By Katya Mendoza / El Inde Beyond two large glass doors that read “SLIDE”, towards the back of a private dining room with white wallpaper that has a cartoon pattern of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, David Bowie and Tupac Shakur, is a small office space in the back of the Tucson-based restaurant, Culinary Dropout. A…
Tattooing in Tucson booms with the help of social media, thrusting the city’s history of great shops and even better artists into the limelight. Tucson’s tradition of being a military and college town attributes to the tattoo industry’s success in the Sonoran Desert, but reality TV and social media apps such as Instagram are…
For years, the dark alleyway of Bisbee’s Brewery Gulch, known as the Broadway Stairs, had a reputation as a hot spot for drug use. The recent addition of lighting brightened up the area, but it isn’t the only thing transforming the alley into a tourist destination. A pop-up art gallery of funky thrift store finds…
Wind down Tombstone Road into quirky Bisbee and you will come across the famous “Iron Man” statue. Look directly across from the Iron Man and there you will see Bisbee’s biggest gem. It’s a market full of variety, community, history and love. What once was a courthouse service station in the heart of Historic Bisbee…
A story that began over 30 years ago in Tucson comes back to life today through the personification of a statue. Marge Pellegrino and Marianna Neil wrote “The Sculpture Speaks: A Story of Survival” after they discovered a statue in the Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson. Their story follows events in the 1980s involving the…
