Adam Borowitz, our City Week listings dude, recently noticed
something: A venue that holds events on a fairly regular basis wasn’t
sending us any information about those events. Therefore, Adam did what
every good City Week listings dude (or, um, dudette) would do: He
called said venue to ask if they could start sending us info.
For all his hard work, Adam was rewarded by being told the same
thing, more or less, that then-Vice President Dick Cheney once told
Sen. Patrick Leahy on the floor of the U.S. Senate. (Here’s a hint:
What was said to Adam and Sen. Leahy is not nice. At all.)
Apparently, management at that venue, because of something that
happened several years ago—what happened, exactly, I do not
know—was left with the impression that the Tucson Weekly had a vendetta against the venue.
Adam responded by assuring the profane person on the other end of
the phone that, no, there was no such vendetta against the venue; after
all, if a vendetta were in place, he would not be phoning the venue to
request listings information.
Long story short, Adam patched things up, and we’re now getting
listings info from that venue. As a result, everyone is better-served:
Our readers can know about events there, and the venue presumably will
get more business.
There’s a lesson here: If you think the Tucson Weekly has a
vendetta against you, your business or pretty much anything, you’re
wrong. I swear to you: We’re too damn busy around here to maintain
vendettas. Really. I promise.
Got questions? Give us a holler.
This article appears in Jul 16-22, 2009.
Fun never stops
You have a ‘vendetta’ against me because I live North of the Gila. You never answered my question years ago:Why don’t you put your Newspaper in your Tucson Weekly Box next to the Senate Bldging at the State Capitol?????