Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico talk about making their new album, Edge of the Sun, which drops April 14.

We'll be breaking down the takeaways from the legislative session over the next few days, but Mary Jo Pitzl, Ronald J. Hansen and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez of the Arizona Republic give a wrap-up of the session here:

The Arizona Legislature crept to a middle-of-the-night close to its 2015 session, after a drawn-out final workday sapped the patience of lawmakers, leading to the failure of a pair of key election bills.

The House adjourned sine die at 3:34 a.m. Friday.

But long before the House wrapped up its business, most of the Senate had gone home in exasperation and exhaustion. The senators' departure made moot the House's work on a key GOP bill to severely limit who could return a voter's ballot. The measure needed a final Senate vote.

The demise of Senate 1339 was followed by the failure of a proposed ballot measure that would have asked voters whether to end the state's public campaign-finance system and direct the money that funds the Citizens' Clean Elections Commission to K-12 education instead. The measure, Senate Concurrent Resolution 1001, fell two votes shy of the needed number.

"That was a bumpy end to the session, wasn't it?" House Republican Chief of Staff Tami Stowe said to staffers.

The final hours dragged on, but overall the session set a modern speed record: At 82 days, it was the shortest session in five decades.

Gov. Doug Ducey signed three bills into law Wednesday that will continue to make homeless people's lives (really, the lives of anyone who is having a hard time making a living) harder.

Two pieces of legislation involve panhandling and the other prohibits a city or county from forcing contractors to build affordable housing—"Also illegal would be requiring any particular housing units 'be designed for sale or lease to any particular class or group of residents,'"  an article on the Arizona Daily Star by Howard Fischer of the Capitol Media Services said. 

Back to the panhandling issue: these new laws criminalize so-called "aggressive" panhandling (described as begging for money too close to an ATM, repeatedly asking for money or touching someone while asking for money). Area you ready for this one? The other measure makes it a class 3 misdemeanor to "intentionally push a button at a cross walk for the purpose of stopping traffic and asking for money," according to The Associated Press.

Why does the state continue to think that the best way to "get rid" of homelessness is by creating these prohibitions that do absolutely nothing to combat the problem from its roots? Investing in education leads to job creation leads to getting people off the streets. Let's pass legislation that follows that trend and then maybe there won't be "scary" people begging for money or food outside grocery stores, banks, at a stoplight.

Last week, there was a homeless outreach event at Trinity Church on University Boulevard where I met a lot of Tucson's houseless residents. They all had different backgrounds, different reasons for ending up where they are at in their lives at the moment. What most of them have in common is, regardless of their past (felonies, drug addiction, whatever) they're trying to move forward—finish school, find a job, find an apartment they can afford. 

(By the way, a U.S. Rep. Martha McSally representative was there, and he couldn't have looked more bored and "get me the fuck out of here" if he had tried. Homeless advocate Michele Ream brought up the issue of shelters requiring an ID to get a bed, and he didn't even know what she was talking about).

Food stamps, shelters, low-income housing—all of these are crutches while they get off their feet. But, for instance, homeless people with felonies don't get food stamps, so how are they supposed to eat? Yes, Tucson has the Soup Patrol and a lot of other angels doing what the city should be doing, but for the times homeless people aren't able to get that help, well they are going to ask you or myself for a couple bucks. 

At the event I talked about earlier, I met Steve. He's 60 years old and has been homeless for more than a decade, or maybe longer. He said he had lost track of time. He's been on a low-income housing waiting list for more than one year (with this new law, the low-income housing options could drop even more). He's tried making a living with construction gigs, but those always fall through, he says. When we spoke, he said he was going to try to have a friend buy him landscaping equipment. He gets food stamps, but he doesn't get Social Security. He was denied a check even though he is SMI, or has a "serious mental illness," which stems from hardcore, incestuous sexual abuse he endured as a child.

"In a perfect world, I would have a little trailer," he told me. "I'm 60 years old, I feel dirty. It's embarrassing. All I have is my bike and my backpack. I'm a good person, I've just been handed down a pile of shit."

He's trying. He lost his job years ago, lost his home and hasn't been able to see the light, yet. 

So, how can our "leaders" help with all of this? They should take the time to speak to these people. There's something called REALITY, and poverty and homelessness are part of that reality, so deal with it in a useful manner.

On a few magical Saturdays, Dragoon Brewing Co. will join forces with Exude Yoga to present a super relaxing morning of stretching and brews known as Bakasana & Beer. This month, Saturday, April 4 is the day to head to the brewery, located at 1859 W. Grant Road Suite 111, for your beer and yoga.

While both are good on their own, the real reason to head to this special event series is that it's actually a really good deal. $5 cash gets you into the class and also gets you a beer, both of which run at $5 on their own typically. Plus, you can feel like you earned your local beer after burning a few calories in the Exude class.

Doors open at 10:30 a.m. for the class, which starts promptly at 10:45 a.m. and runs for an hour. The class is a bring your own mat event. Future Bakasana & Beer events are scheduled for May 2 and 16.

ABC News catches up with Adam Smith, the Tucson CFO who destroyed his career after harassing a Chick-fil-A drive-thru worker over the company's financial support of organizations that oppose gay rights. From the report:

Things haven't gone too well for the former CFO who criticized Chick-fil-A in a video he posted on YouTu A former CFO is now on food stamps after a video he posted on YouTube two and half years ago criticizing Chick-Fil-A went viral and destroyed his career.

Adam Smith, 37, was the CFO of a medical device manufacturer in Arizona, until the summer 2012, when he — and thousands of other people — started protesting against Chick-Fil-A for the fast-food chain's anti-gay stance.

One day, Smith decided to go through the drive-thru at his local Chick-Fil-A, where he ordered a free water — the fast food chain offers customers free water — and videotaped himself telling the drive-thru attendant how much he despised Chick-Fil-A.

"Chick-Fil-A is a hateful corporation," Smith said, in part, to the drive-thru attendant. "I don't know how you live with yourself and work here. I don't understand it. This is a horrible corporation with horrible values. You deserve better."

Smith then posted the video on his personal YouTube channel, but when he got back to work, he received a major shock.

"I got into work and the receptionist, the first thing, big eyes, 'Adam, what did you do?' ... she said, 'The voicemail is completely full, and it's full of bomb threats,'" Smith said in an exclusive interview with ABC News' "20/20."

Are you into standup comedy, Bob's Burgers, or joy? Because Eugene Mirman—the voice of Gene on Bob's Burgers—is bringing his act to Old Tucson. The tickets are free, you just have to let them know which of Mirman's two April 10 shows you'd like to attend.  

Mirman's bio: 

Eugene Mirman is the voice of "Gene" on FOX's Emmy-Award winning animated series Bob's Burgers. As a child he inspired millions, but I'd rather not say how (fine - he was the doctor who operated on Ronald Reagan after he was shot.) Just a few days ago, several employees at his local Staples recognized him as comedian/mobster Yvgeny Mirminsky from Adult Swim's Delocated. He also played Eugene, the landlord, on Flight of the Conchords, Dr. Eugene Mirman on Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Eugene, the Russian foreign exchange student, on Home Movies. He does not insist on his characters having some version of his real name, but is comfortable with it. Oh yeah, On Archer he voiced Cecil Tunt, whose name isn't rooted in Eugene, but was drawn to look like him. Mr. Mirman has recorded two comedy specials for Comedy Central and released around four albums. At the age of four his family immigrated from Russia and escaped communism (an ideology you foolishly romanticize). He grew up in Lexington, MA and in 1983 was blamed by classmates for shooting down Korean Airlines flight 007 (which he did not do). Eugene was named Best New York City Comedian by the Village Voice and one of the 10 best comedians of the last decade by Paste Magazine. He has released three comedy albums (the last two on Sub Pop records) and an incredibly funny parody-ish self-help book, The Will to Whatevs. Named by Rolling Stone as a "Hot Twitterer," Eugene also keeps his over 350k followers entertained daily.

Tucson People just released their second video in a series of four featuring Arizona artists. This time Tucson's Steff and the Articles perform their jazzy "Call You Mine" at St. Cecilia Studios. 

The T-Town Sessions, headed by videographer Abril Castillo, aim to showcase local music by using professional video and recording equipment, including Cloud Microphones. In a previous interview with The Range, Castillo said the series aims to be a little bit like the Tiny Desk Concerts put on by NPR, but focused on Arizona music.

"The idea is to expose and show everyone around the world what Tucson is doing," Castillo said. "We want to have a documentary about what is happening in the music scene in Tucson and in Arizona."

The first T-Town Sessions video features The Mission Creeps performing "Severin." Castillo will also be releasing videos featuring Dutch Holly and the Gabriel Ayala Quintet. After that, Tucson People will be searching for the next four bands to feature in the second series.

So, without further ado, here's Steff and the Articles' T-Town Session:

Back in 1923, an eccentric chap named George Phar Legler decided to build a fantasyland on scrub desert near the Rillito River. Ten years and thousands of stones later, his Valley of the Moon—inspired by the then-popular Spiritualism movement—opened as a quirky crescendo of serpentine paths, towering grottos, and a “wizard tower” high atop the rocky ramparts.

Calling himself the Old Mountain Gnome, Legler wandered his beguiling garden up through the mid-1960s, entertaining local families with lithe tales of magical hijinks. But today, folks hoping to preserve this clever outpost have run smack into the fact that City Hall is no enchanted forest, and even nimble fairies can get tangled in red tape.

One of the first things I noticed about Tucson's food and beverage scene was a somewhat prevailing mentality of not needing or wanting to be recognized. I'd ask folks in the industry around town just how it was that Tucson isn't a bigger deal nationally and at least statewide. That line of questioning was typically met with shrugs and a sentiment that felt a lot like "maybe we don't want to get big."

Whether that's true, it's beginning to look like the issue might lie more in the rest of the state and its modes of culinary recognition. Understandably, you can't expect someone in the biz to care too much about something that ignores their strides time and time again just because driving an hour and a half takes an hour and a half. Although the Arizona Foodist Awards finalists did include at least one Tucson-area nomination for most categories this year, that step in the right direction isn't really enough.

The announcement of the Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame inductees for this year took that step right back by inducting, yet agin, only Phoenix-area food and beverage professionals. I'm not saying Tucson should be recognized as a hand out just to ensure inclusion, but I also find it really irksome that Tucson has been largely ignored by the ACHoF for over a decade (unless you count Sam Fox and his empire of upscale, but casual New American joints). That's to say Phoenix has had better entrants in every category for over a decade essentially and I don't buy it.

After all, can you even keep calling yourself the Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame if you fail to represent anything south of Riggs Road? Is there some sort of legal precedent for this?

That's not to say the inductees this year didn't deserve to be recognized. It's just unfortunately beginning to look more and more like an unbreakable trend where one part of the state gets all of the credit for carrying the culinary torch—and it just isn't true.

Listen up, Phoenix: If you can make the drive to Gilbert to hit up Joe Johnston's restaurants, you're pretty much halfway to Tucson anyway. Overlooking Tucson makes these awards look silly and it's time for a change. If you're still not ready to head south, I suggest calling it the Scottsdale Culinary Hall of Fame since the ACHoF awards come from the Scottsdale Culinary Festival anyway.

And to Tucson: Keep doing what you're doing. It's great and we can just start our own awards if we need to. Best of Tucson is right around the corner, after all.

For now, I leave you all with this:

The members of Wisconsin sextet PHOX set a no-compromise policy when recording their debut album.

Any and all elements of jazz, folk, pop, soul and rock that had developed since the band got together in 2011 in the small town of Baraboo were to be incorporated into the overall PHOX sound.

“Every time I’ve been in a band and put a record, at some point in the process of creating the record, we decided to cull and condense everything and go with one of these sounds and let’s not confuse anyone,” says guitarist Matthew Holmen. “With this one, we figured let’s be completely true to what we’ve been up to that point, and make a version of the record that’s unfiltered and didn’t have any compromises.”

The self-titled “PHOX,” released last June on Partisan records, accomplished those goals and more. It’s a record of surprising variety, depth and nuance, led by the single “Slow Motion” (one of Paste Magazine’s top-10 songs of 2014) and star-in-the-making frontwoman Monica Martin’s captivating and soulful vocals.

In fact, it was convincing Martin of her own talents that was the push PHOX needed.