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Photo of the Week: 3.9.2010

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

VOICES Photo by Chris Romero.
Photo edited by VOICES Assistant Photo Editor Lilliana Lopez.

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VOICES on KUAZ: Natalee Dawson on her family’s bird collection

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Natalee Dawson on KUAZ
Natalee Dawson, a junior at Salpointe Catholic High School, speaks about her family’s growing bird collection. “There are birds, small trilling creatures, and then there are Birds with a capital ‘B’ – the ones whose beaks are uncomfortably large in comparison to your fingers.”

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Fabian De Le Pena Montero: Day of the Dead Altars

Friday, February 26th, 2010

VOICES Youth Apprentice Fabian De Le Pena Montero, 16, a junior at Tucson High Magnet School, investigated the spiritual, cultural and artistic aspects of altars created to remember lost loved ones during Day of the Dead celebration. Montero interviewed five people as a way to explore the different ways that people turn the grief of [...]

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Photo Competition: The Rhetorical Triangle

Friday, February 19th, 2010

The Spring 2010 VOICES Magazine staff participated in their first photo competition during their training on the basic concepts of rhetoric:  Logic, Passion, and Character. VOICES uses rhetoric as a tool to develop stories that explore, challenge and appeal to the logic, passions and character of readers. Working in teams of three, the staff had [...]

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Photo of the Week: 2.19.2010

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

VOICES Photo:  Krystle Marie Chavez, Brian Hernandez, Cassandra Valadez

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VOICES x KUAZ: Jacob Lopez tells how he is using his life-long fascination with make-up

Friday, January 29th, 2010

“Paranoid  that someone was coming toward the bathroom, I would wash my face even faster.  I was scared as hell. Now that i’m 19, I want to show others the freedom that makeup has given me.”
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(VOICES Photo/Lilliana Lopez)
more on Jacob:
Jacob Lopez, 19, Pima Vocational High School
I’m here at VOICES as a youth apprentice in Radio. [...]

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voicesTV: Last day at the De Anza Drive-In Theater

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Written and Directed by Jose Morgan, Edge High
Vidcaps of De Anza story:

More about the film-maker:
Jose Morgan, 17, Edge High School
I hope to go to college right after high school. I had acquired an interest in journalism and I thought Voices was the perfect opportunity to get a head start. I have always had a passion [...]

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Editorial: Brigette Dumais on Jazz Solos and Social Skills

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Jazz Solos and Social Skills
By:  Brigette Dumais, 16, Tucson High Magnet School
The coffee shop at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in the mountains of southern California had several round tables that could sit four or five people at once, wooden floors and big windows that faced the forest. It smelled like rain and freshly brewed [...]

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Tucson Weekly: Stephanie Fleming on supporting her soldier brother

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Click here to read the story on the Tucson Weekly’s website.

Guest Opinion: I am a proud sister of a U.S. Army veteran
by Stephanie Fleming
When I was young, my brother Patrick and I were always close. We would play Zelda together, or eat buttered tortillas and watch The Emperor’s New Groove.
In 2005, all of that changed. [...]

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Attitude of Gratitude: VOICES is thankful for…

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

( VOICES Photo collage by:  Marena Priday, Michelle Rogers, Maria Aguirre, Samuel Crosswell, Anthony Valencia, Victoria Garcia, Fabian De La Pena)
 
We polled the staff, youth staff, Board and volunteers of VOICES to learn what people are thankful for in this season of gratitude. Check it out, we’re a thank-filled crew:

“I’m thankful for chickens, turkeys, beets, [...]

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