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Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday Thursday 14 BEAN'S SCENE. At the ripe old age of 29, Eleanor (nicknamed Bean) is finally escaping Boston, her beer-chugging paramour, and a terribly boring job, all for a chance at self-discovery as she travels across America. Moving from city to city, she relies on friends to help her get on down the road in Sleeping With Random Beasts, by Tucsonan and first-time novelist Karin Goodwin. See this week's Books section for details. Goodwin signs and discusses her book from 7 to 8 p.m. in Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 5130 E. Bro...

One Of Arizona's Greatest Environmental Champions Folds His Tent And Moves To The Beltway. By Tim Vanderpool EXPECTING A government to enforce its own laws doesn't sound so revolutionary. Then again, most folks don't live in Arizona, where, 17 years ago, a tradition of good ol' boy politics and ramshackle pollution policies sparked a one-man insurgency by the name of David Baron. During his long stint as assistant director and lead environmental attorney at the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, Baron has waged a strategic war against dirty air, tainted water, urban sprawl and bu...

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday Thursday 7 DEATH WATCH. Tucson can be a scary town, with endless drive-by shootings, car-jackings, robberies and other random acts of violence. Uncovering the roots of such malaise would probably employ a small army of shrinks and sociologists. But to the rest of us, there is just something terribly wrong with this picture, plain and simple. Local photographer Amy Zuckerman chronicled the lives of 15 families wounded by the murder of a father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister. The result is Point of Fracture: Voice...

Playing It Close To the Edge In The Haunted Sierra Madres. By Tim Vanderpool RANDY GINGRICH IS living proof that death can be a tough gig. Death of a forest, death of a culture, death threats, death of innocence--they're all daily fodder in Mexico's haunted Sierra Madre Mountains, just like the scent of ripe Chihuahuan poppies and the crack of gunfire. It's a ruggedly remote highland where the pale rider wears a narcotraficante's poison grin, totes a clear-cutter's buzz-saw and doesn't take kindly to complications. Depending upon your perspective, Gingrich could be considered a complication...

Our Favorite 'Kitchen-Table Populist' Is Coming To Town. By Tim Vanderpool JIM HIGHTOWER IS Thomas Paine in a Stetson, Michael Moore with a drawl, a bona- fide populist for modern times who lacerates corporate greed and political corruption with down-home humor. This week the tall Texan brings his bulls-eye perspective to Tucson for a special dinner benefiting the Pima County Democratic Party and Southern Arizona Central Labor Council. He'll also attend a reception sponsored by the National Writer's Union. He's also the host of a syndicated show, Hightower Radio (broadcast until recently on...