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This week on Arizona Illustrated: take a step into Tucson’s underground art scene, literally, at Subspace in the Steinfeld Warehouse; meet two cousins who are fostering meaningful community connections in a busy world; learn about Binho, a new tabletop game from Arizona that is going global; and see why a desert plant with a sweet scent and a delicate flower might make the perfect addition to your landscape.
Subspace Artists
Beneath the sun-scorched streets of downtown Tucson, where the desert light thins to shadow and the city's pulse runs low and quiet, there exists a hidden world. Tucked into the subterranean belly of the historic Steinfeld Warehouse - a hushed titan of brick and memory standing at 101W. W. Street - Subspace unfolds like a secret kept beneath the earth. It is an underground artist collective, a breathing gallery of raw imagination, where corridors of aging stone cradle the hum of brushes, the murmur of voices, and the patient glow of studio lamps. In the heart of the Warehouse Arts District, beneath the clamor and the sunlight, this basement sanctuary gathers dreamers and makers into a slow, deliberate constellation - a place where the city's buried stories rise again, not as ruins, but as art, warm and luminous in the dark.
Desert Plants - Huachuca Mountain Rocktrumpet
Residents in the Sonoran Desert can choose from thousands of native plants and other drought-tolerant species that can be used in local gardens. Some are rarely used, even though they have desirable qualities that would enhance the typical front or backyard setting. The Huachuca Mountain Rocktrumpet is one of them.
Fingers of Fury: The growth of finger soccer in Arizona
Finger soccer is taking the United States by storm. The tabletop game, played with your fingers, got its start in a Phoenix backyard. Now, Binho tournaments are being held across the country, and Tucson recently hosted its first competition as the game continues to grow.
Tucson Primas
Real life cousins Paola Bustamante and Karen Velasco came together to create Tucson Primas a social club with the goal of creating a space for young Latina women to make friends. After facing their own personal struggles, they found solace in each other and seek to give that sense of community and support to other women in Tucson.