I + You = We L?ve Lola Tapas :. El Fin = TONIGHT!
As mentioned in yesterday’s Phxations. Lola Tapas is closing their doors after a 5 year run. Chef Eric Gitenstein explains why:
We used to live in a world where “word of mouth” could sustain a restaurant. Although small, Lola was very fortunate to succeed for as long as we did by this ideal.
Now our wold is different. Our merit cannot compete with larger restaurants, promoted by PR firms that constantly remind you of their presence.
This, more than ever is an era where saying, “I’ve been meaning to go there” is not enough. Intent does not save local businesses, action does. If you’ve found a local gem, support it by being a patron, otherwise we will be just a city of chains and mediocre food.
To show the communities appreciation for all that Eric, owner Felicia Ruiz and the staff at Lola Tapas have meant for Phoenix’s food and culture scene, and send off party is being held tonight with music from local DJs World Famous Rani “g” and Yiannis on Bouzouki starting at 5pm. Dr. Drea aka Drea Strickler will also stop by later in the evening.
For more information, check ou the Facebook event page.
8:55 AM
With Friends Like These...
On Friday, 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in town stumping for John McCain. While politics has always made for strange bedfellows, this may be taking the cliche to it’s extreme. After all, it was only two years ago that Romney was signing a very different tune:
Via Random Musings
Previously in PHXated:
Politico trashes John McCain’s campaign
10:46 AM
PHXations—Saturday, June 5, 2010
Were UFOs scouting Phoenix?
Nine silver, flashing objects were observed at high altitudes over the metro Phoenix area on June 1, 2010, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The first object was seen at approximately 30,000 to 40,000 feet that moved behind clouds. A second object was seen that also moved behind clouds. Then a third object was seen that moved into clouds.
Five additional objects were then seen at even high altitudes. These were viewed as dots of flashing lights moving in formation.
A ninth object seemed to be tumbling down from the sky and the moved behind clouds.
I guess they couldn’t find any intelligent life forms here… it is an election year after all. /yaa
Some journalistic scholar will some day have to figure out the behind-the-scenes magic that produces major features on the same subject in both the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Business Journal on the same Saturday morning.
They are both about ongoing Sky Train construction at Sky Harbor. The Republic story is better, in that it focuses on the details of a hundred-foot-tall overpass above a taxiway that planes will use. The PBJ story just ledes with the news that construction has reached a “fever pitch.” There’s lots of geeky details, though.
Services for Scottsdale city councilperson Tony Nelssen are being held this a.m. at West World, in Scottsdale, the PBJ says. He died May 26. The service will be outdoors, and temperatures are supposed to run far above 100 degrees today.
9:30 AM
The mural controversy in Prescott gets nastier
One of the artists now says he’s been hearing racial slurs from motorists going by.
He says exactly what slurs he’s talking about in this News 12 clip, which contains Scott Light nearly having a heart attack warning people the naughty language is coming:
At the beginning of the clip, incidentally, you can see Light and his co-anchor, Tram Mai, misidentified on the screen.
8:37 AM
For Jan Brewer fans only! A Saturday morning humor reading
“Shame on you Dennis Welch and shame on you Jennifer Johnson.”
Those are the lugubrious, choked-up words of soi-disant Espresso Pundit Greg Patterson, driven nearly to tears defending the honor of Jan Brewer after she was caught lying about her father’s military record.
Welch is the Arizona Guardian reporter who quoted Brewer saying her father had died “fighting the Nazi regime in Germany.” Johnson is a state Democratic Party functionary who, like the rest of us, thinks it’s pretty cheap to try to invoke sympathy for yourself by inventing an Inglourious Basterds-style military career for your dad.
Patterson really gets going relating the noble history behind Brewer’s gaffe.
And history it is!
He begins not in medias res but, more dramatically, at the beginning:
Hitler attempts to take over the world and uses the war as cover to launch the Holocaust….
Fortunately, the Allies mobilize! But wait—back in America…
Meanwhile a guy name Wilford Drinkwine leaves a farm in the midwest and takes his family to Nevada to work in a munitions plant….
… and with an O. Henry-like twist, Drinkwine turns out to be Jan Brewer’s father!
No one would mock his death, however he died or whatever caused it. But it’s also a bit skeevy for Patterson to try to get us all worked up about Drinkwine’s death (not to mention the Holocaust) in an attempt to distract attention from what Brewer said, which was …
… that her father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany.
Previously in PHXated:
Jan Brewer is Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World”
Jan Brewer and her father: 205 stories and counting….
Brewer doubles down on her misstatements about her father’s war record
8:57 AM
Gratehouse: Saturday LTTE in the Republic about Sister Margaret McBride. OMG.
In reading most of the recent letters regarding the recent abortion decision involving Sister Margaret McBride, it appears that principles are to be disregarded if they don’t produce the desired result.
Medical treatment for both the mother and child was the correct moral principle; outright killing of either to save the other was not.
It isn’t difficult to understand the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion: taking of innocent human life is never permitted. Man did not create human life and has no jurisdiction over it. A mother’s womb should be the safest place on Earth for the unborn child.
Feeling sorry for women in difficult circumstances has led to over 40 million deaths by abortion in this country.
It is my understanding that McBride excommunicated herself by her involvement in the killing of the baby in question.
This can be readily rectified through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, as Sister knows.
The Catholic people I know all admire her past work. We pray for her, and wish her many more years of constructive work in our community. – Arthur C. Riedmann,Phoenix>
I guess the key word for Riedmann is “innocent”. Catholic teaching (at least from what I remember) allows one to kill in self defense when attacked an assailant. But because the fetus knows not what it does, too bad so sad for ladies experiencing a life-threatening pregnancy. If both you the baby die, and you leave your other children orphaned, oh well! You will die knowing you weren’t crass enough to put your life/your family above Arthur C. Riedmann’s credo of mandatory female self-immolation.
Awful nice of Riedmann to remind Sr. McBride of the mulligan available to her. She can prostrate herself before the male priests and all will be forgiven.
BTW, in case you were wondering, yes, those Catholic hospitals are the primary health care source for very many women (many of whom happen not to be observant Catholics) in the Valley.
10:41 PM
