COVID-19 LGBTQ Business Update: Stacy’s @ Melrose
In this new online column, we catch up with local LGBTQ business owners to see how COVID-19 is affecting them, employees, and customers. If there’s a business serving the [...]
Jeff Kronenfeld
Tailgating with Shameless Burger
By Jeff Kronenfeld, July 2020 Issue. Pink lightening exploded above the McDowell Mountains as we pulled into the parking lot of a nondescript office complex in North [...]
Phoenix Rises Friday, June 19 to benefit Black-led Phoenix charities
By Jeff Kronenfeld For over fifty years, LGBTQ people and their supporters gathered each June at Pride events to demand equal rights and celebrate together. While COVID-19 [...]
Mass movement confronts police violence and structural racism
Story and photos by Jeff Kronenfeld Widescale outrage over the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black father of two, by a Minneapolis Police Department officer on May [...]
Phoenix’s inland sea: diving into Chula Seafood Uptown
By Jeff Kronenfeld, June 2020 Issue. When Chula Seafood Uptown opened last February, it brought the ocean a little closer to Phoenix. This is something of a mission for its [...]
Pair of booking brands and political organizations run emergency rent drive
By Jeff Kronenfeld Briannin Gross loves the Valley’s music and art scenes almost as much the people that make them up. Gross, who uses the pronoun they/them, volunteers as [...]
Baring it all: Dining in with NakedQ
By Jeff Kronenfeld, May 2020 Issue. Two men held an impromptu tailgate party as I pulled into the parking lot for NakedQ in Scottsdale. Don’t worry, they were more than six [...]
The Urban Thing: Urban Phoenix Café
By Jeff Kronenfeld, April 2020 Issue. The orange stains on my notes are evidence the food at Urban Phoenix Café overflows with flavor. If you missed Arizona Taco Fest or [...]
Coronavirus in Arizona and a Q&A with Sonia Singh from Maricopa County Public Health
By Jeff Kronenfeld Five months after the first human cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus were detected in China, the world holds its breath. The state of Arizona, like the [...]
Deez Buns are fresh: New Tempe lunch spot offers Korean Fried Chicken, Filipino Pork Belly, and lots of Bao
By Jeff Kronenfeld, March 2020 Issue. The name of the new restaurant Deez Buns may be cheeky, but its food is no joke. Co-owners Justin Park and Kevin Rosales are a breath of [...]
Veni, Vidi, Vecina: Arcadia’s newest neighbor
Story and photos by Jeff Kronenfeld, February 2020 Issue. Robert Frost once quipped that good fences make good neighbors. If the famous poet lived near chefs like James Fox [...]
Let Freedom Sing: Rockers, Policy Wonks, and Former Prisoners Team Up to Advocate for Criminal Justice Reform
By Jeff Kronenfeld The Copper State’s capitol will be filled by the voices of the voiceless next week. They will ask lawmakers to stop the unprecedented rise in the number [...]
Friendly Fire: Painter Jason Hugger brings the war home to Exposed Studio and Gallery
Story and photos by Jeff Kronenfeld Fiery shrapnel frames a lone refugee silhouetted against a smoldering desert. You’d never guess it was a busted shovel and what [...]
Razing Arizona: The spiritual battle to save Oak Flat
Story and photos by Jeff Kronenfeld Religious leaders from across the country trekked to Oak Flat Campground 60 miles east of Phoenix on December 13. Christians, Jews, [...]
He who laughs, lasts: Fred Tieken on art, music, and community
Story and photos by Jeff Kronenfeld, January 2020 Issue. When Fred Tieken faced end-stage renal disease, a kind of advanced kidney failure, he started painting. That might [...]
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