Archive for the ‘Editorial’ Category


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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The Bat Mitzfit: How I Found Womanhood and Lost Religion

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

By:  Dylyn Shapiro, 17, City High School
My cheeks were as hot as fresh Hamentaschen cookies. I was up on a podium, reciting from the Torah at my Bat Mitzvah, the traditional rite of passage for most 13-year-old Jewish girls. My eyes, wet with salt water, gave me a blurred view of the Hebrew texts. I [...]

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“It’s easy to spend, difficult to save”: by Talena Brown

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Every other Thursday always goes like this: I run down to the bank and cash my paycheck, thinking about how soon I can get to Urban Outfitters. I make it through two hours of work until I can catch the bus to the Main Gate Plaza…

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The Fourth Avenue Underpass by Jackie Enriquez

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Downtown construction. An unpleasant reality for most people in Tucson…

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Chris Stagg in Downtown Tucsonan

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Skateboarding has been a part of my family for years. Before I was born, my dad Chris traveled to skate competitions all over the west coast. At home, when I was little, we had a halfpipe ramp in our backyard and my dad and his brother…

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Young Voices: My heart still beats for Samjana By Laxmi Narayan Dahal

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Five months ago, I left Nepal and my praemika (girlfriend), Samjana, to come to America. Since I’ve been here, I’ve noticed high school boys go through many girlfriends. But I believe that love should be with only one girl, not a thousand.

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Zach Khalil in the Feb. issue of the Downtown Tucsonan

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Writing and Photography by Zach Khalil.
“A train rumbled through downtown and its whitsle brought me out of the indifference of sleep and back to my senses.”

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VOICES in the Downtown Tucsonan

Friday, January 9th, 2009

VOICES will now be published in the Downtown Tucsonan, so be on the look out!

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Young Voices: Cathrine Suddarth published in the Arizona Daily Star

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Getting centered by celebrating Yule

Three years ago, my family went through a rough Christmas. But it wasn’t so much the family drama we were going through that made it so hard as it was the Christmas season itself.¬† People I saw on the street were so focused on themselves that they would actually run into [...]

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