Cyclovia clears traffic off five miles of city streets so people can ride their bikes, then offers 120 reasons to dismount and do something else. Here's a map that shows the route, and what's happening where along its path.

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On AZ Illustrated Politics last night: Host Jim Nintzel, Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President Lea Marquez-Peterson, former state lawmaker Jonathan Paton and former Pima County Democratic Party chairman Jeff Rogers discussed whether the Boston Marathon bombing would disrupt immigration reform; how the fallout from the Senate's failure to expand background checks on gun sales would affect Sen. Jeff Flake and background-check advocate Gabby Giffords; what comes next in the battle between Gov. Jan Brewer and GOP state lawmakers over the proposed Medicaid expansion; and how the 2014 governor's race was shaping up with the entrance this week of Democrat Fred DuVal and Republicans Al Melvin and Andrew Thomas.

You don't have a ton of opportunities to attend a live game show hosted by someone named "Tempest DuJour" but this Saturday at 7 pm, Retro Game Show Night returns to Club Congress this Saturday night with a likely bawdy take on the classic show, the Match Game. Plus, if this sort of thing interests you, you'll have the opportunity to see this church-raised editor blush repeatedly as part of the "celebrity" panel (along with "Judith Stench, Editor of Je M'aime magazine and heir to the Stench Fish & Chips fortune" and "Big Gay Al," naturally). Tickets are $5.

After the game show festivities, I'll be playing pushing some buttons on my laptop so music comes out on the Congress patio. That part is free, I'm pretty sure.

Should be a fun night. Come by and say hello.

• Courtesy of the International Olympic Committee

The 2024 Summer Olympics are over 10 years away, but in a move true to the publicity-mongering fashion of the International Olympic Committee, reports on what cities are bidding on the Games are already surfacing.

Of the 10 cities so far that have discussed putting in a bid to host in 2024, two seem to stand out: San Diego and Tijuana have entered in a joint proposal, responding to the U.S. Olympic Committee’s push for the games to return to the States - of course, with an international twist.

Joint proposals have been made to the IOC before, but haven’t yet been met with any success (neighboring cities sometimes host certain events, like Park City did for Salt Lake City in 2002, but aren’t considered “official host cities” of the Games).

• Courtesy of the ArtsEye Gallery website

If you have an affinity for photography, or are camera-challenged but inquisitive into how the medium works, the ArtsEye Gallery’s annual Curious Camera Event might be a fitting event for your weekend agenda.

Returning for the fifth year on Saturday, the Curious Camera Gallery encourages visitors to “embrace the unpredictability and fascination of photography” by viewing work shot with the full spectrum of cameras throughout the ages: from centuries-old pinhole cameras to iPhone images, the work in the gallery could not be more visually varied.

Dean Saxton, commonly referred to as "Brother Dean Samuel," is a junior at UA who known for making bold statements in his messages to the student body as they pass by on the mall.

Usually, his messages are suggestive and to some, offensive, but his message this week may have gone to far.

"You Deserve Rape," read the sign that he held in front of the Administration building on Tuesday.

What was his reasoning behind this suggestion? As reported by the Daily Wildcat, Saxton said the purpose of his speech was that “if you dress like a whore, act like a whore, you’re probably going to get raped."

According to a video posted on YouTube, he also held signs that read "Frat Boys Are The Rapists," "Sorority Girls Are Whores," and "Rapists Deserve The Death Penalty."

Are you a bully, or a bully-ee? Most of us, thankfully, are neither. But a showcase of 30-second PSAs by Tucson kids could make the rest of us the most powerful people of all in bringing about an end to bullying.

• Image Courtesy of Boston Magazine

When a cover of a publication is circulating the Internet under headlines touting it as “incredible,” “beautiful” and even“perfect” before the issue is released, it’s a pretty good indication that your designers have done something right.

When Boston Magazine released the above image - its May cover - this morning, the response from not only the Boston community, but the entire nation, was immediate. Emotions continue to run high now over a week after the bombings, and the image (shot by photographer Mitchell Feinberg) resonated strongly with runners still recovering from the event that prompted them to donate the very items that may have carried them to safety: the shoes they wore that day, many of which did not cross the finish line.

A great interview today in the Huffington Post Latino Voices. While you can read the entire piece here, it isn't until the end that the Daily Show contributor and comic talks about Tucson, and yes, Mexican-American studies and his (in)famous interview with Tucson Unified School District governing board member Michael Hicks.

Here's what he says about that TUSD/MAS segment:

Instability is an entertainment industry given, but his two years on "Daily Show" have given Madrigal a high profile and the chance to create some indelible moments, including his interrogation of a member of the Tucson, Ariz., school board that banned a Mexican-American studies program. A board member earnestly told Madrigal that one teacher was buying his students' loyalty with burritos, which Madrigal said prompted "burrito protests" against the board's action.

"That's the most viewed piece" he's done for "Daily Show," he said, proudly. "People are teaching that piece in Chicano studies classes."

And just in case you forgot or want to relive the hell:

George Jones, one of the greatest singers in contemporary music history, the man Frank Sinatra referred to as "the second best singer in America," about whom Waylon Jennings sang "If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones," has passed away.

When musicians die, it seems like there's an obligation to over-hype their accomplishments, to pretend that they moved artistic mountains. Sometimes, that can be an inflation of their cultural relevance, but then there are people like George Jones. He had number one songs in five decades, recorded 150 albums, and continued a line of country music troubadours who could create beauty from amazing sadness, succeeding Hank Williams. His duets with Tammy Wynette were magical, and 1980's "He Stopped Loving Her Today," a song that Jones was convinced couldn't be a hit, is generally considered (and rightfully so) one of the greatest country tracks of all time.

Beyond even all that, his personal life was often a disaster (it took him a year to record "He Stopped Loving Her...", partially because he couldn't deliver the spoken word section without slurring his words) and a constant source of material for new songs. Legendarily, when his then-wife Wynette hid the keys to every car they owned, he drove a riding lawnmower seven miles into town to get a drink.

He was a purist, who essentially only listened to the type of music he made, who believed that modern country artists should come up with a new name for their genre, who refused to duet with people like James Taylor because he had never heard of them.

For me, this was the music I heard as a kid. "White Lightning" (above) is one of the first songs I remember hearing, far before I had any idea what the characters were making way back in the hills. I read his heart-wrenching honest memoir "I Lived to Tell It All' in basically one sitting. I was trying to think of a way to swindle my way into his star-filled tribute/farewell concert, which was scheduled for this November in Nashville. I never had the opportunity to interview him, but I have no idea what I would have said if I had. He was one of those people for me that barely seemed real, even though he shared so much of his humanity with the world.

George Jones was 81.