A Whole New Issue
Yes, it’s Wednesday afternoon, and that means the new edition of the Weekly is online! Have at it in the right-hand column!
Your Wednesday Morning News Update
— Russell Pearce has done it again! — KOLD has named a new female anchor. According to this not-so-live, yet somewhat local and late-breaking, press release: KOLD NEWS 13 COMBS NATION FOR NEW ANCHOR, BEST CHOICE ALREADY ON PAYROLL Familiar KOLD NEWS 13 THIS MORNING anchor Heather Rowe promoted to 6:00PM and 10:00PM anchor, Monday,…
Star Props
Everyone knows we here at the Weekly blog like to smack around the Arizona Daily Star. It’s, y’know, our job. So it’s only fair that we give them accolades when they do something superb. And that’s a fitting way to describe Greg Hansen’s column today, in which he takes the UA to task for not…
Taste of Tucson Culinary Festival
I also was invited to some of the delicious festivities put on by the Tucson Originals. I went to the Grand Tasting on Saturday night and it was indeed grand. After an exhausting day of early morning volunteerism, I dragged myself to the Grand Tasting, and it was well worth it, but I paced myself…
It Was a Weekend
Ya ever wander into the office on a Monday more exhausted than you were when you left on Friday? This morning, I am feeling your pain. Don’t get me wrong; it’s a good pain. This was one of the most fun and event-filled weekends I have ever experienced. First, I was privileged enough to attend…
Your Southern Arizona Mark Foley Angle
Can be found right here.
Your Friday Morning News Update
— So this new publisher will probably come in and force the Los Angeles Times to make cuts, and the paper will suffer in quality. And then readers will leave the paper; circulation will decline, and ad sales will go down, and newspaper execs will scratch their heads and wonder why all this is happening.…
Public Service Announcement
Hey, folks: If you call the Weekly (or any publication, for that matter) with a story idea, and you leave us a message asking us to call you back … you may want to leave your phone number. It would be very helpful.
Iraq: Point Taken
REB 84 makes a good point when he comments that as Americans keep dying in Iraq, the media is overly obsessed with Mark Foley. While I disagree with REB 84’s implication that the Foley mess is not newsworthy—it’s VERY newsworthy, especially the fact that the Republican leadership had at least an inkling of what was…
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Thing of Beauty
Joseph McGrath has turned a bloated poem into a compelling theatrical production
Danehy
Join Tom Danehy at Sunday’s AIDSWALK
Pick of the Week
Wild Art
Galleries Galore
Downtown-area galleries welcome fall with a Saturday night open house
Downing
Fall is here, and it’s time to say goodbye
Lacking Laughs
Jon Heder bores and Billy Bob Thornton repeats himself in the lackluster ‘School for Scoundrels’
Back to Life
Earl Ganz tells a fictionalized tale about a real Taos novelist in the ’30s
Guest Commentary
It may not be the majors, but city-league softball provides participants a measure of glory
‘Up’ With People
In showing the ongoing lives of regular people, Michael Apted has made a film that’s incredibly sad
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Crawl, BOT and Downing
A note from the editor.
Now Showing at Home
“A Nightmare on Elm Street (Two-Disc Infinifilm Special Edition),” “SCTV: Best of the Early Years,” and “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (2-Disc Ultimate Edition)”
Intelligent Italian
Whether you want a quick lunch or a nice weekend dinner, Caffe Milano will delight
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Noshing Around
Busboy Saves Customer’s Life Lance Sauber, an aspiring firefighter, gave customer service a new meaning when he took advantage of his recent emergency medical technician (EMT) training to dislodge a piece of trapped food in order to save the life of George Holley, owner of Barbecues Galore. Only four days earlier, Sauber had started his…
The Skinny
CHANGE CAN WAIT We love our incumbents, if the latest Cronkite-Eight poll is to be believed. (But can we really believe the libs at Maricopa County’s PBS affiliate, KAET-TV, and Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication?) Gov. Janet Napolitano was leading Republican Len Munsil by a stunning 36 percentage points.…
Rap Revolution
Self-deprecating Pigeon John is not your typical hip-hop artist
Halftime Report
New poll: Giffords leads Graf by more than two touchdowns–and a field goal!
Seksu Back
NYC’s Asobi Seksu look beyond their shoes
Change or Status Quo?
A teenager hopes to defeat one of two TUSD board incumbents
Soundbites
DON’T MISS! For starters, here’s the obligatory mention that the Weekly-sponsored Fall Club CrawlTM is going down on Saturday, Oct. 7, at venues and stages all over downtown Tucson and Fourth Avenue. Since there’s a giant rundown of all things Crawl elsewhere in this issue, I won’t waste space here going into details. You know…
Decisions, Decisions ’06
The ‘Tucson Weekly’ Editorial Board is here to tell you how to vote!
Nine Questions
Gary Bear
Hogwash or Humanity?
Is outlawing gestation crates for pigs the first step toward a meat-free world?
Live
Nina Nastasia, Loch Lomond, Marianne Dissard, and Pearl Handled Pistol, Plush, Friday, Sept 29
Fire Fight
Will outsourcing place forests at risk?
Rhythm & Views
Be warned: This is not really a new New York Dolls album (original members Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan and Arthur “Killer” Kane are all dead). And out of respect, surviving singer David Johansen and guitarist Syl Sylvain would be better suited plugging this as a solo album by the rubber-mouthed, gravelly voiced frontman. But with…
Media Watch
Former Wildcat Glenn Parker Tries to Turn Tide at 1290
Rhythm & Views
If you’re a TV on the Radio fan, chances are pretty good that you’ve been churning this album for quite some time, despite the fact that Interscope just recently got off their asses to release it in America–after all, it’s been available abroad since July and floating around in cyberspace for what seems like eons.…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Jimmy LaValle’s mostly instrumental project The Album Leaf makes the kind of music that sounds simultaneously modern and primordial–intensely familiar, yet startlingly new, earthy and ethereal. It’s perfect, then, that LaValle recorded Into the Blue Again, The Album Leaf’s fourth full-length, in a modernized barn, and then went to Iceland for mixing–if you need a…
Police Dispatch
Target Practice Orange Grove and Oracle Roads, Sept. 11, 12:24 a.m. A woman accused her neighbor of throwing a beer bottle up at her while she was standing on her apartment balcony, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. The woman showed a deputy a large red mark on her arm and a broken bottle near…
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Lina Easom
All About Flow
Dance and mime come together for three evening performances at Reid Park
