A crafty Night Market at the MSA Annex
I had hoped that the MSA Annex Night Market would be a smaller version of the 626 Night Market, but it is not. Held in …
Author: carollightwood
Lost Barrio: cacti faces and AirBnB furnishings
Tucked away in Barrio Antonio to the southeast of downtown, the Lost Barrio is a 3 block long, old brick warehouse that’s been converted into …
Murals and politics mix it up in Tucson
What are thought of as minorities in most of the U.S. are majorities in Tucson. Whites, non-hispanic whites, anglos –whatever we are called–are a minority …
Visiting a cool historic train on a hot June day
This was the plan on a very hot June day: 1) Visit the Tucson Train Depot Museum because museums are air conditioned, cool and interesting. …
Gunslingers at the Tucson Amtrak Station
In 2005 a group of Tucson citizens paid sculptor Dan Bates to create bronze statues of Wyatt Earp and John “Doc” Holliday holding long guns. …
Chromed bumpers become front yard sculptures
At least as far back as the early 1900s Tucson was (and continues to be) a haven for artists. So it is not entirely unexpected …
Too hot to shop? Not now that Covid regs are gone
Historically, in summer it’s just too hot in Tucson to attract tourists so many nifty things about the City just stop until September or October. …
Here are those puppies from Mexico
During my April visit to the Tucson Museum of Art I took photos of the exhibition of small Mesoamerican clay sculptures. I mentioned that puppy …
Historic 4th Avenue budget fashion, food, and broken hearts
The Spring and Fall Fourth Avenue Street Fairs are famous. I’d even heard of them in Los Angeles. But what does Fourth Ave. look like …
Breeze walls + whimsey near Mercado San Agustin
Across the Santa Cruz River from downtown the City of Tucson wiped out block after block of old homes some years ago, then in 2003 …