Features – Pima Post

13Nov

By Emma PetersonNo Comments

Culture, Features, Health

Flower Power

By Jackson Melin A hemp flower. Courtesy of Secret Nature blog. THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabinol) are the two main compounds found in cannabis. THC is psychoactive, while CBD has pain relief properties. Marijuana can be used medicinally or recreationally. Forty states have legalized medicinal usage, while 24 states have legalized it recreationally. Three popular strains of cannabis include indica, sativa and hybrid. It can be molded in many forms: edibles, flowers, concentrates, topicals and oils. I myself started using medicinal marijuana in 2024 for chronic pain. It has worked great for managing the pain, reducing anxiety and improving my creativity. I asked two of my classmates (Rory Archer, 19, and Quinn Smalley, 32) about their THC and CBD ...

11Nov

By Emma PetersonNo Comments

Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Events, Features

Dia de los Muertos at Pima

By Caroline Hansen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By3UFeaLVfc

7Nov

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Features

The Witching Weekly: 11/7

By Ruby Maldonado Hey, everyone! Welcome back to The Witching Weekly! I hope you all had a great Halloween, or Samhain celebration last week! I’d love to hear about it! Also, if anyone has suggestions for recipes, spells or tarot spreads, let me know! This week, I wanted to share something that I don’t use as much, but maybe you can find it useful. Sigils are really easy to make and use, and they can serve nearly every purpose! You can use a sigil wheel or the word method, or look up a specific sigil if you so please. They can be used in hairbrushes or on lipstick, in notebooks or showers/baths, clothing tags, literally anything. There are just as many ways to activate them, like burning a piece of paper or a leaf with the sigil written on it, crossing it out or tearing it, writi...

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 ...

31Oct

By Emma PetersonNo Comments

Features

The Witching Weekly: 10/31

By Ruby Maldonado Hi everyone! Welcome back to The Witching Weekly! To those who celebrate, happy Halloween!! Every year now, I try to make a (somewhat) traditional Samhain dinner, and I’m really excited for this year. Samhain is a Pagan holiday starting on the night of October 31 to November 1, and it’s to mark the end of the summer and the entrance into a colder, darker time. The barrier between our world and the spirits’ world is thinnest on that day, and we use it to honor the spirits and people that have passed. This year, I plan on making a sausage and fennel pasta, pear and pomegranate salad (which I made last year, too!) and apple cinnamon cheesecake. It takes almost all day to cook, so it’s perfect for dinner before trick-or-treating! I’ll link the recipes below if...

Stone Tool Making with Professor Boyd: Flint Knapping, Percussion Flaking, and Pressure Flaking at PCC

30Oct

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Stone Tool Making with Professor Boyd: Flint Knapping, Percussion Flaking, and Pressure Flaking at PCC

By Diedra Eby On Saturday, Sept. 20, Professor Jon Boyd led a one-day class called “Stone Tool Making” on PCC’s West Campus. Students learned to recognize stone tools, or lithics, and their byproducts, such as debitage — the sharp-edged leftovers that scientists study to determine what was made during the flintknapping process. Some of these fragments can even be used as scraping tools Archaeologists recreate tools to study wear patterns and determine how ancient tools were used — for gathering, butchering, or cutting wood. It also helps them understand how the tools were made, which in turn supports time and labor studies of prehistoric activities, such as how long it took to chop down trees, make tools, or craft bows and canoes. “Most of what we know about Stone Tool Maki...

24Oct

By Ambur WilkersonNo Comments

Features, Health

Mindfulness During Midterms

By Caroline Hansen Take a moment to check-in with yourself during this busy time with these mindful words and a breathing exercise guided by The Pima Post's very own Caroline Hansen! If you or any of your PCC peers are dealing with stress or mental health concerns, please reach out to Pima Community College Counseling here. Additional mental health resources, including the community crisis line, can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OLQ8cgpLx0

24Oct

By Ambur WilkersonNo Comments

Features

The Witching Weekly: 10/24

By Ruby Maldonado Hi everyone! Welcome back to The Witching Weekly! Today’s issue will be a little bit different— instead of giving a recipe or a craft, I want to teach you how to practice reading auras. Aura reading is one of my favorite things to do, because I feel that you can learn a lot about a person just through that, and it’s fun to do when you get really good at tuning in. First, like usual though, will be our tarot reading! This week is a Self-Love Tarot Spread. Typically, I have a reason for which spread I choose, but this one was calling to me in particular, even if there isn’t a theme. I chose to use my Movie Tarot deck by Diana McMahon and Natalie Foss because it has some of my favorite illustrations, and I usually only do readings for myself with it so I thought it...

Valley of the Moon: A 100+ Year Old Fairyland

19Oct

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Valley of the Moon: A 100+ Year Old Fairyland

By Diedra Eby Photo from the Valley of the Moon website. Valley of the Moon is an over one-hundred year old non-profit magical fairyland. This Halloween, join the all-volunteer company for the “Ferb-tastic Haunted Ruins Adventure”, based on Disney’s Phineas and Ferb. The first Saturday of each month is a family-friendly event; the play will be held Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from October 3rd through the 26th every 20 minutes from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. American Sign Language night was Oct. 5. Docent-led tours are the third Sunday of each month through spring 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. George Phar Legler is the artist who created Valley of the Moon in Tucson in 1923 after raising his family in Indiana. It was his work as a railroad man that allowed him to purchase the proper...

Rejoice! The Seven-Year Wait for Hollow Knight: Silksong is Over

19Oct

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Arts & Entertainment, Features

Rejoice! The Seven-Year Wait for Hollow Knight: Silksong is Over

By Rory Archer TUCSON, ARIZ. -— I’ve been a fan of “Hollow Knight” for a long time. It was one of the video games my dad bought for me on my Nintendo Switch for my thirteenth birthday, and amidst a global pandemic, I spent most of my isolation navigating the difficult, yet beautiful, world of “Hollow Knight”. I dressed up as the game’s bug princess, Hornet, that Halloween, and spent my time hiking, listening to the game’s soundtrack across dirt trails, as I kept my Nintendo Switch in my bag at all times–just in case I took a break on my hike to continue playing the game. I expectantly read articles about the game’s supposed sequel, which had been announced the year before, in 2019. It’s been seven years since that announcement, and with the game releasing earlier this ...