Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries, Pima County Democratic Party chairman Jeff Rogers and former Republican state lawmaker Pete Hershberger discuss next week's primary election, look ahead to the big races in the November general election, analyze the impact of abortion politics on the races, address the TUSD budget problems and more.

Why yes Tucson, you can see former Project White House presidential candidate Al "Dick" Perry, seen above, on stage tonight at Club Congress. For $5, you'll see Perry shredding strings alongside the likes of Naim Amor, Mike Blommer, Chris Callahan, Loren Dircks, Mike Hebert, Gene Ruley and Clif Taylor.

The 21 and over show starts tonight at 8 p.m., kicking off with a performance by Joe and Vicki Price.

This article from Ars Technica should be terrifying for those who haven't learned good password habits for their online accounts — in other words, it should be terrifying for damn near everyone reading this.

From Ars Technica:

The ancient art of password cracking has advanced further in the past five years than it did in the previous several decades combined. At the same time, the dangerous practice of password reuse has surged. The result: security provided by the average password in 2012 has never been weaker.

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At any given time, [Rick Redman, a penetration tester for security consultants KoreLogic and organizer of the Crack Me If You Can password contest] is likely to be running thousands of cryptographically hashed passwords though a PC containing four of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards. It's an "older machine," he conceded, but it still gives him the ability to cycle through as many as 6.2 billion combinations every second. He typically uses a dictionary file containing about 26 million words, combined with programming rules that greatly extend its effectiveness by adding numbers, punctuation, and other characters to each list entry. Depending on the job, he sometimes uses a 60 million-strong word list and something known as "rainbow tables," which are described later in this article.

Considering that the Gawker network of websites had 1.3 million users' accounts exposed in late 2010, it's safe to say that your passwords for your accounts might possibly be at risk for a dedicated account cracker. For Ars Technica's advice from the experts on how to keep your accounts safe, you can read through to the end of the article — or you can click through below the jump.

Tucson has many skilled bartenders but Ciaran Wiese stands out from the crowd. He's long been handling the drinks down at Scott and Co., the little speakeasy-style cocktail bar at 49 Scott Ave., but he's also been instrumental in training a new generation of bartenders who are slowly changing the way people think about libations in this city.

Unfortunately, tonight is Wiese's last night behind the bar at Scott and Co., where his cocktails have been grabbing both national and local attention for years. From the Scott and Co. Facebook page:

Our bar manager, Ciaran Wiese, is moving to Portland, Oregon! We're so sad to see Ciaran go, but so grateful for what he's done for us at Scott & Co, and for helping put Tucson on the map! In addition to creating our beverage program from scratch, Ciaran's talents have been featured in the The New York Times, DETAILS, CNN and coming soon in Food & Wine. Catch his skills behind the stick one last time TONIGHT at Scott & Co from 6pm-close.

So consider heading down there and having a drink or three, and make sure to tip the man heavily.

And good luck Ciaran. Thanks for taking Tucson's cocktail scene to places we never knew existed.

On Monday, Sept. 3, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum celebrates 60 years with free admittance for anyone born on Sept. 3. For those turning 60 this year, admittance is 60 cents.

From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sept. 3, the museum launches the new Animal Keeper Interaction Program (get a closer look at the animals hosted by individual animal keepers each day), the new Great Blue Heron/Cienega exhibit and the new Baldwin Education Building Library. And of course, birthday cake will be available. Visit www.desertmuseum.org for more information. Stay tuned: Additional birthday events will take place in the near future.

This is a pic of Kinney Road then:

And now:

Rottentomatoes.com is a great site to find out what film critics and other moviegoers think about movies. But if you want to know what the critics think about books, you had to check out several websites—until now.

The new website www.idreambooks.com gathers reviews in one place. It is "the first site on the Internet that aggregates reviews from professional book critics like New York Times or Washington Post and recommends a book if 70 percent of critics give it a positive rating—similar to rottentomatoes.com or metacritic.com."

Percentages are accompanied by either smiling or frowning clouds. But what the public likes may be different from what the critics say. The popular Fifty Shades of Grey only got a 30 percent rating.

The site also offers free book giveaways, with winners are posted on the site's blog.

Tonight on Arizona Public Media's Political Roundtable: Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries, Pima County Democratic Party chairman and former Republican state lawmaker Pete Hershberger discuss whether we'll see any surprises in next week's primary election, look ahead to the most competitive races in the November general election, unpack this week's debate over abortion rights, talk about downtown redevelopment and more. Tune in at 6:30 p.m. on KUAT-TV, Channel 6.

• Photo by Nate Woiwode

The summer photo contest is over, and Labybird the dog was the big winner. See which photos won second and third place.

A local mountain-bike organization awarded the first of 10 grants to a local elementary. Check out what they will use the money for.

A pedestrian was struck and killed this week by a police officer responding to a call. See where it happened.

The old Ruby Tuesday's location at 4811 N. Stone Ave. will soon be home to another location of Taco Tote. There are currently two locations of the chain eatery in Tucson.

This is such incredible news. What we need in this city are more chain restaurants serving Mexican food. (Sarcasm alert.) But at least this chain eatery has a charming origin story on its website:

El Tacotote really began as a collection of family recipes. The Heras brothers’ mom made the tastiest tacos in Sinaloa, Mexico. Mrs. Heras insisted on premium meats and a blend of spices perfected over the years by the family members.

In 1988, after the family moved to Cd. Juarez, Mexico, the family noticed something missing in the local cuisine. It was the Heras touch. They created the El Taco Tote concept and opened their first restaurant that same year. After enjoying an overwhelming response, they opened three more locations in the next four years. In 1994, the Heras brothers decided to introduce this extraordinary concept to the U.S. with a new location in Laredo, Texas. This location also proved to be a huge success. During the next three years, they opened three Taco Tote restaurants in El Paso, Texas. Now the Heras brothers are bringing the wonderful flavor of “real mexican grill” to you, our most valued customer.

Labor Day is coming up. If you want to lay in a good supply of quality meat for your big barbecue, we suggest checking out the Collegiate Cattle Growers Association's meat counter at the University of Arizona Meat Sciences building at 4181 N. Campbell Ave.

The weekly sale takes place ever Friday afternoon, and the selection and prices always seem to be just fine with the people we've seen happily carting away huge boxes of steaks and other things. There's more on the sale over here.

(Please note that the hours on that sign in the photo are no longer correct. The new hours are 3 to 6 p.m., Fridays. That's a whole extra hour of meat-shopping. Woohoo!)