By Jordan Chin/El Inde The single square-mile “Pueblo within a City” is best known for its Mexican restaurants and its population living below poverty. For forty years, a soup kitchen called Casa Maria has been helping out homeless communities. Its hardest-working volunteer, Glenda Avalos, who is also part of the Barrio Neighborhood Coalition, is working…
By Bryan Savic/El Inde Crossroads Restaurant is always bustling with life, rich tradition, and plenty of tasty Mexican dishes. Its current owners, Aracely and Robert Gonzalez, take us through its history on South 4th Avenue in South Tucson.
By Richard Whitmer/El Inde Downtown Tucson has seen its share of bad times and good. At the heart of it, The Chicago Music Store building has been a destination for generations of aspiring Tucson musicians. Now that the store has moved around the corner, the space is taking on a new life as the home…
By Zulema Herrera/El Inde Coming from Los Angeles to South Tucson, Mel and Melissa Dominguez felt their neighborhood’s strong Latinx presence, but, at the same time, felt there was a lack of much needed representation there. This led them to take a chance in opening an art gallery that would grant greater access to art…
Rappers 070 Shake and Tkay Maizda and local bands The Hawthorne Experience, Desert Child and MARZ are headlining the 2023 Bear Down Music Festival on May 3, the first festival since 2019. The concert will take place on the middle of the University of Arizona mall where students will be able to scan their CatCard…
