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Slugman returns from his home planet to attend Slugfest this weekend

AZPM | By Mark McLemore
Published October 13, 2026 at 1:24 PM MST
Slugman Route 66
Courtesy Slugfest Festival
'Slugman' of Slugfest Festival poses alongside the Route 66 artwork.
Trey Wilhite Spotlight
Courtesy Slugfest Festival
Founder of Slugfest Trey Wilhite with "Slugman" mask, featured in Slugfest happening October 17th at 4th Avenue Coalition, from 10am-10pm.
Photograph taken by Off Kilter Productions.

Featured on the October 15th, 2026 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

Slugman returns from his home planet to attend Slugfest this weekend

  • Meet Marylee Pangman, a Tucsonan with a life-long passion for native plants, who followed her heart island became a novelist while in her ‘70s…
Marylee Pangman Studio
AZPM/Tony Paniagua
Marylee Pangman in AZPM's studio talking with Tony Paniagua about her new creative outlet.
Getting Potted in The Desert Book Sleeve
Courtesy Marylee Pangman
Getting Potted in the Desert written by Marylee Paul book sleeve. Available to order now.
Whispers of Echo Canyon Book Cover
Courtesy Marylee Pangman
Whispers of Echo Canyon written by Marylee Pangman

  • What is this weekend’s Slugfest? Anicia Trejo-Flores interviews two of the founding artists behind an all-day event celebrating skateboarding, vintage clothes, physical media and nostalgia for the 90’s…
Whispers of Echo Canyon Book Cover
Courtesy Marylee Pangman
Whispers of Echo Canyon written by Marylee Pangman
Marylee Pangman Studio
AZPM/Tony Paniagua
Marylee Pangman in AZPM's studio talking with Tony Paniagua about her new creative outlet.

  • Naturalist Matthew Nelson shares the story of an eerie case of mistaken identity that occurred in Devil’s Canyon in the Tonto National Forrest…
Matthew Nelson Nepal Portrait
Courtesy Matthew Nelson
Executive director of Arizona Trail Association, Matthew Nelson in Nepal.

  • And a look back at food scarcity - and abundance - in mid-century Tucson, through the memories of someone who was there, made by Oral Historian Aengus Anderson of Archive Tucson…
Archive Tucson
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Archive Tucson is a project of the University of Arizona Libraries' Special Collections to preserve the stories of our neighbors in Tucson and Southern Arizona.

Webpage by Anicia Trejo-Flores.

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Mark McLemore
Mark McLemore is the host of Arizona Spotlight on NPR 89.1, a weekly radio show with a very wide beat.
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