Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to rock. Harlem is coming to town! More Information here.

• Jack Dykinga
• Tamaulipas Barrel

"Tamaulipas Barrel," by Jack Dykinga, is on display as part of A Radiant Land, continuing through May 29 at the Etherton Gallery, 135 S. Sixth Ave. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Works by Lynn Taber and Eliot Porter are also part of the show.

There will be a special reception and book signing on Saturday, March 13 from 7 to 10 p.m.

The folks over at BikeSmut really like bicycles. And sex.

How much, you ask? Find out for yourself tomorrow night, when they ride through the Old Pueblo to show their latest flick, Bike Porn 3. Event details here.

Here's a campaign video from Gov. Jan Brewer that's a little more concise—and catchier—than her last one, which we posted earlier this week.

Republican J.D. Hayworth's latest salvo against Sen. John McCain focuses on what he has delivered for Arizonans.

The Museum of Contemporary Art will be opening at their new downtown location this Saturday night. For event details, click here.

Republican J.D. Hayworth, the former congressman who is challenging U.S. Sen. John McCain this year, stopped by Arizona Illustrated yesterday. Anchor Bill Buckmaster was kind enough to let me join him in questioning Hayworth. He talks about McCain's record, waterboarding, the birther controversy and his vote to expand health-care entitlements during the Bush administration.

You can watch it after the jump.

Ed Kilgore at The New Republic has a look at this year's "Republican Civil War":

All across the country, Republicans are fantasizing about a gigantic electoral tide that will sweep out deeply entrenched Democratic incumbents this November. In their telling, this deep-red surge will be so forceful as to dislodge even legislators who don’t look vulnerable now, securing GOP control of both houses of Congress.

But could this scenario really come to pass? That will depend, in part, on

UA scientists have been tapped to help with the hunt for what exactly all that dark energy in the universe is. The contracts are bringing in a total of $6 million to the university.

Daniel Stolte of University Communications has the details:

Two University of Arizona research and development groups were selected to develop and manufacture key technology for the first major undertaking to investigate the mystery of dark energy in the universe.

UA's Imaging Technology Laboratory, a research group within Steward Observatory, and the Optical Fabrication and Engineering Facility at the College of Optical Sciences will provide image recording devices and the heart of the optical system used for imaging, respectively, for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the McDonald Observatory, which is operated by the University of Texas, Austin.

The additions are part of outfitting the world's fourth largest optical telescope with an array of new instruments to analyze the light from distant galaxies in an effort to understand the nature of dark energy. Scientists have known for a while that dark energy exists, but so far, nobody has been able to come up with