Pick
Meet Me in the Back Alley
Natural Selection
The collection of works in “Naked” ranges from wonderful fiction to insightful journalism–all about nature
Danehy
On tortillas, Steve Kerr and Generic Frat Boys: Notes from the UA graduation ceremony
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books bestsellers for the week ending May 21, 2004 1. The Tibetan Book of Yoga: Ancient Buddhist Teachings on the Philosophy and Practice of Yoga Geshe Michael Roach, Doubleday ($15.95) 2. The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold, Little Brown and Company ($13.95) 3. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor ($11.95) 4.…
Tuttle
The prisoner-abuse revelations show the truth about America: We’re as capable of evil as everybody else
Fast-Food Frights
The popular, excellent documentary “Super Size Me” waddles into town
Fishy Delights
Simple to prepare and delicious, this sea bass recipe is nothing to wrinkle your nose at
Guest Commentary
Tucson’s real estate market enters the big leagues, as a $17.5 million house signifies
Now Showing at Home
“Enter the Dragon,” “The Weather Underground,” “Flirting With Disaster,” and “Walt Disney Treasures: On the Front Line”
Noshing Around
Happy Hour Is King During summer, our favorite meal of the day becomes the happy hour. At Kingfisher Bar & Grill, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.-midnight, you can chill out with half-priced steamed mussels, littleneck clams and grilled or chilled shrimp, along with Pacific Northwest oysters for a buck and $2 off wine, draft…
Count Your Blessings
A note from the editor.
Top Ten in Movies
Zip’s Music & Video, Inc., top rentals for the week ending May 23, 2004 Miracle Walt Disney Scary Movie 3 Dimension The Last Samurai Warner Brothers Kill Bill Vol. 1 Miramax Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Miramax Love Actually Universal Big Fish Columbia Paycheck Paramount Haunted Mansion Walt Disney Peter Pan…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
A Genre Unto Themselves
A Yo La Tengo story devoid of Velvet Underground references (except for this one)
Don’t Look for These Movie Sequels Any Time Soon
American Splendor II: Canadian Effervescence Assassination Tango 2: Assassination Macarena! Bend Marriage Vows Like Beckham Changing Lanes 2: Using Blinkers Chicago II: Kenilworth and Winnetka Citizen Kane II: Freddy Vs. Kane Cold Mountain II: Chill Hill The Dancer Upstairs II: Cut out That Racket The Dancer Upstairs III: The Junkie Downstairs Dumb and Dumberer II:…
Beautiful Mix
The less-famous half of Black Star, Talib Kweli performs as he battles the pre-release leak of his newest album
Yet Another Summer Movie Preview
The season’s film offerings feature everything from global-warming disasters to Halle Berry in a cat suit
Soundbites
VOODOO CITY Is Tucson cursed? In the past few weeks, no fewer than four scheduled high-profile shows–Wilco, The Fall, TV on the Radio and Cat Power–have suffered last-minute cancellations. Let’s hope it’s not a sign of things to come this summer. As you peruse this week’s music section, we recommend taking the Pascal route by…
In Memory
Remembering those military men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice
Nine Questions
Kyle Tusing, Music-for-the-Masses Professor
Myth Conceptions
A breakdown of lies, damned lies and statistics about the county bond election
Rhythm & Views
There’s usually no shame in nostalgia–even the most precious kind–but those who trade in nostalgia had better remember that the cherished memories of one man might not mean much to another. Jazz legend Dave Brubeck’s new solo piano album, Private Brubeck Remembers, traffics in just that sort of nostalgic dichotomy. Those who share, or are…
The Tribal Body Politic
After a tumultuous but prosperous four years, the Pascua Yaqui tribal council is once again up for election
Rhythm & Views
Always willing to cut a little slack to practitioners of arty pretension, I was nevertheless tempted to pan the fourth and latest album by the “cello-rock” trio Rasputina. During the first couple of plays, Frustration Plantation just didn’t float my boat; upon taking some time, however, to listen closely to these raw, proto-feminist, Victorian-flashback rock…
The Skinny
WHAT’S EATING FREDDY RONSTADT? We had the recent pleasure of chatting with one of the two most influential men in Southern Arizona (hint: It wasn’t Lute Olson) and were astounded that the first thing out of his mouth was exasperation with the young Fred Ronstadt, the Republican who represents midtown Ward 6 on the City…
Rhythm & Views
The nine-piece masked marauders from Iowa are back with their third offering, Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses). Utilizing the band’s unpredictability to the fullest, Vol. 3 is a 14-track masterpiece of sonic brutality. An advertisement for a recent tour read, “Forget everything that you know. Slipknot is reborn in 2004.” This is the perfect way…
Media Watch
ADDED WRONG Last week, in my column on the proposed city advertising tax, I pulled statistics too hastily from a Pulitzer Inc. press release and took figures from the wrong column of information. Duh. Michael Jameson, since January the head of Tucson Newspapers Inc. –the company jointly owned by Pulitzer and Gannett to handle all…
Live
Destroyer and Frog Eyes, Club Congress, Sunday, May 23
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Top Ten in Music
Zip’s Music & Video, Inc., top sales for the week ending May 23, 2004 D12 D12 World (Shady) Los Lonely Boys Los Lonely Boys (Sony) Usher Confessions (Arista) Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Epic) Israel Kamakawiwo’ole Facing Future (Big Boy) Eric Clapton Me & Mr. Johnson (Warner Brothers) Maroon 5…
Police Dispatch
Playing with Fire University Area May 14, 1:53 a.m. A man toying with gasoline set his fraternity-house bedroom ablaze, according to a report from the University of Arizona Police Department. The man said he had been using a rented chainsaw to “cut down his wooden bed.” There was no indication in the report what, exactly,…
Turn It Up
The talent, hard work of the Invisible Theatre cast overcomes the weak songs and plotless scenery of “Route 66”
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Sherra Stewart, museum director
Now and Then
A double-edged show at the Center for Creative Photography surveys both contemporary and classic work
