Watching an amazing Romeo and Juliet on YouTube in Tucson
The Independent Shakespeare Company‘s free summer performances in Griffith Park are among the top 5 things I loved about living in Los Angeles. I didn’t fully …
Category: Art in Tucson
2020 Laughter from Tucson
Dear Diary 2020 Edition,In January, Australia caught on fire. I don’t even know if that fire was put out, because we straight up almost went …
The Tucson Festival of Books and libraries in the time of CoVid-19–what’s next?
The annual Tucson Festival of Books is the third largest book fair in America and it was cancelled a couple of weeks ago because over …
Hecho en Mexico right here in Tucson
While I was out scouting fruit trees at a local nursery for an upcoming post on my gardening site, Hot Gardens, I spent a few …
Javelina Madness at the Tubac art festival
The slogan for the tiny village (pop.1190) of Tubac, Arizona is “Where Art and History Meet”. Maybe a better slogan would be where art and …
Museum Sunday with steel drums and Oaxacan folk art figures
After hearing the Tucson High Magnet School steel drum band outside the Tucson Museum of Art I began to wish that there had been a …
Tintypes, glass cactus and garden towers at the Agustin Mercado Street Fair
It’s rainy today–Christmas Eve–in Tucson, but last weekend at the open air fair at the Agustin Mercado the weather was lovely. Sunny and crisp enough …
Korean lanterns without lights at the Tucson Botanical Garden
In some areas of the country holiday light shows have become a competitive sport with neighborhood challenging neighborhood, street outdoing street. And the local power …
Learning how to make ornaments at the Sonoran Glass School
The Sonoran Glass School is bringing stained glass to the masses. Whether you want to make shimmering glass balls or translucent glass Christmas trees, this …
Artful robots, colorful pots, custom mailboxes and other stuff at the Museum of Art’s art fair
I had pretty much given up going to open air art fairs in Southern California. There, it was the same-old-same-old, so I had some reservations …