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7Nov

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Arizona News, News

Oak Flats Spiritual Site Under Threat

By Joseph Cunningham Photo by Cheryl Evans/The Republic Sixty miles west outside of Phoenix is a place called Oak Flats. Oak Flats has been the subject of legal battles for close to 10 years now. In 2013, two of the largest mining companies in the world came together to create a mining operation in Arizona. These companies were BHP and RioTinto, forming the project Resolution Copper, with the goal to acquire 2,422 acres of land within Oak Flats. However, there are several problems with this plan, one such being that the land is a holy site for the native Apache Tribe, and should be protected under religious freedoms. A lawsuit was filed in 2021 by Apache Stronghold which claimed the land was protected by a treaty from 1852, the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restor...

Hockey is still strong in the desert, 10 years after Tucson gains AHL team

7Nov

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Arizona Sports, Arts & Entertainment, Athletic Voice, Sports

Hockey is still strong in the desert, 10 years after Tucson gains AHL team

By Rory Archer The Tucson Roadrunners circle center ice at the beginning of their 2025 home-opener. The team’s mascot, Dusty the Roadrunner, is seen hyping up the crowd in the center. Photo by Rory Archer. TUCSON, ARIZ. — The Tucson Roadrunners won their season’s third game and home-opener with a final 5-4 in overtime on Saturday, Oct. 18th against the Calgary Wranglers. The start of this season marks the tenth anniversary of the Tucson Roadrunners moving from Springfield, Mass., to Tucson, Ariz. The home-opener game started with its usual 4 p.m. tailgate and “red carpet” walk for players. Arena doors opened at 6 p.m., an hour before puck drop. There was an estimated 5,547 in attendance. Several players were scratched from the game, including Roadrunners long-time star Robb...

7Nov

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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 ...

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

6Nov

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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

5Nov

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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 ...

5Nov

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Politics

Tucson shows up for national “No Kings” protests

By Caroline Hansen

3Nov

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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

3Nov

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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...

31Oct

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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...

31Oct

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Arts & Entertainment

Melancholic Bops From Video Games

By Quinn Smalley It’s October, and the air is getting crisp. The colors on the trees are shifting to brilliant hues of crimson, orange, yellow and brown, and the spooky vibe of Halloween is among us… is what I would say if we lived in New England. Tucson’s weather, while incredibly comfortable this time of year through the holidays, leaves us sorely lacking a certain spooky atmosphere. Music is the ultimate mood setter, so I’ve compiled some of my very favorite spooky, seasonally appropriate official videogame soundtracks. Parasite Eve (1998) by Yoko Shimomura — Blending opera and orchestral music with electronic synths and dance beats, this soundtrack is one of the most danceable on the list. Haunting operatic vocals and tragic piano solos are present in most tracks, especi...