Month: November 2025

There’s a New Food Truck on Campus – So Delicious it Sold Out
Food

There’s a New Food Truck on Campus – So Delicious it Sold Out

By Diedra Eby Gigi's Mexican Peruvian Fusion food truck. Photo by Diedra Eby. There’s a new food truck on campus: Gigi’s Mexican Peruvian Fusion. The business made it’s debut as the first truck for Food Truck Tuesdays on Pima Community College's Downtown Campus on Oct. 7. If you didn’t get there early, you missed out, because Gigi’s sold out! Was it that good? For sure. “It reminded me of when I grew up in Mexico,” said Edward “Eddie” Ramos, an HVAC student at PCC who works for Lifetouch Photography. He said it tasted like the tacos and beef his grandma made him when he was a boy, and that he would definitely buy it again. Sandra Espinoza, owner of Gigi's Mexican Peruvian Fusion food truck, poses at the ordering window, Photo by Diedra Eby. Owner Sandra Espinoza s...
Silent Read-in for Banned and Challenged Books
Arts & Entertainment, Culture, US News

Silent Read-in for Banned and Challenged Books

By Diedra Eby Flyer for PCC's Silent Read-in, 2025. On October 7, 2025, Pima Community College campuses held Silent Read-ins for banned and challenged books. I visited the downtown campus, where approximately twenty students had visited, most coming to browse and do their reading elsewhere. Here are the top 10 books that were censored, banned or challenged in 2024, in this order: The Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2024 infographic was released as part of the 2025 State of America's Libraries Report. Courtesy of the American Library Association. "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Johnson "Gender Queer: A Memoir" by Maia Kobabe "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky "Tricks" by Ellen Hopkins "Looking for ...
Hades II: The Perfect Sequel?
Arts & Entertainment

Hades II: The Perfect Sequel?

Joseph Cunningham Warning: Spoilers Ahead Cover for Hades II game. Roughly one month ago on Sept. 25, 2025, Hades II, the sequel game to their title Hades released in 2020, was released in full by Supergiant Games. The game falls into the roguelike category of games, where you, as a character, progress through procedurally generated dungeons or rooms, upgrading your character with random upgrades. In Hades they are called boons, pulled from a large pool. With some ultimate challenge like a boss fight at the end of the chain of rooms. Typically the goal of a roguelike isn’t to go through a story but rather hunt achievements, beat previous time records, or do specific challenge runs. Hades, however, also has a story to tell—and a rather good one at that. Hades follows this...
TRON LIVES? Third franchise installment in fifteen years has special double-feature in Phoenix
Arts & Entertainment

TRON LIVES? Third franchise installment in fifteen years has special double-feature in Phoenix

By Rory Archer A landscape version of one of the Tron: Ares posters, featuring the titular character of Ares. Credit: Walt Disney Studios. Background PHOENIX — "Tron" is a defining movie in the sci-fi genre. Released by Disney in 1982, it follows programmer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), who is digitized and copied into the computer realm, where he must fight for his life with help from his friend’s security program, Tron (Bruce Boxleitner).  It was one of the first movies to feature mostly computer-generated imagery, and was even disqualified from the Academy Awards because the amount of special effects was seen as ‘cheating.’ Regardless, the movie had a successful line of games in the following years, and a sequel in 2010: "Tron: Legacy," which continued its trend of groundb...