An Icon Rides in Tucson

By Tyler Salas/El Inde In the heat of the Sonoran desert, sits a small glass building amidst a busy intersection and endless construction. An unassuming luxury car dealership, once one steps inside there’s a coffee machine, dozens of pieces of memorabilia and clothing, and a large LCD screen mounted up high showing scenes of their…

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Building and Fixing Guitars for 32 years

By Jake O’Rourke/El Inde A balmy Tucson breeze made its way through the open door of Gordon Groves’ southside workshop. He was in a sharp trance using a white-tipped pencil to trace abalone stone inlays. He will put the inlays into the ebony fretboard of a 12-fret dreadnought, a style of acoustic guitar featuring a…

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The start of a mobile barbershop business

By Ari Koslow/El Inde The COVID-19 pandemic hit a large number of businesses around the country hard, forcing many of them to close down temporarily or even shut down for good. However, there were some people who were able to make the most out of these unforeseen circumstances. Ari Koslow has the story.

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