Eat Less on Thanksgiving
Here’s a tongue-and-cheek article how to not go hog wild on Thanksgiving. A few of the tips that I particularly like and may incorporate in my dinner are to dye all the food the same color and to eat blindfolded with a peg up my nose…
Staying Connected
For those of you on the go this holiday season, the folks over at Travelpost have come up with some handy guides to WiFi in airports and hotels: U.S. airports (TIA has free WiFi!) International airports Hotels We wouldn’t want you to miss out on any TW bloggy goodness.
Blogging Update
Blogging will be sporadic and maybe light over the next several days, because there’s, like, a holiday and stuff. Have a great Thanksgiving, everyone.
MySpace Update
The Tucson Weekly has *ahem* 69 Myspace friends as of this writing. If you’re on Myspace, and you want to be a friend, send a request! Also, if you want to be one of our Top Friends and/or be included on our photo page, send us a picture of you reading the Weekly. Even better, if…
Muslims Removed From a Plane
America Worst America West US Airways is in a bit of hot water after removing six Muslim imams from a plane to Phoenix because they dared to, um, pray. That’s all we know. If all the imams did was pray, then US Airways deserves all the criticism they can get. And if the name Omar…
What in the Hell Is Charles Rangel Doing?!?
I’ve always liked the outspokenness of Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. His politics have been OK, too. But now he’s proposing that the country reinstate the draft. What in the fuck? The Dems have not even taken power yet, and they’re already trying to piss of…
Michael Moore’s Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives
Whether you love or hate Michael Moore, he’s not going away, and he’s not going to shut up (which is what I particularly love about him). In this op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times, Moore wants to offer an olive branch to conservative Republicans to reassure them that everything is going to be OK.
Concession on 107
On Wednesday, the pro-family-as-long-as-they-fit-our-narrow-definition-of-family Center for Arizona policy conceded that their baby, Proposition 107, had indeed failed. While the defeat of 107 is great news for equality, fairness and love all around, rest assured: the Center for Arizona Policy folks are not going away. The concession statement should be required reading for everyone involved, even…
¡Que Colorifico!
Thankfully, downtown’s La Placita won’t be turning beige. The colorful palette was a bit jarring when it made its debut a few years ago, but it has grown on me, and, apparently, many other Tucsonans. Bourn Partners, which owns the complex, must have heard our collective groans when it announced earlier this year it planned…
Red Elvises at The Hut
There’s a little thing in journalism we like to call “full disclosure.” Full disclosure mandates that before I tell you about one of the best live music shows in Tucson in the past six months, you know it occurred at a bar run by one of my good friends. Normally, a posting in this space…
A Menace to Society
As many of you know, I write the Police Dispatch column in every issue. I’ve noticed a similar story in a handful of reports coming from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department during the past few weeks: parents who are unable to get unruly teenagers off computers, resulting in their kids taking an all-expense-paid trip to…
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Danehy
In Chris Limberis’ name, a student journalist will get some college help
A Doll of a Film
What’s the matter with Kansas? ‘Tideland’ has heroin-fueled answers
Distilling the Essence
Tucsonan Curt Brill creates untamed, supple bronze figures
O’Sullivan
If you’re a dark-skinned African wanting a beer in Tombstone, bring your passport
A Novel Approach
Predestination gets a sweet-natured meditation in ‘Stranger Than Fiction’
What Would Lute Do?
Coach Olson’s autobiography won’t become a classic, but it will delight UA hoops diehards
Guest Commentary
In a city rife with burglaries, residents shouldn’t be careless
Now Showing at Home
“Reservoir Dogs: 15th Anniversary Edition,” “The Sopranos: Season Six, Part One,” “Looney Tunes: Golden Collection Volume Four”
On Evangelo’s
It’s fine line between old-world charm and being a bit run down
MySpace! New Year’s!
A note from the editor.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Noshing Around
The Thanksgiving Column: Trading Turkey for Pizza Bring in a frozen turkey to any of the six Magpies Gourmet Pizza locations, and you will receive a free pizza in return. Last year, Magpies donated 65 turkeys to the Community Food Bank, but this year, their goal is 100 turkeys. The offer is good until Wednesday,…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
The Music Plays Him
Sonny Rollins continues to learn despite his iconic status
No-Clone Shopping Zone
How to find one-of-a-kind gifts and support local business at the same time
The Skinny
SCRAMBLEWATCH ’06: AFTERMATH EDITION We’re feeling a little postpartum depression in the wake of last week’s election, but we’re taking it one day at a time. Overall, it was a lousy year to be a conservative Republican. Randy Graf lost to moderate Democrat Gabrielle Giffords here in Congressional District 8; J.D. Hayworth lost to Democrat…
Pretty Girls Make Changes
A band member’s departure leads to a shift in the way music gets made
For Your Viewing Pleasure
Encourage your loved ones to be couch potatoes with these DVDs
You Are What You Eat
As the UA’s BIO5 Institute grows, opponents of genetically modified foods express concern
Soundbites
SWEET RELEASE! ‘Tis the season: Another week and two more local CD release parties, this time both on the same night, at the same venue–Club Congress on Saturday, Nov. 18. The early show comes courtesy of Is to Feel, on behalf of their second CD release, Llorona, which we would probably report is “harder than…
Gamer 101
With two new systems and a bunch of new titles, game lovers are anticipating a happy holiday season
An Area of Safety
Refugees from the former Soviet Union learn to call Tucson home
Nine Questions
Abel Ferreira
Fun With Vote Machines
Pima County Dems claim election procedures were violated when an elections worker broke a server seal
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Going Hoarse
Critics claim Tucson’s alternative media sources are losing their voices
Live
The New Drakes, Steve Poltz and The Rugburns, Loveland, at Club Congress, Saturday, Nov. 11
Vision Quest
A forest-plan expert provides perspective
Rhythm & Views
Songbird teams the prolific Willie Nelson with the even more prolific Ryan Adams, who produces and backs Nelson along with his band the Cardinals. Though he made his name as a songwriter, Nelson’s recent albums have contained as many, if not more, cover songs as original tunes–his last two were a tribute to the songs…
Media Watch
KOLD Streams Gunfight at OK Corral
Rhythm & Views
Someone needs to do us all a favor and teach Mike Kinsella about poetry. The Joan of Arc drummer (and brother of Joan of Arc’s Tim Kinsella) can write some startlingly beautiful songs, but lyrically, they read like pages from a bored hipster’s diary: “Free beer and basement shows don’t mean you’ve made it,” sings…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Becky Farley
Rhythm & Views
On their latest album, Los Lobos do that thing they do best: weaving intense, character-based narratives–often peppered with surrealistic or magical-realistic touches–through thick and intoxicating grooves built on blues, Tex-Mex, cumbia, old-school funk or vintage rock ‘n’ roll. The Town and the City is a welcome blessing after the ill-focused and guest-heavy mess that was…
Police Dispatch
Gun-Toting Neighbors Corona De Tucson, Oct. 19, 7:40 p.m. A woman said her drunken neighbor came over to her house and threatened to settle an interfamily spat using his machine guns, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated. The report said the neighbors had previous encounters, because their children had bickered. In fact, they had…
Sporting Satire
The UA produces an enjoyable, if youthful, ‘How to Succeed in Business’
Pick of the Week
High Time for Low Tide
Tender Remembrances
Songs from William Finn’s life make for a poignant time with Arizona Onstage
