Attention all female Tucsonans that like to have fun and drink.

The new female social group Girls Night Out is hosting it's first event tonight at Tap & Bottle, 403 North Sixth Avenue.

New Belgium and GPO collaborated a special brew called "Sin & Tonic" for tonight's event.  The Facebook event page says the drink is made with Sorachi Ace hops, juniper & citrus spice-blend and even some quinine were employed in the production of this rarity. 6.2% ABV.

There will be a Q&A session and live twitter discussion with New Belgium co-founder and CEO Kim Jordan and GPO co-founder Jenn Litz. Pints are only $3 and there will be raffles and gives. The party starts at 6 p.m. Click here to RSVP on the Facebook event page. 

(Th)ink cartoonist Keith Knight was on Totally Biased last night. Knight announced that he's working on a new autobiographical comic about his time as a Michael Jackson impersonator when he was in high school. Apparently in the mid-eighties when MJ was black and Madonna was a virgin (we all know that wasn't true) older white Boston women used to pay people to "grab their groin" at their kid's birthday parties. Knight said that graphic novel will be ready by next year.

After the jump: AZPM's Heather Gray reports on Tucson photographer Michael McNulty's study of how the human eye sees color:

From behind the lens of his camera, Michael McNulty became curious about the rich colors of the desert, so he began to research the properties of light, and how the human eye sees color.

"One way to define light is that it’s the part of the electromagnetic spectrum we can see," McNulty said. "But that’s a really tiny, tiny portion of the whole electromagnetic spectrum."

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"We don’t necessarily think we have trouble looking at red and blue, but if you try to look at different shades of red and blue, you’re going to find that you cannot distinguish them as well as you can green," McNulty said.

McNulty shares his stories of red, green blue in this segment of AZ Illustrated Science. He is working on a book based on his research about the colors of light.

[AZPM]

It's not the typical cat videos we pick-up. This cutie isn't walking upright and doing the cha-cha or popping his head in and out of a cardboard box. No. This cat was caught smuggling marijuana into a prison. Cats are amazing creatures.

Prison workers apprehended the cat late last week after they noticed it wearing a suspicious purple collar.

In a video posted to the Department of Prisons website, officials can be seen lightly caressing the animal as they carefully untie two polyurethane bags wrapped around its neck. They cut open the bags to find a green "herbal" substance with "the distinct odor of marijuana."

Investigators have concluded that the cat was outfitted with the collar outside the internment facility and sent to deliver its contents to inmates through a small hole.

[Radio Free Europe]

Most of you are looking back at your college years and thanking the technology gods that pagers were the extent of social media.

Approximately seven days ago a Facebook page called U OF A DABS started and has taken the campus like a Mt. Lemmon wildfire. The like page is currently sitting 2,685 likes and growing. According to our U of A interns "DABS" is term regularly used if someone is being a "drunk ass bitch." The 21 year-old told this to me while chuckling like it's common knowledge. I have never felt so proud of getting older in my life. The whole point of the page is to publicly dismay U of A (mostly under age) students when they are "blacked." I wonder how long it's going to take for this site for it to be pulled down after this post, or maybe society finally stopped caring about these cookie cutter sites.

I hate to encourage this but this might be a great opportunity for a caption contest:

Tonight's shaping to be one of those wild and crazy Tucson Unified School District governing board meetings.

First, it's a five-page agenda that you can view here, so that means we'll gladly take bets at Weekly World Central on what time the meeting will end. They've been known to go late, no matter how many times board member Michael Hicks looks at his clock or press the Easy button.

Here are some agenda highlights. Executive session starts at 5 p.m. and the meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting takes place at 1010 E. 10th St.

On the agenda for executive session are culturally relevant court curriculum personnel issues, and property discussions on the closed Menlo Park and Wrightstown elementary schools. However, CRC books, specifically for Mexican-American studies, are back on the agenda:

s) Approval of Middle School Supplemental Materials — 500 Years of Chicano History

t) Approval of HS Supplemental Materials — Occupied America: A History of Chicanos

u) Approval of HS Supplemental Materials — Message to Aztlán

v) Approval of HS Supplemental Materials — Chicano! The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement

w) Approval of HS Supplemental Materials — Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years

x) Approval of HS Supplemental Materials — Critical Race Theory

y) Approval of HS Supplemental Materials — Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The other big discussion is on the district's magnet plan that's required and part of the federal desegregation plan, and a study item on University High School admission, also part of the desegregation plan.

The Southern Arizona Blues and Heritage Festival is sort of a Tucson Meet Yourself of the genre. The juke joints and players of the Mississipi Delta made it tangible, gave it a name, called it even when it wasn't due, as if to ward it off or as a check on high times. But the Tucson Blues Festival is built on the understanding that everyone, young and old, of every ethnicity, gets the blues. Perhaps that has been so since the beginning of time.

With the election just two weeks away, Republican City Council candidate Ben Buehler-Garcia has released a "plan of action" for voters to review. Buehler-Garcia hopes to unseat Ward 3 Councilwoman Karin Uhlich. (More on that race here.)

Here's BBG's plan:

RETURN TO CORE PRIORITIES

The combined ramifications of reduced revenue streams and the “DROP” program threaten to debilitate the city’s core public safety functions. A policy of maintaining the status quo is insufficient. In order to properly plan for returning our community to the proper thresholds, I will ask City Staff to prepare a budget document that outlines the following parameters:

• Funding necessary to train 100 new police officers, replace 50 patrol vehicles and hire the essential civilian staff to support the investigative functions necessary to effectively investigate and prosecute criminals.
• Funding requirements necessary to begin training firemen sufficient to address the gap created by the200 personnel forecasted to retire in FY 2016-2017. Addition of two 2-person response units in order to relieve pressure on existing fire response units.
• Ideas for fundamentally restructuring the way we fund surface street maintenance. This should include concepts such as dedicating a portion of sales tax revenue and working with the state legislature in order to create more local flexibility in gas taxes.

Property crime is a major issue in Ward III. Explore the creation of a Community Burglary Investigative Team concept that would train retired law enforcement officers and military personnel to perform two basic functions in support of TPD; Assist with evidence gathering functions and provide basic victim advocate & information services.

GRAFFITI ZERO TOLERANCE AND INTERSECTION MURALS

You remember the Tucson Padres, right?

For some of you—unfortunately, not enough of you—they were the team that gave us something fun to do on the dull, dry, hot summer nights when Tucson is otherwise a desolate wasteland.

But for most of you, the Padres were that club you may or may not have heard of, but certainly weren't going to support because of a laundry list of stupid reasons, including:

* They play in a "bad" area
* It's not the Diamondbacks
* It's not the Arizona Wildcats
* Keep Tucson Shitty

Well, since you didn't support this most recent (and very likely last) local foray into minor league baseball, maybe instead you'd like to see what it looks like when a community actually embraces their local team.

The team formerly known as the T-Pads is officially getting its name around 4:30 p.m., when owners of the club that's now playing in El Paso unveils whether they will be the Aardvarks, Buckaroos, Chihuahuas, Desert Gators or Sun Dogs.

For now, though, here's a glimpse into the mascot's eyes. Literally:

How big a deal is this down by Juarez's northern neighbor? The local paper, the El Paso Times, is set to go live with video from the unveiling event a whole 90 minutes beforehand.

There's even a video on the team's under-construction Web site explaining how the company that was hired to come up with the name, logo and colors (they're called Brandiose, why BTW is an excellent moniker) without actually revealing said name, logo or colors.

Who's running all this, J.J. Abrams?

UPDATE: They settled with the El Paso Chihuahuas.

Tucson Weekly's (Th)ink cartoonist Keith Knight will be a guest on Totally Biased W. Kamau Bell tonight at 11 p.m. on FXX.

Tonight on Totally Biased, cartoonist Keith Knight! Keith Knight is one of the funniest and most highly regarded cartoonists in America, garnering him the esteemed title: Gentleman Cartoonist. He is part of a generation of African-American artists who were raised on hip-hop, and infuse their work with urgency, humor, satire, politics and race. His art has appeared in various publications worldwide, including the Washington Post, Daily KOS, McSweeneys, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon.com, Ebony, ESPN the Magazine, L.A. Weekly, MAD Magazine, and the Funny Times.

I'm glad that an indie cartoonist like Knight is getting some national attention and appreciation for his prolific comic. I have never seen Totally Biased until today, and it looks promising. I hope it sticks around long enough to gain a following. Bell feels very new at this nightly hosting gig, and it takes years to get comfortable and good at it. It's fun to come across some young Conan and Letterman and cringe at their amateur mistakes.