December 4, 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 [...]
December 3, 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. [...]
November 24, 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 [...]
April 14, 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…
April 14, 2009
Downtown construction. An unpleasant reality for most people in Tucson…
March 11, 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…
February 20, 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.
January 31, 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.”
January 9, 2009
VOICES will now be published in the Downtown Tucsonan, so be on the look out!
December 30, 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 [...]
