Volume 12, Number 30 . October 5 - October 11, 1995
This issue of the Tucson Weekly contains 327 links.

Cover Story

Currents Section

Ninth Annual Best Of Tucson
Yep, it's time once again to give this city a big, sandpapery lick. Check out all that's purrrfect in our pueblo.
By The Tucson Weekly Staff

Mailbag
Missives from our adoring/outraged readers.

Smith
Where in the Constitution does it say people have a right to move out in the country and then demand all the comforts of town? Huh?
By Jeff Smith

The Skinny
Lettin' 'em coast at Catalina High...Special Ed's month from hell...Microsoft isn't coming to Tucson...And much more!

Rocking K Respite?
Is legendary Tucson land speculator Don Diamond giving up on tapping the City of Tucson for millions in infrastructure for his Rocking K mega-project? City taxpayers can only hope.
By Jim Wright

Diamond's Dollars
A look at how one of Tucson's richest men spends his money for political clout.
By Jim Nintzel

Disposable Professors
The University of Arizona and the state Board of Regents make some progress in their war against tenure.
By Margaret Regan

City Week Section

City Week
Big doings in Tucson for the week of October 5 - October 11.

Eighth Day
Site-based school administration will work, if the yo-yos in Phoenix will give it half a chance. And we won't have to destroy all school districts in the process.
By Hannah Glasston

Cheap Thrills
Fun things to do that won't cost a fortune.

City Week Listings
Tucson's most extensive list of what's going on.

Music Section

Young Guns
Eric Reed and Cyrus Chestnut are two excellent candidates for future jazz greatness.
By Yvonne Ervin

Soundbites
Don Walser and his Pure Texas Band return some grace and sanity to country western music.
By Michael Metzger

Quick Scans
Jesus And Mary Chain, Jude Cole, Various Friends of Carole King.

Club Listings
What's happening at the local hot spots for the week of October 5 - October 11.

Review Section

Greedheads Beware
Carl Hiaasen is selling thousands upon thousands of books by making fun of developers, pols and other South Florida scum.
By Jim Nintzel

Beveled Edge
What's inside the Mat Bevel Institute?
By Mari Wadsworth

Collage
Belfast is a lonely town, when you're the only Protestant poet boy around--the works of Michael Longley.
By Margaret Regan

Danehy
This wasn't the kind of America we expected to live in when we got older.
By Tom Danehy

Cinema Section

Cinema Review
Steal Big, Steal Little.

Film Clips
Check out our capsule reviews packed with links to the hottest movie home pages on the Web.

Film Times
What's showing right now on local screens for the week of October 5 - October 11

Back Page Section

Real Astrology
Astrology for the week of October 5 - October 11

Comics
Random Shots . K. Rat . Red Meat . Staggering Heights . Eye Of The Beholder . The City

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