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Not sure what to buy on Record Store Day on April 20? We've got some suggestions, included albums by Wilco, Garbage, The Offspring and even Joe Pesci.

“Gastronomy is the nexus of food and culture,” Janos Wilder told me over lunch at Tucson, Arizona’s historic El Charro Café, the nation's oldest Mexican restaurant in continuous operation by the same family, which celebrated 100 years last year.  

Selector locates resistance in the "music and culture of the paleteros, people who sell at the swapmeet, and day laborers."

Cinco de Mayo at Hotel Congress Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers is a Sonoran Desert band and happy to be. Fans in Arizona and Mexico...

Maíz has deep roots in the Sonoran Desert, and Tucson is celebrating its cultural and agricultural significance for the second year in a row. The...

“A Taste of Pueblos del Maíz” on Sunday, April 16 at St. Philips Plaza will provide a preview of the second annual Pueblos del Maíz Fiesta.

Thursday, Sept. 1 Gathering storm clouds rumbling with sound are set to sweep through Downtown Tucson. This year Mexican rock ‘n’ rollers Los Apson, Tuareg...

HOCO Fest celebrates its 16th anniversary Labor Day weekend with a “forward-facing” twist: the Regenerate AZ: Sonoran Desert Sustainability Summit. Matt Baquet, the festival’s director...

Captain C We come to the end of the journey. The day after the baseball game was my last full day in Japan; I went to the Ota Museum and wandered around Shinjuku and Shibuya for a bit, before spending the evening hanging out with C. The next day, I went to the lovely Shinjuku Gyo-en National Garden in Shinjuku, before departing by train to Narita and leaving Japan at 6:20pm on Friday, arriving back at JFK at 6:15pm that same Friday. All in all, one of the best trips of my life and one I hope to...

This series was created by Alain Chamot (1971-2020). Captain C After two great nights in Osaka, I took the shinkansen back to Tokyo for the last three nights of my trip. This stretch would include some great parks and music shops, more good food, and a baseball game! On the Shinkansen near Mt. FujiApril 2, 2019 One of the reasons to take the shinkansen is that its route passes near Mt. Fuji, Japan’s most iconic and venerated mountain. On both trips, I made sure to reserve a window seat on the...