Savage Love Extra!
Gustavo is too busy getting ready for the alt-weekly convention Nintzel mentioned earlier, so he didn’t do a YouTube question this week. However, we have a Savage Love extra for you instead! First, thank you Dan, for the column and podcast. You have helped me immeasurably. If I could buy you drinks or chocolate or…
Kromko Files!
Our spies at the Secretary of State’s office tell us that former state lawmaker John Kromko did indeed file his nominating petitions today. We mention Kromko’s campaign in this week’s Skinny; for more on the races, check out this post from yesterday. The Secretary of State’s office is still compiling the list, but you can…
New Issue!
Since JB is off to reprazent TW at the big national Association of Alternatives Newsweeklies convention in Philly, I guess I’ll mention that we’ve got a new issue just waiting for you to devour. We’ll link ya up to Ask a Mexican after we grill some burgers.
Dateline Mars: The Latest Scoop
The Phoenix Mars Lander, under the control the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab, has been a busy little robot lab lately. Over the last few days, the robot arm has been working on its scooping technique, uncovering some white material which could be ice, could be salt, or could be some new freaky Martian cocaine.…
Just in Time to Make a Difference!
Just got this in the mailbox: U.S. REP. GABRIELLE GIFFORDS ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords released the following statement today about the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Now that all primaries and caucuses have concluded, I am enthusiastically endorsing Senator Barack Obama as the…
‘I’m Sorry … So Sorry’
A thank you to Mr. Nintzel, and while I’m at it, an apology to the Pima County Board of Supervisors and our blog readers who I have mislead to believe (if they do indeed believe our blog entries) that under Arizona’s public-meetings law the supes in executive session can vote in secret. They can’t. You are…
Let the Games Begin
We’ll know who’s in and who’s out in our upcoming campaign season—barring some sort of legal action—by the end of the day tomorrow. Candidates have until 5 p.m. to file their nominating petitions with the Arizona Secretary of State. You can check out the list of who’s filed here. So far, there’s no sign of…
Just Take Another Piece of My Childhood, Baby
Last Saturday, I was driving south on Wilmot Road when I saw another piece of my childhood come tumbling down. The Buena Vista had been closed for ages and had not been a theater for years, so I knew its fate was either a major remodel or death by excavator. And there is was, an…
Jose Rincon’s Ghost Bike
OK, so you like Michael Bryan’s Blog For Arizona, or maybe you fancy yourself a Tedski and get on Rum, Romanism and Rebellion as much as possible. Both are great, but I’m going to put in a blog plug for Tucson Bike Lawyer by Erik Ryberg, a local attorney that champions local bicyclists. I read it weekly, and…
Voter Integrity Judgement Gets A County Review (Corrected)
There it is, under executive session on an addendum to the agenda for tomorrow’s Pima County Board of Supervisor’s meeting, which starts at 9 a.m. (on Tuesday) June 3: Item D is listed as a legal advice discussion regarding what direction the county will take on Pima County Democratic Party v. Pima County Board of the Supervisors. While…
Mars Mission: We’ve Got Ice!
DATELINE MARS: • The science team, led by Peter Smith of the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab, has spent the last couple of days completing the 360-degree mosaic photo of the landscape around the spacecraft, which has been transmitting data since it landed last Sunday, May 25. NASA has a created an animated tour. Now…
Movie Notice: Hot Rods to Hell
On Monday night at 8, the Loft cinema will be showing Hot Rods to Hell, starring an aging but powerful Dana Andrews (Tobacco Road, Ox Bow Incident) as a family man whose bad back is emasculating him: He has to let his wife drive the car! Then, things get even worse when crazy hot-rodders nearly…
Kromko’s Back
Former state lawmaker John Kromko, last seen unsuccessfully trying to persuade voters to pass water restrictions in last year’s city election, has filed to run for the state House of Representatives in Legislative District 27. Kromko has until June 4 to collect at least 402 valid signatures from voters in the westside district. The two…
Yuri Downing Nabbed
Yuri Downing, the one-time Libertarian candidate who absconded rather than face prison time after he pled guilty to perjury charges related to misuse of Clean Elections dollars, is cooling his heels in Pima County Jail while he awaits transfer to Maricopa County. Downing, the son of former District 28 state Rep. Ted Downing, was arrested…
The Phoenix Has Landed
The UA’s Lunar and Planetary Lab is now exploring the arctic plains of Mars
Shadow and Light
After growing up around music, Eliza Gilkyson never thought of doing anything else
Money Missing
Poverty is on the rise in Tucson–and the percentage of poor children is at an all-time high
Soundbites
SO LONG AND THANKS, DON The Tucson music scene will soon lose one of its guiding lights. Don Jennings may not play an instrument–then again, maybe he does; I’ve never asked–but he’s as instrumental in drawing attention to local music as anyone in town. For a full decade, Jennings has hosted Locals Only, a weekly…
Drunk and Disorderly
Dodge Flower residents consider a detox center a curse
Nine Questions
Dan Marries
The Skinny
UNBALANCED Pima County Supervisor “Sugar” Ray Carroll put on a command performance last week when the Board of Supervisors set the tentative $1.46 billion county budget on a party-line vote. Carroll, along with fellow Republican Ann Day of District 1, voted against the budget, complaining that it didn’t lower property-tax rates enough. Carroll has been…
Live
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Foot Foot, Solar Culture Gallery, Sunday, May 25
Media Watch
Leng Takes Reins at KNST
Rhythm & Views
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of their pivotal second album, The Trinity Session, the Cowboy Junkies returned to the titular scene of the crime, Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity, to re-record the songs that brought the seminal alt-country band to prominence. This package also includes a DVD containing a dramatically shot film of the…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller says the band’s seventh album is a return to its earlier high-energy sound, a “second childhood” and a re-focus on songwriting. From the first searing tube-amp-distorted lick of “The Fool,” you know he’s not lying: The songwriting is melodic and meticulous, the production nice and raw. Yet the record just…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Luke Howard
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Police Dispatch
CHICKEN VS. BEEF WEST ALASKA STREET, MAY 3, 4:41 P.M. A wife showed more love for hamburgers than her husband when she tried to assault him for bringing home the wrong fast food, said a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. The husband told a sheriff’s deputy that earlier in the day, his wife had declared…
Everybody Shares
NEW ARTiculations continues its efforts at community collaboration
Pick of the Week
Hip-Hop for a Cause
Rhythm & Views
Once a Grammy-winning country superstar of the ’80s and ’90s, Kathy Mattea finds herself–like many of today’s best artists–releasing material via her own label. Now she’s free to be an artist as opposed to a glorified beer salesman, a job function music-industry victims continue to serve. The first album under her imprint is Coal, a…
Danehy
All hail the triumphant return of Was (Not Was)
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Haunted by Hughes
This fascinating biography details the descent into madness of Tucson’s famous missile maverick
O’Sullivan
At long last, the dark side of horse racing is being exposed
Join This Cult
While the cineplexes offer new big-budget flicks, the Loft offers classic blockbusters that don’t suck
People Who Need Help
Psychology, sexuality and showtunes combine in Alternative Theatre Company’s fun ‘Beyond Therapy’
Guest Commentary
Book-loving Tucsonans have myriad reasons to be thankful
Incredible Imagery
A story told by a paralyzed stuntman to an injured girl makes for one of the most inventive films in recent memory
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
¡Ask a Mexican!
“Mexicans in the United States are so dirty, mostly gang-bangers, and they spray graffiti everywhere.”
Now Showing at Home
“Diary of the Dead,””Night of the Living Dead: 40th Anniversary Special Edition,” and “The Muppet Show: Season Three”
In ‘n’ Out
Asian Bistro offers innovative fare–and delivers to most of the midtown area
The Polls Will Soon Be Closing
A note from the editor.
Indie Watch
What’s happening in the world of independent film in Tucson.
Noshing Around
Philanthropy With Phlavor During the entire month of June, diners can donate 5 percent of their tab (before tax and tip) to one of 40 charities when dining at Pastiche. For the past eight years, owners Pat and Julie Connors have sponsored Philanthropy With Phlavor in June and October. To date, they have donated more…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
The Stigma of Suicide
Tucson has the third-highest suicide rate in the country. Why is almost nobody talking about this fact?
Fresh Retro
On his new album, Jamie Lidell is a ‘nostalgic pioneer of sound’
