http://www.thezmag.com/articles.sec-68-1-urban-features.html Traverse miles of urban desert in a short time while learning about Tucson's landscape and history!]]> These days, independent bookstores stay afloat through a precarious combination of sideline retailing, niche marketing and sheer quirkiness.]]> We love reading on the porch while the rain pours heavy and hard from the heavens, and figure you do too.]]> Observe sporadic and dynamic stories - paintings on Tucson walls which enhance our urban experience, giving freely to all who gaze upon them. ]]> At Hacienda del Sol’s Terraza del Sol, patrons can witness bartender Eddie Pain harvest their drink’s ingredients.]]> In a life-imitates-cinema turn of events, a slew of dead bodies are responsible for bringing the Historic Rialto Building back to life. ]]> Since 2004, the number of roller derby teams rocketed from three in the United States - Austin, Phoenix, Tucson - to more than 400 worldwide. ]]> The Weird Plant Sale is a great opportunity to check out bizarre and exotic species that have developed specific "habits" to stay alive. ]]> Local developer Michael Keith began work as the Downtown Tucson Partnership’s interim CEO on May 10. Zocalo spoke with Keith about his roots and his vision.]]> The vision is electric car chargers at big box stores, gas stations and at home garages with initial infrastructure deployment beginning this summer.]]> Featuring real human specimens providing viewers the opportunity to see the complexity of their own organs and body systems. ]]> Tucson’s indoor climbing gym, Rocks and Ropes, which was built in 1992, was the sixth climbing gym built in the United States.]]> Answering the question of awareness is humanity’s greatest and oldest quest. ]]> City planners’ commitment to making the Old Pueblo more bicycle-friendly could receive national accolades as Tucson prepares for its first ever Cyclovia event on April 18. ]]> A bold, intriguing experiment takes place in town this month. As part of Bike Fest 2010, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 18, five miles of city streets will become off-limits to motor vehicles.]]> When Susan Frank opened O2 Modern Fitness, it was in her business plan to reach out to local kids. ]]> The night is hardly meant for sleeping anymore, even though in Tucson it may seem otherwise. ]]> Its 7:28pm and the boos are raining down on the ice at the Tucson Convention Center arena. ]]> Graphic and web design can be lonely work. Tucson Digital Arts Community (TDAC) is dedicated to making it a little less solitary. The group draws as many as 80 electronic media artists for workshop]]> A virtual sea of bicycles – dozens, even hundreds – coasts by, riders smiling and chatting as they disappear into the darkness, red taillights blinking.]]>