By Geraldine Espinosa/El Inde It is the first chilly evening of the year and as the sun goes down over themountains on Tucson’s Westside, the Snakebite gallery is coming alive with Chip Thomas’s art. Snakebite is located inside an older brick building with the street-facingwall painted bright red. The building is back-to-back with the Tucson…
By Bree Brettell/El Inde “I don’t think that I keep it all together. I feel like everybody else could know me better than I know myself,” a gentle voice sings out over a funky, pop-infused beat. The voice belongs to Rae Dunlap, or Rae.L, her performing name. She is a slender young woman with textured,…
By Vanessa Lucero/El Inde From the outside, it looks like a typical striped yellow school bus, though it is parked in an isolated parking lot on Ajo Way street on the west side of Tucson, nowhere near a school but instead in front of Tiny’s family restaurant. On a hot sunny afternoon, walking inside the…
Brooke Fagan (left) and Allison Fagan (right) at Catalina Foothills High School graduation in 2019. Photo Credits James S Wood.
By Quinn McVeigh/El Inde In the United States, mental health keeps growing worse and worse. According to Mental Health America, nearly 20 percent of adults experience mental illness, over 2.5 million U.S. youth suffer from severe depression, with multiracial youth experiencing the greatest risk, and the majority of youth with severe depression don’t receive any…
