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A Touch of Color: February 2008
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A Touch of Color. Covering the ins and outs of border and immigrant art. Monday, February 25, 2008. A touch of concrete. All too much of the time, sterile city parks mock the spontaneity of nature that they're trying to project. Thinly cut grass, convenient sidewalks and stockroom statues rob the areas of their originality and life. But in Tucson, you never know what to expect. Its Santa Cruz River Park. The Garden of Gethsemane. Monday, February 18, 2008. A gem in the rough. Although the couple lives in...
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A Touch of Color: Old Main hosts ancient ceremony
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A Touch of Color. Covering the ins and outs of border and immigrant art. Monday, April 14, 2008. Old Main hosts ancient ceremony. Slogging across the University of Arizona. Mall after coming home from the eye opening but exhausting Saint Andrew's Clinic. Right next to Old Main. On the grassy mound between the fountain and the flag pole, an ancient Nahuatl ceremony was in the midst, led by a Nahuatl elder Angelbertha Cobb. I could see this through the symbolism of the rituals. The elder was wearing a ...
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A Touch of Color: A colorful history
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A Touch of Color. Covering the ins and outs of border and immigrant art. Monday, March 24, 2008. May not seem to fit in with the vibrant paintings and shrines of Mexican folk art. Their minimalist form and plain brown color is antithetical to the extravagant hues of the milagros. And miniature murals. But the carvings have an interesting history and an authentic origin. The Seri Indians are a group of native hunter-gatherers in Sonora, Mexico. Close to Hermosillo. The Seri create simplistic carvings,...
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clustered near the border: March 2008
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Clustered near the border. Monday, March 24, 2008. I was surprised to find such a thriving Irish culture in Tucson, but even more startled when I happened upon the Finnish-American Club. Of Tucson. I met with the club president, Sinikka Garcia, to learn about this small community. The club has been around for 42 years in Tucson and has 100 members give or take a dozen or so, says Garcia. People of Finnish decent, Finnish born or folks interested in Finnish culture. Are welcome to join the club. If you ha...
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clustered near the border: The "Subculture" known as Goth in Tucson
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Clustered near the border. Monday, March 10, 2008. The "Subculture" known as Goth in Tucson. In the minds of some the word "Goth" inspires visions of fishnets, black make-up and moody music. If that thought is appealing or disgusting to you is your prerogative, but the Goth scene is alive and thriving across the US. Halloween found Peterson in a cowboy get-up,. rather than a stereotypical priest or "dom" outfit. E Nomine (watch video). Peterson has heard Goths judged as "freaks," "pale people in black," ...
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clustered near the border: final Irish post
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Clustered near the border. Monday, March 3, 2008. I will say farewell to the Tucson Irish community. With this last entry. Elizabeth “Beth” Solinsky was born and raised in Dublin. And now resides in Tucson. She is married and has six children, and two of them climbed up slides backwards at McDonald's Play Place, while we talked about Solinsky’s journey from Ireland to the US. She followed him out to Tucson, Ariz. with thoughts of finding a thriving Irish community being zilch. Clustered near the border.
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clustered near the border: De/Vision's Thomas Adam
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Clustered near the border. Monday, February 11, 2008. The music starts and. Thomas Adam steps up behind his keyboard. The crowd, not a single person lacking a least a stitch of black. Clothing, begins to clap and then roar as Steffen Keth. That is how the Tucson show of De/Vision’s. US tour begins. What follows is much dancing and much, as Thomas Adam would put it, nice electronic music played by two German guys. After a sound check, when everything worked and before the show. Adam sites an example that ...
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clustered near the border: Part One of Tucson's Irish
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Clustered near the border. Monday, February 18, 2008. Part One of Tucson's Irish. This is part one of a three part series on the Irish community in Tucson. According to the census information in 2000 46,811 Tucsonans documented themselves as being of Irish decent. An additional 117 people were born in Ireland. The estimate of Irish in Tucson was 55,085 in 2006, according to census information. Tucson’s link to the Irish even goes back to 1775 when Irish blooded Hugo O’Conor. Today she continues to study ...
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clustered near the border: January 2008
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Clustered near the border. Monday, January 28, 2008. Tucson vs New Orleans. This blog is about. Different cultures clustered near the U.S. / Mexican border,. Specifically in Tucson, Ariz. For my first entry I spoke to James Cook, 29, who moved t. O Tucson to start over after Hurricane Katrina flooded his native New Orleans, La. I thought t. Hat Cook would have an interesting view on the culture in Tucson since he was coming from a. Part of the United States that was culturally and geographically different.
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clustered near the border: The Finnish!
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Clustered near the border. Monday, March 24, 2008. I was surprised to find such a thriving Irish culture in Tucson, but even more startled when I happened upon the Finnish-American Club. Of Tucson. I met with the club president, Sinikka Garcia, to learn about this small community. The club has been around for 42 years in Tucson and has 100 members give or take a dozen or so, says Garcia. People of Finnish decent, Finnish born or folks interested in Finnish culture. Are welcome to join the club. Other Bor...
