PHX Stories: Japanese Friendship Garden
Less Din, More Zen: A Secret Garden Above I-10 Creates a Cocoon of Placidity in Downtown Phoenix. By Suzanne Wright When you think of Phoenix, a Japanese garden isn’t the first (or fifth) thing that…
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PHX Stories: 'Microhoods' of CenPho
In Midtown and Uptown, eat/drink/shop gathering places thrive where strip malls once stood. Back in the day, I used to go to Phoenix Ad Club meetings in the banquet room at Beef Eaters, a tony prime…
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PHX Stories: Bootmaker David Espinoza
Local bootmaker stitches colorful, custom leatherwork in his Central Phoenix storefront. By Jackie Dishner Truth is, I’ve never owned a pair of cowboy boots, but a guy in our party of 20 at the…
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PHX Stories: Artist and Sculptor Kevin Caron
Phoenix sculptor forges scrap metal, railroad spikes and more into memorable works of art. By Jackie Dishner I never knew the imaginative power contained in precarious piles of scrap metal, not…
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PHX Stories: South Mountain Hiking and Dining
When a hike is just an excuse to work up an appetite to wine and dine. I live in a different part of town, but I like any excuse to venture down to Phoenix's South Mountain neighborhood. I pretend…
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PHX Stories: Paolo Soleri's Cosanti
The Italian artist and architect's legacy lives on in the futuristic desert home where he sculpted his famous bells. by Nora Burba Trulsson Back when Bebe Rebozo was a household name, an artsy…
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PHX Stories: Touring Tovrea Castle
A tour of the famous "wedding cake house" gives visitors the real scoop on the Phoenix landmark. By Teresa Bitler Growing up, I knew Tovrea Castle as “the wedding cake house,” in part, because the…
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PHX Stories: Dreamy Desert Dining
Cloth & Flame brings diners to the desert—literally—with their one-of-a-kind dinner series. Born from an idea driven by exploration, Matt Cooley and Olivia Laux's Cloth & Flame—the dining series'…
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Past & Present: Downtown Phoenix's Warehouse District
Find out why this revitalized neighborhood may be downtown Phoenix's best-kept secret. Steeped in generations of history, downtown Phoenix's Warehouse District is a neighborhood that's often…
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PHX Stories: Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market
Farm-fresh goods next to downtown’s de facto living room. On a sunny Saturday morning, Shara Galonsky and Blaine Taylor work the crowd from their table at the Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market, one of…
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