General Features
General Features
Arizona boasts the third largest Native American population in the country – and one of the largest in the world. Northern AZ Zene shines a spotlight on a few of the individuals shaping the future of indigenous peoples and culture in a changing world. (Collaborative piece written with Susan DeFreitas)
Long identified with daredevils and hell raisers, motorcycling has coasted into the middleclass mainstream. But if you think this once-fringe lifestyle has become just another rich man’s pastime, think again.
Do you know me? Bet you do. Call me healer, call me destroyer, but in me you will always find the terrible power of a god.
Equine psychotherapy and learning workshops held at local ranches
Food, Wine, Belly Writing
Why is gluten the new bulls-eye of health-conscious diners, and those who feed them?
On a 10-acre Flagstaff spread beneath Arizona’s highest peaks, Horsemen Lodge stakes a claim chains can’t imitate. This northern Arizona landmark accomplishes more than serving great food in an Old West atmosphere. It authentically represents a way of life that’s become legend.
Each summer for the past decade, Arizona Chef Robert DeSantis has cleared three weeks in his calendar to journey to a small Minnesota town just south of the Canadian border. He doesn’t go for the peace and quiet or the great Walleye fishing.
Point of view is something you hear about in the study of English literature, painting and maybe world history. But in the culinary arts?
Artists say the way to nurture creativity is to keep a child’s sense of curiosity, wonder and adventure. When it comes to cooking, that means matching ingredients that make the adult in you cringe, but the kid in you hungry for more.
Home & Garden
Like a field trip to the museum of science and industry, visiting this yard is serious fun.
Architecture & Construction
While the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has buoyed high-profile sectors such as transportation and energy, in Indian Country—the sovereign lands of 562 American Indian tribes across the United States—$3 billion in stimulus funding quietly has moved into development backlogged road improvements, hospitals, correctional facilities and schools. Many of the projects were planned but remained unfunded for years, in some cases for more than a decade. The ARRA windfall gave cash-strapped...
Philip Beere believes the best way to have a big impact on sustainability is to start small. It’s a scale that’s worked for him.
Fitness gurus agree that for a healthy body, you should make a commitment, track your progress and don't forget to stretch. Turns out these guidelines work for structures, too.
One cool dawn about 20 years ago, architect Douglas Stroh sat horseback at the top of an 8-mi trail descending into western Grand Canyon. He wasn’t sightseeing. He was on the job.
Business
When Laura Roberts went looking for funds in 1997 to solidify Pantheon Chemical, a Phoenix-based manufacturer of consumer-safe, environmentally sensitive cleaning and metal-treatment products, not many people were looking at the sustainable market. "The biggest struggle we had was being a company that promoted green," said Roberts, the company's president and CEO.