Giving Ava a Voice
It’s been four years since Chrisie started ACFC after losing her 5-year-old daughter, Ava, to cancer. Her goal was to help families…
Architect Gerry Jones
High atop one of Carefree’s ruggedly elegant mountains sits architectural designer Gerry Jones’ studio. Gerry pioneered extreme…
ComfyCozy’s for Chemo: Amanda’s Hope
When Lorraine Tallman lost her young daughter, Amanda, to cancer in 2012, she took inspiration from her child, and turned a devastating experience into a mission to help other children…
Pumpcasso
In a certain “Peanuts” cartoon that runs this time of year, a boy named Linus explains what the last night of October is really about: “This is the time of the year to write to the Great Pumpkin…
Small is Beautiful
You won’t find Emily Randolph photographing the panoramic views of the Grand Canyon or the expansive Arizona desert landscape…
Tuft & Needle
Young, successful innovators use their software development backgrounds to take a startup from problem-solving idea to multimillion dollar industry breakthrough…
Christiane Barbato: One Plate at a Time
I follow Christiane Barbato across her backyard and into a small white hut. Inside, dozens of unglazed clay pots and bowls rest upside-down on shelves, waiting.
Baroque Beauty – The Orpheum Theatre
The year was 1929. The madcap era of the Roaring ‘20s was over and the country plunged into the Great Depression with the Wall Street stock market crash…
Built to Last
The Wedge family loves to build. It’s in their blood. A resident of Arizona for nearly 40 years, Greg Wedge Jr., the patriarch of the family, currently lives in North Scottsdale…
An Ode to Whiskey
Lance Carver leans back in his chair, happily worn from a good day’s work. Pausing for a moment, he raises a tulip-shaped glass to his nose and takes a hearty whiff…