The new issue is online and happenin’. Feel free to comment on its contents here.

And after a week off, here’s the triumphant return of the video Ask a Mexican!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vpcmF-rKJHU%26hl%3Den

This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2008.

13 replies on “It’s an Excuse to Celebrate: A New ‘Weekly’ Issue!”

  2. I always wondered why I can’t find Jarritos in the local Anglo stores. (I haven’t looked in the local Hispanic stores).

  4. Red Star enjoyed the Herreras update and “take” on Pima County Public Public Defender’s Office at:

    http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=109225

    And the Tuttle piece on the El Con cobbler at:

    http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Opinion/Content?oid=oid:109216

    actually resonated more for Red Star because of a couple of baffled visits (in the 1990s) to that tiny shop: a dark room, machinery, a dark and hunched-over little man. Solvents, polishes, leather in the air. Shoes and boots everywhere. “This is all fixed and correct” he accurately predicted, as it turned out, for Red Star three days later.

    The two pieces seemed to complement each other. But let’s not make too big a deal of it.

    Mari, the lady of many last names, worries too much.

  5. I didn’t see them at my local Fry’s (the old Smith’s) when I looked but that doesn’t mean bottles of Jarritos don’t exist at other Fry’s. Likewise no go at the Safeway. Food City and its owner Bashas’ does not get my business per http://www.topix.com/business/grocery/2007/12/bashas-sues-grocery-workers-union

    From a former health inspector speaking off-the-cuff: “Food City stores are much worse than the Bashas’ and AJ’s stores in many ways. I am a former health inspector and food auditor who has been in Bashas, Food City and AJ’s stores in both capacities. I am absolutely blown away” … “County health inspectors would rather dodge the Food Safety Manager for Bashas (he’s known in the industry as a pain in the ass) than protect the citizens of the county and write an accurate inspection.”

  6. In the photo accompanying the story on the anti-Scientology “Anonymous” movement, it looks like the bandanna worn by the guy holding up the sign was smudged in after the fact. Was he really masked, or did TW conceal his identity without admitting to the fact in the cutline? I don’t care if his face was hidden to protect him from Scientologist persecution, but if it’s a manipulated photo, that ought to be made clear.

  8. That bandanna really does look drawn in, but so does a lot of that pic. Probably an artifact of the .gif compression’s color lossiness. How come you don’t use .jpgs? The compression artifacts aren’t quite as weird looking.

  9. James and James, that particularly egregious example will be referred to hereafter as the compression straw that broke the GIF camel’s back. From now on, we’ll be using JPGs for photographic art. Whatever reasons originally dictated the use of GIFs (perhaps workflow issues or minimal savings in file sizes or even lack of proper tools) will be relegated to the dust of history. Which we can now shake from our shoes. Thank you.

  10. Personally I cannot stand that ‘ask a mexican’ column. The few times I tried to read it I felt nauseous and had to stop. All he does is further enflame existing animosities by finding someone else to pick on – like the man who is picked on by his boss going home and kicking his dog. If it makes any difference, I am of mixed ethnicity.

  12. Red Star – Yes confirmation today re: Hirsh. Herreras does not worry. She continues, like a Weekly ninja, to move on to the mystery that is Red Star and other assorted unimportant matters.
    IPH – Looked at 17th St. market for you today – can’t believe it – they only have some Goya version. Will keep you posted.

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