Arts & Entertainment

By Jackson Melin The flyer for the Oro Valley Festival of the Arts and Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration. Photo courtesy of orovalleyaz.gov. The 14th annual Oro Valley Festival of the Arts and Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration took place Saturday, Dec. 6, from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The official tree lighting began at 6 p.m. at the Oro Valley Marketplace. Admission is always free. The event featured a wide selection of local artists, vendors and performers, ranging from artists and food trucks to jazz bands. Each year, the hope for the event is to attract attention from both tourists and residents. More than 150 artists and over 500 student and community performers showed up. Participants took pictures with Santa and built mini wo...

By Bea Perez Photo from Alison's Halo's Instagram Are you someone who lights up the moment music starts playing? Do you crave nights filled with energy, sound and the kind of memories you can still feel the next morning? This upcoming Friday, Nov. 21 the stage will come alive with the shimmering, atmospheric soundscapes of Alison’s Halo, performing live for one night only.  If you’ve never seen them before, get ready for an experience that wraps around you like a dream. A stage filled with lush guitars, swirling vocals and rhythms that pull you into a world where everything feels like a dream. And as if that weren’t enough, they’re sharing the night with none other than Tanukichan, who will be stepping in to La Rosa with her signature blend of alternative rock and indie v...

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...

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...