Chef Albert Hall is moving Acacia at St. Philip’s from St. Philip’s Plaza at 4340 N. Campbell Ave. to a spot at Gallery Row at 3001 E. Skyline Drive. The new restaurant will feature an exhibition kitchen and closed-circuit television that will allow diners to watch the cooks work.

What hasn't been announced is what will happen to the Marketplace at Acacia, the grab-and-go market that recently added an ultra-organic juice bar.

From the somewhat hilarious press release announcing the move:

The word is they have made room for a chefs table complete with closed circuit TV for viewing the real time musings of a kitchen in action. In addition to the spacious, state of the art production kitchen, Acacia's new digs feature an exhibition kitchen in the dining room with a wood burning rotisserie to further inspire the world class brigade of chefs and culinaire savants. This source believes Hall will use this kitchen to revive his famous Saturday morning cooking classes. His vision, a modern approach to sustainability as well as healthy choices comes to fruition in this latest culinary adventure. Our source reports the mainstay of his larder will contain primarily all natural and organic products. Grass fed beef, all natural poultry, sustainable seafoods and organic produce. These top quality products have never been more available or more affordable, allowing Acacia to offer an excellent value.

Update: Acacia is also changing it's name to Acacia Real Food and Cocktails, and is going in at the old Sur Real spot, according to a press release put out this morning.

Update No. 2: The company that's handling media inquiries just informed me that the Marketplace at Acacia will be closing. Bummer.

Updated with playlist and download at bottom of the post.

One drug smuggler got his holidays a bit mixed up when he reportedly tried to sneak cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport. He hid the drugs in little Easter egg candy—in the middle of December.

• Art Ryn Gargulinski
• Rabbit who ate the Easter candy

It didn’t work.

That story and more are up this week on Rynski’s Shattered Reality radio show on Party934.com and FM 94.9 in Hudson Valley, N.Y.

Next show is Wednesday, Dec. 29 (today!) and every Wednesday online at Party934.com. Showtime is 1 p.m. in Arizona, 3 p.m. EST.

Party 934 is a radio alternative for listeners sick of stations that play one song followed by 500 commercials.

Songs that mention the WEATHER are this week’s theme and we are ready for a musical storm.

Thanks! to all who keep the song requests coming.

Our crack technical staff informs me that TucsonWeekly.com will be down tonight (technically, tomorrow morning, but still ...) for a brief amount of time.

The outage will occur sometime shortly after midnight, and will last until sometime before 2 a.m., unless things go horribly wrong.

The outage has to do with an upgrade or a server or something. Heck if I know.

Scientists never go on record that these hairless discoveries—mostly in Texas, and now Kentucky—are, in fact, chupacabras.

OK, fine, but why don't they explain this apparent increase in bald raccoons or coyotes with some nasty, nasty mange?

This is a wildly depressing 11 minutes of online video, but AT&T does a great job on this PSA of illustrating the potential consequences of texting while driving.

I keep saying to myself that I'm going to stop reposting these Epic Meal Time videos, but between the disconcerting conversation the host has with a fast-food employee, and the assortment of unique and strange Canadian snack-food items, I couldn't resist.

If you needed a reminder of how bad the drug war in Mexico is, consider that the Mexican town of Guadalupe no longer has a police force.

The Mexican border town of Guadalupe has been left with no police force after the last officer was kidnapped.

Erika Gandara's house was set on fire by unidentified gunmen before she was abducted last week, according to the state prosecutor's office.

All her colleagues had resigned or were killed in the region's drug war.

More than 30,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 when the President announced a crackdown on the cartels.

Ms Gandara, 28, had patrolled the town of 9,000 inhabitants on her own since June.

"Nobody wants to go into policing here, and the budget just isn't there anyway," she told AFP news agency earlier this year.

Guadalupe is about 5km (3 miles) away from the US border and 60km (40 miles) from Ciudad Juarez, the centre of drug smuggling operations into the United States.

Retiree Doris Lor described being bullied by other residents of the Chandler retirement community where she resides.

Evidently, this is a growing national issue. Here's a snippet, but you can read the about Lor and the bullies making her retirement life hell here:

"No matter where you go, even if you pay for the activity, the clique saves all the seats," Lor said. "I have never had a problem like this anywhere else. I have never been bullied at any other time in my life."

More often, Starns said, older people act like bullies for the same reasons that younger ones do: to respond to someone or something that makes them feel insecure. Dementia also may be one underlying cause of nasty behavior, experts say.

Kool Tortas, a Mexican sandwich and taco shop at 4547 S. Sixth Ave., has closed and a new restaurant called Los Guarachez de Don Shuy has opened there. It serves Mexican food and is decorated sort of like a taco stand.

Gurarachez (which means "sandals" and is also spelled huaraches) are a popular street food in Mexico City. They are made by frying masa formed into the shape of a sandal and topping it with beans, meat, sauce, cheese and vegetables.

We haven’t eaten at the new restaurant yet, but will be back soon with a full report.

The Range hears that Republican Jesse Kelly, who lost his bid to unseat Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords by fewer than 4,200 votes last month, may be itching for a rematch.

The GOP rumor circuit is buzzing with word that Kelly will announce his plans to run against Giffords as soon as mid-January.

And, depending on how things go at tomorrow’s hearing of the Commission on Appellate Court Appointments, he may end up with a friend on the Independent Redistricting Committee.

A few weeks ago, we told you about how Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce and Speaker of the House Kirk Adams complained about the list of candidates that they had to choose from to create the Independent Redistricting Commission, which has the job of drawing the boundaries for the state’s congressional and legislative districts.

A bit of background for those who haven’t been following this story as its unfolded in the papers and on the blogs: The 25 candidates for the Independent Redistricting Commission