The new restaurant Kimchi Time Korean Restaurant has opened at 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. A charming woman answered the phone when I just called and invited me to come in for lunch. I might just have to take her up on that offer.

Yelp reviews are already pointing out that members of the An family - as in, Mr. An - are suggesting it as a place to get great Korean food locally. There is no better endorsement than that.

You can read more about the restaurant here. Most intriguing is that the places is said to be serving makkoli, an ancient alcoholic Korean concoction that we haven't seen served elsewhere in Tucson.

Call the restaurant at 305-4900 for more information.

Reaction continues to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down three out of four challenged provisions in SB 1070, Arizona controversial immigration law.

Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva:

Today’s Supreme Court ruling largely struck down a law we have always recognized as an extremist attempt to undermine our core values and our Constitution. The court’s decision reaffirmed that SB 1070 and its many imitators are not an acceptable substitute for a federal immigration standard.

The rationale for states to invent their own laws as they see fit has been wiped away. Now it’s time for Congress to listen to what the Court said in its ruling. It’s our job to fix this. No one else has the authority, and no one else has the responsibility. Anyone who wants to keep the system broken and wait for states to make things uglier one at a time lost a big battle today.

Unfortunately, the Court made a grave error in upholding the discriminatory ‘show me your papers’ provision that violates basic rights and denies equal justice. This is the most poisonous part of the law, and its legality will rightly be challenged on equal protection grounds in the courts. This is not the end of our efforts to uphold equal and legal treatment for the American people.

Swindlers, TRES and Ciao Bella clothing stores in collaboration with ONE19 are holding a Backyard BBQ and Fashion Show this Saturday, June 30. The show will exhibit the latest trends in swimwear fashion, and students and alumni from the Regency Beauty School will provide hair and make-up for the show.

There will also be items available for purchase after the show along with booths of local artists selling their merchandise.

There will be live music along with some food and beer tastings from Borderlands. Tickets, which covers the barbeque and games, are on sale now at at TRES, Swindlers and Ciao Bella for $10 in advance, or if there are tickets remaining, you can get them for $12 at the door. An extra bonus for people willing to plan ahead and buy tickets in advance: those forward-thinkers will also receive a raffle ticket to win gift certificates and door prizes at the event itself.

The event will be held at 119 E. Toole Ave at ONE19 production space.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the fashion show will begin at 8:30 p.m.

For more information about the event, visit the event’s Facebook page or contact Jennifer Olguin or Akiko Senda at ONE19 at 481-1818 or at [email protected].

A new place called Tap + Bottle is opening up shop at 403 N. Sixth Ave. It will sell booze and have a tasting room that specializes in craft beer and wine.

On a personal note, herein lies the danger of writing about food and drink in the heat of summer. As I write this the clock has just rolled over to 9:44 a.m., and, frankly, an ice cold beer sounds awesome right now. I know that makes me sound like a lush. I'm o.k. with that.

There's a website up for Tap + Bottle. Find it here. We'll get back with you when we learn more.

You might remember that Facebook tried to convince everyone a few months ago that we really wanted @facebook.com email addresses, because really I say to myself that I could use another way for people to contact me that I have to think about checking every five minutes - wait, that's not something I've ever said, but thanks anyway, Zuckerberg.

Anyhow, over the weekend, our Facebook overlords apparently decided that whatever email address you might have set up to have people contact you is somehow inferior to the one they would prefer you use, so they hid your addresses behind theirs. Awesome, right?

If you'd like to restore order to your contact info, follow these simple instructions from Gizmodo:

Luckily, it's easy to fix this foolish move. Go to your Timeline. Click about, under your contact info. Scroll down to "Contact Info" and hit edit. Switch all of the crossed out circle symbols to a full circle for each inbox you want visible on your profile. If you don't want @facebook.com to show up, switch it from a full circle ("Shown on Timeline") to crossed out ("Hidden from Timeline"). This is also a good opportunity to check your privacy settings and make sure your various inboxes are visible only to friendlies. Hit save.

Democrat Richard Carmona's campaign team is touting a new poll that shows the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate just 2 percentage points behind Congressman Jeff Flake, the GOP frontrunner. The Public Policy Polling survey showed that 43 percent of voters were supporting Flake, 41 percent were supporting Carmona and 16 percent were undecided. The Range talked with Carmona last week; a previous excerpt from the interview can be found here.

• Richard Carmona: "We should not have elected officials, on either side of the aisle, telling a woman how she should practice her reproductive health care."

What I’m seeing, in general, in a state that’s struggling with some of the highest foreclosures, that’s remarkably ranked among the worst educational systems in the country now, has significant immigration problems, is in a health crisis of its own for funding AHCCCS and health care—our legislature chooses to legislative contraception. Is that not a breach of fiduciary responsibility? Is it not malfeasance? It just makes no sense to me. You’re politicizing health issues. Anytime you deny any person—in this case, we’re talking about women but whether it’s children, whether it’s adults, whether it’s seniors—when you create a barrier to access to health care, the results are predictable. Your morbidity will go up, your mortality will go up, and ultimately the cost of that health care will go up because you’ll just show up later at the emergency room with a problem that could have been taken care of much earlier. Federal law says that hospitals must see you when you come for an emergency, so the hospitals then absorb the cost and physicians absorb the cost. So the cost is just redistributed. But the real issue to me, as the surgeon general, is creating barriers to health care results in deleterious health outcomes, period. So if you do it to women, what will you expect? If you deny them their reproductive health care, what happens? The amount of abortions will go up. The amount of unwanted pregnancies will go up. A whole set of health problems unique to women will increase when you deny or impede access. So to me, the bigger, overarching issue here is: We should never be politicizing health care. Health care should be one that we are all supportive of and no matter which side of he aisle you are on, we should be working to ensure that every American, women included, have access to a full set of basic health-care benefits, which include reproductive health.

State lawmakers also came up with some new restrictions on abortion, such as how late in a pregnancy a woman could have an abortion and new rules about whether doctors had to inform expecting women about birth defects. What is your general stance on abortion?

It’s a decision that should be made between a woman and her physician. Period. We should not have elected officials, on either side of the aisle, telling a woman how she should practice her reproductive health care. That just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. The discussion should take place between the patient in need and the expert in the field, who is the physician or the nurse practitioner. A health professional who provides the care. So that’s my feeling. And again, if we politicize this issue, which is what’s happening now—pro-life, pro-choice—those are all artificial terms. They really don’t get to the crux of the issue. If you really want to solve the problem—which is unwanted pregnancies that result in abortions—then if you increase access to health care for women, what happens? The amount of unwanted pregnancies goes down and the question of abortion becomes moot. Shouldn’t we all be working for that endpoint? Each side looks at differently, but ultimately, no woman wants an unwanted pregnancy. And there’s a whole host of reasons why that happens. But if we ensure that everyone has access to unrestricted reproductive health care, every epidemiologist, every health professional will tell you, over time, the expected outcome would be that unwanted pregnancies will drop, and therefore abortions will drop and ultimately become moot.

What are your thoughts on stem-cell research and restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research?

Organizers of an petition drive to ask voters to extend the state’s one-cent sales tax are set to turn in more than a quarter-million signatures today—but whether voters will get a chance to approve the proposition on the November ballot remains to be seen.

There’s a wrinkle with the Quality Education and Jobs campaign effort: Official paperwork filed with the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office at the launch of the initiative’s campaign left off seven lines of text from the 774-line document, or a total of 152 words out of the 8,967-word law.

“We have a paperwork SNAFU,” says Ann-Eve Pedersen, chair of the Quality Education and Jobs campaign.

That’s led Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett to warn the campaign’s backers that he might reject the petitions. Even if Bennett concludes the petitions are OK, there’s likely to be a court challenge filed by opponents of the proposed sales tax.

Pedersen says she anticipates that the Arizona Supreme Court will have the final say on whether voters will get a chance to decide whether to approve the tax.

The Quality Education and Jobs campaign has retained Stanley Feldman, a former chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, for the upcoming legal fight.

Big burger news on this blisteringly hot summer morning: Smashburger, a Colorado-based restaurant chain that cooks fresh meat in butter to produce some super-delish burgers, is opening its first Tucson location.

The restaurant is going in at 4821 E. Grant Road. A company spokeswoman tells us the tentative opening date is mid-December.

We know that's a long time to wait, but for the time being you can feast your eyes on this.

The reaction to the Supreme Court's ruling on SB 1070 is underway.

Gov. Jan Brewer:

Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court is a victory for the rule of law. It is also a victory for the 10th Amendment and all Americans who believe in the inherent right and responsibility of states to defend their citizens. After more than two years of legal challenges, the heart of SB 1070 can now be implemented in accordance with the U.S. Constitution.

While we are grateful for this legal victory, today is an opportunity to reflect on our journey and focus upon the true task ahead: the implementation and enforcement of this law in an even-handed manner that lives up to our highest ideals as American citizens. I know the State of Arizona and its law enforcement officers are up to the task. The case for SB 1070 has always been about our support for the rule of law. That means every law, including those against both illegal immigration and racial profiling. Law enforcement will be held accountable should this statute be misused in a fashion that violates an individual’s civil rights.

The Supreme Court has struck down three out of four challenged provisions in SB 1070, Arizona's controversial immigration law.

AP reports:

The Supreme Court has struck down key provisions of Arizona's crackdown on immigrants.

But the court said Monday that one part of the law requiring police to check the status of someone they suspect is not in the United States legally could go forward. Even there, though, the justices said the provision could be subject to additional legal challenges.

Plenty of reaction, we're sure, to come later today.

Here's the opinion, if you feel like reading it: 11-182b5e1.pdf

BTW: No ObamaCare decision today.