Riding in traffic, proper hand signals, and general bicycle safety. South Tucson kids ages 6 to 11 are learning to properly ride their bikes at the Ochoa Bike Club at the John Valenzuela Youth Center of South Tucson. BICAS, Safe Routes to School of South Tucson, and the Youth Center teamed up to provide an…
The young musicians line up on stage and prepare rows of cellos and violins. Small hands with slender fingers quickly tune their strings. The conductor approaches and raises his hands. The Tucson High Magnet Orchestra begins to play. The patio is filled with onlookers dispersed across small, circular tables. Indigenous art and brightly painted walls…
I met up with two of the women behind Tucson’s new Black Lives Matter chapter on one of those Arizona days where you see blue skies to the south and thunderstorms rolling in from over the Catalina Mountains. Katie Litchfield greets me at Sky Bar on Fourth Avenue, her 2-year-old daughter Sage trotting close behind…
Want to spruce up your yard in a cheap and colorful way? Cacti will do it! For people who enjoy bright blue skies, warm sunbeams and minimal rain, Tucson is paradise. But for popular yard plants such as roses, hydrangeas and marigolds that require more water than Tucson’s annual 12 inches of rain, the Sonoran…
Just north of downtown, a wrought-iron fence surrounding a simple white building gives no clue of the historical importance of what’s inside. A barber academy in a small classroom and a dance academy in a standard school auditorium don’t hint at anything special, either. But behind an office door labeled “Staff Only” in the back of the…
