Start February fresh and buy locally produced food.

Here's all the Farmers Markets and Market locations for Feb. 1:

Loft Cinema Farmers' Market
3233 E. Speedway Boulevard
Saturdays, 8am-Noon
520-795-7777
loftcinema.com

Plaza Palomino Saturday Market
2960 N. Swan Road
Saturdays, 9am-1pm

Rincon Valley Farmers' Market
12500 E. Old Spanish Trail
Saturdays, 9am-2pm
520-591-2276, rvfm.org

St. Philip's Farmers' Market
4280 N. Campbell Avenue
Saturdays & Sundays
Winter Hours (Oct.-April): 9am-1pm
520-882-2157
heirloomFM.com

So, we know you like free food, but you're going to have to earn it.

Local restaurant chain eegee's issued a challenge on its Facebook page to the creative folks in Tucson. You have the chance to receive one combo meal a week for an entire year by submitting an eegee's t-shirt design. The odds are on your side because only 3 people entered since I last checked. You have two days to submit your idea and win a free solid meal for the next 365 days straight.

Congratulations. You made it to Tuesday.

We would like to reward you with some tickets to see See Arrival From Sweden tonight. You don't have to thank us, but you should thank the folks at the Rialto. We are giving away 5 pairs of tickets to see Arrival From Sweden: the Music of ABBA tonight! This is the closest thing to see the Rock and Roll Hall of fame band.

Chinese New Year Festival Teaser Trailer from Julian Ybarra on Vimeo.

If you are looking for something to do on Saturday, be sure to check out the Chinese New Year Festival at the University of Arizona's Centennial Hall.

The Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona and the Tucson Sino Choir presents a festival that boasts music, dancing, performances and martial arts (shameless self promotion).

Chinese New Year is on January 31st and it is the Year of the Horse.

CoLab Workspace, formerly known as Gangplank Tucson, is still absorbing the new-sign smell from their recent rebranding, and they'd like Tucson's young professionals and entrepreneurs to come down and celebrate with them. Good news: There'll be networking! Better news: There'll be drinks! 

The party tomorrow, Jan. 21, is part of Startup Tucson's ongoing monthly Startup Drinks events, which brings entrepreneurs, investors and techno-folks together to hang out, shoot the breeze and fill up their contact lists with people who might want to work on new ventures/give them money to work on new ventures/buy new ventures from them. They'll also be a "Startup Standup" segment as well, where entrepreneurs will be firing off one-minute elevator pitches to share what they're working on with the group.

If you're interested, head down to CoLab tomorrow night; the event is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and it's free. RSVP at StartupTucson.com.

LET THE FIRE BURN official theatrical trailer. from Jason Osder on Vimeo.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 20, get to the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd., to see Let the Fire Burn, a powerful award-winning documentary on the racist maneuvering, shooting and bombing of a Philadelphia neighborhood block by police in an attempt to end the existence of the organization MOVE. The film starts at 5 p.m. and is FREE.

From filmmakers:

In the astonishingly gripping Let the Fire Burn, director Jason Osder has crafted that rarest of cinematic objects: a found-footage film that unfurls with the tension of a great thriller. On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and controversial radical urban group MOVE came to a deadly climax. By order of local authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a MOVE-occupied rowhouse. TV cameras captured the conflagration that quickly escalated—and resulted in the tragic deaths of eleven people (including five children) and the destruction of 61 homes. It was only later discovered that authorities decided to “...let the fire burn.” Using only archival news coverage and interviews, first-time filmmaker Osder has brought to life one of the most tumultuous and largely forgotten clashes between government and citizens in modern American history.

You remember our community collectively talking about mental illness after the mass shooting on Jan. 8, 2011. You remember discussions on the need for more resources, better care and better recognition. At Our Place Clubhouse, a downtown space, part of what we said we wanted to do as a community has been happening there since the 1980s. People, your friends, family and neighbors are recovering and healing from mental illness by volunteering and regaining confidence to gain a vision for where they want to be the rest of their lives.

Last year I wrote a cover story on a writing group at Our Place led by board member Sheila Wilensky, a Tucson writer, editor and teacher. The eventual goal of the group was to put together a chapbook of the members' writing, with a focus on reflections on mental illness. Tonight you have an opportunity to celebrate the labor of these writers and the work of Our Place Clubhouse at an open house, from 5 to 7 p.m. at 66 E. Pennington St. The night, catered by Cafe 54, is a celebration and a chance to purchase the chapbook , A Certain Slant of Light: Emerging from the Shadows of Mental Illness, published by the organization. The books costs $12.95 and all proceeds benefit Our Place.

Need more reasons to go? KXCI's Amanda Shauger did a wonderful interview with Wilensky and some of the writers. You can give a listen here.

Go, buy the book, support the work of Our Place Clubhouse and celebrate what many writers know is true—writing is healing. Here's a group that offers us proof and also makes feel blessed to call these writers fellow Tucsonans. Keep in mind, as everyone in Tucson struggled to understand what took place after the Jan. 8 shooting, writers in Wilensky's group lamented on misconceptions of those with mental illness and how to challenge those perceptions.

Wilensky's explains more in her press release for the event:

Misconceptions about mental illness abound. A few weeks after the Jan. 8, 2011, Tucson shooting, an Our Place Clubhouse member asked, “What is it with people? Why do they think that anyone with a mental illness may pull out a gun anytime and indiscriminately start shooting?”

The question stuck with local writer, editor, and educator Sheila Wilensky. She is a board member of Coyote Task Force, which includes Cafe 54 and Our Place Clubhouse. The Clubhouse, says Wilensky, “is a safe place, a caring community of people in recovery from mental illness.”

In September 2012, Wilensky started the Thursday Writing Group at the Clubhouse with the intention of confronting those misconceptions and producing a chapbook to help educate the public about those misconceptions.

“A Certain Slant of Light: Emerging from the Shadows of Mental Illness” is the result of that collaboration. Five chapters from “Any Morning, or A ‘Normal Day,’” to “Take Heart, The Times They Are a-Changin’,” highlight the voices of individuals living with mental illness, and are accompanied by Wilensky’s commentary.

Here's the closest you're likely to come to leaving the planet: The big brains behind the UA's OSIRIS-REx mission are gathering names for a list that will accompany the plucky robot lab on its trip out to Asteroid Bennu and back. (More on the way-cool space mission here.)

You might have caught Parmalee's performance during yesterday's 49ers and Carolina Panthers half time show. The North Carolina country band will be in town on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress Street. We are giving away 3 pairs of tickets from now until until Jan. 22.

Email us your full name and your name will be entered in to a drawing for a pair of tickets. The winners will receive an on Jan. 22. Must have an I.D. to claim their prize.

The rest of the world is experiencing some of the coldest temperatures of the century, so Tucson has felt a little left out. Joe Pagac and Andy DePew have decided to throw a winter cabin costume party next Saturday, Jan. 18, at Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress Street.

Pagac and DePew are turning Hotel Congress in to a snow lodge for a night. There will be an oversized video fireplace, snow machines, pine forest video booth (with real trees), and holiday drink specials. It's a costume party, so we can only assume there will be a costume contest for the best hipster lumberjack couple and yada-yada.