The Feb. 12 issue of the Weekly is now online and ready to read. Feel free to comment on its contents here.

This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2009.

14 replies on “A New Issue!”

  1. Re the Q&A with Randi Dorman. I loved this statement: “The initial offering is for a five-year lease, with MOCA paying for all the operating costs during the terms of that lease. We’re fine starting with that.” I’m sure all the City employees who are facing lay offs and furloughs are happy to. MOCA pays the City $1 a year for that space-while the City spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on leases on other buildings for City operations. I’m sure its a stretch for MOCA to be paying its operating expenses, since I would imagine the City is picking up that tab for the space it gives them at 149 N. Stone, but I’m sure getting a free building from the government during a depression helps.

  2. “Finally, what in the heck happened to the snow that we were supposed to get earlier this week? I was looking forward to snowcapped cactus!”

    “…snowcapped cacti (or cactuses)!”

  4. Jimmy Boegle said: “Am I the only one disgusted with the whole Michael Phelps/bong controversy? Why in the hell should anybody care whether or not a 23-year-old tokes up at a party? He’s a 23-year-old!”

    Hey Jimmy… What is the magic age at which you wouldn’t claim that the acceptability of pot-smoking is self-evident? For instance, would you say, “Who cares, he’s a 27-year-old!” or “Who cares, he’s a 33-year-old!” Just wondering at which age this line of reasoning no longer works for you.

    The reason I ask is that I think old people should get high.

  5. Retrorv: Arizona Theatre Company has had a similar dollar-a-year deal on the Temple of Music and Art for almost 20 years, while paying for its upkeep. That’s where the real costs (aside from tax issues) lie in buildings like that, already in hand. In a way, ATC and MOCA are doing the city a favor and taking maintenance costs off its hands.

  6. Not to harsh you down, but does the print edition of The Tucson Weekly subsidize the online edition? Wick? Or is the online edition self-supporting?

  7. We make a little money on the Web site, but not a whole bunch at this point. Print is where the main money remains at this point. But we’re working on it, and our new Web site–launching late this month or next–will be so kick-ass that I am sure advertisers will be tripping over themselves to be a part of it.

  8. Hai, I agree with you. My point was that 23-year-olds go to parties and get high. They just do. Fewer, say, 47-year-olds do that–but perhaps they should.

  9. “We make a little money on the Web site, but not a whole bunch at this point. Print is where the main money remains at this point. But we’re working on it, and our new Web site–launching late this month or next–will be so kick-ass that I am sure advertisers will be tripping over themselves to be a part of it.”

    Seems there’s a Venn diagram…

    Will the new web site address the problem of the print edition’s laggardly production cycle?

  10. Like, will it turn us into a daily? No. We will have more breaking news and events of the day, etc., but we’re not going to turn ourselves into a daily.

  11. Like, Red Star never suggested you should turn yourself into a daily: it’s snowing and the highway is closed, it’s hot outside, the dog threw up, the van turned over and poor people spilled out to the ER, the wife-beating deputy got his job back, blah blah.

    Like, Red Star was only wondering whether The Tucson Weekly can do what it’s best at (like reviews of restaurants, plays, symphonies and shit) online — at a faster pace than print production cycle.

    As things stand, your Reel writes a hamburger review and doesn’t seem too happy about the situation…

  13. I wanted to make note of the UA grade article: http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=121947
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    First off, good job securing Hank Stephenson as a writer. I’m liking his work.
    Second off, Hank’s article on how easy it is to get an A at the U of “A” (lame pun) makes me ponder:
    – Are the students generally doing well, hence why so many positive marks , or
    – Is the U of A simply an easy school?
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    You be the judge.
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    Added joy: Freshman Disorientation

  14. It’s easy to get an A at the UofA because the teachers are generally quite grateful whenever a student can pay attention in class and can put a coherent sentence together.

    That’s because half the students coming out of the high-school system might as well be illiterate. How they get accepted into college is anybody’s guess.

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