The Art of Becoming
The Tucson Bonsai Society held its first sponsored show at Levy’s Fiesta Room in El Con Mall. The event, which featured tree […]
The Sunken Six Theater: The Man Who Planted Trees
It’s 10:10 P.M. Lights come on in the lobby of the Sunken Six Theater, a blend of cool white and violet. From […]
DISPATCH // Payphone: 04.22.26
The mall is buzzing with competing echoes: laughter and conversation, shoes clacking on terrazzo floors, and pop music emanating from the Merry-Go-Round […]
The Death of the Imagination Gap: Why Modern Gaming Cannot Defeat the Black Knight
Your party of adventurers descends into a desert canyon. You round a bend and encounter a large cave in the mountainside. As […]
DISPATCH // Brannock Device: 04.08.26
August 1981: The new school year has arrived, so you head to Kinney’s Shoe Store in El Con Mall to get a […]
The Sunken Six Theater: Cinema Paradiso
It’s 10:10 P.M. Lights come on in the lobby of the Sunken Six Theater, a blend of cool white and violet. From […]
DISPATCH // Ranger Bear: 03.25.26
In 1962, the Montgomery Ward at El Con Mall sold a Twin Winton Ranger Bear cookie jar. It’s the one I grew […]
The Distillation
The Inherited Signal If I could distill my childhood impressions of masculinity into a scent, it would smell like Old Spice cologne. […]
DISPATCH // FISHING DERBY: 03.11.26
On April 16, 1965, the El Con Mall fountain was filled with 1,000 trout. The newspaper summoned the city with five words: […]
The Substance of the Myth: Why Friction Created the Star Wars Phenomenon
The Speedway Laboratory It was raining the night I bought my first Star Wars action figure. I was four years old, running […]
The Sunken Six Theater: Groundhog Day
It’s 10:10 P.M. Lights come on in the lobby of the Sunken Six Theater, a blend of cool white and violet. From […]
Fuzzy Carpets and Gold Leaf: The Lost Art of the “Considered Detail”
Fuzzy Carpets and Gold Leaf: The Lost Art of the “Considered Detail” They say you can tell a lot about a person […]