A Day at the Rillito Horse Races
According to a notice on the Rillito Horse Races website, Quarter horse racing originated in at the Rillito Racetrack. As someone who has only been …
Category: Festivals in Tucson
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 …
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 …
Tucson ice skating cancelled by a “rain day”
Wouldn’t you just know it. The first year that outdoor ice skating comes to downtown Tucson has turned out to be an exceptionally rainy year. …
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 …
Which was odder? The stuff for sale? Or the people selling it at the Oddities Market?
The Oddities Market made its debut in Tucson in a jam-packed venue. The location was far too small for the crowds of people who were …