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Traffic and city sounds are distant thoughts at Shash Diné Eco Retreat, where visitors stare in awe at the starry sky amidst petroglyphs and pottery shards. Married entrepreneurs Baya and Paul Meehan created the Lake Powell-area retreat as a unique Navajo glamping experience inspired by Baya’s family history in the region, which can be traced back 15 generations. Now, department store shoppers around the country can get a bit of the Shash Diné magic with...

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Downtown Phoenix music promotion has essentially been taken over by Live Nation. With its purchase of The Van Buren, the company has dominated the upper-tier indie-rock niche that was once the bread and butter of Charlie Levy’s Stateside Presents. But locally promoted live music is popping up in unexpected places, including the Showroom at Wild Horse Pass resort and casino in Chandler. Since Anastasia “A.P.” Palmer Johnson stepped in as the casino’s corporate director of...

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Raised as an active Midwestern farm boy, Jim Jensen didn’t let the challenges of a demanding job and a health scare derail his love of the outdoors. “I accepted a job promotion with my company and moved to Arizona in 2006,” says the co-founder of the San Tan Shredders mountain bike club. “As a ‘traveling salesman,’ my job created a perfect storm of bad eating habits, and almost no opportunity to exercise. It took a...