Miss Scottsdale: For a Brighter Day
Tempe resident Stephanie Deleon, 22, has dedicated her pageant platforms to educating others about suicide and mental illness. That is especially true of her reign as the current Miss Scottsdale.
No Place Like Home: Optima McDowell Mountain Village
Writer Amanda ChristmannPhotography Courtesy of Optima Every generation leaves its mark on our collective culture. Technology, world events and education mold our views of the world and our place within it, shaping our values and defining what is — and what is not — important in life. Those values are undergoing a monumental shift. We…
Theater Without Limits
At Detour Company Theatre, the performers just happen to be adults with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities who are dedicated to their craft and to sharing the joy of theater with the community.
It Takes a Village… of Vegetables
Established in 1976 by former Scottsdale resident Mark Miller, the Scottsdale Community Garden Club occupies about seven acres at the northeast corner of the Scottsdale Community College campus. More than 200 garden members and co-gardeners bring 186 plots to life with green lettuce, red tomatoes, yellow squash, white cauliflower and everything in between.
Advancing Wright’s Ideas
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has engaged Jennifer Gray to lead a new collection of programs that will be known as the Taliesin Institute.
Clubs, College and Connection
The Evans Scholars program is for hardworking caddies like 17-year-old Jeremy Dreher who demonstrate financial need and have outstanding academic and leadership records. It is also one of the golf community’s favorite charities since its founding in 1930.
Revealing the Person Within
What Makes Me Me, an expressive new exhibition running through May 3 at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, features a collection of watercolor, acrylic, ceramics and poetry by 35 members of Scottsdale Training and Rehabilitation Services — better known as STARS — and the Opportunity Tree, both of which serve individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Love is All Around
Many argue that Valentine’s Day is nothing more than a commercial holiday. However, something so significant to and deeply rooted in our lives as love is worthy of celebration — especially if viewed through a much wider lens, which is precisely what several of the Valley’s performing arts organizations have done with their programming this month.
On the Wings of Love
There is a lot of love, passion and heart that goes into the rescue, rehabilitation and release of the more than 800 wild birds Wild at Heart takes in each year.
Marching on Four Hooves
Parada del Sol attracts more than 30,000 people and provides the community an opportunity to showcase and celebrate its rich history that is steeped in Western roots.
