By Jake O’Rourke/El Inde A balmy Tucson breeze made its way through the open door of Gordon Groves’ southside workshop. He was in a sharp trance using a white-tipped pencil to trace abalone stone inlays. He will put the inlays into the ebony fretboard of a 12-fret dreadnought, a style of acoustic guitar featuring a…
By Bree Brettell/El Inde Our City’s Finest is a hip-hop/pop music collective in Tucson, Arizona. Jay Bailey had the idea to create a clothing brand with the same name years ago, and is now developing the band into a brand. Over the last two years, the group has become very close and started producing more…
By Cassandra Scott/El Inde Irina Chausovskaya, 28, grew up most of her childhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, with her siblings and parents, Olga and Alex. Irina described Ukraine as a beautiful country with so much to see and do. She painted a picture of the big farmlands and animals she grew up around and described how…
The bright lights of the Waffle House off Tucson’s Grant and I-10 pierce the night at 2 a.m. like a kind of comforting beacon to all who may enter. Inside, the quiet hum of the lighting feels almost like a church-like quietness, punctuated only by the scripture of the cook’s spatula on the grill and the crackling noise of eggs frying on the skillet.
Brooke Fagan (left) and Allison Fagan (right) at Catalina Foothills High School graduation in 2019. Photo Credits James S Wood.
