"Everything You've Got": Sometimes it takes seven billion years to find yourself.
Featured on the June 12th, 2025 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- Last month, President Trump announced his desire to reopen Alcatraz, one of America’s most infamous prisons. Since it was shut down six decades ago, Alcatraz has been a federal historic landmark managed by the National Park Service. As Gabriel Pietrorazio of KJZZ reports, the 22-acre island near San Francisco has an unusual connection to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona. To read more, you can find Pietrorazio's article here.
- Meet young playwright Madeline Hill and her mentor, actor Gretchen Wirges. The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre is presenting the world premiere of Hill’s play “Everything You’ve Got”, an unusual story about two immortal beings having a final confrontation on an empty, dying planet.
- In Tucson, a once-defunct LGBTQ+ gun rights group is redefining what it means to protect — and uplift — a community. Find out how The Tucson Pink Pistols have grown from one woman’s Reddit post into a 500-member grassroots group focused on safety, education, and chosen family.
You can read more about the Pink Pistols here
- In a new edition of the oral history project Archive Tucson, Colette Barajas talks about her decision to start a women’s bar in 1983, even though it brought about harassment from the City of Tucson. She also speaks about the role of bars as an important part of Tucson’s lesbian community during the eighties and early nineties. You can find an article about Colette Barajas by McKenna Manzo here.
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