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 …
Wild horses and braying burros for sale
The very controversial Bureau of Land Management, more commonly known in the West as the BLM, held an equally controversial sale of wild horses 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 …
Best French fries, a pretty good milkshake followed by a search by the Border Patrol
On my way south of Tucson to visit the Tumacacori Historical National Park I noticed a large Border Patrol checkpoint spanning the northbound lanes of …
Snow on the Santa Catalina Mountains outside Tucson
You can drive right up to the top of the Santa Catalina Mountains but maybe not today. The police have blocked access on the Catalina …
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. …
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 …