For better or for worse, the inevitable effect of there being a new Tina Fey and Robert Carlock show on the air is that it will always especially this early into its run be compared to Fey and Carlock’s other shows. Naturally, that means that
Mr. Mayor will always be compared to
30 Rock and
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. But it also means it will also always be compared to
Great News, even though that was actually a Tracey Wigfield project (co-executive produced by Fey and Carlock). Fey and Carlock have a very specific sense of humor and structure that they rely on, which is why you can spot a “Fey and Carlock show” from the jump.
From Alice Cooper to Michael Phelps, these celebrities call metro Phoenix home KiMi Robinson, Arizona Republic
Rock stars, bestselling authors and Olympians are just some of the celebrities who call metro Phoenix home.
And they’re not just snowbirds, either: Musicians such as Alice Cooper and David Ellefson (of Megadeth) have started nonprofit organizations here that encourage youth music education.
The Valley also was the birthplace of the hit young-adult book series that gave the vampire genre fresh blood in the late 2000s and into the 2010s. “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer, who grew up in Scottsdale and still lives in the area with her family, even gave Arizona a spotlight during a high-speed superhuman car chase in her latest book, “Midnight Sun.”
If anyone turned 2020 s many lemons into sparkling lemonade, it was Sam Means. The musician and head of local merch company Hello Merch went from a planned reunion with The Format to releasing an excellent five-song EP, I m Sorry. The project clearly owes something to Means main band, and there s a kind of earnestness and heart-on-sleeve mentality linking both sounds. But from there, Means spins in 70s-style folk-rock (a la Stephen Stills) and 90s alternative (think Teenage Fanclub) for energetic jams on American politics and doomed love. If there are any downsides, the EP feels too brief; Means cuts right to the heart of this moment with breathtaking efficiency. It s the sort of project that almost makes you glad 2020 went haywire because from that chaos we got to experience a hugely talented artist display his true strengths.
i understand what sam means. it s not quite as much sort of inside dealing where you pay to the trump foundation which forwards our name. but, yeah, it is a good i think it s a really good question. it s a quick it s a great question. i think we can t really get at it because we haven t settled questions around the conflict of interest. if you have a broader cloud over the issue, we can t get to the substance of the question that you re asking. before you get to this question of the charity, which may be well intentioned, they are a wash in conflicts. you saw yesterday that they settled two union fights that he was having over unionization in las vegas and in washington because otherwise it would have ended up in front of the nlrb which he appoints. you have a hotel in washington he owns where he s a tenant leasing from the federal government that he controls. we have spoken out on that. i don t think anybody should go to that hotel. they ll never make enough money