TUCSON, AZ (Arizona Cat’s Eye) – Shopping at second hand clothing stores is on the rise among Tucson shoppers. Buffalo Exchange has 47 stores nationwide and three stores in Tucson. Here at second hand stores shoppers can find a wide variety of inexpensive, trendy, vintage and one of a kind clothing. “We are a buy,…
Why in the world does anyone go to a tanning parlor in a place where the sun shines 85 percent of daylight time in any given year? “The fact that there is sun doesn’t make it any less of a market, ” said Ryan Boyle, the owner of Tan-Tastic, a tanning parlor on Fort Lowell…
Arizona’s gun laws are as close to a constitutional carry as you can get, according to Sigmund Popko a law professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law at Arizona State University. In Arizona, those with firearms are allowed to carry their guns into airports up until the security gate, because the portion of…
A woman recently tried smuggling an 8 1/2-inch knife on an airplane by tucking it inside a big messy enchilada at the Sonoma County Airport in northern California. But that was far from the biggest item on the contraband menu encountered by Transportation Security Administration screeners at the nation’s 450 commercial airports. Even in that…
The recent closing of the University of Arizona American Taekwondo Club has left a void in Tucson’s taekwondo community. And yes, there is a taekwondo community. Taekwondo — a Korean martial art that combines elements of self-defense, combat and fitness — has been around for over a millennium, but the style of taekwondo practiced by…
