Partners in Life and on the Stage

By Frances LaBianca/El Inde The Sugarplum Fairy pas de deux from The Nutcracker is one of the most well-known ballet variations and many young children’s introduction to the art form. The Sugarplum Fairy rules the Land of Sweets, which young heroine Clara enters in a dream. Clara enjoys a plethora of candy-themed dances from all…

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Building and Fixing Guitars for 32 years

By Jake O’Rourke/El Inde A balmy Tucson breeze made its way through the open door of Gordon Groves’ southside workshop. He was in a sharp trance using a white-tipped pencil to trace abalone stone inlays. He will put the inlays into the ebony fretboard of a 12-fret dreadnought, a style of acoustic guitar featuring a…

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Our City’s Finest at Thunder Canyon Brewery

By Bree Brettell/El Inde Our City’s Finest is a hip-hop/pop music collective in Tucson, Arizona. Jay Bailey had the idea to create a clothing brand with the same name years ago, and is now developing the band into a brand. Over the last two years, the group has become very close and started producing more…

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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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