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… Enjoy the musical comedy spoof Space Wars featuring Princess Layla and Duke Starfighter, based on the “Star Wars” movie. Details: 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 6:30 & 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 & 7 p.m. Sunday; Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. Broadway Blvd.; $17.95, $15.95 students/military; $7.95 under 12; 886-9428.
MUSIC
Thursday, July 22
• Listen to the jazz vocals of rising pop/R&B singer Crystal Rose Stark presented by the Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance and General Growth Properties. Details: 6 p.m.; Park Place Mall, 5870 E. Broadway Blvd.; free; 797-3959.
• Enjoy the international superstar Rihanna in concert at the AVA Amphitheater. Details: 7:30 p.m.; 5655 W. Valencia Rd.; $60-125; 800-344-9435.
Friday, July 23
• Listen to the high-energy, honky-tonkin’ country dance band The Last Call Girls presented by the Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance. Details: 7 p.m.; La Encantada Lower Level Garden Courtyard, Skyline & Campbell; $11, $10 in advance; 797-3959.

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Still, I’ve enjoyed the first two episodes, and I’m more than looking forward to the continuation of the season. The storytelling is subtle and if you don’t expect to be ROFLing at every bit of dialogue, it’ll be much more enjoyable. Trust me. Manage your expectations. Hung is not a comedy.
Selected quotes:
Ray’s neighbour: “You can fuck me, but you can’t take a mattress? Don’t be stupid, Ray.”
Jessica’s mother: “Teenagers hate everybody. Pent-up hormones. Once they have sex, they calm down. You were happy teenager because you were slut.”
Jessica’s mother: “Friends with first husband…goodbye second husband.”
Lenore: “Ok Ray, it’s my fault. I confused you with my talk on stripper theory. So, let me simplify. Your job is to take your penis and stick it in Claire’s vagina when she tells you to. And take it out when she tells you to. You’re not her shrink, you’re not her marriage counsellor, you’re not her priest.”

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Speaking of characters I love and want to see more of, Charlie the pimp returns next week to dispense more advice to poor Tanya who is grappling for control over Ray and Happiness Consultants. It sounds like Charlie tells Tanya to get rid of Lenore. I have to say that is a good idea. Two pimps for one escort can only lead to trouble. Then when you add in their completely different business and sales personalities, you end up with Lenore trying to sell a spa in Tucson as a gateway to sex and Tanya just blurting out a description of a discreet special journey that ends in sexual satisfaction. In the end, I think Tanya will win mostly due to her awkward, approachable, frankness. Who can resist a croissant basket?

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Let’s start with Tanya and Lenore fighting for power within Happiness Consultants.  Even before they became part of a three-person team, these two were bickering about the right way to do things.
This week, the pair were courting an older woman named Francis.  Lenore referred to Tanya as her intern while trying to provide a romantic getaway to Tucson for Francis.  Tanya, on the other hand, blurted out that she could provide “pure sexual pleasure…. guilt free.”  And of course screaming and fighting broke out between the two of them afterward.
I thought the idea of the last episode was that Tanya was going to be getting better at this occupation.  Did she learn nothing from the male pimp other than to cook Ray hamburgers and bring him beer?  If she continues to not really know how to deal with clients, this story is going to continue to run in circles.

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This conflict leads directly to Ray’s heart, represented by Jessica, his ex-wife. Banging a pregnant woman in your spare time seems to conjure up feelings of nostalgia and regret in a dude’s life (who knew?), and now his heart is starting to lean back toward his family … the family that is fractured … the family he wants Claire to have. Meanwhile, the writers continue to dangle the old “will they or won’t they” (made famous by ‘Who’s the Boss’) angle, as Lenore continues to attempt to match Ray with Jessica, as ho and trick. Definitely a reason to continue watching, because this is a twist on the tired old sitcom convention… and by “twist,” I mean “a woman may seek a male prostitute who is her ex-husband, unbeknownst to her.” BOOM! Ray’s heart trumps his brain.

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I thought a little bit about HBO’s “Hung” while getting caught up on AMC’s “Breaking Bad’s” third season on iTunes this weekend. Both shows depict middle-aged high school teachers raising money with illegal means — prostitution and cooking, meth, respectably — while keeping their extracurriculars secret from their families. Suburban, middle-class crime and transgression may be the big unifying theme of contemporary cable dramas.
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This week, prostitution was barely present. One subplot, when Tanya tries to land a rich potential client, gives Tanya a chance to brush up her salesmanship, but has nothing really to do with illicit sexuality. Ray’s ambivalence about having sex with last week’s pregnant client is more about his disappointment with his own failed marriage. (And, why was he putting together her crib, anyway? It’s like the joke when a prostitute says “I’ll do anything you want” and the client says “Paint my house.”) There’s a littile male aggrandizement here, in the implication that Ray’s so sexually satisfying, the client may reject giving her estranged husband a second chance. He’s probably one of those Ronnie types.

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I like the client scenes because they can be about different things from episode to episode, but they also get into the show’s central idea, which is that Ray, as a prostitute, can sell these women a certain kind of fantasy they can’t get from their husbands or boyfriends. (Though now that I think about it, the fact that so many of Ray’s clients are clearly insane is sort of offensive.) The rest of the show is about a father who’s fallen on hard times and is trying to hold his family together and trying to get his ex-wife back. There’s also broad suburban satire and a really basic metaphor about a man trying to rebuild his house. For the most part, all of this stuff – which is most of what interests the producers the most about Hung, I think – is being done by other shows and being done better. Ray’s relationship with Jessica could, potentially, be interesting with these actors, but …

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Traditionally, the governors of all the states on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border (did you know that Mexico has “states,” with “governors”?) get together once a year to “celebrate border bonhomie … issue proclamations and pledges to work together, air grievances and concerns behind closed doors.” In other words, they drink unseemly amounts of tequila and go to strip clubs. But this year the host was supposed to be Jan Brewer, and all the Mexican governors (plus Bill Richardson) are afraid she will personally deport them when they show up for the shindig, so they’re thinking about doing it somewhere else, or maybe not doing it at all, and Jan will cry at home by herself and tell herself that when she goes to college, people won’t be petty like this, they’ll recognize her as an interesting and unique person and want to hang out with her.

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Proactive law enforcement leaders and administrators throughout the nation clearly know now that they have many obligations far beyond the scope that they may have imagined or perceived only a decade ago.  Adequately understanding the metamorphosis of traditional policing to a model of anti-terrorism policing initiatives, and the true sophistication of this new transnational threat is not easy.  The reality is they are tasked today with a more global approach to crime and interdiction that uniquely challenges skills, resources and personnel.
More so on the southern borders at this time is the illegal immigration threat that also manifests itself with the terrorism threat.  Not being soothsayers police must be able to determine immigration status of suspected human traffickers, narcotraffickers, assassins/enforcers, weapons smugglers, and transnational criminal recidivists that routinely return sometimes just days after being returned to their country.  Police would of course need “reasonable suspicion.”  The majority of these criminals will not necessarily be “obvious” in their modus operandi.
The recruiting, transportation, and eventual harboring of “trafficked” persons by force, as well as for prostitution and forced labor and servitude, must be confronted on the frontlines.

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… AK-Sen: Lisa Murkowski, whose primary challenge from Some Dude got much more interesting when Sarah Palin endorsed said Dude (Joe Miller), won’t be able to count on appointed Gov. Sean Parnell’s explicit backing in the primary. When pressed on the issue at a gubernatorial debate last night, Parnell “visibly squirmed” before saying that he would support whoever wins the primary.
• LA-Sen: I hope your last few days are going better for you than David Vitter’s last few days: yesterday, he had to face a phalanx of reporters interested in the issue of Brent Furer’s continued presence on Vitter’s staff despite his criminal record. Vitter said that was old news, that Furer had been disciplined two years ago, and moreover that Furer hadn’t been assigned to handle women’s issues. Now it’s come out that several legislative guide books, in fact, do list Furer as Vitter’s point man on women’s issues. (TPM’s link has video of Vitter in front of reporters. Think back to the visuals of his post-prostitution-problem press conference, and note again that Vitter is using his wife literally as a human shield.)

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