Artist: Unknown Medium: Archival photo, c. 1935 This building was originally built in 1929 as a medical office, and was the headquarters for Valley National Bank before Valley Center, which is now Chase Tower, was built just across the street from it. Shown here, the building is Valley Bank and Trust,...
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Artist: Evan Wyloge Medium: Digital Photograph from the 20th floor of 44 Monroe, looking N-N-E, around 7:20 p.m.. I hadn't been inside my friends' 20th-floor apartment in 44 Monroe yet, but I had been looking forward to seeing the view from their place, because I had a feeling it would be a...
Arist: Rembrandt Quiballo Medium: Photography My image of Phoenix is appropriated from the beginning of the film "Psycho" where the protagonist is shown leaving Phoenix toward her untimely demise. This image belongs to a body of work that composites still shots from films to create panoramas. In doing so, I intend...
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Artist: Sebastien Millon Medium: Digital Illustration Phoenix might be blazing hot. It might be snake-infested. It might be full of alcoholic coyotes. And the sky here is filled with beautiful (yet ominous) soaring vultures ... and yet, I LOVE IT! I've come to love so many things about Phoenix, the landscape,...
Featuring former members of Tempe jangle-pop kings The Pistoleros, Dead Hot Workshop, The Gin Blossoms, and Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, The Persuaders debuted earlier this year, cranking out the same kind of melodic pop rock that defined the sound of their earlier bands.If you've spent any time near Mill...
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Caffe Boa restaurants in Tempe and Ahwatukee have different owners and different menus, but similar health inspection failures. This sorry coincidence came to our attention in a recent report by the Maricopa County Environmental Services department, which revealed that the popular bistro on Mill Avenue -- owned by Jay and Christine Wisniewski -- received a "no award" rating...
Despite the endless parade of frosted delights showing up in bakeries, at culinary festivals, and on fancy restaurant menus over the past few years, cupcakes don't seem to be going anywhere -- except in our mouths. Last year's Cupcake Love-In at the Hotel Valley Ho was proof positive of just how crazy Phoenicians are over the sweet treats. The event was sold out...
Artist: Kristin Heggli Medium: 35mm film This is Downtown, really close to Space 55/Roosevelt Row. To me it represents our architectural history in a way few in the Valley rarely see; most people live in new neighborhoods, and kids grow up not seeing parts of town like this until they are...
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Brian Brooks’ Phoenix Arm
Artists: Peter Bugg and William LeGoullon Media: Photography, QR Code, Literary Embedded is a book which examines the floors of gallery/art spaces throughout the city of Phoenix, fusing an interplay of conceptual thought, technology, and linkages between physical place and digital realm. Aspects of space and time are compressed, bringing the...
Artist: Melissa McGurgan Medium: digital rendering, final output letterpress on chipboard Home Suite Home: PHX is series of tongue-in-cheek letterpress prints inspired by Phoenix landmarks, entities and language for Phoenicians to interpret and enjoy.The countdown to Best of Phoenix continues! Last year, we profiled 100 Creatives who made a mark on the local arts scene...
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Artist: Cornelius Keyes Medium: Photograph This dust storm rose over Phoenix on Labor Day, 1972. The image is part of a series taken by the Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" from 1972 to 1977. The countdown to Best of Phoenix continues! Last year, we profiled 100 Creatives who made a...
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Jill Johnson’s Downtown Is …
Artists: Danny Stoeller and Andy BrooksMedium: Graphic Design I CACTUS PHX is the marquee design of Holy Piñata, a Phoenix-based T-shirt company launched in 2008 by longtime friends Andy Brooks and Danny Stoeller. Besides being an homage to the ubiquitous I HEART NY rebus (which was borrowed from the Virginia...
Artists: Michael and Kemper Goodwin Medium: solar-bronzed glass and steel (completed in 1970)Prior to redevelopment (and what's now called the Tempe Municipal Building), the lot that housed Tempe City Hall was also the site of the city jail, firehouse, library, and court ... According to the City of Tempe, the architects explained the...
Artist: Fred Tieken Medium: acrylic on canvas These two paintings represent what I both love and hate about living in Phoenix. I admire the pioneer spirit and determination of the people but the small-mindedness that sometimes goes along with that spirit is maddening. I really enjoy living here. I must...
Things are getting a little hairy at Tempe's ASU Art Museum, as guests and staff roam through the new video exhibition, By Myself and With My Friends. The show features five animal-centric works from international artists, and while none of the videos have human characters, the curators say the artists'...
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"Not alone for gold and silver / Is Arizona great / But with graves of heroes sleeping / All the land is consecrate!" — "Arizona March Song" The goal of finding Arizona's 100 greatest songs was hardly easy. We asked our readers to tell us what songs have defined Arizona...
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You Don’t Know Jacko
Fast-casual restaurants always say how much they appreciate their customers, without whom they wouldn't survive, blah, blah. But today, Jimmy John's is putting its money where your mouth is.As part of Customer Appreciation Day, the sub shop chain is offering their signature "freaky fast, freaky fresh" sandwiches for just a...
We've joked a few times about how Mill Avenue is becoming the hotspot for restaurants -- but seriously, how many eateries can Tempe possibly cram onto one street? The latest is Capriotti's Sandwich Shop, a local franchised outpost of the Delaware-founded sub joint that opens today in the bottom floor...