Susan, along with her husband and two children, moved from New Jersey to Arizona and cluelessly began her adventure as a transplant. Susan wrote a book, and is writing this column, to help other transplants find their way.
A lot has happened since the column Stuck Outside of Phoenix to bring ‘90s Tempe music scene to big screen appeared here on February 13. With a bevy of Arizona talent and dedicated believers, this little independent film...
People often complain that Arizona has no history, no roots, that everything here is bland and sanitized and “too new”.Well, those people have never been to Bisbee.Bisbee, Arizona is an old copper mining town that, back...
The Arizona film community is alive and well, and very excited this week as the annual Phoenix Film Festival is about to kick off.Sometimes when you’re watching the Oscars and see awards for short films, you may...
There is a special kind of “transplant” that’s not really a transplant at all. A younger, more flexible part-time resident who owns a second house in Arizona and spends at least as much time...
As a transplant to Arizona, one of the most pleasant surprises you'll find in your new home state is the abundance of citrus. Before moving here, you probably pictured nothing but a dry and barren desert, unaware...
Sometimes we look at our personal history in terms of segments or eras, each one separated from the next by major life events. I know I tend to think of my own life as four large chunks of time...
If you lived here in the early nineties, you may remember the magical music environment that surrounded Tempe back in the day. It was a time when anything could happen in this ASU college town, an unpretentious era when behind...
Unless you moved here from Alaska or Hawaii, the state from which you moved is older than the youngster that is Arizona. (Although, if you moved from New Mexico, only one month older.) But, as any woman over...
It’s that time again. The time each winter when Scottsdale and its environs turn into something resembling Spring Break for adults. It’s time for the PGA tour to stop at the Waste Management Phoenix...
New Year’s is all about taking new steps forward, embracing dreams, and starting over. And what better way to start the year off on the right foot than by putting that foot on a mountain and...