WildLife Articles
By Courtney C. Johnson
Tea parties aren't just for old ladies and little girls with their dollies anymore. You can take a college-kid approach to the timeless ritual with a few minor adjustments. And don't worry - the cooler it gets outside, the less strange this idea will feel.
By Ali Freedman
"I got one of the cook's numbers one time," Colton Stickney casually joked. "She threatened my life. It was a fake threatening. She was waving at someone behind me and I waved to her, and she pulled out a knife and started doing hand motions at her throat.
By Megan J. Mazurek
It's a warm fall day as Evony Maldonado glances down at her black Samsung cell phone, responding to a text. She casually sips on her iced "venti" sweetened black tea as overly enthusiastic moms talk about the new pumpkin spice latte Starbucks is offering for the holiday season.
Animal alter egos unite
By Maura Lastovicka
You won't get a definitive answer if you ask the average UA student about furries.
"I would never be for that," said Sharice Frank, a veterinary science freshman.
Civil engineering freshman Eric Sipe was more enthusiastic.
"I would be pretty pumped, I'm not gonna lie, if I ever met one," Sipe said.
By Kim Kotel
Ladies, I found the perfect men - and they're not interested in us. One of them lounged across the table from me: impeccable style, handsome and keeping his gaze eye level. And he had more to remark on than that girl's ass over there or how many points what's-his-name scored Sunday night.
By Reymundo Galvez
It doesn't matter if you lean to the left or the right. It's safe to say that potential first ladies Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain borrow from the playbook of the quintessential Jackie O, Jacqueline Kennedy, in terms of image and style.
"The first lady has kind of become an office in it of itself," said Nikkita Edmond, a political science graduate student.
By Becca Lesser
If the recent freakish cold spell wasn't enough reason to pack away the Rainbows, Reefs and Havaianas, this fall's collection of boots is sure to have UA students clamoring for colder weather.
Fashionistas looking to build their shoe collections should take note of the crop of new boot styles already hitting store shelves.
By Lisa Gatlin
The carambola, commonly known as starfruit due to its exquisite shape, is one of the more exotic fruits available at your local grocery store. This tropical delight is often eaten raw and tastes delicious. The fruit itself is a yellowish green color, and is pretty firm, so much so that it seems practically inedible from the outside.
By Becca Lesser
Thin crust pizza, oozing with cheese and smothered in sausage. Juicy, meaty hamburgers. Ballpark franks dripping with grease. Sounds like the standard college diet, right? But for a handful of students, these animal-based delectables are strictly off the menu.
Unwrap these desert desserts
By Ali Freedman
If there is one thing Tucson has a lot of, it's cactus. But the prickly vegetation isn't just for landscaping; many cacti are edible and make great sweet treats - and in Tucson, there is an abundance of cactus candy. More often than not, you will find prickly pear candy - from jelly squares to hard candy - and there is a variation to fit every taste.
By Amanda Seely
"It's actually kind of a funny story," said harp performance senior Agnes Hall. "My parents have this very eclectic friend who used to give me gifts for St. Agnes day. One year he gave me two harp lessons with this harp teacher, and that's how I got started.
By Adam Daley
Organizers of ArtsFest 2008 covered all bases when transforming the La Encantada Shopping Center into a bustling art gallery for a weekend. The sale of beer and wine appealed to dads who would rather be watching football while a table full of coloring books kept anxious children occupied, and more than 150 fine art and craft exhibitors displayed talent reaching a variety of tastes.
By Amanda Seely
"My parents are dancers so I've been around dance my whole life," dance junior Cameo Cross said. "As soon as I could walk, they started teaching me how to dance."
Since she began her career dancing West Coast swing, Cross has learned several forms of dance.
By Marisa D. Fisher
The construction in downtown Tucson has created some complexity for businesses and visitors. Likewise, the upcoming midterms and landslide between now and finals give UA students plenty to be frantic about. The Central Art Gallery's current exhibition, "Basically Simple," is a welcome respite from the hectic sentiments expressed by city dwellers and students.
By Courtney C. Johnson
Halloween is two weeks away, but that doesn't mean you can't throw an amazing party before then. Ask your guests to put on the ritz a little and have a cocktail party like a pro.
The easiest way to have a no-stress cocktail party without blowing all of your past three months' paychecks is to do the drink-making yourself and make it clear that dinner is not on the menu.
By Maura Lastovicka
The Rialto Theatre will be hosting a man and a laptop - a project known as Girl Talk.
"When I started, I was part of an experimental music scene. … There was kind of an overly academic, overly serious tangent to that world, so I was kind of using pop music as an act of rebellion," said Gregg Gillis, the man behind the computer.
By Lisa Gatlin
Add some Southwestern culture to your life and attend a poetry reading by two award-winning authors Thursday.
UA professors Luci Tapahonso and Ofelia Zepeda will celebrate the release of their respective books, "A Radiant Curve" and "Where Clouds are Formed" during the reading.
By Adam Daley
It'll never happen to me.
In three years of living in Tucson I have heard the stories. From petty thefts to violent assaults, the warnings were everywhere. But it always happened to somebody else. It never hit home. Last weekend, while walking home from Dub Crawl downtown, those stories became reality.
By Brandon Specktor
Science enthusiasts rejoice: The Mythbusters are coming to Centennial Hall! Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the bearded, bespectacled brainiacs responsible for the Discovery Channel's hit show, will present "Behind the Scenes at Mythbusters" this Saturday, providing an entertaining, informative look at the men behind the myths.
Oliver Stone is infamous for directing intriguing, but none-too-factual, films about America's most influential public figures: Nixon, Kennedy, Jim Morrison, even Alexander the Great (although born a Macedonian, he was deemed an honorary American after getting it on with Angelina Jolie in 2004).
By Kelly Miller
Locals and students came together Saturday night to listen to a wide variety of bands perform along Congress Street and Fourth Avenue, while enjoying the perks of being 21 and older at the semiannual Club Crawl.
For a few hours of musical - and oftentimes drunken - bliss, Club Crawl offered the best and worst of a wide variety of local bands performing at 25 indoor and outdoor stages.
By Theresa Keeney
"Sex Drive" is an odd mix between a hopeless romance and a raunchy comedy. The film contains many laugh-out-loud moments balanced with some awkward ones. The acting, however, is superb. Josh Zuckerman plays the role of a never-been-laid teenager perfectly.
By Adam Daley
Club Crawl has a distant cousin that's a little off.
Downtown turned musical for the weekend, kicking off Friday night with pulsing bass and mesmerizing lights straight out of the raving '80s. Dub Crawl featured five stages and more than 20 electronic artists from across the nation.
By Alexa Blair Miller
Jean Reynolds Page is captivating in her tangled tale of family, love and complicated pasts in the novel, "The Space Between Before and After." And she tells the story in that exact order - before and after. Page keeps you guessing with her cryptic writing, telling only parts of the problematic Templeton family history, while layering on the family's current troubles.
By Maura Lastovicka
Imagine a world where harpsichords run free in poppy fields - a world where when you're ill, you only vomit confetti. This is the world Skeletal Lamping comes from.
Kevin Barnes, songwriter and singer of Of Montreal, has created an album that only he can deliver: hyper articulate, harmonizing and honing in on some booty-shaking funk.
By Brandon Specktor
The war on terror is a fashionable topic for films these days; over the past few years we've seen countless flicks full of CGI explosions, misunderstood Arabs and fat white bureaucrats who always manage to screw everything up. "Body of Lies," the newest thriller from Ridley Scott ("Gladiator", "American Gangster"), regurgitates these tired conventions, slaps on a yellow filter and remains surprisingly fresh.
By Reymundo Galvez
One of the first examples of the contemporary boy band genre because of their success in the late '80s, The New Kids on the Block reunited 14 years after their last release and took on a new style with their new album, The Block.
A high-energy vibe for more than half of the album stands out so much that the songs could survive on their own as singles in the club scene.
By Maura Lastovicka
"Salò" is a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the ideas and writings of Marquis de Sade, which first hit the screen 32 years ago. The film is abhorrent, depraved and sublime.
It takes place during World War II in fascist Italy and is based in the true-to-life town of Salò, a puppet state of Nazi Germany.
By Theresa Keeney
The hard rock-looking group on the cover of "Jet Black and Jealous" gives away their real genre with a lone cowboy boot. The Eli Young Band's country music contains none of the old-time country twang, but resembles what it would sound like if Dierks Bentley started singing with Rascal Flatts.
By Marisa D. Fisher
The Gallagher Theater continued to build its resume of free preview films on Oct. 17 with director David Wain's "Role Models," which will be released in theaters Nov. 7. To say the atmosphere in the theater on Friday was enthusiastic would be an understatement.
By Marisa D. Fisher
The UA has proven itself time and time again to be a trailblazer in the collaboration of before-unrelated fields. The Kachina Gallery unveils the latest example of this integration today in "Hubble Space Telescope: Vistas from the Pale Blue Dot." The show includes high-definition images from the Hubble telescope, presented as never seen before in a large format for viewers to experience.
By Alexa Blair Miller
Several singles from singer, songwriter and pianist Rachael Yamagata's 2004 album "Happenstance" were featured on TV shows such as "Nip/Tuck" and "The O.C.," and movies such as "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" and "In Her Shoes."
Four years later, Yamagata released a two-disc album, Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart.
By Matthew Fitzgerald Kielty
The streets of downtown Tucson were desolate.
It was a Saturday night and everything stood still in the apparently uninhabited city center. But just off of Stone Avenue, one individual sitting on a stool occasionally moved around. He was as out of place in the empty streets as the lounge he was working the door for.
By Kim Kotel
Don't be intimidated by Karen Maitland's book, "Company of Liars," looming in the corner. The book's 453 pages flutter by as natural as breathing - a walk in the park compared to the treacherous syntactical paths and smoggy verbiage Chaucer intended his readers to brave.
By Matthew Fitzgerald Kielty
"It's the times that we live in that really shape the comics."
In our time, the U.S. is filled to the brim with political correctness, comedian Dave Attell said. And there's no escaping it; it's everywhere, he said. Attell's job is to prod the politically correct by taking taboo issues and cloaking them in a comedy bit.
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