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Home and Building Tour – On January 30th and 31st the doors to Superior are open to all who like to learn about our community and have a great time.  The doors to the Town, as well as doors to several homes and buildings, are wide open for our annual …

It’s undeniable that being from Globe impacts Tanner Yeager’s work as a photographer—how he runs his business, his subject matter, and more. Yeager, who was born and grew up in this area, says that being from a small town gave him an “an opportunity to know what it feels like …

When Bill Holmquist was hired to work on the 1997 Oliver Stone film U Turn, he lied and said he knew where Superior, Arizona was in where the film was set to be shot. “I had no idea and I had lived in Mesa for about 15 years,” he says …

Alyssa Jost puts a game controller in my hand and looks at her mentor, saying, “I want her to drive.” Meaning, me. I’m not sure I’ve ever even held a game controller before. And what I’m supposed to be “driving” is just as unfamiliar—a robot on wheels. On top of …

The studio program was part of a “Campaign for Independence” at Taliesin, under which they needed to raise $2 million in funds for the school, so that it could operate independently from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Building support for the campaign and the Globe-Miami Studio Project fell to Donofrio, …

Part I in a two-part series regarding a recently announced four-year studio project between the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and Globe-Miami, Arizona, beginning in 2016 and extending through 2019. The unlikely pairing of an internationally recognized school of architecture and a small rural mining community over the next …

Nineteen horses and nineteen trainers are spread out in the arena at the Apache Gold Casino Pavilion yesterday. The bleachers on the south side are full. In the center of the arena, a Quarter/Arab horse named Winn is circling a trainer, changing direction every ten seconds or so. From the bleachers …

Mike Montiel’s descriptions of his mushrooms fall somewhere between a good scotch and an alien lifeform. He calls oyster mushrooms “earthy and nutty” and speaks endearingly about the lion’s mane’s “pillowy, long tendrils. Each one of the tendrils grows out and as they grow out they grow together,” he says. …

Would you like to learn new skills like photo retouching, music production, game design, or logo design? Or increase your knowledge about photography, business skills, or career development? The Gila County Library District is offering a new, free resource called lynda.com that lets you learn skills like these online, through …