Valley Life

While you and your friends were busy debating whether leggings counted as pants, the sweater-centric site Westknits was busy unleashing an all new brand of winter WTF…

If you think you have it hard, trying talking to a mannequin. (Please don’t actually.) They are constantly being objectified, publicly undressed, and stuck wearing the same ensemble in the same position for weeks on end. Weeks, people. But finally, thanks to the useless wonders of the Internet, their tiny…

Finally, Tempe is getting recognized for being more than just the home base of sexy college coeds and birthday suit-sporting blondes. The mid-size metro, with roughly 167,000 residents, performed, painted, and printed its way into Movoto’s list of “The Most Creative Mid-Sized Cities in America.”…

Given the abundance of shopping options Phoenicians have this fall, holiday gifts should be wrapped earlier than ever. Starting up this weekend are a handful of must-attend markets featuring clothing, accessories, furniture, and plenty more to suit the taste of your friends, fam, and, let’s be honest, you. Here they…

Despite the fact that it occurs right after All Hallow’s Eve, the annual All Souls Procession in Tucson is by no means a Halloween-oriented celebration. Indeed, there are few connections between the yearly exercise in candy and costumed excess and this esteemed Day of the Dead-themed Southern Arizona celebration, except…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a Jane Austen video game must be in want of… nothing. Literally, nothing. Because this may very well be the best thing to happen to Austenites since Mr. Darcy came out of that lake in 1995…

It was 1981. We were young, and there was nothing better to do. And so my girl friends and I — a bony chick we called Uncle who rarely spoke and her best friend, Laytchie McJeep, a corpulent girl who never stopped talking — got dressed up in funny clothes…

Turns out there’s more than just fashion trends to avoid this fall. As temperatures drop, the latest cosmetic crimes of the season are starting to emerge — from hair salons, makeup counters, and, in defiance of all logic and reason, tanning salons…

If bird poop facials made you squeamish, better head for the hills now, because the latest spa treatment to come out of Indonesia is literally spine tingling…

Well it appears that in the battle of sexiest state colleges, ASU is not going down without a fight. While other college girls spent their Halloween parading around as sexy nurses, sexy superheroes, and, yes, even sexy food, one highly tweeted Sun Devil is getting the Internet celebrity treatment for…

Steve Davis opens a tattered old book and flips through the pages covered with photos and descriptions of Mexican folk art. He lands on the right image and points to a standing figure of a woman, dressed in white and carrying a blue umbrella, in the artistic style of the…

Arizona native Ashlee Molina has always had a thing for antiquing. Her mom would take her hunting and to auctions when Molina was a kid. After moving around the country for about a decade for academic and professional ventures, Molina returned to Phoenix about a year ago. And what struck…

It’s Halloween, folks. That means your two weeks of costumed partying finally are drawing to end. To send off Halloween 2013 in style, this Morning Buzz is going old school — early 19th century old school…

Arizonans can take pride in knowing their state is rich in history. Arizonans with a propensity for all things creepy can take pride in knowing that many of the history-rich spots around the state are also believed to be haunted. Here are a few places around the Copper State that…

Hey, sluts, tired of carrying around your fake ID, mascara, and Plan B? Purses can be such cock blockers. You have you have to lug them around and worry about losing them when you’re bingeing on shots, plus they cover up what little clothing you are wearing…

What started as five wedding dresses in the back of a furniture shop is now the fully operational bridal, tuxedo, and quinceañera megastore that is Azteca Bridal. The original part of the store, now dedicated to fitting rooms and expansive mirrors, contains a vintage stairwell that has existed since Azteca’s…

If you heard a bunch of moaning and groaning — not to mention some rattling chains and blaring sirens — coming through downtown Phoenix over the weekend, it’s only because a mass invasion of the undead transpired via the annual Zombie Walk. Meanwhile, people were shaking their costumed culos to…

We’re not sure how many people have sat around thinking, “My teddy bear needs to get out more. He should really see the world.” But apparently there are enough for one Japanese agency to form its own fluffy variation of lame, but potentially lucrative, armchair travel…

Some came out dressed to impress, others were interested in being either scary or sexy. But no matter what sort of costumes partiers wore while strolling through local bars and clubs after dark in honor of Halloween this past weekend, almost everyone was adorned in something interesting. Although the majority…

For being the sixth most populated city in the country, Phoenix can really start to feel like a small town. Especially if you’re on the dating circuit. Depending on your “scene” and the part of town you live in, you’re sure to run into — and probably date — one…

By now we’ve all seen the video Shit Girls Say and all its subsequent spin-offs, like Shit Guys Say, Shit Yogis Say, Shit Monks Say, Shit Vegans Say — it just goes on. While you probably feel these stereotype shorts have jumped the virtual shark (we sure did), you should…

Spontaneous. Colorful. A touch of eccentric. That’s how the fresh tags on the clothing at Vintage by Misty’s new Scottsdale location describe the shop, its contents, and the women who flock to it…