World premiere Ballet Tucson collaborates with the Tucson Desert Song Festival for upcoming concert

Alli Burgess, El Inde Arizona Ballet Tucson will perform a world premiere and two works that are new to the company in its Tucson Desert Song Festival performances this weekend.  Soprano Erika Burkhardt and Tucson’s Duo Chinoiserie will join the company dancers Friday, Feb. 17, through Sunday, Feb. 19, for the world premiere of “Himiko,”…

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Tucson’s Late-Night Church

The bright lights of the Waffle House off Tucson’s Grant and I-10 pierce the night at 2 a.m. like a kind of comforting beacon to all who may enter. Inside, the quiet hum of the lighting feels almost like a church-like quietness, punctuated only by the scripture of the cook’s spatula on the grill and the crackling noise of eggs frying on the skillet.

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