
courtesy of Molly McKasson and Susan Claassen
October 10, 2024

Featured on the October 10th, 2024 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- Find out how the 3rd annual Chinese Chorizo Festival is celebrating the people, history and the food of Southern Arizona’s Chinese pioneers, and the lasting connections that they forged with the Mexican community in Tucson’s Barrio district.

Photo by Julius Scholsburg

Sophia Hammer
- Long-time friends Molly McKasson and Susan Claassen have each created lasting legacies in Tucson, and next week they are reviving their sketch comedy act “Mols & Suz” for one night only at the Invisible Theatre. They are even using some of the original scripts they wrote in 1975, which cover political and social issues that are just as relevant today in 2024.

courtesy of Molly McKasson and Susan Claassen

Tim Fuller
- Tucson native Jeff Biggers is an award-winning historian, journalist, novelist and playwright. His work has appeared on NPR and The Huffington Post, and in The New York Times and The Washington Post. His debut novel “Disturbing the Bones” is a multi-faceted political thriller, co-written with filmmaker Andrew Davis, who directed Harrison Ford in the award-winning movie “The Fugitive”. Biggars will share a reading from the book in advance of the public appearances he will make at the Oro Valley Public Library and The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale.


courtesy of Oro Valley Public Library
Web page by Sophia Hammer.
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