

Shameless self-promotion alert! I will be a guest on the The World Famous Frank Show tomorrow at approximately 7:30 a.m. I will be discussing the Weekly's 100 Essential Dishes list with the fellas, and hopefully talking Frank out of the drive through bit.
If anyone is awake at that hour, considering the whole city will be celebrating our Sweet 16 Victory (or god forbid, drowning our sorrows of a loss), tune in and catch my ever so charming nervous sta-sta-stutter and constant stream of "umms" and "uhhs".
Go Cats!!!
Tags: 100 essential dishes , food , Tucson Weekly , Noshing Around , The World Famous Frank Show , ball breaking , I hope I don;t make an ass out of myself
A construction worker stands on the edge of a balcony to escape the blaze that is consuming the top floor of the apartment complex he was working on this morning in Houston, Texas near the AIG campus.
"He can't get out," said spectator in the office across the street watching the man search for possible ways to escape the nearly flames.
"O.M.G.," said one woman with a heavy Texan accent at the start of the video who sounded responsible for the footage based on the sound of her proximity to the cellphone microphone.
The worker is forced to making a daring leap to the balcony below as the flames drew closer and the heat from the fire became to much to bear.
Debris engulfed in flames from the top floor falls down just missing the ladder as the Houston Fire Department rushes to rescue the man from the floor below.
No injuries were reported but the five-alarm fire took over two hours and 70 fire department vehicles to get it under control.
Tags: fire , rescue , escape , Houston , apartment , POV , video , Video
Speaking the truth in love, according to Pat Robertson, is the best way to deal with someone who just doesn't want to be proselytized, but maybe, just maybe, the person is rejecting Jesus because of deeper reasons.
The 700 Club host tossed out that the person asking for advice might be dealing with something that's demonic or ... "It's something beyond normal human experience, something has happened and she associates God—maybe she had an abusive father, somebody who raped her and then acted like he was preaching to her from the Bible ..."
Yeah, maybe that happened.
Tags: 700 Club , Pat Robertson , proselytizer rejected because of demonic possession or abuse or ... , Video
FACT: A human baby is stolen by a hawk once an hour. #DSTakeover
— Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) March 18, 2014In what probably seemed like a good idea at the time, on Tuesday, the NBA's Atlanta Hawks turned over their Twitter account to Deadspin.com's Drew Magary. PR stunts like this sort of make you wonder if anyone in the Hawks organization thought about the consequences of their actions at any time after the bong session where it originated - after all, Magary's most famous feature for Deadspin is titled the "Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo" - but hey, it was only way day and who the hell cares about the Hawks right now anyhow? (They currently hold the last playoff spot in the dismal Eastern Conference, currently set to likely get annihilated by the Indiana Pacers in the first round.)
However, the comedy gold of Magary's Twitter takeover (renaming the team the Death Hawks, tying imaginary giveaways to metal albums, etc.) made me think that we at the Tucson Weekly could provide a similar service to some local organization or business. Of course, we would allow you, local person running a Twitter account, the opportunity create a few guidelines so you can keep your job when the day is over, but otherwise, it's Dan and Henry running wild, hashtagging like crazy (or something like that).
Let us know which of you suckers lucky people would like to get the Weekly Twitter treatment.
Tags: tucson weekly twitter takeover , #badidea , henry barajas , tucson weekly twitter , @tucsonweekly
An '80s flashback from ABC's Kids Are People Too, and once upon a time Patti Smith was a guest and she sang "You Light Up My Life," and the world was better for it. But remember, it was the '80s.
Tags: '80s flashback , Kids Are People Too , Patti Smith , "You Light Up My Life , " , Video
"Republican votes like a Republican!" That's no more newsworthy than "Democrat votes like a Democrat!" or "Water runs downhill!" But when a Republican like Ethan Orr wears his moderate credentials as a badge of courage, then he votes with the NRA and the school privatization/voucher crowd, that deserves to make the news.
Orr is the sole Republican legislator in Legislative District 9, which stretches from mid-Tucson through the Foothills to Avra Valley and is one of Arizona's few swing districts. He's a nice, sensitive, even kinda lovable guy, and sometimes he defies his Republican colleagues. So some Democrats and progressive-leaning Independents in the LD like him. But the NRA likes him even more, courtesy of his votes on making guns more a part of Arizona life than they are already. And his votes on education . . . well, when I heard him talk about education on the campaign trail, he adopted the proper "I love children and I'm for education" tilt of the head, but he steered clear of specifics, and his votes show why.
Here are a couple of Orr's latest votes.
He sided with the gun lobby on HB2339, which allows guns in more public places.
HB 2339, approved on a 34-22 vote and sent to the Senate, says anyone who has gone through the state-required training and background check to have what’s called a CCW permit can ignore the “no guns” signs, whether or not there are lockers available.
He voted for that bill not once but twice: in the Judiciary Committee in February, then again last Wednesday, March 12, on the House floor. Victoria Steele, the Democratic House member from LD-9, voted No.
Tags: Ethan Orr , gun legislation , vouchers , voucher legislation , education
Thankfully, the world is focusing their efforts on another news station for its eye opening coverage and forgotten all about Paul Cicala's fall. Denver’s Fox affiliate KDVR was reporting the horrific helicopter crash in Seattle on Tuesday morning and accidentally flashed of a twit-dick-pic on live television. KDVR has had the video removed from Youtube, but you can catch the whole thing on Vine.
The clip will probably be removed sooner or later, but everyone on the Internet has forgotten about Vine. (NSFW Video after the break.)
Tags: Fox News Dick Pic , KDVR dick pic , who's dick pic was that? , Video
It's not everyday that one of our local news outlets makes the Internet's front page of embarrassing moments on live television section. KVOA News 4 reporter Paul Cicala decided to "speed walk" towards the MGM Grand Garden Arena after signing-off on Friday afternoon, but Cicala tripped and fell while the feed was still live.
At least Cicala is a good sport and enjoying his 15 minutes of fame:
I'm not surprised that Tom McNamara, former member of Baseball Fury, didn't laugh at his colleague's epic fail. T.J. McNamara is a pro, y'all.
Tags: Paul Cicala , KVOA News 4 reporter Paul Cicala , Paul Cicala fall , Tom McNamara , T.J. McNamara is a pro , the warriors , Video

In case you don't feel like spending your time reading Doug MacEachern's Sunday column for the Arizona Republic entitled "Tucson, where bad fiscal ideas thrive", here's a quick summary:
• Speedway is ugly.
• There's a lot of traffic in Tucson, but not all that many cars and nowhere to go, so that's weird.
• Rio Nuevo! That was crazy, right?
• TUSD sucks.
• Mexican American Studies sucks.
• The Cesar Chavez holiday was a bad idea and involved brainwashed students.
The last three are not particularly surprising points from MacEachern, who has used his space in the Republic to bash TUSD and Ethnic Studies on a number of occasions, but gosh, that one about Speedway really stings. Thank goodness we have Phoenix and all their beautiful thoroughfares. I used to drive down Jefferson Ave. in Phoenix to get to work everyday and I always thought it reminded me a bit of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, except, you know, more visually appealing.
Thankfully, if nothing else, the column's comment section allows residents of Pima County who hate themselves and their choices to vent, including this gem from Thomas S. Hunt, who works in commercial real estate here in town:

At least we know that the wealthy people aren't the problem...if only we could get all those pesky poor people south of River on board. But then again, if Tucson could get its shit together, Doug MacEachern wouldn't have an easy, go-to column to write when he's out of ideas.
Tags: Doug MacEachern , tucson sucks , the self-loathing of wealthy tucsonans , arizona republic , Doug MacEachern tucson
One of the benefits of writing for the Tucson Weekly is working with a new group of interns every semester. Last year, working with UA journalism senior Noelle Haro-Gomez was, well, like working with family. I've gotten to know other interns over the years and watched them go on to do amazing work for us and other publications. However, Haro-Gomez is one of those students who is a hard worker in and out of the classroom, so it's easy to share her GoFundMe campaign with you.
Haro-Gomez was recently accepted to take part in the VII Student Program in Cambodia this summer. Led by VII photojournalists Gary Knight and Anastasia Taylor-Lind, the program will provide Haro-Gomez with an experience that will undoubtedly shape her life and work to come. She should be proud that she got accepted, but paying for this experience is another challenge altogether.
Tags: Noelle Haro-Gomez , GoFundMe , Tucson , VII Student Program , Cambodia , Gary Knight , Anastasia Taylor-Lind , Public Opinion , Chambersburg , Penn. , support a hard worker