Looks like the Rialto Theatre Foundation won't have to move this week out of space that the non-profit organization is now using as a green room, administrative offices and storage.

The foundation has announced that its landlord, Rialto Block Project, LLC, has agreed to allow the foundation to continue using its offices, green room and storage space until Sept. 1.

In a press release, Scott Stiteler, one of the principals in the Rialto Block Project, says: "We are hopeful that we can come to an agreement regarding a permanent resolution of matters related to the theatre's need for space."

The Wick Communications takeover of the KUAT-TV's Friday Roundtable is complete, with Arizona Illustrated anchor Bill Buckmaster sharing the stage with Dan Shearer of the Green Valley News and Sahuarita Sun paired with yours truly. Watch it all after the jump.

State Rep. Nancy Young Wright and State Sen. Jonathan Paton stopped by the Arizona Illustrated Roundtable last night to talk about—what else?—the state budget, along with non-partisan elections and hog-dog fighting, which has nothing to to with debate on the Senate floor. Watch it after the jump.

A very long time ago, a local tree fell in a local forest, and a handful of locals carved it into a canoe. They used this canoe to cross the previously uncrossed river, upon whose East Bank they lived.

When these East Bankers landed their canoe on the foreign West Bank, they found odd people who thought they were the locals. The West Bankers even proclaimed their localness by wearing black T-shirts with white letters spelling "Bungal Ocal" which, back then, meant "Buy Local."

One of the East Bank canoeists had brought some cash with him, so he purchased a shrunken head from the West Bank Souvenir Cave.

Attaching the West Bank shrunken head to the bow of their canoe, the East Bankers contemplated how

• NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
• An Oblique View of Victoria Crater

• NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
• Interesting Crater in Meridiani Planum

It's been a while since we shared new photos of Mars taken by the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab's HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The upper photo is an oblique view of Victoria Crater. Dr. Alfred McEwen of the LPL tells us:

Victoria Crater was explored by Opportunity rover for more than a Mars year; HiRISE images have supported surface exploration and contributed to joint scientific studies.

HiRISE stereo data were used to measure slopes and help select safe paths for the intrepid rover. The most interesting exposures of geologic strata are in the steep walls of the crater, difficult to image from the overhead perspective of orbiting spacecraft like MRO. However, MRO can point to the sides, and did so in this case to get a better view of layers in the west-facing and sunlit slopes of the crater.

Especially prominent is a bright band near the top of the crater wall, interpreted by some MER scientists as

The Arizona Senate, unable to get enough votes to refer temporary sales tax to the ballot, has instead passed pretty much the same version of the budget that Brewer vetoed on July 1.

Here's an interesting detail from the Arizona Republic:

The latest plan keeps alive a key Republican goal to repeal a state property tax that, without legislative action, will be included in bills being set next week.

But it drops $400 million in corporate- and individual-income tax cuts
that had been proposed during the special session.

I talk about why those tax cuts are a bad idea in this week's Skinny.

So will Brewer blink and let this budget become law? Will she veto it? Or will there be some changes made before she gets to see it?

Another push to get a budget package through the Arizona Senate failed this afternoon. The Arizona Republic has the details.

It's National Health Care Week, and El Rio is set to open a new clinic on the southeast side. The grand opening takes place tomorrow, Thursday, Aug. 13, from 4 to 6 p.m. Guest speakers will be Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a representative of Congressman Raul Grijalva and Kathy Byrne, El Rio executive director. The new clinic has 54 photovoltaic panels that will provide about 5 percent of the building's annual energy cost.

Here's more information from their press release:

The building will be among the first community health center facilities in the United States designed in response to the emerging philosophy of patient driven centered care. The Southeast Clinic will offer patients and staff the latest in high performance community health center concepts: open patient access, electronic medical records, group examination, digital imaging, and staff team access.

El Rio was established in 1970 and currently serves over 74,000 patients annually. The organization has grown to a team of 700-plus employees at 16 clinic sites and is ranked the 14th largest community health center in the country.

The new Southeast clinic will provide a full compliment of core medical services. Care will be delivered by five medical providers with appropriate office support. Onsite services will also include pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, behavioral health care and patient advocacy. The new clinic will provide a health care home to approximately 7,500-8,000 patients, many of whom are low income and may have barriers to care. It is anticipated that the new site could offer as many as 19,245 medical visits per year.

These pictures were taken during the construction phase of the project. The completed structure will be 24-feet-tall and painted pure white. Its design mirrors classical religous architecture, but uses only bike parts and a few structural steel supports as materials

The project was funded by a $50,000 grant from the Pima Association of Governments and created by local teenagers with the help of Joe O'Connell of Creative Machines Inc., who also created the huge, red griffin at the Scott Avenue streetscape.

Nighttime visitors will find solar lights beaming through colored, acrylic panels. Wind chimes, also made out of bike parts, will hang from the internal beams; a nearby shrine will honor fallen cyclists.

The unveiling ceremony will feature a bike tour of nearby public art and an opportunity to make magnetic mementos to leave inside the structure. Call Kerry Adams, a Barrio Anita resident who helped coordinate the project, at 882-3044 for more information.

Here's the Arizona Illustrated debate between Republican City Council Ward 5 candidates Shaun McClusky and Judith Gomez, after the jump.