A 25-ton Tiki head in arid Arizona somehow seemed perfectly sensible as part of Tucson’s Magic Carpet Golf. But when the mini-golf course closed in late 2007, the head — as well as the attraction’s many other oversized sculptures — were imperiled by the same forces of change that have toppled Tikis in places that […]
Big rumblings from the Arizona/Mexican border, where a Canadian and Cuban artist labor to build a 12-foot-tall sand sculpture of a sombrero-shaded sleepy Mexican. The snoozing senor is “commonly found in tourist souvenirs,” according to a press release posted on artdaily.org. It’s not all that common, but it is a familiar sight at South of […]
A memorial was unveiled Sunday in Phoenix, Arizona, to four men who died exactly one year earlier when their news choppers collided while broadcasting a police chase of a stolen pickup truck. Craig Smith, Rick Krolak, Scott Bowerbank, and Jim Cox now belong to the exclusive fraternity of Sky Kings, men who crashed as they […]
Steve Robinson, owner of Envirotech Industries, had a vision. He got his hands on as many old tires as he could — 10 million by some estimates — and piled them in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. Garbage? Hah! It was a modern day Peg Leg Gold Mine. Robinson was going to use secret giant microwaves to […]
