Luis Alberto Urrea shares the blueprint for "The House of Broken Angels".

courtesy Tisa Zito

Featured on the October 7th, 2021 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

• The multi-talented Angelo Moore, front man and saxophonist for the legendary band Fishbone, has been creating music and art at breakneck speed for his entire life. He is the star of ForeverMoore: The Angelo Project, a new documentary featured in the 17th annual Tucson Film & Music Festival through October 11th. Mark talks with Utah-based filmmaker Tisa Zito about bottling lightning and boxing-up thunder to create the film.

courtesy Tisa Zito

• Tucson writer Liza Porter has a new collection of poems called Keep the Singing, dedicated to her late sister Edie. Porter shares the story of learning to process the pain of losing a loved one, and the deeper understanding of their relationship that evolved from writing about it.

• And, award-winning and best-selling author Luis Alberto Urrea will be featured on October 14th, 2021 as part of the Tucson Humanities Festival at the University of Arizona. Urrea shares the inspiration behind his 2018 novel The House of Broken Angels. It tells the story of a Mexican-American family’s patriarch coming to terms with his impending death from cancer, and his quest to try to right any wrongs he may have committed in the time he has left.

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