By MIKAYLA MACE Arizona Sonora News [UPDATED] Everyone in Arizona knows what haboobs are: A towering wall of dust, sometimes a half-mile high and a hundred miles wide, caused by summer monsoons rolling in over Tucson and southeast Arizona, and slamming the dry, loose dirt into the air. This monster sweeps across the desert northward…
By HARRISON REED Arizona Sonora News It is impossible to miss James Huffer’s house, at the corner of North Beverly Avenue and East Patricia Street in Tucson’s Old Fort Lowell neighborhood. It is surrounded by sculptures – many of them large abstract pieces fashioned out of scrap metal and wood, placed around the yard from…
By NOUR HAKI Arizona Sonora News Eight months ago, Besan Adnan, nine years old, a Syrian refugee from Jordan to the United States encountered a world of different people, a different language, different lifestyles. The school system and teaching methods were also different — until she enrolled at the Al-Rahman Sunday School where she felt her identity…
By ELIZABETH EATON Arizona Sonora News Service GREEN VALLEY — Row after row of pecan trees stretches into the distance, their dark green reaching up to mix with the blue of the sky, like color blots on a painter’s easel. The smell is undeniably earthy. The trees lean in toward each other, creating a shaded pathway…
By STEPHEN H. CRANE Arizona Sonora News (Stephen H. Crane III is a reporter with El Independiente) The small, crowded hookah lounge was filled with an audience awaiting a young artist’s first performance. But the performer’s flash drive failed. He had no music to back him up. “The crazy thing was that I performed acapella,”…
