Prom Body released another music video, and it's not for the faint of heart.

Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if some crazy church group protests their next show. Prom Body Front man Michael Fay collaborated with Patrick Foley of the Carne and Queso Collective to make this gnarly music video for a track off the band's latest album, Naughty by Natural. You might recognize some familiar local personalities doing coke, shot gunning PBR's and smashing tube televisions.

If the "Not Safe For Work" label applies to you then you should quit, and find a cooler job:

The Tucson Weekly is gearing up for our arts coverage for the fall and spring seasons. We would love to hear from you and receive your upcoming schedules. Here’s how to get us the information:

For possible inclusion in our fall arts preview next month, send press releases to Margaret Regan, [email protected], no later than Monday, Aug. 18. If possible, please send info in the body of an email and limit attachments, except for photos. When sending photos (attached to the press release), please include a photo credit and identify everything and everyone in photos, including artist name, medium and title for any visual artworks.

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Back in 2010 when we mourned the closure and then demolition of Tucson's last drive-in, the De Anza, Tucson artist Charlie Spillar was there with a group of volunteers who saved components of the drive-in's giant screen with the idea to use them for a new nonprofit drive-in project they coined the Cactus Drive-In, the name of the original drive-in at the same Alvernon Way location in 1951.

Four years later, Spillar is still in Tucson and he and other drive-in enthusiasts haven't given up on the dream, and Weekly World Central is glad they have that tenacious desert spirit. They formed the Cactus Drive-in Theatre Foundation and they launched a Kickstarter today to make it happen—they want to raise $18,000.

C'mon Tucson. We love outdoor movie theater experiences, but there's nothing like a drive-in. Let's do this.

From Charlie:

The Cactus Drive-In Theater Foundation is a non-profit (501C3) with plans to bring a drive-in theater back to town. Their ultimate goal is to establish a permanent, community-owned drive-in theater in Pima County. This Kickstarter project will bring them one step closer to fulfilling that dream.

In April of this year the original founders George Cohn and Charles Spillar of the CDITF took back control of the non-profit, elected a total new board of directors, and this new energized group has revitalized the efforts to have a drive-in theater back in Tucson. Originally the Cactus Drive-In Theatre, it was renamed the DeAnza in 1977 and kept the name until its closure & destruction in 2009. Many mourned the downfall of Tucson's last drive-in theater. As a result the Cactus Drive-In Theatre Foundation was formed, and its Facebook page blossomed to nearly 1500 followers since April of this year and new supporters are joining daily.

The funds raised through this project will go towards the purchase of a large inflatable movie screen, a high-quality movie projector, and generator. These materials, paired with their existing FM transmitter and authentic restored drive-in movie speakers, will allow them to host "pop up" drive-in movie events throughout Pima County. This "pop-up" model is currently being implemented successfully in Punta Gorda, Florida to show monthly drive-in movies for their community.

When the non-profit acquires a permanent location in the future for a drive-in, CDITF will be able to continue to use the inflatable screen for several years. A special digital movie projector is required to show new, first-run movies (which is not in the scope of this Kickstarter project). Other infrastructure (a permanent snack bar, flush toilets, etc.) will be added over time.

An artist reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 9, for Tangible Transformations, an exhibit that celebrates artists in recovery. The event features live music, a wearable art fashion show, performance art, refreshments and a silent auction. Proceeds benefit the Café 54 Art Foundation. Cafe 54 is located at 54 E. Pennington St. Admission is free. The exhibition continues through Sept. 26. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, visit www.cafe54.org.

A few things before I begin. First, this isn’t an official endorsement from the Weekly. David Garcia is my personal pick for Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction. Second, I’ve supported Garcia since early in his campaign and held a fundraiser for him at my home. However, I’ve taken the time to learn about the positions of his primary opponent Sharon Thomas, watched the public television debate between Garcia and Thomas and heard Thomas speak in person, so I know enough about her to make an informed decision.

I’m confident David Garcia will make an outstanding Superintendent of Public Instruction. His qualifications in terms of educational background, job experience and personality put him well above Sharon Thomas and miles above the Republican candidates.

Garcia is an Associate Professor of education at ASU. That means he’s studied the subject of education in depth; it also means he’s taught teachers. He’ll bring an understanding of education issues to the job Arizona hasn’t seen in decades (It’s been something like 30 years since we’ve had an educator as Superintendent). To those qualifications Garcia adds practical experience working in the Arizona Department of Education as an Associate Superintendent of Public Instruction under two Republican superintendents. He also worked as an education research analyst at the state legislature. Garcia is a Democrat who knows how to work with Republicans and has gained their respect for his expertise even when they don’t agree with him, which will be an invaluable tool when he works on education issues with the legislature.

H/T to Blog for Arizona's Carolyn Classen on the nine people who met Wednesday's 5 p.m. filing deadline for Tucson Unified School District's governing board.

The candidates for the Nov. 4 election, including incumbents Adelita Grijalva and Michael Hicks, according to Classen:

Rene Bernal , applied software engineer at Honeywell, political newcomer

Debe Campos-Fleenor, owner of financial/ insurance agency, ran before in 2012

Don Cotton, self-employed businessman, ran before in 2012, father of 2 TuSD students

Miguel Cuevas, former TUSD board member, elected in 2008, lost in 2012 (came in 4th for 3 seats, out of a pool of 12 candidates), project coach at AFNI, www.votemiguelcuevas.com

Jenifer Darland, policical newcomer, community activist, mother of 2 TUSD children, www. darlandfortusd.com, https://www.facebook.com/DarlandforTUSD

Adelita Grijalva, current board member and President, has served since 2004, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelita-Grijalva-for-TUSD-School-Board/130007817047419, daughter of CD 3 Congressman Raul Grijalva, mother of 2 TUSD students

Michael Hicks, current board member, elected in 2010, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michael-Hicks-for-2014-TUSD-School-Board-Member/112861325429566, father of 2 TUSD students

Betts Putnam-Hidalgo, community activist & part time teacher, ran before in 2012, mother of son at TUSD school, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stand-with-betts-for-TUSD/204287006336384

Francis Saitta, Pima Community College adjunct math/ science teacher, ran unsuccessfully for PCC Governing Bd. in 2012

Want to know more about the candidates and ask them questions? The Racial Justice Team at St. Mark's Presbyterian Church is hosting a candidate forum on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 6:30to 8:30 p.m. at St. Mark's, 3809 E. 3rd St.

The Weekly is planning coverage for this particular election. Some of the candidates maybe familiar to our readers, as they ran in the 2012 election, a contentious race with 12 candidates on the ballot, including three incumbents. Read that story here.

Tonight's a night I've been awaiting for awhile - which might say something about the general excitement of my life in general, but whatever - the premiere of Black Jesus on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

The show, from Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder, is basically what the title promises: a show about Black Jesus, and as you probably could guess, a bunch of white Christians are proceeding to lose their minds, probably not because of the Black part, but perhaps because the show's Jesus smokes a lot of weed and turns water into Cognac (although you have to imagine the black part's not super comfortable either).

From the One Million Moms petition site, which almost reads like a backwards ad for the show, if I didn't know better:

The late night programming on the Cartoon Network, known as Adult Swim, plans to air the non-animated show "Black Jesus" portraying Jesus as a "black guy living in the hood." The show depicts him living in Compton Gardens and makes a mockery of our Lord. The foul language used in the trailer, including using the Lord's name in vain, is disgusting. In addition, there is violence, gunfire and other inappropriate gestures which completely misrepresent Jesus. This is blasphemy!

"Black Jesus" is set to premiere on August 7 at 11:00 pm ET/ 10:00 pm CT, unless we intervene. Adult Swim plans to blaspheme Jesus on a weekly basis. This mockery will be similar to "South Park" and "Family Guy," but much worse since the entire program will be based on lies about Christianity.

For what its worth, the New York Times seemed to like the show, at least:

Slink Johnson, an imposing actor with a suitably beatific expression, plays Black Jesus, who may be the son of God or may just be a big-talking con man with an unusual game. The show’s central joke is that these two options aren’t all that different.

Wearing brown robes and a permanent crown of thorns, Black Jesus walks the streets of Los Angeles with his Compton posse, a small, mostly useless band of apostles. He encounters unbelievers — Latino gangbangers, cops, a churlish apartment manager (Charlie Murphy of “Chappelle’s Show”) — and he dispenses homilies on forgiveness and faith. He also serves as the wheel man on a trip to buy a pound of marijuana. “All you need me to do is drive the car and watch over all your guys’ good graces?” he asks.

Weed takes the place of loaves and fishes for this 21st-century holy man. He has a bad habit of bogarting other people’s joints, and a running story line involves his efforts to turn an abandoned lot into a community garden whose vegetables will feed the people as well as hide the marijuana plants. As he clears trash from the lot, he sings to himself, “This little light of mine/We gonna grow some pine.”

Yes, it's almost certainly blasphemous, based on the definition of that term, but conservative Christians protesting a show that's entirely created to upset people like them? Definitely predictable and almost certainly counter-productive.

The Weekly clearly has pizza on its mind (no joke, I could really go for a slice right now), but regardless, it's worth noting that food mega-blog Eater ran an interview with Chris Bianco yesterday in honor of his two weeks-ish of being open here in Tucson. He talks quite a bit about what it's like here for him and his new place:

Congratulations on the Tucson location. I know you're just a few days in on that, but how is it all going?

It's really special. As you get older, the hope is that the next thing you do is the best thing you've ever done. The opportunity for this project in Tucson was to keep it as close to the original as I could. But what would I do differently? [Opening in Tucson was] just getting to really take inventory of where you are.

Pizza, like every dish on the planet, is only as good as the ingredients.
I opened in 1988. I know I'm a better restaurant now because pizza, like every dish on the planet, is only as good as the ingredients. Technique will always be [important], but it'll never be more important than sourcing great flour varietals, and the great artisan cheeses that are available today that weren't there before. I mean, shit, back in the day, I begged somebody to grow arugula for me. All the things that are so commonplace now were really a challenge to get at the highest level. Now we have so many great farmers and suppliers. It makes it special.

The entire interview's worth reading, if only to understand what makes the guy such a great chef.

Special Eater Bonus Link: Last year, the site took an in-depth look into Bianco's pistacho-topped pie, the Rosa. Be forewarned, if you read that post, you'll want to head downtown and get in line for one right now.

Tucson artist and friend to many of us (and former Phantom Limbs drummer) Howard Salmon died early this morning, finally succumbing to the brain cancer he fought so hard for almost two years.

The funeral is this Sunday, Aug. 10, at Temple Emanu-El, 225 N Country Club Road, 10 a.m. followed by a burial service at Evergreen, 3015 N. Oracle Road. The family will be observing shiva for seven days. In Judaism, this is the week-long traditional mourning period for relatives and close friends. I was told those close to Salmon who may want to participate and visit with his family should call to find out what time they are taking visitors. It's customary to bring food to the family during this time.

Back in October 2012, we mentioned a Facebook status Salmon had just posted on his prognosis—the doctor telling him he had until the end of the year:

Please drop me a line while I'm still alive. I've got an aggressive brain tumor, and my doctors say I'll be a goner by year's end (that is, in 3 months). I plan on spending my remaining days drawing, painting, and blogging. If I know you, thank you for your friendship. If you want to write me, please do so sooner rather than later, because I'm getting a little foggier everyday ...

We're reaching out and talking to close friend's of Salmon's for a story on the artist and musician, and if we have any updates, we'll be sure to share. Meanwhile, wouldn't hurt to sit back and spend some time with him on his blog. His last post in April, after not blogging since his diagnosis, was on his drawings. He was always happy to share those with all of us.

Yeah, we were damn lucky.

Tucson loves pizza. I think there's more pizza establishments than Walgreens and Circle K gas stations combined. Pionic Pizza and Pasta has offered an insane deal on their Facebook page. You can print a coupon that will grant you a free pizza with unlimited toppings when you like their page. Don't wait because offer is good while supplies last.

Pionic will be open until 10 p.m. The new restaurant is located at 2643 N. Campbell Ave. Click here for more information.