Look! Over There!
On the right, below the recent comments. It’s another fresh issue of the Tucson Weekly. Go read it now! Please?
Last Chance to Give Someone/Something the Boot
Hey, everyone. This is your last chance to participate in the Weekly’s upcoming Get Out of Town! edition. While my last post about this got a few incomprehensible screeds intriguing comments, we did not get very many — and one of the few good suggestions is already being done by a staffer. So … if…
Community Food Bank Needs Volunteers
‘Tis the time of the season when a lot of people need a lot of things. The Community Food Bank has an urgent need for volunteers to help sort food and prepare emergency food baskets for the needy. This is an excellent opportunity for community groups, neighborhood associations, church groups, and individuals or families who want…
Million-Dollar Starbuck
Though I never had a doubt, my Viper crew was a little skeptical about the promos for last night’s Battlestar Galactica episode, “Unfinished Business.” “Boxing?” Athena asked. “That sounds stupid,” added Helo. Oh ye of little faith. “Unfinished Business” was centered around a series of bloody boxing matches, but the real meat of the episode…
Anyone Need a Donkey?
I just got this email from my husband that I just have to share with y’all: Is anybody in need of a donkey and also happen to have a gas golf cart that they are willing to trade for it? If so, then this is your lucky day …
Gone Fishin’
Boy, I like fish tacos these days. Yum! My favorites can be found at Pastiche and El Charro–bahia-style, flour tortillas, sauce on the side. A smokin’ bargain can be found Tuesdays at Rubio’s, when a fish taco can be had for just one buck, but I’d rather have ’em without the breading. Anyway, looking for…
Yet Another Santa Ritas Postponement
I am now informed that the County Board of Supes agenda item on the Santa Ritas has been postponed until Jan. 16, 2007. In the meantime, call your supe and tell them to take a stand against this.
Tucson Missing Greyhounds Investigation Continues
Rick Favreau who hauled 100 to 200 greyhounds away most likely to their death was supposed to be at the AZ Dept of Racing hearing (via phone) on November 29. He didn’t show and his phone has been disconnected. What a surprise! According to the two most recent articles this week in the Arizona Daily…
What’s in a Name?
John Schuster, the Weekly’s intrepid Media Watch guy, reported in this week’s issue that the Arizona Daily Star management issued an internal memo about clamping down on avoidable errors in stories, such as misspelled names. You can imagine my surprise, then, when I found a Nov. 26 article on Bookmans that was replete with so-called…
An Extra Week to Save the Santa Ritas
According to a post-deadline e-mail from Patrick Cavanaugh, in Supervisor Ann Day’s office, the Rosemont mine item on the Board’s agenda has been continued until Dec. 12. That gives you an extra week to make your opinions on the issue heard. But don’t wait. Go to the phones now!
Political Foreplay
This website brings new meaning to “Screw the country, W!”
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Live a Little is in many ways a backwards Pernice Brothers record. First of all, it reaches back to singer/songwriter Joe Pernice’s Scud Mountain Boys days; it’s a little bit country, what with the organ and guitar solo at the end of “Somerville” and the mostly acoustic “PCH One,” as well as the inclusion of…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Cory Martin
Rhythm & Views
This three-fer CD features six tracks by Andrew Jackson Jihad (Phoenix), four by Flaspar (Las Vegas) and 10 by Tucson’s own Golden Boots. The AJJ tracks are cheeky, provocative blasts of anarcho-bluegrass and should be handled with care. Flaspar kind of sound like The Cure if they recorded for Kill Rock Stars and had a…
Police Dispatch
A Room With A View Unincorporated Pima County, Oct. 30, 8:50 a.m. A woman told the Pima County Sheriff’s Department that a man–living in a pickup truck in her neighbor’s yard, just outside her widow–often urinated in plain view. The woman said the man caused her dogs to frequently bark and would not use the…
Top Ten in Music
CD City’s top sales for the week
Pick of the Week
Splinter Rebirth
Heartwarming Holidays
The Gaslight’s Christmas show is lively, but lacking the usual laughs
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Burleigh’s Greatest Hits
Chamber Music Plus and Louis Gossett Jr. give a forgotten singer his due
Danehy
There’s a story behind the Canyon Del Oro Academic Decathlon T-shirts
Hold Your Organs Close
‘Turistas’ is beautifully shot, well-paced and vaguely racist
Dance Departures
O-T-O marks a year of change with a show featuring ‘Short Stories’
O’Sullivan
Mexicans are just the latest victims of a long human history of scapegoating
Horrors of Hype
‘For Your Consideration’ should get Oscar buzz itself
Dueling Nutcrackers
Ballet Tucson, Tucson Regional Ballet and others prepare to perform that holiday classic
Guest Commentary
Some post-election headlines I’d like to see
Now Showing at Home
“An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder,” “Strangers With Candy,” and “The Green Mile: Two-Disc Special Edition”
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Save the Santa Ritas
A note from the editor.
Indie Watch
What’s happening in the world of independent film in Tucson.
Dream Destroyed
‘The Peruvian Notebooks’ offers rewards for those who deal with the author’s complex, confusing approach
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Dining Therapy
The charming Bistro at Las Candelas has an irresistible sincerity–and plenty of open seating
Godless in Tucson
Atheists–the least-trusted group in America–speak out
The Revolution Continues
Public Enemy continue fighting the powers that be
Noshing Around
Coffee, Culture and Community The recently opened El Ojito Springs Center for Creativity and Coffeehouse serves up free-trade coffee and organic food daily. Most nights, there’s live music, poetry or an open mic. And coming soon will be plays and art exhibits at 452 S. Stone Ave.; 624-4800. The coffee house is open Monday through…
Restricting Restrictions
Proposition 207 could limit county efforts to suppress development around Davis-Monthan
Soundbites
DOUBLE DUTY FUNDRAISER BOOTY Two local, time-tested fundraising events head our way this week–offering chances for all of us to feel good about giving while getting some fine musical entertainment in return. First up is the annual Calexico holiday show, which is marking a couple of changes this time around. For starters, this year’s event…
Catnip for Addicts
Rescuers worry people who can’t help themselves may get all the pets they desire
If It Moves You
Mindy Smith refuses to be tagged with country, Christian-music labels
Stop a War 101
Vietnam anti-war leaders worry the Democrats, again, may not be up to the job of stopping the war
Nine Questions
Diane Van Deurzen
The Skinny
A STATELY PLEASURE DOME Now that they’re flush with all that Rio Nuevo money, the Tucson City Council has to decide whether to build that downtown arena, which could cost anywhere from $100 million to $200 million. Of course, that $200 million option would place it on a bridge over Interstate 10. We kid, we…
Live
Mates of State, Asobi Seksu, Club Congress, Sunday, Nov. 26
Media Watch
‘Star’ Takes Hard Line on Avoidable Errors
Rhythm & Views
Thanks in part to Yogi Berra, Westerners are familiar with the Zen koan, which often refutes logical understanding but is accessible via intuition. In the first line of the opening track on his latest album, Ziggy Marley establishes a koan-like tone for the rest of the work. The simple becomes substantial. Although the tune shares…
