Media Watch
KMSB vs. Student Voters
Live
F5, Coconuts, Friday, Sept. 10
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with “Splash,” redux
Top Ten in Music
Zip’s Music & Video, Inc.’s top sales for the week ending Sept. 12, 2004 Ray Charles Genius Loves Company (Concord) Tim McGraw Live Like You Were Dying (Curb) Insane Clown Posse Hells Pit (Psychopathic) R. Kelly Happy People/U Saved Me (Jive) Alan Jackson What I Do (Arista) Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand (Epic) Boyz II Men…
Police Dispatch
Home Sweet Armory East Fort Lowell Road and North Alvernon Way, Aug. 25, 12:14 p.m. According to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report, a man had a small stockpile of weaponry stolen from the homemade tent he lives in. The report listed a .38-caliber nickel-plated handgun with a black, pearl handle and 300 rounds of…
Flying Anew
The Tucson Art Theatre makes a comeback with the help of veteran actor Ken Ruta
Pick
A Window Into Hawaiian Culture
Luminarias del Pueblo
A new public art project will light up Tucson’s winter nights
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Every Death Matters
Kate Breakey immortalizes the dead of the desert in ‘Small Deaths’
Danehy
A dieter’s worst nightmare: Hearing the word ‘discontinued’
A Giant Burrito of Sorrow
Vincent Gallo’s drive across America proves to be a good-looking, albeit occasionally sucky experience
Ridiculous Rayna
Someone needs to inject the lead character of ‘Chasing Rayna’ with a dose of intelligence
Tuttle
A Tucson September doesn’t mean the start of autumn; it means the start of the non-season
Decent Reception
‘Cellular’ is implausible, but good performances and solid direction put it over the top
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best sellers for the week ending Sept. 12, 2004 Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to “No Child Left Behind” Ken Goodman, Patrick Shannon, Roger Rapoport, Yetta Goodman, RDR Books ($16.95) Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich, Owl Books ($13) Sleeping With Schubert: A…
Guest Commentary
Want to stop DUIs? It’s about prevention, people
Top Ten in Movies
Zip’s Music & Video, Inc.’s top rentals for the week ending Sept. 12, 2004 Twisted Paramount Jersey Girl Miramax The Ladykillers Touchstone The Punisher Lions Gate The Passion of the Christ Newmarket The Girl Next Door 20th Century Fox Godsend Lions Gate Laws of Attraction New Line Taking Lives Warner Brothers Ella Enchanted Miramax
Professional and Familial
Conti’s brings back fond memories of the food your Italian family used to make
Voting While Ignorant
A note from the editor.
Now Showing at Home
“Mr. Show: The Complete Fourth Season,” “Hardcore,” and “Dawn of the Dead: The Ultimate Edition”
Noshing Around
Bumsted’s Local owner Jonathan Monahan has a sense of nostalgic humor when it comes to the Sunday funnies and food. He named his new restaurant Bumsted’s, after Dagwood’s propensity for big sandwiches. Bumsted’s serves family-friendly American food with a touch of class using the freshest of ingredients. It’s located next to Chocolate Iguana at 500…
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Foreign Departures
The Mendoza Line’s ‘Fortune’ takes an ambiguous look at outsiders’ perspectives of the United States
Welcome to PANdemonium
How the Protect Arizona Now initiative could ensnare the state in a legal quagmire
Soundbites
THIS ALBUM’S A KNOCKOUT Another fall week in Tucson, another CD release party. But this isn’t just any CD release party, nor is the disc being pimped like just another CD. It’s the new joint by The Knockout Pills, who confirm the suspicions we had following the band’s self-titled debut from last year: The K.O.…
The Cancer Battle
Twin forums this weekend in Tucson and Sierra Vista focus on childhood leukemia
Rhythm & Views
This all-girl art project from the United Kingdom nearly blew the tent down at the South by Southwest Music Conference earlier this year with a set devoted mostly to their warp-speed, post-punk soundscapes. That sound has more context in their second, full-length CD, The Power Out, which introduces vocals into the mix, albeit subversively, and…
Addressing Hunger
Local leaders plan a summit to discuss how to lessen hunger in Pima County
Nine Questions
Charlotte Lowe Bailey
Organic Planning
Facing declining sales and competition from national chains, the Food Conspiracy co-op thinks about the future
Band on the Bus
The High Strung are neither high nor strung; discuss
The Skinny
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS So who was the biggest winner in last week’s primary election? That would have to be Congressman Jim Kolbe, simply because he had the most at stake and he did such a convincing job of knocking challenger Randy Graf’s dick in the dirt with his 15-point win. What’s next for Graf? Well,…
Rhythm & Views
Even as the summer storms fade into memory, the sound of emotional monsoons still resonates in the music of local Americana torch singer Cathy Rivers. Her second CD, a delectable six-song affair, is a sultry collection that’ll haunt the same listeners who dig Calexico and the Nick Luca Trio; members of both appear on it.…
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Rhythm & Views
Imagine if you will, a punky Nancy Sinatra crooning a duet with tweaked impresario Lee Hazlewood to the accompaniment of My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult, and you’ll have some idea of the electronic twang decadence stirred up by this pleasantly twisted trio from the desert of Joshua Tree, Calif. To make the mix…
