By Tatyana Johnson/El Inde After a long day of walking around the busy streets of France and sightseeing with their tourist group, it is almost dinner time. Diane Sanchez slides past one of her travel companions’ workstations and hurries back to finish her preparations for her part of the group’s meal. Each person, assigned by…
By Geraldine Espinosa/El Inde It is the first chilly evening of the year and as the sun goes down over themountains on Tucson’s Westside, the Snakebite gallery is coming alive with Chip Thomas’s art. Snakebite is located inside an older brick building with the street-facingwall painted bright red. The building is back-to-back with the Tucson…
By Jake O’Rourke/El Inde From the early 1990s to 2003, Linda Robles’ day job involved trimming roses of all colors, decorating vases to match and taking in the smells of pollen and petals at Roses & More. All that would change to bright lights and late nights in emergency rooms as her pregnant daughter Tianna…
By Bree Brettell/El Inde “I don’t think that I keep it all together. I feel like everybody else could know me better than I know myself,” a gentle voice sings out over a funky, pop-infused beat. The voice belongs to Rae Dunlap, or Rae.L, her performing name. She is a slender young woman with textured,…
By Emma Brocato/El Inde Debbie Buecher is sitting on the patio of a coffee shop in central Tucson. On top of the small table sits her notebook, with the current page full of notes about the lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) and its habitat needs. “When you drive down to Sonoita, there’ll be this big…
