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- Revel in Tucson's weather and history at the same time: Take a Historic Tucson Walking Tour, led by the knowing folks over at the Sosa-Carillo-Frémont House, in the Tucson Convention Center complex |
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- Museums Arizona Historical Society - The society's four Tucson museums feature exhibits that convey the history of Tucson and Arizona. |
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- New Year's Eve is the time to par-tay. Responsibly, of course. Some of the places that'll have music blasting and, likely, confetti falling, as you see the old year out |
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- Auditions are planned for a Spanish-language performance of Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues." Women fluent in Spanish are needed for the production, which will be performed with open books. |
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- Videogame.com is a comprehensive Web site that helps gamers find their next buys via genre or console with reviews and purchasing opportunities |
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Must buy (Dec 31 2004 19:29 GMT) - Everyone, even Jessica Simpson, is jumping on the rock-hipster bandwagon these days. |
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- ● Main Stages map, Page 9. Some tickets may be subject to a surcharge. Today Bob Wilders - Green Fire Bookshop, 925 E. Fort Lowell Road. Singer/songwriter's CD release party. |
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- 'Auld Lang Syne' You may hear the song lots Friday night. When you do, think a bit about its history: "Auld Lang Syne" is an old Scottish song. Back in the late 1700s, Scottish poet Robert Burns |
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- Finally, the end of the holidays is almost here. We can stop eating like you-know-whats. Or maybe not. OK, here's a compromise: |
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- A rotating list of some of the area's popular restaurants. Most include staff impressions or a summary of a review by the Star's critics. Border crossings Mariscos Chihuahua - 1009 N. Grande Ave. |
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»Morsels (Dec 31 2004 19:29 GMT) - You can still get Lucky Lucky Chinese Fast Food at 431 N. Fourth Ave. has shuttered the business. But you can still get Lucky Chinese: The restaurant at 1027 N. |
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- If the bigger movie retailers on the Internet aren't giving you the kinds of deals you like, check out buymovies.com online. |
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»Screenings (Dec 31 2004 19:29 GMT) - Sunday Panorama Politica - Wilde Playhouse, 135 E. Congress St. Screening of "Uncovered: The War on Iraq," a 90-minute documentary by Robert Greenwald. Discussion follows. |
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- Opening Friday Lightning in a Bottle ***1/2 - PG-13 for brief strong language. Antoine Fuqua directs this documentary |
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- It's called the Radio City Music Hall, but for one night in February 2003, the venue may as well have been the Mount Olympus of blues. Ageless luminaries including B.B. King, Honeyboy Edwards, |
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- If your New Year's resolution is to see at least one singer/songwriter just recently relocated from Portland, Ore., to Tucson, then get it out of the way early and check out musician Amy Rude at |
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»Concerts (Dec 31 2004 19:29 GMT) - Today Bob Wilders - Green Fire Bookshop, 925 E. Fort Lowell Road. Singer/songwriter's CD release party. 7:30-9: |
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- Anyone who has gone through their bitter teen years sometime in the last 20 years should be familiar with the Violent Femmes |
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- Age: 49 For the record: Born into a musical family, Arizona native Uribe strayed from the traditional Mexican sounds of his parents at an early age and followed a style of music |
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»Calendar (Dec 31 2004 19:29 GMT) - today Historic Tucson Walking Tours - Sosa-Carillo-Frémont House, in the Tucson Convention Center complex south of the Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. Participants are guided through historic areas |
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- A decent pair of binoculars will have you celebrating the new year in style with a festive star cluster known as M44. Also known as Praesepe and the Beehive Cluster, M44 resides in the constellation |
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- The special butterfly kiosk at Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way, will be open through Feb. 28 - a month longer than originally planned |
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- Wine is a perfect gift for the hostess with the mostess, but showing up with a bottle of merlot in a brown paper bag doesn't exactly scream appreciation. You could slap a ribbon on the bottle, but, |
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- Friday Powwow and Craft Market - Rillito Raceway Park, corner of East River Road and North First Avenue. Native foods and dance performances, arts and crafts. 4-10 p.m. Dec. |
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- Wasn't the Rudy Garcia Park called Joe Garagiola Park at one time? Although originally named Joe Garagiola Rodeo Park after the former baseball player and television announcer, many thought only one |
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- Feeling in a philatelic mood? Then get thee to the Postal History Foundation, 920 N. First Ave., at East Second Street. It's a research facility with a library, as well as a museum with stamp and |
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- Friday 15th Annual Indian America New Year's Competition Powwow - Rillito Raceway Park, at the northeast corner of First Avenue and River Road. More than 50 tribes will help celebrate the new year |
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- today " 'Tis the Season" - Flandrau Planetarium, 1601 E. University Blvd. The holiday show traces the development of many of the world's endearing holiday customs and how they involve lighting up |
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- As the year becomes 2004-gone, it's fun to look back and reflect, as we did in today's Caliente. You could win a prize if you do a little reflecting |
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- There's nothing like a good story, especially matched with a good storyteller. You might encounter both at Wilde Playhouse (Main Stages map, Page 9) next Thursday, when seven people take 10 min-utes |
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»On Stage (Dec 31 2004 19:29 GMT) - ● Some tickets may be subject to a surcharge. Theater "Big River, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" - Centennial Hall. UApresents brings the Tony winning musical performed simultaneously by |
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- BBC: The FTSE 100 gains 7.5% in value over 2004 in a year tainted by high oil prices and rising interest ... |
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- THE European Commission (EC) and the Zambian Government have signed a financing agreement involving a grant of about K12.4 billion for the promotion of conservation farming and crop diversity. |
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- GOVERNMENT says it has traced some money coming into Zambia through non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that is being used for political purposes through the newly formed 'Coalition 2005' with the sole purpose of unseating President Mwanawasa. |
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- ELEVEN dangerous criminals trained by slain notorious bandit, Never 'Spoiler' Kapenda have been arrested in Lusaka. |
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- CIVIL society groups and some opposition political parties have teamed up to form a political alliance with a view to challenging the MMD in the 2006 general elections. |
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- It has been five days since a massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra spawned the tsunamis that killed over 114,00 people. Images from the effected region show absolute destruction in the wake of the worst natural disaster in living memory. |
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- Sowing the Seeds of an Afrikan Kuzinduka (Renaissance) Building the Global Afrikan Congress in Canada |
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- More and more grisly accounts of sadistic torture keep on surfacing. Conducted not by Arabs, but by Americans. It is time to invade Cuba and put an end to what has become another Devil's Island in the annals of government-sanctioned torture. The barbaric treatment of political prisoners on the island is made no more palatable by being conducted in the name of an ideology that claims to be liberating the world from its shackles. |
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- Come and Join Art and Myself on New Years Day. We are Trying Organize and Breakfast for the Levee Tour and are trying to Make contact with anyone from Food Not Bombs? So Please if you Know anyone from this Organization please call us at TAPS or e-mail us. |
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- The conversation among writers that takes place in the last 20 years is for the most part just like the conversation of any other professional people on the make. They could just as well be advertising executives or businesspeople, or anything else. They talk about income and they talk about the comforts or lack of comforts of their personal lives, and -- but that's a kind of -- if I think back on my own life, the single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism. |
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- Seeking asylum in Canada became more complicated on Wednesday, as new legislation took effect, closing the Canada-U.S. border to refugees. [VicIMC ED NOTE: The following was added by the person who posted this article to VicIMC. |
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- The slow response by the West to the tragedy in South Asia is another example of the White World's contempt for the Brown Planet. |
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- More than 1,000 people who want to seek refugee status in Canada are expected to pass over the U.S.-Canada border near Niagara Falls Tuesday, as a midnight deadline for a new immigration law looms. |
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- In a country that boasts of its tolerance and respect for legal rights, the jailing of noncitizens presents a dilemma. |
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- Montreal, --- Friday December 17th, 2004 --- Osama Saleh a Palestinian refugee from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, won an important victory in his ongoing struggle against deportation from Canada. The Federal Court of Canada has issued a ruling directing Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) to re-evaluate their decision to deport Osama Saleh, due to the "risk of persecution, torture and cruel & unusual punishment",... |
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