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Project 2025 would kill 75,000 wild horses
Arizona / Festivals in Tucson / Nature in Tucson

Project 2025 would kill 75,000 wild horses

by carollightwoodMarch 3, 2025August 20, 2025

[NOTE:Just introduced in Congress: a new bill regarding killing horses. See details at bottom.] Both free-ranging horses and burros captured in the wild by the …

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Is that a quilt? Amazing, isn’t it.
Arizona / Art / Festivals in Tucson

Is that a quilt? Amazing, isn’t it.

by carollightwoodJanuary 13, 2025August 29, 2025

It was 31F this morning which means it’s the season to pile blankets and quilts on your bed. Keeping that in mind I went to …

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Flashback to the past at St. Xavier Mission near Tucson
architecture in Tucson / Arizona / Art in Tucson

Flashback to the past at St. Xavier Mission near Tucson

by carollightwoodOctober 17, 2023July 30, 20253

Glancing off to the west from the 19 Freeway, I glimpsed what the St. Xavier del Bac mission must have looked like in the 1700s: …

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Now about that Garlic Soup recipe
Arizona / Festivals in Tucson / Food in Tucson

Now about that Garlic Soup recipe

by carollightwoodJuly 31, 2023July 30, 2025

At the Mission Garden’s 2023 Garlic Festival one group was giving away free garlic soup. I picked up a little cup, took one sip and …

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What to wear to a Folk Festival
Arizona / Festivals in Tucson

What to wear to a Folk Festival

by carollightwoodApril 3, 2023July 30, 2025

Boy, tie-dye has come a long way if the dyers can create a guitar image on the back of a T-shirt. Only I don’t think …

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Elon Musk, your room is ready now
architecture in Tucson / Arizona / Near Tucson

Elon Musk, your room is ready now

by carollightwoodNovember 30, 2022July 30, 2025

Back when rocket guy and space-voyager-wannabe, Elon Musk, was a still a teenager rattling around South Africa, a group of Americans decided to build a …

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Bigger and better museum art fair
Arizona / Art in Tucson / Festivals in Tucson / Tucson

Bigger and better museum art fair

by carollightwoodNovember 19, 2022July 30, 2025

Well, it’s not just earrings and earrings and more earrings! The Tucson Museum of Art‘s Fall Artisans Market is not only larger this year, it …

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Elvis and Marilyn have vanished!
Arizona / Art in Tucson

Elvis and Marilyn have vanished!

by carollightwoodJuly 25, 2022July 30, 2025

The somewhat bizarre mural of Elvis without hands, Marilyn Monroe, Selena and a floating Prince that ornamented a building on Ft. Lowell Rd. has been …

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Thousands in Tucson show support of Roe v. Wade
Arizona / Historical Tucson / Tucson

Thousands in Tucson show support of Roe v. Wade

by carollightwoodMay 14, 2022July 30, 2025

The protest at Armory Park in downtown Tucson drew thousands of people: women, men and children. But the only person I saw wearing a “Pussy …

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Is it Indian? German? Or Lower East Side?
Arizona / Art in Tucson / Tucson

Is it Indian? German? Or Lower East Side?

by carollightwoodMay 11, 2022July 30, 2025

Visual artist Brad Kalhamer credits his multi-cultural background for inspiration for his works. He was born of native American parents in Tucson at 11:59–that’s why …

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