Art studios painting new lives

  Art serves as an outlet for many. For participants in ArtWorks, an art program for adults with developmental disabilities located just off of the University of Arizona campus, the work that they create provides new opportunities for their voices to be heard. With each stroke of a paintbrush, dreams are shared; each mixed media…

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Swimming with the Sharks

It’s an idea so seemingly easy — a mail-order coffee service delivered to your door featuring coffees roasted from around the world. But try convincing a tank full of business sharks that it’s an idea worth the investment. The University of Arizona’s McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship’s Mistobox coffee delivery concept was given the chance on national…

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Haunted Arizona Hotels to visit on Halloween

  With Halloween this weekend and Día de los Meurtos next week, folks who are into the paranormal or just fans of ghost stories might be checking in to Tucson’s Hotel Congress. They say it’s haunted. Ditto for Flagstaff’s Hotel Weatherford. Hotel lore has it that a woman committed suicide the night before her wedding…

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Too much emphasis on body image

With continuous media coverage on unrealistic body ideals, too many men and women fight to achieve unrealistic aspirations with their bodies. This can lead to eating disorders and disrupt many things in a person’s life. Body love is essential all over the world and needs to be addressed. Body image is how you see yourself…

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