Arizona State University is pulling out extra police patrols this week to keep up with the busy “Halloweek” parties on their campus. On the University of Arizona campus, UAPD police will beef up its presence near dorms, fraternities and housing complexes close to campus, said UAPD Crime Prevention Officer Joe Bermudez. But the number of…
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…
A vintage ’55 Ford station wagon is parked next to a gas pump that hasn’t pumped a gallon since the ‘70s. Antique signs creak in gentle breeze that carries the earthy fragrance of loose dirt from the open mining copper pit just behind the strip of Erie Street. This is the Lowell section of…
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…
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…
