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Tucson’s rising blues star: Arthur Migliazza
Photo courtesy of Arthurmigliazza.com Most people play an assortment of sports and musical instruments as children, but not many people end up turning these childhood hobbies into lifelong careers....
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Meeting a growing demand subject to interpretation
Jaime Fatás uses a podcast to teach Dr. Reuben Lakshmanan proper pronunciation of medical terminology translated in Spanish. Photo by: Stefani Quihuis / Arizona Sonora News Service It’s a typical...
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Bare-handed baseball and Bisbee
When the umpire yelled “strikers to the line,” it was clear immediately, this was not an ordinary baseball game. There is nothing ordinary about bare-handed baseball — or the town of Bisbee for that...
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Navajo rugs: More than just a pretty base
Edison Eskeets talks to tourists in the rug room at Hubbell Trading Post National Site in Ganado. Eskeets is the trader at Hubbell, where trading handmade goods is still a viable living. GANADO –...
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‘Beer n’ Balls’ puts new taste on the table
Observing what goes into preparing Rocky Mountain Oysters. Photo by Zach Armenta. Sliders, stuffed jalapeños and a bowl of chili made from mouth-watering bull calf testicles, also known as the Rocky...
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A candidate hopes to be ‘Your Huckleberry’
Mike Carrafa, who announced he’s running for mayor in Tombstone, walks though the house he’s working on remodeling. (Photograph by Devon Confrey / Arizona Sonora News) Mike Carrafa threw his foot on...
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“This newest Mecca of the hopeful”: The fingerprints of John P. Clum’s legacy
John Philip Clum He was the only man to put Geronimo in chains. He gave witness to the most famous gunfight in the West. He was one of the most prominent publishers in Arizona. To some of his...
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Cattle rustlers making hay again
Cows graze at the University of Arizona’s Tucson Village Farm. (Photo by: Meryl Engle/ Arizona Sonora News) Cattle thieves took more than $100 grand from Doug Kuhn, and the state didn’t have the...
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Foley’s War: Occupying the U.S.-Mexico Border
Tim Foley at the Arizona Border Recon headquarters in Sasabe, Ariz. with a poster of the documentary Cartel Land, featuring Foley’s vigilante justice, behind him. (Photo by Kendal Blust/Arizona Sonora...
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Budget spends millions for unwanted Border Strike Force
Arizona Sonora News file photo The latest budget deal spends million of dollars on a new Border Strike Force created at Gov. Ducey’s request last year, but border county sheriffs say they want no part...
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Is the largest proposed mine in the U.S. an environmental bust?
Campers enjoy the scenery at Oak Flat. This area will become inaccessible when the mine is operational. (Photo by Ashley McGowan) Nearly 100 people left Superior High School disappointed and anxious...
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Seeking Safe Haven: Central American children hope to find refuge across...
US-Mexico border at Nogales. Photo by Jordan Glenn. About an hour south of Tucson, on the other side of a fence that demarcates the United States from Mexico, a humanitarian crisis unfolds as tens of...
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From the eyes of a stripper
For six years, Joanie Smith led a double life. To most she was Joanie, the young single mother putting herself through cosmetology school. To others, she Regina, the woman who danced for money. “At...
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The death of mom-and-pop
A Frankie’s South Philly Cheesesteaks employee prepares food for the lunch shift at the grill. Photo by Lindsey Wilhelm/Arizona Sonora News Service. Americans are choosing chain restaurants over...
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Nogales Connection: Daily shuttle service delivers
Two Sahuaro Shuttle drivers wait for customers across the street from the Mexican-American border in Nogales, Arizona. Photo by Julian Cronen/Arizona Sonora News Inside the neon green and yellow shack...
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Instrument provides opportunities and challenges
MIT graduate students Pronoy Biswas (left) and Mark Chodas prepare the Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) instrument for flight. Photo by William Litant/MIT A student-built instrument...
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A day with a field researcher in a vulnerable riparian ecosystem
Ariana La Porte searching for Gray Hawk nests. Photo by Cali Nash/Arizona Sonora News Service After miles of off-roading and a quarter mile of hiking around a small, rocky river, Ariana La Porte spots...
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Killing the San Pedro
A colossal proposed housing development in Benson, Arizona, threatens to deplete the San Pedro River and the local water supply within five years of completion. *Click the Image for Full...
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Despite rhetoric, refugees are a humanitarian concern
The top six nationalities refugees originate from in Arizona. Figures taken from the U.S. Department of Health Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, 2014. Graph by Jorge Encinas/Arizona Sonora...
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Tucson Art Institute’s closure to limit local choices in fashion design
The stage is set and the audience is ready for the 2016 Flowing Wells High School Fusion fashion show, where students showcase the garments they created throughout the year. Flowing Wells is only one...
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