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Turning for the Better
Blessed with a majestic natural setting, a rich and diverse cultural history, fine climate, and friendly people, it would seem Tucson had been dealt four aces. But while our community has grown into a metropolitan area, many problems have gone unsolved: an ever-escalating poverty rate; a troubled job-market rife with chronic low wages; and a…
Artistic Range: William A. Wiggins III at Tohono Chul Park
“Hermosa Juanita” by William A. Wiggins, is on display in the Dia de los Muertos Exhibit at Tohono Chul Park, through Nov. 6, 7366 N. Paseo del Norte, Tucson, Ariz. 85704.
Artistic Range: Jennifer Eschedor at Tohono Chul Park
“Sixteen Skulls” by Jennifer Eschedor, is on display in the Dia de los Muertos Exhibit, running from Sept. 1 at Tohono Chul Park, through Nov. 6, 7366 N. Paseo del Norte,Tucson, Ariz. 85704.
Ducklings Cross Roads, They Don’t Eat Pizza
Listen, I wouldn’t recommend that people eat the food products of Pizza Hut, so I’m not sure how I feel about a duckling eating something from there. Is the duckling protected by some sort of inner-duck stomach enzyme? So many unanswered questions. Speaking of ducklings, if you missed the episode of the FX show Louie…
Artistic Range: Helen Rowles at Tohono Chul Park
“Traveling Both Worlds” by Helen Rowles, is on display at the Dia de los Muertos Exhibit running from Sept. 1 at Tohono Chul Park through Nov. 6, 7366 N. Paseo del Norte, Tucson, Ariz., 85704.
The New Ryan Adams Song Is Worth Hearing
Lucky Now by ryanadams While I was a Ryan Adams fanatic following his album Heartbreaker, grabbing bootlegs, b-sides, and whatever else I could get my hands on, over time, the pace of his career (I might be wrong, but I think Adams recently covered the first Vampire Weekend in its entirety as a series of…
The Ennui of Work in Animated Film Form
I personally enjoy my job, but I know there are some of you out there who aren’t so lucky. Lucky enough to have a job, sure, but crushed by the inequity of giving up your time for a paycheck. Have I got the short animated film for you! Argentinan animator Santiago Grasso’s El Empleo manages…
TucsonWeeklyTV.com – Talking (Batman) Comics
This week, as the DC Universe reboot is in full swing, Eric and Arnie look at what’s happening to everyone’s favorite human crime fighter with a permanent scowl, Batman.
What to Listen to Wednesday, Volume Two
Last week, we featured the first installment of What to Listen to Wednesday, a selection of what our various music critics have been enjoying the last seven days. This week, another diverse selection of tracks, from jazz verging on soft rock to a remembrance of a recently departed blues legend. Casey DeweyThe Jan Hammer Group,…
John C. Scott Returns to the Radio Next Week
Legendary local radio talk-show host John C. Scott is returning to the radio waves next week. Scott, a former state lawmaker who has been doing talk radio in Tucson since 1989, will be re-launching the John C. Scott Show on KVOI, 1030 AM, next Tuesday, Sept. 6. The show will air from 4 to 5…
New Moon Tucson Is Open
A new LGBT bar called New Moon Tucson has opened in the former Pulse Tucson location at 915 W. Prince Road. Han Nguyen, the bartender on shift this afternoon, tells us the New Moon is owned and operated by the former owners of the Coyote Moon Pub, which closed a while back and reopened as…
JC Penney Hates Your Daughters
Thankfully, JC Penney took down this disturbing screen-printing choice down today after The Hairpin brought attention to it, but really, if you thought this was a good idea, maybe you shouldn’t be designing clothes for girls. I hear they’re hiring over where they make Malibu Stacy dolls, however.
Primary Conclusion: The Race for Mayor Is Back On
So we have a mayoral race in the city of Tucson: Democrat Jonathan Rothschild will face Republican Rick Grinnell, who was able to get 5,773 write-in votes, far exceeding the 1,060 write-in votes he needed to get on the ballot after the two GOP candidates who filed to run were kicked off the ballot. In…
Thank You, Jack White and Insane Clown Posse
Essentially, we’ve just dipped officially into Mad Libs culture, where we just throw pop culture references together and see what happens, but yes, there’s a song out by Insane Clown Posse, produced by Jack White, with indie rock act JEFF the Brotherhood playing the music, interpolating a bit of Mozart. And that song is called…
Today in Stupid, Unexpectedly Popular Ideas
There was a saying I used to hear that went something like “if you want to know what God thinks of money, look at who he gives it to”. I don’t know if that’s exactly true, but then you hear that designer diapers aren’t just an item thrown on the shelves as a lark, but…
Explosions in the Sky Are Pretty Great, Right?
There’s something strange and wonderful in the reality that a band playing instrumental songs generally lasting eight minutes or longer being popular enough to play the Rialto. Even as surprising as that idea probably is, Explosions in the Sky will be there Thursday night, playing their somewhat symphonic compositions for electric guitar and drums. The…
Orange Cat Versus Orange Balloon Cat
Okay, It’s another cat video—but it’s a hilarious, NEW cat video! Via The Hairpin: The first 30 seconds is where the action is. In the real cat’s defense, it must be creepy to confront an identically colored, electronically-purring version of yourself.
You Should Go to the Tammies Tomorrow
Music editor Steve Seigel and senior writer Jim Nintzel were on Arizona Illustrated yesterday to discuss tomorrow night’s Tammies event at the Rialto Theatre. Learn the process behind finding the winners, feel like you learned something about some of the nominees, share in the memories of past memories, etc. Steve wears a Big Star shirt…
Now Serving Beer: Brushfire BBQ
Brushfire BBQ at 2745 N. Campbell Ave. now serves beer, making one of Tucson’s favorite barbeque destinations just that much better. Work is still underway on the second location on the corner of 22nd Street and Kolb Road, although the opening inches ever closer. Keep up on the progress of that over yonder.
Let’s Make Some Adorable Ponies Together
While I’m expressed my general confusion about the rise in My Little Pony fandom among seemingly socially adjusted adults, I’m not above wasting time making my very own super-cute pony online. The number of options available (add your own cutie mark!) are truly staggering and the creator still wants to add “about 20 manes and…
Hide Your Kids From Haruki Murakami’s Books!
I’m personally a big fan of Haruki Murakami’s work (Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of those books I re-read every 18 months or so), so my perspective is tainted, but I tend to not think of his book about youth and loss in 1960’s Tokyo, Norwegian Wood, as a “lesbian sex book”, but then again,…
Email Sign-offs > Actual Content
All all of us in the email world know that the act of ending of an email with the perfect “signature” can break down a human spirit quicker then the time it takes to run to your mirror and shout, “Why do I feel this unnatural social pressure?!” This obviously does not apply to those…
Ron Barber: Giffords Will Make Decision To Seek Reelection “When Time Is Right”
Ron Barber, the district director for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, walked into the Monday meeting of Democrats of Greater Tucson this week to a big round of applause. While he was using a cane—Barber is still recovering from nerve damage after taking a bullet in his upper left thigh during the Jan. 8 shooting rampage that…
The New Almodovar Movie Seems Terrifying
I don’t know exactly what’s going on with the new Pedro Almodovar film, The Skin I Live In, which stars Antonio Banderas and is set to be released in America on October 14 (although one can only guess when it will show here in Tucson), although I think I might have nightmares starring the guy…
Prepare to Be Bewildered by Kitty Quasar
Events by the Powhaus collective have an extended life both before and after the actual date of the production. After each show, there’s a flood of photos and videos cataloging what happened. Before the show, there’s generally a video that tends to confuse me, and the above video for the Glitter Ball 3000 featuing Kitty…
Let the Price of Weed Decide Where You Move
The website FloatingSheep, which has a very enjoyable set of infographic maps for your nerdish enjoyment, has taken data visualization to new heights, creating a map color coding the relative price of marijuana nationwide. Basically, if you like to smoke, don’t move to Minnesota, it seems. In other news, our medicinal marijuana column debuts on…
You Should Listen to This Because It Is Good
The debut album by Wild Flag, whose lineup seems intended to make indie rock fans run to their favorite blogging platform, is streaming at NPR’s First Listen site. If you liked Sleater-Kinney, you’re bound to enjoy this as well. If you didn’t like Sleater-Kinney (or Helium, whose frontwoman, Mary Timony, is also a member), maybe…
Coming Soon: Jalopy’s Grillville and Brewery
A new restaurant and microbrewery is opening on the corner of Limberlost Drive and Oracle Road. Owner Hal Burns says he hopes to have Jalopy’s Grillville and Brewery open in October. The first batches of beer should be available around the end of the year. Burns says he and his brew master are both “home-brewers…
Tomorrow’s Election Candidates and the Internet
Maybe we’re all too dazzled and conditioned by the streamlined glitz and glam of national politickers, but tomorrow’s election candidates seem to have love-hate relationship with the internet. A couple highlights include: Rick Grinnell’s (Grinnell4Mayor) whopping five tweets about Second Saturdays: Joe Flores’s (most likely accidental) adorable heart-cutaway on his website’s image splash: Regina Romero…
I Guess Reality TV Is Bad for People Now
The New York Times’ Virginia Heffernan has a blog post decrying the state of reality television, bringing up a list of reality show stars who feel like their lives have been ruined by appearing on various programs for our amusement. While I guess it probably really does suck to be on one of the Real…
Finally, Some Legal Protection for the Beauty Impaired
One professor of economics theorizes that ugly people should be protected under the Americans With Disabilities Act and Equal Opportunity. This is, of course, good news for your mother, who is so ugly that every night, her pillow cries: The mechanics of legislating this kind of protection are not as difficult as you might think.…
Michele Bachmann, Please Stop Talking
It’s not that I don’t “get the joke”, it’s just I perhaps don’t think you should aim for big time laughs out of natural disasters. Sure, 24 people are dead (so far), millions are without power, but hey, let’s go ahead and make jokes. It’s hilarious, because it isn’t happening to us. On a different…
Senior Citizens Gone Wild
You know what they say…teach old people how to create graffiti, give them spray cans and chaos ensues: Formal courses and workshops on senior graffiti are careful to keep their work legal, either spraying on large canvas or securing the rights to public spaces, like the walls of culture centers. But not all of Germany’s…
Sweet Talkin’: Meet the New Executive Pastry Chef at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort
Chef Owens’ olive-oil cake was a hit at the now-defunct Ventana Room. Krista Owens remembers the first time she saw baked Alaska blazing away in her childhood dining room. One could say that flaming dessert sparked a passion for pastry that grew and grew, eventually culminating in her current position as the new executive pastry…
Can Someone Please Explain This Video to Me?
As someone who spends an obscene amount of time on the internet, I’ve seen plenty of videos of young people dancing in their living rooms while lip-syncing to pop songs, so that aspect of this video isn’t all that unusual, but if someone can explain the fat baby on the couch and why these girls…
Told You So: Gawker Names Arizona Worst State
No big surprise (I called it, remember?), but Arizona ended up as Gawker’s Worst State, for all the reasons you might have guessed. What’s most offensive is that the cheap shots aren’t really all that well-written: Arizona is a hissing snakepit of angry old white people (they are angry because they are literally being cooked…
New Menu at Medusa Kabob House
There’s a new menu down at Medusa Kabob House, the restaurant that’s brought Mediterranean fare to the old Casbah Tea House spot at 628 N. Fourth Ave. Owner Ashur Davoudikia says he now offers a lamb-and-beef kabob, which he says are a bit more tender and flavorful than the straight-out beef kabobs he sells. There…
Please, East Coast TV Weatherpersons. Stay Inside.
Sure, it’s hilarious when people fall down, but the second worst part* of any giant impending storm is when weatherpeople and their idiot producers feel like it’s somehow necessary to shoot outside, with the wind and rain battering the poor TV personality. We get it. Storm bad. No need to risk being swept away by…
New Trailer for “The Rum Diary”
Although, for me, watching this movie with my wife might be mildly uncomfortable due to her shameless, undying crush on Johnny Depp, it’s still an adaptation of a Hunter S. Thompson novel with a great cast. Something for both of us, I guess.
Today in Wu-Tang Related Stuff
I believe this is my fourth Wu-Tang Clan related post here on The Range and it’s possible I’m only talking to myself with this particular subject matter, but I have to stay true to my passions, and the GZA/Genius album Liquid Swords is definitely one of my favorite musical releases ever (no joke: it’s an…
Thanks for the Useful Penis Advice, CNN
I understand that someone must be Googling “what to ask before penis surgery”, so it’s possible CNN is doing the online world of information a favor with the article “5 questions to ask before having penis surgery”, but I think the post brings up as many questions as it answers. 1. Who are these “tens…
This Week in Tucson Bicycling
Michael McKisson/TucsonVelo.com Getting to campus is easier and cheaper on a bike. The University of Arizona is back in session and there is no day better than the first day of classes to remind people why bike commuting is better than driving. Check out the photos of people on bikes and the traffic you bypass…
I Take It All Back…Yelp Is Useful and Accurate
I wrote some unkind words about Yelp a few weeks ago and loyal Yelpers rushed to their favorite site’s defense, telling me I didn’t understand the service or wasn’t using it correctly. Well, they were right. I’ve seen the light, because it’s clear experts are on Yelp providing their practical expertise based on their own…
Cancel Your Plans for Tonight (Unless Your Plans Involve Big Freedia)
From the music man, Stephen Seigel: Bounce is a hip-hop subgenre that emerged from New Orleans in the late ’80s/early ’90s, and next week, the Queen of Bounce, Big Freedia—a ginormous drag queen who is one of bounce music’s most visible practitioners—will return to Club Congress to perform at Optimist Club. People are still talking…
Opening Soon: Knock Outs Round One Sports Bar and Grill
The building that once housed the Rhino Pub has been repainted and revamped to make way for a new sports bar and restaurant called Knock Outs Round One Sports Bar and Grill. Owner Nubia Bernal said today that work on the new joint at 1118 E. Sixth St. is more or less complete, and that…
Want to Help a Local Food Truck Find Newfound Fame? Go Vote For It!
Planet of the Crepes still stands out as one of my favorite food trucks in town, although it’s honestly kind of difficult to play favorites at this point. It was one of the first non-Mexican-food and non-hot-dog trucks I had the pleasure of visiting, which is probably part of the reason it still stands out…
I’m Busy Right Now, So Look at These Leopard Cubs
Your friendly blogger has a very important observance to attend to right now*, and while it’s possible that some of the other Tucson Weekly staffers will throw blog posts up in the next hour or so, you might just be stuck with these leopard cubs until I get back. However, it’s sleeping adorable leopard cubs!…
‘Nothing But Caucasians’
In Ruben Navarrette’s latest op-ed, he takes aim at NBC, even giving the broadcast company’s acronym a new meaning: ‘Nothing But Caucasians.’ Navarrette doesn’t just pick on television executives, but he also throws in a nice jab at those darn nativists. The result are a few comments that reminded me of some of the lovely…
Why Do Realtors Shoot Videos in Cars?
I don’t have to try to sell people houses in the midst of this terrible real estate market, so maybe I don’t quite understand the marketing that goes into the realtor game, but I’m not sure I would factor whether or not my agent has a YouTube video of them talking in the car into…
Listen to the Mean DJ Yell at the Nice Blogger
KFMA Morning Show Host Fook Gets His New Rock Revenge by TucsonWeekly I can’t listen to this clip from Wednesday’s KFMA morning show because it’s still too painful, but if you’d like to hear evidence of my mistreatment at the hands of a Five Finger Death Punch fan, this is your opportunity. Now, I’m going…
Stegeman Out, Cuevas In
Mark Stegeman was ousted from his position as president of the TUSD governing board Tuesday night, four days after he testified at an administrative hearing as an expert witness for the state that not only does he believe the ethnic studies classes violate parts of the anti-ethnic studies law, but that the Mexican American Studies…
Media Watch
KQTH adds James T. Harris to their daily talk lineup
The Be-All of Bar Food
These days sports bars are a dime a dozen, and they’re usually so big and overdone that one can get a little overwhelmed. Not so at O’Malley’s, one of the many eateries on Fourth Avenue. O’Malley’s was here long before those other pretenders, and if those other guys had any sense they’d take a lesson…
Danehy
Be it known that for a short time—a brief, shining moment, as it were—I was on the hottest morning drive-time radio show in Tucson history. The star of the show was Mike Elliot and he had it all—a smooth, pimp-daddy FM radio voice, a face that wouldn’t make his many fans wince if it were…
Police Dispatch
One enraged bicyclist; Walgreens vigilante justice
Noshing Around
Allen’s Organics; Pizza and raspados; Mexico City Kitchen; and more!
Messina
I never thought I would be rejoicing over a pile of dog shit. Nor did I think I’d be on poop patrol, searching my house for malodorous smells and substances. But for a new dog owner, it’s all part of the experience. The journey to peaceful coexistence is still in process, but there are encouraging…
Weekly Wide Web
Where Bloggers Get Their Voice or Sunday, Aug. 21’s New York Times Magazine, author and blogger Maud Newton wrote a feature titled “Another Thing to Sort of Pin on David Foster Wallace,” which in shockingly long form examined her theory that Wallace’s nonfiction work affected blog writing in a negative way. I suppose we’re at…
Serving the People
When I get back home / I won’t be / the same no more.” These are the first words Dan Boeckner sings on Sound Kapital’s buzzing opener “When I Get Back.” Set against wife Alexei Perry’s elephant-truck synthesizer blasts, the notice officially ushers in Handsome Furs’ alluring, and most endearing, third release. The statement may…
Mailbag
One reader isn’t all that enamored with military jets; Mental health services are available
Cash-Poor Coverage
Resembling a house built on sand being buffeted by a raging storm, Tucson’s economy has been severely shaken. During the last few years, has the city’s print media adequately explained why the community has suffered more than most American cities? The reasons are complex and confusing, but include an over-reliance on continuous population growth to…
Soundbites
The TAMMIES; A benefit for Craig Schumacher; and more!
Neon Miracles
If you want to know what’s going on at the former Monterey Motel off Miracle Mile, the best place to start is with a tour from Dar Dobroslavic. Although most of the remodel on the 1940s-era motel is complete, Dobroslavic still has some imagining to do as she describes what goes where at what is…
Honest Pop
Kamtin Mohager, the brains and brawn behind the project the Chain Gang of 1974, fully embraces the concept of pop, despite the fact that in some circles that term may connote something disposable, cloying and lightweight. “I never want to be afraid of putting out a pop record, of putting effort into something that sounds…
Top Ten in Music
1. Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout Guru-Gaga (Bloat) 2. N.O.S. No One Special (Punk) 3. The Distortionists The Mark Side of the Dune (Tu-Lo) 4. La Cerca Rock ‘n’ Roll to the Rescue (self-released) 5. The Putters Got Something for Your Daughter 7″ (Modern Peasant) 6. A Transylvanian Funeral (DVD) The Outsider (Forbidden) 7.…
Happy Birthday, M.J.
At the Dunbar Cultural Center’s first Michael Jackson birthday celebration in 2009, Barbea Williams saw people from all walks of life. Young, old, black, white, Latino. She even met someone from France. “It was a global community that came out,” said Williams, who started the event with her dance company. That’s the magic of Michael…
Nine Questions
For 16 years, Kevin Strnatka has run Rhino Linings of Southern Arizona, which specializes in a variety of industrial and commercial coatings. His voracious appetite for music was whetted while being raised in England from 1976 to 1982. Strnatka, 43, is the proud father of two daughters, one just two weeks old. What was the…
City Week
The Three Musketeers!; Bees!; Horses!; Baseball!
Live
While it may be disingenuous to say that the Steep Canyon Rangers stole the show from Steve Martin last Sunday night, there were moments in which it was easy to forget that one of the players on stage was a world-famous actor/writer/comedian. The Rangers are one of the most acclaimed contemporary bluegrass bands on the…
TQ&A
Andrea Witte never thought of getting involved in politics. But beginning in 1995, the self-employed graphic designer said she began to see her health insurance increase to a rate most business owners would consider unsustainable. The experience left Witte wondering why and wanting to know more. The result was getting involved in the Progressive Democrats…
The Ettes: Wicked Will (Varese Fontana)
Precious and few are the records today that ably capture a timeless garage-punk sound and credible girl-group vocals and melodies. It seems like a holy grail combination often aspired to but rarely achieved. With its fifth album, Wicked Will, the New York-by-way-of-Los Angeles band The Ettes perfects its approach and proves it is possible to…
Heat Strokes
What do you get when you put a Dutch abstractionist in the Sonoran Desert? If the artist is Gerben Mulder, what you get is The Tucson Work, an explosion of crayon-bright paintings that evoke everything about our dry landscape, from its dense vegetation to its spring blooms to its monsoon storms. During a Tucson sojourn…
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Mirror Traffic (Matador)
Pairing Stephen Malkmus and Beck, who produced this album, seems inevitable in retrospect; both have based their careers on trickster personas. Case in point: One of Malkmus’ songs on Mirror Traffic pivots on the lyric “I know what the Senator wants / What the Senator wants is a blowjob,” while on another he admits “I…
Pour It On
The more I ponder the pages of Hoist a Cold One!: Historic Bars of the Southwest, the more I realize that the HBO TV series Deadwood did incalculable damage to the image of the saloonkeeper, at least in my mind. Although the show is historically set in 1870s South Dakota (not, say, Arizona), the evil…
Twin Sister: In Heaven (Domino)
In the dry heat of a desert summer, nothing sounds livelier, more effervescent, more eardrum-quenching than Twin Sister’s debut full-length, In Heaven. A Brooklyn (by way of Long Island) chillwave quintet praised by all the right online tastemakers (i.e., Pitchfork), Twin Sister is led by adorable, chirpy-voiced Andrea Estella, who takes a few cues from…
Top Ten in Books
1. The Help Kathryn Stockett, Berkley ($16) 2. The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins, Scholastic ($8.99) 3. Left Neglected Lisa Genova, Gallery ($15) 4. Betrayal of Trust J.A. Jance, William Morrow ($25.99) 5. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Erik Larson, Crown ($20.80, sale) 6. A Game of…
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: This is going to sound absolutely and totally Caucasian. Lately, we have been trying to lighten the mood around the office with delicate bits of international confections. With all that’s going on in the world, who needs one more worry? With that said, we are struck with yet another issue to ponder. Just…
Guest Commentary
Lion attacks have been in the national news lately—following a number of concerning mountain-lion citings in and around Tucson last year—but there’s one story I’ll never forget. It was in the Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner last year, and featured a hunter who’d shot an “angry” mountain lion while out hunting mule deer. Investigators from the Utah…
A Vampire to Behold
Colin Farrell makes for a creepy, sleazy vampire in Fright Night, a darkly funny remake of the 1985 cult classic that made William Ragsdale a household name. Whatever happened to that guy, anyway? Farrell is as much fun in the role of Jerry the vampire as Chris Sarandon was in the original. In fact, I’m…
No Choice
In the wake of a legal defeat in the Arizona Court of Appeals, Planned Parenthood Arizona announced last week that it would be shutting down abortion services at seven locations in rural and metro Arizona. Planned Parenthood Arizona will now only provide abortions at one location in Tucson and two in Maricopa County. Bryan Howard,…
Top Ten in Movies
1. Priest Screen Gems 2. Something Borrowed Warner 3. Jane Eyre Universal 4. The Conspirator Lionsgate 5. Paul Universal 6. Your Highness Universal 7. Rio 20th Century Fox 8. Source Code Summit 9. Super MPI 10. Soul Surfer Sony
The Skinny
State Sen. Frank Antenori wants Gabrielle Giffords’ congressional seat … The city’s primary election day has arrived, but voters don’t have many choices … Science moves downtown … and more!
The Devil’s Backbone?
Uday Hussein represented the very worst of his father’s despotic reign over Iraq, and that’s saying something. The elder, less disciplined son of Saddam, Uday was a notorious sociopath the world is unquestionably better off without. He abducted and raped schoolgirls; he slaughtered his father’s food taster and close ally at a party for the…
Bloody Aftermath
Shawna Forde never took the stand. Not once did she testify about the May 2009 murders that left Raul Junior Flores and his 9-year-old daughter dead, in their modular home on the outskirts of Arivaca. Had Forde talked in the February trial that found her guilty of first-degree murder—and ultimately dispatched her to death row—she…
Now Showing at Home
The Conspirator (Blu-ray); Super (Blu-ray); Dead Man (Blu-ray)
Editor’s Note
This week, the Tucson Weekly is welcoming five new interns into the fold. In the coming months, Weekly readers will get to enjoy the work of student-journalists Janice Biancavilla, Britain Eakin, Tim Glass, Debbie Hadley and Kellie Mejdrich. They’ll be following up on the fine efforts of our summer intern crew: Celia Ampel, Katie Cunningham,…
Seems Like We Have Gawker’s “Worst State” Contest in the Bag
It’ll be a few days before we get to find out the worst state in America as determined by Gawker, but it feels like Arizona probably has it in the bag, right? After all, we “won” the last of these when GQ arbitrarily ranked the 50 states, and if they’re going to give New York…
We Have a First Pitch Winner!
Congratulations to Keith C Hickman-Perfetti, the winner of our first pitch contest with the Tucson Padres. I’m not entirely sure what to make of this video, but Keith was the only person with enough ambition to enter, so he wins. Thanks for entering, Keith! Best of luck getting the ball in the strike zone.
The Food Truck Diaries, Volume 22: Shaka Shave Ice
People line up for Shaka Shave Ice. Shaka Shave Ice is a food trailer that parks outside of Lee Lee Oriental Supermart at 1990 W. Orange Grove Road, and if you like cold, delicious things you should go there. Owners Lynn and Jeff Bronaugh do interesting things with shave ice, and people drive from as…
