Arizona Spotlight | Interviews, Music, And Headlines From Southern Arizona

This week: Challenges for first-generation college students; the anniversary of 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'; the Tucson Festival of Films.

This week: Actor and comedian Dana Carvey; CEO of the Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse; novelist Johanna Skibsrud.

This week: Leadership changes at two Tucson art museums; the Tucson Pima Arts Council; actor Chuck Yates who portrays Truman Capote in the one-man show "Tru"; and more.

This week: Analyzing everyday sounds, local music videos from the 1980s with "The Desert Sound"; lightning photographers; German students in AZ studying drought.

This week: UA Professor Cristina Ramirez on her book "Occupying Our Space"; Ray Campas, the 81 year-old owner of Hollywood Barber College; Art Dads.

This week: The Mapping Q gallery show; historians tell us what life in Tucson was like for in the year 1776; remembering the late jazz musician Stefan George.

This week: A journey on the Colorado river to see bighorn sheep; restoring the San Xavier Mission; what it means to be a first-generation college graduate.

This week: Artist and performer Kathryn Ferguson; the University of Arizona's Cooperative Extension program; Chris Dashiell looks at different portrayals of Zorro.

This week: an arts program for refugees; University of Arizona space scientist Chris Impey on the "exploration gene"; illustrator Beth Surdut.

This week: the lore and beauty of flowers with author Stephen Buchmann; a 58 year old man who kept his illiteracy a secret until he decided to turn his life around; wildlife illustrator Beth Surdut.

This week: A welcome to new American citizens from around the globe; sharing music and camaraderie in Downtown Tucson; The Rogue Theatre's new look at "The Portrait of Dorian Gray"; and a call to practice paying attention in your own backyard.

This week: A community finds common ground in a local park; Sun Sounds of Arizona reads print media for those who can't; author Janni Lee Simner talks about creating fantasy fiction; unusual style of yoga offers "Authentic Movement".

This week: A Tucson non-profit that reads newspapers for people with disabilities; a survival program at Davis-Monthan; the curator of Lowell Observatory talks Pluto; desert animals who come out during monsoon.

This week: Living a year without processed food, the 10th Annual National Independents Week, Chris Dashiell looks at 'Desert Bloom', a 1986 film shot in Tucson, and Jane Eppinga tells us the story of Cyclone Bill and Climax Jim.

This week: Songs that remind AZPM staff members of our dads; a father and son who are keeping the rare language of Esperanto alive; what Father's Day means for a boy and his 2 dads.

This week: dropout prevention in Tucson; the three-time winner of the annual Moth Story Slam competition in New York City talks about overcoming fear; a conversation with body-positive blogger Jes Baker.

This week: the author of 'Finding Abbey', a police officer who helped create "Flags for the Flagless", a classic car show, and a story from Molly McCloy about a summer traveling to open mic night.

This week: A graduating UA student and veteran who was told he would never walk or talk again, a visit to the Red Cross, and a UA grad student studying memory and learning in insects.

This week: A teenager who found a role model and friend through Big Brothers, Big Sisters; the executive director of the Tucson Audobon Society; three 'Art Moms'.

This week: A gathering where hundreds of truckers compete to see who is the best trucker in Arizona; a unique class promoting laughter for health; the history of Pinetop, AZ.