The Ongoing Censorship Fight
A note from the editor.
City Week
Big doings in Tucson this week.
Inferno Intoned
Local well-knowns read Dante with Michael Mazur’s art as a backdrop
Mailbag
Howls of outrage and squeals of delight from our astonished fans.
Mastery of Thackery
Despite poor cinematography,the latest ‘Vanity Fair’ version is one of the best
Border Tragedies
Luis Alberto Urrea captures the plight of migrants who die trying to enter the United States along the ‘Devil’s Highway’
The Runners-Up
More Project Censored stories
Trashy Pic
‘Paparazzi’ didn’t deserve to get released; it deserved to get peed on and left to rot
Top Ten in Books
Barnes and Noble Broadway’s hardcover fiction best sellers for the week ending Sept. 7, 2004 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown, Doubleday & Company ($24.95) The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom, Hyperion ($19.95) The Rule of Four Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, Dell Publishing ($24) Skinny Dip Carl Hiaasen, Alfred A. Knopf,…
Censored Stories, Your Ass
And now, a dissenting opinion
Now Showing at Home
“The Passion of the Christ,” “South Park: The Passion of the Jew,” “Freaks,” and “The Ladykillers”
Splendid Sauce
Legendary and delicious, moles are creations to savor
Project Censored’s Judges
The panel of judges for this year’s Project Censored
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending Sept. 5, 2004 Taking Lives Warner Brothers The Passion of the Christ Newmarket Kill Bill Vol. 2 Miramax Hidalgo Buena Vista Twisted Paramount The Butterfly Effect New Line Cinema Ella Enchanted Miramax Laws of Attraction New Line Godsend Lions Gate The Girl Next Door 20th Century Fox
Noshing Around
Terrazas The new, family-owned Chihuahua-style restaurant is located at the rear of 2030 E. Broadway Blvd. As of Sept. 15, the restaurant will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., but for now, it’s open at lunch with an all-you-can-eat buffet ($5.95) on Wednesday and Friday, serving chiles rellenos, steak picado, red and…
The Skinny
DIRTY 30 Looking for insightful analysis of the primary election? Well, you’re just gonna have to wait a week, because we’re pumping out this edition before all the votes are counted. But while we’re awaiting results, we can gnaw on the bones of some last-minute shenanigans in Southern Arizona’s most fascinating legislative race, the GOP…
Soundbites
COVER ME Attention, all local bands! The seventh annual Great Cover-Up is approaching, and we need your help to make it the biggest and bestest one yet. (Full disclosure: The event is primarily organized by Curtis McCrary, a frequent Weekly contributor, and myself, but neither of us make a dime off it–read on.) In case…
If Rocks Could Talk
National Park Service repairs Chiricahua trails seven decades after the Civilian Conservation Corps put them there
The New Instrument
Tony Furtado puts aside bluegrass in favor of singing his own songs
Censored 2005
The Top 25 censored stories
Rhythm & Views
The secret behind the Wayback Machine’s music–a hybrid of folk, rock, blues, country and what the kids today call “jam-band” music–is that it sounds as if it’s being played by a gang of friends gathered in a living room. That’s not an easy vibe to replicate in the studio. But the band, working with engineer…
Just In Case
Three years after Sept. 11, many Tucsonans remain unprepared for emergencies
Top Ten in Music
Hear’s Music top sales for the week ending Sept. 5, 2004 Mindy Smith One Moment More (Vanguard) Israel Kamakawiwo’ole Facing Future (Big Boy) Big Mama Thornton With the Muddy Waters Blues Band 1966 (Arhoolie) Al Perry Always a Pleasure (Addled) Jamie Cullum Twentysomething (Verve) Mutual Admiration Society Mutual Admiration Society (Sugar Hill) Bob Schneider I’m…
Tribal Poll Power
American Indians could decide tight races in key Western states, including Arizona
Nine Questions
Tom Walbank
The Simple Life
Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik mines the government-owned UA for votes
Disturbance in the Force
Bring on Tucson’s own Galactic Federation of Love
The Range
A recap of last week’s news
Live
Hank Topless, Plush, Monday, Sept. 6
Media Watch
Squelching at the ‘Star’
Rhythm & Views
It’s almost worth one last trip to the beach just to take along these collections, tailor-made for any iPod-challenged Tucsonan out of range of KXCI. Both No Depression magazine (for which I am a contributing editor) and the Americana Music Association have released top-notch disks, explaining themselves to the unenlightened. Nettwerk America’s compilation features artists…
Danehy
The U.S. men’s basketball team lost because they played bad basketball, a sign of how the NBA has lost its way
T Q&A
Tucson Q&A with Jana Segal of Reel Inspiration
What Lies Beneath
The kid steals the show in Wilde’s version of Mamet’s choppy ‘The Cryptogram’
Downing
Random thoughts on the Republican Convention, Abu Ghraib and John McCain
Police Dispatch
Stopped Drain West Bopp and South Kinney Roads, Aug. 19, 9:15 a.m. A businesswoman believed that a maintenance worker had stuffed dead pigeons in her store’s rain gutters, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report said. The woman said she suspected the pigeons had eaten poisoned seeds that had been placed on her roof, and then…
Evening-Long Breakdown
LTW’s ‘Angel Street’ doesn’t surprise, but as pure entertainment, it’s rock-solid
Guest Commentary
Whose stupid idea was the family vacation, anyway?
Pick
How to Make Voting Sexy 101
Phys-Pop
UA student Austin Given combines his school field with his art
