By Samantha Larned, El Inde Arizona With a hot air balloon mural on the side of its midtown building, a mountain and sky-scape along the top and menu items with names like “compass” and “wanderer,” Transit Tea creates an atmosphere of adventure and movement. The menu has hundreds of possible combinations: eight choices of base,…
Each Thanksgiving Day, one of Arizona’s “48 Most Intriguing Women” becomes a clown. But when it comes to her career, the 5-foot Tucsonan is anything but clownish. Susan Claassen’s energy, style and taste makes her an all-around class act. She not only runs Tucson’s Invisible Theatre, but she acts, writes and directs. “She’s not afraid…
Wind whips through the dry grass at the base of the U.S.-Mexico border fence where Tim Foley stands smoking a cigarette and surveying vast wilderness of the Altar Valley. Here, just west of the Sasabe border crossing, the 20-foot tall steel fencing abruptly gives way to straggling barbed wire as the physical border, so easily…
The moment Camerone Parker stepped out of the car, photographers rushed to snap a picture of her wearing a coat made of seatbelts. Parker, a Tucsonan, is a model in the Classic Women’s division of FORD modeling agency and has graced the runways of Giorgio Armani and Vera Wang. That night in 2013 where Parker wore…
