Inside advice from three bands that paid their dues and are now making it

Kristin McClure: Check out local bands tonight

Shift around some trash cans, and you've got room for the drums. Pull every fixture out of its socket and pray you don't blow a fuse with the amp.

Kino Padilla: A young DJ offers the 411

I walk in, seeing the crowd moving together and everyone cheering the disc jockey. I do not know what to think, only what to feel. The music takes us on a transcendental and blissful journey.

Artistic? Athletic? Skater? Band nerd? Mover and shaker? Intellectual?

PULSE

Shannon Irving's Open-Mindedness Quiz

NEW TURF

What's it really like at other schools? Students from Palo Verde, Ha-San, Tucson High and Catalina Foothills discovered some surprises when they traded places for a day.

PLEASURE & PAIN

Jon Knutson: What high school students must read

Amanda Graves: Summer road trips

Jaclyn Abbuehl: Postcards from the Edge

Benjamin Toff: Is it too early for school?

Maxine Ramirez: School start times

SOUND

James Patrick: So you wanna be a rock star?

Kristin McClure: Check out local bands tonight

Kino Padilla: A young DJ offers the 411

...AND ANOTHER THING

Colleen Dugan: Taking on too much: Teen-age stress

Benjamin Toff: Time to get rid of useless AIMS Band-Aid, which heals nothing

Kristin McClure: 'Y' don't we stop generalizing?

We'll produce a second edition this fall. If you're interested in participating, please e-mail Eve Rifkin at eve@fc.cfsd.k12.az.us.