Phoenix Designer Ruben Gonzales: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 56. Ruben Gonzales. “I’m…

Phoenix Artist Nathaniel Lewis: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 57. Nathaniel Lewis. Hot…

Phoenix Fashion Designer Vara Ayanna: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 58. Vara Ayanna. Vara…

5 Things Women Secretly Hate About Men

Courting Disaster is Jackalope Ranch’s weekly column of dating horror stories, observations, how-tos, and more by Katie Johnson. Names of ex-boyfriends, past hookups, and bad blind dates have been changed to protect the guilty. All right, guys. We set you up with the five things women secretly love about you…

Arizona Artist Kerstin Dale: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 59. Kerstin Dale. You…

Intermix Coming Soon to Scottsdale Quarter

Hold on to your Vogue-approved Birkenstocks, Scottsdale. Intermix is coming. The Gap, Inc.-owned retailer is known for its laidback luxe stock of designers including Chloe, Proenza Scouler, and Stella McCartney. Intermix’s first Arizona location will open Monday, July 14, at Scottsdale Quarter…

Phoenix Artist Emily Costello: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 60. Emily Costello. Four…

Scottsdale League for the Arts to Award $200,000 in Grants

Last year Arizona Theatre Company, Heard Museum, and 26 other arts organizations all had one thing in common. They were awarded grants in 2013 from the Scottsdale League for the Arts (SLA). Now the SLA, an organization which is best known for producing the annual Scottsdale Culinary Festival, is once…

How to Buy a Home in France

New Times’ Summer Guide is out and full of ways to escape this season — from spending a weekend at Chateau Marmont to your best bets for Phoenix staycations. Today Robrt Pela shares his guide to buying a home in the south of France. Start out an ugly American who…

Scottsdale Designer Kevin Goldman: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 61. Kevin Goldman. There…

Phoenix Artist La Muñeca: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 62. La Muñeca. Mystery…

10 Places to See Fourth of July Fireworks in Metro Phoenix

What could make this year’s Fourth of July more fun? How about the fact that it falls on Friday? Celebrate your shortened work week and your American independence with food, games, and most importantly fireworks. From the East Valley to the West Valley and everywhere in between, here are our…

Tempe Designer Jeremy Hamman: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 63. Jeremy Hamman. Jeremy…

HeatSync Labs in Mesa Won a 3D Carving Machine

Things are really shaping up in Mesa. The volunteer-run “hackerspace” HeatSync Labs, which operates as a communal gathering place for engineers, artists, and creators and the Valley, just received the modern day builder’s dream gift: a 3D carving machine…

5 Things Women Secretly Love About Men

Courting Disaster is Jackalope Ranch’s weekly column of dating horror stories, observations, how-tos, and more by Katie Johnson. Names of ex-boyfriends, past hookups, and bad blind dates have been changed to protect the guilty. There are lot of things out there in the dating ether that either men or women…