The Internet's beloved Jennifer Lawrence has been gracing late night talk shows with her presence to promote the latest  film opening soon. The 23-year-old actor shared drunken stories from her last Oscar appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. Lawrences admits to getting so drunk she puked on some rich person's balcony, and she felt Miley Cyrus passing judgement behind her. 

Cyrus responded on Twitter and said that never happened, but deleted the tweet. Maybe the blue mutant was exaggerating or she mistook the pop sensation for someone else? We still love you even if you might have stretched the truth, Jennifer.


We just don't want your drinking to get out of hand.

Associated Blog Editor Scott Stanley rounded up four of the local reporters to talk about the ever changing local media in the Old Pueblo at Colab in the downtown Pioneer Building on Wednesday, April 25. The panel consisted of Arizona Daily Star's columnist Tim Steller, Tucson Sentinel mastermind Dylan Smith, our very own Mari Herreras and myself. Surprisingly, the room was packed! There were Weekly and Star reporters in the crowd. Tucson Velo's Michael McKisson asked some hard hitting questions. I had a blast, and it was an honor to share my limited knowledge.

Here's the full audio from the exciting journalism talk and top notch hecklers:

Today, it was announced in a meeting that Wick Communications, the company that has owned the Tucson Weekly since 2000, has sold it (along with Inside Tucson Business) to 10/13 Communications, the owner of The Explorer, the East Valley Tribune and other publications.

In the words of the press release I was handed, "Terms of the transaction were not announced."

According to the Canada-based Get Real organization, they're "a university-student run non-profit that speaks to high school students about unlearning homophobia and embracing everyone."

And that's cool and all, and the video making its way into our internet hearts is nice, too, but it wasn't that long ago (almost 30 years, when I was in college at the UA), that gay men were getting blackballed from their fraternities based on the frat's founding policies.

Have those policies changed? I'd love to know, because to me, that's better than a video. Or maybe changes in homophobic policy that caused pain to young men on our campus not long ago is a secret—like the handshakes, or maybe they haven't changed much at all.

It’s no longer The Truth. It’s no longer “Right Talk for Tucson.” But it is more local, and it will hope to use that local appeal to improve its standing against the nation’s top talker.

KQTH 104.1 FM, the market’s lone news/talk FM, will on Monday follow the lead of stations in other cities and move its best known talent out of morning drive in hopes a local presence will cut into KNST AM 790’s mid-day talk advantage with Rush Limbaugh. Jon Justice, who has locked down KQTH’s more traditional morning talk slot since its launch seven years ago, will broadcast his program from 8:30 to noon weekdays.

Limbaugh dominates other syndicated talk programs, but has experienced ratings lags in some markets that have countered with local programming. On the surface, it’s a counterintuitive move. The thought has been putting the station’s most listened to element in morning drive, but whereas morning drive—the roughly 5:30 to 9 window when people prepare for work—has been radio’s traditional hotspot, of late that has applied more to music based formats than the talk model.

To my recollection, this is the first effort a Tucson talk station has made to go with live, local programming in middays opposite Limbaugh.

In place of Justice in morning drive, 104.1 will add a news block hosted by Program Director Bill White. The news block, a series of reports that generally includes national, state and local news, weather, sports and traffic, also features opportunities for the host to chat about the day’s topics of note before returning to the next block of headlines.

The news block is generally fast-paced, and if done well, times nicely with listener driving habits, which tend to average in the neighborhood of 20 minutes in Tucson. It’s also a format that has been dreadfully underrepresented in this market, largely the result of cutbacks.

So, James Franco was caught trying to meet with a 17-year-old Scottish tourist he met on Instagram earlier this week. The two made a connection when the lassie posted a video of the Spider-Man star on her Instagram account, and started exchanging (desperate) messages that were published on the Internet for the whole world to see. The 35-year-old movie star was guest on the Kelly and Michael Show to promote his latest film Palo Alto when he decided to clear the air and discuss the matter.

From Daily Mail:

'It's the way that people meet each other today, but what I've learned- I guess because I'm new to it- is you don't know who's on the other end,' he said.
'You get a feel for them, you don't know who you're talking to.
'I used bad judgement and I learned my lesson.'

'Unfortunately in my position, not only do I have to go through the embarrassing rituals of meeting someone, but if I do that, then it gets published for the world so it's doubly embarrassing,' he said.

The age of consent is 17 years old, so technically Franco wasn't doing anything wrong. In the future, Franco should stay away from Tinder (or writing about Tinder) and OKCupid to avoid getting into anymore awkward situations. The online dating world is a scary place, and no one is safe.

When we did a story on Target employees and employee-discrimination allegations back in 2010, ill-will against the Minneapolis-based company surfaced that went against the retail conglomerate's efforts to seem like it worked on the kinder-side of corporate: the anti-WalMart. But every once in a while, someone will leak the ever-interesting Target employee training videos.

The latest is on those pesky factions that look after worker's rights: unions. Look, new Target employee, don't take the candy from the friendly-faced union organizer, and don't talk to them. They are not your friends. Yeah, a stranger-danger video for employees that's beyond the cheese-factor they liked so much in Salon.com as part of a "modern makeover." Nah, just the same old.

Tesla and Tucson would make a good couple. Unfortunately, the electric car company is the pretty girl at the prom and Reno might hit the jackpot. Our sister periodical Inside Tucson Business has been all over this story like fruit flies on the banana in my kitchen.

According to Phoenix Business Journal:

Northern Nevada is the front runner to land Tesla Motors’ $5 billion electric battery factory, though the California automaker is still talking to Texas, Arizona and New Mexico officials about incentive packages for the 1,000-acre site selection.

Multiple business and political sources in the Phoenix area say the Reno area in northern Nevada is the odds-on favorite to land the Tesla plant, which would encompass as much as 10 million square feet and employ 6,500 workers. Those officials asked not to be identified.

A story earlier in the week that looked at Arizona sites said Tesla doesn't want to be too close to a major metro and suggested the top Arizona site is near Eloy, with Phoenix's agricultural West Valley the next most likely spot.

Local innovators Maker House, Solar City and Sparc Interactive media banded together and made this short video to inspire Tesla to invest in the Rusty Pueblo. The video highlights Tucson events, talents, locals and the city's aesthetically pleasing backdrops that you can't find elsewhere.

Feast your eyes and ears:

Disclaimer: That is not a real Tesla vehicle driving around Tucson.

Stephen Colbert was under attack for a tweet that was published last Thursday by the show's Comedy Central controlled Twitter account @ColbertReport:

I'm willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever.

Colbert didn't send this tweet because he has his own: @StephenAtHome. The hashtag #CancelColbert went viral for 36 hours on Twitter. Colbert was mocking Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder and the formation of the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation, but was taken out of context and seen racially insensitive to Asians. People were calling the "conservative pundit" a racist and received coverage from countless major news outlet.

Here's his response from last night's episode:

You might have already read the Colin Boyd's Cesar Chavez film review, and you should stop what you're doing and read it now if you haven't. Boyd says the bio pic just scratches the surface of one of the most influential peaceful protesters and minds of our time. Luckily, there's text and documentaries that can fill in what the movie left out. AP posted a link of silent historic footage of Chavez and the United Farm Workers, and I'm glad Rotten Tomatoes can't rate these clips.