Walking my new favorite neighborhood
After watching volunteers from the Living Streets Alliance paint 6th Avenue by Armory Park in late October, I drove around the area and discovered a …
Category: architecture in Tucson
Where to get your $5 tree
A million new trees to cast cooling shade in Tucson by 2030 — that is Mayor Romero’s goal. It is a reachable goal and, in …
High Noon 2 Midnight + Horses and Hippie Art
If author Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues) was going to invent a place for one of his characters to …
St. Philip’s Plaza instead of Ukraine support
I mistakenly thought that the downtown Tucson demonstration in support of Ukraine was on Saturday. Instead, it was scheduled for Sunday when I had a …
What Tucson’s upscale rentals really lack
Opinion: The historic Rose of the Desert monastery in the Sam Hughes neighborhood is being transformed into the Benedictine, a place of ‘luxury apartment homes”, …
Surprises at Tucson’s oldest vintage market
When Grae Verlin purchased the Pantano Stables a few years ago, her vision for using the property clearly extended beyond stabling horses. Now called Medella …
This house comes in S,M,L and…
In the MidTown District of Tucson the post World War II brick ranch house reigns supreme. There are thousands of them in sizes small, medium …
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 …
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 …
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. …