Best dressed dogs and people at Pet Parade
The Pima Animal Control Center, which I visited a few weeks ago, held a Parade of Pets in the West University district on Sunday morning. …
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Grow your own eggs, but it will cost you
With the price of eggs at Albertsons ranging up to $8 a dozen, it may have occurred to you to buy chickens to produce eggs …
480 free dogs are waiting for you
It is sorta like an after-Christmas sale at the Pima Animal Care Center on north Silverbell. Use the coupon on the PACC website and you …
Skate, Sip Cocoa, Get a Dog
Outdoor ice skating is back in Tucson and this year the weather co-operated. It’s been chilly and below freezing at night, unlike previous years when …
Bigger and better museum art fair
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 …
Cycling the mean streets of Tucson
The car-free route for Cyclovia this year went right through some neighborhoods where streets are lined with light industry and vacant lots. The housing in …
Painting 6th Avenue brilliant colors
It was a Volunteer Saturday with Tucsonans out and about improving the city by doing everything from picking up trash in the Santa Cruz riverbed …
Nothing like jury duty summons to tell you…
Since I launched this blog about three years ago, I’ve claimed to be a newcomer to Tucson. After all, I had just moved here from …
A Tucson Folk Festival thrives again
49 years ago Jim Griffith, folklorist extraordinaire, founded the Tucson Meet Yourself folk festival. Sadly, he passed away in 2020, the year TMY was cancelled …
The art of the traffic roundabout
In quiet neighborhood intersections all across Tucson there are roundabouts with trees, shrubs and some artwork in the middle. Along with speed bumps they are …