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Artist: Unknown Medium: black and white aerial photography of Tempe's Mill Avenue, taken in January, 1930.The countdown to Best of Phoenix continues! Last year, we profiled 100 Creatives who made a mark on the local arts scene. This year, we'll have 100 creative representations of Phoenix.  No scope or requirement on medium or size -- we'll...

​Despite its frat-tastic reputation, Arizona State University is one of the nerdiest places in the Valley, hands down. (After all, students play with atoms, construct intergalactic robots, and fiddle with laser beams.)Then there's the fact that ASU's also the home of the ultra-cerebral local PBS affiliate Eight/KAET. During ASU's Homecoming weekend...

The Tempe Bicycle Action Group, a.k.a. TBAG, is taking their monthly Third Friday Ride to the rails with a Light Rail Ride to CenPho this Friday. The event kicks off at 7:30 p.m. from Tempe Beach Park.The ride will migrate over to the light rail station at Third Street and...

For the majority of the mid-twentieth century, the City of Scottsdale was bisected by floods that channeled along the Indian Bend wash. What were called the 99-year floods became almost annual occurrences throughout the 1970s.But the landscape changed when Scottsdale residents and the Army Corps of Engineers put their heads...

Your class schedule has been finalized, books have been purchased, and everything's moved into your pad. Sounds like its time to celebrate. The fall semester starts at Arizona State University and other local colleges later this week, which means there are only a few days left to let it all...

Eric Iwersen's not your typical cyclist.Most of us plan a route of established roads, paths and trails and go where we have been designated to ride (for the most part) by planners and engineers working for the cities, county and state. Iwersen gets to enjoy rides from a different perspective...

As far as year's go, 2011 wasn't one of the best. Sure, getting our mitts on Tom Waits' latest album was pretty sweet, but we coulda lived without the major tragedies and the never-ending financial nightmare. We're eager for this year to end, but not before we send it out...

If you happen to be a musician of a Celtic bent, then this is likely the most wonderful time of the year. Saint Patrick's Day is right around the corner, which means you're probably gonna be busy performing at green-beer-fueled celebrations all over town. And if you happen to be...

If you happen to be a musician of a Celtic bent, then this is likely the most wonderful time of the year. Saint Patrick's Day is right around the corner, which means you're probably gonna be busy performing at green-beer-fueled celebrations all over town. And if you happen to be...

Architects: Fitzhugh & Byron Medium: Architecture Before the stucco... Welnick Arcade Grocery (ca 1927) at 4th Avenue and Van Buren, one of the best equipped groceries in Phoenix at the time. Architects Fitzhugh & Byron also designed the Grunow Clinic on McDowell Rd. and contractors built the Luhrs Tower and Brophy...

Artist: El Mac Medium: Mural El Mac's Phoenix Goddess is an older example of the muralist's work on a historic apartment complex about a block east of Zoe's Kitchen on McDowell Road. After his mural was painted over this week on Grand Avenue, it's one of a few Mac pieces...