Arizona Spotlight

Tucsonan Aims for 2016 Olympics

Apr 17, 2014 Mountain View High School senior hopes to land a spot on the team USA's skeet shooting team.

George C. Scott as ultra-patriotic General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove"

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dr. Strangelove

Apr 10, 2014 Film writer Chris Dashiell shares his appreciation for director Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy on its 50th anniversary.

Arizona Spotlight for April 11, 2014

Apr 10, 2014 Author talks about new book on science of food, other things people can swallow; film writer shares appreciation for classic satire marking 50th anniversary.

The Address: A Film by Ken Burns

Apr 8, 2014 Watch students from the Greenwood School memorize, practice and recite the Gettysburg Address. Premieres Tuesday, April 15th, at 9 p.m. on PBS 6.

Arizona Spotlight for April 4, 2014

Apr 3, 2014 Visit a Beat Cancer Boot Camp; special prom for teenagers with cancer; a woman shares her experiences serving in Iraq; radio drama of "Dillinger's Last Love"

This year was the ninth annual Dream Night Prom, hosted by the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern Arizona.

Local Group Hosts Special Prom for Teens with Cancer

Apr 3, 2014 Hosted by the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of S. Arizona, teens experience this high school rite of passage on their own terms.

Tales of Tucson: Dillinger's Last Love

Apr 3, 2014 A story about something that might have happened in Tucson more than 80 years ago, and kept secret ever since...

Tucson Program for Cancer Survivors Expanding Nationally

Apr 3, 2014 Founder of Beat Cancer Boot Camp combines passion for helping patients with working out.

Lucia Mendez says it would be difficult to feed her family of eight without Just Coffee

Arizona Spotlight for March 28, 2014

Mar 27, 2014 Co-op selling coffee in Tucson is helping Mexican families stay together, avoid migration; Mexican films getting more recognition; Stairwell Session with Mike Kanne.

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Mike Kanne talks about his music in the AZPM radio studio

Stairwell Session: Mike Kanne

Mar 27, 2014 Can the Rillito River wash the blues away? Kanne is a singer / songwriter who draws on desert landscape, family life for lyrical inspiration

Genaro Mendez's sons help him plant coffee seedlings in Chiapas that could end up sold in Tucson

From Chiapas, Mexico: More Than Just Coffee

Mar 27, 2014 Co-op selling coffee in Tucson helps Mexican families stay together and avoid dangerous illegal immigration.

Arizona Spotlight for March 21, 2014

Mar 20, 2014 What is the 'C.S.I. effect'?; a look into what causes influenza to spread; and Tucson Festival of Books attendees share "A Book I Love"

The 1918 flu known as Spanish Flu, but new research establishes that the flu originated in the Western Hemisphere. NPR

UA Professors Traces Origins of Flu

Mar 20, 2014 For years wild migratory birds have been considered a source of all flu viruses, but his research finds differently.

Javier Duran, executive director at the University of Arizona Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry, discusses the Confluence Center's presence at the Festival of Books.

Events Present Cross-Cultural Dialogues of Border Life, Art

Mar 13, 2014 The UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry presents "Voices Across Borders" at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend.

Arizona Spotlight for March 14, 2014

Mar 13, 2014 Native Americans foods growing source of business; program offers second chance to juvenile offenders; UA Confluence Center hosts events at TFOB; author & folklorist Norma Cantù

Dan Cornelius, left, and his assistant set up the Mobile Farmers Market at Tucson's Native Seeds/SEARCH.

Native American Traditional Foods Turn Into Viable Business

Mar 13, 2014 From tepary beans grown by the Tohono O’Odham people to chocolate produced by the Chickasaw Nation, Native Americans are entering the niche food market in many places.

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