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 …
Author: carollightwood
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 …
Wild, pink and fuzzy at the HD motorcycle show
Shiny black and chrome motorcycles were lined up side by side for more than a block at the Harley Davidson showroom in Marana. And those …
Ranching lives in the central Tucson Campus Farm neighborhood
During a recent discussion about potentially selling off the land at the University of Arizona’s Agricultural Center on Campbell Avenue a long-time resident described it …
Let’s have a picnic with ants
You’ve seen the dragon Toby in Tucson. And The Messenger. Now meet the Ants crawling atop a ramada with picnic tables at the Brandi Fenton …
Hot Rods and the Men Who Love Them
Going to car shows is, for me, like a fun and colorful trip down Memory Lane. And I’m sure the same held true for the …
Art, books and a “wait-a-minute” women artists controversy
The Tucson Museum of Art Fair in November, 2019 was jam packed with artisans and crafts people, including some astonishing art works inspired by robots …
Yellow season in Tucson
It’s almost as if Mother Nature flipped a switch and all the Palo Verde trees across Arizona burst into bloom a few days ago. On …
Ancient Mayan and new Mexican sculptural warriors
In keeping with the idea from my last post that old and the new-imitating-the-old exist in Tucson… Last Saturday I visited the Tucson Museum of …
(Not) historic San Pedro Chapel
I was driving across town a few days ago when I saw–obscured by a creosote forest–what was obviously a church of some kind, as you …