FeaturesHistoryDeja Virus: The 1918 Spanish Flu’s striking parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic
The 1918 Spanish influenza hit Arizona in four waves, shut down Phoenix twice and had striking parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 1918 Spanish influenza hit Arizona in four waves, shut down Phoenix twice and had striking parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic.
How the killing of a 73-year-old waiter in Arcadia came back to haunt the Chicago mob.
Boxer Zora Folley fought Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight title only to later die under mysterious circumstances while serving as a Chandler city councilman.
Valley residents flocked to drive-in theaters after World War II, but movies weren’t necessarily the main attraction.
The Grand Canyon State’s marriage laws once made Yuma a popular round-the-clock wedding destination for California couples.
The Phoenix Theatre Company celebrates its 100th anniversary as Arizona’s oldest arts organization with an enticing 2020 program.
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.
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.
Notorious Hollywood evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson reappeared in Douglas, Arizona, after “drowning” weeks earlier in the Pacific Ocean in 1926.
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.