If You, Like This Issue, Were Born on Sept. 18, It Would (Almost) Be Your Birthday
The new issue is here, online and ready for your perusal. Feel free to comment on its contents here! As for extras … the Mexican is on what could become a permanent YouTube strike, and Dan’s too busy being a pundit to do any Savage Love extras as of late. Thus, all I can offer…
‘Star Wars’ Help Out Make a Wish
Passers-by like Richard and Aubryanna Lopez stopped to get their picture taken with some hard-core Star Wars fans dressed in movie accurate costumes for a fundraiser for the Make a Wish Foundation this weekend. “We’re bad guys doing good things,” said Chris Jackson, who was dressed as Jango Fett. The local Star Wars fans are…
Tina Does Palin!
In case you’re one of the three people on the planet who have not seen it yet … SNL redeemed itself this weekend, and gave America what we wanted–Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin. It was lovely.
Palin Fatigue … Maybe
Some in blog-land are talking about Palin fatigue, tired of the endless barage of “Sarah did this” and “Sarah did that,” with little attention on McCain and the issues. But a recent op-ed by Katha Pollitt in The Nation brings up some questions we need to ask her, and some final things we need to…
Guilt Always Works
See more funny videos at Funny or Die Is this what’s going to happen to us come November? If some Sept. 11 video at the RNC doesn’t scare us, perhaps a little guilt will work just fine.
The Hasselhoff
My friend Leighton recently put David Hasselhoff’s social network site on his Facebook page. Now that David Hasselhoff’s daughter is at the UA and we’ll be seeing the Hoff around town more often, shouldn’t we all join his social network page? Shouldn’t we?
I Am a Potato … Yep, I Am
Was this Rita Pavone ditty sponsored by the U.S. Potato Commission? Don’t care. Dance anyway. I recommend pretending there’s a potato sitting next to you. Seems to work well for Rita, too.
Feist Does Sesame Street
I curse the day my son stopped watching Sesame Street!
Woof
I want to point out this interesting (?) little piece from Vice magazine on French photographer Erwan Fichou’s pictures of people who’ve made sweaters from dog wool. I am not sure how these sweaters would feel in the January desert–or even if I’d want to wear a sweater made from the hair of dawgs.
Fight to Be Heard
While Republicans gestured inside, police stole the streets from the people
Listen, Then Dance
Ratatat takes in global influences to create their own blend of electronic and rock
¡Ask a Mexican!
‘Pachuco’ origins, y mas.
Soundbites
THE STEVE SEIGEL RECOMMENDS THIS SHOW While it’s never funny and pretty much always creepy when a person refers to himself in the third person (see Suede from Project Runway), it’s almost always funny when a person puts the word “the” in front of his name. For an example of the latter, look no further…
International Collections
UMC turns Mexican creditors over to the feds
Nine Questions
Billups Allen
The Skinny
SCRAMBLEWATCH ’08: PRIMARY-AFTERMATH EDITION Questions and answers in the wake of last week’s primary election: • What was the big takeaway in the legislative races? Conservatives ruled. In almost every local race in GOP districts, the most conservative candidates carried the day. In the GOP primary for the Legislative District 26 Senate seat, Republican Al…
Live
Tim Finn, Amy Rude, Club Congress, Sunday, Sept. 7
Media Watch
KSAZ Hopes to Fill Tucson’s Country Void
Rhythm & Views
Adam Marsland performs with Cheepness and Redlands at 9:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 12, at O’Malley’s, 247 N. Fourth Ave. $5; 623-8600.
Museum Money
The UA’s soon-to-be-built science center looks for ways to balance the books
Rhythm & Views
A new era and a new social climate can sometimes restore meaning and depth to a song long taken for granted. Such is the case for folk-rock legend Richie Havens’ amazing interpretation of The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” a standout track on his 30th album. It’s a mostly acoustic track, with somber cello weaving…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
In more than one song on this Tucson-based band’s hard-as-nails debut CD, singer Bricktop Brent invokes variations on the universal punk sentiment: “We don’t care.” But Bricktop cares about a lot: drinking, fighting, riding motorcycles and, above all, making brutal but catchy punk rock. The Bricktop sound is built on the twin-guitar attack of Tony…
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Joe Heller
Top Ten in Music
Zia Records top sales for the week
Police Dispatch
The Faucets Have Ears East Orange Grove Road, Aug. 15, 9:13 a.m. An apartment-dwelling man awoke one morning to find an unknown woman locked in his bathroom talking to his bathroom fixtures, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Deputies reported to the residence and heard sobbing coming from the bathroom. The bathroom door…
The Desert Shines
The Triangle L Ranch’s annual celebration of the moon and light returns for another art-filled year
Danehy
Ignore the idiot bloggers: A politician’s religion, wealth and old traffic violations aren’t important
City Week
Our top picks of what to do and where to do it for the week.
Large and Loud–Plus Mimes!
Local performing artists show off works in progress to help pay the rent
Messina
Follow Glenda Bonin’s lead: Opine less, and tell more stories
Pick of the Week
No Bystanders Allowed
In Crisis
Two local theater productions each spotlight a character dealing with loss
Guest Commentary
Libraries are unsuccessfully trying to be all things to all people
Tension With Dimension
Alfred Hitchcock himself would be proud of ‘Transsiberian’ and its mysterious, deceptive ways
The Cowboy Way
J.P.S. Brown’s ‘Wolves at Our Door’ is everything that most Western books are not: gripping and real
‘The Media’? No Such Thing
A note from the editor.
See Nicolas Mope
This listless remake of a 1999 Thai film lacks substance and excitement
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Missing Ingredients
Ristorante Italia fails the details test
Listener-Funded
After a close call that jeopardized its existence, UA student radio station KAMP looks to expand
Now Showing at Home
“Heroes: Season 2,” “Transformers (Blu-Ray),” “The Promotion,” and “Recount”
Noshing Around
Tucson Culinary Festival Taste, savor and enjoy the four days of events from Oct. 23-26, starting with the margarita championship and going all the way through the reserve tasting, the grand tasting and the brunch/Copper Chef cook-off. The margarita event is slated to be held at the Historic Train Depot downtown, with the rest of…
The Chiricahua Corridor
Drug-trafficking and crime victimize residents and destroy the environment along the Southern Arizona-New Mexico border
Keep Your Esophagus Safe
Dr. Dog bring their past-meets-present psychedelic pop to Tucson
