Arts + Culture

Beyond Team Moms: Baseball

As a baseball mom myself, I know the sidelines can bring out a different version of us. We become unofficial coaches, amateur umpires, and postgame analysts. Admit it... at one time or another, we are all guilty of sideline parenting and replaying every pitch.The difference? Most of us do it without cameras rolling.For the moms of Paramount+’s Team Moms: Baseball, their parenting decisions, friendships, frustrations and most vulnerable moments were captured, edited and streamed for the world to...

Arts + Culture

September in the Spotlight

Our September cover took the spotlight on NBC12's Arizona Midday!We chatted about our cover star, Baywatch babe Gena Lee Nolin, then took viewers behind the scenes of our pediatric cancer awareness shoot.An iconic cover and a meaningful mission inside our September Style Issue.

Sports + Recreation

Booker & Friends hit the Green for Good

Tick tick BOOM.Fans know Devin Booker on the court.We had the honor of capturing Book on the green.At the 5th annual Devin Booker Starting Five Charity Challenge, Chris Paul, Diana Taurasi, Michael Phelps, Jalen Green, Fitz, Archie Bradley, Miles Bridges and more spent the day golfing, laughing and catching up at Silver Leaf.Booker's Starting Five initiative awards five Arizona nonprofits $100,000 each year to help local youth and families. As the face of the franchise, Book has spent more than...

Food + Beverage

Playing With Fire

The Skill and Showmanship Behind Kasai’s Teppanyaki Grills Photography by Provided: Kasai Scottsdale You’ve seen the fire, watched the onion volcano erupt, filmed the tricks and maybe even caught a flying shrimp in your mouth. What you have not seen are the three to six months of training behind it, or that the fire comes only after a chef has mastered every part of the meal. Kasai Japanese Steakhouse has been part of Scottsdale’s dining scene since 2001, first as Sapporo and later as Kasai...

Food + Beverage

7 Don't Miss Dishes at Maple & Ash

Inside the Live-Fire Menu with Executive Chef Cody Finch Photography by Provided: Maple & Ash Scottsdale Fire drives the menu at Maple & Ash Scottsdale. The restaurant is named for the maple and ash hardwoods that fuel its signature 14-foot wood-burning grill, giving everything from seafood to steak its unmistakable edge. Executive Chef Cody Finch’s love of food began at family gatherings. While his siblings and cousins played outside, Cody stayed in the kitchen watching his grandparents...

Health + Wellness

Why Sheridan James Plants Trees

How a Scottsdale Nonprofit is Rethinking Remembrance Photography by Provided On quiet afternoons, Scottsdale’s Sheridan James often sits beneath a tree in her backyard while her two daughters play nearby. To most people, it may look like an ordinary tree. To Sheridan, it is everything. It is Tristan's tree, planted in honor of the baby boy she lost. “It’s a place where I go to feel connected to him,” Sheridan says. “Nature reminds me his energy is still here. Even though he isn’t...

Health + Wellness

Crown, Corbin & Karaoke

For Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Emma Broyles talks family, inclusion and her brother Brendan. Photography by Provided: Emma Broyles Before Diamondbacks star Corbin Carroll stepped up to the plate, his girlfriend, Emma Broyles, stepped up to the microphone to sing the National Anthem at Chase Field. But a big stage is nothing new for Emma. Raised in Anchorage, half Korean and half Irish, she became the first Alaskan and first Korean American crowned Miss America. Now 25 and rooted in...

Travel

Paradise Found on the Kohala Coast

10 Reasons Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Still Has It Photography by Provided: Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Some resorts win travelers over with sheer newness. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel does it with something harder to manufacture: a sense of place. The hotel has occupied one of the most beautiful stretches of the Kohala Coast since 1965. Its recent renovation refreshed nearly every part of the experience, yet the property still feels connected to its original character.  Here are 10 reasons Mauna Kea Beach...

Life + Culture

Before and After Maddie

The Story Behind Sugar & Chip AZ Photography by Provided There is no language for the moment a parent loses a child. There is only the long walk afterward. For Shannon, that walk began three years ago, when she lost her daughter Maddie after a struggle with her mental health. Maddie was just fourteen years old. Her death divided life into before and after. It changed the rhythm of every day and reshaped the future Shannon had imagined for her family. But even within the deepest grief, love...

Local Services

An Appetite for Beauty

Heather Restrepo reveals the first taste of Depwah, where French technique meets Vietnamese soul. Photography by Provided: Heather Restrepo There is an undeniably handsome baker in Gilbert making the internet hungry. But Scottsdale has Heather. Heather Restrepo is the Founder and Creative Director behind Depwah. While she builds the larger Old Town restaurant, bar and rooftop, she is not making Scottsdale wait. Depwah Provisions is already here, online and by pre-order, giving us a first...