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A year's subscription to Zócalo delivers to your door 11 issues filled with urban news, festival updates, restaurant reviews, and more. The mag focuses on goings-on in downtown and central Tucson, and past readers have been privy to a wide variety of stories and features. From lists of indie bookstores to recipes for tasty asparagus salad, performing arts spotlights, and hip-hop concert schedules, all of the most current happenings will be right at the tips of your earlobe-flickers. As the issues pour into non-virtual inboxes, valuable, locally sourced information seeps into the brains of readers like a liquefied floppy disk soaking into a sponge.

Reading the news online only lasts until the Internet's steam engine runs out of coal at night, but with a hard copy of a magazine in your hands, you're guaranteed to stay up to date with all the latest information. All subscriptions to Zócalo are sent via third-class postage; Tucson customers will usually receive their tome near the start of each month.

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