May 5, 2022
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Featured on the May 5th, 2022 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- If you want to know what’s going on with the coronavirus pandemic in neighboring Sonora, arguably the best source isn’t the state government or a news outlet: it’s a single grad student, whose time-intensive, volunteer effort is turning big data into solid information. From Fronteras, Murphy Woodhouse reports.
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Murphy Woodhouse / KJZZ
- Find out how Live Theatre Workshop’s production Body Awareness weaves together several interesting themes. They include a mature queer couple coping with their young adult son’s Asperger condition, to debating whether posing nude for an art photographer can be considered a feminist act. Mark talks with the director and one of the lead actors about the play, which continues in Tucson through June 4th.
![body awareness couple](https://media.azpm.org/master/image/2022/5/24/spot/bodyawareness-couple.jpg)
Ryan Fagan
- The next generation of filmmakers are making the leap onto the Fox Tucson Theatre's big-screen on Saturday, May 7th, 2022 -- it’s the return of the UA graduate student film showcase, "I Dream in Widescreen”. Film essayist Chris Dashiell offers some recommendations.
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courtesy University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television
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courtesy University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television
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courtesy University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television
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courtesy University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television
- And, meet singer & guitarist Wiley Ray. For fifteen years, Ray and his Big O Band have been celebrating the music of rock pioneer Roy Orbison. They’ll summon Orbison’s lonesome but hopeful romanticism at the Fox Tucson Theatre May 14th.
![wiley ray spotlight](https://media.azpm.org/master/image/2022/5/24/spot/wiley-ray.jpg)
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