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While life in Tempe often seems huddled along Mill Avenue, there’s plenty of other real estate to explore in the Valley’s signature college community – an outer galaxy of art, food and culture that can be accessed via the city’s three-mile Streetcar loop.

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In 2014, Adriene Jenik felt called to contribute to the climate change conversation in a meaningful way. The Arizona State University art professor, who grew up with a professional psychic mother, turned to the “guidance system of the tarot.” It took her two years to develop her own tarot deck, crafting each card out of agave paper and recycled cotton and linen, hand-drawing a unique symbol on each and adorning them with plant-based pigments. She...

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San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Kansas City and Phoenix are all places fashion designer Maria Behnen has called home. Currently, she teaches at Arizona State University’s Fusion on First, an apartment community and entrepreneurial incubator that helps students master their crafts, from architecture to fashion design. “It’s very rewarding to give back and help ASU grow the fashion program,” Behnen says. It’s a full-circle moment for the designer: She found her love...

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What does it mean to be “beautiful”? According to Nancy Gómez, Miss Latin American of the World, the definition of “beautiful” transcends physical appearance. “Beauty comes from within,” she says, “Sometimes it’s with their spirituality, sometimes with their mind, their thoughts, their actions, and/or their relationships with others, but it all comes from within and so that is how it shines through to the outer self.” To call Nancy Gómez just a beauty queen is...