Tenacious Tumbleweed
On a fateful drive through Texas, Walter and Doris Husbands, like many before them, came across a tumbleweed moving its way down the road. Doris…
Fresh Tastes Better: A Trip to the Farmer’s Market
Living in the city doesn’t mean local farm fare is beyond your reach, or that you have to travel outside the city to get it. In fact, with multiple farmers markets around the Valley…
Mom’s Mean Business
For some, it’s skydiving. For others, a Grand Canyon hike. But for Diane Meyer, a more business-minded adventure sat at the top of her bucket list: a children’s gift shop…
BC Band Takes a Holiday Bowl
Poor Brett Lackey. It was so much easier for him back in the early days of the Boulder Creek High School marching band…
Grand Opening: Brynne Smith Memorial Campus
In the fall of 2014, the Smith family contacted Foothills Animal Rescue. They wanted to create a safe haven for dogs and cats that would honor the memory of their daughter, Brynne…
Building the Future: Jones Studio
It was 1979 when Eddie Jones left his job at architectural firm Lescher & Mahoney (now known as DLR Group) and set up an office in the third bedroom of his house…
Design with a Bang
Marcus Jeremy McElhinney’s designs are not pretty. You won’t stop in front of them and say, “How adorably cute!”…
Purple Reign Four Peaks Amethyst
It’s difficult to imagine two more disparate climes on Earth than Russia’s chilly Ural Mountains and the craggy Four Peaks of the Mazatzal Mountains here in Arizona…
Agnese Udinotti: Figurative Artist
When most people think of contemporary art, they think of abstraction. But Agnese Udinotti wants to make it clear she’s not an abstract artist — she’s a figurative artist….
Beauty Among the Ashes: Artist Kara Young
Mixed media artist Kara Young pulls a sheet of copper out of her wood-burning stove and washes away the ashes. As she studies the patterns and colors created by the fire…
