Ten architectural landmarks across the Valley demonstrate how midcentury and contemporary designers translated brutal climate into sculptural form.
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At Arizona Broadway Theatre, scenic designer Clifton Chadick and acting technical director Cody Burgoon built two complete worlds — 1990s Hollywood Boulevard and the Beverly Wilshire Hotel — on a single stage, where emotional vision and structural reality negotiate until opening night.
At West-MEC Northeast Campus, students are mastering framing, masonry and electrical with the precision of artisans — and stepping into a job market that can’t hire them fast enough.
Celebrating 50 years above a city it helped shape, the Hyatt Regency Phoenix opens its archives — and its rotating Compass restaurant serves as the perfect lens for watching Phoenix become Phoenix.
For 50 years, Desert Foothills Theater has shaped careers, built families and proven that a small desert community can sustain serious artistic ambition — and it’s just getting started.
Behind the scenes at Phoenix Art Museum, curator Helen Jean guards 9,000 pieces of fashion history — and less than 1% ever sees the light of day.
From John Wayne’s working costumes to hand-tooled parade saddles, Western Spirit Museum reveals how frontier fashion conquered both Hollywood and the range — and why the cowboy hat is the ultimate American accessory.
Step inside Phoenix Theatre Company’s costume shop where Martha Clarke and her team of artisans engineer rock ‘n’ roll swagger, one reinforced seam at a time, for the stage sensation “Million Dollar Quartet.”
Master wildlife photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen brings 50 years of patience, iconic images and unflinching conservation advocacy to the Phoenix Zoo in a stunning exhibition that proves the most powerful photographs still require showing up and waiting for nature to surprise us.
When winter gates swing shut and crowds vanish, Arizona’s high country reveals its most guarded secret: profound solitude earned through preparation, in landscapes transformed by snow into something approaching the sacred.