This weekend is the marvelous Janet K. Miller’s biannual Garden Party. She makes fabulous gingersnaps and lemonade, and has the most amazing heirloom flowers we’ve ever seen. Stop by her gorgeous yard and check out her luminous and sweet reverse glass paintings Saturday and Sunday from 12-5. Her backyard garden is at 522 S. Fifth [...]

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(No, Los Lobos aren’t coming to town. I wish. “Saint Behind the Glass” is the best song evah.)

This Saturday, March 29th, from 3-7pm, come to La Placita Village (110 S. Church Ave.) and celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the reintroduction of the grey wolf to its former habitat in the southwest. We’re not sure [...]

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Depressing and troubling. More talk about closing local school (because bigger classrooms in faraway schools are just what our kids need). It’s horrifying and a bit embarrassing to read about the flawed audit and the estimates of savings from the closures–the mistakes and confusion about these matters is upsetting.
Sharing the front page with the article [...]

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These are amazing. Gorgeous blocks of fabric, backed with flannel, with an inner layer of fleece.  Yum!

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Many of you know our friend Richard.   If you don’t, you should read his book anyway just for the joy of it.  The book, “God’s Middle Finger”, is about his hair-raising adventures in Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains.  
He’s giving a book reading/signing at Borders, 5870 E. Broadway, here in Tucson tomorrow evening, Thursday 3/20, 6pm. [...]

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 Hey, it’s time for Saturday Nights downtown! This Saturday, March 15th at the Main Library, 5-10pm, free, all ages. Music, beer, Flam Chen on stilts, face-painting and art for the kids…sounds great!Our friends J and N really liked Combo Westside when they saw them, and they’re the first band up at 5pm–might have to check that out with [...]

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From our friend/reader Erika:I know you are a concerned parent, and I know that you will also help a person in need.  I am asking you to help those of us who want and even NEED to keep our TUSD elementary schools open, for the sake of our own children, and for the sake of [...]

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Have you seen any great wildflower displays?
We saw some amazing poppies, and, um, Purple Flowers, and Yellow Flowers.

The pics on the page were taken close to downtown–the first pullout on your right as you go up A Mountain, a three minute walk down the trail.
Glorious!

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Let me tell you how much I love our vet. But first I will assure you that anything we rave about on TucsonMama is solely because we are excited–at this point, we’re not selling ads (and if that time comes, you will know it, because, well, there will be ads on the page), and we [...]

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More about Clinton, politics, and gender. I really liked this piece, and am still fascinated by the woman-as-leader discussion.

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