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Oct 9, 2008, Vol. 25, No. 33 FEATURE: As UA microbiologist Charles Gerba cheerily explains, billions of nasty microbes await you every day read more » CURRENTS: How big is John McCain's lead in Arizona? And why is Tim Bee unavailable for comment on the bailout vote? read more » CINEMA: 'Blindness' is bleak, realistic, well-done and very, very depressing read more » MUSIC: Bang Camaro takes the best of the '80s and makes it all their own read more » ARTS: FUNHOUSE gets some choreographing and taiko help for its free modern-dance concerts in the park read more » BOOKS: An adventure-seeking scribe ventures into drug-producing Mexico and lives to tell the tale read more » CHOW: For quick, tasty Vietnamese eats, Saigon Phö hits the spot read more » |
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 Beautiful MovementFUNHOUSE gets some choreographing and taiko help for its free modern-dance concerts in the parkby MARGARET REGAN Lee Anne Hartley had to learn to dance with a stick for her free Dance in the Park concert this weekend. The stick in question is a "jo stick" used in martial arts. In her... Been There, Done ThatThe latest farce presented by LTW is a bit too frantic and way too familiarby JAMES REEL I recently heard someone dismiss Ray Cooney's farce Funny Money as Run for Your Wife 4. In other words, Cooney, Britain's leading farceur, has stitched Funny Money together according to exactly the same pattern he... Dollars for the District?Supporters of Proposition 403 want voters to forget about TUSD's past problems and instead look to the futureby MARI HERRERAS Ann-Eve Pedersen doesn't have to look at the figures that show Arizona ranks 49th in per-pupil spending on education; she gets to see it firsthand in her son Lars' classroom at Sam Hughes Elementary School.... Pick of the WeekDiverse Tucsonby TAYLOR AVEY Manny Aregullin has waited a long time to perform at the annual Tucson Meet Yourself festival. "My mom always used to take us when I was younger," said Aregullin, music director for the Sovereign Arts... Picking on the PiousBill Maher skewers religion in his funny, confrontational 'Religulous'by BOB GRIMM Organized religion and some of its many followers take a kick in the nards from Bill Maher in Religulous, a funny and sometimes brutal indictment of all things God-related. This documentary is sure to stir... Point SpreadHow big is John McCain's lead in Arizona? And why is Tim Bee unavailable for comment on the bailout vote?by JIM NINTZEL Two polls released last week paint dramatically different pictures of the presidential race in Arizona. A Cronkite-Eight Poll shows Democrat Barack Obama trailing Republican John McCain by just 7 percentage points. But a Rasmussen Reports... Relentless Horror'Blindness' is bleak, realistic, well-done and very, very depressingby JAMES DIGIOVANNA It's been said that Blindness succeeds at being thought-provoking, but fails as a thriller. But that's like saying that Citizen Kane succeeds as a movie, but fails as a doughnut recipe. Blindness simply isn't a... Requiem for an ArrestCharges against a Samaritans activist are mysteriously droppedby TIM VANDERPOOL As she stood handcuffed in the desert on Jan. 11, Kathryn Ferguson tried to reason things out. She glanced at the hills lacing the smudge of a town called Arivaca, near Nogales. She wondered whether... They Call Him Dr. GermAs UA microbiologist Charles Gerba cheerily explains, billions of nasty microbes await you every dayby LEO W. BANKS Many of the best stories in Charles Gerba's professional life have to do with the toilet. He rode to semi-fame as a scientist in part because of his study of a phenomenon known as toilet...
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