Our Picks
A note from the editor.
Best Foot Forward
Richard Gere takes on a role requiring plenty of ballroom
Pipe Dreams
Despite border dangers, there’s still serenity to be found at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Now Showing at Home
“Ed Wood,” “The Shawshank Redemption: 10th Anniversary,” and “Dawn of the Dead: Unrated Director’s Cut”
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best sellers for the week ending Oct. 15, 2004 Isabella Greenway: an Enterprising Woman Kristie Miller, University of Arizona Press ($24.95) Billionaires for Bush: How to Rule the World for Fun and Profit Thurston Howell, Phil T. Rich, Avalon Publishing Group ($11.95) Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire Arundhati Roy, South End Press ($12)…
Races That Matter
Tucson Weekly Endorsements 2004
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending Oct. 17, 2004 The Day after Tomorrow 20th Century Fox Faherenheit 9/11 IFC Films Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Samuel Goldwyn Films Super Size Me Samuel Goldwyn Films Envy Dreamworks Coffee and Cigarettes United Artists Mean Girls Paramount Raising Helen Buena Vista Saved! MGM Fahrenhype 9/11…
Making Salsa Dance
Guadalajara Grill spoils its guests, not the food
Sheep Suit
The state may finally dun the developer responsible for destroying a quarter of a bighorn herd
Jimmy Eat World
A Jimmy Eat World article that does not contain the word “emo”
Noshing Around
Café Ramey Newly opened in the former Red Sky Café at 1661 N. Swan Road, Café Ramey has an ambitious schedule–it serves breakfast, lunch and dinner six days a week and brunch on Sunday. Owner Patti Dugan recommends the banquet facilities for holiday parties; 319-2600. Mina’s Thai Two months ago, when the city put the…
TUSD Toss-Up
Eight candidates vie for three hot seats on the board of the city’s largest, most turbulent school district
Van Der Slice Generator
Caught between a plot and a rock place
Bad Credit
TUSD proposal backers are hoping to catch the caboose of the county voters’ bond gravy train
American Healing
After a decade apart, the members of American Music Club are together again, tighter than ever
It’s a Wash
Despite TUSD stalling, the county has big plans for Arroyo Chico
Soundbites
THE POOR GET POORER Any time we decide to expand our music section for a given week–as we have this one–you can take it as an indication that there’s an abundance of worthwhile live shows hitting town. My friends, I certainly hope your wallets and pocketbooks are overflowing with disposable income because, as Chris Farley’s…
A Controversial Career
Despite lawsuits, U.S. District Court Judges, angry parents — and more — Ireland says he hasn’t preached to the choir
Nine Questions
Marianne Dissard
The Skinny
CALIFORNIA DREAMING Tucson City Manager James Keene has told Mayor Bob Walkup and the city council to “take this job and shove it,” calling it quits after four years in the top post. Is this a case of Keene walking before they make him run? Keene is telling the media that the move is purely…
Live
Earlimart, The Solace Brothers and The Shore, Plush, Monday, Oct. 4, 2004
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
In 2002, after the release of Turn on the Bright Lights, pretty much every independent music magazine had a big crush on Interpol. They couldn’t stop raving about the Joy Division-esque sound of Daniel Kessler’s vocals and guitar phrasings; “Oh, how sexy and cool they sound,” said the critics. “Listen to the way his post-punk…
Media Watch
Desperate Times
Rhythm & Views
During the early-to-mid 1990s, Helmet was one of the most promising hard rock bands. Two albums later, facing the outbreak of nu-metal, Helmet called it quits in 1998. Fast forward to the present day, when nu-metal is slowly dying out and pure, hard-rock music is slowly returning. Helmet frontman Page Hamilton has resurrected his monster…
Police Dispatch
Socking a Senior East Sunrise Drive and North Swan Road, Oct. 3, 10:32 a.m. A burly 33-year-old man insisted it was “mutual combat” between him and an elderly male motorist that resulted in a split lip for the latter, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report said. The 65-year-old motorist said the approximately 6-foot-tall, 200-pound man…
Rhythm & Views
Campo Bravo’s Electric Jumping Horses is, like most Tucson records, a fascinating blend of characters that translates into good music. Mark Matos is one of those characters; he’s lived all over the place, is Portuguese and–according to the Campo Bravo bio–unsuccessfully tried his hand at bullfighting. Unlike bullfighting, Electric Jumping Horses is quiet, lo-fi and…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Stan Hilkemeyer of the Beacon Group
Nothing to Sneeze At
Intellectual pretension and the nothingness of being play for laughs in Allergist’s Wife
Danehy
Spittle, spin, spinelessness, spermicide: just another week of TV
Pick
Information Salvation
Wigging Out
The Rivals remains frivolous fun more than two centuries later
Downing
Zen, politics and the Australian crawl
I Heart Hegel
David O. Russell delivers a comedy that gets both philosophy and funny business right
Boy Trouble
Two plays opening next week find adventure–domestic and exotic–swirling around disabled sons
Guest Commentary
One thing unites liberals and conservatives: loud, ugly, moronic confrontation
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Top Ten in Music
Hear’s Music top sales for the week ending Oct. 17, 2004 Israel Kamakawiwo’ole Facing Future (Big Boy) Mindy Smith One Moment More (Vanguard) Carbon Leaf Indian Summer (Vanguard) Mutual Admiration Society Mutual Admiration Society (Sugar Hill) Nickel Creek Nickel Creek (Sugar Hill) Al Perry Always a Pleasure (AddLed) Bob Schneider I’m Good Now (Shockorama) Wayback…
