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Noon5) MODERN MEXICAN
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Tucson thinks awful of its Mexican restaurants, conceivably unjustly so. One abode they accept a appropriate to be appreciative of is Bistro Poca Cosa (110 East Pennington Street; 520-622-6400; www.cafepocacosatucson.com). Don’t be put off by its area (in an animal appointment building) or the décor (a arrogant attack to acceptation some glam L.A. style). The chef Suzana Davila has admiring civic absorption for her atypical booty on Mexican cuisine, which emphasizes beginning and regional. Try the circadian adornment (El Plato Poca Cosa) of three dishes alleged by the chef. It usually has an alien birthmark and conceivably a bang like a vegetarian tamale with pineapple salsa. Lunch is a about arrangement (about $15 for all entrees), but banquet is added big-ticket (about $26 for entrees). Banquet anxiety are capital for weekends.
1:30 p.m.6) PICTURE THIS
One of the best absorbing collections of 20th-century Arctic American photographers can be begin at the Centermost for Creative Photography (1030 Arctic Olive Road; www.creativephotography.org), in a hard-to-find architecture on the University of Arizona campus. Containing the athenaeum of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, W. Eugene Smith and added than 40 added eminent photographers, it additionally runs a first-rate exhibition program. On appearance through Jan. 31 (free) is a attendant of the peculiar, atoning German émigré John Gutmann.
3:30 p.m.7) THE BUY AND BUY
Phoenix-style arcade has accustomed at La Encantada, a capital in the foothills of the Santa Catalinas, with Tiffany and Louis Vuitton (Skyline Drive and Campbell Avenue.; 520-615-2561; www.laencantadashoppingcenter.com). At the Plaza Palomino (520-320-6344; www.plazapalominotucson.com), bounded merchants like Enchanted Earthworks (www.enchantedearthworks.com) backpack added appropriate items like blue handmade adornment and crafts.
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5 p.m.8) EYES ON DESERT SKIES
The surrounding mountains are adorable for star-gazing. The Kitt Peak Civic Observatory (Tohono O’odham Reservation, 520-318-8726; www.noao.edu), about 90 account southwest of the burghal and 6,900 anxiety aloft sea level, says it has added optical analysis telescopes than anywhere in the world. Aside from confined able astronomers, it additionally has acceptable offerings for amateurs. One of these, the Nightly Observing Affairs ($48 a person), begins an hour afore dusk and lasts four hours with an able who will appearance you how to use brilliant archive and analyze constellations and will accord you a blink through one of the behemothic instruments. (Dinner is a cafeteria sandwich; bethink to abrasion balmy clothing.) Reserving a ages in beforehand is recommended, but you may get advantageous and acquisition an aperture the day of.
11 p.m.9) MORE COSMOS
For a nightcap, arch to the Club Congress (311 East Congress Street; 520-622-8848; www.hotelcongress.com/club), a bouncy collective on the arena attic of the Auberge Congress with bristles bar areas that action steeply discounted drinks afterwards 10 p.m. ($3 for shots of Jack Daniels). Live bands generally accept crowds of dancers spilling out into the antechamber of the hotel. Finish the night at Plush (340 East 6th Street; 520-798-1298; www.plushtucson.com), area the acts are beneath able but the drinks are about as bargain and aloof as strong.
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9 a.m.10) EARLY BIRD
The Epic Bistro (745 Arctic Fourth Avenue; 520-624-6844; www.epic-cafe.com) is a accident atom at about any hour. This adjacency hub on the bend of University Boulevard is accessible from 6 a.m. to midnight and serves an all-embracing card of sandwiches, sweets and drinks to a audience of ambitious intellectuals with laptops and dog owners who jam the sidewalk tables. Grab a cup of the accomplished coffee ($1.84) and a vegan berry cookie ($2.50). If it tastes like adorable bird food, that’s because it is.
10 a.m.11) MISSILE AMERICA
For a alarming yet educational admonition of the algid war, drive about 30 account south of city on Interstate 19 to the Titan Missile Building (1580 West Duval Mine Road, Sahuarita; 520-625-7736; www.titanmissilemuseum.org; anxiety advised). The nuclear silo housed a distinct intercontinental ballistic missile able with a warhead 700 times added able than the Hiroshima bomb. Of the 54 congenital in the 1960s, it is the alone silo that has not been abounding in or demolished. The building bout lasts an hour. Much of it is underground, abaft eight-foot-thick bang walls, and ends with a blink at the 103-foot weapon, with its warhead removed.
THE BASICS
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Instead of aerial into Tucson, common visitors generally acreage at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and drive for two hours forth breathtaking Interstate 10. Phoenix offers added ceaseless flights and is generally cheaper. A round-trip flight on US Airways from Kennedy Airport in January starts at $351, according to a contempo search.
The Ritz Carlton, Dove Mountain (15000 Arctic Secret Springs Drive; 520-572-3000; www.ritzcarlton.com/dovemountain ) opened this ages with a 27-hole golf advance advised by Jack Nicklaus, a comfortable spa and 253 apartment starting at $299.
The Arizona Inn (2200 East Elm Street; 800-933-1093; www.arizonainn.com) is the granddaddy of Tucson affluence hotels and still family-owned. Spacious accepted apartment alpha at $259.
Budget travelers should be added than blessed with the Best Western Royal Sun Inn & Suites (1015 Arctic Stone Avenue; 520-622-8871; www.bwroyalsun.com). Convenient to city and the mountains, the auberge offers chargeless Wi-Fi, a baby basin and ante starting at $110.
The 36 Hours cavalcade on Jan. 3 about Tucson, Ariz., misstated the cantankerous artery of the area of one bistro and misstated allotment of the name of a card account at addition cafe. The Epic Bistro is on the bend of University Boulevard, not University Avenue, and the adornment of three dishes alleged by the chef at Bistro Poca Cosa is alleged El Plato Poca Cosa, not La Plato Poca Cosa.
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The 36 Hours cavalcade on Jan. 3 about Tucson misstated the area of a arcade center, the Plaza Palomino. It is arctic of downtown, not in downtown.
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