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Upcoming Concerts The Nels Cline 4 February 7 Albert Cummings February 8 Extreme Acoustic Guitar Featuring Bill Dutcher, Adam Armijo, and Mark Miracle February 19 Joy Williams of The Civil Wars with Special Guest Anthony da Costa February 25 International Guitar Night Featuring Luca Stricagnoli, Antoine Boyer, Samuelito, and Cenk Erdogan February 26 Makana February 28 And many more!

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ARIZONA MUSICFEST Writer Joseph J. Airdo Photography Courtesy of Arizona Musicfest

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FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE MOON PAUL CALLE Writer Shannon Severson Photography Courtesy of Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West

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BARRY GOLDWATER THROUGH THE LENS Writer Amanda Christmann Photography Courtesy of Goldwater Family Foundation

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Each February for the last 10 years, our team at Images Arizona magazine has had the honor of featuring Arizona Musicfest. It’s been our pleasure.

After all, Arizona Musicfest does a wonderful job of cultivating musical experiences that unite our community. Each year, their lineup of top artists, including some of the most well-respected names in classical, chamber, jazz, Broadway, country, blues, opera, bluegrass, and pop music brings joy to audiences regardless of who they are or where they come from.

The arts have the power to cut through all that divides us and to find common ground we can all appreciate. That’s why it’s so important.

Many wonderful organizations recognize the importance of promoting arts in the Valley. This month, we’re happy to add the heart-wrenching yet important work of Violins of Hope, which is bringing back voices of those who died in the Holocaust through the violins they played. I get goosebumps thinking about the gravity of their message, and I hope you find time to support their efforts.

A little closer to home for me, my friend, the very talented Italian jewelry designer Laura Bicego, whose jewelry line, Nanis, is showcased in Carefree’s Grace Renee Gallery, heard about the work Arizona Musicfest is doing. She wanted to help, so we’ve set up a special showing of her private collection Feb. 8 and 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the gallery. You are invited to enjoy appetizers and refreshments as you browse her impressive offerings, and 10 percent of Nanis sales will support Arizona Musicfest.

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Thank you for, once again, sharing in our excitement for the arts and for life in our beautiful little corner of the world. For decades, I’ve maintained that there is no better place to live, and the thriving arts and support they receive here are a big part of what brings me joy. Your support is what makes us rich in the kind of inner rewards that really matter.

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NANIS ITALIAN JEWELRY ARTIST

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Laura’s private collection of elegant, handmade 18-karat gold jewelry along with her signature Nanis collection will be available.

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Arizona Musicfest has played a vital role in the Valley for the past 28 years.

The organization provides audiences with affordable and convenient access to a diverse lineup of culturally rich musical acts. It does so by making use of various North Scottsdale venues that provide Musicfest patrons with a special destination for their concert going experiences.

But that is just the tip of the iceburg.

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 07:30 PM La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church - The Gathering Place

RUTH MOODY BAND

Arizona Musicfest is one of our community’s most powerful promoters of the arts. The money Arizona Musicfest makes from the concerts it produces benefits a variety of music education programs in the Valley. It presents free classical music and jazz programs to more than 6,000 K-12 students each year, inspiring the community’s youth through the arts.

The organization partners with local educators and administrators to supplement preexisting music education programs and enhance the resources available to them.

It also offers unique performance opportunities and financial assistance to aspiring young musicians throughout the community.

All of that is made possible by the performances it brings to the Valley—performances that continue this month as part of Arizona Musicfest’s Winter Festival.

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LONESOME TRAVELER: THE CONCERT with special guest PETER YARROW Monday, February 04, 2019 07:30 PM - Highlands Church

BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY Making Swing Hip Again Friday, February 01, 2019 07:30 PM - Highlands Church

FESTIVAL SINFONIA WITH FESTIVAL CHORUS Sunday, February 17, 2019 03:00 PM Pinnacle Presbyterian Church

BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL Broadway's Leading Man Thursday, February 07, 2019 07:30 PM - Highlands Church

THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA Monday, March 11, 2019 7:30PM Highlands Church

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A SILENCED LEGACY Honoring the Music and the Musicians Tuesday, February 26, 2019 07:30 PM - Temple Chai

After a stellar fall lineup that included Wynonna and The Big Noise, Arizona Musicfest’s 2018-19 festival season advances through March 15, bringing several exciting and innovative musical artists to the Valley all winter long.

Those hoping to see Arizona Musicfest’s Feb. 15 presentation of superstar Neil Sedaka at Highlands Church in Scottsdale may be out of luck, since tickets sold out shortly after they became available last summer, but there are plenty of other one-of-a-kind concerts from which to choose over the next two months.

Swing ensemble Big Bad Voodoo Daddy arrives at Highlands Church Feb. 1, followed shortly behind by “Lonesome Traveler” Feb. 4. Originally an award-winning off-Broadway theatrical hit, “Lonesome Traveler” is an homage to iconic folk legends like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Peter, Paul & Mary’s Peter Yarrow will appear as a special guest during the show, making for an enormously memorable evening.

Brian Stokes Mitchell brings Broadway to the Valley Feb. 7. Having won two Tony Awards and appearing in 10 Broadway shows over the course of his career—including “Ragtime,” “Man of La Mancha,” “Kiss Me Kate” and “Shuffle Along”—Mitchell’s performance at Highlands Church promises to be one of the biggest draws during this year’s Arizona Musicfest Winter Festival.

Highlands Church will also play host to The Hit Men Feb. 9. The band is comprised of five legendary performers who sang, played or recorded with some of the biggest names in rock ‘n’ roll history—such as Elton John, Carole King, Cat Stevens,

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THE HIT MEN Legendary Rock Supergroup Saturday, February 09, 2019 07:30 PM - Highlands Church

TRIO SOLISTI Sunday, February 10, 2019 03:00 PM Musical Instrument Museum

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Jim Croce, Carly Simon and Frankie Valli. As if their music was not enough to exhilarate audiences, they will also share behind-the-scenes stories about their careers.

This year’s Arizona Musicfest Winter Festival also sees performances by piano trio Trio Solisti Feb. 10 at Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, as well as The Ruth Moody Band Feb. 12 at Gathering Place at La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church in Phoenix.

One of the highlights of Arizona Musicfest every year is Festival Orchestra Week, a series of six concerts featuring Festival Orchestra—an ensemble comprised of all-star musicians from the finest orchestras across the country.

This year’s slate, which takes place Feb. 17-24, includes programs that honor the history, musicians and music of the Holocaust. Coinciding with the Valley’s Violins of Hope events, the programs will feature musicians performing on a rare collection of recovered and restored violins.

NEIL SEDAKA Under the direction of Maestro Robert Moody, Festival Orchestra will also perform works by composers Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Leopold Dvorák, Johann Sebastian Bach and Gustav Mahler over the course of the week. Special guests at the concerts will include award-winning pianist Andrew von Oeyen, string trio Simply Three, pop vocalist Susie Pepper and world-renowned violinist Gil Shaham.

Friday, February 15, 2019 07:30 PM

Arizona Musicfest comes full circle March 3 when the Valley’s young classical musicians who benefit from the organization’s programs perform their winter concert at Musical Instrument Museum, illustrating with sheer magnificence all of the good that the event—and the arts—does for our community.

This year’s Arizona Musicfest Winter Festival concludes with four more concerts in March that include performances by gyspy-jazz ensemble The Hot Club of San Fransisco, the Grammy Award-winning Count Basie Orchestra, Jimmy Buffett tribute band Changes in Latitude, and Tony Awardnominated cabaret singer-songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway, who will be celebrating the music of Barbra Steisand.

Arizona Musicfest has grown exponentially in recent years— from about 7,300 attendees and 17 concerts per season during its earlier events to about 25,000 attendees and 28 concerts per season now. That is great news for audiences and students throughout the Valley, whose exposure to the arts will continue to expand and diversify as a result. azmusicfest.org

VIOLINS OF HOPE Gil Shaham with The Festival Orchestra Saturday, February 23, 2019 08:00 PM Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts f ebruary 2019

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COMMUNITY

2019 FEBRUARY

Writer Amanda Christmann

Feb. 7

ARTIST MICHAEL SWEARNGIN Meet Michael Swearngin and fall in love with this nationally acclaimed artist's contemporary take on classic Western subjects. Appetizers and refreshments served. Free. Grace Renee Gallery, 7212 E. Ho Hum Rd. #7, Carefree. 4–7 p.m. gracereneegallery.com

Feb. 4

HISTORY OF SAN XAVIER DURING THE MISSION PERIOD

its water resources? Elisa Klein, the

Feb. 7, 6–9 p.m. Free. 6919 E. 1st

water conservation coordinator

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Join Thunderbird Artists for the

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Feb. 4

WATER: USE IT WISELY

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Docent Craig Reid from the

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banks of the Scottsdale Waterfront District and enjoy juried fine art, wine tasting, spirit sampling, live music, delectable edibles and sculptures by

Fiat Lux Gallery’s spring show

world-renowned artist, Al Glann. $3

features the work of Phoenix artist

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Brian Boner, whose 150-foot-long

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PHOENIX CHINESE WEEK Enjoy this series of cultural, social

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Free. Margaret T. Hance Park East, 1202 N. 3rd St., Phoenix. See website for schedule. 480-650-2610; phoenixchineseweek.org

Feb. 8–15

S C H E D U L E YO U R F I T T I N G N O W.

SUEÑOS DE MEXICO Adelante Gallery at Carefree’s Historic Spanish Village presents an exhibition of artwork by Gretchen Lopez. Artist reception will be held

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Feb. 9

DESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY 10TH ANNUAL GALA Celebrating 65 years as a 501(c)3 non-profit, built on the foundation of member support through donations, memberships, and volunteerism, Desert Foothills Library hosts a silent auction, wine pull and hosted cocktails. Gourmet dinner at 7:00 p.m. with live entertainment, featuring renowned pianist Nicole Pesce and the Phoenix Opera. $200. Please RSVP

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Feb. 8–9

ARIZONA MUSICFEST BENEFIT Italian jewelry designer Laura Bicego brings her private collection of elegant, handmade, 18 karat gold jewelry along with her signature Nanis collection to Grace Renee Gallery. Ten percent of Nanis sales will be donated to Arizona Musicfest.

Free. 7212 E. Ho Hum Rd. #7, Carefree. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. gracereneegallery.com

Feb. 9

STRONG BEER FESTIVAL

demonstrations, kids’ zone, Arizona SciTech exhibitions, live entertainment and more. Two-hour air show begins

CORKS AND CACTUS

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Sample, sip and savor your way

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ticket and VIP pricing. Buckeye

through the splendor of Desert

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Municipal Airport, 3000 S. Palo

Botanical Garden. Sample from

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40 different wines each day, enjoy

hundreds of craft beer events that

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make up Arizona Beer Week. Enjoy more than 500 craft brews, live music, delicious restaurant and food truck

Feb. 9–10

Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N. Galvin Pkwy., Phoenix. 1–4:30 p.m.

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BUCKEYE AIR FAIR Experience the sights of vintage and military aircraft, action-packed

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Feb. 9–10

Hoop Dancer. Adults $18; Seniors

the art of organization

$13.50; American Indians $12; Children 4–12 $7.50; children 3 and under free. Heard Museum, 2301 N. Central Ave., Phoenix. 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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Feb. 10

BRING IN THE SOUNDS The Scottsdale Philharmonic will present the beautiful sounds of Dvorak, Strauss, Marquez and Puccini. Free; VIP seating available for $15 donation. Scottsdale Bible Church, 7601 E. Shea Blvd., Scottsdale. 4–6 p.m. 480-951-6077; scottsdalephilharmonic.com

Feb. 13

CHACO AND THE ORIGINS OF PUEBLO STYLE Dr. Stephen Lekson, curator of

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Feb. 14–17

THE FIREBIRD The past and future collide in one spectacular production for Ballet Arizona’s performances of The Firebird, a completely new production from artistic director Ib Andersen, and La Sylphide, one of the world’s oldest ballets. Live music by The Phoenix Symphony. $25 and up; discounts for seniors, college students, military, individuals aged 18-29, and groups of 10 or more. 2835 Washington St., Phoenix. See website for schedule. 602-381-1096; balletaz.org

Feb. 14

DESERT FOOTHILLS WOMAN’S CLUB FUNDRAISER

Mary F. Cook, an international lecturer and a member of the International the story. $5. Please RSVP. 38443 N.

STREET EATS FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL

Foundation for Art Research will tell Schoolhouse Rd., Cave Creek. 10:30

Over 55 food trucks will sell all types

An evening of dinner, dancing and silent

a.m.–12:30 p.m. 480-488-2286;

of food, with every menu including a

and live auctions will allow DFWC

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$2 sample. Live bands, lawn games,

to provide scholarships to graduating

eating contests, a local vendor

women and funds to non-profits. $75.

marketplace, kid’s zone, cooking

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Feb. 16

AUGSBURG CENTENNIAL SINGERS Augsburg Centennial Singers men’s

Feb. 16

WHEN HITLER AND GORING LIVED AT THE RITZ A sensational story of the ruthlessness

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classes and more. $12 in advance; $15 at the gate; VIP tickets available. Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, 7555 N. Pima Rd., Scottsdale. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

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choir will present an afternoon of songs of praise at Christ the Lord Lutheran Church. Adults

Feb. 16–18

Cave Creek Rd., Carefree. 4 p.m.

ARIZONA COCKTAIL WEEKEND

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The Eighth Annual Arizona Cocktail

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ISABELLE DEMERS IN RECITAL World-renowned organist Isabelle Demers performs an impressive selection of Bach works. $21 in advance; $25 at the door. All Saints Episcopal, 6300 N. Central Ave., Phoenix. 3 p.m. arizonabachfestival.org

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DEVOUR SEVEN CHEFS DINNER Join the James Beard hosted "Arizona Seven" for a one-night-only dining event at award winning restaurant The Gladly. $175. The Gladly, 2201 E. Camelback Rd., Phoenix. 4–7 p.m. classic.devourphoenix.com

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March 1–3

TOUR D’ ARTISTES Visit 15 studios and galleries and observe over 60 artists in the process of creating original artwork in picturesque Fountain Hills. Visit all the studios and galleries and be eligible to win a $150 gift certificate toward the purchase of art from one of the participating artists. Free.

Map available online. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. daily. fountainhillsartleague.com

Feb. 21

DEVOUR THE WORLD East meets west, north, and south

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Project, Desert Foothills Library and

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Four award-winning Arizona artists,

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and loans for women to attend Cottey College. $50. Ancala Country Club, 11700 Via Linda, Scottsdale. 602751-8723.

Feb. 26

CREATING A FINANCIAL ROADMAP Learn how to create a financial roadmap, including insurance coverage, titled assets, cash management and efficient estate planning. Free. Carefree Town Council Center, 33 Easy St., Carefree. 9 a.m.

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March 9

IT’S A ROYAL BABY! A royal baby calls for a royal celebration! Celebrate the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s bouncing baby royal at the English Rose Tea Room with baby shower games, royal souvenirs and more. Bring a baby shower gift to donate to Maggie’s Place, a non-profit that cares for homeless new moms and their babies. $55. 201 Easy St., #103, Carefree. 3–5 p.m. 480-488-4812; carefreetea.com

I LOVE MY LIBRARY MONTH February is “I Love My Library Month” at Desert Foothills Library initiated in response to an anonymous matching grant gift to raise up to $15,000 for enhancing youth and teen educational services and programs.

Desert Foothills Library has only four weeks to garner donations to be matched dollar-for-dollar, and asks its members, community, and the public to consider making a gift during the month to help support the library and its efforts to enrich our community.

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Writer Fadi Sitto Photography Courtesy of Zak’s Chocolate

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“If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it,” Willy Wonka said.

For anyone who loves the art of authentic chocolate making and detailed craftsmanship of award-winning chocolatiers, Zak's Chocolate in Scottsdale is your paradise within view.

Zak’s Chocolate, founded and run by Jim and Maureen Elitzak is a premium small-batch craft chocolate experience uniquely local and refreshingly ethical in its practices.

Since 2015, this quaint production space and retail shop has created original chocolate from cacao beans from all over Central America, South America, Madagascar and other top producers.

“This was a hobby that literally got out of control over time,” Jim says.

The first thing I noticed as I walk in is the heavenly aroma. I sat on a stool at the chocolate bar, relaxing while I enjoyed freshly roasted coffee and some of the finest chocolate I’ve ever had.

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Beverly Barnes, who’s been coming to Zak’s for the past two years says, “I come here every time I have an opportunity, whenever I need a gift or whenever I go to lunch with a friend. We come here for dessert. I walk in and smell this wonderful smell and I think, wow!”

Local gems like Zak’s Chocolate are few and far between when it comes to the world of chocolate. The chocolate here is made on premises—something rare among chocolatiers.

A chocolatier is a person who works passionately with chocolate to design, create and sculpt masterpieces.

They are able to impart their own distinctiveness to each and every chocolate delight; it often takes them years to perfect the craft.

The chocolate maker on the other hand, is one who grinds the cacao beans and actually creates chocolate, much like a wine maker would create wine from scratch. They buy the cacao beans, roast them, and use other equipment to make the chocolate that chocolatiers need.

A rare breed these days, Jim and Maureen are both chocolate makers and highly trained chocolatiers. The process is more scientific than you can imagine, though here at Zak’s, they make it seem like second nature.

Until about 20 years ago, there were only a handful of people making craft, or small-batch chocolate. Today, there are a few hundred in the world. Zak’s is at the forefront of this small batch choco-revolution.

No short cuts are allowed. Everything is done by hand, from the initial hand-sorting of cacao beans to the finished mouth watering products you’ll find in their shop.

In 2017, Zak’s Chocolate won the prestigious International Chocolate Award. They followed that up in 2018 by winning a silver medal for their “Simply” chocolate truffle at the Academy of Chocolate Awards in London.

The roaring roaster is the backbone of Zak’s chocolate kitchen. Jim roasts all their cacao beans light to medium roast. This process reduces the bitterness and not only keeps the original natural flavors of the bean, but it highlights the notes and flavors.

Less is more. Their specialty dark chocolate bars have very distinct flavor profiles, and nothing is unnecessary added in.

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The only three ingredients in their prized chocolate bars are cacao beans, organic cane sugar and cocoa butter drawn from the bean itself. Maureen hand-presses cocoa butter in-house from small batches of beans, making their dark chocolates creamier and smoother—another example of Zak’s being a cut above.

Jim and Maureen do something that is somewhat revolutionary in the chocolate industry: they age, allowing the roasted beans to develop their flavor for a period of time before they are turned into chocolate and fashioned into each final chocolate masterpiece.

Zak’s Chocolate is quickly gaining worldwide recognition within the small but growing number of chocolatiers who make 100 percent of their own chocolate. Their commitment to the entire process enables Zak’s to impress both chocolate connoisseurs and newbies alike.

SWEET BEGINNINGS Jim and Maureen grew up in the New England area, and both were working in corporate finance when sweet dreams of chocolate making began to surface. Who knew they would eventually spend their days in Scottsdale making chocolate together?

“It’s just so rewarding,” says Maureen, who adds that she can’t imagine doing anything else.

Some 20 years ago, she started making custom chocolates from scratch for friends and family for the holidays, and now she’s a certified award-winning master chocolatier.

Her interest in the practice of crafting chocolate grew, eventually leading her to take advanced chocolate courses. In 2007, Maureen completed the Ecole Chocolat professional chocolatier program.

Jim and Maureen describe their small business as an ethically sourced craft chocolate shop. They put the spotlight on ethical sourcing and farming. They personally travel and meet with several of the farmers they buy cacao from.

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Jim and Maureen have taken the time to develop long-lasting, personal relationships with the farmers and the co-ops they partner with.

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In addition to everything else, Jim and Maureen offer multiple hands-on, interactive methods for their chocolate loving customers to actively participate in all things chocolate, from classes, to tastings and demonstrations, to the full-on chocolate making experience.

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At the heart of it all, this husband and wife super team love to engage in the art of chocolate with their patrons, customers and anyone who’ll listen.

“It’s wonderful when we open the doors every day and people walk in.

They take two steps and stop, then they take a breath and smile. It’s awesome,” Jim says with a beaming smile.

There was a time long ago when only royalty and the very lucky few elite could afford chocolate. Today you can simply head over to Scottsdale and taste some of the best chocolate in the world. zakschocolate.com

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PAUL CALLE (1928-2010), THE GREAT MOMENT, C. 1969, OIL ON MASONITE; COLLECTION OF THE ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART, GIFT OF DR. AND MRS. JOHN J. MCMULLEN. COPYRIGHT THE PAUL CALLE ESTATE.

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If I had to state a goal, a hope, pertaining to my work, my aim would be to help keep alive that huge reservoir of our past to draw strength and sustenance from, to build upon it in ways that are new and different, but not to reject it.

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Exploration has always been at the heart of the American spirit. We are a culture that reveres those who dream, dare and do. Artist Paul Calle’s talent and passion for portraying in vivid detail the events and people responsible for shaping our history will be on display at Smithsonian affiliate Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West in a retrospective exhibition, “Paul Calle’s Life of Exploration: From the Mountains to the Moon,” Feb. 19 through Oct. 20.

The late Calle had a two-fold career, specializing in Western art and space art. The two subjects might seem incongruous at first, but he didn’t see it that way.

“I have always likened the image of mountain man John Colter, his moccasinclad foot first stepping on the newly fallen snow of the Yellowstone valley, to the moon boot of Neil Armstrong, stepping in the dust of the moon’s surface at the Sea of Tranquility—two worlds apart, yet each at the edge of a new frontier,” Calle is quoted as saying in “Celebrating Apollo 11, The Artwork of Paul Calle,” a book written by his son, Chris Calle, and published in 2009.

The concept for the exhibition came from Western and Native American art and artifacts collector, Tim Peterson, who regularly collaborates with and loans his artwork to the museum. Coincidentally, his very first art acquisition as a young boy was a Calle print, “Something for the Pot.”

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PAUL CALLE (1928-2010), SOMETHING FOR THE POT II, OIL ON CANVAS; COURTESY THE PETERSON FAMILY COLLECTION. PAUL CALLE (1928-2010), A BREATH OF FRIENDSHIP, OIL ON CANVAS; COURTESY THE PETERSON FAMILY COLLECTION.

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EXPERTS IN HIGH The Minnesota native has always been drawn to Calle’s love of the outdoors. Peterson worked closely with Calle’s son, Chris, and Dr. Tricia Loscher, assistant museum director of collections, exhibitions and research, to gather and curate the wealth of Calle’s work and personal items.

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“Paul Calle was an important realist and his artworks feature rare, intricate details that interpret—as well as document—the United States’ great technological achievements, such as NASA, while aiding viewers in the enjoyment of his work,” says Loscher.

“With this exhibition's breadth of exquisite work, we are enabling our members, locals here in the Phoenix metro area and visitors from across the globe to have an in-depth experience of this important American artist and illustrator who was a unique part of history in the making.

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“We’re confident our guests will be awed by this exhibition, and Calle’s legacy will be remembered by generations yet to come.”

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“I want to give people a sense of the diversity and variety of art that he worked on, as well as a perspective that he was truly an American icon in terms of history, his work with NASA, his illustration days and work with postage stamps and Western art,” says Peterson.

“I thought it would be an interesting opportunity for the museum to showcase not just his work, but to create an atmosphere where people realize that these Western artists weren’t just Western artists, and hopefully that brings in a new audience. It will appeal to a wide swath of people.”

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I find my inspiration in all the life that surrounds and envelops me, from the evolution of man and his works to the timelessness of the rocks, the trees, of man and his land, the way and the sea.

This is my world and I relish it with great affection.

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PAUL CALLE (1928-2010), KNIGHTS ARMOR-END OF THE BEGINNING, 1964, OIL ON PANEL; THE CHRIS CALLE COLLECTION.

the moment, having earned the trust of the NASA program during previous missions dating back to 1963.

Calle went on to create the iconic 1969 first man on the moon artwork and postage stamp, the most popular first day cover in history, and sold over 152 million copies. Chris was asked to create a commemorative version in 1989 and, for the 25th anniversary of the moon landing in 1994, father and son worked together to create an express mail and a 29-cent stamp.

“If there’s something he’s going to be remembered for, it’s the first man on the moon stamp,” says Chris. “It’s an iconic image and you don’t need to be a stamp collector to appreciate it.”

“Our museum is proud to honor the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the legacy of artist Paul Calle by sharing this landmark retrospective exhibition with our regional, national and international audiences,” said Mike Fox, CEO and director of SMoW. Chris, an artist who does quite a bit of stamp design himself, recently had the honor of playing his father in the breakfast scene of Universal Pictures’ movie, “First Man.” It was an experience he will never forget, and an opportunity to continue his father’s legacy.

“It was amazing being in the movie and portraying my father, doing exactly what he did,” says Chris. “I used his exact sketchbook and pens and was there in the same moment my dad had been there.

The director, Damien Chazelle, really cares about these moments of authenticity as a filmmaker and an artist.”

Chris notes that his father dedicated the final 30-plus years of his career to the West and painting Western scenes, as he was an integral part of the National Park Service’s “Artists in the Park” program.

He traveled extensively, observing and sketching mountain men, Native Americans and the landscapes of the Western region, beginning with a sketch and creating full-sized pencil drawings of every one of his paintings, none of which he threw away. To create the fine details of his paintings, he used a very small paintbrush in the same manner as a pencil.

“It’s really important to see the originals of my dad’s paintings,” says Chris. “There’s so much vibrancy in the details of his originals.

The texture comes through in all the tiny lines. There’s a textural quality and visceral feeling.”

Chris vividly remembers the many trips to national parks they took as a family, where his father’s love for nature and history was instilled in his children. He also remembers the studio he shared with his dad for 15 years, a converted Connecticut barn that sat over a stable full of horses and had no heat.

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PAUL CALLE (1928-2010), POWER TO GO, 1969, OIL ON PANEL; SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, DC. COPYRIGHT THE PAUL CALLE ESTATE. PAUL CALLE (1928-2010), NEIL ARMSTRONG SUITING UP, 1969, PEN AND INK; THE CHRIS CALLE COLLECTION.

“The back steps were made from an old submarine staircase,” Chris recalls. “For the show, they’re recreating a portion of his studio, his paintbrushes and easel. It’s very realistic. There are even some pallets that I didn’t clean, and many of the furs and Western material he used in his paintings. The studio aspect is a brilliant way of showing the environment of the artist.”

Calle, who grew up during the Great Depression, never threw away a pencil stub. Instead, he tossed them into a large glass bowl that became a fixture in his studio and will be part of the exhibit. Those pencils are testament to the time he spent planning and sketching every detail of his work, often spending 10-hour days in his studio. He would “solve problems” in the sketch phase of his work, before committing to paint.

It’s the work ethic of an artisan, taking the time to refine his craft, line by line.”

“What dad taught me about pencil drawing is that it’s unforgiving. Once you have a mark on the paper, it’s in the paper, even if you try to erase,” says Chris. “He was a master of the use of negative space.”

Chris has enjoyed working with Peterson and Loscher, delving into all the work his father produced over the years, confident that audiences will learn and appreciate the broad scope of Calle’s art.

“He had these really interesting parts of his career and, for people who don’t know that, it’s going to be an eye-opening experience,” Chris points out. “He was who he was: his unabashed self.” scottsdalemuseumwest.org

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In the 1960s, an Arizonan entered the national political scene and forever redefined conservative politics. Sometimes referred to as a “real life John Wayne,” Barry Morris Goldwater all but rode into Washington on his horse, taking on the ideology of East Coast Republicans and, despite his landslide loss in the 1964 Presidential race, paving the way for Ronald Reagan and a new direction for the Republican party.

Love him or hate him, Barry Goldwater stood for what he believed in, even when he was the only one standing. Though his record appears at first glance to contradict itself (he was staunchly against the Civil Rights Act, but was a founding member of the Arizona NAACP and eliminated segregation in his family’s department stores, for example), his ultimate motivation was less federal regulation and more personal freedom—a decidedly libertarian slant to conservative politics.

Through the years, personal freedom became Goldwater’s war cry, and he would go on to fight for separation of religion and government, gay service members and women’s choice on abortion.

For Goldwater, less government regulation was more, and he ruffled feathers on both sides of political lines.

Still, as a senator, he was widely respected. When evidence of scandal mounted against President Nixon, it was Goldwater who was sent to notify Nixon that, unless he resigned, he would be impeached by the House and removed by the Senate. Nixon resigned the next day, and a new term, “Goldwater moment,” was coined to describe times when an elected official is abandoned or openly opposed by his or her party.

Though he is often memorialized for his political contributions, Goldwater was passionate about so much more.

He and his first wife, Margaret, were married in 1934. On their first Christmas together, she lovingly presented him with a camera—a gift that would introduce him to a life-long love of photography.

Over the years, he would snap tens of thousands of photographs, including 15,000 images that would later be donated to three Arizona institutions. He would go on to publish three coffee table photography books: “Delightful Journey” first published in 1940 and reprinted in 1970; “People and Places” in 1967; and “Barry Goldwater and the Southwest,” in 1976, in which Ansel Adams wrote the foreword. Goldwater was also a regular contributor to Arizona Highways magazine. f ebruary 2019

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DID YOU KNOW? At times, segments of Goldwater’s private and public lives intersected. In one oft-told story, Goldwater snapped a photograph of President John F. Kennedy.

Though the two differed politically, they held deep respect for each other and counted themselves as friends.

In a humorous gesture, Kennedy returned the photograph to his political rival, signing it, “For Barry Goldwater—Whom I urge to follow the career for which he has shown such talent—photography!— from his friend – John Kennedy."

Goldwater prized the photograph for the rest of his life. It was later sold in a Heritage auction for $17,925.

Portrait of the Artist as a Married Man, Taken at Coal Mine Canyon between Tuba City and Third Mesa, 1935 - Photo by Peggy Goldwater

In his 1964 acceptance speech as Republican nominee for the Presidential election, Goldwater gained both criticism and acclaim when he famously said, “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"

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Barry and Peggy Goldwater, 1947

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Desert Corsage, 1936

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A SOLO VIEW Among his many interests, Goldwater learned to fly in the 1930s and loved his time spent thousands of feet above the Arizona desert. In his memoir, he wrote, “Perhaps it is the splendid isolation of being alone in the air which fascinates me, or it might be the perspective which comes from looking down on every part of the world.”

That same solitary perspective is evident in his photography. Goldwater is known for snapping stunning landscapes and Native Americans, but Goldwater’s photographs seem to silently feature the photographer as much as they portray the subject.

Instead of taking a picture “of” a person or land formation, Goldwater had the innate ability to depict his perception of each subject. Like the best of photographers, the angle of the camera and the focus of the lens became Goldwater’s language; the subjects, shadows and moments he captured became photographic poetry, each with the indelible imprint of their author. He also developed all his own photographs—an important part of the process of his artistry.

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Native American Child, 1956

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Barry and Peggy Goldwater’s four children (L-R: Michael, Joanne, Peggy, Barry Jr.), 1947

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The angle of the camera and the focus of the lens became Goldwater’s language; the subjects, shadows and moments he captured became photographic poetry, each with the indelible imprint of their author.

SHARING THE VISION In an exclusive tribute to Senator Goldwater and to Barry M. Goldwater the man, the Barry and Peggy Goldwater Foundation, Arizona Highways magazine, and Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West (SMoW) present “Photographs by Barry M. Goldwater: The Arizona Highways Collection” through June 23.

The collection, curated by Goldwater’s granddaughter Ali Goldwater Ross, includes never-before-shown photography, intimate family photos, and personal items such as Goldwater’s camera, cowboy hat and boots. Hundreds of Goldwater’s photographs have appeared in Arizona Highways magazine. The exhibition will feature 34 photographs as taken

by Goldwater and dozens of photos of family and friends, including Clark Gable and other celebrities.

It is the first time the museum, owned by the City of Scottsdale, will feature an all-photography exhibit.

“My grandfather had a long history with Arizona Highways, as well as a passionate wish to share his photographs with the world,” said Goldwater Ross, who is now executive director of the Barry and Peggy Goldwater Foundation. “Establishing the foundation and being able to make this premier exhibition a reality has been an incredible labor of love. … I know Paka [as he was known by his grandchildren] is watching over and guiding me through this process every step of the way.”

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During the exhibition, the SMoW museum store will offer some of Goldwater’s favorites, including Goldwater’s Foods of Arizona gourmet salsas, his chili mix and jalapeno jelly and more. Also available is a Special Edition Exhibition Poster featuring one of Goldwater’s images – a 1976 photograph of Totem Pole, an area on the Navajo Nation referred to as Yeibe-chai, where, in the distance, two Navajo sisters ride double bareback to their home across this stark landscape. f ebruary 2019

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Valley of the Monuments, 1967

My photography has taken me over, literally, every mile of the Southwest, over both poles and every major country on the globe. But it is to Arizona that I turn for my inspiration and what I think has been my best work.

Barry Goldwater

CAPTURING HIS HEART In his book, “The Face of Arizona,” which was sold in 1964 as a Republican fundraiser for a minimum of $1,500 per copy, Goldwater waxed eloquent in his captions.

Westward Ho, 1938

Of the deep sandstone gorges that formed Glen Canyon before the formation of Lake Powell, Goldwater wrote: “The walls of Glen Canyon.

Gone forever, with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam, is man's ability to enjoy the massiveness of these sandstone walls.”

Of a now-famed land formation on Navajo land near White Mesa, Goldwater wrote: “Margaret Arch. A natural arch in White Mesa that my oldest son, Barry, discovered on one of our camping trips in that region when he was but a child. It must have been seen before by human eyes, but I have named it Margaret in honor of my wife.” The name remains today.

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Photographs by Barry M. Goldwater: The Arizona Highways Collection

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Writer Shoshana Leon Photography Courtesy of Hotel Valley Ho

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Pastry chef Lisa Graf’s first job in the culinary industry was at Baskin Robbins, and her love of creative desserts has continued to blossom throughout her career. Chef Graf joined Hotel Valley Ho as pastry chef in August 2018, overseeing desserts and pastries for the property, including ZuZu, the hotel’s signature restaurant.

Like many chefs, Chef Graf’s personal and professional experiences have influenced her culinary style, including her upbringing in Santa Fe, as well as her travels, jobs, mentors and family.

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“My family and I have always been big travelers, and as kids we were always told to try new things,” she said. “What made me decide to become a pastry chef was the inspiration I got from backpacking through Europe when I was 17. They look at food differently there and that made a big impression on me.”

Chef Graf received her certificate in patissier from Santa Fe Community College, which covers baking, decorating and presentation for a variety of cakes and pastries. She has worked in restaurants across the country, including Santa Fe, Maui and Portland, Oregon. She also worked at Roka Akor in Scottsdale and The Cottage in Flagstaff.

Chef Graf’s culinary roots in Santa Fe inspired her love of local and seasonal ingredients, and flair for Southwestern flavors.

“I like to think of my style as a unique blend of the different places I have lived throughout my career,” she said. “Living in Santa Fe changed the way I looked at and appreciated food. The Compound restaurant in Santa Fe was one of my favorite jobs. Working for chef/owner Mark Kiffin changed my culinary career in a major way. It was at The Compound that I really began my working education on fine dining desserts. At that same time, I was working for my pastry teacher at another restaurant called La Boca.

I gained priceless knowledge on pastry from both restaurants.”

Chef Graf especially enjoys the creative aspects of her job. “What I like most about being a pastry chef is that it’s very hands-on, creative and it’s not just limited to sweets. I try to keep things fun and creative, but I still use classic techniques. I like to balance my desserts with a sweet and salty element.

I also think it’s important to let ingredients speak for themselves.”

Chef Graf has accomplished a lot in her first several months at Hotel Valley Ho, from creating inventive new menu items to designing desserts for the hotel’s monthly Monday Night Chef’s Table dinners, which feature four courses highlighting local ingredients, thoughtfully paired with wine.

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She is also utilizing her creativity in designing Hotel Valley Ho’s monthly Show Stopper Shake, a themed milkshake featuring unique ice cream flavors topped with homemade desserts. Monthly Show Stopper Shakes have included a gingerbread vanilla bean milkshake topped with a mini gingerbread house for the holiday season, and the popular unicorn shake, a mixed berry milkshake with a funfetti cupcake, rainbow sprinkles and cotton candy.

Chef Graf’s signature desserts on the ZuZu menu put a modern and innovative twist on the classics. The Troubled German Chocolate Cake features chocolate sponge cake, German chocolate filling, graham pretzel crust and espresso cheesecake. Her take on Baked Alaska includes almond cake, roasted pineapple sorbet, cherry ice cream and toasted meringue. Her modern butterscotch crème brulee is artfully topped with whiskey whipped cream, caramel corn and an almond fig macaron.

Chef Graf has exciting ideas for Hotel Valley Ho’s pastry and dessert offerings. “I changed the menu when I first started at ZuZu and tried to bring retro ideas with some classy flavors to the table. I plan on changing the menu in the spring, and then some exciting changes will be happening in the summer.

We want to create some signature items that will blow people away, and have seasonal items rotating on the menu as well.”

On Valentine’s Day, ZuZu will offer a special menu featuring a starter buffet with seafood, charcuterie and salad; a choice of five entrees including ribeye steak and Scottish salmon; and a choice of desserts including a passion fruit tart, a dark chocolate torte or the monthly Show Stopper Shake for two. The February Show Stopper Shake has a romantic theme featuring strawberry gelato, strawberry red velvet cream cake and chocolate-covered strawberries.

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A simple sound can bring about a wave of emotions. That wave becomes a storm when said sound is being made by a musical instrument that has been silent for decades—a storm powerful enough to bring history back to life.

Such is the case with violins whose soulful notes were once coaxed from them by owners who perished during the Holocaust.

“Not only are these the musical instruments being played, but these are the voices of the people who owned them and witnessed these tragedies,” said Julee Landau Shahon, vice chair of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix. “The violins stand as witnesses as well to what their owners experienced, saw and went through. The actual voices of the individuals have been silenced, but here is an opportunity for their voices to, symbolically, be heard again.”

Shahon is co-chair of Violins of Hope, a series of exhibits, lectures, concerts and educational programs that tell the remarkable stories of violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust. The Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix partnered with more than 30 organizations to bring the event to the Valley.

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The fact that these people had held them, scratched them and left fingerprints on them, and that so much joy or even sadness through somber music came through them kind of still comes through, even though the people are gone.

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“The violin was always very important in Jewish life,” Shahon explained. “It was an instrument that the Jews could pick up and easily take with them as they moved from location to location.

“During the Holocaust, specifically, these violins gave a sense of humanity when they were played—to the musician as well as to those people who were hearing them. They gave hope, they calmed people and, in many cases, these violins enabled people to survive.”

Violins of Hope centers around a Feb. 26–March 24 exhibition at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. 2nd St. in Scottsdale, that features 21 of the more than 60 violins Israeli violinmaker Amnon Weinstein has restored over the past 20 years.

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Renowned portrait photographer and artist Daniel Levin, who spent time with Weinstein in his workshop in Tel Aviv, Israel, said the luthier’s father Moshe had collected violins brought to him after the war that people would not necessarily want back.

“He wouldn't work on them because there was no market for them,” Levin noted. “So he accumulated them and eventually offered one to his son Amnon, who was just getting into the business. Eventually, Amnon had this epiphany that he could bring the people back through their violins.”

Since then, Weinstein has devoted his life to locating and restoring violins that survived the Holocaust as a tribute to those who were lost—including 400

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of his own relatives. He hopes his efforts reclaim lost heritage, give a voice to the victims and reinforce positive messages of hope and harmony.

Weinstein continues to locate and collect these instruments to this day. One of the violins on display has roots right here in the Valley, as a family contacted Shahon with a very valuable violin owned by one of their relatives who, in 1939, fled Hamburg, Germany.

Shahon connected the family with Weinstein and his son Avshi, who restored the instrument for inclusion in Violins of Hope.

Weinstein’s restored violins can not only be seen but heard during the Valley’s Violins of Hope activities.

A highlight of the two-month-long event is a pair of concerts 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24 at La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church in Scottsdale.

The concerts are part of Arizona Musicfest’s Festival Orchestra Week, which kicks off Feb. 17. For Arizona Musicfest’s Violins of Hope concerts, Maestro Robert Moody will lead the Festival Orchestra, comprised of musicians from America’s top orchestras, in performances of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Leonore Overture,” Gustav Mahler’s “Totenfeier” and Allan Naplan’s “Schlof Main Kind, A Yiddish Lullaby.”

World-renowned violinist Gil Shaham will be featured as a guest soloist for performances of Johannes Brahms’ “Violin Concerto” and John Williams’ theme from “Schindler’s List.”

“I think that there is an emotional connection when you hear a violin from someone who perished, was murdered or witnessed these tragic events,” Shahon said. “To hear their music is a little bit different than just hearing a violin being played. It's a deeper, personal

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connection that the audience member experiences. It's more enriched. It connects to your soul.”

Levin agreed, noting that every violin sounds different to an aficionado.

“The fact that these people had held them, scratched them and left fingerprints on them, and that so much joy or even sadness through somber music came through them kind of still comes through, even though the people are gone,” Levin said. “It's very magical.”

In fact, those scratches and fingerprints are perhaps the most important qualities of the violins. Weinstein told Levin during his visit to his workshop that he restores the violins to their best playability but keeps their history intact.

“To this day, he makes them the best playable violin they could be—likely better than they sounded when they were new because Amnon is very good at what he does and the violins had not necessarily been stored very well—but he leaves the dirt,” Levin said.

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“He lets the marks remain. In art, we use a term called index. Those marks are indexed. They are a signature of the user, and those remain whenever possible.”

Levin’s photographs of Weinstein as he lovingly restores and gives new voice to the stringed instruments will be on display Feb. 3–March 26 at the Arizona Jewish Historical Society, 122 E. Culver St. in

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Phoenix. The photographer felt a responsibility to present an honest and intimate portrayal that is also very beautiful despite the subject’s weight.

“The restoration of the violins is very beautiful,” Levin said. “I wanted to take photographs that not only share that beauty but share the craft of what Amnon does. The violins are gorgeous, but these photographs are backstory in a way that words alone can't necessarily convey.

“People think a photograph only represents a moment in time. But it often suggests what was, and even suggests the future.”

Levin added that even marks on a violin case are beautiful things that are very tactile—a quality that comes through despite being captured in twodimensional photographs. He, Shahon and everyone else that has worked together to bring Violins of Hope to the Valley want the event to touch the lives of everyone in the community.

“This is an incredible opportunity to see and hear the violins played and to hear the stories of the individuals who owned them, most of whom perished in the Holocaust,” Shahon said. “It is an opportunity for students as well as adults in the state of Arizona to witness these events, experience the concert and be part of educational programs that I personally feel are desperately needed at this point in time.”

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Since starting her involvement with Violins of Hope, Shahon has become even more passionate and motivated to help her community understand what happened during the Holocaust—and why it happened—in an effort to bring about a better present and a better future.

“It has reinforced my desire to have the history of the Holocaust be told in a way that our [community] really connects with it personally,” Shahon explained.

“We live in a divided culture right now. It is more important than ever before for people to understand the commonality that we share and to have the empathy for others that perhaps are different.

“The lessons from the Holocaust are not lessons that should be kept in the past. They are relevant to the world that we live in today—in our country and around the world.”

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If you have a hard time making sense of the phrase “barge cruise,” don’t feel bad. They’re a treasure most people don’t know about. Luxury barging is such a tiny niche that it is practically unknown even in France, the country where the phenomenon originated. Barge cruises are far from the rustic images that the name conjures.

Throughout Europe, there is an intricate series of antique waterways of canals and rivers meandering through the countryside. Once used for transporting cargo, the barges now plying these preserved canals are floating boutique hotels, having been lovingly refurbished to offer small groups a boating experience of deluxe accommodations, top service, interesting sightseeing and gourmet cuisine.

Known as barges, this type of vessel carries between 2 to 20 passengers. A dedicated, Englishspeaking crew accommodates guests both onboard and ashore; a private chef crafts regional and seasonal cuisine; a tour guide coordinates onshore excursions; a hostess performs daily tasks; and a captain expertly pilots the barge from mooring to mooring.

Leisurely in pace and intimate in ambiance, almost all barges gently cruise approximately 50 miles over the course of a week through pastoral and rustic countrysides and verdant woodlands.

A barge cruise is very different from a river cruise, starting with the size of the boat. A river ship usually carries 100 to 190 passengers—quite different from the intimacy of the barge.

It’s like the difference between a 90-room hotel and a B&B: with one, you’ve got your own TV and the option of having your own balcony; with the other you’ve got a captain who picks you up at the train station.

France is unequivocally the most popular country for a barge cruise. In France, sophisticated sojourners select their cruise from 10 barging regions, each of them presenting a unique opportunity to explore France’s rural landscapes, historical highlights and local lifestyles.

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The waterways of the seven other barge cruise countries are recommended for those seeking a more specialty barge cruise, or for travelers who have already barged in France.

United Kingdom’s canals and rivers are found in remote areas of Ireland, Scotland and England offering breathtaking scenery. Holland and Belgium’s canal systems are the most lively and modern. Germany’s cruise route introduces the country’s many riverside attractions, while a barge cruise on Italy’s canals and rivers spotlights the country’s longtime love affair with the water.

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Unlike a river ship, a canal barge travels at a turtle speed of four to seven miles per hour, pausing every few minutes to pass through a set of locks.

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Families and groups of friends can charter the entirety of a vessel for a customized cruise experience specific to their special interests. Charters are available for groups on all vessels and in every region.

Charter groups are typically made up of multi-generational families, couples and friends, girlfriend getaways, cycling enthusiasts, gourmands and wine enthusiasts, and golfers. Other lifestyle interests such as photography, yoga, walking, and birding can also be accommodated into charter cruises.

Kids like barge cruises as well because there are bicycles, farm animals, castles, and a captain who will let you help him pilot the boat.

Independent bookings are also welcome where you can join a cruise with other cabins occupied.

THE SCENIC ROUTE Unlike a river ship, a canal barge travels at a turtle speed of four to seven miles per hour, pausing every few minutes to pass through a set of locks. The

shore is right there: You can practically reach out and touch it. In fact, if you get tired of cruising, you have only to wait a few minutes for a set of locks, then hop off the boat and explore. You and the boat are never going to lose each other.

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Cruise routes meander through secluded towns and villages full of culturally rich museums, inspiring architecture, and quiet cafes and shops not listed in the guidebooks.

On the Burgundy Canal, you’re a few feet from white cows and flocks of sheep. When you’re standing on the deck you can literally talk to the villagers strolling along the towpath with their fishing poles, picnic baskets and baby carriages. Children walk or ride their bicycles to the canal to watch the boats go by.

Alongside the canal is a well-maintained towpath, once used by draft animals.

Every set of locks is an opportunity to get off the boat and bicycle or walk along the towpath. Most vessels carry enough bicycles for everyone on board.

When you reach a set of locks, you have only to open a small gate and step onto the raised bank.

You might pass a boulangerie, a post office, a school or a church. Explore a local truffle farm or include a tasting at a chocolatier or vineyard. You may visit Châteauneuf-en-Auxois, a medieval citadel, where you will learn what life was like when the castle was under siege. You can also learn about 15th-century medicine at the Hospices de Beaune, visit a vineyard in Sainte Sabine, and learn how 12th-century Cistercian monks made wine at Clos de Vougeot.

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You are, for a brief time, a part of French village life. This is what barge enthusiasts mean by “intimate.”

FROM THE KITCHEN An essential feature of barging is the gourmet dining. On the boat, breakfast and lunch are served family-style.

Fresh breads and buttery croissants are brought on board each morning, still warm from village bakeries. Local farmers’ markets en route supply ingredients for colorful salads and savory tarts. Creamy, farm-produced cheeses, prime meats and fish, and garden-fresh fruits and vegetables provide inspiration for a medley of tempting menus with wine pairings from locally produced vintages.

In the evening, sit down to a multicourse candle-lit dinner as you moor beneath the stars. Many barge cruises provide an opportunity for fine dining ashore at one of the most celebrated restaurants near each cruise route which makes for an elegant evening.

There are less than 100 hotel barges in the world with the majority of them in France.

All-inclusive, seven-day, six-night cruises are long enough to relax and enjoy, yet short enough to allow for a barge cruise combined with a visit to one of Europe’s major cities.

Barge season runs from April to October at an average rate of $1,000 per person/per day. (Daily sightseeing and transfers are included.)

Pack your casual clothing and get ready for some amazing food and wine, and the slow relaxing life of a canal cruiser. A champagne reception will welcome you aboard.

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Arizona is home to many amazing food and wine festivals, and more are added every year. The Devour Culinary Classic is one of the Valley’s most celebrated and most popular, highlighting local culinary talent, cuisine and suppliers.

Devour celebrates its tenth anniversary this year with a week of foodie fun in February, culminating in its award-winning weekend tasting extravaganza, showcasing the best bites and libations from across the state.

LOCAL FOCUS The idea for Devour was created by Kimber Lanning, founder of Local First Arizona, and Craig Demarco, cofounder of Upward Projects, which owns several Valley restaurants, including Postino, Windsor and Joyride Taco House.

“National media was focused on Scottsdale at the time, and we wanted to create an event that paid more attention to the Phoenix culinary scene. We wanted an event that was focused on building support and momentum for Phoenix pride,” said Lanning.

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The objective of Devour is to support and promote Arizona’s food community and culture.

“I think we're special because we are so focused on Arizona talent,” said Lanning. “That was our goal 10 years ago, and that's still what we do. We work to bring in judges and food writers from around the country to showcase all that we have here.

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“People coming to Devour feel like they're part of the food scene and are helping to grow it. They know the chefs and cheer them on. Devour is where the chefs can take chances and interact with the people who support them year-round,” said Lanning.

In addition to supporting local culinary talent, Devour supports the community with proceeds benefitting the efforts of three local non-profit organizations: Local First Arizona, which promotes and supports a sustainable Arizona economy and local businesses; Desert Botanical Garden, advancing excellence in education, research, exhibition and conservation of desert plants; and the Arizona Business Committee for the Arts, which helps expand artistic and cultural opportunities, and promote cultural awareness through festivals and educational events.

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The fun kicks off on Sunday, Feb. 17 at the Devour Bartending Competition. Top Arizona mixologists showcase their talents and attendees can cheer for their favorite bartenders. Experts judge the creative libations to select Arizona's Star Bartender.

Also Feb. 17 is Devour’s Seven Chefs Dinner featuring some of Arizona’s most celebrated chefs serving a multi-course menu highlighting Arizona flavors. The Seven Chefs, also known as the Arizona Seven, is a group of local chefs and friends who have cooked at the prestigious James Beard House in New York City.

Bernie Kantak, chef/co-owner of The Gladly and Citizen Public House hosts the event at The Gladly. Talent for the 2019 Seven Chefs Dinner includes Justin Beckett of Beckett's Table and Southern Rail, Scott Holmes of Little Miss BBQ, Stephen Jones of The Larder + The Delta, Doug Robson of Gallo Blanco and Otro Café, Jacob Cutino of the Cutino Sauce Company, and Courtney Velador of Super Chunk Sweets and Treats and New Wave Market.

This second annual Devour the World event celebrates the international flavors of Phoenix with food and beverage samples from restaurants showcasing cuisine from around the world. Devour the World

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Arizona’s most acclaimed chefs and most exciting restaurants.

Saturday’s featured restaurants include Chula Seafood, Talavera, T. Cook’s, Ghost Ranch, Fat Ox and many more. Sunday’s featured restaurants include Deseo, Clever Koi, Blue Hound Kitchen and Cocktails, House of Tricks and Different Pointe of View.

Saturday and Sunday tastings also feature VIP chefs. Saturday’s VIP chefs are James Beard nominee Silvana Salcido Esparza, owner of Barrio Cafe and Barrio Cafe Gran Reserva, and Tamara Stanger of the acclaimed Cotton and Copper restaurant in Tempe.

takes place Thursday, Feb. 21 at the Japanese Friendship Garden in downtown Phoenix. Participating restaurants include Hana Japanese Eatery, El Chullo Peruvian Restaurant and Bar, Andreoli Italian Grocer and many more Arizona restaurants specializing in international cuisine.

The week culminates with the Devour Culinary Classic Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 23 and 24 at the Desert Botanical Garden, where guests can sample cuisine, wine, beer and spirits from a variety of local chefs, restaurants and suppliers.

Individual tickets are available for each of these events. Tickets must be purchased for each day of the Devour Culinary Classic’s weekend tastings. Guests can purchase the Tasting Package which includes oneday admission with access to tastings, beverage garden and demos, and a commemorative wine glass. The VIP Package offers the opportunity to meet the event’s VIP chefs, exclusive access to the VIP lounge, swag bag and early admission to the event.

Sunday’s VIP chefs are Christopher Gross, James Beard award winner and celebrated Valley chef who recently joined Geordie's Restaurant at the Wrigley Mansion, and Lori Hashimoto of the award-winning, family-owned Hana Japanese Eatery.

“This year for Devour’s tenth anniversary, there will be more chef demonstrations and more wine pairings thanks to the Arizona Vignerons Alliance who are bringing in several national critics for an amazing panel discussion on Arizona wines,” said Lanning. “There will also be an educational component focused on heritage foods, and a commemorative recipe book featuring 10 of Arizona's greatest chefs.”

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After walking through the doors of the recently remodeled Desert Foothills Library to meet with its three new librarians, I felt compelled to take a step back outside and look for a sign to make sure that I was in the right place. The energy inside simply did not align with my preconceived notions or my memories of the libraries I had visited many moons ago when I was still in school.

For starters, it was far from silent. To my left, several children were running around with excitement. Thoughtprovoking artwork hung from the walls. A grand piano sat near the center of the building as did a table scattered with pieces of a half-completed jigsaw puzzle. Looking straight through to the enormous window in the back of the building, I could see a perfectly picturesque view of the Carefree mountainscape.

Still slightly unsure about my surroundings upon my reentry, I asked the friendly-looking woman at the front desk if this was indeed the library. Her confirmation threw me through a loop—as did my introduction to the youthful and energetic trio of women who are responsible for the day-to-day operations of Cave Creek’s Desert Foothills Library.

Caitlyn Decker, Ashley Ware and Erin Meadows definitely do not fit the stereotype of librarians as perpetrated by popular culture.

“I usually get people saying, 'Your hair's not brown, you don't wear glasses and you're not quiet,'” Ware noted. “I am the complete opposite of that stereotype. I've always been this very loud person. I'm usually running around doing crazy things—and that is the same in the library.”

Meadows added that although the stereotype is that librarians shush patrons, she and her coworkers are more often than not the ones being shushed. That is because they are enthusiastic about their jobs—a quality that was crystal clear during our discussion, which was momentarily interrupted by a little girl who was eager to share with Meadows the scrape on the knee that she had sustained while enjoying the library’s children’s section.

“My background is largely in education youth programming and working with kids in various capacities,” said Meadows, noting the interruption was not uncommon. “This job is great because it marries my love of books and children's literature to that.”

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Meadows, the youth and teen services librarian, admits to staying up long past her bedtime when she was just a kid, hiding under her blankets with a book and a flashlight. Her mom would have to knock on her door at 2 a.m. each morning to remind her to get some sleep. It was only natural that she would get a job at Scottsdale’s Mustang Library before finding her way to Desert Foothills Library last October.

“We do a lot of fun programs for our youth and teens,” said Meadows who, as a children’s yoga instructor, loves to incorporate mindfulness and breathing exercises into her programs. “We have storytimes each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we have some movie programs, we do a lot of stuff with science and robotics and we just started a teen book club.”

Ware was also working at Scottsdale’s Mustang Library before coming to Desert Foothills Library last March. She now serves as the programming librarian, planning events, classes and other programs that benefit the library’s patrons and the community at large. Unlike Meadows, Ware did not know that she was destined to be a librarian until after she graduated college.

“I was broke and spent a lot of time at my library checking out DVDs and books and using their internet. I was applying to all of these different jobs and really had no direction of what I wanted to do,” said Ware, who graduated with an English degree. “My younger sister said, ‘Why don't you work in a library?' It was like a semi truck hit me. I was like, 'How did I not figure this out? I'm here every other day. I love being here. Why wouldn't I want to be a librarian?'”

Three weeks later, Ware was working in a library. Three weeks after that, she had applied to grad school with the intention of solidifying her career as a librarian. She had found her calling.

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“I can't imagine being anywhere else

learned that I can be that person to help

now,” said Ware, noting that she has either

people find what it is that they're looking

volunteered or worked at libraries in each

for when they sometimes don't know

of the six states in which she has lived.

where to go.”

“I'm obsessed with libraries. It's what I'm passionate about. It's what I love, and this

Ware said that much like librarians

is by far the best library I've worked at.”

themselves have received a facelift from society’s traditional perception of them,

Similarly, Decker did not always see herself

libraries have evolved into more warm and

as a librarian. After growing up in New

welcoming places than the quiet sites of

York, she moved to Canada and became

serious study in years gone by.

a music teacher. Upon moving back home, she sought out a change and started

“I always like to say that the first library

working part-time at a library.

was more than 5,000 years ago,” Ware explained. “It started with monks doing

“Something about the job really appealed

scripts, and that's not what you think of

to me,” Decker said. “I just enjoy the

today. To last those 5,000 years, they've had

connection with people that I have when

to evolve in what their communities need.

they come in and are excited about the books they are reading. I hear little bits and

“Libraries are now a place where people

pieces of their lives. I still get to be around

can come together as a community, meet

kids and do the education part of it, too.

their neighbors and hopefully have fun

That is a big component of my job. So it

while doing it.”

kind of checks all of the boxes.”

There are a number of new programs and Of course, one of those boxes is books.

events slated for Desert Foothills Library this year to facilitate that fun, such as

“As a reader, I took off in second grade

a month-long celebration honoring Dr.

and I haven't looked back since,” Decker

Seuss’ 115 birthday in March. But the pièce

continued. “I had a teacher who really

de résistance is the 10th annual gala set for

instilled the love of reading in me and

6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9. The evening, which

pushed me to read beyond the simple

will feature performances by renowned

picture books that I had on my shelf. I

pianist Nicole Pesce and talent from the

find it a way to escape but also to educate

Phoenix Opera, provides ongoing financial

myself and live many lives at once.”

support to the library.

Having previously worked at Scottsdale’s

So if you see Decker, Ware or Meadows, do

Civic Center Library, Decker arrived at

not hesitate to introduce yourself and tell

Desert Foothills Library last June as its

them what you would like to see at Desert

front-of-house librarian, helping patrons

Foothills Library. They will not bite and

when their questions go beyond the scope

they certainly will not shush you, either.

of what a volunteer can answer. She believes a better title for her job would be

“I want everyone coming through to know

problem-solver.

who I am,” Ware said. “I am their librarian.

I am doing things to help their day, whether

“People come in with all different kinds

it be socializing, learning something new or

of problems and questions,” Decker said.

gaining a better understanding of their health.

“There's always someone or something to

I want to be that approachable person so I'm

help them at the library. Sometimes you

just going to keep up my customer service,

just have to really dig for it for a while. I've

yelling and running around.”

“

Libraries are now a place where people can come together as a community, meet their neighbors and hopefully have fun while doing it.

Ashley Ware, Desert Foothills Library Librarian

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Nowadays, Arizona residents seeking some social fun and dancing have a long list of venues from which to choose.

Some get their groove on to the sound of DJs spinning pop tunes in Old Town Scottsdale’s nightclubs like INTL, Maya and The Mint. Others get footloose to old-time rock-and-roll music at Phoenix’s grownup playgrounds like The Duce and The Yard. Meanwhile, others still sprawl out to the Valley’s various bars and lounges that feature live bands performing nightly.

That was not always the case though. From the early- to mid-1900s, people traveled from the farthest reaches of the state to a single destination with aspirations to dance the night away.

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Located off Central Avenue and the Salt River, Riverside Park Ballroom was Phoenix's premier concert hall and social event space, playing host to some of America’s best bands and making celebrities out of local talent in an era during which dancing was a big part of everyone’s life.

Beve Cole, who wrote the book “Ray Odom: A Lifetime of Radio, Records and Racehorses,” says Riverside Park Ballroom was one of the Valley’s foremost gathering places for anyone seeking dancing and entertainment.

“It was so popular,” says Cole, noting Ray Odom—a pioneer in country music radio and concert promotions— often produced shows featuring Grand Ole Opry stars at Riverside Park Ballroom. “It would just be wallto-wall [with people] every night, as many as the fire department would allow.”

Built about 1914, Riverside was an amusement park of sorts, featuring volleyball courts and boxing rings as well as a large swimming pool with a sand bottom, river rock sides and a 30-foot slide. Arizona’s official state historian Marshall Trimble even recounts stories of an on-site zoo from which alligators escaped during a flood of the Salt River.

But the venue’s most popular attraction by far was its open-air dance pavilion which was later converted into a round, wooden ballroom. Trimble refers to Riverside Park Ballroom as the “honky-tonk amusement park of Arizona” and recalls dancing there on several occasions.

Of course, there was no such thing as air-conditioning back then, so Riverside Park Ballroom featured flaps on its sides that could be opened up during the summer months allowing patrons to keep moving their feet without breaking too much of a sweat.

Most people may not see Arizona as being synonymous with the big band sound but Riverside Park Ballroom is evidence that the state was a major player during the swing era. Thousands of people gathered there each night to see bandleaders like Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman perform.

“There were some rough times going on back then when they were playing all that wonderful music” Cole says.

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Over the years, the ballroom has become a mere memory of our state’s grand past—a past that is so much larger than life that it sometimes sounds more like a tall tale than a page out of the history books.

Local bandleader Bob Fite purchased the venue from Harry Nace Sr. in the 1940s and became a regular there with his orchestra called The Western Playboys. His son Bobby, who still lives in Phoenix, says one of his favorite memories of Riverside Park Ballroom is when he met actress and singer Dorris Day in the 1950s.

“When you’re 7 or 8 years old and you meet Dorris Day, you just melt,” Fite’s son says, adding that his father also introduced him to Buck Owens, Roy Clark, Freddie Hart, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings—all of whom performed at Riverside Park Ballroom over the years.

Glen Campbell, Marty Robbins, Jimmy Dean and Jerry Lewis were among the many other entertainers who brought the ballroom to life and solidified its status in American history.

Riverside transformed into a venue for the Valley’s diverse populations on different nights of the week. Thursday nights were typically devoted to Phoenix’s black

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community—complete with national headliners like Fats Domino, Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Meanwhile, Friday nights were considered collegiate nights as Riverside served soft drinks to kids from Arizona’s high schools and junior colleges.

Trimble knew to stay away from Riverside Park Ballroom on Saturday nights, though, as that is when fights tended to break out.

“I was actually in a barroom fight there in 1938 before I was ever even born,” says Trimble, recalling a story his parents used to tell him about the night his father pushed his pregnant mother under a table in order to protect her from a brewing brawl. “I'd like to think he probably crawled under the table too because he was more of a lover than a fighter.”

There was far more dancing than fighting at Riverside Park Ballroom, though, with many long-time Phoenix residents able to recall falling in love at the venue.

Late bandleader Pete Bugarin, who was responsible for its Latin sound on Sunday nights, recounts during a PBS special about the ballroom that he performed at a number of weddings between people who met their significant others at Riverside.

Dancing stopped briefly in 1957 when Fite received a call from the sheriff’s office. The bandleader tells the story of that morning during the PBS special, noting he was told that Riverside was on fire and that thousands of people had gathered around it to mourn the place as it burned to the ground.

Fite and his brother Buster rebuilt the ballroom— albeit on a smaller scale with more modern dancehall amenities—and the music continued in various forms well into the 1980s. However, like many other pieces of Arizona’s heyday, Riverside Park Ballroom eventually closed its doors permanently and a commercial complex was built in its place.

Over the years, the ballroom has become a mere memory of our state’s grand past—a past that is so much larger than life that it sometimes sounds more like a tall tale than a page out of the history books.

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Long before AMC and Harkins popped up in major commercial districts across Arizona, the Valley was home to only a handful of movie theaters to which residents would flock in order to escape the heat and catch the latest flick in air-conditioned comfort.

One of the first and arguably one of the greatest was the Fabulous Fox West Coast Theatre, which was located on the southeast corner of Washington and First Streets in downtown Phoenix.

Built by S. Charles Lee, the 1,800-seat theater opened July 30, 1931 and was immediately a popular destination— perhaps because it was the state’s first building to provide refrigeration, as its grand billboard boasted.

Surrounded by Penney’s Department Store, Jones’ Western Store, Korrick's Department Store and Skaggs Pay Less Drug Store, the Fabulous Fox West Coast Theatre’s lobby greeted patrons with decorative banisters, crystal chandeliers and a curved floating staircase accompanied by a series of futuristic lamp posts topped with glass disks and silver globes.

The concession stand was painted with saguaro and prickly pear cacti, while the walls were covered with wildlife frescos featuring flying birds and leaping gazelles.

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Without a doubt, the Fabulous Fox West Coast Theatre was the go-to place to see motion pictures in Phoenix, with seats in the 1940s costing a whopping 45 cents for adults and 20 cents for children. The theater even let patrons place their groceries in its refrigerators while they watched a film—a convenience that is highly unlikely at movie theaters today.

Arizona’s official state historian Marshall Trimble recalls frequenting the Fabulous Fox West Coast Theatre every Saturday morning to see serials such as “Roy Rogers” on the big screen.

The serials were part of the theater’s Fox Leaders kids’ club, which showed short Westerns that always ended with a hero in seemingly inescapable danger. The next week, said hero would miraculously manage to cheat death—much to the relief of Trimble and the hundreds of other children who stood in line after suffering through seven days of anxiety.

“Some of the kids would watch from the balcony and one day one of them leaned a little too far over it and fell 25 feet to the floor below,” says Trimble, noting the boy was rushed to the hospital where—much like the on-screen heroes—he walked away without so much as a scratch.

“He was just really frustrated that he had missed the serial and didn’t know how the good guy got out of his dilemma.”

In addition to movies and serials, the Fabulous Fox West Coast Theatre hosted a number of live shows.

The stars of the locally produced “Wallace and Ladmo Show” regularly performed at the theater, which was also home to productions of seasonal events such as “The Nutcracker” and national radio broadcasts of “America’s Town Meeting of the Air.” The Fabulous Fox West Coast Theatre’s reign in the Valley continued through the 1950s, at which point

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business began to decline. Arizona State University emeritus history professor Dr. Philip VanderMeer, Ph.D., says the theater’s demise was a result of three factors.

“Downtown Phoenix collapses,” Dr. VanderMeer explains. “That's the first thing. The second thing is television comes along. The third thing is you get an out-migration of movie theaters. You have movie theaters—including multiplexes and drive-ins—being built elsewhere.”

Movie theaters started popping up in the farther reaches of the city and its surrounding communities as a result of urban sprawl.

In the 1960s, the Valley saw the debut of a new retail model—shopping malls. Movie theaters opened their doors inside of these indoor marketplaces, which replaced downtown as residents’ venues-of-choice for commerce, eating and all things entertainment.

Like many of the other pieces of our state’s history, the Fabulous Fox West Coast Theatre eventually closed its doors—beginning the process of its vanishing act from Arizona. The architecture that decorated its grand interiors was auctioned off at a fraction of its original price in 1974, and the City of Phoenix leveled the property the next year.

The site was briefly home to a city bus terminal but has remained a parking lot—a pale, gray image of what was once one a glistening centerpiece of downtown Phoenix.

Unfortunately, we are unlikely to ever see something as majestic as the Fabulous Fox West Coast Theatre to grace the area, but the land on which it sat will finally receive its long-overdue revitalization when RED Development’s Block 23 mixed-use project is completed later this year. In addition to the area’s first grocery store

by Fry’s Food Stores, the project will include about 330 apartments and 200,000 square feet of office space as well as several restaurants and retail stores.

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Flight delays, TSA lines and a $20 cheeseburger. The airport experience and traveling in general can be difficult at times, but sometimes you find hidden gems in places where you might not have thought possible.

Oftentimes, it’s these amazing and impactful hidden gems that make you forget all about your airport’s annoyances and inconveniences.

Get ready to experience the distinctive Phoenix Airport Museum at Phoenix Sky Harbor international Airport. This world class art museum rivals any museum in the state and is widely recognized as a leader in the airport museum realm.

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You may be surprised to learn that Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport has a long history of art and art exhibits in the airport. Sky Harbor’s museum origins began to take shape in 1962 when a mural created by Paul Coze known as “The Phoenix” was commissioned for the opening of Terminal 2.

As the City of Phoenix grew and grew some more, its quaint but now bustling international airport needed to expand. The ongoing construction of Sky Harbor was intentionally designed with functionality, of course, but also with art in mind.

The architects and planners of the airport wanted to be sure that all guests who come through the airport have the best possible experience.

In 1988, the comprehensive version of the airport museum you see today was officially established. The Phoenix Airport Museum proudly boasts one of the largest airport art programs in the entire country and just celebrated its 30-year anniversary.

The museum and its art galleria are not just located inside of Sky Harbor itself. The airport’s primary public art pieces are exhibited at Sky Harbor, though there are also many extraordinarily curated collections at various related locations.

“When people ask us, ‘Where is the museum?’ we usually say, ‘Inside, outside, above and below.’ In addition to our gallery-style spaces, we have artist-designed ceilings, terrazzo floors and an outdoor sculpture garden,” says Haley Hinds, Phoenix Airport Museum’s art specialist.

“In fact, our collection extends out into the Rental Car Center, Goodyear Airport and Deer Valley Airport,” she explains.

At Sky Harbor, current art exhibitions can be found in each of the airport terminals.

The vast majority of the exhibited art works and commissioned installations are displayed in the prescreening areas of the airport. Most of the art at Sky Harbor International Airport is available to the public 24 hours a day.

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“We have a unique platform as an airport art program because of Sky Harbor’s urban location. Most of our exhibitions are pre-security, so the Phoenix Airport Museum is accessible to visit even without a boarding pass,” Haley says.

The Phoenix Airport Museum’s core permanent collection includes approximately 900 works of art in varied artistic genres. The museum also has an extensive aviation history archive that is very popular with visitors, and is expanding each year.

Renowned artists from all over the world, including Arizona, display their paintings, fine art prints and sculptures here at the airport museum.

The museum’s cultural scope shows in its exhibits, and the museum strives to present Arizona’s individual creators in a variety of different artistic styles and disciplines.

Along with an array of fine art prints and paintings, there are portable works like ceramics and a wide range of amazing photographic prints and mixed media art.

The Phoenix Airport Museum staff consistently collaborates with local artists, collectors and other Valley museums to bring popular existing exhibitions into the airport. This small, yet incredible and creative team who smoothly runs the museum projects and day-to-day operations are world-class.

Always thinking outside-the-box, the dynamic staff at the airport museum curate new spaces and create popup exhibitions on construction walls. Their skill to adapt is a vital talent because of the constant new construction of the airport.

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Andy Chuka, Untitled, 1930s - 40s, linocut print

Gary Martelli, curator and program manager at the museum, is the overall brains of the platform and has been with the Phoenix Airport Museum for over 20 years.

From Brad Konick, who is the installer, fabricator and problem-solver, to Stephen Reichardt, the museum’s archivist and aviation buff, the overall museum operation is in exceptional hands.

One of the more popular exhibitions is the aviation history collection. The aviation master collection collects, preserves and has shared artifacts and memorabilia pertaining to Phoenix and Sky Harbor Airport.

It’s interesting to take note and experience the important achievements when it comes to the transportation industry in Arizona. Exhibits are not limited to air travel, however. You will find a wonderful variety

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of works inspired by all sorts of life experiences.

The Phoenix Airport Museum prides itself on understanding the importance of promoting the unique artists who call Arizona home. Notable artists featured in the airport museum include Anne Coe, Frank Ybarra, Ed Mell and Merrill Mahaffey.

We all know that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. That holds true, even when it comes to a city. The museum achieves in creating and enhancing the overall airport environment by breeding a sense of warmth and humanity for all its 43 million airport visitors each year.

The art collections serve to welcome everyone and be a point of pride for Arizona residents, reflecting the art and culture of Phoenix and continuing to go above and beyond through the expression of art and its genuine friendliness. “We often joke that Sky Harbor is a museum, where planes just happen to land and take-off,� Haley says with a laugh.

The next time you have to catch a flight out of town, head over to Sky Harbor an hour early. The marvelous art housed within the most unique of venues is worth your time. The Phoenix Airport Museum is a cultural, historical, and educational mainstay within the city of Phoenix and is not to be missed. skyharbor.com/museum

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The Phoenician was designed with luxury in mind more than 30 years ago. With its breathtaking mountain setting, upscale décor, posh amenities and acclaimed dining options, the resort has been a favorite destination for locals, visitors, celebrities and dignitaries for three decades.

The Phoenician has continued to meet the needs of its guests with several upgrades over the years. The resort started a multi-year renovation in 2016 with a refresh of its guest suites and casitas. It also remodeled its Canyon Suites, an upscale 60-room boutique “resort with a resort,” which has been awarded AAA Five Diamond and Forbes Five Star status.

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In 2017, several of the resort’s public areas were redesigned, including the lobby, the Thirsty Camel Lounge and Terrace, the tea room, pool area and retail shops.

In 2018, a new three-story Phoenician Spa with 24 treatment rooms, a blow dry bar, nail salon and rooftop pool debuted, along with the new Phoenician Athletic Club offering tennis, basketball and stateof-the-art fitness equipment. The golf course was transformed from three nine-hole courses to one 18hole course.

“The property is nearing completion of the most massive renovation since opening its doors 30 years ago, transforming it with a more approachable, contemporary experience. The Phoenician redesign was imperative in order to meet the needs of today’s discerning travelers, who are looking for a more relaxed luxury experience in a comfortable, residential atmosphere within a truly indigenous Arizona setting,” said The Phoenician spokeswoman Denise Seomin.

The Phoenician has always been a fine dining destination and continues to refresh its culinary program to meet the needs of its guests. In 2017, the resort added poolside restaurant, Kalio Kabobery, featuring Mediterranean cuisine, and The Marketplace offering sandwiches, pastries and gelato.

In 2017, Mowry & Cotton restaurant opened at The Phoenician featuring seasonal and modern fare focused on bold flavors and fresh ingredients. Mowry & Cotton has become a local favorite, gathering numerous accolades for its food and Chef Tandy Peterson.

The resort’s award-winning J&G Steakhouse celebrated 10 years with a renovation in 2018, including an updated interior and expanded patio seating that allows diners to enjoy amazing views in a sophisticated setting. Open nightly for dinner, J&G

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Steakhouse’s menu includes fresh seafood, a variety of premium steaks, including a Wagyu tomahawk ribeye for two, and craft cocktails including the Saguaro Sour made with bourbon and prickly pear shrub, and the Mezcal Paloma.

This year, The Phoenician Tavern will replace Relish Burger Bistro with a modernized space, enhanced patio and a gastropub atmosphere featuring upscale bar food and Relish’s popular gourmet burgers.

“The Phoenician’s culinary program will continue to focus on providing distinctive experiences in all restaurant venues,” said Lisa Mercer, the resort’s food and beverage director. “By staying true to the

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‘brand’ of each space, The Phoenician provides a diverse offering for resort guests and local diners alike. From the pure, bold flavors and communal service style at Mowry & Cotton and the elegant sophistication of J&G Steakhouse, to the SonoranDesert-inspired Thirsty Camel, diners will explore a variety of tastes and textures in each venue.”

The Phoenician isn’t just popular with visitors. It’s a favorite spot for locals to enjoy delicious dining, recreation and relaxation. It’s all part of why locals and visitors have been making memories at The Phoenician for more than 30 years.

“The Phoenician offers incredible amenities, dining and accommodations, but it’s the personalized and memorable experiences that guests love the most,” said Seomin. “It’s what brings them back again and again.

“Whether celebrating a festive birthday dinner at J&G Steakhouse, enjoying a family vacation while lounging alongside the pools, or unwinding after a business meeting with a signature cocktail and a beautiful sunset at the Thirsty Camel, The Phoenician provides the perfect combination of setting and service that makes our guests feel like they belong.”

If you haven’t visited The Phoenician in a while, it would be a worth the trip to experience some of the resort’s new and refreshed public areas, restaurants and amenities that stay true to their roots in luxury.

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Tucked away from the world in his studio near Santa Fe, Nocona Burgess’s hand remains steady as he adds the final brush strokes to a canvas. As he works, he points out a scar on the forehead of the painted man gazing fixedly back at him as he works.

“I want to know who he was, how he got this scar and how he lived,” the artist explains.

With each stroke of his brush, he is breathing life back into his long-passed subject. He is also challenging stereotypes about First Americans, and even history as it has been told.

Burgess’s colorful canvases feature strikingly contemporary depictions of Native Americans. His work is an edgy, avant garde take on pop art that combines the passion that inspired the anti-war, anti-establishment aesthetics of Dadaism with a much different, yet no less political message.

“Pop art is limited,” he explains. “A lot of pop art was about taking everyday average stuff and turning it into art, whereas I really try to humanize Natives. It’s not just an Indian on a canvas or an Indian with a red shirt. It’s more than that to me.”

Burgess is a visual storyteller, and he brings to life the narratives of individual Native American lives that, until now, have often been relegated to nameless, stoic faces. Lost in a history that has often failed to depict Native Americans in a realistic, human light, he summons their names and life stories, often going to great lengths to tie the past to the present.

Every piece is the amalgam of research, passion and vivid imagination. His most recognized works are carefully and mindfully created from early 20th century photographs.

It isn’t only his style that stands out—though it certainly does—but his desire to tell each person’s story.

It’s a personal mission for Burgess.

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A NATURAL Born in Lawton, Oklahoma where his family lived for five generations, he is the great, great grandson of the famed Comanche Chief Quanah Parker. His great grandmother, Daisy Tachaco, was a talented beadworker despite being blind. His grandparents were artists and quilt-makers, and his father is accomplished at both drawing and painting.

“When I’m painting people from the early 1900s and 1890s, we’re still the same people today with lives and dreams that we were then, and I try to show that.”

Throughout his life, he’s met people from tribes across North America, and often the names of their forefathers come up in his research.

“His name is Two Hatchet, and he was a Kiowa Indian from the Oklahoma Territory,” he says, pointing to a finished painting hanging on his wall. “I painted this from a photograph that was taken in 1910. I try to find as much information about the individual that I can.”

He notes that he once worked with a woman who shared the same name, a descendent of the man in the portrait.

Though his oeuvre includes depictions of animals and mythical creatures, most often he paints real people with an almost cubist-inspired use of shadow and light.

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Painting is more than an expression for Burgess. It is a way for him to start conversations about the sometimes controversial subjects of race and ethnicity.

“Each painting has a story, and I try to make it a great painting too. I want to stop people in their tracks and make them want to say, ‘Who is that?’ I want to make people be inquisitive about who this person was.

“I don’t try to dictate how people feel or experience these things. The whole subject of Native Americans is kind of political. Some people don’t’ want to be reminded of the history of Native American people because its pretty rough, but it’s also a story of resiliency.

“The most important thing is that I am proud of my heritage, and that I like to promote the history of not only my family and the Comanche Nation but all tribes and their stories,” he says.

INNATE CREATIVITY Coming from generations of talented, creative people, Burgess never questioned whether art would have a role in his life. It wove itself into his fabric.

“With all the art and artists around me, I had no choice but to pursue art. It’s in my blood. The idea of having a creative mind and of critical thinking was something my brother and I grew up with. I’ve always been around it.

“When we were kids, me and my younger brother always had drawing pads for entertainment, so we’d keep ourselves busy for hours.

“We were also encouraged to read. My parents were teenagers when I was born, so when I was growing up, they were in college. My dad has two master’s degrees and a PhD, and my mother, who is now the vice-chairwoman of the Comanche Nation, is also a college graduate, so they were always in school.

My parents always told us to grab book and keep ourselves busy because they had homework to do.”

That combination of creativity and books fed Burgess’s innate love for history. He began looking deeper into the untold stories of Native Americans, and the more he learned, the more he was inspired to portray them as they really were and are—not simply as anonymous faces in sepia photographs.

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Each painting has a story, and I try to make it a great painting too. I want to stop people in their tracks and make them want to say, ‘Who is that?’ I want to make people be inquisitive about who this person was.”

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Bridging the gap between old ideas and the modern American Indian has been the crux of Burgess’s message.

Though he was passionate about storytelling through art, a more practical sensibility overtook him for a time.

In 1987, he entered the University of Oklahoma in Norman to study for a degree in architecture. During a fortuitous trip to Santa Fe, he met other Native American artists and, for the first time, realized that he could make a living doing what he loved.

He moved to New Mexico, where he enrolled at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He earned his associate’s degree in fine arts in 1991. He earned his BFA from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, and his master’s degree from University of New Mexico.

While he was attending school, Burgess began working at a casino to

pay his bills. Like everything he throws himself into, he was good at what he did. Following one promotion after another, he became general manager.

Had he been fully seduced by his salary and role, the world may never have known his more creative side.

“I literally woke up one day and realized that the casino was not something I wanted to do for the next 20 years,” Burgess says. “I knew I had to figure out how I was going to get back to doing art again. That day, I walked away from the casino and never looked back. It was like a light bulb came on.”

AHEAD WITH THE PAST Today, Burgess is at work in his studio, fingerprints of white paint covering his blue sweatshirt. He’s got a visible spring in his step as he moves between canvases and paints. It’s joy he’s earned.

Now a world-renowned artist, his work has taken him beyond the

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United States to Australia, England, South Africa and Sweden. He has a permanent exhibit in the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., in multiple museums in England and in several American venues, including Scottsdale’s Bonner David Galleries.

Burgess loves to talk about his art, and has lectured quite a bit on the subject. He has perfected a technique he describes as “painting outward.” Vivid characters with unexpected depth and detail mark his work. Their shadows are just as important as their light, and their backgrounds are often just as striking as his subjects, yet more subtly so.

Like his fathers and mothers before him, he is only one link in a long chain of tradition.

On the walls of his studio, it isn’t his own work that takes center stage. Instead, it’s the artwork of his 9-year-old son Quahada that receives top billing. It’s in this studio that he draws the line that connects the dots between the ancestors and modern First People, and that line does not end with his generation.

“Oh yes, my son has wall,” he says proudly as he turns his attention toward a series of paintings. He points to one.

“Two years ago when he was 7, he won Best of Show with this painting for the youth division at Santa Fe Indian Market. He was competing with youth up to age 17 and a half.”

Pointing to another, he continues. “He won third place with this one that we call ‘Boston,’” he says before pointing to a third painting of a decidedly abstract style.

“This was his first painting that won an award for when he was 14 months old,” he says with a chuckle.

“He was in the studio splattering and pushing paint around with his hands. He was drumming on it and having all kinds of fun. Eventually I asked him if he was finished, and he stood up said, ‘Bye bye!’ I took that to mean he was done.”

The fact that Burgess’s son may very well be next in the long line of family artists is no surprise. After all, tradition is the foundation of all he does—and all he will continue to do. f ebruary 2019

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Since Medieval and Renaissance times, colorfully dressed flag throwers known as sbandieratori have been a highlight of Italian festivals. As drums and trumpets provide the rhythm, flag throwers dance, tumble, and spin, skillfully and artistically twirling flags emblazoned with the coats of arms and symbols of the various cities and regions of the country.

The tradition lives on in Sbandieratori di Asta, a group direct from Italy that will add to the many sights, sounds, and tastes of the 6th Annual Italian Festival.

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The City of Scottsdale–sponsored event will transform Old Town Scottsdale’s waterfront into a lively Italian village Saturday, Feb. 23 and Sunday, Feb. 24.

“We are excited for people to come down and experience the entertainment, food and culture of Italy right here in Scottsdale,” says executive director of the Italian Association of Arizona (IAA), Frank Guzzo. “The Phoenician Tenors will be our headliners again this year and they’re just fantastic. All of the entertainment is included in the cost of the event. We also partnered with a great cause, The Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVP), which helps so many people here in the Valley.”

Guzzo, a native of Calabria, Italy, and his team of volunteers from both IAA and SVP expect to sell out the twoday event, hosting more than 10,000 attendees. “Piazza del Southbridge” will be the center of the action.

At the center of any great Italian celebration is food and wine. Attendees will enjoy some of the best Italian food the Valley has to offer, including gelato, pizza, hand-made meatballs, sausages, pasta, wine, beer and other delicacies. An Italian martini bar will be shaking and stirring cocktails with exclusively Italian alcohol.

“All the local vendors are so important,” says Guzzo. “The Italian culture is very entrenched here and

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we want to maintain that integrity in everything we present. Even if an organization goes by an American name, they’re still making something that’s Italian and we are happy to include them.”

A marketplace will be stocked with products to take home, and if you need to know exactly how to make best use of them, there’s a chance to learn how to cook like the pros— or an Italian nonna—with cooking demonstrations, including one by celebrity chef, Marco Sciortino, on the Galbani Cheese-sponsored stage.

Visit one of the two espresso bars for a caffeine jolt and head to the festival’s pop-up Italian cultural museum with expert presentations, including a spotlight on the history of Italian filmmaking from the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Los Angeles.

There are approximately 10,000 native and first generation Italians living in Arizona. The IAA strives to provide a place for members to communicate, share resources and promote Italian culture. italianfestivalaz.com

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In a town where people take great pride in individuality, Local Jonny’s is the perfect blend of the unique and the unexpected.

Located in the heart of Old Town Cave Creek, it’s a favorite among cyclists and bikers, cowboys and city dwellers alike.

Local Jonny’s is the perfect spot to relax with an espresso or sample one of the best craft beers in the country. Their remarkably good menu, including selections for little ones, vegetarians, vegans and those who prefer gluten-free choices, will make you want to come back for more.

From an all-day Wake ’n‘ Bake breakfast menu, including their zesty Southwest Sunrise Sandwich with two fried eggs, ham, avocado, tomato, cheddar and chipotle aioli on sourdough toast with a side of fruit, or Jonny’s famous blueberry granola pancakes, Local Jonny’s knows how to start your day off right, and keep it going all day long.

also got a tempting list of certified Angus beef burgers, remarkably delicious hot and cold sandwiches and more.

Now open for dinner from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, bite into a spicy Wicked Pig Sandwich or chicken quesadilla any time of day, and wash it down with their rotating selection of craft beers that’ll satisfy any beer palette.

Try your skill at Trivia Night on Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., or listen to the tunes of local musician Dave Sheehy on Friday nights and make it an event!

Now, you can even get your fix of Local Jonny’s from the comfort of your own home with online ordering. Just click on their handy ordering page and pick it up. localjonnys.com

For lunch, dig in to spicy sea bass fish tacos or sample a salad so good that you’ll forget that it’s healthy. They’ve

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Caprese Stuffed Chicken Breasts The perfect main dish for two on Valentine’s Day, or any day of the week.

Makes: 2 breasts | Time: 45 minutes Marinade time: 1 hour

Ingredients: 2 chicken breasts, butterflied 2 slices provolone cheese 2 slices mozzarella cheese 3-ounce package sun-dried tomatoes (Trader Joe's) fresh basil fresh spinach or greens blend (spinach, chard, kale) 1/4 cup olive oil 2 lemons, zested and juiced salt and pepper, to taste red pepper flakes 1 pint grape or cherry tomatoes (the smaller the better) 1/4 cup white wine or chicken broth

Directions: Mix olive oil, lemon juice, zest, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes. Marinate chicken for about one hour. Preheat oven to 375. Drain marinade and open up each breast on a flat surface (butterfly). Salt and pepper the inside.

Layer 1 slice provolone, some of the tomatoes, the greens and 1 slice mozzarella on each breast. Fold the other half of the breast over.

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Preheat a cast iron skillet on medium and add avocado oil.

Lay each breast in skillet and sear on both sides till browned.

Add cherry tomatoes and wine. Carefully place the skillet into the oven and cook for about 15–20 minutes or until done (internal temperature should be 165 degrees).

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Remove skillet from oven, garnish with fresh basil and serve.

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Homemade Brownie Truffles The easiest most delicious present you will ever give to a loved one on this special day!

Happy Valentines Day! Makes: 24 truffles | Time: 1–2 hours

Ingredients:

Your favorite brownie recipe OR: My fudgy lava bars: 1/2 cup butter 1 tablespoon coconut oil 1 cup sugar 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 cup flour 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips 1 tablespoon coconut oil Decorating sprinkles, chocolate, sea salt or cocoa powder

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease 8x8 inch pan and line with parchment. Set aside.

In a medium sized bowl, combine melted butter, sugar and coconut oil. Whisk for about a minute until sugar starts to dissolve. Add vanilla and eggs. Whisk for another minute.

In separate bowl, sift flour, cocoa powder and salt. Add the dry into the wet and fold until just combined. Don’t overmix or it will affect the texture.

Pour batter in prepared dish and bake for 20–25 minutes. The edges should begin to harden and the middle shouldn't jiggle.

Allow to cool, then dig your hands in and break ’em all up into a large bowl.

Prepare a sheet pan lined with parchment and begin scooping small balls out using a small cookie scoop, or about 2 teaspoons. Roll them around until smooth. Do this until all the brownies are gone. Freeze the sheet pan of balls while you prepare the melting chocolate.

Melt semisweet chocolate chips with coconut oil and stir until smooth, about 30–60 seconds. Using a fork, dip each brownie ball into the chocolate and carefully use a knife to slide each one onto a cooling rack. At this point you can decorate them however you'd like. I used sea salt, sprinkles, chocolate jimmies, cocoa powder and colored chocolate.

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Have fun with it! Once your truffles dry, pop them in cute mini cupcake wrappers and make your gift boxes however you'd like, or just eat them and enjoy!

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