Oct 20-26, 2005

Oct 20-26, 2005 / Vol. 22 / No. 34

Soundbites

JAMALOT Though I’ll freely–and proudly–cop to being a fan of the Grateful Dead, the bulk of bands that has followed in its wake–the legion of so-called jam bands–leaves me largely unimpressed. There are many mysteries surrounding the jam band circuit (how did it become the province of both the great unwashed masses and gelled-haired packs…

Stephen Seigel

Live

Iron and Wine, Calexico, Salvador Duran, Tim Rutilli, Rialto Theatre, Saturday, October 15

Stephen Seigel

Now Showing at Home

“Titanic: Special Collector’s Edition,” “Arrested Development: Season Two,” and “Pink Floyd in Their Own Words: Reflections on The Wall”

Bob Grimm

Noshing Around

We’ve Got Rhythmmm Recently opened, Rhythmmm bills itself as having “American food from around the world.” Managing partner Tom Heath has been in the restaurant field for the past 20 years and owning his own restaurant is a dream coming true. Rhythmmm comfortably seats 45 and is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. serving…

Karyn Zoldan

The Skinny

FOLLOW THE MONEY The latest campaign reports are in for the Tucson City Council races, even if we’re the only ones who care about such inconsequential details of the campaigns. Here’s the scoop: GOP candidates Fred Ronstadt and Kathleen Dunbar, who have declined to participate in the city’s matching-funds program, had raised less money than…

Jim Nintzel

Rhythm & Views

Bands with the word “wolf” in their name, or any variant thereof, can be expected to be somewhat ferocious, or at least conniving. Wolf Parade, though, makes an almost comic image out of the archetypal wolf (picture wolves waving from decorated floats), and the music follows suit. In Where the Wild Things Are fashion, Wolf…

Annie Holub

Rhythm & Views

Thad Cockrell’s clear tenor breaks and cracks, raspy and real. Caitlin Cary’s silky alto floats around and through it, like oil on troubled waters. This duo promises to “put the hurt back into country,” and it delivers. The two met years ago through Cary’s husband, Skillet Gillmore, an original member of Whiskeytown with Cary and…

Linda Ray

Rhythm & Views

You haven’t heard Coldplay’s “Clocks” until you’ve heard it as performed by the chamber-pop ensemble Twelve Girls Band, a Chinese group that features–you guessed it–12 girls playing pop and folk tunes in a New Age-meets-art rock setting on traditional Chinese instruments. Although I’m hardly what you’d call a Coldplay fanatic, the Twelve Girls impressively replicate…

Gene Armstrong

Police Dispatch

Right in the Kisser UA Area, Oct. 7, 8:01 p.m. A traffic-control arm at a parking garage clobbered a man in the face, a University of Arizona Police Department report said. The man told police an attendant raised the arm at the Tyndall Avenue Garage, 880 E. Fourth St., and waved him in. He said…

Saxon Burns

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