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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Politics Rialto Update: When They Kick Out Your Front Door, How You Gonna Come?
Posted by Jim Nintzel on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:14 PM
The fight between the Rialto Theatre Foundation and Don Martin and Scott Stiteler, the owners of downtown's Rialto block, is slipping closer to the brink. Martin and Stiteler have filed papers in Pima County Superior Court to evict the foundation from its green room, offices and storage space.
The theatre itself, which is owned by the city and leased to the foundation, will remain open, so go ahead and buy those Snoop Dog tickets.
My friend Doug Biggers, the Rialto Theatre Foundation's exec director, tells us a court hearing on the eviction matter is imminent.
As tensions rise, high-level talks between the developers, the foundation's board and the city and downtown bigwigs are continuing with an effort to work out a deal that avoids both eviction and condemnation.
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Jim, Aren't the next lines in that song as follows?
"With your hands on your head
or the trigger of your gun"
So I am wondering how the Rialto is gonna come.
The gross misuse of the Clash's "Guns of Brixton" is just about the most heavy handed thing I've seen in all of this hoopla surrounding the Rialto. To compare ( on even the slightest scale) the social injustice that spawned the riots in Brixton with the Rialto's not getting some square footage is truly laughable and borders on disgusting. Thanks for ruining one of my favorite songs you middle class, entitled wads.
I was extremely disappointed with Uncle Bob Walkup's comments on Arizona Illustrated about the Rialto. Here we have a contest between two vultures and one of the few success stories downtown, and Uncle Bob talks about GOP principles and the sacredness of private property. The nadir of leadership, but nothing new there.
Chuck E:
We gonna fight your brother,
We gonna fight 'til you lose,
We gonna raise trouble,
We gonna raise hell!
i get violent when i'm fucked up
i get silent when i'm drugged up
want excitement, don't get none, i go wild
i don't know what can be done about it
if you play the game you get nothing out of it
find out for yourself try bein' a goody goody
you better cheat cheat
no reason to play fair
cheat cheat or don't get anywhere
cheat cheat if you can't win
nobody knows what they are doing
it's beyond your control, an' friday night's a ruin
if you wanna survive you better learn how to lie
don't use the rules
they're not for you, they're for the fools
and you're a fool if you don't know that
so use the rule you stupid fool
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