http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts Arts & Entertainment news from TucsonSentinel.com - Tucson's independent nonprofit online news en Copyright 2012 2012-02-03T04:11:09+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/020212_beowulfwewontpayreview/weird-italian-marxist-comedy-has-local-relevance/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/020212_beowulfwewontpayreview/weird-italian-marxist-comedy-has-local-relevance/ 04:11:00Z Dave Irwin What at first seems a quirky, even foolish bit of fluff, “We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!” gathers momentum to finish with a big message. That it does so safely within the confines of a 16th Century theatrical tradition makes it that much more powerful. 2012-02-03T04:11:09+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/020112_festival_el_barrio/tickets-sale-annual-calexico-kxci-street-party/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/020112_festival_el_barrio/tickets-sale-annual-calexico-kxci-street-party/ 02:40:00Z Rachel Cabakoff Calexico will bring their desert sound home to Tucson to benefit KXCI when they headline the Festival en el Barrio on April 7. A limited number of $15 tickets are now on sale. 2012-02-02T02:40:00+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/020112_don_cornelius_obit/soul-trains-cornelius-dead-from-apparent-suicide/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/020112_don_cornelius_obit/soul-trains-cornelius-dead-from-apparent-suicide/ 19:09:00Z Lillian Rizzo Don Cornelius, creator of “Soul Train,” the television dance show dating back to the 1970s, was found dead in Los Angeles on Wednesday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 75. 2012-02-01T19:09:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012912_foodtruck_roundup/hundreds-herd-downtown-food-truck-roundup/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012912_foodtruck_roundup/hundreds-herd-downtown-food-truck-roundup/ 03:29:00Z Mariana Dale The aroma of fried funnel cake, smoky barbecue and roasting corn wafted through the air as hundreds of people and more than 25 trucks showed up for Tucson Food Trucks’ fifth gathering on Sunday. 2012-01-30T03:29:03+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012912_food_trucks/food-truck-roundup-haul-tasty-treats/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012912_food_trucks/food-truck-roundup-haul-tasty-treats/ 22:05:00Z Mariana Dale Call it a party, a picnic, or a foodie flash mob, Sunday’s food truck roundup will provide nourishment for those with adventurous appetites. 2012-01-29T22:05:41+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012912_arizonaonstagewonderettesreview/marvelous-wonderettes-youthful-energy/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012912_arizonaonstagewonderettesreview/marvelous-wonderettes-youthful-energy/ 18:17:00Z Dave Irwin “The Marvelous Wonderettes” is not a re-creation of ‘50s and ‘60s girl group pop, but an interpretation. This Arizona Onstage production has its own internal logic, more rooted in youthful energy and theatrical performance than in old-timey authenticity. 2012-01-29T18:17:21+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012212_39stepsiscampyfun/burlesque-hitchcocks-39-steps-campy-fun/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012212_39stepsiscampyfun/burlesque-hitchcocks-39-steps-campy-fun/ 02:24:00Z Dave Irwin ATC’s “Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps” is a mash-up homage to Hitchcock, but also to familiar British comedic stalwarts such as Laurel and Hardy, Monty Python, and even the Austin Powers movies. 2012-01-23T02:24:52+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012112_dillinger_days_2012/dillinger-days-ends-with-hootenany-hotel-congress/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012112_dillinger_days_2012/dillinger-days-ends-with-hootenany-hotel-congress/ 02:38:00Z Mariana Dale Hotel Congress took a step back in time to celebrate Dillinger Days, an annual tradition marking the 1934 fire at the hotel that sparked the events leading to the capture of America’s Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger, and his gang in Tucson. 2012-01-22T02:38:23+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012012_etta_james_obit/blues-singer-etta-james-dead-73/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/012012_etta_james_obit/blues-singer-etta-james-dead-73/ 19:30:00Z Dylan Smith Etta James, who could belt an earthy blues or croon a subtle love song, died Friday morning at age 73. (with music videos) 2012-01-20T19:30:59+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/011912_dillinger_days/dillinger-days-celebrate-capture-public-enemy-no-1/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/011912_dillinger_days/dillinger-days-celebrate-capture-public-enemy-no-1/ 01:48:00Z Mariana Dale In 1934, John Dillinger was captured by Tucson police after fleeing a fire at Hotel Congress. The hotel will celebrate the anniversary with a speakeasy soirée Friday and re-enactments Saturday. 2012-01-20T01:48:22+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/011212_rogueshipwreckedreview/shipwrecked-wildly-imaginative-ride/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/011212_rogueshipwreckedreview/shipwrecked-wildly-imaginative-ride/ 18:00:00Z Dave Irwin Sometimes it feels like children’s theater, sometimes vaudeville, sometimes theater of the absurd – but throughout, “Shipwrecked” is simply fun, fun, fun. 2012-01-12T18:00:20+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/010712_beyond_reid_park/tucsonans-celebrate-health-healing-unity/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/010712_beyond_reid_park/tucsonans-celebrate-health-healing-unity/ 20:37:00Z Ryan Kelly Tucsonans gathered Saturday morning at Reid Park’s DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center to commemorate the victims of the Jan. 8 shooting and to celebrate health and unity — the goal of the BEYOND: Commemorate, Celebrate, Commit main event. 2012-01-07T20:37:49+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/010512_serpa_obit/rodeo-photographer-western-legend-louise-serpa-dead-86/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/010512_serpa_obit/rodeo-photographer-western-legend-louise-serpa-dead-86/ 23:38:00Z Will Seberger Rodeo photographer, Tucson fixture, mother and legend of the West Louise Serpa died Thursday. There are a lot of things I wish I had the chance to say to Louise before she mounted up and rode out into the ether. 2012-01-05T23:38:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/010312_jan8_pbs_doc/jan-8-documentary-airs-thursday-pbs/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/010312_jan8_pbs_doc/jan-8-documentary-airs-thursday-pbs/#When: 14:35:000 Janet Rose Jackman PBS will air a one-hour documentary this week about the healing of the Tucson community following the Jan. 8 shootings that claimed six lives and injured 13. %2012-%01-%05GMT%21:%35:%00%Q http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/123111_auld_lang_syne/happy-new-year-raise-glass-auld-lang-syne/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/123111_auld_lang_syne/happy-new-year-raise-glass-auld-lang-syne/ 19:01:00Z Dylan Smith Robert Burns’ poem “Auld Lang Syne” has become a near-universal celebration of the New Year. Here are a few renditions of the famous Scots song. 2011-12-31T19:01:26+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/122411_christmas_songs/our-favorite-christmas-songs/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/122411_christmas_songs/our-favorite-christmas-songs/ 00:04:00Z Janet Rose Jackman We at TucsonSentinel wish our readers the best of holidays and a wonderful new year. With that come our picks of some of the best holiday songs. And we’d like to know what your favorite holiday songs are. 2011-12-25T00:04:28+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/122011_bpa_kitchen/not-my-kitchen-easier-said-than-done/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/122011_bpa_kitchen/not-my-kitchen-easier-said-than-done/ 20:31:00Z Emily Dwass The controversial chemical bisphenol A was not on my radar screen back in 2008, when I ordered an electric food steamer online. Not so fun were the stories I started reading soon after, questioning the safety of polycarbonate in food applications, because that plastic contains BPA. 2011-12-20T20:31:01+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/121611_parade_of_lights/parade-lights-will-set-downtown-aglow-saturday/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/121611_parade_of_lights/parade-lights-will-set-downtown-aglow-saturday/ 18:33:00Z Janet Rose Jackman Tucson’s electric holiday parade once again will illuminate the city when the 17th Annual Parade of Lights makes it way through downtown Saturday. The parade has a new route this year. 2011-12-16T18:33:57+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/121511_mexico_christmas/in-mexicos-war-christmas-santas-winner/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/121511_mexico_christmas/in-mexicos-war-christmas-santas-winner/ 16:41:00Z Ruth Samuelson A free, government-coordinated holiday program in Mexico City underscores an emerging trend in the country: Christmas is being Americanized. 2011-12-15T16:41:53+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/121411_az_casinos/casinos-muscle-five-cs-az-economy/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/121411_az_casinos/casinos-muscle-five-cs-az-economy/ 21:02:00Z Joshua Armstrong The “Five C’s” that traditionally made the bulk of Arizona’s economy – copper, climate, cattle, cotton, citrus – may need to make room for a sixth: casinos. Revenue from Arizona’s 22 casinos far surpassed cattle, cotton and citrus in the most recent figures available. 2011-12-14T21:02:42+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/120611_az_microbrew/makers-craft-beer-see-untapped-potential-az/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/120611_az_microbrew/makers-craft-beer-see-untapped-potential-az/#When: 10:57:000 Victoria Pelham Microbrewers are eyeing Arizona as the next big market for beer, with 39 microbreweries in the state in 2011. The lastest microbrewery in Tucson, Borderlands Brewing Company, will open its doors Saturday. %2011-%12-%10GMT%17:%57:%00%Q http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/120811_john_lennon/happy-christmas-from-john-lennon/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/120811_john_lennon/happy-christmas-from-john-lennon/ 17:23:00Z Dylan Smith Beatle John Lennon was shot to death Dec. 8, 1980. R.I.P. (with archival videos) 2011-12-08T17:23:53+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/120611_betty_blues/hard-to-find-stock-in-trade-betty-blues/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/120611_betty_blues/hard-to-find-stock-in-trade-betty-blues/ 18:17:00Z Gerald M. Gay Betty Blue’s Junk Shop isn’t the type of store you visit for cookie-cutter home décor. The business specializes in the unique and unusual, housing a range of hard-to-find items from the past and present. “I don’t understand wanting to have something everybody else has,” said shop owner Kim Kysar. 2011-12-06T18:17:27+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/120311_daddylonglegs/daddy-long-legs-rare-successful-two-person-musical/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/120311_daddylonglegs/daddy-long-legs-rare-successful-two-person-musical/#When: 15:47:000 Dave Irwin ATC’s latest production, “Daddy Long Legs” is a carefully honed, crisply presented mini-musical. Despite a hyper-romantic, predictable narrative, its two hours sail by engagingly, carried by flawless performances.  In fact, the real problem with“Daddy Long Legs” may be that it’s almost too perfect. Is “slick” a bad thing? %2011-%12-%05GMT%22:%47:%00%Q http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/113011_together_book/together-we-thrive-book-features-jan-8-memorial-photos/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/113011_together_book/together-we-thrive-book-features-jan-8-memorial-photos/ 01:32:00Z Dylan Smith “Indeed all of our hearts were broken on Jan. 8,” said Janet Marcotte, explaining the genesis of her book of photos of the informal memorials that sprang up after the shooting. “But our hearts were opened in ways we couldn’t have imagined before.” (with video) 2011-12-01T01:32:03+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/112811_mexico_zombies/zombies-invade-mexico-city/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/112811_mexico_zombies/zombies-invade-mexico-city/ 18:44:00Z Sarah Childress Mexicans claimed they reached a world record number of people dressed as zombies Sunday, when nearly 10,000 people staggered through Mexico City, dripping with fake blood, rotting plastic flesh and smudged mascara. (with videos) 2011-11-28T18:44:38+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/112311_tohono_chul_lights/tohono-chul-park-kicks-off-holiday-nights/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/112311_tohono_chul_lights/tohono-chul-park-kicks-off-holiday-nights/ 19:01:00Z Megan Merrimac Tohono Chul Park will light up the night by transforming into a winter wonderland, complete with over 750,000 lights, entertainment, treats, and shopping. 2011-11-24T19:01:33+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/112311_thanksgiving_saving_food/10-ways-reduce-food-waste-thanksgiving/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/112311_thanksgiving_saving_food/10-ways-reduce-food-waste-thanksgiving/ 21:05:00Z Jordan Helton In an attempt to change some of the practices that lead to the overwhelming amount of leftovers and waste, Worldwatch Institute has released a list of their top 10 tips on reducing food waste this holiday season. 2011-11-23T21:05:42+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/112111_recklessreview/reckless-offers-funny-bizarre-holiday-comedy/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/112111_recklessreview/reckless-offers-funny-bizarre-holiday-comedy/ 17:31:00Z Dave Irwin “Reckless” is an odd-shaped dark chocolate confection – not particularly sweet, more than a little bitter and very dark, indeed. This Live Theatre Workshop production doesn’t defy logic as much as embrace the surreal. 2011-11-22T17:31:07+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/112211_grill_closed/grill-no-longer-open-later-than-you-think/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/112211_grill_closed/grill-no-longer-open-later-than-you-think/ 16:01:00Z Dylan Smith Downtown diner Grill, long a fixture of late night eaters and early morning coffee drinkers, shut down earlier than planned, according to the restaurant’s Facebook page. 2011-11-22T16:01:17+00:00