Oct 6-12, 2005

Oct 6-12, 2005 / Vol. 22 / No. 32

The Skinny

SURVEY SAYS … A couple weeks back, The Skinny predicted that religious conservatives would have an easy time persuading voters to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and all other forms of civil unions. A recent poll by Maricopa County PBS affiliate KAET-TV suggests otherwise, though we’ll remain skeptical until we see the results…

Jim Nintzel

Noshing Around

All That Raz Raz Restaurant opens this week serving modern Riviera cuisine–a fusion of foods from Greece, Italy and France–at 1929 E. Grant Road. Formerly in the space of the demolished Yankee Doodle Pizza, Raz was rebuilt from the ground up and is considered “upscale casual” (whatever that means). Direct from the Wynn Resort in…

Karyn Zoldan

Soundbites

LOCAL MUSIC HEAVEN The handy 12-page pullout located between pages 44 and 45 of this issue should provide you with all the info you need about this weekend’s Weekly-sponsored Fall Club CrawlTM 2005, taking place mostly on Congress Street in the downtown area, on the night of Saturday, Oct. 8. So, we’ll just take a…

Stephen Seigel

It’s Time to Crawl!

OK, let’s face facts here: Fall in Tucson doesn’t mean much. Maybe a drop down to sub-triple-digit temperatures, an influx of lots of people both young and old (that’s students and snowbirds, respectively) and the resulting traffic jams that come with ’em. But there is one meaningful thing that the fall brings to Tucson: an…

Tucson Weekly Staff

Club Crawl Venue Lineup

CD City Stage 8 — Central Park West 9 — Nowhere Man 10 — Ember Coast 11 — Camp Courageous 12 — PH8 AVA Stage 8 — Swampbox 9 — The Wyatts 10 — The Deludes 11 — Billy Bacon and the Forbidden Pigs 12 — Sunday Afternoon KRQ Stage 8 — Doubletop 9 –…

Tucson Weekly Staff

Club Crawl Event Lineup

CD City Stage 8 p.m.: Central Park West 9 p.m.: Nowhere Man 10 p.m.: Ember Coast 11 p.m.: Camp Courageous Midnight: Ph8 Things kick off at the CD City Stage at 8 p.m. , as Central Park West do their jazz-fusion thang, just prior to the classy pop goodness of Nowhere Man at 9 p.m.…

Tucson Weekly Staff

Rhythm & Views

You may already have heard Laura Cantrell’s music on your favorite local radio station, but you may not know that only a couple thousand miles keep her from being your favorite disc jockey. In her dozen years as a popular fixture on the New York area’s WFMU, she’s rediscovered and promoted a wide range of…

Linda Ray

Police Dispatch

Graphic Graffiti UA Area, Sept. 27, 4:18 p.m. The latest in a series of anti-Bush defacements at the University of Arizona depicted a head labeled “Pat Robertson” performing oral sex on a man, a UA Police Department report said. A custodian said someone used a black permanent marker on a wall inside a men’s restroom…

Saxon Burns

Rhythm & Views

Over the years, Portastatic, Mac McCaughan’s side project, has grown from a lo-fi solo thing into Superchunk: Version 2, incorporating classic Superchunk rock with country twang and a few songs that fall somewhere in between. Bright Ideas was recorded at Tiny Telephone studios with Tim Mooney; it has Mac’s brother Matthew playing drums and Superchunk’s…

Annie Holub

Rhythm & Views

And it came to pass that in the suburban American garages of the 1960s and early ’70s, young musical prophets forged the initial earthshaking sounds of nascent punk and psychedelic music. And God heard that it was good. And it further came to pass that in the waning years of the 20th century, a musical…

Gene Armstrong

Danehy

Did you like the Best of Tucson™?” Well, brace yourself for the Best of Tom™!

Tom Danehy

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