Art: Huge metal animals and shotgun casings?
The annual 2024Tucson Sculpture Festival at Brandi Fenton park was broken in two. One show at the permanent exhibition space, the Sculpture Park, and a …
Category: Art in Tucson
Books, music, books, circus, more books…
Over the weekend, the Tucson Festival of Books brought big name authors as well as hundreds of lesser-known ones to the U. of A. campus. …
Orchids, Frida and a dragon
The Tucson Orchid Society held their annual show way out at the Mesquite Valley Growers Nursery. It was quite a drive but I decided to …
Spending a long weekend in Tucson
Conde-Nast Traveler magazine recently recommended Barrio Viejo in Tucson as a neighborhood to visit. That’s nice. The homes are historic and colorful, but one neighborhood …
Flashback to the past at St. Xavier Mission near Tucson
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: …
Fun and free at the Tohono Chul gardens and bistro
While the Tucson Botanical Garden recently won an award as one of the best botanical gardens in the nation, it is in most ways a …
Visual deception at two newish murals
Two new murals in Midtown are both gorgeous to look at but each is more than it first appears. They are, in different ways, both …
A closer look at the historic Barrio Viejo
On Google Maps the area we all know as Barrio Viejo has the words “colorful homes” written on it in red. It’s so true and …
Muralists paint indigenous life
Washington St. near the Tucson Art Museum used to be pretty boring. Halfway down the block, there was a side entrance to Old Town Artisans …
Cyclovia: cosplaying fun and healthy cycling
The Rincon Heights hub for Cyclovia was super-busy with cyclists and their families hurrying through…or taking a break at one of the food trucks. The …