HistoryStarlight Screens
Douglas TowneFebruary 2020
Valley residents flocked to drive-in theaters after World War II, but movies weren’t necessarily the main attraction.
History
The Grand Canyon State’s marriage laws once made Yuma a popular round-the-clock wedding destination for California couples.
History100 Years of Encores
Douglas TowneDecember 2019
The Phoenix Theatre Company celebrates its 100th anniversary as Arizona’s oldest arts organization with an enticing 2020 program.
HistoryHooved Homecoming
Douglas TowneNovember 2019
The Winslow Elks Lodge led an effort to import elk from Yellowstone National Park in 1913 after Arizona’s native species became extinct.
Paradise Valley physician Art Mollen looks back on more than 40 years of his Phoenix 10K and half-marathon, which returns to the Valley this month.
HistoryThe Dead Fed
Dawson FearnowOctober 2019
Ninety years after federal lawman Paul E. Reynolds was fished out of a Phoenix canal with a bullet hole in his heart, the FBI still refuses to say who killed him – officially, the only unsolved murder of a bureau agent in U.S. history.
HistoryDesert Resurrection
Douglas TowneSeptember 2019
Notorious Hollywood evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson reappeared in Douglas, Arizona, after “drowning” weeks earlier in the Pacific Ocean in 1926.
HistoryUniversity Club
Douglas TowneAugust 2019
Elevating a humble state college in Tempe to university status – and creating the educational juggernaut we know today – ended a decades-long battle with a certain “old pueblo” to the south.
A former Methodist church in Phoenix repurposed as the Taco Guild restaurant still attracts faithful parishioners.
We celebrate Arizona’s pivotal role in space exploration.
Sunnyslope originated as a haven for indigent tuberculosis patients hoping to be cured by the Valley’s dry, warm air.
When a prominent businessman was found dead in the Arizona Canal in 1992, his little black book exposed Phoenix high society’s steamiest secrets.
HistoryDisorder on the Court
Douglas TowneFebruary 2019
The Phoenix Racquets of World Team Tennis smashed overheads and sports barriers during their successful run in the mid-1970s.
HistoryThe Constant Gardeners
Keridwen CorneliusJanuary 2019
Desert Botanical Garden, celebrating its 80th anniversary in February, has a life story kind of like a cactus: hardscrabble persistence punctuated by blooms of colorful characters.
HistoryBoot-Scootin’ Station
Douglas TowneDecember 2018
KNIX’s 50 years of broadcasting country music as one of the nation’s top stations has been one wild hayride