Pivoting during the pandemic

By Lexi Horsey / El Inde Mike Christy keeps his office full of his photography and collegiate sports memorabilia. Posters from marketing shoots, official team photos, official schedules, and of course loads of expensive photography equipment. My personal favorite is the baseball marketing shoot from last year. It transports the viewer into the past with…

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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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Chesed Amitie: A true kindness

By David Benjamin Lex / El Inde The line to meet with the Rebbe was as long as ever. Any time Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson would open his doors in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY to receive visitors, hundreds of people from all over the world would gather. Many were neatly dressed head to toe in…

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