While interest in the NCAA men's basketball tournament around these parts might be at a nadir right now (NIT fever! Catch it!), when you're inevitably discussion the intricacies of your bracket at the office later this week, it might help if you actually know where some of these schools are. Test your knowledge of colleges and universities you will likely forget the existence of by May with Mental Floss' "Where Is That School?" quiz. Full disclosure: I was tripped up by Creighton and Loyola for a score of 82%, but I'm ok with that. I knew that Creighton's in the middle there somewhere and that I think they have degrees available in Pet Grooming and TV/VCR Repair...that's good enough for me.

Don't worry, they've worked out their issues, according to Shandling's Twitter feed today. Thank goodness. I'd hate to think the creator of the Larry Sanders Show and a plush university mascot have unresolved conflict.

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A handy new Twitter feed: @Translating_Al, which helps you better understand what's really going on in the mind of Sen. Al Melvin.

The Southern Arizona Mustang Club, which claims to be the “oldest Mustang Club in the world”, will host their “Fords on Fourth” show this Sunday. Fords of all kinds will be displayed on three closed-off blocks of Fourth Avenue between Sixth Street and University Boulevard. The event also features the bagpipe group “Tucson and District Pipeband” and the Catalina High School Color Guard. The event benefits the Blake Foundation and the El Rio Healthcare Foundation, so if you're into cars and helping the community, what else are you going to do on Sunday?

For more information, visit www.southernarizonamustangclub.org or www.fourthavenue.org

The free event is Sunday, March 4, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Joad Cressbeckler: Immigrants Who Survive Arizona Desert Deserve Citizenship

I don't know what Joad Cressbeckler is saying, but I imagine his opinions resonate with at least half of our legislature.

[A note from Dan Gibson: A month or so ago, I thought it would be interesting to let some of our more opinionated commenters have their turn posting on The Range. After all, in the words of today's participant, he's "only 16 and [he] can write a heck of a lot better than Gibson." So, here goes, completely unedited.]

BASIS SCHOOLS, NOT A BREEDING GROUND FOR ELITIST SNOBS

I am a student attending BASIS Oro Valley, a school often seen as a training facility for mindless drones that produces elitist breed individuals. Over the course of my time attending BASIS, the school has made it very clear that it wants all of its students to succeed and attend established facilities of higher learning. In fact, BASIS makes it their personal mission to see that all of their students have the chance to attend places of high academic scholarship. I can see how some view BASIS as an evil corporation that manufactures these overzealous individuals that serve the elite class. However, much of this ill will that many people have towards BASIS is a classic superficial, hasty generalization based off of social stereotypes that are formulated from hearsay. To really understand what BASIS is all about, one should visit and experience the environment the school presents. I will not lie, BASIS does have some incredible students of very high caliber, but it is not these few, select students who represent the true spirit of the school. During my first year at BASIS, the 9th grade English teacher told my class that if we want something, it's up to us to go out and get it; if we really want it, we will do anything to achieve it and that we are the only ones that can attain what we want. It wasn't until my second year that I really understood what he meant when he told my class how only we can go out and reach what it is that we aspire to have. I realized that BASIS isn't trying to make brutish highbrow young adults, but instead, determined, distinctive characters that will do anything to go out and seize what they want. It is these students, not the already successful students, the ones that push to succeed that highlight the true purpose and meaning of BASIS. Personally, I am not the most successful and model student that people would think of when they imagine BASIS. I have my strengths and weakness like many of my peers and like those who attend public school. But, what separates my fellow students and me from those students of other schools is our culture of a persistent attitude and longing to go out and make something for ourselves despite any perceived obstacles. While not all students that are in the public school system are plagued with a lack of dedication and drive, it is certainly a culture condoned by the schools in the public system, because of the minimum standards they set for achievement. I personally believe that it is this cultural resolution of the students of BASIS schools to go out and win something for themselves that shows the true spirit and purpose of BASIS, not to simply create mindless drones that can't think, act, or function in the world.

Andrew Wilford is a high school sophomore, attending BASIS Oro Valley.

• Art box and photo Ryn Gargulinski
• Front bottom of Gretel, a new TW art box

But who needs Times Square billboards when we got the Tucson Weekly Art Box Project.

Now in its second go-around, the Tucson Weekly Art Box Project consists of transforming the plain red, metal newspaper boxes into veritable works of art. Artists are allowed to use any medium they wish to create any design they wish, although we were duly warned that boxes that end up with nudity or profanity will get stuck in a “less desirable” location.

“Is that a Tucson Weekly newspaper box in those weeds behind the saguaro?”

Just in time for Valentine's Day, The Range received a letter by the world's greatest lover himself: Don Juan DeMarco. Not only does the letter speak of his romanticism, but was also accompanied by a felt mask and dozens of colorful paper hearts that nearly spilled out all over our desk. His valentine to us:

Denying your own true feelings is like colorful hearts falling to the ground all around you. My name I Don Juan DeMarco and I can no longer hide who I truly am. I am flattered that Hollywood has tried to portray my persona, but I am the World’s Greatest Lover! Of course, I speak not of flesh and bone, for that in time will only fade away; I speak of the heart that only stays “Forever You.”

Some may say that romantics are nothing more than people immersed in a fantastic world full of illusion. But only very few men come to realize throughout time that displaying a man’s true feelings and concern for others is as masculine as one can be. This emotion has driven man to stand and fight for what is right and has kept chivalry alive to this very day! Woman cannot resist its aroma and men are drawn to its power! At night, I sneak out with my guitar, singing love songs, touching woman’s most intimate part-their soul.

My desire, you ask? It is that I may inspire woman to know and understand that they are all beautiful and deserve to be treated with kindness, fairness, and respect! I care not that other men scoff at me when dressed in my exotic apparel, for it is them I speak about, and it is with them that I have made my quarrel. In my adventures, I have made love to many woman, helped damsels in distress, thrown my cape over muddy waters so that woman could pass over, and even helped elderly ladies cross the street. If we are to live in a beautiful world, we must be true to each other. To love one another for more than just the body, but for the mind and soul as well, that we may experience love it its fullest exploding pleasure and extent. I leave you now with just a taste in your mouth of my world, and if you ever have the courage to seize the moment, to take the chance, to be a romantic at heart, and to breath life in the way it’s supposed to be, then I leave you…

THE MASK

P.S. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Ok, this is a year old, but it's still amusing. When will a Tucson club get its own coked-up Gremlin named Gizblow?

A new oxygen bar and tea room called Breathe, Drink & Design has opened at 416 N. Seventh Ave. St., right down the street from Che's Lounge. The place serves tea and oxygen for two for $20, and the oxygen is apparently infused with various scents. Facebook tells us more:

Our O2, or in lay-man's terms, "Oxygen", is derived from a very special and rare part of our planet that we like to call "The Atmosphere." Using complicated machinery handed down to us from ancient, yet technologically-advanced race of Space-Mayans (basically Mayans that became astronauts and come back to Earth every so often. Ironically, they might be the origin for the Quetzalcoatl myth, but that's a story for another time...). So, anyway, they gave us this machinery that allows us to harness the atmosphere and draw in it's precious O2 and use it for evil, capitalistic reasons... I mean, pleasant, altruistic reasons. Yeah... that's it... they're buying it... move on... *AHEM* So, as I was saying, we infuse delicious and soothing scents into the O2. The infused O2 then travels into your nose-holes (technical term) and into your brain making you feel "all sorts of good." Do that for anywhere between 10 and 20 minutes and you are solid. Good to go.

A friend of mine started one of these places in Flagstaff like a decade ago, and although the business was short-lived he swore by the effects of the oxygen.