Thomas Thwaites' documents his quest to take a break from being a human in his book "Goatman". Photograph by Tim Bowditch.
Signs of life and death...and more
Featured on the May 23rd, 2019 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- The Mexican restaurant Lerua's closed earlier this year to make way for the project to widen Broadway Boulevard. Mark talks with journalist Rita Connelly, the author of Lost Restaurants of Tucson, about this city's rich legacy of family-owned dining traditions.
Lerua's moved from 4th Avenue to Broadway Boulevard in 1941. It closed in February of 2019 due to the impending construction project to widen Broadway that will require the building's demolition.
- Meet Jesse Sensibar, who has written Blood in the Asphalt: Prayers from the Highway. It is a collection of stories from more than three decades of being a tow truck driver, and the many road side shrines and crosses that he has stopped to document along the way, published by Tolsun Books.
"I-40 In The median Mile 331 near Chambers, Arizona. Rest In Peace John." - Jesse Sensibar
Jesse Sensibar
- Meet Thomas Thwaites, an author and futurist from the UK who is now serving as an assistant professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. Mark talks with Thwaites about his whole-hearted attempt to take a holiday from being a human being by trying to live life as a goat.
Thomas Thwaites' second book, on his quest to take a vacation from being a human being in favor of life as a goat.
Thomas Thwaites' documents his quest to take a break from being a human in his book "Goatman". Photograph by Tim Bowditch.
- And, Arizona Daily Star columnist David Leighton looks back 60 years in local history, to tell about two visits that Martin Luther King, Jr. made to Tucson to speak on civil rights. Leighton's "Street Smarts" column runs the first Monday of every month in the Arizona Daily Star.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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