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The City of Mud Boxes
“A city of mud boxes, dingy and dilapidated, cracked and baked into a composite of dust and filth; littered about with broken corrals, sheds, bake-ovens, carcasses of dead animals, and broken pottery; barren of verdure, parched, naked, and grimly desolate in the glare of a southern sun.” — J. Ross Browne on Tucson By the…
Artistic Range: Beyond the Lens
Tom DeMoss is among the artists who are displaying their work during the exhibit of “Beyond the Lens” at the Tubac Center of the Arts. The exhibit is on display through April 25. There is an opening reception tomorrow, Thursday, April 1 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Artistic Range: Jack Dykinga at Etherton Gallery
“Tamaulipas Barrel,” by Jack Dykinga, is among the works on display in A Radiant Land, continuing through May 29 at Etherton Gallery, 135 S. Sixth Ave. The show features pastels by Lynn Taber and photographs by Jack Dykinga and Eliot Porter. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and…
Bruce Bartlett: “Earmarks Are Not a Significant Cause of Rising Federal Spending”
In this week’s Skinny, I talked about the developing effort to ban earmarks and how it ties into the race in Congressional District 8, where four Republicans are vying to unseat Democrat Gabrielle Giffords. Bruce Bartlett, the former Reagan administration official who now writes a column for Forbes magazine and books such as Impostor: How…
ASU Can’t Afford the Word “The”
Here’s one more reason ASU stands for Arizona’s Second University: It leaves out words on its promotional billboards. From KOLD: The billboards are part of a campaign proclaiming that Arizona State University is one of the world’s top schools. The only problem is that they left out a key part of the message. The sign…
Artistic Range: Barbara Cowlin at Tohono Chul Park
“Mom’s Legacy,” by Barbara Cowlin, is among the works on display in Art that Heals through May 16 at Tohono Chul Park, 7366 North Paseo Del Norte.
Farley Report: “Arizona’s Future Is Now At Great Risk”
The latest bulletin from the state Rep. Steve Farley: The special session is over, and the Republican budget is set. Because of that, Arizona’s future is now at great risk. Not a single person signed up in support of any of these budget bills during their only public hearing in front of the Appropriations Committee.…
Bennet Sisters Are British Badasses
If you’ve never read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but always wanted to, rejoice, for the folks at Quirk Books have a new one out—Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls. This is a prequel that takes us a little further back with the Bennet sisters in the English countryside. When corpses spring…
Tancredo Comes to Southern Arizona
Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado congressman who made headlines for his hard-line illegal-immigration policies, is coming to Southern Arizona—and it appears that just about every Republican in the region is set to share a stage with him. Tancredo is the keynote speaker at the Southeastern Arizona Tea Party at the Sonoita Fairgrounds on Saturday, March…
Artistic Range: David Kish at Tucson International Airport
“Untitled from the Saguaro Rubbing Series,” by David Kish, is on display through June 19 at the Tucson International Airport, 7250 S Tucson Blvd.
Lava Flows on Mars
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona One more Mars snapshot from the latest batch released by the HiRISE team at the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab. HiRISE team member Anjani Polit tells us: This image shows part of Cerberus Fossae, a long system of extensional (normal) faults arranged in trough-bounding (graben-bounding) pairs. Cerberus Fossae served as the source…
Benefit for Local Bands Tonight
Help local bands represent at SXSW this year! Details here.
Tonight: Xiu Xiu at Solar Culture
Experimental rock band Xiu Xiu performs tonight at Solar Culture, with Brooklyn bands Extra Life and Noveller as opening acts. Get the details here. Check out what Pitchfork has to say about the new Xiu Xiu album here.
Access Tucson: Back For Another Season
Access Tucson has avoided cancellation and is back in business, but not without fewer resources. Details from the latest bulletin from the non-profit public-access TV station: Last Tuesday 3/9 the Mayor and Council took an important step toward the survival of community media in Tucson. By a vote of 6-1 (with Councilmember Rodney Glassman voting…
Coming to Main Gate Square: O’Hungry’s Restaurant
An O’Hungry’s Restaurant is on track to open next month at 944 E. University Blvd., in Main Gate Square, according to the general manager of the restaurant’s original location in San Diego. Stan Chu tells The Range that he’s working out some details with the liquor license and kitchen equipment for the new Tucson location,…
Early Poll: Voters Support Sales Tax Measure
A poll released by supporters of the one-cent sales-tax proposal before Arizona voters shows a majority support it: With the May 18th election just 64 days away, nearly 6 in 10 likely special election voters say they will vote yes on Proposition 100, a three-year, one-cent increase to Arizona’s sales tax meant to protect education,…
J.D. Hayworth: If U.S. Allows Gay Marriage, “If You Really Had Affection For Your Horse, I Guess You Could Marry Your Horse”
Republican J.D. Hayworth, the former congressman seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. John McCain, presents an entirely new idea about horsing around. Huffington Post reports: Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) primary challenger, former Arizona congressman J.D. Hayworth, warned this past weekend that the same-sex marriage decision handed down by the Massachusetts Supreme Court is so loose in…
Race You There: Magic of Google
Local band Race You There has made an entrancing new stop-motion music video from more than 2,500 Google Map images. The video, which took more than 60 hours to assemble using video-editing software, screen-capture software, photoshop and Google, has had nearly 12,000 views on YouTube since it was posted five days ago. (The song isn’t…
The Fix: Focus on Congressional District 8
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza files his first dispatch on the race to unseat Democrat Gabrielle Giffords in Congressional District 8: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) and former state Sen. Jonathan Paton (R) have known one another for almost half of their lives. They even dated — briefly. But, their relationship now is less cordial as…
Artist Range: David F. Brown
“Soup of Life,” by David F. Brown, is among the works on display during David F. Brown: Paintings and Drawings from March 5 through March 30 at Temple Gallery, 330 S. Scott Ave. The exhibit is on display from Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and before Arizona Theatre Company performances.
Monday Night Music…Continued
Holy smokes! So many good bands are playing in Tucson tonight. Catch Delta Spirit (above) at Club Congress as part of WXSW. Bonus: The $8 cover gets you in to shows at Congress and Plush. See tonight’s full WXSW line up here and here.
Monday Night Music
Dance party alert! A Sunny Day In Glasgow and …Music Video? will be playing tonight at Solar Culture Gallery. Get the details here.
South by Meow West 2010
Couldn’t make it to South by Southwest this year? Check out tomorrow’s South by Meow West right here in Tucson featuring 9 bands including Thee Vicars (above). Details here.
Little Dragon at Club Congress Tonight!
Don’t miss dreamy electronic band Little Dragon tonight at Club Congress. Download two of their songs for free here.
Feliz dia de San Patricio
Local marriage equality activist Buck Bannister happens to be an amazing baker. On his blog Sugar Pies, he recently posted a recipe for Irish soda bread and put up his first how-to video on YouTube. I happen to be a fan of currants in my Irish soda bread served with a healthy schmear of real…
Water Project Festival Update
The Water Project Festival organizers recently announced a change in the weekend festival’s schedule and a cool new partnership with Solar Rock – the Tucson solar-powered music and community festival. On Saturday, March 27, the festival teams up with Solar Rock at Himmel Park at Tucson Boulevard and First Street. The enviro-vendor fair will be…
Sick of Tea Bagging?
I tried to find a sexual euphemism similar to tea bagging, but for coffee. This was just to be fair, considering the first time the Range poked fun of the local Tea Party folks we found some nice artwork of golden bull balls (you know, a nice alternative to photos of real tea bagging). Coffee…
Friday Roundtable: The Ax-Man Cometh
Tonight on Arizona Illustrated’s Friday Roundtable: We say what we can about the state budget. What has happened this week is far, far bigger than most people yet realize. Watch it after the jump.
Giffords: “When and If These Problems Are Adressed, I Will Publicly Commit To Vote for This Historic Health Insurance Reform Legislation”
District 8 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on health-care reform: Changes necessary before she can support it. As Congress nears a final vote on health insurance reform, let me be completely clear about where I stand: I strongly and enthusiastically support reform. After hearing from thousands of my constituents on this topic over the past year, I…
Friday Roundtable: Senate President Bob Burns on the State Budget
The state budget is all but done—and it’s pretty devastating to every aspect of state government except for the prisons. We’ll have details in next week’s print edition, but Senate President Bob Burns defended the budget on the Friday Roundtable on tonight’s Arizona Illustrated on KUAT-TV, Channel 6. You can watch it after the jump.
Rock ’n’ Roll Weekend
Little Dragon looks like a fun band to see Saturday night at Club Congress. Details here.It’s an early show, so then you can go across the street for the indie-mambo madness of Sergio Mendoza y La Orkestra at downtown’s Rialto Theatre. Details here. And there’s some great stuff going on all weekend at Solar Culture,…
UA Mind and Brain Lecture Series: The Plastic Brain
Here’s the second lecture from the UA College of Science’s Tuesday night lecture series on “Mind and Brain,” presented by Regents Professor Leslie Tolbert, vice president for Research, Graduate Studies, and Economic Development and professor of Neuroscience, and Cell Biology & Anatomy. This week’s lecture about the relative advantages and disadvantages of having a brain…
Does Size Matter? Why Female Moths Are Big and Beautiful
Photo courtesy of Craig Stillwell Sexual size dimorphism: Female hawk moths (left) are larger than their male counterparts So you like big butts and you cannot lie? UA researchers have a new theory about sexual dimorphism. Daniel Stolte from the UA has some details: Take a look around in the animal world and you will…
Goddard Qualifies for Governor, Applies For Clean Elections Dollars
Democratic Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has filed his gubernatorial nominating petitions and turned in his paperwork to get Clean Elections dollars. The press release: Attorney General Terry Goddard today filed nominating petitions and $5 donations in order to qualify for Clean Elections funding in his campaign for Governor. The campaign submitted more than 5,300…
A Foodie’s Guide to the Tucson Festival of Books
There are a bunch of noteworthy food-themed happenings taking place at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend. They actually have a whole stage dedicated solely to culinary demonstrations, most of which take place Saturday, and presentations about food, most of which take place Sunday. You’ll find a schedule below. Saturday’s cooking demonstrations include: Marcela…
Chinese Box Update
We wrote about a restaurant called Chinese Box in this week’s Noshing Around column, but outside of information gleaned from a banner on the exterior we knew very little about it. A reader dropped us an e-mail this morning to let us know that Peter Fung, the owner of Mandarin Grill at 8300 N. Thornydale…
Don’s Bayou Cajun Cookin’
Don Garrot, co-owner of Don’s Bayou Cajun Cookin’, was hesitant to talk about the new restaurant this morning. People are already flocking to the place and he’s concerned that he won’t be able to keep up with demand if more people hear about it. “I need to get some bigger pots,” said Garrot this morning…
Margaret Regan at the Tucson Festival of Books
Tucson Weekly arts editor Margaret Regan, who has just published The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands, will be joining David Danelo (The Border: Exploring the U.S.-Mexican Divide) and Phil Caputo (Crossers) on a panel at this weekend’s Tucson Festival of Books on the UA campus. “The U.S.-Mexico Border: Living and Writing…
Artistic Range: Lynn Taber at Etherton Gallery
“Time Stood Still,” by Lynn Taber, is among the works on display in A Radiant Land, continuing through May 29 at Etherton Gallery, 135 S. Sixth Ave. The show features pastels by Lynn Taber and photographs by Jack Dykinga and Eliot Porter. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.…
Living on Borrowed Time: Payday Lenders Are Back!
The payday lenders, who will go out of business on July 1 if they don’t get legislative action before then, are making another effort for a new lease on life: Howie has the details: Rejected by voters and stymied in the House, lobbyists for payday lenders are now trying to get a Senate panel to…
GOP Lawmakers Push Forward To Kick People Off Health Care Despite Impending Federal Aid
Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives are still pushing to strip away health insurance from 310,000 Arizonans below the federal poverty level even though federal aid being approved this week would allow them to keep them on the program. The House is moving through the budget bills this afternoon. Still no action in the…
This Happens To Us Every Day
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Opposition to Illegal-Immigration Bills
Griselda Nevarez/Cronkite News Service Demonstrators rally at the State Capitol against bills that would, among other provisions, require police to enforce federal laws against illegal immigration. Sen. Russell Pearce’s illegal-immigration omnibus bill is drawing protests at the Capitol. Griselda Nevarez of Cronkite News Service reports: Dozens of demonstrators rallied Monday at the State Capitol against…
New Owner of Pulitzer-winning East Valley Tribune Chops Newsroom in Half
Pop quiz: If you just purchased a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper, you’d immediately layoff half the staff, right? That’s just what happened with the East Valley Tribune. The layoffs came not long after a bankruptcy court judge OK’d the sale of the paper on Tuesday to Colorado publisher Randy Miller, owner of the Oro Valley/Marana…
Blogislature Update: Movement on the Bills We’re Tracking
Here’s the latest on the bills we’re tracking at the Arizona Blogislature. You can find the full list here. HB 2337: Frank Antenori has sponsored legislation which would allow companies to set up shop in Arizona to manufacture traditional incandescent light bulbs after 2012, when federal regulations will ban incandescent bulbs that range from 40…
No More Rum, Romanism or Rebellion
Ted Prezelski, one of Southern Arizona’s first bloggers, is shutting down Rum, Romanism and Rebellion as he ramps up his campaign for the Arizona House of Representatives in midtown Tucson’s Legislative District 28. Tedski, who won national attention for R-Cubed and was an official blogger at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, was a pioneer in…
Artistic Range: Art that Heals
“One Hundred Days,” by Ginny Tompkins, is among the works on display in Art that Heals at Tohono Chul Park, 7366 North Paseo Del Norte. The exhibit continues through May 16. There is a free opening reception tonight, March 11, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. There is also a curator’s talk on Tuesday, March 16…
Warhol at Firestone Gallery
A nice piece from KOLD-TV on Warhol: From Dylan to Duchamp, a dazzling collection of photography continuing through at the very cool Eric Firestone Gallery through April 25. Details here. Check it out, along with the Warhol show continuing through July at the Tucson Museum of Art.
Glenn Beck’s New Sign-Off Phrase: “I Have Wasted An Hour of Your Time, And I Apologize For That”
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Sour Gropes www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform Jon Stewart pwns Beck, big time. Brilliant.
District 30 House Options: Vogt, Sposito & Schneider
Carolyn Classen at TucsonCitizen.com reports that Republican District 30 precinct leaders have picked Ted Vogt, Doug Sposito and Parralee Schneider as possible replacements for Frank Antenori in the Arizona House of Representatives. Antenori was selected last week to replace Jonathan Paton in the state Senate. The Pima County Board of Supervisors is expected to appoint…
Artistic Range: Ted DeGrazia
“Market #29,” by Ted DeGrazia, is among the works on display in DeGrazia Paintings from Diego Rivera Studio, continuing through April 30 at the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, 6300 N. Swan Road. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
Now Showing at Home
2012: Single Disc Version (Blu-ray); Clash of the Titans (Blu-ray); Where the Wild Things Are (Blu-ray)
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: When I was in high school, everyone called the Mexican students like myself “cheddars.” I’m not sure where this originated from, or what it really has to do with Mexican culture. When I ask other Mexicans what this means, they are not sure, either. “Cheddar packing” is a term used to describe a…
That Certain Something
We could all learn a lesson in staying power from Portland, Ore., band Quasi. When Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss formed the band 16 years ago, they were married. They aren’t anymore, and haven’t been for years. Coomes and Weiss have both been members of other, better-known bands (Heatmiser and Sleater-Kinney, respectively) that have long…
Reading Rocks!
When most people think of Tucson, they think of swimming pools, seniors and saguaros. But we who live here know that it’s also home to one of the most vibrant literary communities in the country. And the Tucson Festival of Books is helping put us on the literary map. This year’s festival, to be held…
Soundbites
On the way to SXSW …; more on the way to SXSW …; short takes; on the bandwagon
Live
Appleseed Cast, Dreamend
Constitutional Counting
Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution mandates that a census of the population be taken every 10 years. Demographer Dave Taylor, of the Pima Association of Governments, says there are three primary reasons for people to participate in the census in 2010. “Knowledge, power and money,” he states succinctly. “In an era…
T Q&A
Joe Pagac
Abandoned Citizens
One day in 1984, Jean Berrier Ciceron put his three young children and his pregnant wife on a plane from New York City to his home country of Haiti. He then severed all contact with his family. What troubles Tucsonan Nanette Longchamp about this story isn’t just that these children were cast off by their…
Xiu Xiu: Dear God, I Hate Myself (Kill Rock Stars)
Since its first album in 2002, Jamie Stewart’s Xiu Xiu has vacillated between artfully pretentious and adventurously moving, but the group’s albums have never been anything less than subversive, challenging pop conventions and wrestling with big issues such as faith, desire, self-doubt, life and death. Xiu Xiu’s seventh album of new material is among its…
Top Ten in Books
Antigone Books best-sellers for the week
The Skinny
Slashing the state: an ongoing series; kiss your state parks goodbye; follow the blogislature!
Toro Y Moi: Causers of This (Carpark)
I hate electronic music that’s devoid of any humanity; the best electronica reframes human experience in a compelling way. Think Tricky’s derelict spacecraft love ballads on 1995’s Maxinquaye. Causers of This, the debut of Toro Y Moi, follows in this tradition of essential music that’s as mechanized as it is carnal. Not goth like Tricky’s…
Top Ten in Movies
Casa Video’s top rentals for the week
Media Watch
Taylor replaces Bednarek at KGVY; Len Johnson lands temporary weather gig at KVOA; MIXfm leads ratings trend
Various Artists: Mavis Presented by Ashley Beedle and Darren Morris (!K7)
It’s a bit of a knotty concept, but here’s the gist of it: Producers Ashley Beedle and Darren Morris, inspired by an early-’70s track by soul/gospel icon Mavis Staples (her version of Burt Bacharach’s “A House Is Not a Home”), write and produce their own instrumental track as a tribute. They then solicit 11 different…
Top Ten in Music
The 17th Street Guitar and World Music Store top sales for the week
Police Dispatch
Woman down; rated M for ‘My God, don’t let him play that’
Meats, Buns, Bliss
When Burger City opened downtown as part of the nonprofit ArtFare in late 2008, the restaurant received a lot of love from both local foodies and the press. It was a great story: A joint serving fantastic burgers filled a niche downtown, with the profits going to a more-than-worthy arts organization. And the place had…
Weekly Wide Web
Do you like to complain about stuff that never seems to get done? There’s an app for that. The Tucson area recently became part of SeeClickFix.com, a site that catalogs urban municipal blights (road hazards, graffiti, downed trees, etc.) and lets the people in charge know that you’re mad as hell, and you aren’t going…
The Man Behind the Genius
The genius of Albert Einstein—from the theory of relativity to his work unraveling profound mysteries of the universe—is well-known. However, many people know little about the man behind the genius. For more than 30 years, actor Ed Metzger has depicted the eccentric Einstein. He creates a stirring portrait of the 20th-century intellectual who was known,…
Hibernian Happenings
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig duit. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you! J. Ross Browne might not have celebrated the Irish season in the Old Pueblo, but you can. Here’s a sampling of activities clustered around St. Patrick’s Day, Wednesday, March 17. For more complete info on Irish tunes in bars and clubs, see the music…
Danehy
Last week, 11 Arizona state senators took the bold stance to show that they believe it is the inalienable right of all people to be potentially deadly assholes. I’m sorry; I promised my wife I wouldn’t cuss in my column, but I can’t think of another word to describe people who would compose, type, send…
City Week
Tucson Artists’ Open Studios; Jamie O’Brien in concert; Pop Goes the Loft! The Films of Andy Warhol; Peripheral Visions by Martha Lee McKiernan
First Things First?
There’s a new sound in Southern Arizona these days. It is the whisper of money, as hefty funds from the First Things First program land in our communities. Created by a voter-passed initiative in 2006, First Things First adds 80 cents to the cost of every pack of cigarettes, and steers the proceeds toward early-childhood-development…
Messina
It was a quiet Thursday afternoon when a co-worker strolled into my office, sat in a chair and asked me a seemingly innocent—but loaded—question. “Why did you write about that?” he inquired, referencing my recent piece (Feb. 25) about sex-worker rights. His facial expression and tone were telling—it wasn’t something he wanted to read about.…
Nine Questions
Winston Watson
Switch Hitter
Republican Jesse Kelly, who hopes to win the GOP primary to challenge Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, gave a fiery introduction to J.D. Hayworth in Tucson last month, when the former congressman launched his insurgent campaign against U.S. Sen. John McCain. “Today is a day of reckoning,” said Kelly, who is battling former state Sen. Jonathan…
Off-Center Growling
Here are answers to real-life questions that some readers have had lately: • Over the last several months, the paper has often been folded off-center. What’s that all about? Whenever we have an insert of any sort (and we’ve had a fair number of advertising inserts lately), our printer needs one side of the paper…
Noshing Around
Name This Burger; Coming Soon; Mixology Classes
Mailbag
Prisoner Cruelty Doesn’t Make a Case for Legalized Prostitution I fail to see how the unfortunate death of a prisoner exposed to triple-digit heat in an outdoor cage serves as evidence for the legalization of prostitution (Messina, Feb. 25). Aren’t unshaded outdoor holding cells inhumane for any prisoner? Surely, Irene Messina could use better examples…
Sweet Choreography
This weekend, Antony Tudor, the great ballet choreographer, goes toe to toe against Mark Morris, the great modern choreographer, at opposite ends of the UA campus. Morris, still very much alive, brings his acclaimed 18-member Mark Morris Dance Group to UA Centennial Hall on Friday night, March 12. A program of three long modern pieces,…
The Title Says It All
The only thing I like better than clumsy, obvious, expository dialogue is clumsy, obvious, expository dialogue that is trying very hard not to be obviously and clumsily expository. And My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done opens with exactly that kind of dialogue. Willem Dafoe is driving a car, and Michael Peña is sitting…
Shattered Glass
As the theater goes dark at the beginning of The Glass Menagerie, the character Tom Wingfield steps out onstage. In a pool of light, he addresses the audience, explaining that this is a memory play, woven from his past. It’s the opposite of a magic show, he says: It creates truth with the appearance of…
Not So Wondrous
Tim Burton messes up with his latest film, a confused adaptation (or “extension”) of Alice in Wonderland. It plays like a sequel to the infamous story, and sadly, the film has more in common with Steven Spielberg’s lousy Peter Pan sequel, Hook, than Burton’s best films. That’s not to say Alice is completely lousy. There…
Win for the Women
If the tables are turned, can the tamer be tamed? There’s a companion piece to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, which Arizona Repertory Theatre opened a couple of weeks ago. That’s a good thing, because Shrew, with its chauvinistic overtones, is a tough pill to swallow. So last week, ART launched The Tamer Tamed,…
Silverman: The Real Problem with Juvenile Justice
Amy Silverman of New Times weighs in on the state’s proposed juvenile-justice hand-off: Maricopa County spokeswoman Cari Gerchick describes the population at the ADJC as “dangerous,” but the truth is that only about 15 percent placed in ADJC facilities in 2009 were there for violent crimes, according to court statistics. (The rest violated probation or…
One Reason We Might Not Want to Cut Health Care For 300K Arizonans
It looks like we may be able to get some federal funds to keep from dumping more than 300,000 people from the AHCCCS rolls—if lawmakers don’t change the eligibility standards as part of a desperate budget maneuver of questionable legality in a rush to pretend to balance the budget by the end of the week.…
Children’s Action Alliance: “Deep Cuts that Will Devastate Children and Families and Damage Arizona’s Future Recovery”
The Children’s Action Alliance responds to the GOP budget plan: This budget calls for deep cuts that will devastate children and families and damage Arizona’s future recovery. Many alternatives have been put on the table that would allow the state to responsibly continue KidsCare health coverage for 47,000 children, child care assistance for hardworking parents,…
UA HiRISE Camera: Nearly 700 New Images of Mars
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Nearly 700 new images of Mars have been released to the Planetary Data System. Among this week’s featured new images: a snapshot of spring emerging on Mars. HiRISE team member Candy Hansen tells us: In the winter a layer of carbon dioxide ice (dry ice) covers the north polar sand dunes. In…
Keb’ Mo’: Thursday Night at Rialto
Legendary bluesman Keb’ Mo’ performs Thursday night at the Rialto Theatre. Details here.
State Budget Update: Special Session Stalls
Update from our earlier post: GOP leaders couldn’t round up the votes to pass the budget in the House or the Senate this afternoon, so they’ll be massaging the package and trying again tomorrow.
Hummingbird Care
Here’s a notice from Noreen Geyer Kordosky, who does wildlife rescue and rehab. Wildlife Rescue Centers in the Tucson area receive many calls each year from people who have been watching “their” hummingbird nest, and suddenly think the adult female is no longer coming to feed the nestling. Also they might notice she isn’t sitting…
New Restaurant at Reid Park Zoo
Reid Park Zoo has turned its concession stand into a full-service, air-conditioned restaurant, says Don Morgan, the eatery’s executive chef. Zoofari Market boasts a super eco-friendly design that includes clay walls, bamboo booth dividers, stained concrete floors and an animal mural made from dried plants and reclaimed materials. The renovation to the indoor 2,000-square-foot space…
State Budget Update: Speed Bumps at the Capitol
Here’s what we’re hearing from the Capitol: Republican leadership would like to get the slash-and-burn budget through as quickly as possible and had hoped to the get the bills that passed both Senate and House appropriations committees yesterday through the chambers today. But they’ve hit some snags in the Senate, which has already abandoned plans…
