For small towns like Douglas, grants for the arts can be deeply influential. With the election of a new mayor in 2016, Douglas is looking at a future that thrives on arts and culture, and is using National Endowment for the Arts funding to bring back life to this troubled…
The 59th Annual Grammy Awards welcomed a sound of Tucson. Miranda Agnew, a University High School senior, played a solo on the Grammy stage in front of a star-studded audience and 26 million viewers. Agnew, who was picked to be a part of the Grammy High School Band after sending in an audition, was…
On a warm day in September, a young man sits in a soup kitchen on the Mexican side of Nogales. He has just been deported from the United States without his belongings. Here at the comedor, he is surrounded by more than 30 others who have also been deported and are in need of assistance…
Death visits men before women. Men, on average, die about five years earlier than women. Men’s behavior plays a huge role in why they tend to die younger, said Ronald Levant, a professor of psychology at the University of Akron in Ohio. Some men who endorse and conform to “traditional masculine norms” have higher mortality…
By late 2018 Tucson-based World View Enterprises plans to fulfill the dreams of many by sending people into space. World View Enterprises, a private company, is the only near-space exploration company in Arizona. For $75,000 customers will be taken to an altitude of roughly 100,000 feet, and stay up there for hours before gently coming back…
