Gretchen Wirges stars in "Everything You've Got" at the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre.
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June 12, 2025
Featured on the June 12th, 2025 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- Last month, President Trump announced his desire to reopen Alcatraz, one of America’s most infamous prisons. Since it was shut down six decades ago, Alcatraz has been a federal historic landmark managed by the National Park Service. As Gabriel Pietrorazio of KJZZ reports, the 22-acre island near San Francisco has an unusual connection to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona. To read more, you can find Pietrorazio's article here.
The Hopi Nineteen – all hailing from the pueblo village of Oraibi in northern Arizona – were arrested by the U.S. Army in 1894.
Mennonite Library And Archives / Bethel College
Alcatraz Island, built in 1854.
National Archives And Records Administration
- Meet young playwright Madeline Hill and her mentor, actor Gretchen Wirges. The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre is presenting the world premiere of Hill’s play “Everything You’ve Got”, an unusual story about two immortal beings having a final confrontation on an empty, dying planet.
Gretchen Wirges stars in "Everything You've Got" at the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre.
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Madeline Hill and Gretchen Wirges in the AZPM Radio Studio.
AZPM / Bohdan Zachary
- In Tucson, a once-defunct LGBTQ+ gun rights group is redefining what it means to protect — and uplift — a community. Find out how The Tucson Pink Pistols have grown from one woman’s Reddit post into a 500-member grassroots group focused on safety, education, and chosen family.
You can read more about the Pink Pistols here
Samantha Callicutt (far right) interviewing members of the Tucson Pink Pistols.
AZPM / Samantha Callicutt
Tucson Pink Pistol's Director of People, Kitty Garden, and head RSO and instructor or Zona Tactical, Josh Robinson, doing a lesson at Zona Tactical gun range.
AZPM / Samantha Callicutt
President of the Tucson Pink Pistols, April Gendill, showing off their logo t-shirt.
AZPM / Samantha Callicutt
- In a new edition of the oral history project Archive Tucson, Colette Barajas talks about her decision to start a women’s bar in 1983, even though it brought about harassment from the City of Tucson. She also speaks about the role of bars as an important part of Tucson’s lesbian community during the eighties and early nineties. You can find an article about Colette Barajas by McKenna Manzo here.
VIEW LARGER Colette Barajas is the owner of Centra Realty on Fourth Avenue, where she helps connect community members with safe places to live in the area. McKenna Manzo
The sign for Colette's bar that used to be on North First Avenue.McKenna Manzo
“Archive Tucson” is an oral history project of Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries. You can find many stories from Tucson's past at archivetucson.com.
courtesy Special Collections
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