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Is Tucson Getting Better or Worse?
Editor’s Note: Downtown Angst By Dan Gibson Downtown Tucson has been a big part of my life. When I was in high school, I’d ride the bus down to Congress as an escape from my eastside teen lifestyle. I bought postcards and trinkets at Yikes, books at Biblio, my first legal drink at Congress, saw…
We’re Hiring an Online Editor
It’s not all that often that we have a job opening around here, but we’re currently hiring for a new position here at the the Weekly: Online editor. So, here’s most of what the gig entails: • Creating and managing content for our website, including The Range (this is harder than it seems, believe me…writing…
Congrats On Your Parole, OJ. Now, Go Back To Your Cell
No white Broncos this time. No ill-fitting gloves, fame-seeking judges or Kardashian-producing attorneys. Just a simple ruling for OJ Simpson, one that grants the infamous football player/ham sandwich actor/alleged murderer parole on a handful of the charges he was convicted of five years ago. But since he still has to stay in prison, what the…
Lawyer Referral Service Has Greatest Radio Ad Ever
Generally, one would not expect a lawyer referral service, especially the sort that might advertise on an urban radio station in the Georgia/Florida area, to be a fount of pure creative genius, but yet, while driving somewhere near Tallahassee two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to hear the jingle above. I assumed, as I…
The “American Hustle” Trailer Seems to Be Composed of Everything I Enjoy
Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times”? David O. Russell directing his follow-up to Silver Linings Playbook? 70’s haircuts? Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence? It feels cruel that I have to wait until Christmas (assuming this actually opens here on the date) to see American Hustle.
McCain: Sarah Palin “Did Everything I Ever Wanted”
As we’ve noted on The Range and in our print edition, Sen. John McCain is getting a lot of attention these days, with some folks observing that he is undergoing yet another makeover. The New Republic’s Isaac Chotiner asked him about it in an interview that was posted today: IC: I am sure you hate…
Facebook Actively Chasing Its Own Demise
Kobby Dagan / Shutterstock.com Facebook, the social networking site seemingly everyone uses, but no one seems to enjoy, is considering adding TV-style fifteen second commercials to users’ news feeds, according to Bloomberg, priced at $1-2.5 million a day. People at Facebook, including Mark Zuckerberg, are apparently paying at least lip service to how their customer…
Want to Win a Foals Prize Pack?
I feel like I’ve listened to a lot of music this year, but there are a few albums that I’ve listened to over and over: Random Access Memories, Bankrupt! by Phoenix (partially because my kids are fans), Disclosure’s Settle and Foals’ Holy Fire. Phoenix were already in town pre-Coachella, Disclosure and Daft Punk aren’t likely…
Here’s a GIF of a Corgi for Your Enjoyment
From the Fonzi the Corgi Tumblr, here’s an afternoon’s worth of enjoyment.
You Should Go Win Casino del Sol’s Poker Super Jackpot
Jackpots and other such promos aren’t what draws me to a poker table, but I understand the allure of a shot at free money. And if that is you’re cup of tea, you might want to get down to Casino del Sol before the end of Wednesday. Nearly $50,000 is up for grabs in the…
Community Forum for Justice Focusing on Criminalization Tonight
The UA Black Student Union, Tucson Solidarity Organizing Network, the Black Chamber of Commerce and the We Care Coalition are hosting a Community Forum for Justice tonight, Tuesday, July 30, that will bring interested community together to “address how we can combat the criminalization of people of color and build solidarity across our communities.” It…
Let’s Use Food to Talk About Porn and Sex!
Finally, a video on sex that’s safe for work (although I suppose it depends on where you work) and educational, all because of the wonderful use of food to explain the differences between porn sex and real sex.
Here Is Your Chance to Draw Brightly Colored Dolphins for a Living
Legendary artist working in the sticker/notebook/school binder medium, Lisa Frank, is hiring a staff artist here in Tucson, so get the resume together, unemployed dreamers! Don’t think they’re just handing out magnificent careers over at the magic factory, however. The qualifications are rigorous, but what else would you expect from a company of this caliber:…
McCain: “One of the Reasons We Have Such Low Approval Is Americans Get Tired of This Brinksmanship”
Sen. John McCain sat down yesterday for a lengthy (for TV, anyway) interview with the PBS News Hour. As we noted in The Skinny last week, McCain appears to be moving back from right-wing fringe and back to the moderate middle. Some highlights: On immigration: “If we do not act on this issue, I think…
Rock Slides: See Bands You Missed, or Relive the Moment
In an effort to catch up a backlog of concert photos take by the delightful C. Elliott, here are images from several recent shows. If you managed to attend all of these, you are dedicated to music and have weird taste.
“Parks and Recreation” Trading Cards Exist and Now I Need to Find Them
The timing of TV these days is a little weird. For some reason, it seems like a year or so since the Parks and Recreation season 5 finale (it was actually May 2) and season 6 isn’t scheduled to start until September 26, so I’ve made adjustments to adapt to a summer without the show. Mad…
Report: Granite Mountain Hotshot Crew Leader Violated Safety Protocols
Independent reporter John Dougherty of Investigative Media continues to examine what led to the deaths of 19 Prescott firefighters in the Yarnell Hill Fire: Eric Marsh, the superintendent of the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew, violated wildfire safety protocols when he and 18 of his firefighters were killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30,…
The Night of the Living Fest Will Feature Bands, Miniature Golf
As you probably saw in our print edition, Steve Seigel mentioned the forthcoming Night of the Living Fest in Soundbites this week: As I said above, just as this is the final Bröötal Sun Fest, another festival’s inaugural outing is being planned. Dubbed Night of the Living Festival, the one-day event is set to take…
The Weekly Was on Letterman Last Night
From the 7/29/13 episode of “The Late Show With David Letterman” We can’t embed the video because CBS hates blogs or something, but if you fast-forward to the 15:54 mark in last night’s episode of The Late Show, Anna Mirocha’s Police Dispatch from June 20 was featured. I feel like the previous story about someone…
Aaron May’s Opening a Pizza Place Here, Apparently
There’s been a liquor license application in the queue recently for a place called Heist No. 43, located at 7131 E. Broadway (the former home of a Big Fat Greek Restaurant that always seemed busy, but you never know). The license application was under the name of a company that does that sort of thing,…
U.S. Rep. Trent Franks on Voting Rights Act: “People Say They Say Tomato, I Say Abortion”
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks, who has a lot of say about any revamp of the Voting Rights Act after a Supreme Court decision gutted a key provision earlier this year, doesn’t have much interest in revisiting the law, according to Talking Points Memo: A recent House Judiciary Committee hearing made clear that Republicans have little…
Former Tucsonan Has YouTube Hit With “Bubble Wrap Bike”
Eric Buss, besides being a guy I went to high school with, is an inventor, comedian and magician working in L.A., which means that he does interesting things with props of his creation. However, he is good for more laughs and is more magical than Carrot Top, as can be seen in this currently trending…
McCain Eulogizes POW Cellmate
Sen. John McCain eulogized a former Vietnam War cellmate and longtime friend George “Bud” Day on the Senate floor today, saying that when they were both captives, “Bud showed me how to save my self-respect and my honor, and that is a debt I can never repay.” (Hat tip: Talking Points Memo)
Pima’s New Chancellor Talks Probation’s Challenges, Opportunities
Lee Lambert A few months ago, after months of bad press, community discontent and administrative controversies, Pima Community College’s accreditation was put on probation. The college has about a year to straighten itself out before submitting proof to the Higher Learning Commission that it deserves to remain accredited. Lee Lambert, PCC’s new chancellor, has taken…
Grijalva: House Leadership Should Kick Congressman Steve King Off Judiciary Committee If They’re Serious About Immigration Reform
Southern Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva responded last week to Iowa Congressman Steve King’s assertion that many of the potential DREAM Act kids are actually drug mules who have “calves the size of cantaloupes” from hauling all that weed across the border: I appreciate the Speaker, Mr. Cantor and others who have repudiated what Steve King…
Eater Tells Us What’s Hot in Tucson Dining (Sorta)
As the standard sort of food-loving jackass that seems to be everywhere these days, I enjoy the food blog Eater. They do a great job with the fun national trend stuff, but also provide a solid insight into what’s happening in the various cities they cover. However, for better or worse, Tucson has rarely made…
One Man’s Ankle Injury Is The Other’s Way To Move Up The Depth Charts
If you follow the NFL beyond just the 17 Sundays in the fall — a necessity if you played fantasy football — you’re probably aware that the first few days of preseason training camp has been akin to a maiming field. Several high-profile players have been injured already, some so bad they’ll miss the entire…
A Better Tucson Through Coding
Blake Collins At 8:55 am Saturday morning Gangplank was very quiet, with only a few people enjoying a breakfast of bagels donated by Bruegger’s Bagels. Then 9 am rolled around and enthusiastic citizens began pouring through the doors. It was good to see a fair number of women among the majority of male participants, and…
Tucson Summer Pro League Wraps Up In Style
The 10th season of UA basketball great Corey Williams’ Tucson Summer Pro League finished up Sunday with a championship-game upset led by a not-so-surprising title game MVP. The Casino del Sol-sponsored squad, which finished sixth in the 10-team league’s regular season, beat No. 1 seed Clausen Moore in the semifinals then downed No. 2 Nimbus…
When Muslims Start Writing Books About Jesus …
A Muslim writes a book about Jesus and the world implodes. Oh, yeah, only on Fox News. Author Reza Aslan is the latest guest to make the folks at Fox News look inane. “You’re a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?” asked Fox News’ Lauren Green. His response:…
DREAM 9 Vigil Tonight at Eloy Detention Center
The nine immigration activists, DREAM 9, who were taken into custody after crossing the Nogales Port of Entry on Monday, July 22, remain in custody at the Eloy Detention Center. A second vigil and rally is planned for today at 5 p.m. outside the detention center, with a carpool meeting at 3:15 p.m. and leaving…
AZ Illustrated Politics: DREAMers, McCain’s Moderate Makeover, Red-Light Enforcement Cameras and More
On last night’s AZ Illustrated Politics: Host Jim Nintzel, Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President Lea Marquez-Peterson, former state lawmaker Frank Antenori and former Pima County Democratic Party chairman Jeff Rogers talked about Steve King’s assertion that many of the DREAM Act kids are actually drug mules; the arrest of nine DREAMers at the border…
Pac-12 Football Media Day: A View From The Twitter Feed
The travel budget here at Weekly World Central isn’t what it is at other media outlets. We can’t afford to send a reporter, let alone two, to Culver City to spend the day following around Arizona’s and other schools’ coaches, player reps and media relations flaks for mostly canned responses to the usual questions. So…
Let’s Watch a Supercut of SNL Cast Members Breaking on Camera
As hard as it is to believe, current Late Night host and future Tonight Show host, Jimmy Fallon isn’t the only person to constantly laugh at his fellow cast members on camera on a show that features some of the funniest comic actors of the day. No, a number of Saturday Night Live’s actors, great…
SmackCam: The Latest Proof That the World Is F—ked
Vine, the Twitter-built social media platform that’s taken the world by storm (at least until Instagram video became a thing), is a great source for all sorts of weird, goofy, interesting short video clips. And then, there’s the fun bit of horror known as the #SmackCam trend, which seems to involve hitting people upside the…
A Parody of the Cheerios Ad That Got Racists In a Huff Is Awesome
So, remember the Cheerios ad that got racists all frothy over the idea that a large corporation was trying to force interracial couplings down the throat of this country that has fought so long to segregate the population? (It’s here, if you don’t remember. We’ll wait for those who are unfamiliar while they watch it.)…
It Seems That, Until Now, It Was Illegal To Insult the Leader of France
Apparently the leaders of those cheese-eating surrender monkeys over on the other side of the Atlantic have had trouble taking criticism in the past, and at some point in their history made it an offense to insult them. Well, no more! From the Daily Mail: In the interests of free speech, MPs revoked legislation dating…
You Should Read This Grantland Story About Bisbee
Photo courtesy of Shutterstock This is a photo of Bisbee. The work of Rembert Browne is one of the highlights of the ESPN-funded home of overly-long writing Grantland, and somehow he’s managed to convince whoever’s paying for things over there to fund a summer long roadtrip in search of America, which included a trip to…
Weird Craigslist Job Posting of the Day: Naked Swimming For Pay!
In what appears to be a recurring series of reposting weird want-ads from Craigslist, we’ve got the latest interesting idea from a few gentlemen (we assume) who want to pay a young lady to be a nude mermaid. Now, nothing against their atrocious spelling (although they misspelled “valley” for God’s sake), but it seems like…
No Kill Pima County Wants You to Find Out if Pet Fostering is For You
This Saturday, July 27, No Kill Pima County will be hosting “Fosters to the Rescue,” which will bring together 22 local animal rescues to meet with the public and provide information about their foster care programs. NKPC, a grassroots organization formed to seek more non-lethal outcomes at the Pima Animal Care Center, notes that only…
Dragoon Brewing Partnering With New Belgium On An ‘Old-Meets-New’ Beer Collaboration
In what’s one of the coolest bits of news coming out of Tucson’s beer scene, the quickly-growing and widely renowned Dragoon Brewing Company is set to partner with New Belgium Brewing Company in a collaborative effort set to launch in late September. According to Tristan White of Dragoon, the collaboration was something that was completely…
Join Dragoon Brewing and Boca Tacos in Celebrating the Tucson Fire Pipes and Drums Band
Tomorrow, Dragoon Brewing and Boca Tacos want you to join them for great beer and great tacos to support the Tucson Fire Pipes and Drums band. The event is set to kick off at 6 p.m. Friday, ’til 8, where Dragoon will be releasing Tartan 479, a Belgian-style Blonde ale. According to Dragoon, sales from…
McCain Notes That Strippers Could Be the Big Winners in Potential Dollar Coin Switch
Oh, John McCain. It’s like you’re getting even cheekier in your old age. Sen. McCain, along with a handful of other Congressmen and Senators, is one of the backers of the COINS Act, which calls for the elimination of the $1 bill, replacing it with a $1 coin, as seems to be the trend in…
Let’s Look At the Downside to Being a Superhero
As the folks at Andrew M Films note, apparently being a superhero isn’t as awesome as you might think. Interestingly, this reminds me of two different Superman-related things (since it’s somewhat obviously parodying Supes): One being the “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” essay that posits the terrible consequences that would occur if Superman were…
Triangle T Hosts the Fourth Annual Garlic Festival This Weekend
If you are looking to do something different this weekend, you can head on out to the fourth annual Garlic Festival at Triangle T Ranch, 4190 E. Dragoon Road. The event will be benefiting the Wounded Warriors Project. The event is Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, July 27 from 10 a.m. ’til 6 p.m. There…
The Skinny
This week: John Kromko’s red-light camera killing initiative fails … Washington Republicans consider the DREAM Act … and might John McCain go moderate again?
Top Ten in Music
1. Portugal. The Man Evil Friends 2. Daft Punk Random Access Memories 3. Rouge Wave Nightingale Floors 4. Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City 5. Camera Obscura Desire Lines 6. Mavis Staples One True Vine 7. The National Trouble Will Find Me 8. Bronze Radio Return Up, On & Over 9: Afrolicious California Dreaming…
Mailbag
Our readers respond to Tom Danehy … and considering the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case.
Noshing Around
Gio Taco looks to open downtown … Noble Hops plans a beer dinner … a new dinner theater is set to open in Oro Valley … and more!
Rockier, Spacier
Quiet Light, the debut EP from Roadkill Ghost Choir, captures a band in flux. The DeLand, Fla., band recorded 18 songs in two separate sessions, jettisoning older tunes and writing new ones along the way as the band fought to capture its quickly shifting sound. The result manages to incorporate twangy banjo picking alongside some…
Ashes and Fire
Crazy action along the Mexican border continues to earn headlines—and in recent weeks it’s only gotten crazier. A drug kingpin riding in a truck full of cash and weapons is caught near Nuevo Laredo, opposite Laredo, Texas. An immigration-reform bill being considered in Congress calls for doubling agents, building more walls and sending in the…
Cast in Concrete
Shawna Leigh Spargur, born in Tucson in 1985, is one millennial who frets that in a “technological world our connections lessen.” So she decided to do something about it—in concrete. Her all-concrete installation “Within the Weight of Being,” 2012, is one of the standouts in this year’s particularly fun edition of the Arizona Biennial at…
Alive and Well
It’s just after 7 p.m. on a Tuesday night and it’s hard not to be taken by the flow of foot traffic coming into the El Con Club from the parking lot. Take it one step further and it’s even harder not to be struck by the fact that the parking lot is inside the…
Top Ten in Books
1. The Day the Crayons Quit Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers ($17.99) 2. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson ($15.99) 3. TransAtlantic: A Novel Colum McCann ($27) 4. Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty Gary Paul Nabhan ($29.95) 5.…
Failed Experiment
My job is not always an easy one. Sure, I get to see some great theater. But I also run into some of the not-so-great. And sometimes, unfortunately, theater that absolutely falls flat. It’s hard to write about such a situation because you know good people have invested much time and effort and have simply…
Media Watch
This week, Bill Buckmaster looks back at his radio success … AZ Illustrated founders … and Valerie Knight and Chuck Aubrey return to radio.
Nice Twist
The Twisted Tandoor stands out in a sea of food trucks. Bright yellow and orange, showcasing Indian spices on the side, it’s like Holi—the Festival of Colors—in truck form. And the logo is a twisted Indian chakra in the colors of the Indian flag. Here you’ll find traditional Indian dishes. “Food has always been a…
Soundbites
We say “so long” to Bröötal Sun Fest … hello to Night of the Living Festival … goodbye to a few talented locals … and more!
T Q&A
Along with his girlfriend and business partner, Lori Miller, Anthony Hinckley aims to run a business that makes a difference. Nowhere to Land opened in November 2012 at 414 E. Seventh St. It carries furniture, vintage items and more. It also has a free library. In May, Hinckley began a community food drive with other…
Locals Only
A pop-up restaurant where most dishes will be prepared with ingredients grown within 100 miles of Tucson will take over the Zona 78 location on Tanque Verde Road for a couple of days at the end of the month. Our Table: Farm to Fork is the brainchild of Kevin Fink, Zona 78’s director of operations;…
True TV
You Should Watch It Childrens Hospital, NTSF:SD:SUV Thursday, July 25 (Adult Swim) Season Premieres: No advance review screeners of Adult Swim’s greatest live-action achievements not named Eagleheart were made available to The Only TV Column That Matters™, but this much is known: In Season 5 of Childrens Hospital, the doctors are relocating to a U.S.…
Guest Commentary
Lee Sonnichsen called his history of the Old Pueblo Tucson: Life and Times of an American City. The title was meant to be a little ironic, as Tucson’s strange and colorful history is hardly typical. Tucsonans generally take great pride in what we regard as the specialness of our city, even when it frustrates us.…
Time to Sue Your Real Estate Agent
I got a couple of good jolts out of The Conjuring, the latest from director James Wan. Wan is a strange entity for me. I sort of hate him for starting the whole Saw thing, and I sort of really like him for twisted films like Insidious, Death Sentence and, to some extent, this one.…
Danehy
The weather sucks, our City Council sucks, the majority of our state Legislature should be taking remedial civics classes to learn that legislators should be doing things for people rather than to people, and every member of Congress should be in jail for stealing their salaries and not doing any work to earn them. It…
Guest Commentary
Last month, Tucson’s hottest June on record, President Obama revealed his Climate Action Plan, to cut carbon pollution, accelerate clean energy and prepare for climate change that’s already here. The president is doing what he can on this issue. With a receptive Congress, he could do more. But that’s not likely to happen anytime soon.…
Spread Too Thin
You get the sense watching the first Red, released three years ago, that with all the bullets flying around, the cast and filmmakers somehow managed to dodge one. It was silly, it featured principal players not exactly on an uptick, and director Robert Schwentke was no big shakes. But Red was fun. We learned that…
Tepid Tempest
It seems the Mile High City is a mile off target when it comes to medical marijuana business regulation, but the situation might not be as bad as an auditor’s report (http://www.denvergov.org/Portals/741/documents/Audits%202013/Medical_Marijuana_Licensing_Audit_Report_07-18-13.pdf) and subsequent media attention make it sound. Denver, where competition is thriving among hundreds of medical cannabis shops, recently gained a new ass…
Top Ten in Cinema
1. 42 2. Admission 3. Evil Dead 4. Bullet to the Head 5. Spring Breakers 6. Dead Man Down 7. The Call 8. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 9. Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor 10. The Host
Ask a Mexican!
This week, the Mexican considers Mexicans and birth control … and a terrible, terrible misunderstanding of Spanish and nuclear terminology.
Trade Support
It’s a busy Monday afternoon at Lil’ Traders, a children’s resale shop on Tucson’s east side. A steady stream of customers, kids in tow, come into the store, browsing the racks of tiny outfits, looking over the children’s books and checking out the shelves where Bert and Ernie and Tigger and Pooh sit. Some carry…
Live
Sonny Vincent is one of the original New York Punks, recording since the late ’70s and connected to such legends as Suicide, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, and The Dead Boys. He’s never stopped recording or performing and along the way has collaborated with members of the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, and the Replacements, among…
Primal Scream: More Light (UNIVERSAL)
Primal Scream’s finest work has always been birthed by putting old sounds in new formats: the warped psych/house fusion of 1991’s landmark Screamadelica or the dub meets the krautrockers uptown from ’97’s Vanishing Point, and so on. Always a sea of contradictions, this revivalist band now finds itself in the middle of a revival of…
Welcome to the Community
It was billed as a cafecito to meet the new Tucson Unified School District superintendent, but it ended up being an opportunity for H.T. Sanchez to meet the community that’s taken on the district a few times in the past and has always won. In a packed meeting room at the John Valenzuela Youth Center…
Tackling Tough Issues
Gun violence, social persecution and high-pressure decision-making are issues that people today have to cope with at a young age. This year, high schoolers participating in Arizona Theatre Company’s Summer on the Stage program are exploring those issues—and what happens when people handle them poorly—in two plays. In Your Eyes, which has never been publicly…
Gauntlet Hair: Stills (DEAD OCEAN)
Stills, the sophomore album by Denver noise poppers Gauntlet Hair, earns a solid C. It’s perfectly average, with some good ideas but nothing that distinguishes it. Stills works best when it makes references to things within the band’s wheelhouse: late-1980s post-punk (that ugly-pretty bass squawk on “Simple,” the PiL-esque “Waste Your Art”), new wave (“Bad…
The Big Fix
Gangplank moved into the Pioneer Building only a few months ago, but it’s already an energetic space. The people are relaxed and open, and thoughts flow easily there. This is the backdrop for the upcoming Code for Tucson event happening on Saturday, July 27 and Sunday, July 28. Code for Tucson is a weekend-long project…
Mike King: Street Pajama Bottoms (ART ATTACK)
Among the highlights of the 1980s local music scene was the band Street Pajama, which played smart pop-rock infused with jazz, funk, reggae and blues. Fronted by singer Merle Harmon and singer-songwriter-guitarist Mike King, they released three albums before disbanding. King’s new solo album is in the same vein. In addition to new originals, he…
City Week
This week, we celebrate brand-new burlesque dancers … look at tarantulas from a safe distance … laugh at a Downton Abbey sendup … and consider the history of pan dulce.
Nine Questions
The man behind downtown’s Solar Culture, Steven Eye, has been passionate about music since the late ’70s, when he and his friends would build skateboard ramps at an abandoned lot in downtown Philadelphia and skate while listening to punk rock. He moved to Tucson in 1985 and started two other art/music venues before launching Solar…
Police Dispatch
This week: Misguided pranking … and sibling chivalry is dead.
Pedersen on Sports
In Arizona, you need to pick a side. This isn’t a political discussion, or one about race, though in this state it inevitably goes there no matter what you write. It’s not even a debate regarding which Sonoran hot dog to align with. Nope, in Arizona there’s really only one true decision to make: Arizona…
Editor’s Note
I don’t want to make a habit of this, but this week, I hand over the first part of this space to Inge B. Bartelsen, age 9, who sent in a letter requesting we publish her (at least, I think Inge is female … all the Inges I’ve known [one] have been) article. Here goes,…
Arizona Football: We Gone Done Made Another Western
Just when you thought it was safe to go back onto YouTube … The University of Arizona football team has released another, ahem, promotional video shot at Old Tucson Studios, this time including a dozen or so impact players along with head coach Rich Rodriguez in an endeavor that probably stretched the wardrobe department to…
Pension Initiative Facing Legal Challenge
The proposed initiative to scrap the city of Tucson’s pension program is facing a legal challenge. Attorney Roopali H. Desai of Phoenix-based Coppersmith Schermer & Brockelman filed the lawsuit on Monday, July 22. The suit alleges that many of the signatures on the initiatives should be invalidated for various technical reasons, including 6,713 signatures that…
This Just In From CNN: Humans Have ‘Hunted The Dildo Into Extinction’
While attempting to discuss the effects of climate change during a segment last week, Jonathan Mann, an anchor and correspondent for CNN International, accidentally stated that humans have “hunted the dildo into extinction.” Wait, what? “Uhm, but, the Dodo [an extinct, flightless bird] rather, forgive me,” he stuttered. “I’m having trouble with my words today.”…
Free Desert Landscape Calendar
But it’s a DRY Heat!! There are many resources in Tucson for desert landscaping. Even though my posts are centered around desert container gardening, I often get asked about concerns in landscape plants. Here is one resource you might want to check out. Watch this short video and then email Deborah to get your free…
