Nativity scene is one of a kind

Christmas hasn’t ended for Tucson residents. For 38 years, artist María Luisa Teña’s nativity scene – El Nacimiento – has kept the holiday alive at La Casa Cordova within the downtown Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N Main Ave. Until she ended the 800-piece project in 2008, she added new pieces of clay and glass figurines every year to tell a…

Continue Reading

‘Barrio Stories’ comes to Tucson

A freight train howls in the distance as a pedestrian sits cross-legged and lights a cigarette, watching curiously as floodlights wash over nearly a dozen actors moving about the Tucson Convention Center grounds on a soft February night. Borderlands Theater is rehearsing Barrio Stories, an unconventional new production that will run from March 3 to…

Continue Reading

Faith’s evolving nature: an era of change

How we define faith and how we define being religious today is evolving, changing the paradigm for future generations. Millennials are moving away from moderately conservative religion toward opposite ends on the religious scale; secularism and religious extremism. According to a report produced by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religious & Public Life, Americans…

Continue Reading