeopardize a popular alternative high school
Top Ten in Books
Mostly Books best-sellers for the week
The Skinny
GOP GOOBER WATCH Republican Len Munsil, the former head of the Center for Arizona Policy, continued to solidify his gubernatorial campaign last week by landing the endorsement of 29 state lawmakers. (According to the Arizona Capitol Times, two additional lawmakers are secretly supporting him, but they’re not ready to come out of the closet yet.)…
Noshing Around
Tequila Tasting Lotus Garden, billed as Tucson’s oldest family-owned Chinese restaurant, hosts a tequila tasting with an Asian twist on Saturday, May 20, from 1 to 4 p.m. Guests will sample 100 percent blue agave tequila from Las Reynas, Arizona’s new distributing company. Hors d’oeuvres provided. Reservations and prepayment are required by calling BLA Worldwide…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Moving Along
Ballet Tucson bucks the trend and ends a successful second pro season with ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Media Watch
Columnist Jim Kiser, who has been at the Arizona Daily Star for a combined total of nearly 20 years, will leave the newspaper on June 2. Kiser inquired in February about cutting back from three columns per week to two, because the amount of reporting and research required to produce pieces was, as he put…
Upbeat and Urban
Montana Avenue is a can’t-miss option for 13 out of the week’s 14 lunches and dinners
Police Dispatch
Yet Another Library Masturbator UA Area, May 7, 3:01 p.m. Authorities arrested a man for fondling himself where two female students could see him, a University of Arizona Police Department report stated. The students said they saw a man in his 30s, wearing red athletic shorts and a dark green T-shirt, masturbating on the third…
Family Conflict
Prescott’s Susan Lang delivers a fine Western novel with polished, authentic prose
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Nate Buchik
The More Things Change
The Catalina Players show they can compete with the big companies with ‘The Boys Next Door’
Pick of the Week
Magical Stories
Danehy
Thank heavens Jon Kyl knows what’s good for us!
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Downing
Money is not always good for Tucson–or the environment
A Blanket of Love
‘Somersault’ is so beautiful and packed with feelings that it’s perfect
Guest Commentary
Women NBA fans should ask: Why are we rooting for thugs?
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Deadline Daze
A note from the editor.
Soundbites
DEAR CATASTROPHE WAITRESS: MEET YOUR NEW FAVORITE BAND Remember a few years ago when we all heard about how the Internet was going to level the playing field for bands trying to get a foot in the door, and how major labels would no longer be necessary because bands could distribute music on their own?…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Another Crappy Remake
Despite Wolfgang Petersen and $160 million, ‘Poseidon’ stinks
Live
Aloha, Elf Power, Instruments, Peachcake, at Solar Culture, Sunday, May 14
Solar Strife
The state is demanding more clean energy–but it will come at a price
Now Showing at Home
“Coachella,” “Baby Doll,” “The Passenger,” and “The Producers”
Rhythm & Views
Is it safe to come out now? Being a Pearl Jam fan has never been easy–particularly for about a decade now–but it’s getting (slightly) easier. Arguably, the band’s last solid album was 1996’s No Code; the albums in that disappointing gulf in between had an increasing dearth of bright spots. Inconsistency had become troublingly, well,…
For the Kids
Since government agencies often ignore or dismiss disease clusters, parents and scientists are taking matters into their own hands
Breaking the Rules
The Court and Spark take their music beyond urban alt-country
Rhythm & Views
The Numero Group reissue label knocks it out of the park again with another in their Eccentric Soul series, The Deep City Label. The focus of this historical largesse, Deep City Records, was a Miami-based label that released a collection of killer sides (all on 7-inch single except for one LP) in the mid- to…
River at Risk
Chasing lucrative toxic dreams along the San Pedro
Nine Questions
Kristin Hersh
