WildLife Articles
Festival sheds light on local talent
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Downtown Saturday Nights used to be a big deal. Back in the '90s, people would peruse local booths, get drunk and sleep in their car until they were sober enough to drive home. This year, the Downtown Tucson Partnership is bringing stranded spring breakers a similar event with a more wholesome goal: to build community.
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Duke Ellington Orchestra - The title is kind of misleading because the leader of this orchestra is not Duke, but his grandson Paul Ellington. So I guess this group is more like a tribute band, except without all the makeup. 7:30-10 p.m. $27 to $32. Fox Theatre, 17 W.
Grab bag
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Timberlakian 'tact' "That is what Madonna will always be to us. The shot in the ass when we really need it." That was part of Justin Timberlake's speech he gave Monday night when Madonna was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Among other things, the speech was slightly, if not entirely, dumb.
Not your typical rapper
artist profile
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There's an old fable in which a boy raises a bull calf. He carries it every day and as it grows he becomes stronger, so that by the time it's an adult, he can support all of the bull's weight. This is how Minneapolis hip-hop artist Brother Ali said he learned to rap.
Rich field of music explored through new 'Soundscapes'
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The music of a piano can only achieve new sounds when it collides with the waves of electronics - live electronics, that is. The UA School of Music will present "Soundscapes: New Music, Piano and Electronics" tonight at 7, featuring faculty musician and pianist Michael Dauphinais with guest artist Stephan Moore, a sound designer and audio artist, in two new performances.
Friends shouldn't let friends dress badly
Fashion Facts
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Two heads are better than one, five heads are better than two, and so as it goes it is easier to be negative than positive - especially when it comes to fashion faux pas. That's French for "Ew." This is called the "Coley bun" for anyone who tuned in to the Colorado season of "The Real World" on MTV.
String ensemble combines music, surreal images
concert preview
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Some might find it hard to figure out how an ensemble of classical musicians and surreal digital art could fit together. Others might find it to be a unique collaboration of equally impressive art forms. Regardless of whatever preconceived notions one might have, I Musici de Montreal will bring just that: classical music accompanied by visual art.
NY's best pizza comes to Tucson
food review
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Pizza - it's a staple in the life of a college student. At the UA, there are at least five pizza places within a mile of campus. Unfortunately, if the pizza place is located in the Sam Hughes Place, it seems destined for destruction. LaFerlita's Pizza Café, which opened in 2005, shut down in May 2007 and filed bankruptcy.
The unseen side of airports and landscapes
art review
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"Allan deSouza: Fly Zone" reveals an unseen side of airports. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, raised in the U.K. and a resident of Los Angeles, Allan deSouza's work questions the nature of transition and migration. In his series "Threshold," which includes 24 photographs taken in and around airports from 1997 to 1998, deSouza emphasizes the multiplicity and mass-produced space that is often an immigrant's first experience in a new country.
Ambitious '10,000 B.C.' falls flat
movie review
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"10,000 B.C." is remarkably similar to Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto," except that it's bad. The premise of the film mirrors "Apocalypto" very closely. In the beginning, the audience is introduced to characters from an ancient culture far different from their own.
CD Reviews
Although Why? has been misleadingly categorized as indie rap, its sound is a far cry from the kitschy electronic beatmaking of today's hipster hip-hop scene. The Oakland-based quintet's sound definitely utilizes elements of the former, but is grounded in alternative rock, even sometimes drawing comparisons to bands like Cake.
Fine wine,fine times at Acacia
The Berlin Wall
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When my high school English teacher coerced me into reading "A River Runs Through It," that stock inspirational novel which led to a movie with Brad Pitt as a fly-fisher, I came out of it with the naive belief that everything is art. The novel says that having a passion for something, such as picking your nose with your middle finger or yelling at strangers for leaving their purses on the table at Sauce, can become your art.
