If you've ever wondered just how Joe Pagac paints those murals outside of Rialto Theatre, wonder no longer. The muralist just posted his most recent wall transformation in a time lapse video on YouTube. Be warned, though— once you start watching, you may not be able to stop.

The mural itself is promoting Chicha Dust's glow-in-the dark Tropidelica cumbia party on New Year's Eve and The English Beat's show on Friday, Jan. 9. As far as promoting shows go and just advertising in general, this is probably the least obtrusive way to do it. 

Anyways, without further ado, here's the video:

You might think it's a little bit early to start planning what you're doing on Friday, Dec. 19, but hear me out. The Party for MOCA is that night and you'll want to hop on the event train now so you can get your raffle tickets for your chance to snag a hand-embellished jean jacket by local people of import such as Sofie and Howe Gelb, Dave Sayre, Erin Bradley, Gabriel Sullivan, The Taylors, Darren Clark, Tom Walbank, Lesli Wood, and Mellow Lund.

Raffle tickets for the jackets are $10 each or three for $25. Four of the nine jackets have raffle tickets that are currently available and can be purchased online in advance according to the jacket you hope to win.

The event will also feature several other art pieces for purchase with 50% of proceeds going to the MOCA and the other 50% going to the artist. Featured artists include Michael Berman, Jeff Smith, Isaiah Toothtaker, Patrick Foley, Henny Garfunkel, Harvey Wang, Ojal Streeling, Hong Kong Fluids, AKERS, and Clif Taylor.

Aside from the art sale, DJs Alix Perry and Alice Wilsey will be playing records and refreshments will be provided at the event.

If you're interested in snatching up some killer local art, plan on going to the MOCA benefit party and art sale on Dec. 19 from 7 until 10 p.m. The event will take place at BRINK's Super Marketing spot at 1100 S. Sixth Avenue. Until then, buy a few raffle tickets so you can get a rad new one-of-a-kind denim jacket.

If you haven’t followed RuPaul’s Drag Race in the past, you probably hate entertainment or you have yet to realize the error of your ways. No worries, though, the multi-faceted talent competition is coming back and this time we all have a local queen to cheer on.

The show’s network, Logo TV, announced a full list of all of season seven’s contestants, and Tucson’s Tempest DuJour is on the show. Their bio of DuJour notes that, “married with two children, Tempest mixes maternal instinct with campy kitschy humor… a perfect storm to take the crown.” Here's hoping.

You can learn more about your new favorite drag queen, Tempest DuJour, by reading our profile of the rising star from last year. The new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race airs on Logo TV in January 2015.

Passing by the intersection of Sixth Street and Stone Avenue, you may have noticed recently that a mysterious sign went up advertising the "Solomon P. Guggenheim Art Museum" coming to the corner Fall 2017. While that would be really great news if it were true, something seems off about the whole thing.

First of all, I'm not a fine arts savant, but all of the other Guggenheims are either named after Solomon R. (which stands for Robert) or Peggy (his niece), no Solomon P. as of now. It's safe to assume a foundation as prestigious as this would get their namesake's middle initial correct.

Secondly, there's no mention of any plans of a Tucson-area Guggenheim on the seemingly well maintained foundation website. After all, the press folks had time to release a statement on Monday, Dec. 8 that the New York museum would be open New Year's Day so one would logically guess they would have also mentioned a new branch of the museum in the works— seems press release worthy to me.

Last, but not least, the sign has a (somewhat poorly) Photoshopped Tucson Weekly cover proclaiming the museum's eventual existence. Needless to say, we didn't ever write that, but we are flattered to be included in whatever weird hoax this is shaping up to be.

So now here it is: I'm looking for the sign maker(s) to come clean and tell me the real story. I even tried knocking on the door of the building at 503 N. Stone Avenue, but nobody answered and it looked pretty boarded up. Your move, person, e-mail me at [email protected].

The Arizona State Library has become a go-to digital source for Arizona history, lore and legend. Its new Digital Arizona Library contains over 500 old and new books, pamphlets, databases and timelines related to Arizona. You can simply go to the site, find something you want and read it online, or you can sign up and get some added features.

For instance, go to Reading Arizona and choose from 12 categories, like "Arizona Cities and Towns: A Historical Collection," "Native Americans of Arizona: A Historical Collection," "University Presses: A Reading Arizona Collection" and "Poisoned Pen Press: A Reading Arizona Collection."

You'll find seven books and pamphlets relating to Tucson, like "Arizona: The Wonderful Country, Tucson its Metropolis," dating from 1881. Most of the material on Native Americans is old and written by Anglos, though the 1906 book, "Geronimo's Story of His Life" says it's Geronimo's words "Taken down and edited by S. M. Barrett."

The "Current Issues" section includes the 2014 "Aztlan Arizona: Mexican American Educational Empowerment, 1968-1978" and the 2012 "Innocent Until Interrogated: The True Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four." If you're up for Arizona-based mysteries, you'll find the David Mapstone Mysteries by Jon Talton, the Lena Jones Mysteries by Betty Web and The Drive Saga by James Sallis.

Not for everyone, but for the interested dabbler or the serious researcher, there's a lot to chew on.

If you’re looking to take part in one of Tucson’s most endearingly festive annual events, the Downtown Parade of Lights is currently accepting float submissions.

Now in its 20th year, the holiday parade has a long and bright history in town of getting people together to look at a locally made light show. If you’re ready to put on your best Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen costumes, get the old Polka band back together, and cover your truck in as many lights as you possibly can, you should probably sign up to be in the parade this year.

Entry for float makers is $35 this year with possible cash prizes if your submission wows including $500 for the best in show and $250 for the best musical group. All those planning on entering must do so online by Friday, December 5.

The Downtown Parade of Lights will brighten up the streets of Armory Park starting at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 20. The event is free to attend.

This weekend, The Tucson Museum of Art will be hosting its annual Holiday Artisans Market, featuring more than 100 local artists selling their wares in the museum's courtyard. For hours and details, click here.

The market will be open Friday through Sunday—and as a special bonus, Saturday is this year's opening of El Nacimiento, the museum's extraordinary nativity display.

This weekend is the final curtain for Cholla High Magnet School's production of "The Arab-Israeli Cookbook," a play by Robin Soans that was directed by Cholla's theater director Julian Martinez and produced in partnership with the Qatar Foundation International.

The cookbook as play translates the first-person interviews that bring together views from Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Israeli settlements with a discussion of social issues, violence and family.

Tickets are $10 and performances are tonight, Thursday, Nov. 13, continuing Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m. at Cholla High Magnet School, 2001 W. Starr Pass. For more info, call 225-4161.

We know it's a big night on Saturday, what with that homecoming game between Arizona and Colorado, but if you're not watching the game somewhere, consider popping by Etherton Gallery for the opening reception for Land Exposures: Jamey Stillings, Richard Laugharn, David Emitt Adams with Chris Colville. I got an early look at the show last night; it's a extraordinary collection of photography (not that we've expect anything less from Etherton). Stallings' images of solar power plants in the Mojave Desert, in particular, are terrific—he has taken landscape photos from a helicopter that will astound you.

The reception is from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Stop on by if you're out and about downtown.

Here's a note about the photographers from Etherton:

Etherton Gallery is hosting a new show, Land Exposures, that highlights a new way of looking at landscape photography. From Etherton's description of the show:

In Etherton Gallery’s newest exhibition, Land Exposures, three contemporary photographers redefine the traditional genre of landscape photography. David Emitt Adams, Richard Laugharn and Jamey Stillings open up a new frontier in landscape photography, advancing the medium in exciting new directions. An installation of photographer Chris Colville’s photographs from the series Works of Fire will be on display in Etherton’s in-house pop-up gallery. Land Exposures opens Saturday, November 8, 2014 with an artist reception from 7 to 10pm. The show runs through January 3, 2014.

Here's a TED Talk by one of the photographers in the show, Jamey Stillings, who has done extraordinary work with New Mexico's massive solar arrays.

Stillings will on hand for a panel discussion on renewable energy challenges from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6. Here's how Etherton describes the upcoming event:

Etherton Gallery and photographer Jamey Stillings are pleased to host a panel discussion at 6-7:30pm, on Thursday, November 6, in conjunction with its new exhibition, Land Exposures, featuring Stillings, David Emitt Adams and Richard Laugharn. Stillings has photographed the largest solar energy generating plant in the world, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System which is out in the Mojave Desert. Work from the series has been featured in the NYT magazine, the Wall St. Journal, Smithsonian and a number of other publications. Stillings is an articulate spokesman about the issues that have arisen as a result of the large-scale implementation of alternative energy. The Ivanpah plant has over 300,000 mirrors which reflect light to boilers that sit atop three, 40-story towers. The sunlight strikes the boilers’ pipes to create superheated steam that is piped to turbines where electricity is generated. Ivanpah takes up about five square miles and provides electricity for about 140,000 homes. However, it has come under fire for its adverse impact to local wildlife. As Southern Arizona becomes a hub for alternative energy, the needs of the community, endangered wildlife and the green energy movement will likely come into conflict. The panel discussion promises to begin a dialogue on some of these issues.

The panel features Kevin Koch, owner of Technicians for Sustainability, a solar energy company with a mission to help businesses, public institutions, and homeowners; John Shepard, a Senior Adviser at the Sonoran Institute, who is currently leading the Institute’s efforts to appropriately site utility-scale solar projects in Arizona and more effectively integrate local land-use policies and water management in the Colorado River basin; and Brian Wheelwright, PhD Candidate in the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, who is adapting telescope manufacturing technologies to produce cheap dish mirrors for solar concentration, with the goal of producing low-cost solar energy.

Below the cut: Details of the photographers as provided by Etherton: