Enjoy this compilation of minor mishaps from this weekend's Bring Your Own Big Wheel event in San Francisco. It will become immediately evident why they make participants sign a waiver.

From the University of Arizona:

Collegiate ice hockey, a fixture at the University of Arizona for more than three decades, is getting a new look and new name. The students of the UA's club ice hockey team are partnering with UA Campus Recreation to expand their program and align with other University club sports.

Starting this fall, Arizona Wildcat Ice Hockey will have an aggressive schedule, a new name, a new brand identity, new uniforms, a new website (hockey.arizona.edu) and the full support of the UA as a club sport.

Frank Farias, UA associate vice president for Student Affairs, has been working on reorganizing the UA's Campus Recreation program and facilities, including how all club sports are managed. The ice hockey program operated differently than other UA club sports. UA students actually were playing for a privately incorporated entity.

Farias added that "the transition will ensure our ice hockey program is managed by students and is consistent with and functions like all other UA club sports."

As a UA student-run club, members choose and manage their own organizational structure, administer their own budget, assist in fundraising, elect their own club officers and select coaches and support staff.

Brian Slugocki, captain of the Arizona hockey team, said "With the University's involvement, there are many new and exciting opportunities now available to the team such as developing our webpage, promoting the sport on campus and throughout the community and also using the Arizona ‘A.'"

This is my favorite time of the year, when the good, nonpartisan folks at the Arizona Education Network release their Legislative report card to let us know who voted against public education.

This is always especially good to note during election season, when certain politicians tell us they support public education—yet they don't put that into action with their vote.

From their press release today:

Of Arizona's 90 legislators, 59 voted against public education funding 100 percent of the time.

"We encourage Arizona voters to look closely at this list," said Jen Darland, an Arizona Education Network researcher who tracks education legislation. "These are the legislators who are voting to close our schools; cram children into super-sized classrooms; fire teachers, librarians and counselors; deny children access to all-day kindergarten; strip schools of basics like paper, books and pencils and make our universities unaffordable for middle-class students."

Legislators say they had no other option but to cut $454 million from our schools, community colleges and universities - bringing the three-year total in cuts to $1.3 billion. However they had other options, including following the Governor's original budget proposal, which had $116 million less in education cuts.

In addition, legislators could work to close the more than $10 billion in tax loopholes that prevent the state from raising more revenue. By just closing the luxury tax loopholes, which exempt users of luxury services, such as spa treatments, from paying taxes and equalizing the state liquor tax, the state could bring in $438 million more a year.

Adding insult to injury, legislators voted for TABOR (HB 2720), locking in the current recession-level cuts to education, preventing our schools, colleges and universities from rebounding as the economy improves.

For more information on AEN and the Legislative report, visit their website here.

Go to the jump to read the list of state Legislators who voted against education funding 100 percent of the time in 2011.

The Paul Reiser Show didn't make it long - not really a surprise, since it was a bad photocopy of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and, well, not funny at all. Now, the show joins the ranks of one of the shortest series runs in television history. Not quite as quickly yanked off the air as 1969's Turn-On, but close.

According to the Rialto's Facebook feed, they have less than 50 tickets left for the Fleet Foxes show there on May 8th. Don't be the jerk who complains on the night of show about how it sold out before you could get tickets. This is your warning.

If you'd like to hear their new album Helplessness Blues, it's available to stream on NPR's website. It sounds a lot like their debut. You can decide whether that's a good or bad thing.

The Associated Press notes that many citizens are contacting Brewer to urge her to veto or sign bills:

Gov. Jan Brewer is getting plenty of advice on what to do with the pile of 168 bills awaiting her signature or veto following the end of the legislative session.

Brewer’s office reports she received thousands of contacts — emails, phone calls, faxes and other correspondence — about pending legislation, with one bill alone generating more than 5,000 pro or con statements in the seven days that ended Wednesday.

That bill would let health insurers licensed outside Arizona offer policies in the state and lift Arizona coverage mandates if the outsiders’ policies don’t include that coverage.

The week-long tally provided by Brewer’s office on the health insurance bill was nearly even, with 2,753 supporting it and 2,665 opposed.

Groups on both side of that issue — and others — urged their supporters to weigh in with Brewer.

We suggest you contact Brewer's office to urge her to veto SB 1593, the aforementioned health-insurance bill. If the only way we can have insurance sold across state lines is to roll autistic kids under the bus and water down the other mandates that protect Arizonans, then we think it's a pretty bad solution to our health-care insurance problems.

While you're at it, ask Brewer to veto SB 1322, the bill that would force Phoenix and Tucson to hand over most of what they do to the private sector. Not only will you help save the city; you'l

A simple way to do it: Call Gov. Brewer at 1-(800) 253-0883. (It's toll-free!) Or visit her Web page to leave a comment. Let her know you think these bills are a bad idea and you'd be grateful if she'd reject them.

[Associated Press via AZ Capitol Times]

In some of the worst dining news to come across this desk in awhile, Something Sweet Dessert Lounge announced this weekend that it will be closing at the end of the month.

The dessert lounge — which opened in 2003 and went on to sweep the Best of Tucson® Best Desserts category from 2004 on — depressed an army of desert dessert lovers with this entry on its Facebook page late Friday evening:

We are very sorry to announce that Something Sweet will be closing for good at the end of April. The economy has finally taken its toll. Its been a blast and we will miss you all. Come in this week and get your chocolate and sugar fix and help us go out in style.

This is a total drag. You rocked it Something Sweet, and will be sorely missed.

While the show isn't apparently high-minded enough to make Jordan Green's Idiot Boksen column, every week that there's a new episode of Parks & Recreation lately, it seems to just reinforce my belief that the show is the best comedy on television right now. If for no other reason than to see Aziz Ansari's Tom Haverford discuss his list of food-related nicknames, take 22 minutes off from work and watch the most recent episode:

I had no idea, but my obsession the last few years with listening to as much Black Sabbath as possible has helped me understand the world as it really is, according to a strange article in this month's Atlantic, a bottomless grave of war and despair:

Nu metal, the big metal noise of the ’90s and early ’00s, has come and gone. Metalheads never really went for it—too much rapping in there, and not enough warlocks. Where was the dread? The moral-astronomical scale? The itchy, hybrid bounce-crunch of Korn and Limp Bizkit seemed linked less to metal’s traditional concerns than to the blocked ducts and thwarted entitlements of a generation of football players. But even here metal was still performing at least one of its offices, doing bootleg rage therapy for a mass audience: in the moiling and roaring of Korn’s Jonathan Davis, especially, something fundamental seemed to be seeking an outlet. Other bands of the era had more typically metallic preoccupations. Fear Factory was obsessed with technology and the dissolution of the individual: “Must not surrender my God to anyone,” sang Burton C. Bell, “or this body will become carrion!” Slipknot, masked and boilersuited, the maddest of them all, had its fans going about in T-shirts that read People = Shit. Which is, you must admit, succinct.

The great scholar of heavy metal Robert Walser, doing research for his 1993 book, Running With the Devil, interviewed a Twisted Sister fan who told him that the easy-listening music favored by her mother had made her paranoid. In Walser’s words: “It so obviously seems to lie to her about the world.” An Avenged Sevenfold fan might say the same today about the music of Jack Johnson, or John Mayer, or Jason Mraz, or any of the golden troubadours on heavy rotation at your local Starbucks. I don’t mean to be ungracious about Starbucks—I happen to spend a good deal of time in Starbucks—but heavy metal reminds me that Starbucks, like much of modern life, is a fiction. Go through the membrane, break the crust, and everything is metal.

[UPDATE: Despite the fact that this date appeared on the band's website for most of the day, according to Maroon 5's publicist, the show never actually existed: "There is no date in AZ I was given the wrong info for our release and it was a mistake," says the band's publicist, Carleen Donovan of Press Here Publicity."]

I was more of a Kara's Flowers fan than the current incarnation of Maroon 5, but I still wanted to give anyone who is a fan of Adam Levine advance notice that the band will be performing in Phoenix at the horribly named Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion (a.k.a. the giant shed at the edge of town) on September 17 with Train.

Not sure why that seems particularly blogworthy, but at least the information is out there.