Photograph by Paul Gill
A soft, lovely, righteous landscape, everything in proper order — not my Arizona! Give me complexity and contradiction and the murmur of menace. Give me this 4-mile trek along a canyon bottom, easy…
Photograph by David Zickl
On Day 47 of her administration, the White Mountain Apache Tribe’s first elected chairwoman stands on a podium at Hon-Dah Resort. Wearing cowboy boots and a rodeo-style belt buckle, Gwendena Lee-…
The Egyptian Hotel sign
It’s no mirage – the Egyptian Motor Hotel, which has sat in the heart of Phoenix’s Grand Avenue District for more than 70 years, has been newly resurrected on its original turf and will open to the…
Tim Trumble Photography/Arizona Opera
In 2016, Russian-born tenor Viktor Antipenko and Israeli-born mezzo-soprano Maya Lahyani met while performing Georges Bizet’s Carmen at Opera Las Vegas. As classically trained opera singers with…
A desert sunset
Arizona Highways' query acceptance period runs only once per year. Our submission window for the 2025 editorial calendar will be March 7-31, 2024. All queries should be submitted via email to Senior…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
The student is a cerebral thinker, a philosopher, a visionary and a guy with a wry sense of humor. There’s no such thing as a brief conversation with him. Anecdotes, digressions, sidebars and…
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
JK: You’re one of our regular contributors, and you’ve composed some amazing images in recent years. Was this instilled at a young age? JH: Both of my parents are very down-to-earth, and art was…
Photograph by John Burcham
If a visitor to the Louvre walked up to the Mona Lisa with a can of spray paint, they’d be immediately tackled by security guards. But what about a vandal approaching a rock art panel, dating back 1,…