The Bisbee Farmers Market is an eclectic mix of locals and visitors roaming through stands of fresh vegetables, meat, leather goods, painted gourds, and homemade pistachio brittle. A table at the edge of the market is brimming with baskets of green beans, sugar snap peas, carrots, zucchini, peppers, cucumbers and potatoes. Jack Lemons, co-owner of…
The notoriously progressive, quirky city of Bisbee has been ahead of its time for a while. On June 4, 2013, Bisbee attempted to become the first city in the state to legalize civil unions. While Bisbee’s city council voted 5-2 to allow civil unions, its success did not come without a fight. Less than a week after…
In a 1900s building on Main Street in Bisbee, Rod Kass unleashes his passion for food. Café Roka’s long-term success demonstrates one man’s dream to thrive in a fast growing industry where failure is high and success is limited. Enthralled by cooking since a young age, Kass remembers admiring the fast movements in diners with…
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…
Tucson’s legendary Buffet Bar will celebrate its 80th anniversary on Nov. 1. As the oldest bar in the city, it’s still clinging to its reputation as a UA hangout. But The Buffet’s 80 years makes it a teenager alongside the state’s granddaddy of historic bars, Prescott’s Palace Restaurant & Saloon. From Tombstone to Jerome, Arizona…
