People always ask me where to get Mexican food, and now I have a new place to recommend. Finding one that doesn’t use lard, or mix cheese and meat together in every dish, is hard for lovers of Mexican food. Though CRUjiente serves very traditional food, there is nothing traditional about it, including the way…
Scottsdale interior designer Sheila Landau has led a life as varied and colorful as the homes she decorates. A Michigan native, she has worked with a wide spectrum of clients, including some of society’s upper crust. She is totally candid when describing her career. “Designing is in my soul, and my passion has been there…
Designing duo Elana Lathan and Breyan Sussman have been working together for seven years as Eb Flow Design Group. Their extensive backgrounds – Elana’s in healthcare and commercial design and Breyan’s in residential design – have allowed this pair of talented designers to combine their talents to take on more commercial projects. Their latest is…
Around three o’clock, just after the traditional two-hour lunch break, they would begin gathering in front of the Harbor Master’s little office at the port, by the small fishing skiffs bobbing in the crystal-clear water of the France’s Côte d’Azur. One by one, this group of seven or eight pensioners – fishermen or shipbuilders since…
Would-be pilots, ER doctors and combat soldiers possessing a personality trait called “dissociative absorption” are likely to suffer from sleep deprivation and will have a harder time returning to full alertness as opposed to those without it. A new study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev also shows that even after an eight-hour night of…
Life is a series of collections. We collect experiences, memories, relationships – and stuff. Lots of stuff. As our shelves, drawers and closets fill with the tchotchkes and trinkets we so covet, we rarely stop to think about what they really mean and where they’ll end up when we’re gone. But our personal possessions represent…
By his own admission, Stu Turgel likes to talk – a lot. So what better place than his seat behind a mic in the downtown studios of Radio Phoenix, an internet-based music and talk radio station, inside Phoenix Center for the Arts? Stu’s weekly newsmagazine, “The Phoenix File,” allows him to do just that as…
My title sounds like the opening of a bad joke. Unfortunately, it isn’t. It’s merely the start of my embarrassing behavior at the table of our new friends, a lovely Hasidic family who invited us to share Shabbat with them on a Friday night last month. My family and I arrived with the best bottle…
Jeremy Jackrabbit Hops on Board is the latest book in the Jeremy Jackrabbit series by local authors Sasha and Rodney Glassman. The goal of the series is to increase literacy and environmental awareness in the youngest of readers. Jeremy’s first adventure, Jeremy Jackrabbit Harvests the Rain, focused on sustainability. Since then, he has covered other…
Ongoing: Club J at the Valley of the Sun JCC Provides after-school programming ranging from sports to cooking and crafts to Israeli culture and more for those in K-8. Transportation from nearby schools available. Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center, 12701 N Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale. 480-634-4949 or youth@vosjcc.org, vosjcc.org. J Care at the East…
