Arts + Culture

Booked All Day

A bookworm’s dream crawl through four East Valley shops Article by Camilla Richardson | Photography by Timeless Vision Media & Tara Dunn Photography You may have experienced a bar crawl where you choose a neighborhood, map a route and spend a few hours moving from one stop to the next. A book crawl offers a literary twist on the familiar idea. Ditching pints of beer for stacks of books, friends move from one bookshop to the next, browsing shelves, trading recommendations and comparing their...

Food + Beverage

A Culinary Escape to Tucson

Our editor spent a weekend eating, sipping and exploring her way through the country’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy Article by Kris Ann Valdez When people picture Tucson, they often think of the Old West, sunshine and the open desert. What they should be thinking about is what's on the menu. Tucson became the first U.S. UNESCO City of Gastronomy in 2015, recognized for its over 4,000-year-old agricultural heritage and the Native American, Mexican and even Chinese culinary traditions that...

Food + Beverage

From Their Table

The Rea family preserves generations of food traditions Article by Kris Ann Valdez | Photography by Kaylee Chelsea Photography & Anissa Kennedy Perry Rea doesn’t follow a recipe. He cooks from intuition. Born to Italian parents from a region south of Rome, he never had a recipe handed down to him by his parents or grandparents. Instead, his knowledge came from watching them in the kitchen. So when the idea took shape to publish a cookbook of beloved family recipes, both to share with Queen...

Food + Beverage

Beer, Food, & Community

The Heart and Soul of Old Ellsworth Brewing Company Is Its Craft Beer, Scratch-Kitchen and Community Article by Gretchen Pahia | Photography by Timeless Vision Media What started as a shared love of craft beer and a little homebrewing has grown into one of the best local gathering hubs in Queen Creek. Old Ellsworth Brewing Company opened to the public in 2017, but the story behind the family-owned brewery began years earlier. The original owners — Brian McKean, Christine McKean and Ryan...