Our biggest, baddest Best of the Valley ever includes 561 of the most laudable people, places and things in Greater Phoenix…. Thank you to all our PHOENIX magazine readers and online users for a record vote turnout on Best of the Valley 2022. And the winner...
As of July 2022, nearly 31,000 people in Arizona have died of COVID-19. They were people with family, friends, children, and pets. People who mentored others and changed lives. They are gone. Their belongings and memories are left with the people involved in their...
The U.N. General Assembly created International Day of the World’s Indigenous People on December 23, 1994. August 9 was chosen as it was the day of the first meeting held by the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and...
“At the height of the pandemic, I read something that stopped me in my tracks. I read a story about Gary Fowler, a Black man that died in his home because no hospital would treat him despite his COVID-19 symptoms. As we continued to hear how the racial disparities in...
Western Spirit fosters relationships with colleges and universities across Arizona and beyond. Recently, a fund was started to honor the legacy of one of our founding couples, Sandy and Jim Bruner. The mission of the Bruner Scholars Fund is to provide students in...
