Arnold Schwarzenegger, one of the best actors in the history of cinema, is making viral videos and posting them on Reddit. The Austrian Death Machine went undercover (like in Kindergarten Cop) as Howard, a Gold's Gym manager in Venice, CA., to promote heath and fitness and the All-Stars after school workout program. Some people recognized the former California Governor and others didn't.

Just what happens when you strike a match? YouTube filmmaker UltraSlo finds out for us.

(Hat tip: Gizmodo)

With the recent opening of Gio Taco downtown, local restaurateur Brian Metzger already has a lot on his plate, but he's also opening another new restaurant (at La Paloma) at closing another. After five years in business, Jax Kitchen on Oracle near Ina will be closing its doors on Sunday, February 16. A weekish later on February 21, Poppy Kitchen will open at La Paloma.

According to a press release, Poppy, part of a super-expensive renovation at La Paloma, will feature "a fusion of the flavors and flair that have defined the Metzger experience, with influences from other Metzger concepts Jax Kitchen, The Abbey and Gio Taco" and will seat 160 in a space designed by FORS Architecture and Interiors featuring a "main dining room, private dining room, bar and large panoramic patio."

On the Jax Kitchen front, the press release quotes Metzger:

“It’s a bittersweet moment to introduce something new and exciting while simultaneously saying goodbye to the one restaurant that started it all,” said Metzger. “We were facing the end of our lease period at Ina and Oracle, and spent a lot of time reflecting on what the future looked like for this company,” he continued, "and we decided that we needed to be more tightly focused on the company's growth brands. We'll forever celebrate the impact that Jax Kitchen had on our family and in this community."

More info about the Jax closing and Poppy's opening to come.

For MLK day, I will now search for maliciously racist tweets & tell the author that I love them.
— Solomon Georgio (@solomongeorgio) January 20, 2014

People on the internet are pretty much the worst, but Los Angeles-based comedian Solomon Georgio brought a slight bit of brightness to the online world yesterday by looking up the tweets of racists staying stupid racist shit about Martin Luther King Jr. Day and responded in a manner that seems befitting the occasion, being kind and telling people he loves them. Sure, it didn't go over terribly well, especially when Georgio sent a message to someone under the name "Junior Dipper" (who has a Confederate flag in his background image and a stack of chewing tobacco cans as his profile pic.

But still, on the same day a store offered a sale on anything black, Georgio's bit of transmitted grace made the Twittersphere a bit brighter for a bit:

.@Redneck45Rem I hope one day you can understand the value of MLK's accomplishments. Until then, I love you.
— Solomon Georgio (@solomongeorgio) January 20, 2014

While the Fourth Avenue Street Fair will not have a shopping experience like the Maeklong train market outside of Bangkok, it does appear as though it will be able to spread out down Seventh Street during the open-air bazaar in March.

Councilman Steve Kozachik (who sent us the above video, BTW) has been trying to work out a solution to the troubles the fair was having because city officials were insisting that they couldn't skip a weekend of streetcar testing. Inside Tucson Business editor Mark Evans has the details:

Fourth Avenue Merchants Association Executive Director John Sedwick said this afternoon he received assurance from the city of Tucson that planned nearby construction will not take place during the fair and the fair will now have nearly a full complement of vendors.

Sedwick said he has revised the vendor alignment to the latest restrictions given FAMA by the city and that he expects the FAMA board to approve it Tuesday afternoon.

But there's a downside to the whole thing: The decision to put booths along Seventh Street has resulted in a delay in county work on nearby water lines, which has Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry concerned about whether the work can get done on time:

Some Arizona State University fraternity students posted horrendously offensive photos of themselves dressed in basketball jerseys, bandanas, drinking out of watermelons and throwing gang signs in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., Day. This is almost as bad as the Naked ASU Girl. The Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity members posted the photos on Instagram and hash tagged the images "#mlkparty" and "blackoutformlk." Various media outlets scooped the story and it went viral overnight.

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We'll probably remind you of this fact several times before the March 20 show, but the amazing Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are coming to the Rialto Theatre for a must see concert.

If you haven't been won over by the group yet, a profile of frontwoman Sharon Jones on eMusic today by the stellar writer Amanda Petrusich will probably do the trick:

This month, Jones and her band, the Dap-Kings, released their fifth LP, Give the People What They Want, a tough, careening collection of soul songs huffed into existence by the barely-5-foot-tall Jones and her caucus of expert backers. Since her 2002 debut, Jones has stacked up accolades and validations: collaborations with Lou Reed (their duet of “Sweet Jane” — in which that desolate jam becomes hopeful, nearly exuberant — still makes me giddy), a stint opening for Prince, performances at endless festivals and on late-night chat shows, an appearance atop a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Every time I’ve seen her perform, whether at a festival or in a concert hall, she’s been decked out in a short, sparkly dress and tiny heels, her shoulder-length box braids whipping every which way, her hips swinging. Jones has one of the most dutiful, nearly subservient relationships to an audience I’ve ever witnessed: She approaches each show as a kind of grand public service. Like: “Here, let me help you with your evening.”

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• The Cartel Coffee Lab grand opening starts at 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at its new location on 210 East Broadway.

Do you like coffee, pizza, craft beer and local music? Cartel Coffee Lab is hosting a big grand opening at 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at its new location on 210 East Broadway. There will be free pizzas and sandwiches from the wood-fired oven. There will be a food truck roundup, $3 $4 craft beer, and coffee.

It can't be a grand opening without (local) music. Arthur Greenland will open for Sun Bones and Best Dog Award is headlining the free show.

The Range predicted yesterday that Annabelle Nuñez would get the appointment to Linda Lopez's vacant Senate seat, but we called it wrong: Today, the Pima County Board of Supervisors picked state Rep. Andrea Dalessandro to fill the District 2 Senate seat. That means that we'll now have a House vacancy that will have to be filled sometime in the next few weeks, so if you're in LD2 and have dreamed of serving in the Legislature, now's your chance!

According to a recovering “wealth addict” in a column in the Sunday NY Times — he's a young man who at 25 was making a few million a year (but it wasn’t nearly enough) — the mania to accumulate more and more wealth beyond what anyone could possibly need or spend is a disease the very rich fall prey to. They might suffer some psychological trauma, poor babies, but it’s everyone else who pays, literally, for their drug of choice.

The growing accumulation of wealth in a few hands bends economic and political power in the direction of the rich, as the column makes clear. Income inequality is about concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people and the growing number of others living at or near the poverty level, but it also poses a serious threat to the health of our democracy.

Back to the NY Times column in a minute. First, some stats.

Four hundred billionaires have a net worth equal to that of the country’s 14 million-plus African Americans. So writes Bob Lord on my old home at Blog for Arizona in a chillling Martin Luther King Day note.

The net worth of just 400 billionaires, a group that could fit into a high school gym, is on par with the collective wealth of our more than 14 million African- American households. Both groups possess some $2 trillion, about three percent of our national net worth of $77 trillion.

Today’s Star has a McClatchy article with a similar statistic, this time on a global scale.

The world’s richest 85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the world’s population, according to a report issued Monday by the British-based anti-poverty charity Oxfam.

Who benefited most from the 2008 housing bust and worldwide financial downturn according to the article? No surprise here.

The report also said that while the recent financial crisis was an enormous burden on the world’s poor, it ended up being a huge benefit to the rich elite. The very wealthiest people on Earth collected 95 percent of the post-crisis growth, the report said.

The growth in income inequality is a worldwide phenomenon, but “the trend is more pronounced in the United States than in other nations.”