You wouldn’t expect to find a magical healer, spies, assassins, and a quirky young gremlin in Buckeye, Arizona. But that’s exactly where debut novelist Beth Cato created the fantastical steampunk world of her book, The Clockwork Dagger. In Cato’s take on Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, Octavia Leander,…
Phoenix’s own feline designer and cat woman, Kate Benjamin, has created a kitty “cookbook,” as she calls it. This isn’t a book full of recipes for your cat or a feline-themed cookbook. Instead Benjamin and Animal Planet’s Jackson Galaxy have created Catification, a photo-centric guide, which actually does resemble a…
The Valley is about to get quite a bit more interesting now that the winners of Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s Good ‘N Plenty award have been announced. Ticket holding guests who attended the Friday, August 29, event and judged the live presentations of all six finalists cast their votes…
In case you couldn’t tell, we love Instagram. Whether it’s athletes and photographers to follow, or learning about how to up our photography game, we can’t get enough of this app. However, there is a large part of Instagram that we can ignore no longer: animals. There is basically an…
Corpse puppets? Shakespearean bikes rides? Eagle Scouts wearing Human Rights Campaign badges instead of their American flag ones? These are just a few of the projects proposed by the finalists of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s Good ‘N Plenty Award. This community-generated award isn’t like other arts awards, though…
Listen up, HGTV lovers. If you’ve been feeling like your home decor is stuck in a rut or are starting fresh in a new space, grab your pens, notepads, and color swatches and head over to Lowe’s of Scottsdale this weekend to get some style tips and tricks from Emma…
Jackalope Ranch is hitting the road this summer — and you’re coming, too. Well, sort of. With Going Places, our writers recommend the best things to do and see during your travels. We feel like we shouldn’t have to convince you to visit Washington, D.C. It’s our nation’s capital, it’s…
To selfie or not to selfie? That is the question. On the one hand, who doesn’t love to indulge their narcissistic side every once in a while? But on the other hand, selfies are terrible, embarrassing, and sometimes dangerous byproducts of a self-indulgent, technology-obsessed culture. Teens have it easy. We…
Arizona Humanities, the state chapter of the National Endowment for the Humanities, announced its four newly elected board of directors members on Tuesday, July 15, including Jaclyn Roessel who won the 2013 Arizona Humanities Council Rising Star Award. Arizona Humanities’ goal is to help organizations that promote understanding of the…
If we take a moment to be honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that we didn’t really read anything in high school. And if you’re anything like us, you probably leaned a little more on SparkNotes and CliffsNotes to get through English class than you’d be proud to admit. Even the…
Before you could even step inside The Gladly Sunday, you could smell the salty, smoky aromas of pork wafting through the air. But that will tend to happen when seven of the Valley’s best chefs team up to create an eleven-dish, pork-centric supper. With the help of Tender Belly, which…
The highly-anticipated Bitter & Twisted Cocktail Parlour opened its doors for a few hours Thursday night to give guests a taste of downtown’s newest hotspot before officially opening Friday, May 30. Saying that people were eager to get in would be an understatement. The bar area was full before the…
Young-adult books have gotten a bad rap, if you ask us. Yes, sometimes YA fiction lives up to all of its negative stereotypes with angsty teenagers trying to figure out what makes them special, dejected kids trying to find their place in the world, and star-crossed, mildly masochistic lovers (ahem,…
Nerdfighters and anyone else who generally enjoys cool things, get excited. And get ready for your assignment. John Green, the bestselling author behind The Fault in Our Stars and co-founder of the highly followed YouTube channels Vlogbrothers and CrashCourse, and his wife, Sarah Urist Green, a contemporary art curator, have…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Yes, we’re aware that it’s been in the low 80s lately and there is a greater chance of Aaron Carter and Hilary Duff getting back together than there is of Phoenix getting any snow. Get on our level. We’re not talking about…
Watching the stars walk the red carpet sometimes can be more entertaining than watching the actual award ceremony itself, if you’re crazy fashion-obsessed freaks like us. If you’re not and actually watching to see who wins, the red carpet can probably seem tedious and confusing. And with the Oscars slated…
We don’t need to remind you what today is. If you’re in a relationship, you’re probably looking forward to the plans you and your sweetheart have made. Lovely. Good for you. However, us singletons are either trying to forget this love-ridden day or desperately searching for a last-minute date. And…
Oh, Instagram. Where else would we so easily broadcast photos of animals looking particularly pensive? We are officially a few weeks into January, and if your New Year’s resolutions are going anything like ours, it’s time to get some help. Unfortunately, we can’t offer much in the way of helping…
If you haven’t been exiled from modern society in the past six months, chances are good you know what Tinder is. If you’re a single millennial with a Facebook account and a smartphone, chances are really good you also have a Tinder profile. If you have somehow managed to avoid…
Although the doors didn’t officially open until Saturday, about a hundred guests enjoyed a sneak preview Friday night of one of the Valley’s most highly anticipated new restaurants, The Gladly. Chef Bernie Kantak, Andrew Fritz and mixologist/bar master extraordinaire Richie Moe, the triumvirate responsible for Scottsdale’s Citizen Public House, took…
