"Untitled," by Lisa Kanouse, is among the works on display in Sins of Love at Candelabra Gallery, 412 E. Seventh Street. The gallery will host a reception from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, March 6, that will feature live music by Juan Pablo y Los Sins of Amor. Cost is $3. The show will continue through March 25 and can be viewed by appointment, as well as during the Open Studio Tour on March 13-14. For more info: 370-1465.

• Lucinda

The folks at Cold Wet Noses are trying to find a home for Lucinda.

Here's what Inga has to say at tucsoncoldwetnoses.com:

My name is Lucinda and I am a very sweet little girl with impish looks. I can smile with my teeth though you have to catch me cause I don't do it often. I am on the smaller side, just under 35 pounds, and I am about a year or a year and a half old but who's counting? I'm so glad to be out of the shelter and here with

For senior architecture major Marie Taylor, $2,000 goes a long way.

An additional $2,000 is the amount Taylor, a Colorado native, will have to pay if she wants to finish her degree at the UA next year.

“I pay university tuition, have to buy all my own materials and then on top of that I have to pay an out of state differential,” she said. “The middle class gets left out of the loop.”

Numerous students at the Arizona Board of Regents tuition hearing Monday night voiced similar concerns in regards to the Arizona university system’s proposed tuition increase.

Arizona resident Jonathan Garcia, a Public Management and

The latest report from state Rep. Steve Farley:

Howdy, Friends O'Farley…

Let's start with a few stats.

The House has finished hearing House bills and the Senate has finished hearing Senate bills. So this is a good time to look at what bills went where, and whether certain bills from members of a certain political party were treated fairly.

In the House, Democrats introduced 233 bills, while Republicans introduced 638 bills.

Out of those lovely bundles of legalese, Republicans had 70%, and Democrats had only 16% of their bills heard in committees.

To put it another way, 448 House bills were heard

Rather than finding a way out of the budget crisis, the Arizona Legislature is busy tackling a far more immediate threat to the state: human-animal hybrids.

A couple of weeks ago, lawmakers debated the merits of SB 1307, which would ban the creation of hybrids (so those hoping for new blue-skinned Avatar bodies will have to go elsewhere).

The bill moved through the Committee on Public Safety and Human Services for further consideration in a 4-3 vote on Feb. 17.

Here’s our favorite human-hybrid definition (italics ours):

"A nonhuman life form engineered so that it contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly or predominantly from human neural tissues."

My brother can still remember seeing George at Dooley's some three decades ago. We're looking forward to the show tomorrow night at downtown's Rialto Theatre. Details here.

Huffington Post reports:

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican whip, argued that unemployment benefits dissuade people from job-hunting "because people are being paid even though they're not working."

Unemployment insurance "doesn't create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work," Kyl said during debate over whether unemployment insurance and other benefits that expired amid GOP objections Sunday should be extended.

"I'm sure most of them would like work and probably have tried to seek it, but you can't argue that it's a job enhancer. If anything, as I said, it's a disincentive. And the same thing with the COBRA extension and the other extensions here," said Kyl.

H/P: Tedski

• NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University

Our friends at KUAT-TV present another Arizona Public Media production this evening: Phoenix Mars Mission: Onto The Ice shows how Peter Smith and his team at the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab dropped a robot lab onto the Martian north pole and sent back photos, weather reports and soil and air samples. The special will be airing nationally on PBS World channel on Thursday, March 4.

They're still listening to see if Phoenix can send a signal, but after a year under that ice, it's a long shot.

Bonus for space nuts: Tonight's Nova will feature The Pluto Files at 8 p.m.

More on Phoenix here.

Former Pima County Democratic chairman Paul Eckerstrom faces off against Republican National Committeeman Bruce Ash in this week's political face-off on KUAT-TV's Arizona Illustrated.

It's interesting to hear Bruce refer to the UA and University Medical Center as "nowhere." Sure, we work there, so we may be biased, but we think it's an economic engine and a source of great pride for the community.

Watch it yourself after the jump.

Pima County supervisors have picked state Rep. Frank Antenori to fill out the Senate seat that Republican Jonathan Paton gave up last week.

Supervisors voted 4-1 in favor of Antenori, who was the top pick of precinct leaders in District 30. Democrat Richard Elias was the only vote against Antenori.