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Nov. 12, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- Nov. 12, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 5 months ago
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- Adelita Grijalva may now be officially called Congresswoman Grijalva, and she has already added her signature to an important petition; The City of Tucson Parks and Recreation announced a comment period over the renaming of a southside aquatic facility in honor of Ramona F. Gijalva; The 19-year-old driver accused of the hit and run accident earlier this month has now been officially charged; Find out why 13 casinos in the Mexican state of Sonora have been shut down; Plus more..
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- Nov. 10, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 5 months ago
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- The threat of food insecurity still dominates the news as the courts and the Trump administration take opposing sides;Arizona veterans unite in calling for the government to take action; When will Adelita Grijalva finally be worn in? Plus more...
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- Mobile Home Evictions & Jewelry Hubs | Arizona Illustrated
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- 5 months ago
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- This week on Arizona Illustrated our series ‘Mobile Homes: The Last Affordable Housing?’ continues with ‘The Eviction Game.’ Take a trip inside Potter U.S.A. where a local craftsman is amassing the world’s largest collection of vintage jewelry hubs; the Gregg’s Mistflower is a low-maintenance native shrub that will bring butterflies to your yard, and our collaboration with the Poetry Center continues as Sylvia Chan reads ‘Monster into Martyr.’
Mobile Homes: The Last Affordable Housing? Part 2 – The Eviction Game
In Part 2: The Eviction Game, the series investigates how mobile home residents who own their homes but rent the land beneath them can lose everything through rapid eviction tactics and predatory rule enforcement. With little legal protection and limited time to respond, residents like Kimberly Lucas and Roseanne Aldama describe how management uses intimidation, inflated utility bills, and 15/30 eviction notices to force people from...
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- Selma (2014) TRIVIA | Hollywood at Home
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- 5 months ago
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- A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
Cast: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey.
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- Nov. 7, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 5 months ago
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- Arizonans on food assistance will start seeing benefits again; one nearby national park is still open - sort of; decoding climate history from trees; and more...
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- Tucson election results recap | UA students killed by impaired driver | The Press Room
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- 5 months ago
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- Democrats sweep the Tucson City Council election, with two new council members voted in. Our panel of journalists discuss what changes could be ahead for the newly-elected council. Plus, the government shutdown continues, and Southern Arizona finds itself at the center of some social media misinformation this week.
GUESTS:
Joe Ferguson, Tucson Agenda
Paul Ingram, Tucson Sentinel
Katya Mendoza, AZPM News
Dan Shearer, Green Valley News
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- Nov. 6, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 5 months ago
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- Tucson travelers can expect slowdowns at the airport; Tucson drops a controversial rule to feed more people; A new thrift store has a special mission: and more...
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- Artists connecting with the natural world, Tucson's All Souls altar | State of the Arts
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- 5 months ago
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- In the premiere episode of State of the Arts, we look different artists connecting their craft with the natural world that inspires them. Plus, we share preview of Tucson’s All Souls Weekend at the community altar dedication.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Each week, AZPM's State of the Arts and host Mary Paul shows you a window into the world of visual artists, musicians, and creators from Southern Arizona and across the country.
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- Philomena (2013) INSIDE LOOK WITH VICTORIA LUCAS | Hollywood at Home
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- 5 months ago
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- A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.
Cast: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark.
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- "Stop putting us through this": The Tucson community copes with the food insecurity crisis.
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- 5 months ago
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- Also on Arizona Spotlight: A hit-and-run acident takes the lives of three UA students;William Shatner brings "The Wrath of Khan" to Tucson; and remembering Diane Ladd.
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- Tucson Roller Derby might not be the safest sport, but it is a safe space
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- 5 months ago
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- Also on Arizona Spotlight: The Rogue Theatre defies expectations with "Cloud Nine"; and remembering Tucson artist and Holocaust survivor Chris Tanz.
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- Sylvia Chan | University of Arizona Poetry Center Collaboration – “Monster into Martyr”
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- 5 months ago
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- Sylvia Chan is a writer, educator, a foster youth advocate, and author of We Remain Traditional (Center for Literary Publishing, 2018). Chan has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Zoeglossia, Bolt Cutters, and The Center for Art and Advocacy’s Right of Return. Her poem “Monster in Martyr” explores both the violence and possibilities of renewal in foster youth experiences. This piece is part of an ongoing collaboration between Arizona Illustrated and the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
Producer: Bryan Nelson
Videographer: Nate Huffman
Editor: Nate Huffman
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- Nov. 5, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 5 months ago
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- Voters put a democratic socialist on the Tucson city council and approve more funding for public schools; While Obamacare users deal with sticker shock; and more...
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- From Tucson to Etsy: Potter USA and the World’s Largest Jewelry Hub Collection
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- 5 months ago
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- Potter USA in Tucson is home to the world’s largest collection of historic jewelry hubs, tools once central to American jewelry making. Today, the company preserves that legacy while supporting a new generation of jewelers, from local artists to Etsy makers around the world.
Producer: Dennis W. Fitzgerald
Videographer: Danny Sax
Editor: Danny Sax
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- Nov. 4, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 5 months ago
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- Voters turn out for an off-year election; Pima County offers emergency food aid for infants; Arizona offers a way for uninsured folks to save on prescriptions; and more...
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- Desert Plants - Gregg’s Mistflower is a prolific flowering plant in the Sonoran Desert
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- 5 months ago
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- One can grow thousands of plants in the Sonoran Desert and Gregg's Mistflower, (Conoclinium greggii) is a recommended species if you want a relatively easy species that produces bountiful blooms for butterflies. It is drought-tolerant, can be grown in full sun or partial shade, and spreads by runners or seeds.
Producer: Tony Paniagua
Videographer: Robert Lindberg
Editor: Robert Lindberg
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- Nov. 3, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 5 months ago
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- The UA community mourns three of its own after a hit-and-run last week; Furloughed federal workers get a free meal in Tucson; Even mosquitoes have to adapt to climate change; and more...
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- Fraud Watch: Protecting yourself against phone scams
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- 5 months ago
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- The Federal Trade Commission says Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, up 25% from the year before. What's driving the surge, and which scam is hitting consumers the hardest? Amy Nofziger, director of victim support for the AARP Fraud Watch Network joins hosts Nicole Cox and Linda O'Bryon to discuss common scams targeting Americans, particularly through their mobile phones.
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- AZPM Original Series: State of the Arts PREVIEW
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- 5 months ago
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- Explore whats happening in the art world across Arizona. Tune in for a weekly window into the world of visual artists, musicians, and local Southern Arizona creators.
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- Mobile Homes, Kachina Dolls & Arizona Basketball | Arizona Illustrated
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- 5 months ago
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- This week on Arizona Illustrated, are mobile homes the last affordable housing? Our four-part series with Arizona Luminaria looks for answers to this troubling question and sees how residents are adjusting to a changing climate. As Native American Heritage Month starts, we head to Northern Arizona to learn about the Hopi tradition of Kachina doll carving. Poet Alison Demming reads ‘Questions for a Saguaro’ as our series with the Poetry Center continues and step back in time with the Wildcats Men’s Basketball Team as they celebrate their first-ever trip to the Final Four in 1988.
Mobile Homes: The Last Affordable Housing? Part 1 – An Invisible Disaster
In this first episode of Mobile Homes: The Last Affordable Housing?, AZPM and Arizona Luminaria reporter Yana Kunichoff investigate how record-breaking heat is turning Arizona’s mobile home parks into danger zones. Once seen as a pathway to affordable home ownership, many of these aging communities now face ...
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- Philomena (2013) TRIVIA | Hollywood at Home
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- 6 months ago
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- A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.
Cast: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark
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- Oct 31, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 6 months ago
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- Even members of congress seem tired of the shutdown; Oro Valley may be running out of room; Using artificial intelligence to understand how we learn language; and more ...
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- Using machine learning to study natural language processing
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- 6 months ago
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- Generative artificial intelligence is emerging as a tool to look at how people learn language. University of Arizona professor Gondy Leroy discusses research into how advanced machine learning can help families diagnose autism through the way their children acquire speaking skills. Gondy Leroy spoke with Leslie Tolbert, Ph. D. Regent's professor in Neuroscience at the University of Arizona.
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- The Press Room discusses the current state of mobile homes in Southern Arizona
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- 6 months ago
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- Once seen as a pathway to affordable home ownership, many of these aging communities now face crumbling infrastructure and soaring temperatures that make life inside them unbearable and sometimes deadly.
Tune into the Press Room Fridays here on YouTube or here on stream on AZPM Passport.
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- AZ joins lawsuit over SNAP benefit suspension | Predatory practices around mobile homes | Press Room
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- 6 months ago
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- Arizona joins the lawsuit over the suspension of SNAP benefits, and our panel of journalists look at the upcoming Tucson City Council races. Also on this week’s program, hear about an investigative collaboration between AZPM and AZ Luminaria on hardships facing mobile home residents in Southern Arizona.
GUESTS:
Yana Kunichoff, AZ Luminaria
John DeSoto, AZPM
Raye Winch, Poder Casas Moviles
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- Oct 30, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 6 months ago
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- Politicians continue to press congress to free up food stamp money; Flagstaff officials condemn a company that makes license plate readers; Arizona’s measles outbreak grows; and more...
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- Smoke Signals (1998) INSIDE LOOK WITH VICTORIA LUCAS | Hollywood at Home
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- 6 months ago
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- Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.
Cast: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal.
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- 1988 University of Arizona Men’s Basketball parade for first Final Four appearance
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- 6 months ago
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- Step back in time and celebrate the University of Arizona Men’s Basketball team’s first-ever Final Four appearance in 1988. This retro footage shows the parade held in Tucson for Lute Olsen and the team after they lost the game to Oklahoma. Notable players include Steve Kerr, Shawn Elliot, Tom Tolbert and future baseball All-Star Kenny Lofton.
Producer : Bill Buckmaster
Videographer/ Editor : John Booth
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- Oct 29, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 6 months ago
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- As SNAP money runs out, the state tries to fill the gap; A California Republican calls for Arizona’s newest member of Congress to be sworn in; A Tucson church fights back against the ravages of time; and more...
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- Alison Deming | University of Arizona Poetry Center Collaboration – “Questions for a Saguaro”
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- 6 months ago
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- Guggenheim Fellowship winning poet Alison Deming reads her poem “Questions for a Saguaro”. The reading is illustrated by producer David Fenster who reveals the inner life of a saguaro with time bending stop motion images.
Producer: David Fenster
Editor: David Fenster
Videographers: David Fenster & Nate Huffman
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- Oct 28, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 6 months ago
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- More shutdown fallout, as people deal with a halt in SNAP benefits; the beginnings of a crisis in health care; Border crossings are way down; and more...
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- The Art of Kachina Doll Carving - Tayron Polequaptewa
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- 6 months ago
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- Learn about the history of the Hopi art of Kachina Doll carving from Tayron Polequaptewa, an award winning carver, and the Museum of Northern Arizona’s Anthropology Curator, Dr. Kelley Hays-Gilpin.
Producer: David Fenster
Editor: David Fenster
Videographer: David Fenster
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- Oct 27, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 6 months ago
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- State officials fight to keep food benefits flowing in the midst of the shutdown; Voters will decide on a long-term plan for Tucson; the night sky hold some spooky stories; and more...
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- Mobile Homes: The Last Affordable Housing?
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- 6 months ago
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- Mobile Homes: The Last Affordable Housing? is a four-part documentary collaboration between Arizona Public Media and Arizona Luminaria reporter Yana Kunichoff that investigates the hidden crises inside Southern Arizona’s mobile home parks.
Part one of the series premieres on Sunday November 2 on Arizona Illustrated on PBS 6 at 6:30 p.m. Once seen as a symbol of independence and affordability, these communities now face deadly heat, predatory management, inflated utility costs, and vanishing protections. Through intimate stories of residents, data-driven reporting, and firsthand access inside the parks, the series reveals how policy failures and corporate neglect have pushed Arizona’s last form of affordable housing to the brink and how residents are fighting back to reclaim stability.
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- Saving Cats, MCM, Painting & Poetry | Arizona Illustrated
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- 6 months ago
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- This week on Arizona Illustrated see how a nun’s vision to save cats has lasted 60 years in Southern Arizona; Herb Greif’s iconic designs are highlighted by Tucson Modernism Week; Tucson painter Willie Bonner’s artwork demands to be seen and our collaboration with the Poetry Center continues with Marc Pinate’s ‘How Do I Explain?’
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60 Years of Saving Cats
The Hermitage No-kill Cat Shelter and Sanctuary has been providing a cageless, loving, healthy home for countless cats in Tucson for six decades. Services include vaccinations, spay and neuter operations, TNR (trap, neuter and return) efforts, and adoptions for kittens and cats.
Designing Tucson – The Legacy of Herb Greif
In the mid-20th century, as Tucson grew from a desert town into a modern city, designer Herb Greif was quietly shaping its visual identity. Now 96, Greif’s legacy can still be seen across Southern Arizona in faded signage, vint...
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- Smoke Signals (1998) TRIVIA | Hollywood at Home
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.
Cast: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal.
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- Oct 24, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- People in Marana want to know if ICE plans to hold prisoners in their town; U os A is hosting a track and field championship; the mystery of how squirrels spread germs; and more
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- "Si Pudiera Quedarme" (If I Can Stay) tells the story of two women seeking asylum from deportation
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Also on Arizona Spotlight: "Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue" brings a new spin to beloved characters; understanding the needs of native plants during drought; and Diane Keaton remembered.
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- Learning from squirrels about microbial health
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- 6 months ago
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- Squirrels are notorious for being somewhat anti-social creatures. A team of researchers is trying to understand how the animals share crucial microbes that keep them healthy. University of Arizona evolutionary biologist Lauren Petrullo discusses the behavior of squirrels that leads to microbial exchange. Lauren Petrullo spoke with Tim Swindle, professor emeritus of Planetary Science at the University of Arizona.
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- Adelita Grijalva takes legal action against the US House | UA rejects Trump Compact | The Press Room
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- 6 months ago
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- The University of Arizona rejects the Trump administration’s higher education compact, but leaves the door open for some discussion. Plus, The Press Room’s panel of journalists breaks down the lawsuit filed by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva against the US House for her delayed swearing in.
We also discuss a recent Pima County Supervisors meeting attended by hundreds of Project Blue protesters, and the extensive No Kings Day protests in Arizona.
GUESTS:
L. M. Boyd, AZPM News
Paul Ingram, Tucson Sentinel
Prerana Sanappannavar, Arizona Daily Star
John Washington, AZ Luminaria
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- A shelter founded by a Russian Orthodox nun in Tucson, Arizona has been saving cats for 60 years
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- 6 months ago
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- The Hermitage No-kill Cat Shelter and Sanctuary has been providing a cageless, loving, healthy home for countless cats in Tucson for six decades. Services include vaccinations, spay and neuter operations, TNR (trap, neuter and return) efforts, and adoptions for kittens and cats.
Producer: Tony Paniagua
Videographer: Robert Lindberg
Editor: Robert Lindberg
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- Oct 23, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Lightning strikes hikers in northern Arizona, prompting a rescue; Deputies chase crypto scams in Pima County; Picacho Peak plays a role in a forthcoming movie; and more...
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- Designing Tucson: The Legacy of Herb Greif | Mid-Century Design in the American Southwest
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- 6 months ago
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- In the mid-20th century, as Tucson grew from a desert town into a modern city, designer Herb Greif was quietly shaping its visual identity. Now 96, Greif’s legacy can still be seen across Southern Arizona in faded signage, vintage tourism posters, and the clean lines that defined a generation of desert modernism.
Greif’s work helped define how Tucson saw itself during the 1960s through the 1980s. Through interviews with Greif and preservationists, this story explores the creative vision of a man whose art combined commerce and culture. His story reminds us that good design does more than look beautiful, it can shape the character and cultural history of a place.
Producer: John DeSoto
Videographer: Diana Cadena, Nate Huffman
Editor: John DeSoto
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- Oct 22, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Refugees lose access to federal food benefits; Hundreds of Arizonans have lost their right to vote - by mistake; Tucson chocolate lovers have a new place to stop; and more...
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- Willie Bonner’s Solo Show: Pre-Existing Condition in Tucson
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- 6 months ago
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- According to Willie Bonner, the visionary African American abstract painter based in Tucson, the meaning embedded in his work is profoundly layered—woven with threads of multicultural resonance and rhythmic complexity. His art is an invitation—an urgent call to engage—not merely through surface or form, but through the deeper currents of social meaning and cultural reflection. Bonner's canvases speak a language beyond words, striving to transcend the limitations of language itself. Like jazz—born of Black America, shaped by African rhythms and ancestral memory—his painting pulses with an indigenous rhythm, one that belongs unequivocally to the African American experience yet reverberates through the broader American narrative.
His work is not an allegory, not a simplified symbol of Blackness in postmodern America. Rather, it is an interior cartography—a visual archive of lived experience, inscribed with the psychological dimensions of Black identity. Within the layere...
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- Oct 21, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 6 months ago
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- It’s official: Arizona is suing speaker Mike Johnson to force him to swear in Adelita Grijalva; Tucson leaders say homelessness is now an emergency; The Colorado river drought imperils millions of birds; and more...
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- Marc David Pinate | University of Arizona Poetry Center Collaboration – “How Do I Explain?”
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- 6 months ago
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- A visual representation of Marc David Pinate’s poem titled, “How Do I Explain?” which was produced in collaboration with Arizona Illustrated and the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center.
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- Oct 20, 2025 | AZPM News Daily
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- 6 months ago
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- The UA says no thanks to the Trump compact; Crypto scams are targeting Arizonans; Two new comets visit the night sky; and more...
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- Botanical Gardens & Women Bodybuilders | Arizona Illustrated
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- 6 months ago
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- This week on Arizona Illustrated: The Tucson Botanical Gardens is celebrating 50 years of nature, science and culture. The Gardens’ CEO talks to Tom McNamara about a new exhibit; see how Tucson women are redefining beauty standards through bodybuilding; poet Estella González finds liberation through disco and dive in to our archives to learn how two explorers discovered a secret cave that would turn into a popular tourist attraction.
Love, Lies, Lifting – Women Bodybuilders
More women are turning to bodybuilding and not only to compete, but to embrace it as a lifestyle that extends far beyond aesthetics. This story explores the discipline behind competition prep, the lifelong benefits of weightlifting, and the way these women redefine traditional standards of beauty.
Tucson Botanical Gardens 50th Anniversary
In the heart of Tucson, where desert light meets the rhythm of rustling leaves, the Tucson Botanical Gardens blooms as a sanctuar...
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- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) TRIVIA | Hollywood at Home
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- 6 months ago
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- A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates
