Photograph by Joel Grimes
It's Time You Got to Know Jack
Jack Dykinga scared the hell out of me. I grew up in a three-newspaper household in a four-newspaper town. Maybe I didn’t pay quite as much attention to bylines as to box scores, but journalists…
Author Melani Martinez spent more than 20 years writing her memoir, The Molino. She’s photographed here in what once was her family’s molino, tortilleria and café. | Steven Meckler
The Story of Her Life
Ritual transforms dried corn kernels into masa. First, in a process known as nixtamalization, the kernels are soaked and cooked in an alkaline solution, then washed to remove any excess solution, as…
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Back Where They Belong
The soft earth embraces your grief. As you stand before your cherished one, you lay them to rest, holding their memory close despite the emptiness they leave behind. As time passes, you find moments…
Oaks, junipers and ocotillos populate the rolling foothills of the Santa Rita Mountains, southeast of Tucson, the morning after a heavy monsoon storm. Home to biodiverse Madera Canyon and a Smithsonian Institution observatory, the Santa Ritas are one of Southern Arizona’s many “sky island” ranges. | Joel Hazelton
Southern Exposures
Evergreens thrive in the Huachuca Mountains, near Sierra Vista, in a view from the Crest Trail. This hiking route, which begins at Coronado National Memorial, doubles as…
Late-afternoon light illuminates the Ajo Range, saguaros and one of the namesakes of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. | George Stocking
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Editor’s Note: Although we’re best known for our photography, we’ve also featured some wonderful writers in the past 100 years, including Joyce Rockwood, Jonreed Lauritzen, Charles Bowden and Craig…
Red and yellow hues feature prominently in this colorful deep space photograph by Ken Naiff.
Ken Naiff: This Is My Story
I’ve been interested in astronomy all my life. Growing up in the United Kingdom, I had a small telescope, and I remember running to tell my parents that I had seen Sputnik 1 passing over us. But…
Jerry Ostwinkle offers a treat to a golden eagle approaching to perch on his arm. By Bruce D. Taubert
Golden Eagle Hack Site
Beneath the Dragoon Mountains, down a primitive forest road lined with pistachio trees and scattered homesteads, sits the 40-acre Cochise Stronghold Ranch. There, Kalen Pearson, an Arizona Raptor…
A black and white image shows two people, a woman and a man, in shadow at a dining table within the interior of the Westward Ho hotel in downtown Phoenix. The pair looks out onto a busy swimming pool, surrounded by striped sunbrellas.
The Westward Ho: A Rich History
Bill Barry’s heart has always been in Phoenix — even during the rare times when the rest of him wasn’t. And Phoenix is in him, from his sun-kissed skin to his hat with a picture of a cactus taped to…