Bills Mafia, baby!

By Haley Epstein / El Inde Bills Mafia, the self-named Buffalo Bills fanbase, is widely known for chaotic tailgates and diehard loyalty. Even if they’re losing, which they are usually projected to, Bills Mafia continues to show their cult-like support. The 2020 NFL season saw the Buffalo Bills on the upswing, winning their first playoff…

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The life of a sneaker reseller

By Mitchell Sweet-Tomb/ El Inde The term “hypebeast” has been catching fire the past few years as more and more young teenagers are finding themselves not just wearing streetwear, but selling it for two, three times the amount on the secondary market as well.

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Local hat designer brings artists together

By Katya Mendoza / El Inde Beyond two large glass doors that read “SLIDE”, towards the back of a private dining room with white wallpaper that has a cartoon pattern of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, David Bowie and Tupac Shakur, is a small office space in the back of the Tucson-based restaurant, Culinary Dropout. A…

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Creating community through the power of food

By Elvia Verdugo / El Inde On the ground floor of her rustic red brick building, Rosanne Placencia-Knepper carefully adorns her wooden kitchen island with prepped ingredients for this week’s dish–a stuffed beef curry roti. This week’s ingredients include flour, salt, local grass-fed beef and what she calls “the holy trinity of curry,” a mixture…

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Tucson’s funny guy

By Amaris Encinas / El Inde  Ken Carr talks with his hands, often, drawing and punctuating the air for emphasis. The 54-year-old oozes confidence and frequently speaks in sarcastic little quips like no one is in on the joke but him, and for the most part, he wants to keep it that way. He rocks…

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