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.
Santa Barbara jewelry designers Gregoré and Jennifer-Rabe Morin have won more than 30 international awards for pieces featuring frogs, spiders and Buddha figures — proving that museum-quality craftsmanship and genuine delight aren’t mutually exclusive.
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.
Through long exposures that transform rushing water into silk, North Phoenix photographer Tevin Jones reveals the quiet power of Arizona’s rarest element.
Spring Bouquet Focaccia transforms humble bread dough into a garden painting — chive stems, parsley leaves and cherry tomato blossoms pressed into golden, dimpled dough that’s as stunning on the table as it is satisfying to pull apart.
Ian Tuason’s A24 debut is a Dolby Atmos marvel that turns a childhood home into a chamber of grief and dread — but its in-theater thrills don’t survive the walk to the parking lot.
Tucson photographer Joseph Cyr transforms fleeting desert puddles into symmetrical masterpieces using nothing more than an iPhone and a willingness to get low.
While Phoenix heats up, Arizona’s cooler elevations host 12 premier spring festivals spanning yoga immersions and literary giants, mountain biking spectacles and wine country celebrations — here’s your curated roadmap to the state’s best cultural escapes.