Nearly two-thirds of Arizonans think that John McCain's time in office is up, according to a poll released today.

According to the Behavior Research Center's Rocky Mountain Poll, McCain's job approval rating has dropped to its lowest level since the early '90s, with only 26% of Arizonans supporting him, and 67% of Arizonans believing that someone new needs to be in office.

While one might consider his support of recent background check legislation to be responsible for this drop (which has been a trend — according to figures from BRC, McCain's approval ratings have been on a steady decline since 2006), this survey was conducted between April 3 to April 16, before the recent background check vote took place.

Who knows; maybe it's the fact that he's shifted his views more towards the rest of the ever-more-conservative Republican party since his 2008 Presidential campaign...or maybe it's that he seems to be returning to his "maverick" ways, recently saying that "there are times these days when I feel that I have more in common on foreign policy with President Obama than I do with some in my own party," in regards to growing regard for isolationist policies.

Unfortunately for those who want McCain out of office, he's still going to be representing the Grand Canyon State in D.C. for another three years — though, considering he'll have celebrated his 80th birthday by the time Election Day 2016 rolls around, it's not outside the realm of possibility that he may decide to hang up his American flag pin and call it a career on Capitol Hill.

Slate's Emily Bazelon argues that the Obama Justice Department is right to ignore calls by Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain to hold Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an "enemy combatant":

None of the evidence so far suggests that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or his older brother, Tamerlan, are connected to al-Qaida or any group associated with it. To the contrary. Authorities keep stressing that the brothers appear to have acted alone. Yes, Tsarnaev and his brother are Muslims, and at some point they were radicalized, but Congress has never said that we are fighting Muslim extremists everywhere.

It’s also important that the key 2011 provision in which Congress said whom the president can detain “exempts U.S. citizens entirely,” as Benjamin Wittes explained at the time. Similarly the 2009 Military Commission Act—which Graham wrote—states that American citizens may not be tried by military commission.

Graham acknowledged as much in his press release: “As to any future trial, if this suspect is an American citizen he is not subject to military commission trial.” But he says this doesn’t matter for purposes of detention. Here’s his proposal: Throw Dzhokhar Tsarnaev into a military brig for some prolonged period of time, once his wounds heal sufficiently, and then hand him over to military and CIA interrogators, without a lawyer or any of the other rights criminal defendants are entitled to in American courts. Then turn him over to the court system later.

Graham asserts that the courts would go along with this approach, even though it’s not been used before, and Congress hasn’t authorized it. I’d like to think he’s wrong. Graham’s approach also insults the interrogation capabilities of the FBI for no particular reason. And it fails to address what happens if Tsarnaev refuses to answer questions: McCain and Graham are decent enough to say that Tsarnaev “must be humanely treated.”

The Hey Baby! Art Against Sexual Violence workshop, put on by the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault (SACASA), will continue its display of Hey Baby! Lights, in the lobby of Club Congress until May 3.

The art exhibit portrays themes related to sexual violence including the general interaction between men and women and the misogyny within our culture.

"I think the name itself is kind of a play on the kind of calls that women get on the street," said Manuel Abril, one of the contributing artists. "Which I think was pretty clever."

Abril created a series of artwork called "Nothing's Happening" in the past year which is meant to expose a culture that is often otherwise unseen.

"It's suggesting that ... the rape culture is in a way unmarked," Abril said. "So it makes it seem like nothing's happening."

Abril's series reflects the meaning of the entire Hey Baby! exhibit, according to Rowan Frost, program supervisor of community prevention education for SACASA.

"Survivor's voices are often silenced," Frost said. "Especially for young girls, they're told that nothing is happening, that they're exaggerating, they're making a big deal of nothing ... we don't see the effects of sexual violence on the person."

Other pieces include a video of people's faces as they're recorded saying what sexual assault means to them.

The intent of the galleries is to have people realize that it affects everyone in the community, not just the victims or perpetrators, according to Rowan. Once people are aware that it's a community issue they will hopefully start a conversation about the issue requiring a community solution, she added.

"The experiences that they've had affects them and ripples out to all of us," Frost said. "It affects the way that people have relationships with other people because we don't really know who we can trust and who we can't trust."

For more information about the Hey Baby! project visit https://www.facebook.com/HeyBaby.Art/info

This is your last week to have lunch at Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails.

From a press release, Janos says, “Closing at lunch allows us the flexibility to put our energies into the areas of our business which are growing most rapidly and continue to push the quality of service and innovation of the food forward. In order to focus on growing demand for Happy Hour and dinner business, the restaurant will serve its last lunch on Friday, April 26.”

Speaking with Devon Sanner, Chef de Cuisine of DK+C, “This gives me the opportunity to hone and focus our service and provide the best possible for our guests.” He was excited for the forthcoming changes.

In addition to the end of lunch service, DK+C is also launching their spring menu this week, which will focus on accenting items from the garden there on site, as well as the Andra’s Memorial Garden at The Children’s Museum.

I've never wanted to be an Arizona State University student, alum or staff member than I do right now.

(Full disclosure: I've never wanted any of those things in any amount, ever before)

It'd almost be worth it to pay whatever fee it costs to "apply" to ASU — remember, Ned Flanders has noted that the only thing easier to get into is the Simpsons' version of Heaven — just so I'd get the chance to vote in the, ahem ... contest to see which of four selected upgrades to the iconic Sparky Sun Devil mascot gets chosen.

ASU opened the voting for this really important decision on Monday, but for the two-week voting period only people with an asu.edu address can choose.

This oh-so-Democratic process comes not long after Girls Gone Wild University and Casino randomly unveiled an uber-upgrade of Sparky, without warning, that basically resembled the love child of the V for Vendetta protagonist and the Nasonex bee, with the Honey Nut Cheerio there for the threesome:

The backlash from the latest Disney-generated monstrosity was so big that ASU backtracked quicker than Sean Miller could say 'He Touched The Ball.' The school then said they'd let the public pick which updated Sparky would roam the sidelines at Sun Devil Stadium, wander the empty sections of Wells Fargo Arena and show off gymnastics moves during unnecessary times.

These are the choices:

Basically, it's a matter of choosing whether you want little or BIG eyeballs, whether those eyeballs should be black or ASU maroon, and whether Sparky's smile should be all teeth or show a little mouth hole (thank God there's no tongue).

Voting is open until May 5, which is plenty of time to meet the ASU admission requirements: namely, forking over a little cash and somehow proving you're not a corpse. Though the second part is negotiable.

• Amazon.com
• Izabela Vidovic, Kirk Ward, Maiara Walsh and Tyler Ross take the leads in Zombieland: The Series.

Last week, Amazon released pilots for the new, original sitcoms that they're testing for their streaming video service, Amazon Instant Video, hoping to draw customers away from Netflix's booming streaming video service and into the warm embrace of Amazon Prime subscriptions.

I was able to catch four of the eight comedies that they've released for viewer consumption during one particularly sleepless night over the weekend — and I'm glad to say that only ONE of them was mostly terrible!

So let's do our best to compress those four pilots into encapsulated reviews. First off...

Alpha House:

This show, based around the idea of four Senators sharing a house in Washington D.C. has a few big names attached to it: notably, John Goodman is the biggest name in the ensemble. Unfortunately, it has the misfortune of coming into existence fairly near the launch of Netflix's highly-touted political drama House of Cards (which was a bit of a mess in its own right).

Alpha House is...disjointed, playing off of tired stereotypes: the young-and-oversexed politician; the struggling-to-remain-closeted gay Conservative; the long-time congressman who can't be bothered to give a shit anymore; and the competent black guy in a room full of dumb white folk...and that's just the main cast.

Honestly, the show is fine—but that's all it is. It's a single-camera, half-hour bowl of comedic oatmeal that isn't sure if it wants to be political satire or a wacky ensemble comedy that has two things going for it: the leads turn in strong performances that make me interested in seeing them work together over a longer period; and it features a cameo by Bill Murray, which is a terrific segue into...

Next to the complaint that ticket lines are too long (of course they're too long when everyone shows up only five minutes ahead of the screening), the only predictable thing about The Loft Cinema, a readers' favorite for as long as there's been a Best of Tucson, may be that showtimes are completely unpredictable.

Would you like to know why that is?

It's because the upstairs theater isn't capable of screening digital films.

Think about it. As much as one may like film (actual, literal celluloid), not all movies are made of it, which is where the problem comes in — the upstairs (smallest) theater can't show anything but film. What we have is a small theater/large theater, digital/analog Tetris thing going on, where digital films that might have a smaller audience are forced to be screened in the large auditorium.

Film-loving friends can be, as they say, "part of the solution," and in everyone's new favorite way, crowdsourcing! The Loft's Digital Challenge on IndieGoGo already has raised $8,381 of its $75,000 goal with 42 days to go. Donors can pledge as little as $10, but once they get up into the 3- or 4-figure-range, the rewards get very cool: name plaques on seats; names on the donor slides screened every day for a year; lots of free tickets; a night at the Loft for your wedding, bar mitzvah, fraternity party or what have you, with special planning help from Jeff Yanc.

Find details and pitch in here at indigogo.com.

An email sent to the Delta Gamma sorority members at the University of Maryland was leaked to Gawker and Deadspin last week. The email contained an insane rant by the chapter's president about their lack of enthusiasm in events for Greek Week with fraternity Sigma Nu and how they were "fucking up."

Michael Shannon, the actor from "Boardwalk Empire," "Pearl Harbor," and "Take Shelter" to name a few, released a dramatic reading of the email through Funny or Die that, quite frankly, is one of the most amazing viral videos I've seen in a while. Combined with a dimly lit setting and extremely dramatic music to go along with the reading, he recites the email word for word in a way you could imagine the sorority president was feeling while writing it herself.

Read the full email from Gawker after the jump, but be warned - it's not shy to the use of harsh and derogatory terms.

• Aleksa Brown
• The Cap'n in Action

While Cap'n Al Melvin hasn't exactly been a friend of the Weekly in the past, I personally could not be more excited by his move to form an exploratory committee to run for governor.

First of all, we would have an answer to the question "After Brewer, it couldn't really get worse, could it?"

Secondly, while Melvin would probably find a way to appoint his old buddy Russell Pearce to a state office and Arizona as we know it would likely collapse if he managed to win, as an alt-weekly editor, there'd be an endless source of editorial material. Then again, I'd probably end up living next to a nuclear waste dump and AHCCCS and public schools would be things of the past, but hey, think of all the movies that would be filmed here!

Cap'n Melvin, as a Republican voter, you have my full support.

Three Cochise County parks are hosting special events through April 28 to celebrate National Park Week.

Visitors can also celebrate the 89th anniversary of Chiricahua National Monument during the week. Tours of the Faraway Ranch will be offered throughout the week.

Rangers at Coronado National Memorial will be leading a hike at 1 p.m. Friday, April 26, to Coronado Cave.

Chiricahua National Monument will waive its fee April 22-26, meaning all three parks and all activities are free throughout the week.

For more information and directions to each park visit:

Chiricahua National Monument: http://www.nps.gov/chir/index.htm
Coronado National Memorial: http://www.nps.gov/coro/index.htm
Fort Bowie National Historic Site: http://www.nps.gov/fobo/index.htm