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Where to eat after Friday's UA graduation

Wilko, on East University Boulevard across from the Park Avenue Main Gate, will be open until around 11 p.m. Friday ready to feed hungry graduates and their families.

Janos will end lunch service April 26 at Kitchen + Cocktails downtown

Chef Janos Wilder, who launched his career nearly 30 years ago downtown, will concentrate his energy on his growing dinner business at Kitchen + Cocktails, 135 S. Sixth Ave.

Celebrate Tucson's Slavic heritage

Members of the Lajkonik Polish Folk Ensemble perform for the Tucson Slavic Festival Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 at St. Melany Byzantine Catholic Church. Such entertainment can be expected at the Slavic Heritage Festival April 20, 2013.

Foothills Mall sports grill shuts doors abruptly

World Sports Grille boasted many flat-screen TVs and video games when it opened at Tucson Mall in 2008. The restaurant closed Monday. Customers with an unused Groupon may contact the online deals company at www.groupon.com/support for refunds.

Arts, craft show makes the rounds

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Arts, craft show makes the rounds

Nancy Shaffer, reflected in a repurposed mirror, scouts wares at the Dewdrop Fair. Two others Dewdrop Fairs are coming up.

Arts, craft show makes the rounds

Larry Carter works at a booth featuring oil paintings by his wife, Kathy.

TUSD Superintendent John Pedicone

Flowing Wells School District Superintendent John Pedicone applauds students from Flowing Wells' preschool program who had finished singing holiday songs for he and his staff who were finishing a holiday luncheon in 2001.

TUSD Superintendent John Pedicone

Flowing Wells School District Superintendent John Pedicone applauds students from Flowing Wells' preschool program who had finished singing holiday songs for he and his staff who were finishing a holiday luncheon in 2001.

Mascotas felices, dueños responsables

Esta feria fue una invitación a todos los amantes de los animales para que se reunieran y disfrutaran de un día agradable, con la oportunidad de aprender más sobre el entrenamiento para mascotas.

Mascotas felices, dueños responsables

La feria también se prestó para la oportunidad de adoptar uno de los animales rescatados.

Mascotas felices, dueños responsables

En la feria, Zoe adoptó a este lindo gatito de rescate y lo bautizó con el nombre de Dusty.

Mascotas felices, dueños responsables

Ianna y su mascota Sweety se expresaron con un abrazo lo que significa una para la otra.

Mascotas felices, dueños responsables

Nilda Olea, con su mascota Maggie, dijo que fue un día precioso para este evento familiar.

Kenzie Fowler

Arizona pitcher Kenzie Fowler winds up for the pitch in the first inning of a game vs. Oregon State at Arizona. The UA won 8-0 in five innings in 2010.

Teavana

Teavana at La Encantada, 2905 E. Skyline Dr.

A weekend to pamper your pooch

The Annual Arizona Animal Fair on Saturday at Reid Park is the largest event of its kind in the entire Southwest, organizers say.

Dorothy Finley

After 30 years as a teacher and administrator, Dorothy Finley began a new career in 1983 when her husband died and she took over the family beer distribution company, Finley Distributing.

It's a musical milestone

President Jean-Paul Bierny believes Friends is one of the country's most prolific commissioning organizations, outpaced only by groups like Lincoln Center, which pays for commissions with grants.

Wings over Willcox

Wezil Walraven a naturalist with the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory in Bisbee, looks through binoculars at sandhill cranes that are wintering in the Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area in McNeal on. The birds can be seen through a spotting scope at right. Photo taken on 1/7/1999.

Flowing Wells Holiday ShootOut: Despite foul trouble, Leikem leads Cabs

Flowing Wells' Lyndsay Leikem picked up her third foul in the first half but was foul-free the rest of the way and scored a game-high 19 points.

Kon Tiki's Hawaiian Revue

Ernie Menehune, a Tucson Music Hall of Fame member, will perform at the Kon Tiki on New Year's Eve. He's pictured above, performing with The Polynesian Revue.

Photos: Las Posadas procession, a tradition in Tucson

Musician Cindy Rinehart, right, leads the way with music as Knocker Boy Estevan Gomez leads Carrillo School students in the 70th annual Las Posadas Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006. The school's students walk through the old barrio in the procession in search of a house which will take Mary and Joseph…

Music notes

Tucson magic-man Michael DeSchalit performs a show in Green Valley on Monday.

Sprucing up on the cheap

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Guest Column: Decision to close Enke golf course shows a lack of fiscal reasoning

Two javelinas walk across Fred Enke Golf Course, which the Tucson City Council last month voted to close and create an undefined "passive park."

Division II semifinals: Ironwood Ridge 35, Tempe Marcos de Niza 21: I-Ridge heads to title game for first time

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Business briefs

The Teavana store at 2905 E. Skyline Drive in La Encantada opened its doors Oct. 15, 2010. Starbucks Corp. said Wednesday that it will buy Teavana Holdings Inc. for $620 million.

Mt. Lemmon: A busy mountain

Adam Block guides the 24-inch telescope via the computer as he takes visitors through an astronomy program at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter.

Arizona softball: NPF All-Stars 23, Wildcats 1

UA third baseman Brigette Del Ponte tags National Pro Fastpitch All-Star Nikia Williams for the final out in the top of the third inning. The All-Stars scored nine runs in the third, including one driven in by the UA softball team's director of operations, Caitlin Lowe.

Arizona softball: NPF All-Stars 23, Wildcats 1

Arizona center fielder Hallie Wilson runs out of room while chasing a Charlotte Morgan home run in the fourth. The All-Stars hit six homers in the game.

Concert celebrates saint's songs, stories

Christina Jarvis and her early-music ensemble, Musica Sonora, will present a concert on the life, writings and music of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century nun canonized in May.

Smallpox now gone, but its lesson lives on

Jennifer Lee Carrell

Skin etchings a form of expression; parlors must get leeway, court says

A customer shares his "canvas" - his back - for a large tattoo. Arizona justices ruled on Friday that tattoos themselves are a form of protected expression, so any city or town efforts to impose special conditions on use permits for parlors are not allowed.

KIIM disc jockey Buzz Jackson is up for country music honor

You'll find Buzz Jackson behind the microphone in the KIIM radio station studio in the afternoons. It's his second nomination for the CMA award.

Catalina Sky Survey keeps watch for threats to Earth from afar

This 60-inch telescope on Mount Lemmon is one of two in the Santa Catalina Mountains that are part of the Catalina Sky Survey. There is a third in Australia.

Benson 49, Tanque Verde 6,

Benito Pimienta

Salpointe hands Chapparal first home loss since 2007

Cameron Denson

Wilbur and Wilma Wildcat through the years

Phyllis Goodman dances with Wilma Wildcat prior to the start of a tribute for former UA basketball coach Lute Olson at McKale Center in 2009.

Reid Park's beloved Connie put down at San Diego Zoo

Connie, pictured here with a 2-year-old Shaba, became a mother figure to the African elephant.

Connie the elephant from Reid Park Zoo

Shaba, left, and Connie enjoy a dip in the pool in the enclosure at Reid Park Zoo on March 11, 2005. Shaba, an African elephant, and Connie, an Asian elephant, have had been together over 20 years when this picture was taken and Connie has been a mother figure in that time.