Soundbites
STARTER SET: Lucky for you, bummer for me: There’s so much stuff going on in Tucson music-wise these days that I simply don’t have enough space to rant and ramble like I normally do. That’s OK, though. Pretty soon we’ll hit another lull, and you’ll be begging me for a kneejerk diatribe titled Radiohead in…
Rhythm & Views
What do you get when you cross the diverse, equally strange musical paths of Drag City recording artists Bill Callahan (Smog), Neil Michael Hagerty (Royal Trux) and Edith Frost, along with Rian and Brendan Murphy and a few other Drag City scenesters? Why, the Drag City Supersession, of course. That’s right, kids, after three impressive…
The Doctor Will See You Now
A potent injection of fun-filled fear.
Desert Survivor
Creosote perseveres, even if it can’t drum up steady personnel.
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Box Set
Tucson artist enters a broader realm of recognition.
Trail Mix
Following the campaigns of the council candidates
Language Becomes Aesthetic
An ‘is’ is a ‘why’ in a minefield of art and words at TMA.
The Skinny
LIFE SUPPORT: What the hell is wrong with this community? Are we really willing to let both trauma centers simply shut down? The two centers, at Tucson Medical Center and University Medical Center, have been running a combined deficit of about $5 million. They’ve gone hat-in-hand to federal, local and state government, only to be…
Smog Alert
A onetime pioneer of the home-recorded, bedroom confessional, lo-fi movement that garnered so much underground media attention in the early-to-mid-’90s, Bill Callahan–nom de musique, Smog–has over the years morphed into one of the smartest, most underrated and most misunderstood songwriters around. Callahan’s early recordings (his first goes back to 1988) were choppy, fragmented segments of…
Sharkey Attack
The UA journalism head warns that if wartime press freedoms fall, yours may be next.
For the Birds
Don’t bother even taking your pet pigeon for lunch at La Placita Cafe.
Desert Dust
Outdoor pleasure-seekers advocate the gold standard.
Love, Art and Music
This reviewer doesn’t read ‘chick books.’
Slash and Learn?
UA budget cuts will mean crowded classes, unemployed instructors and a blow to the city’s economy.
Confessional Woes
A curmudgeon swims in the deep waters of the soul.
Solar Culture
Home tour shines on houses that use ample solar energy.
Stolen Kisses
The romance-comedy caper ‘Bandits’ gets a big, blurbable thumbs up! Sort of.
Open-door Policy
It may be hard to meet legitimately with elected officials, but if you’re up to no good in the County administration building, walk right in.
Pointing Fingers
Women stay with creeps because the world sucks.
Newsreel
The Tucson Weekly will be much more useful if you actually pay attention to what you’re reading here. Now, I understand that this rag doesn’t demand the concentration required by, say, a treatise deconstructing the novels of Thomas Pynchon. But some readers seem not to focus at all on the words that pass beneath their…
Cheap Thrills
Fun things to do that won’t cost a fortune.
