Desert DigestLocal ProductsScottsdale Overnight Oats Company Gives Back for National Autism Awareness Month
Jr De ChavezApril 24, 2023
Whether it’s through her products or philanthropic efforts, OMG Overnight Oats founder Alexis Brown is all about giving back to her community. Brown strives to provide healthy, balanced and ready-to-eat meals, snacks and desserts to consumers in the Valley and beyond while simultaneously raising funds and awareness for a cause she believes in. Health and wellness have always been important to the Scottsdale entrepreneur. During the pandemic, Brown often made her overnight oats with...
MusicThe PHiXLargest Free Music Festival in the Southwest Returns to Mesa This Weekend
Jr De ChavezApril 12, 2023
The sixth annual Mesa Music Festival is making a major post-pandemic comeback. After a three-year hiatus, the free-to-the-public, three-day festival returns to downtown Mesa Thursday, April 13 through Saturday, April 15. A truly jam-packed weekend, the event will feature more than 200 performances by local and international artists and offers food and art from local vendors along the block of Main and MacDonald streets. The festival has a freewheeling structure, where attendees can hop from...
This Thursday, April 6, is National Burrito Day, and if you wanted to get wrapped up in the day’s festivities, here are four Valley-based establishments to check out. Salt & Lime Modern Mexican Grill Have you bean to Salt & Lime Modern Mexican Grill? To commemorate National Burrito Day, Salt & Lime is offering all-day, all-you-can-eat refried bean and Oaxaca cheese burritos for $25. The Scottsdale-based cantina also puts a modern spin on typical Mexican...
The PHiX4 Can’t-Miss Festivities at This Year’s Arizona Renaissance Festival
Jr De ChavezMarch 31, 2023
Huzzah! This weekend, April 1-2, the 35th annual Arizona Renaissance Festival is in town for the final time this year. When making the trip out to Fairhaven — the festival grounds in Gold Canyon — and entering a place locked in time, here are some things you cannot miss during your medieval experience. An April Fools’ Day Fit for a King (of Fools) Aside from this weekend being the last operating weekend of this year’s...
The PHiXCar and Away: Arizona’s 1,000-Mile Road Rally Celebrates 33 Years
Jr De ChavezMarch 13, 2023
Life is a highway, or at least it is in the Copperstate 1000 — a vintage car rally where 85 pre-1973 vehicles of various makes and models drive all over Arizona and the Southwest. From April 15-19, the 33rd annual Bell Lexus North Scottsdale Copperstate 1000 is one of three philanthropic events organized by the Men’s Arts Council (MAC) of Phoenix Art Museum. “We’re guys that like to do good things in the community,” MAC...