By Betty Hurd/Arizona Sonora News Twenty-four-year-old Patrick Angyal is the bassist and one of the founding members of his band, Galactic Cactus, a five-piece group of University of Arizona college students. In the dimly lit back room of Espresso Art Café, the birthplace of the band and one of their favorite hangouts, he describes how…
By Hayden Gambee/Arizona Sonora News Lauren Valenzuela sits on a lime green velvet couch, in front of a forest green wall that makes a nice backdrop for her bright blonde hair and blue eyes. “Right now, I’m really into orange,”Valenzuela mentions, smiling. This comes as a surprise due to the color scheme in her studio,…
By Matt Crisara/Arizona Sonora News “It was the first lap, and one of the guys was a hair ahead of me, about 5 or 6 feet, and we made it through the second-to-last gate. I floored it, and cut the right angle and slipped around them on the outside and blasted through the final gate,…
By Madeleine Viceconte/Arizona Sonora News The large, spacious Boxing Inc. gym, typically full of members doing their daily classes, is empty on a Tuesday morning except for Jaime Cuesta and his coach, Chris Gonzalez. Rap music blasts over the speakers as Cuesta completes his rigorous workout consisting of lifting weights and hitting the punching bag….
By David Skinner/Arizona Sonora News Paint is everywhere. It’s on the sidewalk you’re walking on. It’s on the sign that’s directing you and it’s on the building you are walking into. If you don’t look, you won’t notice, and that goes for the people applying it as well. There is always a story behind the…
