An interesting photography-about-Warhol show in Tucson

Scott Andrew at Hearsight has a preview of a large upcoming photography show in Tucson featuring a wide variety of shots of Warhol and his world by a lot of different people. The potential for a voyeuristic hall of mirrors is lost on neither Andrews nor the organizer.

The curator, Eric Kroll, tells a story of one photo shoot at which his daughter was playing nearby. Warhol began taking pitures of her, and then …:

As was the norm for Warhol, a crowd had gathered around rows deep, and people in the crowd pulled out their own cameras, too. Soon one row of paparazzi was taking pictures of Andy taking pictures, and behind them the next row was taking pictures of people taking pictures of Andy taking pictures, and the next row took pictures of people taking pictures of people taking pictures of Andy taking pictures…

The show, titled “Warhol: From Dylan to Duchamp,” is up from Feb. 27 to April 11. Details here.

PHXations—Wednesday, February 3

The Tucson Weekly is looking for a writer to contribute to its film coverage. They need someone to write a full-length review every other week, and contribute film-capsule reviews as well. “Ideally, the reviewer would be in Tucson, and as for pay, that depends on the experience of the reviewer.” says Editor Jimmy Boegel.

Apply through mailbag@tucsonweekly.com.

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Students at the Cronkite School have formed a Hispanics journalists club, a chapter of the NAHJ. Details on a new blog here.

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Sarah Palin’s coming back to Arizona a couple of times in the next few months. In March to do a fundraiser for John McCain, and then in May for a group called Center for Arizona Policy, which is led by creepy anti-sex crusader Cathi Herrod, who’s obsessed with abortion and gays fucking.

The Espresso Pundit, who is a good barometer of the far right’s wishfulness, if not reality per se, says:

Frankly this takes some of the wind out of McCain’s sails. There are plenty people who want to see Palin but don’t want to write a check to McCain…and a CAP check is deductible. It will be interesting to compare the turnout at the two events.

Neither he nor the PBJ story on Palin answers an obvious question about Palin’s CAP appearance: Whether she’s getting her typical $100,000 speaker’s fee.

The Daily Wildcat: Boffing Editors Gone Wild!

The Tucson Weekly has a story about an internal range war at the Daily Wildcat, the U of A student newspaper. From the story and the comments, I learned that:

• Editor-in-Chief Alex Dalenberg was doing it with design director Maris Fisher—and at a journalism convention in Austin, “skipped their sessions and instead decided to spend that time having sex in a hotel room each day.”


• Managing Editor Shain Bergan and photo editor Rita Lichamer were boffing, too—Bergan even covering his desk with blankets so the two could have private time in the newsroom.


• And someone else, an alum of the paper, “nailed several girls from the newsroom. Including the EIC [editor-in-chief].”

Now all of this is the product of a heated back and forth to the TW reporter, or posted in comments, some of them anonymous. So whether the editorial staff is as randy a bunch of folks as they are portrayed is open to debate. (Bergan says the two were merely “reading books,” for example.)

It all started after Dalenberg did or did not fire Bergan after Bergan did or did not try to make the paper change an account of his arrest at a demonstration. All in all, fun reading.

A new black newspaper in Tucson

The Vanguard is being put out by the local Black Chamber of Commerce with a 1000 print run, the AZ Daily Star says. The chamber’s president, Clarence Boykins, is the publisher.

Boykins, who said he put up the initial investment to start up the Vanguard, is publisher. He tapped Tucson freelance writer and editor Theda K. Rogers to be executive editor.

Boykins picked up the first 16-page edition, printed at Territorial Publishers, Friday and called it “a great beginning.”

He said the paper aims to improve communication for blacks who are dispersed around Southern Arizona, while increasing the understanding of black culture in the larger community.