Newsreel
My fellow left-wing nuts sometimes ask why the Weekly prints articles by that right-wing nut Emil Franzi. Isn’t this a publication devoted to progressive solutions to local issues? Franzi is a self-proclaimed libertarian (with a lower-case L these days) and a notorious Republican operative, having lurked behind campaigns not only in Tucson but in California…
City Week
El Nacimiento reopens amid TMA’s annual craft market… Muse has the blues… Have some physics phun…And more.
Cheap Thrills
Fun things to do that won’t cost a fortune.
Latin Heat
Five bands, from Los Lobos to lesser known rising stars, will make you sweat.
A Distant Country
Kelly Hogan’s honey-dipped pipes.
On the Bus
Life Without a Car in the Naked Pueblo.
Soundbites
Crooked Country heads straight for town… The Doobie Brothers do be… And more.
Fare Market
Sun Tran, and VanTran and RideShare, oh my!
Rhythm & Views
Back in the 1980s, Los Angeles’ Descendents wrote caffeinated and poppy punk rock anthems about girls, coffee, food and farting that succeeded in getting many a teenage boy (myself included) through high school. In 1987, singer Milo Aukerman sadly left the band to pursue a doctorate in microbiology. The band then recruited singer Dave Smalley…
Track Meet
Is light rail in Tucson’s future?
Merry Mayhem
Live Theatre Workshop’s stripped-down production of “Twelfth Night” lustily emphasizes the play’s frivolity.
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Wastebasket Warriors
Activists rally around a film about a janitorial uprising.
The Skinny
Bob Walkup toys with Manifest Destiny… Early voting is the death of democracy as we know it… And more.
Tellers of Tall Tales
Story-spinning gets its own festival.
Silos of Care
If you’re mentally ill and addicted to drugs, private insurers may farm you out to public providers.
Clarinet Coda
Remembering John Denman.
Taking Council
Tucson’s leading political piranha chomps into the city election’s real winners and losers.
Love Is Blind
Ved Mehta’s inability to see barely sheds insight into his failed relationships.
There Goes the Neighborhood
In a campaign that divided the city geographically, the winners couldn’t carry their own neighborhoods.
Grape Expectations
The season has come for winemaker dinners.
Pinched Hitters
Local baseball is still losing money–ours.
Double Indemnity
Joel and Ethan Coen can’t lose, even with warped noir.
Asphalt Jungle
An impending sales-tax increase for transportation faces a rocky road.
News Hounds
Coverage of Monday’s plane crash shows that journalism has gone to the dogs.
