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Jamie L. Manser

From The Year 2003: How Would You Categorize These Tucson Bands?

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I'm working on a grad class project for LIS 515 - Information Organization - and I am dedicating my studies to KXCI. The first assignment is to: "identify a collection of resources that (a) you are very familiar and knowledgeable (b) need to be (better) organized (c) has a community of users who wish to access the resources." Amanda Shauger thought KXCI's Locals Only would be a good fit. She was right. But, I am not totally "familiar and knowledgeable" with all of the bands listed below. … [Read more...]

Once Upon A Time

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Once upon a time, I was an athlete. Swimming was my sport, and I was pretty decent. I made the state competitions in fall of 1992 as part of a 4x50 freestyle relay team. At 16-years-old, swimming at the UA’s Hillenbrand Aquatic Center was a dream come true! I really didn’t know how I got there. I dismissed the daily hours of training that enabled my body to perform. But, I was used to dismissing myself. It goes with the territory when body shame and self-worth issues are implanted at an early … [Read more...]

Reviving a Nearly Lost Barrio Story

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(Published by UANews.org on Feb. 9, 2016 and includes quotes from this article, as requested by the researchers.) The Barrio Stories Project speaks to how downtown Tucson's physical and ethnic landscape has been drastically altered. In the late 1960s, a culturally diverse, 80-acre residential and business district in downtown Tucson was demolished as a consequence of urban renewal and the construction of the Tucson Convention Center complex. More than 100 years of historically … [Read more...]