Space 55: 2013 Big Brain Awards Finalist, Performing Art

You submitted nominations for awards given to the Valley’s emerging creatives and the results are in. Introducing our Big Brain 2013 Finalists. Leading up to the Big Brain Award awards announcement and celebration on April 27, Chow Bella and Jackalope Ranch will introduce the finalists. Up today: Space 55 “We’re…

Jon Arvizu: 2013 Big Brain Awards Finalist, Design

You submitted nominations for awards given to the Valley’s emerging creatives and the results are in. Introducing our Big Brain 2013 Finalists. Leading up to the Big Brain Award awards announcement and celebration on April 27, Chow Bella and Jackalope Ranch will introduce the finalists. Up today: Jon Arvizu Jon…

Kelsey Dake: 2013 Big Brain Awards Finalist, Visual Art

You submitted nominations for awards given to the Valley’s emerging creatives and the results are in. Introducing our Big Brain 2013 Finalists. Leading up to the Big Brain Award awards announcement and celebration on April 27, Chow Bella and Jackalope Ranch will introduce the finalists. Up today: Kelsey Dake Kelsey…

Brandon Boetto: 2013 Big Brain Awards Finalist, Craft

You submitted nominations for awards given to the Valley’s emerging creatives and the results are in. Introducing our Big Brain 2013 Finalists. Leading up to the Big Brain Award awards announcement and celebration on April 27, Chow Bella and Jackalope Ranch will introduce the finalists. Up today: Brandon Boetto Brandon…

Scottsdale Ranked No. 1 City for Free (Yes, Free) Plastic Surgery

Because you never know what you can get until you ask, the brain trust at SugarDaddie.com crunched some slightly disturbing numbers this week. The self-described “original sugar daddy dating site” has kept tabs on what participating “sugar babies” are asking from their matched “sugar daddies.” The list includes college tuition,…

Annie Boomer Vintage Opens in Downtown Phoenix

GROWop Boutique and Cellar Door Vintage recently welcomed new-ish neighbor Annie Boomer Vintage to Sixth Street’s downtown shopping enclave south of Roosevelt Row. We say new-ish because Annie Boomer’s owner, Andrea Engelsberg, formerly ran the shop out of the back of Nostra Style House’s old location on Sixth. That was…

Frances Hearts Summer Set to Launch in May

Despite ongoing exclamations of the death of print, some of us, including the folks over at Frances Vintage, remain hopeful. This summer, Frances owner Georganne Bryant is putting out a printed style guide: Frances Hearts Summer Vol. 1. “It is kind of crazy making a magazine that will be in…

Miles to Go’s Moby Dick Shirt

Gem features one standout piece from a local shop. Whether it’s a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it’s on our have-to-have list. What: With this year’s Big Brains nominees on our minds (and Artopia just around the corner), we got to thinking about 2012’s nominees. With his literary shirt company, Miles…

GameCoLab: A Game Developer Community Space Is Coming to Downtown Phoenix

Game developers across the Valley will have a new place to meet up and get productive when GameCoLab opens next month in downtown Phoenix. Co-founders Ben Reichert and Joseph Darnell have designed GameCoLab as a co-working space for game developers that will foster inspiration and innovative ideas by giving programmers…

CO-OPhx Hosts Spring Clothing Swap on Roosevelt Row

If you could use a few new looks this spring and are a fan of styles seen at local boutiques GROWop, Annie Boomer Vintage, or Cellar Door Vintage on Roosevelt Row, it’s time to run to your closet, pick 10 things you’d like to pitch, and take notes. From 11…

Infinity Scarf from Regenerous Designs

Gem features one standout piece from a local shop. Whether it’s a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it’s on our have-to-have list. What: The time has come, Arizonans, for shuffling between the warm outdoors and ice-cold buildings. Scarves are the solution: light enough to wear outside (or cram into a purse)…

Artopia/Big Brain Awards 2013: Call for Craft Vendors

If you’re excited to find out which creatives up for this year’s Big Brain Awards will be crowned and awarded cash prizes, you’ll want to grab a ticket to Artopia on April 27 (where we’ll celebrate the finalists and announce the winners). And if you want to get in on…

The Five Worst Garden Decorating Trends Found on Pinterest

With gardening season getting into full swing, Pinterest has exploded with ideas on how to personalize your very own modern provincial urban organic Tuscan-inspired garden (oof). Pinners seem to the think the best way to achieve this is to fill the garden with extraneous weird shit under the guise of…

February Son’s Neptune T-Shirt

Gem features one standout piece from a local shop. Whether it’s a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it’s on our have-to-have list. What: Graphic designer Brandon Charles brings his flair for imagery to T-shirts with his clothing company February Son. Our favorite among his wearable offerings is a Captain Neptune shirt,…

The BB Cream Breakdown

Gigi Arredondo has been working in the industry for nearly a decade as a hair stylist, makeup artist, and beauty consultant in Old Town Scottsdale. She’s constantly learning, trend-hunting, and shopping — all with access to beauty products not available to the public. And she’s here to share the good,…