Road Trip
By Tom Reardon, May 2019 Issue. Depending on how fast you drive, Joshua Tree National Park is about four and a half hours from Phoenix. That’s four episodes of Game of [...]
Features
A Globetrotting Romance
By Michelle Talsma Everson, May 2019 Issue.Photos Courtesy of Calvin Goetz and Jeremy Kraut-Ordover If you want to ask what Calvin Goetz and Jeremy Kraut-Ordover’s upcoming [...]
Pride Journey: Provincetown/Cape Cod
By Joey Amato, May 2019 Issue. In case you don’t know, I march to the beat of my own drummer, so when I decided to visit a summer time destination in the winter, people [...]
Summer Staycations
By Michelle Talsma Everson, May 2019 Issue. While summer doesn’t officially start until June, here in Phoenix, we all know it started once temps hit triple digits. One way [...]
Blinded By Her Light: Agnes Pelton at the Phoenix Art Museum
By Ashley Naftule, May 2019 issue. The first time I saw Agnes Pelton’s artwork, I thought of Kirlian photography. Sometimes described as spirit photography, this process [...]
Tales of the Mystery Castle on the mountain
By Jason Kron. Photos by Michelle Dawn.April 2019 Issue. The story behind Phoenix’s Mystery Castle goes like this: In 1929, Boyce Luther Gulley left his family and job in [...]
The Dinah 2019
By Megan Wadding, April 2019 Issue. Club Skirts presents The Dinah. The annual music festival and pool party weekend — aka the largest lesbian event worldwide — is about [...]
Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989
By Judy McGuire, April 2019 Issue. With recent major museum retrospectives from Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz and Hockney, LGBTQI art seems [...]
JoJo brings her magic to Phoenix Pride’s mainstage
By Colby Tortorici, April 2019 Issue. Fans of the singer JoJo are on the edge of their seats as they wait to see her perform at Phoenix Pride. Headlining Saturday’s show, [...]
Phoenix Pride introduces Latin Stage and other new features to festival
By Laura Latzko, April 2019 Issue. RuPaul’s Drag Race fave Ms. Vanjie.Photo courtesy of Phoenix Pride. The Phoenix Pride Festival is built on tradition, but it continues to [...]
The Missing B? (In LGBTQ)
By Michelle Talsma Everson, April 2019 Issue. In a 2013 Pew Research Center survey of LGBTQ Americans, 36 percent identified as gay men, 19 percent as lesbians, 5 percent as [...]
Tiki Oasis makes its Arizona debut
By Tom Reardon, April 2019 Issue. Growing up in Phoenix in the 1970s was a surreal treat, at times. For example, across the street from the Arizona State Mental Hospital on [...]
Transgender activist Monica Helms serves as Community Grand Marshal at Phoenix Pride
By Laura Latzko, April 2019 Issue. Monica Helms In creating the pink, blue and white transgender flag, activist, author, and speaker Monica Helms made her mark on LGBTQ [...]
Conscious Cooking: FnB’s chef Charleen Badman delivers visually bewitching, soul-soothing dishes
By Tom Reardon, March 2019 Issue. All photos by Jill Richards Photography. Tucked away in an easily overlooked corner of Old Town Scottsdale is a desert gem. A unique dining [...]
Undressing the Dressing Room: Former drag bar is now an eclectic eatery
By Jeff Kronenfeld, March 2019 Issue. Photos by Jeff Kronenfeld; some courtesy of The Dressing Room. With gleaming new towers packed full of luxury condos popping up faster [...]
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