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Tucson’s Circus Academy Helps Students Soar

21May

By Pima Post Editorial TeamNo Comments

Tucson’s Circus Academy Helps Students Soar

By Ruby Maldonado Photo from StageLync In a city filled with gyms and sports fields, the Circus Academy of Tucson offers something entirely different: a place where students climb ropes, soar on trapezes and master aerial silks. At the academy, beginners and aspiring professionals train side by side, learning discipline, strength and artistry that can take them from a classroom to a stage. It trains students to achieve their own goals, whether they want to become a performer in Las Vegas, build strength or just have fun. A key part of the academy is inclusion, with instructors believing that anyone and everyone can do circus and wanting to be part of that journey. The school has been around since 2015, when owners Katherine Tesch and Annie Miele spotted a tiny “For Rent”...

8Apr

By Emma PetersonNo Comments

Business

The Pima Post Playlist: Week 2

Song 8: "Come" by Namie Amuro. "Throwback to 2003, it’s late and you wake up with your gameboy advance on your face because you fell asleep gaming, and an episode of Inyuasha is just finishing up, you hear this iconic song. Namie Amuro is a Japanese pop star from Naha, Okinawa, Japan. With a career spanning 25 years, starting in 1992, Amuro has sold millions of records across Asia. She has since publicly retired in 2018, and has lived as a private citizen since. Her music was available on streaming services in 2019, but was mysteriously removed from streaming and digital retailers like iTunes in 2023 without explanation. Only a few songs remain." - Quinn Smalley Song 9: "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve. "There's a part that says 'you're a slave to the money until you die' and it's ...

A new era begins: BTS redefines success with record-breaking release

31Mar

By Emma PetersonNo Comments

Business

A new era begins: BTS redefines success with record-breaking release

By Illianna Valenzuela BTS poses for picture before “Comeback Live | Arirang” on Netflix featuring their new album. Photo via Netflix Tudum. The wait is finally over for K-pop fans around the world as BTS successfully reunites with the release of their fifth studio album, “ARIRANG.” The live event in Seoul's Gwanghwamun Square, which marked a major global comeback, had approximately 104,000 in-person attendees despite only 22,000 winning tickets. An estimated 300 million people tuned in through Netflix, and the event was broadcast across 190 countries. The album became the most streamed K-pop album in Spotify history in just 24 hours, 110 million first day streams, set the highest first day sales (3.98 million copies) on Hanteo Chart, and achieved the biggest first da...

26Mar

By Emma PetersonNo Comments

Business

Sex on Campus: Freebies and Fun Facts

By Diedra Eby Kedar Moye on West Campus checking out the “Pleasure Basket,” 2026. Photo by Diedra Eby. Sex is more important on the hierarchy of needs than self-esteem, status, or even freedom, according to Maslow. Ask yourself: Why are you here at Pima Community College? For some of you, the answer is because your parents told you that you had to come here. For some of you, it’s to improve your self-esteem or your status with the education you’ll obtain. Some of you will be reaching for the top rung of Maslow’s pyramid with the desire to become the most that you can become. That is self-actualization. Guess what? Sex comes before all of that. Therefore, it is natural to want to have, try to obtain, and seek out sex while attending college. When you giv...

Lick(s) It Up: Interview With Licks Ice Cream & Coffee Owner Jill Perez

16Dec

By Ambur WilkersonNo Comments

Business, Food

Lick(s) It Up: Interview With Licks Ice Cream & Coffee Owner Jill Perez

By Jackson Melin There are many craft dessert shops in Arizona, but in Catalina, you’ll be hard-pressed to find any. One shop, however, stands out among the surrounding chains: Licks Ice Cream & Coffee. Jill Perez sat down for a Q&A with The Pima Post about her experiences. Q: How long have you been in business? A: Three years, going on four. Q: Do you reach out to or sponsor local vendors for small merchandise, food or gifts? A: Yeah. We have local vendors come in and tell us about themselves, and we decide whether to carry their items. Some of our vendors have included a woman who makes stickers, Tucson Coffee Roasters, a girl who makes candy and a baker who makes cookies. Q: What do people come in for more — the ice cream or the coffee? ...

A Call to Action: How Your Work Can Put the Community First at PCC

10Dec

By Emma PetersonNo Comments

Business, Opinion, Pima News

A Call to Action: How Your Work Can Put the Community First at PCC

By Caroline Hansen Supporting the Learner: Building a Better PCC Experience When a person decides to go to college, it is one of the most important decisions they will make in their life. When a person is starting out at their local community college, they most likely have not led a privileged life. When an older person comes back to get a degree and they qualify for FAFSA, chances are they really need the financial aid and need to get that degree as quickly as possible. There are many reasons students might experience financial hardship, especially coming back to school later in life. Maybe it was a car accident, a divorce, an injury, or a job layoff. Perhaps they were disenfranchised from their former job or their field has been taken over by AI. Chances are, they aren’t b...

7Nov

By Emma PetersonNo Comments

Business, Events, Features, Food

Cal’s Comeback

By Quinn Smalley In November 2024, Tucson was dealt a bittersweet blow to its sweet-tooth. Cal’s Bakeshop announced on Instagram that it would be closing its cottage bakeshop in early 2025. At first, it seemed as though Caleb “Cal” Orellana, the owner of Cal’s Bakeshop, was bidding Tucson a permanent goodbye. But the caption for the post was later edited to tease a brick-and-mortar location opening. Oct. 11 and 12, 2025, served as the grand opening weekend for Cal’s Bakeshop, a mostly vegan bakery that originally operated out of Orellana’s kitchen during the pandemic. Now located inside the building that Rocco’s Little Chicago called home for 25 years, the bakeshop is back and just as delicious as ever. Scores of Tucsonans queued up in a line that wrapped around the building for ...

Pink Sweat$ Brings “Welcome Home” Tour to Tucson with Opening Act Aqyila

13May

By Ambur WilkersonNo Comments

Arts & Entertainment, Business

Pink Sweat$ Brings “Welcome Home” Tour to Tucson with Opening Act Aqyila

By Lucia Grijalva Photo by Lucia GrijalvaPhoto by Lucia GrijalvaPhoto by Lucia GrijalvaPhoto by Lucia GrijalvaPhoto by Lucia GrijalvaPhoto by Lucia GrijalvaPhoto by Lucia Grijalva Photos by Lucia Grijalva On Feb. 28, artist Pink Sweat$ performed at Tucson’s Rialto Theatre. His “Welcome Home” tour brought a set full of dreamy pink lights and indie/R&B ballads. Pink Sweat$ garners an average of 5,332,913 listeners monthly on digital music streaming service, Spotify, and has amassed a total of 963,443,269 views on online video platform, YouTube. Fellow R&B singer, Aqyila, opened for the show. She pulls in 979,077 monthly listeners on Spotify and has gathered 44,784,243 views on YouTube. Before her appearance, audience members sat awaiting and unaware of the pure roma...

1May

By Ambur WilkersonNo Comments

Business, Politics

New Show: Just An Ordinary Joe

Check out the first episode of "Just An Ordinary Joe", a show that fuses reporting and commentary, hosted by Joe Cunningham. In this episode, Joe goes over recent events under the Trump Administration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMUZSgM0TkY

Sweet Tomatoes Exclusively Returns to Tucson

29Apr

By Pima Post Editorial TeamNo Comments

Business, Events, Features, Food, Pima News, Top Stories, US News

Sweet Tomatoes Exclusively Returns to Tucson

By Steve Forrester Between 2023 and 2024, over twenty different Tucson-area restaurants closed their doors. We’re happy to see that one restaurant has returned with their doors wide open, and not just returned to Tucson, but exclusively returned to our fair city. This restaurant is Sweet Tomatoes, which had its grand re-opening at Broadway and Wilmot on April 1st, 2024. At 11:00 a.m. on that drizzly Monday morning, a long line of guests showed up (the first in line arrived at least an hour early), and all applauded when the doors opened and the line began to slowly step inside the renovated restaurant. Everyone in line gave a sigh of relief because finally, a lost institution had been resurrected, just after Easter Sunday. The hostess and management gave everyone a warm...